Editing Megatron (Movie)

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:''Megatron is the [[Decepticon]] leader from the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Movie Megatron Defiance3.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Friends, [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticonians]], countrybots, lend me your audio receptors!]]

'''Megatron''' was not always the viciously powerful and brutally direct leader of the Decepticons: he was once brothers-in-arms with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and a student of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], appointed to be Cybertron's [[Lord High Protector|Protector]] and commander of its [[Defense Force]]. But Megatron resented his comrade, knowing he was a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] and therefore Sentinel's favored son. This anger allowed [[The Fallen]] to ensnare him and led to the revival of the Decepticons. Even without The Fallen, it's not hard to imagine that Megatron would have erupted Cybertron into war to rid himself of Optimus.

Megatron tends to become so obsessed with the object of his desires that he can ignore "secondary" matters, glaring flaws in his plans. Otherwise, he likely wouldn't have chased after the [[AllSpark]] alone, and spent centuries entombed in the [[Arctic]]. Trying to talk Megatron out of blindly going for his goals is useless. He will risk his world, his troops, and even his own [[spark]] to achieve his goals; these things do not matter to Megatron. Like his master, Megatron feels a violent hatred towards [[human]]s and views them as only slightly above bacteria, a feeling exacerbated by spending decades as their prisoner.

Despite this fatal flaw, Megatron did not achieve his dreaded status through simple warmongering. He's a manipulative, cunning strategist who can plan [[Ark (DOTM)|multiple]] [[Star Harvester|schemes]] spanning millennia, and while they may overlap, they all help him towards his one, true goal: the restoration of Cybertron. For all his evils, Megatron genuinely strives to save his home planet some day, and with it, the [[Transformer|Cybertronian race]]: even if it means he has to rule it with his iron fist and put his bloodlust to good use to do so.

He sometimes goes by the name '''C-81'''.

{{quote|You still fight for the weak! That is why ''you lose!''|Megatron to Optimus|[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]}}

==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.}}
====2007 ''Transformers'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil), [[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron ArchibaldWitwicky.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Oh baby, you know just the spot to turn me on!]]

Megatron eventually succeeded in tracking the AllSpark to [[Earth]], where he rather embarrassingly crash-landed in the Arctic Circle and was frozen solid for thousands of years. In [[1897]], some 100 Earth-years before the arrival of the other Transformers, he was discovered by an explorer named [[Archibald Witwicky|Archibald Amundsen Witwicky]]. Captain Witwicky accidentally activated Megatron's navigation system and caused the coordinates of the AllSpark to be etched onto the explorer's glasses. Megatron remained imprisoned in the Arctic until the 1930s, when he was dug out by the United States government and moved to a secret [[Sector Seven]] stronghold inside [[Hoover Dam]]. In the years that followed, many modern devices (by Earth standards) were reverse-engineered from his frozen body.

[[File:Movie Megatron breakout.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Mace isn't for spraying, it's for hitting.]]

In the present day, having searched the galaxy for the AllSpark and being drawn to Earth, the remaining Decepticons learned of Witwicky's glasses. Through the Internet, they determined the location of both Megatron and the AllSpark inside Hoover Dam. [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]] infiltrated the dam and shut down the power systems, while Starscream attacked the external powerlines, resulting in Megatron's thawing out. Once again online, the leader of the Decepticons informed the worthless insects of his true name, shouting "I am Megatron!" (to clear up all that N.B.E.-01/Ice Man nonsense), randomly killed a few of them while destroying his former prison, then transformed and flew off after the AllSpark again. He met up with Starscream for the first time in thousands of years on the outside, and, never one for pleasantries, immediately demanded to know where the Cube was. Upon learning that the humans had moved the AllSpark, Megatron berated Starscream for yet another failure. 

[[File:Movie2007 Megatron Starscream.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|You fail me yet again Starscream... will I ever meet [[Starscream (SG)|a Starscream that is truly loyal?]]]]

After Starscream and Devastator's opening attacks in [[Mission City]], Megatron arrived, and again declared his name (he really wants people to know who he is). The Autobots were so panicked by the sight of their long lost nemesis that [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] called for a temporary retreat. Megatron blasted [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]] backwards when the diminutive Autobot attempted to attack, then threw him into the air before crushing him on top of a tower with his clawed talons. Jazz valiantly fought on, asking if Megatron wanted a "piece" of him, but doing little damage to the Decepticon leader. Megatron viciously killed the Autobot by tearing him in half, callously declaring that he wanted "two".

[[File:Movie Megatron jetmode cityfight.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Whoa, that energon's not settling too well.]]

As [[Sam Witwicky|the human boy]] ran off with the AllSpark, Megatron ordered the Decepticons to [[Decepticons, attack|attack]]. Devastator attacked the armed insects, while Starscream and [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] fought [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] and Ratchet for the AllSpark. At that moment, Optimus Prime appeared and challenged Megatron. Millennia in the ice had done nothing to lessen the animosity Megatron felt for his brother, however. Barely managing to growl out Prime's name, he transformed and flew at Prime at full speed. The Autobot leader leapt and grabbed a hold of Megatron, who slammed him into a building before flying right through a skyscraper. Both leaders landed in the middle of an intersection, but Megatron was the first to recover and leaped upon his brother, snarling that the humans were undeserving of life. Optimus Prime replied that they had the right to choose for themselves. Hearing this, the snarling Megatron tossed Optimus aside. Megatron declared that if Prime wished to defend them, he should "join them in extinction", forming his [[fusion cannon]]. Before he could fire, the Autobot leader drew his [[ion blaster]] and fired, hitting Megatron. The Decepticon leader shrugged off this attack, spun around from the momentum and fired his cannon, sending Optimus Prime flying into the side of a building.

[[File:Movie Megatron Samonroof.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Oh look I found a stray human... wonder if I can keep him as a pet... come on boy, don't be scared. I'll take you to a new home.]]

Megatron pursued the young human who had removed the AllSpark from Hoover Dam, destroying everything that stood in his way. The boy ran to a dilapidated building that was the designated coordinates for a human military evacuation team, and Megatron smashed his way through, yelling that he could smell the human maggot. Starscream destroyed the helicopter intended to take the AllSpark, and Megatron burst through the floor, inquiring if it was courage or fear that compelled him. Finally cornering him on a ledge, Megatron offered that if the human gave him the AllSpark, the boy might live as his pet. The Decepticon leader relished the human's defiant refusal and destroyed the ledge the human was standing upon, sending the boy tumbling to the ground.

[[File:Movie2007 Prime Megatron.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Get up, so I can knock you back down!]]

Unfortunately, the human was caught by Optimus Prime, who then tried to escape down the side of the building before Megatron tackled him and sent all three slamming into the pavement. As a nearby [[Michael Bay|human bystander]] attempted to crawl away, the Decepticon expressed his disgust at the insect's proximity and flicked it away. Protecting the young boy, Prime declared that their war would end here and it was now just between the two brothers. Though lusting for the AllSpark, Megatron decided to indulge his brother's obvious death wish, declaring that only he was in this fight. Despite Optimus Prime's best efforts, Megatron was relentless, matching the Autobot leader with blow after devastating blow until he collapsed. Adding insult to injury, Megatron informed Prime that his defense of the "weak" was the real reason he lost. 

[[File:Megatron allspark merge.JPG|left|upright=1.4|thumb| The AllSpark will give you sparkburn!]]

The Decepticon leader turned his attention back to the human boy, but was suddenly attacked by the human fighter jets and [[William Lennox|Captain Lennox]]'s ground soldiers firing sabot rounds. Optimus took this chance, striking Megatron and knocking him down. His armor a damaged, shattered mess, Megatron ignored the punishment and focused on the human boy, growling that he would kill the boy and that the AllSpark was his. As Optimus Prime ordered the boy to place the AllSpark into his chest, the human instead pushed it into the now-exposed [[spark]] in Megatron's chest, overloading him with energy and extinguishing the Decepticon's life force. As Optimus Prime stood over Megatron's lifeless shell, watching the light flicker out of his brother's [[Sensors#Optical sensors|optics]], he remarked somberly, yet remorsefully, that Megatron had left him no choice, and removed a shard of the AllSpark from his brother's spark core.

Megatron's body was dumped into the [[Laurentian Abyss]] at its deepest point, along with the remains of the other Decepticons, where the near-freezing temperatures would, hopefully, keep them dormant indefinitely. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]],” “[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]],” and "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"; the "[[Transformers: Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; the activity book "[[Look and Find Transformers]]"; and the storybooks “[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]],” “[[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers Play-a-Sound]],” "[[Meet the Autobots]]," "[[Meet the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers Mix & Match]]" and "[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]."}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japan)|[[Hans-Jürgen Wolf]] (German), [[José Santa Cruz]] (Brazil) [[Luca Biagini]] (Italian), [[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}

[[File:ROTFMegatronRising.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Now, where's Starscream? I want to give him a piece of my mind.]]

