Overload

## **Alchemor Database:**

Raise the curtain and let Overload take center stage—the most daring, dashing Decepticon saboteur and spy Cybertron has ever known. No mere bit player is he; this roguish thespian combines his natural strength and impenetrable armor plating with the quick wit and charisma befitting a lead player. If Overload has *any* weakness, it's perhaps that his own vanity overrides his better tactical judgment, particularly when it comes to that utter plebeian Optimus Prime. Sometimes, he's partnered with the Cyclone Mini-Cons Backtrack and Ransack.

## **Season 1:**

Once, Overload shot a Cyclone at a young Slipstream, which stole his first ball bearing, causing him to go live a life of crime. While Optimus Prime was training in the Realm of the Primes, Micronus created an illusionary Decepticon resembling Overload to test him. The robot, physically identical to Overload save for his lack of a head, deployed his Mini-Cons to terminate a group of humans who had made their way into the Realm of the Primes. The robot spent most of his time just standing around while his Mini-Cons did most of the dirty work. Overload and the Mini-Cons were ultimately defeated when Optimus climbed a hill to activate his Prime Decepticon Hunter and it turned out the Decepticons and humans were mere illusions. During the war on Cybertron, Overload was the top spy for the Decepticons and his work resulted in the destruction of a number of Autobot installations. Eventually, Optimus Prime found Overload out and stopped him. He was placed in stasis and eventually stored aboard the *Alchemor*. When the *Alchemor* crashed on Earth, his stasis pod was lost.

## **Season 2:**

After reviving from stasis, Overload sensed Optimus Prime and went looking for his old foe. Arriving in the scrapyard, he found only Bumblebee, Strongarm and Grimlock. He dealt with them and opted to head for Crown City, reasoning he could draw out Prime by threatening humans, and on the way teamed up with the Cyclone Mini-Cons. Overload found a human vehicle which he began smashing as a warm up to the main show, until Bumblebee found him. Though Overload proved more than a match for the Autobot, Bumblebee managed to turn the two Mini-Cons on him, and render him unconscious with a punch. Overload was carted back to the scrapyard to get stored away. After Glowstrike broke into the scrapyard, she deactivated Overload's stasis pod, alongside several others. Overload was present after the Autobots staged a raid on the Decepticon base, and were subsequently surrounded by the base's occupants. Though the rest of the Autobots managed to escape at this time, Windblade was captured, and Overload was tasked with guarding her (much to his chagrin as he wanted to fight Optimus or at least Bumblebee). He still got to fight someone, as Ratchet and Drift came to rescue his prisoner. He was able to subdue them, but Slipstream and Jetstorm slipped away as Drift was put in another pod. The Mini-Cons managed to free Windblade and Ratchet, and after delivering a decisive blow to Overload's face, the Autobots were able to stuff their would-be-captor into a pod of his own. Overload's stasis pod was then taken back to Cybertron by Optimus Prime, Windblade and Ratchet.

**Notes**

* Though his toy turns into a tank, Overload never transforms in any of his appearances in the series.
* He's nearly invulnerable thanks to heavy armor, but one good hit to the face will take him out. He is defeated again in this manner in the second season finale.
* He doesn't remember Bumblebee from their last encounter despite severely injuring him. This changes after Bumblebee defeats him.
* His Minicon partners, Backtrack and Ransack, detach from his arms to fight.
* He shows up out of the blue looking for Optimus Prime and when finds he isn't home, he decides to attack a nearby city to draw him out.