Overdrive (Transformers)
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Overdrive is the name of a single fictional character in the Transformers universes.
[edit] Transformers: Generation One
Bio:
(From Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye Profile Book)
"Slow-pokes" is how Overdrive describes his competition, both physically and mentally. His impressive speed as a vehicle and impeccable fast thinking as a strategist have given him a superiority complex that's hard to overcome. Being Overdrive's friend means putting up with his constant comparisons, in which Overdrive always paints himself as the superior candidate. Even his more light-hearted comments carry the hint of egotism and thinly veiled contempt for those around him, including his friends. Other Autobots hope he gets his ego complex under control before he totally alienates his allies and realises that he can't succeed without them. As it is, all Overdrive seems to care about is winning as fast as he can.
[edit] Transformers: Binaltech
Overdrive transforms into a Honda S2000 but was characterised as Windcharger in Alternators as the Overdrive name was unavailable to Hasbro. The figure is surrounded in some controversy, as Takara's Overdrive version includes a long gun barrel that forms the car mode's driveshaft, while Hasbro's Windcharger version had the barrel deleted. Windcharger's gun was otherwise unchanged, and still includes the connecting point for the absent barrel.
Another source of confusion is the Head sculpt for the Decepticon retooled from the convertible S2000, Decepticharge. Decepticharge's head resembles the original (Generation 1) Windcharger's animated version, and is the source of rumors that the 2005 Ford Mustang GT robot used to create Grimlock and Wheeljack was intended to be Windcharger's body.
[edit] Transformers: Energon
Overdrive was the Japanese name for the Autobot Cliffjumper.
