"Take care of my weapon, because I'm a simpleton, yes?"

Overbite isn't always satisfied to claw his prey to shreds or to freeze them solid. Sometimes he wants them to suffer. That's when he pulls out his hand-held jawbreaker cannon.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Overbite could transform into an amphibious weapons-base mode, in which he could create tidal waves by wagging his shark tail at super speed. His front end converted to a jawbreaker cannon which fired powerful metal-eating, salt-based corrosives. This mode served as Piranacon's hand-held weapon. Overbite also used the jawbreaker cannon in robot mode. Overbite's Universe profile In robot mode, Jawbreaker carried a jawbreaker cannon that shot metal eating, salt based corrosives. Jawbreaker's AtoZ profile

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Overbite could transform into an offensive mode, becoming a corrosive jawbreaker cannon that could also create tidal waves. Overbite's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Overbite (Seacon, 1988)
  • Accessories: jawbreaker cannon, tripod rifle, connector, weapon stand base, left & right shark-arms

The Transformers Overbite came with a purple jawbreaker cannon that could mount underneath his shark mode head or be held in robot mode. He could combine with it to form a third weapons mode, which could be mounted on the weapon stand formed from the tripod rifle and other accessories or held by Piranacon.

This toy was also available in a Piranacon giftset and was concurrently sold in Takara's Super-God Masterforce line as the drone-unit Overbite. It was reissued as part of the Transformers (2010) toyline in a Decepticon Piranacon multi-pack, while the mold was redecoed and released without accessories as Sea Phantom in 1998 as part of Japan's Beast Wars II toyline.

Notes

• In addition to confusion over the name "Jawbreaker" being used for Overbite himself in some markets, there appears to have been some confusion over the precise nature of the jawbreaker cannon during development as well. Overbite's instructions and packaging bio clearly labelled the robot mode's hand-held weapon as a jawbreaker cannon; the bio went further and identified his weapons mode as a tidal wavemaker. However, presumably due to Jawbreaker being a preliminary name for Overbite, he was called Jawbreaker at one point in the Piranacon assembly instructions included with Snaptrap and his weapon mode for Piranacon was named "Jawbreaker weapon". Perhaps in an attempt to smooth over these discrepancies, Overbite's Marvel Universe profile was quite loosely worded, combining elements of both the jawbreaker cannon and the tidal wavemaker into its description of the weapons mode before going on to note that Overbite can also carry the jawbreaker cannon in robot mode. By contrast Jawbreaker's Marvel UK AtoZ profile in the Transformers Annual 1989—which like those of his fellow Seacons eschewed mention of weapons modes altogether—described the jawbreaker cannon as his hand-held weapon while his Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile went the opposite route and had it as the name of his weapons mode.
• In addition to the above confusion, Overbite's Marvel Universe profile introduced a freeze beam blaster that he carried in shark mode; this was depicted in the art as being double-barreled, with his weapons mode also being double-barreled. This suggests that at some point in development, Overbite's toy was going to include two weapons that combined to form another—like his fellow Seacons Seawing, Skalor, and Tentakil—but at some point that was dropped in favor of a single weapon, like Nautilator.
• After all that, when Overbite was redecoed and reissued in the Timelines toyline as part of an exclusive Transformers Collectors' Club Piranaking giftset, his bio card revealed that his Targetmaster mode had been upgraded to a Stormsurge Cannon and his hand-held weapon went unmentioned.