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Scorponok (disambiguation)

2018-05-18T20:58:49Z

TransformersFan1001:

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Predictably, 'bots named '''Scorponok''' / '''Scorpinok''' from across the [[multiverse]] usually transform into scorpions. And they're evil too.

==Major Scorponoks==
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File:Scorponok-Annual.jpg|[[Scorponok (G1)|"Generation 1" Scorponok]] <hr>''[[Scorponok (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]] • [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]]''
File:BeastWars1 Scorponok battleready.jpg|[[Scorponok (BW)|"Beast Era" Scorponok]]
File:Scorponok-Ecomic.jpg|[[Scorponok (Energon)|"Unicron Trilogy" Scorponok]]
File:Movie Scorponok Procterrender1.jpg|[[Scorponok (Movie)|"Movie series" Scorponok]]
File:RID15-Ep02-03 Scorponok.jpg|[[Scorponok (WFC)|"Aligned" Scorponok]]
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==Full list of Scorponoks==
{{disamb|y=[[1987]]|[[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] the [[Decepticon]] [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] and sometimes [[cityformer]] from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1996]]|[[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]] the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2004]]|[[Scorponok (Energon)|Scorponok]] the [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] who was later resurrected as '''Dark Scorponok'''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] the Decepticon [[symbiote]] to [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] from the [[live-action film series]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Scorponok (TransTech)|Scorponok]] the [[Transcendent Technomorph]] bartender from ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Scorponok (Animated)|Scorponok]] the Decepticon from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2012|[[Scorponok (WFC)|Scorponok]] the Decepticon gladiator from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|[[Scorponok (BWSG)|Scorponok]] the Predacon from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2013|[[Scorponok King]] the Decepticon from ''[[Transformers: Human Alliance|Human Alliance]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2015]]|[[Scorpinok (RID)|Scorpinok]] the Decepticon Insecticon from the ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (mobile game)|Robots in Disguise]]'' mobile game.}}

Scorponok is often called '''[[MegaZarak (disambiguation)|MegaZarak]]''' in Japan.

==Media with "Scorponok" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[2004]]|"[[Scorpinok (episode)|Scorpinok]]" the misspelled episode of ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2004|"[[Return! Our Scorponok]]", an episode of ''Super-Link'' that would have been dubbed into ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' as "Scorponok's Scars".}}

==Not to be confused with==
*[[Scorpia (G2)|Scorpia]] the watch that transforms into a scorpion from ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]''.
**[[Scorpia (Transtech)|Scorpia]] the Transcendent Technomorph who also transforms into a sort of timepiece.
*[[Scorpulator]] the weapon that transforms into a scorpion and partner to [[Action Master]] [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] from Generation 1.
*[[Scorp]] the [[Renegade]] [[Monster GoBot]] who also transforms into a scorpion.
*[[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] the leader figure from [[Nebulos]] and usual Headmaster partner to Scorponok.
*[[Megazarak (disambiguation)]]
*[[Paralon (RID)|Paralon]], a Decepticon who looks like ''Beast Wars''/''Robots in Disguise'' Scorponok.

Blitzwing (disambiguation)

2018-05-18T20:35:47Z

TransformersFan1001:

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The exact nature of '''Blitzwing''' varies, but is often a [[Triple Changer]] with tank and aircraft alternate modes.

==Major Blitzwings==
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File:Blitzwingg1.jpg|[[Blitzwing (G1)|"Generation 1" Blitzwing]] <hr>''[[Blitzwing (G1)/toys|Toys]]''
File:AniBlitzwingPromoModel.jpg|[[Blitzwing (Animated)|''Animated'' Blitzwing]]
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==Full list of Blitzwings==
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|[[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] the [[Decepticon]] [[Triple Changer]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] the Decepticon Triple Changer and psycho from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)| Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|[[Blitzwing (SG)|Blitzwing]], the heroic Decepticon from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}

"Blitzwing" was also one of the pre-production names for the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]].

==Media with "Blitzwing" in the title==
{{disamb|y=2009|"[[Blitzwing Bop]]", the ''Shattered Glass'' text story.}}

==Not to be confused with...==
*[[Blitz (disambiguation)]]

Windblade (disambiguation)

2018-04-23T15:42:27Z

TransformersFan1001:

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'''Windblade''' is the [[Female Transformer|female swordbot]] [[you]] [[Fan Built Bot|created]]!

==Major Windblades==
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File:Revolution5-Windbladeprofile.jpg|[[Windblade (G1)|"Generation 1" Windblade]]
File:Windblade-RID.jpg|[[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]]
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==Full list of Windblades==
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] the first official fan-created [[Transformer]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2015]]|[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], a different iteration of the character from the 2015 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' franchise.}}
{{disamb|y=2015|[[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]], an evil version of the character from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2016|Windblade Bird the Transformerized form of [[Silver]] from ''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]''.}}

==Media with "Windblade" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[2014]]|''[[The Transformers: Windblade]]'', the name of two mini-series from [[IDW Publishing]].}}
{{disamb|y=2015|"[[The Buzz on Windblade]]", an episode of the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|2015 ''Robots in Disguise'']] cartoon.}}

==Not to be confused with==
*[[Wingblade]], an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]].
*[[Wingblaze]], a [[Mini-Con]] from ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)| Rescue Bots]]''.
*[[Wingblazer]], a [[Decepticon]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
*[[Windy (OC)|Any 'bots]] [[Windy (Animated)|named Windy]].

Windblade (disambiguation)

2018-04-23T15:41:02Z

TransformersFan1001:

{{disambig}}

'''Windblade''' is the [[Female Transformer|female swordbot]] [[you]] [[Fan Built Bot|created]]!

==Major Windblades==
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File:Revolution5-Windbladeprofile.jpg|[[Windblade (G1)|"Generation 1" Windblade]]
File:Windblade-RID.jpg|[[Windblade (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' Windblade]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Windblades==
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] the first official fan-created Transformer from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2015]]|[[Windblade (RID)|Windblade]], a different iteration of the character from the 2015 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' franchise.}}
{{disamb|y=2015|[[Windblade (SG)|Windblade]], an evil version of the character from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2016|Windblade Bird the Transformerized form of [[Silver]] from ''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]''.}}

==Media with "Windblade" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[2014]]|''[[The Transformers: Windblade]]'', the name of two mini-series from [[IDW Publishing]].}}
{{disamb|y=2015|"[[The Buzz on Windblade]]", an episode of the 2015 ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' cartoon.}}

==Not to be confused with==
*[[Wingblade]], an [[Autobot]] from the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]].
*[[Wingblaze]], a [[Mini-Con]] from ''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)| Rescue Bots]]''.
*[[Wingblazer]], a [[Decepticon]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
*[[Windy(OC)|Any 'bots]] [[Windy (Animated)|named Windy]].

Gladiatorial combat

2018-04-18T17:32:42Z

TransformersFan1001:

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[[File:Megatrong1gladiator.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|{{w|Mortal Kombat|Kano. Liu Kang. Raiden. Johnny Cage. Scorpion. Sub-Zero. Sonya. MORTAL KOMBAT}}!]]
One of the less reputable aspects of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] before the [[Great War (disambiguation)|Great War]] was the fact '''gladiatorial combat''' was one of the most popular [[Cybertronian sport|sports]]. Though many of these games were officially illegal, they often thrived with [[Transformer]]s [[Pit fighting|battling each other to the death]]. Knowledge of this circled among [[Council of Ancients|way]] [[Autobot High Council|up-top]] [[Senate|government]] [[Functionist Council|officials]] but they tended to turn blind [[Sensor#Optical sensor|optics]] to the bloodsport.

They should have paid better attention, for within these arenas [[Megatron (disambiguation)|many Megatrons]] [[Roll out|first]] [[Decepticons, attack|arose]]... and found many similarly-minded individuals.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
====Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics====
{{noteukexclusive|Gladiatorial combat}}
[[File:State games 1.JPG|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Say it! Say [[FIRRIB|Rumble is red]]!]]
The gladiatorial games of Cybertron were ancient athletic contests meant to demonstrate the combatants' skills and abilities. Gladiators usually wore [[Mouthplate|battle masks]] and fought with shields and hand-to-hand [[Energon weapon]]s.

During the reign of [[Overlord (rank)|the final Overlord]] of Cybertron the planet was experiencing much political strife. Overpopulation had led to a fuel shortage. The larger cities of Cybertron had become sovereign city-states and the Overlords little more than figureheads. In an attempt to garner good will between city-states the last of the Overlords revived the [[Games]] as an inter-city competition. The attempt backfired and seemed to excite rivalries, especially between [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]].

During the last Games of this era a Tarnian gladiator named [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] brutalized his Iaconian opponent [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]], threatening to kill him. [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] entered the arena to put a stop to this. Despite an [[Axe (weapon)|axe]] to the chest Prime managed to get Megatron to stop with his [[photon pistol]]. This altercation caused the Overlord to postpone the awards ceremony for the Games.

At the same time saboteurs from [[Vos (polity)|Vos]] were using the Games as cover for an operation to destroy Tarn's main power plant and frame Iacon for the deed. They were caught by a technician from Tarn who recognized them as members of the Vosian gladiatorial team. The power plant was still destroyed bringing Vos and Tarn to war instead. {{storylink|State Games}}

When [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] was introduced to [[Earth]]'s demolition derbies he considered it a form of gladiatorial combat and went to participate as soon as he knew he was allowed to. {{storylink|Devastation Derby!}}

The Games on Cybertron did not surface for another 4 million years. The Decepticons revived gladiatorial combat in an alliance with the [[alien]] known as [[Zabra]] but were shut down by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] and the [[Sparkabot|Sparkler Mini-Bots]]. {{storylink|Deadly Games!}}

It amused the ruling [[Triumvirate]] to pit their warriors against Autobot POWs in arena fights rather than actually go out and fight the war. They even pitted Decepticons against Decepticons when the returning [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]]-[[Archforce|Megatron clone]] challenged their leadership forcing him to fight his own troops, but a rousing speech rallied them back to his side and they overthrew the Triumvirate ending the arena matches seemingly for good. {{storylink|The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire.}}
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====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
Millions of years in the past when Cybertron was still a [[Quintesson]]-ruled factory world the planet's robotic slaves were often forced to battle each other in gladiatorial combat for the amusement of their masters. [[Prima|Some of the robots]] forced to compete in these sadistic games grew tired of it and attempted to fight against their masters. Although this initial revolt failed it would plant [[Autobot Rebellion|the seeds of rebellion that would eventually prove successful]] and [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|one of the participants]] would hold the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}
====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
There were several gladiatorial combats staged in city-states far from [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], such as in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]]. For some such as [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] it was a good outlet for anger and aggression. Megatron was a participant of these games. As his victories mounted he realized that they were a simple conspiracy by the [[Council of Ancients]] to keep the masses distracted. Megatron began using the matches to find similarly-minded Transformers. For over half a million years Megatron used the games to recruit the [[Decepticon]] army, bribing [[Emirate]] [[Xeon]] to remain quiet. Finally however, they struck. {{storylink|Transformers: The War Within|The War Within}}
====''Descent into Evil''====
The [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]] [[Buzzclaw (G1)|Buzzclaw]] used to be a fighter in the gladatorial pits of [[Polyhex]]. {{storylink|Buzzclaw (G1)|BotCon 2005 Buzzclaw profile card}}
====IDW Generation 1 continuity====
[[File:OriginMyths-ArceeAndGalvatron.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3]]
Gladiatorial combat was a popular pastime in the barbaric ages predating the first unification of Cybertron. In the arenas of [[Protihex|Protohex]], a pair of siblings named [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] and [[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] carved out a reputation for themselves as "The Twins." In the ensuing war that precipitated the first gathering of the [[Thirteen]], the Twins would go on to serve in the vanguard of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]]' army after slaughtering their old master [[Septimus Prime|Septimus]]. {{storylink|Origin Myths}}

[[File:MegsOrigin2 Cykill.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|Fatality!]]
Gladiatorial combat continued on as a forbidden, though alluring, bloodsport, surviving into the modern era of Transformer civilization. Four million years ago, [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] escaped to Kaon after a prison riot, where they joined [[Clench (G1)|Clench]]'s illegal gladiatorial circuit. Megatron's star began to rise, attracting the attention of [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Ratbat (G1)|Senator Ratbat]]. In Megatron's [[Cy-Kill (G1)|first victory]] the crowd chanted "[['Til all are one]]". They liked saying that when [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|people]] [[Unicron|died]]. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 2|Megatron Origin #2}} As Megatron's power grew he used the games to recruit his army of Decepticons. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}}

Much later on the [[Garrus-9]] penitentiary [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] hosted gladiatorial fights, the most prominent featuring crazed Autobot [[Kick-Off (G1)|Kick-Off]] ripping off [[Borehole]]'s head. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 1|Last Stand of the Wreckers #1}}
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===''Animated'' toy bios===
[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] was a gladiator before he joined the Decepticons. His title was "the Kaon Krusher". {{storylink|Lugnut (Animated)#Toys|Lugnut's toy bio}}
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' toy bios===
Before the war Cybertron thrilled to the gladiatorial games. [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] trained for years to take part in them and became a master at fencing. {{storylink|Sideswipe (Movie)#Robot Replicas|Robot Replica Sideswipe}}
===Aligned continuity family===
[[File:WFCcomicD16.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3]]
The gladiatorial games emerged in places such as [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] and [[Slaughter City]], [[Caste system|low-caste]] areas where workers sought a distraction from the drudgery of their lives. The [[Autobot High Council|High Council]], aware of why the games began blatantly did nothing to stop them. One gladiator known as [[Groundpounder (RID)|Groundpounder]] proved popular with fans but was arrested alongside his coach [[Headlock]] after going on a violent rampage due to being correctly accused of cheating and thrown out of the ring. {{storylink|The Champ}} From the pits rose a virtually unbeatable champion who took the name "[[The Fallen|Megatronus]]" which was later shortened to "[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]". He killed the gladiatorial bosses and took control of their establishments, merging it into what became an anti-caste movement that attracted followers in other cities. The business even spread to the cleaner city of [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. During the civil war Megatron's former gladiators were the core of Decepticons and formed the [[Decepticon Gladiator Corps]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}} {{storylink|Transformers: Prime (graphic novel)|Transformers: Prime}}
====List of gladiators====
{{collist|3|
*[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]]
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]
*The [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]]
*[[Barricade (WFC)|Barricade]]
*[[Lugnut (WFC)|Lugnut]]
*[[Hydrau (WFC)|Hydrau]]
*[[Drixco]]
*[[Blackout (WFC)|Blackout]] {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}
*[[Makeshift (Prime)|Makeshift]] {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]] {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}}
*[[Showdown (Prime)|Showdown]] {{storylink|Transformers Universe}}
*[[Hypergear]] {{storylink|Transformers Online (2012 video game)|Transformers Online}}
*[[Groundpounder (RID)|Groundpounder]] {{storylink|The Champ}}
}}
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
In his glory days before the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], [[Double Punch]] was a celebrated gladiator. {{storylink|Identity Politics}}

When the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s grew too decrepit to continue the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] these [[Builder of Cybertron|Builders]] constructed the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], who competed in the [[Games]]. While the Games encompassed a variety of different sports, gladiatorial combat between teams was always a favorite. Typically these matches would take place in Cybertron's ruined cities which had been gutted and repurposed as arenas. Any Maximal or Predacon could be called to fight in the Games at a moment's notice; only those in the [[Maximal Command Security Force]] or [[Predacon Secret Police]] were immune to random selection.

[[Lio Convoy]], the Maximal [[Guardian of Order]] oversaw these matches from behind the scenes, rigging the results so they would never end and the Builders would never run out of amusement. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

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Megatron (G1)

2018-04-18T17:25:16Z

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:''Megatron is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon leader|leader]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
[[File:Megatronguido.jpg|upright=1.95|thumb|Baby, why you make me gotta hurt you?]]
'''Megatron''' is the founder of the [[Decepticon]] movement and uprising and most well-known and feared [[Decepticon leader|leader]]. As a young, charismatic warrior forged in the battles and heritage of war he began to believe in a grand purpose for his race—it is the [[Transformer]]s' glorious destiny to rule [[Decepticon Empire|an empire]] which will span the universe. The nigh-polar opposite of his eternal mortal enemy [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], he feels great contempt for [[Autobot|other Transformers]] who he feels betray [[Thirteen|their]] [[Dynasty of Primes|proud]] [[Golden Age|heritage]] by demanding peace and cooperation with [[Human|weaker life forms]]. It is the destiny of the Decepticons to bring order to the universe through conquest, though in the millions of years since coining this purpose it remains to be seen how much of his mission statements are altruistic... and how much of them are mere words built to fuel loyal warriors to further his desire for personal power.

Megatron will attempt almost anything to achieve his goals but his schemes are rarely in any way subtle. This is perhaps due to his arrogance, but his pride is not so strong as to dissuade him from abandoning a battle he is losing. He often shows dramatic examples of cowardice concealed in rage. Although he isn't as physically strong as Optimus, his ability to analyze any situation and utilize it as a weapon makes the Decepticons deadly enough so they can find energy sources almost immediately. Some would question his sanity, though these few are mostly now dead by his hands... or his [[fusion cannon]] depending on his mood. Sometimes he uses his [[Energon mace]] to strike them down. It does not matter how they die. [[Death]] by the hands of Megatron is an honor.

His [[Earth]]-based [[alternate mode]] is usually a modified {{w|Walther P38}}. Contrary to [[Misconceptions and urban legends about Transformers|natural assumptions]] his fusion cannon becomes the scope, not the barrel.

Sometimes he is previously known as '''Megatronus''' and is later [[Reformatting|reborn as]] '''[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]''' or [[Renaming|renames himself]] '''Megalligator'''.

{{quote|You destroy everything you touch, Megatron!}}
{{quote|That's because everything I touch is food for my hunger. My hunger for ''power''!|Optimus Prime and Megatron, "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 2]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
{{main|Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity}}
[[File:Megatrong1marvelhumiliation.jpg|left|upright=1.66|thumb|And so it begins...]]
Megatron was a [[gladiatorial combat|gladiator]] from [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]], who sought to turn Cybertron into a cosmic dreadnaught. To win his war for conquest, Megatron's Decepticons developed the art of [[transformation]]. Reawakening on Earth in [[1984]], Megatron was ousted from command by [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]], and their power struggle continued for sometime until Optimus Prime killed himself in a video game duel. Refusing to believe his nemesis was dead, Megatron committed suicide by blowing himself up on a [[space bridge]]. However, the explosion had merely deposited him in the [[Dead End (place)|Dead End]] region of Cybertron, where he wandered as an [[empty]], with no recollection of who he was.

After regaining his memories, Megatron forced [[Ratchet (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Ratchet]] to turn [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] into a [[Pretender]], but the ploy failed and the two were grotesquely fused in a [[trans-time dimensional portal]] explosion. [[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] separated their bodies but the two remained in stasis aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. They reawoke when [[Galvatron II|Galvatron]], a future version of Megatron, attacked, and Ratchet crash landed the ship.

In [[Transformers: Generation 2 (Marvel)|one universe]], [[Cobra]] rebuilt Megatron into a tank, and he allied with Optimus against [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], his [[Cybertronian (faction)|Cybertronians]], and the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]]. In [[Transformers: Classics|another]], fifteen years of peace passed before Megatron rose again. In [[The Transformers: Regeneration One|a third]], he woke up in [[1994]], and proceeded to lay waste to the Earth, awaiting the day Optimus Prime would return.
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===Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
{{main|Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity}}
[[File:Mtmte1 megatron throne.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|FOOL! Pass me the TP!]]
Megatron was responsible for bringing Cybertron out of its [[Golden Age]] when he restarted the Autobot/Decepticon civil war nine million years ago. Among his first actions was the fatal wounding of a young dock worker named Orion Pax, who was rebuilt to become Megatron's mortal enemy, [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]].

Megatron's forces boarded the Autobots' spacecraft when it was on a mission to search for new sources of energy on other planets, and was knocked offline like all the other Transformers when the craft crashed on prehistoric Earth. When both factions reawakened in 1984, Megatron made it his mission to pillage all of Earth's natural resources and enslave its populace, with the goal of revitalizing Cybertron and dominating the entire universe. His plans were by turns cunning, wicked, outrageous, and often, utterly, utterly ludicrous.

In 2005, Megatron faced off with Optimus Prime in a battle at [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], during which he fatally wounded the Autobot leader, but not without taking severe damage himself. Cast adrift into space, Megatron was found by the planet-eater, [[Unicron]], and recreated as [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]].

In other timelines which branch out of this one, Megatron became a [[Transmetal]], ordered the [[murdered puppy|murder of a puppy]], and years after his transformation into Galvatron, became Megatron once again, in various powered-up forms.
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===Sticker Adventures books===
In the aftermath of yet another battle had lost against the Autobots, Megatron concocted a sneakier plan to get rid of the Autobots. He had his troops lay low for several days, then instructed Ravage to sneak into the Autobots’ base and steal all of their fuel. Megatron then led his troops into combat once more, before the Autobots would have a chance to procure more fuel. But Optimus, having anticipated a trick on the Decepticons’ part, arrived at the battlefield with a new supply of fuel for his troops. After sustaining too much damage, the Decepticons were forced to retreat once again. {{storylink|Revenge of the Decepticons}}
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===Marvel Storybooks continuity===
After awakening on Earth, Megatron put into motion a plot that would gain him the unconditional surrender of the planet. Megatron first established the [[Global Corporation]] in order to employ the Constructicons to create and build sophisticated buildings all around the world. Each building had been outfitted with a secret mechanism which would trap all of those inside at the push of a button. Once all the buildings had been completed, Megatron would demand Earth's unconditional surrender in exchange for the safe release of the humans captured. Megatron's plan was interrupted by Optimus Prime and his Autobots invading the Decepticon base. Though Megatron attempted to assume the guise of an honest businessbot, Optimus was not fooled, and the two factions began to fight. Optimus had arrived too late, however, and with the plan already in its final stages, Megatron activated the trap mechanisms within his buildings. Megatron then jettisoned the Autobots from his headquarters, and highjacked a television broadcast, making his demands known to the human race.

Megatron and Optimus clashed once more afterwards. This time, Megatron had The Devastator help out on the battlefield, and the Decepticons' victory seemed assured with the help of the colossus. That was until the Dinobots' arrival, who effortlessly slaughtered the Constructicons. The Autobots then proceeded to disable the mechanisms holding the humans captive. Despite Megatron ranting that the war was far from over, the Autobots drove away from the battlefield victoriously. {{storylink|Battle for Earth}}

Megatron sent out [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] to capture any Autobot the colossus could find. Devastator returned with [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] and locked him up in a cell within Decepticon headquarters. Megatron then approached the captive Autobot, and informed him that he would be used as a hostage to force the Autobots into surrendering. As Megatron walked away, Sunstreaker took a potshot at his back, enraging the Decepticon leader. Megatron and two Constructicons returned fire with cruel ferocity. With Sunstreaker left cowering in the corner of his cell, Megatron called to Soundwave to open communications with Autobot headquarters. He had his communications officer inform the Autobots of the situation, and demanded their surrender by the next morning. If they did not accept his terms, Megatron threatened to destroy Sunstreaker and rebuild him as a Decepticon!

Megatron knew the Autobots would not forfeit the Earth so easily, and so had Devastator stand guard over the Decepticon Base's entrance. Surely enough, a rescue party attempted to storm the base, but were quickly subdued by Devastator as well. Now with four prisoners in his custody, Megatron returned to the prison to address the Constructicons. He told [[Hook (G1)|Hook]] that soon his surgical skills would be needed to convert the Autobots into loyal Decepticons. This led to a squabble between Hook and [[Bonecrusher (G1)|Bonecrusher]], who both wanted the privilege of destroying the Autobots before their reconstruction. Megatron assured them that they would both get their own Autobot to destroy.

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Megatron sent a second message to the Autobots, revealing that their rescue squad had also been captured. He then explained that with the four Autobots rebuilt into Decepticons, he would have enough power to defeat the Autobots whether they surrendered or not. His deadline nonetheless still stood, and he awaited morning for the Autobots' surrender.

The following morning, Megatron emerged from the Decepticon headquarters to find a life-size statue of Devastator accompanied by a letter. The message was from Optimus Prime, and it explained that the statue was a peace offering, as the Autobots had agreed to surrender to the Decepticons. Gleeful at this turn of events, Megatron ordered the Autobot prisoners to be brought before the statue. The statue turned out to be an Autobot ruse, however, and from within it burst forth Autobot reinforcements. Megatron lead the Decepticons in a counter-offensive. He first deployed the Decepticon jets to counter the Autobots' own aerial warriors. The battle took a turn for the worse for the Decepticons when [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]'s earthquake-inducing abilities backfired, and many Decepticons were swallowed up by the earth. Deciding to end the battle once and for all, Megatron fired his fusion cannon at Optimus Prime. But Optimus used a reflective piece of metal to deflect Megatron's beam back at him! Hit by his own attack, Megatron crumpled to the ground, defeated. {{storylink|The Autobots' Secret Weapon}}
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===Marvel coloring books===
[[File:BumblebeeToTheRescue Megatron.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Who's for volleyball?"]]
To rule [[Earth]], Megatron came up with the idea to raid sunken treasure. Once they obtained the treasure, Megatron decided to use a truck to take it into town and buy some factories. Unfortunately for him, the truck was [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], who released a bunch of [[Autobot]]s and defeated Megatron and his men. {{storylink|Search for Treasure Under the Sea}} Megatron's next plan was to lock up the Autobots in a [[special Autobot prison]]. They managed to get most of their enemies captured, but while Megatron was distracted by a [[Giant fake Autobot|cardboard cutout]], [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] freed the Autobots and Optimus soon had Megatron wrapped in an iron bar. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue!}}

Megatron sent out the Decepticons to find factories to build more troops. They ended up falling into a trap laid by the forewarned Autobots, but Megatron refused to surrender and Optimus Prime threw him into orbit. Floating in space, Megatron promised that next time the Decepticons would win! {{storylink|Decepticon Patrol}}
The Decepticons kidnapped [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] and [[Buster Witwicky (G1)|Buster Witwicky]], but had to retreat during the following battle because they were low on power. {{storylink|The Deadly Fuel Shortage}}

Deciding that the Decepticons should rule Earth, Megatron set about using the [[molecular transfer device]] to steal the planet's fuel supplies. The Autobots soon found out about it, and when they assaulted the Decepticon stronghold, Megatron was bamboozled by one of Mirage's holograms. {{storylink|Summertime Coloring Book}} After [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] reported on a communication device possessed by the Autobots, Megatron used a fake message to lure Bumblebee away from the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] so he could take it over. It worked, but when Optimus pulled the same trick a short time later, Megatron fell for it. {{storylink|A Message From Outer Space}} Megatron decided to build a factory in a forested area. The Autobots also happened to be vacationing there, and after Megatron was knocked down by a boulder, and fooled by one of [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s holograms, he was forced to flee. {{storylink|Forest Rescue Mission}}

After the Decepticons developed a jet engine silencer, Megatron led them on an attack on the Autobot base. Thanks to Bumblebee's warnings, the Autobots tricked the Decepticons into using up their firepower on a hologram of the Autobot base. {{storylink|Bumblebee's Dangerous Mission}}

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===Kid Stuff Talking Story Books continuity===
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Tricking thousands of humans into digging a large cavern underneath the [[Kalahari Desert]] in [[Africa]], Megatron detonated them with the largest explosion the world had ever seen, transforming the coal and humans into the world's largest diamond. Transporting it to a satellite launch base in [[Brazil]], Megatron gloated the [[crystal satellite|satellite]] would use the diamond as a lens to melt the [[Rocky Mountains]]. Megatron looked on as Skyfire attempted to destroy the satellite out in orbit. When the Autobot failed and fell back to Earth, burning up on reentry, Megatron had a good laugh at his expense. His tone changed when Prime countered the satellite's attack on the Rockies by constructing a square mile of polished metal, which the Autobots placed below the satellite, deflecting its beam and destroying it. Megatron and Soundwave escaped underground in a [[turbine mole machine]]. {{storylink|Satellite of Doom}}

The duo stole an enormous hovering fuel transport, but [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] destroyed it, forcing Megatron to come up with a new scheme: to drill the [[Prudhoe Bay oil reservoir]]. Their drill was so powerful, it caused volcanic eruptions and [[Siberia]] to approach the US, accelerating tensions between the US and USSR. Optimus had [[razon gas]] pumped into the reservoir, returning the [[oil]] below the sea floor and rising the Decepticon device. Boarding it, the Autobots once again found Megatron had fled. {{storylink|When Continents Collide}} He now intended to raise the oil from Brazil, unwittingly destroying the city of [[Machu Picchu]] and much of the [[Andes Mountains|Andes]], as well as wreaking havoc with the weather. The Autobots stopped them again, and once more Megatron and Soundwave fled. {{storylink|Storms of Destruction}}

With all these failures, Megatron grew jealous of Shockwave's success in getting oil to the Decepticon soldiers. Tracking [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], Megatron found the Autobot oil supplies in [[Antarctica]]. Using the [[Crusher (G1)|Crusher]] Megatron sliced icebergs off the Antarctic, causing sea levels to rise. Unwittingly, his actions revived hundreds of dormant Dinobots trapped in the tar beneath the ice, forcing him to flee once more. {{storylink|Jaws of Terror}} Enslaving oil workers in the Pacific, Megatron tried to drill the oil of [[Buru]], but [[Oil driller and transporter|his transport]] overloaded and he took flight. {{storylink|Slaves of the Insecticons}} From his submersible near [[Madagascar]], Megatron sank six [[oil tanker]]s. Attacking another, Megatron's submersible was completely wrecked when it emerged the oil he drained was tainted by the Autobots with corrosive acid. He escaped during the subsequent Autobot attack. {{storylink|Attack of the Decepticons}}

Megatron's relationship with Soundwave was very abusive; he dubbed him a "blundering tape-filled idiot". {{storylink|When Continents Collide}}

===Big Looker storybooks continuity===
[[File:KidsCliff1.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|MTV pimps Megatron's ride.]]
As Decepticon leader, Megatron was part of the forces that attacked the Autobot Ark while it was trying to eliminate asteroids that threated to smash [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to pieces. The Ark crashed on [[Earth]], and four million years later, the Decepticons were first to be woken by the ship's computer. Leaving the ship, they attempted to destroy it, but their energy levels were too low, and Megatron announced they'd have to find new sources of energy. After raiding the nuclear plant at nearby [[Kimball]], they returned to the Ark, only to find it empty. He ordered his men to split up and go in two different directions, and hence they were able to outflank the Autobots. The battle was short-lived, as the Autobots proved too much for them, and the Decepticons retreated. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

A bunch of humans set up a race for charity, and the victor would receive a year's supply of oil and gasoline. Well, the Decepticons desperately wanted that bounty, so rather than just steal it, they decided to sneak into the race. [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] was one of the Autobots driving in the rally and was unaware that the [[big black car|scary black Cadillac]] was actually being driven by Megatron! Megatron dogged Cliffjumper for quite a while but ended up losing to the Minibot. Cliffjumper won the race and everybody smiled, even Optimus Prime. {{storylink|The Great Car Rally}}

After a particularly damaging battle, Megatron sent the [[Seeker (body-type)|Seeker]]s to distract the Autobots while he took a small squad to capture a broken-down oil truck nearby, claiming it would allow them to defeat the Autobots once and for all. While he and his men were implementing the plan, somehow [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] sneaked up and got the truck working again. Megatron furiously pursued the truck and managed to seize it from behind. Suddenly [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] appeared overhead and Megatron proved unable to shoot him down. The [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobot]] dropped a bomb on the group of Decepticons, reducing them to a pile of metal scrap. An automated signal summoned a [[Decepticon rescue squadron|rescue squadron]], who arrived a short time later to retrieve the remains of Megatron and his men. {{storylink|Decepticon Hijack}}

Megatron set his sights on raiding a power plant, and promised his men that whoever came up with a fool-proof plan would be made Decepticon [[second-in-command]]. He was pleased when [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] informed him that [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] had been captured, and even more so when [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] arrived back at base with the [[cerebro-shell]]ed Autobot. Megatron instructed Grapple to come up with a plan to steal the energy in the power plant. When the rest of the Autobots turned up to rescue their friend, Megatron took the opportunity to gloat before battle commenced. He ordered Grapple to help them fight, however Grapple, who had been de-cerebro-shelled, called him a "big coffee pot" and threw him on [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]. {{Storylink|Insecticon Attack!}}
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===Ladybird Books continuity===
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When [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]] discovered that the Autobots were working on a device resembling a radio tower, Megatron sent [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to investigate. The revelation that the Autobots had concealed much of the tower underground made Megatron think they were up to something underhanded, but before he could learn more, he realized [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had gone to destroy the device. Megatron and the other Decepticons caught up with and stopped Starscream, and then puzzled over the machine. The machine, in reality intended to collect lightning, released a surge of power that caused the Decepticons to malfunction, forcing them to retreat. {{storylink|Autobots' Lightning Strike}}

Impatient at the lack of the energy they needed to power their space cruiser, Megatron had [[Buzzsaw (G1)|Buzzsaw]] sent out. They soon hit pay dirt when Buzzsaw located an experimental solar power station. After surveying the station with Soundwave, Megatron ordered the rest of the Decepticons to come in force, however instead Starscream attempted to lead the other Decepticons in an impromptu mutiny. Though Megatron swiftly brought the Decepticons back under his heel, their energy collection was ultimately foiled by the Autobots. {{storylink|Megatron's Fight for Power}} As the Decepticons' space cruiser neared completion, Megatron was determined that they find a way to test the ion-drive, despite Starscream's protests that it didn't need testing. Luckily Ravage located an abandoned mine, so the Decepticons made use of it for testing purposes. The Autobots again got wind of their activities, and used mine cars to blow up the ion-drive, collapsing the tunnel on the Decepticons. {{storylink|Autobots Fight Back}}

Furious over the constant defeats, Megatron ordered Soundwave to send Laserbeak to find out more about the [[human]]s who inhabited the planet [[Earth]]. The scouting mission led the Decepticons to a unique piece of Earth technology — a windmill. During the ensuing fight with the Autobots, they discovered the windmill was immune to the null ray, and believing it to be an advanced new weapon, Megatron ordered it be captured. Instead Rumble managed to destroy it and it collapsed on top of the four Decepticons. {{storylink|Laserbeak's Fury}} At some point [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] traveled back in time from the 21st century and took over leadership of the Decepticons from Megatron. {{storylink|Galvatron's Air Attack}}

===Listen 'n Fun audiobooks continuity===
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[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] passed on news of Doctor [[Heath Blaisedale]]'s solar reactor. Megatron immediately made plans to use the device to drain the [[Sun]]'s energy, despite [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]'s assertion that doing so would result in doom for Earth. He was furious when Starscream led an impromptu attack on the Autobots at the solar plant and ordered the three jets to retreat before they damaged the reactor. He had [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] kidnap Blaisedale in an attempt to draw the Autobots away from the plant, before leading an attack himself. Unfortunately his particle cannon was destroyed by [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] turned up as well, resulting in the destruction of the solar reactor. Megatron retreated empty-handed. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Fun)}}

===Listen 'n Play audiobooks continuity===
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Megatron devised a scheme to abduct humans by disguising the Decepticon jets as commercial airliners. Unfortunately the Autobots stumbled on the plan, freed the humans and defeated the Decepticon squad which was doing the kidnapping. {{storylink|Sun Raid (Listen 'n Play)}}

===The Battle for Planet Earth===
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Thanks to [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]'s spying, Megatron and his men followed the Autobots to [[South America]], where they found [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] taking interest in [[Mount Sheelah]]. Being unfamiliar with volcanoes, Megatron decided to investigate, but his men were unable to capture the [[John Gordon|two]] [[Tim Gordon|humans]] helping the Autobots. After the Autobots had retreated, the Decepticons got their change to look more closely at the volcano, only for it to erupt, trapping them with lava. {{storylink|Terror of Mount Sheelah}} Megatron had his men kidnap humans from towns to use as slave labor, but after [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] stole the Decepticons' [[global crystal]], the Decepticons were forced to set the humans free. {{storylink|Bumblebee to the Rescue (G1)|Bumblebee to the Rescue}}

After [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] spotted a hydro-dam at [[Stanley Lake]], Megatron decided to see if it was suitable for their energy needs, and staged an invasion. A short time later, he and his men spotted the Autobots in the valley in front of the dam and attacked them. Though they appeared triumphant after the Autobots retreated, the valley was flooded with water from the dam a short time later, washing them all away. {{storylink|Menace at the Dam}} Furious at the mounting defeats, Megatron sent Starscream to infiltrate the Autobot ranks. When air commander reported that the Autobots' [[Deuterium Orbital Laser Tracing System|super weapon]] was being stored in [[Mount Levram]], Megatron led the Decepticons there to flatten the mountain. Unfortunately it turned out that Starscream hadn't fooled the Autobots at all, and when the Decepticons returned to their base, it had been leveled in their absence. {{storylink|Espionage!!!!!}}

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===Deadly Paradise===
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Megatron discovered Madame [[Cee]], a human tinkerer on [[Carob Island]] with estensive knowledge of mechanics. With her (involuntary) help, and a rare mineral present on the island, he began building duplicate Autobots, starting with Sideswipe. Megatron also built a [[megamaze]] around his underground base on the island to deter intruders. Megatron first sent out the duplicate Sideswipe to destroy the [[Nova Suspension Bridge]] in order to frame the Autobots, then proceeded to build more clones, including a duplicate Prowl. He had nearly finished building a duplicate Optimus Prime when a group of Autobots found their way into his base. They were easily captured, but Megatron could not help but stroke his own ego, and showed Prowl, leader of the squad, the full extent of his plan. Prowl managed to overpower his escorts on his way back to his cage, and tricked Megatron into destroying the duplicate Prowl instead of the real one. Megatron was then hit by some of Prowl's acid pellets, forcing him to retreat through a secret passage, though not before taunting Prowl once more, claiming that the Autobots would never escape his megamaze. The Autobots managed it and escaped the island. {{storylink|Deadly Paradise}}
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===The Special Teams===
Upon first awakening on Earth, Megatron immediately schemed to steal fuel from the Earth in order to build the “ultimate weapon” and in time, conquer the universe. Some time later, as the battle with the Autobots had raged for some time on Earth, Megatron was too distracted to put a halt to Starscream’s underhanded schemes. His attention had been completely focused on an attempt to convert the Aerialbots to the Decepticons’ side. While pondering over how differently things might have gone if only the Aerialbots had remained allied with the Decepticons, Megatron was brought out of his reverie by Teletraan 1, alerting him that a nearby power plant had been evacuated of its human workers due to the possibilities of a landslide happening. Megatron summoned Dirge, Thrust, Ramjet, Blitzwing, Rumble, and Starscream to accompany him on a raid on the unattended power plant. He was infuriated to find that Starscream was once more absent from his post, only to be reminded by Dirge that Starscream had been absent ever since he had been sent to fetch the Stunticons from Cybertron. Wary of Autobot spies eavesdropping on their conversation and wanting to keep the Stunticons’ existence a secret a while longer, Megatron dropped the subject. Coincidently, Starscream made communication with him at that moment, and Megatron ordered him to meet the rest of the Decepticons at a well-hidden spot near the power plant.

There, Megatron dispatched the Stunticons to attack the [[Pullen Power Plant]], despite Starscream’s tardiness. The Decepticons ultimately failed in their raid, though Megatron’s lack of interference in the combat gave Optimus some pause, as he wondered if the victory was truly a reflection of the Autobots’ overall position in their war against the Decepticons. {{storylink|The Special Teams}}
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===''S.T.A.R.S.'' continuity===
Before the construction of Autobot City on Earth, Optimus led a convoy of Autobots to find the ideal location for their new base's construction. Megatron lay in wait, inconspicuously disguised as a giant gun on a hillside, ready to strike as the Autobots approached. The battle that ensued later came to be known as "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (G1)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]." {{storylink|Rodimus Prime remembers the Transformers greatest battle on Earth.}}

Evidently, the battle went in Megatron's favour, as Optimus was forced to send some of his troops away to fetch reinforcements. {{storylink|Transformers Combat Data}} {{storylink|The Autobots Are Under Attack!}}
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===Highway Clash===
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Megatron learned about the existence of a cargo of microchips that could bestow sentience onto robots. Seeking to acquire said microchips, Megatron set out into the Yorkshire Dales to intercept the convoy transporting them. From a secret underground lair, he and [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] planned out their assault, only to be opposed by Optimus Prime and Prowl who were secretly guarding the shipment. Whether or not Megatron succeeded in acquiring the chips depended on the decisions that [[you]] made! {{storylink|Highway Clash}}
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===Find Your Fate Junior===
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====Dinobots Strike Back====
Megatron had been overseeing Operation Black Coral from the Decepticons' secret base in [[Mount Lomas]] for over a week before two of the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s went on their mission to [[Hidden Valley]]. When [[Kickback (G1)|Kickback]] reported that [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] had successfully planted [[cerebro-shell]]s on four of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], he was thrilled!

{{note|Since Kickback leaving to report back to Megatron occurs before the first choice is made, and Megatron's reaction is documented on the back cover, we can assume that this holds true for every path in this book.}}

In one possible path on the following day, he rallied his troops with a speech about how the imminent completion of the machinery necessary to convert [[Dolphin's Bay|Dolphin Bay]]'s [[black coral]] into superfuel would ensure the final defeat of the Autobots in a matter of hours. This conveniently told the spying [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] all he needed to know about Operation Black Coral so he could relay it to [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] via radio, which conveniently told [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] that he was right outside the doorway so Frenzy could paralyze him and leave him in the underwater tunnel.

If Skids just returns to the Ark after this, it leads to two possible outcomes in which Megatron appears long enough to witness a Decepticon defeat. In one, he ordered his warrior jets into action only to see them fall to [[Powerglide (G1)|Powerglide's]] thermal beam while [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] torched the base's lab. In another, [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] showed up at Mount Lomas claiming that he and the other three Dinobots under Bombshell's control had just decimated the Autobot ranks, convincing Megatron to welcome them into their base by holding the Operation Black Coral victory party and bonfire a day early. He began to question his judgement when Grimlock suddenly ordered his team to attack, but didn't react in time to save Soundwave or Frenzy. As [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] nailed [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] with a missile, Megatron fired his nuclear fusion cannon at the Pteranodon, only to have his blast redirected at the last second by [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl's]] tail-strike. This caused him to blast straight down into the mountainside, creating a hole which allowed the arriving Autobots easy access to Megatron's swiftly-demolished base.

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In another alternate path, Megatron greeted the approaching Autobot assault force with "a strange challenge to Optimus Prime": a one-on-one fight to the end! After squaring off for a few minutes, Megatron fired, but Optimus dodged the blast by splitting into his three components, gaining the upper hand. Thanks to [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble's]] interference, we'll never know if Megatron could've turned things around. {{storylink|Dinobots Strike Back}}

====Battle Drive====
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In order to take out the Autobots, Megatron concocted a diabolical new plot. He sent out Blitzwing and Starscream to destroy acres of farmland, and pretend that the Decepticon's latest ploy was to destroy the humans' food supply, forcing the fleshlings to either become Decepticon slaves or starve to death. In reality, this was only a ruse covering Megatron's true scheme. When the Autobots would come rolling out in the open farmland, they would be without cover for the Decepticon armada awaiting them, and would then be wiped out by Megatron's forces.

In one possible turn of events, the a small group of Autobots hatched a counter-plot where they hoped to trick Megatron into thinking the whole Autobot army was attacking when in reality only a squadron was battling the Decepticons. Thanks to his spy in the field, Soundwave, Megatron caught wind of this plan and was able to wipe out the Autobot squad easily.

In another version of the following events, Megatron learns that Sparkplug Witwicky has discovered a fatal flaw in the Decepticons' circuitry, and is forced to divert the bulk of his forces into a manhunt for the Autobots' ally.
the Decepticons find Sparkplug holed up in a cave in the mountains. When Swoop, Prowl, Hound and Bumblebee arrive on scene, events could play out in a number of ways.

If Swoop decided to take Megatron head-on in aerial combat, the Dinobot landed a lucky shot inside of Megatron's fusion cannon as it was charging up, causing the weapon to backfire and Megatron to be destroyed.

If Swoop decided to retreat back to Autobot headquarters after an initial assault, Megatron would allow a number of his troops to chase Swoop down while the rest of the Decepticon forces remained at the cave's entrance. Megatron would remain at the cave himself, sending volleys of lasers towards the Autobots and humans trapped inside. In one possible version of the events that followed, Megatron is forced to retreat when Swoop returns with reinforcements, and believing that the Autobots still possess the schematics for the Decepticons' circuits, is forced to redesign the Decepticons' internal workings.

In another version of the following events, Bumblebee distracts Megatron by sending a boulder tumbling at him, allowing Prowl to make a mad dash back to Autobot headquarters.

If Megatron's ploy to lure the Autobots out in the open farmland was successful, he led the entirety of his fores with the intent of destroying Optimus Prime and his team of Autobots. Whether or not Megatron succeeded in destroying his foe depended on which decisions Optimus made from this point forward. In many scenarios, Megatron manages to pin the Autobots on a nearby bridge, only for them to escape by various means. {{storylink|Battle Drive}}
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====Attack of the Insecticons====
Megatron was leading a party of Decepticons on a raid to steal energy sources from the humans when Starscream learned of a new device that would solve all of the Decepticons' energy problems, the Sun-Pak.
In a possible outcome of a the events that would follow, Megatron was contacted some time later by the human Buster, who explained that he wanted to offer a trade to the Decepticon leader. Megatron was offered an audio file containing conclusive proof that Starscream planned to overthrow him, in exchange for the safe release of Sparkplug, who Starscream had in his possession. Megatron could only humour the human germ to a certain degree, and said that he would only agree to such a trade if Buster were to fulfill his end of the bargain first.

If Buster agreed, and did indeed send a genuine recording of Starscream gloating about his plans to seize leadership of the Decepticons, Megatron would shortly come in person to command Starscream to release the meaningless human and then deliver an ultimatum; either Starscream face the full force of the Decepticon army for his treachery, or be subjected to reprogramming at Decepticon headquarters. After Starscream accepted the later option, Megatron shooed off the humans and the few Autobot present to put his own house in order.

If Buster refused to relinquish the sound file before Megatron issued the order to have Sparkplug released, Megatron would nonetheless arrived on scene, demanding to be informed of the situation at hand. After being informed of the existence of the Sun-Pak, and that by using a Cerebro-Shell to force Sparkplug to construct a new one the Decepticons would no longer need worry about energy supplies, Megatron allows Starscream to follow through with his plan despite Buster's protests. For all his troubles, Megatron acquires nothing but a laser-toothbrush from this venture, as the mind-control process leaves Sparkplug's memory damaged, and the hygienic device is the only invention the human could produce for the Decepticons.

In another possible adventure, Megatron is encountered in an underground cavern by Beachcomber, who is attempting to make his way to the surface in order to recharge the Sun-Pak and rescue his fellow Autobots from the Insecticons. The encounter is a short one, as Megatron quickly disposes of Mirage before making his way further below ground to destroy the rest of the Autobots.

In yet another possible adventure, Megatron having acquired the Sun-Pak is in the process of himself recharging it near Decepticon headquarters when the Autobots intrude and attempt diplomacy in order to have the device returned to them. Megatron declines, and a firefight between the two factions begin.

If Optimus Prime attempts to end the fighting by proposing he and Megatron duel for the Sun-Pak's ownership, Megatron agrees and the two of them begin a long and strenuous battle. If Optimus gains the upper hand, the Autobot leader is content with leaving Megatron vanquished, and returning to base with the Sun-Pak in his possession. However, if Megatron begins to gain ground in their duel, Optimus forfeits the duel, and begins to walk away as Megatron mocks the cowardly Autobot. When Optimus approaches the Sun-Pak, he "accidentally" trips, and blasts the device into smithereens, leaving Megatron in a furor.

Alternatively, if Optimus attempts to end the fighting by simply making a grab for the Sun-Pak, Megatron intervenes and steps forth to defend the device from falling into enemy hands. But Optimus and his Autobot lackey, Smokescreen, dupe Megatron into tossing to Buzzsaw, only for Optimus to catch the device in mid-pass, leaving an enraged Megatron impotent to stop the Autobots from retreating with the device in their possession.

In yet another possible adventure, it is Shrapnel who comes to possess the Sun-Pak, and plans to usurp Megatron's leadership with the device. But Megatron's loyal spy Ravage overhears these happenings, and informs his leader of the situation. If the Insecticons still have the Sun-Pak in their possession when Megatron arrives to confront them, he berates Shrapnel for his clandestine activities, and blasts the Insecticon for his planned coup. The Autobots arrive shortly thereafter, and Megatron decides to use the rotting trees of the forest they are in as cover for an ambush on his newly arrived foes. Unknown to him, Mirage and Buster were hiding nearby, and warn the Autobots of Megatron's ambush. Megatron along with his troops are defeated by [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]]'s acid spray, and the Decepticons retreat, the Sun-Pak having been destroyed in the process. {{storylink|Attack of the Insecticons}}

====Earthquake====
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Megatron’s latest ploy was to destroy Center City with the help of Rumble’s earthquake-inducing abilities and a Destruction Beam device.

In one possible series of events, after Windcharger and Beachcomber had infiltrated Megatron's secret spy station within the Decepticon’s newest secret fortress, Megatron was tricked into making all of his troops stand down and surrender by Beachcomber.

In another possible scenario, Windcharger and Beachcomber attempted to muscle their way into Megatron’s secret spy chamber, only to fail miserably. Alerting Megatron of their presence this way, Megatron then confronted the pair in his weapon mode. Megatron promptly slaughtered the two Autobots with a blast of his nuclear-charged fusion cannon. Then, after having captured Powerglide and reprogramming him to lead the Decepticons to the Autobot headquarters, Megatron led his army and felled the Autobots one by one, until only Optimus remained. Megatron gloated that he would not kill Optimus, only alter him to make him a destroyer of mankind. Optimus activated the Ark’s self-destruct sequence, taking all of the Decepticons with him in a fiery death.

In yet another possible scenario, Beachcomber and Powerglide happened upon Megatron as he explained the details of his plan to Soundwave.

In one possible series of events, Beachcomber, Powerglide and Windcharger managed to uncover the Decepticons’ plot without being captured, and shortly thereafter Optimus led a team of Autobots to storm the Decepticon base. Megatron was quickly overpowered by Optimus during the ensuing fight, and forced to lead a small group of Autobots to his lab. Once the Autobots disabled and destroyed Megatron’s Destruction Beam device, they took him as a prisoner of war. Megatron was eventually traded back to the Decepticons in order to guarantee the safe release of a number of captured Autobots, but the Decepticons were ultimately defeated.

In another possible sequence of events, Megatron bumped into Cosmos, wandering the confines of the Decepticons’ fortress.

If Megatron allowed the little Autobot to speak, Cosmos would tell him of how he overheard Soundwave and Starscream plotting to overthrow him. Enraged by the news, Megatron ignored Cosmos to confront the pair. The Decepticons began fighting one another, leaving the Autobots to their own devices. This would ultimately lead to the Decepticons’ doom when the Autobots managed to recall the Destruction Beam to its point of origin, annihilating the Decepticons.

If Megatron didn’t bother to listen to what Cosmos had to say, he called his Decepticon troops to himself so that they could all partake in Cosmos’s destruction. Before the Decepticons were able to begin, they found themselves surrounded by an team of Autobot. Though the Autobots defeated the Decepticons, they were unable to interfere with the Destruction beam. The Destruction beamed then reached its target, and Center City was destroyed. Though the Autobots were able to gain control of the Decepticon fortress and destroy the lab, they were not able to wipe out all of the evil robots, and enjoyed a pyrrhic victory at best.

In another possible scenario, the Autobots Powerglide, Windcharger and Beachcomber were captured by the Decepticons while snooping around in their secret fortress. After ordering the Autobots executed, Megatron sent out a false distress signal to Optimus, tricking the rest of the Autobots to walk into a trap. With the Autobots destroyed, Optimus declared the world to be his.

In yet another possible scenario, Megatron captured Buster and Beachcomber wandering about the Decepticons’ fortress, and tortured the pair by forcing them to watch the destruction of Center City via a view screen. The show over, Megatron then turned his cannon upon the intruders, and pulled the trigger…

Another course of action could lead to Megatron brainwashing the human Jessie into being loyal to the Decepticons. Using her as bait, Megatron successfully captured all of the Autobots.

In a final possible path, wherein Beachcomber attempted to enter the Decepticons’ fortress by himself through the front door, he was jumped by the Decepticons and disassembled. Megatron then ordered his Decepticons to rebuild Beachcomber. In the process, the Decepticons planned to swap Beachcomber’s memory chip for a Destructicon chip, to create the perfect double agent.

In several other possible outcomes, Megatron gloated and laughed as his plans came to fruition, and the Earth came under his rule. In several others, Megatron’s plot was foiled before it would even begin. All of this hinged on what choices the Autobots made. {{storylink|Earthquake (book)|Earthquake}}

====Desert Flight====
When the Autobot-Decepticon civil war had yet to expand beyond Cybertron, Megatron made use of a weapon that weakened the gravitational pull within a confined area. The weapon being unreliable, Megatron opted not to use it again for quite some time.

Later on Earth, Megatron lead a Decepticon deployment stationed in a desert base. The Decepticons plotted to lure the Autobots in a trap through the use of an anti-gravity beam. Using the beam on a nearby human settlement, the Autobots would be duped into coming to the fleshliness’ rescue, only to be themselves trapped by the effects of the beam.

If the Autobots bypassed the anti-gravity field, Megatron would use his [[magna-mike]] to deliver an ultimatum; either the Autobots surrender Optimus Prime as a prisoner of war, or the Decepticons would use their gravity weapon to make the nearby human town float off into space.

If the Autobots ignored Megatron’s ultimatum, the Decepticon leader would activate his base’s forcefield to stop their advance, before firing the gravity beam in all directions. This caused a ripple effect, and all Autobots, humans, and anything else on Earth not nailed down to its surface floated helplessly out into space.

In the event that the Autobots used a trojan ruse to infiltrate the Decepticon base, Megatron was one of the few Decepticons who had not gotten drunk in premature celebration, and called reinforcements to his position to fight off the Autobot intruders.

In the event that Windcharger successfully turned the Decepticons’ forcefield off, reinforcements burst into the base just as Megatron was strike Optimus from behind. His aim thrown off at the last moment, Megatron blasted a hole in his own base, revealing to the Autobots the location of the gravity gun. Though Hook successfully caught Optimus in the gun’s beam, Megatron caught sight of the human [[Buddy]] near the gravity weapon’s control panel, ready to tamper with it. Megatron charged towards the boy.

If Buddy pulled the gravity gun’s horizontal control just as Hook turned the weapon to full power, the weapon would swivel and catch Megatron in its beam, tearing the Decepticon leader to pieces.

In a completely different possible sequence of events, Dirge and Buzzsaw brought before Megatron the Autobot Cosmos. As the little Autobot had attempted to infiltrate the Decepticon base on his own, Megatron decided to have Hook build a duplicate of Cosmos who house a [[proton bomb]], and would destroy the Autobots when it “reported back” to Optimus Prime.{{storylink|Desert Flight}}

====Decepticon Poison====
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In one possible sequence of events, Megatron was accompanied by a squadron of Decepticon jets to take out the recently poisoned Autobots. They found themselves fighting against the recently cured Autobots, and Megatron was temporarily stunned by a shot courtesy of Sunstreaker. Undeterred by this display of resistance, Megatron ordered his troops to engage their enemies. A fierce battle began between both sides. Megatron was quickly able to overpower the first wave of Autobots through the use of his fusion cannon, prompting Optimus to lead a back-up squad of Autobots against him. Both sides were forced into a retreat as they sustained grievous injuries over the course of the battle.

In another possible scenario, Megatron came upon the Autobot base, quiet as a tomb. Believing his plan to poison them having worked out perfectly, he strode into the Autobots’ headquarters, unawares that the Autobots were merely playing dead, having already been cured. Megatron ordered his troops to put aside their weapons in order to carry out the Autobots, and haul them over a nearby cliff to dispose of them. Once the Decepticons disarmed themselves, they were ambushed by the Autobots, and defeated with ease.

In another possible scenario, Megatron allowed Ramjet to lead a full-scale Decepticon assault against the poisoned Autobots. The Autobots, having miscalculated on how much antidote they had taken to cure themselves of the Decepticons’ poison, found themselves falling apart, leading to an easy victory for the Decepticons.

In yet another possible scenario, where the Autobots weaponized the tainted fuel and created a toxic cloud by burning it, the Decepticons were forced to retreat before their attack was fully underway.

In another possible scenario, Megatron lead a horde of Decepticons to a the water supply facility, about to poison it when the Autobots arrived on-scene. In one possible sequence that followed, he killed Bluestreak, Hound and Mirage before confronting Optimus Prime. Ultimately, Megatron and his Decepticons were defeated, though they left the Autobots worse for wear.

In another possible path, where a small group of Autobots attempted to destroy the Decepticons’ poison in their lab, only for the resulting explosion to render them unconscious, Megatron gloated to Optimus, Prowl, Bumblebee and Mirage, now his captives, that thanks to their foolish decisions, the Autobots would die a slow agonizing death, while the humans would soon become Decepticon slaves. {{storylink|Decepticon Poison}}
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===Milton Bradley mini-comic===
When the Autobots launched an [[Ark (G1)|ark]] to clear a path through the asteroid belt that threatened [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron set an ambush and boarded the ship with his men. He grappled with the Autobot leader, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] who revealed that the ship had been set on a collision course with a nearby planet. Megatron had his own contingency plan, and ordered [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to jump clear. The crash knocked out Megatron and everyone else aboard the ark, but four million years later, a volcanic eruption jolted the ship's systems back into life. Megatron and the others were repaired by the ship's brain, and were soon ready to renew hostilities on [[Earth]]. {{storylink|In the Transformers}}

===Beehive Books continuity===
Megatron plotted the destruction of the Autobots in [[Castle Decepticon]]. Megatron had also allied himself with a [[Malevolent Giant Serpent]] to guard said castle. When the Autobots attacked, Megatron sent out his most loyal Decepticons to fend them off. {{Storylink|Transformers Pop-Up Book}}
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===Frito-Lay posters===
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Megatron was amongst a squad of Decepticons who attempted to get to the power source within [[Sherman Dam|Boulder Dam]]. He dueled Optimus Prime, while his minions lit up the surrounding landscape with numerous explosions. The Decepticons were ultimately unsuccessful in gathering the data they were after. {{storylink|Battle in the Desert Valley}}
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===''Transformers PD Type'' comic===
[[File:PDtype-Matrixattack.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|This is how the movie ''should've'' gone.]]
With the discovery of a new super energy source known as the [[Blackball]]s, Megatron found himself joined by numerous Decepticons from all across the timestream, all hoping to obtain the ebony spheres. Naturally, opposing him were a team of Autobots, also gathered from all across the timestream.

In one confrontation with his eternal foe, Optimus Prime, Megatron got to relive their battle at Autobot City. Except this time around, Megatron was defeated when Prime launched his "Matrix Attack" (''literally'' launching the Matrix from his chest, bonking Megatron on the noggin). {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##1 "You're Great! Optimus Prime!"|You're Great! Optimus Prime!}}

Later, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] managed to find what he ''thought'' was a Blackball. He presented it to Megatron and received much praise...until the Blackball turned out to be a cartoon bomb which exloded in their faces. As the Autobots stood astonished that their crude strategy succeeded, a badly singed Megatron was left in a smoking crater, strangling Starscream. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##3 "Don't Cry! Megatron!!"|Don't Cry! Megatron!!}}

During battle with [[Victory Leo]], Megatron found himself horribly outmatched. Thinking quickly, he launched a special weapon from his fusion cannon: a ball of yarn. The giant robot kitty immediately began playing with the yarn, giving Megatron the distraction he needed to escape. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##6 "Tough as Nails! Victory Leo!"|Tough as Nails! Victory Leo!}}

After that, he had to snap a pensive [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] out of a trance and order him to return to a battle he had walked away from in order to look at clouds. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##9 "Oh, Overlord."|Oh, Overlord.}}

Some time later, Starscream located yet another Blackball. This time, though, he decided to keep its power for himself and use it to overthrow Megatron. Then it exploded in his hands because it was ''another'' cartoon bomb. Megatron watched the explosion from a distance, unaware of what was going on. {{storylink|Transformers PD Type##10 "Good Luck! Starscream!!"|Good Luck! Starscream!!}}
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===The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual===
Megatron was once a minor Decepticon, but rose to take control of the empire via right of battle and gladiatorial combat. Once he had enough followers, he struck against the Autobots and began the eons-long war between the two factions. He personally headed the initial attack against Optimus Prime's home city, [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Megatron's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}} The conflict steadily consumed Cybertron's fuel supplies, and when Megatron learned that Optimus Prime planned to seek out new energy sources throughout the galaxy, he ordered the construction of a ship to pursue his nemesis. His crew struck against the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], with both Autobots and Decepticons becoming too distracted while fighting to notice as they entered an asteroid belt. Two colliding meteorites sent their ship crashing into the planet Earth. After eons of dormancy, the Decepticons awoke to a world populated by humans, and attacked a nuclear power plant, claiming it as their base of operations. The Autobots soon awoke as well, and took up the fight once more against Megatron's forces. {{storylink|From Cybertron to Earth the War Continues...}}

Megatron remained in a stalemate against Optimus Prime and his forces for a long time. When Optimus started building new troops better adapted for combat on Earth, Megatron countered by creating the Illuminator [[Jolt (G2)|Hotrod]]. {{storylink|The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual|Hotrod's ''The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual'' profile}}

Following one of his patrols, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] reported that he had momentous news to announce. Though his crony tried to make a show of his report, Megatron quickly lost his patience and had Starscream blurt out what he had learned, threatening to blast him should he try and embellish the story. Starscream's information proved portentous indeed; the Autobots had uncovered an ancient Cybertronian ship in [[Africa]], containing a star-map that pointed the way back to Cybertron. Megatron led his troops to [[Table Mountain]], where he found the Autobots guarding the spherical vessel. With surprising ease, the Decepticons managed to send Optimus and his soldiers into a retreat. But as they swarmed into the ship, they found that there were no controls within it. Too late, Megatron realized that the whole thing had been a trap choreographed by the Autobots. The ship launched blindly into space, the Decepticons its prisoners. {{storylink|Day of the Decepticons}}

When a report came in from [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], alerting Megatron that the Autobots were investigating two new Transformer power emissions in the [[Brazil|Brazilian]] rain forest, the Decepticon leader saw it as an opportunity to finally tip the scales in his favor.

