Overlord (G1)

Overlord is a Decepticon Godmaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Autobots quake in fear when Overlord (オーバーロード Ōbārōdo, aka Gigatron^[Note]) thunders on to the battlefield. This towering warrior is an amalgamation of the deadliest Decepticon weaponry known, armed with laser blasters and grenade launchers in his stomach, and the terrifying ability to prevent the wounds he inflicts upon his opponents from healing. He is even equipped with an internal arms factory. Overlord is formed from two individual vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which combine to form his colossal robot mode, a heavily armed advance base, or a larger jet capable of space flight.^[1]

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

Voice actor: Keiichi Noda (Japanese), Rik Thomas (English, Omni Productions dub), Enrico Maggi (Italian)

Believe it or not, this is a crane shot.

The story of the Overlord begins with the mysterious alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon god, Devil Z, who schemed to create the ultimate lifeform by merging Transformers and humans into one. Devil Z stole a collection of Transformer Transtectors from the G Nebula and brought them to Earth. Devil Z recruited two human beings, husband and wife Giga and Mega, and charged them with creating an army for him. Mega and Giga were both bonded to the largest Transtector, and together, they became the terrifying Overlord, serving as Devil Z's "Ambassador of Destruction" on Earth.

Giga and Mega took their Transtectors into battle for the first time after a string of failures that resulted in several of the Godmaster Transtectors falling into the hands of the Autobots. The couple had Hydra and Buster lure Autobot commander Ginrai into the desert, and then confronted him as Overlord, immediately proving their superiority by beating him to near-death. Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!? Believing Ginrai dealt with, Overlord subsequently departed into space, Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!? taking control of a weather-monitoring base on the moon in order to rendezvous with the approaching BlackZarak there. Ginrai, however, proved entirely too stubborn to die, and, powered-up through his combination with the freshly-constructed Godbomber drone, soon pursued Overlord and engaged him in battle above the moon's surface. God Ginrai - Into the Sky!! During the fight, Ginrai was blindsided by BlackZarak and sent crashing down to the moon, where he found himself hunted by the two powerful Decepticons. Luckily, the Autobot battleship Grand Maximus arrived to help, and the two Decepticon tried to break off the fight an return to Earth. Ginrai and Grand vowed to stop them, and a shot from Ginrai's God Cannon sent Overlord plummeting back to the moon, forcing Giga and Mega to split into their individual Transtectors to soften their impact and save their lives. The Autobot pair managed to drive BlackZarak back to the moon as well, and the dark Decepticon insisted that Overlord return to Earth alone and inform Devil Z of the situation. Overlord refused, furious that anyone other than Devil Z would presume to give him orders, but when Ginrai and Grand returned to press their attack, he realised the damage he had sustained prevented him from carrying on the fight, and he relented. After Overlord departed for Earth, however, the outnumbered BlackZarak was then beaten by Ginrai and sent fleeing back into the depths of space. God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon

I'm easy come. Easy go. Little High. Little Low.

Incensed by this failure, Giga decided to reduce Ginrai's power level by destroying Godbomber. A desert again served as Ginrai and Overlord's battleground, as Overlord used his Chōkon Power to create a massive whirling tornado out of the shifting sands, but when he was thrown off balance by a sneaky God Punch attack, Overlord's "Chōkon Tornado" quickly backfired on him and sent him spinning off wildly through the sky. Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado Despite this setback, Overlord made another attempt to eliminate Godbomber, this time by separating him from Ginrai with an ambush in the American heartland. In their separate Transtectors, Giga and Mega wore down Ginrai until he no longer had enough Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber, but the plan was foiled when the Autobot Headmaster Juniors discovered they could combine their own energy to control Godbomber themselves. With Ginrai and Godbomber reunited, Overlord was sent packing by a blast of Chōkon Power. Destroy Godbomber!!

Umm, Giga? Where are we supposed to sleep?

Overlord later adopted his base mode for the first time to act as a staging ground for the search for the final Godmaster. The search came to an abruptly end, however, when the Godmaster himself, Clouder, sought out the Decepticons, and the villains decided to use his ability to adopt two robot forms to install him as a double agent within the Autobot ranks. Appearance!! The Final Godmaster Using information fed to them by Clouder, the Decepticons initiated a full-scale attack on the Autobots' headquarters, again using Overlord's base mode as a mobile headquarters from which the assault was masterminded. Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!! When Ginrai (who had been lured away from the base so the attack to begin) returned to aid his fellow Autobots, Overlord transformed to robot mode and again engaged him in battle, intending to keep him occupied until a Seacon force could destroy the Autobot base from within. Although defeated in combat, Overlord was still able to gloat, as Ginrai failed to realise that he was being stalled until it was too late. Furious at his own short-sightedness, Ginrai hurled Overlord and embedded him, head-first, in the side of the mountain housing the Autobot base. At that moment, the base's magma converter power core finally exploded, and Overlord was sent flying over the horizon by a jet of lava. Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes

Set controls to outer space, now, flying higher than ever before!

Soon thereafter, BlackZarak returned to Earth, and the Decepticons began "Operation M-1" to cut a swathe of devastation across the Earth. While BlackZarak tore through New York, Overlord landed in the heart of Paris, decimating military resistance and destroying the Arc de Triomphe. With these cities in ruins, the two Decepticons began to converge on Tokyo; while passing over China, Overlord landed on the Great Wall and broadcasted a message to the leaders of the world, warning them to surrender or witness Tokyo's destruction. Overlord then carried on his way, easily defeating Metalhawk, Phoenix and Diver when they attempted to block his path. Overlord and BlackZarak soon arrived in Tokyo, and with no surrender forthcoming, began razing the city. In the midst of the chaos, however, Ginrai and Grand Maximus—who had been trapped in a black hole by BlackZarak, and only just managed to escape—arrived to stop their evil deeds. During the ensuing battle, Ginrai manoeuvred himself between the two Decepticons, and dodged at the last second, causing them to blast each other. With his two most powerful warriors damaged, Devil Z called off Operation M-1, and initiated Operation M-2 BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space which involved destroying the Earth's atmosphere from orbit with the unholy Death Para-Machine. Overlord transformed to his "space jet" mode to carry the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors into space for the operation, but naturally, the Autobots pursued their enemies, and Ginrai was able to destroy the Death Para-Machine before it caused irreparable damage to Earth. Crisis! The Day of Human Extinction

"I outrank you, Ginrai!"
"You do NOT! 'God' outranks 'Overlord'!"

After a battle with Lightfoot in southern Europe, God Ginrai - Save Cancer!? Overlord tried a more underhanded tactic, capturing Autobot Headmaster Junior Shūta Gō, and using him as a bargaining chip to bring Ginrai to the Decepticon base. The battle that followed was distinctly one-sided, as Ginrai was unable to fight back due to Shūta being in danger, but this suddenly took an unexpected turn when Decepticon Junior Cancer turned on his teammates and freed Shūta. Even as the shocked Overlord commanded him to stop, Ginrai got back in the fight, and flattened Overlord before escaping with Shūta and Cancer. God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base With the information Cancer provided them, the Autobots were able to stage an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Overlord again battled Ginrai. The fight came to a sudden end when Devil Z merged with BlackZarak and collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform

For a time, Devil Z's hatred of humankind had been steadily growing, and rankled with Giga and Mega, reaching a head when the alien abandoned Wilder and Bullhorn in the ruins of the Decepticon base, and transformed Hydra and Buster into true robots. Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn Confronting God Ginrai for one final time in the heart of the Grand Canyon, Overlord vowed to fight him without weapons, battling him only through the use of his physical strength and the power of his human flesh. He didn't explain his motives to Ginrai, but Ginrai observed Overlord's refusal to draw his weapons, and fought honourably. When Grand Maximus arrived on the scene, however, he was not so concerned, and simply shot Overlord out of the sky. Autobots! Desperate Attack!!

