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The name or term "Megatron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Megatron (disambiguation). Megatron is the Decepticon leader from the Aligned continuity family. The awesomely powerful Megatron is, in many ways, a fallen hero. He rose up from the oppressed lower working castes of Kaon to become a champion in the region's illegal deathmatches, cast aside his designation of D-16 and took the legendary name Megatronus [1] as his own, he called for an end to Cybertron's decrepit caste system and told the downtrodden that freedom of self-determination was the right of all sentient beings! But absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Megatron's Decepticon revolution, like many such movements, ended up becoming a whole new tyranny. Powerful, charismatic, violent, and full of rage for any who would stand in the way of his ambition and drive, Megatron brought Cybertron past the brink of destruction. Now he and his former brother-in-arms Optimus Prime fight on other worlds. Megatron will never forgive Optimus for "betraying" him, stealing from the Council the rank of Prime which was rightfully his. He has reserved for his old friend the greatest honor possible: glorious death at his hands.
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Megatron has been gone for three years, but now he's returned. He's brought the monstrous Dark Energon to Earth, and quite possibly left his sanity in space.
Good and evil fade away. History shall judge me... victorious.
Megatron rejects all moral judgement on his actions,
Cybertron Adventures, The Ending Begins
Contents
1 Fiction 1.1 Aligned novels 1.2 Prime cartoon 1.3 Commercial appearances 1.4 Titan Magazines Prime comics 1.4.1 Mega-Mouth 1.5 Tales of the Beast Hunters 2 Games 2.1 Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC) 2.2 Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS) 2.3 Transformers: Cybertron Adventures 2.4 Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC) 2.5 Transformers: Prime - The Game 3 Toys 3.1 Generations 3.2 Transformers (2010) 3.3 Prime: First Edition 3.4 Cyberverse 3.5 Prime 3.6 Beast Hunters 4 Merchandise
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4.1 Mcdonald's 5 Notes 5.1 Arms Up Modes 5.2 Foreign names 6 References
Fiction
Aligned novels
Megatron nicknamed himself D-16 after the sector of the mine where he performed demolition operations. As a gladiator, in killing others he began to appreciate the value of life, and in between matches he became something of an intellectual, debating the castes with other miners. After bosses requested he lose a few fights, D-16 killed them and took over Kaon and Slaughter City. After murdering one boss in front of his employees, D-16 declared himself Megatronus, whom he considered the greatest of the Thirteen. After hearing his preaching on the Communication Grid against the Guilds of Cybertron, the concerned Sentinel Prime sent Bumper and Fastback to investigate. Megatronus killed them, believing two lives were worthless compared to the millions doomed by the castes Sentinel created. After a victorious battle with the Insecticons, in which the crowd redubbed him Megatron, the gladiator was contacted by the Iaconian records monitor Orion Pax, and they began exchanging their ideas in intense but friendly philosophical discussions. Megatron encouraged Orion to learn self defense and invited him to visit Kaon, which he did to a warm welcome from Megatron (and from none of his "Alright! What's the square root of pi?! gladiators). By this point Megatron was planning to call his movement the Decepticons, and he had What's the capital of Sierre Leone?! What's... awww, this 'ask questions later' begun sending his followers on a search for artifacts of the Primes, as their discovery would be signs their thing doesn't work at all." cause was just. His followers began bombing Cybertron, and Megatron distanced himself from their extremism to gain credibility. Orion and his mentor Alpha Trion believed him, but the latter was well aware Megatron might have gained a taste for violence after the attention it earned him. Soon enough, Megatron accepted the gift of a kidnapped Sentinel Prime from Starscream. Alpha Trion organized a hearing for Orion and Megatron with the High Council. They protested involvement in Sentinel's disappearance. When confronted with the phrase "Decepticon", Megatron denied any knowledge of it but accepted his followers' term wholeheartedly, stating deception was necessary sometimes for the corrupt to see the truth. When Halogen revealed Megatron's followers had been trying to locate the Matrix of Leadership,
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he declared that Orion should become the Prime that he desperately wanted to lead Cybertron into the new Golden Age, and find it. Incensed, Megatron killed Halogen, and when Optimus prevented the Elite Guard from attacking Megatron, the ungrateful gladiator declared Optimus had fallen into the trap of power the High Council had given him. He declared Optimus was no longer his brother (though he would continue to refer to him as such privately), and that the Matrix would be his. In the subsequent war with Optimus' Autobots, the Decepticons took control of eighty-five percent of the planet. Wherever Starscream's Seekers aided, they were victorious. Megatron was initially merciful to neutrals, but he let Shockwave take control of Tarn and torture Autobot sympathizers there. When the Praxians, a progressive city-state who were disappointed with the direction Megatron took, allied with the Autobots, Megatron decided he would no longer try to convert followers and launched the first genocide of the war, slaughtering all in Nova Cronum who would not submit to the Decepticons as they attacked. As the war dragged into a siege of Iacon, Soundwave's spying bore fruit as he discovered Dark Energon, the essence of Unicron, was aboard Trypticon. Megatron forgave Starscream for hiding its existence from him, acknowledging its potentially dangerous nature. To ensure loyalty, Megatron's gladiators stormed the Station slaughtering and maiming Starscream's scientists. He forced Starscream to pick two test subjects to be Darkened, and following an astonishingly successful result, Megatron absorbed some, invigorating him. Soon Darkened Decepticons appeared on the battlefield, but it proved to be an inefficient resource and they would have to flee if a battle was prolonged. Megatron needed more, and even Starscream's activation of the Geosynchronous Energon Bridge didn't provide enough. Megatron felt he would kill all the Decepticons before he was deprived of Dark Energon and turn rabid. Fortunately, Soundwave revealed the existence of the Plasma Energy Chamber within Teletraan-1, which required the Code Keys of Power and Justice to activate it. Starscream recovered the Key of Power, while Megatron and his best soldiers searched for the Key of Justice below the High Council Tower. Sentinel Prime emerged, to Megatron's surprise. Sentinel confronted him about Bumper and Fastback, and the two dueled. Megatron disarmed and sliced open Sentinel, revealing the Key of Justice within. Starscream made a grab for it, exposing that he had released Sentinel to kill Megatron and take leadership for himself. After fighting Starscream to a standstill, Megatron pardoned him as he found him a better soldier than would-be example, and used the Keys to open Teletraan-1: which activated Omega Supreme to fly the Chamber to safety. The Seekers shot Omega Supreme out of the air, causing him to crash. Optimus's Autobots arrived to fight the Decepticons, but the more they killed them the more Dark Energon left their bodies and empowered Megatron. He was able to knee Omega Supreme and turn him on his back, tearing the Chamber out of his chest. Using the Chamber, Megatron poisoned the core of Cybertron and Darkened the entire planet. But then the core stopped producing Dark Energon, and Megatron learnt Optimus had gone to the core and received the Matrix. As the Autobots attempted to flee Cybertron via the last space bridge, Megatron used Trypticon to fire on their ships, and used his and Orion's old frequency to criticize Optimus for fleeing. He added he never believed in individual freedom for every Cybertronian, only the illusion of freedom that he as leader would provide and that the Guilds did not. Optimus responded that Megatron had turned his soldiers into addicts and they would turn on him, and used the Eight Track to board, sabotage and crash Trypticon.
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As the Autobots left on the completed Ark , the Decepticons fully invaded Iacon. Megatron ordered Trypticon to transform into the Nemesis, boarding it with Starscream, Soundwave, Lugnut and other elite soldiers, leaving Shockwave in charge. He used his old frequency once again to warn Optimus that he would hound him through the stars and finally kill him for the Matrix. He explained they were still brothers, as they were bonded for life despite their enmity. Optimus was just glad his hunt would get him off Cybertron. The two ships entered the last space bridge together, and when the Ark emerged, the Nemesis was gone. Exodus
Exiles
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Retribution
Prime cartoon
Voice actor: Frank Welker (English), Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Sean Long (BotCon 2011), Juan Carlos Lozano (Spain-Spanish), Ja-hyeong Gu (Korean), Antonio Fuochi (Italian), Hans-Jrgen Wolf (German), Gerardo Vsquez (Latin American Spanish), Antnio Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Pawe Szczesny (Polish), Arto Nieminen (Finnish) In the waning years of the Golden Age of Cybertron, Megatronus (who named himself after one of the original thirteen Primes) was a gladiator who fought in the Kaon arena. Observing a disparity in freedom among the classes of his race, and that the ruling class was corrupt and allpowerful, Megatron turned rhetorician, trying to effect change. In drawing attention to this inequity, he inspired a Hall of Records clerk named Orion Pax, and the two joined forces to end corruption and bring equality to the masses. One Shall Rise, Part 3 Orion and Megatronus became close allies, almost like brothers. Masters & Students Megatronus shortened his name to Megatron before he and Orion Pax appeared before the High Council. Megatron threatened the council, promising to overthrow them and instate himself as the next Primea declaration of hostility that shocked Orion, and moved him to an impassioned speech in favour of autonomy that successfully swayed the council where Megatron had failed.