Megatron arrived on-scene to find his hated enemy already struggling against two [[Dinobot (G1)|robot dinosaurs]], and knocked out the majority of the combatants with a single blast from his tank turret. Though one Autobot still standing, [[Fizzle|Blaze]], tried to torch him with his fiery exhaust weaponry, Megatron simply shrugged off the flames and swatted the bothersome pest aside. But when [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] attempted to trap the dinosaurs in a plasma net, an unforeseen negative ion feedback triggered their Transformer circuitry, and restored their personalities along with their robot modes. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] quickly overpowered the Decepticons and shattered Megatron's cannon. Megatron ordered an immediate withdrawal, and the Decepticons were forced to leave empty-handed. {{storylink|The Dinobots!}}

After it became apparent that the Decepticons wouldn't be returning to Cybertron in the foreseeable future, Megatron resolved to convert Earth into a new Cybertron. He had [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] head a construction project in the [[Clarke Atoll]], building giant rocket boosters that would shift the planet out of its orbit. Once the Earth had drifted away from the sun's warmth, its biosphere would become barren, making an easy task to reformat it. Hearing from his lackey that construction had come to an end, Megatron ordered the rockets to be fired up immediately, foregoing any test-trials. But the Autobots involved themselves, with [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and [[Deftwing]] managing to sabotage the rockets from within. Megatron was forced to retreat to avoid getting swallowed up by the resulting lava swell, which destroyed Scrapper's creation. {{storylink|Moving Day Planet Earth}}

===''Comic Bom Bom G-2'' manga===
In the 1990s, the Decepticons had learned of a powerful new energy source known as [[forestonite]] which just happened to be located (surprise surprise) on [[Earth]]. Megatron sent his trio of [[Cyberjet]]s to Earth first to draw out the enemy Autobots. The Cyberjets made quick work of [[Electro]] but were soon halted by the appearance of Optimus Prime.

Megatron then entered the fray and fired his Black Hole Burn attack from his fusion cannon, narrowly missing Optimus Prime but vaporizing [[Hooligan (G2)|Hooligan]] in the process. Prime fought fiercely but Megatron began to take the upper hand in battle.

However, Prime was encouraged to keep fighting by the cheers of a human boy named [[Junpei]]. Megatron, surprised at Prime's resilience, attempted to finish his foe off with his Tornado Axe attack. Prime countered with his Double Wheel-Torque Mega-Ton, which trumped Megatron's attack and injured the Decepticon badly. Megatron teleported back to his ship and left Earth's atmosphere, vowing to return. {{storylink|The New Battle!!}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
At some point, the local [[Archforce]] of [[Primax 895.0 Gamma]] posed a threat to Optimus Prime and Megatron alike. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/10}}

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Garry Chalk]] (English), [[Wataru Takagi]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:G1Megatron Disc Agenda part2.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|left|Now that's what we call a smile.]]
After the Autobot/Decepticon war moved to Earth, Megatron hunted down the [[Voyager spacecraft]] as it traveled through the [[Solar System]] and encoded a message on its disc. Should his efforts fail, he left detailed instructions to any Decepticon descendants who recovered the disc, instructions which apparently condoned use of [[transwarp]] technology to alter history in his favor by locating the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] before it was reactivated, with access codes to the Ark stored in the disk, and killing Optimus Prime before the Autobots and Decepticons reawaken. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

The disk (dubbed the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]]) eventually fell into Cybertronian hands and was stolen by a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] who shared Megatron's name. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}} This new [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], later stranded in Earth's past, was able to use a recording of the original Megatron to sway one of the original Megatron's most loyal troops, [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], to his cause. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

[[File:G1Megatron MasterBlaster stasislock.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Sure, we all need our beauty sleep, but 4 million years, now that's taking the piss.]]
The original Megatron himself was stranded in Earth's past on board the Ark, offline. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}} Before long, Predacon Megatron was able to approach the comatose body of his namesake and steal his [[spark]], integrating it into his own system. Almost immediately, however, during Predacon Megatron's painful reaction to this integration, he was thrown into a pool of lava by his treacherous underlings. In spite of—or perhaps because of—this, Predacon Megatron emerged from the lava, with a new body that could now transform into a fire-breathing dragon. It is unknown how much influence the original Megatron's Spark had in this metamorphosis. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

A [[Megatron (myth)|Megatron]] was mentioned in the [[Covenant of Primus]], an ancient sacred text which claimed to prophesize future events, including the Beast Wars. It was implied that both Megatrons took their name from here. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}

=====Ask Vector Prime=====
[[File:G1Megs Nemesis part2 deletedclip.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|left|I was cut out?! This is Starscream's doing!]]
At the end of the Beast Wars, after Predacon Megatron was overcome, the original Megatron's Spark was returned to his body, restoring the flow of history. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/23}}

====3H comics====
Megatron was one of the legendary Autobots and Decepticons who resided in [[J'nwan]] after the end of the Great War. During the battle known as [[Point Omega]], Megatron was among the legends who arrived to combat the warlord [[Shokaract]]. Their efforts contributed to Shokaract's defeat and the nullification of the sequence of events that had led to his existence. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}} {{storylink|Departure}}

After the Beast Wars had run its course, Megatron's inert form could still be seen within the Ark when the [[Vok]] removed the Matrix of Leadership from an unconscious Optimus Prime and gave it to their creation, [[Primal Prime]]. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 1}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
His spark within the body of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], Megatron was able to talk the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] leader into a new plan. Once they had broken into the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] and implanted a fragment of Megatron's spark into Starscream, he was able to use the air warrior to attempt to return his spark to its rightful place. Unfortunately, the beast Megatron resisted and overcame Megatron in a war of wills, subsuming the older Megatron. After the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] ended, the [[Maximal]]s returned Megatron's spark to his body. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}

While the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] Megatron was being guided through the afterlife by the [[Maximal]] [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], he beheld a vision of his Decepticon ancestor in the realm of "Severity". The elder Megatron severed his own arm and destroyed it as energy within it threatened his continued existence. This image then morphed into a reflection of the Predacon Megatron as the vision continued. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

====Razorclaw continuity====
In one splinter timeline of [[Primax 496.22 Alpha]], the Predacon leader Megatron succeeded in absorbing the spark of his namesake. The Vok emissary [[Tigerhawk]] managed to kill Megatron, but it was too late; the ensuing [[timestorm]] consumed reality. [[Unicron]] would later pluck Tigerhawk from the remains of his timeline, and the hardened warrior would become [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/07}}

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
The apparition of Megatron haunted the thoughts of his descendant, [[Megatron (BW)|the Predacon Megatron]], inspiring him to travel to prehistoric Earth and search for the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

The younger Megatron eventually found the ''Ark'' and merged with the spark of the original Megatron, gaining a gigantic new body. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}} [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] eventually merged with the spark of Optimus Prime and, after a battle, the merged Megatron spark was completely destroyed. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 6|Beast Wars Metals #6}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
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[[File:Megatrong1gladiator.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Gladiators can afford extra paint applications.]]
Young Megatron was a rising star in gladiatorial combat in the depths of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. As victory upon victory mounted, he began to realize that the games were nothing more than an elaborate conspiracy by the [[Council of Ancients]] to divert the attentions of the masses from the dangerous truth of Cybertron’s history. When Megatron began to show interest in Cybertron's buried past through exploration and research, the Council of Ancients attempted to have him assassinated—a plan that only resulted in stirring up even more discontent among Cybertronians, allowing Megatron to begin recruiting for the Decepticon movement.

First his "inner circle", then many of the gladiators, and then finally disgruntled civilians answered his call to action. The Decepticons were born. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

[[File:Fledglingcause.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Megatron is so grass-roots.]]
In search of the [[Matrix of Leadership|Autobot Matrix]], Megatron personally killed [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], only to find that the Autobot leader was not even carrying the Matrix of Leadership. He then sent an assassination squad to the inauguration of the new [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]], only for the whole squad to be killed. {{storylink|The War Within issue 1|The War Within #1}} Refusing to give up, Megatron paid a visit to one of the huge planetary engines which the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicon]]s were reactivating, using it to orchestrate a disaster in the destruction of the [[Forum of Enlightenment]], all in order to lure Optimus underground. Megatron sent [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] to kill Prime and bring him the Matrix {{storylink|The War Within issue 2|The War Within #2}} As Megatron explained to [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] his plan to transform [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into a massive warworld that would cut a swathe of destruction through the galaxy, Optimus again defeated the Decepticons sent against him.

Starscream mocked his leader, not only because his plan was failing to take off, but because Megatron believed the Matrix of Leadership to be more than a mere "ceremonial bauble;" Megatron planned to use the artifact as a battery for Cybertron's engines. After striking Starscream down and telling him never to question him, Megatron finally opted to confront the new Prime personally, and headed to meet him in Cybertron's underground. The two faction leaders met atop of a bridge, but Starscream blasted this overpass in a bid for leadership of the Decepticons, plunging both Optimus and Megatron into an abyss. {{storylink|The War Within issue 3|The War Within #3}} Megatron wound up being separated from Prime in the fall, but found him quarry soon enough by blasting his way through whatever obstacles were in his path. Megatron continued to press his attack, explaining to Optimus exactly why he needed the Matrix and urging Prime to join him. Optimus refused to cooperate, something that Megatron found satisfaction in, since Sentinel Prime hadn't put up much of a fight before his demise. When Megatron drove his fist into his opponent's chest, the Matrix enveloped them both in light, and they found themselves on [[Earth|an alien world]]. {{storylink|The War Within issue 4|The War Within #4}} Visions of the future, spawned by the Matrix, played out before the two warriors, even as they continued to fight. Every time Megatron came close to eviscerating his opponent, the environment would shift, forestalling his victory. Finally both combatants were returned to subterranean Cybertron, only for Prime to be teleported away, separating him from Megatron. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}} Optimus returned with [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]'s [[sword]] and a new resolve, and began beating down Megatron. Though Optimus stopped short of slaying his opponent, Megatron was so thoroughly thrashed in battle that he lost all memory of the Matrix-induced visions he had shared with Prime. Meanwhile, Starscream had activated the planet mechaforming process too soon, resulting in the destruction of the machinery, putting an end to Megatron's plot. Megatron shambled through Cybertron's underground, eventually coming across Soundwave. The Decepticons reconvened to fight another day. {{storylink|The War Within issue 6|The War Within #6}}

Roughly 7.4 million years BCE, Megatron and Optimus Prime disappeared in an early test of the then-unstable [[space bridge]] matter-transport system. {{storylink|Fragmentation (G1)|Fragmentation}} Spending an undisclosed time on the planet [[Quintessa]], Megatron returned with an overwhelming army of lifeless [[Air Warrior|seeker clones]], arriving as the planet was on the verge of peace. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath}} He quickly subjugated the planet, though he kept secret the fact that he was working with the Quintessons. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}} At some point during his conquest, Megatron angrily confronted Starscream for highjacking his plans while he was away, and enacting revenge against the council of elders. Though Starscream claimed he was merely following orders in spirit, Megatron grappled his underling by the throat, and made it clear through threats that Starscream shouldn't presume his own autonomy; he was to follow his orders to the letter, and nothing else. {{storylink|The Omega Effect}} Afterwards, Megatron took great delight in sealing Starscream in a tank of [[Piranacon (Quintesson)|Piranacons]] and placing the Autobots in internment camps, while working on a plan to access Cybertron's core. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.2}}

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The Quintessons contacted Megatron, and demanded that the Decepticon deliver Cybertron's core in exchange for having provided him with his army. Megatron forestalled the deal, having commissioned Shockwave to modify his Air Warriors to obey only him, and not their creators. Growing annoyed with Megatron's excuses, the Quintessons informed him that they had detected several Autobot signatures encroaching on his work camp. Leaving to deal with the intruders himself, Megatron tracked down [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] and his team, and began beating them down. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.4}} He was interrupted by Grimlock, recently returned from the dead, and was too distracted by the "worthier opponent" to stop Blaster from freeing all of the enslaved Autobots. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.5}} After his troops were subsequently defeated, Megatron fled. {{storylink|The Age of Wrath Pt.6}}

Four million years BCE, Cybertron was threatened by a massive approaching asteroid, so Optimus Prime led a contingent of Autobots aboard the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] to blow the rock to fragments, which were transported away by an orbital space bridge network. When this task was completed, Megatron chose this moment to strike, attacking the Ark with his troops. Crippled, the craft flew through one of the space bridge portals, and was transported to prehistoric Earth, where it crashed, entombing the occupants in stasis for four million years.

The Autobots and Decepticons were reactivated in 1984, but specific details of their battles in the 1980s and 1990s are unrecorded. In 1999, an Autobot/Human military alliance succeeded in capturing and deactivating the Decepticons. However, the [[Ark II]] spaceship carrying them back to Cybertron exploded shortly after liftoff, and the Transformers were believed destroyed. In actuality, they had been scattered back to Earth, where they lay in [[stasis lock]] across the globe for three years.

This slumber was brought to an end when [[Lazarus|Adam Rook]] (aka Lazarus), a rogue military scientist who had devised a method of controlling Transformers, salvaged many of the fallen Cybertronians and reprogrammed them as mass killing machines, which he then attempted to sell on the black market. Megatron was used to attack and destroy a rebel encampment in [[South America]]. Lazarus later demonstrated his voice control of Megatron to a prospective client, however though Megatron obeyed the lesser commands, he would not move when commanded to kneel. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 1|Prime Directive #1}}

Having sufficiently raised interest, Lazarus held an auction, beginning with Megatron. He was unprepared when the Decepticon leader demonstrated his autonomy, blasting his way out of the bunker. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 2|Prime Directive #2}} Megatron swiftly put into action a plan to use a [[cyber-virus]] to reformat Earth into a new Cybertron, with Lazarus as its first casualty. As the Autobots arrived, Megatron outlined his plan to Optimus, suggesting that the Autobot leader simply let it happen. Prime declined, however as the two factions fought, the US Military decided to enact [[Operation Clean-Up]] and dropped a bomb on them. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 3|Prime Directive #3}}

The bomb's energy absorbed by the virus, the Decepticons left the area before the Autobots could recover. Megatron unleashed [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] on [[San Francisco]], resulting in mass slaughter and the devastation of the city. The Autobots arrived and engaged the Decepticons in battle, but [[Superion (G1)|Superion]]'s defeat turned the course of the battle towards Autobot defeat. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 4|Prime Directive #4}} Although Prime took down Devastator, he still fell before Megatron, who took the time to point out how worthless the humans around them were. He again suggested that Optimus join him. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 5|Prime Directive #5}} The actions of a group of humans, including ramming Megatron with fire engines, inspired the Autobots to fight back. Optimus slammed Megatron to the ground and delivered a beating, but Soundwave's news that the humans had launched a nuke at their battleground in a virtual repeat of the events in Canada, provoked a peal of laughter from Megatron. Though the nuke was stopped by [[Superion (G1)|Superion]], the Decepticons escaped in the ensuing chaos. {{storylink|Prime Directive issue 6|Prime Directive #6}}

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[[File:Shockwavedwwarandpeace.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Megatron's a bottom.]]
Several months later, Megatron was subliminally summoned to a remote area in Alaska along with the other Earthbound Transformers. There they battled until Megatron's former second-in-command, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], arrived and revealed that in their absence the war on Cybertron had ended. He next attempted to arrest Megatron, Prime, and their troops as war criminals. Though the Autobots escaped, Megatron, weakened by battle, was quickly defeated by Shockwave and loaded aboard a shuttle for return to Cybertron. He rebooted just in time to be conscious as Starscream jettisoned him into space on the return trip. {{storylink|New World Order}} Megatron used the time floating in space to contemplate his existence and the Decepticon goal. Realizing that he had wasted millennia in his feud with Prime, Megatron resolved to once again conquer Cybertron as a means of enhancing the Transformer race and strengthening it from outside threats. It seemed as through he would not live to accomplish this goal, however, as death closed in on him... only for him to be retrieved by the [[Junkion (species)|Junkion]] [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]]. {{storylink|Revelation (War and Peace)|Revelation}} Wreck-Gar took Megatron to the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] and repaired and re-armed him, as well as digging up and reactivating a number of seeker clones that had wound up there after being dumped through space bridge portals. {{storylink|Generation 1 issue 0|Generation 1 #0}} Megatron returned the favor by stabbing him in the back with an energy dagger. {{storylink|Runnin' with the Devil}}

Traveling to the Planet [[Beast (planet)|Beest]], Megatron defeated the exiled Decepticon warlords, the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], and rebuilt them into the mightiest of all combiners, [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]], to serve as his ace in the hole in his quest to reclaim leadership of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Welcome to the Jungle}} Moving in stealth on Cybertron, Megatron defeated Shockwave, severing his laser arm and forcing him into servitude. {{storylink|Lost and Found (issue)|Lost and Found}} He then returned to Earth to collect the remaining Decepticons under Starscream's command. With Soundwave's help, he blasted a good-sized hole through Starscream himself, before the Air Commander revealed the recent activities of [[Sunstorm (G1)|Sunstorm]], a figure Megatron believed was connected to the [[Covenant of Primus]]. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}

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Following yet another fight between Megatron and Starscream, the latter went missing. The discovery that Starscream appeared to be working with the Autobots drove Megatron into a rage, and he unsuccessfully tried to extract the Seeker from the clutches of his foes, only to be beaten off by the Autobots. Starscream later returned of his own accord, claiming to have been feigning amnesia in order to gain access to the Autobot base. The story appeared to placate the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|Redemption Center}}

Megatron was furious when Soundwave told him that [[Swindle (G1)|Swindle]] was selling Decepticon weapons on the black market. After chewing out [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]], he commanded Skywarp to bring Swindle in, and he wasn't fussy about how many pieces the Combaticon was in. {{storylink|Two for the Price of One}}

Megatron, along with [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and two [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]s, was waiting [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] emerged from a meeting with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] and two [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]]s. {{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}

During the gladiatorial matches in the depths of Cybertron, Megatron encountered [[Geosensus]], and mistook him for a potential recruit. When Geosensus revealed he had no offensive capability, Megatron concluded he was a worthless idiot. Megatron prepared to terminate Geosensus, but was interrupted by Shockwave's warning that security forces were incoming. The two Decepticons left to plan their attack on Kaon. {{storylink|Parts}}

In one of Megatron's many attempts to take control of Earth's energy resources, he unleashed a weather machine that engulfed most of the Gulf Coast in a powerful hurricane. The Autobots managed to foil this plot, and forced him to flee. {{storylink|Healers, Fighters, and Transformers}}

===''G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers''===
[[File:Megatronddjoe.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Joey Slick > Cobra Commander]]
When [[Cobra]], a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world, found a crashed spaceship full of Transformers in [[stasis lock]], Megatron proved to them that the machines weren't piloted vehicles when he briefly awoke and groaned that he still functioned. Cobra rebuilt the aliens into new vehicles and reprogrammed them to serve Cobra, with the exception of Megatron, who was rebuilt to transform into a Walther P38 handgun, but was only locked in this mode and not reprogrammed. Holstered by [[Cobra Commander]] at all times, the Decepticon mocked Cobra's decisions, such as deciding that [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], Megatron's traitorous lieutenant, would serve as the Commander's choice of transport. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 1|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #1}}

Regardless of his complaints, Megatron's only chance to be released from his state was to follow Cobra Commander's orders, such as providing instructions on how to create [[energon]]. Things weren't all bad, though, as he still got some enjoyment out of seeing his nemesis [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] being forced to steal and destroy. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 2|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #2}} Megatron was also pleased when [[Destro]] showed up and started bossing Cobra Commander around. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 3|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #3}}

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When the Transformers were cleared of their reprogramming thanks to [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], Cobra Commander found himself face to face with a very stern Optimus Prime, and tried to use Megatron to shoot the Autobot. However, Megatron still had some control of his body and strictly refused to fire, instead bargaining with Cobra Commander to return him to normal. The human gave in, and Megatron transformed and clashed with his old enemy. With Prime low on energon, Megatron came out on top, but before he could finish Prime off, Starscream attacked him and tried to take leadership of the Decepticons. Megatron got rid of him, but the distraction had allowed several Autobots to come to Optimus Prime's rescue. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 4|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #4}}

Ignoring Prime to focus on some more long-term plans, Megatron made [[Doctor Mindbender]] use the [[SPS Satellite]] to create large amounts of energon. However, his party was soon crashed when Optimus Prime attacked the facility and used the energon to power up. Finding the situation unsalvageable, Megatron tried to escape while Prime was busy with [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]]. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 5|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #5}} He ran right into [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]], but was unimpressed with their firepower and fought back with his [[energon mace]], possibly killing [[Mercer]]. Things quickly turned for the worse for Megatron; his arm was heavily damaged by a stray beam from the malfunctioning SPS Satellite, he was pounded by G.I. Joe's rockets, and Optimus Prime caught up to him and beat him to a pulp. Prime then stole his [[fusion cannon]] and used it to destroy the satellite and smack Megatron across the jaw, defeating him and ending the battle. The Decepticon was disassembled, but unbeknownst to the victors, his remains were seized and experimented upon by the United States government. {{storylink|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers issue 6|G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers #6}}

[[File:The Art of War 1 Martin vs Megatron.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|No one sticks out their tongue at Megatron. At least, not for long.]]
A few years later, the human scientists had used Megatron's technology to create the [[Serpentor|Serpent Organic Robot]], a synthetic creature that combined the personalities of several of [[Earth]]'s most famous warmongers and Megatron. After being prematurely activated by Cobra Commander, Serpent O.R. flashbacked to a memory of Megatron's imprisonment and attacked the Cobra leader. He then plugged himself into Soundwave's deactivated head and learned the history of the Transformers, subsequently considering himself the son of Megatron. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 1|The Art of War #1}} Serpent O.R. went on to travel to Cybertron and realize his destiny of becoming the next leader of the Decepticons, while Megatron's remains were left where they lay in [[Area 52 (G1)|Area 52]]. {{storylink|The Art of War issue 2|The Art of War #2}}

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===''Transformers/G.I. Joe''===
[[File:Megatron-The Line.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3]]
Megatron and his underlings lay buried and deactivated under a temple on the [[Fera Islands]] for some three million years, until one day in [[1938]] when they were somehow reactivated by [[Major Bludd]] touching the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. After learning that [[Cobra]], like the Decepticons, were ruthless conquerors in search of power, Megatron allied himself with the humans. However, this was merely a ruse so that he could get his hands on the Matrix, which proved hard as [[Cobra Commander]] kept on his person at all times. Megatron and his troops spent the following year helping Cobra ransack various European nations, stealing energy for themselves while leaving the useless "[[Gold|yellow metal]] and painted paper" for Cobra. In the summer of [[1939]], he took out the aerial defense of the English Channel alongside [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], clearing the way for an invasion of the [[United Kingdom]]. {{storylink|The Line}}

Hours later at the Fera Islands, Megatron was in the process of beating up Starscream for leaving his post when he spotted an Autobot [[Sky Spy|repair drone]] in the process of reactivating [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and his troops. This angered him slightly more than [[Destro]] eyeing his [[energon cube]]s. {{storylink|Transformed}} Deciding that he needed a safer place to store the energy, Megatron commandeered a submarine and forced Cobra troops to move the cubes into it, which did not please Cobra Commander. However, Megatron had decided their alliance had outlived its usefulness anyway, and prepared to squish the fleshling, only to learn the hard way that Cobra Commander could use the Matrix to cause him great pain. As Megatron collapsed, the Cobra leader warned him against ever rebelling again. {{storylink|Trial by Fire}}

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The Decepticon commander decided to bide his time, and stood calmly by Cobra Commander's side as their enemies closed in on the Terrordrome. When [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] refused to follow Cobra Commander's orders, Megatron admonished him in order to further trick the commander that he had learned his lesson. {{storylink|Trenches}} As Cobra Commander's orders led to Shockwave breaking apart, Megatron suggested that he be given the Matrix so he could repair his underling. Unfortunately for him, Cobra Commander did not fall for it, but Megatron at least got to taunt him for wasting valuable troops like that. Shortly afterwards, [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]] was unleashed, causing a rockslide that crushed Cobra Commander's legs, despite his orders for Megatron to shield him. Instead, Megatron "humbly" suggested that the commander use his gun mode as a means of ending his life. Cobra Commander could not go through with it, but Megatron was simply picked up by the [[Baroness]], who executed her former leader. Free at last, the Decepticon leader went after the Matrix, only to find it had been stolen by [[Snake-Eyes]]. Before he could kill the ninja, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] arrived and attacked him, keeping him at bay while Snake-Eyes destroyed the Matrix in an attempt to destroy Bruticus, killing all the Transformers in the process. {{storylink|The Iron Fist}}

===''The Beast Within''===
Megatron led a full Decepticon offensive, catching the Autobots unaware. With the ensuing battle going in the Decepticons’ favour, Megatron waded through the battlefield, slaughtering Autobots as he went. Ordering his troops to leave no survivors, Megatron’s onslaught was interrupted when the Dinobots combined into [[Beast (G1)|The Beast]], forcing him to prioritize this newest threat. He cheered on when Predaking clashed with The Beast, though it did the combiner little good. When Megatron attempted to interfere himself with The Beast as it took on several of the Decepticons’ combiners, he was tackled down and beaten up by Optimus. {{storylink|The Beast Within}}

With the Beast continuing its rampage, Megatron and his battered troops chose to flee the battlefield rather than risk being slaughtered by The Beast. {{storylink|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences|The Beast Within Part 2, Consequences prologue}}
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===''Another Con''===
Megatron was transformed into a [[w:Pikachu|small electrical rodent]]. Starscream sarcastically assured him that the Autobots would find him much more intimidating in this form. {{storylink|Another Con}}

===Descent into Evil===
During the first Great War, [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] was an original member of Megatron's army. After the loss of Megatron, Flamewar continued to mourn him for some time, seeing the remaining Decepticon Generals such as [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]] as pale imitations of him. {{storylink|Flamewar (G1)#Timelines|BotCon 2005 Flamewar profile card}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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Realizing that peaceful movements could not change [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], Megatron, a miner from [[Tarn (polity)|Tarn]], decided to wage a war against the corrupt [[Senate]]. With help from [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Orion Pax]] and his [[Autobot]]s, he overthrew the corrupt Autobot leader, [[Zeta Prime]], and became new tyrant of the planet. The betrayed Orion Pax, now going by the name of "Optimus Prime", gathered the remaining Autobots and organized a rebellion against Megatron and his [[Decepticon]] army. Over time, the war between Decepticons and Autobots spread throughout the entire galaxy.

Four million years later, Megatron arrived on Earth to put down a coup fronted by Starscream. Intrigued by the presence of an incredible new energy source known as [[Ore-13]] on the planet, Megatron remained on Earth, and when Optimus Prime arrived as well, it became a new battleground for the war. By springing a trap on the Autobots, Megatron cast them to the despoiled, [[Insecticon swarm|Insecticon-infested]] Cybertron and attempted to conquer Earth. However, aided by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|a human]], Optimus Prime defeated Megatron at last, while Starscream took his damaged leader and retreated from the planet.

After a two-year convalescence, Megatron was revived in a new body built by [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] and [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]]. Seeking revenge on both Optimus Prime and humanity, Megatron concocted a plan to shatter the already-fragile alliance between the Autobots and their new human allies in [[Skywatch]], mind-controlling humans into his pawns through replicas of his gun form. Defeating Prime in battle, he then made the surprising move of surrendering himself to the Autobots, but his ulterior motives soon revealed themselves: by surrendering, he secured himself passage to Cybertron, and once there, used the [[space bridge]] technology in his new body to teleport his Decepticon army back to their homeworld. This plan played out in the midst of an attempt by [[Galvatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Galvatron]] to bring the [[Dead Universe]] entity [[D-Void]] into the living reality; the minds of Megatron's troops were seized by D-Void and they were combined into [[Deceptigod|a giant monster]], which Megatron battled and defeated.

Galvatron's defeat was followed by the reformatting of Cybertron into a primordial state, and Megatron went into hiding in the wilderness to study the energy used to create D-Void's monster, using it to perfect the combination process. With a new [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] created through this idealized new process, as a well as a new body for himself design to interact with the combiner, Megatron laid siege to Iacon from within, but was stopped by a hidden forcefield implanted inside his body by [[Wheeljack (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Wheeljack]].

During Shockwave's attempt to destroy the universe, Megatron found himself working alongside [[Bumblebee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Bumblebee]] as they raced to prevent the mad scientist from completing his ascension. Although Bumblebee didn't survive the experience, Megatron had an epiphany at the eleventh hour: he had strayed so far from his original ideals of personal freedom and liberty for all, and declared himself an Autobot, donning Bumblebee's old insignia. In the aftermath, Megatron joined the crew of the ''[[Lost Light]]'' after agreeing to postpone his trial. His presence on the ship proved controversial—not least among his former Decepticons, especially [[Tarn (DJD)|Tarn]] and the [[Decepticon Justice Division]]. He later found himself inadvertently trapped in the [[Functionist Universe]] and began working to overthrow the Functionists, this time through more peaceful means.

===''Lil Formers''===
After Runamuck had failed during his latest mission, Megatron hounded him down to punish him. Little did he know that Runamuck had repainted himself black to pass off as Runabout.

Later, Megatron declared it to be "Mega-Month," and introduced other-universe incarnations of himself. He claimed that his purple-and-green tank body was great for hiding out in Cybertron's vast eggplant fields. {{storylink|Lil Formers}}

===''Hearts of Steel''===
Megatron was referred to as a leader [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] wanted to replace. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}} When the [[Elder God]]s took the [[Decepticon]]s under their control, Megatron had yet to awaken. {{Storylink|Infestation 2: The Transformers issue 1|Infestation 2: The Transformers #1}}

{{note|Unused concept art for ''Hearts of Steel'' depicts Megatron with a variety of proposed alternate modes: a giant cannon (with big studded wheels that become shoulder-shields), a 19th-century Colt revolver, possibly a {{w|Colt 1851 Navy Revolver|Colt 1851 Navy}}, and another very similar revolver, with an anachronistic scope and a bulkier muzzle.}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Using an un-enlarger device, Megatron led his Decepticons in an infiltration of [[BotCon]] to track down next year's toy designs, and use them to conquer the Autobots once and for all! Unfortunately, the [[Eric Siebenaler|toy designer]] he was after wasn't in attendance, and so Megatron's plan fell to shambles.

On his birthday, Megatron found a badly-hidden bomb stuck in his cake. He was left wondering whether Starscream was putting any efforts in his coups anymore. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Henkei! Henkei!'' pack-in manga===
In the 21st century, Megatron attacked [[Tokyo]], planning to steal its energy and enslave the population. He retreated once the Autobots arrived and a fight with Optimus ensued. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 1}} Sending [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] to distract his nemesis, Megatron quietly gathered a large amount of energon cubes before being attacked by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]]. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 2}} Though the young Autobot proved able to dodge Megatron's cannon blasts, he soon found himself in Megatron's grip as soon as he attempted to charge the Decepticon leader. Rodimus kicked himself free, but was left with damaged optics and was unable to fire upon Megatron for fear of hitting the power plant behind him. But when Starscream tried to fire on Rodimus, the young Autobot dodged out of the way, and Megatron was hit by his own underling's null-ray! Megatron then chose to flee {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 3}} with enough energon to transform himself into Galvatron. He nearly killed Prime and [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] upon undergoing this transformation, before apparently overloading and exploding, reverting him back into Megatron. {{storylink|Henkei! Henkei! volume 7}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Generations'' manga===
Starscream's ghost attempted to overthrow Megatron once more. Blowing away the cape and crown that Starscream had doned before their confrontation, Megatron admitted that he was curious to learn how Starscream's new "body" functioned. {{storylink|Starscream's Ambition}} But this Starscream wasn't the one Megatron was familiar with; the spectre had come forth from another dimension. Starscream explained this to Megatron before possessing the body of [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]] and beginning to tear up the Decepticon ranks from within! As Megatron demanded what the ghost wanted truly wanted, (Megatron's head and the local Starscream's body, as it turns out) the quantum Operatives [[Skids (G1)#Quantum Operative|Skids]] and [[Screech (Generations)|Screech]] warped in on the scene and helped exorcise Starscream back to his home universe. {{storylink|Starscream's New Body}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun'' manga===
[[File:Henkei1 enter megatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.2|At last, I have returned in a— wait, am I a [[Nerf|NERF]] pistol now?! CURSE YOU STARSCREAM!!!]]

When the legendary [[Energon Cube]] was lost to the reaches of space, Megatron led a small team of Decepticons across the galaxy in pursuit. The cube crashed on Earth, in the Japanese town of [[Hoshinochō]], where it shattered into innumerable fragments that were scattered far and wide. To search for the cube shards, Megatron and his Decepticons took on the forms of local vehicles and devices, so they could operate in secret. [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Optimus Prime]] and his Autobots had also followed the Cube to Earth, and so the Transformers' war continued in secret on this new world. {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

Ten years later, Megatron discovered that the humans had a "secret weapon" of sorts in their quest: They had allied themselves with the human boy [[Akira Kihara]], who possessed the incredible powers of a "[[Booster]]", one of a small number of beings in the universe born with the power to detect and manipulate the energies of the Energon Cube. Seeking the boy's power for his own, Megatron struck, but was repelled when Akira used his powers to their fullest. Alas, Akira overloaded his body and died in the process, and Prime was consumed with guilt. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}}

One year after the battle for Akira, Megatron received word from [[Astrotrain (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Astrotrain]] that [[Starscream (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Starscream]] and [[Ramjet (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Ramjet]] were battling Prime's Autobots at the human structure known as the [[Star Dome]]. {{storylink|Enter! The Transformers}} Joining the conflict, he berating Starscream for his failures, using the fallen Air Commander as a shield to protect himself from Optimus Prime's shots. Chastizing Prime for not going all-out in his attack, Megatron turned his Fusion Cannon on [[Bumblebee (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Bumblebee]] and the Autobots' newest human ally [[Wataru Hoshinoumi]]. At the last moment, Prime appeared to deflect Megatron's blast with a shot of his, and Megatron elected to retreat, transforming to gun mode and collapsing a large chunk of the Star Dome to cover the Decepticons' withdrawal. {{storylink|The Emperor of Destruction Appears!}} Starscream claimed Megatron's advanced age was making him weak, but Megatron suggested that he had another reason for calling retreat... {{storylink|Kingdom of Giants}}

[[File:Henkei6 megatron mace.jpg|thumb|Even if the mace's end is only a few feet from my head, it shall never hurt me!]]

When Starscream struck out on his own, attacking a power plant with the aid of the brainwashed Autobot [[Jetfire (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Skyfire]], Megatron observed the battle via a recording made by his spy, [[Ravage (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Ravage]]. The events that unfolded during the conflict confirmed Megatron's suspicions: Wataru was also a Booster! {{storylink|Wataru's Power}} Once again seeking to take the power of a Booster for himself, Megatron tracked Prime and Wataru when they went on a mission to investigate a local relic (in actuality, a cube shard), then struck hard. Taunting Prime with the memory of the last Booster that he had allowed to die, Megatron goaded the Autobot leader into a ferocious battle with their energon-axe and flail. Throughout the duel, Megatron challenged Prime's philosophy and beliefs, eventually striking home with the claim that Prime had hoped to use Wataru's power to defeat him. With Prime's focus broken by this sadly-true accusation, Megatron was able to lay Prime low and seize Wataru, informing the boy that he would not allow him to die like Akira had if he came with him willingly. Naturally, Wataru refused, and activated his powers, forcing Megatron back with a barrier shield; this, Megatron realized, was what had deflected his shot during his first encounter with Wataru, rather than Prime's blast. Wataru used his powers to heal Optimus and power-up his energon axe into a mighty [[sword]], which Prime used to tear a massive gash in Megatron's armor. The explosion that resulted decimated the surrounding countryside, and when Prime and Wataru awoke, Megatron was gone. {{storylink|Optimus Prime's Secret}}

[[File:Henkei8 megatron energon bath.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Now that my bubble bath is ready, I shall go get my [[Rubber Ducky|little rubber bathtime plaything]].]]

The injured Megatron had been spirited away by [[Cyclonus (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Cyclonus]], who took him to a network of caves beneath a volcano and placed him in a "bath" of molten [[energon cube]]s to heal him. {{storylink|Time of Resurrection}} While Megatron was recuperating, however, Starscream led Optimus Prime and Bumblebee to his location, in hopes that they would destroy him so that he could take his throne. As Starscream and Cyclonus battled in the air, Prime approached Megatron, and without hesitation, plunged his energon sword into the Decepticon leader's chest and broke the blade off within his body. Megatron howled in pain and fury, and the energon cubes around him began to react, rising to whirl around him and surround his body with their glow. The maddened Megatron seized one of the cubes and bit into it deeply, causing a huge energon explosion. As the light from the blast faded, Megatron stood restored, renewed and reformatted... now, he was [[Galvatron (G1)#Henkei! Henkei! Bun Bun manga|Galvatron]]! {{storylink|Creation! The New Emperor of Destruction!!}}
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===''Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-''===
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===''Mystery of Convoy'' strategy guide manga===
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Megatron, having grown to gargantuan proportions, attacked Ultra Magnus after the Autobot had defeated all of his underlings. Megatron drew first blood by scorching Ultra Magnus with his flamethrower. But Ultra Magnus recovered, and used his "Hyper Jump Shot" to shoot Megatron's forehead multiple times, defeating the Decepticon leader. {{storylink|Transformers (Mystery of Convoy)#Stage 10: Showing up at Last! It's Megatron the Leader!|Showing up at Last! It's Megatron the Leader!}}

===''Universe'' toy bios===
Numerous tragic encounters with Megatron tempered [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]'s good nature. {{storylink|Ratchet (G1)/toys#Universe (2008)|''Universe'' Ratchet toy bio}}

===''Alternity''===
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Numerous incarnations of Megatron from throughout the [[multiverse]] were gathered together as the "[[Megatron Aggregate]]" under the leadership of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|one particular incarnation]] who hailed from [[BT World|a universe]] where the Autobots had evolved into the hyperdimensional race known as the [[Alternity]]. Shackling the power of the trans-time god-beast [[Hytherion]], this Megatron conveyed time-and-space-manipulating powers similar to those of the Alternity upon himself as his different iterations, forging them into one cross-dimensional gestalt-consciousness entity. To battle the Alternity across time and space, the Megatrons copied their methods, projecting their consciousnesses into [[auto-avatar]]s. The Megatron responsible for the scheme took control of a "Premium Le Mans Blue" style auto-avatar, while his first known ally (from an unidentified dimension) possessed a "Blade Silver" body. {{storylink|To Mega Therion}}

The third identified member of the Megatron Aggregate hailed from [[universal stream]] [[Primax 1286.3 Kappa]]. In a "Diamond Black" auto-avatar body, he engaged in battle with "Ultimate Silver" [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|Optimus Prime]] across two universal streams, striking at him from the year 2009. This Megatron was amused when Prime deduced that he had an ulterior motive for operating in that year, and so made him a wager: if he could defeat him in a game of his own choosing, he would answer a question honestly. Megatron proposed manipulating the inhabitants of his home universe in a "game full of death and suffering", and infused a portion of his power through a legion of Decepticons (including his own past self) to be pitted against Prime's lone chosen champion, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|To Die Game!}}

With the Hytherion's power under the Aggregate's control, one Megatron and his universe's Decepticons' battle tactics changed from attacking specific strategic targets to widespread, sweeping destruction. {{storylink|Nissan GT-R / Ultra Magnus (Brilliant Pearl White)}}

{{note|Alternity beings are both individuals and a collective of separate entities. More fiction about Megatron's Alternity collective can be found [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Alternity|here]].}}

===''Universe'' cartoon===
[[File:FfE Megatron.JPG|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Cyclonus, if you would please fetch the nail clipper.]]
During the war, Megatron rose up to become leader of the Decepticons. Pursuing Optimus on his quest for more Energon, he shot down his ship. Landing, he, Starscream and Soundwave saw Optimus and his Autobots had survived, and taken disguises. Megatron's eyes turned red as he prepared to scan an alternate mode... {{storylink|Action Blast 1}}

Megatron and [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] set up a mining operation near an abandoned [[Rock-It Fuel|gas station]] to extract Earth's natural resources and convert them to [[energon]]. They were discovered by [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], who created a diversion and knocked Cyclonus out. Megatron then blew the mining operation up with his double-barreled arm cannon and retreated with Cyclonus. {{storylink|Fight for Energon}}
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===Robot Heroes===
Megatron was once Optimus's friend. One day, he decided he wanted to rule the galaxy and have Optimus's Matrix for himself, bringing the two of them at odds. When the Autobots left Cybertron, Megatron and his Decepticons followed them to Earth in order to bring its people peace... through tyranny! Optimus shoved him off though, forcing Megatron to postpone his conquest to another day. {{storylink|I Am Optimus Prime (Robot Heroes)|I Am Optimus Prime}}
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===''Transformers'' (2010) toy bios===
[[Lugnut (TF 2010)|Lugnut]] was fanatically loyal to Megatron. {{storylink|Lugnut (TF 2010)#Transformers (2010)|''Transformers'' Lugnut toy bio}}

===''Generations'' toy bios===
[[Drift (G1)|Drift]] used to work for Megatron. {{storylink|Drift (G1)#Generations|''Generations'' Drift toy bio}}

[[Straxus (G1)|Darkmount]] was one of the few Decepticons to achieve legendary status on the level of Megatron. {{storylink|Straxus (G1)#Generations|''Generations'' Darkmount toy bio}}

Even Megatron shuddered at the name of the ruthless [[Black Shadow (Victory)|Sky Shadow]]. {{storylink|Black Shadow (Victory)#Generations|''Generations'' Sky Shadow toy bio}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
'''Tank Lorry''' (タンクローリー ''Tanku Rōrī'') was a participant in the ''Quiz! BeCool'' show, teamed with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Trailer]]. However, their inability to correctly answer questions or be civil to each other cost them the winning spot. Another BeCool, '''Hyper Tank''' (ハイパータンク ''Haipā Tanku'') was part of the audience. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} Tank Lorry was part of [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]]'s explanation of BeCool marks. {{storylink|The Story of What Do I Know About the BeCool Mark?}} He was later caught in a big traffic accident when Yellow Sports Car spun out of control after slipping on a [[banana]] peel. {{storylink|The Story of Protecting the Signal!}}

It turned out that Tank Lorry was a movie director, and his filming of a movie was interrupted by the fire brigade who thought that the movie's pyrotechnics were an actual raging fire. {{storylink|The Story of the Fire Brigade Dispatch!}}

===''United''===
Believing Optimus Prime to be dead, Megatron declared himself Cybertron's "Emperor of Destruction", and asked Starscream on the condition of a mysterious "item". Starscream only responded that the object in question would be put to better use under his control... and the conversation was cut short by the timely arrival of Optimus Prime and his troops! Ecstatic to see his old nemesis alive and fighting-fit, Megatron engaged the Autobot while Starscream urged him on. Many future battles would be had between the two rivals, with both combatants upgrading themselves into new bodies over the course of the ages. {{storylink|A New Battle!}}

At some point, [[Darkside Megatron]] was born out of Megatron's mental insanity. {{storylink|Darkside Megatron|''United'' Darkside Megatron toy bio}}
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===''Transformers: All Spark''===
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{{storylink|Another Episode, Part 1}} {{storylink|Another Episode, Part 2}} {{storylink|The Fated Rival, Once Again...}} {{storylink|To Earth}} {{storylink|Reunion and Parting}} {{storylink|Plans of the Emperor of Destruction}} {{storylink|Revenge (All Spark)|Revenge}} {{storylink|The False Power}} {{storylink|Ray of Hope}} {{storylink|Great Aspirations}} {{storylink|Conclusion}}

===''Transformers GT: Mission GT-R''===
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In a world where the Transformers' war settled into a series of competitive races known as the [[Transformers GT]], Megatron took on a race car form and became a [[GT Transformer]] under the name '''GT-R Megatron''', though he retained his ruthless nature and favored blasting other racers out of his way with his powerful [[EX. Cannon]]. In order to put an on limit his own strength, he separated his "[[Dark Matrix (GT)|Dark Matrix]]", the portion of his soul governing his wisdom, into a [[GT Sister]] partner named [[Noa]].

====Comic====
Megatron had a reputation for suddenly showing up at race tracks and blowing away the competition with his incredible speed. This earned him the moniker of "The Silver Tyrant". At [[Noa]]’s urging, Megatron interrupted a race between Star Saber, Optimus Prime and Fortress Maximus as they neared their final laps. He quickly outpaced both Maximus and Saber before challenging Optimus to battle. As the two fought, Megatron explained that he considered the competition to be a farce, as he easily outclassed all those who opposed him. [[Safety Prime]] and his [[GT Sister]] [[Ai (GT)|Ai]] then drove onto the race track, announcing they would not stand for Megatron’s grandstanding. In response, Megatron swatted Safety Prime away, and claimed he would soon make his nom-de-guerre all the more appropriate by pulverizing the new arrival. Before Megatron could give Safety Prime a thorough trouncing, Optimus stepped in, claiming he understood Megatron’s true motivation for coming to the race track; a dire need for the thrill of the race! Having been promised a true challenge, Megatron took on his car mode once again, and all four Transformers resumed the race. {{storylink|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (comic)|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R}}

====''Story of Transformers GT''====
During round 3 of the 19th Transformers GT, GT-R Megatron specifically targeted his rival, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|GT-R Prime]]. Uninterested in other racers, he had Noa lock on his EX. Cannon to any approaching racers so that he could keep them from interfering with his race towards Prime. The first victim of his weapon was [[Star Saber (Victory)|GT-R Saber]]. {{storylink|One Shot and One Kill!! –Finishing Blow–}} As he continued to blast everyone out of his way, [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|GT-R Maximus]] was displeased with Megatron's violent methods and set out to teach him a lesson with his own weapon, the [[Master Jack Sword]]. {{storylink|A Biggest Sword! –The Last Resort–}}

====Story pages====
During round 3 of the Transformers GT, Megatron burst onto the scene from inside a black trailer and threatened to destroy the race, expressing disappointment that all races so far had failed to excite his warrior's spark. [[Optimus Prime (G1)|GT-R Prime]] understood the newcomer's desire for a truly thrilling race and called upon Megatron to race against him. {{storylink|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (story page)|GT-R Megatron Attacks!}} Like other racers, GT-R Megatron attended photo shoots alongside Noa in order to promote coexistence between humans and Transformers. {{storylink|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (story page)|The Work of the GT Sister Race Queens?}} When a reincarnated [[Unicron]] attacked the Transformers GT finals intending to absorb the GT Transformers' energy, Megatron restored his true strength by using the "Matrix In" ability to recombine with Noa. He then fought and defeated Unicron alongside the other powered-up racers. {{storylink|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (story page)|The True TFGT}}

===Starscream's New Power===
Starscream, having just driven off several other Decepticons after grabbing some weapons from Shockwave's lab, gloated that the Decepticons would soon kneel before him as their new leader. He was unaware of Megatron sneaking up on him as he did so... {{storylink|Starscream's New Power}}

===''Construct-Bots'' cartoon===
Megatron tried to shoot down [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] while he was showing off his jet mode, only for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to rear-end him, sending Megatron flying. The force of the impact also caused Megatron's parts to come off his chassis. Upon noticing this, Megatron covered himself in shame. {{storylink|Toys & App TV Commercial}}

Megatron was playing cards with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] when [[Predaking (Prime)|Predaking]] attacked their base. Megatron used a nearby Construct-Bots computer terminal to upgrade both his minions. But when it came time to receive his own upgrade, Bumblebee mucked about with the computer, and Megatron got a gumball machine attached to his chest. Enraged, he threw the candy dispensor to the ground, only for gumballs to scatter about and cause him to trip. Falling to the ground, Megatron was left with a bare chassis as the impact caused all his parts to scatter! {{storylink|Intro!}}

Megatron tussled with Bumblebee. Throughout the fight, both 'bots' parts got rearranged in bizarre ways. At the end of the struggle, Bumblebee stood properly assembled, while Megatron found his chassis stripped of its parts! Humiliated, Megatron took off. {{storylink|Switcheroo!}}

===''Cloud''===
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Megatron once worked alongside Optimus as part of Cloud World's Universal Police. But he was ambitious, and wanted to use SARA's power for more than just law enforcement; he saw the potential in using her power to conquer dimensions, and bring them to an orderly rule... under himself. Despite assembling like-minded warriors to his side, Megatron was ultimately defeated by Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Fate}} He was branded "Political Prisoner X-86" and banished from the Autobots' Metropolis. {{storylink|Raid}} Believing power to be the only thing that mattered, Megatron intended to conquer all space-time and bring order to its chaotic nature by force, with no concern for who or what he had to sacrifice in the process. An outstanding swordsman, Megatron's weapon of choice was the Fusion Blade, a mighty sword created by fusing together metals from many different dimensions.

Megatron came to be the leader of the [[Decepticon]]s consigned to [[Cloud World]]'s [[Underground (Cloud)|Underground]], rallying the many who had been also been exiled from [[Metropolis]]. He proclaimed to his followers that the power of [[SARA]] rightfully belonged in their hands. Taking advantage of the resentment his kin felt towards the Autobots, he forged the Decepticons into a formidable army, and led them towards Metropolis in a grand coup. {{storylink|Uprising (Cloud)|Uprising}} Before the attack, he learned that Starscream schemed to seize the power for himself, and planned accordingly. {{storylink|Resolve}} During the attack, he made his way to Metropolis's thirteenth district, and began to obliterate it by himself while his troops spread out to sow destruction among the city's many other districts. {{storylink|Raid}} A select team had been given a special mission during the invasion; to infiltrate the Autobots' command center and kidnap SARA! {{storylink|Resolve}}

As he rampaged, Megatron was pestered by Starscream. While Megatron chewed out his subordinate, Optimus Prime came upon them. Though Starscream tried to interfere, Optimus took him down with a well-placed punch. Megatron then told his subordinate to find his OWN nemesis to fight, and stepped forth to duel Optimus himself. A nearby explosion rocked the battlefield, causing Optimus to falter in his stance. Seizing the opportunity, Megatron lunged forth with his sword, only to be outmaneuvered when Optimus shifted to his vehicle mode and back, and struck a counter-blow. As the battle raged on, both combatants found themselves evenly matched. {{storylink|Fate}} But as the entire attack had been nothing more than a distraction in Megatron's greater scheme, it came to an end when news reached the combatants that the Decepticons had taken off with SARA. Megatron contacted [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] to confirm the report then sounded a retreat. Triumphant, Megatron returned to the Underground. {{storylink|Resolve}}

Holing himself up in the basement of a decrepit old building while his troops guarded the main floor, Megatron began wiring the SARA orb into his own systems. Optimus nonetheless found his way to him, accompanied by [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rodimus]] and [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]]. As SARA's power flowed into him, Megatron revealed to his enemies the true extent of his megalomania; he planned to became the ruler of all space-time, even if it meant destroying his home dimension in the process. With a surge of energy, Megatron then knocked aside both Brawl and Hot Rodimus before Optimus managed to ram him, disrupting the energy flow from SARA. The collision caused the combatants to be transported to [[OG World]], where Megatron had planned to begin his dimensional conquest. But during the trip, Megatron became separated from SARA. He found Optimus in short order, alongside the local Autobots and Decepticons, and charged his nemesis. {{storylink|Leap}}

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===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===

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Starscream brought Megatron the disembodied head of Bumblebee, which contained massive amounts of useful information. As a reward Megatron gave Starscream a position of power. {{storylink|The Golden Boys}} The information he gained allowed Megatron to achieve victory against the Autobots and caused Optimus Prime to disappear. Megatron seemed insulted that his foe had abandoned their battle. {{storylink|Form Follows Function}} Around this time, Megatron seized the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and bonded it to his [[black hole]] spark. {{storylink|Pax Megatronus}} The Matrix led him to the face of [[Primus]]. Through it, the Decepticon leader began corrupting [[Vector Sigma]] and subjugated his creator to his will. Cybertron was slowly turned into a massive space ship which would utilize Primus' power to cyberform the entire galaxy. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}}

He then ordered Cybertron moved into the solar system of [[Earth]], where Starscream had retrieved Bumblebee from. {{storylink|I Saw Three Ships}} Megatron was atop his throne in [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] when G.I. Joe began bombing Cybertron with organic matter. The [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] eventually brought him the invaders only for them to escape, along with some Autobots, when [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] projected an Optimus Prime hologram causing Megatron to lunge at what he thought was his foe. {{storylink|Targetmasters (issue)|Targetmasters}} At some point Megatron aligned the Decepticons with Cobra. When [[Destro]] transwarped into Megatron's throne room, the cyber-human impressed Megatron with both his drive and mastery of mechanical life. Megatron allowed him to handle his next mission alone and gave him a gun as a gift to slay the comatose [[Cobra Commander]]. {{storylink|Funeral for a Friend}} Outraged that G.I. Joe was aiding the Autobots, Megatron launched a full attack on [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]. [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]], recently deposed as Autobot King, tried to kill Megatron personally only to be slain and salvaged for spare parts and war trophies. Despite [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] coming to aid his comrades, the Decepticon/Cobra alliance prevailed and Megatron allowed Metroplex and Fortress Maximus to slink off in their damaged states (though [[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] believed Megatron had wounds to lick). {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}}

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Seeking to bring all lifeforms in the universe under his command, Megatron set up a facility to study human and Cybertronian minds; his end goal being to decrypt the living mind under the supervision of [[Doctor Mindbender]] and [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]]. {{storylink|Headmasters (issue)|Headmasters}} He made enough progress to override motor functions and watched as Autobot and Joe were pitted against each other in the Polyhex Killway arena. To his mild interest the Autobot [[Galen Kord|Galen]] turned out to be a human in armour. Meanwhile, Cybertron had infected [[Saturn]] and [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] with cyberforming, and was beginning to do the same to the moon as he desired. {{storylink|Expelled from the Garden}} When he found Cobra Commander's son Billy, missing an arm and a leg, he grafted cybernetic limbs to him, turning him into a weapon (a great honour in Megatron's view). {{storylink|FCBD Funnies}}

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When Optimus Prime returned to Cybertron, Megatron, feeling nostalgic, engaged him in one-to-one combat. Optimus got the upper hand and cleaved open Megatron's chest, revealing the corrupted Matrix. Realizing that this was the most devastating blow the fight could offer, Megatron abandoned the duel and ordered his troops to overrun the Autobots. Megatron admitted to Optimus that while he liked nostalgia, he was concerned with bigger things. Cybertron had finally reached Earth and the horn-like mega-mountains slammed into it destroying the organic world. Megatron then shot Optimus through the [[spark]] at point-blank range with his [[fusion cannon]] sending his foe down a pit while the Autobots and Joes watched in horror. {{storylink|Pax Megatronus}} Megatron celebrated Earth's destruction with his Cobra disciples, consuming Earth [[Skidmark (G.I. Joe)|food]] in honour of the day the planet died. After dinner he took Trypticon upon one of the mega-mountains and used the Matrix to sprout "petals" to clear away the cloud of dust and debris created by the destruction of Earth. {{storylink|Earth: R.I.P.}} When the cloud had cleared, Megatron ordered Primus to transform to robot mode intending for him to consume the [[Sun]] and supercharge his creation abilities {{storylink|Escape from Primus}}

Before Primus could consume the star, Megatron was assaulted by the sparks of the former [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] who mocked his background and ambition but he refused to break. The Decepticon leader demanded Optimus show himself only for Grimlock to appear and take control of his head which Megatron was wearing. Megatron saw fit to quickly rid himself of the trophy. Gathering all his Decepticon and Cobra minions within Trypticon's forcefield, he directed Primus to begin consuming the Sun. The Autobot/Joe alliance was able to disable the saurian's forcefield and envelop Megatron's forces in [[G.I.Rocket|green bombs]]. [[Cobra Commander]] and his cabal then arrived with the human offering to rid Megatron of the plants if he gave him Mars to rule. Megatron agreed to spare Mars and [[Doctor Venom]] broadcasted the kill signal which prompted the Decepticon to declare his invincibility. {{storylink|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe issue 12|Transformers vs. G.I. Joe #12}}

[[File:Pony Megatron Taste Test.jpg|thumb|left|400px|There were no survivors.]]

In the ensuing battle, Megatron combined the energies of his black hole with the Matrix of Leadership, absorbing all of the Autobots and becoming a monstrous new form he dubbed "Mega-Megatron." Unwilling to hurt their allies, the Joes retreated, but Mega-Megatron's career was short-lived; the ''Nemesis''—commandeered by Shipwreck and Polly—ploughed into the combiner, freeing their friends. Then the legendary Ultra Magnus crashed through Primus's eye, challenging Megatron to a duel. Eager to do away with the old gods of Cybertron, Megatron accepted, and the two combatants battled on the Dyson sphere that had grown around the Earth's Sun. Magnus managed to snatch the Matrix away from the Decepticon conqueror, intent on returning it to its rightful owner—Optimus Prime! Optimus Prime sprang out of Ultra Magnus's body, punching Megatron off of the nearest ledge and sending the Decepticon warlord hurtling into the core of the Sun.

Trapped in the Sun, Megatron attempted to escape his predicament by using his black hole as a dimensional gateway. The gambit was only partially successful—although Megatron died before he could escape, his body was indeed shunted to another universe. In this distant reality, a group of [[My Little Pony|diminuitive horses]] investigated the smoldering remains of the once-mighty conqueror. {{storylink|The War Never Ends}}

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===''Angry Birds'' comic===
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Megatron led an attack on the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] in an attempt to capture the [[AllSpark]] from the Autobots. His attack plan fell apart when Starscream broke rank, leading to Megatron's troopsbeing repelled from the ship. After Optimus delivered a mean right-hook right into the Decepticon leader's jaw, Megatron was sent tumbling after his minions by a blast of water, courtesy of [[Heatwave (G1)|Heatwave]]. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers issue 1|Angry Birds Transformers #1}}
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===''Combiner Wars'' toy bios===
Megatron was once honored across [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. However, the mighty hero was corrupted by power, and thus he became a tyrant who launched a war of conquest which drained Cybertron of life. Not even that could satisfy his taste for conquest. {{storylink|Megatron (G1)/toys#Combiner Wars|''Combiner Wars'' Megatron toy bio}}

[[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]]'s preference for playing pranks over battle frustrated Megatron. {{storylink|Skywarp (G1)/toys#CWLeader|''Combiner Wars'' Leader Class Skywarp toy bio}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
After [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|the Predacon Megatron]] was able to kill [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and erase the [[Maximal]]s from history, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], in desperation, attacked the unconscious original Megatron with her [[cyber-venom]]. Whatever effect this had, it was enough to erase the Predacon Megatron from the timeline. {{storylink|A Change to the Agenda}}

At some point in time, Megatron was remade into Galvatron through the power of Unicron. Following Galvatron's death, his remains were used to create the [[G-Virus]], which would replicate the reformatting Megatron had underwent in anyone infected by it. {{storylink|Micro-Aggressions}}

Countless eons after the Great War had ended, all that was left of Megatron otherwise was his [[Energon mace]], on display in the [[Eject (G1)|Administrator]]'s office. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}} His memory lived on, however, as the legendary leader of the Decepticons and distant ancestor of the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s. {{storylink|Identity Politics}} [[Ser-Ket (BW)|Ser-Ket]], for example, claimed to be part of a warrior lineage that stretched back to Megatron and others. {{storylink|Head Games}}

===''Q-Transformers'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|[[Keiji Fujiwara]] (Japanese)}}
{{Charstubfiction|{{storylink|Mystery of Return of Convoy}} {{storylink|The Road to More Popularity than Autobots}}}}

===ATB Megatron===
In Primax 096.0 Beta, Megatron upgraded himself with flight capability and the ability to combine with [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] during the latter days of the [[Great War (G1)|third Cybertronian war]]. In response, [[Optimus Prime (G1)#General Optimus|General Optimus Prime]] upgraded himself with heavier armor and weaponry. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Timelines|General Optimus Prime profile card}} During the obligatory Battle for [[Sherman Dam]], Megatron in his ATB form battled Optimus Prime, but the Autobots ultimately won the day thanks to the arrival of the Dinobots. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/06}} At the war's final battle on [[Mirtonia]], the Autobots emerged victorious in routing Megatron's [[Decepticon Empire|Decepticon Star Empire]] when Decepticons accidentally blew up an experimental energon refinery and themselves along with it. {{storylink|Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Timelines|General Optimus Prime profile card}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
One Megatron transformed into a shoe. His plot to stamp on the face of liberty forever was foiled with the help of [[Vector Prime]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/14}}

In [[Primax 092.0 Beta]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Star Convoy]] and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Fire Rodimus]] formed Supernova Convoy to defeat [[Dark Nova|Star Giant]] and Ultra Megatron. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/15}} Some time later, Megatron returned, empowered by [[Nucleon (substance)|nucleon]] but was defeated by Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/16}}

Another Megatron from a universe destroyed by [[Unicron]] was reformatted into Unicron's [[Herald of Unicron|Herald]] [[Galvatron (G1)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Galvatron]].