Megatron's death would not last long, however. [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] tapped into a conversation between [[NEST]] and General [[Morshower]], listening to Director [[Theodore Galloway]] mention that 1) a shard of the [[AllSpark]] was in storage in [[Diego Garcia]] and 2) Megatron's body lay in the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] was sent to steal the shard, and swam to the Abyss with [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]], [[Long Haul (ROTF)|Long Haul]], [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]], [[Rampage (ROTF)|Rampage]] and [[Scrapmetal (ROTF)|Scrapmetal]]. Scalpel ordered spare parts be used to repair Megatron's body with "ze little one", who was torn apart by his larger brethren, and then struck Megatron with the shard: the Decepticon leader was reborn as a Cybertronian tank with flight capabilities and a [[death-lock pincer]]. Megatron flew up to the surface, striking a [[USS Topeka|submarine]] on his way, before journeying into space to find the ''[[Nemesis (ROTF)|Nemesis]]''.

[[File:TheFallen-ROTFNemesis.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"My Master, I have fai--"<br>"I'm trying to watch the game here!"]]

On the ruined ship, Megatron met up with [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], and chastised his subordinate for leaving him to die on Earth. Starscream defended his actions by saying that he had to take care of the [[hatchling]]s, who were dying without [[energon]], as someone had to take command in Megatron's absence. Furious, Megatron bashed Starscream into a wall containing protoform sacks, and told Starscream that even in death, there is no command but Megatron's. Megatron met up with [[The Fallen]], who was weakened and in a life support chair. Megatron told his master he had failed and allowed the AllSpark to be destroyed, but The Fallen told Megatron that the knowledge of the AllSpark had instead been transferred to the human boy who killed him, [[Sam Witwicky]]. With the knowledge within Sam's mind, they could find another energon source, hidden away from The Fallen eons ago. Already eager to avenge himself, Megatron begged The Fallen for the chance to strip the flesh from Sam, but The Fallen asked for patience. Before they could act, Megatron was to kill [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], who was the last of the [[Dynasty of Primes]] and the only one that could defeat the Fallen. Megatron knew that Optimus would protect the boy, and ordered him captured.

[[File:ROTF Megatron tank mode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Don't blink. He isn't like this much.]]

Megatron sprang a trap, dispatching [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] to take [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Leo Spitz]] to him at an abandoned factory. Although Megatron would have rather killed Sam slowly and painfully, Sam had valuable information as to the energon source's location in his mind, which he had received from his own AllSpark fragment. Megatron held the boy down while Scalpel performed several invasive probes of Sam's mind. Scalpel's probes confirmed The Fallen's claims, and Scalpel declared that they needed Sam's brain on the table, something Megatron had no objections to. Just as Scalpel was ready to dissect Sam's brain, Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] burst in to rescue the humans. Megatron attempted to attack Optimus, but was shot out of the factory as he pounced. Optimus drove Sam to a forest, with Megatron in hot pursuit. The Autobot and Decepticon leaders transformed and battled as Sam fled. Optimus was pretty easily dominating the fight, trash talking Megatron all the while, eventually forcing Megatron to call his Decepticons for help. 

[[File:ROTFPrimePunch.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"Body or face, Megatron?"<br/>"Not the face!"<br/>"Too bad!"]]

Starscream and Grindor immediately arrived to aid their commander. Megatron told Optimus that Sam could lead them to another energon source, then counterattacked his foe, kicking off Prime's [[mouthplate]] and blasting him backwards. Appearing to have a slight advantage, Megatron taunted the Autobot leader, asking if one boy was worth the future of the Cybertronians. Prime replied that he'd never stop at killing just one, then took on all three Decepticons. Surprisingly, he was winning, punching and stabbing Megatron multiple times, ripping off Starscream's right arm, and tearing Grindor apart. However, as a weary Prime tried to find Sam, Megatron [[Death-lock pincer|stabbed]] him in the back and blasted through his spark: Prime fell, mortally wounded. As Megatron moved for the boy, the rest of the Autobots arrived and provided enough cover for Bumblebee to spirit Sam away. Already injured from the battle with Prime, Megatron and Starscream were forced to retreat.

[[File:ROTF movie MegatronStarscream roofchat.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|"That's IT! No more Mr. Nice Megatron!"<br>"But you were never—"<br>"SHUT UP!"]]

With Prime dead, Megatron was quite pleased, until Starscream informed him that the boy had escaped. Furious, Megatron smacked his lieutenant with his own severed arm and ran his treads on him for a moment for losing track of a single insect, but Starscream countered that he was one of seven billion, and could be anywhere. Considering the situation, Megatron decided it was time to end their secret war, and that if they couldn't find the boy, they'd have the humans bring him to the Decepticons. Soundwave used his scanning abilities to locate the boys parents, the rejuvenated Fallen broadcast a message to deliver Sam to them across the planet. Megatron himself broadcasted the Fallen's message by rewiring the [[Empire State Building]]'s radio tower. 

[[File:ROTFMegatronSam.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Hey, he stole my purse! Wallet! I mean wallet!]]

He then flew to [[Egypt]], where nineteen thousand years before, the Fallen had built a [[Star Harvester]] to harness the [[Sun]] for energon. Starscream informed him that the human soldiers had brought Prime's body with them, and Megatron surmised the boy's intentions. Commanding the rest of the Decepticons to begin their [[Operation: Firestorm|assault]], Megatron ordered [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]] to destroy the pyramid that was built over the harvester, while he himself chased Sam for the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which would activate the harvester. Megatron almost killed Sam, but was overwhelmed by human gunfire, and flew off. 

[[File:ROTF Megatron not over.JPG|thumb|right|upright=1.4|It's just a flesh wound. Err, armor wound.]]

Fortunately, The Fallen managed to take the Matrix and activate the harvester, but it had already been used to resurrect Optimus. Optimus combined with [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]] and destroyed the harvester, knocking Megatron off the pyramid while Prime went for The Fallen. Quickly recovering, Megatron came to the aid of his master and attacked Optimus from behind. After a brief but brutal tussle, Optimus used Megatron's own cannon to blast half his face off, and then severed the Decepticon's right arm. Finally, Optimus used his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins, ending his role in the battle. Badly damaged, Megatron called out for "Tharscweam!" in agony, but it soon mattered little as Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Horrified at the demise of his master, Megatron acknowledged Starscream's advice that they should flee, but vowed that "This isn't over." {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Megatron's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]],” “[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]” and “[[The Last Prime]]"; the “[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]” and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]],” “[[Rise of the Decepticons]],” “[[When Robots Attack!]],” "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]." Several include an abandoned plot point from the film, in which The Fallen has promised to make Megatron a Prime in return for his services, only for this to be exposed as a lie by Optimus during the final battle (since Primes are born, not made), leading Megatron to abandon his master. Some adaptations of the story stated that Megatron's new form made him stronger than before. In the final film, his new body is simply a change in appearance.}}
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====''Dark of the Moon'' film====
{{voiceactor|[[Hugo Weaving]] (English), [[Kōtarō Nakamura]] (Japanese)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin American Spanish)}} 

{{quote|Cybertron... you are saved, at last.|Megatron|[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]}}

[[File:Dotm-megatron-face.jpg|left|thumb|250 px|[[Doctor Doom|Curse you]], [[Fantastic Four]]!]]

Three years after Operation: Firestorm and the death of the Fallen, Megatron finally adopted an Earth form - ironically, a large tractor-trailer not unlike that of his most hated enemy - and hid out in the plains of Namibia, Africa, in exile. There, still visibly bearing the scars of his battle with Optimus Prime, he spent most of his time sitting on a ramshackle throne of junk, with only [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], [[Laserbeak (DOTM)|Laserbeak]], and the diminutive [[Igor]] to command. Megatron regularly went out to find food for the [[Hatchling]]s that lived in a collection of oil drums at the camp, occasionally scaring the local wildlife with his roaring and bellowing. Starscream expressed his concern for his master's wounds, but Megatron was not fooled by his sucking up. Laserbeak returned after observing [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]]'s fight with Optimus, and he and Soundwave told Megatron that the Autobots had discovered a fuel cell from the Ark, which had been thought lost. Megatron noted his approval of the two's work, and decided that the humans that were working for them had served their purpose, and ordered them to be eliminated.

