Gilmer
- Gilmer is a Decepticon Pretender in the Masterforce portion of thr Generation 1 continuity family.
Gilmer seems a bit like the sullen older businessman in the office, outstripped by the younger hotshots and kinda aware of it. That's something of an archetype in anime. His embarrassed reaction to Dauros's occasional moments of adulation is hilarious.
Fiction
Masterforce cartoon
Voice actor: Masaharu Satō (Japan)
Gilmer's myriad misadventures began when he and the other Decepticon Pretenders crashed on Earth 8-Thousand Years Ago, after a Space-born scuffle with their Autobot counterparts. The Pretenders, possessing the miraculous ability to shrink down to human size and disguise themselves with what appears to be hard-light holograms, or perhaps solid shadows, took on forms in order to blend in with their new environment. The Autobots took on the appearances of the humans, and subtly guided the development of Early Man, while the Decepticon's disguises were much more monstrous in nature. in fact it is said that they were the inspiration for the various demons that plagued pre-industrial society. Gilmer in particular took the form of an aquatic monster of some sort, and seems to be the inspiration for the numerous beasts the prowled the murky depths in the imagination of the unenlightened sailors of old. Gilmer and the other Decepticon Pretender's malicious misbehavior was eventually thwarted by the Autobots and they were sealed in three different prisons around the ancient world. Gilmer's prison seemed to be Atlantis, or another sunken ruin of the same nature.
Gilmer seems to have some sexist prejudice against Mega, or her clear strong will, self-interest and playing favorites (as opposed to Giga's cold interest in their overall goals). Mega has phenomenal hearing, however, and pays him back for his implication that she's a hysterical woman by having Cancer use him as a training dummy.