I get by with a little help from my ... uh, foes.

After the battle in the Grand Canyon, the Decepticons relocated to the Alps, and the Autobots again gave chase. Overlord was willing to engage the Autobot Godmasters, but the merged Devil Z/BlackZarak entity held him back and instead buried them under an avalanche. Meanwhile, Ginrai again defeated Hydra and Buster, and the two brothers limped back to the peak of the Matterhorn, where Devil Z turned on them for their failure. As their punishment continued, Overlord at last stood up to his leader and attempted to stop him, only to be on the receiving end of Devil Z's wrath. Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z Unexpectedly, Overlord was rescued by Ginrai, and as the Autobot leader began his final battle with BlackZarak, Giga and Mega realized that they owed him a debt of honor for saving them and finally made the decision to turn against their former master. When Overlord attempted to aid God Ginrai in his battle with BlackZarak, however, they were struck down and enveloped in a sphere of Devil Z's Devil Power. Devil Z separated Mega and Giga from their Transtectors, bringing Overlord to life as a true super-robot lifeform. As their Master-Braces vanished from their wrists, Giga and Mega died, regretting that they could not settle their rivalry with Ginrai honourably. Alas, there was not even time to mourn, as the new, robotic Overlord lunged for Ginrai, but was tackled by Grand Maximus. Ginrai subsequently united his powers with the Headmasters Juniors to finally destroy Devil Z and BlackZarak, and at the sight of his leader being vaporized, Overlord immediately called for the Decepticons to retreat. As they fled into space, the Autobots' Transtectors were also brought to life, as Overlord's had been, by the death of Devil Z, and they headed into space in pursuit of Overlord's Decepticons. A Battle... and Then...

Legends comic

The now-living Overlord transtector and his followers joined with the Decepticon forces in space, and in 2021, Overlord led an attack on the transtector factory in G Nebula 89, forcing Grand to send the former Decepticon Headmaster Juniors to the Legends World for their safety. LG24 Shockwave & Cancer Prologue During one of his assaults, Overlord was defeated by a Getmaster-powered Brainstorm. Bonus Edition Vol. 39

Giga and Mega would be resurrected in the Legends World by Devil Z, and they acquired new Overlord transtectors that they could bond to as Headmasters. Bonus Edition Vol. 60

Victory cartoon

Those car washes get more dangerous every year.

Overlord briefly led the Decepticon army before the rise to power of Deathsaurus. Deathsaurus's toy bio Following this, Overlord commanded the Sector Two Decepticon force, based in the G Nebula, where they battled the Autobots under the command of his old foe, God Ginrai. Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior

Zone cartoon

Voice actor: Keiichi Noda (Japanese)

Robots should not wear capes.

Years after the end of the Masterforce War, Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violengiguar to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of "Super-God General", Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. Zone Part 1

Years later, when the supernatural creature known as Violengiguar seized command of the Decepticons, his first act was to recruit nine "Demon Generals" from Decepticon history. Overlord was selected to be one of those Generals and was given new power and weaponry to make him an even greater threat than before. At Violengiguar's instruction, Overlord was sent to the planet Feminia to wreak havoc along with Abominus and Menasor. Together, the three Decepticon Demon Generals destroyed the entire planet and nearly killed Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process.

Two-and-a-half months later, Overlord led Menasor, Abominus, and Bruticus in an attack on the planet of Zone, gleefully blasting Micromasters and using his trident to slice into Zone Base to retrieve a sample of Energon Z for Decepticon use. With the Micromasters completely unable to harm the Decepticon generals, Overlord left the planet in triumph, handing the Energon Z off to the second group of Generals, who went on to attack Earth, but were stopped by Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!

It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called "Strongest of the Generals," aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he did lay out Overlord with his powerful "Galactic Dash" attack. Zone Part 6

The Generals schooled Metrotitan and the Metrosquad in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the Powered Masters. Zone Part 7

Train Wars

In the aftermath of Violengiguar's defeat, Overlord's faction of Decepticons in G Nebula 89 tried to reorganize and desired to take control of the nebula's transtector factory to create more Decepticon soldiers. Train Wars: Goshooter & Shūta Gō Chapter

Ask Vector Prime

In some versions of the history of the Primax 785.06 Alpha system, the G Nebula Transtector that became Overlord was intended to be a new body for a fallen Decepticon known as Gigatron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/24

TV Magazine comic continuity

Super-God Masterforce comic

"I am a freak?, Not so, I am a devil!"

After a failed assault on planet Athenia and the defeat of Scramble 7, the Decepticons returned to Earth and were met by their new commander, the mysterious Overlord. The Battle Begins! The Earth-Space Alliance Army

Giga and Mega debuted their Transtectors in an attack on a city, during which they combined into Overlord and devastated the Autobot Godmasters with their Daemon Blast and Bolt Masher weapons. Blindsided and badly damaged by the newly created God Ginrai, Overlord was goaded into pursuing the Autobot out into space, where BlackZarak was battling the Autobot Headmasters. As BlackZarak turned to face the approaching Ginrai, the cunning Autobot swiftly ducked out of the way, causing Overlord and BlackZarak to attack each other. Gravely wounded, Overlord returned to Earth, while BlackZarak fled back into space. God Ginrai's Amazing Divine Combination!

Overlord's base mode was employed by the Decepticon to hold Shūta Gō and Cab prisoner, when they attempted to torture the two boys into becoming members of the Decepticons. Their fellow Autobot Junior, Minerva, came to their rescue when she crashed Godbomber through Overlord's walls and freed them, after which Overlord transformed to robot mode to face the approaching Ginrai and Grand Maximus. It wasn't his best showing: after Ginrai combined with Godbomber, Grand crashed his battleship directly into Overlord's face, and God Ginrai used the Headmaster's "Master Blade" to slice off Overlord's legs. Their Transtectors forcibly separated, the battered Giga and Mega escaped. The Good and Evil Families of Earth

"Cry some more!"

From the top of Chomolungma, Overlord rained destruction down on the world using the Decepticons' newest weapon, the A.O. Laser. When Ginrai and Godbomber arrived to stop him, Overlord turned the laser on them; they dodged, but they had failed to observe the presence of the Decepticons' newest member, the Godmaster Clouder, who reflected the laser beam back at them and knocked them out of the sky. Unfortunately for Overlord, a chance comment from Cancer insulting Clouder's falcon mode plunged the Godmaster into such a rage that he turned on his Decepticon allies and blew up the A.O. Laser in Overlord's hands. Although Ginrai had been temporarily blinded by the A.O. Laser, the Headmaster Juniors were able to serve as his eyes and point him in the right direction to unleash his "God Punch" attack, which clobbered Overlord so hard that Giga and Mega actually popped out of his chest. The Decepticons' Great Counterattack!