Yet another Megatron, unhappy with the prospect of his universe being destroyed, killed the aforementioned Galvatron's fellow Herald [[Cyclonus (G1)#Ask Vector Prime|Cyclonus]] by ripping Cyclonus's head off. His universe, however, was ultimately consumed by Unicron as well. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/19}}

===''Of Masters and Mayhem''===
In one universe, Megatron and his Decepticons fought against the Autobots until they unleashed their ultimate weapon: the combiner [[Thunder Mayhem]]. Unfortunately, the monstrous gestalt turned on its masters, and ultimately brought about the destruction of Cybertron. Megatron managed to survive the planet's reckoning, and escaped to Earth to hide. His ship's star drive was damaged along the way however, leaving him stranded on the organic world. Though the planet initially only had non-sentient fauna on it, entire cities spontaneously materialized on it at some point, soon followed by humans to populate them. Realizing that all of this activity would bring attention to the planet, Megatron took on a [[Pretender]] disguise to hide among the humans, eager to plunder whatever materials he needed to repair his ship and be on his way. Then, a mysterious signal drew him to a specific group of humans. {{storylink|History}} After witnessing [[Vroom (G1)|two of]] [[Crossblades (G1)|their members]] use super-human strength to rescue a man and his daughter from a car wreck, Megatron quickly came to the conclusion that they were also robots in disguise. {{storylink|Assembly (issue)|Assembly}}

Seeing [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)|Metalhawk]] getting shot, only for Energon to spill out instead of blood, only served to further prove what Megatron already knew. Megatron confronted the group as they exited a police station, and announced that he was aware that some of their numbers were Cybertronians. A futile attempt to deny the accusation was brushed aside, and Megatron warned the group that a great enemy would be upon them soon. {{storylink|Insight}}

He then had the group follow him by telling them of his space ship, stashed away nearby. As they came upon it, Megatron discarded his human form to reveal his full-sized Pretender shell. He then attacked [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Lisa|Elizabeth]] to goad the Autobots into abandoning their disguises as well. It worked, and Megatron was soon battling Metalhawk, Vroom, and Crossblades while explaining his recent history to them. At Metalhawk's insistence, Megatron then revealed his inner-robot, allowing his opponents to know exactly who they were dealing with. {{storylink|History}}
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Divination}} {{storylink|Pandora's Gift}} {{storylink|Finale}}}}

===''Prime Wars Trilogy'' cartoons===
{{voiceactor|[[Jason Marnocha]] (English)}}
Coming to the dire realization that the war against the Decepticons had become a never-ending arms race, Optimus Prime challenged Megatron to single-combat, with their troops acting as witnesses to their terrible and final clash. The battle between both faction leaders ended with Megatron beaten down and goading Optimus into delivering the kill shot. {{storylink|Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Optimus Prime}}
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[[File:TF-TR-Cartoon-Ep3-Optimus-Megatron.jpg|right|thumb|300px|How's the Pie?]]
As the people of Cybertron rebuilt after the [[Combiner Wars (event)|Combiner Wars]], Megatron silently watched Optimus from a distance. {{storylink|Aftermath and Rebirth}} When the resurrected Trypticon began attacking Metroplex City, Megatron made his way to the battlefield, where he ran into Optimus. Sure that things would work themselves out like always, he initially dismissed Optimus's claims that the battle heralded the return of the [[Thirteen]] and Cybertron's doomsday as lunacy and walked off. {{storylink|The Fight Begins}} However, Prime's words stuck with him, and he later found his way to the [[Primal Basilica]] to speak with the [[Mistress of Flame]] about it, but arrived to find her badly beaten. The Mistress of Flame was only able to reveal [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] as her attacker before finally succumbing to her wounds. {{storylink|At the Last Second}} With [[Victorion]] being the next best source of religious information, he next traveled to [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] to find her, but was accused of murdering the Mistress and attacked by the Combiners. Thanks to Windblade's intervention, Megatron finally explained what happened and asked Victorion if recent events were a sign of the end times. Victorion told him to seek answers from the one he worshipped, and he departed yet again. {{storylink|Desperate Actions}} Megatron later turned up back in Metroplex City to watch Trypticon fight Fortress Maximus. After some persuasion from Optimus and Windblade, Megatron finally agreed to help them fight, though he insisted that Windblade now owed him and that he was only doing so to find out who was really behind recent events. {{storylink|Consumed}} Ultimately, Trypticon was defeated by the power of the [[Matrix of Leadership]], but this was immediately followed by the return of [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], the mastermind behind everything. Megatron launched into a speech condemning Megatronus in an attempt to stall for time so Optimus and Maximus could attack, but this proved fruitless and Optimus was killed before Megatronus departed with the Matrix and the Enigma of Combination. In the aftermath, despite everyone else's distrust of him, Megatron asserted that they would need to work together and asked the others to follow him, as he believed he knew where Megatronus was going. {{storylink|All Things Must Pass}}

===''Aw Yeah Revolution!''===
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==Commercial appearances==
Megatron featured in quite a few [[commercial]]s, mostly advertising other toys. Those that had original footage of Megatron included the following:

*Megatron landed amid a battle on Earth and fired his cannon at incoming Autobots. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#The Transformers #1|''The Transformers'' #1}}
{{note|This appearance used his pre-cartoon design, with the black helmet and triggered cannon. He was not properly introduced in the commercial, but simply referred to as "The Decepticon Leader". This footage was later recycled in an ad for [[Coleco]]'s [[Power Cycle]] (where he and his Decepticons raided a <s>jungle gym</s> power plant) and again for the [[rubsign]] ad.}}
*Megatron led his troops against Optimus's as they charged at one another in the middle of the desert. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Optimus Prime and Megatron|Optimus Prime and Megatron commercial}}
*During a battle against Megatron, Optimus summoned [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]], [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]], [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], and [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]] to his side. Megatron responded by calling down [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] and [[Dirge (G1)|Dirge]]. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Thrust and Dirge|Autobot cars plus Thrust and Dirge commercial}}
*In the middle of a desert battle, Megatron summoned Thrust and Dirge, in response to Optimus Prime bringing in like, half a dozen new guys. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Thrust and Dirge|Autobot cars plus Thrust and Dirge commercial}}
*Megatron, [[Treadshot (G1)|Treadshot]], and [[Krok (G1)|Krok]] blasted through a wall together to steal the power behind becoming Action Masters. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation_1#Action Masters|Action Masters commercial}}
{{note|In this scene, Megatron and the other Deceptions are not animated using [[character model]]s, but by tracing stop-motion animation of their toys. This is because that sequence is the commercial's transition from animation to live-action, the first visual image of the toys proper.}}
*Megatron attempted to hijack a load of shoes in a South American ad for [[Bata]]'s licensed ''Transformers'' footwear. He was stopped when a pair of said shoes deflected his fusion cannon blast right back at him. No, really. {{storylink|Commercial/International#Transformers de Bata|Transformers de Bata commercial}}
[[File:Commercial-AMMegatronpoints.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|My purple fists are for POINTING!]]
*Megatron, in his "Action Master" body, pointed at Action Master Starscream. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Action Masters|Action Master Starscream Commercial}}
*Megatron, again as an Action Master, was seen in a base futilely trying to grab a pair of [[Micromaster Combiner]]s. He got shot in the face for his trouble. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Micromaster Combiners|Micromaster Combiners commercial}}
*Once upgraded into his "Generation 2" body, Megatron tracked down Optimus Prime. Once he had his old foe in his crosshairs, he sprung in attack, and the two faction leaders dueled fiercely. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 2#Megatron|Generation 2 Megatron commercial}}
*Megatron barged into the suburbs in his battle tank mode, only to be opposed once more by Optimus Prime. Both transformed, and Optimus blasted Megatron's gun out of his hand. In the grappling that followed, Megatron was presumably defeated and driven off. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 2#Combat Heroes|Combat Heroes commercial}}
*"Bot Shots" Megatron had many confrontations with his Optimus counterpart, crashing into each other in vehicle mode and then slugging it out in robot mode. One Bot Shot Megatron and Optimus belonged to neighbours, and taunted one another when their owners left for school. They both burst out of their respective houses, destroying the windows on the way out and colliding in mid-air. {{storylink|Commercial#Bot Shots|Battle for the Matrix Bot Shots commercial}} Megatron would continue to duke it out against Optimus, though sometimes he would appear in a different body. {{storylink|Commercial#Bot Shots|Bot Shots Dragon Track Commercial}}
*"Hero Mashers" Megatron battled Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Grimlock in the middle of a busy city. Using Grimlock's head, Optimus managed to bite off Megatron's arm and steal his jet pack, sending the Decepticon crashing into a wall. Though Megatron fell to pieces, he managed to reassemble himself, and tried to shoot at the now thoroughly-scramble Autobots. Optimus dodged the blast by removing his head and putting it back on, then knocked out Megatron with his "dino-fist." Megatron fell apart once more, and bounced around as a head in defeat. {{storylink|Commercial#Hero Mashers|Hero Mashers commercial}}
*[[Frank Welker|Megatron's voice]] narrated numerous commercials, including:
**The [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]] {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Constructicons|Constructicons commercial}}
**[[Rubsign]]s {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Rubsign|Rubsign commercial}}
**The [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] (strange!) {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Sharkticon|Sharkticon commercial}}
**[[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] (stranger!) {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Springer and Wreck-Gar|Springer and Wreck-Gar commercial}}
**[[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] (stranger still!) {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Ultra Magnus and Galvatron|Ultra Magnus and Galvatron commercial}}
**The [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Aerialbots and Stunticons|Aerialbots and Stunticons commercial}}
**The [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Bruticus and Metroplex|Bruticus and Metroplex commercial}}
**[[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Defensor and Trypticon|Defensor and Trypticon commercial}}
**The [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Predacons|Predacons commercial}}
**The [[Battlecharger]]s {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1#Battlechargers|Battlechargers commercial}}

===The Hub promos===
[[File:Hub-CobraPaloozaMegatronAThon.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Little did Megatron know, Cobra Commander planned to hang up in the middle of his sentence.]]
[[Cobra Commander]] and Megatron had an argument involving New Year's Eve marathons of their respective television series. {{storylink|Commercial/Generation 1|Cobra-palooza Megatron-A-Thon}}

{{Note|Ironically, the [[Five Faces of Darkness|episodes]] featured in the ''Transformers'' portion of the marathon didn't feature Megatron [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|as Megatron]]. (With the exception of [[Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4|one flashback]].)}}

[[Megatron (WFC)|Another 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 [[The Transformers (cartoon)|his home movies]], during which reminisced on how [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|young he looked back then]] and mocked [[Soundwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Soundwave's]] dated choice of alt-mode. {{storylink|Commercial/Prime|Megatron's Favorite Song (26 Hour Takeover marathon promo)}}

{{Note|This is highly unlikely to be canon. For the Megatron primarily focused on the Hub, see: [[Megatron (WFC)]].}}

===Online promotional videos===
*Megatron dueled Optimus Prime atop of an overpass in a human city. Though Prime managed to knock Megatron's cannon loose early in the scuffle, Megatron managed to turn the tables on the Autobot leader, reattached his primary weapon, and blast his old foe. When Megatron moved in for the kill, Optimus got his second wind, and knocked Megatron clear off the overpass. {{storylink|They were always real to me.}}
*Megatron was contacted by Optimus Prime, who convinced him to attend [[BotCon 2009]]. It took some doing though, but Megatron agree to participate when he learned that his human fans would be in attendance. {{storylink|BotCon 2009!}}
*Megatron asked Starscream if he had finished work on the Decepticons’ anti-matter gun, only to learn that Starscream had instead been spending his time gushing over his new [[BotCon]] toy. After shoving Starscream over for his insubordination, Megatron asked Breakdown and Counterpunch if they could think of a place where the Decepticons could find some new ultimate weapons. Breakdown pointed out that BotCon had all sorts of Transformers-related stuff, and Megatron got the idea that he could pick up some weapons at the convention. {{storylink|BotCon 2010 Promo}}
*Megatron addressed female viewers, asking them to compare their male companions to himself. He clarified that said males were puny weaklings compared to the mighty Megatron! Though, they could still join the Transformers collector’s club to get some exclusive toys. He also showed off the Transformers club magazine, the incentive figure for 2011, and was on a jet in outer space. {{storylink|Mega Spice -- The Transformer Your Fan Could Be Like}}
*Megatron and Starscream visited Shockwave's lab on Cybertron. The Decepticon leader asked if Shockwave has finished his work on the continuum transmorpher. He was pleased to hear that the device was nearly complete, but then got distracted by some new upgrades throughout Shockwave’s lab. As Shockwave showed him around, Starscream summoned his [[Starscream (Animated)|“Animated” counterpart]] to their reality. Megatron came upon the pair, and they blasted the Decepticon leader together. It still wasn’t enough to keep Megatron down though. {{storylink|Who is the Greatest Starscream Of All Time?}}
*Megatron interrupted Starscream’s video for the first [[BotCon 2012]] exclusive toy review, allowing for [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] to step in and ruin the review. {{storylink|BotCon 2012: Figure Reveal!}}

==Games==
===Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons===
When Optimus embarked on his mission to rescue the Autobots' [[Mini Vehicle|Minicar]] troops from the Decepticons, Megatron could hinder Optimus Prime's progress by blasting him with fusion cannons. {{storylink|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons|Adventure Game: Defeat the Decepticons packaging blurb and game}}

===''The Transformers'' (Commodore 64)===
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===''Transformers: Mystery of Convoy''===

As [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] searched for the truth behind [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s death, he was taunted by Megatron about the truth. Soon, Megatron and Ultra Magnus battled in a game of death and suffering. {{storylink|Transformers: Mystery of Convoy}}

===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals''===
After defeating both the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] on ancient Earth, [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] entered the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' and used a prototype [[transreplication]] device to create clones of the dormant Decepticons within. The Megatron clone, equipped with all the memories and personality functions of the original, then followed Ravage back to his future in order to conquer it. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals}}

===''DreamMix TV World Fighters''===
{{voiceactor|[[Seizō Katō]] (Japanese)}}

As part of [[DreamMix TV]]'s attempt to pull in more ratings, Megatron and his eternal rival Optimus Prime were invited to battle bunches of other beings on the television show ''[[World Fighters]]''. {{storylink|DreamMix TV World Fighters}}

===''The Transformers'' (PS2)===
{{voiceactor|[[Jeff Manning]] (English)}}
[[File:TF PS2 Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]

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{{storylink|The Transformers (PS2)|The Transformers}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game (Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC)===
[[File:ROTF 360PS3PC G1Megatron DLC.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Compare me to a cancelled toy, as I am only a skin for Flight ''Movie'' Me. I feel pain, as no one else can feel '''MY AWESOME POWER!!!''']]
{{voiceactor|Frank Welker (English)}}

{{Note|On [[August 27]], [[2009]], Megatron was one of a handful of downloadable characters in a DLC pack for Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen}}
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===''Transformers Battle Circuit''===
Megatron, one of the "greatest Transformers of all time," was part of a Decepticon team that participated in a tournament on Cybertron. If an Autobot wished to claim the title of tournament champion, Megatron was the last opponent they needed to face. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Circuit}}

===Transformers Battle Universe===
At the edge of time, when the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] needed a new host, Megatron was among several warriors (and [[Megatron (disambiguation)|Megatrons]]) summoned from the multiverse to battle for control of the prize. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}

===''Transformers G1: Awakening''===
[[File:Megatron g1awakening stats.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb]]
When the Autobots left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]], Megatron and his troops gave chase, boarding the Autobot ship and causing it to crash on [[Earth]]. After a four million year stasis nap, a volcanic eruption woke the Decepticons, and they began conquering the new planet and building a [[space bridge]]. When they found [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], Megatron tricked him into joining the Decepticons. Unfortunately the Autobots soon turned Jetfire to their side, much to Megatron's displeasure, and the Autobots found out about the space bridge. Megatron returned to Cybertron and laid a trap with which he successfully captured the Autobots who came through the bridge. When the Autobots escaped back to Earth, Megatron followed them and mounted an all-out assault on the Ark. Unfortunately this was repelled, and despite Megatron's best efforts, the Autobots fought their way back to the space bridge, and attacked the Decepticon's headquarters on Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers G1: Awakening}}
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===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
Megatron participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}

===''Construct-Bots Builder''===
The components necessary for building "Construct-Bot" Megatron were accessible within the Cybertron construction zone. Despite it being against protocol, [[you]] could mix his parts with those of Autobots! (gasp!) {{storylink|Construct-Bots Builder}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
[[File:TFLegendsApp-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|I turn into a tank now. Any problems?]]
Megatron was once a miner, until Senator Ratbat shut down the facility where Megatron was employed. Enraged by the maltreatment of a fellow miner by the Senator's guards, Megatron accidently killed the guard and got himself arrested. While being transported, Megatron was convinced to take over the ship he was on by some fellow inmates, and set a course for the city of Kaon. There, he joined the underground gladiatorial fights and began to plot against the government establishment that had led him down this path. Megatron rose through the ranks of the pit fights, losing an arm in the process, only to have it replaced with spare parts acquired from a defeated foe. {{storylink|Megatron Origins}} In the Kaon pits, the harsh conditions gave him the desire to be the strongest of all. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (mobile game)|Megatron's bio}} He eventually found himself opposed by Clench, but defeated him. Megatron then proceeded to take over Kaon, and set his sights on conquering the entirety of Cybertron. {{storylink|Megatron Origins}}

Megatron formulated a plan to wipe out the Autobots by activating [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s [[planetary engine]]s. When [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] tried to meet with him to talk him out of this course of action, Megatron instead ambushed the Autobot leader and successfully slew him. Unfortunately Megatron found that Sentinel was not in possession of the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which was promptly passed to the new Autobot leader, [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]. {{storylink|The War Within}} During the early days of the war, Megatron attempted to obtain a quick victory by conquering Iacon. This plan failed due to Metroplex getting involved in the battle. {{storylink|Assault on Iacon}}

Stranded on the planet [[Junkion (planet)|Junk]], Megatron had to fight off the [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] until Skywarp arrived to rescue him. {{storylink|Wreckage (Legends)|Wreckage}} Later on [[Earth]], Megatron's strict rule resulted in the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]] going rogue. {{storylink|Harvest of the Insecticons}} He was pleased when he heard that Optimus Prime had been badly damaged by the Dinobots, but didn't have time to order a strike on the Autobot base, as the Dinobots were attacking his own base. {{storylink|Day of the Dinobots - Part 1}}

At some point, Megatron went missing in action, and Starscream took command of the Decepticons. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (Legends)|Countdown to Extinction}} As part of a distraction while the Constructicons attacked Teletraan I, Megatron challenged Optimus to a duel. {{storylink|Heavy Metal War - Part 1}} After [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] found a Golden Lagoon of [[Electrum]], Megatron led the invulnerable Decepticons against [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and then Autobot Headquarters, only to find the latter was deserted. The Decepticons rushed back to the lagoon to find the Autobots were also invulnerable, and after the lagoon was destroyed in the ensuing battle, Megatron and his forces retreated. {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon (Legends)|The Golden Lagoon}}

Megatron was enraged to learn that the Constructicons had somehow become friendly with [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] and [[Grapple (G1)|Grapple]], and sent [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] and [[Deluge (G2)|Deluge]] out to bring the team back into line. {{storylink|The Master Builders (Legends)|The Master Builders}} When [[Chronogon]] portals began opening, Megatron devised a plan to utilize them. The Decepticons successfully sprang a trap that sent the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] back in time, and followed that up by trying unsuccessfully to prevent Orion Pax from becoming Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Golden Age (Legends)|Golden Age}} During a battle near Autobot HQ, Megatron sneaked away and sabotaged the Autobot [[recharging chamber]] with a [[personality destabilizer device]]. The Autobots were turned evil the next time they recharged, and Megatron sent them to [[Rutter U.S. Military Base|Rutter Military Base]] to steal a solar energy satellite. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots (Legends)|Attack of the Autobots}}

[[File:TFLegends-SavageCircle.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1| '''WHYYYYYYYY?! ''WHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!''''']]
Megatron and Shockwave slyly suggested to Grimlock that he should be leader of the Autobots, believing that if he took over, it would make their job of overcoming the Autobots easier. As it happened, once Grimlock took over, the two Decepticons were instead captured by his forces, and only escaped once he turned the reigns back over to Optimus. {{storylink|Me, Grimlock, King}} Megatron somehow became fused to Ratchet somewhere in inter-dimensional space. The pair were attacked by a time-displaced [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], however a team of Autobots rescued them and the pair were surgically separated at the Autobot base. Megatron took advantage of the subsequent celebrations to make his escape. {{storylink|Savage Circle}}

The Decepticons managed to steal [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], and Megatron had Hardshell reprogram her to serve the Decepticon cause. Though she succeeded in stealing the [[World Energy Chip]] from Autobot HQ, Megatron and his troops were forced to come to her aid and failed to prevent her falling back into Autobot hands. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird (Legends)|Enter the Nightbird}} After Megatron and his men found a [[Lightning Bug]] on an old Autobot colony world, they found they'd contracted [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]]. Back on Earth, they stole [[corrostop]] and cured themselves, before inflicting the disease on the Autobots. The Decepticons were unable to stop the Autobots getting a sample of corrostop from the [[Statue of Liberty]] and curing themselves, however. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (Legends)|Cosmic Rust}}

After Dirge crashed into a movie set while transporting a stolen Autobot weapon, Megatron sent a group of Decepticons to retrieve him and destroy all evidence. He was upset when they not only returned without having destroyed the film, but when the film turned out to be a blockbuster hit. {{storylink|Hoist Goes Hollywood (Legends)|Hoist Goes Hollywood}}

Megatron and his men finally managed to drive the Autobots from Earth, badly damaging Optimus in the process, and set about conquering the planet. Their reign was short-lived, as the Autobots returned once Optimus had recovered, and Megatron was himself badly damaged in the battle that ensued, resulting in the Decepticons retreating. {{storylink|All Hail Megatron (Legends)|All Hail Megatron}}

When the ongoing conflict with the Autobots finally came to a head, Megatron led an assault on [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]] and eventually stood over Optimus Prime's broken body. {{storylink|One Shall Fall...}} Or possibly Optimus defeated Megatron. {{storylink|The Battle for Autobot City}} A short time later, Megatron was reborn into Galvatron, thanks to [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|All Hail Galvatron}}
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===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
Megatron participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He appeared in four different bodies:
*''Megatron'' — This Common character could be recruited by collecting 20 units of Cybermetal.
*''Generations Megatron'' — Promotional Rare character
*''Megatron (Leader)'' — This Super Rare promotional character could be recruited through the space bridge for 1000 gold.
*''Generation 2 Megatron'' — This Epic character was available as a reward in the "Generation 2 Episode 1" event. {{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Devastation''===
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]]}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] }}
[[file:MegatronEarthWars.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.75| I have a thumb. It's just bent.]]

Megatron is needed on earth by the Decepticons, but they are too late as Optimus Prime comes through the [[Space Bridge]]. Optimus then proceeds to beat Megatron to the the [[Fractal Map]] and locate the [[Enigma of Combination]]. The Autobots succeed, but Megatron has found a way to artificially create the power needed to create combiners. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Autobot Campaign}}

Megatron orders [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] to get him a [[Quantum Crystal]] powerful enough to bring him through. Then he starts on his conquest to obtain the Fractal Map, the Codex Key, and finally the Enigma of Combination. With the Enigma, Megatron then precedes to use Devastator to destroy everything, but is stopped by Optimus and Superion. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Decepticon Campaign}}

When Megatron first arrives on earth, the other cons are weary and afraid of the mortar that lies ahead of them. Irritated with their cowardace, Megatron leads a '''Rallying Charge''' that allows them to destroy the autobot's outpost. Megatron then lords over the victory on all the other cons {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars| The Lost Map Campaign}}

During the race to find the [[Fractal Map]], Megatron orders Bludgeon to spy on Stascream to make sure that he doesn't do anything "out of line". He finds out Starscream was commanding an Operation consisting of Hook and Scrapper, and took command of the Op himself. They destroy an Autobot base, and Hook has to clean up while Megatron commands the rest of the cons to stay in line and find the Fractal map before the Autobots do. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Power Play Campaign}}

During the final battle of the Codex Key, Megatron gathered the rest of his "most" loyal troops, including (the rest of) the [[Constructicon (G1)| Constructicons]], Seekers, [[Combaticon (G1)| Combaticons]], [[Insecticon (G1)| Insecticons]], [[Predacon (G1)| Predacons]], and [[Stunticon (G1)|the Stunticons]] (They didn't show because they were busy with.... [[Drag Strip (G1)#Games|"''other''"]] [[Offroad|Things..]]) and they all took part in the battle that ensued. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars| The Codex Showdown Campaign}}

When Megatron got his hands on the Enigma of Combination, he eagerly used it on the Constructicons to form Devastator. With the creation of Combiner lab, Megatron had plans to make more combiners. {{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars|Combiner Wars Campaign}}

*'''Class:''' Special
*'''Lowest Star Rating:''' 2 star
*'''Weapons:''' Megatron fires a blast from his Fusion Cannon before engaging a target up close and attacking it with his energy mace.
*'''Ability: Inspiring Charge''' - Rally Decepticons to engage the target. Then charge in damaging walls along the way.
**'''Cost''': 5 ability points +2 for reuses.

[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:megatron| Megatron at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]

===''Transformers: Frontiers''===
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===''Transformers Operation Omega''===
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===''Transformers Online'' (2016 video game)===
[[File:Megatron TFO.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
{{bigquote|Peace through tyranny.}}

On Cybertron, Megatron quickly rose to power as champion of the pits of Kaon, where he assembled a group of followers. On planet Earth, he led the Decepticons to reside amongst the Autobots and humans in a long struggle for control. Megatron may be perceived as contradictory, for it was less likely for him to be hailed as a "hero". His power and prestige defined his heroic glory, but Megatron's treachery still posed him a threat to all. Megatron defeated the most powerful enemy, who had control over an unruly army. However, Megatron would never: betray his family, leave behind any of his comrades, or forget to restore his former homeland. Because of his unwavering faith, Megatron's will could last until his final moments.

In battle, Megatron wielded the "[[Gaia Chain Mace]]" and the heavy duty "[[Slayer]]" bazooka. His active skill was "Missile Frenzy":
*'''Missile Frenzy''' — (Must be in vehicle/tank mode) Megatron can fire up to 3 tracking missiles that reduce an opponent's damage by 50%. Each missile deals 800 points of damage to an opponent. {{storylink|Transformers Online (2016 video game)|Transformers Online}} <ref>[http://tfol.qq.com/act/a20160726data/hero7.shtml Megatron on the Transformers Online website]</ref>
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===''Transformers: Forged to Fight''===
[[File:Megatron-G1-Forged to Fight.jpg|thumb|250px| OH, that upgrade felt good. Now, let's go crush some hippies!]]
Not much has been released story wise.
{{storylink|Transformers: Forged to Fight}}
*Class: Tactician
*'''Abilities
**Fusion Cannon:
***The Fusion Cannon takes 6 seconds to charge 3 Full Power Heavy Attacks that travel significantly faster and deal 20~30% more damage.
***Full Power Heavy Attacks permanently Fuse a debuff inflicted by Megatron’s Special Attacks to the opponent. Only one debuff of each type can be Fused.
**Last Hit of a Medium Combo: 100% chance to Refresh the duration of Unfused Armor Breaks, Attack Debuffs, and Shocks on the opponent.
**Knocked Down: Megatron has a 0.7% chance for each percentage of lost Health to become Unstoppable for 3 seconds.
*SIGNATURE ABILITY – NO MERCY
**Megatron shows no mercy and uses the enemy’s own strengths against them. As long as the opponent has a Fused Debuff, Megatron’s Melee Attacks have a 20~60% chance to Steal a buff from the opponent for 5 seconds.
*'''SPECIAL ATTACKS''':
#''Special 1 – Energon Crush''- The Energon Flail is perfectly designed to shatter the defenses of even the toughest bots. 100% chance to inflict Armor Break, removing opponent’s Armor and applying 26~34% Armor reduction for 10 seconds.
#''Special 2 – Atomic Slug''- Megatron initiates the brutality setting on his Fusion Cannon. 100% chance to decrease Attack by -32~-40% for 10 seconds.
#''Special 3 – All Too Easy''- There is no limits to the carnage Megatron is willing to inflict on his foes. 100% chance to inflicts Shock, dealing Shock Damage for 200% of attack over 20 seconds. Grants Fusion Overload, allowing unlimited Full Power shots of the Fusion Cannon for the rest of the fight.
*SYNERGY BONUSES:
**'''Outgoing – Till All is Ours''' – Soundwave- All Decepticons gain 5~15% Attack against Autobots.
**'''Outgoing – Lieutenants''' – Starscream, Shockwave-Megatron gains new abilities and his lieutenants gain 2~8% Armor and 2~8% Attack Rating.
**'''Incoming – Lieutenants''' – Starscream-Megatron’s Special Attacks have a 30~70%% chance to Stun the opponent for 3.5 seconds. This effect will only trigger once per fight for each Special Attack and this Stun debuff cannot be Fused.
**'''Incoming – Lieutenants''' – Shockwave-The last hit of Megatron’s Medium Combo has a 20~40% chance to inflict a Power Rate Debuff, reducing the opponent’s Power Rate by 30% for 10 seconds. This debuff may be Fused to the opponent.
**'''Mutual – Enemies''' – Optimus Prime, Bumblebee GS- + 2~8% Attack Rating.
*'''STRONG MATCH-UPS''':
**'''''Most Bots''''' – You don’t become undisputed leader of the Decepticons without being a ''VERY'' formidable combatant.
**Grindor – Megatron will rip through Brawlers like Grindor who generate Armor to protect themselves. With his Signature Ability awakened, Megatron will also steal their buffs to boost his own abilities.
**Optimus Prime (GS) – Megatron will gain Unstoppable at low health whenever knocked down. This may punish commanders that rely too much on the Autobot Leader’s Roll Out ability.
**Optimus Primal - Megatron’s Fused Armor Break will block Optimus Primal’s Crit Armor from activating.

*'''WEAK MATCH-UPS''':
**Soundwave – Megatron relies on his powerful Fusion Cannon to get through his fights, having his powerful shots reflected back by a Sonic Shield will put a damper on Megatron’s plans.
**Galvatron – With very few buffs to steal, and no armor to break, Galvatron will show Megatron the difference Unicron’s assistance can make.

*'''RECOMMENDED MODULES FOR MEGATRON''':
*Paralyzer – The Paralyzer’s ability to Stun the opponent after a special Attack will leave them vulnerable to a blast from Megatron's Fusion Cannon.
*Transwarp Cell – Getting hit by the Fusion Cannon is bad enough, getting your Power Drained at the same time is the quickest way to the scrap pile.

==Toys==
{{main|Megatron (G1)/toys}}

==Merchandise==
{{main|Megatron (G1)/merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Earlymegatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|The [[fusion cannon]]'s got that handle because... well, we're not sure.]] [[File:P-Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Microman Megatron's concept model. Back then, he was a little less happy to see you.]]
*Early in the ''Transformers'' series production, Megatron's look was based not on the toy, but on concept art for an unproduced prototype version. This early version, sporting a different, black head, a very different scope/fusion cannon, and the gun's barrel on his back, managed to make its way into not only early [[commercial]] animation and licensed material, but into the art of the early Marvel Comics. Though the model was altered before the animated series was produced, elements from the first model such as the back-mounted barrel were perpetuated in both the comic and the cartoon. The Marvel Comics continued to color Megatron's helmet black (well, blue) until the end of its run. Cleverly, flashbacks in IDW's ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer]]'' and subsequent series used the black helmet to show Megatron's younger self and his normal gray helmet for his modern self in order to show age. By contrast, Megatron's [[Megatron (SG)|''Shattered Glass'' counterpart]] has a black helmet in the present day.
*Similarly early UK comic art often coloured Megatron's upper body Gold instead of Silver (Most notably in [[State Games]] and the cover of Transformers (UK) issue 21. This is because the original Boxart for Megatron (Hasbro) does in fact feature a gold hue to the upper body and arms for no known reason.
*Similar to Optimus Prime's trailer, Megatron's Walther P38 alt-mode includes parts that materialize from out of nowhere once he transforms, which change his silhouette into a more rifle-like shape. These parts include an elongated pistol stock and an extending barrel attachment, both of which fly offscreen once he reassumes his robot mode. Megatron is never seen operating as a pistol without these extra parts.
*The name "Megatron" was originally used by Marvel Comics for ''another'' robot that appeared long before the Transformers toyline came about, in issue 18 of the ''Shogun Warriors'' series (written by Doug Moench, art by Herb Trimpe, released in July 1980).<ref>[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/droneracecharter.htm#Megatron Megatron and the "Drones" from Marvel's ''Shogun Warriors'' comic at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe]</ref> Strictly speaking, though, the name is even older, as it has been used by a manufacturer of ball points since at least 1965.<ref name="ballpoint">[http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=72213575 USPTO file on "Megatron" trademark for ballpoint balls]</ref> [[Bob Budiansky]] stated in an interview that the name "Megatron" is a portmanteau derived from "Megaton" and "Electronic".<ref>[http://www.bwtf.com/interviews/bb204/ Bob Budiansky Interview at BWTF.com]</ref> He suggested the name "Megatron" for the Transformers line (it's unclear if he was aware of the existing Marvel character, though as an editor it seems likely that he at least had a subconscious memory of it) but [[Hasbro]] initially rejected it, claiming that "mega" conjured images of nuclear bombs. Budiansky reminded them that the name was supposed to sound evil, because he's the leader of the bad guys. Hasbro responded, "Oh, right", and then approved the name.<ref>[http://www.asmzine.com/geekly-rewind/2010/07/02/from-the-asm-archives-a-little-qa-with-bob-budiansky/ ASM: A Little Q&A with... Bob Budiansky]</ref>
*When Megatron transforms into gun mode, he most often [[Size changing|shrinks]] to a size where he can be held by either a human or fellow Transformer and has someone else aim and fire him. The exceptions are in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|episodes]] "[[S.O.S. Dinobots]]" and "[[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3]]", the [[The Transformers (PS2)|''The Transformers'' video game]], the manga issues [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 4|''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' #4]] and "[[The Battle of the Star Gate]]" (likely "[[Activation]]" too, but the angles makes it impossible to say for certain) as well as the [[G.I. Joe (comic)|''G.I. Joe'' issue]] "[[Realignments]]". In the cases of "S.O.S. Dinobots", ''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' #4 and "The Battle of the Star Gate", Megatron does not shrink and has another Transformer somewhat clumsily aim and move him. In "The Ultimate Doom, Part 3", the video game and "Realignments" (and "Activation"), he floats in the air and takes a shot at his target unassisted. The reasons Megatron chooses to transform instead of simply using his fusion cannon are seldom explained.
*On the 1985 [[The Transformers Universal Studios Tour|Universal Studios Tour]], a giant statue of Megatron was available for children to clamber over and have their picture taken on. It wasn't especially dignified.
*''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' claims that Megatron has been missing since the beginning of [[Pax Cybertronia]] and it is rumored that he has been deceased. This is seemingly incongruous with the open references the cartoon makes to ''The Movie'', where Blackarachnia confirms it was Galvatron who killed Starscream.<ref name=BWU>Page 37, Guest Character and ''G1'' Icons, ''[[Beast Wars Universe]]'' ISBN 978-4766938005</ref>
*Some [[Canada|Québecquers]] loved his shiny body so much they named a communications company after him.<ref>[http://www.megatron.net/quebec/ Megatron Dot Net Forward Slash Quebec.]</ref>
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===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron''), '''Megalligator''' (''Beast Wars'' vs pack, メガリゲーター ''Megarigētā''), '''Megatronus''' (''Generations'' vs pack, メガトロナス ''Megatoronasu'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Megaton''' (麥加登 ''Mak Gaa Dang'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Měi-chīa Wáng''' (Taiwan, 美加王, "King Mega"), '''Chǜ-wú-pà''' (Taiwan, 巨無霸, "Extremely Gigantic"), '''Wēi Zhèn Tīan''' (China, 威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")
*''French:'' '''Mégatron'''
*''Hebrew:'' '''Megatron''' (מגהטרון ''Mghjrwn'')
*''Portuguese:'' '''Megatrão''' (Portugal comics)
*''Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian:'' '''Megatron''' (Мегатрон)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://transfans.co.uk/comics_guide_detail.php?id=269&page=13 Transformers #227 Letters Page on Transfans.co.uk]

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Optimus Prime (SG)

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|''This article is about the evil Autobot leader. For his heroic counterpart, see [[Optimus Prime (G1)]]. For other meanings, see [[Optronix (disambiguation)]], [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)]], [[Nova Prime (disambiguation)]].''
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:''Optimus Prime is the [[Prime (rank)|leader]] of the evil [[Autobot]]s from the [[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Optimusshatteredsipher.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Maurice LaMarche|REAL HOLOGRAPHIC SIMULATED EVIL LINCOLN IS '''''BAAAAAACK!!!''''']]]]

'''Optimus Prime''' is the sadistic, tyrannical leader of the evil [[Autobot]]s, a cruel and ambitious villain whose plans fall nothing short of [[Autobot Imperium|universal conquest]]. First stop: [[Earth]]! The only thing standing in Prime's path to domination is [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]], a young and noble [[Decepticon]] willing to lead a small band of rebels in a fight for freedom.

Long ago, he was a librarian named '''Optronix''' who cheated his way up through Cybertronian society. He formed the war-loving Autobots and initiated a war against the complacent, but it wasn't until a crucial, yet undocumented moment that he truly turned insane. He suspends the corpses of his enemies and would-be usurpers on the walls, talking to them as if they still lived. He is completely unhinged, prone to deadly outbursts against even his most loyal followers.

However, a chance encounter with the rare benevolent side of [[Unicron/Shattered Glass|Unicron]] has restored Prime's sanity, turning him into the being known as '''Nova Prime''', who now fights for peace in the universe.

{{quote|Strike, my Autobots! Strike with all the power at your disposal! Let those who see our wisdom join us, and those who choose to stagnate be cut out like the rotting cancer they are!|Optimus Prime says it's on|"[[Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Shattered Glass''===
[[File:Optronixshattered.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|The Dewey Decimal System is a cruel mistress.]]
Dangerously obsessive, Optronix worked as a librarian in the [[Great Cybertronian Archives]] during the [[Golden Age]]. Backstabbing his way up the ranks, he soon amassed a following of like-minded Cybertronians who believed in his code of advancement through conflict. Suddenly, his armies attacked, sweeping through cities and killing those who refused to join them. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}} {{storylink|#Toys|BotCon 2008 Optimus Prime profile card}} Among those who joined Prime in the [[Second Cybertronian war (SG)|second Cybertronian war]] was his brother [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]]. {{storylink|Treadshot (SG)#Toys|BotCon 2012 Treadshot profile card}} When the scientist [[Starscream (SG)|Starscream]] turned down Optronix's offer, he ordered Starscream's [[Crystal City]] home to be destroyed in front of him. {{storylink|Starscream (SG)|BotCon 2008 Starscream profile card}} With their spoils, his "Autobots" began arming themselves with more complicated weaponry, but Optronix, now named Optimus Prime, saved the most advanced upgrades for himself. His hunger for power and knowledge ended one day without warning; he discovered something terrible that destroyed his mind, and in place of his cold calculations was now an unhinged mind bent on random, indiscriminate violence. He strung up his countless victims along the walls of [[Great Dome|his headquarters]] in [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]] and began talking to them, asking them mockingly for advice.

But [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]], a young champion from [[Polyhex]], gathered an army to oppose him. Megatron's forces also had a way to counter Optimus Prime's military superiority: the ability to configure their bodies into alternate forms. It did not take long for Optimus Prime to steal this "Decepticon" technology for himself. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}}

[[File:Invasion-MagnusFlashback.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Only an evil Optimus Prime would rip off someone's face!]]

At some point [[Ultra Magnus (SG)|Ultra Magnus]] staged a coup. It ended unsuccessfully, with Optimus ripping off Magnus's face and imprisoning him on [[Paradron]]. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

When the Decepticons destroyed all but one of the rogue mercenary group named the [[Wrecker]]s in the battle of [[Praxus-Delta]], Optimus Prime welcomed their leader, [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus]], into his ranks. {{storylink|Rodimus (SG)|BotCon 2008 Rodimus profile card}} Increasingly paranoid, Optimus Prime began suspecting his subordinates of treachery. He killed the leader of his elite [[Seeker (SG)|Seeker]] unit, [[Drench (SG)|Drench]], and when he learned of Seeker [[Sideswipe (SG)|Sideswipe]]'s dissatisfaction with his leader's assassination, Prime staged an ambush to kill him. However, not only did Sideswipe narrowly escape and join the Decepticons, {{storylink|Sideswipe (SG)|BotCon 2008 Sideswipe profile card}} one of Optimus's few friends and savior at the [[Torus Heights]] battles, [[Cliffjumper (SG)|another Autobot]], happened to be at the [[Rad Zone|location of the ambush]] and did get killed. Optimus never learned of this though, and assumed Cliffjumper had died in the battle at [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]]. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}} Optimus chose Rodimus in place of Sideswipe and [[Goldbug (SG)|Bumblebee]] to take Drench's place as the Seeker unit's new leader, having him rebuilt into the fearsome Goldbug. {{storylink|Goldbug (SG)|BotCon 2008 Goldbug profile card}}

Optimus began looking elsewhere. He targeted the distant planet Earth for conquest, had several of his Autobots reconfigure their bodies to transform into the machinery native to the planet, and began construction of an ''[[Ark (SG)|Ark]]''. However, he requested so much weaponry to be built onto the starship that the integrity of the launching platform was in question. He dismissed these concerns.

[[File:Optimusshatteredhallway.jpg|left|upright=1.67|thumb|Optimus got a [[Skyquake (SG)|Skyquake]] in his collection?? Wow! Yeah, the plastic [[Gold Plastic Syndrome|does that]].]]

Close to the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s completion, [[Cliffjumper (SG)|Cliffjumper]] appeared to return from the dead. At first, he was readily welcomed back into their ranks, but they quickly learned that he was not their Cliffjumper at all, but a [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper doppelganger]]. Prime shot him and ordered his body dumped in the [[Rad Zone]]. This backfired, as Cliffjumper was recruited by the Decepticons, and during a subsequent full-scale Decepticon attack, his [[glass gas]] weaponry was used in an attack on the ''Ark'' launching platform. Prime's plans to conquer Earth were stopped for the moment. {{storylink|Shattered Glass (issue)|Shattered Glass}}

After a later Autobot ambush at the recently rediscovered [[Arch-Ayr]] fuel dump, the Cliffjumper doppelganger angrily rushed Optimus Prime, followed by the combined forces of the [[Mayhem Suppression Squad]]. Despite it all, Optimus Prime kept on his feet, though his rage was growing with every blow. No one, however, was expecting the sudden arrival of an army of [[Dinobot (SG)|Dinobot]]s led by the exiled mad scientist, [[Wheeljack (SG)|Wheeljack]]. Optimus Prime ordered the rampaging Dinobots to destroy the Decepticons, but instead the beasts attacked each other. During the chaos, both sides withdrew.

Optimus Prime was furious at the Autobots' failure. At [[Side Burn (SG)|Side Burn]]'s clever suggestion, Prime ordered Wheeljack be put in charge of rebuilding the ''Ark'', a task that the mad scientist felt was beneath him. Also, he demanded that the Dinobots be hunted down and gathered for the Autobots' purposes.

Blurr and Rodimus returned triumphantly with eight Dinobots, though Rodimus had lost his hand in the process. Optimus Prime stood over Rodimus as he awoke from [[Ratchet (SG)|Ratchet]]'s table: the traitorous Seeker now had a buzzsaw in place of where his hand used to be. A suitable punishment! Prime told Rodimus he should be grateful he let him live at all. Perhaps he should use the saw to remove that [[facial hair|ridiculous thing]] from his face? Though Blurr and Rodimus thought Grimlock had died during their search for the Dinobots, sure enough, Grimlock appeared, alive and strangely very intelligent, within their base. Optimus Prime was about to punish Grimlock as well, but Grimlock pointed out a fuel system error in the blueprints of the ''Ark''. The evil Autobot leader let the Dinobot leader go, but demanded someone be brought to him he could destroy. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

When Optimus Prime ordered the ''Ark'' fixed, he knew that the Decepticons would try to follow the Autobots into space. [[Jazz (SG)|Jazz]] mentioned that [[Ricochet (SG)|Ricochet]] had taken care of the Decepticons. Optimus's eyes filled with rage as he learned that Ricochet had captured Megatron. Prime immediately left to reprimand Ricochet for stealing the honor of destroying Megatron. Upon his arrival at the [[Temple of Knowledge]], Optimus and Ricochet were attacked by a group of Decepticon [[Micromaster]]s, allowing Megatron to escape. After a few turnabouts, Megatron won the day. The ''Ark'' launched without Optimus Prime (due to Rodimus' treachery), so Prime ordered a retreat. Once back at the launch site, he learned from Blurr that Rodimus had thrown the Autobots loyal to Prime off the ship. Optimus Prime ordered Ricochet to the [[Agonizing Rehabilitation Chamber]]s for his impudent plan of capturing Megatron. He also promised that Blurr had failed him for the last time. {{storylink|Do Over}}

In one of [[Aquarius (SG)|Aquarius]]'s explanatory flashbacks to [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]], [[Topspin (Classics)|Topspin]], and [[Landquake (Timelines)|Landquake]], Optimus Prime asked [[Ironhide (SG)|Ironhide]] how progress was coming on [[Omega Doom]]. He was pleased to hear that it was going well, and gloated that once the behemoth was finished, the galaxy would be his for the taking.

[[File:TakingOutRemotePatrol6 Reunification5.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|I said, [[Frenzy (SG)|Rumble]] [[FIRRIB|is]] [[Eject (G1)|blue!]]]]
In the present day, Rodimus promised that his assassins would take down Optimus Prime at the same time [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]]'s agents took down Megatron, thus paving the way for their own conquering. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 3}}

Or not.

After the assassination of Megatron, (of which Optimus learned about second-hand from ''[[Around Cybertron]]'') {{storylink|Around Cybertron#Shattered Glass|Around Cybertron #6}} [[Hound (SG)|Hound]] and [[Remote Patrol Six]] made their move, surrounding Optimus Prime and Ricochet as they discussed Megatron's death, intending to kill Optimus and install Rodimus in his place as Prime. Hound's rally cries failed to impress Optimus, and the Autobot leader proceeded to use Ricochet as a living shield against a blast from [[Warpath (SG)|Warpath's]] chest-mounted cannon, before crushing [[Kup (SG)|Kup]]'s head with his bare hands, destroying Warpath's chest cannon, taking out Hound by flinging Warpath into him, and cannon-blasting [[Camshaft (SG)|Camshaft]] in the head.

However, the battle was not over yet, as [[Alpha Trion (SG)|Alpha Trion]], [[Sky Lynx (SG)|Sky Lynx]], and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] had arrived to kill Optimus themselves. However, Prime introduced the trio to a completed [[Omega Doom]], who reduced Alpha Trion to a distant smear on the ground, before going off to destroy the Decepticons while Optimus dealt with Sky Lynx and Nightscream. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 5}} {{storylink|The Coming Storm: Part 1}}

Optimus Prime was destroyed and left to die during an important battle in [[Mirtonian constellation|Sector 17 of the Mirtonian Quadrant]]. After Prime was abandoned by his troops, he dragged himself into a nearby [[CR chamber]], and with the help of a local tech, he was upgraded into a new body with a sword made out of a mysterious "[[G-Metal]]". Optimus Prime returned to [[Polyhex]] and murdered many of those who had abandoned him. {{storylink|#Toys|BotCon 2012 Optimus Prime profile card}}

[[File:AnotherLight-novaprime.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|So if this is the opposite universe, would he be voiced by William Shatner?]]

Some time after Prime returned, his brother Ultra Magnus and the [[Junkion (species)#Shattered Glass|Junkion]]s were sprung from the prison planet of Paradron by Wheeljack and [[Tracks (SG)|Tracks]]. Optimus Prime watched over a viewscreen as Magnus killed several of his most loyal warriors. After Magnus and his new army escaped via the [[stellar spanner]] into an alternate universe, Optimus Prime activated a distress beacon, knowing that Magnus's rival [[Treadshot (SG)|Treadshot]] would do his dirty work for him. {{storylink|Invasion (issue)|Invasion}}

In [[2015]], Prime mounted an all-out assault on [[Decepticon City (SG)|Decepticon City]]. Before long, Galvatron arrived from Cybertron, and the two leaders wound up in a one-on-one confrontation. Optimus quickly gained the upper hand, but scheming interference by Rodimus led to the Autobot leader taking a serious gunshot wound. {{storylink|Memory's Splinter}} With the tide turned, the Autobots retreated to Sky Lynx, with [[Blaster (SG)|Blaster]] carrying the injured Optimus aboard. {{storylink|Restoration}}

En route to Cybertron, Sky Lynx announced that he had insufficient power to carry all his passengers there, and Optimus was among those who Rodimus dumped out. Floating through space, Prime found himself in the presence of [[Unicron/Shattered Glass|Unicron]]. {{storylink|Familiar Reflections}} However, the fragment of Unicron he encountered was his rare good side, so Unicron restored Prime's sanity and rebuilt him into Nova Prime as a messenger of justice. With [[Brawn (SG)|X-Brawn]], [[Prowl (SG)|Checkpoint]], and the Autotroopers serving as his [[Knights of Unicron (SG)|Knights of Unicron]], Nova Prime returned to Cybertron to end the threat of the evil Autobots. He defeated Rodimus in combat and cast him down into the depths of Cybertron. {{storylink|Out of the One, Many}}

Unfortunately, while Nova Prime's forces were rounding up the other Autobots, Unicron's opposite number [[Primus/Shattered Glass|Primus]] chose to manifest himself. The deity-turned-planet reverted to his robot mode, and intended to eliminate the infestation of other-dimensional vermin from his plane, including the positive universe's planet Earth. Surprisingly, Earth transformed into a Light God named [[Gaea (Classics)|Gaea]], empowered by the [[Rarified Energon]] of that world as her lifeblood. As the dark Primus and Gaea battled, Nova Prime brought his troops within range and fired as one at Primus's eye, blinding him long enough for Gaea to defeat him.

[[File:AnotherLight-happyending.jpg|thumb|upright=2]]

Gaea reverted into her planet mode, now existing as a mechanical world, and replaced Primus as the Cybertron of that reality. As a council of governors formed to oversee the united Cybertronians of two worlds, Nova Prime and his Knights served as guardians of the rulers. His insanity finally quelled, Nova Prime was at peace and found his new world...beautiful. {{storylink|The Future Buried...}}
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===''Lil Formers'' ===
Optimus Prime ran afoul of [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]], who accused him of "biting his style." {{storylink|Lil Formers}}

===''Recordicons''===
[[File:DigitaldoomonthehighwaytodestructionSG.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Autobots, Roll Over!!!]]

At some unspecified point in time, a team of Autobots somehow under the command of both [[Rodimus (SG)|Rodimus Prime]] and Optimus Prime fought [[Thundercracker (SG)|Thundercracker]] and [[Ravage (SG)|Ravage]] in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "[[Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction (SG)|Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction]]". According to Ravage, anyway. {{storylink|Recordicons#Recordicons #3|Recordicons #3}}

===''SD SG''===
Optimus Prime meta-complained about the idea of him turning good. He said "they" would never do that to the likes of Megatron or Starscream, before being provided examples of both. {{storylink|SD SG#SDSG1|SD SG #1}}
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==Toys==
===Timelines===
[[File:TL-toy Optimus-SG2008.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|Pimpimus Prime: all he needs is a tiger-print hat.]]
*'''Shattered Glass''' (BotCon box set, 2008)
**''Accessories'': Aero-fairing "ion blaster", smokestack rifle

:''[[Transformers Timelines (toyline)|Timelines]]''/''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (toyline)|Shattered Glass]]'' Optimus Prime is a purple, gray, and black [[redeco]] of heroic ''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Optimus Prime]], transforming into a semi cab of undetermined, probably made-up model. In robot mode, his aero fairing transforms into a large ion blaster, and his smokestacks transform into a smaller blaster. Additionally, both can combine together to form a back-mounted shoulder weapon. The left side of the wind vane has the tampograph marking which writes "''Til all are gone!''". Undocumented in the instructions, Optimus can also use the wind vane as a shield, If one of his fists is folded down.

: Optimus Prime is only available as part of a set of six toys, along with [[Jazz (SG)#Toys|Autobot Jazz]], [[Grimlock (SG)#Toys|Grimlock]], [[Goldbug (SG)#Toys|Goldbug]], [[Razorclaw (SG)#Toys|Razorclaw]], and [[Starscream (SG)#Toys|Starscream]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Autobot/BCOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''
{{ClassicsOptimusPrimeMold}}

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[[File:Timelinestoy-BC2012OptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|In the mirrorverse, Transformers get smaller and less impressive with each update.]]
*'''Invasion''' (BotCon souvenir set, 2012)
**''Accessories'': "G-Metal" sword

:Optimus Prime is a [[redeco]] of heroic [[Transformers (2010 toyline)|''Transformers'']] [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Transformers (2010)|Optimus Prime]], and transforms into a racing truck in the same colors as the 2008 figure. A large Autobot [[insignia]] adorns the hood; along one side of the hood is inscribed "I shall stand...", with the other side reading "... the rest shall fall". He features a rub sign on his roof, and has a (non-detachable) matrix gimmick in robot mode formed by a relief pattern on the inside of the cab's side windows, which is visible through the windshield/chest in robot mode. He also comes with a sword that he can wield with both hands, and is folded up and stored between his legs in truck mode, forming the fifth wheel.

: Optimus Prime was packaged with ''Timelines''/''Classics'' [[Kick-Off (G1)#Timelines|Kick-Over]], available for purchase by [[BotCon 2012]] attendees.

: This mold was also used to make ''Timelines'' [[Scourge (RID)#Timelines|Scourge]], and was also retooled into ''Shattered Glass'' [[Ultra Magnus (SG)#Timelines|Ultra Magnus]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BCOptimusPrime/optimusprime.htm More information on BotCon 2012 Optimus Prime at TFU.info]''
{{2010DeluxeOptimusPrimeMold}}

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[[File:Timelinestoy-NovaPrime.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|See? Prime was bleached and shrunk in the wash ''again''.]]
*'''Nova Prime''' (Deluxe, 2015)
**''Accessories'': [[Fusion cannon|Quantum Fusion cannon]], [[G-Metal]] Battle Axe
: The first of two [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] exclusives for 2015, Nova Prime is a [[redeco]] of that same year's member incentive figure, [[Lio Convoy]]. Both were retooled from ''Thrilling 30'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Orion Pax]] and feature a new head. Nova still comes with the blaster and axe, which can store via a 5mm peg on either side of the vehicle mode. As an undocumented feature, the Quantum Fusion Cannon can also peg into partially-octagonal "hole" on the larger blade of the G-Metal Battle Axe.

: Nova Prime comes in a box with an additional space to store Lio Convoy inside as well.

: This mold was also used to make [[BotCon 2015]] [[Galva Convoy#Timelines|Galva Convoy]]. This toy also officially [[Repurposing|doubles]] as Generation 1 [[Nova Prime#Timelines|Nova Prime]].

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===Generations===
[[File:TF-Masterpiece-SG-Optimus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Well, maybe not this time.]]
*'''Shattered Glass Optimus Prime''' (11-2016)
**''ID Number'': '''MP-10SG'''
**''Accessories'': Ion blaster, Matrix accessory, energon-axe, [[Combat Deck (SG)|trailer/Combat Deck]], Roller
:After several [[knockoff]]s and [[IP infringing item|unofficial]] releases, "Shattered Glass Optimus Prime" is finally released as an official Hasbro Asia exclusive, and it is a redeco of heroic ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' [[Optimus_Prime_(G1)/toys#mp10|MP-10 Convoy]]. He transforms into a Freightliner FL86, and comes with a hand-held laser blaster which can collapse and store inside a compartment on his back in either mode, as well as a battle axe that slips over Optimus Prime's right hand. He also lacks the [[Spike Witwicky (G1)#Masterpiece|Spike Witwicky]] figurine. Shattered Glass Optimus Prime also comes with his own Combat Deck. The packaging design very closely resembles then-concurrent ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]''-branded ''[[Transformers: Platinum Edition|Platinum Edition]]'', featuring numerous elements otherwise unique to ''Platinum Edition'' packaging, except the title "Platinum Edition" is replaced by "Shattered Glass".

{{MPOptimusMold}}
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==Notes==
*Optimus Prime's bio art was featured on the back of one of two T-shirts made available at BotCon 2008, and later on the [[Fun Publications]] Official [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] web-store.
*''Shattered Glass'' fiction writers [[Trent Troop]] and [[Greg Sepelak]] have said that evil Optimus sounds like Venger, the [[wikipedia:Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)|''Dungeons & Dragons'' cartoon]] villain voiced by [[Peter Cullen]].
*Unlike his heroic doppelgänger, this version of Optimus Prime was never depicted in fiction with a trailer, outside of a single lithograph that introduced us to the nefarious [[Combat Deck (SG)|Combat Deck]]. His 2016 ''Masterpiece'' figure, on the other hand, gives him one.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Prime''' (オプティマス・プライム ''Oputimasu Puraimu'')

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Optimus Prime (disambiguation)

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{{disambig}}
[[File:Convoy-final1024.jpg|350px|thumb|For the [[Decepticon]]s, this is what Judgment Day will look like.]]
Throughout the [[multiverse]] the name '''Optimus Prime''' is associated with bravery, [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|self-sacrifice]] and an indomitable fighting spirit, a warrior always ready to lay down their own life to protect sentient life, no matter its form.

{{bigquote|You just wanna die for the guy! That's leadership... or brainwashin' or somethin'.}}
{{bigquote|No... that's ''Optimus Prime''.|[[Crosshairs (AOE)|Crosshairs]] and [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] on their leader|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Transformers: Age of Extinction]]''}}

==Major Optimus Primes==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:Optimusg1.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|"Generation 1" Optimus Prime]] <hr>''[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]] • [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] • [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Toys]]''
File:RIDPrime02.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' (2001) Optimus Prime]]
File:UT optimus cartoon collage.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|"Unicron Trilogy" Optimus Prime]] <hr>''[[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys|Toys]]
File:Movie-Optimus-promorender.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|"Movie series" Optimus Prime]] <hr>''[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/games|Games]] • [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys|Toys]]''
File:OptimusPrimeAnimated.JPG|[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|''Animated'' Optimus Prime]] <hr>''[[Optimus Prime (Animated)/toys|Toys]]''
File:Aligned-Optimuses.jpg|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|"Aligned" Optimus Prime]] <hr>''[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys|Toys]]''
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Optimus Primes==
{{disamb|y=[[1984]]|[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] the [[Autobot]] [[Supreme Commander]] and [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronic]]/[[Earth]] truck in the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].
**For this character in [[Marvel Comics continuity]] see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity]].
**For this character in [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity]].
**For this character in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys]].
**For merchandise of this character see [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|The [[Optimus Prime clone]], an astoundingly stupid idea of [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s from the episode "[[A Prime Problem]]".}}
{{disamb|y=[[2000]]|[[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] the Autobot Supreme Commander and Earth fire truck from ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2002]]|[[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] the Autobot Supreme Commander and Earth truck in the [[Unicron Trilogy]].
**For this character in the [[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity]] see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=2004|[[Optimus Prime (Balancing Act)|Optimus Prime]] the Autobot whose corpse was [[Cloning|cloned]] and tortured by [[Unicron]] to create [[Nemesis Prime (Universe)|Nemesis Prime]]; this was also in ''Universe''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots, Earth truck and last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] from the [[live-action film series]].
**For this character in video games see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/games]].
**For toys of this character see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys]].
**For merchandise see [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise]].}}
{{disamb|y=2007|[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] the young and inexperienced leader of an Autobot squadron and Cybertronic/Earth truck from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.
**For toys of this character see [[Optimus Prime (Animated)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] the despotic leader of the evil Autobots in ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]] the leader of the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s in ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] the leader of the Autobots, Cybertronic/Earth truck and member of [[Thirteen|the thirteen original Transformers]] in the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}
**For toys of this character see [[Optimus Prime (WFC)/toys]].
{{disamb|y=[[2011]]|[[Optimus Prime (SG Animated)|Optimus Prime]] the evil Autobot renegade from ''Shattered Glass Animated''.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|[[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] the Autobot brick-based being and [[Kreon]] from ''[[Kre-O]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|[[Darkside Optimus Prime (DOTM)|Darkside Optimus Prime]] the living embodiment of the darkness in the live-action film series Optimus Prime's mind who wants to destroy all Optimus Primes across time and space.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|[[Darkside Optimus Prime (United)|Darkside Optimus Prime]] the living embodiment of the darkness in ''Generation 1'' Optimus Prime's mind.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Optimus Prime Blaster]] the Autobot [[Arms Micron]] who takes the shape of Optimus from ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Prime]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2014]]|[[Optimus Prime (KOU)|Optimus Prime]] the Autobot lead singer from ''[[Knights of Unicron (franchise)|Knights of Unicron]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2014|[[Red (AB)|Optimus Prime Bird]] the Angry Bird transformed into an Optimus Prime facsimile in ''[[Angry Birds Transformers (mobile game)|Angry Birds Transformers]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2014]]|[[Optimus Prime (Battle Masters)|Optimus Prime]] the Autobot from ''[[Battle Masters]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2017]]|[[Optimus Prime (SG Cybertron)|Optimus Prime]] the evil Autobot from the ''Shattered Glass'' Unicron Trilogy.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2017]]|[[Domitius Major]] the [[Eukaris|Eukarian]] explorer from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] who took up the mantle of "Optimus Prime" following the loss of his own memories.}}

==Media with "Optimus Prime" in the title==
*Various titles named "[[Optimus Prime vs Megatron (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime vs Megatron]]"
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|''[[Optimus Prime (comic)|Optimus Prime]]'', the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] comic book series.}}

==Not to be confused with...==
*[[Optimus Primal (disambiguation)]]
*[[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]], a [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] who uses a [[transtector]] body originally intended for G1 Optimus Prime]].
*[[Sureshot (G2)|Sureshot]] the [[Europe]]an-market ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' Autobot whose toy was released in North America as "Hero" Optimus Prime.
*[[Optimash Prime]], heroic leader of the [[Autotot]]s.
*[[Optimus (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name "Optimus"]]
*[[Prime (disambiguation)|Other uses of the name "Prime"]]

Additionally, Optimus Prime is not to be confused with the real-life people:
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070712091731/http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/17462533.htm Mr. Optimus Prime], a well-known Transfan and International Firefighter who legally changed his name to Optimus Prime.

