Overbite (G1)
| The name or term "Overbite" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Overbite (disambiguation). |
- Overbite is a Decepticon Seacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Overbite is a relentless hunting machine. His name strikes fear into the processors of any seagoing Autobot. Though Overbite loves a good hunt, he's not wholly obsessed with the occupation. He enjoys taking time off, but in his own special way: sinking oil tankers and picking off the drowning humans for sport.
He can combine with his fellow Seacons to form Piranacon and is sometimes known as Jawbreaker.
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Generation 1
When Shockwave's Earthbound Decepticons established their new undersea base, Jawbreaker and his Seacon mates were summoned from Cybertron to work on the base's fortifications, as they were uniquely suited for underwater activity. They got more than they bargained for when the super-Decepticon Galvatron came a'calling. In the battle, Seawing and Jawbreaker managed to momentarily stun Galvatron, but in the end even the combined might of Piranacon couldn't beat him. Enemy Action!
Jawbreaker liked his name very much! Unfortunately, Shockwave decided to rename him "Overbite". He got very sad about this and likes to make it clear what his real name is; the other Seacons still think of and call him Jawbreaker. Fight the man, guys! #164's Grim Grams
When bazillionaire Richard Branson had the rusted-together remains of Megatron and Centurion dredged up from the River Thames, Jawbreaker (minus his beast-mode arms and legs!) swam in to bite through the barge-chains. This allowed Blitzwing, Dirge, Ramjet and Thrust to attach their own cables to the pair and haul them away for Shockwave to experiment on. Salvage!
After Shockwave was deposed, the new commander Ratbat kept the Seacons on retainer for another mission. The Seacons were commissioned to hunt down a sunken shipwreck in the water around the Decepticon undersea base, a wreck which supposedly contained two Autobot cassettes with valuable information encoded on them. They successfully obtained the treasure chest containing the cassettes and, despite a brief theft by the Autobot Blaster, managed to recapture the prize and return it to their leader. Club Con! Unfortunately for them, this led to a sequence of events whereby the treacherous Starscream acquired the power of the Underbase for himself. The Autobots and Decepticons of Earth were forced to unite in order to stop him from seizing ultimate power. The Seacons attacked Starscream in unison in the waters around Manhattan, but were destroyed in a single energy discharge. Dark Star
Earthforce
Sometime later, Megatron traveled back in time and possessed the body of Seacon leader Snaptrap during the Underbase Saga, in an attempt to save them in the past to bolster his troops in the present. He failed due to the intervention of Prowl, and the Seacons met their fate as before. Flashback!
Classics
After the Seacons were revived following their destruction at the hands of Starscream, Snaptrap rose quickly in the ranks of the Decepticons under Bludgeon's command. As a result, Overbite was named sub-commander of the Seacons, and frequently governed the team in Snaptrap's absence. Seacons Timelines Profiles
When Bludgeon detected an apparent traitor in his organization, he assembled Snaptrap, Overbite and the Seacons to face the betrayer. Unfortunately, their target was Hun-Grrr, leader of the Terrorcons, and Terrorcons stick together. Literally. As Abominus formed inside the Decepticon armory, Overbite and his men took aim at the giant's weak points, but were unable to break up the combination robot. The Seacons then switched tactics, forming their own giant warrior, Piranacon. Overbite remained separate from his fellows and, after the initial bout of grappling and melee, lept into the fray in his stormsurge cannon mode, blasting Abominus in the face with a foot-wide blast of corrosive fluid.
The enraged behemoth continued fighting back, knocking Piranacon to the floor. Nautilator slipped free from the combination form and joined Overbite behind Abominus. The smaller warriors were beneath Abominus's notice until they concentrated their firepower on his lower leg, bringing him down. As Overbite and Nautilator reconnected with Piranacon, the latter shifted into weapons mode and further disabled Abominus with a blast from his torpedo cannon. One final swipe from Piranacon's coral blade, and Abominus was finished.
