Psycho (GoBots)

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Psycho
Challenge of the GoBots character
Paychogobot-patent.png
Image of Psycho from the toy patent
Release number

MRDX-01
Information
Species GoBot
Abilities

Energy blasts, flight, shapeshifting, superhuman durability, superhuman strength
Affiliation

Renegade GoBot
Alternate mode

Car

Psycho is a fictional character from the GoBots series. He is a Renegade GoBot introduced in 1984.

GoBots

Psycho is a Renegade who turns into show car. He is crazy and unpredictable, his twisted mind can only be controlled by Cy-Kill.[1]

His design is based on the Psychodroid car from Japanese manga series Cobra, which became the anime series Cobra: Space Adventure.[2]

Reception

In 1984 CBC's The Journal did a report on how some people considered GoBots like Psycho and other war toys too violent for children.[3]

Animated series

Psycho had a cameo in "The Battle for GoBotron", and a short but memorable scene in "The GoBotron Saga", where he got to conduct the disassembling of Leader-1. He also appeared on the cover to the VHS release of "Cy-Kill's Shrinking Ray."

Books

In the 1984 book "War of the GoBots" Psycho is ordered by Cy-Kill to issue the Renegade retreat. [4]

Toys

  • GoBots Super Psycho (1984)

References

  1. Marrs, Wanda and Texe (1985). The Great Robot Book. Little Simon. pp. 69–71. ISBN 978-0671602437. 
  2. 8 Things You Didn't Know About GoBots (and Probably Didn't Care) - Topless Robot
  3. http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/economy-business/consumer-goods/the-joy-of-toys-and-games/transformers-make-coleslaw-of-the-cabbage-patch.html Transformers 'make coleslaw of the cabbage patch'
  4. Robin Snyder (1984). War of the GoBots. Illustrated by Steve Ditko. Western Publishing Company. ISBN 0-307-61376. 

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