Zor

"Giving bad news is actually the one thing I enjoy."

- Zor, Sonic Lost World

Zor (ゾア) is one of the primary antagonists in Sonic Lost World. He is a Zeti and a member of the Deadly Six, serving as the group's spy. When Dr. Eggman came to the Lost Hex, Zor and the other members of the Deadly Six were forced into serving the doctor due to the effects of the Cacophonic Conch. After Sonic the Hedgehog arrived and got rid of the conch, Zor and the others rebelled against Eggman and took control of his forces. Afterwards, Zor followed Zavok's plans to make him and the other Deadly Six stronger by using Eggman's Extractor, while destroying Earth, but was ultimately defeated by Sonic.

Physical Appearance
Zor is one of the most diminutive of the Deadly Six, being only slightly taller than Master Zik. This may be in part due to Zor's poor posture, as he always stands with a heavy slouch. Zor's upper body is white, while his body from the waist down is black. He has short, skinny legs with two cyan claws, with a third smaller claw on each heel. Zor has a thin, rat-like tail that's white in coloration. His arms are thin and gangly, while he has five-fingered hands with cyan nails. Unlike most of the other Deadly Six, Zor wears fingerless black gloves on each hand. Zor's head is oblong-shaped, and the majority of it is covered in vibrant purple hair, with one bang covering the right side of his face. Zor has blue eyes with yellow sclera, and black markings around his eyes. He has large purple lips with dark grey freckles above them. On the top of his head Zor has a pair of horns that curve backwards, with an alternating black and cyan coloration. Zor seems to always carry a blue rose with him.

History
Many years prior to the events of Sonic Lost World, Zor was brought into the Deadly Six when Master Zik formed the group.

Shortly before the events of Sonic Lost World, Zor and the other Deadly Six met Dr. Eggman, who used a Cacophonic Conch to enslave them. Now forced to work for Eggman, Zor began begrudgingly assisting Eggman in his latest scheme for world domination by capturing the animals Eggman needed to build an army of Badniks to take over the world.

When Eggman returned to his factory after an attempt to kidnap more animals, Zor was there when Eggman showed him and the other Deadly Six how to make Badniks and when he revealed his intention for him and the other Deadly Six to help defeat Sonic the Hedgehog. Not long after, he witnessed Zazz head out to fight Sonic.

Later on, as Zor was with Eggman and the other Deadly Six in Windy Hill, Sonic found them, and Zor was introduced to Sonic by Eggman along with the rest of the Deadly Six. When Eggman then left Zazz to finish Sonic, Zor and the remaining Deadly Six left with Eggman. After their leave, Zor and the others resumed gathering animals for Eggman. However, the animals they got were deemed underwhelming by Eggman, and Zor and the other Deadly Six were punished with the Cacophonic Conch when Zavok spoke up.

Some time later in Desert Ruins, Zor and the other Deadly Six were scolded by Eggman for their failures and were punished by hearing the Cacophonic Conch again. However, Sonic then appeared and knocked the conch away. Now free to use their powers, Zor and the other Deadly Six took control of Eggman's Badniks and used them to attack everyone present, and managed to force Eggman, Orbot, Cubot, Sonic and Tails to flee.

After being liberated by Sonic, Zor and the other Deadly Six took control of Eggman's operations on the Lost Hex, but Sonic still opposed them. When Zavok then enacted his plan to destroy the Earth with Eggman's Extractor and use the energies that it harnessed to make himself and the Deadly Six stronger, which in turn would kill Eggman as punishment for their enslavement, Zor went with Zavok's plan.

Soon after, Zor and the other Deadly Six set up a trap to capture Sonic so they could turn him into a robot in their service. When Zor learned that the trap had caught something, he decided that Sonic had fallen for the trap, and was caught off guard when Sonic confronted him over the fact that they had caught Tails instead. Not interested in dealing with Sonic, Zor left to tell the others the bad news. However, Sonic caught up with Zor before he could inform the rest of the Deadly Six and was defeated in battle. Hurrying back to the base after his defeat, Zor told the other Deadly Six that they had not caught Sonic, only to be scowled at in response by his fellow Zeti that they already were aware of that fact. After returning to Silent Forest, Zor - sickened by Sonic's upbeat attitude - decided to knock the hedgehog down a peg and attacked him, but was yet again defeated.

Some time later, Zor faced Sonic with Zavok and Zeena when Sonic was making his way through Lava Mountain. Upon meeting him, Zor told Sonic to not steal his deal about whining after Sonic expressed his dismay at seeing them, before they revealed that they had seemingly turned Tails into a robot servant. When Sonic refused to serve them, Tails was ordered to kill Sonic, but Zor was caught off guard and forced to retreat when Tails attacked them, having only pretended to be their robotic slave. After escaping, Zor was confronted by Sonic, and faced the blue hedgehog in battle. Despite having his strength enhanced by the energy from the Extractor, however, Zor was defeated for good by Sonic. What happened to Zor afterwards is unclear.

Personality
Zor is described as being "one with the shadows", both physically and mentally. Believing that everything and everyone are pointless in the cosmic scheme of things, Zor has given up on hope, happiness and life, becoming a pessimistic and depressing individual that is moody, rude, indifferent towards everything and cannot be impressed by anything. As such, he often whines about how and why everything seems meaningless, and has low expectations for everything as he does not find them worth enough to be bothered about. His conviction about everything's meaninglessness also gives Zor a suicidal attitude, given that he at one point exclaims that he "longs for death's cold embrace".

