Liokaiser


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Liokaiser is a Decepticon combiner from the Victory portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
They call me Kibblefree!

Liokaiser (ライオカイザー Raiokaizā) is the combined form of the Breastforce, an elite combat team consisting of land and air assault vehicles who hail from the Death Zone. He is powerful, cruel, merciless, and—unlike pretty much every other combiner—intelligent to boot. This ruthless killing machine is an expert in melee combat and possesses the power of invisibility. He's fought against Star Saber, Road Caesar, Landcross, and Galaxy Shuttle, promptly beating the stuffing out of each. His emergence swung the war heavily in favour of the Decepticons until God Ginrai was reborn as Victory Leo. It's possible the only opponents he can't contend with are Victory Saber and Deathsaurus, but that won't stop him trying.

Liokaiser is (usually) composed of:

Despite their unusually high levels of coordination and ruthlessness, Liokaiser's performance may suffer if the individual minds get distracted.<ref>Depiction in the Victory anime</ref>

There are other configurations for Liokaiser in other realities. Sometimes, Deathsaurus himself forms the giant's torso. Breastforce's fifth (seventh?) Beatle Deathcobra occasionally forms an alternate left arm or shoulder cannon for Liokaiser when the moderately murderous Hellbat doesn't get to him first. And the bird-bot Ion Scythe may complement the combiner's firepower by becoming an extra blaster for him to wield.

Fiction

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Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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Victory cartoon

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Voice actor: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese){{#if: Simon Broad (English, Omni Productions dub), Mikhail Chernyak (Russian)|, Simon Broad (English, Omni Productions dub), Mikhail Chernyak (Russian)}}
"Up where the smoke is all billered and curled,
'Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweep world"

As the war between Autobots and Decepticons intensified on Earth, Deathsaurus began calling in members of the Breastforce to aid him. Although effective on their own, team leader Leozack began making preparations to unleash his team's true potential, leading an attack on Planet Micro to liberate Guyhawk Rescue! Guyhawk and calling in his more trustworthy comrade Deathcobra to replace the scheming Hellbat as part of Liokaiser. Unfortunately, Hellbat arrived bearing news of Deathcobra's death at the hands of Holi—in truth covering his own role in his fellow Decepticon's murder—and the Breastforce would perform their first combination "in some time" to battle Star Saber, who arrived in defense of Holi and his friends.

Liokaiser proved a great challenge for Star Saber, badly damaging and nearly defeating him. Star Saber was only saved by the arrival of God Ginrai, but he too proved no match for Liokaiser on his own. Working together, the injured Autobots managed to immobilize Liokaiser and deliver a flurry of powerful blows. Deciding to call it a day after that, Liokaiser separated into his components and withdrew. Unite! Liokaiser

The ease at which Liokaiser matched Star Saber in battle left a dark cloud on Jan Minakaze's mind, leading him to beg Star Saber to defeat the new Decepticon combiner when they next met. Such a chance arrived when Deathsaurus' forces attempted to steal Schaeffer Energy, and the Breastforce combined once again to battle Star Saber. Liokaiser soon found himself at an advantage, especially when Star Saber abandoned the fight to stop a tower from falling on a residential area, but he was prevented from finishing his foe when the Brainmasters intervened in their combined form, Road Caesar. Liokaiser proceeded to dominate his new opponent, but the battle gave Holi and his team time to evacuate the civilians, allowing Star Saber to rejoin the fray. The Autobot leader launched a furious assault on Liokaiser, but the fight was interrupted by Deathsaurus, who had secured the Schaeffer Energy. Liokaiser was thus forced to withdraw with his allies, but not before warning Star Saber that his presence would allow the Decepticons to plunder Earth as they wished. Battle Up of Wrath!!

"Right, where's my invisible sandwich?"

