Leader-1 (GoBots)

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Leader-1
Challenge of the Gobots, Machine Robo, Robo Machines and Transformers character
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Leader-1 on Challenge of the Gobots
First appearance

Challenge of the Gobots episode "The Battle for Gobotron"
Last appearance

Withered Hope by Fun Publications
Voiced by

Lou Richards
Japanese name

Eagle Robo
Release number

MR-25, BMR-02
Information
Species Gobot
Abilities

Energy blasts, flight, force field generation, shapeshifting, superhuman durability, superhuman strength
Affiliation

Guardian Gobot
Alternate mode

F-15 Eagle

Leader-1 is a fictional character from the Gobots and Robo Machines series. Leader-1 was voiced by Lou Richards in the animated Challenge of the Gobots series.

Gobots

Leader-1 is one of the "good guys".[1] He can fly, project energy blasts, and project a force field (which rapidly drains his power reserves). He has been known to use Guardian power suits that increases his speed and strength.[2]

In the animated series Challenge of the GoBots, Leader-1 is the leader of the Guardians.[3] He is a brave leader who cares deeply about his people. He believes not one person should be in charge. He supports the democratic system of the Guardians. This led his former friend, Cy-Kill, to break away from the Guardians. He took command of the evil Renegades and became Leader-1's worst enemy.[4][5]

Reception

He was picked as the 2nd worst Transformer of all time by X-Entertainment.[6]

Animated series

Leader-1 appeared in "Return of Gobotron" episode #10. He was given one of the Power Suits by the Last Engineer, which featured enhanced speed and strength. He combined with the other suits and the Last Engineer's ship to form the Power Warrior Courageous and defeat a fleet of Renegade Thrustors.

Leader-1 appeared in episode #11, "Time Wars."[7]

In the Challenge of the Gobots episode #23 "Ultra Zod" Leader-1 dons a Power Suit and helps form the Power Warrior Courageous, which defeats Ultra Zod.[8]

Leader-1 appears in "Auto-Madic" episode #26, where he dons a Power Suit and helped form the Power Warrior Courageous, which defeats Puzzler.

In episode #27, "Tarnished Image" Doctor Go creates a device that allows the Renegades to appear like Guardians. Cy-Kill, Crasher and Cop-Tur disguise themselves as Leader-1, Scooter and Turbo and go on a rampage on Earth while the real Guardians are sent on a fake rescue mission. When the Guardians return they are banished from Earth by the humans. The Guardians are eventually able to prove the Renegades staged the attacks, chase them off and capture Doctor Go.[9]

Leader-1 appeared in episode #39, "Destroy All Guardians", where he helped form the Power Warrior Couragous to stop a group of cloned and mutated prehistoric reptiles from attacking Japan.

In the episode #51 "Doppelganger" Cy-Kill, Cop-Tur, Crasher and Snoop attacked Leader-1, Turbo, Scooter and Small Foot. Crasher wounded Small Foot. After attaining recordings of the Guardians the Renegades retreated. Using the recordings Cy-Kill had Herr Fiend program robot duplicates of the Guardians. When demonstrating Space Bender weapon to Unicom Leader-1 learned that the Renegades were attacking Washington. The Renegades ambushed Leader-1 and replaced him with his duplicate. Leading the Command Center back to Gobotron and getting rid of Scooter and Small Foot the Renegades then released duplicates of Path Finder, Rest-Q, Van Guard and Turbo. Small Foot and Scooter were able to capture the Turbo duplicate and learn where their friends were being held. Cy-Kill then replaced Good Night. Using the duplicate Turbo the Guardians infiltrated the Renegade base, freed the captured Guardians and escape from Spoons and Fitor. Although blocked by the Renegades, Scooter used a hologram of Zod to make the Renegades flee. Making it back to Gobotron the Guardians were attacked by the Guardian duplicates. The real Guardians were able to defeat their duplicates with the aid of the real Zeemon, Hans-Cuff and Rest-Q. Cy-Kill then arrived in Thrustor with more duplicates, but Small Foot was able to stop with robots using the Space Bender, which would fuse their robot brains. [10]

In the episode #55 "Scooter Enhanced" Scooter and Small Foot joined Nick and A.J. to watch a car stunt show which was attacked by Crasher, Buggyman and Fly Trap. Small Foot fought Buggyman and defeated him, but the Renegades regained the upper hand until the Guardians were rescued by Leader-1 and Turbo who arrived in Power Suits. Cy-Kill vowed to gain Power Suits for the Renegades. Scooter decided he needed more firepower, so he had Baron Von Joy remove his damaged holo projector in favor of a blaster unit. Screw Head, Bad Boy and Cop-Tur were sent to attack Unicom bases and distract the Guardians while Cy-Kill, Crasher and Scorp attempted to take the suits from the Guardian Command Center. Small Foot and Scooter were able to delay the Renegades until Leader-1 and Turbo returned to chase away the Renegades. Realizing he was a better Guardian with his holo projector, Scooter had it reinstalled.[11]

In the film GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords Leader-1 lead the Guardian Gobot forces who aided the Rock Lord Boulder on the planet Cordax.[12]

Comics

Leader-1 appeared in the story "Scooter's Mighty Magnet."[13]

Leader-1 appeared in the story "El Genio Y Su Hijo" (The Genius and Its Son) from the Argentina Gobots comic #11.[14]

Fun Publications

Leader-1 appears among the group investigating the cataclysm destroying their universe in Fun Publications story Withered Hope. Once he learns the cause of the destruction from Doctor Braxus he orders a team of Gobots in investigate. [15]

Games

Leader-1 was the playable character and clones of were among the cast in the video game Challenge of the Gobots for the Sinclair, Amstrad and Commodore 64.[16]

Eagle Comics

Leader-1 appeared in the Eagle Comics story The Robo Machines. He is a member of the Security Force Robo Machines.

