History Characters / Overlord

- Green Minions are more lizard-like, bloodthirsty even by Minion standards and apparently smell REALLY awful, and yet are the stealth experts of the Minions. If commanded manually Green Minions will go invisible, and if led behind an enemy will leap onto the enemy's back and stab them mercilessly and repeatedly for massive damage. They're also immune to sources of toxic gas and can safely travel through it to destroy the source.\\

* ArbitraryHeadCountLimit: The number of Minions the Overlord can have out at one time is restricted by their current level of power, starting out at a measly 5 and increasing with upgrades, with enough Minion totems in each game to increase the capacity to a respectable 50, and if combined with armor upgrades to further increase capacity, can reach a truly overwhelming army at a hard cap of 100 minions.

* GlassCannon: Red Minions' fireballs can do a ton of damage, especially if there's a lot of them stacked up in the squad nailing the victim with a sky-darkening amount of fire. This is traded off by them being very fragile even if they're fully upgraded, if you front line falls apart your squad of Reds has a very high possibility of being wiped out.
* InTheBack: If manually swarmed to attack while behind an enemy, Green Minions will leap on top of their victim and shank them multiple times before dismounting. This is the highest damage attack in the game besides a fully kitted out Overlord and his endgame magic, and when combined with that can make even the various bosses seem like a joke.
* SuperDrowningSkills: All types of minions except the Blue will, to quote Gnarl, "Drown in a hilariously spectacular fashion" if led into any water that goes over their head. While some may manage to tread water to get back to shore, you can lose a fair amount of your squad if you underestimate how deep a body of water is.

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: He's squat, has a magnificent beard, loves beer, gold and axes, and when fell to a deadly sin of ''course'' it would be a GoldFever variant of {{Greed}}. Of all the fantasy races we see in the series, Goldo and the Dwarves are about as fantasy-standard as you get.

* TokenGoodTeammate: The only one of the Heroes who expresses regret over what they've become, and the only one not enjoying himself; furthermore, the Wizard later reveals that [[spoiler: when the Eighth Hero fell to his apparent death, Oberon was the only Hero who insisted that they try to rescue him.]] Even his sin (simply tiring of conflict) is rather light compared to the others. This may be why he has a sympathetic death scene, and [[spoiler: his Abyss ends with him flat out destroyed and given the peace of true death while the others get their ironic hells shifted to another form of ironic torture.]]

* NiceHat: Brown Minions love sticking basically anything on their heads that will fit. From dead rats to pottery shards to pieces of armor, almost every enemy and boss in both games will drop a unique hat to show off when your Minions pick them up.

- Brown minions have no special abilities or notable traits, but brown life force is plentiful and they're the best fighters and have the most health, making them the perfect meat shields to fight and die en masse for you (they're also the only type to show unique hats and weapons, the other types just have generic armor as they upgrade).\\

- Green Minions are more lizard-like and smell REALLY awful, and yet are the stealth experts of the minions. If commanded manually Green minions will go invisible, and if led behind an enemy will leap onto the enemy's back and stab them mercilessly and repeatedly for massive damage. They're also immune to sources of toxic gas and can safely travel through it to destroy the source.\\

- Blue Minions are fish-like and [[SquishyWizard take hits about as a well as a plate of fine China thrown against a wall.]] They can safely enter water where the other minions drown in a spectacular fashion, and through the use of magic, they're able to resurrect other slain minions if they can reach them before their body vanishes (assuming the body wasn't destroyed instantly in a way that reduces them to LudicrousGibs).\\

* SupportPartyMember: The Blue Minions' ability to revive other dead minions is ''extremely'' useful, however they are the most fragile Minion type by leaps and bounds and will die if an enemy so much as breathes in their direction, and their damage is so pitiful sending your blues into the fray is like sending a child with a butterknife to attack a trained soldier. Unfortunately since you have to send them into the heat of battle to resurrect your fallen troops, it's very common you'll have one or two blues joining the casualties.

