Override (BWU)

Override is an Autobot or Velocitronian from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Now with 50% less shoulders and 100% more lipstick.

Override is an accomplished racer and an agile warrior—this potent combination of skills has landed her acclaim on planets like Velocitron, where the two professions are practically one and the same, and even on Cybertron, her talents ensure her a cushy position on top of the proverbial heap.

While Override's swift enough to leave most of her foes in the dust, the only thing that can consistently bring her down is her own ego. She looks down upon those Cybertronians who can't match her breakneck speed and dismisses organic lifeforms as insignificant. Override's classist attitude can land her in a predicament of her own making... one she might not be able to simply outrun.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

On post-Great War Cybertron, the Autobot Builder Override's body was barely functional, and the only source of fulfillment she could get was watching her descendants, the Maximals, fight to the death against Predacons. She functioned as the administrator of the Dodecahex Arena. Once, a contestant tried to escape the arena into the river flowing through Dodecahex. Afterwards, Override seeded the river with alloygators and oxide sharks to prevent repeat incidents.

Override was overseeing the fateful 1924th Games when Lio Convoy sneaked a team of rebels led by Blackarachnia into the broadcast center. Blackarachnia's team members took out Override's MCSF guards while Blackarachnia herself held Override at gunpoint to stop the Builder from activating the automated defense systems. As Blackarachnia's team took control of the broadcasting equipment to continue focusing on Lio Convoy, Override asked why the Maximals were doing such things to their ancestor. Blackarachnia merely replied that the impending announcement was too important to risk letting a Builder jam it. Broken Windshields

2005 IDW continuity

Override was born on Velocitron, a colony planet settled by Navitas. By the 2010s, she was based out of the capital city Delta, having proved her speed to become planetary leader. Race Against the Light When battling Combiners from Cybertron briefly touched upon Velocitron, Knock Out and Moonracer investigated the footprints left behind and went to report it to Override. All That Remains Her power over the planet was not absolute as she was having to share some leadership with her rival, Ransack, who was threatening to take her position completely in the next Speedia race. Race Against the Light

When Moonracer explained Velocitronian society to her new Camien ally Windblade, Override was one of the prominent Velocitronians whom Moonracer envisioned. Windblade vol. 2 #4

As leader, Override would grant a request of whoever won the Benefit 500, so Windblade and Moonracer got Blurr into the race in hopes of convincing Override to have included Velocitron in the Council of Worlds. Override was initially unimpressed by Blurr's refusal to fight back against the other racers, but was won over by his flashy victory brought about by Windblade messing with the racetrack's ramps. Upon hearing their request, she asked the audience to vote through applause on whether or not to honor it, and they resoundingly voted yes. Race Against the Light Presumably, Override officially appointed Knock Out and Moonracer as delegates to ratify Council membership. Windblade vol. 2 #6

Override perished when Unicron devoured Velocitron; when the planet-eater next reappeared over Elonia, Rom and Livia spied her body atop a mound of Velocitronian dead. Our Darkest

2019 IDW continuity

A racer in Velocitron's Speedia 500, Override posed for a picture before the race, starting in the pole position. Tread & Circuits Part 2 Override held the lead for most of the race only to fall back when Mayhem caught up to the lead racers, and Knock Out instead won the race. Tread & Circuits Part 3 Override was on stage during the ceremony where he was named First Senator, before another Mayhem attack sent the crowds fleeing. Tread & Circuits Part 4

Last Bot Standing

In the far future, long after the end of the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons had left the universe drained of energon, Override fell under the command of ex-Decepticon Steeljaw. To survive, Steeljaw's forces reconfigured themselves to run on biofuel, a substance generated by the farming of organic matter. When the group touched down on planet Donnokt, Override and Riotgear were sent to find the wayward Nitro. Managing to track down Nitro's stasis pod, Override helped herself to some of the leaked biofuel before Riotgear found some natives who pointed them in the direction of Fembrance where Nitro had been. Last Bot Standing #2 Not having enough fuel to activate their sensors, the two failed to detect Nitro's remains, Last Bot Standing #3 instead finding the bound Rodimus, whom they freed and brought to Steeljaw. Last Bot Standing #2

Following the Veteran's reactivation, Override towed a trailer to Fembrance to harvest its resources. Upon arrival, Steeljaw and Sharpclaw's enhanced olfactory sensors located Nitro's corpse before the pack went to work. When a rejuvenated Rodimus arrived, Override confusingly pointed out to her comrades that Rodimus had not consumed the resource, before Steeljaw confronted the Autobot. Last Bot Standing #3

After it was found that Rodimus had been hiding energon, the pack's hunger for true fuel caused them to charge Steeljaw for the energon keys, accidentally shattering one. As the group frantically clawed at the spilled fuel, Shib Wallkis used the distraction to free the organics. Last Bot Standing #4

Toys

Cybertron

The Mach Five but with more guns.

• Override (Deluxe Class, 2005)

Cybertron Override transforms into a sleek futuristic race car, vaguely inspired by Speed Racer. Her Cyber Planet Key activates a pair of flip-out blasters.

For further information, see: Override (Cybertron)#Cybertron

Notes

• Cybertron Override first made the jump to a Generation 1 continuity family in Beast Wars: Uprising. The series would later introduce Nitro Convoy, a separate character with Override's Japanese name. Her more notable appearances, however, have been in various comics from IDW Publishing.
• Her appearance in Tread & Circuits was, like many other characters in the series, informed by her then-upcoming toy in the Transformers: Legacy Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection. However, unlike many of those characters, she wasn't drawn according to her new toy; line artist Jack Lawrence had to use his personal copy of the Cybertron "GTS" redeco for reference.^[1] It's possible the lack of reference material was caused by changing plans for her toy, which was originally going to be a retool of Studio Series 86-04 Hot Rod, before becoming an entirely new mold.^[2] In Last Bot Standing, E. J. Su similarly used the Cybertron design as reference (most easily identifiable by the proportions of her car mode), but with added Mad Max-style spikes on her shoulders.
• Override conspicuously disappears halfway through Last Bot Standing #4 as the rest of Steeljaw's followers form Unstoppimus. Unlike the others, she wasn't a pre-existing combiner component.

See also

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Versions of Override have appeared in other continuity families, including:

• Override, the Velocitronian Autobot from the Unicron Trilogy.
• Override Prime, the Autobot bounded to Kappa Supreme from Transformers Animated.
• Override, the Velocitronian from the Aligned continuity family.

For more information, see Override (disambiguation).

References