Megatron (disambiguation)

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{{disambig}}
Across the [[multiverse]] the name '''Megatron''' invokes fear and terror, raw power with an unslakable thirst for more. A warlord intent on domination, not just of their homeworld but of all worlds... and for some all of ''existence''.

Some versions of Megatron [[Reformatting|take on]] [[New body|new bodies]] and change their name to '''[[Galvatron (disambiguation)|Galvatron]]''' in the process.

{{bigquote|I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. I am that which is, which was and is yet to come... and you will know my name is Megatron when I lay my vengeance upon you!|The [[Covenant of Primus]]|"[[Nemesis Part 2]]"}}

==Major Megatrons==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:Megatronguido.jpg|[[Megatron (G1)|"Generation 1" Megatron]] <hr>''[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]] • [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] • [[Megatron (G1)/toys|Toys]] • [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise|Merchandise]]''
File:MegatronBWsourcebook.jpg|[[Megatron (BW)|"Beast Era" Megatron]] <hr>''[[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Megatron (BW)/toys|Toys]]''
File:RIDMegatronGrippy.jpg|[[Megatron (RID)|''Robots in Disguise'' (2001) Megatron]]
File:UnicronTrilogyMegatron cartoon bodies.jpg|[[Megatron (Armada)|"Unicron Trilogy" Megatron]] <hr>''[[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Megatron (Armada)/toys|Toys]]''
File:Movie Megatron Defiance3.jpg|[[Megatron (Movie)|"Movie series" Megatron]] <hr>''[[Megatron (Movie)/games|Games]] • [[Megatron (Movie)/toys|Toys]]''
File:Megatronanimated.jpg|[[Megatron (Animated)|''Animated'' Megatron]]
File:PrimeMegatron.jpg|[[Megatron (WFC)|"Aligned" Megatron]] <hr>''[[Megatron (WFC)/toys|Toys]]''
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Megatrons==
{{disamb|y=[[1984]]|[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], leader and sometimes founder of the [[Decepticon]]s and handheld [[Earth]] gun/random [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronic]] vehicle from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].}}
**For this character in [[Marvel Comics continuity]] see [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity]].
**For this character in [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]] see [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity]].
**For this character in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] see [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Megatron (G1)/toys]].
**For merchandise of this character see [[Megatron (G1)/merchandise]].
{{disamb|y=[[1987]]|The [[Megatron Corps]], [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]'s legion of Megatron [[Cloning|clones]] from [[The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers|''The Transformers'' manga]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1996]]|[[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] the leader of a group of renegade [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] and Cybertronic assault vehicle/''T-rex''/[[dragon]]/"Optimal Optimus" duplicate from ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' and later the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]] from ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Machines]]''. Yeesss.
**For this character in the ''BW''/''BM'' cartoons see [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Megatron (BW)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1999]]|[[Megatron (myth)|Megatron]], a mythological figure in the [[Covenant of Primus]].}}
{{disamb|y=1999|[[Megatron X]], a mysterious silver-colored version of ''Beast Wars'' Megatron from ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2000]]|[[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]], a [[Predacon (RID)|Predacon]] [[Six Changer|six-changing]] galactic conqueror from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)|2001 ''Robots in Disguise'']] franchise.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2002]]|[[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], yet another Decepticon commander and a pivotal figure in the [[Unicron Trilogy]].
**For his [[Unicron Trilogy cartoon timeline|cartoon incarnation]] see [[Megatron (Armada)/Cartoon continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Megatron (Armada)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] the former [[Lord High Protector]] of Cybertron and Cybertronic jet/flying tank/Earth truck who gets a jonesing for the [[AllSpark]] and sparks [[Transformers (film)|a motion picture]].
**For this character in video games see [[Megatron (Movie)/games]].
**For toys and other merchandise of this character see [[Megatron (Movie)/toys]]}}
{{disamb|y=2007|[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] the (glorious) Decepticon leader and Cybertronic jet/Earth helicopter from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Megatron (TransTech)|Megatron]] the morally ambiguous leader of the Decepticons in ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]] the heroic leader of the Decepticon resistance in ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] the leader of the Decepticons and Cybertronic tank/jet from the [[Aligned continuity family]].
**For toys of this character see [[Megatron (WFC)/toys]]}}
{{disamb|y=2010|[[Master Megatron]] the other Decepticon-allied Megatron from ''Animated''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2011]]|[[Megatron (SG Animated)|Megatron]] the heroic Decepticon from ''Shattered Glass Animated''.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|[[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] the Decepticon brick-based being and [[Kreon]] from ''[[Kre-O]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|[[Darkside Megatron]] the living embodiment of ''G1'' Megatron's insanity.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Megatron Cannon]] the Decepticon [[Arms Micron]] from ''Prime''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|[[Megatron (BWSG)|Megatron]] the heroic leader of the Predacons in ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2014]]|[[Megatron (KOU)|Megatron]] the Decepticon guitarist from ''[[Knights of Unicron (band)|Knights of Unicron]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2014|[[Megatron (Battle Masters)|Megatron]] the Decepticon leader from ''[[Battle Masters]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2015]]|[[Megatron (human)|Megatron]] the [[human]] football player who may or may not have Cybertronian origins.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2017]]|[[Megatron (SG TransTech)|Megatron]] the heroic Decepticon from ''Shattered Glass TransTech''.}}

==Fictions with "Megatron" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[1985]]|"[[Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1|Megatron's Master Plan]]" the 3-part episode of the [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] [[The Transformers (cartoon)|cartoon]].}}
{{disamb|y=1985|"[[Megatron's Fight for Power]]" from [[Ladybird Books]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1995]]|"[[Megatron Set Special CD]]" the soundtrack album available with [[TakaraTomy]]'s second {{w|LaserDisc}} set of the cartoon.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2004]]|"[[Megatron's Sword]]", an episode from the ''[[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]'' series.}}
{{disamb|y=2004|"[[Megatron Resurrected]]", another episode from the ''Energon'' series.}}
{{disamb|y=2004|"[[Megatron Raid]]", a further episode from the ''Energon'' series.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2005]]|"[[Megatron Ondo]]" the song included on [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|DVD volume 7]] of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars Returns]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2007|''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' the 4-issue comic series from [[IDW Publishing|IDW]].}}
{{disamb|y=2007|"[[Transformers Comic issue 2#Prelude: Megatron|Prelude: Megatron]]" the story featured in issue #2 of the [[Titan Books|Titan]] [[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|comic]].}}
{{disamb|y=2007|"[[Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver.]]" the [[e-HOBBY]] [[pack-in material]].}}
{{disamb|y=2007|"[[Megatron Chapter]]", part of the ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Diorama Story]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|"[[Megatron Rising - Part 1|Megatron Rising]]" the 2-part episode of ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' the 16-issue "soft reboot" of the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]].}}
{{disamb|y=2008|"[[Starscream Heckles Megatron]]" the ''Animated'' short.}}
{{disamb|y=2008?|"[[Meet Megatron]]", another ''Animated'' short.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|"[[Transformers Comic issue 24#Megatron's Revenge|Megatron's Revenge]]" the story featured in issue #24 of the Titan comic.}}
{{disamb|y=2010|''[[The Transformers: Best of Megatron|Best of Megatron]]'' the trade paperback collection from IDW.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|"[[A Gift For Megatron]]" the Kre-O animated short.}}
{{disamb|y=2012|"[[Megatron's Revenge]]" the Kre-O animated short.}}
{{disamb|y=2012|"[[Megatron Returns]]" the storybook from [[Bantam Children]].}}
{{disamb|y=2013|"[[Spotlight: Megatron]]" the 28th issue of ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2016|"[[Not All Megatrons]]" the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' prose story.}}

There are also numerous fictions titled something like "[[Optimus Prime vs Megatron (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime vs Megatron]]".

==See also==
{{disamb|y=[[1989]]|[[Megatron's base]] from the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''Generation 1'' comics]].}}
{{disamb|y=2004|[[Megatron's castle]] from the [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] ''[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Generation One]]'' comics.}}
{{disamb|y=2012|The Nike Calvin Johnson Megatron collection, a line of sports equipment inspired by Megatron the human.[http://www.nikeblog.com/2012/11/22/nike-calvin-johnson-megatron-collection/]}}

==Not to be confused with...==
*[[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]], a Decepticon commander who temporarily inhabited Megatron's body (or a version of it, it's complicated) from the ''Generation 1'' comics.
*[[Archforce]] the [[Europe]]an ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' Decepticon whose toy was released in North America as "Hero" Megatron.
*[[Megatronia]] the combined form of [[Megaempress]] and her [[4 Guards]] from the [[Japan]]ese ''Generation 1'' comics.
*The [[Megatron statue]], a massive stone statue of the Unicron Trilogy character.
*[[Megaplex]], a duplicate of Megatron designed to fool his enemies from the ''Generation 1'' continuity.
*[[Mechatron]], a [[Beast Rider]] from ''Beast Machines''.
*[[Gigatron (disambiguation)|Gigatron]], a different name for Megatron most notably in the [[Viron]] [[universal cluster]].
*[[Megabolt]], a Decepticon fashioned from Megatron's corpse from ''Robots in Disguise'' 2001.
*[[Megastorm]] the younger brother of [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]] from ''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars II]]''.
*The [[Gigastorm Armor]], a weapon used by G1 Megatron which looks familiar to a certain someone.
*The ''[[Megastar]]'', 2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' Megatron's starship and base.
*[[Megazarak (disambiguation)|Characters named Megazarak]].
*[[Mega-Dinobot]] the combined form of [[Grimlock (Energon)|Grimlock]] and [[Swoop (Energon)|Swoop]] from ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]''.
*[[Mega-Octane]] leader of the Decepticon [[Commando (RID)|Commandos]] from ''Robots in Disguise''.
*[[Mega]] the female [[Godmaster (lifeform)|Godmaster]] from ''Masterforce'' who with her husband [[Giga]] forms [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]].
*[[Metatron]] the angel mentioned in both ancient Cybertronian texts and real-life [[Talmud]] even if at least one Megatron has ''claimed'' to be him.
*Megatronus, the original name of [[The Fallen]], one of the [[thirteen]] [[Dynasty of Primes|original Transformers]] who some Megatrons took their name from.

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave ''Armada'' continuity===
As the leader of one of two main factions of Cybertronians any given reality's Megatron generally posed a problem for the dimension-hopping destroyer [[Unicron]] and therefore Megatron was a priority target for [[Herald of Unicron|Unicron's heralds]]. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} While grappling with the [[Megatron (Armada)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Megatron]] of [[Aurex 402.24 Gamma]] lead herald [[Galvatron (G1)#Dreamwave Armada continuity|Galvatron]] noted to his adversary that he had killed "many" Megatrons. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}}
===''TransTech''===
In one of the oldest dimensions in the [[multiverse]] one [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertronian city]], [[Axiom Nexus]] is a hub for travelers from other dimensions. The city maintains its relative harmony through a strict principal of "[[Dux non Intruitus]]": all Megatrons as well as [[Prime (disambiguation)|Primes]], miscellaneous faction leaders and [[:Category:MacGuffins|MacGuffins]] from other universes are considered illegal. This hasn't stopped [[Megatron (BW)|a few]] [[Megatron (Movie)|sneaky offworlders]] from circumventing the ban. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} {{storylink|Bee in the City}}
===e-HOBBY comics===
[[Megalligator]] wanted to kill all Megatrons in the multiverse. {{storylink|Cybertron Convobat}}

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[[File:TFA Lugnut scanning.JPG|upright=1.95|thumb|Sure, the new packaging looks great, but the number of twisty-ties they use to hold it in that position is insane.]]
'''Scanning''' is a method for [[Transformer]]s to change their [[alternate mode]]s into things native to other planets such as vehicles or animals on [[Earth]].

Although the "original" or "Cybertronian" altmodes of the characters prior to scanning and reformatting are not always shown, they generally tend to be something roughly similar in size, form and function to their new mode (i.e. flyers tend to become planes, Cybertronian tanks become Earth tanks and small fast-moving land vehicles become sports cars or [[Cheetor (BW)|cheetahs]]), etc. This suggests that in most continuities the scanning process involves attempting to find the most similar compatible altmode available. Whether this makes the following reconstruction process easier or is merely a concession to the individual Cybertronian's personal preference is unknown.

They also have a funny tendency to be the same colors each time...<ref>''Animated'' is one of the first continuities to show multiple cases of characters scanning Earth altmodes with explicitly different (i.e. more "realistic") coloration or paintwork and yet having their reformatted bodies stick with their original [[deco]] schemes instead of conforming to the scanned example. Lugnut, Blitzwing, Starscream and Bulkhead all do this which is particularly odd in the last case since the [[Mudflap (slang)|mudflap]] rather seems to be using [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s deco which is based on a vintage U.S. Army Jeep. Mind you, the idea goes all the way back to "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" in which an orange tractor trailer was scanned for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and yet he retained his red and blue coloration.</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Generation One''===
''None of the various 1980s versions of the ''Generation One'' continuity show the original G1-era Cybertronians as capable of either scanning for new altmodes or reformatting themselves without the use of external technology and a drawn-out nuts n' bolts process of physical reconstruction. This technology appears to be standard-issue in ships and various facilities.''
====Marvel Comics continuity====
[[File:Toaster ark.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Built to Rule!]]
Four million years ago shortly after the crash of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', the Ark's computer detected [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] landing on the planet in [[Savage Land|the Antarctic land-out-of-time]]. The Ark used the last of its capabilities to revive [[Dinobot (G1)|five warriors]] and rebuild them to transform into the Savage Land's dominant lifeforms: [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaurs]]. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Subsequently, in 1984 the eruption of the volcano reboots the Ark which sends a [[drone]] to scan the area for local life forms which it takes to be terrestrial vehicles. Damaged, the Ark does not distinguish between factions and repairs and rebuilds both [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s alike with new altmodes. The 'Cons leave soon after. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

Later stories would refer to new arrivals to Earth having to take on new "Terran" altmodes but the process was generally glossed over.
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:MTMtE Part1 Prime repair.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"Wake up, Prime! Don't make me use this to wake you up."]]
The Transformers aboard the ''Ark'' were damaged and went into [[stasis lock]] after the Ark crashed into [[Mount St. Hilary]]. Four million years passed and then in 1984 volcanic activity stirred the half-buried Ark awakening [[Teletraan I]], the computer system aboard. Teletraan I sent out a [[Sky Spy]] satellite to reconnoiter the new world and scanned terrestrial machinery in order to repair the Transformers and reformat them into new altmodes. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}
===Dreamwave G1 continuity===
Being set quite some time after the initial awakening of the Transformers on modern-day Earth, the scanning and rebuilding process was never really detailed in this continuity but can be assumed to have been along the lines of the fairly similar classic cartoon and Marvel comic scenarios.

Subsequent arrivals under [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s banner of a unified [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] have been reformatted into Earth modes prior to their arrival to the planet. Again, the process is not shown. {{storylink|War and Peace}}
====IDW ''Generation 1'' continuity====
Much like the Dreamwave counterpart, the IDWverse shows the Autobots and Decepticons already on Earth albeit with higher emphases on disguise. The process of reformatting is not shown. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration}}

Again, subsequent arrivals to Earth such as Optimus Prime, Megatron and Hot Rod make mention of having been modified to have new Earth-based altmodes but the process is similarly not depicted directly.

The first on-panel scanning was for the Dynobots and required the use of a CR chamber. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

In the jump-forward storyline ''All Hail Megatron'', many of the Autobots and Decepticons have inexplicably been reformatted again, but merely into similar-but-different Earth altmodes. It is no surprise that in all cases these resemble their most recent real-world toy releases, particularly under the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|''Universe'' line]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron}} Following the rebirth of Cybertron and the end of the war, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] worked to reformat their respective comrades into new Cybertronian vehicle modes. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}}
====''Hearts of Steel''====
It's not fully clear how exactly Cybertronians scan their alternate modes. Bumblebee can, for instance instantly reformat from his prehistoric [[beast mode]] into a nonexistent steamhammer locomotive. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} On the other hand, Starscream and the other Decepticons need plans drawn up by [[Tobias Muldoon]] to reformat into flying alternate modes. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}

Whether or not [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] is a living Transformer raises even more questions; he's one of several Decepticons to be made or refitted to function as a train. Some Decepticons are also manually refitted to make rail cars for Astrotrain. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}
====''Universe'' (2008) promotional video====
Optimus Prime emits the scanning beam from his [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optic]] sensor to scan a truck. {{storylink|Action Blast 1|Action Blast 1 Part 1}}
===Beast Era===
[[Protoform]] Transformers are able to get new alternate modes by using the [[DNA]] scanned from the lifeforms of the nearby environments.
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
When in operation, the "scan beam" emitted from the [[DNA scanner]]s built into Cybertronian ships can analyze DNA data scanned from lifeforms immediately. If the device scans a corpse or fossil it is able to reconstruct the lifeform's appearance during its lifetime. Examples of this include the alternate modes of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]].

Once the scanned DNA data is retrieved it is sent to [[CR chamber]]s or CR tanks. The Transformers have to enter the CR chambers or tanks to get their new altmode.

There is also a DNA scanner mounted on each [[stasis pod]] in order to get the DNA data from the lifeforms of the planet on which the stasis pod lands. The stasis pod itself then reformats the occupant—or perhaps just "formats" since protoforms are generally considered to be newborns.
====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' featured the first instance of built-in DNA scanners and self-reformatting technology allowing the Transformers to adopt alternate modes on the spot without the need for external machinery. Only [[Tasmania Kid]] is seen using it on an animal {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}} while the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] obtained vehicle modes by accessing an ancient computer and scanning the recorded data within it. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!}}
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
After falling into a hole Nightscream became unconscious. During that time a DNA scanner inside his body was activated and scanned the fossils of a big bat once native to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] giving him a bat alternate mode. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} He explains to [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] that all Cybertronians now have built-in scanners by this slightly later point in history, having been equipped with them in the planet-wide [[Quantum Cycle Upgrade]] that evidently occurred after the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' crews departed Cybertron for the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}}

According to [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] she and her crew scanned the DNA from the plant on the planet on which she landed. {{storylink|Home Soil}}
===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] was able to scan [[Auggie Cahnay (RID)|Auggie Cahnay]]'s racing car and reformat after arriving on Earth using a built-in scanner. The scan also seemed to pick up parts of Auggie Cahnay's personality causing him to experience the urge to enter races. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}} Stasis pods with in-built scanners also appeared in the series enabling the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]] to select alternate modes which the contained protoforms would take. In the case of [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] the scan beam took in a fuel tanker, [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] causing Scourge's [[robot mode]] to bear a resemblance to Optimus and adding a human tinge to his bio-signature. {{storylink|The Decepticons}}
===Unicron Trilogy===
Upon arriving on Earth, both Autobots and Decepticons display the ability to scan and [[Reformatting|reformat]] for new alt modes without requiring the aid of any external reconfiguration technology. {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis}} When the [[Unicron Singularity]] was threatening the universe, Transformers even displayed the ability to scan multiple alternate modes in addition to the one they chose for themselves, storing the data on other vehicles and passing it on to other Transformers to scan. Scanning didn't even require the presence of the actual vehicle—a mere photograph or illustration of the vehicle would do. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}
===Live-action film series===
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
Autobots and Decepticons from the live-action films have the most fluid abilities to date regarding scanning and reformatting their bodies at will without any apparent need for external assistance whatsoever. Although there is some ambiguity, it even appears that the transformational abilities of Movie Cybertronians are so fluid that they can re-scan and reformat as often as they wish and not even use the same "[[Transformation|transformation scheme]]" twice, possibly suggesting that they can generate new parts such as additional weapons at will independent of a full reformatting cycle.

Movieverse scanning can even replicate the appearance of rust and scratched and faded custom paintwork when imitating [[Bumblebee (Movie)|an]] [[Megatron (Movie)|old]] [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|beater]], apparently.

''See also:'' '''[[Trans-scan]]'''
===''Animated''===
In the ''Animated'' universe [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew use a Sky Spy-type probe from their ship to scan new alt modes for them which they are then very quickly reformatted into by taking turns stepping inside a device similar to a [[CR chamber]].

However, upon arriving on Earth the Decepticons [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] and memorably [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] are capable of scanning new altmodes directly from their own bodies and immediately reformatting themselves without any such chamber, although the actual reformatting is not shown onscreen. This may suggest that while ''Animated'' Decepticons appear to have the ability to scan and reformat themselves unaided, ''Animated'' Autobots apparently do not. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

When [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] rebuilds himself with the assistance of [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]'s [[AllSpark]]-[[AllSpark Key|powered key]] he is reconstituted with a newly reformatted helicopter-altmode body straight away rather than in his original body which had a Cybertronian jet-altmode. He had presumably scanned the design while his disembodied head still had access to [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Issac Sumdac]]'s computers.

In a similar vein, mere moments after upgrading himself [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]] was capable of transforming into a brand-new vehicle mode without any scanning whatsoever. [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] also went through the same process as he could also transform into a vehicle mode without having done a single scan beforehand.
===''Shattered Glass''===
[[File:Desert Heat Scanning.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Hey, this isn't a light cycle!]]

After arriving Earth and finding [[Soundwave (SG)|Soundwave]] in [[stasis lock]], [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]] reactivated the systems and the on-board scanner of Soundwave's stasis pod. It scanned a [[:File:Universe 2008 Ironhide Toy.jpg|familiar vehicle]] nearby for Soundwave and reactivated him. {{storylink|The Desert Heat!}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====Aligned novels====
Scanning new vehicle modes based on the current locale is not something that every Cybertronian enjoys; some pride themselves on retaining the same vehicle form that they have had since learning to assume it. During his stay on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]] [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]] briefly contemplated scanning a new vehicle mode to better suit the treacherous terrain of the junk planet but ultimately decided against it. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:ProjectPredacon Optimus Prime scans truck.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Perfect! No one will ever suspect such a big spiky truck of actually being an alien robot in disguise!]]
For some reason that has yet to be explained, many Cybertronians seem to lose the ability to assume a vehicle form after arriving on Earth. While they are perfectly functional in robot mode their inability to transform into an alternate mode puts them at a disadvantage regarding mobility, [[Megatron (WFC)|though there]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|are some]] [[Shockwave (WFC)|exceptions]]. However, Cybertronians are readily capable of scanning local vehicles for alternate modes. This appears as the Cybertronian in question shooting what appears to be green [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|or blue]] beams from their eyes. The beams scan the vehicle which even appears to cause some electrical interference as well providing the Cybertronian with a complete schematic of their chosen vehicle after which they can immediately transform into said vehicle.

Curiously, Cybertronians here seem to display kibble that hints to an Earth-based vehicle mode before they actually scan one.

[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] has inadvertently provided [[Skyquake (Prime)|some]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|Decepticons]] [[Dreadwing (Prime)|their]] new vehicle modes with the vehicle he's currently riding in much to his irritation. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} {{storylink|Crisscross}} {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

A Transformer's scanning ability is enabled by their [[transformation cog]] component. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] scanned a new alternate mode that would better integrate his new [[Jet pack|jetpack]]. The vehicle chosen by [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] was an experimental [[M.A.S.K.]]-division vehicle. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}
====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[File:Changes Heatwave meditates.jpg|thumb|right|"Om mani padme hum."]]
Upon arriving on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] provided the members of [[Rescue Force Sigma-17]] with a choice of vehicle modes based on the native machinery. After choosing their new alternate modes, the members of the force immediately assumed alternate form and began to integrate into human society. {{storylink|Family of Heroes}} After some time on Earth, Optimus Prime instructed [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] on how to gain [[Triple Changer|a third form]] which involved intense concentration and focusing a lot of energy, a process Optimus described as “an ordeal” in which few succeeded on their first try. It involved a form of prone meditation so deep that Heatwave was apparently unable to hear [[Kade Burns|an embarrassing conversation]] going on right next to him. When his energy focusing was complete his Rescue Bot insignia glowed blue similar to when using energize tools and he himself glowed briefly. It glowed blue again when he scanned a fireboat and he told [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] that he was still exhausted later that day or a day or two later. He also told him that Blades would not be allowed to attempt to scan a third form, since Heatwave did it only with Optimus' permission and help. {{storylink|Changes}} In accordance with [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UniquenessDecay uniqueness decay] however, Optimus later scanned [[Trex]] to gain a Dinobot form without the same fanfare being given to the difficulty of scanning a third form, {{storylink|Land Before Prime (episode)|Land Before Prime}} and in order to test a cure for Optimus' rampaging dino mode on himself [[Boulder]] scanned a third form with only a few moments of focusing and no apparent fatigue. {{storylink|Big Game}} When [[Quint Quarry]] demanded more dinobots in addition to Boulder and Optimus, Heatwave gained a ''fourth'' form and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] and Blades scanned third modes all with no apparent preparation or fatigue. The process did strain Blades' [[Transformation cog|T-cog]] to the point that it was several hours before he could use it again, though this strain was attributed partially to the bio-organic nature of the new forms they'd scanned. {{storylink|Quarry's Quarry}}
====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
After arriving on Earth, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] scanned new vehicle modes at [[Denny Clay]]'s [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|scrapyard]]. Noticeably, [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] did not adopt compatible Earth forms possibly due to personal preferences or physical limitations. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}}

Most, [[Underbite|but not all of]] the Decepticon fugitives aboard the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' also chose to scan new alternate modes while hiding out on Earth.

[[File:OverloadedPart2-optimusscanning.jpg|thumb|right|350px|The Decepticons really knew that they were in trouble after Optimus learned how to Warp Digivolve.]]
While training in the [[Realm of the Primes]] Optimus Prime learned how to control and fine-tune the scanning process so that he could merely adopt one characteristic of an appropriate vehicle. While searching for [[Polarclaw|a Decepticon]] in the [[Arctic]] members of the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] scanned suitable camouflage from a nearby truck {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 2}} and during the trip south they adopted desert camouflage by scanning an offroad jeep. {{storylink|Cover Me}}
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''See also:'' '''[[Electronic paint job]]''', '''[[Camouflage paint]]'''

==Notes==
[[File:Cheetor-beastmodescan.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The [[Wikipedia:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA]] gonna SUE!!]]
*In an advertisement of PSX version of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]'' in the [[United Kingdom]] [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] grabs and scans a cheetah by the scan beam emitted from his optics.

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Stasis lock

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'''Stasis lock''' is a critical state of being for [[Transformer]]s. Stasis lock is a sort of coma that allows a Transformer to stay alive, running at the lowest level of power despite massive energy loss or traumatic damage. It is comparable to the sleep mode of the computer on which you are currently reading this. Stasis lock can come about in a few different ways.

The first way is implemented by a Transformer's [[locking chip]] after a shock from massive damage. When the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' crashed on [[Earth]] all of the occupants on board were [[retcon]]ned into '''''emergency'' stasis lock'''. At various times during the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]] combatants had to be returned to their respective bases due to going into stasis lock after being badly damaged.

The second way seems to be a more gradual process and can come about from damage and energy depletion over a longer period of time. [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] was told by [[Onboard computer|his internal computer]] to go into stasis lock or risk losing his [[spark]]. This method is either an unconscious or conscious decision and the Transformer (in most of the Transformers' universe sub-universes) is not able to override stasis lock on purpose (which is proven to be an unconscious action by the Transformer's on-board computer though it may be dangerous to do so).

{{note|The concept of stasis lock was first introduced in the ''Beast Wars'' television series. Stasis lock was retconned into being a ''Generation 1'' term and has since been applied to nearly all subsequent versions of the Transformers stories.}}

==Fiction==
===IDW ''Generation One'' continuity===
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Stasis lock to a Cybertronian was analogous to unconsciousness in [[human]]s. {{storylink|Earthfall Chapter 5: I Dream of Wires|I Dream of Wires}}

A group of [[Eukaris|Eukarian]] explorers brainwashed by [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Shockwave]] into thinking they were [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s fell into stasis as a result of [[Earth]]'s increasingly hostile weather and a lack of [[Energon]]. {{storylink|Strange Visitors}} Their tormentor was likewise entombed after being at ground-zero of an exploding volcano. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

After suffering extensive torture at the hands of [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Scorponok]], {{storylink|The Ties That Bind}} [[Grimlock (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Grimlock]] was left within a [[stasis pod]]. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

After [[Merklynn|Garrison Kreiger]] triggered the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] energy within him [[Centurion (IDW)|Centurion]] managed to channel and suppress the energies but at the cost of falling into deep stasis. {{storylink|Unification Day: Dusk}} He regained consciousness after the Talisman had been activated. {{storylink|The Dead Come Home, Part 1 (of 2)|The Dead Come Home, Part 1}}
===Live-action films' continuity===
[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] went into stasis lock while frozen in the [[Arctic]].<ref>Hasbro's online [http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/TRANSFORMERS-Glossary.cfm Transformers glossary].</ref>

In [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|the novelization]] of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', instead of being outright killed by Megatron's attack [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was put into a state of deep stasis lock though his body was so damaged it could take thousands of years for it to repair itself, [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|so he may as well have been dead]].

[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] was discovered on Earth's moon in a similar state but revived through the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

Optimus Prime went into stasis after an encounter with [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] and [[Cemetery Wind]] in [[Mexico City]] before [[Cade Yeager]]'s tampering with his internal mechanics reactivated him. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

Upon leaving Earth Optimus exhausted his Energon reserves and fell into stasis in the vicinity of [[Jupiter]]. When [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] entered [[Milky Way|the Sol system]] Optimus was caught in its gravity well with his homeworld's atmosphere rousing him. The [[Guardian Knight]]s had willingly gone into stasis to safeguard the [[Staff of Merlin]] and awoke when [[Guardian Knights' ship|their ship]] was breached. {{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
===''Animated'' continuity===
In ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Transformers Animated]]'' "stasis lock" is used in a different sense—through the use of [[stasis cuffs]] a Transformer can be prevented from moving or using any special powers they possess without being rendered unconscious or incapable of speech. [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], when placed in this condition by [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] was the first character to refer to this as "stasis lock". {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}} [[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]] was likewise placed in this state and also identified it as "stasis lock" while professing his irrational fear of the condition. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}
===Aligned continuity===
To defeat [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]] the [[Thirteen]] concocted a plan where the youngest of their number [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] would enter the Chaos-Bringer and expose his [[Primus]]-like spark to Unicron's anti-spark, the resulting interaction knocking both into stasis lock. While Optimus was revived by [[Quintus Prime]]'s [[Emberstone]] [[Vector Prime]] created a time-loop around Unicron with the intent of leaving him comatose forever.

When the [[Great Cataclysm]] struck Cybertron the few [[Prime (rank)|Primes]] left rounded up as many survivors as they could and led them underground to wait out the out cataclysm in protective caves where they instructed their followers on how to enter stasis. Left on the surface by [[Prima]], [[Predacon (Prime)|the Predacons]] attempted to fly to safety before vague instinctual knowledge of stasis lock kicked in and they attempted to seek shelter underground. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

After being attacked by a swarm of [[Insecticon (WFC)|Insecticons]] [[Sludge (FOC)|Sludge]] was badly damaged and forced to enter stasis lock. His body was discovered by [[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]] and [[Cliffjumper (WFC)|Cliffjumper]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron}} An Autobot clean-up team eventually found and revived the [[Dinobot (FOC)|Dinobot]]. {{storylink|Beast Hunters issue 2|Beast Hunters #2}}

[[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] was later heavily injured after a [[space bridge]] explosion {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 5}} and was put in stasis aboard the ''Nemesis'' after [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] located him. {{storylink|Masters & Students}}

During a perfect alignment of forty-seven celestial bodies, the magnetic and gravitational forces acted on Unicron's inert body and he finally emerged from stasis. {{storylink|One Shall Fall}} {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 1}} Exposure to the energies of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] returned him to stasis. {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}}

After [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] crash-landed at the [[Rescue Bot Training Center]] a baby [[Energon eater]] that had attached to the ship escaped into the facility and began to drain the Energon from each of the Autobots leaving them in '''stasis comas'''. {{storylink|Uninvited Guest}}

In certain situations stasis is used as a form of anesthesia complete with slurred speech going under and coming out of it. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 2}} Additionally, there seem to be multiple types as Ratchet stated that he had never encountered a particular form of stasis lock before. {{storylink|Flying Mind}}

In the post-war era the criminals aboard the prison ship ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' were kept within stasis pods utilizing [[cryo-gas]] {{storylink|Pilot (Part 1)}} {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} In order to retake the ship's drive section from the Decepticon convicts the Autobots detonated a [[stasis bomb]] that rendered all those onboard into stasis. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 2)}}
===''Wings Universe''===
When the [[Cybertronian Knight]]s were called in for a dreaded mandatory lecture and meditation session from [[Cheetor (BW)|Alpha Trizer]], [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]] quipped to [[Flareup (G1)|Flare-Up]] that 'bots had been bored into stasis lock by such sessions. [[Apelinq (BM)|Apelinq]] pointed out the story must have been a rumor. {{storylink|Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur|Apelinq's personal logs}}

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Spark

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[[File:Sparks.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is a Bellarian.]]
A '''spark''' is the lifeforce or soul of a [[Transformer]]. Each spark is part of the essence of [[Primus]] himself.

The spark is a physical entity which is safeguarded inside [[Structure|a Transformer's body]]. If something harms the spark beyond repair [[Death|it is "extinguished"]] returning to the [[Transformer afterlife]] and the Transformer is considered dead. A Transformer is able to survive an enormous amount of physical damage. As long as the spark is somehow intact it is possible to repair or rebuild the body and restore the spark to it.

{{quote|When a spark goes online, there is great joy. When [[Death|one is extinguished]], the universe weeps.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] being all mystical|"[[The Spark]]"}}

==Establishment in fiction==
[[File:Spark.gif|left|thumb|The animation of a typical spark. Shiny!]]
The concept of the spark as currently understood was introduced to Transformers mythos in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Spark]]" (though they are offhandedly mentioned in the earlier episode "[[Gorilla Warfare]]" without elaboration). In this episode little is explained except that each spark is unique and that every "Cybertron" (here essentially meaning "Cybertronian") has one. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}} {{storylink|The Spark}}

The later episode "[[Possession]]" dealt with the idea of sparks but the spark in question—that of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|the original Starscream]]—is established as being aberrant and thus properties it displays are not necessarily characteristic of sparks in general. However, "Possession" was the first time it was claimed that characters from [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|the ''G1'' cartoon series]] also had sparks rather than them existing in ''Beast Wars'' only. Sparks remained prominent throughout ''Beast Wars'' and events in seasons two and three further established the [[retcon]] that Generation 1-Transformers possessed sparks. {{storylink|Possession}} {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

In ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' sparks became central to the story as [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] abducted the sparks from every Transformer on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} Megatron's own spark displayed unusual behaviors in this series and it is probable these behaviors do not apply to all sparks. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}} {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Still, ''Beast Machines'' contributed more information about sparks to [[canon]] than any other series.

Since the introduction of the spark concept in ''Beast Wars'', sparks have become an integral part of ''Transformers'' fiction. They have been featured in new [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]]-based series and subsequently-created [[Continuity family|continuity families]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to [[live-action film series|the live-action movies]] to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.
===Prototypical concepts===
There do exist some concepts similar to the spark that precede its firm establishment in the Beast Era.

[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] occasionally referenced a part of Transformer physiology called a '''[[laser core]]''' which seemingly has a similar function compared to a spark. The tech spec [[bio]] for the [[Beast Rider]] [[Mechatron]] says that he is "outfitted with an upgraded spark-capture claw that can tear out the entire laser core of any Transformer defender." This implies that as some fans had speculated prior to Mechatron's release, the laser core may be some sort of housing for the spark. However, the ''inverse'' was suggested by the ''[[Story of Binaltech]]'' which noted the laser core was the literal core of the spark.

A more detailed idea was that of the "'''Life Spark'''", a life-force concept which appeared in early drafts of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. "Life Sparks" resembled small glowing versions of the Transformers to whom they belonged. Per a draft dated to April 1985, Life Sparks depart the body of a Transformer upon death to ultimately dissipate into nothingness unless they are contained within another vessel. While [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] transfers his Life Spark into [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (essentially taking the place of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in this version of events) [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] requests to have his enshrined in an urn at the Decepticon [[Hall of Heroes]] only for his pleas to be ignored and for his Life Spark to drift into space to be recreated as [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] by [[Unicron]]. Although this idea was discarded from the finished film entirely, a vestigial reference to it persisted in the UK comic story "[[Target: 2006]]" where author [[Simon Furman]] read the draft and misinterpreted "Life Spark" as the name of ''[[Life Spark|a character]]'' who was rebuilt into [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]].

Although the word "spark" does appear offhandedly in some [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''Generation 1'' comic stories]] (a "spark of life", a "life spark" and the phrases [[The Bridge to Nowhere!|"Let no spark remain flickering in a single Autobot microchip!"]] and [[Pretender to the Throne!|"For as long as a spark exists within a single Mechabot..."]]), these were clearly metaphorical statements. They may be retroactively seen as referring to the contemporary concept of a Transformer's spark but did not establish anything of the sort on their own.

==Properties of sparks==
[[File:Spark colors.jpg|thumb|The sparks of the reformatted [[Maximal]]s took on unusual colors. Before their final battle with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] the sparks became visible within their bodies. They also lift and separate.]]
As seen in the image at the top of this article, sparks normally appear as semitransparent blue balls of energy with a pulsating center composed of smaller blue spheres. The center spheres are engulfed in a reddish glow while an ever-changing pattern of electricity-like lines travels around the surface and through the interior. However, in ''Beast Machines'' the sparks of the [[Maximal]] heroes who had been [[Reformatting|reformatted]] [[Spontaneous recoloration|took on different colors]] (for example, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]'s was green). This was first visible in "[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]". At the end of that series after being infused with extra power from the Matrix (cf. the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] and [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]) their sparks became visible as if parts of their torsos were translucent.

[[Beast Era]] Transformers seem to have permanent "'''spark chambers'''" within their chassis where the spark can be seen simply by opening the chamber. Older Transformers within the same G1/Beast [[continuity family]] such as those who lived before the [[Great Upgrade]] do not seem to have this exact feature in most continuities. The G1 ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' guidebook from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] specifically states that a spark is normally "suffused" throughout a Transformer's body rather than residing in any particular place. It may be that this is also true after the [[Beast Upgrade|Great Upgrade]] and the spark chamber is merely a protected location for the spark to coalesce when needed or be safely contained during [[stasis lock]]. Meanwhile, making things more confusing is the cutaway diagrams of G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' including spark chambers.

In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon there were two cases of Beast Era Transformers temporarily housing sparks of Generation One Transformers in their own bodies while still housing their own sparks. In both cases, this resulted in the Beastie undergoing a mutation of sorts into a more powerful physical form: [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] upon taking the spark of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] grew into his [[Transmetal]] "Optimal Optimus" body; Megatron upon taking the spark of [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|the original Megatron]] obtained his [[Transmetal 2]] dragon form. However, based on information from the series there is no basis for determining whether this phenomenon is a result of a single body housing two sparks, a Beast Era body housing a Generation One spark, a body being implanted with an especially "powerful" spark conceivably like those of Optimus Prime and Megatron or some combination of these. When the aberrant disembodied spark of Starscream had earlier possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] the only physical change was the body's [[Insignia|allegiance emblems]] shifting from [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] to [[Decepticon]]. The ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' implies that Generation One sparks may be intrinsically more powerful than Beast Era sparks.

Although Transformer memories and personalities are generally treated as if they are stored within the Transformers' computer brains, repeated canonical instances have established that a spark will or can hold all of an individual's memories along with their "essence" or personality. Further, there is some evidence that sparks may even retain records of the Transformer's previous bodies (such as when Optimal Optimus, whose body originated with a [[blank]] [[protoform]] regressed into a copy of the original gorilla body Primal wore at the beginning of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]]). {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}} A Transformer's behavior can be modified through programming of their mechanical body referred to as a [[shell program]], but this is always a struggle between the programming and the "true" nature of the spark within. It may be that over long periods of time a spark may begin to internalize some aspects of a preprogrammed personality. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} {{storylink|Spider's Game}} {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

Transformers such as [[Sky Lynx (G1)|G1 Sky Lynx]], [[Omega Supreme (G1)|G1 Omega Supreme]] and the [[Duocon]]s simultaneously inhabit multiple mechanical bodies and/or components. The character bio for [[Magmatron]] mentions this ability of his and categorizes his spark as a "'''[[mitotic spark]]'''" which is capable of splitting and sharing itself among his three [[beast mode]]s. It is unknown if other multiple-bodied Transformers also possess mitotic sparks or are examples of something more mundane such as simple remote-control.

Some Transformers are able to sense and communicate with the sparks of other Transformers through a process that appears analogous to telepathy. According to dialogue from "[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]" this ability is related to the sparks' mutual connection to the Allspark. Disembodied sparks are sometimes able to communicate through this same method. ([[#Disembodied_sparks|See below]].)

[[Energon radiation|The radiation]] emitted by [[energon]] crystals is harmful to sparks even when protected and securely encased within a shell. Certain body types are better able to shield the spark from energon radiation. For example, the flesh-like beast modes adopted by the crews of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' provided essentially 100% protection allowing activity in environments that were practically forests of energon crystals so long as those involved remained in beast mode. Direct contact between crystalline energon and a spark is highly dangerous.

In the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]" [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] describes Megatron's disembodied spark as a ball of [[electron]]s. He goes on to say that normal sparks contain a large number of [[positron]]s. Based on this dialogue it is possible but uncertain that sparks are composed ''entirely'' of positrons; in other sources the existence and names of [[Spark#Characters by sparktype|sparktypes]] suggests a more complex composition. Rattrap also indicates in "Revelations Part I" that when a spark is extinguished carbon scoring is typically left on or within the Transformer's empty chassis.

[[File:Revelations3 Nightscream spark.jpg|left|thumb|[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]'s hands don't seem to touch the spark itself while pushing on it. Mind you, wouldn't you recoil from the guy too?]]
Regardless of their composition, sparks are not insubstantial energy but have some sort of physical aspect. This is clearly demonstrated in again, "Revelations Part III" when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] is seen attempting to push Blackarachnia's spark back into her body. His hands press against some sort of surface or perhaps merely a force field in which case the spark could be entirely energy which is above the visible surface of her spark. Later in the series in "Spark of Darkness" Megatron's spark is also shown to have physicality. Further back, in ''Beast Wars'', the spark of Rampage/Protoform X would respond to being "crushed" by Megatron by flattening slightly inside its energon-lined carrying case. And even the spark of G1 Megatron was "grabbed" physically by a tentacle-like appendage of BW Megatron's. While some of these examples may be special cases, as they deal with sparks that have unusual properties, those properties are unique to each spark. The weight of evidence, then is in favor of sparks being at least partially substantial.

In the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]] sparks were shown to have the ability to be somehow augmented by Primus to become a [[Spark of Combination|Combination Spark]]. This allowed two Autobots to [[powerlinx]] together into a new form, allowing one Autobot to take command of the fused body while the "pants" remained dormant. Without the Combination Spark, a powerlinx between two normal Transformers could not be completed. It is not stated whether the combiner teams [[Constructicon Maximus]] and [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] also possessed Combination Sparks or if their ability to combine has some other origin.

==Disembodied sparks==
Sparks are able to exist outside of a Transformer body but the parameters of this phenomenon are largely unclear. It is unknown for how long a spark can survive under such conditions although they are vulnerable to damage in this state. It is also unknown whether a disembodied spark is "conscious" and aware of its surroundings or whether it is capable of moving under its own power. (There are unusual cases as described under [[Spark#Aberrant sparks|aberrant sparks]].)

It is hard to imagine how a spark could be aware of its surroundings when stripped of all sensory mechanisms. Indeed, in "Revelations Part III: Apocalypse", while Blackarachnia's spark was outside of her body her consciousness did not remain in the "real world". Instead, she experienced a conversation with the meditating [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]—not a hallucination—which took place on an abstract "higher plane of existence" perhaps within the Allspark itself.

Most of the disembodied sparks in ''Beast Machines'' drift slowly and largely directionlessly. In many other cases, sparks seem to move with some sort of intent. However, aside from attempts of sparks to re-enter their "home" bodies, these are conceivably all "special cases" and may not be generalizable. In one example, the sparks of [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] are seen following [[Tigerhawk]] to Earth in "[[Other Victories]]". While their sparks appear normal when this occurs, they later merge into a single white spark and then inhabit the then-empty Tigerhawk body. This is not normal spark behavior and may be related to the time they spent seemingly in stasis with the [[Vok]]. Also, in "Revelations Part III" when Blackarachnia becomes panicked during her telepathic conversation with Primal, her spark begins moving erratically and has to be chased down by Nightscream. However, it is unclear whether the spark was moving ''with intent''—especially since Blackarachnia's consciousness was portrayed as still being on a higher plane—or simply zigzagging randomly. And again, a reformatted spark may be different from a normal spark anyway.

==Absence of a spark==
Strangely, it is possible for Transformer-related mechanical entities to remain online and sentient despite the ''lack'' of a spark.

The first example would be the original [[Diagnostic Drone]] in ''Beast Machines''. While simply being a robotic aid and having no spark it showed a full range of emotions, the ability to reason and could be consulted by Megatron. In ''Animated'' [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]], [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]], [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] and [[Constructicon (Animated)|the Constructicons]] each substituted [[AllSpark|AllSpark fragments or energy]] for natural sparks. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}} {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}} {{storylink|Sound and Fury}} Meanwhile, Titan's tie-in comics would reveal that comic-original character [[Afterburn]] was really a sparkless drone despite having shown emotion, initiative and thought beforehand.

These instances raise questions about how necessary a spark ''really'' is and what properties it bestows that are genuinely unique.

Of interest is that when Afterburn was revealed to have had no spark, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] ''immediately'' wrote him off as not having been a "real" bot and viewed it as pointless to mark Afterburn's death. Similarly, [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] rescued [[Dinobot (Animated)|the Dinobots]] upon sensing spark traces inside them and nobody seemed bothered by the Starscream clones dying or found it notable Starscream had created beings whose sole purpose was to be suicide bombers. In some continuities, it appears as if [[Religion|Cybertronian orthodoxy]] views the presence of a spark as the true indicator of life with emotion and sentience being seen as mostly irrelevant.
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==Aberrant sparks==
Some sparks have exhibited properties or behaviors that do not seem to be generalizable to other sparks.
===Starscream===
As established in the ''Beast Wars'' episodes "[[Possession]]" and "[[Bad Spark]]," Starscream possesses a "mutant" immortal spark. Even when his body is destroyed, his spark is not extinguished. This explanation retcons the appearance of Starscream's ghost in some season three episodes from the G1 cartoon; the "ghost" was in fact Starscream's disembodied spark.

Starscream's spark was able to move under its own power and seemingly traveled not just across space from Cybertron to [[Earth]], but backwards through time from 2006 to human prehistory. It may be that the time travel was accomplished by "falling" through the [[transwarp]] hole left by the ''Axalon'' and ''Darksyde'' when they arrived on prehistoric Earth—[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]'s ship arrived there by that method later in the series—but this is uncertain.

Additionally, Starscream's spark was able to take possession of other Transformers simply by entering their bodies. While in another body, Starscream's will completely dominates that of his host. When Starscream possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], Waspinator's voice even changed to sound like Starscream's and the Predacon insignias on his body changed to Decepticon insignias. Starscream either did not have or seem to know that he had this possession ability until he died during the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
===Rampage/Protoform X===
The creation of Protoform X was an experiment conducted by the [[Maximal Elder]]s to attempt to replicate Starscream's indestructible spark. Although they succeeded in creating such a spark the Transformer, dubbed [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] and later taking on the name "Rampage" was unfortunately psychotic.

Like Starscream's spark, Rampage's could not be extinguished through simple destruction of his body. In fact, Rampage's body—at least the body he wore during the Beast Wars—had uncannily rapid self-repair functions. In one instance [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] pierced Rampage's body from front to back with a spear and the damage disappeared in a matter of seconds once the spear was removed.

Megatron devised a way to split Rampage's spark by carving it with [[Energon blade|a blade]] of [[energon crystal]]. Amazingly, this did not destroy the spark, nor did it seem to weaken Rampage appreciably. Megatron kept part of the spark in a case lined with energon crystals. By squeezing the case, the crystals would pinch the spark fragment, and Megatron used this to torture Rampage into obedience.

Megatron later placed this piece of Rampage's spark inside his [[Transmetal 2]] clone of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] who is usually referred to as [[Dinobot II]]. Dinobot II appeared to have a personality wholly independent of Rampage's although he was similarly brutal. Dinobot II's personality however, may have been imposed upon him through programming. Dinobot II could torture Rampage by compressing the spark fragment he held as Megatron had previously done. This did not seem to affect Dinobot himself.

Rampage's spark turned out to not be completely indestructible. Seemingly as an extension of Megatron's splitting of the spark with an energon blade, Depth Charge eventually destroyed Rampage by piercing his spark with "pure" crystalline energon. Normally sparks "extinguish" somewhat peacefully, but when Rampage's was pierced, a powerful explosion destroyed the bodies of both Rampage and Depth Charge. It may be that Starscream's spark would be similarly vulnerable to being cut/destroyed by energon, but this is mere extrapolation.

When Rampage's spark was destroyed, the fragment within Dinobot II did not explode. It may have simply disappeared, or it may have remained there. However, through a process which is not clearly established, Dinobot II at that instant "reverted" to the personality of the original Dinobot, and even had a vision of Dinobot's last moments. It may be that this reversion was related to events scripted for an episode which was never produced, titled "[[Dark Glass]]".

Rampage's spark never displayed the ability to move under its own power.
===Megatron===
In season two of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron's spark does a number of unusual things.

As part of the battle between him and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] at the end of season one during which the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] were pitted against each other, Megatron somehow was able to "split" his Beast body into two separate bodies, one entirely robotic and the other entirely organic. (Whether the Beast bodies of the ''Beast Wars'' characters had any true biological components or whether they were faux-flesh composed of [[nanite]]s is not consistently established in either series.) Contrary to his intentions, Megatron's spark ended up trapped within the biological body which came to be known as [[Noble (BM)|Noble and Savage]] while his desired technological body appeared to have been destroyed.

It is unclear how a biological body was able to sustain a Transformers' spark. Indeed, even the Maximals were surprised when they realized what had happened. It could be argued, based on statements made by [[Vector Sigma|the Oracle]] in the first episode that all lifeforms in the universe have sparks, not just Transformers. However, this is never alluded to by any other canonical source so most fans have seemingly dismissed it.

As shown in "[[Prometheus Unbound]]", using the biological Noble/Savage body Megatron was unable to exercise mental control over devices in [[Council Citadel|his citadel]] or interface with his [[control harness]]. Upon using a [[spark extractor]] on himself, however, his spark was freed and immediately flew to the harness, which it activated before "flowing" up to the ceiling through the harness's cables. His spark then took over the [[Grand Mal]], an enormous, floating replica of his own head, as its new body and stayed there for part of season two. The Noble/Savage body appeared to be dead but recovered. After Megatron's spark had left it seemed to be a perfectly "normal" animal which had the ability to change between a wolf-like form and a dragon form, possessing little if any sentience.

As soon as his spark had been removed from Noble, it took on an unusual appearance, having turned entirely red or orange in color (perhaps a change similar to that of the reformatted Maximals). Megatron's disembodied spark also seemed to be able to speak even though it had no physical body. It may be that this speech was telepathic, but the spark itself pulsated in perfect rhythm with the words.

While inhabiting the Grand Mal, Megatron's spark was sometimes seen floating freely and under its own power through the construct's interior, particularly in a large space that appeared to serve as his control room. (It was here that he addressed his [[Vehicon general]]s, usually manifesting as a holographic projection of one kind or another.)

[[File:Spark consumption.jpg|thumb|Megatron's spark ensnares and consumes other sparks from his collection.]]
[[File:Giant megatron spark.jpg|thumb|Now enormous, Megatron's spark looms over Cybertron in the vicinity of his [[Grand Mal|Big Floating Head]].]]
Eventually, in the three-part "[[Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|Sparkwar]]" story, Megatron's spark began consuming/fusing with the captured sparks of Cybertron's inhabitants. He claimed to have learned how to accomplish this after communicating with the Oracle.

To consume other sparks, Megatron's spark extended tendrils which ensnared victim sparks. These tendrils also had the ability to extract sparks from occupied shells much like a spark extractor. As each spark was absorbed, Megatron's spark grew larger in size.

Megatron was temporarily beaten when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] attacked him with a sonic scream. The scream, according to Primal "depolarized" Megatron's spark. This caused him to lose control temporarily and allowed the Maximals to escape. In the following episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]", Megatron's spark exhibited additional strange behaviors which may or may not have been dependent on its depolarized state:

*It travelled very quickly and with great agility.
*It was able to "crash" physically into things to push them around. In particular, it repeatedly knocked the Maximals out of its way.
*It seemed to be able to cause large explosions simply by flying through other objects.
*It could inhabit and leave any sparkless body at will. This ability evidently differs from Starscream's in that Starscream never truly animated a vacant body and Megatron never dominated an occupied one. These re-animated bodies were able to remain functional even after suffering extreme physical damage.
*His spark was not detectable by his Vehicon generals' sensors and Primal was unable to "sense" his spark through the Oracle.
*The spark did not speak at all while depolarized, neither when in a body nor floating freely.

Rattrap was able to capture Megatron using a hand-held spark extractor and with a control panel on it "repolarized" and thus stabilized his spark. Afterwards, Megatron's spark remained red and just as fast and agile as before but became detectable by his generals' scanners again and was "trapped" in the next body it inhabited (that of a Diagnostic Drone). Upon entering this body, Megatron first declared, "I live!" before realizing the depth of his situation. This was the first time he had spoken since being hit by the sonic scream. This implies that something about his prior "destabilized" state may have prevented him from fully utilizing the bodies he had visited. The only other clue we have is that when Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark inside the [[Grand Mal]], he discovered that it "wasn't a sentient mind." Whether this is a result of trying to find a spark that was not in the expected location or because of its depolarized state is ambiguous.
===Prime Spark===
{{main|Prime Spark (Spark)}}
The Prime Spark is a spark that is shared cross-dimensionally by at least three different Transformers. It was entrusted to chosen individuals by Primus himself. {{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}
===Embers===
The ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|universe]] seems to be more of a departure from the "regular" realities in the [[multiverse]]. In it, the semi-mystical ball of energy that gives the resident Transformers their lifeforce is an electron-charged "Ember". Aside from polarities, there's no other difference noted from the [[positron]]-charged spark [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]] brings into that universe.

==Fiction==
===Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity===
The [[Cyber Planet Key]]s each contained a tiny fragment of [[Primus]]'s spark. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}

After being shot by the [[Requiem Blaster (Armada)|Requiem Blaster]], {{storylink|Sacrifice}} ninety percent of [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]]'s body was damaged beyond repair but his spark was intact allowing [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] to extract it and build Smokescreen a new body. {{storylink|Regeneration (Armada)|Regeneration}} After his death, the [[Mini-Con]]s were able to summon [[Optimus Prime (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s spark back to the physical plane via the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Miracle}}

After seizing the [[Omega Lock]] and three of the Cyber Planet Keys, {{storylink|Retreat}} [[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Starscream]] began absorbing the spark of Primus into himself which eventually caused him to grow to titanic proportions and enhanced his physical abilities. {{storylink|Starscream (episode)|Starscream}}

Once all four Cyber Planet Keys were placed in the Omega Lock, Primus's spark was fully restored. {{storylink|End}}
===Movie continuity===
[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] devoured the sparks of fallen foes. {{storylink|Optimus Prime Versus Megatron}} {{storylink|Transformers (novel)}}

[[Sam Witwicky]] destroyed both the [[AllSpark]] and Megatron himself when he inserted the AllSpark into Megatron's exposed spark chamber. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFfacegotten.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
Megatron was revived when [[Scalpel (ROTF)|the Doctor]] pierced a shard of the AllSpark into the hole where his spark had been. [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was stabbed and then shot through the spark chamber by Megatron using his [[fusion cannon]] and [[death-lock pincer]] but was later revived by Sam, who pierced the [[Matrix of Leadership]] into the empty chamber. Jetfire ripped out his spark to give Optimus his parts. Moments later, Optimus tore through [[The Fallen]]'s chest and crushed his spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

When cornered and brought down by [[Cemetery Wind]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] was offered his life in exchange for Optimus' location by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]. Ratchet spat in the bounty hunter's face and braced himself for the end. In response, Lockdown tore his spark out leaving the deceased Ratchet a mangled smoldering wreck. Optimus narrowly escaped a similar ambush in New [[Mexico]] and was later offered repairs by [[Cade Yeager]]. When Cade noticed a wound perilously close to his spark, Optimus explained that sparks contained a Transformer's memories and feelings prompting Cade to compare it to a human soul.

[[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]] produced their own Transformers albeit without sparks. Megatron's [[Core consciousness|consciousness]] manipulated KSI into producing a new body for him and its lack of a spark proved an invaluable asset when he later fought Optimus as "Galvatron", suffering no ill effects when impaled through his chest by Optimus; this was also due to [[Vortex Grinder|some ''improvements'' Megatron made to KSI's designs]].

When the day was won, Optimus decided to depart Earth to confront the Transformers' [[Creator (AOE)|Creators]]. Though he could not say if they'd ever meet again, Optimus asked his family on Earth to think of a star in the night sky as his soul. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
===''Animated'' cartoon ===
After falling a great height, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]'s spark expired before [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]] used the [[AllSpark Key]] in concert with the [[AllSpark]] itself to revive him. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] regarded the spark as the core of all Cybertronians and that compared to it, such things as [[armor-plating]] and servo mechanics were superficial. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:KupsSpark.jpg|upright=1.15|thumb|Save the Spark. Save the World.]]
The spark is part of [[Rossum's Trinity]] with the [[brain module]] and [[transformation cog]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} The light from a spark illuminates a Transformer's [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optics]]. {{storylink|Zero Point}} There appears to be at least eight known spark types in Cybertronians {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} some more common than others, and a healthy Cybertronian can 'jumpstart' the faltering spark of another with the same type in a similar manner to blood transfusion. {{storylink|Before & After}} Some proposed spark types like estriol-positive have since been discredited and abandoned. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

[[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
A very small number of naturally-occurring sparks are [[Point One Percenter]]s glowing green instead of the normal blue. Those who possess these sparks are usually a tier above regular Cybertronians, and include such prominent figures as Optimus Prime and Shockwave. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Sparks run on different frequencies; the frequency of a spark affects the color of the [[energon]] within a Transformer's body. While most Cybertronians bleed purple energon, Transformers from the colony world of [[Caminus]] evolved low-frequency Sparks to save energy and consequently bleed blue energon. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

Sparks once [[Reproduction|arose naturally]] from [[hot spot]]s dotting Cybertron and its moons ignited by energy pulses from [[Vector Sigma]]. Once bright enough, these sparks would be harvested, nurtured and matured before being placed into a body. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} The sparks would also have to be harvested quickly otherwise they would evaporate. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}} Rarely, sparks could also be discovered buried deep underground. The only known case of this happening was a Point One Percenter that would become [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]. {{storylink|Remembrance Day}}

Though most sparks emerge alone, occasionally two sparks emerge together. The resulting Transformers are considered [[twin]]s and share a [[branched spark]] that allows them to feel each other's pain. On Cybertron, this was a very rare event that affected roughly one in every million sparks. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} On the colony world of [[Devisiun]] however, unusual gravitational conditions affected the development of its [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]]'s hot spot and every newborn Devisien emerged with [[Micromaster Combiner|a twin sibling]]. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

Vector Sigma's pulses had grown increasingly less frequent by [[Nova Prime]]'s era, so to bolster the Cybertronian population he instituted a process called "'''spark-splicing'''" which used the energy of existing sparks to ignite new ones. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} That, however was a cover story for what Nova was ''really'' doing: harvesting the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to create thousands of new sparks daily. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]]'s sparkhousing was unstable due to age and radiation poisoning. He finally experienced sparkcore stabilizer failure which threatened to blow him up. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] saved him by extending a [[force field]] around the crashing spark. Later, Kup recovered in a [[CR chamber]] fitted with a placeholder powercore to maintain his spark. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

While attempting to convince [[Stardrive]] to join the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] briefly explained sparks to the orphaned Camien. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}} After being possessed by [[Vekktral]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] managed to resist enough to open his Spark chamber so [[Rom]] could kill them both. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:SpotlightArcee Garrus-9 inmates.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Reminds me of the reptile cages at the zoo...except less stinky.]]
The Autobots kept some prisoners at [[Garrus-9]] in spark stasis which entailed actually removing the sparks from their casings separating the spark from the body.

This process was not possible for [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]] since the Autobots couldn't break through the destructive programming far enough to rehabilitate/reform the sparks as per [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders and as such hadn't pulled the sparks from their frames.

