Cy-Kill (GoBots)
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- Cy-Kill is the Renegade leader from the GoBots continuity family.
Cy-Kill is a cyborg alien from the planet Gobotron. Once, long ago, he was one of the greatest of the heroic Guardians. Along with his partner Leader-1 and Zeemon, Cy-Kill was even named one of the three High Protectors of their world. Though originally content to share power with his friend, when Leader-1's fame began to eclipse his own he chaffed at the idea of being "lesser" to anyone. His boundless pride, ego, and ambition to power led him to rebel and take command of the scattered Renegade forces. If he could not rule Gobotron by popular acclaim he would take it by force! Cy-Kill seems to be quite at home in the role of brutal, ambitious warlord and would be world-conqueror. He was having a good time, fighting those do-gooder Guardians, when suddenly his entire dimension was placed in dire peril. Well, crap.
He's very theatrical.
Fiction
Timelines
A different universe began colliding with Cy-Kill's home reality, but it wasn't very fun. The Doctor reported that to cosmological interference from the other universe, a great Cataclysm was destroying their own. This other universe was populated by strange, robot creatures, struggling through a similar galaxy-spanning civil war.
There was no saving their own universe, and no rational reason to destroy the universe that was removing theirs. Cy-Kill and his rival, Leader-1 assembled their respective factions, explained their dire situation, and put together a team. This team would reconfigure their bodies to disguise themselves amongst these otherdimensional robots, use the Dimensional Interfacer to travel to their universe, and seek out help. Withered Hope
An entity known as the "Beast Sage" provided the Gobotronians and their universe some time, but eventually the effects of the Cataclysm began to spread once more. Although the Dimensional Interfacer still functioned, they were no longer able to contact their exploration teams due to unforeseen changes in dimensional space. Cy-Kill championed inter-dimensional evacuation, or even outright invasion, but Leader-1 and Zeemon rejected the idea, considering blind dimensional transport tantamount to suicide. Sunrise
Ask Vector Prime
In Gargent 087.0 Kappa, Cy-Kill received word that six strangers were fighting the Guardians. Assuming any enemy of the Guardians to be an ally of his, Cy-Kill dispatched his elite lieutenants to rescue the strangers and bring them back to his flagship, the Rogue Star. He tried to court the Spy Changers to his cause, but Optimus Prime saw through Cy-Kill's deception. Working in secret with the Guardians, the Spy Changers eventually destroyed the Renegades' bases on the planet Moebius which were threatening Cybertron. Cy-Kill was furious, but the combined might of the Guardians and the Autobots drove the Renegades off. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30
One time, Gong and Sideways smooshed two universes together for a laugh, creating a world where the Renegades ruled Cybertron in 2005! After Snoop returned with surveillance data, Cy-Kill praised her as a reliable trooper as opposed to Zero. Subsequently, Cy-Kill duly led the takeover of an Autobot Command Center but, unlike some would have, he left Ironhide alive as a hostage. Reality then blipped again and put Megatron in charge. Echoes and Fragments
Renegade Rhetoric
AVP incarnation
Seriously, what's with the five o'clock shadow?
An increasingly desperate Axiom Nexus News hired a Cy-Kill to run Vector Prime's old column. He claimed to be "leader of the Renegades in exile", hoping to one day return home. His take on how he joined the Renegades and his encounters with Zero are definitely true.
Among other answers, Cy-Kill said:
- Transformers make a funny noise when transforming because they suck, not like superior designed Renegades!
- If he conquered Earth, the most loyal and impressive humans would have their brains plonked in GoBot bodies. Say you want in on Facebook and he'll send a recruiting agent round!
- It was totally the evil Guardians and not the heroic Renegades that messed up Gobotron with a meteor, honest.
- He retains a George Washington costume (and Crasher and Cop-Tur their own period dress) just in case of another Revolutionary War based strategem.
- Gunnyr, leader of his own Renegade faction, was absorbed after Zero's defection: Cy-Kill appreciates experience and "ambitious underlings do tend to keep one on one's toes"!
- He believes in keeping a certain distance from his soldiers to be a good leader, rather than making friends.
- His weaponry is a patchwork of his own inventions, Renegade scientist designs, and ones stolen from the Guardian's Professor Von Joy.
- The Renegades will change their name once they have taken control, possibly to GoBot Liberation Army or something. (And "Renegade" is a perfectly sound rebel name, not like he calls them "Untrustworthy-cons" or some crap)
- The Renegades have destroyed stuff but so have the Guardians: collateral damage is necessary in war and he refuses to be moralised about it.
- Zod can beat up Trypticon. Kneeling before Zod? He agrees that would be appropriate.