[[File:DOTM-MegatronLincolnMemorialchair.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.67|Finally, a reference to "[[Atlantis, Arise!]]"]]
After [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] betrayed the Autobots, Megatron and Starscream travelled to Washington D.C., where Megatron outlined his scheme to his second-in-command. Apparently, Sentinel was supposed to rendezvous with Megatron there on Earth, but the circumstances caused them both to be deactivated, and Sentinel was the only one who knew how to activate the [[space bridge]]. However, Megatron had a contingency plan: since they already had the pillars on the Moon and Optimus had recovered the Matrix of Leadership, he merely needed Optimus to revive Sentinel, so he could activate the pillars. And so arrived that moment, and Megatron blasted President Lincoln off his stone throne, and used the remains as a seat. Optimus arrived to stop Sentinel but was too late. Megatron watched this happen, after which he declared, "Here we are. Fight us ''now''." 

[[File:DOTM-SentinelandMegatron.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4|Megatron just needs to crash on Sentinel's couch for a few days until he can get back on his feet.]]

Soon, they travelled to Chicago, Illinois, where Sentinel and Megatron planned to start their global takeover. They set up their base of operations on the [[wikipedia:35 East Wacker|Jewelers' Building]]. Human [[Dylan Gould]], who was working for the Decepticons, came with [[Carly Spencer]] to watch, but Megatron ordered him to leave. Dylan did so but muttered to Carly "he's such a dick". After the Decepticons successfully occupied Chicago, Megatron stated that this was the world that he promised, that this way Cybertron would be restored. Sentinel, feeling his partner was getting too chummy, violently reminded Megatron of his place; Sentinel did not work ''for'' Megatron, he worked ''with'' Megatron, and warned the Decepticon to remember the difference.

Much later, Dylan shouted to Megatron that the Autobots, who were seemingly destroyed by Starscream, were still alive. Megatron ordered the bridges to be raised and all [[Orbital Assault Carrier|Decepticon fighter ships]] to find the Autobots.

[[File:DOTM off with his head.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Insert your own "Give me your face" joke here.]]
Sentinel would take control of the Decepticon forces in the fight against the Autobots, and so, as the battle raged Megatron lay on another throne of junk, sulking, though his spirit was suitably lifted as Cybertron appeared in the sky above. That is until [[Carly Spencer]] approached him and mocked that Sentinel had apparently usurped him. Megatron denied this and maintained that he would rule. As Carly pushed him further, he prepared to crush the Human for daring to speak so defiantly to him, but paused, realizing how far he had fallen from power within the past few years, and decided to once again take his rightful place at the top of the command chain. That is what he came close to doing; just as Sentinel was about to deal the fatal blow to Optimus, Megatron attacked and severely wounded Sentinel. Meanwhile, the Autobots destroyed the control pillar, thus destroying the space bridge and presumably Cybertron with it. Seeing this, Megatron offered Optimus a truce, as long he could remain in charge of the Decepticons. "After all," he asked, "Who would you be without me, Prime?" Prime's response was to announce that it was "Time to find out," as he promptly tore Megatron's head from his shoulders with his axe, finally killing the tyrant. Optimus then used his nemesis' fusion shotgun to end Sentinel's life as well. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}

{{note|Megatron'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]],” "[[The Lost Autobot]]," "[[Optimus Prime's Friends and Foes]]," “[[Bumblebee's Best Friend]],” "[[Dark of the Moon: Action Pop-ups!]]" and "[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon Mix & Match]]." The novelization and comic adaptation feature an alternate ending in which Optimus accepts Megatron's offer of a truce and Megatron and the remaining Decepticons are allowed to leave.}}

====''Age of Extinction'' film====
:''See: [[Galvatron (AOE)]]
[[File:Megatron Head at KSI.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Aw, look at that, the humans wiped off all the rust! And wasn't my face split in two?]]
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English), [[Ryūzaburō Ōtomo]] (Japanese)|[[Mario Arvizu]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Mario Bombardieri]] (Italian)}}
Unknown to all, Megatron's mind actually survived his destruction, and was in a stasis inside his severed head. A few years after the Chicago war, Megatron's remains were acquired by KSI, who forced [[Brains]] to transfer data from the Decepticon leader's brain to the man-made Transformer [[Galvatron (AOE)|Galvatron]]. Unknown to all except Brains, Megatron was secretly influencing the creation of Galvatron to serve as a new body for himself, as well as making it possible for him to take control of all the other KSI drones once his body was complete. Brains declined to notify his captors of any of this, because seriously, ''screw'' those guys. {{storylink|Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction}}
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====''The Last Knight'' film====
{{spoiler|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|July 21}}
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}} 
[[File:TLK Megatron nomask.jpg|right|upright=1.4|thumb|Wait? My son, the planet or me?]]
[[File:TLK Megatron fires.jpg|thumb|left|300px|]]

{{storylink|Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight}}
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===IDW movie comics===
During the dark age of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] after the fall of the [[Dynasty of Primes]], Megatron became a follower of [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Sentinel recovered the [[AllSpark]], and planned to transport a sun to repower it and the rest of Cybertron. The [[Thetacon (tribe)|Thetacon]]s, who believed Sentinel to be a mad heretic, launched an attack on the AllSpark's facility. Megatron, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]], [[Shockwave (Movie)|Shockwave]], and [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] fended off the Thetacons when Sentinel and [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] successfully transported a star to Cybertron. The Thetacons laid down their arms, but Megatron resented that so many of his comrades had died before Cybertron's new dawn, and it was only by Optimus's persuasion that Megatron found it within himself to forgive his enemies and shake the Thetacon [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]]'s hand. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}}

That evening, Megatron eavesdropped on a conversation between Sentinel and Optimus. Sentinel claimed Optimus was also a Prime, and intended to make him the new ruler of Cybertron. Optimus refused, unable to accept he was a Prime and somehow superior to his comrades. The next day, Megatron grumbled to Shockwave that if he were Optimus, he would have accepted Sentinel's offer. They came across a [[Driller]] attacking a [[hatchling]] field trip, and successfully shot the creature to pieces. Megatron asked for the name of the Cybertronian who volunteered to guard the hatchlings: his name was [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. 

Three days later at the capital city of [[Trypticon (Movie)|Trypticon]], Sentinel Prime officially declared Cybertron's unification, and announced the planet would be governed by Optimus's [[Science Division]], and Megatron's [[Defense Force]]. {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}} For two generations, Optimus and Megatron ruled Cybertron successfully, creating a balance of fair and firm leadership. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} When [[Malcontent]] activity increased on Cybertron, Megatron met with Optimus and requested supreme authority in protecting the planet. Optimus obliged. Megatron then requested to be called [[Lord High Protector]] and to be addressed as "sir". {{storylink|Foundation issue 2|Foundation #2}}

[[File:Defiance1 Megs Prime argument.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"Know your place, boy!"]]

After Commander Starscream returned from his patrol in the [[Eshems Nebula]], Optimus was reporting on his science sector's continuing excavation of the site near [[Simfur Temple]] and the unusual pulse waves that the AllSpark had been emitting ever since work began. At the excavation site, while Optimus' scientists were concerned with disturbing the ancient artifacts, all Megatron cared about was whether these relics might provide the same revitalising energy as the AllSpark. He was nettled when Optimus asserted the sector's dominion over all scientific and archaeological discoveries and reminded his junior that it was his defence force that protected this world, demanding to be informed of all possible threats from the excavation's findings. When Optimus dared to remind Megatron of the military's treatment of such discoveries as hostile, Megatron told Optimus that when ''he'' tried to be the leader of Cybertron, he could make those decisions, not ''now''. When a mysterious relic was discovered, Megatron ordered it removed at once, a demand that Optimus disagreed with. Just as the pair were about to launch into another argument, Cybertron fell under attack from Nebula inhabitants. Megatron had the relic quickly moved to his quarters under the guise of protecting it from the invaders. Arriving to find [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]] seeking cover within the temple of Simfur, Megatron chastised their alleged lack of courage before he was hit by an alien tank vehicle. After destroying it, he told Starscream to keep Optimus' team out of the military's way and staggered back to his quarters in Trypticon. Drawn towards the relic, he ignored his injuries and scraped away at the layers of debris encrusting it before losing consciousness. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}}

[[File:Defiance2 Megatron warrally.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Mein Führer!]]

