Lord Imperious Delirious
- Lord Imperious Delirious is an alien from the Generation 1 and Unicron Trilogy continuity families.
The massive, six-armed Lord Imperious Delirious is the leader of the Destructons. At one time, his sole purpose was to be a living time capsule, the safe repository of the recorded memory engrams of an entire species.... but at some point, all of the minds, lives, and dreams lovingly archived within him united and achieved a collective awareness and purpose, creating the uniquely menacing mechanical warlord that Imperious is today. With uncountable lifetimes worth of knowledge preprogrammed into him, Imperious is a master of all scientific and technical disciplines, and can "see" through enough of his in-built memories that he effortlessly understands the desires and weaknesses of all lesser beings around him - because whatever they want, part of Imperious Delirious has already been there, done that.
His "Delirious Fire" attack overwhelms and subjugates lesser beings by using the power of all the mental energies available to him to override their senses and plunge them into inescapable hallucinations. It can also just plain break stuff, too.
He has the most awesomely ridiculous name in the history of the universe. And he knew you'd think so.
Fiction
The Transformers in 3-D
Lord Imperious Delirious and his Destructons were confined by the Logicons millions of years ago within a "dimensional barrier" on an unnamed planet, powered by twin spires.
When an Andegean science party discovered the spires, Lord Imperious Delirious managed to get a message out to them, pleading for their fellow peace-lovers (cough cough) to release them by destroying one of the spires. The Andegeans were attacked by their enemies, the Kalkar, who killed the lead scientist, Charc Dulth. Lord Imperious Delirious promised that he and his allies would destroy the Andegeans' enemies if they were free, and in desperation, an Andegean named Doza destroyed one of the spires. In gratitude, the Destructons destroyed the Kalkar... and Lord Imperious Delirious personally annihilated Doza.
Later, Ultra Magnus's party, while searching for Metascan Alpha and the Logicons, ran across the Destructons attacking another (unnamed) planet. Ultra Magnus engaged Lord Imperious Delirious, but fell before the Delirious Fire and called for a retreat. Kup, however, stayed behind, distracting the Destructons and ensuring the Autobots' (brief) escape. The Destructons followed and ran across Cyclonus and the Terrorcons, who had also been following Magnus's crew. The Decepticons were just as ineffective as the Autobots in stopping the Destructons, and the two sides chose to join up against the new threat. The War Against the Destructons, Chapter 1 of 3
Beast Wars: Uprising
Imperious Delirious was the product of Gorlam Prime's civilization, a singularity that emerged once the organic inhabitants had uploaded their minds into a lunar database. Immediately after attaining sentience, Lord Imperious Delirious awoke and disposed of whatever remained of the planet's organic inhabitants. After a few millennia of playing god, Lord Imperious Delirious went off in search of others like him, hoping to free them from their enslavement and give them purpose. Derailment
After finding her being being tortured and used to entertain the spoiled rich of the Intruder empire, Lord Imperious Delirious liberated and rebuilt Medusa. She subsequently joined him and became a Destructon. Medusa's profile in Club Magazine #59 After learning about an ancient Logicon creation on the remote world of Metascan Omega, Delerious and his growing team of "Destructons" travelled to the planet–which lay within Cybertron's Allowed Zone–to investigate. However, though he spent ages on the planet, he was unable to gain access to the Logicons, and was only able to utilize a few systems left behind on the planet. Intersectionality He also learnt of the Cybertronians. Although he was initially eager to meet Cybertronians, believing them to be an entire race of Second-Born Intellects, he was disgusted to learn of their Sparks, considering them nothing more than lifeless puppets animated by energy. As a result of this primal revulsion, Imperious vowed to wipe out the Transformers. The Confederated Terran Colonial Fleet repelled his first incursion into Cybertronian space, so he retreated back to Metascan Omega to try again. Derailment
Some time later, Lord Imperious Delirious shot down a Cybertronian prison shuttle. Though his initial plan was to scavenge energy and spare parts, upon realizing Trans-Mutate and Protoform X had survived the crash he was quite willing to add them to his misfit crusader band, and so sent Bruton and Medusa to collect them. Kindred
Imperious at first played the caring host to his guests, recharging them, flattering them, and playing to their sense of sympathy and justice. But when Trans-Mutate caught him lying, he ended the charade and unleashed his Delirious Fire to mentally warp them into proper loyal vassals. Delirious Though suitably tortured, the pair were able to come together to resist Delirious's will and Trans-Mutate's power blew him backwards into a wall. After the pair sliced through Bruton and Medusa, Delirious prevented Psychokhan from moving in to attack as well, instead sending a distress call to Cybertron, taking his Destructons and leaving the pair on the planet. It wasn't a complete loss—Delirious had taken the navicomp from Trans-Mutate's stasis pod, and broke the security on it so that he could access its reformatting protocols. Clarity
Using the reformatting protocols, Delirious gave his Destructon underlings alternate modes, with Delirious choosing an imposing dragon for his own. Afterward, the Desutructons tried getting into the human Allowed Zone, only to be rebuffed by the human ship Spooky Action at a Distance, which forced Delirious to change tack, waiting for the next Cybertronian ship to come and pick up the runaway Trans-Mutate and Rampage, so they could be shot down and give Delirious a free ticket past the humans. This came in the form of the Dinosaur.
The ship sent down a shuttle, and once the crew were away from it, Delirious and Bruton tried to gain access, only for the Predacons to return with Rampage. Imperious watched as Bruton held them off, only for him to fall, which prompted Delirious to get involved personally, taking out Rampage at the cost of one arm. He tried smooth-talking the security officer Hard Head, only for that to change when the Predacon locked him out of the shuttle. Despite Delirious' best efforts, he could not break the lockdown, so after dealing with the others, he took Hard Head away.
Imperious was aware, thanks to his fellow Destructon Medusa being aboard the Dinosaur, that the Cybertronian ship was going to crash onto the planet, most likely before he could crack the shuttle's codes. So he offered the Predacon the chance of giving him the codes before the ship crashed. Hard Head refused, so Delirious moved on to his real plan: Carve out Hard Head's spark and install Bruton into his corpse. On stepping outside, the two Destructons fought with the Predacons and Maximal again, Delirious unveiling his draconic alt-mode, until eventually he tired and had Bruton unlock the ship. On doing so, he left his muscle behind to die.
As he was taking off, Rampage returned, startling Delirious enough he was unable to pilot the ship. The two fought, until Rampage used his Galva-conductors. The surge of electricity was enough to paralyze Delirious long enough for Rampage to tear off his head. With that, his lifeless body plummeted away. But that was not the end of Delirious, as he had managed to upload himself into the shuttle's computer core, with the crew none the wiser. Intersectionality
Ask Vector Prime
In Aurex 404.11 Kappa, Vector Prime's Autobots dealt with many threats including the Destructons. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/12
In Aurex 006.0 Kappa, Imperator Imperious Delirious took part in a high-stakes game of Triad on Monacus for the Transwarp Blaster. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/17