Soon thereafter, when the Autobots were off-Earth visiting their space-based allies, BlackZarak was able to return to Earth, and he and Overlord took the opportunity to attack a city. The Autobots soon returned with, and Ginrai and Godbomber grappled with Overlord, forcing him to separate back into the Megajet and Gigatank. The two Autobots clung onto the separate Transtectors, however, refusing to let them escape, as they waited for the new weapon they had brought back from space, the VX Bomb to detonate. The explosion came seconds later, knocking Mega and Giga's Transtectors offline, but Ginrai and Godbomber survived by combining into God Ginrai. Life or Death? The Desperate Divine Combination!

Don't ever speak about Broly.

When BlackZarak attacked a city, Cancer happened to be here, and BlackZarak showed his disdain for humans by using the boy as a bargaining chip to prevent the Autobots from interfering with his deviltry. Horrified at this treatment of Cancer, Overlord viciously attacked BlackZarak, rescuing Cancer from his grip, but while they were fighting, it allowed the Autobots to take down both of them. The Great Turnabout of the Autobots

In light of this act of treachery by Overlord, it was perhaps not surprising that in the midst of his next battle with Ginrai, Overlord himself was the subject of a betrayal. In an attempt to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform, Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, and then turned on Overlord and the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors, attempting to drain theirs and Ginrai's Jinchōkon and take it for his own. They were saved by the Autobot Pretenders, who blocked the Jinchōkon-absorbing beam, and Overlord decided to join with the Autobots in defeating Devil Z. Overlord joined with all the other Transformers in combining their energies into the "Perfect Transform Attack", which finally destroyed BlackZarak and Devil Z once and for all. With the alien's death, the Transformers' Transtectors were brought to life as true super-robot lifeforms, Overlord's included. Alas, Devil Z's energies had also been sustaining the lives of Giga and Mega, and his death also resulted in theirs. The now-living Overlord and Ginrai Transtectors decided to take their troops back into space, where Overlord vowed to defeat Ginrai in memory of Mega and Giga, and for the honor of the Decepticons. The Birth of the Super Life-Forms

Zone comic

Your hair is like lavender but smells like strawberries.

Years after the end of the Masterforce War, Overlord was among the Decepticons recruited by the new Decepticon emperor Violengiguar to become the strongest of his Nine Great Demon Generals. In addition to his new title of "Super-God General", Overlord was outfitted with new armor and weapons that made him even more dangerous than before. Zone Part 1

One month after the Demon Generals destroyed the planet Feminia, apparently taking the life of the Autobot Supreme Commander Victory Saber in the process, Overlord led Menasor, Bruticus and Abominus in an attack on the planet Zone, where they successfully stole a sample of the super-energy, Energon Z. When the Zone Base transformed into battle mode and opened fire on the Decepticons, Overlord called retreat, seeing no need to stay and fight when the prize was already theirs. Overlord then handed the Energon Z off to the second platoon of generals, who subsequently headed for Earth, but were defeated in battle there by the Autobot Powered Master Dai Atlas. Transformers: Zone

It wasn't long before Overlord got his own chance to go up against Dai Atlas, but the Powered Master didn't think much of this so-called "Strongest of the Generals," aiming to finish their battle in under eight seconds. Whether or not he achieved this lofty goal is unknown, but he did lay out Overlord with his powerful "Galactic Dash" attack. Zone Part 6

The Generals later schooled Metrotitan and the Metrosquad in the ways of evil, making them formidable foes for the Powered Masters. Zone Part 7

PDTF Comic

I'm a foot and a half taller than you, but whatever.

During a battle between Overlord and Super Ginrai, the Autobot Godmaster prepared to attack with Chokon Power. When he raised his hands to summon Tenchokon, however, he was struck by a bolt of lightning, causing Overlord to smirk that the weather wasn't looking too good. Fight! Super Ginrai!!

Sitting in a field, watching the clouds float by, Overlord started to wonder what he was doing with his life and decided he needed a day off to reflect on his lot. Unfortunately, he had chosen to sit down and have this epiphany in the middle of a huge battle, and Megatron began shouting at him to get back up and join the fight. Oh, Overlord

European toy bio continuity

Collect all time-displaced toys.

A legend by virtue of his very existence, Overlord is the ultimate Decepticon anti-hero. Emerging to join the Transformers' war at some undetermined point in space and time, Overlord fights alone on the battlefield despite his Decepticon allegiance, a monolithic horror born of "advanced robotic engineering" whose special abilities—including the power to travel across dimensions—come from the "Energon figures" that operate his multiple functions.

To counter the monstrous threat posed by this powerful new breed of Decepticon, the Autobots developed their own new team of warriors, the Motorvators, emulating Overlord's Energon figure technology to make the trio a match for his awesome power.^[2][3]

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: Megatron Origin #2

They're so cute when they're small.

Overlord was born on Cybertron's second moon 4.2 million years ago, a rare breed known as a "Point One Percenter". After its "first flash" killed the hapless miners who discovered it, his spark was taken by the Functionist Council's authenticator Three-of-Twelve. Remembrance Day

Hey, he appeared as a rabid fan of gladiatorial combat in a crowd shot once. Wouldn't it be awesome if someone built a whole character round that?

In the days before the Cybertronian civil war, Overlord was both an avid spectator of Megatron's gladiatorial matches Megatron Origin #2 and a participant in the bouts, even fighting Megatron himself. Megatron would be the only opponent to ever defeat Overlord, and he did so regularly, giving Overlord a pathological fear of defeat. Remembrance Day Under Cold Blue Stars All the same, Overlord still joined Megatron's Decepticon faction upon its founding, though it was not the loftiness of the Decepticon cause that Megatron espoused which enticed him. Rather, it was the chance to have the glorious excess of the gladiator battles move beyond the arena, to encompass entire worlds. To Overlord, the ends didn't matter overly much when the means themselves were this pleasurable. As a result, his tactics developed a reputation as unsound, and his schemes as nothing more than flights of brutal whimsy. Unlike many other powerful Decepticons, he had no interest in command, only in taking his slaughter to the next stage. Megatron was not convinced, however, believing the image of Overlord as simply interested in killing to be a façade, and began searching for a way to exert greater control over him.

Weapon O.

Recognizing Overlord's power, Megatron regularly sparred with him, and eventually, three million years ago, selected him to be the fourth candidate for an upgrade process that would transform him into a world-shatteringly powerful superwarrior. Rendered virtually indestructible by an infusion of ununtrium to his endoskeleton, Overlord's first action as a member of the "Warriors Elite" was to smash out of his capsule and kill the scientist who oversaw the process, Rossum. He could not, however, do the same to Megatron: the Decepticon leader had not been foolish, and had, during the upgrade process, had Shockwave equip Overlord with both a killswitch that could deactivate him, and infect him with an Achilles virus that caused a "tactical blindspot" preventing him from figuring out how to harm Megatron. Remembrance Day Last Stand of the Wreckers #3 When Soundwave was captured by the Autobots and brought to the New Institute for brainwashing, Overlord saw his chance to free himself from these shackles. While ostensibly attacking the facility to rescue Soundwave, he also captured the cerebroscientist Trepan, and studied the basics of mnemosurgery from him, intending to hack Shockwave's memories and learn how to deactivate his killswitch and the virus. Megatron caught wind of Overlord's scheming before he learned how to interface with others, and had Trepan killed. Remembrance Day Overlord later participated in the Battle for Hell's Point alongside the other members of the Warriors Elite. The Gloaming

I am not a number!