[[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] found this limbo peaceful but was later reunited with her body. To control her behavior a "g-force crush" device was installed on or in her spark casing and could be operated via remote control. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}

After the war ended [[Scorponok (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Scorponok]] utilized the [[Magnificence]] to create the [[Firstborn]], a spark-powered organic capable of sexual reproduction that would reproduce with others of its kind and create new generations of Decepticon sparks. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}}

Sparks were not unique to Cybertronians with other mechanical species deriving their animating force from them. Two noticeable races were the Catharsians and Ardurian rocs. {{storylink|An Axe to Break the Ice}} {{storylink|Syndromica (1)}} Upon meeting a group of [[Ammonite]]s, Ultra Magnus asked if they were "'''warm-wired'''" or spark-based. {{storylink|Into the Abyss: Dark Cybertron Chapter 4|Into the Abyss}}

The [[Quintesson]]s had green sparks with [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]] managing to use [[Pentius]]' as fuel {{storylink|Prey (issue)|Prey}} and to revive [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Belly of the Beast (issue)|Belly of the Beast}} Through this, Trypticon inherited some of the Quintesson's memories {{storylink|Primacy issue 1|Primacy #1}} before it was revealed that Pentius had become the dominant consciousness within the [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]]'s body. {{storylink|Primacy issue 3|Primacy #3}} Though Megatron attempted to manually remove the spark the remnants of Pentius were burned away by the fires of the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. {{storylink|Primacy issue 4|Primacy #4}}

The [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] also possessed sparks but were capable of surviving for prolonged periods of time without them as demonstrated by the ever chipper and chatty [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] being reduced to just a head. {{storylink|The Next Day, and the Next}}
====Characters by spark type====
{{quote|Rewind's '''''vitreous positive'''''. It's a relatively rare spark type. One in 150, one in 200.}}
{{quote|I'm V-positive.}}
{{quote|I know.|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]|[[Before & After]]}}
{|border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" style="margin:.5em auto 1.5em auto;"
!Ferrum-Positive
!Ferrum-Negative
!Isomeric-Positive
!Isomeric-Negative
!Vitreous-Positive
!Vitreous-Negative
!Unknown shared type
!Either Ferrum-Negative or Vitreous-Positive
|-
|valign="top"|
*[[Hound (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]]
*[[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Ammo]]
*[[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
|valign="top"|
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] <ref group="idw">In "Elegant Chaos", Brainstorm's time-machine is coded for two spark-types: ferrum-negative and vitreous-positive, since Tailgate and Rewind can both use it. By extrapolation, Rodimus, Brainstorm, Megatron and Rung are either of those two.</ref>
*[[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
|}
<references group="idw"/>

===Aligned continuity family===
As part of the [[Thirteen]]'s plan to defeat [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] exposed his spark, its frequency almost identical to [[Primus]]'s own, to Unicron's Anti-Spark, the resulting interaction between the two knocking both beings into [[stasis lock]]. After being poisoned by [[Dark Energon]], Primus inserted an untainted portion of his spark into the [[Matrix of Leadership]] which he bestowed upon Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers: The Covenant of Primus|The Covenant of Primus}}

Over the protests of [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] inserted a shard of Dark Energon directly into his spark. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 2}} The shard managed to keep him alive after being at ground zero of a Space Bridge explosion, {{storylink|Masters & Students}} before another shard, plunged directly into his spark, restored his body to full functionality. {{storylink|Out of His Head}}

After Megatron perished, {{storylink|Deadlock}} the lasting consequence of this was revealed with Megatron's polluted spark now severed from the [[Transformer afterlife|AllSpark]] and bound to Unicron's Anti-Spark, allowing the Dark God to possess Megatron's corpse.

In order to prevent Unicron from devouring the physical [[AllSpark]], Optimus Prime merged the AllSpark with the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and thus his own spark. Unable to separate the three, Optimus willingly surrendered his life to allow new generations to exist on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The AllSpark rejoining the [[Core]] caused it to ignite and birth a multitude of new sparks. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

Before Optimus could pass into the afterlife, the Thirteen intercepted his spark and brought it to their realm. {{storylink|Decepticon Island (Part 1)}} To provide Optimus with the power needed to defeat [[The Fallen|Megatronus]], the Primes bestowed upon him a portion of their power, directly from their sparks. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 1}} They later took it back but doing so left Optimus substantially weakened. {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 1}}

===''Regeneration One''===
When the [[Wrecker]]s crashed on [[Earth]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ordered his horde of [[zombie]] Decepticons to bring them to him in a state where he could see dread in their optics before he snuffed out their Sparks. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] later engaged Megatron in battle the [[Decepticon leader]] swore to open Prime's Spark Chamber with his teeth. His own Spark was ripped out of his chest and crushed seconds later by an apologetic Prime. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

After the Cybertronians had been separated from [[Primus]] and the larger [[multiverse]], they lost their biological immortality. Millenia in the future, [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] had become the last Cybertronian and when he finally died, the vestiges of his Spark energy served to ignite the birth of [[Botanica (BM)|a new generation]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] was fascinated by the concept of Sparks, noting that the Transformers were hybrids of machinery and energy in the same way that [[GoBot]]s were hybrids of machinery and organic tissue. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/15}}
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[Lord Imperious Delirious]] was ''not'' fascinated by Sparks at all; as a purely mechanical [[second-born intellect]] he considered the Transformers nothing more then mechanical sock puppets animated by energy beings, a concept that revolted him and drove him to attempt genocide on the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Intersectionality}} {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Notes==
*It is possible there is some quantitative difference between the sparks of Generation 1 Transformers and [[protoform]] ''Beast Wars''-era Transformers. G1 Transformer sparks are generally glossed as small fragments of [[Primus]]'s lifeforce. ''Beast Wars''-era Transformer sparks are generally considered to be the same, but writer [[Larry DiTillio]] has stated that he envisioned ''Beast Wars'' Transformer sparks as small fragments split from [[Nexus Zero]]. When a spark is split from the Vok nebula, a "good" one travels to the [[Matrix (facility)|Matrix]] and an "evil" one to the [[Pit]].<ref>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref>
*Despite the fact sparks are supposed to be pieces of Primus, numerous fictions depict ''[[Unicron]]'', Primus's opposite as having a spark of his own.
**The fact that in [[Aligned continuity family|some]] [[Live-action film series|certain]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|continuities]] Primus and Unicron were a single being before conflict literally tore them apart and that Primus based the [[Thirteen]] and ultimately [[Dynasty of Primes|first Primes]] on himself and his rival may provide an explanation for this occurrence.
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spark''' (スパーク ''Supāku'')
*''German:'' '''Mastermodul''' (used in the german Dub of ''Armada'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhǒng''' (火种, "Spark")

==See also==
*[[Death]]
*[[Transformer afterlife]]
*[[Spirit portal]]
*[[Branched spark]]
*[[Core consciousness]]
*[[Datatrax]]
*[[Laser core]]
*[[Spark crystal]]
*[[Mitotic spark]]
*[[Database]]
*[[Brain module]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]
*[[Omega Terminus]]
*[[Oracle (BM)]]
*[[Slaughter]]
*[[Digital entity frame]]
*[[Ghost]]
**[[Data ghost]]
*[[Personality component]]
*[[Crystalline containment vessel]]
*[[Photonic crystal]]
*[[Electropulse]]
*[[AllSpark]]
*[[Prime Spark (Spark)]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Memory core]]
*[[Spark of Combination]]
*[[Matrix of Leadership]]
*[[Dark Spark]]
*[[Matrix of Conquest]]
*[[Linkage (dimension)]]

==References==
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[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Primus]]
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

Sentinel Prime (ROTF)

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:''Sentinel Prime is an [[Autobot]] leader from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:DOTM-Sentinel-Heatscramble.jpg|300px|thumb|What does [[Spock]] need with [[Ark (DOTM)|a starship]]?]]
'''Sentinel [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]''' hails from an older time when [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was the galaxy's crown jewel and the [[Transformer]] race was full of promise and potential. The only known remaining Prime, he personified what a leader should be: wise, compassionate and a more than worthy warrior. Revered by both [[Autobot]] and [[Decepticon]], few would dare stand against his shield and [[Primax Blade]].

But when Sentinel was presumably lost forever on board the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], his hand-picked successor, was left to fill his void. The loss of Sentinel signaled the end of Cybertron's golden age, and the planet spiraled deeper into war. Some who recall Sentinel's reign bitterly remember when Transformers were masters of their fate, rather than scattered to the stars and living as exiles. Above all, Sentinel Prime is a staunch nationalist. He loves his home planet with all of his [[Spark]] and will do anything —even go to extremes— to protect it.

{{bigquote|You simply fail to understand that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.|Sentinel Prime|''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''. No, seriously.}}

==Fiction==
===Movies===
{{note|The five movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
When [[Sam Witwicky]] launched into a rambling lecture on the nature of space and time while in a trance brought on by the knowledge of the AllSpark entering his mind, he recalled Sentinel Prime's "expedition" to find Cybertron a new sun, commenting that it took "fourteen galactic convergences" to get an echo. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Leonard Nimoy]] (English), [[Nobuyuki Katsube]] (Japanese)|[[Zhou Zhiqiang]] (Chinese), [[Arturo Casanova]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Dario Penne]] (Italian)}}

{{bigquote|So lost are you, Optimus. On Cybertron we were gods. And here... they call us "machines."}}

[[Image:DOTM-Sentinelsleeps.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Sentinel just can't get to sleep without his security [[pillar]].]]

Long ago, Sentinel Prime was the leader of the Autobots before Optimus Prime during the war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. But as the conflict dragged on, with no end in sight, Sentinel found himself forced to make a drastic choice: a secret alliance with [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. Believing that it was only through the sacrifice of another world that Cybertron could be restored, Sentinel developed teleportational [[space bridge]] technology to transport resources across interstellar distances—but, knowing that Optimus would never condone his course of action, Sentinel kept his plans a secret, claiming the bridge was a means of transporting troops into battle. Sentinel's intention was to depart for the chosen planet—[[Earth]]—and meet Megatron there later, but during the battle that erupted around the departure of Sentinel's ship the [[Ark (DOTM)|''Ark'']], the vessel was damaged and sent spiralling off into the depths of space, presumed lost forever. The war was left to continue with none save Megatron aware of Sentinel's treachery.

In [[1961]], the ''Ark'' crashed on Earth's [[moon (moon)|moon]]. The impact was detected by [[NASA]], triggering the space race of the 1960s and leading to the [[United States of America]]'s eventual first trip to the moon in [[1969]], which was secretly an attempt to inspect the crashed alien ship. However, before [[Apollo 11]] got there, a team of Decepticons led by [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], who had tracked the vessel, removed the majority of the space bridge [[pillar]]s from the ship to keep them out of human hands. The NASA astronauts found no trace of them, nor of Sentinel himself, safely sealed in the ship's crash vault with five remaining pillars.

[[Image:DOTM-SentinelOptimusMatrix.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2|"Sorry Optimus, I don't want it. Because when I kill someone, I want them to ''stay'' dead."]]

In the present day, a mission to [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant|Chernobyl]] resulted in Optimus Prime's Autobots discovery of a piece of the ''Ark'', which had been recovered by a later Russian moon mission. Demanding information from new National Security Director [[Charlotte Mearing]], Optimus learned that the ship was on the moon, and subseuently travelled there with [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] to find and retrieve Sentinel Prime. Taking his mentor's body back to Earth, Optimus revived him with the [[Matrix of Leadership]], and Sentinel awoke in a crazed rage, briefly attacking Optimus before coming to his senses. Sentinel explained the space bridge to the Autobots and humans, lamenting the seeming loss of the pillars that the Decepticons had stolen, and took an immediate dislike to Mearing when she ordered the few remaining pillars taken into custody. Optimus proceeded to give Sentinel a tour of Earth, which led the old Autobot to marvel at the beauty and the life of the planet, after which Optimus offered Sentinel the Matrix back. Sentinel turned it down, feeling unable to lead on a planet he did not know, and telling Optimus that he was now his teacher, rather than his protege.

[[Image:DOTMSentinelOptimus.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Give me ''your'' face!]]

Discovering evidence that the Decepticons held the missing pillars, the Autobots' young human ally [[Sam Witwicky]] believed that the villains would soon be coming after Sentinel Prime, since only he could activate the technology. Several Autobots escorted Sentinel Prime back to NEST headquarters, fending off a [[Dread (DOTM)|team of Decepticons]] along the way, but once they had arrived at their destination, Sentinel allowed his facade to drop. Knowing that all was in readiness, he revealed his centuries-long alliance with Megatron by slaying [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] with his [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] cannon, tearing NEST headquarters apart to reclaim the pillars, and departing to meet his Decepticon co-conspirators at the [[Abraham Lincoln|Lincoln Memorial]]. There, Sentinel opened a small space bridge portal above, through which Decepticon troops in waiting on the moon poured. Optimus Prime arrived and pleaded with Sentinel to stop, but Sentinel refused, leading to a battle between the two. Sentinel overpowered his former pupil, but spared his life.

[[Image:DOTM-SentinelandMegatron.jpg|right|thumb|upright=2|Sentinel and his new hobo friend.]]

Sentinel proceeded to decieve the [[United Nations]], claiming that he and the Decepticons would harmlessly take the resources they needed from Earth and depart with no further bloodshed if Optimus and his "Autobot rebels" were exiled from the planet. The humans wasted no time in agreeing, and the [[Xantium (DOTM)|''Xantium'']] was launched with Earth's remaining eleven Autobots inside... whereupon [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] blew the shuttle to bits. With their primary opponents now believed obliterated, the Decepticons set about conquering the city of [[Chicago]] and positioning pillars in strategic locations around the world. Megatron gloated over the success of their partnership, but Sentinel was quick to violently and physically remind him that he was working ''with'' Megatron, not ''for'' him.

With the pillars in place, Sentinel activated the space bridge, opening a huge portal above the Earth through which Cybertron itself began to materialize. Earth was not without defenders, however: Optimus and the Autobots had, in fact, staged their deaths, and had arrived in Chicago to stop Sentinel's plot. Optimus shot out the control pillar, deactivating the bridge, leading a furious Sentinel to engage him in battle once more. Unlike their last bout, Optimus held his own, leading Sentinel to call upon Decepticon fighter ships to fire on his ex-apprentice, while he broke off to fight his way through the other Autobots in an attempt to escape. NEST soldiers destroyed the ships, allowing Optimus to pursue Sentinel and re-engage him, but this time, Sentinel took the upper hand when he severed one of Optimus's arms. [[Image:DOTM-allIeverwanted.jpg|left|thumb|upright=2|Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?]] Just before Sentinel could deliver the killing blow, however, he came under attack from Megatron, who, thanks to the goading of Sam's girlfriend [[Carly Spencer]], had realized the threat Sentinel posed to his leadership and had decided to once again take his rightful place at the top of the command chain. At the same time, the other Autobots destroyed the reactivated control pillar, thus destroying the space bridge and apparently Cybertron with it. Though Megatron's attack on Sentinel saved Optimus's life, the Autobot leader refused Megatron offer of a truce and killed his eternal foe, leaving Optimus and the now-badly-damaged Sentinel alone once more. Sentinel abandoned his pride; he pleaded with Optimus for mercy, claiming all he ever wanted was the survival of their race. Optimus countered that Sentinel hadn't betrayed the Autobots, but rather ''himself'', and as his treacherous mentor howled at the ruination of his plans, Optimus unceremoniously executed Sentinel Prime with Megatron's fusion shotgun. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

{{note|Sentinel Prime's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (novel)|Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]” and “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Junior Novel]]”; the “[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks “[[Autobots Versus Decepticons]],” "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]." Several adaptations include plot points from earlier drafts of the film, including Sentinel killing [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] along with Ironhide; his willingness to kill Optimus at the Lincoln Memorial, sparing him instead only to save the pillars when they come under attack; and his being slain by Optimus using his own Cosmic Rust cannon, rather than Megatron's weapon.}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
[[Image:Sentinel head at KSI.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He didn't get to live long and prosper ''quite'' as much as Leonard, but we'll give him points for trying.]]
After the battle of Chicago, Sentinel's head was recovered by [[Joshua Joyce]]'s [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]] to be used to help manufacture their own Transformers. [[Brains]] personally worked on it along with the remains of other fallen Transformers. Sentinel himself was also listed as "deceased" by the CIA taskforce "[[Cemetery Wind]]". {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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===IDW movie comics===
[[Image:Foundation1-SentinelPrimeaword.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"That word is ''fart''."]]
Sentinel Prime was a direct descendant of the first Cybertronian, [[Primus]], and was believed to be the last of the [[Prime (rank)|Primes]]. He told tales to his much younger Cybertronian brethren of how the [[Dynasty of Primes]] had called upon a legendary artifact, the star-powered [[AllSpark]], to give life to their world. But the AllSpark had been lost to history, and their world had tumbled through the cosmos without a star to orbit for eons. Sentinel Prime had plans to rectify this, and he gathered followers who believed in his path to a new age of life on Cybertron. With the help of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], and their legions, they searched the planet for the legendary artifact and a way to power it. However, there were the [[Thetacon (tribe)|Thetacons]], a tribe of separatist Transformers who disbelieved in Sentinel Prime's vision, and warred against him and his followers. This conflict ended when, with the help of [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]], a sun to orbit was brought to Cybertron, and the AllSpark discovered and energized.

[[Image:Foundation1 freedom.jpg|right|225px|thumb|"Hey, a body! Buff, tanned... yeah, this is mine alright."]]

Though Sentinel Prime had finally returned the forgotten concept of "freedom" back to Cybertron, he felt he no longer had a part in its path to the future. He was old and tired, and spoke in confidence to Optimus, believing that young Autobot was also part of the Prime lineage and requesting that he take on the mantle of leadership. Though Optimus was too humble to accept, not believing Sentinel's claims about his heritage, Megatron overheard their conversation and became jealous of his "brother." {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}} Sentinel formulated another plan for Cybertron's future: it would be governed by Optimus's [[Science Division]] and Megatron's [[Defense Force]]. By having Optimus investigate the remains of the Primes' civilization, it would encourage him to believe in his lineage. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}}

Alas, after two generations of successful shared leadership, Megatron fell under the sway of [[The Fallen]], and reshaped his Defense Force as the [[Decepticon]]s, declaring war on Cybertron. Sentinel Prime was at the archaeological dig in Simfur when the first strike took place, and was quick to opt for a technique of self-preservation, rather than attempting to save the Science Division's work. Optimus soon arrived to fend the Decepticons off, and revealed that his studies had proven the truth of Sentinel's words: he was indeed a descendant of the Primes. He did not believe that this made him a born leader, but Sentinel impressed upon Optimus the necessity that he take up command of the [[Autobot]]s, that Cybertron might be saved from Megatron's destructive ambitions.

[[Image:Foundation3 sentinels torch.jpg|left|thumb|"Jim... I am, and forever shall be, your friend."]]

As time passed, and the war rolled on with no signs of stopping, Sentinel Prime was forced to make a deal with Megatron to seek out another planet whose resources they can exploit to restore their homeworld. The chosen planet was the resting place of the Primes' Star Harvester. Sentinel recreated the Primes' lost [[space bridge]] technology, fashioning hundreds of pillars that would form a bridge large enough to teleport Cybertron itself across the cosmos {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}} {{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 3|Dark of the Moon #3}} Sentinel then invented a mysterious "torch" that he promised would end the war. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} The torch had to be brought into contact with the AllSpark to be activated, so the Autobots launched an attack on the Simfur temple to carry out this action while Sentinel stood by with a spacecraft, the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]], to await delivery of the active torch. [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita One]] soon returned with the torch, at which point Sentinel instructed Wheeljack to take the [[Ark (Movie)|second Ark]] and collect the remaining Autobots from [[Tyger Pax]], while he himself headed to Simfur to collect Optimus's forces. Upon arrival at Simfur, however, Sentinel's Ark was attacked by [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and was consumed by a huge explosion, leaving all present to believe it, Sentinel, and all aboard had been destroyed. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}}

In actuality, Sentinel's Ark had not been vaporized as believed: it had been teleported away by the [[space bridge]] technology it was outfitted with. With all hands knocked into stasis by the explosion, the ship automatically jinked through space and time on a series of random space bridge jumps, until at last, its sensors locked on to the energy of the AllSpark, which had since been ejected from Cybertron and had crash-landed on the planet [[Earth]]. On its penultimate jump, the Ark crossed paths with the Decepticon ship ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]'', which had departed Cybertron just as the war was beginning, and was now also following the AllSpark's trail. The Ark materialized from its jump into the same physical space as the ''Nemesis'', crippling both ships beyond repair; the Ark made one final bridge jump, reappearing in the immediate vicinity of Earth in 1962, where it crashed violently onto Earth's [[moon (moon)|Moon]]. All the Autobots aboard perished save for Sentinel himself, who was in the crash vault and remained slumbering in stasis. {{storylink|Convergence chapter 1|Convergence chapter 1}}
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===Titan movie comics===
Sentinel was a direct descendant of [[Primus]], the first Cybertronian, and one of the last surviving Primes. With a firm but just hand, he ruled the Autobots before the war. During the war, he named Optimus his successor before departing on a mission into deep space, only for his ship to be shot down by enemy fire...

But his Ark merely crashed somewhere near Earth in 1962, a fragment of it landing in Fiesole, [[Italy]]. When a human discovered it in 2011, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] tried to prevent the Autobots from getting that fragment and finding their way to the lost Ark. The Autobots finding Sentinel was ''not'' an option for Starscream and the concept unnerved him... Apparently, the fragment had the power to make martyrs of the good and bad alike. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole}}

===Mega-Mouth===
A [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron that hailed from another universe]] claimed that ''he'' attacked Sentinel. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4.1#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #1}}

===''BeCool'' shorts===
'''Firetruck''' (消防車 ''Shōbōsha'') was part of the audience of ''Quiz! BeCool''. {{storylink|The Story of Quiz! BeCool}} He also headed a fire brigade that attempted to rescue [[Bumblebee (G1)|Yellow Sports Car]] from a burning building, only for the "emergency" to have been part of a movie. {{storylink|The Story of the Fire Brigade Dispatch!}}

===''Kre-O'' cartoon===
[[Image:sentinelprimekreo-wallpaper.jpg|thumb|200px]]
Sentinel Prime was rescued from the Moon by Optimus, but then turned all evil and stuff. {{storylink|Take Us Through the Movies}}

Sentinel Prime was in the audience of a tag battle pitting [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] against [[Megatron (Kre-O)|Megatron]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|Last Bot Standing}} He was in the audience of a dance competition too. {{storylink|Bot Stars}}

Sentinel was also part of a crowd that waited at the finish line of a race between Optimus, Bumblebee, and Megatron. He cheered for Bumblebee as he finished the race, though it turned out Optimus had already won the competition. {{storylink|The Big Race}}
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===''Timelines''===
In one reality, Megatron suddenly shifted position during the Battle of Chicago and thus took advantage of his mysteriously good luck to kill both Optimus Prime and Sentinel Prime. Eventually, though, a new Prime arose, [[Rodimus (DOTM)|Rodimus Prime]]. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Megatron profile card}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa]], Megatron, rather than Optimus Prime, defeated [[The Fallen]]. Megatron went on to gather his army and wage a successful campaign against the Autobots and [[NEST]] on Earth. Falling for baited clues that [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] left for [[Sam Witwicky]], Optimus Prime took the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' to the Moon. Backed into a desperate corner by the Decepticon offensive, Optimus revived Sentinel Prime right on the lunar surface. With Sentinel's aid, Megatron defeated and captured Optimus. With the aid of collaborationist humans, Megatron used space bridge technology to bring Cybertron to Earth orbit, and under [[Dylan Gould]]'s leadership, humans were put to work strip-mining Earth for resources to rebuild Cybertron.

All of this changed when [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] arrived. The bounty hunter demanded that Optimus be handed over to him. Megatron and Sentinel both refused, the former out of pride and the latter out of loyalty. Lockdown then offered a protomatter [[seed]] to Sentinel in exchange for Optimus. While Sentinel was sorely tempted, Optimus used the opportunity to reignite Sentinel's sense of justice. Sentinel proceeded to pretend to hand over Optimus, ambush and defeat Lockdown, and capture Lockdown's [[Knight Ship|ship]]. Allying themselves with the legendary [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s, Optimus and Sentinel waged a long guerilla campaign against Megatron and the Decepticons, eventually restoring freedom to Earth and revitalizing Cybertron with the seed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/22}}

In [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma]], Sentinel Prime's true colors were exposed in part by [[Strafe (TF 2010)|Strafe]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/21}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' mobile game===
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===''Cyberverse Battle Builder''===
Sentinel Prime joined the rest of the Autobots in combating the Decepticons on battlefields on Earth, the Earth's Moon and on Cybertron. Sometimes there were many of him! {{storylink|Cyberverse Battle Builder}}

===''Kreon Chaos''===
Sentinel Prime met with Optimus after Bumblebee had been taken captive in the Autobots' mission to retrieve the Optimus Prime Kre-O kit parts from within Decepticon headquarters. He specialized in defense, and could hold out his shield to either block enemy fire or provide a platform for his fellow Autobots to jump onto, gaining them access to hard-to-reach places. Eventually, the Autobots managed to infiltrate the Decepticons' base, and retrieved the kit parts, which were assembled by Ratchet into a colossal Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Kreon Chaos}}
{{charstubgame|"Earth" and "Moon" stages}}

===''Bot Shots Battle Game!''===
[[Image:Bsbg-sentinelprime.jpg|thumb|219px]]
Sentinel Prime participated in numerous one-on-one matches against other Autobots and Decepticons, using his fists, his sword, or his gun to defeat his opponents. Sometimes, he even faced off against himself! {{storylink|Bot Shots Battle Game!}}
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==Toys==
===Dark of the Moon===
====Cyberverse====
[[Image:DOTM_CyberverseCommander_SentinelPrime_toy.jpg|thumb|300px|Prime 3:16!]]
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (Cyberverse Commander, 2011)
**''Series'' '''1'''
**''Number:'' '''002'''
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''CV05'''
**''Accessories:'' Primax blade, shield/fire truck roof

: Sentinel Prime was released as part of the first [[wave]] of [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|''Dark of the Moon'']] ''[[Cyberverse]]'' Commander Class toys. He transforms from a Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 airport fire truck to robot and back. He comes with his sword and shield, both of which he can wield in either hand. The sword stores underneath his vehicle mode, whereas the shield folds in half and becomes part of the fire truck roof (including the boom arm). Because the boom arm has a grip at the middle that allows Sentinel to hold it in shield mode, the grip can be used as a [[C joint]] bar in vehicle mode.

: Because of clearance issues, bringing and folding his arms to his back for vehicle mode can be rather difficult. The shoulders are more likely to pop off the plastic swivels they're on.

: On some (early?) releases, the Rosenbauer logo on the right side of the truck is reversed.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/CommanderSentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on Cyberverse Commander Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]
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[[Image:DOTM_Cyberverse_Commander_DarkSentinelPrime.jpg|thumb|300px|Welcome to Sunnyside!]]
*'''Dark Sentinel Prime''' (Cyberverse Commander, 2011)
**''Series'' '''1'''
**''Number:'' '''010'''
**''Accessories:'' Primax blade, shield

: Dark Sentinel Prime is a redeco of the previous ''Cyberverse'' Sentinel Prime. He's... lighter, but has some ''evil''-looking red eyes. The color changes of the unpaintable plastic makes his robot mode somehow screen-accurate, save for some of his chest & vehicle kibble deco differences.
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/DarkSentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on Dark Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]
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*'''Autobot Ark with Roller and Bonus Value Sentinel Prime''' (Cyberverse Playset, 2011)
**''Accessories'': Primax blade, shield/fire truck roof

: This [[Target]]-[[exclusive]] release includes otherwise unchanged [[Ark (DOTM)#TargetBonusValue|Ark]] and [[Roller (DOTM)#TargetBonusValue|Roller]] toys, along with a free and equally unchanged figure of the first Cyberverse Sentinel Prime toy. Good luck getting him into the cockpit.
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====Voyager Class toys====
[[Image:DOTMtoy-SentinelPrimeVoyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|There's no fire? There ''will'' be!]]
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (MechTech Voyager, 2011)
**''Japanese Name'': '''Cannon Sentinel Prime'''
**''Japanese Release Date: '''[[2011]]-[[August 13|08-13]]
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''DA20'''
**''Accessories:'' MechTech Boom Lift/[[Fusion Cannon]]

:Sentinel Prime is in the third wave of ''Dark of the Moon'' ''[[MechTech]]'' Voyagers. He converts from a Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 airport fire truck to robot and back. He features an itty-bitty flip out nozzle on his front. His rotating and extending MechTech Boom Lift (which looks like a giant cannon due to the [[5mm post|peg]] at the tip) becomes a Fusion Cannon when a large button is pushed, but only if the button (which is rotatable) has its underside tabs aligned with its respective sockets on the weapon housing. The weapon can be locked in this mode if the button is rotated while pressed. The weapon itself features a MechTech port on each side panel, with the aforementioned peg at the tip of the Boom Lift.

:While his firetruck roof [[kibble]] is intentionally used as wings/a cape, he's still a pretty significant [[shellformer]], flopping nearly his entire firetruck side panels and front (along with his roof) onto his back, with only his wheels, leg panels, and feet being integrated in any way with his vehicle mode.

:Like the Cyberverse Dark Sentinel Prime, this figure's Autobot symbols are deliberately scratched out. However, his box bio remains coy about his true nature.

:As with all Japanese Dark of the Moon releases, Sentinel Prime (named Cannon Sentinel Prime) comes packed with a character card and an accompanying transparent plastic card of his new rifle in its combined mode for the MechTech Wars online game. The toy was originally solicited as "New Sentinel Prime"

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/VoyagerSentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on Voyager Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]
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[[File:TF-DOTM-Lucky-Draw-Tritanium-Sentinel.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|In case you wanted him in trailer-esque colors.]]
*'''Tritanium Sentinel Prime''' (MechTech Voyager, 2012)
**''Accessories:'' MechTech Boom Lift/[[Fusion Cannon]]

:This gold [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallized]] version of Voyager Class ''Dark of the Moon'' Sentinel Prime is a prize in [[TakaraTomy]]'s ''Dark of the Moon'' MechTech campaign in 2012. This toy is limited to 10 pieces.

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====Leader Class toys====
[[Image:DOTMtoy-SentinelPrimeMechtechLeader.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Live-action hyper goldfish!]]
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (MechTech Leader, 2011)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''DA02'''
**''Accessories:'' Primax Blade, MechTech Shield/Bladed Blaster

:''MechTech'' Leader Class Sentinel Prime converts from a Rosenbauer Panther 6x6 airport fire truck to robot and back! In vehicle mode, he features a rotating, extending firefighting boom arm, a small flip-up nozzle on the front fender, and siren lights and sounds, activated by a small grey button on the roof of the cabin. There are two [[5mm post]] hole MechTech ports in this mode; the one on the right hand side of the vehicle has a button inside, that when pushed in (by plugging in a MechTech weapon), activates a weapon deploying sound effect. Pressing the cabin roof button in this mode activates a weapon firing sound. Removing the MechTech weapon activates the [[Transformation#The noise|transformation sound effect]].

:A [[Stealth Force]]-style attack vehicle mode can be formed by opening panels on the rearward sides of the vehicle to expose hidden weapons (that look like missiles) and two more MechTech ports, activating the MechTech Shield's Bladed Blaster mode (by pressing the large button on it marked by the [[Cyberglyphics]]) and attaching that to the vehicle MechTech ports, and clipping the Primax Blade's handle into the two tabs on top of the Shield/Bladed Blaster's turret. In a reversal of his Cyberverse toy, Sentinel's double-bladed Primax Blade folds in half and stores underneath the grey panels forming the roof of much of the vehicle, while the MechTech shield is stored under the truck.

:In robot mode, when the button on Sentinel Prime's chest is pushed, his eyes light up, his chin moves and he says "I am Sentinel Prime!" Two more phrases, "Good to see you alive, Optimus." and "What has happened to the [[AllSpark]]?" are heard when a weapon is inserted into the MechTech port with the button inside of it and the chest button pushed. Unfortunately, international releases of the toy only say the cut-down phrase "Sentinel Prime" (replacing the extra phrases with an electronic pulsing noise and another transformation sound effect) due to the need for the figure to be released in non-English-speaking markets. The siren lights and sounds can still be activated by pressing the grey button back and to the left of Sentinel Prime's head.

:In this mode, Sentinel has four more 5mm MechTech ports: one each on either shoulder and one each on either forearm. If that's still not enough, the screw holes under his wrists can accommodate 5mm weapons as well, for a total of eight weapons beyond those included with the figure. The Primax Blade and Shield can both be held via their respective handles in either of Sentinel's articulated hands; the shield can also be plugged into the MechTech port in Sentinel's forearms.

:The red detailing on the shield as seen in the stock photography is not present on the final product.

:The Japanese release comes packed with a character card and an accompanying transparent plastic card of his MechTech weapon for the MechTech Wars online game.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/SentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on Leader Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]
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*'''Leader Class Sentinel Prime and Bonus Value Deluxe Class Nitro Bumblebee''' (Two-pack, 2012?)
**''Accessories:'' Primax Blade, MechTech Shield/Bladed Blaster

: As the name implies, this [[Walmart]]-exclusive [[giftset]] would have contained a ''Dark of the Moon'' Leader Class Sentinel Prime figure and a ''Dark of the Moon'' Deluxe Class [[Bumblebee (Movie)/toys#LeaderSentinelDeluxeNitroBee|Nitro Bumblebee figure]]. They would have been unchanged from their individual releases. The existence of this unreleased set was revealed by an eBay auction after the DOTM toyline was effectively over.

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===Kre-O===
[[Image:Sentinel Prime Kre-O.jpg‎|thumb|right|250px|Is he a [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|traitor]], a [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|jerk]], or will he just [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|show up and die?]] We don't know yet.]]
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (2011)
**''Set number'': '''30687'''
**''Pieces'': '''386'''
**''Kreons'': Sentinel Prime, [[Soundwave (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Soundwave]], [[Thundercracker (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Thundercracker]], [[Fire Chief (Kre-O)|Fire Chief]]

:Sentinel is part of the first [[wave]] of ''[[Kre-O]]'' sets and can be built in either robot or ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' inspired fire truck mode. A Kreon can fit in his cab.

:Like many other Kre-O sets, the stock photography features robot construction that differs from the final product. Sentinel Prime's shoulders, feet, and legs are a bit different than on the actual toy. The stock photography actually shows a robot mode that is more similar to his appearance in Dark of the Moon; specifically the shielded shoulders and pointed feet.

:Sentinel Prime's head shape is based on ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]]. The design of the Sentinel Prime Kreon is inspired by [[Sentinel Prime (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|Generation 1 Sentinel Prime]]'s appearance in the ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' comic series, and his helmet is based on (and was later used for) Generation 1 [[Inferno (G1)/toys#Kre-O|Inferno]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Autobot/Kre-OSentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]''
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* '''Galvatron Factory Battle''' (Kre-O set, 2014)
**''Set number'': '''A6952'''
**''Pieces'': '''388'''
**''Kreons'': Bumblebee, KSI Worker (lab worker), KSI Worker (security), [[Dr. Littleman]], Optimus Prime, Vehicon

:"Galvatron Factory Battle" is based on [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]]'s factory complex, and one component of the playset build incorporates Sentinel Prime's severed head in a clear jar. He does not sport a helmet, likely due to the small size of the jar.

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===Bot Shots===
[[Image:Bot Shots S1 Super Bot 001 Sentinel Prime.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''Super Bot 001'''
***''Fist strength'': '''980'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''630'''
***''Sword strength'': '''190'''

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Bot Shots (toyline)|Bot Shots]]'', Sentinel Prime is a teeny little fire truck with a spring-loaded automatic transformation to robot mode triggered when his front bumper is pressed. He has a "spinner" in his chest that shows his three attack types and power levels. He is heavily based on the live-action movie sentinel Prime, with his head based on the Sentinel [[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|''Kre-O'' figure]] (which is in turn inspired by ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]]'s head).

:As this "Super Bot" of this wave, Sentinel is mostly unpainted clear-plastic, has different power ratings (Including a much higher "Fist" score) than his (later) normal release, and is [[shortpacking|shortpacked]] to boot.

:This mold was also used to make ''Bot Shots'' [[Hot Spot (G1)#Bot Shots|Protectobot Hot Spot]] and the main body for ''BeCool'' [[Ganoh#BeCool|Ganoh]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BSSentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on Super Bot Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:Bot Shots S1 BP002 Sentinel Prime.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Sentinel Prime / Prowl / Bumblebee''' (2012)
**''Series'': '''1'''
**''Number'': '''BP002'''
***''Fist strength'': '''360'''
***''Blaster strength'': '''485'''
***''Sword strength'': '''775'''

: A [[redeco]] of his individually-carded toy, this opaque-plastic version of Sentinel was only available in a three-pack with [[Prowl (G1)/toys#Bot Shots|Prowl]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#BotShot3Pack|Bumblebee]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2012/Autobot/BS3pkSentinelPrime/sentinelprime.htm More information on three-pack Sentinel Prime at TFU.info]''
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===BeCool===
*'''Firetruck (Sentinel Prime) ''' (2012)
**''ID number'': '''B07'''

:''[[Bot Shots (toyline)#BeCool|BeCool]]'' "Firetruck" is a redeco of Sentinel Prime very similar to his ''Bot Shots'' three-pack toy, but with a completely red back/roof section. He also features metallic blue paint on his windshield and chest details as well as orange-painted lightbars, and instead of power levels his stickers display pictures of a fireman's uniform, a water hose and an eeevil ball of flame.

===Movie Edition===
*'''Sentinel Prime''' (Tiny Turbo Changers)
**''Series:'' '''3'''
**''Bag Code:'' '''?'''

:[[Tiny Turbo Changers]] Sentinel Prime, released in series 3, converts from a tiny Sentinel Prime figure into a fire truck.

==Merchandise==
===Speed Stars===
====Mini Changers====
[[Image:SpeedStars_StealthForce_MiniChangers_Bumblebee&SentinelPrime.jpg|thumb|300px|"''You'' were trying eat the last cheesy puff!"]]
*'''Stealth Force Bumblebee & Sentinel Prime''' (2011)

:This non-transforming toy of Sentinel Prime is packed with a non-transforming Stealth Force Bumblebee.

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[[Image:SpeedStars_StealthForce_MiniChangers_Sideswipe&SentinelPrime.jpg|thumb|300px|Well, that's not how I remember it.]]
*'''Stealth Force Sideswipe & Sentinel Prime''' (2011)

:A black redeco of Mini Changers Sentinel Prime comes with a non-transforming Stealth Force Sideswipe.

{{--}}

==Notes==
[[Image:DOTM-SentinelPrimetrailer.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Jim, you left me on Genesis. Why did you do that?]]

{{quote|Sentinel Prime is great. He's great...I can't tell you anything else, other than he's great.|Michael Bay<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657670/michael-bay-transformers-dark-of-the-moon.jhtml Interview at MTV]</ref>}}

*In an early draft of ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'', time stops as [[Sam Witwicky]] falls down the building [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] smashed, and Sentinel appears to him via the [[AllSpark]]. Sentinel would've clarified the history of the war and the relationship between Optimus and Megatron (expanding on their history as siblings) and given him a clue to defeating Megatron with the Cube.<ref>[http://badflipblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/tf1-amblin.html Blog post] from [[Ken Christiansen]].</ref>
*An early working name for Sentinel Prime for ''Dark of the Moon'' was '''Ultra Magnus'''.<ref>[http://tilallaremine.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/dark-of-the-moon-call-sheets/ Dark of the Moon Call Sheets! at Til All Are Mine blog.]</ref><ref>[http://www.joshnizzi.com/TF3.htm joshnizzi.com]</ref>
*In the debut trailer for the film ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'', Sentinel Prime is seen in a gold and silver color scheme. This shot was redone for the movie proper, and he consistently appears red throughout the film.
*The Rosenbauer Panther fire truck cast as Sentinel Prime was entirely repainted specifically for the film, at a cost of thousands of dollars; real-world aircraft fire-fighting vehicles are required by FAA regulations to have a much lighter color scheme.<ref>[http://www.rosenbaueramerica.com/press/2011/06/rosenbauer-panther-6x6-to-be-f/ Rosenbauer America press release, June 28, 2011]</ref>
*In ''Dark of the Moon'', Sentinel Prime says "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Leonard Nimoy said the same line in the 1982 film ''[[Wikipedia:Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'' as [[Spock]], in one of several Star Trek references in the movie.
*Sentinel Prime was physically modelled after [[Wikipedia:Sean Connery|Sean Connery]].<ref>[http://www.awn.com/articles/3d/colossal-transformers-sequel/page/2%2C1 VFXWorld article on ''Dark of the Moon''.]</ref>
*[[Walmart]] had exclusive retailer rights to use Sentinel Prime in their signage and marketing as part of their "Power of the Primes" campaign.<ref>"The Power of Partnership." Walmart World Jun. 2011: 13</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Sentinel Prime''' (センチネルプライム ''Senchineru Puraimu'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Őrszem Fővezér''' ("Prime Leader Sentinel")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Yùtiāndí''' (御天敌)

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Age of Extinction Autobots]]
[[Category:Bot Shots Autobots]]
[[Category:Cyberverse]]
[[Category:Dark of the Moon Autobots]]
[[Category:Firefighters]]
[[Category:Kre-O Autobots]]
[[Category:Kreons]]
[[Category:Primes]]
[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen Autobots]]
[[Category:Autobot leaders]]
[[Category:Turncoats]]

Sentinel Prime (disambiguation)

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{{disambig}}

Although they possess [[Prime (rank)|the title and rank of Prime]], [[Autobot]]s in the [[multiverse]] going by the name '''Sentinel Prime''' often have a... rather questionable sense of true morality.

==Major Sentinel Primes==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:MegatronOrigin1 Sentinel Prime.jpg|[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|"Generation 1" Sentinel Prime]] <hr>''[[Infinitus]]''
File:SentinelPrimeAnimated-model.jpg|[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|''Animated'' Sentinel Prime]]
File:DOTM-Sentinel-Heatscramble.jpg|[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|''Dark of the Moon'' Sentinel Prime]]
File:WFC ZetaPrime.jpg|[[Sentinel Zeta Prime|''War for Cybertron'' Sentinel Zeta Prime]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Sentinel Primes==
{{disamb|y=[[1988]]|[[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] the [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] who preceded [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] in several different ''[[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]]'' [[Continuity|continuities]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], a jerk and member of the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Sentinel Prime (TransTech)|Sentinel Prime]] the [[Transcendent Technomorph]] who preceded [[Optimus Prime (TransTech)|Optimus Prime]] from ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2009]]|[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] the Autobot who preceded [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and former captain of the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]'' from the [[Dynasty of Primes]] in the [[live-action film series]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Sentinel Zeta Prime]] the Autobot who preceded [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] in the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2011]]|[[Sentinel Prime (Kre-O)|Sentinel Prime]], the name of multiple Autobots from ''[[Kre-O]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2011|[[Sentinel Prime (SG Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] the evil counterpart of <s>the jerk</s> Sentinel Prime.}}

==Not to be confused with...==
*[[Zeta Prime]], a similar but distinct and separate 'bot also seen in ''Generation 1''.
*Other uses of the word [[Sentinel (disambiguation)|Sentinel]].
*Other uses of the word [[Prime (disambiguation)|Prime]].

Stasis cuffs

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[[Image:Stasis cuffs.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A pair of stasis cuffs.]]
'''Stasis cuffs''' are [[Transformer]]-sized [[wikipedia:handcuffs|handcuffs]] with a rigid block between the individual cuffs which holds an extendible belt for use when placing the unit.

They place the Transformer they are used on into a form of [[stasis lock]] which leaves the victim fully conscious and capable of speech but—once active—unable to move in any other way or use any special powers they may possess.

==Fiction==
===''Animated''===
When [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] refused to agree to cover up recent events with [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] and the [[AllSpark]], [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]] arrested him and threatened to use a pair of stasis cuffs on him. When he later tried to use them on Optimus however, he quickly found them on his own wrists. Optimus would get the chance to use the same pair on [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] later the same day.

[[Image:Stasis cuffs, box of.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Lots of pairs of stasis cuffs, but much thinner than seen before.]]
When the [[Cybertron Elite Guard]] departed Earth they left a box of stasis cuffs for Optimus' crew to use on any [[Decepticon]]s they would encounter. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}

These cuffs were soon put to good use when it was shown that the brig of [[Sigma Supreme|the Elite Guard's ship]] could not hold the rogue Decepticon. [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], eager to prove himself took a pair to [[Moon (moon)|the moon]] once he tracked the signature of Starscream's AllSpark fragment there. During the scuffle between Prowl and the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], Starscream escaped. It is unknown if the cuffs were ineffective against Starscream's unique [[CNA|mechanical makeup]] or one of [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]] freed him. Given his ability to break out of the Elite Guard's brig either is quite possible - but after recovering from Prowl's [[Electromagnetic pulse|EMP]] Starscream seemed to have his movement limited only by the physical device as with a [[human]] in handcuffs rather than the statue-like state Sentinel was left in.

A pair Lockdown supplied seemed to be effective enough to restrain [[Clone number 3370318|another clone]], but it was later revealed that this was Starscream's intent. Their true usefulness against Starscream or his clones is presently quite uncertain. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon}}
===''Wings Universe''===
Stasis cuffs were in use by the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]]. Older generation models merely disrupted aggressive subroutines, while newer models caused complete immobilization. The [[Stealth Team]] used some older stasis cuffs on [[Gutcruncher (G1)|Gutcruncher]] and his gang before locking them in the ''[[Darklon (G1)|Darklon]]'''s brig. As it turned out, [[Charger]] was way too psychologically unstable for the cuffs to work on him and he used the brig's energy bars to burn out Gutcruncher's stasis cuffs. The other stasis cuffs were disposed of when they found the armory. {{storylink|A Team Effort}}
===''Mars Attacks: The Transformers''===
[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] invented stasis cuffs which were used to restrain [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] and his Decepticons after a mid-city battle. The Decepticons managed to break free from them during the subsequent [[Martian]] invasion. {{storylink|Mars Attacks: The Transformers}}
===''Of Masters and Mayhem''===
Stasis cuffs were used by the Autobots to capture [[Toxitron (G1)|Toxitron]], but he used his acidic secretions to melt the cuffs and kill his captors. {{storylink|The Toxic Transformer}}
===Aligned continuity family===
====''Transformers Prime''====
A version of the stasis cuffs resembling [[anti-grav manacles]], [[energon band]]s, [[energon chains]] and [[magno-lock]]s were used by both [[Autobot]]s and Decepticons alike to restrain captives, although more conventional-looking handcuffs were used as well. These iterations only served to act in a capacity similar to wrist and ankle bindings and regular handcuffs on a human though both versions could be broken with enough force. One version seen during [[Great War (Prime)|the war]] even made use of electromagnetic levitation. {{storylink|Predatory}} {{storylink|Partners}} {{storylink|Stronger, Faster}} {{storylink|Out of the Past}}
====''Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' 2015====
{{stub}}

[[Category:Animated technology]]
[[Category:Generation 1 technology]]
[[Category:Restraining devices]]
[[Category:Wings Universe technology]]
[[Category:Prime technology]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) technology]]

Power bond

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:''Power bonds are a [[Category:Restraining devices|restraining device]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]]''.
[[File:Agenda 1 Megatron bound.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
Used to house captives, '''power bonds''' are restraining devices used by both the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]. They release some form of energy which restrains a [[Transformer]].

==Fiction==
===Comics===
After the [[Tripredacus Council]] blew up [[Flamewar's ship|her ship]] with her onboard for failing a mission and becoming nothing but a liability to them, {{storylink|Descent into Evil}} [[Flamewar (G1)|Flamewar]] was presumably held by power bonds upon reactivating while under the questioning of Predacons disguised as [[Autobot]]s with her constant struggling being nothing more than a fruitless attempt at breaking free. {{storylink|Intimidation Game}}
===''Beast Wars''===
Power bonds were used by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] when he held [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] prisoner. When he instructed [[Transwarp cruiser|his ship]]'s computer to release Megatron the power bonds seemed to fade away, deactivating. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

After the end of the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], Megatron was strapped to the hull of [[Autobot Shuttle Omega Delta]] using power bonds for the ride back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}
===''Beast Machines''===
[[File:Mercenary Pursuits Megatron Optimus bound.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67]]
When they were inadvertently rendered unconscious and captured after a scuffle with [[Jetstorm (BM)|the]] [[Thrust (BM)|first]] [[Tankor (BM)|three]] [[Vehicon general]]s due to [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s unauthorized use of a [[transformation enhancer]], [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] and [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] were taken with him to the [[Council Citadel]] and held captive restrained in power bonds before Megatron himself while still in their [[beast mode]]s. However, Rattrap's constant [[transformation]] spasms due to the enhancer's effects allowed him to break free of his bindings and release his fellow Maximals. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}}

While exploring Tankor's memories, Rattrap, who believed he was viewing his own saw that Megatron managed to rip free of his power bonds during [[transwarp]] causing him to return to Cybertron prematurely, take over the planet with the [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicons]] and steal the [[spark]]s of all the Cybertronians that came or were already there. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Revelations Part II: Descent}} Nice job, whoever tied him down.

After [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]]'s failed attempt to destroy Megatron with the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] due to implants in his [[shell program]]ming, he was held by power bonds until his untimely destruction.

[[Category:Beast Machines technology]]
[[Category:Beast Wars technology]]
[[Category:Restraining devices]]

Shockwave (disambiguation)

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{{disambig}}
{{faction|decepticon}}
[[Spock|Logic dictates]] that '''Shockwave''' / '''Shockblast''' is usually among the most rational of the [[Decepticon]]s. A straightforward and sometimes brutal approach has led various Shockwaves across the [[multiverse]] to wreak all kinds of havoc, sometimes even on their own allies.

{{TOCclear}}

==Major Shockwaves==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)|"Generation 1" Shockwave]] <hr>''[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Toys]]''
File:Shockblast energon.jpg|[[Shockblast|''Energon'' Shockblast]]
File:TFA Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (Animated)|''Animated'' Shockwave]]
File:ShockwaveDOTMgamepromo.jpg|[[Shockwave (Movie)|''Dark of the Moon'' Shockwave]]
File:PrimeShockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (WFC)|"Aligned" Shockwave]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Shockwaves==
{{disamb|y=[[1984]]|[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] the [[Decepticon]] ray gun from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] sometimes also known as "Shockblast".
**For this character in [[Marvel Comics continuity]] see [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity]].
**For this character in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] see [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Shockwave (G1)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2002]]|Shockwave, the Japanese name for [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] (in his first body) from the [[Unicron Trilogy]].}}
{{disamb|y=2004|[[Shockblast]] the Decepticon tank/satellite from ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' so named for [[trademark]] reasons.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2006]]|[[Shockwave (Cybertron)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon-allied [[Sky Attack Mini-Con Team|Sky Attack Team]] [[Mini-Con]] stealth jet from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon assassin and scientist from the [[live-action film series]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]] the morally ambiguous [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Decepticon dragster from ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Shockwave (SG)|Shockwave]] the heroic Decepticon ambassador from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon tank and double-agent under the false name of Autobot construction crane and [[Cybertron Intelligence]] officer Longarm Prime from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon second-in-command and [[alien]] mobile artillery from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2011]]|[[Shockwave (Kre-O)|Shockwave]], the name of multiple Decepticon [[Kreon]]s from ''[[Kre-O]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Shockwave (SG Animated)|Shockwave]] the heroic Decepticon from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered]] [[:Category:Shattered_Glass_Animated_characters|Glass Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2017]]|"[[Eukarian Shockwave]]" the brainwashed [[Eukaris|Eukarian]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]].}}

==Media with "Shockwave" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[2005]]|''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]'' the first issue in the ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' series.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|"[[Shockwaves]]", a "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" prelude story originally published in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''The Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #17}}

==See also==
{{disamb|y=[[2003]]|[[Shockwave's Tower]], a self-aggrandizing monument from the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave ''Generation one'' continuity]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Longarm (SG)|Longarm]] and [[Longarm (Animated)|Longarm]], disguised identities for two Shockwaves mucking about, one in the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' universe and the other for ''Animated'' Shockwave.}}

==Not to be confused with==
*The [[shock blast cannon]], another failed invention of [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]]'s also from the ''Generation One'' continuity family.
*[[Soundwave (disambiguation)]]
*[[Special:PrefixIndex/Shock|other articles that start with "Shock"]]

Shockwave (disambiguation)

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{{disambig}}
{{faction|decepticon}}
[[Spock|Logic dictates]] that '''Shockwave''' / '''Shockblast''' is usually among the most rational of the [[Decepticon]]s. A straightforward and sometimes brutal approach has led various Shockwaves across the [[multiverse]] to wreak all kinds of havoc, sometimes even on their own allies.

{{TOCclear}}

==Major Shockwaves==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)|"Generation 1" Shockwave]] <hr>''[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Toys]]''
File:Shockblast energon.jpg|[[Shockblast|''Energon'' Shockblast]]
File:TFA Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (Animated)|''Animated'' Shockwave]]
File:ShockwaveDOTMgamepromo.jpg|[[Shockwave (Movie)|''Dark of the Moon'' Shockwave]]
File:PrimeShockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (WFC)|"Aligned" Shockwave]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Shockwaves==
{{disamb|y=[[1984]]|[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] the [[Decepticon]] ray gun from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] sometimes also known as "Shockblast".
**For this character in [[Marvel Comics continuity]] see [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity]].
**For this character in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] see [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Shockwave (G1)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2002]]|Shockwave, the Japanese name for [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] (in his first body) from the [[Unicron Trilogy]].}}
{{disamb|y=2004|[[Shockblast]] the Decepticon tank/satellite from ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' so named for [[trademark]] reasons.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2006]]|[[Shockwave (Cybertron)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon-allied [[Sky Attack Mini-Con Team|Sky Attack Team]] [[Mini-Con]] stealth jet from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon assassin and scientist from the [[live-action film series]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]] the morally ambiguous [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Decepticon dragster from ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Shockwave (SG)|Shockwave]] the heroic Decepticon ambassador from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon tank and double-agent under the false name of Autobot construction crane and [[Cybertron Intelligence]] officer Longarm Prime from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon second-in-command and [[alien]] mobile artillery from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2011]]|[[Shockwave (Kre-O)|Shockwave]], the name of multiple Decepticon [[Kreon]]s from ''[[Kre-O]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Shockwave (SG Animated)|Shockwave]] the heroic Decepticon from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered]] [[:Category:Shattered_Glass_Animated_characters|Glass Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2017]]|"[[Eukarian Shockwave]]" the brainwashed [[Eukaris|Eukarian]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]].}}

==Media with "Shockwave" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[2005]]|''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]'' the first issue in the ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' series.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|"[[Shockwaves]]", a "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" prelude story originally published in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''The Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #17}}

==See also==
{{disamb|y=[[2003]]|[[Shockwave's Tower]], a self-aggrandizing monument from the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave ''Generation one'' continuity]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Longarm (SG)|Longarm]] and [[Longarm (Animated)|Longarm]], disguised identities for two Shockwaves mucking about, one in the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' universe and the other for ''Animated'' Shockwave.}}

==Not to be confused with==
*The [[shock blast cannon]], another failed invention of [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]]'s also from the Generation One continuity family.
*[[Soundwave (disambiguation)]]
*[[Special:PrefixIndex/Shock|other articles that start with "Shock"]]

Shockwave (disambiguation)

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[[Spock|Logic dictates]] that '''Shockwave''' / '''Shockblast''' is usually among the most rational of the [[Decepticon]]s. A straightforward and sometimes brutal approach has led various Shockwaves across the [[multiverse]] to wreak all kinds of havoc, sometimes even on their own allies.

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==Major Shockwaves==
<center><gallery widths="150px" heights="200px">
File:G1Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (G1)|"Generation 1" Shockwave]] <hr>''[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cartoon]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] • [[Shockwave (G1)/toys|Toys]]''
File:Shockblast energon.jpg|[[Shockblast|''Energon'' Shockblast]]
File:TFA Shockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (Animated)|''Animated'' Shockwave]]
File:ShockwaveDOTMgamepromo.jpg|[[Shockwave (Movie)|''Dark of the Moon'' Shockwave]]
File:PrimeShockwave.jpg|[[Shockwave (WFC)|"Aligned" Shockwave]]
</gallery></center>

==Full list of Shockwaves==
{{disamb|y=[[1984]]|[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] the [[Decepticon]] ray gun from [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] sometimes also known as "Shockblast".
**For this character in [[Marvel Comics continuity]] see [[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity]].
**For this character in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]] see [[Shockwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity]].
**For toys of this character see [[Shockwave (G1)/toys]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2002]]|Shockwave, the Japanese name for [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]] (in his first body) from the [[Unicron Trilogy]].}}
{{disamb|y=2004|[[Shockblast]] the Decepticon tank/satellite from ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' so named for [[trademark]] reasons.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2006]]|[[Shockwave (Cybertron)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon-allied [[Sky Attack Mini-Con Team|Sky Attack Team]] [[Mini-Con]] stealth jet from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2007]]|[[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon assassin and scientist from the [[live-action film series]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2008]]|[[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]] the morally ambiguous [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] Decepticon dragster from ''[[Transformers: TransTech|TransTech]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Shockwave (SG)|Shockwave]] the heroic Decepticon ambassador from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=2008|[[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon tank and double-agent under the false name of Autobot construction crane and [[Cybertron Intelligence]] officer Longarm Prime from ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2010]]|[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] the Decepticon second-in-command and [[alien]] mobile artillery from the [[Aligned continuity family]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2011]]|[[Shockwave (Kre-O)|Shockwave]], the name of multiple Decepticon [[Kreon]]s from ''[[Kre-O]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2016]]|[[Shockwave (SG Animated)|Shockwave]] the heroic Decepticon from ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered]] [[:Category:Shattered_Glass_Animated_characters|Glass Animated]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2017]]|"[[Eukarian Shockwave]]" the brainwashed [[Eukaris|Eukarian]] from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]].}}

==Media with "Shockwave" in the title==
{{disamb|y=[[2005]]|''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]'' the first issue in the ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' series.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2013]]|"[[Shockwaves]]", a "[[Dark Cybertron (IDW)|Dark Cybertron]]" prelude story originally published in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''The Transformers: Robots in Disguise'' #17}}

==See also==
{{disamb|y=[[2003]]|[[Shockwave's Tower]], a self-aggrandizing monument from the [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave ''Generation one'' continuity]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Longarm (SG)|Longarm]] and [[Longarm (Animated)|Longarm]], disguised identities for two Shockwaves mucking about, one in the ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' universe and the other for ''Animated'' Shockwave.}}

==Not to be confused with==
*The shock blast cannon, another failed invention of [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]]'s also from the Generation One continuity family.
*[[Soundwave (disambiguation)]]
*[[Special:PrefixIndex/Shock|other articles that start with "Shock"]]

Raker

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{{disambig2|the ''Generation One'' [[Micromaster]]|the [[Decepticon]] Insecticon from ''RID'' 2015 who sometimes goes by a similar name|Shadow Raker}}
:''Raker is a [[Micromaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
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'''Raker''' (レイカー ''Reikā'') specializes in high-altitude assault, striking ground-based opponents with frightening accuracy while keeping well out of range of any counter-fire. He's also the only member of the [[Sixwing|Wing Team]] who can achieve orbit unassisted and is a capable warrior in zero-gravity environments. He's also a shameless flirt to female robots which can often override his logic circuits and interfere with his operations.

==Fiction==
===''Micromaster''===
Raker was one of several [[Autobot]] [[Cyberdroid]]s who were mutated into [[Decepticon]] [[Micromaster]]s by a mysterious dimensional shockwave. After the ship crash-landed on [[Earth]] he and his fellow Decepticons began causing trouble. {{storylink|A New Transformer Legend Begins!!}} Shortly after the arrival of [[Sixturbo]] on the Autobots' side, Raker and the Sixwing [[combiner]]s observed the Autobots' attempts to fight off the [[mind changer virus]]. {{storylink|Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!!}} Later, Raker waited outside the Autobots' base while [[Missile Run]] infiltrated it in an attempt to steal several Cyberdroid capsules. When the Decepticon was interrupted in his task Raker was called in, blasting the side of the base and creating a hole for Missile Run to escape through. The team then combined into Sixwing to simply destroy whatever they could. During the course of the battle Sixwing took a blast from the Autobots' experimental [[Vaccine Program Gun]] intended to return their original Autobot programming but instead giving the Wing Team the power of [[Berserker (G1)|the Beserker]]. {{storylink|Enter the Decepticon Sixwing!!}}

Later, Sixwing was routed by the newly-arrived [[Sixtrain]], who used his "Red Mode" power to blast him into his components. The team fled, leaving the Autobots free to examine the Decepticons' excavation site near a [[Mount St. Hilary|dormant volcano]]. Once the Autobots dug up a pair of metal plates of Cybertronian origin, Chain Gun called for another attack to snatch the prizes, the team once again forming Sixwing. {{storylink|Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!}}
===''Operation Combination''===
Years later, Raker (now an Autobot once again) and the rest of the six-team Micromasters joined [[Guard City]] and the [[Road Corps]] in defending Earth from the forces of [[Emperor of Destruction|Decepticon High Regent]] [[Scrash (OC)|Scrash]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (story page)|Operation Combination}}

{{note|None of the combiner team individuals ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot modes.}}

==Toys==
===Operation Combination===
*'''Sixwing''' (Micromaster Sixteam, 1992)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF-02'''

:The original version of Raker was available only as part of a Sixwing gift set in Japan, transforming into a [[Popular Earth vehicle alternate modes#Space Shuttle Orbiter|Space Shuttle]]. He can also form the right to any of the "[[kibble]]-jet" style of Six-Team, though his nominal placement is as the arm of Sixwing. (He ''can'' be placed in the left arm position, but since only the right Sixwing fist will work with him, he'd end up with a backwards fist.) The toy's larger connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Raker compatible with [[Powerlinx]] ports. The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find.

