Zizza
- Zizza is a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Zizza is what you might call a queen bee, in every sense of the word. Not only does she transform into a giant robotic insect, but she's obsessed with staying at the very top of the social hierarchy. Not that this is a difficult task for her; her specialized toxins allow her to temporarily enthrall unprotected minds, human and Transformer alike. Her first attempt to create a cult around herself took place on Cybertron, but ended with her subjects revolting and her arrest. Now that she's free on the planet Earth, what's stopping her from trying again, using the susceptible natives of this planet as her faithful workers?
Fiction
2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon
- Voice actor: Jackée Harry (English)
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for The Buzz on Windblade follow. |
On Cybertron, Zizza hypnotized numerous Cybertronians into doing her bidding. However, she failed to properly consolidate her power and was eventually arrested. She was imprisoned in a stasis pod and sent away from Cybertron aboard the prison ship Alchemor. The ship eventually crashed on Earth deactivating her stasis pod. Zizza eventually set up a new base of operations in a human airfield, after hypnotizing the airfield's staff. Her new drones began renovating the airfield to suit her demands, setting up heat lamps in the central hanger to accommodate her need for high temperatures. The pilots became her new "drones", flying regular patrols over the airfield and warding off any intruders.
Her signal was eventually detected by Bumblebee's team and the visiting Windblade. After evading Zizza's human subjects, Windblade, Strongarm, Grimlock, and Sideswipe broke into her new throne room. When Windblade threatened the Decepticon with arrest, Zizza retaliated by taking her two closest subjects hostage, threatening to kill the innocent humans if Windblade attacked. Strongarm tripped Windblade before she could call Zizza's bluff, and the four Autobots temporarily retreated.
The combined Autobot force eventually launched a second attack on Zizza's hive. While Grimlock distracted her drones, Slipstream ande Jetstorm cut power to the base, killing the heat lamps. Realizing her control was eroding, Zizza transformed into her beast mode and tried to flee, only to be intercepted by Strongarm. With the aid of Sideswipe, Strongarm managed to throw the Decepticon into a truck of refrigerated fire-retardant foam, incapacitating the temperature-sensitive Decepticon and allowing Strongarm to cuff her quarry. The Buzz on Windblade
Notes
- Zizza is not the first insectoid Decepticon with mind-control powers.
