Overlorder

“	I am Order itself. A consciousness generated from the processes of many who yearn for stability.	”
— Order introducing itself after the defeat of Marina Agitando

Order redirects here. For other uses, see Order (disambiguation).

Order, also known as Overlorder as a boss and as Smollusk after being defeated for the first time, is the titular main antagonist of Splatoon 3: Side Order. It is an AI created by Marina during her creation of the Memverse, serving as the overseer of the Spire of Order, and the final boss fought at 30F.

Description

Order resembles a black cloud comprised of glitches and noise, vaguely in the shape of a cartoon proportioned octopus, with a circular mouth akin to a siphon mouth. It has oval eyes with a line straight down the middle, and wisps trailing off the body that resemble tentacles. The exact proportions of the mouth and eyes constantly change with the glitching effect.

Overlorder is an extremely oversized octopus, colored in the same black ink as Jelletons. All of its facial features are unnatural, as for example, it has two red ∞-balls for eyes. The ink it is covered in is also transparent, with white "bones" inside, similar to the Jelletons.

Once it is defeated, Order is forced into a minuscule form that is dubbed "Smollusk", due to Pearl greatly damaging Overlorder during the climax with a Killer Wail-like scream. As Smollusk, Order resembles an octopus paralarva with black tinted tentacles, albeit with mature octopus eyes. After Order's first defeat, "Smollusk" remains the name used for the character, even when it takes on its Overlorder form again in rematches.

Gameplay

When fought at 30F, Order is in its Overlorder form. Similar to Marina Agitando, all phases consist of Overlorder surrounded by a barrier and several tentacle-like portals. Different types of Jelletons can spawn based on which floors the player has chosen during the run. Once all portals are destroyed, the barrier falls down, exposing it to attack and enabling progression to the next phase. There are three phases fought, each with increasing difficulty.

Overlorder can use various attacks in all phases at random intervals. An alert sound plays and red arrows appear to telegraph its attacks, which may also be accompanied by dialog taunts. These include:

• Overlorder shoots several large, slow-moving globs of ink at the player.
• Overlorder fires three continuous Sting Ray beams that track the player.
• Overlorder spawns a swarm of Jelletons from its mouth.
• Overlorder propels four Reefsliders consecutively.
• Overlorder launches Super Chumps around the arena.
• Overlorder sends its tentacles out underneath the player. This will launch the player into the air on contact, possibly sending them off the arena. Following this, the tentacles fall toward the ground, away from Overlorder and explode as they hit the ground.

Phases 1-3

In the first phase, there are two stationary portals which spawn Jelletons. In the second phase, there are three portals. These portals begin to move as they take damage, making it more difficult to fire at them. In the third phase, there are four portals which also move as they take damage; this is the last phase when fighting Overlorder in a rematch.

In the initial Overlorder battle, New World Order plays during these phases. In rematches, Short Order plays instead.

Phase 4

This phase is only fought if the player has not cleared the Spire before. After the player clears the Spire for the first time, a glass case containing a Killer Wail speaker appears to the viewer's right of the elevator entrance upon entering the foyer, allowing the player to replay this phase by interacting with it and selecting "Remember Epic, Vibrant Battle". During this phase, saving and suspending does not cost a Life like it does normally, and being splatted simply restarts the phase.

In this phase, Overlorder removes all the color chips from the player's Palette. However, each portal contains special "Spectrum" chips that the player can obtain by destroying them, with each portal giving the benefits of all of a particular tone's chips when destroyed. After all six portals are destroyed, the player can use Pearl's "Color Wail" (based on the Killer Wail 5.1) with the special weapon button to finally defeat Overlorder. Alternatively, the player can defeat Overlorder without using the Color Wail by simply continuing to attack it until it is defeated; doing so results in slightly different dialogue.^[1]

During this phase, Spectrum Obligato ~ Ebb & Flow (Out of Order) plays. Once all portals have been destroyed, opening the Palette menu and interacting with each chip in boustrophedon order sounds out the chorus of Ebb & Flow.^[2]

Quotes

The following text is quoted from the Jelleton Field Guide.

Relations to other characters

See List of Palettes in Side Order to view Smollusk's opinion on the main cast of the Splatoon series.

Gallery

Icons

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  Order's icon

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  Overlorder's icon

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  Smollusk's icon

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  Tableturf Battle icon

Titles

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  Overlorder during the first fight

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  Overlorder during the first rematch

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  Overlorder's second rematch title

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  Overlorder's third rematch title

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  Overlorder's fourth rematch title

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  Overlorder's fifth rematch title

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  Overlorder's sixth rematch title

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  Overlorder's seventh rematch title

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  Overlorder's eighth rematch title

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  Overlorder's ninth rematch title

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  Overlorder's tenth rematch title

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  Overlorder's eleventh rematch title

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  Overlorder's twelfth (final) rematch title

Other

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  Smollusk in a sleeping position

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  Overlorder using the Grayscaling in the Control Room

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  The Reefslider that Overlorder uses as one of its attacks.