Other appearances

Leader-1 was parodied in the CollegeHumor animated sketch "Transformers Go Hollywood". In the sketch, Optimus Prime and Megatron talk about their live-action film's success at a cafe when they are met by Leader-1, who works as a waiter in the cafe. Leader-1 is heavily ridiculed by Prime and Megatron as he attempts to give them the script to his proposed film project. He rushes to the restroom and talks to Johnny 5 before locking himself in a toilet stall to cry over his insults.[17]

Leader-1 has appeared in the animated comedy series Robot Chicken.[18]

Leader-1 appeared in Lil Formers #88 "Auditions I" by Matt Moylan, where he auditioned for a Transformers film as Superion.[19]

Toys

1983 Leader-1 toy
  • Gobots Leader-1 (1983)
The toy of Leader-1 was originally Bandai's Eagle Robo from their Machine Robo toyline.[20] The gray Leader-1 was also sold as part of a limited edition gobots 3-pack [21] with the other 2 Guardians being Flip-Top and Turbo.
This toy was sold both by itself in a gift pack with Turbo and Flip Top.
  • Gobots Super Leader-1 (1984)
A larger "Super GoBot" [22] Leader-1 [23] was later released.
  • Gobots Leader-1 redeco (1985)
The Tonka version was originally released in gray like Bandai's, but later versions were changed to a blue and white color scheme. The animated version, however, had already been drawn in the original colors and so he stayed that way on TV.
  • Gobots Model Leader-1
Monogram Models released Gobots model kits [24] which actually converted, and contained a Leader-1 model among 7 others. This toy was a redeco of a Legioss jet from the Genesis Climber MOSPEADA anime.

References

  1. ↑ Marrs, Wanda and Texe (1985). The Great Robot Book. Little Simon. pp. 69–71. ISBN 978-0671602437. 
  2. ↑ Matt Caracappa (November 2007). "Going, Going, Gobots". Toyfare 1 (123): 80–82. 
  3. ↑ http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,954424,00.html Monday, Oct. 01, 1984, Living: Hot Toys with a Special Twist By J.D. Reed;Sara White/Boston
  4. ↑ Vibe July 2007, page 40 "Do the Robot"
  5. ↑ Bellomo, Mark (2010). Totally Tubular '80s. Krause Publications. pp. 90–93. ISBN 1440212821. 
  6. ↑ http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/547.html
  7. ↑ "Time Wars". Written by Jeff Seagle, Kelly Ward and Doug Booth. Challenge of the GoBots. First-run syndication. September 17th, 1985. No. 11, season 1.
  8. ↑ "Ultra Zod". Written by Jim Bertges. Challenge of the GoBots. First-run syndication. September 25, 1985. No. 23, season 1.
  9. ↑ "Tarnished Image". Written by Jeff Segal, Kelly Ward and David Schwartz. Challenge of the GoBots. First-run syndication. November 25th 1985. No. 27, season 1.
  10. ↑ "Doppelganger". Written by Jeff Segal, Kelly Ward and Antoni Zalewski. Challenge of the GoBots. First-run syndication. October 11, 1985. No. 51, season 1.
  11. ↑ "Scooter Enhanced". Written by Jeff Segal, Kelly Ward and Mark Young. Challenge of the GoBots. First-run syndication. November 24th, 1985. No. 55, season 1.
  12. ↑ {{#invoke:Citation/CS1 | citation |CitationClass=audio-visual }}
  13. ↑ Jay Itzkowitz (w), Paul Kirchner (a). "Scooter's Mighty Magnet" (Spring 1986), Telepictures Publications
  14. ↑ ""El Genio Y Su Hijo"" Gobots 11 (1986)
  15. ↑ S. Trent Troop & Greg Sepelak (2008). Withered Hope. The Transformers Collector’s Club. 
  16. ↑ Phil. "Screen Shots: Challenge of the Gobots". Your Sinclair 1 (20): 70. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue21/Pages/YourSinclair2100070.jpg. 
  17. ↑ CollegeHumor.com - Transformers Go Hollywood
  18. ↑ http://www.livevideo.com/video/1B1EFE9ACEEA464FB7DC19BB3DD440E7/gobot-nerd.aspx
  19. ↑ http://www.lilformers.com/index.php/2008/03/03/lil-formers-88-auditions-i/
  20. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGb7o0TCiIE&feature=related
  21. ↑ http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/3Packs/3Packs.html
  22. ↑ http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/SuperGobots/SuperGobots.html
  23. ↑ http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/SuperGobots/Leader1.html
  24. ↑ http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Models.html

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