:This mold is also used by the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Aerialbot (Universe)|Aerialbot]] [[Storm Jet (Universe)|Storm Jet]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/Raker/raker.htm More information on Raker at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/1985/Generation+1/Raker.html Raker toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''
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===Micromaster===
[[Image:Raker-2002toy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|And nobody notices all these incredibly tiny shuttles flying around?]]
*'''Raker''' (Micromaster, 2003)
**''Sixwing ID number'': '''3'''
**''Accessories'': Sixwing right fist, rifle

:In 2003, the entire Sixwing team was extensively [[redeco]]ed as part of the third assortment of ''[[The Transformers: Micromaster]]'' toys, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Destron/Raker/raker.htm More information on ''Micromaster'' Raker at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/1186/Collectors+Edition+Japanese/Raker.html ''Micromaster'' Raker toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''

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*'''Berserker Raker''' (Micromaster, 2003)
**''Sixwing ID number'': '''3'''
**''Accessories'': Sixwing right fist, rifle

:In every case of twelve Wing Team [[Micromaster]]s, two of them were solid-white-plastic "Berserker" variations with purple Autobot sigils. All six Micromasters were available in this manner.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Cybertron/BRaker/raker.htm More information on Berserker Raker at TFU.info]''
::*''[http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/content.php?/transformers-toys/toy-gallery/1192/Collectors+Edition+Japanese/White+Raker.html Berserker Raker toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk]''

==Notes==
*Raker, like all of the six-team [[Micromaster]]s had no individual [[bio]] information whatsoever until his ''Micromaster'' release a decade after his original ''Operation Combination'' release.

*His name and ladybot-wooing ways is most likely a reference to the James Bond movie ''[[Wikipedia:Moonraker (film)|Moonraker]]'' which featured ''a'' Space Shuttle.

==External links==
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e394bba2fefd305c?dmode=source&output=gplain Translation of Raker's bio by Doug Dlin]

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Torca (BW)

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{{disambig2|the Maximal|the Transcendent Technomorph|Torca (TransTech)}}
:''Torca is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:BWprofile Torca.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|How would you like to taste everyone you ever hugged?]]
'''Torca'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[Fuzor]] body equips him well for land and water. His massive size belies his combat skill. Hand-to-hand combat with Torca is a challenge; his huge tusks can swat most [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] with ease. His towering presence on the battlefield emboldens comrades and drains enemy morale. Off the battlefield, Torca is actually one of the most quiet, contemplative, even ''bashful'' beings one could imagine. He's certainly a 'bot who subscribes to "actions speak louder than words".
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==Fiction==
===3H comics===
Torca was a member of the [[Maximal High Council]] after the [[Great Reformatting]]. He, along with his fellow council members disbelieved [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] when he warned them of the threat of [[Unicron]]. {{Storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}
===IDW ''Beast Wars'' comics===
[[File:BWGatherTorcaFight.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Part killer whale, part dinosaur, part elephant?]]
Torca was one of the [[protoform]]s jettisoned from the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' on prehistoric [[Earth]]. He was activated and put in [[chronal phase]] by [[Razorbeast]] at [[Magmatron]]'s request, but was protected from Magmatron's Predacon [[shell program]] by Razorbeast's viral code. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

[[File:IDW Torca.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|How'd they fit him in a [[stasis pod]], anyway?]]
Soon after awakening, he joined up with [[K-9]], [[Bantor (BW)|Bantor]], [[Stinkbomb]], [[Armordillo]], and [[Noctorro]]. During their journey to meet up with Razorbeast, Torca got stuck in some mud and needed the help of his new travelling companions to free him. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 2|The Gathering #2}} After following Razorbeast's signal for days, and picking up more Maximals along the way, Torca exploded into battle (sporting a painted Maximal symbol on his shoulder!) against Magmatron's [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]. The giant Fuzor tipped the scales, allowing the Maximals to win that altercation. The united group awaited rescue from [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 4|The Gathering #4}}

When the Predacons performed a full-scale assault on the Maximal base some time later, Torca hid underground until they got close, then bursted out and started kicking skidplate. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 1|The Ascending #1}} However, while his massive bulk helped the ground troops, he wasn't particularly effective against the airborne Predacons. Fortunately, backup arrived in form of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] and [[Lio Convoy]]'s [[Pack]]. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 2|The Ascending #2}} The battle was interrupted when [[Shokaract]]'s minions, the [[Blentron|Blendtrons]], infected Razorbeast with Angolmois and turned him into a raging monster. Torca helped calm Razorbeast down by holding him down with a foot, but ended up getting a few cuts from the boar's tusks. He and many other Maximals then returned to Cybertron to fight Shokaract himself. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 3|The Ascending #3}} During the battle, Torca was nearly hit by a mighty blast that incinerated three of his comrades, but ultimately lived to witness the end of Shokaract and his minions. {{storylink|The Ascending issue 4|The Ascending #4}}
{{--}}
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
Torca was on guard at the [[Ferromax Detention Center]] when a small group of Maximals broke in to free [[Dinobot (BW)|Dynobot]]. Thanks to their [[impercepton shield]] all he noticed was a brief light. {{storylink|Alone Together: Prologue|Prologue}}

==Toys==
===Beast Wars===
[[File:Torca toy1998.jpg|right|upright=1.67|thumb|AAHH! It's a... a... What the hell is that thing anyway?!?]]
*'''Torca''' (Deluxe Fuzor, 1998)
**''Accessories'': Water cannon

:Torca's [[beast mode]] is a combination of an orca and an [[elephant]]. The beast's back becomes Torca's hand-held [[Water-squirting gimmick|water-squirting]] gun in [[robot mode]], and moving this assembly while still plugged into his back makes his tusks pinch in and out a little bit. His dorsal fin is the trigger for this weapon, and the water-squirting gimmick is accessible in either mode, making Torca blow water out of his blow-hole while in beast mode.

:Note that Torca can suffer from [[Gold Plastic Syndrome]].

:Torca was later [[redeco]]ed to make the ''[[Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo (toyline)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' character [[Elphaorpha]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/1998/Maximal/Torca/torca.htm More information on Torca at TFU.info]''
{{--}}

==Notes==
[[File:KhangTorca.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|HEY GUYS I HAD THIS GREAT IDEA I CALL IT WHALEPHANT (Way-Le-Fant)!]]
*The sculpt and design for the beast modes of Torca (and likely [[Bantor (BW)#Beast Wars|Bantor]]) have a somewhat dubious history. An eagle-eyed fan spotted the distinctive beast form amidst the online portfolio of a concept designer around 2002. Upon contacting the designer ("Khang" as per the signatures on the art), he was unaware that his designs had been put to use.
*In ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|Beast Wars: The Gathering]]'', Torca is one of the few Transformers to not have a typical [[insignia]]. His insignias in beast form are mutated and blotched to match his Fuzor skin.
*According to Torca's toy bio, there's such a thing as Predacon poachers (who are discouraged in going after Torca because of his impenetrable armor hide and unmatchable power). Who'd have thunk it?
*The evil redeco [[Elphaorpha|Elephorca]] got a profile in [[Transformers Comic issue 16|''Transformers'' (Titan) #16]]... which used pictures of ''Torca'', confusing thousands of small kids.
*The non-toy ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' incarnation of Torca is physically modeled on [[Clench (G1)#Timelines|''Timelines'' Clench]].

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Throttler

2018-03-30T20:39:42Z

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{{disambig2|the ''[[Power Core Combiners]]'' [[Mini-Con]]|characters named "Throttle"|Throttle (disambiguation)}}
:''Throttler is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the ''[[Power Core Combiners]]'' portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:PCC-toy Throttler.jpg|right|thumb|400px|[[Katsuyuki Konishi|GIGA! DRILL! BREAKERRRRRR!]]]]
'''Throttler''' is [[Sledge (PCC)|Sledge]]'s partner. He's a vicious little bastard who's all for helping Sledge along with his destruction and carnage.

==Toys==
===Power Core Combiners===
*'''Sledge with Throttler''' (Commander Class, 2010)

:Throttler was available only with his partner Sledge as part of the second wave of ''Power Core Combiners'' Commander Class figures. Throttler transforms from a robot into a drill that can be attached to any robot with a [[Powerlinx]] hardpoint, as well as "body armor" for Commanders in either of their robot modes. In drill mode, Throttler's head is a [[5mm post|5mm]] Powerlinx hardpoint, allowing him to be held in a bulk's hand, or attached to any other Mini-Con via Powerlinx socket. The drill section can also rotate separately from the connector/front torso section... in theory. In early runs of the figure, the joint is so tight that it's actually easier to spin him around on a Powerlinx hardpoint, but you probably shouldn't do ''that'' either. The problem was eventually fixed in later runs.

:During the period between [[December 26]] 2010 and [[January 31]] 2011, [[Hasbro]] ran their "[[Supercharge Your Holidays]]" promotion: for every $20 spent on Hasbro-branded product, customers could receive a free, random product from a list provided by Hasbro. Among the items on the list was "Transformers Combiners & [[Speed Stars]] Mini Vehicle". According to [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=75487 this discussion thread on Allspark.com], Sledge with Throttler was one of the figures distributed.

: This mold was also used to make [[Aimless (Prime)|Aimless]] and [[Groundbreak (United)|Groundbreak]].

::*''[http://tfu.info/2010/Mini-Con/Throttler/throttler.htm More information on Throttler at TFU.info]''

[[Image:PCCtoy-OverRunSledgecombo.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Throttler? I hardly know her!"]]
*'''Power Core Combiners Special Value Offer''' (2011)

:Sledge and Throttler were also made available as part of a [[Walmart]]-[[exclusive]] [[Black Friday (event)|Black Friday]] "Value Pack", combining a 5-pack team with a Commander 2-pack via packaging tape and a couple of stickers, for the whopping price of ''ten bucks'', merely a third of what the two toys would normally cost.

:So far, Sledge has been found attached to the [[Crankcase (Movie)|Crankcase]]/[[Destron (PCC)|Destrons]], [[Over-Run (PCC)|Over-Run]]/[[Stunticon (PCC)|Stunticons]] and [[Steamhammer (PCC)|Steamhammer]]/[[Constructicon (PCC)|Constructions]] sets.

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Brad Mick

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Brad Mick

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Blast-X

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:''Blast-X is a [[Decepticon]] from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[continuity family]]''

{{faceless}}
'''Blast-X''' may be a large lumbering brute, but he does have enough intelligence to come up with a plan no matter how ill-conceived that plan might turn out to be. His wrists conceal blasters which create sonic booms of energy powerful enough to send [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] clear through a wall.

==Fiction==
===''Be the Hero'' books===
{{notemultipath}}
====Time-Quake====
Blast-X discovered a time machine apparently sent back from the future and decided to use it to try and discredit the [[Autobot]]s. His plan was to create "time-quakes"—temporal disturbances and anomalies—across [[Detroit]]. When the Autobots proved unable to stop the anomalies he would publicly do so, discrediting the Autobots and elevating himself to the status of a hero. [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] tracked the source of the disturbances to the [[Lions Tower]] skyscraper where Blast-X had holed up. With the help of [[You|a young human]] they were able to overcome Blast-X and Bulkhead destroyed the machine before they turned Blast-X over to the police. {{storylink|Time-Quake}}

{{note|There is a second, equally valid version of events:}}

Blast-X teamed up with a [[time travel]]er from the future, [[Natasha Pyraniac]] to enact a plan involving creating time-quakes across Detroit. The pair used Pyraniac's time machine located on the top floor of the Lions Tower skyscraper to sow chaos and eventually gained the attention of the Autobots. When Bumblebee and Bulkhead arrived to confront them Pyraniac opted to cut and run, disappearing in the time machine. Though Blast-X fought on believing that she would return to help him complete their plan the young human who was accompanying the Autobots pointed out the paradox he was in: Blast-X was using information about the Autobots' future battles to defeat them but if he defeated them now they wouldn't go on to fight those future battles. The paradoxical logic confused Blast-X long enough for the Autobots to defeat him. {{storylink|Time-Quake}}

==Notes==
*It is unknown what Blast-X's [[alternate mode]] is, as no toy of his proper appearance was ever released.

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Megatron (Animated)

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:''Megatron is a [[Decepticon leader]] from the ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]'' [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Megatronanimated.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|[[GEEWUN|An insult to G1, we swear!]]]]
If you were to ask '''Megatron''' to describe himself in one word, he'd probably go with [[Megatron (SG)|"heroic"]]. He sees himself as a freedom fighter [[Decepticon leader|leading the Decepticons]] out of the days of "[[Autobot]] tyranny". The fact he's hoping to replace that with ''Decepticon'' tyranny isn't really a concern... to him, at least. A fanatic at [[spark]], he revels in every Autobot who suffers at Decepticon hands and doesn't register beings like [[human]]s as anything more than "collateral damage."

Megatron demands loyalty from the [[Decepticon]]s as a whole, loyalty he gains through his fear and awe-inspiring power and abilities. With the combined threat of a sharp mind, his signature [[fusion cannon]], a pair of deadly [[sword]]s and simple brute strength there aren't many who would dare cross him. Still, he has no problem occasionally manhandling his troops as a gentle reminder.

The loss of [[Structure|his body]] and former glory was only a minor setback for him as Megatron proved himself a true master manipulator. He all-too-easily duped the rather absentminded [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] into helping him—and [[AllSpark Key|once Megatron was restored]] he turned the tables on his old captor.

He is extremely intolerant of treachery and deals with [[Starscream (Animated)|said treacherous bots]] using methods of vicious no-nonsense efficiency [[Megatron (G1)|unlike other Decepticon leaders]]. He is also a shrewd strategist who [[Dinobot (Animated)|effortlessly]] [[Scrapper (Animated)|wraps]] [[Mixmaster (Animated)|others]] around his fingers.

{{bigquote|Decepticons... ''transform and rise up!''|Megatron puts a new twist on [[Roll out|an old saying]]|"[[Megatron Rising - Part 2]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
{{Idw-tfa}}
{{voiceactor|[[Corey Burton]] (English), [[Norio Wakamoto]] (Japanese)|[[Jan Spitzer]] (German), [[Mirosław Neinert]] (Polish), [[Raffaele Farina]] (Italian), [[Junseok Song]] (Korean), [[Affonso Amajones]] (Portuguese), [[Mario Santander]] (Latin American Spanish, season 1 and 2), [[Alexander Páez]] (Latin American Spanish, season 3), [[Arto Nieminen]] (Finnish)}}

[[File:Megatron Cybertron.jpg|left|thumb|Pointier than thou.]]
''Eons ago Megatron overthrew the previous Decepticon leader [[Megazarak (Animated)|Megazarak]] and took control of the faction for himself. He gave speeches and wrote manifestos calling for the Decepticons to rise up and take control of both Cybertron and the [[AllSpark]] from the Autobots. Finally, on the [[Cycle of Infamy]] he took the Decepticons from mere rhetoric to outright war.''

''The Decepticons overran Autobot space but the Autobots under [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] had one major advantage—[[space bridge]] technology which allowed them to move about the galaxy more easily. The Decepticon advance ground to a halt.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}} However, Megatron's forces continued to fight on until the Autobots sent the AllSpark through the space bridge to random coordinates. Realizing that the AllSpark was the key to defeating the Autobots, Megatron abandoned the Cybertron theater and began searching the galaxy aboard his massive flagship the ''[[Nemesis (Animated)|Nemesis]]''. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} Megatron also lost the codes to [[Project Omega]] when the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] failed to bring him [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Thrill of the Hunt}} ''With the war going badly after this, Megatron tried a last-ditch attempt with the [[False Calm]] and sent his troops at sub-light speeds to Cybertron. During the [[Battle for Iacon]] Megatron destroyed [[Gamma Supreme]]. Ultimately the attack failed and the Decepticons were finally forced to agree to an armistice and exile.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

[[File:TFA TARO Decepticons attention.JPG|thumb|He's not planning on shaking Prime's hand...he's going to tear it off.]]
However, Megatron continued to search for the AllSpark. Four million years later, the ''Nemesis's'' crew discovered [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|a small Autobot repair vessel]] after detecting the AllSpark. When [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] volunteered to attack Megatron saw his ambitions all too clearly and pointedly remarked that he wasn't about to let four million solar cycles of searching for the AllSpark end with Starscream "[laying his] greasy wings on it". No, Megatron would strike the Autobot ship and take the AllSpark himself. Just prior to his departure Starscream approached him again, ostensibly to wish him luck but actually to place an overload device on his leader's back. This device went off just as Megatron's fusion cannon was about to breach the hull of the Autobots' ship. The Autobot crew managed to steer the now-failing ship through an asteroid field and into a nearby [[space bridge]].

With the ship now plummeting through the Earth's atmosphere, a wounded Megatron still managed to thrash the crew soundly and nearly claimed the AllSpark. Quick thinking on the part of the ship's captain [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] sent the Decepticon leader out the cargo hatch and into free fall. Megatron [[Megatron (Movie)|fell from the sky and crashed]] in Paw Paw, [[Michigan]], where his head (and later, a hand) was found by a young [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]].

Over the next fifty years, Sumdac built a robotics empire by reverse-engineering Megatron's components while Megatron's inert head remained secretly in Sumdac's private lab, the source of the human's engineering genius and also a secret shame. Megatron's severed hand was there as well used by Sumdac as a piece of furniture. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} {{storylink|Dispatches}}

[[File:AniMegsHead-TransformAndRollout.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hey Megatron, don't lose your... oh.]]
After the Autobots re-awoke Isaac's daughter [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari]] used her [[AllSpark Key]] to sneak into her father's lab. He stopped her from seeing anything it contained but the the Key's AllSpark energy was absorbed by Megatron's head reawakening his spark and mind and bringing him back online. Confused and disoriented, he automatically brought up video footage of Starscream and the Autobots, footage in which Starscream admitted to his treachery. Furious both at Starscream's betrayal and the fact he didn't have the proper appendages to reach out and take the AllSpark which was finally within his relative grasp, he released a burst of energy which activated a small drone Prof. Sumdac had been working on. Megatron realized he could control the extremely primitive (by his race's standards) technology around him. Learning Sari was going to spend the night at the Autobot base, he secreted his drone into her backpack. Once she arrived Megatron sent the drone to look for the AllSpark but his search was fruitless. He decided to try a simpler method: [[Death|Kill]] the Autobots and extract the data from their lifeless corpses. Interfacing with the factory's assembly line, he attacked. As the Autobots fought back, he decided to cut out the middleman and knocked a hole in a fuel tank. [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] realized the factory was working via motion sensors and managed to get close to the control panel. To counter him, Megatron simply took over the factory arms and snatched up Prowl. However, he failed to stop [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], due to the primitive tools he was forced to use. With his plans foiled, Megatron was out of patience, refusing to work through these worthless proxy machines. He needed a body, which meant it was time to provide some more advanced technology to Sumdac... {{storylink|Home Is Where the Spark Is}}

[[File:Stiletto-Megatronsuccessfulfieldtest.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5]]
''Megatron hired the industrial saboteur [[Stiletto (Animated)|Stiletto]] to steal from Sumdac enterprises a high-powered laser scalpel and an experimental metal alloy and then use them to collapse Detroit's Ambassador Bridge. In truth, Megatron didn't care much about whether or not she succeeded in collapsing the bridge, as he simply desired to see if the materials she had stolen would be suitable for his new body. He was satisfied with the results he saw broadcast on television.'' {{storylink|The Arrival issue 3|Stiletto}}

Megatron soon revealed to Isaac that he still functioned and, when Isaac guessed he was a friend of the Autobots, Megatron played along. He persuaded Isaac to keep his existence secret until Isaac had built him a new body, as then the Autobots would be more forgiving of how Isaac had reverse-engineered their friend. Megatron then helped construct the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]], deliberately programming them to go on a rampage and building fire-breath into them as a prototype for a planned army of drones. When they were defeated, Megatron despaired he might never gain a new body, but upon discovering they'd been turned into sentient Transformers, he quickly convinced them that cars, trucks and "[[Autobot|car robots]]" were evil beings that ate the fossil fuels supposedly derived from dinosaurs.

During their second rampage, Isaac realized Megatron had deliberately built weapons into the Dinobots. The tyrant feigned shame, saying he'd added experimental features out of a desire to have a body again. Isaac promised not to tell the Autobots and that Megatron would have a body again one day... {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}

[[File:TFA Nanosec Sumdac Megatron chill.JPG|upright=1.1|left|thumb|Rub it in, why don't you?]]
Soon, Dr. Sumdac began attempting to build him some new servos, but these proved inadequate. Megatron revealed that his body would need [[Destronium]] to work, but Isaac responded there was only a small amount available and that it would have to be delivered across town in less than 10 minutes or it would become unstable. Taking notice of an experimental turbo suit Sumdac's labs were developing (with flaws that possibly precluded Isaac considering it as a solution), Megatron manipulated computer systems so the suit was delivered to small-time hood [[Nanosec|Nino Sexton]]. Once Sexton began using the suit to commit crimes too quickly to be stopped, Megatron contacted him with an offer of much money out of Dr. Sumdac's private account if Sexton used the suit to steal and deliver the Destronium. Between Autobot interference and the suit aging him prematurely, Sexton failed. Worse, the Destronium was energized to a critical level, risking an explosion that would destroy [[Detroit]]. The Autobots barely managed to send the Destronium sample into the upper atmosphere before it exploded, and they were left to wonder why a human had tried to steal it in the first place. {{storylink|Nanosec (episode)|Nanosec}}

After Megatron learned of the power of Sari's AllSpark Key and the careless nature in which she used it, he attempted to trick her into assisting him. He designed [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]], a musical toy that was secretly meant to grow more powerful every time Sari used the Key upon it, until eventually it would be a suitable robotic body for Megatron himself. When the Key instead brought Soundwave to independent life, Megatron changed his plan and, with convincing logic, recruited Soundwave as a Decepticon warrior. {{storylink|Sound and Fury}}

When [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] and [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] arrived on Earth, Megatron, remembering Starscream's betrayal, was hesitant to act. After witnessing a battle between his soldiers and the Autobots, Megatron concluded that Blitzwing was too unstable, but Lugnut was genuinely loyal. He contacted Lugnut only, instructing him to locate the AllSpark, which would help restore him. Later, he also informed Lugnut about the Key. Unfortunately, Lugnut and Blitzwing were defeated and damaged by the Autobots, severing Lugnut's link with Megatron—and Megatron's only link to the outside world. {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}}

[[File:Sumdac megatron's body.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb|Yeah, it's a fixer-upper.]]
Although Megatron himself was not mentally involved, his headless body was infected with [[space barnacle]]s, causing the barnacles to mutate into a semi-sentient form. After absorbing two mining bots and attacking a [[Sparkplug (Animated human)|miner]], it was defeated by Bumblebee and Prowl. Later, the body was discovered (minus space barnacles) by Isaac Sumdac and most likely brought back to his laboratory. Sumdac remarked that Megatron would be ''very'' pleased with the find... {{storylink|Nature Calls}}

[[File:MegRisingRebuilt.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Don't call it a comeback; I've been here for years.]]
Sumdac attempted to rebuild Megatron, but progress was slowed by a power failure. Frustrated, Megatron again contacted Lugnut and ordered him to bring him the AllSpark Key. This communication triggered Starscream's curiosity, and the treacherous jet located Megatron. Starscream didn't have time to <s>finish his speech</s> slay Megatron before he was distracted by the Autobots—and Megatron used that distraction to take Starscream by surprise and eject him from the lab. When Blitzwing and Lugnut arrived with the Key, Megatron revealed his true identity to his human "friend". Sumdac, seized by the mechanical hand he had so long used as a chair, could only watch and wail in horror as the Decepticon tyrant used the power of the AllSpark to reconstruct himself, more powerful than ever. Finally restored, he burst through the roof of [[Sumdac Tower]], to the horror of the Autobots and Starscream, ready to unleash his vengeance on all of them. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}

[[File:PayThePiper.JPG|upright=1.1|left|thumb|"Will anyone else attempt to fill his shoes?"]] Megatron's revenge was quick and brutal. Trashing the Autobots in short order, he called his Decepticons to him. As Starscream bootlicked, Megatron powered up his fusion cannon to destroy the one responsible for his defeat—then used the AllSpark Key to send a painful power surge through Starscream, extinguishing the traitor's spark and reinforcing his authority over Blitzwing and Lugnut. He commanded them to "transform and rise up," and the three Decepticons took to the sky, using the Key to track the AllSpark.

[[File:Megatron Rising 2 All Spark Megs boom.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|This is not good...]] Finding it aboard the Autobots' ship, the Decepticons caused the ship to crash on [[Dinobot Island (Animated)|Dinobot Island]], where Megatron proceeded to beat the [[Slag (slang)|slag]] out of Optimus Prime. Getting into the ship, Megatron removed the AllSpark from its casing and placed it in his chest, preparing to devastate Earth before conquering Cybertron. However, Professor Sumdac used his knowledge of Megatron's circuitry to disrupt his equilibrium sensors, causing Megatron to drop the AllSpark Key. Optimus Prime used the Key to force a surge of power through the AllSpark within Megatron, causing it to explode and disperse its energy.

And yet, it was not a total loss for Megatron; despite the damage, he escaped and managed to abduct Sumdac. Once again, their fates were intertwined, only this time Sumdac was Megatron's prisoner. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

Establishing a base deep underground in a mine, Megatron quickly adjusted his plans after the loss of the AllSpark. During his battle aboard the Autobot ship, he had managed to download a partial [[space bridge]] schematic from their computers. He planned to use the space bridge to teleport himself, Lugnut, and Blitzwing to Cybertron, then conquer the planet from within. To facilitate this plan, Megatron used the captive Professor Sumdac to reverse-engineer the space bridge and fill in the "gaps" within the schematics. However, when a service bot suddenly malfunctioned, it was revealed that a shard of the AllSpark was embedded within it. This gave Megatron hope that the AllSpark was not destroyed, but dispersed throughout the city of Detroit. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}

[[File:Swordscream.JPG|upright=1.1|left|thumb|Yes, Starscream, and we'll keep doing it until you get it right!]]
Finding out about the AllSpark fragments, however, didn't seem to result in any changes in his plans. Megatron received word from a spy that the Decepticons had begun making random assaults on the Autobots. He realized that they needed to make a concentrated effort in order to secure his victory. He had Lugnut and Blitzwing steal a tachyon transmitter from the [[Cybertron Elite Guard|Elite Guard]] so he could send his message, but was interrupted during his transmission by a revived Starscream. After quickly beating him to a pulp, Megatron relayed his commands to the spacefaring 'Cons, only to be repeatedly attacked by a seemingly invincible Starscream. The renegade even attempted to draw Megatron out with an AllSpark fragment. Megatron emerged victorious every time and was informed by his spy that all was going as planned: With his [[Decepticon Uprisings|forces now drawing the Autobots away from Cybertron]], Megatron could attack a weakened Cybertron from within as soon as his space bridge was completed. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}

Later, while at the Decepticon base, Lugnut detected an AllSpark energy signal emanating from Detroit. Megatron quickly dispatched Lugnut to retrieve the AllSpark shard before the Autobots could. Lugnut proceeded to praise his master's "grand and glorious plan", but Megatron, fed up with the adulation to the point of involuntary optic-twitching, curtly commanded his enforcer to get going. {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}} As Lugnut failed to retrieve this fragment, Megatron tasked Blitzwing with retrieving the next one the Decepticons detected. The triple-changer proved just as incapable when it came to securing AllSpark fragments. {{storylink|Velocity (episode)|Velocity}}

[[File:RiseoftheConstructicons-Megatron'sprivateblend.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Gentlemen, to evil.]]
When Lugnut and Blitzwing brought the [[Constructicon (Animated)|Constructobots]] back to base, Megatron saw the advantage of keeping them alive, and he invited them to have a look at his space bridge schematics. Impressed by their knowledge, he decided to put them to work stealing supplies. After an encounter with [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]], the Constructobots became convinced of "the funny guy's" less-than-noble intentions, and they returned to the mine to confront him. Megatron calmly slammed them both against a rock face and asked them to explain. He feigned shock and brought them in to discuss things over his own private oil blend. Megatron showed himself to be a bit of an oil connoisseur, possessing stylish little goblets for it made of twisted oil drums, as well as a secret stash of top-quality oil and a chamber to drink it in. Megatron spoke of the glories they could achieve as Constructicons: the adulation, the statues in their honor...the barrels of oil they could down. Ever the shrewd worker, it didn't take much for him to convince them to join up and he promptly sent them to the Autobot base to retrieve the AllSpark fragments. {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}}

[[File:Rise Constructicons Megatron what.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb|Constructicons say WHAAAAAT?]]
When Starscream escaped from the Elite Guard's ship, Megatron received [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]]'s alert to the Autobots thanks to the stolen tachyon transmitter. Megatron had placed a bounty on the traitor and [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] (with the unknowing aid of Prowl) pretty much took the opportunity to bring him to the Decepticon leader. Lockdown contacted Megatron to confirm that he had captured a purple-ish "Starscream" (who was acting quite odd and cowardly) and agreed to meet at an abandoned warehouse for the exchange. As "Starscream" was brought to Megatron, Prowl, who was hiding on a rafter high above, accidentally scuffed a small bolt, which grabbed the Decepticons' attention. Not too long after, the Autobots appeared with another, different-colored Starscream. Megatron intercepted Lockdown's escape and announced confusedly that no one was to leave until they found out which was the true Starscream. However, it turned out that both Starscreams were clones with bombs in their [[spark]] chambers designed to destroy Megatron and the Autobots in one go. Quickly thinking up a plan, Megatron and the other Decepticons transformed and escaped forcibly through the ceiling. However, Prowl used the upgrades given to him by Lockdown to send the [[Starscream clone (Animated)|clones]] into the air, not too far from the fleeing Decepticons, when the bombs exploded. It is unknown if they were wounded, but Megatron later raised the bounty on Starscream—insisting on the ''real'' one this time. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon}}

He was later contacted by [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]], who attempted to sell him a new weapon. Nothing came of this as Swindle was defeated before the deal could be closed. {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}} Megatron also made some ''"secret"'' transmissions to [[Shockwave (Animated)|his double agent]] on Cybertron in order to settle his new plans for the coming Autobot-Decepticon war. {{storylink|Autoboot Camp}} Blitzwing also successfully retrieved the Constructicons for him. {{storylink|Sari, No One's Home}}

[[File:TFA ABTC1 Megatron Sumdac Hostage.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"Did I tell you about the time I killed the cult leader?"]]
Megatron's plans finally seemed on the verge of fruition when Sumdac and the Constructicons completed the space bridge. However, some vital technical aspects made it inoperable. In order to remedy this, Megatron contacted Shockwave to learn who was Cybertron's leading [[space bridge technician]] which turned out to be the Autobot Bulkhead. Not wishing to leave Doctor Sumdac alone to sabotage the Constructicons' efforts, Megatron took him along as a hostage while he went to capture Bulkhead. Once he had the big Autobot in custody, Megatron threatened to use the [[Headmaster unit]] on him if he didn't help make the space bridge operational. To Megatron's satisfaction, Bulkhead agreed and finished the project. Just as the machine was activated both the Autobots and Starscream and his clone army attacked. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

The three-way free-for-all ironically forced Megatron and Optimus Prime to team up temporarily, but this quickly ended when Megatron used Prime's body as a shield against one of Starscream's clone's attacks. Despite putting up a decent resistance, Megatron was overwhelmed and held down by two of the Starscream clones. As the original Starscream gloated, he was head-jacked by Isaac Sumdac in the Headmaster unit. Sumdac prepared to fight Megatron himself but Megatron simply used his strength to throw the two Starscream clones at him, knocking off the Headmaster unit and proving himself the victor. With Starscream incapacitated the clones sided with Megatron. He then made his own victory speech to his soldiers, declaring he would send Optimus through the bridge to test it. However, the Autobots got some reinforcements - in the form of their own ship, now revealed to be the surviving [[Omega Sentinel (Animated)|Omega Sentinel]] ''Omega Supreme''. Megatron quickly ordered the majority of his forces to deal with this new menace while the Constructicons cleared the space bridge area of rubble. Grabbing Optimus, Megatron threw him into the portal but was frustrated when Prowl freed his leader in the nick of time at which point the bridge shut down. Bulkhead declared the power source wasn't strong enough to maintain the link for long so Megatron grabbed Starscream's AllSpark-powered head to maintain the gateway. However, this provided too much power, sending the space bridge portal out of control. An enraged Megatron decided to terminate Optimus Prime only for Optimus to slap [[stasis cuffs]] on him causing him to lose his grip and fall into the portal.

[[File:TFA ABTC2 Megatron Screamer End.jpg|upright=1.1|left|thumb|"Stop staring at me!"]]
With the overload having deleted the space bridge's receiving coordinates, the defeated Megatron was transported to some unknown sector of space. Still immobilized by the stasis cuffs, Megatron's only companion was now Starscream's head which a cruel twist of fate had deposited right next to him. Forced to remain face to face with his traitorous ex-lieutenant, Megatron could only trade verbal blows. A most cruel fate, indeed. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

After their bickering subsided, Starscream began trying to free Megatron from the stasis cuffs, but having no body was a hindrance. Megatron was only freed when Starscream revealed a previously unseen weapon from his mouth. Before they could react, Omega Supreme appeared, offline. Getting aboard him, Megatron was captured by Omega but was able to convince the simple processor-possessing behemoth to take him to Cybertron to face a war crimes tribunal. However, Omega Supreme's attempt to transwarp to Cybertron left them somewhere else in space but did drain Omega for the time being. Initially disgusted that he was trapped aboard the cause of the Decepticons' defeat without his weapons and only Starscream for company, Megatron soon realized that if he could reprogram Omega to serve him he would be at a great advantage.

Managing to hotwire the Autobot with the stasis cuffs and Starscream's AllSpark charged head, Megatron contacted Shockwave to give him a status report on the Earth space bridge. However, the situation was worse than Megatron realized: not only was the space bridge network shut down, but the Earth Autobots could expose Shockwave at any moment. Although Omega Supreme provided an advantage that could end both problems, Megatron decided that the space bridge invasion plan was a failure, and issued a fleet wide stand down order. Heading to Earth, Megatron attempted to use Omega to destroy the Autobots (even though he couldn't remember their names). However, Prowl and Optimus Prime managed to board Omega and sever Megatron's control over him. Unfortunately, Starscream managed to gain control over Omega Supreme, capturing Megatron again. Ever the manipulator, Megatron convinced Starscream that his time would be better spent conquering Cybertron. However, the Autobots managed to install the [[plasma dynamic thruster]] from Megatron's space bridge into Omega Supreme, sending Omega and the two Decepticons aboard warping through space randomly. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

When the Autobots became trapped in Soundwave's virtual reality, Megatron led the Decepticons into invading and attacking Detroit. As the Autobots realized what was going on Prowl was able to break free of Megatron's grip and severed his arm with a single swipe of his hand. He was later beaten by Optimus who destroyed his fusion cannon by tossing his axe at the cannon's barrel. {{storylink|Human Error, Part I}}

[[File:TFAni Decepticon Air Lugnut Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Don't you just hate it when fanboys keep following you?]]
Later, as Lugnut was floating through space following his half-successful escape from the Elite Guard flagship, Omega Supreme transwarped to directly in front of him and he smashed into the bridge window. When Starscream asked Megatron if they were picking up hitchhickers, Megatron simply slapped his head off its position. That was for asking stupid questions.{{storylink|Decepticon Air}}

Soon thereafter, Megatron gained control of Omega Supreme's transforming mechanism, and by detaching the plasma dynamic thruster was also able to direct their transwarp jumps; however, he could not get the weapons online without the proper access codes. Megatron brought the ship to Cybertron, where they could do little but float helplessly in the air; Megatron reasoned—correctly—that the Autobots would not dare fire on their own most famous weapon (though [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel "Magnus"]] sure wanted to). Megatron ordered Shockwave to hurry up his search for the access codes; once Shockwave successfully abducted Arcee and boarded the ship, they transwarped into Earth orbit right before Sentinel opened fire. Megatron welcomed Shockwave aboard as his "most loyal" servant, to the great concern of Lugnut. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

Now on the moon, Megatron commanded Shockwave to extract the access codes from Arcee's mind. When Starscream re-attached his head to another clone body, Megatron pursued him and destroyed all the remaining clones, teasing Starscream for having always thought on a small scale. Megatron's ultimate plans for the protoforms aboard the ''Nemesis'' was to use them to create his own clone fleet of Omega Supremes—based on the personality template of his ''truly'' most loyal minion, Lugnut. That part of the plan went just fine, but Shockwave was still unable to get Arcee to do his bidding—perhaps because although she was fooled by his Longarm Prime persona, she saw the evil Megatron standing right behind him and refused to cooperate. After a few technical bypasses put Lugnut in mental command of the "[[Lugnut Supreme]]" fleet, Megatron ordered his new weapons to test their skills by destroying the Earthbound Autobots. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

[[File:TFA-Endgame-PanAcrossEveryone.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.34|...No Comment]]
Observing from within one of the Lugnut Supremes, Megatron's first target for destruction was his former prison, Sumdac Tower. But when the tower's forcefield proved impenetrable and Optimus Prime was able to destroy the Lugnut Supremes he was riding in and severely damage the other two by using the [[Magnus Hammer]], Megatron settled on a new plan: destroying everything that wasn't him. He flew cover over the advancing Lugnut Supremes, directly engaging Optimus Prime (at first mistaken for [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]], then dismissed as a [[knockoff|"cheap imitation"]]) so Prime would not again be able to use the Magnus Hammer on the giants. As the battle raged and failures mounted, Megatron finally addressed Prime by his real name to the Autobot's bitter satisfaction. The two were later trapped within a prison of AllSpark energy—meant to seal in the timebomb that Starscream had secretly placed in one of the Lugnut Supremes.

[[File:StunticonJob-LugnutMegatronPrison.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|'''[[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]]''': Master, do you have anymore toilet paper? '''Megatron''': WE'RE GIANT ROBOTS YOU ''BLOATED BEAN BAG'' [[Humanization|WHY DO YOU EVEN ''NEED'' TOILET PAPER?!?]]]]
Undeterred, Megatron accepted that even if he himself had to die he could at least take Prime with him. But Prowl's [[ghost]] was having none of that and Megatron soon found himself left alone to be blown up. Though massively damaged, he survived this and turned to attack the Autobots once more. He was quickly defeated by Optimus Prime and when Megatron wearily invited Prime ''to kill him'', Prime retorted that that would be "the easy way out" which he claimed Megatron did not deserve. Megatron was placed in [[stasis cuffs]] and arrested, then brought back to Cybertron and displayed as a prisoner before the cheering Autobot masses. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

''He was incarcerated in [[Trypticon Prison]] and [[Team Stunticon]] failed to rescue him.'' {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}} ''While this happened Shockwave's old Kremzeek program became active and began making its way to Fortress Maximus to destroy Cybertron. Megatron then questioned what could prompt Shockwave to create such a stupid program and the scientist meekly admitted that the program was only supposed to be activated if they were not on Cybertron.'' {{storylink|The Return of Blurr}}

''If [[Cyclonus (Animated)|Cyclonus]] is to be believed Megatron would have become '''Galvatron''' in the future and killed [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Oil Slick]].'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}
===''Quest for the AllSpark''===
Megatron took to hanging around [[Internet|online]] using the alias "Meg A. Tron". Masquerading thusly, he was able to recruit the unwitting help of [[Heinz Von Furstwartz|Professor Heinz Von Furstwartz]] in his scheme to sow confusion amongst the Autobots and get a hold of the AllSpark. He was also able to take control of Detroit's legion of robot workers forcing the Autobots to enact an elaborate plan to keep the AllSpark safe. {{storylink|Quest for the AllSpark}}
===Titan Magazines===
[[File:MegatronTitan23.jpg|thumb|"NIXON'S BAAACK!"]]
Apart from showing interest in the activities of [[Quake-Maker]], {{storylink|Animated Comic issue 1|Burnout!}} Megatron seemed idle... but what the Autobots were unaware of was that he'd constructed a Spark-less drone unit, [[Afterburn]], as a prototype of a future army, and then sent Afterburn off to spy on the Autobots.

He not only received repeated communications from his spy but gained directions to the Autobot base! Megatron entered with explosive results {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Divebomb}} and then ''killed'' Afterburn while rubbing [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]'s nose in it. He proceeded to summon the other Decepticons and thrash most of the Autobots with ease making some really bad puns along the way, only stopped when [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] secretly got him buried under a crane. Starscream then "saved" him, making Megatron think he'd turned over a new leaf and thus giving him temporary command until he got better. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Megatron's Revenge}}
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===Animated shorts===
[[File:MockMegs-bunny.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|If only [[Cyclonus (Animated)|he]] was around to see this]]
While Megatron gave an inspirational speech to his Decepticons (which seemed to be very similar to [[Mission Accomplished|another message]] he'd sent out), Starscream proceeded to make fun of him behind his back—making faces, giving Megatron bunny ears, and shaking his butt at his leader. Megatron was suspicious of Starscream's actions, but each time he turned to look, his lieutenant was standing there innocently, doing nothing unseemly. Megatron apparently decided to let it go, as did the other Decepticons (even Lugnut), until he finally caught Starscream in mid-heckle and dealt with him by blasting him through a wall. {{storylink|Starscream Heckles Megatron}}
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===''The Cool'' comic===
[[File:TheCoolMegatronChokesPrime01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|All aboard the Crazy Train! ''Toot! Toot!'']]
Stumbling across Optimus Prime's band of Autobots, who had recently discovered the long-lost Allspark, Megatron pursued the Space Bridge repair crew relentlessly even after they lost the rest of Megatron's band of Decepticons by going through a Space Bridge gate. Having invaded the Autobot's ship, he beat down the entirety of its crew, save for their leader. Though already having all-but lost an arm in combat when he confronted Optimus, Megatron engaged in vicious melee combat, gloating all-the-while that the Universe would be under his possession when the Allspark would be in his possession. Defiantly, Optimus managed to expulse Megatron from the ship's cargo bay door as the vessel was plummeting though the Earth's atmosphere, reducing the mighty Decepticon to a smoldering head, to be discovered by a young boy...{{storylink|The Cool Extra issue 3}}

At some point, [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] double-crossed Megatron and attempted to kill him. Unbeknownst to anyone, Megatron's head survived his destruction and had hooked into [[Detroit]]'s closed-circuit video surveillance system. Following the dispersion of the [[AllSpark]] (and Starscream's apparent demise), Megatron became intrigued by [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari's]] [[AllSpark Key|key]] after she used it to bring [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] back to life. Interests piqued, Megatron declared the time was right to initiate the next phase of his operation. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 2}}

Megatron eventually got his hands on the key and used its power to revive himself. After killing Starscream, Megatron engaged Optimus Prime in a sword-to-axe duel. The outcome of that fight is unknown though apparently the Autobots survived the day. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 5}}

Megatron later hired [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] to capture the (somehow still alive) Starscream. Lockdown mistakenly captured [[Clone number 3370318|Clone #3370318]] instead while the Autobots captured [[Clone number 2716057|Clone #2716057]]. Megatron was met with both clones at his meeting place in a warehouse and demanded to know why there were ''two'' Starscreams. When the clones turned out to be bombs Megatron attempted to flee in helicopter mode only to be chased down by the explosives after [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] attached a pair of rockets to them. Megatron screamed in confusion as he was caught in the explosion. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 6}}

With the [[space bridge#Animated cartoon|Space Bridge]] nearly completed, Megatron was caught off-guard by a surprise attack from Optimus Prime and the Autobots. Clashing sword with Prime's axe, Megatron arrogantly told the Autobot he could never win, though his efforts were amusing. Megatron was then met by a second surprise: an attack by Starscream and his [[Starscream clone (Animated)|Clone Army]]. Megatron was forced to fight side by side with Optimus but quickly dissolved the partnership when he use Prime as a shield to block one of [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]]'s shots. Dropping Prime's smoking body, Megatron informed all listening that the universe belonged to him. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 7}}

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Megatron then installed the severed head of Starscream into the Space Bridge in order to power it with his AllSpark fragment. The fragment proved ''too'' powerful and caused the Space Bridge to overload. Optimus recovered and took Megatron's distraction as an opportunity to defeat the villain once and for all. Slapping a pair of stasis cuffs on him, Optimus kicked Megatron in the jaw and sent him hurtling into the vortex. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 8}}

Megatron found himself warped to the same coordinates as Starscream's head and Omega Supreme. Megatron attempted to use Starscream's [[spark]] to jumpstart Omega Supreme but the plan backfired and Starscream took control of Omega's systems. Starscream sized Megatron in his giant hand and, taunting him returned to [[Earth]] for vengeance against the Autobots. Megatron would not be so easily defeated however, and breaking free teamed with Optimus Prime to sever Starscream's connection to Omega. That dealt with, Megatron and Optimus then agreed to end their rivalry with a final battle. Flying off into the sky, the enemies clashed sword with hammer. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 9}}

Megatron found himself outmatched by Optimus's Wingblade and Magnus Hammer however, and chose to even the odds by blasting his foe with his fusion cannon powered by Starscream's AllSpark fragment! The blast blew Optimus to pieces, but just to be sure Megatron impaled his foe through the spark chamber with his sword anyway. Optimus refused to be beaten and absorbed the power of the AllSpark fragment into himself... somehow. Repaired and now apparently invincible, Prime mopped the floor with Megatron. The defeated [[Emperor of Destruction]] was then carted back to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in shackles. {{storylink|The Cool Episode Final}}
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==Games==
===Transformers Animated: The Game===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Corey Burton]] (English)
[[File:TFAnimated Game Megatron.jpg|thumb|left|126px|Helmet design provided by Lego.]]
After completing a space bridge terminal in his hidden mine base on [[Earth]], Megatron began to prepare to attack Cybertron. He hired [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] to collect [[AllSpark]] fragments to power his Space Bridge and obtained enough to do so, however while he was in the process of powering it up [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]'s team found the base and attacked him. Though he boasted he could beat them easily without the use of weapons they used an electromagnet to defeat him and he was forced to escape by transwarping to Cybertron.

There, he was able to take control of some of the planetary defense systems driving the Autobots away from the [[Space Bridge Nexus]] and sent out a message ordering his forces to take control of the Space Bridges around the rim of the galaxy. [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] soon reported that they'd captured more than a dozen Space Bridges. Before Megatron could take control of the nexus, Optimus's team caught up with him. Commandeering some of the defense systems, they managed to defeat him. Growling that the Decepticons would rise again, Megatron transwarped out to parts unknown. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Game}}
===Transformers Animated: ''Action Packs''===
{{note|Megatron is featured as a playable game card. He is a silver card, has a value of 6 points and has the following power: "+1 to every Deception in play."}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: Action Packs}}
===Transformers Battle Universe===
At the edge of time, when the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] needed a new host, Megatron was among several warriors (and [[Megatron (disambiguation)|Megatrons]]) summoned from the multiverse to battle for control of the prize. {{storylink|Transformers Battle Universe}}
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==Toys==
===Animated===
====Deluxe Class====
[[File:TFAnimated Deluxe BattleBegins Megatron toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|SPAAAACE ROOOAAACH!]]
*'''Optimus Prime vs. Megatron: The Battle Begins''' (Entertainment Pack, 2008)

:Megatron transforms into a sleek spacecraft with, er, VTOL turbofans (presumably designed to show some lineage with his eventual helicopter mode. It's best if you don't think about it too hard). His signature fusion cannon forms the central chassis and cockpit section of the spacecraft (officially, a "Fusion Fighter"); his sword sections mount on the sides of the cannon for storage, though the blade is unremovable and effectively useless. Like the [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Prime]] figure he comes with, he features a punching gimmick, having a spring-loaded waist that snaps back when twisted. Unfortunately, Megatron's balljoint hips and the swivel joints between his thighs and knees are rather loose, making it difficult to pose the figure in such a way that he stands on his own. The figure features a silver color scheme and battle damage paint applications. Also included was [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video#Pack-in disc|a DVD]] featuring the first episode of ''Transformers Animated''.

:The design makes it tricky to tell which end of his Fusion Fighter mode is the front and which is the back.

:This toy was also released in a 2-pack with Prowl as a Wal*Mart [[exclusive]] (see below).

:If you want to be pedantic about it, the battle implied by the battle-pack pairing is technically a timeline impossibility, insofar as it depicts Cybertron Mode Megatron versus Earth Mode Optimus. It is also [[scale]]d incorrectly, as Megatron was shown as being notably larger than Optimus in "[[Transform and Roll Out]]".

:This mold was used to make the third prize of the [[Hasbro UK exclusive limited Edition Handmade Samples]].

::*''[http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=429 More information on Battle Begins Megatron at Transformers-Universe.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/BattleBeginsMegatron/megatron.htm More information on "The Battle Begins" Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TF-Animated-VSF-Fight-of-Start-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|]]
*'''Fight of Start''' (Deluxe 2-pack, 2010)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''VS-F'''

:For its Japanese release, "Battle Begins" Megatron was given a shinier metallic paint job (sans battle damage) and white-bordered Decepticon symbols, like the majority of the TakaraTomy ''Animated'' toys. The figure was only available in a 2-pack with a redecoed version of the Deluxe-scale CYBERTRON Mode Optimus Prime.

:The title of this set in Japanese is "hajimari no taiketsu" - which amounts to "the battle begins" when translated, but the back of the box chooses to render the phrase as "Fight of Start". [[Engrish|Oh well...]]

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[[File:AniDXMegsGoldVersion.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4| All that glitters is gold.]]
*'''Megatron Gold Version''' (Deluxe, 2011)

:A gold-chromed version of the Deluxe-class Battle Begins Megatron, Megatron Gold Version was made available to residents of Japan via a lottery. There were several ways to enter the drawing for him: one could clip out and send in a barcode from a single standard ''Animated'' toy or a single standard ''Autobot Alliance'' live action film series toy (or four EZ Collection barcodes), '''or''' send in 5 Sega Transformers trading cards, '''or''' cut out and send in the appropriate portion of the character cards included with volumes 4 or 5 of Paramount of Japan's ''Animated'' DVDs or the "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Transformers: Revenge]] Greatest Hits" DVD. The entry period of the drawing was November 1st, 2010 to January 16th, 2011.

:Megatron Gold Version was limited to 1,000 pieces.

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====Voyager Class====
[[File:Animated megatron voyager.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Curse you, Earth's atmosphere! ''(Hasbro version pictured)'']]
[[File:TFA-TA06-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy version pictured)'']]
*'''CYBERTRON Mode Megatron''' (Voyager, 2008/2010)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TA-06'''
**''Accessories'': Missile

: A larger, bulkier, more detailed, and more gimmick-laden iteration of the same character design used in the deluxe-scaled versus pack toy. Note that while both modes of both toys look very similar, they have different transformation mechanisms and are not a simple upscaling/downscaling of each other. Where the deluxe version is straight silver, this version has a pearl-gray paint scheme. The figure features an [[Automorph Technology|automorph]] gimmick in the chest, which closes like a clamshell in transforming to robot mode. A second automorph gimmick is built into the energon blades on the cannon, swinging them into place to form a polearm. Red translucent plastic is heavily used throughout the figure, including in the light piping for the head and the missile for the spring-loaded cannon. Even his ''fingers'' are made of energon, it seems.

:This toy apparently had a safety modification done late on in the design process (late enough that it doesn't show up on the instructions), possibly as a result of drop test failure. The strut that holds his fusion cannon has been reinforced, and as a result, his cannon cannot be mounted flush against his arm. It is also noted that his cannon easily pops off.

:As with the smaller figure above, it's not obvious exactly what end is the front of his spaceship mode. Neither orientation really matches up to the version seen in the show, which had the fusion cannon mounted in a way that's impossible with both toys.

::*''[http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=431 More information on Megatron (Cybertron Mode) at Transformers-Universe.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/VoyagerMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Cybertron Mode Megatron at TFU.info]''

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====Leader Class====
[[File:Animated megatron leader.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I kill you till you're dead!" ''(Hasbro Version pictured)'']]
[[File:TFA-TA26-Light-and-Sound-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]
*'''Megatron''' (Leader, 2008/2010)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TA-26'''
**''Accessories'' Missile, 2 rotor-swords

: Megatron's "Earth" robot mode bears a significant resemblance to Generation 1 [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Battlestars story pages and comic|Super Megatron]] from the ''Battlestars'' storyline, and thus, in turn, to his original G1 body. His alt-mode is a dual-rotored helicopter design, somewhat like an [[Incinerator (Movie)|Osprey]] [[Obsidian (BM)|helicopter]] or the [[Cobra]] Mamba. Its rotors form double-bladed swords. The fusion cannon is attached to the left arm out of the box, but it can be detached and put on either arm. It has wheels for use in vehicle mode, and if it is removed, then (undocumented) landing gear can be deployed to make up for the loss. Interestingly, it seems the alt-mode was originally intended to allow for the removal of the cannon without removal of the bottom half of the fuselage. With a fair amount of force the cannon can be popped off (and will reattach), but the cannon mount/fuselage lower half does not provide the front landing gear with sufficient clearance to fully extend. The toy has a [[Gimmick|voice chip]], activated by pressing the Decepticon symbol on his chest. If used in robot mode it says one of three quotes: "Crush the Autobots!", "Where is the AllSpark?", and (glorious) evil laughter. All three lines are terrifically cheesy, as you might guess. In helicopter mode it makes the sound of the rotors warming up, spinning, and powering down. When the cockpit is moved during transformation the classic G1/Animated [[Transformation#The noise|transformation noise]] is heard. It is compatible with the [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] toy, but it does not change his quotes.

: The instructions leave a couple of things out. First, the shoulders should be pushed backwards/upwards for vehicle mode. This lowers the wings down and aligns the front of the engines with the back. Second, the barrel of the cannon can be rotated 180 degrees (at a separate pivot from the one at its base) for robot mode, to better match how it looks in the cartoon, with the red stripes facing his arm. Considering how padded the instructions are to mask the relatively simple transformation (two whole steps just to move the rear landing gear), leaving all this out is quite a feat. Bad Hasbro.

:There is no doubt whatsoever as to which end is the front and which is the back of his vehicle mode.

: The TakaraTomy version of the toy, titled "'''Megatron Light & Sound'''", features a metallic silver and red paint job, and replaces the English voice clips with typically hammy Japanese ones by [[Norio Wakamoto]]: "I am Megatron" in Japanese and "Megatron, transform!" and "Fusion Cannon!" in [[Engrish]].

::*''[http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=430 More information on Megatron (Leader Class) at Transformers-Universe.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Megatron/megatron.htm More information on Leader Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:SBAniMegs..jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I defy the Unicron Trilogy. Defy it, I say!]]
*'''Shadow Blade Megatron''' (Leader, 2008)

: A [[Black repaint|black]], grey and purple redeco of Megatron's leader class mold with a slight remolding to the tail... that's NOT called [[Megatron (Armada)/toys|Galvatron]]. YeabuhWHA?

:Surprisingly for a Hasbro produced redeco, Shadow Blade Megatron is cast entirely in black plastic with the exception of his translucent parts. His nose is not painted, so whenever his lights light up...his nose glows red.

: Many units of this figure have a slight molding problem that prevents him from actually moving his face when the Decepticon insignia is pressed. However, as many units are also unaffected, this may have been an inconsistent problem or corrected by a running change.

::*''[http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=2079 More information on Shadow Blade Megatron at Transformers-Universe.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/SBMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Shadow Blade Megatron at TFU.info]''

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====Activators====
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[[File:TFA-Activators-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Transform and shrink down!"]]
*'''Megatron''' (Activators, 2008)

:Part of the fourth wave of [[Activators]], this version of Megatron is a very simplified, roughly-Basic-sized version of his Earth mode. His spring-loaded transformation from vehicle to robot mode is activated by a single switch on the back of his copter mode. A simplified transformation means most of his Helicopter kibble hungs on his back. Unlike most ''Animated'' Activators, Megatron features a sculpted insignia.

:Despite having a cannon on the bottom of his vehicle mode, he does not possess one on either arm in robot mode, and the robot mode art in the instructions still depict him possessing a detachable fusion cannon accessory.

::*''[http://www.transformers-universe.com/i.php?ID=2080 More information on Megatron (Activator) at Transformers-Universe.com]''
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/ActMegatron/megatron.htm More information on Activators Megatron at TFU.info]''

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*'''Animated Super Collection Vol. 1''' (multipack, 2010)

: Released in October 2010 in Japan, the "Animated Super Collection Vol. 1" giftset contained slight redecos of Activators Megatron, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] and [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]]. Like Activators Optimus Prime, Megatron is unchanged from it's American release.

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===Mini EZ Collection===
[[File:TFA-Mini-EZ-Colle-Megatron.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Megatron''' (Mini EZ Collection, unreleased)

:Intended to be released as part of TakaraTomy's new ''Mini EZ Collection'' line, Megatron is an all new, 2-inch mold that converts from robot into a futuristic helicopter, although the simplified transformation makes him looks like he's lying down.

:The figures were set for a November 2010 release, But it was quietly canceled.

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====Fast Food toys====
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[[File:McdonaldsAnimatedMegatron.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Nope, it's still just a robot lying down.]]
*'''Megatron''' (McDonald's Happy Meal Toys, 2008)

:This is a very simple representation of Megatron in his Earth form. It transforms by rotating the head, lying face down and flipping the arms onto the back. The robot mode seems to have taken priority in the design process, since the vehicle mode looks like his robot mode lying down. Megatron does not come with his signature arm cannon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/McMegatron/megatron.htm More information on McDonald's Megatron at TFU.info]''

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[[File:TFA McD Megatron Jumpstarter.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb| look on the bright side; at least he has his arm cannon this time.]]
*'''Megatron''' (McDonald's Happy Meal toys, 2008)

:This is a very simplistic version of Megatron, he converts from non-articulated robot mode to a "folded" robot with three wheels (which is a very non-show-accurate alt-mode). Like the G1 [[Jumpstarter]]s toys he features a pull-back motor in vehicle mode that propels him forward on smooth surfaces; after a short run the latch that keeps his spring-loaded legs releases, causing him to flip forward and into upright robot mode.
:Like the rest of his assortment, this Megatron was only available in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela.

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====Other====

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[[File:MarauderMegatron.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Tonight, I dine on turtle soup!]]
*'''Marauder Megatron'''
**''Accessories:'' Missiles

:A mold of Megatron as a [[Triple Changer]] in the canceled fourth season. He has a jet mode and a tank mode, and his robot mode head has a muzzle-like plate over the mouth in a homage to ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] also based the design on [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#The Battlestars story pages and comic|Super and Ultra Megatron]] from ''[[Transformers: Return of Convoy (franchise)| Return of Convoy]]''.[http://www.formspring.me/DerrickJWyatt/q/878717866]

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==Notes==
[[File:AnimatedMegatronMovieHat.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|They moonlight as lawn darts.]]

[[File:AnimatedMegatronAltmode.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|"''That's'' a ship?!" "Who cares, as long as it flies."]]

[[File:AniMegsKatana.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Where is my [[fusion cannon]]?! All Megatrons should have them! ALL OF THEM, I TELL YOU!!!]]

* Megatron's pre-Earth head has a rather pointed resemblance to the somewhat early head of 2007 movie's [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], which went unused in the actual movie but appeared on loads of promotional materials and merchandise. Also in common with Movie Megatron, ''Animated'' Megatron lay inert for many years while his technology was [[Sector Seven|reverse-engineered by humans]].
* He is, additionally, [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|not the only Megatron]] to spend time as [[Grand Mal|a giant, disembodied head]].
* Megatron's cannon makes the same sound as his [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Generation 1 counterpart]]'s weapon, except with additional effects mixed in to make it actually sound like a laser cannon and not a blender.
* Megatron's outer space alt mode, shown for all of 20 seconds, has ''two'' toy molds devoted to it. Though these "Cybertron mode" toys resemble each other, neither looks anything like the alt mode of the pre-Earth Megatron seen on the show.
* Megatron is the only one of the original 5 Decepticons in ''Animated'' actually to have a Cybertronian vehicle mode design. Although the others have different robot mode kibble before they scan their Earth modes, none of them had an alt-mode created. Having a toy helps. (This is in contrast to the Autobots, who all had Cybertronian-modes designed for them from the start, even if we didn't see them in the first episode.)
* Sumdac found Megatron's head intact in its original Cybertronian mode. The head housed in his lab, however, is essentially a damaged version of his Earth-mode head. Presumably, this change is the result of Sumdac's destructive tinkering and research over the fifty years Megatron was in stasis lock.
* According to ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The Allspark Almanac]]'', Megatron's Earth mode cockpit seats five.
* When he was a disembodied head, Megatron had a pupil in his right eye, similar to the Autobots. Once he regained his body, this never appeared again.
* An early image of Megatron's Earth body had slight differences from the finished product, most notably the lack of a fusion cannon and the presence of a katana instead of his twin swords. This image originally appeared as part of an Amazon.com listing for [[Transformers Animated Volume 2|volume 2]] of [[IDW Publishing]]'s screenshot-based ''[[Transformers Animated (IDW)|Transformers Animated]]'' adaption series.
* In the initial planning phases of the never-greenlit fourth season, Megatron would have broken out of prison on Cybertron and become a [[Triple Changer]], as detailed in the ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The Allspark Almanac II]]''.
*In the Transformers Animated profile shorts, Megatron is introduced to the audience by Optimus in "[[Meet Megatron]]."

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Wēi Zhèn Tīan''' (威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")

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[[File:Sparks.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is a Bellarian.]]
A '''spark''' is the lifeforce or soul of a [[Transformer]]. Each spark is part of the essence of [[Primus]] himself.

The spark is a physical entity which is safeguarded inside [[Structure|a Transformer's body]]. If something harms the spark beyond repair [[Death|it is "extinguished"]], returning to the [[Transformer afterlife]] and the Transformer is considered dead. A Transformer is able to survive an enormous amount of physical damage. As long as the spark is intact it is possible to repair or rebuild the body and restore the spark to it.

