Overlord (G1)

The name or term "Overlord" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Overlord (disambiguation).

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Overlord is a Decepticon Godmaster from the Super-God Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. He is also known as Gigatron.

He's a she! She's a he! He's a she-she. He's half man, half woman. All Lord.

Autobots quake in fear when Overlord 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.

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.

Fiction

Japanese continuity

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 Transtectors from the G Nebula and brought them to Earth, where he 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 "Ambassador of Destruction" on Earth.

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 "Chōkon Daemon Blast" lasers and "Chōkon Bolt Masher" grenade launcher are, Overlord has little need for projectile weapons: as a Godmaster, he is capable of manipulating Chōkon Power, and can even employ it to inhibit the regenerative abilities of other Godmasters.

Cartoon continuity

Super God Masterforce cartoon

Voice actor: Keiichi Noda (Japanese)

The events that would bring Giga and Mega into contact with the Transformers began an indeterminate number of years ago, when the super-energy alien being and self-styled "Decepticon god" Devil Z stole several Transtectors, from an area of space known as the G Nebula. Already filled with the Tenchōkon of the nebula, the Transtectors were then scattered across the Earth by Devil Z, that they might absorb the planet's Chichōkon. Devil Z planned to have human beings bond to the Transtectors, adding their inherent Jinchōkon to the equation, thereby creating a new super-robotic lifeform: Godmasters. Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!

Lady Mega: "Does this Transtector make me look fat?"
Lord Giga: *groan*

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 Autobots. The couple had Hydra and Buster lure Autobot commander Ginrai into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!? Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, taking control of a weather-monitoring base on the moon in order to rendezvous with the approaching 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. 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. God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon

I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.

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 "Chōkon Tornado" quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. 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 Juniors 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. Destroy Godbomber!!

Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?

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. 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. 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 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. Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes

Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!

Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began "Operation M-1" to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through 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, Phoenix and 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 BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy Death Para-Machine. Overlord transformed to his "space jet" 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. Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction

"I outrank you, Ginrai!"
"You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!"

After a battle with Lightfoot in southern Europe, 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 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. 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 together with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform

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 and Bullhorn in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. 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. Autobots! Desperate Attack!!

I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.

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. 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 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-Braces 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 took headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. A Battle... and Then...

Victory cartoon

Those car washes get more dangerous every year.

The now-living Overlord Transtector and his followers rejoined the Decepticon forces in space, and Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of Deathsaurus. 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. Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior

Zone cartoon

Robots should not wear capes.

Voice actor: Keiichi Noda (Japanese)

Years later, when the supernatural creature known as Violen Jiger seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine "Demon Generals" 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 and Menasor. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process.

Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus and Bruticus in an attack on the planet of Zone, gleefully blasting Micromasters 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 the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

Comic continuity

Super-God Masterforce comic

The sound effect reads "fart."

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 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. God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!

Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and Cab prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, 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 "Master Blade" to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. The Earth Family of Good and Evil

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 "God Punch" attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. Decepticons' Great Counterattack!

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. Live? Die?! The Desperate Super-God Combination

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. Great Turn-Around! Autobots

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 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 "Perfect Transform Attack", 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. The Birth of the Super Lifeforms

Zone comic and story pages

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 "Super-God General", Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. Zone Part 1

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 Decepticon Powered Master Dai Atlas. Transformers: Zone

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 "Strongest of the Generals," 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 "Galactic Dash" attack. Zone Part 6

The Generals later schooled Metrotitan and the Metrosquad in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the Powered Masters. Zone Part 7

Transformers PD Type

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. Fight! Super Ginrai!!

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 began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. Oh, Overlord

European toy bio continuity

Collect all time-displaced toys.

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 "advanced robotic engineering" whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the "Energon figures" that operate his multiple functions.

To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the Motorvators, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.

Dreamwave comics continuity

Gigatron was an ancient Cybertronian, who developed an idea to allow Decepticons to survive on alien planets by biologically integrating local inhabitants into their systems. In modern times, Gigatron's records were uncovered and used to develop the Powermaster process. More Than Meets The Eye #8

IDW comics continuity

“	A good strategist is half psychologist and half sadist. And I was the best.	”
—Overlord, Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be awesome if someone built a whole character round that?.

In the days before the Cybertronian civil war, Overlord was an avid spectator of Megatron's gladiatorial matches. Like many, this led him to join the charismatic pit fighter's army and bear the badge of the Decepticons. Megatron Origin #2

However, Overlord perhaps didn't join for the right reasons. He was enthralled not with the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused, but more with the glorious excess of the gladiator battles and the freedom of making entire worlds his arena. 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 many 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.