While embroiled in battle on Caldoon 4, Overlord was called to a teleconference with Megatron, who announced the finalization of his infiltration protocol, and that Overlord would join fellow Warriors Elite Sixshot and Black Shadow in being reclassified as "Phase Sixers", called in to alien worlds to enact the doomsday scenario of the protocol's final phase. Dissatisfied with being declared a weapon that operated at someone else's whim, Overlord contested his appointment, and Megatron gave him two options: do as he was told, or refuse and have Megatron hunt him down. Overlord made his choice quickly, returning to the battle outside and dispatching every Autobot save one—Kup—who he allowed to survive so a message could be sent to Megatron: Overlord had chosen option two. He proceeded to leave Caldoon 4 to plan for Megatron's inevitable coming. Last Stand of the Wreckers #2 For his treason, Overlord found his way onto the infamous list of traitors maintained by the Decepticon Justice Division. Who's Afraid of the DJD?

Some time later, Overlord initiated a conflict with the emperor of a star system who was in possession of interstellar travel capabilities and weapons technology that rivaled his own. Finding himself overmatched, Overlord sought and secured the aid of Gorelock's Decepticon battalion, which, at the time, was assigned to Spensifax B. The ensuing battle, according to the estimates of science officer Vivisector, set the technological development of the empire back an estimated 250,000 years. Gorelock's prisoner clemency request

We peed a little.

At the height of the cross-galactic Decepticon uprising, Overlord arrived at Garrus-9 in the midst of the Decepticon siege of the prison, and casually murdered garrison leader Skyquake when he refused to turn command over to him. Intending to turn Garrus-9 into his home away from home, Overlord personally defeated warden Fortress Maximus and threw him to the crowd of Decepticon prisoners he had freed as a show of good faith. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 Overlord was not done with Maximus, though, later imprisoning him and personally torturing him for information on the Aequitas computer hidden in the bowls of Garrus-9, and the mysterious secret of the prison that the computer had been created to hide. Maximus refused to give up the passcodes to the device's chamber even after Overlord threatened to kill an Autobot for every second that he withheld them. Interiors

"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, I expect you to die and be a cheap funeral".

During his time in command of Garrus-9, Overlord turned the prison into a huge gladiatorial arena, and had the prisoners fight for their lives with the promise that victory meant freedom. This was, of course, a lie; those who won in twelve bouts were offered the choice of facing Overlord himself or committing suicide. Overlord forced the imprisoned Grimlock to watch footage both of these matches and of the sacking of the prison, possibly driving him insane. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 After a year of this, some of the Decepticons began to have doubts about their sadistic leader; Fearswoop was lucky to survive when he questioned Overlord's lack of sportsmanship, but Wingblazer and his partner were not so fortunate when they let an Autobot prisoner get the better of them during a hunt, and Overlord killed them for their carelessness. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 Around this time, Overlord also released Shockwave from confinement and let him leave in return for the Achilles Virus being removed. Shockwave could tell that all Overlord was doing with Garrus-9 was trying to get Megatron's attention, though Overlord denied it. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

Better than television!

Two years later, Overlord and his Decepticons watched the captive Autobot Kick-Off battle the Decepticon Borehole for his amusement. Kick-Off triumphed and was taken to Overlord's quarters Last Stand of the Wreckers #1 where he was offered the customary choice; Last stand of the Wreckers #4 he evidently opted to fight Overlord, given the brutalized state of his body when it was later found. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

Not long thereafter, the Autobot strike team known as the Wreckers arrived to liberate Garrus-9, one of their drop pods crashing into the arena chamber right in front of Overlord's feet. Last Stand of the Wreckers #2 Although disappointed to discover that the new arrivals were not troops sent by Megatron, Overlord was amused by the joke made by Rotorstorm about Wreckers combining... right before he shot him through the head. The Wreckers turned down Overlord's proposal of surrender but were unable to injure him, and escaped into the prison by detonating a fuel tank to cover their withdrawal. Last Stand of the Wreckers #3

FINAL ROUND, FIGHT!

Regrouping with help from the Decepticon Snare, who had come to believe that the Decepticons on Garrus-9 were as trapped by Overlord as the Autobots were, the Wreckers established a new mission objective: kill Overlord. They did not have to hunt him down, however, as he soon arrived to take them on. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 The fight quickly made its way to the rooftop of Garrus-9, where Guzzle was torn in half and used to dispatch Kup. A harpoon through the eye courtesy of Impactor barely fazed Overlord, who delivered a defeat more crushing than any beating: the Autobot prisoners the Wreckers had come to liberate had all been executed on his orders already. Overlord proved able even to shrug off the massive payload of a huge chaingun-like weapon provided to Springer by Ironfist, but after all the other Autobots around him had been dispatched, Ironfist revealed the weapon's secret: it had injected Overlord with thousands of deterrence chips, which Ironfist then remotely detonated, reducing Overlord to a flaming, yet still-functional skeleton.

"Megatron better not show up when I'm naked!"

Ironfist fell unconscious, leaving only Verity Carlo to hear Overlord's wrathful ranting, as he demanded to know how he could meet a challenge from Megatron in this sorry state. Realizing this was what Overlord had longed for all along, Verity dropped the bomb: Megatron was dead. Overlord was stunned by the realization that while he had dedicated every waking hour of his existence to his supposedly inevitable fight with Megatron, the Decepticon leader had never cared, and would never come. He put up no resistance when Impactor recovered, but Impactor refused to kill Overlord, for Springer's sake, and promised to take him in to face justice. Last Stand of the Wreckers #5

First class may seem like a rip off but it has advantages over the alternatives.

Bumblebee believed that the Autobots had a moral obligation to return P.O.W.s to their natural state, so he had the Decepticon's body rebuilt. Prowl, intent on learning from Overlord the secrets of the process that created the Phase Sixers, acquiesced to Bumblebee's decision in hopes it would encourage Overlord to talk, and released a cover story that claimed the villain's spark had been extracted and sealed in a whiteout vacuum. In the wake of Cybertron's rebirth following the Chaos event, Prowl petitioned Chromedome to use his mnemosurgery skills to read Overlord's memories in the hopes of creating an army of "Autobot Phase Sixers," but Chromedome refused. Learning that Chromedome was leaving Cybertron aboard the Lost Light, Prowl convinced Rodimus to allow him to put Overlord on the Lost Light. Remembrance Day The Sound of Breaking Glass At launch, he had the Duobots secretly load Overlord aboard the ship and instructed Drift to talk Chromedome around to his way of thinking when the time was right. As a security measure, Overlord was held within a slow cell in which time passed much more slowly. Remembrance Day

When the Lost Light launched, an accident aboard caused a massive quantum explosion, and as a result the ship was split into two identical copies—one on-course, and one off-course—each containing an identical Overlord. On the on-course Lost-Light, Rodimus died in an accident with a Sparkeater, after which Drift came clean to Ultra Magnus, who proceeded to inform the rest of the crew. slaughterhouse Part 2: The Road Not Taken When Brainstorm—a deep-cover double agent with Decepticon ties—was contacted by his Decepticon handler and demanded proof of his loyalty to the Decepticon cause, the Autobot panicked and put through a call to the Decepticon Justice Division, sabotaging Overlord's slow cell so that the DJD could detect his energy signature. Our Steps Will Always Rhyme The DJD initially agreed to not harm the crew of the Lost Light so as to maintain his cover, The Permanent Revolution but reneged when they discovered Drift aboard the ship. The DJD proceeded to slaughter the entire crew of the Lost Light slaughterhouse The Road Not Taken The Permanent Revolution before finally going to chop off Overlord's head off with a saw. Crossing Overlord's name off the list, the DJD left the shattered wreckage of the Lost Light behind in orbit of Ofsted XVII. slaughterhouse