The relic used what little power it had left to repair Megatron's wounds. At first Megatron was angry, demanding the being to show himself to the Protector of all Cybertron. The relic explained that it was unable to do so without Megatron's help, and ''if'' he helped, the relic would truly make him '''Lord''' of Cybertron. The relic then fired beams of energy into Megatron's mind (turning his white optic sensors red), explaining what needed to be done, filling him with delusions of grandeur. When Optimus came looking for the Protector, Megatron had changed; he had become even more aggressive in his speech and demeanor, and what's more, he demanded Optimus gather his scientists to go to war. When Optimus explained the sector was not combat-trained, Megatron shot back that the scientists should have known what the aliens were after: the AllSpark. Optimus refused, stating that the army's mission was of defense, and it went against everything their society was based upon to exacerbate war. Megatron slammed Optimus into the wall and stated that their society then needed to ''change''. He held a massive saber-rattling war rally outside Trypticon, demanding vengeance upon the alien aggressors. He claimed that until the war ended, he would assume full control of the military, and everybody would answer only to him. Megatron ordered all flight-capable Cybertronians accompany him to the Eshems Nebula, where they launched a surprise attack against the still-unknown aliens. Megatron fought his way inside the alien flagship and personally executed the alien leader. He then ordered Starscream and his units to conduct a war of genocide: ''none'' of the aliens were to survive. {{storylink|Defiance issue 2|Defiance #2}}

[[File:Defiance3 wearenowDECEPTICONS.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.]]

Megatron returned from the front with news of their success and awaited further instructions from his master. The relic ordered Megatron to prepare the way for his return by expanding the army, and at the end, Cybertron would be Megatron's, while everything else the master's. Megatron was enraged when the relic informed him that Optimus had snooped inside his quarters while he was fighting the aliens, and convinced the Protector that Optimus was after the same power the relic had promised ''him''. Now seeing that there were "enemies" within Cybertron as well as without, Megatron arranged to have the "traitors" taken care of by ordering [[Prowl (Movie)|Prowl]]'s security team to arrest Optimus, and sent Starscream's soldiers to kill all bar Optimus. However, Megatron underestimated Optimus, who personally defeated Starscream's squad. Nonetheless, he used the survivors as propaganda that treacherous malcontents sought to betray them all, and declared that Megatron's followers would now be reformed under a new image and a new name: '''Decepticons'''. {{storylink|Defiance issue 3|Defiance #3}} He ordered the execution of the "false" Primes — though he knew Sentinel and Optimus were Primes, he needed to give his followers a villain. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}}

Optimus's forces having eluded him for now, Megatron was given new orders by his master: build a [[Nemesis (ROTF)|mighty starship]] that would scour the stars for something very important to the relic's plans. The relic counseled Megatron to not make the same mistakes he did thousands of years ago, that his protege should strike without mercy or hesitation. The relic told Megatron the story of his mighty race, and how the AllSpark granted them great power and created the Transformer race, but it needed to be recharged by draining the power of a sun using specially-constructed [[Star Harvester|harvesting]] devices, and their under-construction starship would be used to search for the last harvester in the galaxy. When Megatron presumed to believe he would accompany his master, he was rebuked and punished. Much later, the ''Nemesis'' was finally completed, and Megatron assigned [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] to command the ship. The relic praising Megatron for his fine work, and ordered him to stay behind to continue the war. Over the next thousand years, the Autobots and Decepticons clashed in a bloody struggle. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

As Cybertron was devastated by the worsening war, 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. {{storylink|Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon}}{{storylink|Dark of the Moon issue 3}}

Ironhide led an attack on Simfur Temple. {{storylink|Foundation issue 3|Foundation #3}} Megatron stood at the gate and slaughtered many Autobots as Elita-One and [[Chromia (ROTF)|her]] [[Arcee (Movie)|sisters]] used the AllSpark to activate a "torch" made by Sentinel. Optimus finally appeared to fend off Megatron and ensure Elita-One escaped to give Sentinel the torch. Sentinel boarded the [[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]] with the torch to retrieve Optimus from Simfur, but to both Optimus and Megatron's horror, Starscream attacked the Ark, destroying it. The Autobots fled, but Megatron correctly deduced Optimus would return with a vengeance. {{storylink|Foundation issue 4|Foundation #4}} From his [[Lord High Protector citadel|citadel]], Megatron watched as Optimus and Ironhide battled their way through his defenses. When Optimus finally entered the tower, he found Megatron covered in hatchlings and daring him to kill them with him, gloating that Optimus would never go far enough. Optimus revealed he didn't: it had all been a distraction as Wheeljack, Chromia and Arcee stole the AllSpark aboard a second [[Ark (Movie)|Ark]]. With the AllSpark removed from Sentinel's device, the sun it held in place disappeared. Optimus escaped, rescuing Ironhide from Starscream and Shockwave while leaving Megatron to free himself of his hungry hatchlings. Megatron swore he would recover the AllSpark, and that if he would have to travel across the entire universe to do so, he would kill every Autobot. {{storylink|Transformers: Foundation|Foundation #1-4}}

[[File:Movie Megatron Targetcomic sure.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|"Sit, boy — or I'll beat you to death."]]

During an assault on the Autobots personally led by Megatron and his hound, [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]], the tyrant crushed an Autobot opponent's spark before casually tossing his corpse over his shoulder. He declared that the AllSpark would be his again, to which Blackout assured his leader that he would personally see to it. Megatron was pleased by his minion's loyalty, but decided to dispatch him to assist Starscream's unit to prevent Optimus Prime's reinforcements from entering [[Tyger Pax]]. He then left to meet his destiny, but it slipped from his grasp; Prime had commissioned the AllSpark to be launched into the abyss of outer space. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|Planetfall (Movie)|Planetfall}}

[[File:MovieMegatron Bumblebee torture comic.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Better get some ice on that.]]
After realizing Bumblebee had stalled him from claiming the Cube so the operation could be completed, Megatron tore off Bumblebee's arm—removing his weapon—and crushed his voice box, destroying his vocal processors so that the young Autobot would never speak of the affront to his destiny. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 1|The Reign of Starscream #1}} Megatron, believing Prime to be a desperate, inexperienced fool, gave chase. On the way, he detected the ''Nemesis's'' distress signal and soon found the mighty starship on a barren world, abandoned by all but his master. Megatron was berated for allowing the Cube to slip away from his grasp and ordered to thoroughly continue his chase. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} As Megatron tracked the AllSpark through space, he mused about his reasons for the war and how he and his "brother" were not all that different, as seen by Optimus' sentencing their home to a slow death by launching the Cube into space. Tracing the AllSpark via energy signature to [[Earth|a primitive world]], he lost contact with it upon atmospheric entry and crashed into the planet's icy northern pole. Low on [[energon]], his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron went into [[stasis lock]].

[[File:MoviePrequel2-Megatrondownfall.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|"I HAVE WALKED INTO THIS!"]]

Millennia later, in the year [[1897]], [[Archibald Witwicky]], the leader of the National Arctic Circle Expedition, discovered Megatron buried deep in the ice. Accidentally triggering Megatron's navigation system, Witwicky was blinded by a burst of light from the Decepticon leader's eyes, which imprinted the location of the AllSpark on his [[glasses]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Witwicky was subsequently driven insane by the experience, and upon his return to land, became the subject of attention by the United States government, who recruited adventurers [[Walter Simmons]] and [[Theodore Joseph Wells]] to investigate his fantastic claims. Simmons, Wells and their group followed Witwicky's route back to the Arctic, arriving early [[1898]], where they discovered Megatron's frozen body, and like Witwicky before them, inadvertently activated one of his systems upon entry into the cave, bringing him partially back on-line. The energy pulse this released caught the attention of [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], a [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]] abandoned on Earth by The Fallen, who quickly made his way to the Arctic, believing that The Fallen himself was the source of the pulse. Discovering the truth, Jetfire angrily informed Megatron that he has never heard of him, and punched him in the face. Simmons and Wells's group subsequently used explosives to send Jetfire punging into the freezing ocean; Megatron, too, was submerged, but jut before the cold overwhelmed him and he shut down again, he weakly proclaimed his name, which Simmons mis-heard as "Mega-Man". {{storylink|Original}} Simmons's organization set about constructing an environment dome around Megatron so he could be excavated and studied, which was completed in [[1899]]. Then, in [[1902]], the group discovered the AllSpark in the Colorado River, and quickly drew a correlation between it and their frozen "Mega-Man" because of the similar symbols that they were both decorated with. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}}

Eventually naming itself [[Sector Seven]] and arranging construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] to contain the AllSpark, the group initially planned to move Megatron to the dam as well in [[1935]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 3|Movie Prequel #3}} Unfortunately, some delays in the installation of the cryo-block system that would keep Megatron frozen delayed the planned move, however, and the outbreak of [[World War II]] put it on permanent hold. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}} It was in [[1954]] when Sector Seven definitively learned that they could not trust the Arctic cold to keep Megatron frozen when Communist sabotage of the organization's Arctic command post caused the Decepticon leader to thaw out, threatening the lives of the skeleton crew manning the base. Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the base, freezing Megatron solid once more only minutes after he awoke. {{storylink|Frozen}} In [[1969]], Megatron was at last transferred from the Arctic to the Hoover Dam headquarters. as Walter Simmons stayed looking at him. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 4|Movie Prequel #4}}