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Jealous, Megatron left the council and Orion behind and assembled his followersincluding perennial loyalist Soundwave and scheming second-in-command Starscreaminto an army he would name "Decepticons", beginning the war for Cybertron and vowing to find the Matrix of Leadership which was denied to him by the council. One Shall Rise, Part 3 The war saw Megatron successfully take the city of Kaon, which contained the very arena he fought in as a gladiator, as the Decepticon capital. Orion Pax, Part 1 During a battle at Tyger Pax, Megatron crushed the Autobot Bumblebee's voice box when the scout refused to break under interrogation. Operation Bumblebee, Part 1 Furthermore, Megatron's wartime achievements were not limited to those Things were very red in those days. achieved through might: he also created the deadly cybonic plague which wiped out millions Sick Mind and found a way to weaponize Tox-En which he used to wipe out an entire unit in front of a horrified Bulkhead. Toxicity It was through similarly poisonous means that Megatron came closest to seizing victory in the war's final stages, infecting the Core of Cybertron itself. In purifying the core, Orion was granted the Matrix Megatron had long-sought, becoming Optimus Prime. One Shall Rise, Part 3 After his assassin Skyquake failed to kill Optimus at the Battle of Technahar, Masters & Students Megatron became obsessed with the Autobot leader and decided that destroying him was his right alone. Darkness Rising, Part 4 Megatron had his lead scientist Shockwave send an army of Predacons to Earth to lay waste to any Autobot forces on the planet and secure any and all energon deposits. Project Predacon Eventually, the war left Cybertron in ruin and forced the whole Transformer race to exile into space. Orion Pax, Part 2 Megatron would not leave the planet unguarded and placed a few Insecticon guards in stasis on the planet, should the enemy return. Orion Pax, Part 3 In time, Megatron and his army arrived on Earth, establishing mines to collect the Energon that the planet had been seeded with during the war. Stronger, Faster He also had some of his best warriors, such as Skyquake to guard deposits either not ready to mine Masters & Students . After some early conflicts on the planet, Megatron withdrew to space to search for more troops, leaving Starscream in charge. Darkness Rising, Part 1 Searching the void for three years, Megatron found something better than mere warriors: he discovered a new source of Dark Energon, the We can relate. We're just like this with our "blood of Unicron", with which he could reanimate fallen Transformers as an army of the undead. BotCon toys. Returning to Earth and resuming command of the Decepticons, Megatron tested the Dark Energon on the deceased Autobot Cliffjumper, reviving him as a zombie "Terrorcon" that slaughtered several Decepticon Miners, but which posed no threat to Megatron himself. Unfortunately for Megatron, this partial reactivation of Cliffjumper's lifesigns drew Optimus Prime's Autobots to the Decepticons' mining operations. Deciding it was not yet time for a confrontation with Prime, Megatron withdrew aboard the Nemesis and continued to brood over the Dark Energon. Megatron's inability to control the zombie Cliffjumper convinced him that he needed to integrate the Dark Energon into his own body in order to control the undead legions he planned to create. Darkness Rising, Part 2 Thrusting a shard of the material into his spark, he was filled with its power, feeling as though he was connected to Unicron's very thoughts. Requiring a test run for his new power, Megatron headed to the site of an ancient Cybertronian battle on
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Earth, one full of the remains of fallen warriors, where he was confronted by Optimus and Ratchet. Using Dark Energon to raise the dead Transformers as Terrorcons, Megatron successfully found he had complete control of the undead horde, and send them against the two Autobots. Darkness Rising, Part 3 While Optimus and Ratchet fought their way through the Terrorcons, Megatron flew off before they could reach him, satisfied with his test results and ready put his plan into actionto open a space bridge to Cybertron and use Dark Energon to revive all the dead. Megatron, you fool! Rave glowsticks aren't Darkness Rising, Part 4 Despite the Autobots' best efforts to candy! damage the Nemesis and prevent the bridge from opening, Megatron succeeded in his plans, and then had his showdown with Optimus Prime atop the bridge itself as he waited for the Terrorcon legions to pass through to Earth. While the two old foes battled, the other Autobots sabotaged the bridge, causing it to explode and destroy both the Terrorcon army and seemingly Megatron himself. Darkness Rising, Part 5 The Autobots were not so lucky, however: the Dark I chew scenery while the zombies chew Energon in his spark allowed Megatron to survive the you. explosion, but just barely. When Starscream found his leader floating in space, he tore the Dark Energon from his body in the hope that he would expire, but was caught in the act by Soundwave's Deployer, Laserbeak, and forced to take Megatron back to the Nemesis, where he was placed in stasis in the sick bay. Masters & Students Starscream was content to leave Megatron in this state to recover or expire as fate saw fit, but the crew of the Nemesis disagreed, and voted to bring in the Decepticon medic Knock Out to help heal their wounded leader. But the discovery of an Energon Harvester forced them to push off Megatron's recovery. Deus ex Machina Even with Knock Out's expertise, it seemed unlikely that Megatron would recover, but his assistant Breakdown gave his body a good buffing nonetheless, and Starscream approved, as it meant their ex-leader would look his best for the memorial service. Speed Metal
Well, it's better than just being a head I suppose.
When Optimus Prime was infected by cybonic plague, Arcee and Bumblebee boarded the Nemesis to search for an antidote. While they failed to find one in the database, the two Autobots did discover Megatron in stasis, and Bumblebee mind-linked with the Decepticon leader via a cortical psychic patch to try and pluck the cure from his sleeping brain. Bumblebee found himself within Megatron's mind, which took the form of Kaon, where the Decepticon's subconscious was spending its time killing endless visions of Optimus Primes. Unfortunately, Bumblebee's intrusion only caused Megatron to become aware of his situation when he found he was unable to kill Bumblebee. Learning what had befallen Optimus, Megatron initially refused to give up the cure until Bumblebee convinced him that he would gain greater satisfaction from finishing his enemy off with his own two hands. Megatron offered the cure in exchange for Bumblebee's help in escaping his mental prison, but Bumblebee double-crossed him, withdrawing from his mind as soon as the
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cure was in Autobot hands. At the last moment, Megatron was able to effect his own escape, leaping into Bumblebee's mind along with him. Sick Mind Recalling the sliver of Dark Energon Starscream had removed from his body, Megatron took full control of Bumblebee's body a short time later and used the GroundBridge to return to the ancient battlefield where he had raised his original Terrorcons, recovering the Dark Energon shard he had used to do so. He returned to the Autobot base, where Hey, you really are uglier from this angle! he dealt with Ratchet and Raf before again IT'S... AAALLLLLIIIIIIIIVE! GroundBridging to the Nemesis and using the Dark Energon to restore his body and return his mind to it. Storming out of the Nemesis to find Starscream, Megatron snatched his subordinate out of the air in the middle of a battle with Optimus Prime and took him back for his punishment. Out of His Head Despite his treason, Megatron decided not to terminate Starscream, viewing him as no real threat and taking perverse amusement in his repeated failures. Rock Bottom Instead, Megatron proceeded to beat Starscream only to near death, then had him placed in the infirmary, occasionally visiting to gloat.
Shadowzone
When Breakdown was captured by the humans of MECH, Megatron refuted Starscream's suggestion that they rescue him, announcing that if Breakdown had allowed himself to be captured by those weaker than him, then he deserved whatever he got. Operation: Breakdown Breakdown did manage to escape, however, and in his wounded pride, volunteered to recover a polarity gauntlet for Megatron in order to prove his worth. Megatron was disappointed when his minion returned without the gauntlet, but was placated with the revelation that he had instead brought back Airachnid. Metal Attraction
Lulz.