Later Hellbat came up with a plan to steal energy from Antarctica which Deathsaurus approved. When the Multiforce Autobots Wing and Mach showed up, the Breastforce decided to engage in some overkill by combining into Liokaiser. The Autobots were outclassed by Liokaiser, but the rest of the Multiforce arrived and they all combined into Landcross. Liokaiser's ability to become invisible allowed him to trounce Landcross and the Multiforce were forced to separate again. Wing and Mach used a multi-gamma string to grab Liokaiser and throw them in the Decepticon's mine shaft but he was able to cling to the mining equipment and escape. The Multiforce combined again but with no more of a plan than the first time, were set upon by the invisible Liokaiser. Star Saber was able to arrive to save Landcross's hide, but Liokaiser claimed that Star Saber had no more right to Earth than the Decepticons. Even Star Saber had trouble against Liokaiser, who unleashed a "Battle Explosion" maneuver, in which he briefly separated so the individual Breastforce could attack. They continued to fight until Liokaiser had Star Saber on the ropes, at which point Galaxy Shuttle jumped in the way of the Decepticon's attack. As Liokaiser was about to finish Star Saber, Deathsaurus stepped in to do the job himself, though Liokaiser believed he himself should have been the one to face the Autobot. He retreated when the drilling device was destroyed. Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle

Later the Decepticons set a trap for the Autobots in the desert, it was going well until Guyhawk's old friend Greatshot showed up and turned the tide. Guyhawk suggested they combine into Liokaiser, but Leozack overrode him; the other members of the Breastforce had sustained too much damage from Greatshot to do so. As such, the villains were forced to retreat. Crisis! Ambush in the Desert

"Behold the awesome weapon that the kids watching this can't buy until their own kids are in college!"

Liokaiser appeared again in an attack on an Autobot base in Asia, but it turned out to be a trap to destroy Star Saber. After damaging the V-Star, the Breastforce combined to meet Star Saber in combat. After the Autobot leader broke Liokaiser's Electromagnetic Nunchaku with his sword, Liokaiser led him into a ring of explosive statues before disappearing. Star Saber subsequently fell into a pit, where he was set on by Deathsaurus, and Liokaiser dropped a boulder on him, bragging that the Decepticons would be able to do whatever they wanted to the planet after Star Saber perished. Before he and Deathsaurus were able to destroy him, God Ginrai came to the rescue again. As Deathsaurus pounded on Ginrai, Star Saber was held by Liokaiser so he was unable to come to his comrade's aid. Star Saber broke free and stabbed Deathsaurus. Though badly injured, the Decepticon leader would have fought on, but Liokaiser convinced him to retreat when Autobot reinforcements arrived. A Deadly Battle

Liokaiser would not be used again until much later, when Leozack was pretending to be Star Saber in a mission to get the Unification plans for the Autobot leader and Victory Leo. Leozack managed to return the plans to the Breastforce, but they were confronted by Victory Leo and Star Saber, who merged into Victory Saber. The Breastforce responded by combining into Liokaiser, but the combiner was easily defeated by Victory Saber. He fled through the ruins, collapsing him behind him and almost got Victory Saber that way, but no dice. A Mystery?! The Deception of the Base Bombs

"B-but I don't want to get a "Greyscale" redeco!"

When Deathsaurus raised Atlantis, the Breastforce was sent to keep Star Saber busy. When he and Victory Leo merged, so did the Breastforce, but Liokaiser wasn't much of a match for Victory Saber. As a huge tsunami headed towards them, Liokaiser separated so the Breastforce could board the Thunder Arrow, leaving Victory Saber to face the wave alone. The Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves After Deathsaurus's Planet-Destroying Fortress was up and running again, Liokaiser attempted to stop Victory Saber, but only lasted a few seconds before being blasted back into the fortress in one shot. The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress! As the Fortress neared Earth, Liokaiser was sent out to stop Victory Saber from entering it, thought with orders not to kill the Autobot. At one point, Victory Saber separated, with only Victory Leo staying to face Liokaiser, but the combiner had trouble even with just him. After struggling with the Autobot for a time, Liokaiser managed to fling Victory Leo away, only for a burst of fire from the Autobot's guns to sent him flying into the Fortress's main cannon. Still charging, the cannon drained him of his energy, and Liokaiser's lifeless grey body was flung off into space. Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification

Zone catalog

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Revived from death by some means and lead by the reborn Dark Emperor Deathsaurus, Liokaiser joined several other powerful Decepticons in an assault on planet Zone. Attempting to steal their Energon Z, the Decepticons proved no match for the Micromasters and were driven away. Zone Project Story

Victory comic

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"Don't make me turn this combiner around!"

