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The wrath of Rez... is upon you.
~ Rez in Gex: Enter the Gecko.

Rez is the main antagonist of the Gex series and the archenemy of Gex the Gecko.

He was voiced by Bruce Robertson.

Appearance[]

Rez's appearance is generally defined by his cylindrical eyes, sharp teeth, a blade over his head and no legs. These traits remain consistent over all of his appearances, with others tweaked in each game.

In the first game, he looks like a cockroach. He is purple, skeletal, has a head full of "Liquid Rez" (a type of liquid noise), bears a test pattern on right eye and a film leader countdown the left, a circle on his belly and wears a steel cloak. In Enter the Gecko, he is somewhat more organic in appearance, with yellow eyes and green flesh visible beneath his armor. This design is modified for Deep Cover Gecko, where he is more mechanical. He has a '1' on his right eye and a '2' on the left, metal claws and four rocket jets supporting his flight.

Personality[]

Rez's personality is seen to be violent, megalomaniacal and domineering. He controls the Media Dimension from his capital of Rezopolis, where he rules with an iron fist. The absolute nature of his rule can be seen in the Enter the Gecko version of Rezopolis, which is a dark, lifeless and heavily mechanized landscape. Visitors are welcomed by a sign urging them to "please die carefully" while his command facility has brainwashing centers and digital readouts issuing warnings such as "30 days in the cooler for talking," "feelings are for criminals," "your work is the reason you live," and "no thinking - I'm watching you." It can be determined from these that Rez goes to great extremes to suppress any possible challenge to his rule, by controlling every aspect of his subjects' existences.

However, Rez is also seen to have a cowardly streak. He flees upon defeat in both Gex and Enter the Gecko, and in the latter game, he begs Gex not to turn off the television containing him, attempting to appeal to Gex by claiming to be the gecko's father and offering to arrange a meeting with an associate of Quentin Tarantino.

Biography[]

Rez is a cyborg entity made of Liquid Rez that rules the Media Dimension, a place to where all bad movies and TV shows go to retire. By assimilating these movies and shows into his dimension, he gets control over more channels, plotting to get control over all existing channels in the world, and thus enslaving the entire world under his rule and making all TV shows and movies horrendous. From his inner sanctum in Rezopolis, he watches over people in the real world by using robotic flies.

One of his flies was watching Gex, a gecko who became a TV addict after his father's death. Gex had inherited a big fortune, which he used to buy the world's largest TV. One day, while he was watching his TV, the fly approached Gex, who ate it. Immediately, his remote control jammed and his TV turned blank. Rez got signal of this, and decided to make Gex his new pet. Suddenly Rez's claw got out of Gex's TV, grabbing him and pulling him into the TV. Gex soon found himself inside the Media Dimension, deciding to find a way out of that place in time for his favorite show. Gex traveled through the channels of the dimension, eventually finding a way into Rezopolis. As he entered Rez's inner sanctum, he saw one of the robotic flies, like the one he had eaten, as well as Rez. Gex fought Rez and managed to defeat him by using the fly against him. Before he could be destroyed, Rez turned into a energy form and escaped. Gex is then sent back to the real world, finding himself back at home in time for his favorite show.

After some time recovering, Rez resumed his plans and restarted to assimilate channels into his dimension. Gex, who was bored like always in front of his TV, was visited by two government agents, all while his TV was flashing Rez image. The agents took him to an interrogation room asking what he knew about Rez. They wanted him to go back into the Media Dimension to destroy Rez, but Gex didn't wanted to help. The agents then offered him a lot of money and a special agent suit. Gex then accepted, traveling back into the dimension to find Rez. After traveling through the dimension, he finds Rez in the Channel Z, where he fights him. Gex defeated him, but Rez started assimilating digital data, thus growing bigger and stronger. Gex then tricked him, making a big TV to fall over him. Rez attempts to flee, but is trapped inside this TV. Rez tries to argue with Gex, saying that he is actually his father. Gex, obviously not believing Rez's claim, shuts down the TV.

