Zebedee

**Zebedee the Conflicted Harbour Tug** is one of the main protagonists in the Seventyverse's TUGS spinoff series, and was the second member of the Z-Stacks and is currently the tenth member of the Star Fleet.

## Backstory

Zebedee came at the same time as Zorran, Zak and Zip, having been dishonourably discharged from Moran Towing Company. They were all swiftly purchased by Captain Zero, who used his tugs as a means to get ahead.

Zebedee was one of Captain Zero's harbour tugs and he, along with Zak once competed with Big Mac and Warrior for the steel contract. Zak's plan to take a shortcut across the canal backfired when they came across Top Hat and argued under the railway bridge about who would back up. Zebedee charged forward, but the tall steel rig on his barge hits the bridge due to the high tide and causes it to collapse. Zak and a guilty Zebedee left the scene to get some help and the steel contract went to the Star Tugs for delivering it.

During the events of *High Winds,* Zebedee was manipulated by a former friend of Captain Zero; Johnny Cuba. He brought the tramper into some abandoned docks and does various jobs for him. With Johnny hiding in Bigg City Port, Zebedee had to find a way to not get scuttled by either him or Captain Zero. This led to him doing various good deeds for the Star Tugs, including saving them and the Princess Alice.

Johnny Cuba was eventually tracked down by Hercules and tries to escape. Zebedee finally stands up to him and traps him against the quayside. After Johnny Cuba’s arrest, things return to normal but not before Zebedee declined Ten Cents's offer to join the Star Fleet.

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## Personality

Zebedee's personality resembles that of Shemp Howard, a member of The Three Stooges.

Zebedee is one of the more complex characters, an easy-going tug who winds up the Star Fleet for a reason or another—rude and vindictive on the outside, but on the inside there is much more to his personality than just being devious. Beneath his tough and sinister exterior is the only Z-Stack - aside from Zob - to have a conscience.

However, Zebedee states he’s okay with his position as a Z-Stack. After the Princess Alice docking, Ten Cents offers Zebedee a place if he ever thinks about leaving the Z-Stacks. Zebedee declines the offer before it can be said and tells Ten Cents he thinks too much before they part ways.

Zebedee's moral compass has been shining through a lot more since the Munitions incident. He and Zob offer to try and help find O.J. when he went missing, and they also went to help mend Lillie after she was damaged.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Like the other Z-Stacks, Zebedee is based on the Moran Fleet tugs from the 1920s.

### Livery

Zebedee is painted in the Z-Stacks' corporate livery. This consists of a black hull, a maroon superstructure, white mast, and an black funnel with a white stripe and white circle. His name is painted on the sides of his bow in white and he has the number "2" on his funnel. Like the rest of the Z-Stacks, he wears a black fedora with a white stripe.

In *Aftermath*, after joining the Star Tugs, Zebedee gets repainted into the Star Fleet's corporate yellow, red, blue and white livery with the number "10" on his stack.

## Differences between TUGS, Salty's Lighthouse and the Seventyverse

* In *Salty's Lighthouse,* Zebedee was renamed Zeebee, although (unlike Big Mac and O.J.'s) his original nametag is left uncensored, which means that either "Zeebee" is a short name, or that his name could have been mispronounced. In the Seventyverse, Zebedee retains his name from the original *TUGS* series.

## Trivia

* The preferred voice actor for Zebedee is Sean Barrett who voiced him in the original *TUGS* series.
* Zebedee's worst nightmare is Zelda being angry with him for letting himself go down the dark path after she died. As it turned out, she's proud of him for steering back around in the right direction.