On the off-course Lost Light, the "other" Overlord remained a prisoner of the Autobots; when a crack was cut in the cell by the stowaway Sparkeater, paranoid security director Red Alert began hearing noises emanating from within. After recording the noises and discovering, with aid from Rung, that it was a massively-slowed down voice repeating "Kill me", How Ratchet Got His Hands Back Red Alert widened the crack and discovered the cell's occupant, Interiors but was mysteriously deactivated in an alleged suicide before he could tell anyone. An Intimate Beheading

After Chromedome's Conjunx Endura Rewind was grievously injured in battle, the possibility of losing Rewind was enough to convince Chromedome to begin visiting the slow cell to probe Overlord's mind in a series of mental interrogation sessions, gradually acclimatizing himself to the Decepticon's mental architecture. Remembrance Day As a safeguard in the event of Overlord's escape, he subtly altered the Decepticon's memories so as to make him associate the phrase "'Til all are one!" with defeat in combat, knowing that Rodimus would undoubtedly say this in a battle and give the Autobots a potential opening to take down the stunned Decepticon. Under Cold Blue Stars

So Overlord walks into a bar. Everybody dies. Painfully.

During the last of these sessions, however, Chromedome made a fatal mistake when he inadvertently revealed to Overlord that Megatron was still alive. Spurred back to action, Overlord used the mnemosurgery tricks he had learned from Trepan to take over their mental link and plucked the code for the slow cell from Chromedome's memories. Bursting free from his restraints, he opened the cell and sealed Chromedome in, Remembrance Day then proceeded to go on a rampage through the ship, first stomping Pipes to death, then attacking Ratchet in the medibay. The assembled crew of the ship confronted him in battle, during which Overlord stabbed Ultra Magnus through the spark, then turned on Rodimus asking him for last words. When Rodimus replied with "'til all are one," however, the phrase tripped Overlord's mnemonic trigger, allowing him to be herded back to the slow cell by Fortress Maximus so that he could be jettisoned from the ship. At the last moment, however, the plan was nearly thwarted when one of Overlord's stolen swords was lodged in the cell doors; as the only 'bot small enough to remove it, Rewind squeezed through the gap and pulled the sword free, allowing the cell to jettison but trapping himself inside with Overlord. Under Cold Blue Stars Overlord gleefully began torturing the little Autobot Rage, Rage before Chromedome, in an act of mercy, used the ship's guns to destroy the floating cell. Under Cold Blue Stars Overlord's still-living but inert body was left drifting in space. The Gloaming No Guns, No Swords, No Briefcases

Approximately six months later, the crew of the surviving Lost Light encountered the wreck of the quantum duplicate over Ofsted XVII following the disappearance of their own vessel. Nautica and Nightbeat discovered Overlord's headless corpse in the slow cell. slaughterhouse This, combined with numerous other historical inconsistencies and the atrocities found by the others, led the Lost Lighters to figure out that they were aboard an quantum duplicate version of their ship that had been visited by the DJD. The alternate Overlord's corpse vanished with the rest of the wrecked Lost Light when the main Lost Light was restored to reality. The Road Not Taken.

And another thing, Dad told me when you were born what he really wanted was a Labrador.

In the meantime, the other Overlord was recovered and rebuilt by the Galactic Council. Do Not Go Gentle After a lengthy recuperation process, Your Fierce Tears the Council deployed him to the homeworld of the Necrobot and take down Megatron, whose recent defection to the Autobots threatened to undermine the anti-Cybertronian sentiment that the council had spent years cultivating among its members. Do Not Go Gentle Overlord interrupted a one-sided battle between his old tormentor and the D.J.D. commander Tarn. Declaring that only he was allowed to kill Megatron, Overlord attacked Tarn, distracting both from noticing the crippled Megatron escaping on a hoverscooter. Seeing that their goals overlapped, Tarn brought Overlord in as a temporary ally.

Aboard the Peaceful Tyranny, Overlord immediately began undermining Tarn's command by trying to sow doubt in the mind of Deathsaurus while openly mocking the D.J.D. The D.J.D's image didn't benefit from a panicked Kaon begging Tarn to save his captured "Pet". Overlord watched on as Tarn decapitated Kaon and then jammed his severed head into Overlord's chest, telling him he wouldn't be mocked by such a desperate attention seeker. Your Fierce Tears

Admit it, you cheered a little at this.

When sundown came, Overlord stood with Tarn and Deathsaurus, a big smirk on his face, as they prepared to storm the Autobots. At Close of Day After swatting Cyclonus to the floor, he gleefully sought out Chromedome and began to mock him with claims of what he'd done to Rewind, so Chromedome decked him, the first obvious sight the Autobots were charged with something. Once the charge ran out though, Megatron finally emerged to tear through the Decepticons...

...and Overlord dismissed this as just him getting a gun back. Bored and finding it easy to now shoot him down, Rage, Rage Overlord concluded that Megatron had become a coward, and—disgusted by this change of heart—grimly told Tarn that he didn't need Megatron anymore before flying off. Do Not Go Gentle

And now he can transform into a Karen. He really is pure evil.

Overlord spent the next few years aimlessly wandering, bored with life, before coming in contact with the exiled mad scientist Tarantulas, stationed on Earth. The two formed a partnership; after arriving on Earth, Overlord agreed to become a test subject for Tarantulas' ever-evolving Chimeracon process. Through Tarantulas' mad science, Overlord gained a third, human-based disguise; in this guise, he was able to forge an identity for himself as "Megan Guiglione," a populist anti-Cybertronian politician aiming to sow discord throughout Earth's political systems as its inhabitants struggled to adjust to life under the Council of Worlds. Not only could "Guiglione" secure funding and resources for Tarantulas' latest plan, but Tarantulas was also fascinated by the effects that "Megan" had on the government of the United States, seeing it as a twisted social experiment.

At one rally, "Megan" was attacked by Springer, who had been temporarily brainwashed by members of Mayhem and puppeteer into annihilating the firebrand politician, but only succeeded in revealing Overlord. Overlord promptly resumed his normal robot mode and slaughtered the Mayhem operatives who attempted to engage him. Intrigued by the reappearance of Verity at this meeting, Overlord abducted her and returned to the dormant volcano where he and Tarantulas had established their base. There, Tarantulas revealed the "Timemaze," a functional time machine through which Tarantulas would send Overlord back in time, over and over, and his actions would create an infinity of new timelines for Tarantulas to play with. Overlord, however, revealed that he had no interest in being Tarantulas's lackey anymore: instead, he would use the Timemaze to travel back in time and kill Megatron, wiping him from this reality and every alternate universe that might happen to spring up. He punctuated this statement (and his partnership with Tarantulas) by shooting the spider in the back of the head.

Before he could enter the machine, however, Springer and Impactor arrived; tackling Springer, the two plummeted into the volcano's caldera, causing a landslide that temporarily separated the combatants from one another. By the time Overlord found his feet and advanced on the two Autobots, Impactor sacrificed himself by allowing Springer to fire through him, giving him the opportunity to make a break for the Timemaze with Overlord in hot pursuit. As Overlord caught up to Springer, however, the villainous Phase Sixer was paralyzed by a sonic howl from Carnivac, forcing both halves of his body to involuntarily assume their alternate modes. Taking advantage of this paralysis, Springer and Verity were able to send his jet half into the distant future, then sent his tank half plummeting into the distant past. Requiem of the Wreckers

Classics

Everything's shrunk except those glorious lips.

