Zarak (G1)
| The name or term "Zarak" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Zarak (disambiguation). |
- Zarak is a Decepticon allied Nebulan in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Zarak was a powerful Nebulan and corrupt Nebulan leader who transforms into the head of Scorponok.
(Note: The small headmaster partner that represented "Zarak" in the west was "Scorponok" in Japan. The larger body that was the Decepticon Scorponok here was, in that continuity, mearly a powerful transector for the smaller robot. See Scorponok's link above for that character.)
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Lord Zarak was a high-ranking politician of questionable morality and ethics. Though generally believing he worked for what was, in his own mind, the good of all Nebulos, he tended to be close-minded, dishonest, manipultive, self-aggrandizing, and excessively proud. He loved his daughter Llyra very much, but was a political rival of her young and idealistic love Galen. He is blackmailed and manipulated by the Decepticon Scorponok into working for him and binary-bonding with him. Ultimately, their bonding seemes to have the unexpected side-effect of causing their minds to fuse into one compossite being. It was Zarak who, in one last act of individual choice, nobility and self-sacrifice, who freed Galen and the captured Autobot Headmasters so the Decepticons would follow them away from his beloved world. Thier bonding may be part of the reason that Scorponok became more sympathetic towards the Autobot cause towards the end of the series, ultimately sacrificing his life against Unicron.
Animated Continuity
The Rebirth (U.S.)
In the three part The Rebirth series, Lord Zarak is a vile dictator, the leader of the Hive, a group of telekinetics who have enslaved the population of Nebulos. While the Hive cannot control Transformers as they would normal machines, Zarak nonetheless uses his machines to capture and bully the Decepticons into supplying Headmaster and Targetmaster forms for the other ten members.
Zarak later rebuilt the Hive's underground city into the giant Headmaster body Scorponok, with a special suit that allowed him sole control over Scorponok. In the end, Zarak/Scorponok lost to Fortress Maximus and the Decepticons and Hive fled Nebulos. The series ended but hints of a conflict between Zarak and Galvatron for leadership were present.
Zarak talks in an almost monotone voice, showing little emotion and never anger. While he retains his body, he is never shown to walk without his Headmaster suit and may be a paraplegic. One eye is also drawn closed, he may be blind in it or missing it.
Animation errors also abound in these episodes, as Zarak, both with and without his suit, is drawn as both human and Transformer sized, which fluctuates between scenes.
