Profiles in Villainy
Sawboss
Many years in the future, the brilliant scientist named Audric sought out a means to cure intergalactic hunger. His experiment went catastrophically awry when the artificial flora he created gained sentience. This mound of vines and fungi took a roughly human form and called itself ‘Sawboss.’ It saw itself as the superior life-form in the cosmos and set about a destructive campaign to conquer the entire galaxy.
Creating countless clones of itself, Sawboss launched attacks on every known inhabited planet and in short order overwhelmed the human defenses. The human survivors were forced to flee, banding together to create a ragtag resistance called The Lightning League. This resistance was led by a young man named Jayce, the son of Audic. Jayce possessed the original root that his father used to create Sawboss and the villainess entity tirelessly hunted Jayce, fretful that the youth might use this root to discover a means of destroying Sawboss and its clones.
Sawboss continued to hunt Jayce while he and the Lighting Legion stayed a step ahead, conducting raids to free the worlds conquered by the despotic creature. Some time later, Sawboss was finally destroyed by the dimension-hopping heroine known as Juniper Lee.
Actor Guilio Kukurugya provided the voice for Sawboss, with the villain first appearing in the premier episode of Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, airing on September 9th, 1985.
