Nitro Zeus

“Baby free at last! Thank Megatron I’m free at last!”—Nitro Zeus

Yes, you are. You’re now free from your own movie. Things could’ve been much worse with you...

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Greetings, ladies and gentlemen! The one and only Joker back with another blog! Now, you may not be familiar with this guy, but he is one of the minor Decepticon antagonists of Transformers: The Last Knight. For those of you who had the unfortunate privilege of watching that unwatchable atrocity, you know just how pathetically used and abused these characters were in the film. However, Nitro Zeus was the only saving grace of the whole movie (no, Optimus Prime himself was so poorly written in this film that he wasn’t able to save it). The reason is that Nitro had an actual personality, was more likable, quite competent in battle, and has an interesting motivation for being a Decepticon. I’ll take him over the other Decepticons in this film any day of the week.

According to his file, he was angered by the death of Shockwave and blamed both the Autobots and humanity. Regardless, he has a fair amount of respect for the humans and their culture. Did you notice how he interacted with those other humans namely Tim, Brad, and Enrique? That just shows he fosters no hatred for humans in my humble opinion. He may have blamed them for Shockwave’s (who could have been his brother or cousin) death, but that may not automatically mean he despises them.

Nitro is a funny character to watch. I like his gangster personality and his design. Sadly, the only thing he did in this film was win the affection of half the fans. That’s it. Anyway, Nitro is just someone whom I actually care for and is full of potential to be a great Decepticon commander. He may not had plenty of screen time, but he clearly stole the scenes he appeared. I love that.

You can learn about his origins by watching this video. Very intriguing theory if you ask me.

That’s all for today. Any thoughts on this Decepticon?

Peace.

Comments

[CROSSOVER KING]

I guess you're right. As unbearably horrible The Last Knight was, Nitro was certainly one of the more likeable characters in the movie. Also, I don't think he has much of a reason to hate the humans. I mean, they may have severely damaged Shockwave, but it was actually Optimus Prime who brutally finished him off.

[TheClownPrinceofCrime]

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Indeed.

[CROSSOVER KING]

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Also, did you know that Nitro was voiced by John DiMaggio who had voiced hundreds of characters in several cartoons, animated movies, and videogames. In fact, here is a few of them:

- Bender in Futurama
- Jake the Dog in Adventure Time
- Marcus Fenix in Gears of War
- Dr. Drakken in Kim Possible
- Scotsman in Samurai Jack
- Brother Blood in Teen Titans
- Hammerhead and Sandman in The Spectacular Spider-Man
- Joker in Batman: Under the Red Hood

[TheClownPrinceofCrime]

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Don’t forget Steven Barr who also voiced him. In fact, there were two versions of Nitro’s dialogue that were voiced by both him and John DiMaggio. Those were the following:

By the way, Enrique, Chad’s sleeping with your wife. Hahahahaha!!—1st version

I know where you live, Enrique. Say hello to your wife for me!—2nd version

Unfortunate, because I was about to knock some heads!—1st version

Nahh, I kick more ass in prison!—2nd version

Two versions of the film saw release, with altered dialogue for several robots. Nitro Zeus not only had alternate dialogue in his scenes (bar his last line, "You blew your chance to kill Unicron", which was absent in the alternate cut) but was voiced throughout the film by Steven Barr rather than John DiMaggio, leading to a completely different delivery of his lines. A mixture of DiMaggio and Barr's readings was used for the official digital release of the film. The Digital, DVD, and Blu-Ray releases credit both actors, while DiMaggio was the sole actor to provide the dialogue in the home video release.

[MLPFollower]

The Transformers version of Futurama’s Bender.