Discovering that Starscream was still attempting to mine energon for his personal use without his knowledge, Megatron determined that the amusement had come to an end. Taking him to the mine in question, Megatron revealed that he had been aware of Starscream's previous transgressions the whole time thanks to Soundwave, and was about to execute his grovelling lieutenant when Jack Darby and Arcee walked in. In the firefight that followed, stray shots from Megatron's fusion cannon brought the mine down on top of them all, with Megatron being completely pinned by rubble. Jack happened upon the Decepticon leader with a mining drill, and Megatron, knowing that the human would not help him, instead urged Jack to finish him off. Jack refused, saying that wasn't what Optimus would do, and left, but the opening he had created allowed Megatron to begin his escape. After finally extricating himself, Megatron came upon Starscream trying to keep a large rock from crushing him. Starscream insisted that he had come to rescue Megatron, and begged the Decepticon leader to spare him, and Megatron
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Rock Bottom
Though Megatron allowed Starscream to live and continue as his second-in-command, he was furious to learn from Airachnid that Starscream had kept the location of the Harbinger from him. He ordered Starscream to lead Airachnid to the crash site and retrieve an experimental weapon that was inside. Much to Megatron's fury, Airachnid returned not only without the weapon, but with the news that Starscream had been captured by the Autobots as well. Partners When a formula for Synthetic Energon was transferred from a Cybertronian data cylinder into the mind of the Autobot Bulkhead, Optimus Prime petitioned Megatron for the return of the cylinder so they could extract the formula, after which they would willingly hand it over. Megatron briefly considered the proposal, but instead sent Knock Out and Breakdown to capture Bulkhead and dared Prime to fight for the cylinder. When his Vehicon troops were defeated, Megatron simply crushed the device and took flight. T.M.I. The synthetic energon formula helped the Autobots counter Megatron's next tactic: causing the Autobots to burn through their energon supplies at an accelerated rate by leading them on wild goose chases. Juiced up on the "SynthEn", Ratchet attacked Megatron and Knock Out while they were surveying an energon mine, and sent the Decepticon leader flying with one punch. Unfortunately for Ratchet, Megatron swiftly recovered and subdued the Autobot medic with ease. Stronger, Faster
Convinced by Dark Energon-induced visions that an impending prophecy detailed his own destiny, Megatron stepped up the Decepticons' work in constructing a new space bridge so they could obtain more Dark Energon. When they located the last component they needed, Megatron went in personally, grievously wounding Raf with a blast of Dark Energon on the way and creating an unintended distraction that allowed him to make off with the power source he needed. Soon after, Megatron lured Optimus Prime to a volcano he had seen in his visions, and during their battle, it erupted with Dark Energon, imbuing Megatron with the power he needed to fell Prime. One Shall Fall The intervention of the other Autobots saved Prime's life, but this was of little concern to Megatron, who now had all the Dark Energon he Hold still, jet mode, so we can screencap needed and set his miners to work gathering it up. When you, dammit! Soundwave detected a spark-beat coming from within the Earth, Megatron felt it pounding through his brain and realized what his visions had meant: the lifeforce of Unicron himself dwelt within Earth. Leaving Airachnid in command, Megatron flew into the volcano to address Unicron, but did not receive the power he had hoped the chaos-bringer would bestow on him, instead receiving Unicron's displeasure at the fact that Optimus Prime still lived. One Shall Rise, Part 1
Look, Prime! Look at the fireworks! Aren't
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they splendid?! Spurned, Megatron instead went to the aid of Optimus and his Autobots, who were under attack from Unicron's stone avatars. He offered Optimus his serviceshe intended to lead them to Unicron's real form so that Optimus could use the Matrix of Leadership on the Chaos God. While the Autobots returned to base, Megatron kept the giant stone Unicrons busy, and Prime eventually accepted Megatron's offer. On arrival in the Autobot base, Megatron encountered a couple of humans he recognized, Raf and Jack, as well as a new loud one. Megatron was first to step through the GroundBridge into the Earth's core, and as the Autobots followed, he warned them that Unicron already knew they were there. One Shall Rise, Part 2
Despite the persistent influence of Unicron, Megatron led the Autobots through Unicron's insides, even helping them fight off antibodies. The Dark Energon he was imbued with allowed him to enter Unicron's spark chamber with Optimus, though at that point Unicron's influence became so great that the Chaos God was able to commandeer his body. After Optimus unleashed the power of the Matrix, apparently extinguishing Unicron's spark, Megatron went to kill Optimus, only to discover his foe had lost his memory and now believed himself to be Orion Pax. Megatron convinced Optimus that the other Autobots were enemies, and the pair returned to the Nemesis, where Megatron introduced "Orion Pax" to his men. One Shall Rise, Part 3 Megatron wasted no time in spinning a tale of Autobot warlord Ratchet and the destruction of Cybertron, and "Just this once, we work together! Mortal put Orion Pax to work decoding data from the Iacon enemies working together for the common good!" "Be quiet!" archives for a project of the same name. Though aware that at some point Orion would find out the truth, Megatron made all precautions to make sure that didn't happen before Orion finished his work. Knock Out was ordered to set up Orion's work station a mere few inches away from the Energon storage vault. During Orion's decoding, the archivist noted several references to Starscream as being Megatron's second in command. As part of his deception, Megatron claimed Starscream to be dead, and ordered Soundwave to carefully remove Arcee from the ship with a GroundBridge. Arachnid offered to destroy the bike bot herself, but Megatron feared that Orion would become weary of their activity's should he bare witness to an Autobot's destruction. Orion Pax, Part 1 Megatron attempted to cover for a surprise visit by Starscream when he managed to sneak aboard the ship. Orion asked why Megatron lied, but the con leader stated that Starscream as "dead" to their cause for joining the Autobots. However, Starscream's visit caused Orion to uncover the truth and find out that he was, in fact, Optimus Prime, the so called leader of the Autobot "invaders". Soundwave notified Megatron of Orion finding information on Optimus Prime, and Megatron realized that harsher methods would be necessary to complete Project Iacon. Orion Pax, Part 2 Megatron payed Orion a visit to expose Orion's findings. Orion demanded to know the full truth, but Megatron refused, causing Orion to delete his findings. Fortunately, Soundwave had recorded his findings, and the data was saved. Soundwave also informed Megatron of the activity at the space bridge and went there to find that the Autobots had taken control of it, and that one of their traps on Cybertron was activated. Megatron ordered the
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guards to watch Orion while he went out and threatened to kill the archivist if he had not completed the project. Megatron realized that the Autobots must have been searching for a way to restore Orion to Optimus. Megatron arrived at the space bridge and defeated the trio of Autobots present, and waited for Arcee to return from the open space bridge with the Matrix in her possession. When Orion had overpowered his guards and came to attack Megatron, Orion declared his loyalty to the Autobots, pulled out his blades, and attacked Megatron. The amnesiac Autobot was no match for him. While the Decepticon leader was subsequently kept busy by Arcee, Jack returned the Matrix to Orion, who regained his memory and left with the Autobots, leaving Megatron screaming furiously at his failure.
Do you see what's in your teeth NOW?!
Orion Pax, Part 3
Following the first of the artifact coordinates left by Orion, Megatron and his men unearthed the Spark Extractor. While Megatron was bringing it back through the GroundBridge, it was taken from him by Bumblebee. He then ordered Knock Out and Breakdown to retrieve another artifact before Bulkhead and Bumblebee did. Operation Bumblebee, Part 1 Megatron was pleased when Knock Out returned with a force field generator, quickly demonstrating the object's power with a cannon-blast. Megatron himself joined the mission to get the third artifact, and managed to secure the Forge of Solus Prime by holding a prone Bulkhead hostage. Unfortunately, he discovered that the Forge wouldn't work without the power of a Prime behind it. Operation Bumblebee, Part 2 When Dreadwing arrived on Earth, Megatron filled him in on what had happened to his brother Now I have The Touch. Skyquake, but warned him not to seek revenge on his own. When Dreadwing did anyway, Megatron figured that would be the last they saw of him, although he was glad that Dreadwing both survived and learned his lesson. Loose Cannons Reminded of Airachnid's past treachery, Megatron tasked Dreadwing with ridding them of her. Dreadwing not only failed, but returned minus Breakdown, much to Megatron's disgust. Megatron responded to Airachnid's later communication by attempting to get rid of her himself. Although she set an Insecticon on him, the mighty Megatron eventually prevailed against it. The fight took all of his strength, and he was subsequently surrounded by Autobots. With Dreadwing's help, he escaped and made Dreadwing his new second-in-command. Crossfire Megatron responded to reports of Starscream on the ship and found not one but four Starscreams on the bridge. After attempting to appeal to their treacherous nature, he took advantage of a diversion to "You do know that you'll be splattered offline three of them before the fourth escaped. The diversion turned out to be a mass Insecticon attack, across the ceiling after this screencap, right?" but after a fight, the Insecticons suddenly stopped and announced they were loyal to him. Then the Nemesis crashed. Armada Megatron got the ship moving again using Dark Energon, but when it exhibited its own intelligence and refused to follow his orders, he tried to shut it down, only to be put into stasis lock. He only awoke when the kids reversed the
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energon flow.
