Liokaiser
- Liokaiser is a Decepticon Combiner from the Victory portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Liokaiser is the combined form of the Breastforce, an elite combat team consisting of land and air assault vehicles who hail from the Death Zone. He is powerful, cruel, merciless, and-unlike pretty much every other combiner-intelligent to boot. An expert in melee combat, he's fought against Star Saber and Road Caesar on several occasions and promptly beat the stuffing out of them. It's possible the only opponents he can't contend with are Victory Saber and Deathsaurus.
Liokaiser is composed of the Decepticons Leozack, Drillhorn, Gaihawk, Hellbat, Jarugar, and Killbison. Despite their unusually high levels of coordination and ruthlessness, Liokaiser's performance may suffer if the individual minds get distracted.
- Russian name: Центурион (Centurion)
Fiction
Cartoon continuity
Victory cartoon
- Voice actor: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese)
As the war between Autobots and Decepticons intensified on Earth, Deathsaurus began calling in members of the Breastforce to aid him. Although effective on their own, team leader Leozack began making preparations to unleash his team's true potential, leading an attack on Planet Micro to liberate Gaihawk Rescue! Gaihawk and calling in his more trustworthy comrade Deathcobra to replace the scheming Hellbat as part of Liokaiser. Unfortunately, Hellbat arrived bearing news of Deathcobra's death at the hands of Holi-in truth covering his own role in his fellow Decepticon's murder-and the Breastforce would perform their first combination "in some time" to battle Star Saber, who arrived in defense of Holi and his friends.
Liokaiser proved a great challenge for Star Saber, badly damaging and nearly defeating him. Star Saber was only saved by the arrival of God Ginrai, but Liokaiser pulverized him too. Working together, the injured Autobots barely managed to drive off Liokaiser. Unite! Liokaiser
He continued to wreak havoc on the Autobots for the rest of the series, but became less of a threat when Victory Saber came around. He wields a sansetsukon (a staff that can extend into a chain-weapon) tipped with detachable, spinning spike-rings.
At the end of the series, when Deathsaurus brought his fortress online, Liokaiser battled to stop Star Saber and Victory Leo from entering it. He was killed when Victory Leo blasted him into the main cannon of Deathsaurus's Planet-Destroying Fortress. Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification
Zone catalog
Revived from death by some means and lead by the reborn Dark Emperor Deathsaurus, Liokaiser joined several other powerful Decepticons in an assault on planet Zone. Attempting to steal their Energon Z, the Decepticons proved no match for the Micromasters and were driven away. What became of Liokaiser after this is unknown. Zone Project Story
Victory comic
Frustrated at not being able to find the Breastforce, Jean Minakaze kicked a piece of junk over a rise, only to hear a noise of pain from Liokaiser, who was hiding behind it. Liokaiser announced that, as Deathsaurus was laid up with some illness, Jean and Star Saber were going to have to face him instead. Jean and Star Saber combined, but were seized by the combiner, only for his component parts to start arguing over which of them would finish the Autobots off. Distracted, Liokaiser was thus unable to prevent the pair wriggling free and ganging up on him. The Breastforce retreated hastily. The Star of Friendship, Jean and Star Saber!
Liokaiser, Dinoking and Deathsaurus were finally able to bring down Star Saber in battle, but before they could finish him off, Victory Leo came to the rescue. The two Autobots combined into Victory Saber, but the Decepticons attacked anyway and were blasted by Victory Saber's Flash Victory attack, forcing another retreat. The Strongest Partners, the Combination of Victory! Deathsaurus and Liokaiser continued to plunder Earth's energy, with the Autobots seemingly powerless to stop them. Liokaiser had Braver and Laster at his mercy when Blacker arrived and the Brainmasters were able to form Road Caesar. Even Solon Kitakaze turned against his former Decepticon comrades. With power lent to them by the Victories, Victory Saber and Road Caesar were able to send the Decepticons packing. Shine! The Five Stars of Victory
Transformers PD Type comic
Facing Victory Saber, Liokaiser was bemused by his foe's speech constantly being interrupted by Victory Leo's head. He's Here! Victory Saber!! Just as Star Saber had Deathsaurus on the ropes, the Decepticon leader brought in Liokaiser. Star Saber attempted unsuccessfully to distract the combiner with some tuna, and ended up having to hide from the two Decepticons. Don't Lose! Star Saber!!
Find the Bright Day! Liokaiser!!
Toys
Victory
- Liocaesar [sic] (Multi-pack, 1989)
- Japanese ID number: D-335
- Component members/Accessories: Leozack (Liokaiser head), Drillhorn, Gaihawk, Hellbat, Jarugar (2 missiles), Killbison (2 cannons, combined gun handle)
- Released only in Japan, Liokaiser is a unique and highly sought-after combiner. Unlike most other combiners, Liokaiser has almost no "combiner kibble", his feet and hands being built into the component robots. Only his combined-mode head is a separate accessory; even his hand-weapon is assembled from Killbison and Jarugar's extra weapons. However, in this form, the individuals' breastplate-animal partners cannot be stored and must be put aside.
- Though his components were all sold as individuals, they were also available in a single Liokaiser box set.
- Four of the six components to Liokaiser were used to make the European-exclusive Rescue Force. Unless you are in need of an armless combiner whose head is tiny, you should not attempt to combine them.
Merchandise
- Liokaiser (Kababya kit, 1989)
- A small "candy toy" version of Liokaiser was made available during the original Victory series.
- Liokaiser (SCF, 2002)
- In 2002, a PVC mini-figurine of Liokaiser was released in the seventh SCF series. All of the PVCs in this series were available in both full-color and solid pewter-painted versions, in blind-packed boxes.
