Overcast (Transformers)
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Overcast is the name of several fictional characters from the Transformers universes.
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[edit] Transformers: Energon
| Transformers character | |
 Energon Overcast and Jetfire linked |
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| Overcast | |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Autobot |
| Japanese name | Skyfire Sonic |
| Sub-Group | Ultra Vehicles |
| Motto | "We must fight alongside our enemy against a common threat." |
| Alternate Modes | Cybertronian Jet |
| Series | Transformers: Energon |
Overcast (Skyfire Sonic in Japan) is a repaint of Energon Jetfire, and in Japan is simply a power-up of Jetfire, however Hasbro's toy line treated the toy as Jetfire's brother. Overcast has never appeared as himself in any official storyline, but his model has represented a powered-up Jetfire in the later episodes of the Energon television series.
Overcast's bio portrayed him as a loner who didn't get involved with the Autobot-Decepticon war. However, after winessing the destruction of a planet by Unicron, Overcast's priorities changed. He aligned himself with his brother Jetfire to stop Megatron reactivating the Chaos-Bringer.
[edit] Transformers: Cybertron
| Transformers character | |
| Overcast | |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Mini-Con |
| Sub-Group | Giant Planet Mini-Con Team |
| Partner | Longarm Deepdive |
| Alternate Modes | Jet |
| Series | Transformers: Cybertron Transformers: Classics |
Overcast is the name of a Mini-Con. He is an original mold for the Cybertron line and turns into a cargo jet and is part of the Giant Planet Mini-Con team. Despite the Cybertron series being a follow up to Energon, these two characters seem to be unrelated. The Giant Planet Mini-Con team is an original Hasbro creation, and did not appear in the Japanese version of the series, Galaxy Force. As the television series was produced in Japan, these Mini-Cons didn't appear in the show.
Overcast's bio was published in issue 13 of the Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club magazine.
Overcast is the leader of the Giant Planet Mini-Con Team, a gang of Gigantion Mini-Con rebels. His self-image is incredibly over-inflated, even though his main goal in life seems to be little more than to cause trouble for others through pranks and vandalism. A classic bully, he bullies his teammates as well, mostly the spineless Deepdive. After all, Longarm can pound him into the dirt.
[edit] Toys
- Cybertron Overcast
Later releases of the Classics Ultimate Battle Pack of Optimus Prime and Megatron included two randomly picked member of the Giant Planet Mini-Con team as a bonus.[1]
[edit] 2007 Transformers Movie
| Transformers character | |
 Overcast movie toy |
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| Overcast | |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Decepticon |
| Sub-Group | Deluxe Vehicles |
| Alternate Modes | MiG-29 "Fulcrum" |
| Series | Transformers movie toys |
Though not part of the live-action Transformers film, Overcast is featured as part of the toy line's "Allspark Power" series.
Unusually brilliant, Overcast has always tended to avoid the other Decepticons, preferring instead to work in solitude on customized weapons systems he installs on his own body. He travels the galaxy inflicting his inventions on the unsuspecting, and now he has come to Earth to see how they measure up against the triumphant Autobots. Obscured behind a cloud generated by his built-in weather-makers, he drops nanite bombs capable of corroding and destroying even the most advanced machines.
[edit] Movie toys
- Movie Deluxe Class Overcast (2008)
- A black and yellow redeco of Deluxe Class Dreadwing with blue "Allspark power" paint details. Has missiles that fire from the afterburners (in vehicle mode) or from his "hands" (in robot mode).
- With a real MiG-29 being 1737 centimeters long and this toy measuring 17 centimeters long, it would have a scale of 1/102 and he would stand about 50 feet tall in robot mode.