Frustrated at not being able to find the Breastforce, Jan Minakaze kicked a piece of junk over a rise, only to hear a noise of pain from Liokaiser, who was hiding behind it. Liokaiser announced that, as Deathsaurus was laid up with some illness, Jan and Star Saber were going to have to face him instead. Jan and Star Saber combined, but were seized by the combiner, only for his component parts to start arguing over which of them would finish the Autobots off. Distracted, Liokaiser was thus unable to prevent the pair wriggling free and ganging up on him. The Breastforce retreated hastily. Star of Friendship, Jan and Star Saber!

Liokaiser, Dinoking and Deathsaurus were finally able to bring down Star Saber in battle, but before they could finish him off, Victory Leo came to the rescue. The two Autobots combined into Victory Saber, but the Decepticons attacked anyway and were blasted by Victory Saber's Flash Victory attack, forcing another retreat. The Strongest Pair, the Combination of Victory! Deathsaurus and Liokaiser continued to plunder Earth's energy, with the Autobots seemingly powerless to stop them. Liokaiser had Braver and Laster at his mercy when Blacker arrived and the Brainmasters were able to form Road Caesar. Even Solon Kitakaze turned against his former Decepticon comrades. With power lent to them by the Victories, Victory Saber and Road Caesar were able to send the Decepticons packing. Shine, Five Stars of Victory

PDTF Comic

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Facing Victory Saber, Liokaiser was bemused by his foe's speech constantly being interrupted by Victory Leo's head. He's Here! Victory Saber!! Just as Star Saber had Deathsaurus on the ropes, the Decepticon leader brought in Liokaiser. Star Saber attempted unsuccessfully to distract the combiner with some tuna, and ended up having to hide from the two Decepticons. Don't Lose! Star Saber!!


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Find the Bright Day! Liokaiser!!

Kre-O online comic

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Liokaiser was looming in the background when Megatron introduced his new Predacon troops to the Autobots. Behemoth Combination! But They're Cute? The Predacon Unit

2005 IDW continuity

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My arm shouldn't be here!

Having taken control of Deathsaurus's rogue contingent of Decepticons, Nickel deployed Liokaiser when her forces were pinned down on the planet Frayus, and the combiner took part in the three-way skirmish between the forces of the Galactic Council and the Black Block Consortia. Journey's End

Games

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Transformers: Earth Wars

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Toys

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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Why this has not been reissued yet, we will never know.
  • Leozack (Breastforce, 1989)
  • ID number: D-329
  • Guyhawk (Breastforce, 1989)
  • ID number: D-330
  • Hellbat (Breastforce, 1989)
  • ID number: D-331
  • Jallguar (Breastforce, 1989)
  • ID number: D-332
  • Killbison (Breastforce, 1989)
  • ID number: D-333
  • Drillhorn (Breastforce, 1989)
Released in the Victory portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Liokaiser is the combined super-robot form of the six smaller Breastforce members: team leader Leozack forms the central torso and head, Guyhawk and Hellbat form the right and left arms (respectively), Jallguar forms the lower torso/hips, and Killbison and Drillhorn form the right and left legs (respectively). Unlike most combiners from the original run of Transformers, the overwhelming majority of his combiner "kibble" is cleanly integrated into the individual components, with only the Liokaiser helmet (which came with Leozack) being a separate accessory with nowhere to go in other modes. On top of that, his "Strike Missile Gun" is formed from Killbison's turret-guns and Jallguar's (non-firing) missiles.
However, the "Breast Animal" partners for each of the components are largely without anyplace to go when the team is combined; only Jallguar's Jaguarbreast can stay attached to his partner in Liokaiser form.
Four of the six components to Liokaiser were used to make the European-exclusive Rescue Force. Unless you are in need of an armless combiner whose head is tiny, you should not attempt to combine them.


  • ID number: D-335
Though Liokaiser's components were all sold as individuals, they were also available in a single Liokaiser box set. This set lacks bio cards for the individual components, having only cards for Liokaiser.
Between his status as a relatively late-run Japanese exclusive, his commanding price at release, his unique engineering, and Killbison's fragility, a complete Liokaiser is notoriously expensive; it's not uncommon to see them running for $1,000 or more.