Flying Mind
As Knock Out prepared to go and try to find the first of the four relics which the ship had found the location of, Megatron instructed him to take an Insecticon as muscle. Tunnel Vision Megatron then sent Dreadwing to Antarctica to find the relic there Triangulation and then sent Hardshell and three other Insecticons to a volcanic area at the equator, Toxicity before sending Soundwave to find the last relic. He was impressed with the Resonance Blaster Soundwave found, but less so with Dreadwing and Knock Out, the latter of whom returned looking like he'd been run over by a train. After they found a grenade implanted in Laserbeak, Megatron set Soundwave back to work decoding the Iacon database. Triage His rage over Hardshell's failure was mollified when the Insecticon claimed to have offlined Bulkhead, but when they later got a call from Wheeljack revealing Bulkhead was still alive, Megatron demanded Hardshell bring him Wheeljack's spark as a substitute. Instead Hardshell's corpse was brought back before him, and Megatron was shocked to learn a human girl was responsible. Hurt After sending Knock Out to investigate Breakdown's signal coming back online, Megatron expressed distaste at the Breakdown/Silas hybrid who was brought to the ship. Nevertheless he allowed "Cylas" the opportunity to prove himself worthy of a place in the Decepticon ranks by supplying them with a Project Damocles satellite. Though the initial results were promising, he sent Cylas to terminate Raf when the boy's hacking threatened to railroad their plans. When Cylas failed to do so and the satellite was stopped, Megatron called him back, and handed the former MECH commander over to Knock Out for dissection.
The Human Factor
When Soundwave decoded another set of Iacon relic Soundwave, please arrange our guest a coordinates, Megatron initiated a decoy relic beacon to carwash. give them the advantage over the Autobots, and went to fetch the latest relic with a team. Though hoping it would be a Decepticon weapon, Megatron was stunned when it turned out to be the Star Saber. When he was unable to extract the sword, he had the Decepticons chip away a chunk of the mountain to be hauled away by the Nemesis in an effort to ensure it did not fall in Optimus's hands. Unfortunately, the arrival of a new Autobot delayed them long enough that the other Autobots discovered the deception. Optimus quickly managed to get hold of the sword despite Megatron's best efforts, and as the Autobot leader unleashed the sword's power, Megatron was forced to retreat in his ship, noting it was now the Decepticons' darkest hour. Legacy
Coming up with a new plan to combat the Star Saber, Megatron took Dreadwing through the space bridge to Cybertron, and broke into the tomb of a Prime. After having Knock Out graft the Prime's arm onto Megatron, he was finally able to use the Forge of Solus Prime to forge a Dark Star Saber with some of his Dark Energon. Once Soundwave decrypted a new set of coordinates, he got the opportunity to test it on Arcee and Smokescreen when the pair found the first Omega Key, whom he swept aside with ease. With new-found confidence, Megatron challenged Prime to a duel, and though his new sword cleaved right through the Star Saber, Megatron was unable to stop the
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Autobots from getting away with the Omega Key. Alpha/Omega Gloating of his destruction of the Star Saber, he allowed Knock Out the opportunity to retrieve the next relic. Upon his return with another Omega Key, Megatron was intrigued by the relic, believing it to be part of a larger piece, and put the doctor to work analyzing it. He was less impressed with Dreadwing who returned empty handed from his mission, and asserted that they needed to locate the Autobot base to recover their relics. Then Soundwave decrypted the final part of the Iacon databse, revealing Smokescreen to be relevant to their search. Hard Knocks After they extracted the Omega Key from Smokescreen, Megatron had Knock Out It's treason then... perform a cortical psychic patch procedure on the Autobot to learn their purpose. After discovering that all four could be used to revitalize Cybertron, he left Knock Out to find out where the Autobot base was, Megatron went to place the Omega Key in storage. However Smokescreen escaped and snatched it out of his grasp and made off with the other key as well. Though Megatron and his men gave pursuit as the Autobot jumped off their ship, Smokescreen got away. The Decepticon leader told Dreadwing they would need to locate the Autobot base quickly to retrieve the other keys, only to find Because we haven't seen this before. Starscream on the bridge, with all four of the Omega Keys as a peace offering. Inside Job Intending to find what Starscream really planned, Megatron had himself plugged into the rogue Decepticon with a psychic patch. Despite most of Starscream's memories turning out to be incriminating, he was eventually convinced to allow Starscream to rejoin the Decepticon ranks. Patch Megatron attempted to stress to Dreadwing that the Decepticons needed to be united. Unfortunately Dreadwing was more interested in slagging Starscream, and Megatron had to blow a hole through him. Once the location of the Omega Lock was established, Megatron took the Keys to Cybertron to find it. He and his men were attacked by the Autobots, who got away with the Keys while Megatron was otherwise occupied with the spark extractor. With some help from Starscream, Megatron got hold of the Autobots' human friends to use as a bargaining chip to secure the return of the Keys. Regeneration Once he had the Keys back, Megatron had the lock activated and revealed that he intended to use it on both Cybertron and Earth so he'd have two worlds to rule, starting with Earth. Shockingly, this news resulted in Optimus slicing Megatron's sword arm off before destroying the Omega Lock. Though the Autobots escaped, Megatron would have the last laugh, as he knew the location of their base and used the Omega Lock to create a fortress there before Optimus destroyed it. If he could not conquer Cybertron, he could at least conquer Earth. From the Nemesis, he and his men attacked and destroyed the Autobot base as their first act of aggression. Darkest Hour As the Decepticons were unable to find any corpses in the rubble, Megatron ordered worldwide
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surveillance. He got the opportunity to test his new citadel's fusion cannons on some foolishly attacking humans, and contacted Agent Fowler, claiming to want to co-exist peacefully with humanity. With the continuing failure of Starscream to get any information out of the captive Wheeljack, Megatron sent Knock Out to Cybertron to search for the relics lost during the Omega Lock battle. He was pleased when Knock Out returned with the long lost Shockwave. Darkmount, NV Megatron appointed Shockwave his first lieutenant in charge of science. With failures mounting, including an aborted attempt by Starscream to track down the Autobots by freeing Wheeljack with a tracking device attached, Megatron's anger grew, leading Shockwave to bring to Earth a Predacon he had cloned. Scattered The beast was dispatched, but to Megatron's disappointment it returned empty-handed. Prey Megatron was furious when Starscream scattered their troops in pursuit of phantom Autobot signals, shortly before Darkmount itself was attacked. The Decepticon leader cut short Ultra Magnus's attempt to assault the fusion cannon control room, and ordered the Autobots executed. Before this could be done, Optimus Prime turned up, comprehensively beating up Megatron and throwing him into the fusion cannon power core. Despite his protests, the other Decepticons dragged Megatron back to the Nemesis before the Autobots brought the citadel crashing to the ground. Rebellion Instead the Decepticons turned their attentions to cloning, with Megatron ordering the creation of more Predacons. Project Predacon When the existing Predacon returned, Megatron ordered Starscream to take command of it. He later dispatched the beast and his first lieutenant to Scotland when a team searching for fossils there failed to report in. Chain of Command Megatron was displeased when it turned out Starscream had lost the Apex Armor, and was even less impressed when Starscream caused damage to the communications dish. Knock Out, at least, did not disappoint the Decepticon leader when he returned with another Predacon fossil. Plus One After some near-missteps in gathering the fossils required, Megatron hinted Shockwave should restrict himself to working in the laboratory in future. Project Predacon Megatron discovered that Knock Out and Starscream had been experimenting with Synthetic Energon and had accidentally created a zombie-like plague. After the situation resulted in Airachnid being freed and the loss of the Insecticons, Megatron gave Knock Out orders to turn all of his experiments over to Shockwave, and reserved a special punishment for Starscream. Thirst During a visit to Shockwave's off-site laboratory, Megatron was shocked to learn that the Predacon could transform and was intelligent enough to speak. Though Predaking affirmed he was loyal to Megatron, the Decepticon leader suspected that once Predaking discovered that the Predacons were superior to ordinary Decepticons, he would turn against them. The Decepticons quickly realised they'd need to terminate Shockwave's cloning process, and Starscream came up with a plan to pin it on the Autobots which succeeded splendidly. In the aftermath of the explosion, the Decepticons discovered that the Synthetic Energon stored in the lab had created Cybermatter. Evolution With this discovery in mind, Megatron put Shockwave in charge of perfecting the Synthetic Energon formula, however they quickly realized that the Omega Lock would needed to be repaired to allow for its targeted delivery, and that Ratchet would be needed to complete the formula. Megatron told Shockwave he had decided that Earth and Cybertron were two halves of the same coin, and he intended to rule both. As the Autobots continued to interfere in their plans, Megatron had Predaking take part in protecting the Vehicons, though he insisted it be done with the Predacon in beast mode.