Trivia

• Order is the first final boss in the Splatoon series that does not come from the distant past, being an infant compared to DJ Octavio, Commander Tartar, and Mr. Grizz.
• Overlorder has 13 different boss titles that can be shown at the start of its battle. The first time it is fought after the credits, its title is "The One Slight Catch", advancing to the next title in the next run only when the player uses a Palette different to that of their current run. For example, after fighting "The Second Restoration" with a new Palette, players will face "History Threepeats" in their next run even when using a repeated Palette, but they will not face "The Foursaken Remnant" until after defeating "History Threepeats" using a new Palette. The first ten rematch titles have a numerical motif that match the rematch number.
  • Initial title: "The Magistrate of Order"
  • First rematch title: "The One Slight Catch"
  • Second rematch title: "The Second Restoration"
  • Third rematch title: "History Threepeats" (a pun on "history repeats")
  • Fourth rematch title: "The Foursaken Remnant" (a pun on "the forsaken remnant")
  • Fifth rematch title: "Pent-Up Frustration" (comes from "penta", meaning five)
  • Sixth rematch title: "Back to Basix" (a pun on "back to basics")
  • Seventh rematch title: "Acsept No Substitutes" (a pun on "accept no substitutes")
  • Eighth rematch title: "Increasingly Despereight" (a pun on "increasingly desperate")
  • Ninth rematch title: "Saturnine Squatter"
  • Tenth rematch title: "Tentacled Troublemaker"
  • Eleventh rematch title: "Last Order"
  • Final rematch title after clearing with all Palettes: "Obstructive Ordeal"
• In the English version of the game, Smollusk speaks by having its L's and R's replaced with W's in a manner that can be considered childlike, to further portray its smaller and weaker nature as well as the fact that it had only recently been "born".

Etymology

Overlorder is a portmanteau of "overlord" and "order".

Smollusk is a portmanteau of "small" (or possibly "smol", internet slang for "small" that also implies cuteness) and "mollusk".

Overlorder gains new boss titles containing numerical puns for the first ten rematches, with the digit count going up by one after each rematch where a new Palette is used. These puns use English digit names, with two exceptions: "Pent-Up Frustration" comes from pente (Greek for "five"), while "Acsept No Substitutes" comes from septem (Latin for "seven").

Names in other languages

Boss titles

Translation notes

Notes

References

Characters in Splatoon 3

Main Major Agent 3 • Agent 8 • Smallfry • Cuttlefish • Squid Sisters (Callie • Marie) • Captain • Deep Cut (Shiver • Frye • Big Man) • DJ Octavio • Off the Hook (Pearl (Drone) • Marina) • Acht Minor Judd • Li'l Judd • Great Zapfish • Crusty Sean • O.R.C.A. Enemies Octarians (Fuzzy Octarians) • Mr. Grizz • Jelletons • Overlorder • Salmonids Vendors Sheldon • Gnarly Eddy and Nails • Jel La Fleur • Mr. Coco • Harmony • Murch • Shelly and Donny • Annie and Moe • Jelonzo • Fred Crumbs • Spyke • Flow and Craymond • Jelfonzo • Bisk • Staff • Cipher Musicians C-Side (Kiki) • Front Roe (Ichiya • Nami • Murasaki) • Damp Socks feat. Off the Hook • Yoko & the Gold Bazookas (Yoko • Oonie • Kitamura) • H2Whoa • Chirpy Chips • Riot Act • SashiMori • Grizzco • ω-3 • Ancho-V Games • Turquoise October • Octoplush • Stars in the Deep • Mimicry • Wash Out • Firefly • On the Clock • Anxiety Society • Free Association • Seven Seas Crew • Backwash • Turf Love • Wading Room • New Shores • Bonfire • All Swell • Coral Kiss • Crevasse • Aquariyum • Pianissimo • Missing Ink • Chroma Chaos • Medusa • Nothing in My Wave • Anglerfish • Bloody Hook • Decksterity • Saplings • Reel Deel Other Iso Padre • Octostomp • Master Mega • Barry C. • Fresh Fish • Shy-Ho-Shy • You★Me Species Inkling • Octoling • Jellyfish • Zapfish • Super Sea Snail • Animals • Human

Side Order

Characters Agent 8 • Pearl (Drone) • Marina • Acht • Overlorder • Cipher Locations Order Sector • Spire of Order (Foyer • Elevator • Floors • Control Room) • Memverse Enemies Jelletons (Jelleton Field Guide) Mechanics Color chips ( Power • Support • Range • Mobility • Lucky • Drone • Color-Chip Collection) • Palettes • Marina's Hacks Currencies Membux • Prlz Objectives Destroy the portal! (Portal) • Protect the zone! (Zone) • Sink the ∞-ball! (∞-ball) • Escort the turbine tower! (Turbine tower) • Defeat the fleeing foe! (Panicking Alla Mambo) Other Free Association • Marina's Dev Diaries • Memory cube • Grayscaling

Jelletons

Regular Swarming Languendo • Marching Andante • Battering Lento • Portal • Drizzling Capriccioso • Panicking Alla Mambo • Whirling Accelerando • Springing Spiccato • Gushing Trionfale • Spawning Accordo • Homing Arpeggio • Towering Nobilmente Bosses Asynchronous Rondo • Pinging Marciale • Parallel Canon • Marina Agitando • Overlorder Jelleton Field Guide