- He's recruiting new Renegades in the Offworlder slums.
- Cybertronians may be lamer than GoBots but he's not dumb enough to underestimate any foe in a fight; some Transformers could defeat him and so he'll seize every advantage. And by that he means cheating! Losers follow rules, winners cheat and then write the history books!
- He has a fondness for Earth vehicle designs. We got style.
- He can totally impersonate Leader-1! ("Oooooh, I'm Leader-1. I'm a goody two-shoes who doesn't know when to keep my ugly yellow domino mask out of Renegade business. Doop doop doop.")
- He's confident that he could take The Beast in a fight. Yeeeeah, ok.
- He's read C.S. Lewis. The man makes good points about the dread tyranny of "goodness" forced upon you, and it all applies to Leader-1 and his Guardians! Other favorite human writings of his include those of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Marx, Locke, Nietzsche, and Gilbert and Sullivan.
- If your employer forces extra night shifts on you, and their reason is not just, it is right and just for you to take armed action. Bosses only understand force!
- The Rock Lords are pathetic. Stop asking him about them.
- He had many other adventures after the battle on Quartex, although all of his schemes were ultimately foiled by the Guardians. These have included:
- He used a cyber-mimetic virus discovered in an ancient Himalayan temple to attack the Guardians, but was thwarted by Rest-Q
- He tried to take control of an alien society obsessed with auto racing by entering three of his Renegades in the Alienapolis Five Million. They were disqualified when they got caught cheating.
- They stole a UNECOM device designed to boost intelligence, but it was accidentally used on Cop-Tur. Hilarity ensued.
- He developed a mutating, fast-growing plant he called Go-Vines and covered all of Earth's monuments with them, but the Guardians stole a sample and reverse-engineered a defoliating agent.
- He trapped Leader-1 in virtual reality to try to trick him into divulging the whereabouts of a secret UNECOM base, but Leader-1 realized the deception and broke free. (Maybe Cy-Kill forgot he had a brainstormer.)
- A group of Guardians and Renegades were kidnapped by Guerr-O-Vac, a super-computer that pitted them against each other in single combat.
- At Crasher's urging, he set a trap for Scooter, but a freak lightning strike on the brainstormer (he remembered) resulted in him swapping consciousness with the diminutive guardian. Hilarity ensued.
- He ran for President of the United States in order to get into the candidate debates (This was in the days before phone cameras so it was easier to intimidate voters).
- When a wealthy theatre fan decided to leave all his goods (including what Cy-Kill wrongly thought was a gem of great power) to whoever put on the best show, the Renegades put on Pirates of Penzance in competition with the Guardians' Metamorphosis. Cy-Kill really wanted to play the Pirate King but since nobody else could sing "Modern Major General" the way he liked, "my hands were tied".
- He encountered an ancient Guardian ship returning from deep-space exploration and managed to convince two of the crew to join the Renegades, though the rest escaped with their vessel and the valuable data contained within.
- He created 3 semi-sentient RoGuns, weapons that could transform, but they resented being pushed around and defected to the Guardians.
- He formed an alliance with the Martian tribe of Bars Barkas, which was disrupted by the RoGuns and the Secret Riders.
- He was briefly deposed by the Master Renegade, who created Power Suits to enable the Renegades to battle Courageous with their own combiner, Grungy.
- He infiltrated a science fiction convention in a Cylon costume to kidnap a scientist.
- He stole the communication moon of Gobotron with an oversized Astro-Beam and moved it outside of the galaxy. Leader-1 came with it and, though damaged, delayed Cy-Kill's troops until the beam wore off and it returned to Gobotron's orbit.
- He is disconcerted with being the only cyborg in a mostly mechanical world. Furthermore, he sees the Transformers as a hybrid of mechanics and energy, similar to himself.
The authorities eventually caught up with him but not before he'd bombed Shockwave's R&D facility as a cover for stealing tech (and cheerfully half-admitted it on his column). When Cheetor's team tried to bring him in, Cy-Kill deployed his new combiner Monsterous, who kept the OZSA at bay long enough for the Renegades to depart Axiom Nexus to a time and place unknown with the aid of Gong. Renegade Rhetoric (1)
Weeks later, ANN's viewers voted him the best of the guest hosts for AVP. Ask Vector Prime
You rock, Cy-Kill.
