Gyconi

Gyconi is an alien from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Bring me Solo and the Wookiee. They will all suffer for this outrage.

Greedy, cruel, brutish, shrewd, cowardly—all these describe the rotund Lord Gyconi of Monacus. Gangster and showman, Lord Gyconi runs brutal gladiator-type games in his Pit of Destruction where he rigs the contests and skims profits of the gambling proceeds. Under the employ of Megatron, Gyconi makes loans on the side with incredibly high interest rates and short repayment periods to gamblers. For fun he likes to play the gong and swat around his servant, Slizardo. It is unknown how or why he has the title of 'Lord'.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Voice actor: Walker Edmiston (English), Osamu Saka (Japanese), Francis Lax (European French), Magalhães Graça (Brazilian Portuguese)

Begin the race! (spits)

At Sheol colony on Monacus, Lord Gyconi accepted Optimus Prime, Inferno, Perceptor and Bumblebee as collateral on a loan of 50 energon chips to Smokescreen and Bosch, on condition that they repay the loan in an hour. Smokescreen lost the money on a bad bet, and lost his Autobot friends as well.

Lord Gyconi was visited by Dirge and Ramjet, who accused him of taking profits away from Megatron. The gangster denied the charge profusely, and quickly changed the subject to his new Autobot prisoners. Gyconi pitted Optimus Prime against his Animalien gladiator, but gave the Autobot leader a shot of unstable energon which would make him fight fiercely, but then lose power. As the fight progressed and Prime gained the upper hand, Gyconi duped many spectators into betting against the Animalien. When Prime's power boost gave out, he was subdued and Gyconi gathered up his winnings. Smokescreen disrupted the match by deploying a thick cloud of black exhaust that emptied out the stadium and gave the spectators their chance to take back their money. Gyconi was not pleased.

Later, Lord Gyconi joined the Decepticons as they prepared to leave Monacus with their Autobot prisoners and a stockpile of energon on board Astrotrain. Smokescreen and Bosch teamed up with the bounty hunter Devcon to stop them, and managed to retrieve the Autobots. Lord Gyconi escaped with the Decepticons. The Gambler

Notes

• Lord Gyconi's name is pormanteau of Luke Gygax (son of Dungeons & Dragons creator Gary Gygax) and screenwriter David Marconi. The term originated with the roleplaying game sessions held at the Dungeons and Dragons Entertainment Corporation's mansion headquarters, which were regularly attended by Marconi, and many creators involved with Sunbow Productions and The Transformers, including Flint Dille, and The Gambler writer Michael Charles Hill. As described by Dille in his 2020 memoir The Gamesmaster, the games were played fast and loose, just a bit of fun, so—inspired by an incident when Gygax and Marconi got into a heated argument about the rules—if anyone started arguing in a similar way in future games, they were dubbed "the Gyconi," and had to wear a headdress marking them as such, in the manner of a dunce cap.
• This would mean Gyconi's name is more properly pronounced "Guy-CONE-ee," rather than the "GUY-con'ee" heard in the show itself.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Gyconi (ガイコニー Gaikonī)