Luke is a fictional character in Zoids: Fuzors.
| Luke | |
 Luke at the Buster Eagle's controls | |
| Appearances | Zoids: Fuzors |
| Debut | Zoids: Fuzors Episode 3 |
| Affiliation | Savage Hammer Team |
| Age | 14 |
| Primary Zoids | Buster Eagle Leogator Seismosaurus (as an unwilling gunner) |
| Japanese Name | Luke |
| Voice Actors | Hiroki Shimowada (Japanese) Michael Coleman (English) |
Overview
Luke is a mechanic and tech guy for Savage Hammer; Sandra is his aunt, and Blake his close friend. Blake gave him his Buster Eagle, recruiting Luke as his Fuzor partner and co-pilot for the Buster Fury.
They piloted the Buster Fury in several confrontations with Mach Storm until it was destroyed by the Energy Liger. After this, Luke gave Blake the Gairyuki, having designed its Blox components to act as fully functional Fuzors. Blake went on to defeat the Liger Zero Phoenix, getting revenge for what he thought was RD's long-ago sabotage of his Geno Saurer. (This was actually a trick of Sandra's to get Blake on Savage Hammer, which he found out too late for the Fire Phoenix.)
Luke attempts to resist the mind control.
When Alpha's plans started to move forward, he took in Luke—his son—as a handy pilot and a way to control Blake. This was hardly Luke's choice; he was placed under some kind of mind control, at one point being forced to pilot a Leogator and attack Zoids by Rebecca in her Dimetraptera. Blake discovered this when controlled-Luke attempted to steal the Gairyuki's Zi-Comm control gauntlet and was less than pleased, especially after his first rescue attempt failed.
Luke finally escaped Alpha's control after, while helping pilot the Seismosaurus, Alpha ordered him to fire on Blake and RD. Blake screaming his name seems to have snapped him out of things, and the delay caused by him no longer shooting allowed Blake and RD to team up and mount a rescue.
Ability as a Zoid pilot
Luke never pilots the Buster Eagle alone (other than to fuse it with the Fury), but shows a competent grasp on tactics. He keeps track of threats toward the Buster Fury in battle, and later programs the Gairyuki to act entirely on its own.
While under Alpha's control, he pilots a Leogator, ambushing and taking out a number of Zoids, including a Battle Rex. Alpha would later use him as the Seismosaurus' gunner, which he proved quite good at until regaining his senses after Alpha had him fire on RD and Blake.
Personality
Luke is normally calm, intelligent, and a bit sarcastic. He appears more at home as a tactician and tech guy-slash-mechanic than an actual Zi Fighter, and is quite surprised at Blake's initial co-pilot offer.
As one might infer from his in-it-more-for-Blake attitude, Luke is less attached to Savage Hammer itself, and wants little part of Alpha's city conquering plan. He tends to blame himself for things that go wrong, even ones that aren't his fault—notably, after the Seismosaurus' destruction, his first words to Blake were an apology.
He also likes shorts—so much so that even while under mind control, he was wearing a version of Alpha's uniforms that included a pair.
Relationships
At least someone realized Luke needed a hug
Luke has relationships to the following characters:
Blake: Luke admires Blake and his carefree attitude toward life (perhaps also envying his lack of overbearing father), and follows him unquestioningly through the series. It's rather implied Luke has a crush on him as well, though whether Blake is aware is unknown.
Alpha: Alpha is Luke's father, and Luke doesn't seem happy about this. In fact, Alpha is forced to resort to mind control to even include Luke in his plans. Luke seems to consider the resulting destruction and Seismosaurus rampage partially his fault by proxy, deserved or not.
Sandra and Burton: Luke doesn't interact terribly much with the rest of Savage Hammer, though he doesn't seem to care much for Burton any more than Blake does.
Mach Storm: Again, Luke doesn't interact much with the rival team. On the battlefield, he engages in the occasional taunt or bit of gloating over their Zoids' abilities, but he's more concerned with winning the fight than the actual rivalry. RD seemed concerned when he ran into Luke while under mind control, implying little real animosity between them.