In the aftermath of the battle in Mission City, [[Sector Seven]] hauled away Megatron's corpse along with the other Decepticon bodies. The clandestine human organisation brought the bodies to a secret facility in the Nevada desert, with the intention of getting every bit of information they can out of the dead Decepticons before they were forced to dump them into the sea. {{storylink|Alliance issue 1}} When he arrived to oversee the burial of those who fell in Mission City, Optimus Prime noticed the surviving AllSpark fragment glowed when near Megatron's body, and gave it to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2}} Weeks later, Megatron, along with Blackout, was dumped into the Laurentian Abyss. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3}}

Later, after Megatron's machinations with The Fallen were undone by Optimus and his Autobots, Megatron freed Shockwave, whose inactive body had been captured by humans much as his had been. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} When Starscream dared to question Megatron's latest scheme, the Decepticon leader took out his frustration by pummeling his underling, reminding him to always remember his place in the Decepticon hierarchy. Fed up with being pushed around, Starscream shoved Megatron back and took to the air. Megatron didn't bother to pursue, as he knew that one way or another, Starscream would always return to him. {{storylink|Transformers: Starscream}}

Megatron sent out Shockwave to retrieve Starscream and his subordinates, who have clandestinely begun dealing Cybertronian weaponry to humans. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 1|Rising Storm #1}} As he waited, Megatron fumed about Optimus Prime's past decision to send out the AllSpark into space, internally justifying to himself all his past deeds as necessary evils in the face of Optimus's own transgressions against their species. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 2|Rising Storm #2}} While Shockwave and Starscream did their parts in Megatron's scheme, Megatron stayed behind in Nambia, teaching the hatchlings under his care to recognize the image of Optimus Prime, presumably to know him as their enemy. {{storylink|Rising Storm issue 4|Rising Storm #4}}
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====''Transformers: Beginnings''====
{{voiceactor|[[Frank Welker]] (English)}}

{{note|Transformers: Beginnings is a condensed, flash-animated retelling of the [[IDW Publishing|IDW]] [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|Movie Prequel]] that is detailed above this section.}}
{{storylink|Transformers: Beginnings (Movie)|Transformers: Beginnings}}

===Titan movie comics===
[[File:MegatronMovie GeoffSenior.jpg|right|upright=0.85|thumb|''The Beast and its armies shall rise from the pit to make war against God.'']]

Even as [[Lord High Protector]], {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} Megatron was scheming to take power of Cybertron and worlds beyond. He believed the Transformers could gain ultimate power via the All Spark, power to reshape their [[alternate mode]]s into anything they imagined. Breaking all Cybertronian laws, he made direct contact with the All Spark to test his theory and found himself with a mighty new alternate mode. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 4|Megatron V. Optimus Prime}} {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Megatron Profile}} War was declared and Megatron's army of Decepticons swept the planet. 

Ratchet tried to negotiate a peace and was almost murdered by Megatron in the process. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 3|Ratchet Profile}} When [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] fought injustices outside of any faction, Megatron personally made an example of her. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|Arcee bio}}

To stop Megatron getting the AllSpark, the Autobots tricked him into looking for it at [[Tyger Pax]] {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} while they launched towards the [[Alkaris Anomaly]], a wormhole that could potentially transport the cube to any one of an infinite number of locations in the universe. Megatron, noticing the launch, was fully capable of catching up to the cube before it would enter the wormhole, but as he passed Cybertron's moon, he found himself ensnared by an Autobot tractor beam of remarkable strength that pulled him down to the moon's surface. 

Megatron was able to create a drone unit capable of zeroing in on Optimus Prime's unique energy matrix signature within his spark core. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

Enraged by the ignominy of it all, Megatron turned his weapons on the Autobots responsible, but quickly calmed down enough to realize that this was only playing into their hands, and instead ordered [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]] to take his place in the battle. Megatron swooped back into space, hot on the AllSpark's heels, but was unable to stop the cube from falling through the anomaly. Determined to have the AllSpark's power, Megatron chose to enter the wormhole himself, only to be spat out in some far-off star system, with no trace of the AllSpark... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}}

Megatron entered the [[Solar System]], where he freed [[The Fallen]] from his pocket dimension prison on one of [[Saturn]]'s moons. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.3|The Fallen's profile}}

{{note|This leads into [[Movie Prequel issue 2|''Movie Prequel'' #2]].}}

Even when Megatron was missing in action, the idea he might come back was enough to stop [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]] from killing Decepticons who'd ticked him off. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5.1|Adrift in Space and Time}} The only exception was [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] but in early 2011, Megatron (with [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] was his catspaw) attacked and defeated this upstart. None of Bludgeon's men ''dared'' mess with Megatron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.20|Divided Loyalties}}{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.21|A Short, Sharp Lesson!}}

====Alternate timeline====
In [[Tyran 208.28 Gamma|another reality]], Megatron defeated Optimus at [[Mission City]], killed Sam Witwicky and took control of the AllSpark. He was fully linked to it and drew on its power—"It is me and I am it!"—giving him greater might and the ability to heal any wound. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}} 

After conquering an unknown chunk of Earth (including the entire [[United States of America]]) with [[Dropkick]] as his second-in-command, he used the AllSpark's power to start turning Earth from an organic world into a new Cybertron. Optimus Prime lay frozen in the [[Hoover Dam|old Sector Seven base]], Autobot resistance was scattered, and NATO's threat to nuke occupied America was hardly much of one. [[File:Megatron Bumbleslap.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|"''Sigh'' Even mindless violence seems boring today..."]] The only thing bothering Megatron was those rebels breaking into Hoover Dam... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}}

Megatron personally arrived to face [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and hunted for him, trying to bait him into appearing. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 10|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 2}} Realising the Autobot must have come with a human ally, he deliberately threatened to go after the human and thus got an emotional Bumblebee to make a defiant attack... at which point he backhanded Bumblebee into the wall and prepared to eviscerate him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 11|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 3}} He gave the Autobot a chance at a swift death if he begged for mercy, and was quite impressed when Bumblebee merely asked "that all you got?", but was less impressed when Autobot reinforcements arrived. [[File:Megatron Titan12.jpg|right|upright=1.95|thumb|Megatron's BDSM Dungeon just wasn't meeting expectations.]] He effortlessly smashed them aside and was about to kill [[Skyblast (Movie)|Skyblast]] when a new challenger arrived: the revived Optimus! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 12|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4}}

Optimus Prime got the snot beaten out of him, every attack he landed on Megatron being repaired by AllSpark power. However, he distracted Megatron long enough for Bumblebee to hit him with the ''other'' thing they'd broken into the Dam for: Sector Seven's greatest weapon, a nanovirus that targeted AllSpark operation frequencies. Infected, the tyrant was consumed from within by his own power and collapsed dead. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}}

Or so it appeared. He'd downloaded his mind into the AllSpark interface module, knowing Starscream would take it and assimilate it into himself. And so Megatron was able to be a voice in Starscream's head for weeks and weeks—and finally, when Starscream had suffered a setback and wanted a plan to stop the Autobots, Megatron gave him one: to let him out... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 22|The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself}}

While Starscream didn't, he ''did'' follow Megatron's tactical suggestions. He had the Decepticons use both carrot (promise of truce) ''and'' stick (multiple attacks) to make the US government, prompted by [[Theodore Allen|the mind-controlled President Allen]], boot out the Autobots—and then nuke them as they left, giving the Decepticons a clear shot at reconquest! {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Revolution Part 1}} This plan backfired when [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] intervened, and Megatron visited a broken, gibbering Starscream to once again tell him the only way out was to release him and let him walk the Earth again. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Revolution Part 2}} 
[[File:Starscreamseesthings Titan25.jpg|left|upright=1.95|thumb|''You're looking throooough me...'']]

This time Starscream ''did''... much to his dismay when he realised what he'd done. And so, when Stockade's New Decepticons stormed the [[Decepticon Heartland]], Megatron was there to "greet" them with fiery death!

Megatron fought Stockade in single combat, and [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]]-fueled punches rained down on him—only for him to ''grab'' a punch and use the momentum to hurl his opponent, berating him for lacking clear ambition to support his strength. This fight would've carried on except then the Autobots turned up. Trashing a rebellion, conquering Earth, ''and'' killing Optimus Prime in one day?! WOOOOO!

