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.
Lord Mo Zarak[1] is a powerful and corrupt Nebulan leader who transforms into the head of Scorponok.
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, manipulative, self-aggrandizing, and excessively proud. He loved his daughter Llyra very much, but was a political rival of her young and idealistic lover Galen. He was blackmailed and coerced by the Decepticon Scorponok into working for him and binary-bonding with him.
Ultimately, their bonding seemed to have the unexpected side-effect of causing their minds to fuse into one composite being. It was Zarak who, in one last act of individual choice, nobility and self-sacrifice, freed Galen and the captured Autobot Headmasters so the Decepticons would follow them away from his beloved world. Their 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.
Known relatives:
- Llyra: Daughter
- Blowpipe: Brother-In-Law
- Unnamed (possibly deceased) wife
Animated continuity
"The Rebirth" (U.S.)
Lord Zarak was a vile dictator, the leader of the Hive, a group of telekinetics who have enslaved the population of Nebulos. While the Hive could not control Transformers as they could normal machines, Zarak nonetheless used 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. Conflict between Zarak and Galvatron for leadership was present.
Zarak talked in an almost monotone voice, showing little emotion and never anger. While he retained his body, he was never shown to walk without his Headmaster suit and may be a paraplegic. One eye was also always closed, he may be blind in it or missing it.
IDW comics continuity
Scientist Mo Zarak was the reclusive chairman of the Zarak Consortium, a front for an inner circle of maverick scientists called the Cranium. He was approached by Scorponok, a renegade Decepticon who ignored the Transformers' Code of Interplanetary Conflict, who conspired with Zarak and his team of scientists to create a new, enigmatic technology. Within the inner sanctums of the Cranium's labs, at least one fusion of Nebulan and Cybertronian technology was created in the form of a re-engineered Nebulan specimen.
However, this research was halted 29 stellar cycles ago when an Autobot peacekeeper, Ultra Magnus, infiltrated the Cranium and engaged Scorponok in battle. Zarak, worried that their work would be destroyed in the crossfire, was killed by friendly fire. Zarak's wounded, opened torso revealed he himself had been re-engineered with Cybertronian technology. Scorponok escaped, with a major headwound, through an artificial wormhole generator, but the fate of Zarak's corpse was not revealed. Spotlight: Ultra Magnus
Toys
Generation 1
- Scorponok
Footnotes
- ↑ A first name, Mo, is given for Zarak in IDW's Spotlight: Ultra Magnus. No name other than "Zarak" is given to him in any other continuity. Whether MediaWiki considers this a retroactive addition to all versions of the character or relevant to only the IDW continuity depends{{subst:m-}}because we're children here{{subst:m-}}entirely on how awesome the new name is. The new name is hilarious, which is practically the same as awesome, so there.
