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Count Egobossler
Egobossler masked
Characteristics
Race

Human

Gender

Male

Age

28

Hair Color

White (Dyed)
Brown (Natural hair color)

Eye Color

Hazel

Occupation

Dictator of Europe and Commander of Galactor

Personal Status
Status

Deceased

Relatives

The Great Count Egobossler (Father) Margot (Mother)
Kassel (Half-Brother)

First Appearance
Anime Debut

Gatchaman Fighter


Count Egobossler is one of the main antagonists of Gatchaman Fighter.

He is a cruel and ruthless dictator who rules over an unnamed part of Europe and is the last Galactor sub-leader from the original Gatchaman franchise. Different from his predecessors, he willingly joined Galactor and accepted to use Leader Z's mecha and knowledge for his own plans of conquering and domination of Earth.

Background[]

In his past, he was known as Erun, the secret son of a housekeeper named Margot and a man known as the Great Count Egobossler, ruler of a European country named Satanhofen. Erun and his mother despised the Great Count, Erun not yet knowing the cruel man was his father.

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Erun Egobossler (True Face)

Erun worked as a soldier alongside the Great Count's son Kassel, but one day Kassel was hurt and his father whipped Erun as punishment. However, Margot protected her son and received the attacks in his place. With her last breath, she would manage to tell the truth to Erun about his father, before dying from her wounds.

Erun would be exiled from Satanhofen but would return to assassinate the Great Count, and imprison Kassel in revenge. Erun had received plastic surgery to resemble his half-brother and somehow attained blue skin, but would also gain a scar on his face when Kassel slashed him with a sword.

Using Kassel's identity, riches, and popularity, Erun would become the new dictator of Satanhofen, referring to himself as "The Devil's Child". He and Leader Z would then join forces to reform Galactor, with Egobossler admiring his predecessors (Berg Katse and Gel Sadra) as his idols

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Count Egobossler (unmasked)

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Count Egobossler was renamed Happy Boy in Saban's Eagle Riders, and is stated to be the villain Mallanox (Gel Sadra) having been transformed and upgraded into a new form. He is given his name as a form of mockery, as he liked to laugh too much, and he thinks of himself as a separate individual who will triumph where Mallanox failed.

An ensuing conversation between Egobossler and Z was altered to have Happy Boy briefly remember his former identity as Mallanox, and apologizing to Cybercon for even thinking of betraying him.

Due to the severe editing and removal of his backstory and many episodes of Fighter relating to it, there is no presence of the original Count Egobossler or other family members. The Eagle Riders series would also utilize episode 15 of Fighter as its final episode, in which Happy Boy and the Vorak seem to be getting ahead of the heroes and declare that it's time for them to take over the world. While this may have been to avoid translating and having to heavily edit and patch together the final episodes of Fighter for a sanitized outcome, this ending in itself offers no closure and could be said to be a type of "open end" that leaves a rather negative taste.

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  • Earlier English translations would render his name as Helm, although the romaji reads Erun. Some translations will render it literally, although the intention may have been to represent the German name Ern (a diminutive of names like Ernest). An erroneous name seen in Gatchaman Fighter DVD liner notes, which may have been from earlier planning, is shown to be Ergo.
  • While no explanation was given in-series for why Erun's skin turned blue after plastic surgery (nor for his white hair) before taking on the title of Egobossler, the out-of-universe intent in his character design was to convey a ruthless and "cold" image to emphasize the brutality of him being a dictator, so a light blue tone was used. This factor, along with his very personality and design, can get him thought of as inspired by Albelt Dessler from Space Battleship Yamato.
  • The very name of "Egobossler" came about due to the planning staff wanting a name that ended similar to that of Hitler, combining the -ler part with "Ego" and "Boss" to showcase what a cruel and powerful villain he would be. The more human design (aside from the blue skin) was to also provide a contrast to more fantastical villains like Katse and Sadra that predated him, with Egobossler being more like an average if powerful man compared to those who were mutated by X.
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