But Optimus drew first blood, and before Megatron could truly fight back, he was forcibly teleported with his Decepticons to Cybertron. A dead Cybertron. A dead Cybertron that itself teleported to an unknown area of space, leaving them trapped with no way back and no way off, ''forever''.

{{bigquote|'''PRIIIIIME!'''}}

{{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}

===''Ghosts of Yesterday''===
"The Ice Man" was kept in deep freeze by [[Sector Seven]] in their super-secret [[Sector Seven High Arctic Base|High Arctic Base]] until they decided to move him closer to the [[Allspark]] in [[1969]]. The convoy was disrupted when the driver of the lead truck spun out causing the rest of the vehicles to pile up on the icy roads. It was determined later that the driver was the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] spy [[Sergei Tasarov]] who had taken the place of the Sector Seven agent Peter Hodgson.

While the convoy prepared their defenses and a Soviet strike force attacked trying to obtain the Ice Man. 

When Megatron came partially online, it was obvious that some time had passed. Not only was he encased in a primitive transport, but there were [[Human|lifeforms]] fighting over him. Before Megatron could properly exterminate them, another crude transport crashed into his, causing a massive (but not spark-threatening) explosion. Megatron would have been pleased to know that the fire only added to his terrifying visage in the eyes of the maggots. Regaining his composure, Megatron noticed [[Philip Nolan|an insect]] standing near him. As Megatron reached out to grab it, [[Thomas Kinnear|another insect]], this one terminally damaged, began firing crude projectiles which his body armor easily deflected. Waiting until after the creature had expended its ammunition, Megatron grabbed it in his hand, only to discover that it had packed itself with explosives, which threw Megatron to the ground when they detonated. Then, the aforementioned first insect began spraying liquid nitrogen on Megatron, causing him to go back into stasis. Unable to escape, Megatron screamed a dark vengeance upon his captors. {{storylink|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday|Ghosts of Yesterday}}

===Toy bios===
Megatron was ''born'' evil, always wanting domination of everything. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Voyager Megatron}} His fiery diatribes still managed to sway thousands, however. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Robot Replicas|Robot Replica Megatron}}

At some point, he took a stealth mode so he could attack Optimus without warning. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Fast Action Battlers|Night Attack Megatron}}

When frozen on Earth, he remained vaguely conscious and remembers a few things from when he warmed up slightly. At one point, his body was worshipped as a god by [[protohuman]]s. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys|Premium Series Megatron}}

He was blasted into stasis lock by the AllSpark and dumped in the sea, trapped and seething with rage. The Decepticons fixed him using cannibalised parts from themselves but Megatron gave no shits: he just wanted revenge! Now, feeling the AllSpark's power flowing inside him, he had the power to finally destroy Prime! {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 2|Megatron (Voyager)}} {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Leader Class toys 2|Megatron (Leader)}}

In the end, that did nothing and he swapped bodies for a new Blastwave Weapons Base arsenal. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Cyberverse|Blastwave Weapons Base}}

===Beast Wars Diorama Story===
[[File:BWDiorama Megatrons.jpg|thumb|left]]
On Earth in the past and in another universe, a group of [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]], led by another [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], battled a contingent of [[Maximal]]s in a forest. {{storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}}

Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]], [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], and [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]]. After being defeated by the Maximals, Starscream joined the Predacons. {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] later appeared and joined the Predacons, as well. As the battled raged, Megatron came in through the warp. {{storylink|Gimlet Chapter}}

The Decepticon Megatron brought along [[Brawl (Movie)|Brawl]], and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. In the ensuing skirmish, Megatron stood on a cliff edge and loomed over the battle. The two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. The Predacon Megatron led the combined Predacon/Decepticon force. With [[Motorarm (BWII)|Motorarm]] leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}
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===Cyber Missions===
{{voiceactor|[[Tony Gialluca II]] (English)|[[Gerardo Vásquez]] (Latin-American Spanish)}}
[[File:CyberMissions4 Megatron.JPG|right|thumb|300|You wants a Megatron more ugly?]]

Hiding in a disused factory, Megatron was able to cloak the energy signature of his spark, so that when Optimus and Sideswipe turned up, they didn't notice him hiding under a pile of girders. He was able to get the drop on them and sneeringly mocked them as they fought, until Sideswipe jabbed him in the foot. Optimus suggested he surrender, but Megatron instead transformed to tank mode and brought the roof down on them. By the time the two Autobots recovered, Megatron was gone. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 4}}

Not soon after the encounter, Megatron ordered his subordinate [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] to rendezvous somewhere in the Arctic, and revealed that he knew of his ambition to take over leadership of the Decepticons. However, due to the Autobots tracking Starscream en route to Megatron's location, Optimus Prime appeared not long after. Starscream and Megatron double-teamed Optimus for a brief time before the other members of Optimus's team arrived. Ordering Starscream to deal with the others, Megatron continued to attack. Megatron is soon beaten down and asks his foe if he will finish him, but Optimus grants him mercy and allows him to escape. {{storylink|Cyber Missions 12}} 

Megatron received the energy signature of [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], and tracked him to a bullet train, which he soon stopped dead in its tracks (literally). [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]], [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]], Starscream, and [[Mindwipe (ROTF)|Mindwipe]] soon arrived on the scene. As Megatron attempted to retrieve his fallen communications officer, he discovered that it was in fact a hologram created by [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]], and was a distraction while the Autobots arrived. Megatron once again fought Optimus, who pointed out that Megatron's alliances were merely because of fear, unlike the Autobots' alliances. The human military arrived, and the Decepticons were backed into a corner. Optimus then declared that they leave Earth or face the consequences. The other 'Cons retreated, while Megatron made one final promise to destroy Earth the next time around, and blasted off into space. {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===''I Can Read!'' books===
[[File:MegatronandStarsscreamdig-TrainingDay.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.75]]
Megatron's latest scheme to defeat the Autobots was to dig a series of underground tunnels to ambush his enemies wherever they may be. Or, more precisely, his plan was to have Starscream dig the tunnels while Megatron supervised. When the two Decepticons surfaced to attack Optimus, Sideswipe, Bumblebee and Ironhide, they were thwarted despite the element of surprise being on their side. {{storylink|Training Day (book)|Training Day}}
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===''Hunt for the Decepticons'' storybooks===
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Megatron planted a [[New lab assistant|Decepticon spy]] at Sam's university to exploit Optimus's friendship with the boy. He had his agent send a false distress signal to Optimus through Sam's computer, prompting Optimus to arrive alone at the University's science lab. There, Megatron used a supermagnet to lock Optimus in his vehicle mode. Now holding his enemy at a disadvantage, Megatron began to brutalize Optimus Prime. If not for Sam arriving at that moment and turning the supermagnet against Megatron, the Decepticon leader would have surely slain Optimus. With Megatron stuck to the magnet, he was reduced to relying on Starscream's help to be freed while Optimus and Sam escaped his clutches once more. {{storylink|Prime Target (book)|Prime Target}}

Upon witnessing Megatron being defeated by Optimus one too many times, Soundwave concocted a plan to damage the Autobots' reputation in the humans' eyes, whom he blamed for the Decepticons' continued failures. {{storylink|Satellite Meltdown}}
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===''Spot the 'Bots''===
Megatron was hiding in broad daylight behind a tree when Optimus spotted him. Megatron tried to get away in his tank mode, but more Autobots joined the chase. Nonetheless, Megatron managed to make it to an old warehouse, where Starscream and Ravage were waiting for him. The two factions then battled it out for the fate of the Earth! {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Spot the 'Bots}}
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===''Unite for the Universe''===
Megatron entrusted [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] with a mission to steal the fruits of N.E.S.T.'s most recent labor: the Unite Weapons Program. Megatron promised Bludgeon command of his Earth-stationed troops if he succeeded. Starscream protested, claiming that Earth should rightfully be his to command. Megatron dismissed his second-in-command, reminding him that all of Earth was his, and that those under him were little more than stewards to his reign. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}}

Starscream managed to acquire newfound power behind Megatron's back by imitating the human-Autobot alliance's process of recycling fallen Cybertronian bodies into upgrades. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|Bludgeon's Revenge}} The upgrade affected Starscream's mental stability, however, and seeing his subordinate sowing unnecessary destruction, Megatron decided to put an immediate end to his power play. Through [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]], he tasked [[Brimstone (TF 2010)|Brimstone]] and [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] with taking Starscream down, but Starscream proved too powerful for them. Enraged, Megatron headed out to deal with Starscream himself. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}} 

Slamming into the battlefield, Megatron warned Starscream that resisting him would only lead to greater suffering on his part. Uncowed, Starscream boasted that nothing could stop him, and the two Decepticons wrestled fiercely, ignoring the nearby Autobots. Optimus and his troops soon stepped in to interfere, prompting Megatron to focus on Optimus instead of the rebellious Decepticon. When Optimus refused to withdraw, as Megatron deemed the fight to be none of his concern, the Decepticon leader called in additional troops to support him. During the chaos, Ratchet managed to burn out Starscream's upgrades, rendering them unsalvageable. With any prize worth fighting for destroyed, Megatron sounded a retreat, vowing that soon he would have his reckoning against the Autobots. {{storylink|The Strongest Weapon}}
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===''The Creation Revoltech!''===
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===''Prepare to Battle'' prequel material===
Long ago, during his search for [[AllSpark]], Megatron knew that the [[Knights of Cybertron]] would stand between him and the AllSpark, so he approached them offering to surrender in return for amnesty, in reality planning to get rid of them. The Knights reluctantly accepted and the entirety of their group arrived for the meeting. Megatron and his forces used this occasion to trap and destroy them.

