Overlord (Savage Dragon)
Overlord is a comic supervillain who features in Savage Dragon.
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Biography
Antonio Seghetti was a male human who was a Chicago-based crime lord with extensive ties to the Mafia and the European pocket nation of Lieberheim. As a child, he kills his sister's rapist during the act itself. Though noble, he starts a downward spiral into thuggery. He soon is involved in all sorts of crime, including rape itself. In the 1990s, the superhuman population of the world skyrockets, resulting in Seghetti's illegal operations being threatened. In response, Saghetti has Sebastian Kahn (a cybernetics genius) design and construct for him a powerful battlesuit to wear. Donning the armor, Saghetti dubs himself Overlord and recruits countless superhuman thugs into his criminal empire, calling the group the Vicious Circle. With superhuman agents, he breaks away from his Mafia connections and Overlord soon has the city of Chicago at his mercy. The Overlord's luck changes when the Savage Dragon becomes a police officer. The Dragon began to dismantle his empire piece by piece. Later the Overlord also has to contend with Kahn, who had been technologically augmented and is now called CyberFace. CyberFace leads a team of superhumans called the Annihilators against the Vicious Circle, but is arrested. After negotiating with the police, CyberFace plans to testify against Overlord and reveal his identity. Overlord panics and dispatched several assassins. Cyberface ended up dead in his cell, having been poisoned through his food. He is soon revived through artificial means.
Overlord was the leader of the "freaks" that battle the Dragon. Incredibly powerful, he wears a suit of armor that conceals his features. It is believed that he had a predecessor that he eliminated in order to ascend to his present position.
For years, he came to run Chicago's criminal underworld and became the ruthless leader of a crime syndicate called the Vicious Circle. (Savage Dragon v1 #7)
Dragon's first confrontration with Overlord ends with being thrown off a roof and impaled on a church spire. Later, the Dragon returns with a S.W.A.T. team. The other police officers are killed almost instantly. The Dragon takes apart Overlord's armor and shoots him in the mouth, one of his few vulnerable spots. Overlord falls off the roof, breaking a spire and slamming into the sidewalk.
Other forces conspire to send Dragon to hell, though Dragon does not believe it is real. Nevertheless, he viciously torments Antonio when they meet. Antonio has his armor recreated by mystical means. The Dragon bites off Antonio's finger and spits it through the man's head. Since then, Overlord's armor has been used by others who have tried to gain power in the Chicago underworld. Some, such as Brainiape, must deal with literally not being able to fit into the armor. Then there was Victor Nixon, Chicago Police officer. He had developed an attraction to the married Rita Meadermade. His use of the armor to spy on her corrupts Nixon, mixing his thought patterns with Antonio's remnants. Nixon ends up killing Rita's other stalker, her homicidal brother-in-law. He also seemingly kills Dragon's wife, but Jennifer had been replaced by a double. Nixon then gathers a force of villains to go after Dragon. This fails and in a one-on-one confrontation with the Dragon, Nixon is beaten to death. His identity is only discovered after the fact. Under careful supervision, the armor is destroyed in a fire.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He claimed that he did not tolerate incompetence from his own organization or from his allies. In such cases, he would make every effort shut down the offending party himself but made an exception for those that had an extensive past history with him. (Savage Dragon Mini v1 #3) Overlord would question the usefulness of his minions that repeatedly failed him. (Savage Dragon v1 #10)
Overlord claimed that the city of Chicago belonged to him and that people who opposed him only survived because of their antics amused him. He considered himself the meanest person in town and that no foe not even a Freak could take that from him. (Savage Dragon v1 #7)
Powers and abilities
From his hands, he could fire powerful energy blasts that could leave a person reduced to ashes. (Savage Dragon v1 #5)
As Overlord, he headed a criminal syndicate of superpowered 'freaks'. (Savage Dragon Mini v1 #1) These SuperFreaks made up of a criminal gang known as the Vicious Circle who operated out of Chicago. (Savage Dragon Mini v1 #2)
Notes
- Overlord was created by Erik Larsen where he made his first appearance in The Savage Dragon v1 #1 (1992).
In other media
Television
- In Savage Dragon, Overlord appeared in the 1990s animated television series where he was voiced by actor Tony Jay.
Appearances
- Savage Dragon Mini-Series v1: (1992)
- Savage Dragon v1:
- Badrock v1:
- The Dragon v1:
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