Tribute To Leader Desslok

Here is a special tribute to the Star Force's greatest rival, and later their greatest ally, Leader Desslok of Gamilon. This video takes a look at Desslok's role throughout the entire Space Battleship Yamato saga. There's no other anime villain that can quite compare to the great Leader Desslok. (And that's because he's the best there is!)

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Film & Animation

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• Desslok
• Desler
• Star
• Blazers
• Space
• Battleship
• Yamato

[ilurvekimba1967]

You know the scene when Gamilon goes up in flames? What did Starsha do? She pushed a button, and it looked like Iscandar was destroyed, but there was only a flash of light in Desslok's face.

[YamatoGuru]

Both of those scenes appear in the movie "New Voyage," but the scene with Starsha appears much later in the movie, not right after Gamilon's destruction.

Starsha decides to sacrafice Iscandar in order to keep the Black Nebula Empire from taking advantage of the planet's resources for the purpose of war.

[Boongaman]

Nice... but, the scene where Desslok and Talan visit the Yamato and he kneels down in respect towards Captain Okita's portrait... what movie/series is that from?

[YamatoGuru]

It is from series 3, "The Bolar Wars."

[steller2012]

Desslok was very awesome! The guy you loved to hate. He had such charisma and charm, and had a nonchalant way of just being downright evil.

[colinblogs]

He's a bit of a pimp daddy is leader deslock. All thoes pretty blue girls he got haning about.

[Halpin2006]

@Stellerlass GAMALON STILL EXISTS ! AS LONG AS I LIVE, GAMALON LIVES !!

[Halpin2006]

Desslok, the villain we all loved, until he inspired George Lucas to create Darth Vader! So, why do we love Desslok like we love Vader?

"First I thought / He was bad / But then I saw / That he was sad / That's when I fell for The Leader of the Pack"

[teshian]

My all time favorite meniacle genius!!!

[Stellerlass]

I love Desslok, but I once absolutley hated him. It was my first experience as a child actually being able to and wanting to forgive someone who was such a apex enemy. in a way, this show taught me that sometimes you should forgive your enemies.

[logandarklighter]

Never will I forget the first time I saw Yamato: New Journey in 1983 at a con in Dallas. Desslok is PISSED that the Dark Nebulans are mining and using up Gamilon while he's been gone and he orders his fleet to follow him to the attack, guns blazing! Me and the rest of the audience are practically on our feet CHEERING. Then I have a moment of "wait-a-minute... I'm cheering Desslok? I'm cheering the -bad- guy??" ... *pause* ... "Oh what the hell... GO DESSLOK!!! DESS-LOK DESSLOKDESSLOK!!!!" ^_^

[gregvader]

I can only imagine that the 2 "thumbs down" votes were from Colonel Ganz and Major Bane.

[shmuli9]

I kind of felt sorry for Desslok in the very end. Plus, for a cartoon character, he was kind of cute...

[dickrammer69]

If it ever to have a english actor to play Desslok it would have to be a young Malcolm Mcdowell. Has a resemblance to Desslok (add the makeup) and his voice is almost on par (check out a Clockwork Orange to compare).

[Soundwave3591]

@mattmanganon in all honesty, all I've seen from Yamato is Plots about Sacrifice and honor "we must destroy Yamato and kill everyone to bring peace to our people" SB, however, is honest to goodness Sci-Fi action, with a more believable plot line: there's a problem, we need to solve it. i've seen all of both series including the movies, and i feel SB is just better.

[mattmanganon]

@Soundwave3591 fine StarBlazers-1 Space Battleship Yamato- 258

i have doubts that Starblazers will make a comeback from this.