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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|unicron}}<br /> {{disambig3|Thunderwing}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Thunderwing is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing with matrix.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And we are dutifully impressed.]]<br /> In a better world, '''Thunderwing''' would be the ideal Decepticon leader. He's fearless, ruthless, and immensely powerful, while uncommonly concerned about the welfare of his fellow Decepticons. For this mindset, Thunderwing gets a high approval rating from his peers, but, sadly, this is not the whole story.<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's vice is, simply, obsession. When his mind sets its sights on a who or what that furthers his goals, he will stop at nothing to achieve victory. Slowly but surely, his esteem for his colleagues is replaced by single-mindedness, until finally Thunderwing awakens from his haze, potentially victorious, but either abandoned or surrounded by the bodies of the few friends who tried valiantly to snap him out of it. In these dark moments, the usually noble Thunderwing is as deceitful and two-faced as any halfwit Decepticon.<br /> <br /> But what separates Thunderwing from the rest is his sheer power. His [[Pretender]] shell is likely the most powerful ever built, and it forms impenetrable armor around his robot body. Every inch is covered in weaponry, from the electrostatic guns in his shoulders, to the hoses in his chest that emit dangerous gases, to even the rarely-used metal-eating laser beam that fires out of his forehead. In addition to this built-in arsenal, he carries around his signature cyclone cannon, the power of which is increased 50% by the powerpack his shell houses on its back. In jet mode, Thunderwing can unleash a never-ending torrent of plasma charges. <br /> <br /> Because of all this, Thunderwing is almost always successful in hunting down his obsessions, though at regrettable costs.<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[File:Magnificent Six Megadeath Past.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|No, my visual appearance is not a [[Pretender to the Throne!|continuity error]]. Why do you ask?]]<br /> A handful of Transformers are born with a natural affinity to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. Though these special few are usually Autobots, Thunderwing was an exception. Thunderwing felt that the Matrix called to him, and believed that he would become the first Decepticon to possess it. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}} <br /> <br /> ''Early on in the war, he served at [[Fort Scyk]]. He became a protege of Fort commander [[Megadeath (G1)|Megadeath]], who saw and encouraged the burning ambition within the lad, grooming Thunderwing as an asset and potential general for when he'd make a bid for leadership. For his part, Thunderwing thought Megadeath was utterly mental but also that he'd be his ticket to the top. He later soured on Megadeath when he viciously tortured the [[Magnificent Six]], which Thunderwing felt was ill-fitting for such valiant enemies, and then Megadeath let himself and the whole of [[Stanix]] get nuked to slag ''anyway''.'' {{storylink|The Magnificent Six!}}<br /> <br /> ''Four million years later, a vacuum in Decepticon high command allowed a driven Thunderwing to rise quickly from relative obscurity to a command position in the ranks. Thunderwing oversaw an operation that lured the [[Battle Patrol]] into a Decepticon facility in order to capture them and steal [[Micromaster]] technology from the Autobots. The [[Race Car Patrol|Race Car]] and [[Off Road Patrol|Off Road]] Patrols staged a successful rescue operation but failed to stop the Decepticons from making their own Micromasters.'' {{storylink|A Small War!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingisapretender.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing is a Pretender? The hell you say!]]<br /> ''Fourteen months later, to test of his readiness to takeover leadership of the Decepticons, Thunderwing was given a hunting mission: Three Autobot prisoners were released on Earth, and Thunderwing was charged with chasing down and executing them on his own. While [[Playback]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]] did fall before his cyclone cannon, the last runner, [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], was saved by his fellow Autobots [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Siren (G1)|Siren]]. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] exploded the fuel core in Playback's corpse at close range to Thunderwing, nearly cooking him alive inside his own impenetrable [[Pretender]] shell. Shrieking in agony, Thunderwing plunged into the nearby surf.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AssaultontheArk-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|This is exactly how cable news pundits are hired.]]<br /> ''Thunderwing eventually rose from the waters, his still-cooling shell juxtaposed with the growing intensity of his rage at being beaten. Thunderwing lashed out at everything around him and very nearly destroyed a ship of his fellow Decepticons who had been sent to find him. As a duly appointed officer of the [[Decepticon High Council]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] was sent to inform Thunderwing that his bid for leadership was not being rejected outright, but was still under review, and the Councilors had asked that he return to Cybertron. Instead, Thunderwing violently conscripted Ruckus and his team into joining him for an assault on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in order to get revenge on Hosehead and his ilk.'' {{storylink|Rage!}} ''Thunderwing single-handedly blasted his way into the Ark and confronted [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] directly before Ruckus convinced him to save the fight for another day. Returning to Cybertron, Thunderwing was surprised to learn that the Decepticon High Council was impressed by his initiative and the strength of his vendetta, and so granted him full leadership of the Decepticons of Cybertron.'' {{storylink|Assault on the Ark!}}<br /> <br /> ''One of Thunderwing's first actions on taking over Decepticon leadership was to abolish [[neutral]] territories, making places such as [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] Decepticon-only establishments.'' {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}} Despite these movements, Lord Thunderwing became displeased with the growing success of the newly-rebuilt [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] and their raiding of [[Decepticon fuel store|Decepticon fuel]] and ammunition depositories. Fearing the Autobot resistance movement was gaining momentum, he ordered [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]], and [[Stranglehold]], the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], to find and kill the Autobot Pretenders. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingmindleech.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|This is probably the closest look we'll get at Thunderwing's unpublished character model. [[José Delbo]] was a copier.]]<br /> When the Mayhem Attack Squad failed, Thunderwing became curious when teams of Autobots were subsequently ordered to search an area of space. Trailing a team on [[Pz-Zazz]] which included ''(again)'' Nightbeat, Hosehead, and Siren, he waited until the right moment to blast and capture them. {{storylink|Bird of Prey!}} As Thunderwing's Decepticons began trailing another team of Autobots on [[Cheyne]] ([[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]], [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]], and [[Override (G1)|Override]]), he subjected the captured first group to his [[Mind Leech]] machine. He learned from these torture sessions that the Autobots were scouring the universe for the lost Creation Matrix. Unfortunately, the second group was no closer to finding the Matrix either, and he left them to their own devices. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}} His obsession with finding the Creation Matrix caused some concerns for the Decepticons under his command, and he even began attacking his own troops when accused of taking his personal quest too far. These outbursts began coming to a head when he found traces of Matrix energy in a [[Klud|sea monster]] on [[Pequod]]. Ruckus made the mistake of questioning his leader's growing obsession, and Thunderwing backhanded him into some equipment (unknowingly shorting out the Mind Leech which held their captive Autobots immobile). While his troops battled the Autobots searching there, he used his affinity for the Matrix to mind-link with the sea monster. Discovering that the Matrix was on [[Cameron]]'s third moon, [[VsQs]], he abandoned the battle, much to the growing frustration of his troops. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhereisthecreationmatrix.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Obsessed much?]]<br /> As it happened, between the revival of the Klud and the arrival of Thunderwing, the Creation Matrix had become warped. Thunderwing fought intensely with Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock on VsQs, and they were overwhelmed not only by his vastly superior might, but by the strength of his desire to possess the Matrix. However, he and his troops were subdued by a [[Matrixspawn]], a darkly-evolved creature contaminated by the Matrix, allowing Bumblebee and the other Autobots to grab the Matrix and head for their ship. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} The Autobots were low on fuel however, and struggling against the moon's high gravity. Thunderwing overtook them with ease, snatched away the Matrix, and stole their shuttle. {{storylink|All Fall Down}} Thus, when the Autobots allowed their shuttlecraft to board the Ark, it was Thunderwing who emerged, in full possession of the Creation Matrix, enshrouded in its energies. {{storylink|Dark Creation}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AllFallDown-Thunderwingpossessed.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|We are '''power incarnate!''' We are '''unstoppable!''' We are a '''really short Deluxe Class toy!''']]<br /> On board the Ark, Thunderwing savagely beat Optimus Prime, the latter of whom was afraid to return the violence in kind, in fear that the Matrix would be destroyed and their race would be doomed against Unicron. Waves of Autobots stormed against Thunderwing, ending in [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] and others being killed or critically wounded. Quickly, the increasingly-evil Matrix took over Thunderwing, overpowering his thoughts and controlling his actions. After turning his power on his own troops, he had one final moment of clarity at what he had become, but it was too late. He was consumed. Nightbeat, Siren, and Hosehead, who Thunderwing had captured earlier, had escaped their constraints, and after releasing the bay doors, harpooned Thunderwing to the shuttlecraft. The shuttle self-destructed and Thunderwing and the Creation Matrix were seemingly lost, out in the void of space. {{storylink|All Fall Down}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime would later refer to Thunderwing (and the lost Matrix) in his pitch to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] for an alliance against [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Surrender!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:G1thunderwingthevoid.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing displays that, yes, he has an alt mode just before showing up to die again.]]<br /> The Matrix, however, was made of sterner stuff, and after some time reactivated alongside Thunderwing's body and the Autobot shuttlecraft on the surface of a planet. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} As time passed, and though only the &quot;barest spark of life remained,&quot; it healed Thunderwing's body, eventually allowing it to transform and escape. It (they) now hungered for revenge! {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing, completely controlled by the Creation Matrix, arrived on Cybertron just as Unicron had attacked. Through Thunderwing, the Matrix continued to manifest as a frightening demon, which blasted Unicron and buried its tendrils within him. Though Unicron was momentarily stunned, once the Matrix revealed that it was now attempting to be a force of Evil, Unicron ripped the manifestation apart. Unicron has no equal in the arena of evil. Thunderwing's body fell in tatters, and the Matrix casing dropped to the planet below. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====<br /> Emerging from a dimensional bridge that linked [[Earth]] to parallel worlds and times, Thunderwing attacked [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]] and [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|Headmaster of the Dimensions}} Later, this Thunderwing or another Thunderwing trailed a nuclear submarine in preparation for the Decepticons stealing its [[plutonium]] rods. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 13|The Energon Trap}}<br /> <br /> ====''United''====<br /> [[File:FierceFightingonPlanetNebulos-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Thunderwing was so disappointed he later [[Transformers United|painted his arms gray]].]]<br /> Thunderwing originated from another universe, where he was said to have possessed the Matrix and nearly defeated the Autobots. {{storylink|#United 2|''United'' Thunderwing bio}}<br /> <br /> As Decepticon leader, Thunderwing had a [[nano-virus]] released that afflicted most Autobots save those with [[Nebulan]] partners, tricking them to go to [[Nebulos]] for an anti-virus so they could be ambushed and their partners taken! His minion [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] botched the mission though. Thunderwing chewed him out and decided he needed to take a more active role... {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Regeneration One''====<br /> {{noterg1}}<br /> [[File:Kup thunderwing destiny.jpg|thumb]]<br /> At some point following the battle with Unicron, Thunderwing's remains were recovered and interred in the [[Hall of Silence]] on Cybertron. Twenty-one years later, Optimus Prime departed Cybertron, bound for Earth to end the threat of Megatron. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Soundwave seized this opportunity to attack the Hall of Silence to steal what was left of Thunderwing for Bludgeon, and to gain control of the residual Matrix energy stored in his corpse. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 4}} Soundwave reached the remains, and used the emergency destruct charges triggered by Hot Rod in the event of a break-in to cover his teleportation escape. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}} <br /> <br /> Rendezvousing at Bludgeon's ''[[Warworld]]'', Soundwave provided the Pretender what he needed to augment his [[Blitz Engine]]s before the attack on Cybertron. {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}} When the Autobots fought back, that last remnants of Thunderwing and the Matrix energy were seemingly lost with the ''Warworld''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1worldscollide.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|They weren't even trying to color me right!]]<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> Thunderwing was the most recent addition to a crew of dimension-traveling [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds]] of [[Unicron]]. He was addicted to [[Dark Energon]], and the prospect of an endless supply of [[angolmois]] energy was enough to convince him to join. He went to [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma]] with the other heralds when his home universe was destroyed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29}}<br /> <br /> ====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====<br /> Thunderwing, along with [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], was sent to prepare [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma|another universe]] for Unicron's arrival. Porting into [[Decepticon Command Headquarters]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Galvatron left Thunderwing and the others on Cybertron to accomplish their task. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} Though they destroyed all of the Decepticons in their headquarters and established a network of [[space bridge]] portals, this universe's [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] was not amongst their victims. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}}<br /> <br /> Traveling to Earth's Decepticon headquarters (but leaving Bludgeon behind on Cybertron to guard the portal), they found it momentarily abandoned, so Thunderwing suggested they hunt down this universe's [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] to learn Megatron's location. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} However, Thrust knew nothing, and they quickly returned to Decepticon Earth headquarters when Thunderwing detected that their space bridge nexus on Cybertron had been breached. Ultimately, Thunderwing and the other servants of Unicron were destroyed when this universe's [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] detonated a bomb in Cybertron's Decepticon Command Headquarters, incinerating them all. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhathaveyoudone.jpg|thumb|Moral of Stormbringer: Pretenders [[Ruined FOREVER|ruined Transformers]].]]<br /> Seven hundred years ago, during the height of the Autobot-Decepticon war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Thunderwing was a Decepticon scientist who alerted both sides to the damage that the ongoing conflict was doing to their planet and the resultant danger of an impending catastrophic event. According to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], his warnings were ignored, even by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. <br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing stormbringer.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Y'know, Thunderwing, Al Gore was content with just making a slide show.]]<br /> Subsequently, Thunderwing took action on his own, subjecting himself to a &quot;polydermal grafting&quot; process of his own design, one that had previously been summarily rejected by [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] as &quot;unnatural&quot; and &quot;ill-conceived&quot;. This process of grafting tissue culled from living subjects onto a Transformer to create an armored symbiotic carapace somehow also appears to have made him the avatar of the very apocalypse he had warned against. The process drove Thunderwing insane but made him invulnerable; even the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons couldn't stop him. In the end, he was swallowed whole by Cybertron itself, leaving the planet completely uninhabitable. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] went missing, Megatron assigned Bludgeon to dig into his research and find out what he'd been doing. An indeterminate time later, Thunderwing's resting place was discovered by a group of Decepticons led by Bludgeon, who planned to continue where Thunderwing left off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} The project was completed in the present day, using a combination of &quot;[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]&quot; (culled from Shockwave's research) and a set of imprinted commands. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Thunderwing was thus resurrected and immediately departed for [[Nebulos]], following Bludgeon's plans to sacrifice that world to restore Cybertron somehow. There, Thunderwing was engaged by the Decepticon Infiltration team in place, which did not want to see Nebulos completely destroyed. After Thunderwing totaled [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], and [[Roadgrabber]], the survivors, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], [[Darkwing]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], abandoned the planet, leaving Thunderwing alone. However, after the destruction of Bludgeon's control harness, Thunderwing changed course—back towards Cybertron. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingidwultramode.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|&quot;Ultra mode&quot; puts all that wing kibble to use!]]<br /> There, he was attacked by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], the [[Wrecker]]s, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], and reprogrammed [[Centurion droid|Centurion drones]]. Jetfire revealed that enough punishment would eventually cause Thunderwing to drain most of his [[energon]] reserves. However, Thunderwing revealed a third &quot;[[Super Mode|Ultra]]&quot; robot configuration. Thanks to the Wreckers, the Decepticons, the instability of Ultra Energon, and a speech/salvo combination from Optimus Prime, he was stopped dead in his tracks. His inanimate form was taken into custody by the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}<br /> <br /> [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] would later steal Thunderwing's body from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s detail of Autobots, in service of [[Nova Prime|his master]] in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}} Since the Dead Universe Transformers can only spend a limited amount of time in the land of the living, they programmed Thunderwing to guard the cave entrance to the [[Nega-Core]] on planet [[Corata-Vaz]]. He easily batted away Hound's crew and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], but did not pursue them, as his programming seemed to keep him on a leash that only included the cave entrance. It did, however, allow [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] the time he needed to escape. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}<br /> <br /> [[File:SpotlightSideswipe ThunderwingVSWreckers.jpg|left|upright=1.5|thumb|The Wreckers return to star in '''''“Nothing Can Stop The Thunderwing! Part III”'''''.]]<br /> The [[Wrecker]]s later attempted to penetrate Thunderwing's defenses and reach the Nega-Core, but apparently had no more success than Ultra Magnus and company. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}<br /> <br /> Jetfire came up with the idea to try and take control of Thunderwing using Bludgeon's (apparently repaired) control harness. This alerted [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], who activated Bludgeon (now under his control) to put a stop to it. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}<br /> <br /> While Jetfire managed to halt Thunderwing in his tracks for a brief time, a visit from the Jhiaxus-controlled Bludgeon forced Jetfire to focus on other, more pressing issues. While the Wreckers were successful in disabling the Nega-Core, Thunderwing once again began to advance on them. All of the Wreckers survived the experience, so Thunderwing was presumably disabled along with the other guardians when Jhiaxus was defeated. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's attacks had left [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] with a notable head wound. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} The Decepticon often spoke about Thunderwing on [[The Big Conversation]] which caused some confusion (and a healthy dose of panic) when the [[Dire Wraith]] known as &quot;CONS4EVA&quot; adopted Thunderwing's form to meet Crankcase. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}<br /> <br /> ===''Wings Universe''===<br /> Thunderwing was captured by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s after being cornered and making an unsuccessful attempt to defend himself with what turned out to be a dud bomb. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 3}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-10-Thunderwing.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb]]<br /> Thunderwing was among the Decepticons that invaded [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> Towards the end of the Great War, Thunderwing developed a method of weaponizing [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s' links with their partners' sparks to drain Cybertronians of life merely through presence. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}<br /> <br /> After the [[Scouring of Nebulos]] saw the Transformer war restricted to a handful of planets, he led an expedition to [[Artemis (moon)|Artemis]] in search of the [[Underbase]]. His quest proved successful–thus empowered by the artifact, he fused his sparks with the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and wreaked havoc across Cybertron, killing the [[Wrecker]]s. Thunderwing eventually uploaded himself into the [[Grand Mal]]; the floating fortress was only brought down after the Autobots and Decepticons teamed up to bring down their mutual enemy. Thunderwing died when the fortress crash-landed, but the Autobot-Decepticon alliance paved the way for the rise of the pan-factional [[Builder Assembly]]. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}<br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> During the Great War, Thunderwing almost destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but was defeated and placed in a state of dormancy. Years later, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] came up with a plan to revive Thunderwing and destroy the Autobots once and for all. The [[Wrecker]]s traveled to Cybertron in an attempt to stop Bludgeon and [[Darkwing]], but failed. Both the Autobots and Decepticons were forced to cooperate as Thunderwing proved uncontrollable, and they eventually wore him down until he ran out of [[Ore-13|Ultra Energon]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer (Legends)|Stormbringer}}<br /> <br /> Sometime later, Thunderwing had become more amenable. He, [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], and [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] accompanied [[Nova Prime|Nemesis Prime]] on a mission to defeat Nemesis's former self, Nova Prime. {{storylink|Prime Evil}} He led a team of Decepticons including [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] and Bludgeon in a raid on an Autobot [[Sun-Farming facility]]. Despite the Autobots putting up more resistance than expected, Thunderwing and his men triumphed, conquering the facility and sending the Autobots packing. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===<br /> [[File:BattleTacticsThunderwing.jpg|thumb|400px|Not so menacing when you are a [[Super deformed|super deformer]], uh?]]<br /> Thunderwing participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Uncommon character who could be recruited after collecting 120 units of Cybermetal, and 56 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[File:G1Thunderwing toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|You passed this up when you saw it in the stores. Then [[Simon Furman|Furman]] had to come along.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Mega Pretender, [[1989]])<br /> **''Accessories'': Pretender shell, 2 heat-seeking laser blasters, [[cyclone rifle|cyclone cannon]]<br /> <br /> :Thunderwing's inner robot transforms into a rather simple Cybertronic shuttlecraft. His [[Pretender]] shell also transforms into a starship mode of its own. The inner vehicle can be attached underneath the nose of the larger vehicle to create a combined starship mode. The inner robot is relatively generic in appearance (as with most Pretenders) while his outer Pretender shell resembles an alien warrior with Japanese [[wikipedia:Oni (folklore)|Oni]] influences. The inner robot carries a small &quot;cyclone cannon&quot; laser, while the shell is armed with two large laser blasters. All three of his guns can be mounted on his shell's vehicle mode. The large laser blasters can be mounted on the jet two different ways, either perpendicular or parallel to the wing undersides.<br /> <br /> :Unlike fellow Mega Pretenders [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]] or [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]], parts do not need to be removed and rearranged in order for Thunderwing to achieve any of his modes.<br /> <br /> :This mold was [[retool]]ed to make [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]].<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1989/instr_thunderwing.jpg Instruction booklet for Thunderwing at Botchthecrab.com]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Generations''===<br /> [[File:Generationstoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Matrix obsession sold separately.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2010]])<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe class toys, Thunderwing's alternate mode is a fighter jet loosely based on an [[United States Air Force#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], with different wings but retaining the F-22's characteristic zigzag patterns sculpted on the hull. He transforms into a robot that looks like the original Thunderwing toy's Pretender shell. The nose of the jet can detach and become a separate aerial drone, while the two missile launchers can detach from the wings and become handheld weapons or clip together into one massive gun. The middle section of the sculpted missiles on the sides of the guns are also compatible with [[C joint]] accessories. Thunderwing's colors seem to be inspired by his color scheme in the latter end of the Marvel run, considering his green arms. There is also an homage to [[Don Figueroa]]'s design in ''Stormbringer'' with Thunderwing's face and feet.<br /> <br /> :At [[BotCon 2010]], the [[Hasbro]] design team noted that they had wanted to make the aerial drone unit transform into a robot but were unable to do so (presumably for budget reasons, though they didn't go into that detail). <br /> <br /> :The toy is slightly mistransformed in packaging, with the chest section that conceals his head in jet mode in its robot mode position.<br /> <br /> :This sculpt was retooled to make ''Generations'' [[Black Shadow (Victory)#Generations|Sky Shadow]] and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Adventure]]'' [[Black Shadow (Adventure)|Black Shadow]] as well as [[BotCon 2012]] [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]]. Thunderwing's [[instructions]] initially depicted him with Sky Shadow's head and chest. A [[Variant|running change]] version of the instructions depicts Thunderwing's own head, but keeps Sky Shadow's chest unchanged.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on ''Generations'' Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[File:Thunderwing.JPG|thumb|right=1.7|Evil cute little robot but still dangerous.]]<br /> *'''Siege On Cybertron''' (2017)<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''United''===<br /> [[File:Unitedtoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sometimes Hasbro beats Takara to media accuracy.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2012]]-[[January 28|01-28]])<br /> **''ID number:'' '''UN-26'''<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :The ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' release of Thunderwing decos his robot mode to approximate the colors of the original toy rather than his Marvel appearances. It achieves this by changing the green plastic on his arms for gray and the green plastic on his thighs and waist side armor for black plastic. The clear orange plastic is now a clear cherry red, the light green and dark green paint is a hi-gloss forest green, and the blue paint is slightly darker. His light gray plastic is now a cream color. Last but not least the purple plastic is a very light purple on this release.<br /> <br /> :The soft-plastic spikes on ''United'' Thunderwing's arms are much softer than either his ''Generations'' counterpart or [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]]'s.<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> [[File:Thunderwing01.png|thumb]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingisdeath.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Like that cannon he always carries around? Too bad, the toy ain't got it.]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1catalog.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&lt;s&gt;Also available in Violent Violet.&lt;/s&gt;]]<br /> *According to the Marvel UK story [[The Big Shutdown!]] Thunderwing stands at 40 feet tall while in his Pretender shell.<br /> *Thunderwing only transformed out of his humanoid shell mode once in the entire United States run of the Marvel Comics series. Even then, it was into his non-combined shell-only jet mode, leaving no hint that he had an inner robot mode at all. The only time we see his inner robot mode is in his first appearance, the Marvel United Kingdom story, &quot;[[The Big Shutdown!]]&quot;.<br /> *Thunderwing's Marvel Comics appearances give him a four-barreled hand weapon that's completely fabricated, as it's not based on any of the toy's three guns. As with the melee weapons [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Stranglehold]], and [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] use in the comic, his four-barreled cannon likely originated from his unpublished [[character model]].