Despite his nihilistic perspective, Zor still intends to go through with his assignments and duties, though he himself does not know why he does it, and cares little about the outcome. Ironically, he does not like to hear others whine, as he wants whining to be his deal, and he tends to give some things more value than others.

Zor has an extremely dislike towards happiness in general, believing that it is such views on life that are wrecking the world for others. His aversion of this is so great that he becomes sick in the face of positive attitudes and gets pains in his face when smiling. As such, he will personally take action himself to ruin things for others, even going as far as to harm others, to ensure the end of their happiness.

Despite his dislike of happiness, Zor finds comfort in the pain that is inflicted on him, given that when he does smile, thereby causing himself pain, Zor finds it cool, and that he welcomes the harm he receives by Sonic.

Like the other members of the Deadly Six, Zor is inherently malicious and violent. Despite not being particularly violent (compared to the other members of the Deadly Six) and claiming that nothing makes him happy, Zor openly enjoys the sadness and misery of others. He enjoys giving others bad news and making their lives a misery, inflicting pain and physical punishment, and even killing others, which are some of the few things that can make him smile. He also has no qualms about causing massive genocide or widespread destruction for his own benefits. Zor also comes off as vengeful, given that once he was freed from Eggman's enslavement by Sonic, he launched an attack on the scientist with the other Deadly Six.

Powers and Abilities
Zor possesses a high amount of physical strength, enough to let him completely shatter rocks with his bare fists. He also has incredible jumping skill, allowing him to leap high into the air and across very large distances in an instant.

Zor has the ability to utilize dark and forbidden powers that none of the other members of the Deadly Six dare to use. He is able to manifest flocks of black bats with one red eye that are made of shadows, which he is able to command, and can even make these bats amalgamate into shadowy clones of himself, which seemingly possess the same abilities that the real Zor has. Additionally, Zor has the ability to project purple energy blasts from the palm of his hand, and is capable of flight.

As a Zeti, Zor possesses the innate ability to manipulate magnetic fields, which allows him to take control over electronics. This allows Zor to take control of and command robots, such as Badniks, by touching his forehead and then using his hands to issue commands, and to remotely pilot mechs without using physical control interfaces.

Battle
Zor is encountered at Silent Forest in the Wii U version of Sonic Lost World. His boss battle involves him riding on top of a giant, robotic owl that shoots missiles at Sonic. Using the Kick attack, Sonic can kick the missiles away. There are three locations to this boss fight; the first one takes place an Zone One of Silent Forest; Zone Two has a fight with Zor controlling an robotic owl; and in Zone 4 has a 2D perspective with everything colored black, excluding the background.

Archie Comics
Zor made a brief appearance in Sonic Halloween Comic Fest 2013 and Sonic Super Special Magazine #9 published by Archie Comics, which are both comic book prequels to Sonic Lost World. In the comics, after Dr. Eggman had enslaved the Deadly Six with his Cacophonic Conch, Zor and the other members of the Deadly were rounded by Zavok, and went down to Earth to capture animals for Eggman.

Quotes

 * "Sigh. Everything seems so pointless."
 * "He's so upbeat I wanna beat him up! It won't make me happy... but to be fair, nothing makes me happy."
 * "What?!  Seriously?!  We captured you!"
 * "Another pointless conflict is about to begin..."
 * "Look at him – all, 'I'm so fast' and stuff... Ugh. It makes me sick. Time to knock him down a peg."
 * "Maybe all these death traps and robots will kill Sonic, maybe they won't. Does it really matter in the cosmic scheme of things?"
 * "We're all gonna die eventually..."
 * "Man, this day just keeps getting lamer and lamer... Whatever. I've gotta go tell the others the bad news. Heh... giving bad news is actually the one thing I enjoy."
 * "I'll deal with you later, LOSER."
 * "Somebody messed up royally, because we don't have Sonic!"
 * "Smiling hurts my face. When I hurt your face, I'll smile. So in the end, I'll just be hurting myself... cool."
 * "Just give up, Sonic! That's what I do! I've given up on hope, happiness, and life... In fact, what am I still doing here? I should just crawl back into bed..."
 * "Only the Reaper wins in the end."
 * "Don't be so whiny, man! That's MY deal."
 * "Look at that hedgehog with all his trying and positive attitude. It's people like that who are wrecking this world for the rest of us."
 * "Yawn, Sonic's doing better than I expected, but I have pretty low expectations... about everything. I mean, really, why bother?"
 * "Do you realise how meaningless we all are? Well, mostly you."
 * "In this pain I finally find comfort!"
 * "I long for death's cold embrace!"
 * I suppose we're gonna have to fight now.

Trivia

 * Zor sometimes carries his rose in his mouth, as in Zazz's portion of the Deadly Six trailer, Zor can be seen in the background carrying the rose in his mouth.
 * Zor is the youngest member of the Deadly Six at the age of 112 years.
 * Despite Zor having his flower with him almost all the time, it clearly doesn't show much significance to him, as in his first encounter, he merely tosses it without a second thought and he is not seen with it again.
 * In the Wii U version of Sonic Lost World, Zor is shown with the ability to levitate in the air at will, but in the 3DS version, he is shown to fly by flapping his arms.