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After the Decepticons captured Ratchet and failed to extract the information they needed via cortical psychic patch, Megatron turned on the charm.
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Once he showed Ratchet the Omega Lock they'd reconstructed, the Autobot reluctantly agreed to help them. Persuasion Despite several missteps which he encouraged his men to correct, Megatron was pleased when the Synth-En formula was perfected, and promptly rewarded Ratchet by giving the Autobot to Predaking as a chew toy. Unfortunately Ratchet turned Predaking against him, and Megatron found himself facing the Predacon in combat. With some help from Starscream, Megatron defeated Predaking and expelled him from the ship, however the Decepticons then found their warship under attack from the Autobots. Synthesis
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Megatron intercepted Optimus Prime, damaging the Autobot's jet pack, and proceeded to duel with his foe atop the Omega Lock, all the while giving orders to Shockwave to prepare the Lock for firing. When Bumblebee attempted to pass Optimus the Star Saber, Megatron blasted the scout, killing him. He prepared to finish off Optimus as well, but Bumblebee was restored by the Omega Lock and ran Megatron through with the Star Saber. Megatron's lifeless body fell from the Omega Lock and plummeted Earthward. Deadlock
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Predacons Rising (Prime)
Commercial appearances
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Voice actor: Frank Welker (English) Megatron, Dan and Pinkie Pie sang a collaborative group song while the scene quickly shifted between a variety of strange alternate universes.
The Hub summer promo 2011
Are you ready for the summer? Are you ready for the hot nuts nights?
Megatron At some point he ended up in detention at a school because he had "anger issues".
The Hub promo
He later joined back up with Pinkie Pie as well as other ponies Rainbow Dash and Applejack, and Bulkhead in scatting "Deck the Halls" and singing "Jingle Bells". The Hub Carolers (Second spot)
He also demanded that viewers vote for him in the Hub's 2010 "Naughty or Nice" contest. They must have been listening, because he was eventually voted the "Naughtiest" villain on the Hub that year. Megatron declared the Hub his in a commercial for a marathon of Prime season 1 and 2, doing certain Hub-focused jokes and gags before the commercial breaks during the marathon. One such segment showed his home movies, during which reminisced on how young he looked back then and mocked Soundwave's dated choice of alt-mode. (This is highly unlikely to be canon.) In other commercials for the marathon, it is revealed that out of all the radio transmissions in the universe, the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic theme is his favorite song, Megatron's Favorite Song (26 Hour Takeover marathon promo) and that he has been working on new transformations, demonstrating his ability to transform into Funshine Bear, a Care Bear, much to his humiliation. Megatron Transforms into a Care Bear (26 Hour Takeover marathon promo) Also during the Megatron is on the right marathon; he commented on how his favorite reason that transformers were superior to humans was that One wonders where exactly the other Care transformers didn't need bathroom breaks. He also commented that the one thing he doesn't get about Bear came from. Autobots is their continuation of transforming into land-based vehicles (not complaining, just observing). He also expressed bewilderment over the way Americans elect their leader through democratic means, rather than just killing off the competition like he would do. He also apologized to ALF for pre-empting his show, allowing the program to air at a later date under his regime. The only humans that Megatron admitted to liking were those that cower before him and Dan, due to his anger. Despite Megatron's might, Raf judged him inferior to Time Warner Cable's ability to transmit Transformers: Prime on laptop, tablet and smartphone computers, as demonstrated by a possible Cybertronian who switches to all three devices. Time Warner Cable: Competiton
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Under Megatron's leadership, the Decepticons conquered many city states including Kalis, Tarn and Vos. When the time came to strike against Iacon, Megatron led a five-con team in under the cover of darkness to bomb the Iacon Energon Refinery. They had barely planted the first bomb when they were spotted and fired on. After the other three Decepticons were shot down, Megatron gave Soundwave a bomb and set about causing a distraction while his second-in-command went to plant it. When Soundwave was also shot down, Megatron flew into action, helping up the rest of his team and carrying Soundwave as they retreated under the cover of an exploding bomb. War Story With a new plan, Megatron took Starscream to attack the NS Yamal, a Russian icebreaker near Antarctica. He intended to use a static lance to cause the ship's reactors to meltdown exposing energon deposits beneath the ice. Unfortunately Optimus got wind of the plan and came storming in. As Megatron detailed his plan during their one-on-one fight, Optimus took possession of the lance. Megatron attempted to take it back, only for Optimus to hit him with it. Ice Breaker Megatron and Soundwave somehow slipped some code into Invasionauts II to hypnotize Raf into opening the GroundBridge so they could send Vehicons through. Tinker, Tailor, Gamer, Spy! The kiddy-friendly comics have Irritated at Starscream's failure to end the Autobot problem, Megatron giving piggy-back rides. Megatron demanded his subordinate try and lure the Autobots into a trap instead for fruitlessly searching for them. All the President's 'Bots! Now infuriated at his army being constantly bested by the Autobots, Megatron took the Nemesis to the Erta Ale volcano where he had his troops fight in a series of deathmatches to apply the principal of survival of the fittest. He forced Starscream to fight Fearstorm, and when Starscream won, seemed happy enough to let his lieutenant return to the ship. Megatron's Law After Bulkhead destroyed an energon store, Megatron had him captured and taken aboard the warship, where the Autobot was placed in the newly developed Ultra Prison. Megatron sneeringly informed Bulkhead that the prison would slowly wipe his mind, but it was Megatron who got the raw end of the deal when the Nemesis was badly damaged during the inevitable Autobot rescue.
The Battle for Bulkhead
Intending to show the pitiful humans that their independence was only temporary, Megatron attempted to stage a media circus in which he destroyed the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately only Bumblebee and Optimus turned up, and though Megatron tried his best to wreck the statue, Optimus caused more damage to it in the process of defeating him than he did himself. Protecting the Lady Mega-Mouth
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Megatron occasionally takes time out from conquering the universe to...answer fan mail? He also sometimes seems confused about which multiverse he hails from, as he claimed he attacked Sentinel Mega-Mouth #1 and also explained why he wore a cowl in Dark of the Moon. Mega-Mouth #4 He also said he survived Dark of the Moon, after some fan asked how Megatron could be answering fan mail. Mega-Mouth #5
Games
Transformers: War for Cybertron (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Voice actor: Fred Tatasciore (English), Oliviero Corbetta (Italian), Juan Carlos Lozano (Spanish) During the early war on Cybertron, Megatron found reference to an energy source called Dark Energon, which had impressive potential as a weapon, and became determined to claim it for himself. One of the few places it was made was in a station in orbit around Cybertron, guarded by a politically neutral force led by Starscream. With this knowledge, he took a ship and launched an assault on the station. The ship was badly damaged in the attack, and so he ordered Barricade and Brawl, piloting it, to ram the station. He and many of his soldiers survived the impact and escaped the core's detonation. They were then confronted by Starscream, who informed them that they would not allow them to take what he had guarded for ten thousand years. After surviving a trap of sentry guns, Megatron, Barricade, and Brawl were reinforced by more of Megatron's troops, and set out on their way to find the station's Dark Energon stores and claim them for the war effort. They encountered significant resistance, but managed to shoot their way through, with directional aid from Soundwave. Barricade noted that the station itself seemed quite primitive; Megatron noted it was very old, and that he intended to modernize it. At one point, the Seeker Jetfire confronted Megatron nonviolently, asking him to give up his quest, as Dark Energon would result in only horror, death, and destruction, to which Megatron sneered, "You say that as if it were a bad thing." Along their way to the Dark Energon, they found that a large portion of the station had been blasted clean off, the debris field traversable but sparse enough to allow easy viewing of Cybertron itself. Soundwave soon found records indicating that a small amount of Dark Energon lost containment and
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was the sole cause of the destruction, underscoring Megatron's desire for it. When Barricade asked how he expected to control it when no other had, Megatron said that such power was only for the strong, that he was the strongest, and not to question him again.