<br /> *A phenomenon [[Straxus (G1)|seen]] [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|often]] in the Marvel United States material, Thunderwing suffered from color scheme shift. At first, he appears in colors that approximate his toy's layout as best as the printing process allowed. Suddenly, in his biggest, most memorable appearances in [[Dark Creation|#65]] and [[All Fall Down|#66]], much of his blacks, grays, and blues were replaced by light greens. As a side effect of this phenomenon, since covers are colored in advance of the interiors, #66's cover featured a blue-armed Thunderwing with a green-armed Thunderwing inside. <br /> *Hasbro [[stock photography|photography]] of Thunderwing shows some plastic color differences from the final product. His shell's arms are the same purple as his guns instead of gray, and his inner robot's thighs are that purple as well, instead of the final toy's black. Black paint is applied to the shell's thighs differently, and the inner robot's forearms seem to be painted light gray. Additionally, the smaller robot is incapable of toting either of the larger guns in jet mode, as the peghole isn't large enough. <br /> *Speaking of pegholes, both of Thunderwing's large guns have [[5mm post]]s with holes in the center that can function very much like [[Powerlinx]]able pegs, which means one can store [[Mini-Con]]s on them, if one so desires.<br /> *Fitting with [[Don Figueroa]]'s method of making all of his robot designs able to be easily turned into toys (until [[The Transformers (IDW)|recently]], anyways), IDW Thunderwing's Ultra Mode is telegraphed by his kibble. An image in the ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' trade paperback's sketch section shows exactly how he transforms into it.<br /> *Kreon Thunderwing's appearance in the comic is extremely small, making it difficult to tell what Kre-O parts he's made out of.<br /> <br /> ===Foreign names===<br /> *''Japanese:'' '''Thunderwing''' (サンダーウイング ''Sandāuingu''; サンダーウィング&lt;ref&gt;Japanese translation of ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]''&lt;/ref&gt; ''Sandāwingu'')<br /> *''French:'' '''Aérofoudre''' (Canada, &quot;Aerolightning&quot;)<br /> *''Mandarin:'' '''Léi Yì''' (Taiwan, 雷翼, &quot;Thunder Wing&quot;), '''Léi Yì Wáng''' (China, 雷翼王, &quot;Thunder Wing King&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Armada Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Generations]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Matrix bearers]]<br /> [[Category:Pretenders]]<br /> [[Category:Regeneration One Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Royalty]]<br /> [[Category:Scientists]]<br /> [[Category:Unicron-related characters]]<br /> [[Category:United Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|unicron}}<br /> {{disambig3|Thunderwing}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Thunderwing is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing with matrix.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And we are dutifully impressed.]]<br /> In a better world, '''Thunderwing''' would be the ideal Decepticon leader. He's fearless, ruthless, and immensely powerful, while uncommonly concerned about the welfare of his fellow Decepticons. For this mindset, Thunderwing gets a high approval rating from his peers, but, sadly, this is not the whole story.<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's vice is, simply, obsession. When his mind sets its sights on a who or what that furthers his goals, he will stop at nothing to achieve victory. Slowly but surely, his esteem for his colleagues is replaced by single-mindedness, until finally Thunderwing awakens from his haze, potentially victorious, but either abandoned or surrounded by the bodies of the few friends who tried valiantly to snap him out of it. In these dark moments, the usually noble Thunderwing is as deceitful and two-faced as any halfwit Decepticon.<br /> <br /> But what separates Thunderwing from the rest is his sheer power. His [[Pretender]] shell is likely the most powerful ever built, and it forms impenetrable armor around his robot body. Every inch is covered in weaponry, from the electrostatic guns in his shoulders, to the hoses in his chest that emit dangerous gases, to even the rarely-used metal-eating laser beam that fires out of his forehead. In addition to this built-in arsenal, he carries around his signature cyclone cannon, the power of which is increased 50% by the powerpack his shell houses on its back. In jet mode, Thunderwing can unleash a never-ending torrent of plasma charges. <br /> <br /> Because of all this, Thunderwing is almost always successful in hunting down his obsessions, though at regrettable costs.<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[File:Magnificent Six Megadeath Past.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|No, my visual appearance is not a [[Pretender to the Throne!|continuity error]]. Why do you ask?]]<br /> A handful of Transformers are born with a natural affinity to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. Though these special few are usually Autobots, Thunderwing was an exception. Thunderwing felt that the Matrix called to him, and believed that he would become the first Decepticon to possess it. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}} <br /> <br /> ''Early on in the war, he served at [[Fort Scyk]]. He became a protege of Fort commander [[Megadeath (G1)|Megadeath]], who saw and encouraged the burning ambition within the lad, grooming Thunderwing as an asset and potential general for when he'd make a bid for leadership. For his part, Thunderwing thought Megadeath was utterly mental but also that he'd be his ticket to the top. He later soured on Megadeath when he viciously tortured the [[Magnificent Six]], which Thunderwing felt was ill-fitting for such valiant enemies, and then Megadeath let himself and the whole of [[Stanix]] get nuked to slag ''anyway''.'' {{storylink|The Magnificent Six!}}<br /> <br /> ''Four million years later, a vacuum in Decepticon high command allowed a driven Thunderwing to rise quickly from relative obscurity to a command position in the ranks. Thunderwing oversaw an operation that lured the [[Battle Patrol]] into a Decepticon facility in order to capture them and steal [[Micromaster]] technology from the Autobots. The [[Race Car Patrol|Race Car]] and [[Off Road Patrol|Off Road]] Patrols staged a successful rescue operation but failed to stop the Decepticons from making their own Micromasters.'' {{storylink|A Small War!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingisapretender.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing is a Pretender? The hell you say!]]<br /> ''Fourteen months later, to test of his readiness to takeover leadership of the Decepticons, Thunderwing was given a hunting mission: Three Autobot prisoners were released on Earth, and Thunderwing was charged with chasing down and executing them on his own. While [[Playback]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]] did fall before his cyclone cannon, the last runner, [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], was saved by his fellow Autobots [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Siren (G1)|Siren]]. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] exploded the fuel core in Playback's corpse at close range to Thunderwing, nearly cooking him alive inside his own impenetrable [[Pretender]] shell. Shrieking in agony, Thunderwing plunged into the nearby surf.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AssaultontheArk-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|This is exactly how cable news pundits are hired.]]<br /> ''Thunderwing eventually rose from the waters, his still-cooling shell juxtaposed with the growing intensity of his rage at being beaten. Thunderwing lashed out at everything around him and very nearly destroyed a ship of his fellow Decepticons who had been sent to find him. As a duly appointed officer of the [[Decepticon High Council]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] was sent to inform Thunderwing that his bid for leadership was not being rejected outright, but was still under review, and the Councilors had asked that he return to Cybertron. Instead, Thunderwing violently conscripted Ruckus and his team into joining him for an assault on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in order to get revenge on Hosehead and his ilk.'' {{storylink|Rage!}} ''Thunderwing single-handedly blasted his way into the Ark and confronted [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] directly before Ruckus convinced him to save the fight for another day. Returning to Cybertron, Thunderwing was surprised to learn that the Decepticon High Council was impressed by his initiative and the strength of his vendetta, and so granted him full leadership of the Decepticons of Cybertron.'' {{storylink|Assault on the Ark!}}<br /> <br /> ''One of Thunderwing's first actions on taking over Decepticon leadership was to abolish [[neutral]] territories, making places such as [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] Decepticon-only establishments.'' {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}} Despite these movements, Lord Thunderwing became displeased with the growing success of the newly-rebuilt [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] and their raiding of [[Decepticon fuel store|Decepticon fuel]] and ammunition depositories. Fearing the Autobot resistance movement was gaining momentum, he ordered [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]], and [[Stranglehold]], the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], to find and kill the Autobot Pretenders. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingmindleech.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|This is probably the closest look we'll get at Thunderwing's unpublished character model. [[José Delbo]] was a copier.]]<br /> When the Mayhem Attack Squad failed, Thunderwing became curious when teams of Autobots were subsequently ordered to search an area of space. Trailing a team on [[Pz-Zazz]] which included ''(again)'' Nightbeat, Hosehead, and Siren, he waited until the right moment to blast and capture them. {{storylink|Bird of Prey!}} As Thunderwing's Decepticons began trailing another team of Autobots on [[Cheyne]] ([[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]], [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]], and [[Override (G1)|Override]]), he subjected the captured first group to his [[Mind Leech]] machine. He learned from these torture sessions that the Autobots were scouring the universe for the lost Creation Matrix. Unfortunately, the second group was no closer to finding the Matrix either, and he left them to their own devices. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}} His obsession with finding the Creation Matrix caused some concerns for the Decepticons under his command, and he even began attacking his own troops when accused of taking his personal quest too far. These outbursts began coming to a head when he found traces of Matrix energy in a [[Klud|sea monster]] on [[Pequod]]. Ruckus made the mistake of questioning his leader's growing obsession, and Thunderwing backhanded him into some equipment (unknowingly shorting out the Mind Leech which held their captive Autobots immobile). While his troops battled the Autobots searching there, he used his affinity for the Matrix to mind-link with the sea monster. Discovering that the Matrix was on [[Cameron]]'s third moon, [[VsQs]], he abandoned the battle, much to the growing frustration of his troops. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhereisthecreationmatrix.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Obsessed much?]]<br /> As it happened, between the revival of the Klud and the arrival of Thunderwing, the Creation Matrix had become warped. Thunderwing fought intensely with Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock on VsQs, and they were overwhelmed not only by his vastly superior might, but by the strength of his desire to possess the Matrix. However, he and his troops were subdued by a [[Matrixspawn]], a darkly-evolved creature contaminated by the Matrix, allowing Bumblebee and the other Autobots to grab the Matrix and head for their ship. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} The Autobots were low on fuel however, and struggling against the moon's high gravity. Thunderwing overtook them with ease, snatched away the Matrix, and stole their shuttle. {{storylink|All Fall Down}} Thus, when the Autobots allowed their shuttlecraft to board the Ark, it was Thunderwing who emerged, in full possession of the Creation Matrix, enshrouded in its energies. {{storylink|Dark Creation}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AllFallDown-Thunderwingpossessed.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|We are '''power incarnate!''' We are '''unstoppable!''' We are a '''really short Deluxe Class toy!''']]<br /> On board the Ark, Thunderwing savagely beat Optimus Prime, the latter of whom was afraid to return the violence in kind, in fear that the Matrix would be destroyed and their race would be doomed against Unicron. Waves of Autobots stormed against Thunderwing, ending in [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] and others being killed or critically wounded. Quickly, the increasingly-evil Matrix took over Thunderwing, overpowering his thoughts and controlling his actions. After turning his power on his own troops, he had one final moment of clarity at what he had become, but it was too late. He was consumed. Nightbeat, Siren, and Hosehead, who Thunderwing had captured earlier, had escaped their constraints, and after releasing the bay doors, harpooned Thunderwing to the shuttlecraft. The shuttle self-destructed and Thunderwing and the Creation Matrix were seemingly lost, out in the void of space. {{storylink|All Fall Down}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime would later refer to Thunderwing (and the lost Matrix) in his pitch to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] for an alliance against [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Surrender!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:G1thunderwingthevoid.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing displays that, yes, he has an alt mode just before showing up to die again.]]<br /> The Matrix, however, was made of sterner stuff, and after some time reactivated alongside Thunderwing's body and the Autobot shuttlecraft on the surface of a planet. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} As time passed, and though only the &quot;barest spark of life remained,&quot; it healed Thunderwing's body, eventually allowing it to transform and escape. It (they) now hungered for revenge! {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing, completely controlled by the Creation Matrix, arrived on Cybertron just as Unicron had attacked. Through Thunderwing, the Matrix continued to manifest as a frightening demon, which blasted Unicron and buried its tendrils within him. Though Unicron was momentarily stunned, once the Matrix revealed that it was now attempting to be a force of Evil, Unicron ripped the manifestation apart. Unicron has no equal in the arena of evil. Thunderwing's body fell in tatters, and the Matrix casing dropped to the planet below. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====<br /> Emerging from a dimensional bridge that linked [[Earth]] to parallel worlds and times, Thunderwing attacked [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]] and [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|Headmaster of the Dimensions}} Later, this Thunderwing or another Thunderwing trailed a nuclear submarine in preparation for the Decepticons stealing its [[plutonium]] rods. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 13|The Energon Trap}}<br /> <br /> ====''United''====<br /> [[File:FierceFightingonPlanetNebulos-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Thunderwing was so disappointed he later [[Transformers United|painted his arms gray]].]]<br /> Thunderwing originated from another universe, where he was said to have possessed the Matrix and nearly defeated the Autobots. {{storylink|#United 2|''United'' Thunderwing bio}}<br /> <br /> As Decepticon leader, Thunderwing had a [[nano-virus]] released that afflicted most Autobots save those with [[Nebulan]] partners, tricking them to go to [[Nebulos]] for an anti-virus so they could be ambushed and their partners taken! His minion [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] botched the mission though. Thunderwing chewed him out and decided he needed to take a more active role... {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Regeneration One''====<br /> {{noterg1}}<br /> [[File:Kup thunderwing destiny.jpg|thumb]]<br /> At some point following the battle with Unicron, Thunderwing's remains were recovered and interred in the [[Hall of Silence]] on Cybertron. Twenty-one years later, Optimus Prime departed Cybertron, bound for Earth to end the threat of Megatron. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Soundwave seized this opportunity to attack the Hall of Silence to steal what was left of Thunderwing for Bludgeon, and to gain control of the residual Matrix energy stored in his corpse. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 4}} Soundwave reached the remains, and used the emergency destruct charges triggered by Hot Rod in the event of a break-in to cover his teleportation escape. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}} <br /> <br /> Rendezvousing at Bludgeon's ''[[Warworld]]'', Soundwave provided the Pretender what he needed to augment his [[Blitz Engine]]s before the attack on Cybertron. {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}} When the Autobots fought back, that last remnants of Thunderwing and the Matrix energy were seemingly lost with the ''Warworld''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1worldscollide.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|They weren't even trying to color me right!]]<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> Thunderwing was the most recent addition to a crew of dimension-traveling [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds]] of [[Unicron]]. He was addicted to [[Dark Energon]], and the prospect of an endless supply of [[angolmois]] energy was enough to convince him to join. He went to [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma]] with the other heralds when his home universe was destroyed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29}}<br /> <br /> ====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====<br /> Thunderwing, along with [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], was sent to prepare [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma|another universe]] for Unicron's arrival. Porting into [[Decepticon Command Headquarters]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Galvatron left Thunderwing and the others on Cybertron to accomplish their task. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} Though they destroyed all of the Decepticons in their headquarters and established a network of [[space bridge]] portals, this universe's [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] was not amongst their victims. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}}<br /> <br /> Traveling to Earth's Decepticon headquarters (but leaving Bludgeon behind on Cybertron to guard the portal), they found it momentarily abandoned, so Thunderwing suggested they hunt down this universe's [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] to learn Megatron's location. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} However, Thrust knew nothing, and they quickly returned to Decepticon Earth headquarters when Thunderwing detected that their space bridge nexus on Cybertron had been breached. Ultimately, Thunderwing and the other servants of Unicron were destroyed when this universe's [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] detonated a bomb in Cybertron's Decepticon Command Headquarters, incinerating them all. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhathaveyoudone.jpg|thumb|Moral of Stormbringer: Pretenders [[Ruined FOREVER|ruined Transformers]].]]<br /> Seven hundred years ago, during the height of the Autobot-Decepticon war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Thunderwing was a Decepticon scientist who alerted both sides to the damage that the ongoing conflict was doing to their planet and the resultant danger of an impending catastrophic event. According to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], his warnings were ignored, even by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. <br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing stormbringer.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Y'know, Thunderwing, Al Gore was content with just making a slide show.]]<br /> Subsequently, Thunderwing took action on his own, subjecting himself to a &quot;polydermal grafting&quot; process of his own design, one that had previously been summarily rejected by [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] as &quot;unnatural&quot; and &quot;ill-conceived&quot;. This process of grafting tissue culled from living subjects onto a Transformer to create an armored symbiotic carapace somehow also appears to have made him the avatar of the very apocalypse he had warned against. The process drove Thunderwing insane but made him invulnerable; even the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons couldn't stop him. In the end, he was swallowed whole by Cybertron itself, leaving the planet completely uninhabitable. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] went missing, Megatron assigned Bludgeon to dig into his research and find out what he'd been doing. An indeterminate time later, Thunderwing's resting place was discovered by a group of Decepticons led by Bludgeon, who planned to continue where Thunderwing left off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} The project was completed in the present day, using a combination of &quot;[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]&quot; (culled from Shockwave's research) and a set of imprinted commands. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Thunderwing was thus resurrected and immediately departed for [[Nebulos]], following Bludgeon's plans to sacrifice that world to restore Cybertron somehow. There, Thunderwing was engaged by the Decepticon Infiltration team in place, which did not want to see Nebulos completely destroyed. After Thunderwing totaled [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], and [[Roadgrabber]], the survivors, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], [[Darkwing]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], abandoned the planet, leaving Thunderwing alone. However, after the destruction of Bludgeon's control harness, Thunderwing changed course—back towards Cybertron. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingidwultramode.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|&quot;Ultra mode&quot; puts all that wing kibble to use!]]<br /> There, he was attacked by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], the [[Wrecker]]s, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], and reprogrammed [[Centurion droid|Centurion drones]]. Jetfire revealed that enough punishment would eventually cause Thunderwing to drain most of his [[energon]] reserves. However, Thunderwing revealed a third &quot;[[Super Mode|Ultra]]&quot; robot configuration. Thanks to the Wreckers, the Decepticons, the instability of Ultra Energon, and a speech/salvo combination from Optimus Prime, he was stopped dead in his tracks. His inanimate form was taken into custody by the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}<br /> <br /> [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] would later steal Thunderwing's body from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s detail of Autobots, in service of [[Nova Prime|his master]] in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}} Since the Dead Universe Transformers can only spend a limited amount of time in the land of the living, they programmed Thunderwing to guard the cave entrance to the [[Nega-Core]] on planet [[Corata-Vaz]]. He easily batted away Hound's crew and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], but did not pursue them, as his programming seemed to keep him on a leash that only included the cave entrance. It did, however, allow [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] the time he needed to escape. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}<br /> <br /> [[File:SpotlightSideswipe ThunderwingVSWreckers.jpg|left|upright=1.5|thumb|The Wreckers return to star in '''''“Nothing Can Stop The Thunderwing! Part III”'''''.]]<br /> The [[Wrecker]]s later attempted to penetrate Thunderwing's defenses and reach the Nega-Core, but apparently had no more success than Ultra Magnus and company. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}<br /> <br /> Jetfire came up with the idea to try and take control of Thunderwing using Bludgeon's (apparently repaired) control harness. This alerted [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], who activated Bludgeon (now under his control) to put a stop to it. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}<br /> <br /> While Jetfire managed to halt Thunderwing in his tracks for a brief time, a visit from the Jhiaxus-controlled Bludgeon forced Jetfire to focus on other, more pressing issues. While the Wreckers were successful in disabling the Nega-Core, Thunderwing once again began to advance on them. All of the Wreckers survived the experience, so Thunderwing was presumably disabled along with the other guardians when Jhiaxus was defeated. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's attacks had left [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] with a notable head wound. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} The Decepticon often spoke about Thunderwing on [[The Big Conversation]] which caused some confusion (and a healthy dose of panic) when the [[Dire Wraith]] known as &quot;CONS4EVA&quot; adopted Thunderwing's form to meet Crankcase. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}<br /> <br /> ===''Wings Universe''===<br /> Thunderwing was captured by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s after being cornered and making an unsuccessful attempt to defend himself with what turned out to be a dud bomb. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 3}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-10-Thunderwing.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb]]<br /> Thunderwing was among the Decepticons that invaded [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> Towards the end of the Great War, Thunderwing developed a method of weaponizing [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s' links with their partners' sparks to drain Cybertronians of life merely through presence. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}<br /> <br /> After the [[Scouring of Nebulos]] saw the Transformer war restricted to a handful of planets, he led an expedition to [[Artemis (moon)|Artemis]] in search of the [[Underbase]]. His quest proved successful–thus empowered by the artifact, he fused his sparks with the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and wreaked havoc across Cybertron, killing the [[Wrecker]]s. Thunderwing eventually uploaded himself into the [[Grand Mal]]; the floating fortress was only brought down after the Autobots and Decepticons teamed up to bring down their mutual enemy. Thunderwing died when the fortress crash-landed, but the Autobot-Decepticon alliance paved the way for the rise of the pan-factional [[Builder Assembly]]. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}<br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> During the Great War, Thunderwing almost destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but was defeated and placed in a state of dormancy. Years later, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] came up with a plan to revive Thunderwing and destroy the Autobots once and for all. The [[Wrecker]]s traveled to Cybertron in an attempt to stop Bludgeon and [[Darkwing]], but failed. Both the Autobots and Decepticons were forced to cooperate as Thunderwing proved uncontrollable, and they eventually wore him down until he ran out of [[Ore-13|Ultra Energon]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer (Legends)|Stormbringer}}<br /> <br /> Sometime later, Thunderwing had become more amenable. He, [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], and [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] accompanied [[Nova Prime|Nemesis Prime]] on a mission to defeat Nemesis's former self, Nova Prime. {{storylink|Prime Evil}} He led a team of Decepticons including [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] and Bludgeon in a raid on an Autobot [[Sun-Farming facility]]. Despite the Autobots putting up more resistance than expected, Thunderwing and his men triumphed, conquering the facility and sending the Autobots packing. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===<br /> [[File:BattleTacticsThunderwing.jpg|thumb|400px|Not so menacing when you are a [[Super deformed|super deformer]], uh?]]<br /> Thunderwing participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Uncommon character who could be recruited after collecting 120 units of Cybermetal, and 56 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[File:G1Thunderwing toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|You passed this up when you saw it in the stores. Then [[Simon Furman|Furman]] had to come along.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Mega Pretender, [[1989]])<br /> **''Accessories'': Pretender shell, 2 heat-seeking laser blasters, [[cyclone rifle|cyclone cannon]]<br /> <br /> :Thunderwing's inner robot transforms into a rather simple Cybertronic shuttlecraft. His [[Pretender]] shell also transforms into a starship mode of its own. The inner vehicle can be attached underneath the nose of the larger vehicle to create a combined starship mode. The inner robot is relatively generic in appearance (as with most Pretenders) while his outer Pretender shell resembles an alien warrior with Japanese [[wikipedia:Oni (folklore)|Oni]] influences. The inner robot carries a small &quot;cyclone cannon&quot; laser, while the shell is armed with two large laser blasters. All three of his guns can be mounted on his shell's vehicle mode. The large laser blasters can be mounted on the jet two different ways, either perpendicular or parallel to the wing undersides.<br /> <br /> :Unlike fellow Mega Pretenders [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]] or [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]], parts do not need to be removed and rearranged in order for Thunderwing to achieve any of his modes.<br /> <br /> :This mold was [[retool]]ed to make [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]].<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1989/instr_thunderwing.jpg Instruction booklet for Thunderwing at Botchthecrab.com]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Generations''===<br /> [[File:Generationstoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Matrix obsession sold separately.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2010]])<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe class toys, Thunderwing's alternate mode is a fighter jet loosely based on an [[United States Air Force#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], with different wings but retaining the F-22's characteristic zigzag patterns sculpted on the hull. He transforms into a robot that looks like the original Thunderwing toy's Pretender shell. The nose of the jet can detach and become a separate aerial drone, while the two missile launchers can detach from the wings and become handheld weapons or clip together into one massive gun. The middle section of the sculpted missiles on the sides of the guns are also compatible with [[C joint]] accessories. Thunderwing's colors seem to be inspired by his color scheme in the latter end of the Marvel run, considering his green arms. There is also an homage to [[Don Figueroa]]'s design in ''Stormbringer'' with Thunderwing's face and feet.<br /> <br /> :At [[BotCon 2010]], the [[Hasbro]] design team noted that they had wanted to make the aerial drone unit transform into a robot but were unable to do so (presumably for budget reasons, though they didn't go into that detail). <br /> <br /> :The toy is slightly mistransformed in packaging, with the chest section that conceals his head in jet mode in its robot mode position.<br /> <br /> :This sculpt was retooled to make ''Generations'' [[Black Shadow (Victory)#Generations|Sky Shadow]] and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Adventure]]'' [[Black Shadow (Adventure)|Black Shadow]] as well as [[BotCon 2012]] [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]]. Thunderwing's [[instructions]] initially depicted him with Sky Shadow's head and chest. A [[Variant|running change]] version of the instructions depicts Thunderwing's own head, but keeps Sky Shadow's chest unchanged.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on ''Generations'' Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[File:Thunderwing.JPG|thumb|right=1.7|Little evil head.]]