Sendak

Hate Sink

Full Name

Sendak

Alias

Commander Sendak

Origin

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Allies

Haggar †

Zarkon †
Lieutenant Haxus †
Lieutenant Hepta †

Powers/Skills

Master Strategist

Manipulation
Combat Prowess

Goals

Kill the Voltron paladins

Defeat Lotor and usurp control of the Galra Empire (both failed)
Conquer Earth and enslave humanity
Capture the Voltron Lions (both succeeded)
Destroy Earth (failed)

What Makes Them Despicable

Mocking Team Voltron for valuing the lives of others and bragging that he doesn’t
Running away from the fight he challenged Lotor to for control of the Galra Empire and killing a weaker commander to usurp his fleet and form his own faction
Nearly dooming a entire Galra planet to be destroyed out of petty spite for the commanding officer thinking of pledging allegiance to Lotor instead of him
Brutally razing Earth to the ground and enslaving the survivors
Betraying Admiral Sanda and deciding to destroy Earth even after he already got everything he wanted for the Evulz
Remorselessly slaughtering a ship’s worth of his own men just to kill an escaped Voltron and destroy Earth out of raw spite

"Love to hate" factors

Cool robotic arm and design

Impressive military strategist and opportunist

Type of Hate Sink

Power Hungry Hypocrite

“	The worst weakness of all: they value the lives of others.	„
	~ Sendak mocking the “weakness” of Team Voltron, a phrase he would repeat later on.

“	Killing you would be too merciful. Once I’m emperor, I’m going to keep you as my slave!	„
	~ Sendak to Lotor while fighting for control of the Galra Empire, a fight he would soon run away from.

“	Every ounce of my being will directed to the destruction of you and your PATHETIC planet!	„
	~ Sendak to Shiro in their final duel, promising to kill him and humanity out of spite.

Sendak is a major antagonist in Voltron: Legendary Defender.

He was the former right-hand of Emperor Zarkon and the first enemy faced by Team Voltron. He would later return following Zarkon’s death to seize power for himself, forming the most powerful Galra splinter faction, the Fire of Purification and become infamous for his personal crime of brutally invading Earth. He is the archenemy of Shiro.

He was voiced by Jake Eberle.

What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]

After being defeated and escaping his first encounter with Team Voltron, he plotted a way to capture the Castle of Lions and take down Team Voltron by exploiting their weakness. When his lieutenant Haxus asked him what that weakness was, Sendak responded it was the worst weakness of all: valuing the lives of others.
He is one of the most racist Galra members, bragging out being the purest of them all and desiring to subjugate all other races and planets.
Though a Galra, it is shown that Galras understand the concept of morality. Keith’s mother in particular enjoyed spending time with a human and eventually married said human.
He mocked Shiro’s torture and experimentation by the Druids after recognising his similarly upgraded arm while fighting him.
He sadistically tortured Shiro and made Pidge watch to demand her surrender, trying to gaslight her into thinking Shiro’s suffering was at her hands.
He claimed to be impressed with Pidge’s ability to evade him, only to follow up by taunting her that after he catches her, he would pay a trip to Earth to break the spirit of humanity and bragged that now he had Voltron, every race and planet would be broken and brutally subjugated by the Galra Empire.
He threatened to use his robotic arm to crush Pidge, the youngest member of Team Voltron and barely a teen, in front of Allura and Keith when they confronted him.
He took advantage of the heroes trying to access his memories while he was in stasis to have his mind break free and psychologically abused Shiro, taunting him over their similarities and degrading him as nothing more than a Galra weapon and monster that didn’t deserve to be a Voltron paladin to trick Shiro into cracking his stasis pod and giving a truly horrific nightmare face. The experience caused one of Shiro’s worst episodes of PTSD in the entire series and he was deeply traumatized by it.
Despite claiming to profess loyalty to Zarkon, once Zarkon dies, he doesn’t hesitate to immediately try and claim control of the Galra Empire for himself, noting he can make it the most powerful as none one else can. In addition, he had already admitted to not valuing the lives of anyone else and viewed it as the greatest weakness, proving his loyalty was just a sham and he truly only cared about himself.
He runs away from the duel he challenged Lotor to for control of the Galra Empire and instead picks on and murders a weak non-action Galra commander to take control of his fleet and escape, making him a dirty coward.
He forms the largest Galra renegade faction called the Fire of Purification, ignoring the traditions of the Galra way that he claimed to care about and upon overhearing the commanding officer of a Galra planet thinking about pledging allegiance to the rightful ruler Lotor, he attacks the planet, destroying buildings and attempting to wipe out the entire planet of his own species out of petty spite for that commander’s decision.
- In fact, when Team Voltron comes to the planet’s aid, he transmits a message to them, again mocking them for caring about the lives of others before having his ion cannon destroy the shield station of that planet to doom it to be destroy by solar radiation and retreat, with Team Voltron barely being able to save the planet.
He commits one of the most personal crimes in the entire series when he finally discovers the location of Earth and launches a brutal invasion, razing the entire planet to the ground and enslaving the survivors.
When Allura is interrogating his memories, he brags about the destruction of her home world Altea, causing her immense distress.
After Admiral Sanda upholds her end of the deal and hands him over Team Voltron and the Voltron Lions, he betrays her and the deal, deciding to destroy Earth for the Evulz despite already getting everything he wanted.
He remorselessly destroy one of his own ships to try and kill an escaped Voltron.
After Team Voltron foils his attempt to destroy Earth and his ship starts falling, he engages Shiro on his ship and promises that he devote himself to killing him and his entire “pathetic” planet out of spite, He nearly kills Shiro and taunts him with the Galra slogan “victory or death” before ironically being killed by Keith, ending his terror once and for all.
His death by getting slashed by Keith a well-deserved for all his atrocities.
Unlike all the other major villains, Zarkon, Haggar, or Lotor, he lacks any sympathetic traits and proves himself to be an irredeemable, spiteful racist to the bitter end.
While he does have a very small amount of Cool moments, He's not that enjoyable, in fact his Evil is Cool moments make him even more Hateable and more punchable.

Trivia[]

He is the only major villain in the entire series to be killed by a member of Team Voltron, specifically team leader Keith.

External Links[]

Sendak on the Pure Evil Wiki
Sendak on the Villains Wiki

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