Megatron (BW)

The name or term "Megatron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Megatron (disambiguation).

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Megatron is a Predacon, a Vehicon, and a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family. He's also briefly known as Savage and Noble and, um, "Joe". He's a busy villain, yesss.

That's the problem with heroes, really. Their only purpose in life is to thwart others. They make no plans, develop no strategies. They react instead of act. Without villains, heroes would stagnate. Without heroes, villains would be running the world. Heroes have morals. Villains have work ethic.

Megatron began with one goal: restoring glory and power to the Predacon race, with himself at the helm. What distinguishes Megatron from the countless others who share this goal is his chutzpah. This is a guy who named himself after his faith's equivalent of the Antichrist. He is willing to risk everything—time, space, himself—if need be. He's willing to commit omnicide if it will further his goals. And there were times he would have won were it not for Optimus Primal.

Megatron is skillful at orchestrating vast schemes by manipulating others into doing them for him—an idle suggestion here, a conspicuously-planted object of interest there. He knows his enemies, and these include some minions, inside and out and exactly how to provoke them. He has no friends, only pawns, or occasionally, pawns that are too reliable to risk losing. Because of this attitude, this superiority complex, he despises working with the very troops he needs to carry out his plans. His hubris does not make him very popular, and so he must rely on power and fear to rule them. In fact, he prefers mindless drones.

Megatron is a gambler and can sometimes be a ham. (His manner of saying "Yesss..." is practically vaudevillian.) He has a twisted sense of humor and an over-developed sense of drama which rule everything he conceives, both long and short term. When he destroys you, he wants you to know that it was he who did this, and just how badly you were had. This is his greatest weakness. Like a Bond villain, he'll gladly boast to the hero at length about how smart and clever he was, giving his victim time to formulate a counterattack (he admits the Predacons sometimes gloat too much). He often sabotages himself by neglecting the quick and easy solutions for the bigger, meaner, and more complex.

Prior to the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, Megatron was a field commander in the Predacon army, where he learned much about strategy and tactics. Upon ratification of peace with the Maximal Imperium most Predacons laid down their arms. Megatron refused and went rogue.

The universe cowered once at the name of Megatron and it shall do so again!Megatron, "Optimal Situation"

Fiction

Toy bios

Look out Batman, it's Killer Croc!

Megatron believed that the Predacon way of life was to prosper or perish, and that the Maximals must be wiped out if the Predacons were to prosper. As for Optimus Primal, he planned to eat him! Megatron bio (basic alligator mold)

The Maximals' "bio-genetic morphing process" allowed them to fuse organic musculature and Transformers technology... so Megatron and his Predacons did the same thing, with the DNA of Earth's most vicious predators! When the Maximals tried to destroy the Predacons' lab, Megatron was waiting in his ferocious alligator form. Mistaken for a harmless Earth creature, he was able to get to the drop on Optimus Primal and summoned in his soldiers Tarantulas and Waspinator.

I drive a Chevrolet movie theatre.

The battle was still lost, leading to Megatron destroying the lab so his enemies couldn't get its secrets. He then fled, vowing to return with new forms and new plans when the Maximals least expected it. Optimus Primal vs Megatron!

Megatron eventually succeeded in obtaining Tyrannosaurus rex DNA, stolen from human research labs, and subsequently used it to re-engineer his body into a powerful new form. Amongst his artillery, he boasted "poisonous paralyzer fluids blasts" that emanated from his beast mode's mouth, while his tail was configured into a "powerful pincher claw" capable of slicing an enemy in half. Megatron bio (ultra T. rex mold)

This comic, along with the on-package bios of the first wave of Beast Wars toys, predate the development of the Beast Wars cartoon and its backstory. They seem to present the characters as a direct continuation of the previous Autobot/Decepticon conflict, with Optimus Primal actually being a new form of Optimus Prime and Megatron being his Generation 1 counterpart, and their battles taking place on present day, human-inhabited Earth, rather than in the distant past. Once the cartoon launched, the toyline adjusted itself to match that continuity instead, relegating this one to an aborted micro-continuity.