<br /> *'''Siege On Cybertron''' (2017)<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''United''===<br /> [[File:Unitedtoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sometimes Hasbro beats Takara to media accuracy.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2012]]-[[January 28|01-28]])<br /> **''ID number:'' '''UN-26'''<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :The ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' release of Thunderwing decos his robot mode to approximate the colors of the original toy rather than his Marvel appearances. It achieves this by changing the green plastic on his arms for gray and the green plastic on his thighs and waist side armor for black plastic. The clear orange plastic is now a clear cherry red, the light green and dark green paint is a hi-gloss forest green, and the blue paint is slightly darker. His light gray plastic is now a cream color. Last but not least the purple plastic is a very light purple on this release.<br /> <br /> :The soft-plastic spikes on ''United'' Thunderwing's arms are much softer than either his ''Generations'' counterpart or [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]]'s.<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> [[File:Thunderwing01.png|thumb]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingisdeath.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Like that cannon he always carries around? Too bad, the toy ain't got it.]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1catalog.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&lt;s&gt;Also available in Violent Violet.&lt;/s&gt;]]<br /> *According to the Marvel UK story [[The Big Shutdown!]] Thunderwing stands at 40 feet tall while in his Pretender shell.<br /> *Thunderwing only transformed out of his humanoid shell mode once in the entire United States run of the Marvel Comics series. Even then, it was into his non-combined shell-only jet mode, leaving no hint that he had an inner robot mode at all. The only time we see his inner robot mode is in his first appearance, the Marvel United Kingdom story, &quot;[[The Big Shutdown!]]&quot;.<br /> *Thunderwing's Marvel Comics appearances give him a four-barreled hand weapon that's completely fabricated, as it's not based on any of the toy's three guns. As with the melee weapons [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Stranglehold]], and [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] use in the comic, his four-barreled cannon likely originated from his unpublished [[character model]].<br /> *A phenomenon [[Straxus (G1)|seen]] [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|often]] in the Marvel United States material, Thunderwing suffered from color scheme shift. At first, he appears in colors that approximate his toy's layout as best as the printing process allowed. Suddenly, in his biggest, most memorable appearances in [[Dark Creation|#65]] and [[All Fall Down|#66]], much of his blacks, grays, and blues were replaced by light greens. As a side effect of this phenomenon, since covers are colored in advance of the interiors, #66's cover featured a blue-armed Thunderwing with a green-armed Thunderwing inside. <br /> *Hasbro [[stock photography|photography]] of Thunderwing shows some plastic color differences from the final product. His shell's arms are the same purple as his guns instead of gray, and his inner robot's thighs are that purple as well, instead of the final toy's black. Black paint is applied to the shell's thighs differently, and the inner robot's forearms seem to be painted light gray. Additionally, the smaller robot is incapable of toting either of the larger guns in jet mode, as the peghole isn't large enough. <br /> *Speaking of pegholes, both of Thunderwing's large guns have [[5mm post]]s with holes in the center that can function very much like [[Powerlinx]]able pegs, which means one can store [[Mini-Con]]s on them, if one so desires.<br /> *Fitting with [[Don Figueroa]]'s method of making all of his robot designs able to be easily turned into toys (until [[The Transformers (IDW)|recently]], anyways), IDW Thunderwing's Ultra Mode is telegraphed by his kibble. An image in the ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' trade paperback's sketch section shows exactly how he transforms into it.<br /> *Kreon Thunderwing's appearance in the comic is extremely small, making it difficult to tell what Kre-O parts he's made out of.<br /> <br /> ===Foreign names===<br /> *''Japanese:'' '''Thunderwing''' (サンダーウイング ''Sandāuingu''; サンダーウィング&lt;ref&gt;Japanese translation of ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]''&lt;/ref&gt; ''Sandāwingu'')<br /> *''French:'' '''Aérofoudre''' (Canada, &quot;Aerolightning&quot;)<br /> *''Mandarin:'' '''Léi Yì''' (Taiwan, 雷翼, &quot;Thunder Wing&quot;), '''Léi Yì Wáng''' (China, 雷翼王, &quot;Thunder Wing King&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Armada Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Generations]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Matrix bearers]]<br /> [[Category:Pretenders]]<br /> [[Category:Regeneration One Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Royalty]]<br /> [[Category:Scientists]]<br /> [[Category:Unicron-related characters]]<br /> [[Category:United Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|unicron}}<br /> {{disambig3|Thunderwing}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Thunderwing is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing with matrix.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And we are dutifully impressed.]]<br /> In a better world, '''Thunderwing''' would be the ideal Decepticon leader. He's fearless, ruthless, and immensely powerful, while uncommonly concerned about the welfare of his fellow Decepticons. For this mindset, Thunderwing gets a high approval rating from his peers, but, sadly, this is not the whole story.<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's vice is, simply, obsession. When his mind sets its sights on a who or what that furthers his goals, he will stop at nothing to achieve victory. Slowly but surely, his esteem for his colleagues is replaced by single-mindedness, until finally Thunderwing awakens from his haze, potentially victorious, but either abandoned or surrounded by the bodies of the few friends who tried valiantly to snap him out of it. In these dark moments, the usually noble Thunderwing is as deceitful and two-faced as any halfwit Decepticon.<br /> <br /> But what separates Thunderwing from the rest is his sheer power. His [[Pretender]] shell is likely the most powerful ever built, and it forms impenetrable armor around his robot body. Every inch is covered in weaponry, from the electrostatic guns in his shoulders, to the hoses in his chest that emit dangerous gases, to even the rarely-used metal-eating laser beam that fires out of his forehead. In addition to this built-in arsenal, he carries around his signature cyclone cannon, the power of which is increased 50% by the powerpack his shell houses on its back. In jet mode, Thunderwing can unleash a never-ending torrent of plasma charges. <br /> <br /> Because of all this, Thunderwing is almost always successful in hunting down his obsessions, though at regrettable costs.<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[File:Magnificent Six Megadeath Past.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|No, my visual appearance is not a [[Pretender to the Throne!|continuity error]]. Why do you ask?]]<br /> A handful of Transformers are born with a natural affinity to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. Though these special few are usually Autobots, Thunderwing was an exception. Thunderwing felt that the Matrix called to him, and believed that he would become the first Decepticon to possess it. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}} <br /> <br /> ''Early on in the war, he served at [[Fort Scyk]]. He became a protege of Fort commander [[Megadeath (G1)|Megadeath]], who saw and encouraged the burning ambition within the lad, grooming Thunderwing as an asset and potential general for when he'd make a bid for leadership. For his part, Thunderwing thought Megadeath was utterly mental but also that he'd be his ticket to the top. He later soured on Megadeath when he viciously tortured the [[Magnificent Six]], which Thunderwing felt was ill-fitting for such valiant enemies, and then Megadeath let himself and the whole of [[Stanix]] get nuked to slag ''anyway''.'' {{storylink|The Magnificent Six!}}<br /> <br /> ''Four million years later, a vacuum in Decepticon high command allowed a driven Thunderwing to rise quickly from relative obscurity to a command position in the ranks. Thunderwing oversaw an operation that lured the [[Battle Patrol]] into a Decepticon facility in order to capture them and steal [[Micromaster]] technology from the Autobots. The [[Race Car Patrol|Race Car]] and [[Off Road Patrol|Off Road]] Patrols staged a successful rescue operation but failed to stop the Decepticons from making their own Micromasters.'' {{storylink|A Small War!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingisapretender.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing is a Pretender? The hell you say!]]<br /> ''Fourteen months later, to test of his readiness to takeover leadership of the Decepticons, Thunderwing was given a hunting mission: Three Autobot prisoners were released on Earth, and Thunderwing was charged with chasing down and executing them on his own. While [[Playback]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]] did fall before his cyclone cannon, the last runner, [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], was saved by his fellow Autobots [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Siren (G1)|Siren]]. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] exploded the fuel core in Playback's corpse at close range to Thunderwing, nearly cooking him alive inside his own impenetrable [[Pretender]] shell. Shrieking in agony, Thunderwing plunged into the nearby surf.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AssaultontheArk-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|This is exactly how cable news pundits are hired.]]<br /> ''Thunderwing eventually rose from the waters, his still-cooling shell juxtaposed with the growing intensity of his rage at being beaten. Thunderwing lashed out at everything around him and very nearly destroyed a ship of his fellow Decepticons who had been sent to find him. As a duly appointed officer of the [[Decepticon High Council]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] was sent to inform Thunderwing that his bid for leadership was not being rejected outright, but was still under review, and the Councilors had asked that he return to Cybertron. Instead, Thunderwing violently conscripted Ruckus and his team into joining him for an assault on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in order to get revenge on Hosehead and his ilk.'' {{storylink|Rage!}} ''Thunderwing single-handedly blasted his way into the Ark and confronted [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] directly before Ruckus convinced him to save the fight for another day. Returning to Cybertron, Thunderwing was surprised to learn that the Decepticon High Council was impressed by his initiative and the strength of his vendetta, and so granted him full leadership of the Decepticons of Cybertron.'' {{storylink|Assault on the Ark!}}<br /> <br /> ''One of Thunderwing's first actions on taking over Decepticon leadership was to abolish [[neutral]] territories, making places such as [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] Decepticon-only establishments.'' {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}} Despite these movements, Lord Thunderwing became displeased with the growing success of the newly-rebuilt [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] and their raiding of [[Decepticon fuel store|Decepticon fuel]] and ammunition depositories. Fearing the Autobot resistance movement was gaining momentum, he ordered [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]], and [[Stranglehold]], the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], to find and kill the Autobot Pretenders. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingmindleech.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|This is probably the closest look we'll get at Thunderwing's unpublished character model. [[José Delbo]] was a copier.]]<br /> When the Mayhem Attack Squad failed, Thunderwing became curious when teams of Autobots were subsequently ordered to search an area of space. Trailing a team on [[Pz-Zazz]] which included ''(again)'' Nightbeat, Hosehead, and Siren, he waited until the right moment to blast and capture them. {{storylink|Bird of Prey!}} As Thunderwing's Decepticons began trailing another team of Autobots on [[Cheyne]] ([[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]], [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]], and [[Override (G1)|Override]]), he subjected the captured first group to his [[Mind Leech]] machine. He learned from these torture sessions that the Autobots were scouring the universe for the lost Creation Matrix. Unfortunately, the second group was no closer to finding the Matrix either, and he left them to their own devices. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}} His obsession with finding the Creation Matrix caused some concerns for the Decepticons under his command, and he even began attacking his own troops when accused of taking his personal quest too far. These outbursts began coming to a head when he found traces of Matrix energy in a [[Klud|sea monster]] on [[Pequod]]. Ruckus made the mistake of questioning his leader's growing obsession, and Thunderwing backhanded him into some equipment (unknowingly shorting out the Mind Leech which held their captive Autobots immobile). While his troops battled the Autobots searching there, he used his affinity for the Matrix to mind-link with the sea monster. Discovering that the Matrix was on [[Cameron]]'s third moon, [[VsQs]], he abandoned the battle, much to the growing frustration of his troops. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhereisthecreationmatrix.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Obsessed much?]]<br /> As it happened, between the revival of the Klud and the arrival of Thunderwing, the Creation Matrix had become warped. Thunderwing fought intensely with Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock on VsQs, and they were overwhelmed not only by his vastly superior might, but by the strength of his desire to possess the Matrix. However, he and his troops were subdued by a [[Matrixspawn]], a darkly-evolved creature contaminated by the Matrix, allowing Bumblebee and the other Autobots to grab the Matrix and head for their ship. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} The Autobots were low on fuel however, and struggling against the moon's high gravity. Thunderwing overtook them with ease, snatched away the Matrix, and stole their shuttle. {{storylink|All Fall Down}} Thus, when the Autobots allowed their shuttlecraft to board the Ark, it was Thunderwing who emerged, in full possession of the Creation Matrix, enshrouded in its energies. {{storylink|Dark Creation}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AllFallDown-Thunderwingpossessed.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|We are '''power incarnate!''' We are '''unstoppable!''' We are a '''really short Deluxe Class toy!''']]<br /> On board the Ark, Thunderwing savagely beat Optimus Prime, the latter of whom was afraid to return the violence in kind, in fear that the Matrix would be destroyed and their race would be doomed against Unicron. Waves of Autobots stormed against Thunderwing, ending in [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] and others being killed or critically wounded. Quickly, the increasingly-evil Matrix took over Thunderwing, overpowering his thoughts and controlling his actions. After turning his power on his own troops, he had one final moment of clarity at what he had become, but it was too late. He was consumed. Nightbeat, Siren, and Hosehead, who Thunderwing had captured earlier, had escaped their constraints, and after releasing the bay doors, harpooned Thunderwing to the shuttlecraft. The shuttle self-destructed and Thunderwing and the Creation Matrix were seemingly lost, out in the void of space. {{storylink|All Fall Down}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime would later refer to Thunderwing (and the lost Matrix) in his pitch to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] for an alliance against [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Surrender!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:G1thunderwingthevoid.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing displays that, yes, he has an alt mode just before showing up to die again.]]<br /> The Matrix, however, was made of sterner stuff, and after some time reactivated alongside Thunderwing's body and the Autobot shuttlecraft on the surface of a planet. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} As time passed, and though only the &quot;barest spark of life remained,&quot; it healed Thunderwing's body, eventually allowing it to transform and escape. It (they) now hungered for revenge! {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing, completely controlled by the Creation Matrix, arrived on Cybertron just as Unicron had attacked. Through Thunderwing, the Matrix continued to manifest as a frightening demon, which blasted Unicron and buried its tendrils within him. Though Unicron was momentarily stunned, once the Matrix revealed that it was now attempting to be a force of Evil, Unicron ripped the manifestation apart. Unicron has no equal in the arena of evil. Thunderwing's body fell in tatters, and the Matrix casing dropped to the planet below. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====<br /> Emerging from a dimensional bridge that linked [[Earth]] to parallel worlds and times, Thunderwing attacked [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]] and [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|Headmaster of the Dimensions}} Later, this Thunderwing or another Thunderwing trailed a nuclear submarine in preparation for the Decepticons stealing its [[plutonium]] rods. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 13|The Energon Trap}}<br /> <br /> ====''United''====<br /> [[File:FierceFightingonPlanetNebulos-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Thunderwing was so disappointed he later [[Transformers United|painted his arms gray]].]]<br /> Thunderwing originated from another universe, where he was said to have possessed the Matrix and nearly defeated the Autobots. {{storylink|#United 2|''United'' Thunderwing bio}}<br /> <br /> As Decepticon leader, Thunderwing had a [[nano-virus]] released that afflicted most Autobots save those with [[Nebulan]] partners, tricking them to go to [[Nebulos]] for an anti-virus so they could be ambushed and their partners taken! His minion [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] botched the mission though. Thunderwing chewed him out and decided he needed to take a more active role... {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Regeneration One''====<br /> {{noterg1}}<br /> [[File:Kup thunderwing destiny.jpg|thumb]]<br /> At some point following the battle with Unicron, Thunderwing's remains were recovered and interred in the [[Hall of Silence]] on Cybertron. Twenty-one years later, Optimus Prime departed Cybertron, bound for Earth to end the threat of Megatron. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Soundwave seized this opportunity to attack the Hall of Silence to steal what was left of Thunderwing for Bludgeon, and to gain control of the residual Matrix energy stored in his corpse. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 4}} Soundwave reached the remains, and used the emergency destruct charges triggered by Hot Rod in the event of a break-in to cover his teleportation escape. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}} <br /> <br /> Rendezvousing at Bludgeon's ''[[Warworld]]'', Soundwave provided the Pretender what he needed to augment his [[Blitz Engine]]s before the attack on Cybertron. {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}} When the Autobots fought back, that last remnants of Thunderwing and the Matrix energy were seemingly lost with the ''Warworld''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1worldscollide.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|They weren't even trying to color me right!]]<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> Thunderwing was the most recent addition to a crew of dimension-traveling [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds]] of [[Unicron]]. He was addicted to [[Dark Energon]], and the prospect of an endless supply of [[angolmois]] energy was enough to convince him to join. He went to [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma]] with the other heralds when his home universe was destroyed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29}}<br /> <br /> ====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====<br /> Thunderwing, along with [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], was sent to prepare [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma|another universe]] for Unicron's arrival. Porting into [[Decepticon Command Headquarters]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Galvatron left Thunderwing and the others on Cybertron to accomplish their task. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} Though they destroyed all of the Decepticons in their headquarters and established a network of [[space bridge]] portals, this universe's [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] was not amongst their victims. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}}<br /> <br /> Traveling to Earth's Decepticon headquarters (but leaving Bludgeon behind on Cybertron to guard the portal), they found it momentarily abandoned, so Thunderwing suggested they hunt down this universe's [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] to learn Megatron's location. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} However, Thrust knew nothing, and they quickly returned to Decepticon Earth headquarters when Thunderwing detected that their space bridge nexus on Cybertron had been breached. Ultimately, Thunderwing and the other servants of Unicron were destroyed when this universe's [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] detonated a bomb in Cybertron's Decepticon Command Headquarters, incinerating them all. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhathaveyoudone.jpg|thumb|Moral of Stormbringer: Pretenders [[Ruined FOREVER|ruined Transformers]].]]<br /> Seven hundred years ago, during the height of the Autobot-Decepticon war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Thunderwing was a Decepticon scientist who alerted both sides to the damage that the ongoing conflict was doing to their planet and the resultant danger of an impending catastrophic event. According to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], his warnings were ignored, even by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. <br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing stormbringer.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Y'know, Thunderwing, Al Gore was content with just making a slide show.]]<br /> Subsequently, Thunderwing took action on his own, subjecting himself to a &quot;polydermal grafting&quot; process of his own design, one that had previously been summarily rejected by [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] as &quot;unnatural&quot; and &quot;ill-conceived&quot;. This process of grafting tissue culled from living subjects onto a Transformer to create an armored symbiotic carapace somehow also appears to have made him the avatar of the very apocalypse he had warned against. The process drove Thunderwing insane but made him invulnerable; even the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons couldn't stop him. In the end, he was swallowed whole by Cybertron itself, leaving the planet completely uninhabitable. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] went missing, Megatron assigned Bludgeon to dig into his research and find out what he'd been doing. An indeterminate time later, Thunderwing's resting place was discovered by a group of Decepticons led by Bludgeon, who planned to continue where Thunderwing left off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} The project was completed in the present day, using a combination of &quot;[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]&quot; (culled from Shockwave's research) and a set of imprinted commands. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Thunderwing was thus resurrected and immediately departed for [[Nebulos]], following Bludgeon's plans to sacrifice that world to restore Cybertron somehow. There, Thunderwing was engaged by the Decepticon Infiltration team in place, which did not want to see Nebulos completely destroyed. After Thunderwing totaled [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], and [[Roadgrabber]], the survivors, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], [[Darkwing]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], abandoned the planet, leaving Thunderwing alone. However, after the destruction of Bludgeon's control harness, Thunderwing changed course—back towards Cybertron. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingidwultramode.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|&quot;Ultra mode&quot; puts all that wing kibble to use!]]<br /> There, he was attacked by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], the [[Wrecker]]s, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], and reprogrammed [[Centurion droid|Centurion drones]]. Jetfire revealed that enough punishment would eventually cause Thunderwing to drain most of his [[energon]] reserves. However, Thunderwing revealed a third &quot;[[Super Mode|Ultra]]&quot; robot configuration. Thanks to the Wreckers, the Decepticons, the instability of Ultra Energon, and a speech/salvo combination from Optimus Prime, he was stopped dead in his tracks. His inanimate form was taken into custody by the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}<br /> <br /> [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] would later steal Thunderwing's body from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s detail of Autobots, in service of [[Nova Prime|his master]] in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}} Since the Dead Universe Transformers can only spend a limited amount of time in the land of the living, they programmed Thunderwing to guard the cave entrance to the [[Nega-Core]] on planet [[Corata-Vaz]]. He easily batted away Hound's crew and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], but did not pursue them, as his programming seemed to keep him on a leash that only included the cave entrance. It did, however, allow [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] the time he needed to escape. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}<br /> <br /> [[File:SpotlightSideswipe ThunderwingVSWreckers.jpg|left|upright=1.5|thumb|The Wreckers return to star in '''''“Nothing Can Stop The Thunderwing! Part III”'''''.]]<br /> The [[Wrecker]]s later attempted to penetrate Thunderwing's defenses and reach the Nega-Core, but apparently had no more success than Ultra Magnus and company. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}<br /> <br /> Jetfire came up with the idea to try and take control of Thunderwing using Bludgeon's (apparently repaired) control harness. This alerted [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], who activated Bludgeon (now under his control) to put a stop to it. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}<br /> <br /> While Jetfire managed to halt Thunderwing in his tracks for a brief time, a visit from the Jhiaxus-controlled Bludgeon forced Jetfire to focus on other, more pressing issues. While the Wreckers were successful in disabling the Nega-Core, Thunderwing once again began to advance on them. All of the Wreckers survived the experience, so Thunderwing was presumably disabled along with the other guardians when Jhiaxus was defeated. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's attacks had left [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] with a notable head wound. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} The Decepticon often spoke about Thunderwing on [[The Big Conversation]] which caused some confusion (and a healthy dose of panic) when the [[Dire Wraith]] known as &quot;CONS4EVA&quot; adopted Thunderwing's form to meet Crankcase. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}<br /> <br /> ===''Wings Universe''===<br /> Thunderwing was captured by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s after being cornered and making an unsuccessful attempt to defend himself with what turned out to be a dud bomb. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 3}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-10-Thunderwing.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb]]<br /> Thunderwing was among the Decepticons that invaded [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> Towards the end of the Great War, Thunderwing developed a method of weaponizing [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s' links with their partners' sparks to drain Cybertronians of life merely through presence. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}<br /> <br /> After the [[Scouring of Nebulos]] saw the Transformer war restricted to a handful of planets, he led an expedition to [[Artemis (moon)|Artemis]] in search of the [[Underbase]]. His quest proved successful–thus empowered by the artifact, he fused his sparks with the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and wreaked havoc across Cybertron, killing the [[Wrecker]]s. Thunderwing eventually uploaded himself into the [[Grand Mal]]; the floating fortress was only brought down after the Autobots and Decepticons teamed up to bring down their mutual enemy. Thunderwing died when the fortress crash-landed, but the Autobot-Decepticon alliance paved the way for the rise of the pan-factional [[Builder Assembly]]. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}<br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> During the Great War, Thunderwing almost destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but was defeated and placed in a state of dormancy. Years later, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] came up with a plan to revive Thunderwing and destroy the Autobots once and for all. The [[Wrecker]]s traveled to Cybertron in an attempt to stop Bludgeon and [[Darkwing]], but failed. Both the Autobots and Decepticons were forced to cooperate as Thunderwing proved uncontrollable, and they eventually wore him down until he ran out of [[Ore-13|Ultra Energon]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer (Legends)|Stormbringer}}<br /> <br /> Sometime later, Thunderwing had become more amenable. He, [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], and [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] accompanied [[Nova Prime|Nemesis Prime]] on a mission to defeat Nemesis's former self, Nova Prime. {{storylink|Prime Evil}} He led a team of Decepticons including [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] and Bludgeon in a raid on an Autobot [[Sun-Farming facility]]. Despite the Autobots putting up more resistance than expected, Thunderwing and his men triumphed, conquering the facility and sending the Autobots packing. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===<br /> [[File:BattleTacticsThunderwing.jpg|thumb|400px|Not so menacing when you are a [[Super deformed|super deformer]], uh?]]<br /> Thunderwing participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Uncommon character who could be recruited after collecting 120 units of Cybermetal, and 56 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[File:G1Thunderwing toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|You passed this up when you saw it in the stores. Then [[Simon Furman|Furman]] had to come along.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Mega Pretender, [[1989]])<br /> **''Accessories'': Pretender shell, 2 heat-seeking laser blasters, [[cyclone rifle|cyclone cannon]]<br /> <br /> :Thunderwing's inner robot transforms into a rather simple Cybertronic shuttlecraft. His [[Pretender]] shell also transforms into a starship mode of its own. The inner vehicle can be attached underneath the nose of the larger vehicle to create a combined starship mode. The inner robot is relatively generic in appearance (as with most Pretenders) while his outer Pretender shell resembles an alien warrior with Japanese [[wikipedia:Oni (folklore)|Oni]] influences. The inner robot carries a small &quot;cyclone cannon&quot; laser, while the shell is armed with two large laser blasters. All three of his guns can be mounted on his shell's vehicle mode. The large laser blasters can be mounted on the jet two different ways, either perpendicular or parallel to the wing undersides.