Overshoot
- Overshoot is a Maximal from the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Overshoot is a member of the elite Maximal Command Security Force. His job is to uphold the will of the Maximal Imperium on Cybertron in the name of the Pax Cybertronia. Though to be totally honest, he'd much rather be watching movies. He's a crack shot and all, but his service to the Security Force is compulsory, and as soon as his time is up, he's out of there, and into the theater.
Fiction
Beast Wars: Uprising
Being in the Force meant he was shook down dealers who wouldn't pay up a bribe and menace some losers, and that was considered a cushy job on this dumphole Cybertron! Overshoot ended up guarding an Overcharge depot for forty stellar cycles, waiting for his term to run out so he could move to Crystal City. His paintjob went to pot under the acid rain, he came up with various reasons why Overcharges were called that, and he grew increasingly maudlin about how Cybertron was full of great architecture that was allowed to decay and that they could never make now.
When the Grand Uprising kicked off, Overshoot was damn grateful he was far away from the war guarding some drones! He just had to make sure they were ready for potentially defending the Melpomene Bridge. Traumatised true-believer Stiletto was sent to join him and they took a while to get on. (She also mentioned Crystal City had been destroyed, much to his horror)
When the Resistance attacked, Overshoot was able to take out three guys and drive off the first wave... only for 96+ to show up. Realizing the Overcharges sucked like B.O.T., he hit on a plan to overload their engines so they'd blow up and destroy the bridge. He needed, and trusted, Stiletto to fly him to safety before it went boom.
She did! Then, when Bighorn attacked and almost killed him, she saved him again and Overshoot overheard just what the trauma in her background was. The two trekked on to the nearest city, Overshoot telling new Overcharge jokes to keep her distracted. Burning Bridges
Notes
- Overshoot—like all of the MCSF—uses the Cybertron-series Clocker toy as a base (with a modified Machine Wars Skywarp/Thundercracker head), though no official Overshoot toy exists (and probably never will). His color scheme is based somewhat loosely on the Armada Decepticon Wheeljack. Unlike most characters, he kept his pre-existing design for Beast Wars: Uprising.
