Fictional aliens in The Marcross franchise
Zentradi |
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A "Zentradi" soldier sporting heavy combat armour. The yellow and black Zentradi emblem can be seen in their chest. |
First appearance | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) |
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Home world | Interstellar Republic |
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The Zentradi (ゼントラーディ人, Zentorādi-jin) are a fictional, militaristic race of alien, humanoid giants and often the main antagonist in Macross media mix and its Robotech (1985) cartoon adaptation.[1]
It is transliterated as Zentradi, Zjentohlauedy, Zentrady, and Zentraedi for the Japanese Macross series, with the Zentraedi spelling being the one most used commonly in the English-dubbed Robotech adaptation.[2][unreliable source?] The Robotech novels and comics would add the occasional spelling T'sentraeti. In both the Macross and Robotech universes, humans and Zentradi are capable of interbreeding due to being genetically equivalent.[1] Physically, most of them also resemble humans with pointy ears, though some have unique skin and hair colors. Prior to their first encounter with the human race, all members of the Zentradi race were artificially created through cloning.