<br /> <br /> :Unlike fellow Mega Pretenders [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]] or [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]], parts do not need to be removed and rearranged in order for Thunderwing to achieve any of his modes.<br /> <br /> :This mold was [[retool]]ed to make [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]].<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1989/instr_thunderwing.jpg Instruction booklet for Thunderwing at Botchthecrab.com]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Generations''===<br /> [[File:Generationstoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Matrix obsession sold separately.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2010]])<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe class toys, Thunderwing's alternate mode is a fighter jet loosely based on an [[United States Air Force#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], with different wings but retaining the F-22's characteristic zigzag patterns sculpted on the hull. He transforms into a robot that looks like the original Thunderwing toy's Pretender shell. The nose of the jet can detach and become a separate aerial drone, while the two missile launchers can detach from the wings and become handheld weapons or clip together into one massive gun. The middle section of the sculpted missiles on the sides of the guns are also compatible with [[C joint]] accessories. Thunderwing's colors seem to be inspired by his color scheme in the latter end of the Marvel run, considering his green arms. There is also an homage to [[Don Figueroa]]'s design in ''Stormbringer'' with Thunderwing's face and feet.<br /> <br /> :At [[BotCon 2010]], the [[Hasbro]] design team noted that they had wanted to make the aerial drone unit transform into a robot but were unable to do so (presumably for budget reasons, though they didn't go into that detail). <br /> <br /> :The toy is slightly mistransformed in packaging, with the chest section that conceals his head in jet mode in its robot mode position.<br /> <br /> :This sculpt was retooled to make ''Generations'' [[Black Shadow (Victory)#Generations|Sky Shadow]] and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Adventure]]'' [[Black Shadow (Adventure)|Black Shadow]] as well as [[BotCon 2012]] [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]]. Thunderwing's [[instructions]] initially depicted him with Sky Shadow's head and chest. A [[Variant|running change]] version of the instructions depicts Thunderwing's own head, but keeps Sky Shadow's chest unchanged.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on ''Generations'' Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[File:Thunderwing.JPG|thumb|right=1.7]]<br /> *'''Siege On Cybertron''' (2017)<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''United''===<br /> [[File:Unitedtoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sometimes Hasbro beats Takara to media accuracy.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2012]]-[[January 28|01-28]])<br /> **''ID number:'' '''UN-26'''<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :The ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' release of Thunderwing decos his robot mode to approximate the colors of the original toy rather than his Marvel appearances. It achieves this by changing the green plastic on his arms for gray and the green plastic on his thighs and waist side armor for black plastic. The clear orange plastic is now a clear cherry red, the light green and dark green paint is a hi-gloss forest green, and the blue paint is slightly darker. His light gray plastic is now a cream color. Last but not least the purple plastic is a very light purple on this release.<br /> <br /> :The soft-plastic spikes on ''United'' Thunderwing's arms are much softer than either his ''Generations'' counterpart or [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]]'s.<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> [[File:Thunderwing01.png|thumb]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingisdeath.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Like that cannon he always carries around? Too bad, the toy ain't got it.]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1catalog.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&lt;s&gt;Also available in Violent Violet.&lt;/s&gt;]]<br /> *According to the Marvel UK story [[The Big Shutdown!]] Thunderwing stands at 40 feet tall while in his Pretender shell.<br /> *Thunderwing only transformed out of his humanoid shell mode once in the entire United States run of the Marvel Comics series. Even then, it was into his non-combined shell-only jet mode, leaving no hint that he had an inner robot mode at all. The only time we see his inner robot mode is in his first appearance, the Marvel United Kingdom story, &quot;[[The Big Shutdown!]]&quot;.<br /> *Thunderwing's Marvel Comics appearances give him a four-barreled hand weapon that's completely fabricated, as it's not based on any of the toy's three guns. As with the melee weapons [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Stranglehold]], and [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] use in the comic, his four-barreled cannon likely originated from his unpublished [[character model]].<br /> *A phenomenon [[Straxus (G1)|seen]] [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|often]] in the Marvel United States material, Thunderwing suffered from color scheme shift. At first, he appears in colors that approximate his toy's layout as best as the printing process allowed. Suddenly, in his biggest, most memorable appearances in [[Dark Creation|#65]] and [[All Fall Down|#66]], much of his blacks, grays, and blues were replaced by light greens. As a side effect of this phenomenon, since covers are colored in advance of the interiors, #66's cover featured a blue-armed Thunderwing with a green-armed Thunderwing inside. <br /> *Hasbro [[stock photography|photography]] of Thunderwing shows some plastic color differences from the final product. His shell's arms are the same purple as his guns instead of gray, and his inner robot's thighs are that purple as well, instead of the final toy's black. Black paint is applied to the shell's thighs differently, and the inner robot's forearms seem to be painted light gray. Additionally, the smaller robot is incapable of toting either of the larger guns in jet mode, as the peghole isn't large enough. <br /> *Speaking of pegholes, both of Thunderwing's large guns have [[5mm post]]s with holes in the center that can function very much like [[Powerlinx]]able pegs, which means one can store [[Mini-Con]]s on them, if one so desires.<br /> *Fitting with [[Don Figueroa]]'s method of making all of his robot designs able to be easily turned into toys (until [[The Transformers (IDW)|recently]], anyways), IDW Thunderwing's Ultra Mode is telegraphed by his kibble. An image in the ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' trade paperback's sketch section shows exactly how he transforms into it.<br /> *Kreon Thunderwing's appearance in the comic is extremely small, making it difficult to tell what Kre-O parts he's made out of.<br /> <br /> ===Foreign names===<br /> *''Japanese:'' '''Thunderwing''' (サンダーウイング ''Sandāuingu''; サンダーウィング&lt;ref&gt;Japanese translation of ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]''&lt;/ref&gt; ''Sandāwingu'')<br /> *''French:'' '''Aérofoudre''' (Canada, &quot;Aerolightning&quot;)<br /> *''Mandarin:'' '''Léi Yì''' (Taiwan, 雷翼, &quot;Thunder Wing&quot;), '''Léi Yì Wáng''' (China, 雷翼王, &quot;Thunder Wing King&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Armada Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Generations]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Matrix bearers]]<br /> [[Category:Pretenders]]<br /> [[Category:Regeneration One Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Royalty]]<br /> [[Category:Scientists]]<br /> [[Category:Unicron-related characters]]<br /> [[Category:United Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{factions|decepticon|unicron}}<br /> {{disambig3|Thunderwing}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Thunderwing is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing with matrix.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|And we are dutifully impressed.]]<br /> In a better world, '''Thunderwing''' would be the ideal Decepticon leader. He's fearless, ruthless, and immensely powerful, while uncommonly concerned about the welfare of his fellow Decepticons. For this mindset, Thunderwing gets a high approval rating from his peers, but, sadly, this is not the whole story.<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's vice is, simply, obsession. When his mind sets its sights on a who or what that furthers his goals, he will stop at nothing to achieve victory. Slowly but surely, his esteem for his colleagues is replaced by single-mindedness, until finally Thunderwing awakens from his haze, potentially victorious, but either abandoned or surrounded by the bodies of the few friends who tried valiantly to snap him out of it. In these dark moments, the usually noble Thunderwing is as deceitful and two-faced as any halfwit Decepticon.<br /> <br /> But what separates Thunderwing from the rest is his sheer power. His [[Pretender]] shell is likely the most powerful ever built, and it forms impenetrable armor around his robot body. Every inch is covered in weaponry, from the electrostatic guns in his shoulders, to the hoses in his chest that emit dangerous gases, to even the rarely-used metal-eating laser beam that fires out of his forehead. In addition to this built-in arsenal, he carries around his signature cyclone cannon, the power of which is increased 50% by the powerpack his shell houses on its back. In jet mode, Thunderwing can unleash a never-ending torrent of plasma charges. <br /> <br /> Because of all this, Thunderwing is almost always successful in hunting down his obsessions, though at regrettable costs.<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Marvel Comics continuity===<br /> ====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====<br /> {{noteukonly}}<br /> [[File:Magnificent Six Megadeath Past.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|No, my visual appearance is not a [[Pretender to the Throne!|continuity error]]. Why do you ask?]]<br /> A handful of Transformers are born with a natural affinity to the [[Matrix of Leadership|Creation Matrix]]. Though these special few are usually Autobots, Thunderwing was an exception. Thunderwing felt that the Matrix called to him, and believed that he would become the first Decepticon to possess it. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}} <br /> <br /> ''Early on in the war, he served at [[Fort Scyk]]. He became a protege of Fort commander [[Megadeath (G1)|Megadeath]], who saw and encouraged the burning ambition within the lad, grooming Thunderwing as an asset and potential general for when he'd make a bid for leadership. For his part, Thunderwing thought Megadeath was utterly mental but also that he'd be his ticket to the top. He later soured on Megadeath when he viciously tortured the [[Magnificent Six]], which Thunderwing felt was ill-fitting for such valiant enemies, and then Megadeath let himself and the whole of [[Stanix]] get nuked to slag ''anyway''.'' {{storylink|The Magnificent Six!}}<br /> <br /> ''Four million years later, a vacuum in Decepticon high command allowed a driven Thunderwing to rise quickly from relative obscurity to a command position in the ranks. Thunderwing oversaw an operation that lured the [[Battle Patrol]] into a Decepticon facility in order to capture them and steal [[Micromaster]] technology from the Autobots. The [[Race Car Patrol|Race Car]] and [[Off Road Patrol|Off Road]] Patrols staged a successful rescue operation but failed to stop the Decepticons from making their own Micromasters.'' {{storylink|A Small War!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingisapretender.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing is a Pretender? The hell you say!]]<br /> ''Fourteen months later, to test of his readiness to takeover leadership of the Decepticons, Thunderwing was given a hunting mission: Three Autobot prisoners were released on Earth, and Thunderwing was charged with chasing down and executing them on his own. While [[Playback]] and [[Horsepower (G1)|Horsepower]] did fall before his cyclone cannon, the last runner, [[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]], was saved by his fellow Autobots [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] and [[Siren (G1)|Siren]]. The [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] exploded the fuel core in Playback's corpse at close range to Thunderwing, nearly cooking him alive inside his own impenetrable [[Pretender]] shell. Shrieking in agony, Thunderwing plunged into the nearby surf.'' {{storylink|The Big Shutdown!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AssaultontheArk-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|This is exactly how cable news pundits are hired.]]<br /> ''Thunderwing eventually rose from the waters, his still-cooling shell juxtaposed with the growing intensity of his rage at being beaten. Thunderwing lashed out at everything around him and very nearly destroyed a ship of his fellow Decepticons who had been sent to find him. As a duly appointed officer of the [[Decepticon High Council]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]] was sent to inform Thunderwing that his bid for leadership was not being rejected outright, but was still under review, and the Councilors had asked that he return to Cybertron. Instead, Thunderwing violently conscripted Ruckus and his team into joining him for an assault on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in order to get revenge on Hosehead and his ilk.'' {{storylink|Rage!}} ''Thunderwing single-handedly blasted his way into the Ark and confronted [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] directly before Ruckus convinced him to save the fight for another day. Returning to Cybertron, Thunderwing was surprised to learn that the Decepticon High Council was impressed by his initiative and the strength of his vendetta, and so granted him full leadership of the Decepticons of Cybertron.'' {{storylink|Assault on the Ark!}}<br /> <br /> ''One of Thunderwing's first actions on taking over Decepticon leadership was to abolish [[neutral]] territories, making places such as [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] Decepticon-only establishments.'' {{storylink|Out to Lunch!}} Despite these movements, Lord Thunderwing became displeased with the growing success of the newly-rebuilt [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]], and [[Bumblebee (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Bumblebee]] and their raiding of [[Decepticon fuel store|Decepticon fuel]] and ammunition depositories. Fearing the Autobot resistance movement was gaining momentum, he ordered [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]], and [[Stranglehold]], the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]], to find and kill the Autobot Pretenders. {{storylink|Yesterday's Heroes!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingmindleech.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|This is probably the closest look we'll get at Thunderwing's unpublished character model. [[José Delbo]] was a copier.]]<br /> When the Mayhem Attack Squad failed, Thunderwing became curious when teams of Autobots were subsequently ordered to search an area of space. Trailing a team on [[Pz-Zazz]] which included ''(again)'' Nightbeat, Hosehead, and Siren, he waited until the right moment to blast and capture them. {{storylink|Bird of Prey!}} As Thunderwing's Decepticons began trailing another team of Autobots on [[Cheyne]] ([[Backstreet (G1)|Backstreet]], [[Dogfight (G1)|Dogfight]], and [[Override (G1)|Override]]), he subjected the captured first group to his [[Mind Leech]] machine. He learned from these torture sessions that the Autobots were scouring the universe for the lost Creation Matrix. Unfortunately, the second group was no closer to finding the Matrix either, and he left them to their own devices. {{storylink|Kings of the Wild Frontier.}} His obsession with finding the Creation Matrix caused some concerns for the Decepticons under his command, and he even began attacking his own troops when accused of taking his personal quest too far. These outbursts began coming to a head when he found traces of Matrix energy in a [[Klud|sea monster]] on [[Pequod]]. Ruckus made the mistake of questioning his leader's growing obsession, and Thunderwing backhanded him into some equipment (unknowingly shorting out the Mind Leech which held their captive Autobots immobile). While his troops battled the Autobots searching there, he used his affinity for the Matrix to mind-link with the sea monster. Discovering that the Matrix was on [[Cameron]]'s third moon, [[VsQs]], he abandoned the battle, much to the growing frustration of his troops. {{storylink|Deadly Obsession}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhereisthecreationmatrix.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|Obsessed much?]]<br /> As it happened, between the revival of the Klud and the arrival of Thunderwing, the Creation Matrix had become warped. Thunderwing fought intensely with Bumblebee, Jazz, and Grimlock on VsQs, and they were overwhelmed not only by his vastly superior might, but by the strength of his desire to possess the Matrix. However, he and his troops were subdued by a [[Matrixspawn]], a darkly-evolved creature contaminated by the Matrix, allowing Bumblebee and the other Autobots to grab the Matrix and head for their ship. {{storylink|Dark Creation}} The Autobots were low on fuel however, and struggling against the moon's high gravity. Thunderwing overtook them with ease, snatched away the Matrix, and stole their shuttle. {{storylink|All Fall Down}} Thus, when the Autobots allowed their shuttlecraft to board the Ark, it was Thunderwing who emerged, in full possession of the Creation Matrix, enshrouded in its energies. {{storylink|Dark Creation}}<br /> <br /> [[File:AllFallDown-Thunderwingpossessed.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|We are '''power incarnate!''' We are '''unstoppable!''' We are a '''really short Deluxe Class toy!''']]<br /> On board the Ark, Thunderwing savagely beat Optimus Prime, the latter of whom was afraid to return the violence in kind, in fear that the Matrix would be destroyed and their race would be doomed against Unicron. Waves of Autobots stormed against Thunderwing, ending in [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]] and others being killed or critically wounded. Quickly, the increasingly-evil Matrix took over Thunderwing, overpowering his thoughts and controlling his actions. After turning his power on his own troops, he had one final moment of clarity at what he had become, but it was too late. He was consumed. Nightbeat, Siren, and Hosehead, who Thunderwing had captured earlier, had escaped their constraints, and after releasing the bay doors, harpooned Thunderwing to the shuttlecraft. The shuttle self-destructed and Thunderwing and the Creation Matrix were seemingly lost, out in the void of space. {{storylink|All Fall Down}}<br /> <br /> Optimus Prime would later refer to Thunderwing (and the lost Matrix) in his pitch to [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] for an alliance against [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Surrender!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:G1thunderwingthevoid.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Thunderwing displays that, yes, he has an alt mode just before showing up to die again.]]<br /> The Matrix, however, was made of sterner stuff, and after some time reactivated alongside Thunderwing's body and the Autobot shuttlecraft on the surface of a planet. {{storylink|Out of Time!}} As time passed, and though only the &quot;barest spark of life remained,&quot; it healed Thunderwing's body, eventually allowing it to transform and escape. It (they) now hungered for revenge! {{storylink|The Void! (US)|The Void!}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing, completely controlled by the Creation Matrix, arrived on Cybertron just as Unicron had attacked. Through Thunderwing, the Matrix continued to manifest as a frightening demon, which blasted Unicron and buried its tendrils within him. Though Unicron was momentarily stunned, once the Matrix revealed that it was now attempting to be a force of Evil, Unicron ripped the manifestation apart. Unicron has no equal in the arena of evil. Thunderwing's body fell in tatters, and the Matrix casing dropped to the planet below. {{storylink|On the Edge of Extinction!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers Comic-Magazin''====<br /> Emerging from a dimensional bridge that linked [[Earth]] to parallel worlds and times, Thunderwing attacked [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]] and [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 9|Headmaster of the Dimensions}} Later, this Thunderwing or another Thunderwing trailed a nuclear submarine in preparation for the Decepticons stealing its [[plutonium]] rods. {{storylink|Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 13|The Energon Trap}}<br /> <br /> ====''United''====<br /> [[File:FierceFightingonPlanetNebulos-Thunderwing.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.66|Thunderwing was so disappointed he later [[Transformers United|painted his arms gray]].]]<br /> Thunderwing originated from another universe, where he was said to have possessed the Matrix and nearly defeated the Autobots. {{storylink|#United 2|''United'' Thunderwing bio}}<br /> <br /> As Decepticon leader, Thunderwing had a [[nano-virus]] released that afflicted most Autobots save those with [[Nebulan]] partners, tricking them to go to [[Nebulos]] for an anti-virus so they could be ambushed and their partners taken! His minion [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] botched the mission though. Thunderwing chewed him out and decided he needed to take a more active role... {{storylink|The Fierce Fighting on Planet Nebulos}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Regeneration One''====<br /> {{noterg1}}<br /> [[File:Kup thunderwing destiny.jpg|thumb]]<br /> At some point following the battle with Unicron, Thunderwing's remains were recovered and interred in the [[Hall of Silence]] on Cybertron. Twenty-one years later, Optimus Prime departed Cybertron, bound for Earth to end the threat of Megatron. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 3}} Soundwave seized this opportunity to attack the Hall of Silence to steal what was left of Thunderwing for Bludgeon, and to gain control of the residual Matrix energy stored in his corpse. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 4}} Soundwave reached the remains, and used the emergency destruct charges triggered by Hot Rod in the event of a break-in to cover his teleportation escape. {{storylink|Natural Selection, Part One}} <br /> <br /> Rendezvousing at Bludgeon's ''[[Warworld]]'', Soundwave provided the Pretender what he needed to augment his [[Blitz Engine]]s before the attack on Cybertron. {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}} When the Autobots fought back, that last remnants of Thunderwing and the Matrix energy were seemingly lost with the ''Warworld''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part Five}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1worldscollide.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|They weren't even trying to color me right!]]<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> Thunderwing was the most recent addition to a crew of dimension-traveling [[Herald of Unicron|Heralds]] of [[Unicron]]. He was addicted to [[Dark Energon]], and the prospect of an endless supply of [[angolmois]] energy was enough to convince him to join. He went to [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma]] with the other heralds when his home universe was destroyed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/29}}<br /> <br /> ====Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic====<br /> Thunderwing, along with [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]], and [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], was sent to prepare [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma|another universe]] for Unicron's arrival. Porting into [[Decepticon Command Headquarters]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Galvatron left Thunderwing and the others on Cybertron to accomplish their task. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} Though they destroyed all of the Decepticons in their headquarters and established a network of [[space bridge]] portals, this universe's [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] was not amongst their victims. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}}<br /> <br /> Traveling to Earth's Decepticon headquarters (but leaving Bludgeon behind on Cybertron to guard the portal), they found it momentarily abandoned, so Thunderwing suggested they hunt down this universe's [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]] to learn Megatron's location. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} However, Thrust knew nothing, and they quickly returned to Decepticon Earth headquarters when Thunderwing detected that their space bridge nexus on Cybertron had been breached. Ultimately, Thunderwing and the other servants of Unicron were destroyed when this universe's [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] detonated a bomb in Cybertron's Decepticon Command Headquarters, incinerating them all. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> [[File:Thunderwingwhathaveyoudone.jpg|thumb|Moral of Stormbringer: Pretenders [[Ruined FOREVER|ruined Transformers]].]]<br /> Seven hundred years ago, during the height of the Autobot-Decepticon war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Thunderwing was a Decepticon scientist who alerted both sides to the damage that the ongoing conflict was doing to their planet and the resultant danger of an impending catastrophic event. According to [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], his warnings were ignored, even by [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]]. <br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwing stormbringer.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Y'know, Thunderwing, Al Gore was content with just making a slide show.]]<br /> Subsequently, Thunderwing took action on his own, subjecting himself to a &quot;polydermal grafting&quot; process of his own design, one that had previously been summarily rejected by [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] as &quot;unnatural&quot; and &quot;ill-conceived&quot;. This process of grafting tissue culled from living subjects onto a Transformer to create an armored symbiotic carapace somehow also appears to have made him the avatar of the very apocalypse he had warned against. The process drove Thunderwing insane but made him invulnerable; even the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons couldn't stop him. In the end, he was swallowed whole by Cybertron itself, leaving the planet completely uninhabitable. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 1|Stormbringer #1}}<br /> <br /> When [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] went missing, Megatron assigned Bludgeon to dig into his research and find out what he'd been doing. An indeterminate time later, Thunderwing's resting place was discovered by a group of Decepticons led by Bludgeon, who planned to continue where Thunderwing left off. {{storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}} The project was completed in the present day, using a combination of &quot;[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]&quot; (culled from Shockwave's research) and a set of imprinted commands. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 2|Stormbringer #2}} Thunderwing was thus resurrected and immediately departed for [[Nebulos]], following Bludgeon's plans to sacrifice that world to restore Cybertron somehow. There, Thunderwing was engaged by the Decepticon Infiltration team in place, which did not want to see Nebulos completely destroyed. After Thunderwing totaled [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]], [[Ruckus (G1)|Ruckus]], [[Skullcruncher (G1)|Skullcruncher]], and [[Roadgrabber]], the survivors, [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]], [[Darkwing]], and [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], abandoned the planet, leaving Thunderwing alone. However, after the destruction of Bludgeon's control harness, Thunderwing changed course—back towards Cybertron. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 3|Stormbringer #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Thunderwingidwultramode.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|&quot;Ultra mode&quot; puts all that wing kibble to use!]]<br /> There, he was attacked by [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], the [[Wrecker]]s, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], and reprogrammed [[Centurion droid|Centurion drones]]. Jetfire revealed that enough punishment would eventually cause Thunderwing to drain most of his [[energon]] reserves. However, Thunderwing revealed a third &quot;[[Super Mode|Ultra]]&quot; robot configuration. Thanks to the Wreckers, the Decepticons, the instability of Ultra Energon, and a speech/salvo combination from Optimus Prime, he was stopped dead in his tracks. His inanimate form was taken into custody by the [[Autobot]]s. {{storylink|Stormbringer issue 4|Stormbringer #4}}<br /> <br /> [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] would later steal Thunderwing's body from [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s detail of Autobots, in service of [[Nova Prime|his master]] in the [[Dead Universe]]. {{storylink|Spotlight: Galvatron}} Since the Dead Universe Transformers can only spend a limited amount of time in the land of the living, they programmed Thunderwing to guard the cave entrance to the [[Nega-Core]] on planet [[Corata-Vaz]]. He easily batted away Hound's crew and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]], but did not pursue them, as his programming seemed to keep him on a leash that only included the cave entrance. It did, however, allow [[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]] the time he needed to escape. {{storylink|Spotlight: Cyclonus}}<br /> <br /> [[File:SpotlightSideswipe ThunderwingVSWreckers.jpg|left|upright=1.5|thumb|The Wreckers return to star in '''''“Nothing Can Stop The Thunderwing! Part III”'''''.]]<br /> The [[Wrecker]]s later attempted to penetrate Thunderwing's defenses and reach the Nega-Core, but apparently had no more success than Ultra Magnus and company. {{storylink|Spotlight: Hardhead}}<br /> <br /> Jetfire came up with the idea to try and take control of Thunderwing using Bludgeon's (apparently repaired) control harness. This alerted [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], who activated Bludgeon (now under his control) to put a stop to it. {{storylink|Spotlight: Doubledealer}}<br /> <br /> While Jetfire managed to halt Thunderwing in his tracks for a brief time, a visit from the Jhiaxus-controlled Bludgeon forced Jetfire to focus on other, more pressing issues. While the Wreckers were successful in disabling the Nega-Core, Thunderwing once again began to advance on them. All of the Wreckers survived the experience, so Thunderwing was presumably disabled along with the other guardians when Jhiaxus was defeated. {{storylink|Spotlight: Sideswipe}}<br /> <br /> Thunderwing's attacks had left [[Crankcase (G1)|Crankcase]] with a notable head wound. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} The Decepticon often spoke about Thunderwing on [[The Big Conversation]] which caused some confusion (and a healthy dose of panic) when the [[Dire Wraith]] known as &quot;CONS4EVA&quot; adopted Thunderwing's form to meet Crankcase. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}<br /> <br /> ===''Wings Universe''===<br /> Thunderwing was captured by the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]]s after being cornered and making an unsuccessful attempt to defend himself with what turned out to be a dud bomb. {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 3}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-10-Thunderwing.jpg|upright=0.5|thumb]]<br /> Thunderwing was among the Decepticons that invaded [[Metroplex (Kre-O)|Metroplex]]. {{storylink|Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight!}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> Towards the end of the Great War, Thunderwing developed a method of weaponizing [[Targetmaster (technology)|Targetmaster]]s' links with their partners' sparks to drain Cybertronians of life merely through presence. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}<br /> <br /> After the [[Scouring of Nebulos]] saw the Transformer war restricted to a handful of planets, he led an expedition to [[Artemis (moon)|Artemis]] in search of the [[Underbase]]. His quest proved successful–thus empowered by the artifact, he fused his sparks with the [[Mayhem Attack Squad]] and wreaked havoc across Cybertron, killing the [[Wrecker]]s. Thunderwing eventually uploaded himself into the [[Grand Mal]]; the floating fortress was only brought down after the Autobots and Decepticons teamed up to bring down their mutual enemy. Thunderwing died when the fortress crash-landed, but the Autobot-Decepticon alliance paved the way for the rise of the pan-factional [[Builder Assembly]]. {{storylink|Not All Megatrons}}<br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> During the Great War, Thunderwing almost destroyed [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], but was defeated and placed in a state of dormancy. Years later, [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] came up with a plan to revive Thunderwing and destroy the Autobots once and for all. The [[Wrecker]]s traveled to Cybertron in an attempt to stop Bludgeon and [[Darkwing]], but failed. Both the Autobots and Decepticons were forced to cooperate as Thunderwing proved uncontrollable, and they eventually wore him down until he ran out of [[Ore-13|Ultra Energon]]. {{storylink|Stormbringer (Legends)|Stormbringer}}<br /> <br /> Sometime later, Thunderwing had become more amenable. He, [[Axer (G1)|Axer]], and [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] accompanied [[Nova Prime|Nemesis Prime]] on a mission to defeat Nemesis's former self, Nova Prime. {{storylink|Prime Evil}} He led a team of Decepticons including [[Banzai-Tron (G1)|Banzai-Tron]] and Bludgeon in a raid on an Autobot [[Sun-Farming facility]]. Despite the Autobots putting up more resistance than expected, Thunderwing and his men triumphed, conquering the facility and sending the Autobots packing. {{storylink|Revelation (Legends)|Revalation}}<br /> <br /> ===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===<br /> [[File:BattleTacticsThunderwing.jpg|thumb|400px|Not so menacing when you are a [[Super deformed|super deformer]], uh?]]<br /> Thunderwing participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Uncommon character who could be recruited after collecting 120 units of Cybermetal, and 56 units of Transmetal. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> [[File:G1Thunderwing toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|You passed this up when you saw it in the stores. Then [[Simon Furman|Furman]] had to come along.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Mega Pretender, [[1989]])<br /> **''Accessories'': Pretender shell, 2 heat-seeking laser blasters, [[cyclone rifle|cyclone cannon]]<br /> <br /> :Thunderwing's inner robot transforms into a rather simple Cybertronic shuttlecraft. His [[Pretender]] shell also transforms into a starship mode of its own. The inner vehicle can be attached underneath the nose of the larger vehicle to create a combined starship mode. The inner robot is relatively generic in appearance (as with most Pretenders) while his outer Pretender shell resembles an alien warrior with Japanese [[wikipedia:Oni (folklore)|Oni]] influences. The inner robot carries a small &quot;cyclone cannon&quot; laser, while the shell is armed with two large laser blasters. All three of his guns can be mounted on his shell's vehicle mode. The large laser blasters can be mounted on the jet two different ways, either perpendicular or parallel to the wing undersides.<br /> <br /> :Unlike fellow Mega Pretenders [[Crossblades (G1)|Crossblades]] or [[Vroom (G1)|Vroom]], parts do not need to be removed and rearranged in order for Thunderwing to achieve any of his modes.<br /> <br /> :This mold was [[retool]]ed to make [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]].<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1989/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/instructions/decepticon/1989/instr_thunderwing.jpg Instruction booklet for Thunderwing at Botchthecrab.com]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Generations''===<br /> [[File:Generationstoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Matrix obsession sold separately.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2010]])<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' Deluxe class toys, Thunderwing's alternate mode is a fighter jet loosely based on an [[United States Air Force#F-22 Raptor|F-22 Raptor]], with different wings but retaining the F-22's characteristic zigzag patterns sculpted on the hull. He transforms into a robot that looks like the original Thunderwing toy's Pretender shell. The nose of the jet can detach and become a separate aerial drone, while the two missile launchers can detach from the wings and become handheld weapons or clip together into one massive gun. The middle section of the sculpted missiles on the sides of the guns are also compatible with [[C joint]] accessories. Thunderwing's colors seem to be inspired by his color scheme in the latter end of the Marvel run, considering his green arms. There is also an homage to [[Don Figueroa]]'s design in ''Stormbringer'' with Thunderwing's face and feet.<br /> <br /> :At [[BotCon 2010]], the [[Hasbro]] design team noted that they had wanted to make the aerial drone unit transform into a robot but were unable to do so (presumably for budget reasons, though they didn't go into that detail). <br /> <br /> :The toy is slightly mistransformed in packaging, with the chest section that conceals his head in jet mode in its robot mode position.<br /> <br /> :This sculpt was retooled to make ''Generations'' [[Black Shadow (Victory)#Generations|Sky Shadow]] and ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)|Adventure]]'' [[Black Shadow (Adventure)|Black Shadow]] as well as [[BotCon 2012]] [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]]. Thunderwing's [[instructions]] initially depicted him with Sky Shadow's head and chest. A [[Variant|running change]] version of the instructions depicts Thunderwing's own head, but keeps Sky Shadow's chest unchanged.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Decepticon/Thunderwing/thunderwing.htm More information on ''Generations'' Thunderwing at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[File:Thunderwing.JPG|thumb|right]]<br /> *'''Siege On Cybertron''' (2017)<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''United''===<br /> [[File:Unitedtoy-Thunderwing.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Sometimes Hasbro beats Takara to media accuracy.]]<br /> *'''Thunderwing''' (Deluxe, [[2012]]-[[January 28|01-28]])<br /> **''ID number:'' '''UN-26'''<br /> **''Accessories'': 2 missile launchers, 2 missiles, recon drone<br /> <br /> :The ''[[Transformers United|United]]'' release of Thunderwing decos his robot mode to approximate the colors of the original toy rather than his Marvel appearances. It achieves this by changing the green plastic on his arms for gray and the green plastic on his thighs and waist side armor for black plastic. The clear orange plastic is now a clear cherry red, the light green and dark green paint is a hi-gloss forest green, and the blue paint is slightly darker. His light gray plastic is now a cream color. Last but not least the purple plastic is a very light purple on this release.<br /> <br /> :The soft-plastic spikes on ''United'' Thunderwing's arms are much softer than either his ''Generations'' counterpart or [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]]'s.<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> [[File:Thunderwing01.png|thumb]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingisdeath.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Like that cannon he always carries around? Too bad, the toy ain't got it.]]<br /> [[File:Thunderwingg1catalog.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&lt;s&gt;Also available in Violent Violet.&lt;/s&gt;]]<br /> *According to the Marvel UK story [[The Big Shutdown!]] Thunderwing stands at 40 feet tall while in his Pretender shell.<br /> *Thunderwing only transformed out of his humanoid shell mode once in the entire United States run of the Marvel Comics series. Even then, it was into his non-combined shell-only jet mode, leaving no hint that he had an inner robot mode at all. The only time we see his inner robot mode is in his first appearance, the Marvel United Kingdom story, &quot;[[The Big Shutdown!]]&quot;.<br /> *Thunderwing's Marvel Comics appearances give him a four-barreled hand weapon that's completely fabricated, as it's not based on any of the toy's three guns. As with the melee weapons [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]], [[Stranglehold]], and [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] use in the comic, his four-barreled cannon likely originated from his unpublished [[character model]].<br /> *A phenomenon [[Straxus (G1)|seen]] [[Circuit Breaker (G1)|often]] in the Marvel United States material, Thunderwing suffered from color scheme shift. At first, he appears in colors that approximate his toy's layout as best as the printing process allowed. Suddenly, in his biggest, most memorable appearances in [[Dark Creation|#65]] and [[All Fall Down|#66]], much of his blacks, grays, and blues were replaced by light greens. As a side effect of this phenomenon, since covers are colored in advance of the interiors, #66's cover featured a blue-armed Thunderwing with a green-armed Thunderwing inside. <br /> *Hasbro [[stock photography|photography]] of Thunderwing shows some plastic color differences from the final product. His shell's arms are the same purple as his guns instead of gray, and his inner robot's thighs are that purple as well, instead of the final toy's black. Black paint is applied to the shell's thighs differently, and the inner robot's forearms seem to be painted light gray. Additionally, the smaller robot is incapable of toting either of the larger guns in jet mode, as the peghole isn't large enough. <br /> *Speaking of pegholes, both of Thunderwing's large guns have [[5mm post]]s with holes in the center that can function very much like [[Powerlinx]]able pegs, which means one can store [[Mini-Con]]s on them, if one so desires.<br /> *Fitting with [[Don Figueroa]]'s method of making all of his robot designs able to be easily turned into toys (until [[The Transformers (IDW)|recently]], anyways), IDW Thunderwing's Ultra Mode is telegraphed by his kibble. An image in the ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer|Stormbringer]]'' trade paperback's sketch section shows exactly how he transforms into it.<br /> *Kreon Thunderwing's appearance in the comic is extremely small, making it difficult to tell what Kre-O parts he's made out of.<br /> <br /> ===Foreign names===<br /> *''Japanese:'' '''Thunderwing''' (サンダーウイング ''Sandāuingu''; サンダーウィング&lt;ref&gt;Japanese translation of ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]''&lt;/ref&gt; ''Sandāwingu'')<br /> *''French:'' '''Aérofoudre''' (Canada, &quot;Aerolightning&quot;)<br /> *''Mandarin:'' '''Léi Yì''' (Taiwan, 雷翼, &quot;Thunder Wing&quot;), '''Léi Yì Wáng''' (China, 雷翼王, &quot;Thunder Wing King&quot;)<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Armada Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Generations]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Matrix bearers]]<br /> [[Category:Pretenders]]<br /> [[Category:Regeneration One Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Royalty]]<br /> [[Category:Scientists]]<br /> [[Category:Unicron-related characters]]<br /> [[Category:United Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Wings Universe Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{faction|decepticon}}<br /> {{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]<br /> [[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.<br /> <br /> He is sometimes known as '''Gigatron'''.<br /> <br /> {{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===<br /> The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's &quot;Ambassador of Destruction&quot; on Earth.<br /> <br /> In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; lasers and &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}<br /> <br /> ====Cartoon continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}<br /> [[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]<br /> Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]<br /> Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's &quot;Chōkon Tornado&quot; quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]<br /> Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]<br /> Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began &quot;Operation M-1&quot; to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his &quot;space jet&quot; mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|&quot;I outrank you, Ginrai!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!&quot;]]<br /> After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}<br /> <br /> For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]<br /> After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to live as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====<br /> The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave &amp; Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}<br /> <br /> =====''Victory'' cartoon=====<br /> [[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]<br /> Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}<br /> [[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]<br /> Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine &quot;[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]&quot; from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process. <br /> <br /> Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}<br /> <br /> =====Wars manga=====<br /> In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter &amp; Shūta Gō Chapter}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====Manga continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====<br /> [[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}<br /> <br /> Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}} <br /> <br /> Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's &quot;[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]&quot; to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;Cry some more!&quot;]]<br /> From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his &quot;God Punch&quot; attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}<br /> <br /> Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]<br /> When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}<br /> <br /> In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the &quot;Perfect Transform Attack&quot;, which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====<br /> [[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb]]<br /> Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of &quot;Super-God General&quot;, Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}<br /> <br /> One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}<br /> <br /> It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called &quot;Strongest of the Generals,&quot; aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful &quot;Galactic Dash&quot; attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}<br /> <br /> The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers PD Type''====<br /> [[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb]]<br /> During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 &quot;Fight! Super Ginrai!&quot;|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}<br /> <br /> Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 &quot;Oh Overlord.&quot;|Oh, Overlord}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===European toy bio continuity===<br /> [[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]<br /> A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of &quot;advanced robotic engineering&quot; whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the &quot;[[Energon figure]]s&quot; that operate his multiple functions.<br /> <br /> To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.&lt;ref&gt;Overlord's European toy bio&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> {{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}<br /> [[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]<br /> Overlord was &quot;born&quot; on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a &quot;[[Point One Percenter]]&quot;. After its &quot;first flash&quot; killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} <br /> <br /> [[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]<br /> In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]<br /> Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the &quot;[[Warriors Elite]]&quot; was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a &quot;tactical blindspot&quot; preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} <br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]<br /> While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as &quot;[[Phase Sixer]]s&quot;, called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} <br /> <br /> Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]<br /> At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|&quot;Do you expect me to talk?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral&quot;.]] <br /> During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]<br /> Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]<br /> Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|&quot;Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!&quot;]]<br /> Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]<br /> [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the phase sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories and discover the secrets for him, but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} but when a crack was cut in the cell by a stowaway [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises from within it. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating &quot;Kill me&quot;, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]<br /> After Chromedome's partner [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, Drift was able to successfully petition Chromedome for his aid. Entering the slow cell, Chromedome tapped into Overlord's memories, but in the process, wound up revealing to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied &quot;[['Til all are one]]&quot;, however, Overlord suddenly found himself panicking, thanks to a mnemonic trigger that Chromedome had installed in his brain that would trigger his fear of defeat when he heard the phrase. The shaken Overlord was then herded back into the slow cell by a revenge-hungry Fortress Maximus so that Chromedome could jettison it from the ship, only for a sword Overlord had stolen during the fight to become lodged in the cell doors. As the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison, but trapping himself in it with Overlord. As an act of mercy, Chromedome used the ship's guns to blow the cell up with Overlord and Rewind in it. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was last seen drifting in space, mostly intact but seemingly deactivated. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}<br /> <br /> Unbeknownst to anyone, the ''Lost Light'' had been duplicated into two by the accident it experienced at launch. On this ''Lost Light'', Rodimus died in the accident with the [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], and Ultra Magnus became the Captain. This ''Lost Light'' thus never experienced the sequence of events leading to Overlord's escape and rampage. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Meanwhile, the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] had Overlord on their [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} For reasons not completely clear, the Brainstorm of the duplicate ''Lost Light'', a deep cover Decepticon spy like his main counterpart, contacted the DJD and informed them of Overlord's internment aboard his ''Lost Light''. Brainstorm sabotaged the slow cell so that the DJD could detect Overlord's signature. The DJD initially agreed to not harm the ''Lost Light'' crew in order to maintain Brainstorm's cover but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ''Lost Light''. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. The DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} <br /> <br /> Much, much later, after several other adventures that culminated in the disappearance of the main ''Lost Light'' itself, members of the vanished vessel (which now included Megatron himself as captain) encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in orbit of Ofsted XVII. Initially thinking that the wreckage was their own ''Lost Light'' from the future, they boarded and investigated the ship. New crewmembers [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}. <br /> <br /> [[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was left incapacitated in the void of space {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} until the [[Galactic Council]] found and restored him for unknown reasons. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} It took them a lot of time {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} but once Megatron finally crossed the Council, they dispatched Overlord to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] to kill him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally. <br /> <br /> Aboard the ''Peaceful Tyranny'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save the captured Pet. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}<br /> <br /> [[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> <br /> When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind ''so Chromedome decked him'', the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons... <br /> <br /> ...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} once Megatron activated a panic-bubble force field he just walked off. Now Megatron had seemingly shown himself to be a coward, he didn't ''care'' about beating him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Classics''===<br /> [[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]<br /> Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.<br /> <br /> Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.<br /> <br /> Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}<br /> <br /> Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.<br /> <br /> [[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]<br /> Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions. <br /> <br /> What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe. <br /> <br /> Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}<br /> <br /> [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}<br /> <br /> ===''TransTech''===<br /> A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous &quot;Parallel Killers&quot;. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}<br /> <br /> ===Ask Vector Prime===<br /> In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was &quot;genderfluid&quot; by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Super-God Masterforce===<br /> [[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, &quot;Transtector Destroyer Cannon&quot;, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car<br /> <br /> :Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15&quot;-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; and spring-loaded &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set. <br /> <br /> :There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.<br /> <br /> :Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s &quot;Wingwolf&quot; mode or BlackZarak's &quot;Dakatsu&quot; mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])<br /> <br /> :Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic.<br /> <br /> ===Timelines===<br /> [[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]<br /> *'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)<br /> **''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}<br /> :''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Gigatron is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted &quot;disc&quot; at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.<br /> <br /> :The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys. <br /> <br /> :The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].<br /> <br /> :Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Sir Soundwave#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{ROTFBludgeonMold}}<br /> <br /> ===Kre-O===<br /> {{anchor|BotCon2014}}<br /> [[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]<br /> *'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)<br /> **''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword<br /> <br /> : &quot;Kreon Gigatron&quot; is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.<br /> <br /> : This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#Kre-O|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl]], [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG Kre-O)|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[File:TitansReturn-Overlord.jpg|thumb|right=1.7|Hidden head nipple.]]<br /> *'''Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader, 2017)<br /> **''Accessories'': [[Dreadnaught]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun<br /> <br /> : Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, Decepticon Overlord is a redeco/retool of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]] with new shoulders, chest, helmet, Titan Master figure, and jet-mode nosecone. As such, he is able to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode.<br /> <br /> : Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Parody Deformed===<br /> [[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])<br /> <br /> :A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s &quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&quot; line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a &quot;[[Transformers PD Type]]&quot; comic about himself, &quot;Oh, Overlord&quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &quot;chocolate&quot;.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> [[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])<br /> <br /> :A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver &quot;pewter&quot; in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's &quot;build-a-figure&quot;, BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.<br /> <br /> :The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Transformers Gum===<br /> [[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])<br /> :Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5&quot; tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present. <br /> <br /> :This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes. <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced &quot;Gigatron&quot;. However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really catch on. Surprisingly, Dreamwave stuck with the formula in their ''More Than Meets The Eye'' series, briefly mentioning the character as the originator of the Powermaster process, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was &quot;Overlord&quot; once more.<br /> *Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.<br /> *Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.<br /> *The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.<br /> *A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into &quot;'''[[Mega]]'''bolt&quot;, a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 &quot;'''[[Giga]]'''tron&quot; toy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:BotCon exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Classics Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon bases]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Emperors]]&lt;!--SGM manga--&gt;<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Godmasters]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Legends Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]<br /> [[Category:Point One Percenters]]<br /> [[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Timelines characters]]<br /> [[Category:TransTech Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Zone Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{faction|decepticon}}<br /> {{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]<br /> [[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.<br /> <br /> He is sometimes known as '''Gigatron'''.<br /> <br /> {{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===<br /> The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's &quot;Ambassador of Destruction&quot; on Earth.<br /> <br /> In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; lasers and &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}<br /> <br /> ====Cartoon continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}<br /> [[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]<br /> Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]<br /> Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's &quot;Chōkon Tornado&quot; quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]<br /> Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]<br /> Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began &quot;Operation M-1&quot; to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his &quot;space jet&quot; mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|&quot;I outrank you, Ginrai!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!&quot;]]<br /> After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}<br /> <br /> For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]<br /> After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to live as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====<br /> The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave &amp; Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}<br /> <br /> =====''Victory'' cartoon=====<br /> [[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]<br /> Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}<br /> [[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]<br /> Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine &quot;[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]&quot; from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process. <br /> <br /> Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}<br /> <br /> =====Wars manga=====<br /> In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter &amp; Shūta Gō Chapter}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====Manga continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====<br /> [[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}<br /> <br /> Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}} <br /> <br /> Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's &quot;[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]&quot; to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;Cry some more!&quot;]]<br /> From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his &quot;God Punch&quot; attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}<br /> <br /> Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]<br /> When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}<br /> <br /> In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the &quot;Perfect Transform Attack&quot;, which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====<br /> [[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb]]<br /> Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of &quot;Super-God General&quot;, Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}<br /> <br /> One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}<br /> <br /> It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called &quot;Strongest of the Generals,&quot; aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful &quot;Galactic Dash&quot; attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}<br /> <br /> The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers PD Type''====<br /> [[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb]]<br /> During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 &quot;Fight! Super Ginrai!&quot;|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}<br /> <br /> Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 &quot;Oh Overlord.&quot;|Oh, Overlord}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===European toy bio continuity===<br /> [[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]<br /> A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of &quot;advanced robotic engineering&quot; whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the &quot;[[Energon figure]]s&quot; that operate his multiple functions.<br /> <br /> To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.&lt;ref&gt;Overlord's European toy bio&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> {{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}<br /> [[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]<br /> Overlord was &quot;born&quot; on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a &quot;[[Point One Percenter]]&quot;. After its &quot;first flash&quot; killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} <br /> <br /> [[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]<br /> In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]<br /> Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the &quot;[[Warriors Elite]]&quot; was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a &quot;tactical blindspot&quot; preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} <br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]<br /> While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as &quot;[[Phase Sixer]]s&quot;, called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} <br /> <br /> Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]<br /> At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|&quot;Do you expect me to talk?