{{quote|When a Spark goes online, there is great joy. When [[Death|one is extinguished]], the universe weeps.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] being all mystical|"[[The Spark]]"}}

==Establishment in fiction==
[[File:Spark.gif|left|thumb|The animation of a typical spark. Shiny!]]
The concept of the spark as currently understood was introduced to Transformers mythos in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Spark]]" (though they are offhandedly mentioned in the earlier episode "[[Gorilla Warfare]]" without elaboration). In this episode little is explained except that each spark is unique and that every "Cybertron" (here essentially meaning "Cybertronian") has one. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}} {{storylink|The Spark}}

The later episode "[[Possession]]" dealt with the idea of sparks but the spark in question—that of [[Starscream (G1)|the original Starscream]]—is established as being aberrant and thus properties it displays are not necessarily characteristic of sparks in general. However, "Possession" was the first time it was claimed that characters from the Generation 1 series also had sparks rather than them existing in ''Beast Wars'' only. Sparks remained prominent throughout ''Beast Wars'' and events in seasons two and three further established the [[retcon]] that Generation 1-Transformers possessed sparks. {{storylink|Possession}} {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

In ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', sparks became central to the story as [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] abducted the sparks from every Transformer on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} Megatron's own spark displayed unusual behaviors in this series, and again it is probable these behaviors do not apply to all sparks. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}} {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Still, ''Beast Machines'' contributed more information about sparks to [[canon]] than any other series.

Since the introduction of the spark concept in ''Beast Wars'', sparks have become an integral part of Transformers fiction. They have been featured in new [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]]-based series and subsequently-created [[Continuity family|continuity families]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to [[live-action film series|the live-action movies]] to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.
===Prototypical concepts===
There do exist some concepts similar to the spark that precede its firm establishment in the Beast Era.

[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] occasionally referenced a part of Transformer physiology called a '''[[laser core]]''' which seemingly has a similar function compared to a spark. The tech spec [[bio]] for the [[Beast Rider]] [[Mechatron]] says that he is "outfitted with an upgraded spark-capture claw that can tear out the entire laser core of any Transformer defender." This implies, as some fans had speculated prior to Mechatron's release that the laser core may be some sort of housing for the spark. However, the ''inverse'' was suggested by the ''[[Story of Binaltech]]'' which noted that the laser core was the literal core of the spark.

A more detailed idea was that of the "'''Life Spark'''", a life-force concept which appeared in early drafts of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. "Life Sparks" resembled small glowing versions of the Transformers to whom they belonged. Per a draft dated to April 1985, Life Sparks depart the body of a Transformer upon death to ultimately dissipate into nothingness unless they are contained within another vessel. While [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] transfers his Life Spark into [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (essentially taking the place of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in this version of events) [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] requests to have his enshrined in an urn at the Decepticon [[Hall of Heroes]] only for his pleas to be ignored and for his Life Spark to drift into space to be recreated as [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] by [[Unicron]]. Although this idea was discarded from the finished film entirely, a vestigial reference to it persisted in the UK comic story "[[Target: 2006]]" where author [[Simon Furman]] read the draft and misinterpreted "Life Spark" as the name of ''[[Life Spark|a character]]'' who was rebuilt into [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]].

Although the word "spark" does appear offhandedly in some [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''Generation 1'' comic]] stories (a "spark of life", a "life spark" and the phrases [[The Bridge to Nowhere!|"Let no spark remain flickering in a single Autobot microchip!"]] and [[Pretender to the Throne!|"For as long as a spark exists within a single Mechabot..."]]), these were clearly simply metaphorical statements. They may be retroactively seen as referring to the contemporary concept of a Transformer's spark but did not establish anything of the sort on their own.

==Properties of sparks==
[[File:Spark colors.jpg|thumb|The sparks of the reformatted [[Maximal]]s took on unusual colors. Before their final battle with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] the sparks became visible within their bodies. They also lift and separate.]]
As seen in the image at the top of this article, sparks normally appear as semitransparent blue balls of energy with a pulsating center composed of smaller blue spheres. The center spheres are engulfed in a reddish glow while an ever-changing pattern of electricity-like lines travels around the surface and through the interior. However, in ''Beast Machines'' the sparks of the [[Maximal]] heroes who had been [[Reformatting|reformatted]] [[Spontaneous recoloration|took on different colors]] (for example, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]'s was green). This was first visible in "[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]". At the end of that series after being infused with extra power from the Matrix (cf. the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] and [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]) their sparks became visible as if parts of their torsos were translucent.

[[Beast Era]] Transformers seem to have permanent "spark chambers" within their chassis where the spark can be seen simply by opening the chamber. Older Transformers within the same G1/Beast [[continuity family]] such as those who lived before the [[Great Upgrade]] do not seem to have this exact feature in most continuities. The G1 ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' guidebook from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] specifically states that a spark is normally "suffused" throughout a Transformer's body rather than residing in any particular place. It may be that this is also true after the Great Upgrade and that the spark chamber is merely a protected location for the spark to coalesce when needed or be safely contained during [[stasis lock]]. Meanwhile, making things more confusing the cutaway diagrams of G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' include spark chambers.

In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon there were two cases of Beast-era Transformers temporarily housing the sparks of G1-era Transformers in their own bodies while still housing their own sparks. In both cases, this resulted in the Beastie undergoing a mutation of sorts into a more powerful physical form: [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] upon taking the spark of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] grew into his [[Transmetal]] "Optimal Optimus" body; Megatron upon taking the spark of [[Megatron (G1)|the original Megatron]] obtained his [[Transmetal 2]] dragon form. However, based on the information from the series there is no basis for determining whether this phenomenon is a result of a single body housing two sparks, a Beast-era body housing a G1-era spark, a body being implanted with an especially "powerful" spark like those of Optimus Prime and Megatron could conceivably be or some combination of these. When the aberrant disembodied spark of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had earlier possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], the only physical change was the body's [[Insignia|allegiance emblems]] shifting from [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] to [[Decepticon]]. The ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' implies that G1-era sparks may be intrinsically more powerful than Beast-era sparks.

Although Transformer memories and personalities are generally treated as if they are stored within the Transformers' computer brains, repeated canonical instances have established that a spark will (or can) hold all of an individual's memories, along with their "essence" or personality. Further, there is some evidence that sparks may even retain records of the Transformer's previous bodies (such as when Optimal Optimus, whose body originated with a [[blank]] [[protoform]] regressed into a copy of the gorilla body Primal wore at the beginning of the Beast Wars). {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}} A Transformer's behavior can be modified through programming of their mechanical body (referred to as a [[shell program]]), but this is always a struggle between the programming and the "true" nature of the spark within. It may be that over long periods of time a spark may begin to internalize some aspects of a programmed personality. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} {{storylink|Spider's Game}} {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

Many Transformers, such as [[Sky Lynx (G1)|G1 Sky Lynx]], [[Omega Supreme (G1)|G1 Omega Supreme]] and the [[Duocon]]s simultaneously inhabit multiple mechanical bodies or components. The character bio for [[Magmatron]] mentions this ability of his and categorizes his spark as a "[[mitotic spark]]" which is capable of splitting and sharing itself among his three [[beast mode]]s. It is unknown whether other multiple-bodied Transformers also possess mitotic sparks or if they are examples of something more mundane such as simple remote control.

Some Transformers are able to sense and communicate with the sparks of other Transformers through a process that appears analogous to telepathy. According to dialogue from "[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]" this ability is related to the sparks' mutual connection to the Allspark. Disembodied sparks are sometimes able to communicate through this same method. ([[#Disembodied_sparks|See below]].)

[[Energon radiation|The radiation]] emitted by [[energon]] crystals is harmful to sparks even when protected and securely encased within a shell. Certain body types are better able to shield the spark from energon radiation. For example, the flesh-like beast modes adopted by the crews of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' provided essentially 100% protection allowing activity in environments that were practically forests of energon crystals so long as those involved remained in beast mode. Direct contact between crystalline energon and a spark is highly dangerous.

In the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]" [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] describes Megatron's disembodied spark as a ball of [[electron]]s. He goes on to say that normal sparks contain a large number of [[positron]]s. Based on his dialogue, it is possible but not certain that sparks are composed ''entirely'' of positrons; however, in other sources the existence and names of [[Spark#Characters by sparktype|spark types]] suggests a more complex composition. Rattrap also indicates in "Revelations Part I" that when a spark is extinguished carbon scoring is typically left on or within the Transformer's chassis.

[[File:Revelations3 Nightscream spark.jpg|left|thumb|[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]'s hands don't seem to touch the spark itself while pushing on it. Mind you, wouldn't you recoil from the guy too?]]
Regardless of their composition, sparks are not insubstantial energy but have some sort of physical aspect. This is clearly demonstrated in again, "Revelations Part III" when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] is seen attempting to push Blackarachnia's spark back into her body. His hands press against some sort of surface or perhaps merely a force field in which case the spark could be entirely energy which is above the visible surface of her spark. Later in the series in "Spark of Darkness" Megatron's spark is also shown to have physicality. Further back, in ''Beast Wars'', the spark of Rampage/Protoform X would respond to being "crushed" by Megatron by flattening slightly inside its energon-lined carrying case. And even the spark of G1 Megatron was "grabbed" physically by a tentacle-like appendage of BW Megatron's. While some of these examples may be special cases, as they deal with sparks that have unusual properties, those properties are unique to each spark. The weight of evidence, then, is in favor of sparks being at least partially substantial.

In the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]] sparks were shown to have the ability to be somehow augmented by Primus to become a [[Spark of Combination|Combination Spark]]. This allowed two Autobots to [[powerlinx]] together into a new form, allowing one Autobot to take command of the fused body while the "pants" remained dormant. Without the Combination Spark, a powerlinx between two normal Transformers could not be completed. It is not stated whether the combiner teams [[Constructicon Maximus]] and [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] also possessed Combination Sparks or if their ability to combine has some other origin.

==Disembodied sparks==
Sparks are able to exist outside of a Transformer body, but the parameters of this phenomenon are largely unclear. It is unknown for how long a spark can survive under such conditions, although they are vulnerable to damage in this state. It is also unknown whether a disembodied spark is "conscious" and aware of its surroundings, or whether it is capable of moving under its own power. (There are unusual cases, as described under [[Spark#Aberrant sparks|aberrant sparks]].)

It is hard to imagine how a spark could be aware of its surroundings when stripped of all sensory mechanisms. Indeed, in "Revelations Part III: Apocalypse", while Blackarachnia's spark was outside of her body her consciousness did not remain in the "real world". Instead, she experienced a conversation with the meditating [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]—not a hallucination—which took place on an abstract "higher plane of existence" perhaps within the Allspark itself.

Most of the disembodied sparks in ''Beast Machines'' drift slowly and largely directionlessly. In many other cases, sparks seem to move with some sort of intent. However, aside from attempts of sparks to re-enter their "home" bodies, these are conceivably all "special cases" and may not be generalizable. In one example, the sparks of [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] are seen following [[Tigerhawk]] to Earth in "[[Other Victories]]". While their sparks appear normal when this occurs, they later merge into a single white spark and then inhabit the then-empty Tigerhawk body. This is not normal spark behavior and may be related to the time they spent seemingly in stasis with the [[Vok]]. Also, in "Revelations Part III" when Blackarachnia becomes panicked during her telepathic conversation with Primal, her spark begins moving erratically and has to be chased down by Nightscream. However, it is unclear whether the spark was moving ''with intent''—especially since Blackarachnia's consciousness was portrayed as still being on a higher plane—or simply zigzagging randomly. And again, a reformatted spark may be different from a normal spark anyway.

==Absence of a spark==
Strangely, it is possible for Transformers-related mechanical entities to remain online and sentient despite the ''lack'' of a spark.

The first example would be the original [[Diagnostic Drone]] in ''Beast Machines''. While simply being a robotic aid and having no spark it showed a full range of emotions, the ability to reason and could be consulted by Megatron. In ''Animated'', first [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] and later [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]] each substituted a natural spark with an [[AllSpark|AllSpark fragment]]. Titan's tie-in comics meanwhile, would reveal that comic-original character [[Afterburn]] was really a sparkless drone despite having shown emotion, initiative and thought beforehand.

These instances raise questions about how necessary a spark ''really'' is and what properties it bestows that are genuinely unique.

Of interest is that when Afterburn was revealed to have had no spark, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] ''immediately'' wrote him off as not having been a "real" bot and viewed it as pointless to mark Afterburn's death. Similarly, nobody seemed bothered by the Starscream clones dying or found it notable that Starscream had created beings whose sole purpose was to be suicide bombers. In some continuities, it appears as if [[Religion|Cybertronian orthodoxy]] views the presence of a spark as the true indicator of life with emotion and sentience being seen as mostly irrelevant.
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==Aberrant sparks==
Some sparks have exhibited properties or behaviors that do not seem to be generalizable to other sparks.
===Starscream===
As established in the ''Beast Wars'' episodes "[[Possession]]" and "[[Bad Spark]]," Starscream possesses a "mutant" immortal spark. Even when his body is destroyed, his spark is not extinguished. This explanation retcons the appearance of Starscream's ghost in some season three episodes from the G1 cartoon; the "ghost" was in fact Starscream's disembodied spark.

Starscream's spark was able to move under its own power and seemingly traveled not just across space from Cybertron to [[Earth]], but backwards through time from 2006 to human prehistory. It may be that the time travel was accomplished by "falling" through the [[transwarp]] hole left by the ''Axalon'' and ''Darksyde'' when they arrived on prehistoric Earth—[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]'s ship arrived there by that method later in the series—but this is uncertain.

Additionally, Starscream's spark was able to take possession of other Transformers simply by entering their bodies. While in another body, Starscream's will completely dominates that of his host. When Starscream possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], Waspinator's voice even changed to sound like Starscream's and the Predacon insignias on his body changed to Decepticon insignias. Starscream either did not have or seem to know that he had this possession ability until he died during the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
===Rampage/Protoform X===
The creation of Protoform X was an experiment conducted by the [[Maximal Elder]]s to attempt to replicate Starscream's indestructible spark. Although they succeeded in creating such a spark the Transformer, dubbed [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] and later taking on the name "Rampage" was unfortunately psychotic.

Like Starscream's spark, Rampage's could not be extinguished through simple destruction of his body. In fact, Rampage's body—at least the body he wore during the Beast Wars—had uncannily rapid self-repair functions. In one instance [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] pierced Rampage's body from front to back with a spear and the damage disappeared in a matter of seconds once the spear was removed.

Megatron devised a way to split Rampage's spark by carving it with [[Energon blade|a blade]] of [[energon crystal]]. Amazingly, this did not destroy the spark, nor did it seem to weaken Rampage appreciably. Megatron kept part of the spark in a case lined with energon crystals. By squeezing the case, the crystals would pinch the spark fragment, and Megatron used this to torture Rampage into obedience.

Megatron later placed this piece of Rampage's spark inside his [[Transmetal 2]] clone of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] who is usually referred to as [[Dinobot II]]. Dinobot II appeared to have a personality wholly independent of Rampage's although he was similarly brutal. Dinobot II's personality however, may have been imposed upon him through programming. Dinobot II could torture Rampage by compressing the spark fragment he held as Megatron had previously done. This did not seem to affect Dinobot himself.

Rampage's spark turned out to not be completely indestructible. Seemingly as an extension of Megatron's splitting of the spark with an energon blade, Depth Charge eventually destroyed Rampage by piercing his spark with "pure" crystalline energon. Normally sparks "extinguish" somewhat peacefully, but when Rampage's was pierced, a powerful explosion destroyed the bodies of both Rampage and Depth Charge. It may be that Starscream's spark would be similarly vulnerable to being cut/destroyed by energon, but this is mere extrapolation.

When Rampage's spark was destroyed, the fragment within Dinobot II did not explode. It may have simply disappeared, or it may have remained there. However, through a process which is not clearly established, Dinobot II at that instant "reverted" to the personality of the original Dinobot, and even had a vision of Dinobot's last moments. It may be that this reversion was related to events scripted for an episode which was never produced, titled "[[Dark Glass]]".

Rampage's spark never displayed the ability to move under its own power.
===Megatron===
In season two of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron's spark does a number of unusual things.

As part of the battle between him and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] at the end of season one during which the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] were pitted against each other, Megatron somehow was able to "split" his Beast body into two separate bodies, one entirely robotic and the other entirely organic. (Whether the Beast bodies of the ''Beast Wars'' characters had any true biological components or whether they were faux-flesh composed of [[nanite]]s is not consistently established in either series.) Contrary to his intentions, Megatron's spark ended up trapped within the biological body which came to be known as [[Noble (BM)|Noble and Savage]] while his desired technological body appeared to have been destroyed.

It is unclear how a biological body was able to sustain a Transformers' spark. Indeed, even the Maximals were surprised when they realized what had happened. It could be argued, based on statements made by [[Vector Sigma|the Oracle]] in the first episode that all lifeforms in the universe have sparks, not just Transformers. However, this is never alluded to by any other canonical source so most fans have seemingly dismissed it.

As shown in "[[Prometheus Unbound]]", using the biological Noble/Savage body Megatron was unable to exercise mental control over devices in [[Council Citadel|his citadel]] or interface with his [[control harness]]. Upon using a [[spark extractor]] on himself, however, his spark was freed and immediately flew to the harness, which it activated before "flowing" up to the ceiling through the harness's cables. His spark then took over the [[Grand Mal]], an enormous, floating replica of his own head, as its new body and stayed there for part of season two. The Noble/Savage body appeared to be dead but recovered. After Megatron's spark had left it seemed to be a perfectly "normal" animal which had the ability to change between a wolf-like form and a dragon form, possessing little if any sentience.

As soon as his spark had been removed from Noble, it took on an unusual appearance, having turned entirely red or orange in color (perhaps a change similar to that of the reformatted Maximals). Megatron's disembodied spark also seemed to be able to speak even though it had no physical body. It may be that this speech was telepathic, but the spark itself pulsated in perfect rhythm with the words.

While inhabiting the Grand Mal, Megatron's spark was sometimes seen floating freely and under its own power through the construct's interior, particularly in a large space that appeared to serve as his control room. (It was here that he addressed his [[Vehicon general]]s, usually manifesting as a holographic projection of one kind or another.)

[[File:Spark consumption.jpg|thumb|Megatron's spark ensnares and consumes other sparks from his collection.]]
[[File:Giant megatron spark.jpg|thumb|Now enormous, Megatron's spark looms over Cybertron in the vicinity of his [[Grand Mal|Big Floating Head]].]]
Eventually, in the three-part "[[Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|Sparkwar]]" story, Megatron's spark began consuming/fusing with the captured sparks of Cybertron's inhabitants. He claimed to have learned how to accomplish this after communicating with the Oracle.

To consume other sparks, Megatron's spark extended tendrils which ensnared victim sparks. These tendrils also had the ability to extract sparks from occupied shells much like a spark extractor. As each spark was absorbed, Megatron's spark grew larger in size.

Megatron was temporarily beaten when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] attacked him with a sonic scream. The scream, according to Primal "depolarized" Megatron's spark. This caused him to lose control temporarily and allowed the Maximals to escape. In the following episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]", Megatron's spark exhibited additional strange behaviors which may or may not have been dependent on its depolarized state:

*It travelled very quickly and with great agility.
*It was able to "crash" physically into things to push them around. In particular, it repeatedly knocked the Maximals out of its way.
*It seemed to be able to cause large explosions simply by flying through other objects.
*It could inhabit and leave any sparkless body at will. This ability evidently differs from Starscream's in that Starscream never truly animated a vacant body and Megatron never dominated an occupied one. These re-animated bodies were able to remain functional even after suffering extreme physical damage.
*His spark was not detectable by his Vehicon generals' sensors and Primal was unable to "sense" his spark through the Oracle.
*The spark did not speak at all while depolarized, neither when in a body nor floating freely.

Rattrap was able to capture Megatron using a hand-held spark extractor and with a control panel on it "repolarized" and thus stabilized his spark. Afterwards, Megatron's spark remained red and just as fast and agile as before but became detectable by his generals' scanners again and was "trapped" in the next body it inhabited (that of a Diagnostic Drone). Upon entering this body, Megatron first declared, "I live!" before realizing the depth of his situation. This was the first time he had spoken since being hit by the sonic scream. This implies that something about his prior "destabilized" state may have prevented him from fully utilizing the bodies he had visited. The only other clue we have is that when Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark inside the [[Grand Mal]], he discovered that it "wasn't a sentient mind." Whether this is a result of trying to find a spark that was not in the expected location or because of its depolarized state is ambiguous.
===Prime Spark===
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The Prime Spark is a spark that is shared cross-dimensionally by at least three different Transformers. It was entrusted to chosen individuals by Primus himself. {{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}
===Embers===
The ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|universe]] seems to be more of a departure from the "regular" realities in the [[multiverse]]. In it, the semi-mystical ball of energy that gives the resident Transformers their lifeforce is an electron-charged "Ember". Aside from polarities, there's no other difference noted from the [[positron]]-charged spark [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]] brings into that universe.

==Fiction==
===Movie continuity===
[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] devoured the sparks of fallen foes. {{storylink|Optimus Prime Versus Megatron}} {{storylink|Transformers (novel)}}

[[Sam Witwicky]] destroyed both the [[AllSpark]] and Megatron himself when he inserted the AllSpark into Megatron's exposed spark chamber. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFfacegotten.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
Megatron was revived when [[Scalpel (ROTF)|the Doctor]] pierced a shard of the AllSpark into the hole where his spark had been. [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was stabbed and then shot through the spark chamber by Megatron using his [[fusion cannon]] and [[death-lock pincer]] but was later revived by Sam, who pierced the [[Matrix of Leadership]] into the empty chamber. Jetfire ripped out his spark to give Optimus his parts. Moments later, Optimus tore through [[The Fallen]]'s chest and crushed his spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

When cornered and brought down by [[Cemetery Wind]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] was offered his life in exchange for Optimus' location by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]. Ratchet spat in the bounty hunter's face and braced himself for the end. In response, Lockdown tore his spark out leaving the deceased Ratchet a mangled smoldering wreck. Optimus narrowly escaped a similar ambush in New Mexico and was later offered repairs by [[Cade Yeager]]. When Cade noticed a wound perilously close to his spark, Optimus explained that sparks contained a Transformer's memories and feelings prompting Cade to compare it to a human soul.

[[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]] produced their own Transformers albeit without sparks. Megatron's [[Core consciousness|consciousness]] manipulated KSI into producing a new body for him and its lack of a spark proved an invaluable asset when he later fought Optimus as [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]], suffering no ill effects when impaled through his chest by Optimus; this was also due to [[Vortex Grinder|some improvements Megatron had made]] to KSI's designs.

When the day was won, Optimus decided to depart Earth to confront the Transformers' [[Creator (AOE)|Creators]]. Though he could not say if they'd ever meet again, Optimus asked his family to think of a star in the night sky as his soul. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:KupsSpark.jpg|upright=1.15|thumb|Save the Spark. Save the World.]]
The spark is part of [[Rossum's Trinity]] with the [[brain module]] and [[transformation cog]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} The light from a spark illuminates a Transformer's [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optics]]. {{storylink|Zero Point}} There appears to be at least eight known spark types in Cybertronians {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} and a healthy Cybertronian can 'jumpstart' the faltering spark of another with the same type in a similar manner to blood transfusion. {{storylink|Before & After}} Some hypothesized spark types like estriol-positive have since been discredited and abandoned. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

[[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
A very small number of naturally-occurring sparks are [[Point One Percenter]]s glowing green instead of the normal blue. Those who possess these sparks are usually a tier above regular Cybertronians, and include such prominent figures as Optimus Prime and Shockwave. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Sparks run on different frequencies; the frequency of a spark affects the color of the [[energon]] within a Transformer's body. While most Cybertronians bleed purple energon, Transformers from the colony world of [[Caminus]] evolved low-frequency Sparks to save energy and consequently bleed blue energon. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

Sparks once [[Reproduction|arose naturally]] from [[hot spot]]s dotting Cybertron and its moons ignited by energy pulses from [[Vector Sigma]]. Once bright enough, these sparks would be harvested, nurtured and matured before being placed into a body. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} The sparks would also have to be harvested quickly otherwise they would evaporate. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

Though most sparks emerge alone, occasionally two sparks emerge together. The resulting Transformers are considered [[twin]]s and share a [[branched spark]] that allows them to feel each other's pain. On Cybertron, this was a very rare event that affected roughly one in every million sparks. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} On the colony world of [[Devisiun]] however, unusual gravitational conditions affected the development of its [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]]'s hot spot and every newborn Devisien emerged with a twin sibling. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

Vector Sigma's pulses had grown increasingly less frequent by [[Nova Prime]]'s era, so to bolster the Cybertronian population he instituted a process called "spark-splicing" which used the energy of existing sparks to ignite new ones. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} That, however was a cover story for what Nova was ''really'' doing: harvesting the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to create thousands of new sparks daily. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]]'s sparkhousing was unstable due to age and radiation poisoning. He finally experienced sparkcore stabilizer failure which threatened to blow him up. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] saved him by extending a [[force field]] around the crashing spark. Later, Kup recovered in a [[CR chamber]] fitted with a placeholder powercore to maintain his spark. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

While attempting to convince [[Stardrive]] to join the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] briefly explained sparks to the orphaned Camien. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}} After being possessed by [[Vekktral]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] managed to resist enough to open his Spark chamber so [[Rom]] could kill them both. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:SpotlightArcee Garrus-9 inmates.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Reminds me of the reptile cages at the zoo...except less stinky.]]
The Autobots kept some prisoners at [[Garrus-9]] in spark stasis, which entailed actually removing the sparks from their casings separating the spark from the body.

This process was not possible for Monstructor since the Autobots couldn't break through the destructive programming far enough to rehabilitate/reform the sparks as per [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders and as such haven't pulled the sparks from the frames.

[[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] found this limbo peaceful but was later reunited with her body. To control her behavior, a "g-force crush" device was installed on or in her spark casing and could be operated via remote control. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}
====Characters by spark type====
{{quote|Rewind's '''''vitreous positive'''''. It's a relatively rare spark type. One in 150, one in 200.}}
{{quote|I'm V-positive.}}
{{quote|I know.|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]|[[Before & After]]}}
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!Ferrum-Positive
!Ferrum-Negative
!Isomeric-Positive
!Isomeric-Negative
!Vitreous-Positive
!Vitreous-Negative
!Unknown shared type
!Either Ferrum-Negative or Vitreous-Positive
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*[[Hound (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
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*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
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*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
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*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]]
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*[[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]]
*[[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
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*[[Ammo]]
*[[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
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*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
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*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] <ref group="idw">In "Elegant Chaos", Brainstorm's time-machine is coded for two spark-types: ferrum-negative and vitreous-positive, since Tailgate and Rewind can both use it. By extrapolation, Rodimus, Brainstorm, Megatron and Rung are either of those two.</ref>
*[[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
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===''Regeneration One''===
When the [[Wrecker]]s crashed on [[Earth]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ordered his horde of [[zombie]] Decepticons to bring them to him in a state where he could see dread in their optics before he snuffed out their Sparks. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] later engaged Megatron in battle the [[Decepticon leader]] swore to open Prime's Spark Chamber with his teeth. His own Spark was ripped out of his chest and crushed seconds later by an apologetic Prime. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}
===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] was fascinated by the concept of Sparks, noting that the Transformers were hybrids of machinery and energy in the same way that [[GoBot]]s were hybrids of machinery and organic tissue. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/15}}
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[Lord Imperious Delirious]] was ''not'' fascinated by Sparks at all; as a purely mechanical [[Second-born intellect]] he considered the Transformers nothing more then mechanical sock puppets animated by energy beings, a concept that revolted him and drove him to attempt genocide on the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Intersectionality}} {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Notes==
*It is possible there is some quantitative difference between the sparks of Generation 1 Transformers and [[protoform]] ''Beast Wars''-era Transformers. G1 Transformer sparks are generally glossed as small fragments of [[Primus]]'s lifeforce. ''Beast Wars''-era Transformer sparks are generally considered to be the same, but writer [[Larry DiTillio]] has stated that he envisioned ''Beast Wars'' Transformer sparks as small fragments split from [[Nexus Zero]]. When a spark is split from the Vok nebula, a "good" one travels to the [[Matrix (facility)|Matrix]] and an "evil" one to the [[Pit]].<ref>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref>
*Despite the fact sparks are supposed to be pieces of Primus, numerous fictions depict ''[[Unicron]]'', Primus's opposite as having a spark of his own.
**The fact in [[Aligned continuity family|some]] [[Live-action film series|certain]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|continuities]] Primus and Unicron were a single being before conflict literally tore them apart and Primus based the [[Thirteen]] and ultimately [[Dynasty of Primes|first Primes]] on himself and his rival may provide an explanation for this occurrence.
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spark''' (スパーク ''Supāku'')
*''German:'' '''Mastermodul''' (used in the german Dub of ''Armada'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhǒng''' (火种, "Spark")

==See also==
*[[Death]]
*[[Transformer afterlife]]
*[[Branched spark]]
*[[Core consciousness]]
*[[Datatrax]]
*[[Laser core]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Spark crystal]]
*[[Mitotic spark]]
*[[Database]]
*[[Brain module]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]
*[[Omega Terminus]]
*[[Oracle (BM)]]
*[[Digital entity frame]]
*[[Personality component]]
*[[Crystalline containment vessel]]
*[[Electropulse]]
*[[AllSpark]]
*[[Prime Spark (Spark)]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Memory core]]
*[[Spark of Combination]]
*[[Matrix of Leadership]]
*[[Dark Spark]]
*[[Matrix of Conquest]]
*[[Linkage (dimension)]]

==References==
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Spark

2018-03-02T16:50:53Z

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[[File:Sparks.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is a Bellarian.]]
A '''spark''' is the lifeforce or soul of a [[Transformer]]. Each spark is part of the essence of [[Primus]] himself.

The spark is a physical entity which is safeguarded inside [[Structure|a Transformer's body]]. If something harms the spark beyond repair [[Death|it is "extinguished"]], returning to the [[Transformer afterlife]] and the Transformer is considered dead. A Transformer is able to survive an enormous amount of physical damage. As long as the spark is intact it is possible to repair or rebuild the body and restore the spark to it.

{{quote|When a Spark goes online, there is great joy. When [[Death|one is extinguished]], the universe weeps.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] being all mystical|"[[The Spark]]"}}

==Establishment in fiction==
[[File:Spark.gif|left|thumb|The animation of a typical spark. Shiny!]]
The concept of the spark as currently understood was introduced to Transformers mythos in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Spark]]" (though they are offhandedly mentioned in the earlier episode "[[Gorilla Warfare]]" without elaboration). In this episode little is explained except that each spark is unique and that every "Cybertron" (here essentially meaning "Cybertronian") has one. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}} {{storylink|The Spark}}

The later episode "[[Possession]]" dealt with the idea of sparks but the spark in question—that of [[Starscream (G1)|the original Starscream]]—is established as being aberrant and thus properties it displays are not necessarily characteristic of sparks in general. However, "Possession" was the first time it was claimed that characters from the Generation 1 series also had sparks rather than them existing in ''Beast Wars'' only. Sparks remained prominent throughout ''Beast Wars'' and events in seasons two and three further established the [[retcon]] that Generation 1-Transformers possessed sparks. {{storylink|Possession}} {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

In ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', sparks became central to the story as [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] abducted the sparks from every Transformer on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} Megatron's own spark displayed unusual behaviors in this series, and again it is probable these behaviors do not apply to all sparks. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}} {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Still, ''Beast Machines'' contributed more information about sparks to [[canon]] than any other series.

Since the introduction of the spark concept in ''Beast Wars'', sparks have become an integral part of Transformers fiction. They have been featured in new [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]]-based series and subsequently-created [[Continuity family|continuity families]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to [[live-action film series|the live-action movies]] to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.
===Prototypical concepts===
There do exist some concepts similar to the spark that precede its firm establishment in the Beast Era.

[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] occasionally referenced a part of Transformer physiology called a '''[[laser core]]''' which seemingly has a similar function compared to a spark. The tech spec [[bio]] for the [[Beast Rider]] [[Mechatron]] says that he is "outfitted with an upgraded spark-capture claw that can tear out the entire laser core of any Transformer defender." This implies, as some fans had speculated prior to Mechatron's release that the laser core may be some sort of housing for the spark. However, the ''inverse'' was suggested by the ''[[Story of Binaltech]]'' which noted that the laser core was the literal core of the spark.

A more detailed idea was that of the "'''Life Spark'''", a life-force concept which appeared in early drafts of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. "Life Sparks" resembled small glowing versions of the Transformers to whom they belonged. Per a draft dated to April 1985, Life Sparks depart the body of a Transformer upon death to ultimately dissipate into nothingness unless they are contained within another vessel. While [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] transfers his Life Spark into [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (essentially taking the place of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in this version of events) [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] requests to have his enshrined in an urn at the Decepticon [[Hall of Heroes]] only for his pleas to be ignored and for his Life Spark to drift into space to be recreated as [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] by [[Unicron]]. Although this idea was discarded from the finished film entirely, a vestigial reference to it persisted in the UK comic story "[[Target: 2006]]" where author [[Simon Furman]] read the draft and misinterpreted "Life Spark" as the name of ''[[Life Spark|a character]]'' who was rebuilt into [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]].

Although the word "spark" does appear offhandedly in some [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''Generation 1'' comic]] stories (a "spark of life", a "life spark" and the phrases [[The Bridge to Nowhere!|"Let no spark remain flickering in a single Autobot microchip!"]] and [[Pretender to the Throne!|"For as long as a spark exists within a single Mechabot..."]]), these were clearly simply metaphorical statements. They may be retroactively seen as referring to the contemporary concept of a Transformer's spark but did not establish anything of the sort on their own.

==Properties of sparks==
[[File:Spark colors.jpg|thumb|The sparks of the reformatted [[Maximal]]s took on unusual colors. Before their final battle with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] the sparks became visible within their bodies. They also lift and separate.]]
As seen in the image at the top of this article, sparks normally appear as semitransparent blue balls of energy with a pulsating center composed of smaller blue spheres. The center spheres are engulfed in a reddish glow while an ever-changing pattern of electricity-like lines travels around the surface and through the interior. However, in ''Beast Machines'' the sparks of the [[Maximal]] heroes who had been [[Reformatting|reformatted]] [[Spontaneous recoloration|took on different colors]] (for example, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]'s was green). This was first visible in "[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]". At the end of that series after being infused with extra power from the Matrix (cf. the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] and [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]) their sparks became visible as if parts of their torsos were translucent.

[[Beast Era]] Transformers seem to have permanent "spark chambers" within their chassis where the spark can be seen simply by opening the chamber. Older Transformers within the same G1/Beast [[continuity family]] such as those who lived before the [[Great Upgrade]] do not seem to have this exact feature in most continuities. The G1 ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' guidebook from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] specifically states that a spark is normally "suffused" throughout a Transformer's body rather than residing in any particular place. It may be that this is also true after the Great Upgrade and that the spark chamber is merely a protected location for the spark to coalesce when needed or be safely contained during [[stasis lock]]. Meanwhile, making things more confusing the cutaway diagrams of G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' include spark chambers.

In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon there were two cases of Beast-era Transformers temporarily housing the sparks of G1-era Transformers in their own bodies while still housing their own sparks. In both cases, this resulted in the Beastie undergoing a mutation of sorts into a more powerful physical form: [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] upon taking the spark of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] grew into his [[Transmetal]] "Optimal Optimus" body; Megatron upon taking the spark of [[Megatron (G1)|the original Megatron]] obtained his [[Transmetal 2]] dragon form. However, based on the information from the series there is no basis for determining whether this phenomenon is a result of a single body housing two sparks, a Beast-era body housing a G1-era spark, a body being implanted with an especially "powerful" spark like those of Optimus Prime and Megatron could conceivably be or some combination of these. When the aberrant disembodied spark of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had earlier possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], the only physical change was the body's [[Insignia|allegiance emblems]] shifting from [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] to [[Decepticon]]. The ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' implies that G1-era sparks may be intrinsically more powerful than Beast-era sparks.

Although Transformer memories and personalities are generally treated as if they are stored within the Transformers' computer brains, repeated canonical instances have established that a spark will (or can) hold all of an individual's memories, along with their "essence" or personality. Further, there is some evidence that sparks may even retain records of the Transformer's previous bodies (such as when Optimal Optimus, whose body originated with a [[blank]] [[protoform]] regressed into a copy of the gorilla body Primal wore at the beginning of the Beast Wars). {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}} A Transformer's behavior can be modified through programming of their mechanical body (referred to as a [[shell program]]), but this is always a struggle between the programming and the "true" nature of the spark within. It may be that over long periods of time a spark may begin to internalize some aspects of a programmed personality. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} {{storylink|Spider's Game}} {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

Many Transformers, such as [[Sky Lynx (G1)|G1 Sky Lynx]], [[Omega Supreme (G1)|G1 Omega Supreme]] and the [[Duocon]]s simultaneously inhabit multiple mechanical bodies or components. The character bio for [[Magmatron]] mentions this ability of his and categorizes his spark as a "[[mitotic spark]]" which is capable of splitting and sharing itself among his three [[beast mode]]s. It is unknown whether other multiple-bodied Transformers also possess mitotic sparks or if they are examples of something more mundane such as simple remote control.

Some Transformers are able to sense and communicate with the sparks of other Transformers through a process that appears analogous to telepathy. According to dialogue from "[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]" this ability is related to the sparks' mutual connection to the Allspark. Disembodied sparks are sometimes able to communicate through this same method. ([[#Disembodied_sparks|See below]].)

[[Energon radiation|The radiation]] emitted by [[energon]] crystals is harmful to sparks even when protected and securely encased within a shell. Certain body types are better able to shield the spark from energon radiation. For example, the flesh-like beast modes adopted by the crews of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' provided essentially 100% protection allowing activity in environments that were practically forests of energon crystals so long as those involved remained in beast mode. Direct contact between crystalline energon and a spark is highly dangerous.

In the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]" [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] describes Megatron's disembodied spark as a ball of [[electron]]s. He goes on to say that normal sparks contain a large number of [[positron]]s. Based on his dialogue, it is possible but not certain that sparks are composed ''entirely'' of positrons; however, in other sources the existence and names of [[Spark#Characters by sparktype|spark types]] suggests a more complex composition. Rattrap also indicates in "Revelations Part I" that when a spark is extinguished carbon scoring is typically left on or within the Transformer's chassis.

[[File:Revelations3 Nightscream spark.jpg|left|thumb|[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]'s hands don't seem to touch the spark itself while pushing on it. Mind you, wouldn't you recoil from the guy too?]]
Regardless of their composition, sparks are not insubstantial energy but have some sort of physical aspect. This is clearly demonstrated in again, "Revelations Part III" when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] is seen attempting to push Blackarachnia's spark back into her body. His hands press against some sort of surface or perhaps merely a force field in which case the spark could be entirely energy which is above the visible surface of her spark. Later in the series in "Spark of Darkness" Megatron's spark is also shown to have physicality. Further back, in ''Beast Wars'', the spark of Rampage/Protoform X would respond to being "crushed" by Megatron by flattening slightly inside its energon-lined carrying case. And even the spark of G1 Megatron was "grabbed" physically by a tentacle-like appendage of BW Megatron's. While some of these examples may be special cases, as they deal with sparks that have unusual properties, those properties are unique to each spark. The weight of evidence, then, is in favor of sparks being at least partially substantial.

In the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]] sparks were shown to have the ability to be somehow augmented by Primus to become a [[Spark of Combination|Combination Spark]]. This allowed two Autobots to [[powerlinx]] together into a new form, allowing one Autobot to take command of the fused body while the "pants" remained dormant. Without the Combination Spark, a powerlinx between two normal Transformers could not be completed. It is not stated whether the combiner teams [[Constructicon Maximus]] and [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] also possessed Combination Sparks or if their ability to combine has some other origin.

==Disembodied sparks==
Sparks are able to exist outside of a Transformer body, but the parameters of this phenomenon are largely unclear. It is unknown for how long a spark can survive under such conditions, although they are vulnerable to damage in this state. It is also unknown whether a disembodied spark is "conscious" and aware of its surroundings, or whether it is capable of moving under its own power. (There are unusual cases, as described under [[Spark#Aberrant sparks|aberrant sparks]].)

It is hard to imagine how a spark could be aware of its surroundings when stripped of all sensory mechanisms. Indeed, in "Revelations Part III: Apocalypse", while Blackarachnia's spark was outside of her body her consciousness did not remain in the "real world". Instead, she experienced a conversation with the meditating [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]—not a hallucination—which took place on an abstract "higher plane of existence" perhaps within the Allspark itself.

Most of the disembodied sparks in ''Beast Machines'' drift slowly and largely directionlessly. In many other cases, sparks seem to move with some sort of intent. However, aside from attempts of sparks to re-enter their "home" bodies, these are conceivably all "special cases" and may not be generalizable. In one example, the sparks of [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] are seen following [[Tigerhawk]] to Earth in "[[Other Victories]]". While their sparks appear normal when this occurs, they later merge into a single white spark and then inhabit the then-empty Tigerhawk body. This is not normal spark behavior and may be related to the time they spent seemingly in stasis with the [[Vok]]. Also, in "Revelations Part III" when Blackarachnia becomes panicked during her telepathic conversation with Primal, her spark begins moving erratically and has to be chased down by Nightscream. However, it is unclear whether the spark was moving ''with intent''—especially since Blackarachnia's consciousness was portrayed as still being on a higher plane—or simply zigzagging randomly. And again, a reformatted spark may be different from a normal spark anyway.

==Absence of a spark==
Strangely, it is possible for Transformers-related mechanical entities to remain online and sentient despite the ''lack'' of a spark.

The first example would be the original [[Diagnostic Drone]] in ''Beast Machines''. While simply being a robotic aid and having no spark it showed a full range of emotions, the ability to reason and could be consulted by Megatron. In ''Animated'', first [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] and later [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]] each substituted a natural spark with an [[AllSpark|AllSpark fragment]]. Titan's tie-in comics meanwhile, would reveal that comic-original character [[Afterburn]] was really a sparkless drone despite having shown emotion, initiative and thought beforehand.

These instances raise questions about how necessary a spark ''really'' is and what properties it bestows that are genuinely unique.

Of interest is that when Afterburn was revealed to have had no spark, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] ''immediately'' wrote him off as not having been a "real" bot and viewed it as pointless to mark Afterburn's death. Similarly, nobody seemed bothered by the Starscream clones dying or found it notable that Starscream had created beings whose sole purpose was to be suicide bombers. In some continuities, it appears as if [[Religion|Cybertronian orthodoxy]] views the presence of a spark as the true indicator of life with emotion and sentience being seen as mostly irrelevant.
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==Aberrant sparks==
Some sparks have exhibited properties or behaviors that do not seem to be generalizable to other sparks.
===Starscream===
As established in the ''Beast Wars'' episodes "[[Possession]]" and "[[Bad Spark]]," Starscream possesses a "mutant" immortal spark. Even when his body is destroyed, his spark is not extinguished. This explanation retcons the appearance of Starscream's ghost in some season three episodes from the G1 cartoon; the "ghost" was in fact Starscream's disembodied spark.

Starscream's spark was able to move under its own power and seemingly traveled not just across space from Cybertron to [[Earth]], but backwards through time from 2006 to human prehistory. It may be that the time travel was accomplished by "falling" through the [[transwarp]] hole left by the ''Axalon'' and ''Darksyde'' when they arrived on prehistoric Earth—[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]'s ship arrived there by that method later in the series—but this is uncertain.

Additionally, Starscream's spark was able to take possession of other Transformers simply by entering their bodies. While in another body, Starscream's will completely dominates that of his host. When Starscream possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], Waspinator's voice even changed to sound like Starscream's and the Predacon insignias on his body changed to Decepticon insignias. Starscream either did not have or seem to know that he had this possession ability until he died during the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
===Rampage/Protoform X===
The creation of Protoform X was an experiment conducted by the [[Maximal Elder]]s to attempt to replicate Starscream's indestructible spark. Although they succeeded in creating such a spark the Transformer, dubbed [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] and later taking on the name "Rampage" was unfortunately psychotic.

Like Starscream's spark, Rampage's could not be extinguished through simple destruction of his body. In fact, Rampage's body—at least the body he wore during the Beast Wars—had uncannily rapid self-repair functions. In one instance [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] pierced Rampage's body from front to back with a spear and the damage disappeared in a matter of seconds once the spear was removed.

Megatron devised a way to split Rampage's spark by carving it with [[Energon blade|a blade]] of [[energon crystal]]. Amazingly, this did not destroy the spark, nor did it seem to weaken Rampage appreciably. Megatron kept part of the spark in a case lined with energon crystals. By squeezing the case, the crystals would pinch the spark fragment, and Megatron used this to torture Rampage into obedience.

Megatron later placed this piece of Rampage's spark inside his [[Transmetal 2]] clone of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] who is usually referred to as [[Dinobot II]]. Dinobot II appeared to have a personality wholly independent of Rampage's although he was similarly brutal. Dinobot II's personality however, may have been imposed upon him through programming. Dinobot II could torture Rampage by compressing the spark fragment he held as Megatron had previously done. This did not seem to affect Dinobot himself.

Rampage's spark turned out to not be completely indestructible. Seemingly as an extension of Megatron's splitting of the spark with an energon blade, Depth Charge eventually destroyed Rampage by piercing his spark with "pure" crystalline energon. Normally sparks "extinguish" somewhat peacefully, but when Rampage's was pierced, a powerful explosion destroyed the bodies of both Rampage and Depth Charge. It may be that Starscream's spark would be similarly vulnerable to being cut/destroyed by energon, but this is mere extrapolation.

When Rampage's spark was destroyed, the fragment within Dinobot II did not explode. It may have simply disappeared, or it may have remained there. However, through a process which is not clearly established, Dinobot II at that instant "reverted" to the personality of the original Dinobot, and even had a vision of Dinobot's last moments. It may be that this reversion was related to events scripted for an episode which was never produced, titled "[[Dark Glass]]".

Rampage's spark never displayed the ability to move under its own power.
===Megatron===
In season two of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron's spark does a number of unusual things.

As part of the battle between him and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] at the end of season one during which the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] were pitted against each other, Megatron somehow was able to "split" his Beast body into two separate bodies, one entirely robotic and the other entirely organic. (Whether the Beast bodies of the ''Beast Wars'' characters had any true biological components or whether they were faux-flesh composed of [[nanite]]s is not consistently established in either series.) Contrary to his intentions, Megatron's spark ended up trapped within the biological body which came to be known as [[Noble (BM)|Noble and Savage]] while his desired technological body appeared to have been destroyed.

It is unclear how a biological body was able to sustain a Transformers' spark. Indeed, even the Maximals were surprised when they realized what had happened. It could be argued, based on statements made by [[Vector Sigma|the Oracle]] in the first episode that all lifeforms in the universe have sparks, not just Transformers. However, this is never alluded to by any other canonical source so most fans have seemingly dismissed it.

As shown in "[[Prometheus Unbound]]", using the biological Noble/Savage body Megatron was unable to exercise mental control over devices in [[Council Citadel|his citadel]] or interface with his [[control harness]]. Upon using a [[spark extractor]] on himself, however, his spark was freed and immediately flew to the harness, which it activated before "flowing" up to the ceiling through the harness's cables. His spark then took over the [[Grand Mal]], an enormous, floating replica of his own head, as its new body and stayed there for part of season two. The Noble/Savage body appeared to be dead but recovered. After Megatron's spark had left it seemed to be a perfectly "normal" animal which had the ability to change between a wolf-like form and a dragon form, possessing little if any sentience.

As soon as his spark had been removed from Noble, it took on an unusual appearance, having turned entirely red or orange in color (perhaps a change similar to that of the reformatted Maximals). Megatron's disembodied spark also seemed to be able to speak even though it had no physical body. It may be that this speech was telepathic, but the spark itself pulsated in perfect rhythm with the words.

While inhabiting the Grand Mal, Megatron's spark was sometimes seen floating freely and under its own power through the construct's interior, particularly in a large space that appeared to serve as his control room. (It was here that he addressed his [[Vehicon general]]s, usually manifesting as a holographic projection of one kind or another.)

[[File:Spark consumption.jpg|thumb|Megatron's spark ensnares and consumes other sparks from his collection.]]
[[File:Giant megatron spark.jpg|thumb|Now enormous, Megatron's spark looms over Cybertron in the vicinity of his [[Grand Mal|Big Floating Head]].]]
Eventually, in the three-part "[[Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|Sparkwar]]" story, Megatron's spark began consuming/fusing with the captured sparks of Cybertron's inhabitants. He claimed to have learned how to accomplish this after communicating with the Oracle.

To consume other sparks, Megatron's spark extended tendrils which ensnared victim sparks. These tendrils also had the ability to extract sparks from occupied shells much like a spark extractor. As each spark was absorbed, Megatron's spark grew larger in size.

Megatron was temporarily beaten when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] attacked him with a sonic scream. The scream, according to Primal "depolarized" Megatron's spark. This caused him to lose control temporarily and allowed the Maximals to escape. In the following episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]", Megatron's spark exhibited additional strange behaviors which may or may not have been dependent on its depolarized state:

*It travelled very quickly and with great agility.
*It was able to "crash" physically into things to push them around. In particular, it repeatedly knocked the Maximals out of its way.
*It seemed to be able to cause large explosions simply by flying through other objects.
*It could inhabit and leave any sparkless body at will. This ability evidently differs from Starscream's in that Starscream never truly animated a vacant body and Megatron never dominated an occupied one. These re-animated bodies were able to remain functional even after suffering extreme physical damage.
*His spark was not detectable by his Vehicon generals' sensors and Primal was unable to "sense" his spark through the Oracle.
*The spark did not speak at all while depolarized, neither when in a body nor floating freely.

Rattrap was able to capture Megatron using a hand-held spark extractor and with a control panel on it "repolarized" and thus stabilized his spark. Afterwards, Megatron's spark remained red and just as fast and agile as before but became detectable by his generals' scanners again and was "trapped" in the next body it inhabited (that of a Diagnostic Drone). Upon entering this body, Megatron first declared, "I live!" before realizing the depth of his situation. This was the first time he had spoken since being hit by the sonic scream. This implies that something about his prior "destabilized" state may have prevented him from fully utilizing the bodies he had visited. The only other clue we have is that when Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark inside the [[Grand Mal]], he discovered that it "wasn't a sentient mind." Whether this is a result of trying to find a spark that was not in the expected location or because of its depolarized state is ambiguous.
===Prime Spark===
{{main|Prime Spark (Spark)}}
The Prime Spark is a spark that is shared cross-dimensionally by at least three different Transformers. It was entrusted to chosen individuals by Primus himself. {{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}
===Embers===
The ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|universe]] seems to be more of a departure from the "regular" realities in the [[multiverse]]. In it, the semi-mystical ball of energy that gives the resident Transformers their lifeforce is an electron-charged "Ember". Aside from polarities, there's no other difference noted from the [[positron]]-charged spark [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]] brings into that universe.

==Fiction==
===Movie continuity===
[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] devoured the sparks of fallen foes. {{storylink|Optimus Prime Versus Megatron}} {{storylink|Transformers (novel)}}

[[Sam Witwicky]] destroyed both the [[AllSpark]] and Megatron himself when he inserted the AllSpark into Megatron's exposed spark chamber. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFfacegotten.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
Megatron was revived when [[Scalpel (ROTF)|the Doctor]] pierced a shard of the AllSpark into the hole where his spark had been. [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] was stabbed and then shot through the spark chamber by Megatron using his [[fusion cannon]] and [[death-lock pincer]] but was later revived by Sam, who pierced the [[Matrix of Leadership]] into the empty chamber. Jetfire ripped out his spark to give Optimus his parts. Moments later, Optimus tore through [[The Fallen]]'s chest and crushed his spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

When cornered and brought down by [[Cemetery Wind]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] was offered his life in exchange for Optimus' location by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]. Ratchet spat in the bounty hunter's face and braced himself for the end. In response, Lockdown tore his spark out leaving the deceased Ratchet a mangled smoldering wreck. Optimus narrowly escaped a similar ambush in New Mexico and was later offered repairs by [[Cade Yeager]]. When Cade noticed a wound perilously close to his spark, Optimus explained that sparks contained a Transformer's memories and feelings prompting Cade to compare it to a human soul.

[[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]] produced their own Transformers albeit without sparks. Megatron's [[Core consciousness|consciousness]] manipulated KSI into producing a new body for him and its lack of a spark proved an invaluable asset when he later fought Optimus as [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]], suffering no ill effects when impaled through his chest by Optimus; this was also due to [[Vortex Grinder|some improvements Megatron had made]] to KSI's designs.

When the day was won, Optimus decided to depart Earth to confront the Transformers' [[Creator (AOE)|Creators]]. Though he could not say if they'd ever meet again, Optimus asked his family to think of a star in the night sky as his soul. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:KupsSpark.jpg|upright=1.15|thumb|Save the Spark. Save the World.]]
The spark is part of [[Rossum's Trinity]] with the [[brain module]] and [[transformation cog]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} The light from a spark illuminates a Transformer's [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optics]]. {{storylink|Zero Point}} There appears to be at least eight known spark types in Cybertronians {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} and a healthy Cybertronian can 'jumpstart' the faltering spark of another with the same type in a similar manner to blood transfusion. {{storylink|Before & After}} Some hypothesized spark types like estriol-positive have since been discredited and abandoned. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

[[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
A very small number of naturally-occurring sparks are [[Point One Percenter]]s glowing green instead of the normal blue. Those who possess these sparks are usually a tier above regular Cybertronians, and include such prominent figures as Optimus Prime and Shockwave. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Sparks run on different frequencies; the frequency of a spark affects the color of the [[energon]] within a Transformer's body. While most Cybertronians bleed purple energon, Transformers from the colony world of [[Caminus]] evolved low-frequency Sparks to save energy and consequently bleed blue energon. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

Sparks once [[Reproduction|arose naturally]] from [[hot spot]]s dotting Cybertron and its moons ignited by energy pulses from [[Vector Sigma]]. Once bright enough, these sparks would be harvested, nurtured and matured before being placed into a body. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} The sparks would also have to be harvested quickly otherwise they would evaporate. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

Though most sparks emerge alone, occasionally two sparks emerge together. The resulting Transformers are considered [[twin]]s and share a [[branched spark]] that allows them to feel each other's pain. On Cybertron, this was a very rare event that affected roughly one in every million sparks. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} On the colony world of [[Devisiun]] however, unusual gravitational conditions affected the development of its [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]]'s hot spot and every newborn Devisien emerged with a twin sibling. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

Vector Sigma's pulses had grown increasingly less frequent by [[Nova Prime]]'s era, so to bolster the Cybertronian population he instituted a process called "spark-splicing" which used the energy of existing sparks to ignite new ones. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} That, however was a cover story for what Nova was ''really'' doing: harvesting the [[Matrix of Leadership]] to create thousands of new sparks daily. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]]'s sparkhousing was unstable due to age and radiation poisoning. He finally experienced sparkcore stabilizer failure which threatened to blow him up. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] saved him by extending a [[force field]] around the crashing spark. Later, Kup recovered in a [[CR chamber]] fitted with a placeholder powercore to maintain his spark. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

While attempting to convince [[Stardrive]] to join the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] briefly explained sparks to the orphaned Camien. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}} After being possessed by [[Vekktral]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] managed to resist enough to open his Spark chamber so [[Rom]] could kill them both. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:SpotlightArcee Garrus-9 inmates.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Reminds me of the reptile cages at the zoo...except less stinky.]]
The Autobots kept some prisoners at [[Garrus-9]] in spark stasis, which entailed actually removing the sparks from their casings separating the spark from the body.

This process was not possible for Monstructor since the Autobots couldn't break through the destructive programming far enough to rehabilitate/reform the sparks as per [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders and as such haven't pulled the sparks from the frames.

[[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] found this limbo peaceful but was later reunited with her body. To control her behavior, a "g-force crush" device was installed on or in her spark casing and could be operated via remote control. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}
====Characters by spark type====
{{quote|Rewind's '''''vitreous positive'''''. It's a relatively rare spark type. One in 150, one in 200.}}
{{quote|I'm V-positive.}}
{{quote|I know.|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]|[[Before & After]]}}
{|border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" style="margin:.5em auto 1.5em auto;"
!Ferrum-Positive
!Ferrum-Negative
!Isomeric-Positive
!Isomeric-Negative
!Vitreous-Positive
!Vitreous-Negative
!Unknown shared type
!Either Ferrum-Negative or Vitreous-Positive
|-
|valign="top"|
*[[Hound (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]]
*[[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Ammo]]
*[[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
|valign="top"|
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
|valign="top"|
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] <ref group="idw">In "Elegant Chaos", Brainstorm's time-machine is coded for two spark-types: ferrum-negative and vitreous-positive, since Tailgate and Rewind can both use it. By extrapolation, Rodimus, Brainstorm, Megatron and Rung are either of those two.</ref>
*[[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
|}
<references group="idw"/>
===''Regeneration One''===
When the [[Wrecker]]s crashed on [[Earth]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ordered his horde of [[zombie]] Decepticons to bring them to him in a state where he could see dread in their optics before he snuffed out their Sparks. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] later engaged Megatron in battle the [[Decepticon leader]] swore to open Prime's Spark Chamber with his teeth. His own Spark was ripped out of his chest and crushed seconds later by an apologetic Prime. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}
===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] was fascinated by the concept of Sparks, noting that the Transformers were hybrids of machinery and energy in the same way that [[GoBot]]s were hybrids of machinery and organic tissue. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/15}}
===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[Lord Imperious Delirious]] was ''not'' fascinated by Sparks at all; as a purely mechanical [[Second-born intellect]] he considered the Transformers nothing more then mechanical sock puppets animated by energy beings, a concept that revolted him and drove him to attempt genocide on the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Intersectionality}} {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Notes==
*It is possible there is some quantitative difference between the sparks of Generation 1 Transformers and [[protoform]] ''Beast Wars''-era Transformers. G1 Transformer sparks are generally glossed as small fragments of [[Primus]]'s lifeforce. ''Beast Wars''-era Transformer sparks are generally considered to be the same, but writer [[Larry DiTillio]] has stated that he envisioned ''Beast Wars'' Transformer sparks as small fragments split from [[Nexus Zero]]. When a spark is split from the Vok nebula, a "good" one travels to the [[Matrix (facility)|Matrix]] and an "evil" one to the [[Pit]].<ref>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref>
*Despite the fact sparks are supposed to be pieces of Primus, numerous fictions depict ''[[Unicron]]'', Primus's opposite as having a spark of his own.
**The fact in [[Aligned continuity family|some]] [[Live-action film series|certain]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|continuities]] Primus and Unicron were a single being before conflict literally tore them apart and Primus based the [[Thirteen]] and ultimately [[Dynasty of Primes|first Primes]] on himself and his rival may provide an explanation for this occurrence.
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spark''' (スパーク ''Supāku'')
*''German:'' '''Mastermodul''' (used in the german Dub of ''Armada'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhǒng''' (火种, "Spark")

==See also==
*[[Death]]
*[[Transformer afterlife]]
*[[Branched spark]]
*[[Core consciousness]]
*[[Datatrax]]
*[[Laser core]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Spark crystal]]
*[[Mitotic spark]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]
*[[Omega Terminus]]
*[[Oracle (BM)]]
*[[Personality component]]
*[[Crystalline containment vessel]]
*[[Electropulse]]
*[[AllSpark]]
*[[Prime Spark (Spark)]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Memory core]]
*[[Spark of Combination]]
*[[Matrix of Leadership]]
*[[Dark Spark]]
*[[Matrix of Conquest]]
*[[Linkage (dimension)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Primus]]
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

Spark (disambiguation)

2018-03-02T16:42:15Z

TransformersFan1001:

The name '''Spark''' / '''Sparks''' can refer to several different things:

{{disamb|y=[[1987]]|The [[sparking gimmick]]s that some ''[[Transformers brand|Transformers]]'' [[toy]]s have had.}}
{{disamb|y=1987|Sparks, an alternate name used for the [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Nebulan]] [[Firebolt (G1)|Firebolt]] in the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|Marvel U.S. comics]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1991]]|[[Spark (ROC)|Spark]], the [[Micromaster]] train and component of [[Sixliner]] from ''[[Transformers: Return of Convoy (franchise)|Return of Convoy]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=[[1994]]|Spark, an alternate ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (franchise)|Generation 2]]'' name for [[Pyro (G1)|Pyro]] ('''[[1993]]''') the European Generation 1 [[Autobot]].}}
{{disamb|y=[[1996]]|"[[The Spark]]", an episode of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]''.}}
{{disamb|y=1996|A [[spark]], that which gives [[Transformer]]s life.}}
{{disamb|y=[[2004]]|The [[Spark of Combination]], that which enables [[Autobot]]s to [[Powerlinx]] in the ''[[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' franchise.}}
{{disamb|y=2004|"[[Spark (episode)|Spark]]", an episode of [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'']].}}
{{disamb|y=[[2012]]|[[Sparks]], the alternate Targetmaster partner to [[Artfire]] from ''[[Transformers United|United]]''.}}

Sparks should not be confused with...
*[[Sparkabot]]s, the Autobot subgroup from Generation 1 and ''Generation 2''.
*[[Sparkdash]], the Autobot/[[Decepticon]] subgroup from ''[[Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]]''.
*Spark frames, another term for the [[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons']] [[digital entity frame]]s.
*[[Sparkbot]]s, a mysterious group of Transformers from the ''[[Transformers: Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]]'' series.
*[[gbwiki:Sparky|Sparky]], the [[Guardian (GoBots)|Guardian]] from ''[[GoBots]]''.

{{disambig}}

Shadow Raker

2018-03-02T16:40:03Z

TransformersFan1001:

{{factions|decepticon}}
:''Shadow Raker is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 franchise)|Robots in Disguise]] portion of the [[Aligned continuity family]].''
[[File:SRaker.jpg|thumb|right|250px|"Christmas? I, hate Christmas."]]
There are many lost bots who are in need of someone to look after them and '''Shadow Raker''' has taken many under his wing. Calling his pupils his 'Shadows', Shadow Raker teaches them the finer lessons of martial arts. He only asks for two things in return: complete loyalty to him and stealing anything he wants. While he delights in the riches his pupils steal for him, his greatest thrill is twisting their innocent minds until they're as rotten as he is.

