Lord Imperious Delirious
- Lord Imperious Delirious is an alien from the Blackthorne portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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' 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
Lord Imperious Delirious shot down a Cybertronian prison shuttle over a lifeless planetoid. Though his initial plan was to scavenge energy and spare parts, upon realizing Trans-Mutate and Rampage 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. Alone Together: 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. Alone Together: 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. Alone Together: Clarity