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral&quot;.]] <br /> During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]<br /> Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]<br /> Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|&quot;Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!&quot;]]<br /> Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]<br /> [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the phase sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories and discover the secrets for him, but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} but when a crack was cut in the cell by a stowaway [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises from within it. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating &quot;Kill me&quot;, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]<br /> After Chromedome's partner [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, Drift was able to successfully petition Chromedome for his aid. Entering the slow cell, Chromedome tapped into Overlord's memories, but in the process, wound up revealing to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied &quot;[['Til all are one]]&quot;, however, Overlord suddenly found himself panicking, thanks to a mnemonic trigger that Chromedome had installed in his brain that would trigger his fear of defeat when he heard the phrase. The shaken Overlord was then herded back into the slow cell by a revenge-hungry Fortress Maximus so that Chromedome could jettison it from the ship, only for a sword Overlord had stolen during the fight to become lodged in the cell doors. As the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison, but trapping himself in it with Overlord. As an act of mercy, Chromedome used the ship's guns to blow the cell up with Overlord and Rewind in it. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was last seen drifting in space, mostly intact but seemingly deactivated. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}<br /> <br /> Unbeknownst to anyone, the ''Lost Light'' had been duplicated into two by the accident it experienced at launch. On this ''Lost Light'', Rodimus died in the accident with the [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], and Ultra Magnus became the Captain. This ''Lost Light'' thus never experienced the sequence of events leading to Overlord's escape and rampage. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Meanwhile, the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] had Overlord on their [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} For reasons not completely clear, the Brainstorm of the duplicate ''Lost Light'', a deep cover Decepticon spy like his main counterpart, contacted the DJD and informed them of Overlord's internment aboard his ''Lost Light''. Brainstorm sabotaged the slow cell so that the DJD could detect Overlord's signature. The DJD initially agreed to not harm the ''Lost Light'' crew in order to maintain Brainstorm's cover but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ''Lost Light''. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. The DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} <br /> <br /> Much, much later, after several other adventures that culminated in the disappearance of the main ''Lost Light'' itself, members of the vanished vessel (which now included Megatron himself as captain) encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in orbit of Ofsted XVII. Initially thinking that the wreckage was their own ''Lost Light'' from the future, they boarded and investigated the ship. New crewmembers [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}. <br /> <br /> [[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was left incapacitated in the void of space {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} until the [[Galactic Council]] found and restored him for unknown reasons. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} It took them a lot of time {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} but once Megatron finally crossed the Council, they dispatched Overlord to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] to kill him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally. <br /> <br /> Aboard the ''Peaceful Tyranny'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save the captured Pet. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}<br /> <br /> [[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> <br /> When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind ''so Chromedome decked him'', the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons... <br /> <br /> ...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} once Megatron activated a panic-bubble force field he just walked off. Now Megatron had seemingly shown himself to be a coward, he didn't ''care'' about beating him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Classics''===<br /> [[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]<br /> Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.<br /> <br /> Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.<br /> <br /> Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}<br /> <br /> Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.<br /> <br /> [[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]<br /> Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions. <br /> <br /> What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe. <br /> <br /> Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}<br /> <br /> [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}<br /> <br /> ===''TransTech''===<br /> A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous &quot;Parallel Killers&quot;. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}<br /> <br /> ===Ask Vector Prime===<br /> In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was &quot;genderfluid&quot; by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Super-God Masterforce===<br /> [[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, &quot;Transtector Destroyer Cannon&quot;, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car<br /> <br /> :Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15&quot;-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; and spring-loaded &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set. <br /> <br /> :There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.<br /> <br /> :Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s &quot;Wingwolf&quot; mode or BlackZarak's &quot;Dakatsu&quot; mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])<br /> <br /> :Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic.<br /> <br /> ===Timelines===<br /> [[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]<br /> *'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)<br /> **''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}<br /> :''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Gigatron is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted &quot;disc&quot; at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.<br /> <br /> :The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys. <br /> <br /> :The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].<br /> <br /> :Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Sir Soundwave#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{ROTFBludgeonMold}}<br /> <br /> ===Kre-O===<br /> {{anchor|BotCon2014}}<br /> [[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]<br /> *'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)<br /> **''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword<br /> <br /> : &quot;Kreon Gigatron&quot; is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.<br /> <br /> : This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#Kre-O|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl]], [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG Kre-O)|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[TitansReturn-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Hidden head nipple.]]<br /> *'''Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader, 2017)<br /> **''Accessories'': [[Dreadnaught]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun<br /> <br /> : Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, Decepticon Overlord is a redeco/retool of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]] with new shoulders, chest, helmet, Titan Master figure, and jet-mode nosecone. As such, he is able to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode.<br /> <br /> : Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Parody Deformed===<br /> [[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])<br /> <br /> :A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s &quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&quot; line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a &quot;[[Transformers PD Type]]&quot; comic about himself, &quot;Oh, Overlord&quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &quot;chocolate&quot;.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> [[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])<br /> <br /> :A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver &quot;pewter&quot; in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's &quot;build-a-figure&quot;, BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.<br /> <br /> :The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Transformers Gum===<br /> [[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])<br /> :Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5&quot; tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present. <br /> <br /> :This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes. <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced &quot;Gigatron&quot;. However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really catch on. Surprisingly, Dreamwave stuck with the formula in their ''More Than Meets The Eye'' series, briefly mentioning the character as the originator of the Powermaster process, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was &quot;Overlord&quot; once more.<br /> *Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.<br /> *Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.<br /> *The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.<br /> *A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into &quot;'''[[Mega]]'''bolt&quot;, a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 &quot;'''[[Giga]]'''tron&quot; toy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:BotCon exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Classics Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon bases]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Emperors]]&lt;!--SGM manga--&gt;<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Godmasters]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Legends Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]<br /> [[Category:Point One Percenters]]<br /> [[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Timelines characters]]<br /> [[Category:TransTech Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Zone Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{faction|decepticon}}<br /> {{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]<br /> [[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.<br /> <br /> He is sometimes known as '''Gigatron'''.<br /> <br /> {{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===<br /> The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's &quot;Ambassador of Destruction&quot; on Earth.<br /> <br /> In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; lasers and &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}<br /> <br /> ====Cartoon continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}<br /> [[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]<br /> Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]<br /> Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's &quot;Chōkon Tornado&quot; quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]<br /> Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]<br /> Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began &quot;Operation M-1&quot; to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his &quot;space jet&quot; mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|&quot;I outrank you, Ginrai!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!&quot;]]<br /> After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}<br /> <br /> For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]<br /> After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to live as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====<br /> The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave &amp; Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}<br /> <br /> =====''Victory'' cartoon=====<br /> [[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]<br /> Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}<br /> [[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]<br /> Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine &quot;[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]&quot; from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process. <br /> <br /> Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}<br /> <br /> =====Wars manga=====<br /> In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter &amp; Shūta Gō Chapter}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====Manga continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====<br /> [[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}<br /> <br /> Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}} <br /> <br /> Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's &quot;[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]&quot; to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;Cry some more!&quot;]]<br /> From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his &quot;God Punch&quot; attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}<br /> <br /> Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]<br /> When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}<br /> <br /> In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the &quot;Perfect Transform Attack&quot;, which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====<br /> [[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb]]<br /> Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of &quot;Super-God General&quot;, Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}<br /> <br /> One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}<br /> <br /> It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called &quot;Strongest of the Generals,&quot; aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful &quot;Galactic Dash&quot; attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}<br /> <br /> The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers PD Type''====<br /> [[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb]]<br /> During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 &quot;Fight! Super Ginrai!&quot;|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}<br /> <br /> Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 &quot;Oh Overlord.&quot;|Oh, Overlord}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===European toy bio continuity===<br /> [[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]<br /> A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of &quot;advanced robotic engineering&quot; whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the &quot;[[Energon figure]]s&quot; that operate his multiple functions.<br /> <br /> To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.&lt;ref&gt;Overlord's European toy bio&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> {{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}<br /> [[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]<br /> Overlord was &quot;born&quot; on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a &quot;[[Point One Percenter]]&quot;. After its &quot;first flash&quot; killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} <br /> <br /> [[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]<br /> In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]<br /> Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the &quot;[[Warriors Elite]]&quot; was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a &quot;tactical blindspot&quot; preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} <br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]<br /> While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as &quot;[[Phase Sixer]]s&quot;, called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} <br /> <br /> Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]<br /> At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|&quot;Do you expect me to talk?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral&quot;.]] <br /> During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]<br /> Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]<br /> Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|&quot;Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!&quot;]]<br /> Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]<br /> [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the phase sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories and discover the secrets for him, but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} but when a crack was cut in the cell by a stowaway [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises from within it. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating &quot;Kill me&quot;, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]<br /> After Chromedome's partner [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, Drift was able to successfully petition Chromedome for his aid. Entering the slow cell, Chromedome tapped into Overlord's memories, but in the process, wound up revealing to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied &quot;[['Til all are one]]&quot;, however, Overlord suddenly found himself panicking, thanks to a mnemonic trigger that Chromedome had installed in his brain that would trigger his fear of defeat when he heard the phrase. The shaken Overlord was then herded back into the slow cell by a revenge-hungry Fortress Maximus so that Chromedome could jettison it from the ship, only for a sword Overlord had stolen during the fight to become lodged in the cell doors. As the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison, but trapping himself in it with Overlord. As an act of mercy, Chromedome used the ship's guns to blow the cell up with Overlord and Rewind in it. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was last seen drifting in space, mostly intact but seemingly deactivated. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}<br /> <br /> Unbeknownst to anyone, the ''Lost Light'' had been duplicated into two by the accident it experienced at launch. On this ''Lost Light'', Rodimus died in the accident with the [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], and Ultra Magnus became the Captain. This ''Lost Light'' thus never experienced the sequence of events leading to Overlord's escape and rampage. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Meanwhile, the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] had Overlord on their [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} For reasons not completely clear, the Brainstorm of the duplicate ''Lost Light'', a deep cover Decepticon spy like his main counterpart, contacted the DJD and informed them of Overlord's internment aboard his ''Lost Light''. Brainstorm sabotaged the slow cell so that the DJD could detect Overlord's signature. The DJD initially agreed to not harm the ''Lost Light'' crew in order to maintain Brainstorm's cover but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ''Lost Light''. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. The DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} <br /> <br /> Much, much later, after several other adventures that culminated in the disappearance of the main ''Lost Light'' itself, members of the vanished vessel (which now included Megatron himself as captain) encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in orbit of Ofsted XVII. Initially thinking that the wreckage was their own ''Lost Light'' from the future, they boarded and investigated the ship. New crewmembers [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}. <br /> <br /> [[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was left incapacitated in the void of space {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} until the [[Galactic Council]] found and restored him for unknown reasons. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} It took them a lot of time {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} but once Megatron finally crossed the Council, they dispatched Overlord to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] to kill him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally. <br /> <br /> Aboard the ''Peaceful Tyranny'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save the captured Pet. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}<br /> <br /> [[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> <br /> When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind ''so Chromedome decked him'', the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons... <br /> <br /> ...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} once Megatron activated a panic-bubble force field he just walked off. Now Megatron had seemingly shown himself to be a coward, he didn't ''care'' about beating him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Classics''===<br /> [[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]<br /> Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.<br /> <br /> Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.<br /> <br /> Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}<br /> <br /> Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.<br /> <br /> [[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]<br /> Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions. <br /> <br /> What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe. <br /> <br /> Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}<br /> <br /> [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}<br /> <br /> ===''TransTech''===<br /> A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous &quot;Parallel Killers&quot;. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}<br /> <br /> ===Ask Vector Prime===<br /> In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was &quot;genderfluid&quot; by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Super-God Masterforce===<br /> [[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, &quot;Transtector Destroyer Cannon&quot;, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car<br /> <br /> :Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15&quot;-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; and spring-loaded &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set. <br /> <br /> :There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.<br /> <br /> :Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s &quot;Wingwolf&quot; mode or BlackZarak's &quot;Dakatsu&quot; mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])<br /> <br /> :Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic.<br /> <br /> ===Timelines===<br /> [[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]<br /> *'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)<br /> **''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}<br /> :''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Gigatron is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted &quot;disc&quot; at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.<br /> <br /> :The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys. <br /> <br /> :The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].<br /> <br /> :Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Sir Soundwave#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{ROTFBludgeonMold}}<br /> <br /> ===Kre-O===<br /> {{anchor|BotCon2014}}<br /> [[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]<br /> *'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)<br /> **''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword<br /> <br /> : &quot;Kreon Gigatron&quot; is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.<br /> <br /> : This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#Kre-O|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl]], [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG Kre-O)|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generations===<br /> *'''Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader, 2017)<br /> **''Accessories'': [[Dreadnaught]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun<br /> <br /> : Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, Decepticon Overlord is a redeco/retool of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]] with new shoulders, chest, helmet, Titan Master figure, and jet-mode nosecone. As such, he is able to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode.<br /> <br /> : Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Parody Deformed===<br /> [[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])<br /> <br /> :A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s &quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&quot; line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a &quot;[[Transformers PD Type]]&quot; comic about himself, &quot;Oh, Overlord&quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &quot;chocolate&quot;.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> [[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])<br /> <br /> :A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver &quot;pewter&quot; in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's &quot;build-a-figure&quot;, BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.<br /> <br /> :The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Transformers Gum===<br /> [[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])<br /> :Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5&quot; tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present. <br /> <br /> :This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes. <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced &quot;Gigatron&quot;. However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really catch on. Surprisingly, Dreamwave stuck with the formula in their ''More Than Meets The Eye'' series, briefly mentioning the character as the originator of the Powermaster process, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was &quot;Overlord&quot; once more.<br /> *Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.<br /> *Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.<br /> *The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.<br /> *A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into &quot;'''[[Mega]]'''bolt&quot;, a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 &quot;'''[[Giga]]'''tron&quot; toy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:BotCon exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Classics Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon bases]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Emperors]]&lt;!--SGM manga--&gt;<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Godmasters]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Legends Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]<br /> [[Category:Point One Percenters]]<br /> [[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Timelines characters]]<br /> [[Category:TransTech Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Zone Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{faction|decepticon}}<br /> {{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]<br /> [[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.<br /> <br /> He is sometimes known as '''Gigatron'''.<br /> <br /> {{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===<br /> The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's &quot;Ambassador of Destruction&quot; on Earth.<br /> <br /> In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; lasers and &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}<br /> <br /> ====Cartoon continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}<br /> [[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]<br /> Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]<br /> Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's &quot;Chōkon Tornado&quot; quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]<br /> Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]<br /> Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began &quot;Operation M-1&quot; to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his &quot;space jet&quot; mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|&quot;I outrank you, Ginrai!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!&quot;]]<br /> After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}<br /> <br /> For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]<br /> After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to live as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====<br /> The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave &amp; Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}<br /> <br /> =====''Victory'' cartoon=====<br /> [[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]<br /> Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}<br /> [[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]<br /> Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine &quot;[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]&quot; from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process. <br /> <br /> Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}<br /> <br /> =====Wars manga=====<br /> In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter &amp; Shūta Gō Chapter}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====Manga continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====<br /> [[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}<br /> <br /> Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}} <br /> <br /> Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's &quot;[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]&quot; to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;Cry some more!&quot;]]<br /> From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his &quot;God Punch&quot; attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}<br /> <br /> Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]<br /> When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}<br /> <br /> In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the &quot;Perfect Transform Attack&quot;, which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====<br /> [[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb]]<br /> Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of &quot;Super-God General&quot;, Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}<br /> <br /> One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}<br /> <br /> It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called &quot;Strongest of the Generals,&quot; aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful &quot;Galactic Dash&quot; attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}<br /> <br /> The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers PD Type''====<br /> [[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb]]<br /> During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 &quot;Fight! Super Ginrai!&quot;|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}<br /> <br /> Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 &quot;Oh Overlord.&quot;|Oh, Overlord}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===European toy bio continuity===<br /> [[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]<br /> A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of &quot;advanced robotic engineering&quot; whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the &quot;[[Energon figure]]s&quot; that operate his multiple functions.<br /> <br /> To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.&lt;ref&gt;Overlord's European toy bio&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> {{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}<br /> [[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]<br /> Overlord was &quot;born&quot; on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a &quot;[[Point One Percenter]]&quot;. After its &quot;first flash&quot; killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} <br /> <br /> [[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]<br /> In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]<br /> Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the &quot;[[Warriors Elite]]&quot; was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a &quot;tactical blindspot&quot; preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} <br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]<br /> While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as &quot;[[Phase Sixer]]s&quot;, called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} <br /> <br /> Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]<br /> At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|&quot;Do you expect me to talk?