Long ago, Gigatron, the Overlord, grew restless in his duties at Darkmount, and forfeited his throne to Straxus. His psychotic craving for power led him to scour the universe, ultimately leading him to Earth.

Gigatron crash-landed in Japan, where he adopted a robot form resembling a shogun and a Type 90 tank altmode. With most of Earth's Decepticons offplanet with Megatron, he was able to gather a small army of ten warriors, and he would infrequently clash with Metalhawk and his fellow Earthbound Autobots. BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card Once, Gigatron searched in Kitakyushu for Musashi's sword, but legends of the sword's strength were exaggerated.

Soon, Gigatron had set his sights on another potential source of power, Rarified Energon. The Autobots had been guarding it for a period of time, and had been moving it frequently to keep it out of the hands of the Decepticons. But Gigatron discovered that the Rarified Energon had been moved to Ironworks, and effortlessly battled through an army of RUNTs to reach the Autobot station. There, he fought Metalhawk, and he and his Decepticons were forced to retreat. BotCon 2012 Gigatron profile card Invasion Prologue

Gigatron continued to keep vigil over Ironworks, however, and when Spinister brought him news of a skirmish involving heroic Decepticons and evil Autobots, Gigatron knew it was time to strike! With this distraction, they could easily take the Rarified Energon hidden in the vaults for themselves.

Gigatron's about to be really happy he got stuck on Earth.

Once it was discovered that the evil Autobots were also after the Rarified Energon, Gigatron refused to be out-conquered. He and the majority of his troops came to the rescue of Sir Soundwave, who was about to get assimilated by Junkions. Aiming to show these heroic Decepticons how it's done, he set Soundwave loose and continued battling the Junkions.

What Gigatron did not know was that the evil Autobots, led by Ultra Magnus, intended to warp this iteration of Earth to their own universe's Cybertron, destroying it in the process. Though Sir Soundwave was able to expand the force field surrounding the evil Autobots' machinery large enough to protect the entire planet, saving Gigatron and his troops, no one foresaw the true scale of Magnus's intentions. And so as Earth neared the alternate universe Cybertron, its entire dimension was destroyed behind them, leaving Gigatron and the rest of his Earth's denizens the last remnants of their universe.

Gigatron and the others were unsurprisingly distraught, so the Bard of Darkmount recited for them a hopeful poem. Invasion

Recordicons

Laserbeak took to perching on Gigatron's arm. Recordicons #23

Kre-O online comic

He's using...the smolder.

Overlord was part of a massive Decepticon invasion force intended to ruin the Autobots' picnic. However, Optimus Prime plowed through them with his truck and left them scattered... and then left. Returning to the scene after.. ahem, taking care of some pressing business, Optimus gathered up the still-wiped-out Kreons, bound them up on a flatbed trailer, and took them to the picnic. Emergency! Hurry to the Base, Optimus!

The AllSpark Almanac

Overlord was a Duocon who possessed a mitotic spark. The Complete AllSpark Almanac

TransTech

A Duocon Overlord found his way to Axiom Nexus, and became one of its most infamous "Parallel Killers". Rook - Axiom Nexus news, 2015/06/15

Ask Vector Prime

In one reality, Overlord was a Decepticon who was "genderfluid" by organic-based gender standards. The Arcee of Overlord's reality would mention Overlord in a lecture given in Axiom Nexus which Vector Prime attended. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/23

Beast Wars: Uprising

At the onset of the Pax Cybertronia, Overlord held Decepticon leadership for a brief time, A Brush With Infamy–Prologue before he was overthrown by Thunderwing. Cultural Appropriation

Titans Return marketing material

A member of the ultra-elite Phase Sixer strike team, Overlord annihilated civilizations ready for Decepticon conquest. He was partnered with the ancient Titan Master Dreadnaut, who granted his larger partner an Ion Impoder blast that could erase matter from existence. Titans Return Dreadnaut/Overlord packaging bio

Transformers: All Spark

Under the control of Giga, Overlord set up a trap by emitting a signal to lure in and destroy some Autobots, and was disappointed when only Bumblebee and Spike showed up. He didn't do well while fighting the smaller opponents, however, and Mega ousted Giga from his position as Overlord's head to show him how it was done. Backed up by Blitzwing and Octane, Mega's Overlord nearly destroyed Bumblebee and Spike before Autobot reinforcements arrived and defeated the Decepticons, after which Overlord returned to his leader, Megatron. Looming Threat

Prime Wars Trilogy cartoons

Voice actor: Patrick Seitz (English)

Let's bury the hatch—I say—let's bury the hatchet! But not in anyone's head, boy! "Hatchet head"! That's a joke, boy, you missed it. It went past you. You got to keep—I say—you got to keep on your toes!

Having been defeated by Megatron in the past, the only one to ever do so, Overlord sought revenge on the Decepticon leader. Promised the power to best Megatron by Megatronus, he pledged his loyalty and uncovered the Matrix of Chaos from within the remains of Unicron. Volcanicus Witnessing the events of the Combiner Wars from afar, he decided to get a closer look for the sake of curiosity. Upon arrival in Metroplex City, he eventually found his way into the Primal Basilica, where he encountered the Mistress of Flame.

She attacked him, but he easily overpowered her and demanded to know where he could find Megatron. When the Mistress of Flame failed to answer, Overlord electrocuted her and departed, leaving her for dead. Overlord and Emissary Overlord later found a weakened Hot Rod and deemed him a suitable host for the Matrix of Chaos before forcibly shoving it into his chest, corrupting him and turning him into Rodimus Cron. At the Last Second Later, he and Rodimus observed the fall of Trypticon and the return of Megatronus from afar. All Things Must Pass

Searching for Megatron and the Requiem Blaster under Megatronus's orders, he and Rodimus attacked the Combiners. He restrained Menasor until he finally confessed Megatron's whereabouts, prompting Overlord to snap his neck and head to Primal Swamp. Volcanicus Upon their arrival, Overlord was enraged to not find Megatron, but he and Rodimus spotted the Dinobots and interrogated them for Megatron's next destination: the Athenaeum Sanctorum. The two picked up the trail and eventually reached the library, where Overlord spotted Megatron and lunged at him, promising to take his time in making Megatron suffer. Athenaeum Sanctorum He attempted to electrocute Megatron into submission, but Megatron escaped with Perceptor's help. Undeterred, Overlord engaged in battle with Megatron, Grimlock and Windblade, insistent that he be the one to finish the former. However, Optimus Primal tossed the Requiem Blaster to Megatron, who completely disintegrated Overlord with a single shot. Countdown

Games

Transformers Legends

Overlord was part of a battle at some point, fighting alongside Rumble, Jetfire, and Sunstreaker. Fan Favorite

Transformers: Earth Wars

In Transformers: Earth Wars, Overlord is considered a combiner character, and is unlocked by completing the "War For Cybertron" section of the story mode, which prominently features him.

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Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive

Overlord commands the twentieth Decepticon base under attack from Autobot raiders, he must be defeated once players reach 126,000,000 points. Transformers: Bumblebee Overdrive

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

Not to be confused with Blackstar's nemesis.