Having been defeated twice, Rez initiates a plan to get revenge on Gex and destroy his nemesis once and for all. He builds Spacestation Rez, a massive space station that orbits Earth, allowing him to watch over the entire planet. He then kidnaps Agent Xtra, a secret agent and Gex's partner, as bait to lure Gex into another confrontation. Gex and his butler use a secret entrance to the Media Dimension to pursue Rez through his newest collection of channels, defeating his henchmen Rock Hard and Brain of Oz along the way. They finally rescue Agent Xtra and travel to Spacestation Rez, where Gex and Rez battle once again. Gex defeats his enemy and escapes from the station before it explodes, while Rez falls into the station's reactor and is presumably destroyed along with it.

Powers and abilities[]

  • Dimensional travel: Rez is able to travel between the real world and the Media Dimension seemingly at will, and can bring other individuals back with him.
  • Lasers: Rez is able to shoot lasers from his eyes. However, he loses this ability by the time of Deep Cover Gecko.
  • Flight: Rez can fly through the use of booster rockets attached to his torso in place of legs.
  • Missile Launchers: In Enter the Gecko and Deep Cover Gecko, Rez possesses a pair of missile launchers mounted to his shoulders. In the former game, he also possesses a targeting system inside his eyes for use with these weapons.
  • Shapeshifting: Rez possesses a limited ability to shapeshift. When badly injured, he is capable of transforming himself into a ball of plasma to escape. Additionally, in Enter the Gecko, he is able to grow to a much larger size by absorbing data through a pool of Liquid Rez. However, the latter transformation is seemingly permanent, as he is still at the same size when he returns in Deep Cover Gecko and is never seen shrinking back down.

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Trivia[]

  • In Enter the Gecko, his claiming to be Gex's father is an obvious reference to Darth Vader.
  • Once defeated in Deep Cover Gecko, after exploding a few times, Rez seems to fall into the main reactor of his station. Not only is this similar to the death scene of the Star Wars main antagonist Emperor Palpatine, but the intro for the level shows the reactor to resemble that of the Death Star as well. It is interesting to note that this game is the sequel to Enter the Gecko where he references Darth Vader, much like Return of the Jedi, where Emperor Palpatine is destroyed, is the film after The Empire Strikes Back, where Darth Vader reveals that he is Luke's father.
  • Strange images in the levels "The Spy Who Loved Himself" and "No Weddings and a Funeral" in Enter the Gecko and "Mystery TV" in Deep Cover Gecko depict Rez in a far more organic fashion, including with green flesh. Whether these indicate what Rez looked like before he became fully cybernetic or are merely part of his delusional self-image is unclear.
  • As part of his absolute rule over Rezopolis, Rez appears to control multiple industries and businesses. The Enter the Gecko version of Rezopolis depicted in the stage "Mazed and Confused" features satellites marked "Rez Television" as well as billboards for a petroleum company named Rez Oil. Additionally, although it is not confirmed to be a part of Rezopolis, the Bonus TV stage "The Spy Who Loved Himself" takes place in an industrial facility owned by Rez Inc., which appears to be the parent company for Rez's business interests.
  • The title of the level featuring the battle against Rez in Deep Cover Gecko, "Rez-Raker," is a reference to the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. As in the game, Moonraker features the protagonist traveling to space and confronting a villain aboard an orbiting space station.
  • Rez's depiction in Enter the Gecko as a tyrant who controls his subjects' thoughts and emotions is highly similar to Big Brother, the main antagonist of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Notable similarities include the video screens in Rezopolis that display Rez's image, which resemble the iconic telescreens that broadcast Big Brother's image, and the flashing series of images seen playing on other monitors including those in Rez's brainwashing center; these are reminiscent of the "Two Minute Hate" videos utilized by Big Brother to influence his citizens against his enemies.
    • Notably, one of the images in Rez's brainwashing video appears to be that of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian political leader known for leading nonviolent resistance to the British colonization of India in the first half of the twentieth century. As Gandhi is well known as an icon of peace, his inclusion in the video is indicative of Rez's tyrannical and violent nature.
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