Goryu
- Goryu is a Decepticon from the Victory portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Goryu is the leader of the Dinoforce Decepticons. He typically wields a large spiked club, and unlike the rest of his team, is most often seen riding on the back of his T. rex Pretender shell, rather than controlling it from the inside or fighting alongside it. He and his troops combine to form the goliath Dinoking.
Hot-headed, easily frustrated and generally not too bright, Goryu demands obedience from his dim-witted troops (especially Kakuryu, whom he often abuses) and respect from the Breastforce...respect which he will never get.
- English-Malay dub name: Icepick
- Latin American dub name: Ice
Fiction
Victory cartoon
Voice actor: Daisuke Gōri (Japan) The captain of the Dinoforce, Goryu is a major player in the Decepticon army. He's just not very good at the game.
Goryu lead the Dinoforce in the attack on a Mars research ship that saw Jean's parents die. Later he lead an attack on Earth's moonbase, forcing Star Saber and Star Saber and his forces to come to Earth's defense and make their base there. Throughout Deathsaurus' campaign against Earth for energy Goryu was a loyal grunt. Often he and his Dinoforce were the first in the fight and the last to retreat.
However, he was betrayed when Deathsaurus finally acquired enough energy to free his space fortress -- the Decepticon commander abandoning Dinoforce, and leaving them to die. As retaliation, Goryu went to the Autobots, and told them the secret weakness in Deathsaurus' space fortress.
After the destruction of the space fortress, Goryu and his Dinoforce lived peacefully on Earth alongside the humans.
Victory manga
He has a son. Seriously.
Toys
Victory
- Goryu (Dinoforce, 1989)
- Japanese ID number: D-322
- Accessories: T-rex shell, shell back, "Tyran Gun", Dinoking foot-plate
- Goryu's inner robot shares the same mold as the Pretender Monster Icepick, transforming into a bipedal, clawed monster. He comes with a rubbery, cyborg Tyrannosaurus rex Pretender-type shell in which he can be stored.
- Dinoking (Multi-pack, 1989)
- Japanese ID number: D-328
- All six members of Dinoforce were available both in individual boxes and in a complete, six-piece gift set.
Trivia
- Goryu's name translates roughly as "Mighty Dragon".
- All of the Dinoforce's rubbery shells are susceptible to developing an oily film, and their gold paint may take on a green patina. Why exactly this happens is currently unknown, but as such, even mint-in-package toys may come out of the package kind of slimy and discolored. Eyuw.
- The Victory anime depicted the Dinoforce members as carrying melee weapons, rather than the blasters the toys actually came with.