Centuries later, [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] reported an intercepted transmission from [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]], the last of the Knights. Realizing that Evac represented an era of Cybertron before him, an era he wished to erase, and that he was also after the last shard of the All Spark, Megatron knew the destruction of the Knights and possession of the shard were in his reach. {{storylink|Prepare for Battle (website)}}

===Mega-Mouth===
[[Megatron (WFC)|A certain Megatron]] from an alternate universe seemed to think he was ''this'' Megatron, as he claimed he attacked Sentinel. {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.1#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #1}} He also explained why he wore a cowl in ''Dark of the Moon'', {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.4#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #4}} and claimed that he survived ''Dark of the Moon''... well that Megatron was ''not so wrong'' about the last one... {{storylink|Transformers_Comic_issue_4.5#Mega-Mouth|Mega-Mouth #5}}

===''Cheetos'' comics===
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{{storylink|Cheetos/Transformers: Age of Extinction|Cheetos/''Transformers: Age of Extinction''}}

===''TransTech''===
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In one timeline, moments before Optimus Prime was able to dispatch Megatron after the Decepticons' destruction of Chicago, a mysterious force caused Megatron's position to spontaneously shift. Now finding himself behind his foe, Megatron killed both Optimus and Sentinel Prime. Megatron then proceeded to rebuild his Cybertronian empire, repairing himself bit by bit along the way. Despite Megatron's victory on Earth, a new Autobot leader eventually rose up to challenge him: [[Rodimus (DOTM)|Rodimus Prime]]. The Autobot/Decepticon war began anew, culminating in the final showdown between Rodimus and Megatron. The two warriors battled atop a space bridge, with Rodimus gaining the upper hand. The duel ended when Megatron, dangling from the space bridge, decided to simply let go and fall into the abyss instead of letting Rodimus's final blow strike its target. Megatron then awoke in [[Axiom Nexus]]. {{storylink|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Timelines|BotCon 2015 Megatron's bio card}}

Allegedly, when the Transcendent Technomorphs came upon Megatron, they mistook him for a derelict heap, and only to identified his three Mini-Con companions, [[Boombox]], [[Heavyweight]], and [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]]. Megatron somehow obtained a counterfeit [[identification bolt]], and renamed himself "C-81" to avoid complications with Axiom Nexus's "Dux non Intruitus" law. C-81 then proceeded to gather a crew to work under him, including [[Battletrap]], [[Stepper (SG)|Stepper]], and [[Nebulon (SG)|Nebulon]]. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} Together, they were Cybertron's most wanted criminals... save for C-81 himself, as the TransTechs were not specifically aware of him. Keeping his anonymity all the while, C-81 allowed other crime bosses take credit for his work while he committed several thefts. {{storylink|Rook - Axiom Nexus News: Investigative Journalist|Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/06/16}} {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}} With the technology he acquired, C-81 planned to build an interuniversal gate, and provide paying customers with an "off-the-books" travel agency. On his final raid, his greed got the better of him, and his crew wound up on the run from the local police force. Despite his efforts to cut through [[Seeker-Shinai]], an [[Axiom Nexus Security Administration|OZSA]] team led by [[Hound (G1)|Sergeant Hound]] caught up with him, and C-81 was brought to the offworlder maximum security prison.

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While being held, C-81's crew met two more criminals that ranked amongst the most wanted on the planet, [[Oilmaster]] and [[Packrat]]. With these new recruits, the whole gang managed to escape the prison, only to find Axiom Nexus shut down on the outside. They then headed to Axiom Nexus's underground tunnel system, and made their way to one of their hidden weapons stashes. There, they bumped into [[Lift-Ticket (Diaclone)|Lift-Ticket]], [[Burn Out]], and [[Spy-Eye (Diaclone)|Spy-Eye]], who immediately took off. Suspecting this trio might report them to the authorities, C-81's crew gave chase, only to wind up in the middle of a [[Waruder]] nest. They battled these extradimensional invaders for a time, but found themselves overwhelmed by sheer numbers. The tables turned when [[Optimus Prime (G1)|General Optimus Prime]] and Sergeant Hound joined in, along with the returning Burn Out and Lift-Ticket. C-81 was instrumental to the victory against the Waruders. He ripped out [[Beet-Chit|their commander]] from [[Zaptrap (Diaclone)|his exo-suit]], and forced him to negotiate. Offering a Cybertron free of opposition in exchange for their peaceful departure, C-81 completed his interuniversal gate and escorted the Waruders to the abandoned planet. General Optimus Prime informed C-81 that he could not allow him to keep his gate, but agreed to keep C-81's identity a secret out of gratitude. In the end, C-81 was simply glad to have had the adventure. {{storylink|Cybertron's Most Wanted}}
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===Ask Vector Prime===
In [[Tyran 609.23-PX Kappa]], Megatron rather than Optimus Prime killed the Fallen. Galvanized by his victory, Megatron returned to space to gather his army. He considered conquering Earth but realized that the true prize was Cybertron. With his troops ready for combat, Megatron led them on a successful campaign all over Earth against the Autobots and NEST. He also had Soundwave plant clues about the ''[[Ark (DOTM)|Ark]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s presence on Earth's [[Moon (moon)|Moon]] for Sam Witwicky to discover. Optimus Prime fell for the bait and took the ''[[Xantium (DOTM)|Xantium]]'' to the Moon to revive [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. Backed into a corner by the Decepticons' offensive, Optimus hastily revived Sentinel on the Moon's surface, and Megatron captured Optimus with the traitorous Sentinel's aid. With the aid of human collaborators, Megatron used [[space bridge]] technology to bring Cybertron into Earth orbit. Under the leadership of Dylan Gould, humans were put to work strip-mining Earth for resources to repair Cybertron.

Everything changed with the arrival of [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who demanded that Prime be handed over to him. Megatron and Sentinel both refused, the former out of pride and the latter out of loyalty. However, when Sentinel was tempted by Lockdown's offer of a protomatter [[seed]], Optimus used the opportunity to reignite Sentinel's sense of justice. Sentinel pretended to hand over Optimus, proceeding to ambush Lockdown, defeat him, and capture his [[Knight Ship|vessel]]. Allying themselves with the [[Dinobot (AOE)|Dinobot]]s, Sentinel and Optimus Prime waged a long guerilla campaign against Megatron's Decepticons, eventually restoring humankind's freedom and revitalizing Cybertron with the seed. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 22/7/2015}}

In [[Tyran 511.0 Kappa]], Megatron also returned as Galvatron, but his old subordinate [[Wild Rider]] remained loyal to his new Autobot comrades even in the face of Megatron's rebirth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 16/9/2015}}

==Commercial appearances==
Megatron smashed some guys' cars just as they were about to retrieve them from the valet service. He did exactly the same thing to some woman's car too. It was awesome. Well, not for the car's owner. Otherwise, it was awesome. {{storylink|Commercial/Transformers (2007)#General Motors|Transformers Chevy tie-in commercial}}

==Games==
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==Toys==

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==Merchandise==
{{main|Megatron (Movie)/toys#Merchandise}}