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral&quot;.]] <br /> During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]<br /> Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]<br /> Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|&quot;Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!&quot;]]<br /> Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]<br /> [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the phase sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories and discover the secrets for him, but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} but when a crack was cut in the cell by a stowaway [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises from within it. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating &quot;Kill me&quot;, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]<br /> After Chromedome's partner [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, Drift was able to successfully petition Chromedome for his aid. Entering the slow cell, Chromedome tapped into Overlord's memories, but in the process, wound up revealing to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied &quot;[['Til all are one]]&quot;, however, Overlord suddenly found himself panicking, thanks to a mnemonic trigger that Chromedome had installed in his brain that would trigger his fear of defeat when he heard the phrase. The shaken Overlord was then herded back into the slow cell by a revenge-hungry Fortress Maximus so that Chromedome could jettison it from the ship, only for a sword Overlord had stolen during the fight to become lodged in the cell doors. As the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison, but trapping himself in it with Overlord. As an act of mercy, Chromedome used the ship's guns to blow the cell up with Overlord and Rewind in it. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was last seen drifting in space, mostly intact but seemingly deactivated. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}<br /> <br /> Unbeknownst to anyone, the ''Lost Light'' had been duplicated into two by the accident it experienced at launch. On this ''Lost Light'', Rodimus died in the accident with the [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], and Ultra Magnus became the Captain. This ''Lost Light'' thus never experienced the sequence of events leading to Overlord's escape and rampage. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Meanwhile, the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] had Overlord on their [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} For reasons not completely clear, the Brainstorm of the duplicate ''Lost Light'', a deep cover Decepticon spy like his main counterpart, contacted the DJD and informed them of Overlord's internment aboard his ''Lost Light''. Brainstorm sabotaged the slow cell so that the DJD could detect Overlord's signature. The DJD initially agreed to not harm the ''Lost Light'' crew in order to maintain Brainstorm's cover but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ''Lost Light''. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. The DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} <br /> <br /> Much, much later, after several other adventures that culminated in the disappearance of the main ''Lost Light'' itself, members of the vanished vessel (which now included Megatron himself as captain) encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in orbit of Ofsted XVII. Initially thinking that the wreckage was their own ''Lost Light'' from the future, they boarded and investigated the ship. New crewmembers [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}. <br /> <br /> [[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was left incapacitated in the void of space {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} until the [[Galactic Council]] found and restored him for unknown reasons. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} It took them a lot of time {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} but once Megatron finally crossed the Council, they dispatched Overlord to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] to kill him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally. <br /> <br /> Aboard the ''Peaceful Tyranny'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save the captured Pet. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}<br /> <br /> [[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> <br /> When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind ''so Chromedome decked him'', the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons... <br /> <br /> ...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} once Megatron activated a panic-bubble force field he just walked off. Now Megatron had seemingly shown himself to be a coward, he didn't ''care'' about beating him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Classics''===<br /> [[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]<br /> Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.<br /> <br /> Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.<br /> <br /> Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}<br /> <br /> Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.<br /> <br /> [[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]<br /> Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions. <br /> <br /> What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe. <br /> <br /> Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}<br /> <br /> [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}<br /> <br /> ===''TransTech''===<br /> A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous &quot;Parallel Killers&quot;. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}<br /> <br /> ===Ask Vector Prime===<br /> In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was &quot;genderfluid&quot; by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Super-God Masterforce===<br /> [[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, &quot;Transtector Destroyer Cannon&quot;, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car<br /> <br /> :Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15&quot;-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; and spring-loaded &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set. <br /> <br /> :There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.<br /> <br /> :Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s &quot;Wingwolf&quot; mode or BlackZarak's &quot;Dakatsu&quot; mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])<br /> <br /> :Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic.<br /> <br /> ===Timelines===<br /> [[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]<br /> *'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)<br /> **''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}<br /> :''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Gigatron is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted &quot;disc&quot; at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.<br /> <br /> :The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys. <br /> <br /> :The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].<br /> <br /> :Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Sir Soundwave#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{ROTFBludgeonMold}}<br /> <br /> ===Kre-O===<br /> {{anchor|BotCon2014}}<br /> [[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]<br /> *'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)<br /> **''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword<br /> <br /> : &quot;Kreon Gigatron&quot; is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.<br /> <br /> : This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#Kre-O|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl]], [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG Kre-O)|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[TitansReturn-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Hidden head nipple.]]<br /> *'''Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader, 2017)<br /> **''Accessories'': [[Dreadnaught]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun<br /> <br /> : Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, Decepticon Overlord is a redeco/retool of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]] with new shoulders, chest, helmet, Titan Master figure, and jet-mode nosecone. As such, he is able to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode.<br /> <br /> : Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Parody Deformed===<br /> [[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])<br /> <br /> :A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s &quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&quot; line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a &quot;[[Transformers PD Type]]&quot; comic about himself, &quot;Oh, Overlord&quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &quot;chocolate&quot;.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> [[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])<br /> <br /> :A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver &quot;pewter&quot; in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's &quot;build-a-figure&quot;, BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.<br /> <br /> :The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Transformers Gum===<br /> [[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])<br /> :Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5&quot; tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present. <br /> <br /> :This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes. <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced &quot;Gigatron&quot;. However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really catch on. Surprisingly, Dreamwave stuck with the formula in their ''More Than Meets The Eye'' series, briefly mentioning the character as the originator of the Powermaster process, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was &quot;Overlord&quot; once more.<br /> *Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.<br /> *Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.<br /> *The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.<br /> *A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into &quot;'''[[Mega]]'''bolt&quot;, a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 &quot;'''[[Giga]]'''tron&quot; toy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:BotCon exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Classics Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon bases]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Emperors]]&lt;!--SGM manga--&gt;<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Godmasters]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Legends Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]<br /> [[Category:Point One Percenters]]<br /> [[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Timelines characters]]<br /> [[Category:TransTech Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Zone Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: Leader class Overlord official image</p> <hr /> <div>Leader class Overlord official image</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{faction|decepticon}}<br /> {{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]<br /> [[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.<br /> <br /> He is sometimes known as '''Gigatron'''.<br /> <br /> {{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===<br /> The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's &quot;Ambassador of Destruction&quot; on Earth.<br /> <br /> In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; lasers and &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}<br /> <br /> ====Cartoon continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}<br /> [[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]<br /> Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]<br /> Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's &quot;Chōkon Tornado&quot; quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]<br /> Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]<br /> Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began &quot;Operation M-1&quot; to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his &quot;space jet&quot; mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|&quot;I outrank you, Ginrai!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!&quot;]]<br /> After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}<br /> <br /> For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]<br /> After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to live as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====<br /> The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave &amp; Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}<br /> <br /> =====''Victory'' cartoon=====<br /> [[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]<br /> Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}<br /> [[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]<br /> Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine &quot;[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]&quot; from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process. <br /> <br /> Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}<br /> <br /> =====Wars manga=====<br /> In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter &amp; Shūta Gō Chapter}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====Manga continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====<br /> [[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}<br /> <br /> Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}} <br /> <br /> Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's &quot;[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]&quot; to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;Cry some more!&quot;]]<br /> From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his &quot;God Punch&quot; attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}<br /> <br /> Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]<br /> When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}<br /> <br /> In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the &quot;Perfect Transform Attack&quot;, which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====<br /> [[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb]]<br /> Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of &quot;Super-God General&quot;, Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}<br /> <br /> One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}<br /> <br /> It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called &quot;Strongest of the Generals,&quot; aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful &quot;Galactic Dash&quot; attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}<br /> <br /> The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers PD Type''====<br /> [[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb]]<br /> During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 &quot;Fight! Super Ginrai!&quot;|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}<br /> <br /> Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 &quot;Oh Overlord.&quot;|Oh, Overlord}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===European toy bio continuity===<br /> [[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]<br /> A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of &quot;advanced robotic engineering&quot; whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the &quot;[[Energon figure]]s&quot; that operate his multiple functions.<br /> <br /> To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.&lt;ref&gt;Overlord's European toy bio&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> {{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}<br /> [[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]<br /> Overlord was &quot;born&quot; on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a &quot;[[Point One Percenter]]&quot;. After its &quot;first flash&quot; killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} <br /> <br /> [[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]<br /> In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]<br /> Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the &quot;[[Warriors Elite]]&quot; was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a &quot;tactical blindspot&quot; preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} <br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]<br /> While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as &quot;[[Phase Sixer]]s&quot;, called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} <br /> <br /> Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]<br /> At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|&quot;Do you expect me to talk?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral&quot;.]] <br /> During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]<br /> Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]<br /> Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|&quot;Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!&quot;]]<br /> Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]<br /> [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the phase sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories and discover the secrets for him, but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} but when a crack was cut in the cell by a stowaway [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises from within it. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating &quot;Kill me&quot;, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]<br /> After Chromedome's partner [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, Drift was able to successfully petition Chromedome for his aid. Entering the slow cell, Chromedome tapped into Overlord's memories, but in the process, wound up revealing to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied &quot;[['Til all are one]]&quot;, however, Overlord suddenly found himself panicking, thanks to a mnemonic trigger that Chromedome had installed in his brain that would trigger his fear of defeat when he heard the phrase. The shaken Overlord was then herded back into the slow cell by a revenge-hungry Fortress Maximus so that Chromedome could jettison it from the ship, only for a sword Overlord had stolen during the fight to become lodged in the cell doors. As the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison, but trapping himself in it with Overlord. As an act of mercy, Chromedome used the ship's guns to blow the cell up with Overlord and Rewind in it. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was last seen drifting in space, mostly intact but seemingly deactivated. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}<br /> <br /> Unbeknownst to anyone, the ''Lost Light'' had been duplicated into two by the accident it experienced at launch. On this ''Lost Light'', Rodimus died in the accident with the [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], and Ultra Magnus became the Captain. This ''Lost Light'' thus never experienced the sequence of events leading to Overlord's escape and rampage. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Meanwhile, the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] had Overlord on their [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} For reasons not completely clear, the Brainstorm of the duplicate ''Lost Light'', a deep cover Decepticon spy like his main counterpart, contacted the DJD and informed them of Overlord's internment aboard his ''Lost Light''. Brainstorm sabotaged the slow cell so that the DJD could detect Overlord's signature. The DJD initially agreed to not harm the ''Lost Light'' crew in order to maintain Brainstorm's cover but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ''Lost Light''. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. The DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} <br /> <br /> Much, much later, after several other adventures that culminated in the disappearance of the main ''Lost Light'' itself, members of the vanished vessel (which now included Megatron himself as captain) encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in orbit of Ofsted XVII. Initially thinking that the wreckage was their own ''Lost Light'' from the future, they boarded and investigated the ship. New crewmembers [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}. <br /> <br /> [[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was left incapacitated in the void of space {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} until the [[Galactic Council]] found and restored him for unknown reasons. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} It took them a lot of time {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} but once Megatron finally crossed the Council, they dispatched Overlord to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] to kill him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally. <br /> <br /> Aboard the ''Peaceful Tyranny'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save the captured Pet. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}<br /> <br /> [[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> <br /> When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind ''so Chromedome decked him'', the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons... <br /> <br /> ...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} once Megatron activated a panic-bubble force field he just walked off. Now Megatron had seemingly shown himself to be a coward, he didn't ''care'' about beating him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Classics''===<br /> [[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]<br /> Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.<br /> <br /> Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.<br /> <br /> Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}<br /> <br /> Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.<br /> <br /> [[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]<br /> Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions. <br /> <br /> What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe. <br /> <br /> Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}<br /> <br /> [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}<br /> <br /> ===''TransTech''===<br /> A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous &quot;Parallel Killers&quot;. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}<br /> <br /> ===Ask Vector Prime===<br /> In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was &quot;genderfluid&quot; by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Super-God Masterforce===<br /> [[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, &quot;Transtector Destroyer Cannon&quot;, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car<br /> <br /> :Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15&quot;-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; and spring-loaded &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set. <br /> <br /> :There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.<br /> <br /> :Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s &quot;Wingwolf&quot; mode or BlackZarak's &quot;Dakatsu&quot; mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])<br /> <br /> :Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic.<br /> <br /> ===Timelines===<br /> [[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]<br /> *'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)<br /> **''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}<br /> :''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Gigatron is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted &quot;disc&quot; at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.<br /> <br /> :The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys. <br /> <br /> :The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].<br /> <br /> :Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Sir Soundwave#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{ROTFBludgeonMold}}<br /> <br /> ===Kre-O===<br /> {{anchor|BotCon2014}}<br /> [[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]<br /> *'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)<br /> **''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword<br /> <br /> : &quot;Kreon Gigatron&quot; is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.<br /> <br /> : This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#Kre-O|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl]], [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG Kre-O)|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generations===<br /> *'''Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader, 2017)<br /> **''Accessories'': [[Dreadnaught]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun<br /> <br /> : Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, Decepticon Overlord is a redeco/retool of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]] with new shoulders, chest, helmet, Titan Master figure, and jet-mode nosecone. As such, he is able to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode.<br /> <br /> : Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Parody Deformed===<br /> [[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])<br /> <br /> :A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s &quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&quot; line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a &quot;[[Transformers PD Type]]&quot; comic about himself, &quot;Oh, Overlord&quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &quot;chocolate&quot;.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> [[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])<br /> <br /> :A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver &quot;pewter&quot; in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's &quot;build-a-figure&quot;, BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.<br /> <br /> :The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Transformers Gum===<br /> [[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])<br /> :Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5&quot; tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present. <br /> <br /> :This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes. <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced &quot;Gigatron&quot;. However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really catch on. Surprisingly, Dreamwave stuck with the formula in their ''More Than Meets The Eye'' series, briefly mentioning the character as the originator of the Powermaster process, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was &quot;Overlord&quot; once more.<br /> *Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.<br /> *Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.<br /> *The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.<br /> *A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into &quot;'''[[Mega]]'''bolt&quot;, a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 &quot;'''[[Giga]]'''tron&quot; toy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:BotCon exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Classics Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon bases]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Emperors]]&lt;!--SGM manga--&gt;<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Godmasters]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Legends Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]<br /> [[Category:Point One Percenters]]<br /> [[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Timelines characters]]<br /> [[Category:TransTech Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Zone Decepticons]]</div>