• Overlord (Godmaster, 1988)

• ID number: D-307
• Accessories: "Giga" & "Mega" Godmaster engines, "Transtector Destroyer Cannon", 3 missiles, tank barrel, 2 ramps/shin guards, central ramp, 2 radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car
• Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Masterforce Overlord consists of two vehicles, the Gigatank and the Megajet, which are able to combine together to form a robot mode or a base mode. Like any Godmaster (or Powermaster), Overlord is only able to transform when the Giga and Mega Godmaster figures are transformed into engine mode and snapped into place in the sockets on top of the vehicles. Inserting Giga into the tank splits it in half to form legs for robot mode, or alternatively, the left and right emplacements of the base (the left containing a fold-out twin cannon, the right a poseable claw arm). Fitting Mega into the jet, meanwhile, unlocks the toy's shoulder articulation for robot mode and its fold-out launchpad for base mode. Once the toy is in its hefty, 15"-tall robot mode, the figures can be removed from their sockets and fitted into two further ports hidden beneath doors on his chest, which unlock the multi-barreled "Chōkon Daemon Blast" and spring-loaded "Chōkon Bolt Masher" weapons that pop out of his stomach. One figure can also fit into the Roller-style car that comes with the set.

All of these Godmaster-activated features can be unlocked with any Decepticon engine; while Autobot engines can fit into the sockets, they won't unlock anything.

There is, unfortunately, no one mode that uses all of Overlord's many accessories.

Overlord's instructions do not feature the additional large jet mode seen in the animated series and manga, as it (like Sixshot's "Wingwolf" mode or BlackZarak's "Dakatsu" mode) was created by the production staff after fiddling around with the toy itself. As such, it's entirely possible to put the toy in this form, although it doesn't rest evenly on a flat surface.

• More information on Overlord at TFU.info

The Transformers

• Overlord (Decepticon, 1991)

• Accessories: 2 "Energon mini figures", missile-launching rifle, three missiles, tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, double-barreled laser, rocket launcher, car
• Known designers: Andy Couzens (Hasbro)

Overlord's toy was later released in Hasbro's Europe and Australasia markets, with a slightly darker shade of purple plastic, in a packaging design reminiscent of the concurrently available "Classics" figures.

As Powermasters were long off the market by that point, Overlord's companions were called "Energon mini figures" instead, the term also used for the mini-robots that came with the concurrently-released Motorvators (redecos of three of the Takara-market Brainmaster molds). Brand synergy, baby!

Let's see what you can see... This article is in need of images. Specifics: European variant

Timelines

Oh my, Bludgeon, you've never looked so... kissable... before...

• Invasion (Box set, 2013)

• Accessories: Katana, tanto

Timelines "Gigatron" (trademark reasons) is a redeco/retool of Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Class Bludgeon, sporting a new head. Gigatron transforms from a Japanese Type 90 tank into a samurai-esque robot mode. He features a flexible plastic sword which is made out of a portion of the barrel of the tank's main gun as well as a smaller dagger. The dagger can be stored in a sheath which is revealed from inside the tank turret, and both blades can be slotted in holes provided on the robot mode's left hip guard. Additionally, the dagger's handle can fit in the base of the sword's handle, forming a double-bladed weapon. He has Mech Alive gimmicks in his thighs and turret: Sculpted cylinders in his thighs rotate whenever his lower legs are rotated, and pulling his turret open makes a sculpted "disc" at the center rotate while a scabbard for the tantō hinges over to the side and props itself up for use.

The vehicle mode is one of the very few Transformer tank toys with rubber components to its treads. Portions of the tread links can unlock, allowing them to hang from the robot mode, while the wheels of the treads are integrated separately into the robot mode form itself. The treads still do not function realistically; small plastic wheels on the underside of the treads help the tank mode roll, as is standard with nearly all Transformer tank toys.

The original version of this mold was redecoed into Transformers Banzaitron, and it was differently retooled to make Generations Megatron and Cloud Megatron.

As a redeco of the Revenge of the Fallen Bludgeon mold, it is highly likely that Gigatron is cursed with the same design fault as his brethren—the rubber treads break down over the course of years, causing them to corrode spots of plastic and leave melty gashes behind. This is particularly sad considering Gigatron is a convention-exclusive figure.

Gigatron was released in a BotCon 2012 exclusive box set with Ultra Magnus, Tracks, Treadshot, Soundwave, and Metalhawk.

• More information on BotCon Gigatron at TFU.info

Kre-O

Far less kissable than previous Gigatrons.

• Kreon Souvenir Figure Set (Kreon Souvenir Figure Set, 2014)

• Accessories: Katana, robot sword

"Kreon Gigatron" is based on the BotCon 2012 Gigatron figure, and can be re-built into a battle tank. His gun barrel is partially made from/stores his katana blade, just like the larger figure. He uses the Sentinel Prime helmet.

This figure was only available as part of a BotCon 2014 exclusive Kre-O six-pack, including Breakdown, Fractyl, Landshark, Rattrap, and Shattered Glass Rodimus.

• More information on Gigatron at TFU.info

Titans Return

Hidden head nipple.

• Dreadnaut & Decepticon Overlord (Leader Class, 2017)

• Accessories: "Dreadnaut" Titan Master, tank barrel/gun, cockpit/shield
• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), Shogo Hasui (TakaraTomy), Emiliano Santalucia (concept artist)

Part of the fifth and final wave of Titans Return Leader Class toys, "Decepticon Overlord" is a heavy retool of the same line's Sky Shadow: the tank component is mostly a redeco with the waist slightly retooled, but the jet component is an entirely new sculpt. He retains the ability to split into both a tank and a jet simultaneously, as well as a combined base mode. In another change from Sky Shadow, the jet nosecone is now removable and can be worn as a shield on either shoulder in robot mode. It can also plug into his chest as additional armor, and the tip can be removed to make the bottom hatch more accessible.

In homage to his original Godmaster gimmick, Overlord has two opening doors on his chest which reveal slots for the storage of two individual Titan Master or Prime Master figures (one in each pectoral) in head/spark mode. Care must be taken though, as these compartments are VERY snug and the Titan Master may get stuck inside or will not fit altogether, depending on the head sculpt. The pectoral slots are also not deep enough to allow the doors to close once a Titan Master or Prime Master has been inserted. While no longer related to the pectoral accessories, this Overlord does once again have a hidden weapons system sculpted inside his chest, in this case a missile rack that is exposed by leaning back his upper body.

His tank mode still has the clips from Sky Shadow that allow for Sky Shadow's jet component to carry it, but lacks the corresponding connector on his jet component. Instead the Jet can be mounted on top of the tank by clamping Overlord's chest doors along the Tank's cab sides, although this only loosely secures it. There is also a detail sculpted at the base of his torso (ostensibly landing gear) that can be used as a base connector like the ones in his feet.

On some figures, the 5 mm hole on his tank where his gun plugs in and the holes on his shoulders are extremely snug, which can make it difficult to remove anything that might be plugged into them. The 5 mm post on his jet's nose that allows it to be used as a shield is also extremely prone to popping out, in part because of the former issue.