==Notes==
[[File:Movie Megatron olduglyface.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm blind!]]
*The prototype photographs on the back of Fast Action Battler, Leader, and Voyager class Megatron's packaging show him with a completely different head based upon an earlier version of CGI design (seen on the right) that was dropped after much negative fan reaction. Legends class Megatron retains this head shape.
*According to The Movie Guide, Megatron is one of the few Transformers capable of space travel without reverting to a protoform. This explains how he was capable of chasing the AllSpark ''immediately'' after its launch.
[[File:EarlyMegsMovieConceptartwithG1headandbody.jpg|right|upright=1.1|thumb|This would've shut [[GEEWUN|them]] up.]]
*The earliest concept designs of Megatron gave him a look very much inspired by his ''Generation One'' counterpart. Unlike the Cybertronic jet seen in the first movie, this Megatron was intended to transform into an army tank.
*According to [[The Quest for the AllSpark]] paperback's opening paragraph, "...Most revered were Optimus and Megatron. They were twin brothers of the Prime dynasty." (This implies that Megatron may have also had the surname "Prime" at one time.) Similarly, in the ''Autobots'' version of the same DS game, it is noted that Megatron "took the spark" of his and Optimus' father. However, in the [[Transformers Comic issue 2.12|twelfth issue of Titan's ''Revenge of the Fallen'' comic]], [[Barricade (Movie)|"Barricade"]] informed readers that Megatron and Optimus weren't related, the term "brother" was just because they'd known each other for so long. However, the ''[[Transformers: Foundation|Foundation]]'' comic series sheds more light on this, with Optimus and Megatron being LIKE brothers and Sentinel being like a father to them and his supposed death on Megatron's order brings the whole scenario full circle. 
*Early script drafts and a [[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron|children's picture book]] featured Megatron consuming the [[spark]]s of his fallen foes, but this didn't make it into the final film due to time constraints. The novelization of the movie, on the other hand, sees him chow down on Jazz in the final battle; similarly, although not outright stated in dialogue, his animalistic pouncing on the fallen bodies of various characters (including Optimus Prime, Starscream, Jazz and the [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Decepticon Create-A-Bot]]) in the Movie Nintendo DS games, following by what appears to be rooting around in their innards, seems to suggest he's doing the same there.
*Despite his undeniable hatred of humans, Megatron is the only Decepticon in the movie who doesn't speak [[Cybertronian languages|Cybertronian]] for the majority of his dialogue. In fact, he speaks ''fluent'' English upon reviving, despite the fact that [[wikipedia:Modern English|Modern English]] came into existence around the Sixteenth century, when he was presumably still frozen in the ice. This could suggest that he still was somehow conscious when he was studied by Sector Seven (which he also overtly states upon awakening in the IDW comic adaptation). This would explain why his first action after thawing was declaring his name—imagine being frozen for generations being referred to as "N.B.E. 1", or even worse: "Mega-Man" ''and'' "Ice-man".
*[[Detroit]] Lions American football player Calvin Johnson has earned the nickname Megatron, due to his large stature and unstoppability. Since he got the nickname around the same time as the movie was in theaters, we assume he was named for this Megatron. Johnson has worn a hat with the Decepticon logo on it.<ref>[http://larrybrownsports.com/football/calvin-johnson-now-rocks-a-megatron-transformers-hat-picture/92078 Calvin Johnson now rocks a Megatron Transformers hat]</ref> Nike came out with a limited edition line "Megatron" styled sports gear for the 2012 Thanksgiving Day game.<ref>[http://www.nikeblog.com/2012/11/22/nike-calvin-johnson-megatron-collection/ Nike Calvin Johnson ‘Megatron’ Collection]</ref>
*The Megatron computer generated model consisted of 2411 individual pieces, 433,949 polygons, 8924 rig nodes, and 1437 texture maps. The pieces combined gave a volume of 10,325 cubic feet.<ref>Robertson, Barbara (2007). Heavy Metal. ''Computer Graphics, 30''(7), 12-17.</ref>
[[File:MBMovieMegatronAttacks.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|You'll find battling me A COSTLY MISTAKE, Optimus Prime!]]
*The [[Milton Bradley]] [[Transformers Battling Card Game]] depicts a couple of unique attacks for Megatron's original form; one card gives him a pair of forearm-mounted blades as an "Arm Sword", and another shows him firing a swarm of missiles from his chest in a "Missile Attack". 
*It was decided that Megatron would not be renamed Galvatron in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' for the sake of the general audience.<ref>[http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/180451-welcome-mr-roberto-orci-you-may-ask-him-questions-229.html#post3421064 Roberto Orci answers fan questions on the TFW2005 boards.]
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*While ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'' and the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|comic adaptation]] create the idea that Megatron is a [[Triple Changer]] that alternates between his robot, jet, and tank modes, there is absolutely nothing to support this in the movie. Throughout the entire film, he only transforms into a winged tank portrayed by the Voyager figure and is more than capable of flying in said mode. Of course, whether or not his flying tank mode is considered a third mode is up to interpretation.
*According to his bio on the Hasbro sticker sheets, ''Revenge'' Megatron weighs in at 5.7 metric tons, is 35 feet tall, uses an 'Ion-fused chain whip' for his primary weapon, has a 'Strength power level' of 10, and changes into an 'Interstellar jet.' The mention of a chain whip and a jet mode seem to indicate the card's stats were based on his original form, rather than his ''Revenge of the Fallen'' tank mode. The card also surmises that Megatron's might will 'make the Earth quake, and the stars fall from the sky.' The two-disc special edition of the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' DVD also gives him a height of 35 feet.
*In the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe]]'', it states Megatron possesses an internal self-regenerating dark matter power core which is possibly of alien origin.
*His weatherbeaten Mack tanker truck mode and Cybertronian sawed-off shotgun as seen in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' are fairly straightforward nods to the 1981 film ''[[Wikipedia:Mad Max 2|Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior]]''.
*The whole notion of him even being [[Megatron (Movie)/toys#Voyager Class toys 4|a tanker truck]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' in the first place might be a nod to executive producer [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first movie, [[Wikipedia:Duel (1971 film)|Duel]], where a similar truck is the main "bad guy".
*Early concepts for his ''Dark of the Moon'' design called him Cyclonus in an attempt to curb leaks and spread misinformation.
*Megatron's story was altered significantly twice during development of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' and ''Dark of the Moon'': the climax of the second film would have revealed Megatron served The Fallen under the pretense of becoming a Prime, which Optimus exposes a lie, explaining Primes are born, not made. An angered Megatron refused to aid The Fallen in his final battle, and returned to the ''Nemesis'' via The Fallen's space bridge to raise an army of hatchlings. In the film he is removed from the battle by having Optimus disfigure him with his own cannon, forcing him to hide as a truck in Africa. Megatron would have survived ''Dark of the Moon'', with Optimus accepting the truce after helping kill Sentinel, with Megatron returning to Cybertron and leaving the possibility open to a fourth film. On screen, Megatron's offer comes across as less than sincere, allowing Optimus to finally tear his head off.
*In ''Dark of the Moon'', Megatron has replaced his severed cannon arm with a three-fingered right hand that doesn't quite match. Presumably, this hand was taken from another Deception, since the left hand can be seen lying nearby. Various pieces of Deceptions, construction vehicles and even the Star Harvester are all seen laying around the camp.
*Megatron is the only character to have appeared in all three movies to have received a distinctly different body design and alternate form for each film. Each subsequent change having an in-story reason as well (brought back from the dead and repaired in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', and being forced into hiding due to injuries he sustained at the end of the former-mentioned film in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]''). This trend even follows into ''[[Transformers: The Ride – 3D]]'', wherein Megatron appears in his DOTM body, but with the ROTF "Murder arm".
*In the first three movies, Megatron's fusion cannon makes a distinctive noise as it charges that none of the other weapons in the films make. Generation 1 Megatron's fusion cannon also had a unique sound effect.
*In ''Age of Extinction'', the "axe wound" in Megatron's head has shrunk considerably since its appearance in "Dark of the Moon"; although, if Megatron was alive, then he may have been able to heal his wounds to some degree.
*For ''The Last Knight'', Megatron's new body is meant to be darker, more monstrous version of Optimus, with a similar faceplate to Optimus's own and a horned helmet vaguely resembling his [[Megatron (G1)|G1 incarnation]]'s helmet. He also has his signature forearm-mounted fusion cannon and a knight's sword like Optimus, further emphasizing the enmity between the two.
*In ''The Last Knight'', Megatron bears a red 'scar' on his face, the significance of which is unknown, however it looks strikingly similar to the one Optimus receives when [[Quintessa]] places him under her control. Megatron also heeds commands given to him by Quintessa, and the two seem to have some sort of past as Megatron appears to be familiar with the sorceress and even knows her guardian [[Infernocus]] by name. It is possible that prior to the events of the film, Quintessa had previously upgraded and restored Megatron in exchange for his service in finding the [[Staff of Merlin]], though nobody knows for sure as the film is scant on explanations.
===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Megatron''' (メガトロン ''Megatoron'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Megaton''' (Taiwan, 密卡登 ''Mìkǎdēng''), '''Wēi Zhèn Tīan''' (China, 威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/toytables/movie_megatron.htm Megatron at TFU.info]

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