Override (Transformers)
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Override is the name of two different fictional characters in Transformers universes.
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[edit] Transformers: Generation 1 (1988)
| Transformers character | |
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| Override | |
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| Affiliation | Autobot  |
| Sub-Group | Triggerbots |
| Rank | 6 |
| Function | Scout |
| Motto | "Let your actions do your talking and no one will misunderstand you." |
| Alternate Modes | Cybertronian Motorcycle |
| Series | Transformers: Generation 1 |
In Generation One, Override is the name of an Autobot motorcycle, one of the Triggerbots.
FIRST APPEARANCE: TRANSFORMERS #46 (Marvel Comics)
A proud, loud, two-wheeled fighting machine. Enjoys tearing up roads and shooting up Decepticons. Doesn't know the meaning of the word "muffler". Roars into battle with all guns blazing. Equipped with armored, reinforced windshield that's able to withstand direct enemy bombardment. Also armed with twin, side-mounted, armor-piercing, particle beam cannons. Released in 1988, Override never appeared in the television series (which ended in 1987), but was featured in a few stories of the Marvel Transformers comic book and had a biography page in the Dreamwave comics.
- Appearances in the Transformers (Marvel US) Comic:
- Transformers #46 - "Cash and Car-nage"
- Transformers #48 - "The Underbase Saga, Part 2"
- Transformers #63 - "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
- (In the same issue, his Transformers Universe profile is featured.)
[edit] Transformers: Cybertron (2005)
| Transformers character | |
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| Override | |
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| Affiliation | Autobot |
| Sub-Group | Convoys Deluxe Vehicles Female Transformers |
| Rank | 9 (Hasbro) 10 (Takara) |
| Function | Sonic Commander |
| Motto | "I speed with the very truth, and that speed is justice!" |
| Alternate Modes | Velocitronian Racer |
| Series | Transformers: Cybertron |
| English voice actor | Lisa Ann Beley |
| Japanese voice actor | Jin Domon |
Originally planned as a male character (see Galaxy Force Nitro Convoy below), it's ironic that she most resembles the female Autobot leader, Elita-One.
The release of Override in Cybertron Deluxe wave 3.5 was packaged with a DVD containing the third episode of Transformers: Cybertron, called "Hidden". Oddly, she did not appear in that episode.
Hasbro Tech Spec: Long-time champion and leader of the Speed Planet, Override is always ready for a race. Acceleration is her only ideal, but she respects anyone with the guts to challenge her. She's faced and beaten thousands of upstart speedsters in her time. Though at first suspicious of the intentions Hot Shot and the Autobots have for her world's Cyber Planet Key, Override is only too glad to help once she realizes what's at stake.
Cyber Key Info: It took a long time for Override to claim the title of Leader of the Speed Planet. When the Cybertronian explorers first landed on what would become Speed Planet, races were held to see who would be leader. Override pretended to be a BOY to enter the race and the entire planet was stunned when she won the race and revealed that she was a tough-as-nails female racecar!
[edit] Animated series
In Transformers: Cybertron, Override is the leader of Velocitron, the Speed Planet. She is the holder of the Planet Cup (in reality the world's Cyber Planet Key) which marks her as the fastest racer on the planet. The culture on Velocitron is focused entirely on racing, and when both Megatron and the Autobots appealed to her to give them the Cyber Planet Key, she equally dismissed the Autobots' claims of needing it for a greater good and Megatron's that the Autobots were an evil organization, and insisted that if either side wanted it, then they'd have to race her for it.
Dirt Boss won the second qualifying round for the Great Race in episode 16, Detour, with Hot Shot coming in second and Override coming third.
In the final episode of Transformers: Cybertron, Optimus Prime (Galaxy Convoy) proposed a new Space Bridge project using the power of the four Cyber Planet Keys and the four great Cybertronian ships. Many Autobots and former Decepticons joined in the project. Override lead the Ogygia (Mu) and Velocitron Cyber Planet Key with Brakedown, Quickmix and Stripmine.
[edit] IDW Publishing
IDW's Transformers Collectors Club exclusive comic story, Revelations part 6, is set after the defeat of Galvatron but before Optimus Prime's mission to start a new Space Bridge project. In this story the Autobots from the IDW series (Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Sentinel Maximus, Downshift, Perceptor, Alpha Trion, Over-Run, Anti-Blaze, Checkpoint and Scythe) meet the Autobots from the animated series (Cybertron Optimus Prime, Jetfire, Override, Scattorshot, Red Alert, Hot Shot, Lori, Bud and Coby) and thank each other and remembering those who were lost in the battles. Override promises to make a memorial for Skyfall on Velocitron. Robots in Disguise Optimus and Sentinel Maximus vow to hunt down Unicron. Alpha Trion and Over-Run promise to help Anti-Blaze hunt down the Mini-Con insurgents.
[edit] Override with Mirage
Override was released by herself, as well as packaged with the Mini-Con Mirage and a Tiny Tin as a promotional item at Walmart stores.
[edit] Drag Race Pack
In 2006 a Target store exclusive 2 pack called the Drag Race Pack included Cybertron Hot Shot and Override.
As leader of the Speed Palent, Override raced mostly on public tracks - roads owned and used by every Speed Planet citizen. But she also has a private refuge, a network of tracks roughly the size of Texas, off limits to the rest of the planet. It is on these roads she races against only her toughest opponent - herself. Now, humbled by her defeat by Hot Shot, and his grace in victory, she has invited her new Autobot ally onto her private roads for a secluded race to truly determine who is the fastest in the galaxy.
[edit] Override GTS
In 2006 Hasbro released a repaint of Override called Override GTS. It was supposed to represent an upgrade to Override after the end of the television series. The tech spec numbers for Override GTS have higher speed, endurance and firepower stats than the regular version.
In 2006 a special edition of Override GTS was available in Walmart stores which contained a DVD with the episode "Cybertron" as a promotional item - despite the fact that she wasn't in that episode as Override GTS.
Override channeled her frustration at being beaten by both Megatron and Hot Shot into the search for the Planet Keys. Tempered by a race for something greater than a mere trophy, she returns to the Speed Planet a new leader. She has upgraded her systems with components based on the technology of both Earth and Cybertron. With her body thus enhanced, she has come back to the Speed Planet to reclaim her place as leader so that she may rule with compassion and justice learned from the Autobots.
[edit] Galaxy Force Nitro Convoy
In Transformers: Galaxy Force, the Japanese version of Cybertron, Override is named Nitro Convoy, and is a male character. Nitro Convoy is one of the five Convoys in the Galaxy Force line. A special limited black edition of Nitro Convoy was released in Japan in 2005. As with "Nemesis Breaker", "Dark Nitro Convoy" is intended to be an evil doppelganger created by Megatron.
Galaxy Convoy File: Racing is what gives Nitro Convoy's life meaning, and he boasts of a fleetness unmatched even on planet Speedia. Thanks to his remarkable abilities, he rules as Speedia's leader, and all its inhabitants show respect and admiration for him. However, he is not seeking the universal peace that the Planet Force will bring, but instead continues to quest after only his own speed. Yet, I believe that he is bound to join the Cybertron forces in pursuit of the fate that will steer the stars.
[edit] Trivia
Early concept art of Override shown at Botcon 2006 showed a different color scheme that was considered for the character. It was a mixture of blacks, silver, gold and dark red.