Minions come in four types:

!! Species: Minion
!! Appearances: 'VideoGame/OverlordI'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordRaisingHell'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordII'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordDarkLegend'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordMinions'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordFellowshipOfEvil''

Gremlin-like creatures that fall somewhere between the secondary VillainProtagonists of the game and an extension of the Overlord, the Minions are the heart and soul of the series almost more than the various Overlords they've served. They're happiest when serving an evil master with sights on conquest and domination and destruction and if their previous Overlord dies will actively scout out a new candidate that's suitably evil to ascend to the position. Minions are very disposable and happily accept this as their lot in life, though a handful of minions have survived long enough and proved useful enough to be given names and develop unique personalities and something approaching intelligence, with Gnarl being the oldest and most cunning serving as the leader for the entire species.

- Brown minions have no special abilities or notable traits, but brown life force is plentiful and they're the best fighters and have the most health, making them the perfect meat shields to fight and die en masse for you (they're also the only type to show unique hats and weapons, the other types just have generic armor as they upgrade).
- Red Minions are skeletal-bodied little pyromaniacs who are all about fire, throwing fireballs like artillery shells to serve as your main ranged offense, being able to safely walk across hot surfaces, and sucking fire sources into themselves to extinguish the flames, however to make up for their range, they're [[GlassCannon quite fragile]].
- Green Minions are more lizard-like and smell REALLY awful, and yet are the stealth experts of the minions. If commanded manually Green minions will go invisible, and if led behind an enemy will leap onto the enemy's back and stab them mercilessly and repeatedly for massive damage. They're also immune to sources of toxic gas and can safely travel through it to destroy the source.
- Blue Minions are fish-like and [[SquishyWizard take hits about as a well as a plate of fine China thrown against a wall.]] They can safely enter water where the other minions drown in a spectacular fashion, and through the use of magic, they're able to resurrect other slain minions if they can reach them before their body vanishes (assuming the body wasn't destroyed instantly in a way that reduces them to LudicrousGibs]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted in the very beginning where the Overlord can't really stand up in a straight-up fight and relies on his minions. After sufficient upgrades however he can be quite powerful.

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/OverlordDarkLegend'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordMinions'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordI'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordRaisingHell'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordII'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordFellowshipOfEvil''

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''VideoGame/OverlordDarkLegend'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordI'' | ''VideoGame/OverlordRaisingHell''

* {{24HourArmor}}: Never seen outside his spikey armour. Although he does presumably take it off sometimes off-camera, as [[spoiler: he was able to impregnate Rose.]]

* 24HourArmor: Never seen outside his spikey armour. Although he does presumably take it off sometimes off-camera, as [[spoiler: he was able to impregnate Rose.]]

The player character. Awakened by the minions to rebuild and reinstate a reign of terror after his predecessor was slain by heroes. Armed with a suit of heavy plate armor, a massive weapon, and an army of minions he now seeks revenge against the heroes who slew the previous overlord.

* {{Gonk}}: While we never see her in the flesh, according to Gnarl the horrendously obese Elven priestesses in the second game gorge themselves on food to make themselves emulate the Mother Goddess, implying she's obese in a way that calls to mind [[Art/VenusOfWillendorf The Venus of Willendorf statue]].

!! Sir William the Bold/Black

!!The Wizard

%%* AdiposeRex: Oh yeah.

%%* WalkingSpoiler

For characters from the LightNovel series ''[[LightNovel/{{Overlord2012}} Overlord]]'' [[Characters/{{Overlord2012}} go here]]

* KillEmAll: Gnarl is perfectly fine with a Corrupted Overlord killing everything, since it's such a perfectly Evil thing to do. He'll note that it's somewhat impractical in the long run, but that doesn't stop him from enjoying the mayhem.

* IronicHell: His abyss; he's trapped in his tree form and forced to watch his subjects massacred over and over in a ([[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking badly acted]]) play about the genocide of the elves. This ends when the Overlord arrived and [[ThrowTheDogABone he is finally granted a peaceful death]] instead of a new form of ironic torture.
* LazyBum: He is modeled after the sun of Sloth, though at most it is just being tired of conflict that shows itself as his physical body sleeping.

* IronicHell: His abyss; he's trapped in his tree form and forced to watch his subjects massacred over and over in a ([[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking badly acted]]) play about the genocide of the elves. This ends when the Overlord arrived and [[ThrowTheDogABone he is finally granted a peaceful death
]] instead of a new form of ironic torture.

* TragicVillain: The Elf may have caused most of his species to die by not wanting to fight any more, but it's considerably more sympathetic than the other heroes who laughed as they went down the slippery slope.