Rubber Ducky

This article is about Megatron's little friend and co-conspirator originally from Beast Wars. For the Beastformer, see Duck Diver.

You make conquest lots of fun!

Megatron is awfully fond of the Rubber Ducky; it is one of his closest allies and associates. Though it seems to lack any combat capabilities, Megatron often confers with it on unknown but presumably important matters.

It is cute and yellow and chubby.

Fiction

Beast Wars cartoon continuity

Beast Wars cartoon

Sadly, does not change into a robot.

The Rubber Ducky was seen among Megatron's hoard of personal possessions, such as Starscream's head and a model airplane, guarding them perhaps. It was unable to stop Blackarachnia from ransacking the cabinets, however; all it could do was squeak in protest as she cast it aside. Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)

When Rampage discovered that Megatron had used half of his Spark to give life to Dinobot II, he threatened to rip it from the new Predacon's chest, only to find that Dinobot II wasn't about to let that happen. The Rubber Ducky observed all this in silence from the comfort of Megatron's CR tank hot tub, apparently content that the Predacon commander had the situation under control. Feral Scream Part 1

Later, the Rubber Ducky was apparently changed into a Transmetal (or possibly even a Transmetal 2), perhaps as a result of Megatron's experiments with the technology. When Megatron decided to attack the Maximal base to disrupt an attempt to reprogram Blackarachnia, the Rubber Ducky emphasized the scheme with a resounding squeak. Crossing the Rubicon

Shortly after, the Predacons evacuated their base, seconds before Tigerhawk's arrival obliterated it. Perhaps hindered by its lack of a means of locomotion, the Rubber Ducky was not seen escaping with them, and likely became a casualty of the Beast Wars. Other Victories

TransTech

Among many other souvenirs of the Beast Wars, a Rubber Ducky wound up in Packrat's collection of loot. Collections

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Now to fill the hole with water.

A being similar in appearance to the Rubber Ducky had been hibernating underground before being excavated by Sky-Byte, who, uncaring of its fortitude, casually tossed it aside. Whether the same creature or a duplicate, it was still able to let out a defiant squeak. It seemed to be a lot bigger than you might expect for a rubber ducky (bigger than the bomb Sky-Byte found) but it may be about the right size for Megatron. Ultra Magnus

Cybertron cartoon

The Rubber Ducky was seen having a party around Ransack's head with all his other Rubber Ducky buddies. Somehow he managed to revert to his non-Transmetal and/or Rubber form. Megatron was probably quite pleased that he lived. Yessss..... Trust

Aligned cartoon continuity

Rescue Bots cartoon

Little do they know, the duck intended to destroy Griffin Rock with the sinkhole. Little bastard.

Doc Greene's Robo-Baby came with a Rubber Ducky. After Chase found it, it was handed to the Robo-Baby, who promptly threw it into the nearest sink. The Rubber Ducky was washed down the drain into Griffin Rock's sewer system, where it blocked a sewer line, causing a rupture that created a sink hole under the bank. During the course of saving the bank and its customers, Graham Burns fished the Rubber Ducky out of the pipe, rescuing it. Four Bots and a Baby Boulder kept it. Hopefully he cleaned the sewage off. The Other Doctor

A second Rubber Ducky belonging to Jerry later caused problems at the Griffin Rock Community Pool when it was accidentally knocked over and fell into the water. Jerry went to retrieve it, only to be encased in ice when the pool was inadvertently set to freeze over. The Rubber Ducky was left floating atop the broken ice after Jerry was pulled out, allowing it to make amends by body-checking the Morocco virus off into the water, at which point the pool was set to freeze once again. While the Morocco virus was retrieved, the fate of the Rubber Ducky was not revealed. Back to Virtual Reality

Mayor Luskey had yet another Rubber Ducky in his pool with him while he watched the election returns. Luskey was so startled by the results that he did a spit take; Ducky was in the line of fire, eliciting a squeak of protest. Mayor May Not

Rescue Bots Academy cartoon

When Hot Shot felt that his luck had deserted him, Cody Burns let him borrow his lucky rubber duck, Luke. The rubber duck gave Hot Shot a new-found confidence that helped him carry out a tricky rescue with the other recruits, however when they returned to base, Cody revealed he'd pick-pocketed the duck before the recruits left and the confidence had been in Hot Shot all along. Wedge still opted to take the rubber duck on their next mission. Lucky Ducky Assigned the task of training Scraplets, Medix discovered that they responded to the sound of a rubber duck squeaking. He created the Ducktaphone and was successful in using it to direct the Scraplets to help in a rescue. How To Train Your Scraplet

Beast Wars: Uprising

"Soon..."

Rubber Ducky sat in a CR bath in Megatron's mansion; Cryotek caught a glimpse of it when he led a raid on Darksyder headquarters. Rubber Ducky was later in the background as the Darksyders underwent the Beast Upgrade. Not All Megatrons

2021 IDW Beast Wars comic

Following the Darksyde's crash, Megatron's Rubber Ducky kept him company as the Predacon leader worked to decode the Golden Disk. When Terrorsaur entered, the Rubber Ducky took the brunt of its owner's anger at being disturbed. Savage Landing Part 2

When Megatron hit another wall in decoding the Golden Disk, he furiously shattered Rubber Ducky before the Maximals attacked. The bath toy stitched itself back together when Rattrap entered Megatron's chamber only to be tossed aside by the Maximal as he began looking for the Golden Disk, much to its ire. Maximals Strike Back, Part 2

Merchandise

Generations

• BotCon 2016 Megatron's Rubber Duckie (2016)

A human-scaled rubber ducky, this souvenir was first released at the Club Store at BotCon 2016, intended as an autograph item for fans to have signed by David Kaye, Beast Wars Megatron's voice actor. As it is an ordinary rubber ducky, it is not intended to scale with any Megatron figure. However, shortly before BotCon began, it was discovered that the BotCon 2016 Megatron souvenir figure could hold the ducky in the palm of its Hand Mode, making for some degree of (admittedly coincidental) interactive playability between the two.

The rubber ducky was limited to 400 pieces. A second run was later produced after BotCon for sale on the Club's online store. The initial run variant of the duck sported a burgundy "BotCon 2016" logo on its front, while the second run version changed this logo's color from burgundy to blue.

Transformers: Kindergarten Series

Megatron is inside me.

• Megatron (2023)

A childlike nontransformable figurine of Megatron in a Rubber Ducky inner tube brushing his Tyrannosaurus head's teeth was available as part of Transformers: Kindergarten Series, a crowdfunded blindpackaged toyline available exclusively in China. Megatron's figure was the "Big Secret" of the line and was the most rare, and unlike the "Small Secret" chase figure which got an individualized box, Megatron's box was unremarkable. The figurine included a translucent plastic stand and a small chrome foil character card.

Notes

• Rubber Ducky—he's the one.
• Since Hasbro has announced no plans to produce this character in toy form, Fun Publications decided to do so in 2016, as seen above.
• Voice actor David Kaye has been known to oblige requests at conventions to sing the Sesame Street Rubber Ducky song in his Beast Wars Megatron voice. And to this day, it's very catchy.
• Megatron's affinity for duckies may or may not be an inspiration for Ego's affinity for plush lizards, though the lizard is known to also squeak "Hi!" at frequent and annoying times.
• The noise the Rubber Ducky made when squeezed would later be recycled as a stock sound effect for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
• Lo and behold, we got Quackles.