I am not a number!

During the early years of the war, on Caldoon 4 Overlord slaughtered a battalion of Autobots before making his way to a meeting which involved Megatron, Sixshot and Black Shadow. It was here he was informed that Megatron had finalized his infiltration protocol and that the assembled Decepticons would be his "phase sixers"; three extremely powerful warriors who would visit planets on the verge of collapse and wipe out any possible resistance. While Black Shadow and Sixshot merely declared "For the Decepticons", Overlord was less pleased at the idea of simply being a weapon to point and shoot. When he asked what if he aspired for something more, Megatron informed him of two options; either do as he was told or refuse, in which case Megatron would hunt him down and rend him limb from limb.

Overlord was sobered by this ultimatum, but only momentarily. Overlord returned to the battle outside, and messily dispatched every Autobot save one. Overlord held Kup's limp form, shattered but alive, and told him to let Megatron know that he'd chosen option two. Overlord transformed and left the planet, remarking that he'd be waiting for his former leader when the time came to make good on his ultimatum. Last Stand of the Wreckers #2 What he didn't know was that Megatron had instructed Shockwave to infect him with an Achilles Virus. He found out after leaving Caldoon 4, when he realised he had a "tactical blind spot" and couldn't figure out how to hurt Megatron like he could everyone else. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

Some time later, Overlord engaged in battle with an emperor of a star system that had developed interstellar travel and weapons of similar technology level. He got in over his head and traveled to the nearby planet Spensifax B and asked Gorelock, the Decepticon battalion commander stationed there, for aid. With the help of Gorelock's battalion, Overlord reengaged the emperor's forces in combat. The science officer Vivisector estimated that the resulting battle put the technological development of the empire back and estimated 250,000 years. Overlord then left. Gorelock's prisoner clemency request

We peed a little.

At the height of the cross-galactic Decepticon uprising, Overlord arrived on Garrus-9 during an assault that was being led by Skyquake. Announcing that he had his own plans for the prison planet, he requested that Skyquake turn command over to him. When the Predator general refused, insisting they carry out the raid as per Megatron's orders, Overlord casually killed him and established his own leadership. After the prison planet fell and he defeated Fortress Maximus personally, Overlord decided to turn the Garrus-9 into his home away from home. As a show of good faith to the prisoners he had freed, he tossed them Fortress Maximus as a chew toy. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 He then forced Grimlock to view the footage of Garrus-9 being overrun and the pit matchs, to the point where Snare believed it had driven the Dynobot insane at being unable to do anything about it. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4

A year later, some of the Decepticons had begun to have doubts about their sadistic leader. Overlord caught Fearswoop criticizing his lack of sportsmanship, and the Trakkon was happy to end the conversation alive. Two Decepticons that Overlord had let torture an Autobot prisoner let the Autobot get one lucky shot in, and Overlord killed the Autobot and then both the Decepticons. "Any Decepticons that careless are wasting their lives. And more valuably... my time." Overlord ordered the Predators to carry the Autobot body away to be recycled as Snare pondered their predicament. Snare began to wonder if the Decepticons were as trapped on that world under Overlord's heel as the Autobots were. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1

Around this time, he released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave with a hand-picked crew, in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. He revealed to Shockwave that he was lying to the Decepticons that they could "fight their way to freedom"... to which Shockwave responded that while Overlord thought he was enjoying himself, all the terror experiments and horrorshows were just an attempt to get Megatron's attention. Overlord tried to deny this. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

Better than television!

Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot Kick-Off battle the Decepticon Borehole for his amusement. When Kick-Off brutally decapitated Borehole, Overlord was pleased. He invited the ragged Kick-Off into his quarters for a reward. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 Kick-Off was given the choice to either commit suicide or fight Overlord. Last stand of the Wreckers #4 Whatever his choice, Kick-Off was later found dead with his body brutalized. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

Soon, the Wreckers arrived on Garrus-9. With no small amount of skill, they were able to break through the planetary defenses inside two escape pods. Unfortunately, the pods were badly damaged in the attempt and crashed. As stowaway Verity Carlo pulled herself from her pod, she found herself at Overlord's feet. Last Stand of the Wreckers #2

As the Wreckers pulled themselves from the wreckage of their pod, Overlord disappointedly stated he had been expecting a team of Decepticons sent by Megatron but instead only got some Autobots. He didn't agree with Rotorstorm that there was a distinction between Autobot and Wreckers either. He did however show some amusement at Rotorstorm's joke about Wreckers combining. It gave him a giggle... right before he put a gun between Rotorstorm's optics and shot him through the head. He offered the surviving Wreckers a chance at surrender, but they simply had Pyro protect Verity while the rest attacked. Overlord was suitably unimpressed, but after Stalker revealed there was a second team of Wreckers in G-9, he took the opportunity to have some fun, announcing any Decepticon who brought him the head of a Wrecker would be allowed to leave. As the Decepticons charged, Perceptor detonated a tank of fuel. The resulting explosion bought the team some time, but Overlord merely loomed above the flames. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!