When they finally reached the storage chamber, and Megatron averted Starscream's destruction of it, he calmly entered into a container full of raw Dark Energon, while Starscream watched and gloated at his imminent destruction...only for him to walk out, not only unscathed, but crackling with power, which he further bestowed upon Barricade and Brawl. A single blast of Dark Energon was enough to destroy an entire company of station security forces, the last line of defense between Megatron and Starscream and his companions.
Jetfire again tried to warn Megatron about the dangers of Dark Energon, but Starscream interrupted, asking to join the Decepticon leader. Megatron asked what Starscream could offer that he could not simply take. Starscream revealed the station's supply of Dark Energon was almost spent, and he knew how to manufacture moreand as luck would have it, there was a dormant Geosynchronous Energon Bridge which could be used to power it. Jetfire retreated to inform Zeta Prime; Megatron let him go, seeming pleased by the notion of letting the Autobots tremble in advance of their actions, and sent Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp to activate the bridge. Megatron repeatedly mocked what he perceived as Starscream's slowness in his simple mission, but the Seeker did what he said he could. With a steady supply of Dark Energon, Megatron launched an attack on Iacon City, intending to take a device called the Omega Key and use it to enter the Core of Cybertron. This time, he took Breakdown and Soundwave with him. The trio took the less-guarded way inwhich, since the Autobots were not complete fools (as even Megatron would admit), still had significant military presence. During the attack, Starscream noted that Dark Energon was proving every bit as potent as Megatron had promised. Breakdown let Megatron know of his misgivings about the Sky Commander; Megatron admitted he was treacherous and untrustworthy, but he had useful talents, and his cunning and ambition was intriguing. The Omega Key had been taken from its normal resting place, however, by Autobot leader Zeta Prime, and so Megatron took his squad on an assault on Zeta's headquarters. They met Brawl, leading an attack on the doors to Zeta Prime's armory, along the way. Even Megatron's touch of Dark Energon could not breach the vault doors, however, and so he called in Dark Energon Bombers. When they were shot down, Brawl suggested they take out the Autobots' air defense guns, after which bombers were called in again; Megatron's troops then held off a massive assault from what seemed like the entire Autobot army while waiting for the bombing run to finally arrive.
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After the vault doors were breached, they reached Zeta Prime himself, who had constructed several layers of security while he waited. An invincible energy field protected him, while he could drop portions of the ceiling with pistons to crush anything beneath them, and construct endless holographic clones of himself outfitted for melee combat, which Megatron personally found nauseating. However, his defenses were not without flaw: periodically, the power core would need to disperse waste heat, and Megatron's team survived long enough to destroy it during this stage. Zeta fell, buried under the wreckage of his own defenses, and Megatron took the device he'd carried...which started to make electronic chirping noises. Zeta, with dark humor, noted that the device was not the Omega Key. It merely activated the Key, which would come to them... Searching for the Key in the skies aboard another ship, Megatron, with Soundwave and Zeta Prime, you might be more egotistical than me. Breakdown at the controls, were abruptly confronted by a massive ship, Omega Supreme, who I mean really, a huge holographic version of you knocked them out of the sky, causing them to crash back in Iacon. There, they played a cat-andand smaller holograms doing what you can't do mouse campaign in a desperate attempt to survive the enormous Autobot's vast firepower, though without your pointy stick thing? Soundwave noted that the weaponry they bore had little chance of penetrating Omega Supreme's armor. Megatron, for his part, at least contrived to appear unafraid, claiming that if it came to a real fight, the brute wouldn't stand a chance against Megatron's intellect. However, Omega's attacks drove them underground and left them unable to immediately transmit counter to Starscream, who declared Megatron dead and announced he was taking control. Even when they re-established contact, Starscream's aerial forces only briefly distracted Omega, who dispensed large numbers of troops, sucked up Decepticons with a tractor beam, fired weapons of mass destruction, and mined the roads Megatron and his squad were using. Soundwave, however, had come up with a suggestionthere were weapons emplacements higher up that had the ability to damage Omega Supreme. Taking them from the Autobots was a battle in and of itself, but nothing compared to the fight against Omega Supreme, who could unload entire squadrons of Aerialbots. Nonetheless, Megatron's boldness and tactical acumen finally shot Omega Supreme out of the sky. Gloating, Megatron found that the behemoth was still not defeated, and indeed was drawing power from Cybertron itself to repair his systems, "I challenge you to a thumb wrestling competition!" making him stronger, if anything. "That's a thumb!?" However, by corrupting the energon batteries with which he was using to feed himself with Dark Energon charges, they were able to weaken him to the point where they could finally blast away his last defenses and brought him to heel. With Omega Supreme defeated, Megatron went underground, directly to the Core, and
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corrupted it with a massive infusion of Dark Energon, finally bringing Cybertron itself more completely under his control.
At this point, Megatron was clearly convinced, and for good reason, that he'd won, making propaganda broadcasts extolling his greatness and how he had taken away the Autobots' burdens of "liberty" and "choice". When Starscream was defeated and the Decagon retaken, however, he realized the Autobots were not yet going to roll over for him, and sent a distress signal from Zeta Prime, whom he had kept alive in the Kaon prison camp, in order to provoke a rescue attempt from the Autobots. His old acquaintance Optimus took the bait, and Megatron confronted him, telling him that the war could be over tomorrow if Optimus took the Autobots and left. Optimus refused, so Megatron consigned him and his team to the prisons. When they managed to stage a mass breakout, an enraged Megatron ordered his troops to prevent their escape at any cost, to the point of tearing apart portions of Kaon. This was not enough, however, and they escaped, journeying to the Core, where they kickstarted the cleansing of Megatron's corruption. Doing so, however, would take the Core millions of years of shutdown, rendering Cybertron uninhabitable. Whether Megatron knew this or not, when he saw the Autobots leaving after Optimus's refusal of his earlier offer, he apparently took offense. His earlier plans of renovating Starscream's station had come to fruition; now, it mounted a powerful superweapon, capable of destroying entire structures in one shot. He had it fire upon the Autobot transports as they left. When a team of Aerialbots attempted to disable or destroy it, he called Jetfire, now one of them, and taunted him about his past. He further mocked them when they destroyed the plasma coolant system without apparently having accounted for backups. Finally, during the attack he came into possession of information on Optimus Prime's location, and ordered Trypticonthe name of the weapon, for it was actually a Cybertronianto fire upon it. Trypticon, however, was forced into his natural form and defeated after he crash-landed on Cybertron. Megatron's reaction to this went unrecorded.
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mortally wounded, laughed at Megatron's face, saying the Omega Key was only the key to the true key: the city-sized Autobot Omega Supreme. Omega immediately attacked the victorious Decepticons, and quickly decimated their presence in Iacon, save for Megatron's team and a few others. By this point, Megatron was absolutely furious at Starscream: Megatron declared it was he who led them to Omega Supreme and the devastating onslaught he carried out. Starscream bitterly retorted even if Megatron killed him, Omega Supreme would still be out for his blood, helping nothing whatsoever. Megatron angrily let it go for the time being, and led his army to battle. His troops' confidence beginning to falter, Megatron declared they would either be kicking themselves for not acting for the rest of their lives, or heroes in a historic event. His men followed him to battle Omega, and the titan fell. Megatron was free to corrupt the Core of Cybertron with Dark Energon, and obtain near-supremacy of Cybertron.
That kind of went downhill when the new Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, extinguished the Dark Energon and destroyed Trypticon Space Station, didn't it? Transformers: War for Cybertron
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as to salvage its information on Dark Energon. Megatron was pleased. Despite his loss, he still had the upper hand.
