Zug

"*I'm only carrying out orders, Zorran can't blame me!*"

— **Zug** in, *Trapped*

### Friends

Ten Cents, Sunshine, Hercules, Big Mac, Warrior, Grampus, O.J., Top Hat, Big Mickey, Sally, Boomer, Frank and Eddie, Izzy Gomez, Captain Star, Captain Zero, Zak, Zorran, Zebedee, Zip, Mighty Mo, Lillie Lightship, Bluenose, Sea Rogue, Billy Shoepack**Fanfic:** Theodore, Emily, Oliver, Foduck, The Dispatcher, Thomas, Percy, James, Gordon, Edward, Henry, Emily, Rebecca, Nia, Toby, Duck, Bill and Ben, Timothy, Rosie, Stanley, Ryan, Sonny, Diesel, Daisy, Salty, Porter, Paxton, Sidney, Philip, Victor, Skarloey and Rheneas, Whiff, Marion, Skiff, Hiro, Kenji, Mavis, Annie and Clarabel, Charlie, Billy, Terence, Bertie, Bulgy, Cleo, Ruth, Donald and Douglas, Cranky, Carly, Judy and Jerome, Billy, Elizabeth, George, Peter Sam, Sir Handel, Mighty Mac, Duncan, Freddie, Duke, Owen, Merrick, Harvey, Millie, Luke, Stephen, Glynn, Shane, Aubrey and Aiden, Tamika, Ace. Isla, Spencer, Henrietta, Hugo, Rocky, Harold, Flynn, Captain, Butch, Belle, Nelson, Jack, Alfie, Oliver, Max and Monty, Kelly, Byron, Ned, Isobelle, Patrick, Brenda, Buster, Darcy, Kevin, Oliver, Ashima, Rajiv, Noor Jehan, Shankar, Charubala, Lorenzo, Beppe, Gina, Stefano, Ester, Gabriela, Raul, Gustavo, Marcia and Marcio, Fernando, Hank, Sam, Gator, Norman and Dennis, Hong-Mei, Yong Bao, An-An and Yin-Long, Den, Dart, Beau, Toad, Duchess, Lexi, Theo, Hurricane, Merlin, Frankie, Beresford, Caitlin, Connor, Ferdinand, Bash and Dash, Emerson, Lei, Natalie, Cassia, 'Arry and Bert, Bert, Rex, Mike, Lucy, Phillip and Filmore, Hank, George

### Likes

Working on the harbour, pulling and delivering barges, getting the contract from the Duchess for Captain Zero

### Dislikes

Being trapped with Top Hat, Big Mac and O.J.

## Physical Apearance

### Eye Colour

Black (cartoon)Pale cerulean-blue (fanfic, as a human)

### Complexion

Black and white (cartoon)Pale (fanfic, as a human)

### Status

Alive

**Zug** is an ambitious young tug who is Captain Zero's fourth tug, and one of the Z-Stack switchers. He is usually seen working with Zip. He is used for a wide variety of tasks around Bigg City Port.

He speaks with an Estonian accent.

## Biography

### *TUGS*

Zug is the only established immigrant in Bigg City Port, judging by his accent. His capabilities range from the towing of barges to liner docking operations. Zug and Zip are the Z-Stack equivalents of Ten Cents and Sunshine, in that they are the smaller tugs of the fleet, who work together and are plotting against the other two.

Zip and Zug usually assisted in Zorran’s schemes, such as shoving Big Mac aground onto mudflats so that they weren’t enough Star Tugs to tow in the Duchess and unsuccessfully rescuing their barges from Ten Cents.

Zug was shown to be absolutely loyal to his fleet, though his schemes failed due to a lack of common sense and could even cause trouble for the Z-Stacks. While the fleets were competing for a contract to deliver stone, Zip and Zug left Ten Cents to rescue a capsizing Izzy Gomez alone so they could have some salvage when he "failed". Though other Star Tugs helped Ten Cents, this behaviour led to the Z-Stacks losing the rock contract.

In the annual regatta, Zug pulled a barge advertising a company that produced wood.