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<p>Manodede: /* Generations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{faction|decepticon}}<br /> {{Disambigm|Overlord (disambiguation)|Gigatron (disambiguation)}}<br /> {{featured}}<br /> :''Overlord is a [[Decepticon]] [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Check out these killer abs!]]<br /> [[Autobot]]s quake in fear when '''Overlord''' (オーバーロード ''Ōbārōdo'') thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest [[Decepticon]] weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, a tank and a jet, which combine together to form his colossal [[robot mode]], a heavily-armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.<br /> <br /> He is sometimes known as '''Gigatron'''.<br /> <br /> {{note|Exactly who—and even ''what''—Overlord is varies greatly from continuity to continuity, to the point that it could conceivably be argued whether or not the different incarnations represent different characters. See individual sections below for details.}}<br /> <br /> ==Fiction==<br /> ===Japanese Generation 1 continuity===<br /> The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, [[Devil Z]], who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]] and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife [[Giga]] and [[Mega]], and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's &quot;Ambassador of Destruction&quot; on Earth.<br /> <br /> In this continuity, each of Overlord's two components are piloted by Giga and Mega, and are hence known as the '''Gigatank''' and the '''Megajet'''. As deadly as his &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; lasers and &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]], he is capable of manipulating [[Chōkon Power]], and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.<br /> <br /> ====Ask Vector Prime====<br /> In some versions of the history of the [[OG World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as [[Gigatron (G1)|Gigatron]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24}}<br /> <br /> ====Cartoon continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)|[[Rik Thomas]] (English, Omni Productions dub)}}<br /> [[File:Overlord r.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.]]<br /> Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the [[Autobot]]s. The couple had [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] lure Autobot commander [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} taking control of a [[Weather Observatory Moon Base|weather-monitoring base]] on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] in order to rendezvous with the approaching [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed [[Godbomber]] drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship [[Grand Maximus]] arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord v.jpg|205px|thumb|I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.]]<br /> Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's &quot;Chōkon Tornado&quot; quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot [[Headmaster Junior]]s discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord b.jpg|left|205px|thumb|Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?]]<br /> Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, [[Clouder]], sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|Appearance!! The Final Godmaster}} Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to [[robot mode]] and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacon]] force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord spacejet.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!]]<br /> Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began &quot;Operation M-1&quot; to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through [[New York City|New York]], Overlord landed in the heart of [[Paris]], decimating military resistance and destroying the [[Arc de Triomphe]]. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]], [[Phoenix (Masterforce)|Phoenix]] and [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. Overlord transformed to his &quot;space jet&quot; mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|&quot;I outrank you, Ginrai!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!&quot;]]<br /> After a battle with [[Lightfoot (Masterforce)|Lightfoot]] in southern Europe, {{storylink|God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?}} Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior [[Shūta Gō]], and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior [[Cancer (Masterforce)|Cancer]] turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}<br /> <br /> For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned [[Wilder (Masterforce)|Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn (Masterforce)|Bullhorn]] in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the [[Grand Canyon]], Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} <br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord ginrairescue.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.]]<br /> After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his emperor and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of the emperor's wrath. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's [[Devil Power]]. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to live as a true super-robot lifeform. As their [[Master-Brace]]s vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Transformers Legends'' comic=====<br /> The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in [[2021]], Overlord led an attack on the [[transtector]] factory in [[G Nebula 89]], forcing [[Grand Maximus|Grand]] to send the former [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster Junior]]s to the [[Legends Universe]] for their safety. {{storylink|LG24 Shockwave &amp; Cancer Prologue}} During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a [[Getmaster]]-powered [[Brainstorm (G1)|Brainstorm]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 39|Bonus Edition Vol. 39}}<br /> <br /> =====''Victory'' cartoon=====<br /> [[File:Decepticons in the g nebula.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Those car washes get more dangerous every year.]]<br /> Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. {{storylink|Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus's toy bio}} Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' cartoon=====<br /> {{voiceactor|[[Keiichi Noda]] (Japanese)}}<br /> [[File:OverlordZone1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Robots should not wear [[Transformer clothing#Capes|capes]].]]<br /> Years later, when the supernatural creature known as [[Violen Jiger]] seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine &quot;[[Nine Great Demon Generals|Demon Generals]]&quot; from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violen Jiger's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet [[Feminia]] to wreak havoc along with [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]] and [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]]. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (Victory)|Victory Saber]] in the process. <br /> <br /> Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] in an attack on the planet of [[Micro|Zone]], gleefully blasting [[Micromaster]]s and using his trident to slice into [[Zone Base]] to retrieve a sample of [[Energon Z]] for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot [[Powered Master]] [[Dai Atlas (Zone)|Dai Atlas]]. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}<br /> <br /> =====Wars manga=====<br /> In the aftermath of Violen Jiger's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. {{storylink|Train Wars: Goshooter &amp; Shūta Gō Chapter}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====Manga continuity====<br /> =====''Super-God Masterforce'' manga=====<br /> [[File:Overlord manga.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!&quot;]]<br /> <br /> After a failed assault on planet [[Athenia]] and the defeat of [[Scramble 7]], the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}<br /> <br /> Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]]. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}} <br /> <br /> Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and [[Cab (human)|Cab]] prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, [[Minerva (Masterforce human)|Minerva]], came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's &quot;[[Master Blade (Masterforce)|Master Blade]]&quot; to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord aolaser.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|&quot;Cry some more!&quot;]]<br /> From the top of [[Qomolangma]], Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the [[A.O. Laser]]. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his &quot;God Punch&quot; attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}<br /> <br /> Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the [[VX Bomb]] to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. {{storylink|Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord vs blackzarak.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Don't ever speak about Broly.]]<br /> When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. {{storylink|Great Turn-Around! Autobots}}<br /> <br /> In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the &quot;Perfect Transform Attack&quot;, which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> =====''Zone'' manga and story pages=====<br /> [[File:Overlord zone manga.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb]]<br /> Years after the end of the [[Masterforce War]], Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violen Jiger to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of &quot;Super-God General&quot;, Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}<br /> <br /> One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Transformers: Zone}}<br /> <br /> It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called &quot;Strongest of the Generals,&quot; aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he ''did'' lay out Overlord with his powerful &quot;Galactic Dash&quot; attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}<br /> <br /> The Generals later schooled [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and the [[Metrosquad]] in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the [[Powered Master]]s. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 7}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ====''Transformers PD Type''====<br /> [[File:Pdtype overlord.jpg|left|thumb]]<br /> During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##7 &quot;Fight! Super Ginrai!&quot;|Fight! Super Ginrai!!}}<br /> <br /> Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 &quot;Oh Overlord.&quot;|Oh, Overlord}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===European toy bio continuity===<br /> [[File:Overlord vs motorvators.jpg|thumb|Collect all time-displaced toys.]]<br /> A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of &quot;advanced robotic engineering&quot; whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the &quot;[[Energon figure]]s&quot; that operate his multiple functions.<br /> <br /> To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the [[Motorvator]]s, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.&lt;ref&gt;Overlord's European toy bio&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;Story blurb on Overlord and the Motorvators' packaging.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===IDW Generation 1 continuity===<br /> {{bigquote|A good strategist is half psychologist and half '''sadist'''. And I was the '''best'''.|Overlord|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #3]]}}<br /> [[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|They're so cute when they're small.]]<br /> Overlord was &quot;born&quot; on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[Moonbase Two|second moon]] 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a &quot;[[Point One Percenter]]&quot;. After its &quot;first flash&quot; killed the [[Frak|hapless]] [[Rushcut|miners]] who discovered it, his [[spark]] was taken by the [[Functionist Council]]'s authenticator [[Three-of-Twelve]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} <br /> <br /> [[File:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|upright=1.67|thumb|Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be ''awesome'' if [[Nick Roche|someone]] built a whole character round that?]]<br /> In the days before the [[Great War (G1)|Cybertronian civil war]], Overlord was both an avid spectator of [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]'s gladiatorial matches {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the ''means'' themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike [[Scorponok (G1)|many]] [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|other]] powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord UnuntriumInfusion RemembranceDay.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|Weapon O.]]<br /> Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of [[ununtrium]] to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the &quot;[[Warriors Elite]]&quot; was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, [[Rossum]]. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an [[Achilles virus]] that caused a &quot;tactical blindspot&quot; preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} When [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] was captured by the Autobots and brought to the [[Institute|New Institute]] for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist [[Trepan]], and studied the basics of [[mnemosurgery]] from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} Overlord later participated in the [[Battle for Hell's Point]] alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} <br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers2-teleconference.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|I am not a number!]]<br /> While embroiled in battle on [[Caldoon 4]], Overlord was called to a teleconference with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], who announced the finalization of his [[infiltration protocol]], and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite [[Sixshot]] and [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Black Shadow]] in being reclassified as &quot;[[Phase Sixer]]s&quot;, called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—[[Kup (G1)|Kup]]—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} <br /> <br /> Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of [[Gorelock]]'s Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to [[Spensifax B]]. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer [[Vivisector]], set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. {{storylink|The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers|Gorelock's prisoner clemency request}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-Overlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|We peed a little.]]<br /> At the height of the [[Surge (event)|cross-galactic Decepticon uprising]], Overlord arrived at [[Garrus-9]] in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader [[Skyquake (G1)|Skyquake]] when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the [[Aequitas]] computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. {{storylink|Interiors}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Fort-Max-Interiors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|&quot;Do you expect me to talk?&quot;&lt;br&gt;&quot;No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral&quot;.]] <br /> During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; [[Fearswoop (G1)|Fearswoop]] was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but [[Wingblazer]] and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers1-BoreholeKickoff.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Better than television!]]<br /> Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] battle the Decepticon [[Borehole]] for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}} where he was offered the customary choice; {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last stand of the Wreckers #4}} he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the [[Wrecker]]s arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 2|Last Stand of the Wreckers #2}} Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by [[Rotorstorm (G1)|Rotorstorm]] about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}}<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandofWreckers4- OverlordSpringerReady.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!]]<br /> Regrouping with help from the Decepticon [[Snare]], who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where [[Guzzle (G1)|Guzzle]] was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by [[Ironfist (G1)|Ironfist]], but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.<br /> <br /> [[File:LastStandoftheWreckers5-brittlebones.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|&quot;Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!&quot;]]<br /> Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was ''dead''. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5|Last Stand of the Wreckers #5}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord-Lost-Light-Interiors.jpg|thumb|First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.]]<br /> [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. [[Prowl (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Prowl]], intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the phase sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a [[whiteout vacuum]]. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the [[Chaos (IDW)|Chaos event]], Prowl petitioned [[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]] to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories and discover the secrets for him, but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the ''[[Lost Light]]'', Prowl convinced [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} At launch, he had the [[Duobot]]s secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a [[slow cell]] in which time passed much more slowly, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} but when a crack was cut in the cell by a stowaway [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeater]], paranoid security director [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] began hearing noises from within it. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from [[Rung (G1)|Rung]], that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating &quot;Kill me&quot;, {{storylink|How Ratchet Got His Hands Back}} Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, {{storylink|Interiors}} but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. {{storylink|Shadowplay (Conclusion): An Intimate Beheading|An Intimate Beheading}}<br /> <br /> [[File:Overlord bigfight UnderColdBlueStars.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|So Overlord walks into a [[Swerve's|bar]]. Everybody dies. Painfully.]]<br /> After Chromedome's partner [[Rewind (G1)|Rewind]] was grievously injured in battle, Drift was able to successfully petition Chromedome for his aid. Entering the slow cell, Chromedome tapped into Overlord's memories, but in the process, wound up revealing to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, {{storylink|Remembrance Day}} then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping [[Pipes (G1)|Pipes]] to death, then attacking [[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]] in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] through the [[spark]], then turned on [[Hot Rod/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied &quot;[['Til all are one]]&quot;, however, Overlord suddenly found himself panicking, thanks to a mnemonic trigger that Chromedome had installed in his brain that would trigger his fear of defeat when he heard the phrase. The shaken Overlord was then herded back into the slow cell by a revenge-hungry Fortress Maximus so that Chromedome could jettison it from the ship, only for a sword Overlord had stolen during the fight to become lodged in the cell doors. As the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison, but trapping himself in it with Overlord. As an act of mercy, Chromedome used the ship's guns to blow the cell up with Overlord and Rewind in it. {{storylink|Under Cold Blue Stars}} Overlord was last seen drifting in space, mostly intact but seemingly deactivated. {{storylink|The Gloaming}}<br /> <br /> Unbeknownst to anyone, the ''Lost Light'' had been duplicated into two by the accident it experienced at launch. On this ''Lost Light'', Rodimus died in the accident with the [[sparkeater (creature)|sparkeater]], and Ultra Magnus became the Captain. This ''Lost Light'' thus never experienced the sequence of events leading to Overlord's escape and rampage. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} Meanwhile, the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] had Overlord on their [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}} For reasons not completely clear, the Brainstorm of the duplicate ''Lost Light'', a deep cover Decepticon spy like his main counterpart, contacted the DJD and informed them of Overlord's internment aboard his ''Lost Light''. Brainstorm sabotaged the slow cell so that the DJD could detect Overlord's signature. The DJD initially agreed to not harm the ''Lost Light'' crew in order to maintain Brainstorm's cover but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ''Lost Light''. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the ''Lost Light'' {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}} {{storylink|The Permanent Revolution}} before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. The DJD left the shattered wreckage of the ''Lost Light'' behind in orbit of [[Ofsted XVII]]. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} <br /> <br /> Much, much later, after several other adventures that culminated in the disappearance of the main ''Lost Light'' itself, members of the vanished vessel (which now included Megatron himself as captain) encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate ''Lost Light'' in orbit of Ofsted XVII. Initially thinking that the wreckage was their own ''Lost Light'' from the future, they boarded and investigated the ship. New crewmembers [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] and [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. {{storylink|slaughterhouse}} This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked ''Lost Light'' when the main ''Lost Light'' was restored to reality. {{storylink|slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken|The Road Not Taken}}. <br /> <br /> [[File:TarnvsOverlord.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted as a Labrador.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was left incapacitated in the void of space {{storylink|No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases}} until the [[Galactic Council]] found and restored him for unknown reasons. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} It took them a lot of time {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}} but once Megatron finally crossed the Council, they dispatched Overlord to the [[Necroworld|homeworld]] of the [[Censere|Necrobot]] to kill him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}} Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally. <br /> <br /> Aboard the ''Peaceful Tyranny'', Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save the captured Pet. Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}<br /> <br /> [[File:mtmte54 KRACK.jpg|left|thumb|250px]]<br /> <br /> When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 4: At Close of Day|At Close of Day}} After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind ''so Chromedome decked him'', the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons... <br /> <br /> ...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 5: Rage, Rage|Rage, Rage}} once Megatron activated a panic-bubble force field he just walked off. Now Megatron had seemingly shown himself to be a coward, he didn't ''care'' about beating him. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 6: Do Not Go Gentle|Do Not Go Gentle}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Classics''===<br /> [[File:InvasionPrologue-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.]]<br /> Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], and forfeited his throne to [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.<br /> <br /> Gigatron crash-landed in [[Japan]], where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]], he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} Once, Gigatron searched in [[Kitakyushu]] for [[Musashi Miyamoto|Musashi]]'s sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.<br /> <br /> Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, [[Rarified Energon]]. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to [[Construction station|Ironworks]], and effortlessly battled through an army of [[Armored Robot Hunters|RUNTs]] to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. {{storylink|Overlord (Masterforce)#Timelines|BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card}} {{storylink|Invasion Prologue}}<br /> <br /> Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when [[Spinister (G1)|Spinister]] brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.<br /> <br /> [[File:Invasion-destroythem.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.]]<br /> Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of [[Sir Soundwave]], who was about to get assimilated by [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkions]]. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions. <br /> <br /> What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]], intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|alternate universe]] Cybertron, its [[Primax 207.0 Epsilon|entire dimension]] was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe. <br /> <br /> Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so [[Straxus (SG)|the Bard of Darkmount]] recited for them a hopeful poem. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}<br /> <br /> [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] took to perching on Overlord's arm. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #23|Recordicons #23}}<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===''Kre-O'' online comic===<br /> [[File:KreO-webcomic-5-Overlord.jpg|right|thumb|75px|He's using...the smolder.]]<br /> <br /> Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ''ahem'', taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. {{storylink|Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!}}<br /> <br /> ===''TransTech''===<br /> A [[Duocon]] Overlord found his way to [[Axiom Nexus]], and became one of its most infamous &quot;Parallel Killers&quot;. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15}}<br /> <br /> ===Ask Vector Prime===<br /> In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was &quot;genderfluid&quot; by organic-based gender standards. The [[Arcee (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Arcee]] of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in [[Axiom Nexus]] which [[Vector Prime]] attended. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23}}<br /> <br /> ===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===<br /> At the onset of the [[Pax Cybertronia]], Overlord held [[Decepticon leader]]ship for a brief time, {{storylink|A Brush With Infamy}} before he was overthrown by [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] {{storylink|Cultural Appropriation}} <br /> <br /> ==Games==<br /> ===''Transformers Legends''===<br /> Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], and [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]]. {{storylink|Fan Favorite}}<br /> <br /> ==Toys==<br /> ===Super-God Masterforce===<br /> [[File:G1 overlord toy.jpg|325px|thumb|Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' (Godmaster, [[1988]])<br /> **''Japanese ID number:'' '''D-307'''<br /> **''Accessories:'' Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, &quot;Transtector Destroyer Cannon&quot;, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car<br /> <br /> :Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a [[robot mode]] or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or [[Powermaster]]), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15&quot;-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled &quot;Chōkon Daemon Blast&quot; and spring-loaded &quot;Chōkon Bolt Masher&quot; weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the [[Roller (G1)|Roller]]-style car that comes with the set. <br /> <br /> :There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.<br /> <br /> :Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like [[Sixshot]]'s &quot;Wingwolf&quot; mode or BlackZarak's &quot;Dakatsu&quot; mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Destron/Overlord/overlord.htm More information on Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Generation 1===<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1991]])<br /> <br /> :Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a different shade of purple plastic.<br /> <br /> ===Timelines===<br /> [[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012Gigatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... ''kissable''... before...]]<br /> *'''Invasion''' ([[BotCon 2012]] box set)<br /> **''Accessories:'' {{w|Katana}}, {{w|Wakizashi|tanto}}<br /> :''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]'' Gigatron is a [[redeco]]/[[retool]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Voyager Class [[Bludgeon (ROTF)#Voyager|Bludgeon]], sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese {{w|Type 90 Kyū-maru|Type 90}} tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has [[Mech Alive]] [[gimmick]]s in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted &quot;disc&quot; at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.<br /> <br /> :The [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys. <br /> <br /> :The original version of this mold was [[redeco]]ed into ''[[Transformers (2010 toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Banzaitron]], and it was differently retooled to make ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Generations|Megatron]] and ''[[Transformers Cloud|Cloud]]'' [[Megatron (G1)/toys#Cloud|Megatron]].<br /> <br /> :Gigatron was released in a box set with [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]], [[Tracks (SG)#Timelines|Tracks]], [[Treadshot (SG)#Timelines|Treadshot]], [[Sir Soundwave#Timelines|Soundwave]], and [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Timelines|Metalhawk]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/BCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{ROTFBludgeonMold}}<br /> <br /> ===Kre-O===<br /> {{anchor|BotCon2014}}<br /> [[File:KreO-Toy BC14-Gigatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.]]<br /> *'''Kreon Gigatron''' (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)<br /> **''Accessories'': Katana, robot sword<br /> <br /> : &quot;Kreon Gigatron&quot; is based on the [[BotCon 2012]] [[#Timelines|Gigatron figure]], and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]] helmet.<br /> <br /> : This figure was only available as part of a [[BotCon 2014]] ''Kre-O'' six-pack, including [[Breakdown (G1)#Kre-O|Breakdown]], [[Fractyl]], [[Landshark (Kre-O)|Landshark]], [[Rattrap (Kre-O)|Rattrap]], and [[Rodimus (SG Kre-O)|''Shattered Glass'' Rodimus]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2014/Decepticon/BCKre-OGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on Gigatron at TFU.info]''<br /> {{--}}<br /> <br /> ===Generations===<br /> [[Overlord_titans_return.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|hidden head nipple.]]<br /> *'''Decepticon Overlord''' (Leader, 2017)<br /> **''Accessories'': [[Dreadnaught]] Titan Master, tank barrel/gun<br /> <br /> : Part of the fifth wave of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' Leader-class toys, Decepticon Overlord is a redeco/retool of the same line's [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]] with new shoulders, chest, helmet, Titan Master figure, and jet-mode nosecone. As such, he is able to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode.<br /> <br /> : Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.<br /> <br /> {{comingsoontoy}}<br /> <br /> ==Merchandise==<br /> ===Parody Deformed===<br /> [[File:Overlord pd model.jpg|thumb|Overlooked.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[1990]])<br /> <br /> :A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super deformed]] model kit of Overlord was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s &quot;[[Parody Deformed]]&quot; line of [[candy toy]]s. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a &quot;[[Transformers PD Type]]&quot; comic about himself, &quot;Oh, Overlord&quot;, and something that could charitably be described as &quot;chocolate&quot;.<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Super Collection Figure===<br /> [[File:HOC Gigatron.jpg|thumb|I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2001]])<br /> <br /> :A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the ''Super-God Masterforce''-centric fifth act of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron|Super Collection Figure]]'' series, available in both full colour and metallic silver &quot;pewter&quot; in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's &quot;build-a-figure&quot;, BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.<br /> <br /> :The colour version of his figure was later released in the fourth wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'', under the new name of [[Gigatron (G1)#Heroes of Cybertron|Gigatron]].<br /> <br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Decepticon/HoCGigatron/gigatron.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Destron/PewterOverlord/overlord.htm More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info]''<br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ===Transformers Gum===<br /> [[File:KabayaDX2Overlord.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.]]<br /> *'''Overlord''' ([[2013]])<br /> :Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original ''Masterforce'' Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5&quot; tall robot mode. It also includes tiny transforming removable Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present. <br /> <br /> :This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes. <br /> {{-}}<br /> <br /> ==Notes==<br /> *Overlord was a new [[character]] created for the 1988 Japanese ''Super God Masterforce'' series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Lightfoot had [[Getaway]], and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he was a dimension-hopper, which leaves the door open for him being the ''Masterforce'' character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line introduced &quot;Gigatron&quot;. However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really catch on. Surprisingly, Dreamwave stuck with the formula in their ''More Than Meets The Eye'' series, briefly mentioning the character as the originator of the Powermaster process, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' series, he was &quot;Overlord&quot; once more.<br /> *Early during pre-production for ''Masterforce'', Overlord was named '''Leviathan'''. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator [[Masumi Kaneda]]'s desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.<br /> *Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the ''Kre-O'' comics, Overlord is made from existing ''Kre-O'' parts. He uses the [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]] helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.<br /> *The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.<br /> *A proposed [[Fun Publications]] [[BotCon]] [[exclusive]] was a redeco of [[Mindwipe (ROTF)#Toys|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Mindwipe]] into &quot;'''[[Mega]]'''bolt&quot;, a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 &quot;'''[[Giga]]'''tron&quot; toy.&lt;ref&gt;[http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc14/bc14br.html BotCon 2014 attendee report]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *In [[2015]], ''[[Transformers Animated: The Complete AllSpark Almanac|The Complete AllSpark Almanac]]'' retroactively declared Overlord to be a [[Duocon]] and to possess a [[mitotic spark]].<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> *[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-images/tech-specs/Heroes-Of-Cybertron-Tech-Specs/2003-Transformers-Tech-Specs/Powermaster_Gigatron.jpg.html Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs] at TFW2005.com<br /> <br /> [[Category:Beast Wars: Uprising Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:BotCon exclusives]]<br /> [[Category:Classics Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon bases]]<br /> [[Category:Decepticon leaders]]<br /> [[Category:Dimension hoppers]]<br /> [[Category:Emperors]]&lt;!--SGM manga--&gt;<br /> [[Category:Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Godmasters]]<br /> [[Category:IDW Generation 1 Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kre-O Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Kreons]]<br /> [[Category:Legends Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Multi-component Transformers]]<br /> [[Category:Point One Percenters]]<br /> [[Category:Shattered Glass Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Super-God Masterforce Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Timelines characters]]<br /> [[Category:TransTech Decepticons]]<br /> [[Category:Zone Decepticons]]</div>

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