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OVERBITE
Allegiance: DECEPTICON
Sub-Group: SEACON
Function: UNDERSEA
TERMINATOR
First Comic Appearance:
TRANSFORMERS #47
"There are only two kinds of creatures:
predator and prey."
Profile: A menacing,
mechanical monster whose presence makes any body of water unsafe for
swimming --or anything else-- Overbite is just about the most dangerous
creature ever to prowl the ocean depths. And perhaps he's the most
obsessed, as well, for he sees his life as an endless quest for prey.
As soon as he finishes off one victim, he goes hunting for another. But
as much as he enjoys his work, he looks to occasionally take time off
to amuse himself. For fun he chomps holes into the sides of oil tankers
and sinks cruise ships. As Overbite likes to point out, "The only thing
better than swimming through an oil slick is swimming through an oil
slick full of drowning fleshlings."
Abilities: In shark mode,
Overbite is virtually unbeatable in underwater combat. His attack is
urelenting. His teeth and talons can tear through the hull of a
battleship. His liquid cooled, turbo-powered 3,500 horsepower engine
propels him through the water at up to 70 knots. He never needs to
surface, except for regular maintenance checkups. He carries a freeze
beam blaster that can trap any underwater prey in a block of ice. He
can transform to an amphibious weapons-base mode, in which he can
create tidal waves by wagging his tail at super speed. His front end
converts to a jawbreaker cannon, which shoots powerful metal-eating,
salt-based corrosives. In this mode, when his fellow Seacons combine to
form the super-robot Piranacon, Overbite serves as Piranacon's hand
held weapon. Overbite also uses the jawbreaker cannon in robot mode.
Weaknesses: Although
virtually unbeatable underwater in shark mode, Overbite is quite
literally like a fish out of water in robot mode on land. There he is
slow, awkward and relatively weak. Needless to say, he refers to remain
aswim.
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