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| | #REDIRECT [[Gigatron (disambiguation)]] |
| {{disambig2|the Powermaster|the Godmaster|Overlord (Masterforce)}}
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| {{disambig2|the Generation 1 character|the Shattered Glass character whose name might be Gigatron|Gigatron (Shattered Glass)}}
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| :''Gigatron is a [[Decepticon]] [[Powermaster]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
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| [[Image:Gigatron hoc art.jpg|right|275px|thumb|"I am tired of these jokes about my giant hand. The first such incident occurred in 1956, when..."]]
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| [[Autobot|Autobots]] quake in fear when '''Gigatron''' thunders on to the battlefield. This double-[[Powermaster]] is an amalgation of the deadliest Decepticon weaponry known, powerful enough to inhibit the regenerative abilities of his opponents, and able to supply his fellow Decepticons with an endless arsenal produced by his internal arms factory.
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| ==Fiction==
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| ===Dreamwave comics continuity===
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| Gigatron was an ancient Cybertronian, responsible for the creation of the [[Powermaster]] process. {{storylink|More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye issue 8}}
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| ===IDW comics continuity===
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| [[Image:MegatronOrigin2 fightcrowd1.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Dull catgirl teeth surprise.]]
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| Gigatron can be seen in the crowd cheering on [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] in one of his early gladiatorial matches. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2}}
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| ==Merchandise==
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| ===Heroes of Cybertron===
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| [[Image:HOC Gigatron.jpg|right|150px|thumb|]] | |
| *'''Powermaster Gigatron''' (2003)
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| :Gigatron debuted in the fourth wave of the ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line, as a mostly-unaltered version of the [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] figurine from the Japanese [[Super Collection Figure]] line (his shoulder-cones were rounded off [[for safety reasons]], plus he used the standard "all clear-red-plastic painted over" coloring process to give him light-piped eyes). He came with the left arm of [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] build-a-figurine.
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| ==Notes==
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| * Gigatron is the American Powermaster counterpart to the Japanese [[Godmaster]] [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (in the same manner, for example, as [[Lander]] is the counterpart of [[Landmine (G1)|Landmine]]), but he often gets overlooked since he was created fifteen years after the fact, instead of co-existing with his Japanese counterpart like the rest of the Powermasters, and exists only as a semi-obscure PVC figurine. Although the original 1988 Overlord toy has never been released in North America, it ''was'' [[Generation 1 Europe (toyline)|released in Europe]] in 1991 under its original name. Whether or not that figure could be considered to represent the character of Gigatron [[retcon|retroactively]] with a different name is up for debate.
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/b22f78deda9fad3d?dmode=source&output=gplain Gigatron's tech-specs] — Transcriptions by Neale Davidson
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| [[Category:Generation 1 characters]]
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| [[Category:Powermasters]]
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| [[Category:Multi-component Transformer]]
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