Combiner Wars

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Cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance.
  • Liokaiser (Platinum Edition Collection Pack, November 2016)
  • Accessories: 2 pairs of Weapon/Combiner extremities (both white & dark gray), 2 Sword-rifles, 2 pairs of double-barreled guns (both white & dark gray), Ironbison's Tank cannon/gun, Drillhorn's Drill-gun, "Ion Scythe" Micron
Combiner Wars Liokaiser is composed of the Destrons, including "Dezarus"—who is a retool of Combiner Wars Sky Lynx in homage to his dragon-like monster alt-mode. His tooling changes include a new shuttle nose/dragon face finned helmet, and a new combiner mode face (underneath the upper half of Sky Reign's head, now used as a helmet) inspired by the original Liokaiser's. Leozack and Jallguar are unfortunately ejected from the team.
All four limbs include new, animation-accurate heads—Fellbat (renamed for obvious reasons) and Guyhawk were redecoed/retooled from Combiner Wars Skydive and Air Raid respectively (with two of their double-barreled guns each), whilst Ironbison (also renamed) and Drillhorn were redecoed/retooled from Combiner Wars Brawl (with Drillhorn using BotCon 2016 General Ramhorn's drill). Also included is Ion Scythe, a new character redecoed from Arms Micron Guru.
Unlike the original Liokaiser toy, Platinum Edition Liokaiser is designed to have his legs attached with the tank body facing forward as opposed to facing sideways. While the legs can be attached sideways to achieve a look similar to the original toy's design, doing so will rob Liokaiser of his functional knees unless you also rotate Dezarus's upper legs. Also, stock photography often takes advantage of Liokaiser's paired legs by not folding away the rear portion of the tanks (otherwise necessary to make the tanks the same length as other Combiner Wars legs), thus adding about a half-inch to the combiner's height.
Liokaiser also comes with a collector card and a huge poster based on his packaging art in a large box, as the only Combiner Wars "Collection Pack" that's co-branded as part of the Platinum Edition range. Strangely, despite having Ion Scythe serve as his main weapon, the package art omits the weapon-bot and instead depicts Liokaiser holding a blaster from one of his component robots, as well as giant nunchaku which the toy (sadly) does not include.
In the United States, this set was officially exclusive to online retailer Entertainment Earth, but was also stocked by other retailers like BigBadToyStore. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Hong Kong and Singapore, it was available at general retail. Additionally, it was also sold at Ripley stores in Chile and at Myer stores in Australia, whereas in Canada, it was available via the Canadian Walmart website, but never sold in stores.


Legacy

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This is the happiest day of my life!
  • Liokaiser (Multi-pack, 2026)
Legacy Liokaiser is the fifth HasLab crowdfunded figure related to the Transformers brand and the first show-accurate rendition of the character since his debut in 1989. Like his original toy, Liokaiser is made up of all six members of the Breast Chest-force (Drillhorn, Ellbat, Gaihawk, Jaruga, Killbison, and Leozak) and includes their various Chest Animals. Similar to Studio Series Devastator, the waist and upper legs of the combiner are formed by an extra component which can form a large missile pod that can attach to Jaruga's existing missile rack.
The first tier unlock (13,000 backers) is none other than Deathcobra with his own cobra Chest Animal. Deathcobra can either form the combiner's left arm (replacing his usurper "Ellbat") or add a massive right-shoulder-mounted cannon to Liokaiser's traditional configuration when everyone plays nice. Ellbat was eventually revealed to possess a cannon mode himself via shared engineering, allowing for a small amount of scramble-adjacent customizability in the seven-man formation. For the ultimate in tidy combination, the entire herd of Chest Animals can subsequently be affixed to the shoulder cannon to create a robot with enough components to make live-action Devastator blush.
The second tier unlock (16,000 backers) is a set of six "Electromagnetic Nunchaku", individual staff/spear weapons that can also combine into a single chained weapon for Liokaiser.
The third and final tier unlock (18,000 backers) is a trio of purple display bases that can be combined in a number of ways, for both Liokaiser himself and the individual components; promotional materials say the goal was to let owners display all the vehicle modes as they appeared at the beginning of the Victory opening credits.
The toy was officially revealed on February 7, 2025, with the ordering/backing period lasting until 11:59pm EST on March 24. The base offering required 10,000 backers, and crossed that threshold ten days later on February 17th (tying with Omega Prime as the fastest funded TF Haslab). It proceeded to reach the first tier unlock on February 24, the second tier unlock on March 7, and the third and final tier unlock on March 18. At the campaign's end, the final backer count was 23,553. Liokaiser is scheduled to ship out sometime in Fall of 2026.
Several changes were made from the initial CGI renders in service of improving the combined mode; two panels were added to the underside of Leozack's jet mode to cover up screw holes on Liokaiser's chest while streamlining the design, and Gaihawk and Ellbat's jet intakes, which initially dangled underneath Liokaiser's armpits, were changed to fold up rather than down so they could hide behind all the wing kibble present.<ref>Final Days to Back Liokaiser—See What’s New! at the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel.</ref>
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Merchandise

