Zile Zazic

Zile Zazic is a major antagonist in Speed Racer: The Next Generation. He is a corrupt businessman and the owner of the largest oil company, Zazic Industries. He is also revealed to be Captain Terror from the original series.

Biography
He is the owner and founder of Zazic Industries, a multi-billion dollar company that has global influence in the fossil fuels industry. He also makes massive donations to the Racer Academy in order to maintain influence on the school. While he may seem a like a nice individual upfront, Zile is extremely greedy and ruthless, and will resort to any tactic to achieve his goals. He has a daughter named Annalise, whom he uses for insider information on Speed's whereabouts within Racer Academy. Zile is also frequently seen throughout the series with the company of his loyal but dimwitted associate, Stan.

Zile sees the Mach 6 as the biggest threat to his company and global influence due to the gasless engine design that was built by Speed Racer Sr. He is the one responsible for Pops' death and Trixie's injuries as he and Stan sabotaged the prototype Mach 6's engine. Ironically enough, while bearing the responsibilities for that tragic event, Zile inadvertently turned Trixie evil and became a puppet for Trixie's Shadow Committee (Zile had no knowledge of who was the leader of the group).

Throughout all of season one, Zile is seen trying to destroy the Mach 6 by sabotaging the virtual track and putting Speed Racer Jr. in harms way. He also resorts to physical action by sending "goons" to Conor's garage in hopes of destroying or getting hands on the Mach 6's schematics.

Zile is later arrested and sent to prison for his crimes, but is later granted house arrest with community service being conducted at Racer Academy.

Later on, in the "Family Reunion" arc, Speed Racer Jr. and his friends alter the timeline by preventing a younger Zile from successfully murdering Pops and injuring Trixie, thus preventing the Shadow Committee from being formed. However, younger Zile steals the Mach 6 (and breaks off Chim-Chim's arm in the process) in an attempt to time travel into the future but is inevitably stopped by Speed and X and is later arrested.

As "The Iron Terror"
With the timeline now altered, Zile becomes a ruthless cyborg known as "The Iron Terror" and is hellbent on destroying the Racer family for ruining his life. Zile commits multiple terrorist attacks and kidnaps Rex Racer, as well as the other members of the Racer family. With his plan going well on baiting Speed and X (as well as Lucy and Conor) to save their family in the virtual track, Zile attempts to erase them permanently, but is stopped by Chim-Chim, who controls Zile's robotic right arm. Zile escapes his hideout with the prototype Mach 6, he is chased down by Speed and X but evades them. With Zile successfully getting away and charging up the hourglass part to time travel, Speed and X form a blockade to stop Zile. However, Zile speeds up his car, powering the hourglass in the process and disappears through time.

Alternate Universe
In "The Shadow World" arc, Speed meets alternate Zile and finds out he is the leader of a resistance that fights against the Shadow Committee dominated world. However, it is not entirely clear if Zile is good, since the Lucy of that world claims that Zile uses his people as pawns and does not care for their safety. She refers to the death of Alpha Leader when talking about this.

He wears his Captain Terror outfit when leading the resistance.

Trivia

 * "The Iron Terror" was probably used to refer back to his Captain Terror persona.
 * Alternate Lucy's statement about alternate Zile may be clouded as she loved alternate Alpha Leader and refuses to accept that Alpha may have been in danger to the point where a rescue was futile.
 * It is not known what happened to his wife pre-timeline change, but when Speed and his friends have his younger self arrested, she divorces him and takes Annalise away from him.