Once the second team of Wreckers had regrouped and killed Stalker after a number of them being captured, Springer set a new mission objective: Kill Overlord. He was quickly warned by a dying Snare that Overlord was on his way. Snare also revealed the truth about Garrus-9, and the level of Overlord's obsession with his final "game" with Megatron. Moments after Impactor gave Snare a merciful death, Overlord made his presence known in an explosive entrance. He asked if the Wreckers were ready, and Springer replied in the affirmative. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4

The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where Guzzle was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. Noting that Overlord talked too much, Impactor put a harpoon through his eye. However, this barely fazed Overlord, who beckoned on the survivors. As the Decepticon raised Springer by his neck, Overlord stomped Impactor into the rooftop. Springer tried to convince him that despite his apparent victory, the Autobot prisoners within Garrus-9 were released and would soon be upon them.

Overlord laughed. He'd already ordered all Autobot prisoners executed.

"Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!"

But Springer's death would have to wait. Perceptor, Ironfist, and Verity Carlo arrived from the Aequitas Chamber, and as their firepower knocked Springer from Overlord's grasp, Ironfist tossed Springer a huge chaingun-like weapon. Overlord shrugged off even its massive payload and slapped Springer to the ground, removing most of his face. "Sweet," Overlord smiled as he held Springer's skin in his hand. He shot Perceptor and was about to kill Ironfist as well when the newbie Wrecker warned the Decepticon to not get any closer. Overlord chortled, but Ironfist explained. Springer had shot Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, and Ironfist, having downloaded Aequitas into himself, held the key to their detonation.

Thousands of explosions reduced Overlord to a flaming skeleton, but he was still functional. He cursed Ironfist (who fell unconscious) and Verity, the latter of whom he approached slowly and angrily. If Megatron arrived now to challenge him, how could Overlord meet his challenge in this sorry condition? But when Verity told him that Megatron was dead, he sank to his knees, stunned that while he had focused everything, every day of his life, on his fight with the Decepticon leader... said leader had never come for him and never would (a fact that Verity gleefully needled him over). And when Impactor, who had survived, leaped at the ablaze Decepticon, Overlord put up no fight, ready to die.

Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, but promised to take him in to face justice. Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 5

Toys

Super-God Masterforce

• Overlord (Godmaster, 1988)
  • Japanese ID number: D-307

    

    Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.

  • Accessories: Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, "Transtector Destroyer Cannon", three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car

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 alternately, 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 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 "Chōkon Daemon Blast" and spring-loaded "Chōkon Bolt Masher" weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the Roller-style car that comes with the set. There is, unfortunately, not one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories. Standing approximately 15" in robot mode, Overlord is taller than most Transformer toys, though certainly not all.

Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like Sixshot's "Wingwolf" mode or BlackZarak's "Dakatsu" 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.

• More information on Overlord at TFU.info

Generation 1

• Overlord (1991)

Initially exclusive to Japan, Overlord's toy was later released in Europe and Australasia with a veeeeery slightly noticeably different shade of purple plastic.

Merchandise

Parody Deformed

• Overlord (1990)

A small blue and white, non-transforming super deformed model kit of Overlord was available as part of Kabaya's "Parody Deformed" line of candy toys. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a "Transformers PD Type" comic about himself, "Oh, Overlord", and something that could charitably be described as "chocolate".

Super Collection Figure

• Overlord (2001)

A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the Super-God Masterforce-centric fifth act of Takara's Super Collection Figure series, available in both full colour and metallic silver "pewter" 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 "build-a-figure", BlackZarak, itself also available in full color and pewter versions.

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.

Heroes of Cybertron

• Powermaster Gigatron (2003)

Gigatron is a slightly-altered version of the Super Collection Figure Overlord PVC, featuring rounded-off shoulder-cones 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 build-a-figurine.

Notes

• 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, 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 "Gigatron". 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 to 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 "Overlord" once more. With this, there seems little point in distinguishing between the two characters (different as they are), and as such they are included in this article together.

External links

• Powermaster Gigatron's tech-specs at TFW2005.com