Dark Overlord of the Universe

The Dark Overlord of the Universe is the main villain in the film version of Howard the Duck. It resembles a vicious scorpion-like creature the size of a truck.

The Dark Overlords were a powerful race of demonic aliens that wreaked havoc across the galaxy until they were banished by an unknown force to a realm known as the Nexus of Sominus, which "lies beyond the planets", and described only vaguely as "a region of demons". Then, one evening in 1986 a scientist named Dr. Walter Jenning was using a laser spectroscope device in an attempt to send Howard the Duck back to the planet Duckworld. The machine went haywire and ended up targeting the Overlords’ domain, bringing one of them to Earth in the process. Upon arrival, the Dark Overlord was fused into Dr. Jenning’s body and slowly began to possess him. Although Jenning tried to warn Howard and Beverly about the Overlord, they assumed that he was merely delusional from the explosion caused by the malfunctioning laser.

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While trying to evade police who were after Howard, Beverly took him and Jenning to a diner. Prior to entering, the Overlord fully possessed Jenning’s body and used its demonic powers to force Howard to give him the control key in order to activate the laser and bring the rest of its comrades to Earth. It kidnapped Beverly and went to Jenning’s laboratory to activate the laser. With the help of lab assistant Phil Blumburtt, Howard managed to purloin an experimental disintegrator gun to defeat the Overlord.

Howard fired upon the possessed Jenning, successfully freeing him from the Dark Overlord’s presence. Now, the Dark Overlord revealed its true form and attacked Howard. It then activated the laser to summon the rest of the Overlords. With little time left, Howard narrowly defeated the Overlord with the disintegrator and then sacrificed his only means of returning home to Duckworld by firing on the laser, and thus sending the mid-flight Overlords back to their imprisonment.

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