Both the CG renders depicted on the back of his packaging and the official stock photos depicting a near-final sample show both the tank and the jet mode with the gun/tank barrel attached, thereby implying that he includes two weapons, one to be used for each mode, even though the figure only includes one weapon. Additionally, both the CG render and the stock photo of his base mode have the section of the tank/right leg that contains a cockpit for a Titan Master flipped up, the same way Sky Shadow's base mode is also depicted in his own CG renders and stock photos, even though the instructions show the cockpit being folded down for the base mode.

Sadly, his lips are not terribly kissable.

Legends

One of my face-nipples only tells the truth - the other tells only lies. Which will you trust?

• Overlord (Leader Class, 2018)

• ID number: LG-60
• Release date: January 27, 2018
• Accessories: Gigatank barrel/gun, Giga Headmaster, Mega Headmaster, Megajet cockpit/shield

Released in the twenty-fifth wave of TakaraTomy's Legends toyline, Overlord is a retool of the Titans Return Leader Class figure above, featuring a new chest with sculpted-in Godmaster engines, new doors, and a new helmet. The Godmaster engines are not removable, nullifying the Titan/Prime Master storage on the Titans Return toy. If one wishes to restore the chest slots, one must unscrew the jet piece, and pry the pieces out from the inside. In addition to an anime-accurate deco, Overlord also comes with new Headmaster figures of Giga, with a neutral anime-accurate face, and Mega, with a smiling feminine face (more akin to Overlord's face in the IDW comics). When using Giga as a face, his chest doors are supposed to be open and the cockpit should be attached to the arm, and is referred to as Overlord Giga. With Mega, the doors are closed and the cockpit is attached to the back, and goes by the name Overlord Mega. The pack-in manga shows these two individually and combining into Overlord Tera (though the Overlord attached to the back uses sticker detail from the Titans Return toy).

Promotional photography shows Overlord's feet transformed differently from the Hasbro version, placing him up on his tippy-toes so as to increase his height. This is presumably to allow him to scale better with Legends Super Ginrai. While this does work, the front halves of the feet aren't level with the back halves, and must be adjusted at an angle to keep him standing upright, which combined with less-than-tight swivels will often leave him falling over.

Merchandise

Parody Deformed

Overlooked.

• Overlord (1990)

A small blue and white, non-transforming super deformed model kit of Overlord was available as part of Kabaya's "Parody Deformed" line of candy toys. The eighth figure in the series, he came with a "PDTF Comic" comic about himself, "Oh, Overlord", and something that could charitably be described as "chocolate".

Super Collection Figure

I can't transform? Where's the fun in that?

• Overlord (2001)
  • Act: 5
  • Accessories: Stand

A PVC figure of Overlord was part of the Super-God Masterforce-centric fifth act of Takara's Heroes of Cybertron series, available in both full colour and metallic silver "pewter", in an equal ratio of one each per case of twelve figures. His incredibly wide stance makes it difficult for him to properly use the included display stand.

In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Overlord came packaged with the right leg of the wave's "build-a-figure", BlackZarak. This part could be in either full color or clear-plastic, at an equal 4:4 ratio.

This mold was later released in the fourth wave of Hasbro's Heroes of Cybertron, as "Powermaster Gigatron".

• More information on Super Collection Figure Overlord at TFU.info
• More information on pewter Overlord at TFU.info

Heroes of Cybertron

Whaaaat? I'm safe! My shoulder spikes are rounded now! It's totally safe to come within arm's reach!

• Powermaster Gigatron (2003)

Released in the third wave of Heroes of Cybertron, "Gigatron" (trademark/marketing reasons) is a slightly-altered version of the Super Collection Figure Overlord PVC, featuring rounded-off shoulder-cones for safety reasons. He is cast in clear red plastic painted over, leaving his eyes and the back of his head unpainted to attempt a light-piping effect.

He also came with the left arm of the wave's Fortress Maximus build-a-figurine.

This figure arguably represents a separate character but is kept on this page for informative purposes.

• More information on Heroes of Cybertron Gigatron at TFU.info

Transformers Gum

Breaking out of these plastic sprues was never a challenge - I just lacked motivation.

• Overlord (2013)
  • Accessories: Giga and Mega Godmaster engines, "Transtector Destroyer Cannon", tank barrel, two ramps/shin guards, central ramp, two radar arrays, car

Overlord was released in series 2 of Kabaya's larger-sized DX gum kits. Since the original Masterforce Overlord toy could only transform by being disassembled, this particular Kabaya kit stands out from most others in terms of near-perfectly matching the transformation mechanism of its template, and can be configured into the paired Megajet-and-Gigatank vehicle modes, city mode, and a 5" tall robot mode. It also includes tiny removable (and transformable) Mega and Giga Godmaster engines, though all of their associated spring-loaded features are no longer present.

This kit also adds some new features to the Overlord design. There is now a gear-driven rotating platform in the city mode on which the small car can be spun around before deploying, and every accessory can now be stored in all of Overlord's modes.

Notes

• Overlord was a new character created for the 1988 Japanese Super God Masterforce series. While all his fellow Godmasters had American Powermaster counterpart characters (Ginrai had Optimus Prime, Lightfoot had Getaway, and so forth), Overlord's counterpart came later in the form of a 1991 European and Australasian exclusive. The bio of this figure stated that he "traverses the dimensions", which leaves the door open for him potentially being the Masterforce character who jumped dimensions into the European toy bio continuity. Overlord did not have an American counterpart until 2003, when the Heroes of Cybertron line introduced "Gigatron". However, the little-known nature of this character (existing as he did only as an obscure PVC figurine), coupled with the fact that Overlord had been around for fifteen years already, meant that the idea of a Powermaster named Gigatron who existed as a separate character from the Godmaster Overlord didn't really become widespread. Dreamwave would briefly mention "Gigatron" as the originator of the Powermaster process in their contemporary More than Meets the Eye profiles, but when the non-Godmaster version of the character appeared again a few years later in IDW Publishing's Last Stand of the Wreckers series, he was "Overlord" once more. It would not be until Fun Publications stories in 2015 and 2016 that versions of Overlord and Gigatron would be established as coexisting in the same universe.
• Early during pre-production for Masterforce, Overlord was named Leviathan. This was almost certainly a name based in series creator Masumi Kaneda's desire to sprinkle the series with assorted Biblical allegories; the name-change is fairly symptomatic of how these references wound up being downplayed to the point of near-total obfuscation in the finished show.
• James Roberts stated that he envisioned the IDW incarnation of Overlord to sound like English actor John Simm^[4] (who at the time was the most recent performer of the Master on Doctor Who). By contrast, Patrick Seitz gives Overlord a Southern U.S. accent in the Prime Wars Trilogy webtoons.
• Like all non-toy robot Kreons in the Kre-O manga, Overlord is made from existing Kre-O parts. He uses the Ironhide helmet, the twin-cannon backpack, a black clip-on tread with a small jet-fin plugged into each side, and the bazooka with an extra 1x1 cone on the end.
• The concept image for Kreon Gigatron used in the pack-in flier shows him with white tank-turret parts rather than the final toy's light gray.
• A proposed Fun Publications BotCon exclusive was a redeco of Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Class Mindwipe into "Megabolt", a counterpart to the BotCon 2012 "Gigatron" toy.^[5] The characterization for this pair of figures would be that the Classics incarnation of Overlord was magically split into two, but this toy plan did not come to fruition.

Foreign names

• Korean: Overlord (오버로드 Obeorodeu)
• Mandarin: Bàwáng (China, 霸王, "Overlord"), Chāozài (China, 超载, "Overload")

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