While up-river once, Zug was late for log detail due to taking an old tramper to the Breaker’s Yard. While helping him due to his pace, Zorran jammed the tramper across the river. Thinking the Star Fleet was up-river, Zorran discarded Zug and let the situation worsen. Zug worked with the Star Tugs to get free until Billy Shoepack blew up the tramper with his dynamite.

### Books

Zip and Zug accidentally towed O.J. to the Breaker’s Yard and decided to let him be scrapped when they found out. They also kidnapped Sunshine and tied him up in a disused warehouse.

By Zorran’s orders, Zug reluctantly tricked Big Mac into going to a wrong place so that the Z-Stacks could steal some work. That night however, Zug found a stranded tramper out to sea. When Zorran thought Zug was pathetically trying to prank him, the switcher turned to Warrior and they brought the freighter in together. Captain Star praised Zug at the Star Dock and Zorran got humiliated when Warrior splashed him, leading to Zug laughing at him with the Star Fleet.

## Personality

Zug mainly works with Zip, and likes to think of himself as the intelligent one. Compared to Zip, he certainly is intelligent and practical, but he is not as smart as the other tugs. He comes up with devious plans for him and Zip to use when faced against the Star Tugs. He is a scheming sort of tug, though his plans rarely if ever work as planned. With Zip, Zug basically commands him, who's too frightened to make any good suggestions.

Zug is sneaky, cowardly and needs the other Z-Stacks around for courage. He is intimidated by the main Z-Stack Zorran and has a tendency to be somewhat nervous and jittery around him and the other harbor tugs. However, as seen in *Trapped*, he did initially keep his cool while around Zorran, only to panic when Zorran's impatience landed the smaller tug in trouble.

However, like Zebedee in *High Winds*, Zug is shown to have a good streak in him somewhere. When Zorran callously abandoned him trapped up-river with most of the Star Tugs when they accidentally crashed an old tramper across the river, Zug worked with the Star Fleet to get it out of the way. He never complained. He was also shown to be very supportive towards O.J.'s plan to ram it with a line of barges, despite it not working as expected; he even helped out in the attempt. After they were all freed when Billy blew up the tramper, Zug laughed at Zorran with the Star Tugs.

Zug has also proved to be suspicious and brave when trying to figure and capture the pirate after Ten Cent's barges keep disappearing. But when following Ten Cents, and Sunshine to see what they're up to, he and Zip end up finding a fright when they are chased by the thieves.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Like the rest of the Zero Marine, Zug is based on the Moran Fleet tugs of the 1920s.

## Physical Appearance

### Livery

Zug was painted entirely in black but with white lines and mast, black funnel with two white stripes and number zero on the bottom, matching nameplate with his name was painted in white and he also wears a black hat with white line.

### Fanfic

As a human, Zug had pale complexion, pale blond hair and pale cerulean-blue eyes. He wears a black jacket with silver buttons and white lining and number 4, white necktie, black necktie, a pair of black trousers and shoes. He also wore a black hat with white line.

## Fanfics

Zug appears in the fanfic alongside the other tugboat drivers as a human. In the second series, Zug and the other Z-Stack drivers went to helping the Star Fleet, Salvage Fleet and Big Harbour Fleet to crossing the Up River to delivering the barges to Uptown. Suddenly, Billy heard there's someone needed help. Zug and the other tug drivers were told by Billy that he heard someone needs help. Then, the tugboat drivers drives their tugs to the Up River to save Percy and James.

After the rescue, James was feeling alright, soaking wet and covered with a big towel, but Percy wasn't breathing. Hercules laid him down on the ground and performs CPR on him. Later, Hercules stops performed it as he heard Percy was finally breathing slowly and he was listening to his heart that was beating. Percy was awake as he coughs out the water from his lungs. Hercules touches him in the back with his hand as he covered him around with a big towel. He lifted him up and bring him and James to his tugboat to take a rest.

After James and Percy arrived from Island of Sodor, Zug and the others are resting after their job is done and rescuing both Percy and James.