Seriously, Soundwave, where is my fusion cannon?! It was in your remodeling designs, for crying out loud...
Due to Starscream's self indulgence, the Decepticons' energon supply was dwindling, forcing Megatron to find more power. He decided to retrieve the power core from the fallen Trypticon and while doing so, he happily "reintroduced" himself to the Autobots. After arriving at Trypticon's crash site, he realized the beast was still alive and had Soundwave revitalize him. Megatron didn't know or care whether or not Trypticon was still sentient or not, but told the beast that since he had failed him, he would be rebuilt to Megatron's liking. Megatron then told Soundwave to initiate the "Nemesis Protocol" and permanently lock Trypticon in his alternate form: a transport ship which they would use to traverse the Space Bridge. The Nemesis was quickly completed and the Space Bridge opened, and Megatron decided to leave Shockwave in charge of Cybertron in his absence. However, one of Shockwave's experiments destroyed the tower, which reduced the time they have to reach the Space Bridge before it closed. Sending in Soundwave to lead his forces on the Ark, Megatron confronted Optimus and the two fought. Megatron prepared a devastating blow to his enemy with a cannon, only for Bumblebee to take the shot for Optimus. Their battle reignited, the two leaders traded blows with swords, causing heavy damage to one another. But before a final blow could be delivered by either one of them, the Ark crumbled under the Space Bridge's force, and while Megatron
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Fall of Cybertron
Toys
Generations
Cybertronian Megatron (Deluxe, 2010) Accessories: clear purple missile, Fusion Cannon Part of the second wave of Generations toys, Cybertronian Megatron is a toy is based on his appearance in the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron, transforming into a Cybertronian self-propelled gun. The treads of his vehicle can be positioned in either a vertical configuration like a traditional tank, or in a horizontal hover-tank configuration. Megatron's spring-loaded cannon can attach to either arm. He also has an insignia on his back, but unlike Optimus, his is not hidden by kibble. Like War for Cybertron Soundwave, his head has a light-piping gimmick that has been neutered by his painted eyes.
Fashionably asymmetrical.
Some units of the figure have Megatron's left internal shoulder strut misassembled, preventing that side of the tank-mode from becoming properly flush to the body when transforming. This can be corrected by unscrewing and separating the outer shoulder structure, flipping the strut 180 degrees, and reassembling the shoulder covering. Also, the packaging image for his tank mode is flipped.
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This mold was redecoed into United Megatron Cybertron Mode and Darkside Megatron. More information on Cybertronian Megatron at TFU.info (http://www.tfu.info/2010/Decepticon/GenerationsMegatron/megatron.htm)
Transformers (2010)
Rage over Cybertron (Multipack, 2011) Accessories: Fusion Cannon, missile A redeco of Cybertronian Megatron with purple parts, a translucent purple cannon and purple and red paint details resembling the effects of Dark Energon, available in a Toys"R"Us exclusive three-pack with Cybertronian Optimus Prime and Cybertronian Bumblebee. The stock photo to the right has his vehicle mode mis-transformed. His treads are left almost untransformed as his arms, but with his hands folded inside the treads, and the top panel on his left shoulder hasn't been rotated and pegged between his shoulders/tank front. His robot mode is also mis-transformed, with his back panel not being pegged into his back and being left hanging behind his thighs. More information on Rage Over Cybertron Megatron at TFU.info (http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/TRUROCMegatron/megatron.htm)
Nobody makes fun of Megatron's lovely skirt. Not more than once, anyway.
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tab and otherwise useless socket on his right arm, giving him the classic, arm-mounted, yet strangely undocumented Fusion Cannon configuration shown in his stock photography. Funny enough, the blade from the Cyberverse Commander figure of the character can fit in the hole of the fusion cannon's mouth, which enables it to reenact fighting scenes with his sword. Speaking of undocumented features, his instructions show a noticeably different "completed" vehicle mode when compared to his stock photos. Specifically, the instructions completely neglect the extra steps to flip his wings out and form a more showHis jet mode needs a little scarf attached to the accurate vehicle mode, opting instead for a more slender, wingless vehicle mode. To robot head. achieve this undocumented form, his underside leg panels must be opened, flipped around and over to the top of the ship, be pegged onto a tab on the side of his intakes, and his pointy wingtips must be flipped out from underneath. He also has some clearance issues when transforming. His intakes and the panel that surrounds his head in vehicle mode tend to collide when the intakes are snugly angled into and out of the panel, often resulting in the intakes popping off the (detachable) plastic hinges that they're on. He also comes somewhat mis-transformed in the package, with the positions of the intakes and the panel on his back being switched around, with the panel being placed after the intakes, instead of before. He comes with a similarly-scaled Optimus Prime and PVC figurines of Miko Nakadai, Jack Darby and Raf Esquivel, as well as a DVD of the "Series Premiere" episode "Masters & Students". More information on First Edition Megatron at TFU.info (http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/PrimeEPMegatron/megatron.htm)
Megatron (Deluxe, 2011) Number: 005 Accessories: Fusion Cannon The Japanese release of Deluxe Class Megatron was packaged by itself on a card. The instructions show the proper vehicle mode, how to attach his fusion cannon to his arm, and the figure is transformed correctly in the box. The figure shares its ID number with the US release of Terrorcon Cliffjumper, which was not released in Japan's First Edition line.
Cyberverse
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Megatron (Cyberverse Commander, 2012) Series / Number: 02 / 004 Accessories: Cyber sword Part of the first wave of Prime Series 2 Cyberverse Commander Class toys, Megatron features translucent purple plastic on his entire torso (although with the chest panels covering a portion of it) so that he can be illuminated by the lights from the larger play-sets. He comes with a translucent hard-plastic "cyber sword" weapon which features two 3mm posts and a peg-hole in-between, allowing it to peg into either his hands, right wrist, left arm, Fusion Cannon, or back. The Hasbro release comes with a pack-in file card. In addition to the regular version, Megatron was also released in a special "advance release" assortment alongside Optimus Prime, Bulkhead, and Starscream, with each figure including a mini-DVD that contains the Transformers: Prime episode "Masters & Students". Yes, all four of them come with the same episode. While the transformation-related post on his arm-mounted Fusion Cannon may seem 3mm-compatible, it is actually slightly too big, and mounting the sword onto it may cause the sword's peg-hole to crack. More information on Cyberverse Megatron at TFU.info (http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/CommMegatron/megatron.htm)
Decepticon Set (EZ Collection 6-pack, 11-24-2012) ID number: EZ-SP2 Accessories: Cyber sword This redeco of Megatron is cast in darker metallic-gray plastics. He was only available in a TakaraTomy EZ Collection six-pack with the Vehicon, Breakdown, Starscream, Knock Out, and Terrorcon Cliffjumper.
Unicron Megatron (Cyberverse Commander, 2014) Series / Number: ??? Accessories: ???
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Prime
Megatron (Voyager, 2012) Series / Number: 01 / 002 Japanese release date: 7-28-2012 Japanese ID number: AM-15 Accessories: Cannon & Combat Claw (Hasbro only), "Gora II" & "Hades" Arms Microns (TakaraTomy only) Part of the first wave of Prime: Robots in Disguise Voyager Class toys, this larger-scale Megatron also has a fair amount of translucent purple plastic in the torso and forearms, allowing them to be illuminated by the various light-up Voyager Class weapons in this line. He comes with two weapons: an arm cannon that deploys and illuminates (via LED) an under-slung blade when a plunger is pushed, as well as a combat claw. Both weapons peg via 5mm post onto his hands, wrists, forearms, robot back, and vehicle roof. The combat claw pegs into his wrist, allowing the handle to rest on his hands as if he were holding it. The claw can also mount onto a peg-hole on top of the cannon when not in use.