[[Drift (RID)|Deadlock]] was one of his best students until he betrayed Shadow Raker and "stole" [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] from his "tutelage".
==Fiction==
=== 2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon ===
{{voiceactor|[[Ian James Corlett]] (English)}}
[[File:TRID E 54 Shadow Raker Insect Mode.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"Tear this ship apart until you've found those plans, and bring me the passengers. I want them alive!"]]
{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Out of the Shadows}}}}

==Notes==
[[File:TRID E 54 Shadow Raker wielding his swords.jpg|thumb|right|250px|No, I will not say "Tally-Ho"!]]
*Shadow Raker uses an altered version of [[Saberhorn]]'s character model, swapping his horned helmet for one with a large crest, the left extension being broken, his shoulder platings enforced with two more and his head in beast mode is reminiscent of an arachnid's.

[[Category:Cartoon-only Transformers]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) Decepticons]]

Scanning

2018-03-01T16:49:21Z

TransformersFan1001:

{{stub}}
[[File:TFA Lugnut scanning.JPG|upright=1.95|thumb|Sure, the new packaging looks great, but the number of twisty-ties they use to hold it in that position is insane.]]
'''Scanning''' is a method for [[Transformer]]s to change their [[alternate mode]]s into things native to other planets such as vehicles or animals on [[Earth]].

Although the "original" or "Cybertronian" altmodes of the characters prior to scanning and reformatting are not always shown, they generally tend to be something roughly similar in size, form and function to their new mode (i.e. flyers tend to become planes, Cybertronian tanks become Earth tanks and small fast-moving land vehicles become sports cars or [[Cheetor (BW)|cheetahs]]), etc. This suggests that in most continuities the scanning process involves attempting to find the most similar compatible altmode available. Whether this makes the following reconstruction process easier or is merely a concession to the individual Cybertronian's personal preference is unknown.

They also have a funny tendency to be the same colors each time...<ref>''Animated'' is one of the first continuities to show multiple cases of characters scanning Earth altmodes with explicitly different (i.e. more "realistic") coloration or paintwork and yet having their reformatted bodies stick with their original [[deco]] schemes instead of conforming to the scanned example. Lugnut, Blitzwing, Starscream and Bulkhead all do this which is particularly odd in the last case since the [[Mudflap (slang)|mudflap]] rather seems to be using [[Hound (G1)|Hound]]'s deco which is based on a vintage U.S. Army Jeep. Mind you, the idea goes all the way back to "[[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1]]" in which an orange tractor trailer was scanned for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and yet he retained his red and blue coloration.</ref>

==Fiction==
===''Generation One''===
''None of the various 1980s versions of the ''Generation One'' continuity show the original G1-era Cybertronians as capable of either scanning for new altmodes or reformatting themselves without the use of external technology and a drawn-out nuts n' bolts process of physical reconstruction. This technology appears to be standard-issue in ships and various facilities.''
====Marvel Comics G1 continuity====
[[File:Toaster ark.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Built to Rule!]]
Four million years ago shortly after the crash of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', the Ark's computer detected [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] landing on the planet in [[Savage Land|the Antarctic land-out-of-time]]. The Ark used the last of its capabilities to revive [[Dinobot (G1)|five warriors]] and rebuild them to transform into the Savage Land's dominant lifeforms: [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|dinosaurs]]. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Subsequently, in 1984 the eruption of the volcano reboots the Ark which sends a [[drone]] to scan the area for local life forms which it takes to be terrestrial vehicles. Damaged, the Ark does not distinguish between factions and repairs and rebuilds both [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s alike with new altmodes. The 'Cons leave soon after. {{storylink|The Transformers (issue)|The Transformers}}

Later stories would refer to new arrivals to Earth having to take on new "Terran" altmodes but the process was generally glossed over.
====''The Transformers'' cartoon====
[[File:MTMtE Part1 Prime repair.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|"Wake up, Prime! Don't make me use this to wake you up."]]
The Transformers aboard the ''Ark'' were damaged and went into [[stasis lock]] after the Ark crashed into [[Mount St. Hilary]]. Four million years passed and then in 1984 volcanic activity stirred the half-buried Ark awakening [[Teletraan I]], the computer system aboard. Teletraan I sent out a [[Sky Spy]] satellite to reconnoiter the new world and scanned terrestrial machinery in order to repair the Transformers and reformat them into new altmodes. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}}
===Dreamwave G1 continuity===
Being set quite some time after the initial awakening of the Transformers on modern-day Earth, the scanning and rebuilding process was never really detailed in this continuity but can be assumed to have been along the lines of the fairly similar classic cartoon and Marvel comic scenarios.

Subsequent arrivals under [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s banner of a unified [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] have been reformatted into Earth modes prior to their arrival to the planet. Again, the process is not shown. {{storylink|War and Peace}}
====IDW G1 continuity====
Much like the Dreamwave counterpart, the IDWverse shows the Autobots and Decepticons already on Earth albeit with higher emphases on disguise. The process of reformatting is not shown. {{storylink|The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration}}

Again, subsequent arrivals to Earth such as Optimus Prime, Megatron and Hot Rod make mention of having been modified to have new Earth-based altmodes but the process is similarly not depicted directly.

The first on-panel scanning was for the Dynobots and required the use of a CR chamber. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

In the jump-forward storyline ''All Hail Megatron'', many of the Autobots and Decepticons have inexplicably been reformatted again, but merely into similar-but-different Earth altmodes. It is no surprise that in all cases these resemble their most recent real-world toy releases, particularly under the [[Transformers: Universe (2008 toyline)|''Universe'' line]]. {{storylink|The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron}} Following the rebirth of Cybertron and the end of the war, [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] worked to reformat their respective comrades into new Cybertronian vehicle modes. {{storylink|The Autonomy Lesson (issue)|The Autonomy Lesson}}
====''Hearts of Steel''====
It's not fully clear how exactly Cybertronians scan their alternate modes. Bumblebee can, for instance instantly reformat from his prehistoric [[beast mode]] into a nonexistent steamhammer locomotive. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}} On the other hand, Starscream and the other Decepticons need plans drawn up by [[Tobias Muldoon]] to reformat into flying alternate modes. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 2|Hearts of Steel #2}}

Whether or not [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] is a living Transformer raises even more questions; he's one of several Decepticons to be made or refitted to function as a train. Some Decepticons are also manually refitted to make rail cars for Astrotrain. {{storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 3|Hearts of Steel #3}}
====''Universe'' (2008) promotional video====
Optimus Prime emits the scanning beam from his [[Sensor#Optical sensors|optic]] sensor to scan a truck. {{storylink|Action Blast 1|Action Blast 1 Part 1}}
===Beast Era===
[[Protoform]] Transformers are able to get new alternate modes by using the [[DNA]] scanned from the lifeforms of the nearby environments.
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
When in operation, the "scan beam" emitted from the [[DNA scanner]]s built into Cybertronian ships can analyze DNA data scanned from lifeforms immediately. If the device scans a corpse or fossil it is able to reconstruct the lifeform's appearance during its lifetime. Examples of this include the alternate modes of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]].

Once the scanned DNA data is retrieved it is sent to [[CR chamber]]s or CR tanks. The Transformers have to enter the CR chambers or tanks to get their new altmode.

There is also a DNA scanner mounted on each [[stasis pod]] in order to get the DNA data from the local lifeforms of the planet on which the stasis pod lands. The stasis pod itself then reformats the occupant—or perhaps just "formats" since protoforms are generally considered to be newborns.
====''Beast Wars II'' cartoon====
''[[Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' featured the first instance of built-in DNA scanners and self-reformatting technology allowing the Transformers to adopt alternate modes on the spot without the need for external machinery. Only [[Tasmania Kid]] is seen using it on an animal {{storylink|The New Forces Arrive!}} while the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]] obtained [[alternate mode|vehicle modes]] by accessing an ancient computer and scanning the recorded data within it. {{storylink|White Lion, Run!}}
====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
After falling into a hole, Nightscream became unconscious. During that time a DNA scanner inside his body was activated and scanned the fossils of a big bat once native to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], giving him a bat alternate mode. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} He explains to [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] that all Cybertronians now have built-in scanners by this slightly later point in history, having been equipped with them in the planetwide [[Quantum Cycle Upgrade]] that evidently occurred after the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' crews departed Cybertron for the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]].

According to [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]], she scanned the DNA from the plant on the planet on which she landed. {{storylink|Home Soil}}
===2001 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
[[Skid-Z (RID)|Skid-Z]] was able to scan [[Auggie Cahnay (RID)|Auggie Cahnay]]'s racing car and reformat after arriving on Earth using a built-in scanner. The scan also seemed to pick up parts of Auggie Cahnay's personality causing him to experience the urge to enter races. {{storylink|Skid Z's Choice}} Stasis pods with in-built scanners also appeared in the series, enabling the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]] to select the alternate modes which the contained protoforms would take. In the case of [[Scourge (RID)|Scourge]] the scan beam took in a fuel tanker, [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Kelly (RID)|Kelly]] causing Scourge's [[robot mode]] to bear a resemblance to Optimus and adding a human tinge to his bio-signature. {{storylink|The Decepticons}}
===Unicron Trilogy===
Upon arriving on Earth, both Autobots and Decepticons display the ability to scan and [[Reformatting|reformat]] for new alt modes without requiring the aid of any external reconfiguration technology. {{storylink|Metamorphosis (Armada)|Metamorphosis}} When the [[Unicron Singularity]] was threatening the universe, Transformers even displayed the ability to scan multiple alternate modes in addition to the one they chose for themselves, storing the data on other vehicles and passing it on to other Transformers to scan. Scanning didn't even require the presence of the actual vehicle—a mere photograph or illustration of the vehicle would do. {{storylink|Fallen (episode)|Fallen}}
===Live-action film series===
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
Autobots and Decepticons from the live-action films have the most fluid abilities to date regarding scanning and reformatting their bodies at will without any apparent need for external assistance whatsoever. Although there is some ambiguity, it even appears that the transformational abilities of Movie Cybertronians are so fluid that they can re-scan and reformat as often as they wish and not even use the same "[[Transformation|transformation scheme]]" twice, possibly suggesting that they can generate new parts such as additional weapons at will independent of a full reformatting cycle.

Movieverse scanning can even replicate the appearance of rust and scratched and faded custom paintwork when imitating [[Bumblebee (Movie)|an]] [[Megatron (Movie)|old]] [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|beater]], apparently.

''See also:'' '''[[Trans-scan]]'''
===''Animated''===
In the ''Animated'' universe, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew use a Sky Spy-type probe from their ship to scan new alt modes for them which they are then very quickly reformatted into by taking turns stepping inside a device similar to a [[CR chamber]].

However, upon arriving on Earth the Decepticons [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]], [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]] and (memorably) [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] are capable of scanning new altmodes directly from their own bodies and then immediately reformatting themselves without any such chamber, although the actual reformatting is not shown onscreen. This may suggest that while ''Animated'' Decepticons appear to have the ability to scan and reformat themselves unaided, Autobots apparently do not.

When [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] rebuilds himself with the assistance of [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]]'s [[AllSpark]]-[[AllSpark Key|powered key]] he is reconstituted with a newly reformatted helicopter-altmode body straight away rather than in his original body which had a Cybertronian jet-altmode. Presumably he had scanned the design while his disembodied head had access to [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Issac Sumdac]]'s computers.

In a similar vein, mere moments after upgrading himself [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave]] was capable of transforming into a brand-new vehicle mode without any scanning whatsoever. [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]] also went through the same process as he could also transform into a vehicle mode without having done a single scan beforehand.
===''Shattered Glass''===
[[File:Desert Heat Scanning.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Hey, this isn't a light cycle!]]

After arriving Earth and finding [[Sir Soundwave|Soundwave]] in [[stasis lock]], [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]] reactivated the systems and the on-board scanner of Soundwave's stasis pod. It scanned a [[:File:Universe 2008 Ironhide Toy.jpg|familiar vehicle]] nearby for Soundwave and reactivated him. {{storylink|The Desert Heat!}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====Aligned novels====
Scanning new vehicle modes based on the current locale is not something that every Cybertronian enjoys; some pride themselves on retaining the same vehicle form that they have had since learning to assume it. During his stay on [[Junkion (planet)|Junkion]], [[Prowl (WFC)|Prowl]] briefly contemplated scanning a new vehicle mode to better suit the treacherous terrain of the junk planet but ultimately decided against it. {{storylink|Transformers: Exiles|Exiles}}
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:ProjectPredacon Optimus Prime scans truck.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.67|Perfect! No one will ever suspect such a big spiky truck of actually being an alien robot in disguise!]]
For some reason that has yet to be explained Cybertronians seem to lose the ability to assume a vehicle form after arriving on Earth. While they are perfectly functional in robot mode their inability to transform puts them at a disadvantage regarding mobility, [[Megatron (WFC)|though there]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|are some]] [[Shockwave (WFC)|exceptions]]. However, Cybertronians are readily capable of scanning local vehicles for alternate modes. This appears as the Cybertronian in question shooting what appears to be green [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|or blue]] beams from their eyes. The beams scan the vehicle which even appears to cause some electrical interference as well providing the Cybertronian with a complete schematic of their chosen vehicle after which they can immediately transform into said vehicle.

Curiously, Cybertronians appear to display kibble that already hints to an Earth-based vehicle mode before they actually scan one.

[[William Fowler]] has inadvertently provided [[Skyquake (Prime)|some]] [[Airachnid (Prime)|Decepticons]] [[Dreadwing (Prime)|their]] new vehicle modes with the vehicle he's currently riding in much to his irritation. {{storylink|Masters & Students}} {{storylink|Crisscross}} {{storylink|Loose Cannons}}

A Transformer's scanning ability is enabled by their [[transformation cog]] component. {{storylink|Operation Bumblebee, Part 1}}

[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] scanned a new alternate mode that would better integrate his new [[Jet pack|jetpack]]. The vehicle chosen by [[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] was an experimental [[M.A.S.K.]]-division vehicle. {{storylink|Project Predacon}}
====''Rescue Bots'' cartoon====
[[File:Changes Heatwave meditates.jpg|thumb|right|"Om mani padme hum."]]
Upon arriving on Earth, [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] provided the members of [[Rescue Force Sigma-17]] with a choice of vehicle modes based on the native machinery. After choosing their new alternate modes, the members of the force immediately assumed alternate form and began to integrate into human society. {{storylink|Family of Heroes}} After some time on Earth, Optimus Prime instructed [[Heatwave (RB)|Heatwave]] on how to gain [[Triple Changer|a third form]] which involved intense concentration and focusing a lot of energy, a process Optimus described as “an ordeal” in which few succeeded on their first try. It involved a form of prone meditation so deep that Heatwave was apparently unable to hear [[Kade Burns|an embarrassing conversation]] going on right next to him. When his energy focusing was complete his Rescue Bot insignia glowed blue similar to when using energize tools and he himself glowed briefly. It glowed blue again when he scanned a fireboat and he told [[Blades (RB)|Blades]] that he was still exhausted later that day or a day or two later. He also told him that Blades would not be allowed to attempt to scan a third form, since Heatwave did it only with Optimus' permission and help. {{storylink|Changes}} In accordance with [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UniquenessDecay uniqueness decay] however, Optimus later scanned [[Trex]] to gain a Dinobot form without the same fanfare being given to the difficulty of scanning a third form, {{storylink|Land Before Prime (episode)|Land Before Prime}} and in order to test a cure for Optimus' rampaging dino mode on himself [[Boulder]] scanned a third form with only a few moments of focusing and no apparent fatigue. {{storylink|Big Game}} When [[Quint Quarry]] demanded more dinobots in addition to Boulder and Optimus, Heatwave gained a ''fourth'' form and [[Chase (RB)|Chase]] and Blades scanned third modes all with no apparent preparation or fatigue. The process did strain Blades' [[Transformation cog|T-cog]] to the point that it was several hours before he could use it again though this strain was attributed partially to the bio-organic nature of the new forms they'd scanned. {{storylink|Quarry's Quarry}}
====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
After arriving on Earth, [[Strongarm (RID)|Strongarm]] and [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]] scanned new vehicle modes at [[Denny Clay]]'s [[Vintage Salvage Depot for the Discriminating Nostalgist|scrapyard]]. Notably, [[Fixit (RID)|Fixit]] and [[Grimlock (RID 2015)|Grimlock]] did not adopt compatible Earth forms possibly due to personal preferences or perhaps some physical limitations. {{storylink|Pilot (Part 2)}}

Most, [[Underbite|but not all of]] the Decepticon fugitives aboard the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' also chose to scan new alternate modes while hiding out on Earth.

[[File:OverloadedPart2-optimusscanning.jpg|thumb|right|350px|The Decepticons really knew that they were in trouble after Optimus learned how to Warp Digivolve.]]

While training in the [[Realm of the Primes]], Optimus Prime learned how to control and fine-tune the scanning process so that he could merely adopt one characteristic of an appropriate vehicle. While searching for [[Polarclaw|a Decepticon]] in the [[Arctic]] members of the [[Bee Team (RID)|Bee Team]] scanned suitable camouflage from a nearby truck {{storylink|Overloaded, Part 2}} and during the trip south they adopted desert camouflage by scanning an offroad jeep. {{storylink|Cover Me}} {{storylink|History Lessons}} {{storylink|Prisoner Principles}} {{storylink|Freedom Fighters}}

''See also:'' '''[[Electronic paint job]]''', '''[[Camouflage paint]]'''

==Notes==
[[File:Cheetor-beastmodescan.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The [[Wikipedia:People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA]] gonna SUE!!]]
*In an advertisement of PSX version of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers]]'' game in [[United Kingdom]], [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] grabs and scans a cheetah by the scan beam emitted from his optics.

==References==
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Spark

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[[File:Sparks.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|[[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]] is a Bellarian.]]
A '''spark''' is the lifeforce or soul of a [[Transformer]]. Each spark is part of the essence of [[Primus]] himself.

The spark is a physical entity which is safeguarded inside [[Structure|a Transformer's body]]. If something harms the spark beyond repair [[Death|it is "extinguished"]], returning to the [[Transformer afterlife]] and the Transformer is considered dead. A Transformer is able to survive an enormous amount of physical damage. As long as the spark is intact it is possible to repair or rebuild the body and restore the spark to it.

{{quote|When a Spark goes online, there is great joy. When [[Death|one is extinguished]], the universe weeps.|[[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] being all mystical|"[[The Spark]]"}}

==Establishment in fiction==
[[File:Spark.gif|left|thumb|The animation of a typical spark. Shiny!]]
The concept of the spark as currently understood was introduced to Transformers mythos in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' episode "[[The Spark]]" (though they are offhandedly mentioned in the earlier episode "[[Gorilla Warfare]]" without elaboration). In this episode little is explained except that each spark is unique and that every "Cybertron" (here essentially meaning "Cybertronian") has one. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}} {{storylink|The Spark}}

The later episode "[[Possession]]" dealt with the idea of sparks but the spark in question—that of [[Starscream (G1)|the original Starscream]]—is established as being aberrant and thus properties it displays are not necessarily characteristic of sparks in general. However, "Possession" was the first time it was claimed that characters from the Generation 1 series also had sparks rather than them existing in ''Beast Wars'' only. Sparks remained prominent throughout ''Beast Wars'' and events in seasons two and three further established the [[retcon]] that Generation 1-Transformers possessed sparks. {{storylink|Possession}} {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} {{storylink|Master Blaster}}

In ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'', sparks became central to the story as [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] abducted the sparks from every Transformer on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery}} Megatron's own spark displayed unusual behaviors in this series, and again it is probable these behaviors do not apply to all sparks. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}} {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Still, ''Beast Machines'' contributed more information about sparks to [[canon]] than any other series.

Since the introduction of the spark concept in ''Beast Wars'', sparks have become an integral part of Transformers fiction. They have been featured in new [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]]-based series and subsequently-created [[Continuity family|continuity families]] from the [[Unicron Trilogy]] to [[live-action film series|the live-action movies]] to ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]]''.
===Prototypical concepts===
There do exist some concepts similar to the spark that precede its firm establishment in the Beast Era.

[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The original ''The Transformers'' cartoon]] occasionally referenced a part of Transformer physiology called a '''[[laser core]]''' which seemingly has a similar function compared to a spark. The tech spec [[bio]] for the [[Beast Rider]] [[Mechatron]] says that he is "outfitted with an upgraded spark-capture claw that can tear out the entire laser core of any Transformer defender." This implies, as some fans had speculated prior to Mechatron's release that the laser core may be some sort of housing for the spark. However, the ''inverse'' was suggested by the ''[[Story of Binaltech]]'' which noted that the laser core was the literal core of the spark.

A more detailed idea was that of the "'''Life Spark'''", a life-force concept which appeared in early drafts of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. "Life Sparks" resembled small glowing versions of the Transformers to whom they belonged. Per a draft dated to April 1985, Life Sparks depart the body of a Transformer upon death to ultimately dissipate into nothingness unless they are contained within another vessel. While [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] transfers his Life Spark into [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]] (essentially taking the place of the [[Matrix of Leadership]] in this version of events) [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] requests to have his enshrined in an urn at the Decepticon [[Hall of Heroes]] only for his pleas to be ignored and for his Life Spark to drift into space to be recreated as [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]] by [[Unicron]]. Although this idea was discarded from the finished film entirely, a vestigial reference to it persisted in the UK comic story "[[Target: 2006]]" where author [[Simon Furman]] read the draft and misinterpreted "Life Spark" as the name of ''[[Life Spark|a character]]'' who was rebuilt into [[Cyclonus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Cyclonus]].

Although the word "spark" does appear offhandedly in some [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|''Generation 1'' comic]] stories (a "spark of life", a "life spark" and the phrases [[The Bridge to Nowhere!|"Let no spark remain flickering in a single Autobot microchip!"]] and [[Pretender to the Throne!|"For as long as a spark exists within a single Mechabot..."]]), these were clearly simply metaphorical statements. They may be retroactively seen as referring to the contemporary concept of a Transformer's spark but did not establish anything of the sort on their own.

==Properties of sparks==
[[File:Spark colors.jpg|thumb|The sparks of the reformatted [[Maximal]]s took on unusual colors. Before their final battle with [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] the sparks became visible within their bodies. They also lift and separate.]]
As seen in the image at the top of this article, sparks normally appear as semitransparent blue balls of energy with a pulsating center composed of smaller blue spheres. The center spheres are engulfed in a reddish glow while an ever-changing pattern of electricity-like lines travels around the surface and through the interior. However, in ''Beast Machines'' the sparks of the [[Maximal]] heroes who had been [[Reformatting|reformatted]] [[Spontaneous recoloration|took on different colors]] (for example, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]]'s was green). This was first visible in "[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]". At the end of that series after being infused with extra power from the Matrix (cf. the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] and [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]]) their sparks became visible as if parts of their torsos were translucent.

[[Beast Era]] Transformers seem to have permanent "spark chambers" within their chassis where the spark can be seen simply by opening the chamber. Older Transformers within the same G1/Beast [[continuity family]] such as those who lived before the [[Great Upgrade]] do not seem to have this exact feature in most continuities. The G1 ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More Than Meets The Eye]]'' guidebook from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] specifically states that a spark is normally "suffused" throughout a Transformer's body rather than residing in any particular place. It may be that this is also true after the Great Upgrade and that the spark chamber is merely a protected location for the spark to coalesce when needed or be safely contained during [[stasis lock]]. Meanwhile, making things more confusing the cutaway diagrams of G1 Optimus Prime and Megatron in ''[[Transformers: The Ultimate Guide]]'' include spark chambers.

In the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon there were two cases of Beast-era Transformers temporarily housing the sparks of G1-era Transformers in their own bodies while still housing their own sparks. In both cases, this resulted in the Beastie undergoing a mutation of sorts into a more powerful physical form: [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] upon taking the spark of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] grew into his [[Transmetal]] "Optimal Optimus" body; Megatron upon taking the spark of [[Megatron (G1)|the original Megatron]] obtained his [[Transmetal 2]] dragon form. However, based on the information from the series there is no basis for determining whether this phenomenon is a result of a single body housing two sparks, a Beast-era body housing a G1-era spark, a body being implanted with an especially "powerful" spark like those of Optimus Prime and Megatron could conceivably be or some combination of these. When the aberrant disembodied spark of [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] had earlier possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], the only physical change was the body's [[Insignia|allegiance emblems]] shifting from [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] to [[Decepticon]]. The ''Beast Wars'' comic miniseries ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering|The Gathering]]'' implies that G1-era sparks may be intrinsically more powerful than Beast-era sparks.

Although Transformer memories and personalities are generally treated as if they are stored within the Transformers' computer brains, repeated canonical instances have established that a spark will (or can) hold all of an individual's memories, along with their "essence" or personality. Further, there is some evidence that sparks may even retain records of the Transformer's previous bodies (such as when Optimal Optimus, whose body originated with a [[blank]] [[protoform]] regressed into a copy of the gorilla body Primal wore at the beginning of the Beast Wars). {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent}} A Transformer's behavior can be modified through programming of their mechanical body (referred to as a [[shell program]]), but this is always a struggle between the programming and the "true" nature of the spark within. It may be that over long periods of time a spark may begin to internalize some aspects of a programmed personality. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy}} {{storylink|Spider's Game}} {{storylink|Proving Grounds}} {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}} {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse}}

Many Transformers, such as [[Sky Lynx (G1)|G1 Sky Lynx]], [[Omega Supreme (G1)|G1 Omega Supreme]] and the [[Duocon]]s simultaneously inhabit multiple mechanical bodies or components. The character bio for [[Magmatron]] mentions this ability of his and categorizes his spark as a "[[mitotic spark]]" which is capable of splitting and sharing itself among his three [[beast mode]]s. It is unknown whether other multiple-bodied Transformers also possess mitotic sparks or if they are examples of something more mundane such as simple remote control.

Some Transformers are able to sense and communicate with the sparks of other Transformers through a process that appears analogous to telepathy. According to dialogue from "[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]" this ability is related to the sparks' mutual connection to the Allspark. Disembodied sparks are sometimes able to communicate through this same method. ([[#Disembodied_sparks|See below]].)

[[Energon radiation|The radiation]] emitted by [[energon]] crystals is harmful to sparks even when protected and securely encased within a shell. Certain body types are better able to shield the spark from energon radiation. For example, the flesh-like beast modes adopted by the crews of the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' and ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' provided essentially 100% protection allowing activity in environments that were practically forests of energon crystals so long as those involved remained in beast mode. Direct contact between crystalline energon and a spark is highly dangerous.

In the ''Beast Machines'' episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]" [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] describes Megatron's disembodied spark as a ball of [[electron]]s. He goes on to say that normal sparks contain a large number of [[positron]]s. Based on his dialogue, it is possible but not certain that sparks are composed ''entirely'' of positrons; however, in other sources the existence and names of [[Spark#Characters by sparktype|spark types]] suggests a more complex composition. Rattrap also indicates in "Revelations Part I" that when a spark is extinguished carbon scoring is typically left on or within the Transformer's chassis.

[[File:Revelations3 Nightscream spark.jpg|left|thumb|[[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]]'s hands don't seem to touch the spark itself while pushing on it. Mind you, wouldn't you recoil from the guy too?]]
Regardless of their composition, sparks are not insubstantial energy but have some sort of physical aspect. This is clearly demonstrated in again, "Revelations Part III" when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] is seen attempting to push Blackarachnia's spark back into her body. His hands press against some sort of surface or perhaps merely a force field in which case the spark could be entirely energy which is above the visible surface of her spark. Later in the series in "Spark of Darkness" Megatron's spark is also shown to have physicality. Further back, in ''Beast Wars'', the spark of Rampage/Protoform X would respond to being "crushed" by Megatron by flattening slightly inside its energon-lined carrying case. And even the spark of G1 Megatron was "grabbed" physically by a tentacle-like appendage of BW Megatron's. While some of these examples may be special cases, as they deal with sparks that have unusual properties, those properties are unique to each spark. The weight of evidence, then, is in favor of sparks being at least partially substantial.

In the [[Transformers: Energon (cartoon)|''Energon'' cartoon]] sparks were shown to have the ability to be somehow augmented by Primus to become a [[Spark of Combination|Combination Spark]]. This allowed two Autobots to [[powerlinx]] together into a new form, allowing one Autobot to take command of the fused body while the "pants" remained dormant. Without the Combination Spark, a powerlinx between two normal Transformers could not be completed. It is not stated whether the combiner teams [[Constructicon Maximus]] and [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]] also possessed Combination Sparks or if their ability to combine has some other origin.

==Disembodied sparks==
Sparks are able to exist outside of a Transformer body, but the parameters of this phenomenon are largely unclear. It is unknown for how long a spark can survive under such conditions, although they are vulnerable to damage in this state. It is also unknown whether a disembodied spark is "conscious" and aware of its surroundings, or whether it is capable of moving under its own power. (There are unusual cases, as described under [[Spark#Aberrant sparks|aberrant sparks]].)

It is hard to imagine how a spark could be aware of its surroundings when stripped of all sensory mechanisms. Indeed, in "Revelations Part III: Apocalypse", while Blackarachnia's spark was outside of her body her consciousness did not remain in the "real world". Instead, she experienced a conversation with the meditating [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]—not a hallucination—which took place on an abstract "higher plane of existence" perhaps within the Allspark itself.

Most of the disembodied sparks in ''Beast Machines'' drift slowly and largely directionlessly. In many other cases, sparks seem to move with some sort of intent. However, aside from attempts of sparks to re-enter their "home" bodies, these are conceivably all "special cases" and may not be generalizable. In one example, the sparks of [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] are seen following [[Tigerhawk]] to Earth in "[[Other Victories]]". While their sparks appear normal when this occurs, they later merge into a single white spark and then inhabit the then-empty Tigerhawk body. This is not normal spark behavior and may be related to the time they spent seemingly in stasis with the [[Vok]]. Also, in "Revelations Part III" when Blackarachnia becomes panicked during her telepathic conversation with Primal, her spark begins moving erratically and has to be chased down by Nightscream. However, it is unclear whether the spark was moving ''with intent''—especially since Blackarachnia's consciousness was portrayed as still being on a higher plane—or simply zigzagging randomly. And again, a reformatted spark may be different from a normal spark anyway.

==Absence of a spark==
Strangely, it is possible for Transformers-related mechanical entities to remain online and sentient despite the ''lack'' of a spark.

The first example would be the original [[Diagnostic Drone]] in ''Beast Machines''. While simply being a robotic aid and having no spark it showed a full range of emotions, the ability to reason and could be consulted by Megatron. In ''Animated'', first [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] and later [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clones]] each substituted a natural spark with an [[AllSpark|AllSpark fragment]]. Titan's tie-in comics meanwhile, would reveal that comic-original character [[Afterburn]] was really a sparkless drone despite having shown emotion, initiative and thought beforehand.

These instances raise questions about how necessary a spark ''really'' is and what properties it bestows that are genuinely unique.

Of interest is that when Afterburn was revealed to have had no spark, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] ''immediately'' wrote him off as not having been a "real" bot and viewed it as pointless to mark Afterburn's death. Similarly, nobody seemed bothered by the Starscream clones dying or found it notable that Starscream had created beings whose sole purpose was to be suicide bombers. In some continuities, it appears as if [[Religion|Cybertronian orthodoxy]] views the presence of a spark as the true indicator of life with emotion and sentience being seen as mostly irrelevant.
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==Aberrant sparks==
Some sparks have exhibited properties or behaviors that do not seem to be generalizable to other sparks.
===Starscream===
As established in the ''Beast Wars'' episodes "[[Possession]]" and "[[Bad Spark]]," Starscream possesses a "mutant" immortal spark. Even when his body is destroyed, his spark is not extinguished. This explanation retcons the appearance of Starscream's ghost in some season three episodes from the G1 cartoon; the "ghost" was in fact Starscream's disembodied spark.

Starscream's spark was able to move under its own power and seemingly traveled not just across space from Cybertron to [[Earth]], but backwards through time from 2006 to human prehistory. It may be that the time travel was accomplished by "falling" through the [[transwarp]] hole left by the ''Axalon'' and ''Darksyde'' when they arrived on prehistoric Earth—[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]]'s ship arrived there by that method later in the series—but this is uncertain.

Additionally, Starscream's spark was able to take possession of other Transformers simply by entering their bodies. While in another body, Starscream's will completely dominates that of his host. When Starscream possessed [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], Waspinator's voice even changed to sound like Starscream's and the Predacon insignias on his body changed to Decepticon insignias. Starscream either did not have or seem to know that he had this possession ability until he died during the events of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.
===Rampage/Protoform X===
The creation of Protoform X was an experiment conducted by the [[Maximal Elder]]s to attempt to replicate Starscream's indestructible spark. Although they succeeded in creating such a spark the Transformer, dubbed [[Rampage (BW)|Protoform X]] and later taking on the name "Rampage" was unfortunately psychotic.

Like Starscream's spark, Rampage's could not be extinguished through simple destruction of his body. In fact, Rampage's body—at least the body he wore during the Beast Wars—had uncannily rapid self-repair functions. In one instance [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] pierced Rampage's body from front to back with a spear and the damage disappeared in a matter of seconds once the spear was removed.

Megatron devised a way to split Rampage's spark by carving it with [[Energon blade|a blade]] of [[energon crystal]]. Amazingly, this did not destroy the spark, nor did it seem to weaken Rampage appreciably. Megatron kept part of the spark in a case lined with energon crystals. By squeezing the case, the crystals would pinch the spark fragment, and Megatron used this to torture Rampage into obedience.

Megatron later placed this piece of Rampage's spark inside his [[Transmetal 2]] clone of [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] who is usually referred to as [[Dinobot II]]. Dinobot II appeared to have a personality wholly independent of Rampage's although he was similarly brutal. Dinobot II's personality however, may have been imposed upon him through programming. Dinobot II could torture Rampage by compressing the spark fragment he held as Megatron had previously done. This did not seem to affect Dinobot himself.

Rampage's spark turned out to not be completely indestructible. Seemingly as an extension of Megatron's splitting of the spark with an energon blade, Depth Charge eventually destroyed Rampage by piercing his spark with "pure" crystalline energon. Normally sparks "extinguish" somewhat peacefully, but when Rampage's was pierced, a powerful explosion destroyed the bodies of both Rampage and Depth Charge. It may be that Starscream's spark would be similarly vulnerable to being cut/destroyed by energon, but this is mere extrapolation.

When Rampage's spark was destroyed, the fragment within Dinobot II did not explode. It may have simply disappeared, or it may have remained there. However, through a process which is not clearly established, Dinobot II at that instant "reverted" to the personality of the original Dinobot, and even had a vision of Dinobot's last moments. It may be that this reversion was related to events scripted for an episode which was never produced, titled "[[Dark Glass]]".

Rampage's spark never displayed the ability to move under its own power.
===Megatron===
In season two of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron's spark does a number of unusual things.

As part of the battle between him and [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] at the end of season one during which the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and [[Plasma Energy Chamber]] were pitted against each other, Megatron somehow was able to "split" his Beast body into two separate bodies, one entirely robotic and the other entirely organic. (Whether the Beast bodies of the ''Beast Wars'' characters had any true biological components or whether they were faux-flesh composed of [[nanite]]s is not consistently established in either series.) Contrary to his intentions, Megatron's spark ended up trapped within the biological body which came to be known as [[Noble (BM)|Noble and Savage]] while his desired technological body appeared to have been destroyed.

It is unclear how a biological body was able to sustain a Transformers' spark. Indeed, even the Maximals were surprised when they realized what had happened. It could be argued, based on statements made by [[Vector Sigma|the Oracle]] in the first episode that all lifeforms in the universe have sparks, not just Transformers. However, this is never alluded to by any other canonical source so most fans have seemingly dismissed it.

As shown in "[[Prometheus Unbound]]", using the biological Noble/Savage body Megatron was unable to exercise mental control over devices in [[Council Citadel|his citadel]] or interface with his [[control harness]]. Upon using a [[spark extractor]] on himself, however, his spark was freed and immediately flew to the harness, which it activated before "flowing" up to the ceiling through the harness's cables. His spark then took over the [[Grand Mal]], an enormous, floating replica of his own head, as its new body and stayed there for part of season two. The Noble/Savage body appeared to be dead but recovered. After Megatron's spark had left it seemed to be a perfectly "normal" animal which had the ability to change between a wolf-like form and a dragon form, possessing little if any sentience.

As soon as his spark had been removed from Noble, it took on an unusual appearance, having turned entirely red or orange in color (perhaps a change similar to that of the reformatted Maximals). Megatron's disembodied spark also seemed to be able to speak even though it had no physical body. It may be that this speech was telepathic, but the spark itself pulsated in perfect rhythm with the words.

While inhabiting the Grand Mal, Megatron's spark was sometimes seen floating freely and under its own power through the construct's interior, particularly in a large space that appeared to serve as his control room. (It was here that he addressed his [[Vehicon general]]s, usually manifesting as a holographic projection of one kind or another.)

[[File:Spark consumption.jpg|thumb|Megatron's spark ensnares and consumes other sparks from his collection.]]
[[File:Giant megatron spark.jpg|thumb|Now enormous, Megatron's spark looms over Cybertron in the vicinity of his [[Grand Mal|Big Floating Head]].]]
Eventually, in the three-part "[[Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|Sparkwar]]" story, Megatron's spark began consuming/fusing with the captured sparks of Cybertron's inhabitants. He claimed to have learned how to accomplish this after communicating with the Oracle.

To consume other sparks, Megatron's spark extended tendrils which ensnared victim sparks. These tendrils also had the ability to extract sparks from occupied shells much like a spark extractor. As each spark was absorbed, Megatron's spark grew larger in size.

Megatron was temporarily beaten when [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] attacked him with a sonic scream. The scream, according to Primal "depolarized" Megatron's spark. This caused him to lose control temporarily and allowed the Maximals to escape. In the following episode "[[Spark of Darkness]]", Megatron's spark exhibited additional strange behaviors which may or may not have been dependent on its depolarized state:

*It travelled very quickly and with great agility.
*It was able to "crash" physically into things to push them around. In particular, it repeatedly knocked the Maximals out of its way.
*It seemed to be able to cause large explosions simply by flying through other objects.
*It could inhabit and leave any sparkless body at will. This ability evidently differs from Starscream's in that Starscream never truly animated a vacant body and Megatron never dominated an occupied one. These re-animated bodies were able to remain functional even after suffering extreme physical damage.
*His spark was not detectable by his Vehicon generals' sensors and Primal was unable to "sense" his spark through the Oracle.
*The spark did not speak at all while depolarized, neither when in a body nor floating freely.

Rattrap was able to capture Megatron using a hand-held spark extractor and with a control panel on it "repolarized" and thus stabilized his spark. Afterwards, Megatron's spark remained red and just as fast and agile as before but became detectable by his generals' scanners again and was "trapped" in the next body it inhabited (that of a Diagnostic Drone). Upon entering this body, Megatron first declared, "I live!" before realizing the depth of his situation. This was the first time he had spoken since being hit by the sonic scream. This implies that something about his prior "destabilized" state may have prevented him from fully utilizing the bodies he had visited. The only other clue we have is that when Optimus tried to contact Megatron's spark inside the [[Grand Mal]], he discovered that it "wasn't a sentient mind." Whether this is a result of trying to find a spark that was not in the expected location or because of its depolarized state is ambiguous.
===Prime Spark===
{{main|Prime Spark (Spark)}}
The Prime Spark is a spark that is shared cross-dimensionally by at least three different Transformers. It was entrusted to chosen individuals by Primus himself. {{storylink|Prime Spark (story)|Prime Spark}}
===Embers===
The ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass (franchise)|Shattered Glass]]'' [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|universe]] seems to be more of a departure from the "regular" realities in the [[multiverse]]. In it, the semi-mystical ball of energy that gives the resident Transformers their lifeforce is an electron-charged "Ember". Aside from polarities, there's no other difference noted from the [[positron]]-charged spark [[Cliffjumper (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Cliffjumper]] brings into that universe.

==Fiction==
===Movie continuity===
[[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] devoured the sparks of fallen foes. {{storylink|Optimus Prime Versus Megatron}} {{storylink|Transformers (novel)}}

[[Sam Witwicky]] destroyed both the [[AllSpark]] and Megatron himself when he inserted the AllSpark into Megatron's exposed spark chamber. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFfacegotten.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
Megatron was revived when [[Scalpel (ROTF)|the Doctor]] pierced a shard of the AllSpark into the hole where his spark had been. Optimus Prime was stabbed and then shot through the Spark by Megatron using his [[fusion cannon]] and [[death-lock pincer]] but was later revived by Sam, who pierced the [[Matrix of Leadership]] into his empty spark chamber. Jetfire ripped out his Spark to give [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] his parts. Moments later, Optimus tore through [[The Fallen]]'s chest and crushed his spark. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

When cornered and brought down by [[Cemetery Wind]], [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] was offered his life in exchange for Optimus' location by [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]]. Ratchet spat in the bounty hunter's face and braced himself for the end. In response, Lockdown tore his spark out leaving the deceased Ratchet a mangled smoldering wreck. Optimus narrowly escaped a similar ambush in New Mexico and was later offered repairs by [[Cade Yeager]]. When Cade noticed a wound perilously close to his spark, Optimus explained that sparks contained a Transformer's memories and feelings prompting Cade to compare it to a human soul.

[[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated|KSI]] produced their own Transformers albeit without sparks. Megatron's [[Core consciousness|consciousness]] manipulated KSI into producing a new body for him and its lack of a spark proved an invaluable asset when he later fought Optimus as [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]], suffering no ill effects when impaled through his chest by Optimus.

When the day was won, Optimus decided to depart Earth to confront the Transformers' [[Creator (AOE)|Creators]]. Though he could not say if they'd ever meet again, Optimus asked his family to think of a star in the night sky as his soul. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}

===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
[[File:KupsSpark.jpg|upright=1.15|thumb|Save the Spark. Save the World.]]
The spark is part of [[Rossum's Trinity]] with the [[brain module]] and [[transformation cog]]. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} The light from a spark illuminates a Transformer's [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optics]]. {{storylink|Zero Point}} There appears to be at least eight known spark types in Cybertronians {{storylink|Twenty Plus One}} and a healthy Cybertronian can 'jumpstart' the faltering spark of another with the same type in a similar manner to blood transfusion. {{storylink|Before & After}} Some hypothesized spark types like estriol-positive have since been discredited and abandoned. {{storylink|After Megatron (A Dissolution Epilogue)|After Megatron}}

[[File:Overlords spark remembrance day.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
A very small number of naturally-occurring sparks are [[Point One Percenter]]s, glowing green instead of the normal blue. Those who possess these sparks are usually a tier above regular Cybertronians, and include such prominent figures as Optimus Prime and Shockwave. {{storylink|Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things|The Chaos of Warm Things}} Sparks run on different frequencies; the frequency of a spark affects the color of the [[energon]] within a Transformer's body. While most Cybertronians bleed purple energon, Transformers from the colony world of [[Caminus]] evolved low-frequency Sparks to save energy and consequently bleed blue energon. {{storylink|The Last Autobot}}

Sparks once [[Reproduction|arose naturally]] from [[hot spot]]s dotting Cybertron and its moons ignited by energy pulses from [[Vector Sigma]]. Once bright enough, these sparks would be harvested, nurtured and matured before being placed into a body. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} {{storylink|Elegant Chaos Part 1: All Our Parlous Yesterdays|All Our Parlous Yesterdays}} The sparks would also have to be harvested quickly otherwise they would evaporate. {{storylink|The Sound of Breaking Glass}}

Though most sparks emerge alone, occasionally two sparks emerge together. The resulting Transformers are considered [[twin]]s and share a [[branched spark]] that allows them to feel each other's pain. On Cybertron, this was a very rare event that affected roughly one in every million sparks. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 3|Last Stand of the Wreckers #3}} On the colony world of [[Devisiun]] however, unusual gravitational conditions affected the development of its [[Titan (IDW)|Titan]]'s hot spot and every newborn Devisien emerged with a twin sibling. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

Vector Sigma's pulses had grown increasingly less frequent by [[Nova Prime]]'s era, so to bolster the Cybertronian population he instituted a process called spark splicing which used the energy of existing sparks to ignite new ones. {{storylink|Remain in Light 1 of 5: The Fecund Moon|The Fecund Moon}} That, however was a cover story for what Nova was ''really'' doing: harvesting the Matrix of Leadership to create thousands of new sparks daily. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]]'s sparkhousing was unstable due to age and radiation poisoning. He finally experienced sparkcore stabilizer failure which threatened to blow him up. [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]] saved him by extending a forcefield around the crashing spark. Later, Kup recovered in a [[CR chamber]] fitted with a placeholder powercore to maintain his spark. {{storylink|Spotlight: Kup}}

While attempting to convince [[Stardrive]] to join the [[Decepticon]]s, [[Starscream (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Starscream]] briefly explained sparks to the orphaned Camien. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 4|Shining Armor #4}} After being possessed by [[Vekktral]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ultra Magnus]] managed to resist enough to open his Spark chamber so [[Rom]] could kill them both. {{storylink|Shining Armor issue 5|Shining Armor #5}}

[[File:SpotlightArcee Garrus-9 inmates.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Reminds me of the reptile cages at the zoo...except less stinky.]]
The Autobots kept some prisoners at [[Garrus-9]] in spark stasis, which entailed actually removing the sparks from their casings separating the spark from the body.

This process was not possible for Monstructor since the Autobots couldn't break through the destructive programming far enough to rehabilitate/reform the sparks as per [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s orders and as such haven't pulled the sparks from the frames.

[[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] found this limbo peaceful but was later reunited with her body. To control her behavior, a "g-force crush" device was installed on or in her spark casing and could be operated via remote control. {{storylink|Spotlight: Arcee}}

====Characters by spark type====
{{quote|Rewind's '''''vitreous positive'''''. It's a relatively rare spark type. One in 150, one in 200.}}
{{quote|I'm V-positive.}}
{{quote|I know.|[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]] and [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]]|[[Before & After]]}}
{|border="1" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" style="margin:.5em auto 1.5em auto;"
!Ferrum-Positive
!Ferrum-Negative
!Isomeric-Positive
!Isomeric-Negative
!Vitreous-Positive
!Vitreous-Negative
!Unknown shared type
!Either Ferrum-Negative or Vitreous-Positive
|-
| valign="top"|
*[[Hound (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Hound]]
*[[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]]
*[[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]]
*[[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]]
| valign="top"|
*[[Cyclonus (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Cyclonus]]
*[[Tailgate (G1)|Tailgate]]
| valign="top"|
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]
*[[Getaway]]
*[[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]]
| valign="top"|
*[[Dipstick]]
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]]
*[[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]]
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Ratchet]]
| valign="top"|
*[[Chromedome (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Chromedome]]
*[[Rewind (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rewind]]
*[[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]]
*[[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]]
| valign="top"|
*[[Ammo]]
*[[Crosscut (Autobot)|Crosscut]]
*[[Skids (G1)|Skids]]
| valign="top"|
*[[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]]
*[[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]
| valign="top"|
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Rodimus]] <ref group="idw">In "Elegant Chaos", Brainstorm's time-machine is coded for two spark-types: ferrum-negative and vitreous-positive, since Tailgate and Rewind can both use it. By extrapolation, Rodimus, Brainstorm, Megatron and Rung are either of those two.</ref>
*[[Brainstorm (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Brainstorm]]
*[[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]]
*[[Rung (G1)|Rung]]
|}

<references group="idw"/>

===''Regeneration One''===
When the [[Wrecker]]s crashed on [[Earth]], [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ordered his horde of [[zombie]] Decepticons to bring them to him in a state where he could see dread in their optics before he snuffed out their Sparks. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 2}} When [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] later engaged Megatron in battle the [[Decepticon leader]] swore to open Prime's Spark Chamber with his teeth. His own Spark was ripped out of his chest and crushed seconds later by an apologetic Prime. {{storylink|Loose Ends, Part 5}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]] was fascinated by the concept of Sparks, noting that the Transformers were hybrids of machinery and energy in the same way that [[GoBot]]s were hybrids of machinery and organic tissue. {{storylink|Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|Renegade Rhetoric (1), 2015/10/15}}

===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[Lord Imperious Delirious]] was ''not'' fascinated by Sparks at all; as a purely mechanical [[Second-born intellect]] he considered the Transformers nothing more then mechanical sock puppets animated by energy beings, a concept that revolted him and drove him to attempt genocide on the Cybertronian race. {{storylink|Intersectionality}} {{storylink|Derailment}}

==Notes==
*It is possible there is some quantitative difference between the sparks of Generation 1 Transformers and [[protoform]] ''Beast Wars''-era Transformers. G1 Transformer sparks are generally glossed as small fragments of [[Primus]]'s lifeforce. ''Beast Wars''-era Transformer sparks are generally considered to be the same, but writer [[Larry DiTillio]] has stated that he envisioned ''Beast Wars'' Transformer sparks as small fragments split from [[Nexus Zero]]. When a spark is split from the Vok nebula, a "good" one travels to the [[Matrix (facility)|Matrix]] and an "evil" one to the [[Pit]].<ref>[[Beast Wars Universe]]</ref>
*Despite the fact sparks are supposed to be pieces of Primus, numerous fictions depict ''[[Unicron]]'', Primus's opposite as having a spark of his own.
**The fact in [[Aligned continuity family|some]] [[Live-action film series|certain]] [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|continuities]] Primus and Unicron were a single being before conflict literally tore them apart and Primus based the [[Thirteen]] and ultimately [[Dynasty of Primes|first Primes]] on himself and his rival may provide an explanation for this occurrence.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Spark''' (スパーク ''Supāku'')
*''German:'' '''Mastermodul''' (used in the german Dub of ''Armada'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhǒng''' (火种, "Spark")

==See also==
*[[Death]]
*[[Transformer afterlife]]
*[[Branched spark]]
*[[Core consciousness]]
*[[Datatrax]]
*[[Laser core]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Spark crystal]]
*[[Mitotic spark]]
*[[Vector Sigma]]
*[[Omega Terminus]]
*[[Oracle (BM)]]
*[[Personality component]]
*[[Electropulse]]
*[[AllSpark]]
*[[Prime Spark (Spark)]]
*[[Shell program]]
*[[Memory core]]
*[[Spark of Combination]]
*[[Matrix of Leadership]]
*[[Dark Spark]]
*[[Matrix of Conquest]]
*[[Linkage (dimension)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Beast Wars]]
[[Category:Beast Machines]]
[[Category:Generation 1 Transformer anatomy]]
[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Primus]]
[[Category:Religion]]
[[Category:Transformer anatomy]]

Videomatrix

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TransformersFan1001:

:''Videomatrix is a recording media from the [[Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel portion]] of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:Videomatrix.jpg|thumb]]
When [[Nebulan]]s desire to record audiovisual content, there's the '''videomatrix'''!

==Fiction==
===Marvel Comics continuity===
As part of a trap for the [[Autobot]]s [[Zarak (G1)|Zarak]] got his daughter [[Llyra]] to deliver a recording on a videomatrix. The recording contained Zarak pleading [[Galen]] and his allies to rescue him and others from the [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Love and Steel!}}

[[Category:Marvel Generation 1 technology]]
[[Category:Storage media]]
[[Category:Matrices]]

Data matrix

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TransformersFan1001:

[[File:Nebulan data matrix.jpg|thumb]]
'''Data matrices''' are [[Nebulan]] data reservoirs. They take the form of small green rectangular prisms.

==Fiction==
===Marvel ''The Transformers'' comics===
Out of jealousy, [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]] had [[Throttle (G1)|Throttle]] sneak into [[Hi-Q]]'s facility and steal some data matrices. Using the data contained on them, Hi-Test and Throttle underwent the [[Powermaster]] process and bonded with [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] and [[Darkwing (G1)|Darkwing]]. {{storylink|People Power!}}

[[Category:Generation 1 technology]]
[[Category:Storage media]]
[[Category:Matrices]]

Deployer (WFC)

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TransformersFan1001:

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{{disambig2|the Mini-Cons from the Aligned contnuity family|the [[drone]]s from ''Beast Machines''|Deployer (BM)}}
:''Deployers are a group from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[File:Brainpower-Simacore.jpg|thumb|upright=1.75|Axiom! Theorem! I choose ''you''!]]

'''Deployers''' are [[Transformer]]s that have chosen to form a partnership with one or more [[Mini-Con]]s. The term can also refer to the Mini-Cons they have partnered with.

Instead of transforming into vehicles or machinery, Mini-Con Deployers instead become additional armor or accessories for their [[bulk]] partners and remain attached until summoned into action. The advantages that this symbiosis confers are manifold: the full-sized Transformers gain an extra pair of hands while Mini-Cons benefit from the additional armor and protection that their partners afford.

Most Transformers only pair up with one or two Mini-Cons, although [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] has partnered with at least four at a time.

{{quote|Awww, he's like their daddy!|[[Sideswipe (WFC)|Sideswipe]] has probably read too much [[Fandom|fanfic]]|''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Aligned novels===
[[Rumble (WFC)|Rumble]], [[Frenzy (WFC)|Frenzy]], [[Ravage (WFC)|Ravage]], and [[Laserbeak (WFC)|Laserbeak]] were Soundwave's minions, located in his chest cavity. {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}
===''Prime'' cartoon===
[[File:Deployer DarknessRising3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Hi, I'm [[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]'s [[Breastforce|boobs.]]]]
Laserbeak was Soundwave's Deployer, who he used for various tasks, such as kidnapping [[William Fowler]], {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} keeping an eye on [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]], {{storylink|Masters & Students}} providing support in battle {{storylink|One Shall Rise, Part 3}} and looking for Iacon relics. {{storylink|Triage (episode)|Triage}} {{storylink|Hard Knocks}} However, he became seemingly offline after Jack and Arcee blew up a gas station right in front of him. {{storylink|Darkmount, NV}} Laserbeak was later repaired and used to provide air support for Shockwave against [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] while searching for Predacon remains in Texas. {{storylink|Project Predacon}} {{storylink|Deadlock (episode)}}
===2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon===
Many Decepticons and Autobots chose to become Deployers. According to [[Airazor (RID)|Airazor]], Autobot-affiliated Deployers used buzzsaw alternade modes while Decepticon Deployers became torpedoes. A third group known as [[Cyclone]]s were unaffiliated and became free-rolling spheres. Many Decepticon Deployers and their partners were imprisoned aboard the ''[[Alchemor (RID)|Alchemor]]'' along with their Mini-Cons and were subsequently free to run amok on Earth.

Known Deployers include:

*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]]:
*[[Drift (RID)|Drift]] and sometimes [[Sideswipe (RID)|Sideswipe]]: partnered with [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]] and [[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]]
*[[Fracture (RID)|Fracture]]: partnered with [[Airazor (RID)|Airazor]] and [[Divebomb (RID)|Divebomb]]
*[[Overload (RID)|Overload]]: temporarily partnered with [[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]] and [[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]]
*[[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]]: partnered with [[Slicedice]]
*[[Razorpaw]]: partnered with [[Glacius]] and [[Swelter]]
*[[Simacore]]: partnered with [[Axiom (RID)|Axiom]] and [[Theorem]]
*[[Bisk (RID)|Bisk]]: partnered with [[Hammer (RID)|Hammer]] and [[Anvil (RID)|Anvil]]
*[[Quillfire (RID)|Quillfire]]: partnered with [[Back]] and [[Forth]]
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]]: partnered with [[Undertone]]

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)===
Soundwave's minions Frenzy, Rumble and Laserbeak battled Optimus, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, and Air Raid during an Autobot breakout. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|War for Cybertron}}
===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===
With the help of Laserbeak and Rumble, Soundwave secretly salvaged and rebuilt their glorious leader Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers: Fall of Cybertron}}
===''Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark'' (Console)===
Rumble and Laserbeak accompanied Soundwave, [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]] and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] to locate the [[Dark Spark]]. While on the mission Rumble was used by Soundwave to unlock multiple passages to the Dark Spark using his small size. Laserbeak was also used to locate the Dark Spark, however when Soundwave and the rest of the Decepticons got trapped in the Dark Spark chamber, Laserbeak was the only one not to be trapped and freed his fellow Decepticons. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)|Rise of the Dark Spark}}

==Toys==
===Prime===
[[File:Primetoy-HasbroTakaraTomy-Laserbeaks.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Soundwave''' (Deluxe, 2012)
:[[Laserbeak (WFC)#Prime|Laserbeak]] comes as an accessory of ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)#Robots in Disguise (2012)|Prime: Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Soundwave (WFC)#Prime|Soundwave]]. He pegs (via a [[5mm post|5mm-compatible post]]) into Soundwave's chest, can mount on top of the vehicle mode fuselage, and can perch on Soundwave's palms. The [[TakaraTomy]] version uses [[sticker]]s for its details instead of [[Paint operation|paint]].

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===Generations===
[[File:Generationstoy-FOCRatbat.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|''Generations'' Legends Class Ratbat.]]
*'''Soundwave''' (Voyager, 2012)

: An accessory of ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]] [[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron|Fall of Cybertron]]'' [[Soundwave (WFC)#GenerationsVoyager|Soundwave]], [[Legends Class (2005)|Legends Class]] [[Laserbeak (WFC)#Generations|Laserbeak]] transforms from a robotic bird into a "data disc" that can store in and be launched out of Soundwave's chest compartment.

*'''Soundblaster''' (Voyager, 2012)
: A [[redeco]] of Laserbeak, [[Buzzsaw (FOC)|Buzzsaw]] is an accessory of [[Soundwave (WFC)#GenerationsSoundblaster|Soundblaster]], a redeco of Voyager Soundwave.

*'''Ravage & Decepticon Rumble''' (Legend, 2012)
: [[Ravage (WFC)#Generations|Ravage]] and [[Rumble (WFC)#Generations|Decepticon Rumble]] also transform into data discs. Ravage is a robotic cat, while Rumble is a robotic humanoid.

*'''Decepticon Frenzy & Ratbat''' (Legend, 2012)
: [[Frenzy (WFC)#Generations|Decepticon Frenzy]] is a redeco of Decepticon Rumble, while [[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]] is a [[retool]]/redeco of Laserbeak, transforming into a robotic bat.

*'''Autobot Blaster''' (Voyager, 2012)
: A retool/redeco of Ravage, [[Steeljaw (FOC)|Steeljaw]] transforms into a robotic lion, and is an accessory of [[Blaster (FOC)|Blaster]], a redeco/retool of Voyager Soundwave.

*'''Eject/Ramhorn''' (Legend, 2013)

: [[Eject (FOC)|Eject]] is a retool and redeco of Rumble/Frenzy, and still transforms into a robotic humanoid. [[Ramhorn (FOC)|Ramhorn]] is a robotic rhinoceros who also transforms into a data disc.

*'''Rewind/Sunder''' (Legend, 2013)

: [[Rewind (FOC)|Rewind]] is a redeco of Eject, while [[Sunder (FOC)|Sunder]] is a redeco of Laserbeak.

===Beast Hunters===
[[File:PrimeBHtoy-Ravage.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Soundwave''' (Deluxe, 2013)
: ''[[Transformers: Prime (toyline)|Prime:]] [[Beast Hunters (toyline)|Beast Hunters]]'' [[Soundwave (WFC)#Beast Hunters|Soundwave]] is a redeco and extensive retool of "Robots in Disguise" Soundwave. Laserbeak has been replaced by [[Ravage (WFC)#Beast Hunters|Ravage]], a robotic jaguar.

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===Robots in Disguise (2015)===
[[File:Slipstream RID 2015 toy.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
Featuring single-step transformations, Mini-Cons transform into weapons (buzzsaws for the Autobots and torpedoes for the Decepticons), and can interact with larger figures. They include a number of clear-plastic accessories, packaged on the sprue, which can be pegged into various sockets on their bodies. Some of the figures' accessories can be combined with those from their wavemates to form an "energy animal": a big cat for Wave 1, and a shark for Wave 2.

'''Wave 1'''
*[[Divebomb (RID)|Divebomb]] (Decepticon robot)
*[[Dragonus]] (Decepticon dragon)
*[[Sawback]] (Autobot wolf)
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Slipstream]] (Autobot robot)
[[File:RID15toy-Mini-ConRatbat.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67]]
'''Wave 2'''
*[[Beastbox (RID)|Beastbox]] (Autobot gorilla)
*[[Ratbat (WFC)|Ratbat]] (Decepticon bat)
*[[Sandsting]] (Decepticon scorpion)
*[[Velocirazor]] (Autobot dinosaur)

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Back|Decepticon Back]]
*[[Hammer (RID)|Decepticon Hammer]]
*[[Slipstream (RID)|Blizzard Strike Slipstream]] (Autobot robot)
*[[Swelter]]

'''Wave 4'''
*[[Jetstorm (RID)|Scorch Strike Jetstorm]] (Autobot robot)
*[[Ransack (RID Mini-Con)|Ransack]]
*[[Glacius]]
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====Mini-Con Deployers====
Packaged with a Mini-Con, Deployers are designed to wield and launch the smaller figures, and feature several-step transformations.

'''Wave 1'''
*[[Drift (RID)|Autobot Drift]] & [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Fracture (RID)|Decepticon Fracture]] & [[Airazor (RID)|Airazor]]

'''Wave 2'''
*[[Drift (RID)|Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift]] & [[Jetstorm (RID)|Jetstorm]]
*[[Overload (RID)|Overload]] & [[Backtrack (RID)|Backtrack]]

'''Wave 3'''
*[[Crazybolt (RID)|Crazybolt]] & [[Hammer (RID)|Scorch Strike Hammer]]
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==See also==
* [[Powerlinx]]

[[Category:Autobot subgroups]]
[[Category:Decepticon subgroups]]
[[Category:Prime subgroups]]
[[Category:Robots in Disguise (2015) subgroups]]
[[Category:War for Cybertron subgroups]]