Believing the imminent battle with Megatron's Decepticon forces was compromised, Bludgeon summoned the Seacons to his command centre to prep for the attack. Bludgeon was so enthralled with analyzing the attack pattern of Megatron's incoming ships that he failed to notice the Seacons merge once more. The real traitors, they formed Piranacon and obliterated Bludgeon using their mass compression cannon before alerting Megatron's forces that the area was secure. At Fight's End
As the universe was obliterated, Overbite was aboard the Talon which was pulled into an alternate universe. The Talon crashed on prehistoric Earth where the ambient energon radiation required the Seacons to adopt experimental energon-absorbing armor. Shattered Time
Regeneration One
Template:Noterg1 After his defeat at Starscream's hands during the Underbase Saga, Overbite was resurrected and lobotomised by Megatron as part of his zombie army of "Ex-Bots". In 2012, when the Autobots arrived from Cybertron to confront Megatron he ordered Overbite and the other zombies to attack them. In retaliation, Skids called dibs on shooting Overbite. Loose Ends #5
G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers
In the form of Piranacon, Overbite and the Seacons battled Predaking in the Gladiator Zone before joining Serpent O.R.'s new army of Decepticons. The Art of War #2 Still in combined form, they subsequently helped their new leader capture a few Autobots and Joes and attacked Omega Supreme at an Autobot peace conference. The Art of War #3 Although Piranacon defeated the Autobot giant with the help of some other combiners, he was taken out of action when Optimus Prime rammed Sixshot into his head. The Art of War #4
Hearts of Steel
Like his fellow Seacons, Overbite was woke from his slumber on the bottom of the ocean by an Elder God's servants and brought to their underground city. Infestation 2: The Transformers #1
Toys
Generation 1
- Overbite (Seacon, 1988)
- Team ID number: SE1
- Accessories: "Jawbreaker cannon", "Tripod Rifle", connector, weapon stand base
- Overbite transforms into a robotic shark, albeit one with arms and legs. His "Jawbreaker cannon" can mount underneath his shark-mode head. He also has a third Targetmaster mode,[1] which can be mounted on the weapon stand formed from the "Tripod Rifle" and other accessories, or held in the hand of the Seacons' combined robot. As a Scramble City-style combiner, he can form an arm or leg to any compatible robot combination; although the instructions included with the individual Seacons depict him as Piranacon's hand weapon, the art and instructions for the US giftset transferred him to the right arm, replacing the missing Nautilator.
- This toy was sold in Japan as the Overbite drone. It was also used to make Beast Wars II Sea Phantom.
- Piranacon (Seacon giftset, 1988)
- Overbite was also available in the Seacon box set, along with his teammates Snaptrap, Seawing, Skalor and Tentakil, but without Nautilator.
Beast Wars
- God Neptune (Ultra, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-21
- Overbite was repurposed from Sea Phantom.
- A redeco of the Generation 1 Seacon Overbite, Sea Phantom transforms into a robotic shark with limbs. However, he lacks the rifle and stand-pieces of the original version of the mold. He was available only as part of the God Neptune gift set with his teammates. Since he uses the Scramble City-style of combination, he can form the arm or leg to any combined robot of similar construction, but his nominal place is as the right arm of God Neptune.
- For unknown reasons, a great number of unboxed God Neptune sets—lacking all of their accessories, including combiner parts and Sea Phantom's shark-arms—ended up available on the secondary market. These went for considerably less than the "complete" releases, naturally.
- This mold was used to make the Masterforce Seacon drone Overbite. It was also slated to be released as Energon Overbite, as part of an exclusive Piranhaking multi-pack that was eventually released as Timelines Piranacon.
Timelines
- Piranacon (Seacon giftset, 2008)
- A redeco of the Generation 1 mold above, Timelines Overbite was available exclusively as part of an Official Transformers Collectors' Club-exclusive giftset containing all six Seacons in new color schemes. He is once again depicted as the hand weapon of the combined super robot, this time a Stormsurge Cannon.
- This toy was originally intended as a Wal*Mart exclusive set of Energon-series Terrorcons, but was shelved due to a lack of retailer interest. The team were to be called the Piranhacons and their combined form would have been Piranhaking, but this other Overbite's name would have remained Overbite.
- Many Timelines Overbites suffer from quality-control problems that keep him from using his Jawbreaker cannon in two of three modes. The larger pegs just don't fit well anymore.
Transformers (2010)
- Decepticon Piranacon (Seacon giftset, 2010)
- Accessories: "Jawbreaker cannon", "Tripod Rifle", connector, weapon stand base
- Overbite comes packaged in the Big Bad Toy Store exclusive Piranacon set transformed as Piranacon's gun. The main notable difference between this issue and his original release is that the purple components are cast in a much lighter color, nearly (but not quite) matching the magenta components.
- The mold issues with the Jawbreaker cannon are still present, at least with regards to the gun's double-post, whose 5mm portion is too narrow to stay in Overbite's 5mm peghole on some issues of the figure.
Notes
- The instructions for Piranacon mis-parse Overbite's name as "Over Bite".
- In his first appearance in issue 152 of the Marvel UK comics, Overbite is referred to as "Jawbreaker" for reasons not entirely clear. This was repeated in his appearance in issue 160 and a Transformers AtoZ profile in the Transformers Annual 1989. Even though this later spawned an urban legend that the Overbite toy was officially released under the name "Jawbreaker" in some European markets, no substantial evidence has ever surfaced to back up this rumor. It's more likely that Simon Furman, who wrote the story, simply got a few names mixed up, since the Overbite toy's instructions refer to his weapon as a "Jawbreaker cannon", and his weapon mode for Piranacon is called "Jawbreaker weapon" in the Piranacon assembly instructions. That, or "Jawbreaker" was an early working name for Overbite.
- Grimlock reports that the threat of physical violence from Jawbreaker made Marvel UK use that name.
Foreign names
- French: Morsure (Canada)
