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The Voltron Lion Force is viewed as the first incarnation of Voltron composed of five mighty robot lions. Premiered with the launch of the original Voltron: Defender of the Universe animated television show. Piloted by a team of intrepid space explorers and a princess, the Voltron Lion Force defends the planet of Arus against the hungry ambitions of King Zarkon's kingdom on Planet Doom.

This incarnation of Voltron was adapted from the Japanese Beast King Golion television show. Due to its success, the story and team has evolved beyond this origin into more original directions.

As Voltron was always marketed as a single series, "Lion Force" is not a canonical name, but is widely-used in the fandom to distinguish this incarnation from the others. Another common nickname is "Lion Voltron".

Characters[]

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The Voltron Force[]

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The Original Team

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The Team later on in the Series

Allies[]

  • Coran - advisor to the Royal Family of Arus
  • Nanny - Allura's over-protective caregiver
  • King Alfor - Allura's deceased father whose ghostly presence makes recurrent appearances
  • Space Marshall Graham - supreme commander of the Galaxy Alliance who has helped both Voltron Forces along with Commander Steele

Enemies[]

  • Zarkon - king and ruler of the Drules of Planet Doom
  • Lotor - son of King Zarkon; obsessed with taking Princess Allura for a queen
  • Haggar - the royal witch who empowers King Zarkon's robeasts
  • Commander Yurak - the ill-fated commander of King Zarkon's forces
  • Queen Merla- a mind-controlling queen of another world who wants to marry Prince Lotor


Television[]

The Lion Force returned in the CGI-animated series Voltron: The Third Dimension, which was a sequel to the previous series.

There is a new reboot series called Voltron: Legendary Defender

Comic Books[]

Modern Comics was thefirst to publish comic book material based on the Voltron series, they published a 3-issue mini series in the 80s focusing only on the cast, enemies and robot of the "Lion Force" following the visuals and "continuity" of the TV cartoon series.

Later Devil's Due Publishing and Dynamite besides using similar names, visuals and tittles each one created its own reboot continuity with its own story and deviations from the cartoon.

Devil's Due Comics[]

Voltron, in the comic book series published by Devil's Due, was originally a unified machine intelligence, since it was created by sorcerers and scientists, therefore having hands and feet making him look like a knight. Voltron was tricked by Haggar into landing on a black comet with nearly the gravitational attraction of a singularity. This comet was either a reference to, or actually was, the Omega Comet from the anime, which had identical properties, and which appeared in the TV show. Voltron was then attacked by Haggar, and somehow blown into five pieces. They became the five "lions." (Much of this was presented in the "History of Voltron" back-up stories written by Mark Waid, which were ended early due to the cancellation of the series.)

Robotech/Voltron[]

Robotech/Voltron is a 2013 comic series crossing over the Voltron and Robotech franchises. Unlike previous Voltron entries in Dynamite's publishing, this series would stem from the original 1984 TV series continuity. This crossover also addressed never before seen or shown stuff from the original cartoon series like Lotor's Mother, King Alfor wielding a small scale Blazing Sword, and even a White Lion.

Notes and Trivia[]

  • According to the special features in the 2006 Voltron DVD tin set, Voltron's name originated from the team at World Events Productions. Two of the original concept names were Volta and Volton. The final name was influenced from Walt Disney's original 1982 film Tron, the names Volt and Tron were combined into the final name, Voltron.
  • Besides this being considered the first Voltron, and being the most recognizable part of the franchise, its original robot toy released by MatchBox was named Voltron III.
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