Beast Wars cartoon continuity

File:Dinobot Clone.jpg

A picture can tell a lot without words.

Megatron was a Predacon criminal who stole the Golden Disk, realizing that his namesake left a message on it pointing to the location of Earth where, with time travel technology, one could attempt to change history so that the Great War ended in favor for the Decepticons. Despite the interference of the Maximal ship Axalon, commanded by Optimus Primal, the Predacons in the Darksyde managed to make it to Earth, although it was not apparent at first. Megatron put his original plans on hold to gather the massive amounts of energon on the planet that he could use to conquer the universe. His band of Predacons fought Optimus Primal's Maximals in the Beast Wars. Despite much plotting and machination, such as the attempted murder of humanity and Optimus Prime, Megatron was defeated and brought back to Cybertron.

However, Megatron was able to free himself from his bonds and arrive on Cybertron before the Maximals did. Using an immobilizing virus and the Vehicons on an unsuspecting populace, Megatron conquered the planet, beginning an era of technological superiority in deadly opposition to the organic. However, the Maximals soon returned and were tasked by the mystical Oracle to end Megatron's reign and bring about a widespread evolution into the technorganic. Optimus Primal succeeded at this task, sacrificing both himself and Megatron in the organic core of Cybertron.

When Unicron began his abduction of Transformers across the multiverse, starting the Universe war, Primus called Optimus Primal out of the Allspark to lead his troops against Unicron. This action also freed Megatron's spark, and he returned to his typical plotting nature.

In a divergent timeline, Megatron joined forces with the original Megatron in 21st century Earth and with a Megatron from another universal cluster. He was also considered as a recipient of the powers of the ancient Transformer, Logos Prime.

Beast Wars II catalog

Pwned.

On planet Cybertron, Megatron once disagreed with Galvatron over opinions on galactic conquest, and engaged him in battle over it. At the time, Megatron momentarily let his guard down, and was defeated. Galvatron declared "Your era is over, Megatron!"

Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings—and although he was loathe to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new Emperor of Destruction. The next stage of battle advances to the Second War... ...Beast Wars, Transform!

Bee in the City

Voice actor: David Kaye (English)

Somehow ending up at the multiversal hub of Axiom Nexus, Megatron hid out under the alias "Joe". When he ran into Bumblebee and learned of the AllSpark Key, he pretended to be a heroic character and helped rescue Bumblebee's friends, only to steal the Key. Using his experience with MacGuffins, he swiftly learned how to power himself and create an army. Unfortunately, his army turned on him after learning of bureaucracy and the amount of forms they'd have to fill in now that they were alive. However, before being carried away by his former minions, Megatron promised that he would be back, and that he would get his extremely overwrought and melodramatic revenge. Bee in the City

Beast Wars Metals comic

Megs! Kids could be reading this comic!!

After killing Optimus Primal in a Transwarp explosion, Megatron was mutated by the resulting Quantum Surge into a Transmetal, as was almost every other Transformer on Energoa. With their leader dead and their forces scattered, Megatron wasted no time in plotting an immediate counter-attack on the Maximals. Quickstrike and his drone forces were sent to attack the Maximal base while, with Tarantulas's help, Megatron recovered and resurrected Primal's body as a mindless killing machine.

Through a strange voodoo ritual, Megatron attempted to use his mutated blood to put Primal's body under his everlasting control. However, with the intervention of Rhinox, Primal's spark was retrieved from Transwarp Space and returned to his body. Primal swiftly defeated Megatron in battle. Raise the Curtain for Beast Wars Metals!!

