Editing Megatron Origin issue 1

{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[Megatron Origin|The Transformers: Megatron Origin]] #1
|next=Megatron Origin issue 2
|image=MO 1 a.jpg
|caption=How ya like me now?!
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[June 20]], 2007
|coverdate=May 2007
|written by=[[Eric Holmes]]
|art by=[[Alex Milne]]
|colors by=[[Josh Perez]]
|color assist by=[[Zac Atkinson]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Megatron Origin]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
}}
'''A working-class miner accidentally kills some other guy in anger.'''

==Synopsis==
Senator Decimus and his assistant are hesitant to attend a formal ceremony on [[Mining Outpost C-12]], but they do it anyway because those are the rules. Decimus holds disdain for the personnel who operate the [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]] mines, and understands why they must be replaced.

During the assembly, he announces the replacement of the working class, but makes sure to mention that the laborers will not be left without jobs. The crowd responds angrily to their replacement, led by one particularly angry bot with blue eyes, but for his protests, this bot is executed by an Autobot security official.

The crowd is silenced at this display of force, and Megatron fights back against the oppression by tossing his axe into Decimus' shoulder. Before the security officer can react, Megatron tackles and disarms him. The two struggle, and in the ensuing fight, Megatron accidentally kills his opponent.

With one Autobot down, the rest of the miners get into an open rumble against the Autobots. However thanks to superior firepower, the Autobots are able to knock out all their foes.

Later, Megatron awakens aboard a prison vessel. Because of the violence he and his fellows engaged in, all the surviving miners are arrested, en route to [[Penal Facility H-3]], "The Rig". But the miners (including Rumble and Frenzy) take over their ship, the ''[[Longshot (G1)|Longshot]]''. The ''Longshot'' blasts the ship containing Senator Decimus and heads toward [[Kaon]], a hive of villainy and scum easily defined as wretched, where the miners hide and plot.

Sentinel Prime's target practice is interrupted by Prowl with news of the incident in space. The Prime is uninterested in the dealings and appoints Prowl to handle the situation.
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==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
* Autobot security official (5)
* [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]] (8)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (9)

|c2=
* The Decepticon faction<br>does not yet exist

|h3=Others|c3=
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Decimus|Senator Decimus]] (2)
* [[Decimus's assistant]] (3)
* Outspoken miner (4)
* [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]] (6)
* [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] (7)

}}

==Quotes==
"What…"<br>
"What… did I…"<br>
"No… Nonono…"<br>
"Oh ''no''."
:— '''Megatron''', possibly regretting taking the first Autobot life in the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]].


"That was… unintentional. I shouldn't be here."
:— '''Megatron''' is a ''BIG SOFTIE.''

==Items of note==
* The heroic James Roberts would write "[[Chaos Theory Part 1]]" in 2011 and show us what Megatron was like ''before'' this issue: an idealistic, would-be dissident wanting non-violent change, only to find himself brutalised by an untouchable and corrupt member of a higher caste and filled with rage as a result. The events of ''Origin'' retroactively have more consistency.
* That later story also reveals that there was a Prime shortly before Sentinel, [[Nominus Prime]], meaning that Sentinel here is new to the job. You may have also thought Sentinel was alright because he dislikes the Senate, in which case "[[Chaos Theory Part 2]]" will correct you...  
* Kaon was previously established in [[Dreamwave Productions]]' ''[[The War Within]]''.
* When Frenzy attempts to enlist Megatron's aid in escaping their imprisonment on the ''Longshot'', Megatron makes it clear that the violence he dealt during the mine revolt was unintentional (and indeed, he was remorseful). Yet on the next page, after he is freed, Megatron seems to be quite willing to beat the living daylights out of the security guard on the ship. Of course, we can now look at "Chaos Theory" and Megatron's growing psychotic rage...

===Covers (3)===
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* '''Cover A:''' Megatron with pickax by [[Alex Milne]] (pencils) and [[Josh Perez]] (colors)
* '''Cover B:''' Megatron smashing security guard by [[Marcelo Matere]] (pencils) and [[Andrew Elder]] (colors)
* '''Cover RI-A:''' Cover A, uncolored

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