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Transformers Choco

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  • Liokaiser (1989)
A tiny non-transforming "candy toy" model kit version of Liokaiser was made available by Kabaya during the Victory run of their original Transformers Choco line.

Transformers Gum

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  • Liokaiser (1989)
A transforming "candy toy" model kit version of Liokaiser was made available during the Victory run of Kabaya's Transformers Gum line. Composed of two normal-sized Kabaya gum kits, this little model kit can pull off the individual robot modes, vehicle modes, combined mode, and even comes with detachable breast plate/guns. The only thing missing is the breast plate's animal transformation.


Super Collection Figure

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Deadly Double Dutch
  • Liokaiser (2002)
    • Act: 7
    • Accessories: Stand
Part of the seventh Super Collection Figure series, this PVC mini-figurine of Liokaiser is based on his animation model, and actually features his spiky nunchakus. This figure could come in either full-color or pewter, one of each packed in a case of twelve.
The pewter version of the figure has a potential problem with connector peg breakage, due to said pegs often getting a layer of pewter paint before being forced into a socket, leading to sticking and tearing. Care should be used when moving or removing the arms; shaving down the socket interior with a thin hobby knife is usually sufficient to fix the issue.
The pewter version of Liokaiser also came packaged with the left boot to Victory Saber, one of six parts that could be added to the wave's Star Saber figure to turn him into his enhanced-armor form. This part could be in either full color or pewter, packed at a ratio of eight color to two pewters per ten cases.

Notes

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Hey, you can always give Liokaiser a tiny version!
  • Before the Breastforce animal weapon gimmick was decided upon, Liokaiser was originally intended to have a battle axe/scythe weapon built from the weapons of the individual robots. Despite never happening, the concept art was likely passed to the staff on the Victory anime and someone definitely took a liking to it, influencing Liokaiser's use of melee weapons and almost certainly leading to Dinoking's extremely similar battle axe/scythe.
  • Liokaiser's name follows the theme used for most Victory combiners, incorporating a foreign-language loanword meaning a "ruler." In this case, "Kaiser" is a German word meaning "emperor." However, the 1989 toy's paperwork renders his name as "Liocaesar", a decision that also carried over to the English translation of Transformers: The Manga. This isn't entirely unfounded; the German word "Kaiser" ("ky-zer") was derived from the Latin word "Caesar", which was pronounced "kae-zar" in medieval times, and Japanese is a phonetic language known to borrow pronunciations from other languages. However, given that Victory also includes a combiner named Road Caesar, pronounced the English way ("seez-er"), it's really not helpful to convert the name into English that way!
  • Kre-O Liokaiser holds the distinction of being the first fiction-only Micro-Changer Combiner, but like most comic Kreons he's still made up of existing Kre-O parts. His Leozack torso includes the Starscream helmet and wing-pack (worn backwards), while his Guyhawk arm uses Dirge's nosecone and wings with two Starscream arm blasters clipped onto the same type of brick used to hold the Dirge wings. His Killbison leg is mostly covered and hard to make out, but appears to make use of the Bludgeon/Warpath treads.
  • An early concept design and working name for Liokaiser were resurrected as the IDW comic character Strikesoldier.
  • In the same continuity, Hellbat died in Drift - Empire of Stone #4 but was erroneously drawn in Lost Light #12 as Liokaiser's left arm when it should have been Deathcobra. Oops.
  • Earth Wars Liokaiser is modeled on his Combiner Wars toy, but with Timelines Leozack replacing 'Dezarus'.

Foreign names

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  • Mandarin: Gàishì Qúnmó (Taiwan, 蓋世群魔, "Unrivalled Demons"), Shà Xīng (China, 煞星, "Malignant Star")
  • Russian: Centurion (Центурион Tsenturion)

References

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