Second run
You can't keep a good baddie down, as Cy-Kill hacked into Vector Prime's column to announce he was continuing Renegade Rhetoric as a solo deal! Over the course of this column, Cy-Kill continued to answer questions about his native dimension, and used them as opportunities to recount his many adventures. Ask Vector Prime Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric
Cy-Kill Sandiego
One of these stories included how he ended up in Axiom Nexus in the first place, which he attributed to an accident with the experimental Anti-Phase-Displacer Blaster. His first thought upon ending up in a sea of unfamiliar mechanoids was "I can totally exploit this". He had also obtained "six strange positronic energy matrices" that were capable of "providing an animating essence to crude machine life" while in old A-N, later used on Puzzler.
Female Transformers? Too often used as "window dressing" in his opinion and not as cool as female GoBots! Renegade Rhetoric (2)
Cy-Kill's forces are constantly monitoring Axiom Nexus. In January 2016, his minions Crasher and Cop-Tur hacked into Vector Prime's column to reveal secrets of the Convoy and thus further destabilise the city-state for the Renegade cause. Universal stream names confused them. Ask Vector Prime
Not many villains do this but did you know Cy-Kill wanted peace between Guardians and Renegades, at one point. We all know it was a trick but....the thing is....he actually signed his name on Peace Treaty between the two factions.....before betraying them.... (I wish the writers or whoever could’ve continued that story ark, even for a little while, so we can see the aftermath of the Treaty taking place. And not make Cy-kill and Renegades go back to being typical villains so quick.)
After attempting a "Combiner Wars" on Quartex, Cy-Kill limped away and we didn't hear from him for a while. We did hear the dimension-hopping Spy Changers and "Thrustinator" were tracking a Megatron before he linked up with two villains in another reality, ones we learned later was Cy-Kill and Magmar. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/07/14 On New Year's Eve for 2016, Cy-Kill sent us one last message about how in the last year he and the Two M's had come up with enough stories for a third season 64 plots against those dastardly GoBots and Spy Changers and the last one would surely succeed. He left us a heartwarming message that the future belonged to us and all we needed to do "when faced with a dilemma, ask yourself, “what would Cy-Kill” do and you will not go far wrong." Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/12/31
Notes
- In case you haven't figured it out already, Cy-Kill is totally the guy from Challenge of the GoBots. For real!
- Cy-Kill is constantly "easter egged" in various Transformers stories. But, like, GoBots were totally lame, so wouldn't it be hilarious if he was repeatedly killed over and over again because he was lame? Yeah!
- A generic Transformer resembling the silver, black, and green redecoed Cy-Kill toy appeared in a few IDW stories, where he was, you guessed it, killed!
- A Cy-Kill was seen in the processing center of Axiom Nexus in "Transcendent: Part 1", not far from the interdimensional GoBot exploration team. Up until 2015's "Ask Vector Prime" and "Renegade Rhetoric" columns, stories said it was essential for the GoBot explorers to adopt a Transformer disguise so who was this guy? The Q&A column Cy-Kill broke that rule by just wandering around as his usual self and in January 2016 it was established that the Cy-Kill in "Transcendent" was the Q&A Cy-Kill from an unrelated GoBot universe. (This raises the possibility that the doomed GoBots reality from "Games of Deception" onwards was not the original cartoon as implied.)
- According to the Challenge of the GoBots episode, "Et tu, Cy-Kill?", Cy-Kill's military title before betraying Leader-1 and leading the Renegade faction was High Protector, much like somebody else we know.
- The original image used for Renegade Rhetoric featured a picture of Cy-Kill taken from a screencap of the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon. As it happens, that cartoon is still controlled by Hanna-Barbera/Time Warner (technically, Tonka owns the copyright on the show). Before the end of the day, the Renegade Rhetoric image was changed to an original, less lawsuity drawing of the almost-identical TransTech Cy-Kill, repurposed as GoBots Cy-Kill, by Evan Gauntt. Given that later Renegade Rhetoric entries would include other screenshots from Challenge of the GoBots, FP's concern may in fact be cartoon Cy-Kill's ties to a Bandai-owned mold.
- A proposed Fun Publications BotCon exclusive was a redeco of one of the Prime Arcee Deluxe class molds into a "Femme Fatale Cykill".[sic][1]
- In late 2016 & 2017, after months of Cy-Kill stories in Transformers media, Action Toys just happened to do two gloriously cartoon-accurate collectibles of Bike Robo. (The DX version even comes with three faceplates based on Cy-Kill's faces!) [2]
- An unrealized SD SG idea of Josh Perez was a Shattered Glass incarnation of Cy-Kill, utilizing Cy-Kill's "Series 2" toy coloration.[3]
Foreign names
- Japanese: Cy-Kill (サイキル Saikiru)
- Mandarin: Salmoore (萨尔魔, Saermo)
Footnotes
External links
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