The TakaraTomy release of Voyager Megatron sports many differences. Megatron Darkness , part of the fifth wave of Japanese Prime product, is said to be Megatron's reborn form, having "come back from Hell" (aka the events of "Sick Mind" and "Out of His Head"). His base plastics are shades of cold-gray as opposed to the Hasbro warm-grays, All he needs now is a hooded cloak. and his chestplates, shoulderplates and head have been given a silver vac-metal finish. He comes with a silver-foil sticker sheet that adds a lot of purple filigree designs to him in a matter similar to the e-HOBBY exclusive Galvatron II. The Hasbro accessories have been replaced with a pair of Arms Micron kits; Gora II, a gorilla that becomes Megatron's fusion cannon, and Hades, a massive bat that becomes a winged backpack or a giant scythe weapon. People who purchased Megatron Darkness from Ion stores on his release date got a free Hellflame Gul Arms Micron (while supplies last). Those who preordered Megatron Darkness through Amazon Japan got a free Shining B.2 Arms Micron with their order. More information on Voyager Megatron at TFU.info (http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm) Megatron Darkness at Alfes's Toy Blog (http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1623.html)
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Megatron (Deluxe, 3-31-12) ID number: AM-05 Accessories: "Gora" Arms Micron As part of the first wave of the Japanese Prime line, this toy is a redeco and retooling of the First Edition Megatron toy. He has had some of his paint operations replaced with customer-applied foil stickers (mostly the silver bits on his pelvis). His "backpack" has also been retooled to add 5mm posts and post-holes as part of the line-wide Arms Micron gimmick. Rather than coming with his original fusion cannon, he instead comes with Gora, a gorilla-like robot who transforms into the fusion cannon, complete with flip-out blades. Arms Micron Megatron at Alfes's blog (http://higekumatoytoy.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-1469.html)
Megatron tries to get the monkey off his back.
Megatron (Dark Energon Voyager, 2012) Number: 001 Accessories: Cannon & Combat Claw Prime: Dark Energon Megatron is a BigBadToyStore-exclusive redeco of RID Megatron, being cast in opaque dark blue, lavender, light-gray, and black plastics, and having warmer translucent-purple plastic. The entirety of his forearms and shoulder-pads are now cast in translucent-purple plastic, and his purple paint operations have been replaced by pink. Though he was packaged on an individual box, he was initially sold as part of a set with Dark Energon Optimus Prime. He was eventually made available on his own, and all of the Dark Energon Series toys were eventually made available in Singapore as mass-retail releases. The Voyager Class toys, in particular, also saw mass-retail release in the Philippines. More information on Dark Energon Megatron at TFU.info (http://www.tfu.info/2012/Decepticon/DEMegatron/megatron.htm)
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"So, they think they can outdo us by giving their black repaint chrome, eh? We'll show them! Give him more translucent plastic!"
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Final Battle Megatron (Voyager, 2-25-2013) ID number: AM-33 Accessories: Shadow Gabu, Shadow Baru, & Shadow Dai Arms Microns Part of the eleventh and final assortment of TakaraTomy Prime toys, Final Battle Megatron is the most show-accurate redeco of the original Prime: Robots in Disguise Voyager mold to date, with silver paint across much of the figure, and is specifically intended to represent his appearance in the episodes "Alpha/Omega" through "Darkest Hour". As such, his right forearm is decoed (but sadly not remolded) to resemble the unidentified Prime's forearm that he substitutes for his own in those episodes. Also per the show, he comes with the "Dark Energon Saber" in a place of a fusion cannon, which is represented by a smoky-translucent-black redeco of the Dark Matter Calibur Super Combo Weapon, composed of the Arms Microns Shadow Gabu, Shadow Baru, and Shadow Dai. This figure was originally solicited as "Darkest Megatron".
Because it would be non-aerodynamic silly to mount the saber onto the back of the vehicle mode like a giant tail-fin.
Beast Hunters
Megatron (Voyager, 2013) Series / Number: 02 / 006 Accessories: Tartarex Warp Sword/Sharktooth Spear, missile Part of the fourth wave of Prime: Beast Hunters Voyager Class toys, Megatron (called Sharkticon Megatron in his instructions) is an extensive Sharkticon-homaging retool of his Prime: Robots In Disguise toy. His unique Decepticon insignia has a gaping maw of sharp teeth and beady eyes. He comes equipped with the Tartarex Warp Sword (called the "Sharktooth Spear" in his instructions), a fish-themed cannon that can convert into a sword-spear thing. He has a minor assembly error in that the two-pronged sections within his shoulderpads
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are swapped, preventing the shoulderpads from slotting in place properly in his "beast jet" mode. They are easily reversed by popping the pads off their ball joints, unscrewing the shoulderpads, and swapping the parts.
Merchandise
Mcdonald's
Megatron (Happy Meal, 2012) McNumber: 2 Happy Meal Megatron is a nontransformable space jet! A spring-loaded paddle is launched when his robot mode head is pressed down, and when the fusion cannon on the back of the vehicle is pushed forward, a yellow LED shines out the front of it. An on/off switch on the jet's underside enables or disables the light feature.
Notes
Megatron's model is usable in War for Cybertron multiplayer as the Destroyer-type chassis for Soldier-class characters. His parts are also available in Fall of Cybertron, now classified as Gunner-type components for Titan-class characters. As revealed in One Shall Rise, Part 3, Megatron used to have blue optics. Megatron's designation as an energon miner was "D-16".[2] Megatron's original Japanese ID number was "16". Takara would eventually change the numbering system using a "D" to denote Destrons. So Megatron's Japanese ID number could retroactively be considered "D-16". In Transformers: War for Cybertron, Megatron has multiple glitches when controlled by the computer, among them shrinking (quite hilariously), losing his Fusion Cannon, and having his Tank mode cannon stick straight up (also humorous). He may be the most glitchy character in the game. The show design of this version of Megatron takes visual cues from both Generation 1 (the evertfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(WFC)
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famous buckethead and lower legs resembling a pistol's handgrip) and the movie version of the Decepticon leader (the sharp angles and bits on his shoulders, along with two-toed feet and a demonic-looking face with sharp shark-like teeth), even including the jet mode the latter version appeared in. The Prime staff used the rationale that Megatron would not scan an Earth mode out of disgust at humans.[3] According to Cybertronian Megatron's packaging bio, Megatron often changes his alternate mode, probably in an attempt to explain why he's a tank in the game and a jet in the cartoon. Megatron's body parts are available to use in the Hub website's Vector Sigma Bot Builder online game. Normally, you cannot configure a generic 'bot using all Megatron parts, but you can see what one would look like at right through the magic of Photoshop. Green With Evil. A running gag in the advertisements is that Megatron, the evil leader of the Decepticons who once nearly took over Cybertron, is a Brony. According to the Transformers: Prime 26-Hour Takeover, his favorite song is the theme song to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. According to "Ask Megatron" he spends time on the dark side of pluto coloring in ponies. A note in the Autobits edition of Darkmount, NV states that he enjoys online cat videos.
Arms Up Modes
In the Japanese Prime toyline, Megatron has named powered-up modes when given various Arms Microns in certain configurations: Crusher Mode ( Kurassh Mdo) Arms Microns: Balo, Gora Megatron's "Crusher Mode", as seen on his box-back photo, uses a combined-weapon made up of Gora in "extended-cannon" mode, with Balo in drill-mode at the end, attached to Megatron's arm. Darkness Mode ( Dkunesu Mdo) Arms Microns: Balo (x2), Gora II, Gul, Hades, Igu, Jida, Noji, Zori This is one heavy loadout! Megatron Darkness's Arms Up Mode has him wearing Hades as wings, with Noji and Igu in weapon modes in the inner part of each wing, and a pair of Balos in shield/shuriken mode, one on each wingtip. (Presumably, Balo G will work as a substitute for one of them.) He carries Jida in scissors mode in his left hand, and wields the Planet Bowgun in his right.
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Ultimate Mode ( Aruteimetto Mdo) Arms Microns: Gora II E, Gul B, Ida B, Noji B, Shadow Baru, Shadow Dai, Shadow Gabu, Zori CS BIG SWORD. This version uses Final Battle Megatron for its base. The Dark Energon Saber is augmented by adding Gora II E and Gul B to the end, as Megatron wears Ida B as an arm-guard on the Prime arm, while Noji B and Zori CS make a back-mounted cannon. Hoo boy.
Foreign names
Mandarin: Megaton ( Mkdng ? , Taiwan), Wi Zhn Tan ( ? lit. "Extremely Prestigious" or "Heaven-shaking Might", China)
References
1. Megatron was an abbreviation, so it'd be easier for the masses to chant his name; Transformers: Exodus, Chapter 3 2. War for Cybertron timeline (http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/play/details.cfm?guid=7fd5ecd9-19b9-f369-1041-a7635be83172) . 3. BotCon 2010 Transformers Prime Panel Coverage (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-prime-39/botcon-2010-transformers-prime-panelcoverage-170054/)
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