Fire in the Dark

The Predacons crash landed in Mexico around 1,000 BC. A time into their war with the Maximals, Megatron found the village in which the Natiltec tribe dwelt. After the Predacons had asserted their dominance, Megatron ordered Tarantulas and Waspinator to enslave the male villagers and use them to mine energon. Fire in the Dark

Games

Beast Wars: Transformers video game

Megatron is a playable character in the Predacon mode of this game for normal gameplay. Due to the nature of this game, a player may select various individual characters to perform the feats required in every level, and complete the game's narrative. Thus, any playable Maximal can fill the role of protagonist in Maximal Mode, and any playable Predacon can fill the role of protagonist in Predacon Mode. As such, each character's page only lists said character's actions when they fill the role of antagonist during gameplay. To view the various feats Megatron can accomplish throughout gameplay in Predacon Mode, it is told on the pages of the several Maximals included as opponents in this game, as well as the game's main antagonists, the Skriix, wherein Megatron fills the role of the nameless Predacon. To view the plot as a whole, see the Beast Wars: Transformers (video game) page.

Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals video game

Tyrannosaurus Jhiax and Universe Overkill, apparently.

Voice actor: David Kaye (English), ? (Japanese)

Megatron was captured by the Maximals. Unknown to his captors, however, Megatron sent a message back in time through transwarp in a last-ditch effort to change the outcome of the Beast Wars; back in the past, Megatron participated in a one-on-one beatdown involving nearly all of the other active beast warriors. At the end, he confronted his mysterious doppelganger, Megatron X.

"Dear me: Forget the grand scheme, just walk over and punch Optimus in his damn FACE. Yours sincerely, me."

Knowing fully that the planet where their war was taking place was in actuality prehistoric Earth, Megatron decided to make the ultimate gamble after gaining the upper hand in a grueling battle against the Maximals. Breaking into the Ark, Megatron murders Optimus Prime while he slumbers, securing victory for both Decepticons and Predacons. However, in the year 2005, the Decepticons, having conquered both Earth and Cybertron, face Unicron. As the Matrix died eons ago, along with Optimus Prime, how can the Decepticons defeat the devourer of worlds? Beast Wars: Transmetals

Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the Nintendo 64 version of the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Megatron's fate in those outcomes.

Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle

"Ah am alpha an' omega, da beginnin' an' da end. Ah am dat which is, which wuz, and is yet ta come... an' ya will know mah name is Megatwon when I way my veng-e-ance upon ya!"

Megatron battled several other Maximals and Predacons in an attempt to obtain a super-powerful energon crystal recently discovered on Earth. He was capable of summoning his lackeys, Waspinator, Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, Inferno and Scorponok in order to aid him in this task.

Megatron could also partake in various other tasks, such as a mission to break a boulder to reveal an energon crystal hidden within before sundown, using a block in a mission to defend himself against various incoming projectiles, and missions to run across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.

The series of one-on-one battles that ensued ended in a strange duel, when Megatron had to battle his double as a final opponent. Once he defeated himself, he gained possession of the crystal, setting out to defeat his eternal nemesis, Optimus Primal. Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle

Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Megatron's fate in those outcomes.

3D Battle-Card Game

Megatron, in his original Tyrannosaurus rex body, leads a ragtag group of Decepticon warriors from various backgrounds (and/or universes) against Optimus Primal and his Autobot allies. Energon Wars Expansion Set

Transformers Battle Universe

At the edge of time, when the Matrix needed a new host, Megatron was among several warriors (and Megatrons) summoned from the multiverse to battle for control of the prize. Transformers Battle Universe

Notes

Transmetal 2 Megatron's control art. Look! Spark figure! Painful amounts of detail!

• Hasbro originally intended Inferno to be the new body for Megatron. According to a 1997 interview conducted by fan HooksX, Bob Forward stated: "For a while there Hasbro was planning to make the Inferno toy the new Megatron. We were going to kill Megatron and bring him back as Inferno."

Foreign names

• Japanese: Megatron (メガトロン Megatoron), Megaligator (alligator, メガリゲーター Megarigētā), Beast Megatron (Robot Masters, ビーストメガトロン Bīsuto Megatoron)
• European: Metal T-Rex (Transmetal), Dragone (Transmetal 2)
• Mandarin: Kǔng-lúng Wáng (Taiwan, 恐龍王, "King Dinosaur"), Bàwáng Lúng (China, 霸王龍, "Tyrannosaur")