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Galvatron completed the repairs necessary to restore the Ark's flight capability, apparently unaware that both Shockwave and Starscream were fully conscious, the former having used his link to the Ark to remove Megatron's blocks on the Seeker's mind. Nonetheless, Galvatron brought the Ark airborne, just as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] arrived on the scene. The Autobot spotted Galvatron through the bridge viewport, though Prime wondered if this was actually Megatron.{{storylink|Natural Selection, Part 5|Natural Selection #5}}
Galvatron completed the repairs necessary to restore the Ark's flight capability, apparently unaware that both Shockwave and Starscream were fully conscious, the former having used his link to the Ark to remove Megatron's blocks on the Seeker's mind. Nonetheless, Galvatron brought the Ark airborne, just as [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] arrived on the scene. The Autobot spotted Galvatron through the bridge viewport, though Prime wondered if this was actually Megatron.{{storylink|Natural Selection, Part 5|Natural Selection #5}}


{{spoiler|Destiny, Part 1|June 15, 2013}}
As the Ark traveled to Cybertron, Galvatron reflected on the past, and how in his own timeline, he had watched as Unicron consumed his homeworld, leaving only Earth for him to rule. He vowed that in ''this'' timeline, though, Cybertron would be ''his''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part 1|Destiny #1}}
As the Ark traveled to Cybertron, Galvatron reflected on the past, and how in his own timeline, he had watched as Unicron consumed his homeworld, leaving only Earth for him to rule. He vowed that in ''this'' timeline, though, Cybertron would be ''his''. {{storylink|Destiny, Part 1|Destiny #1}}


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Galvatron II is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Well, it's heavy.

When Megatron was defeated, betrayed, and cast helplessly adrift in deep space, Unicron reshaped his remains into Galvatron. In one possible timeline, the Chaos-Bringer succeeded in consuming Cybertron and granted his faithful herald freedom and the rule of Earth. But Galvatron has found, to his great chagrin, that his servitude would not end there. Unicron reached through time itself and plucked his creation away from his triumphant reward, forcing him to repeat his old mission. Rebellious and scheming, his mind slowly being eaten by madness, this "Galvatron II" is a rogue danger to all.

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“ Hah! For all their supposed omnipotence, even gods can be conned! ”
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Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Generation 1

In the year 2005, Megatron fell in battle against an Optimus Prime and was cast into space by Starscream. His mind still functioned, but barely. Wracked by madness, he welcomed oblivion, but that relief was denied him by Unicron. Desiring a flawless servant, Unicron re-created Megatron into the cold and clinical Galvatron. But the remnants of Megatron's insanity remained, eating away at Galvatron's precision. A Savage Circle

Galvatron II is why you have to take your shoes off at the airport.

This did not prevent Unicron from achieving his goal, however. Cybertron was destroyed, and Unicron freed Galvatron to do with Earth as he pleased. By the year 2009, the Decepticons had conquered the Americas, but Galvatron's madness had grown. One benign symptom was a tendency to give impromptu speeches about himself in the third person. And more alarmingly, he once rescued Cyclonus from an Autobot attack and then immediately destroyed him for having needed to be rescued at all. He also continued to "kill" a long-dead Rodimus Prime, whose remains he'd strung up on what was left of the World Trade Center. He knew that the humans' European Crisis Coalition was planning a nuclear strike, but he was glad for it, believing the Decepticons' force-field could absorb the energy of the attack. Some other Decepticons were not so confident.

On the eve of the nuclear launch, a small team of Autobots and humans struck at the Decepticon Powerbase (East Coast) in New York, hoping to send a message to the world that there was still an active resistance movement in North America. The battle took its toll in casualties, but the plan succeeded as Spike Witwicky unfurled an American flag atop a Decepticon tower, causing the Crisis Coalition to call off the strike with just a few minutes remaining. Galvatron took aim at Spike, but Hook, Line, and Sinker suddenly materialized and subdued Galvatron, then whisked him away. Rhythms of Darkness! They took him back to their own time, the year 1990. There, Unicron was planning an imminent attack on Cybertron, and, as per his modus operandi, he wanted a herald. However, in an unusual move, he had decided to pluck one from a "possible future". Galvatron was understandably angry at being forced back into servitude, but he acquiesced when reminded of Unicron's capacity to torture him. Eye of the Storm

Galvatron activates the Cone of Silence.

Unicron sent Galvatron to attack Cybertron, and there Galvatron soon began to work against him. He followed Emirate Xaaron beneath Cybertron's surface, believing the Autobot knew a way to defeat Unicron. Surrender! He ambushed Xaaron and explained his situation, then braced for Unicron's torture. When the pain did not come, Galvatron took it as proof that being inside the body of Primus made him invisible to the Chaos-Bringer. Xaaron told him the legend that all the Transformers, united together, could defeat Unicron even without the Matrix of Leadership. ...All This and Civil War 2 Galvatron decided the only way to achieve that would be to awaken Primus, so he and Xaaron went to the chamber deep within the planet where Primus' head rested. Meanwhile, Unicron, indeed blind to Galvatron's whereabouts, sent Hook, Line, and Sinker to find him and bring him back. The trio tracked him to the chamber, where Xaaron was attempting to contact Primus psychically. Galvatron immediately attacked Unicron's servants, destroying two of them before Hook gained the upper hand (so to speak). But Hook spontaneously combusted as Primus entered Xaaron's body. Galvatron beseeched Primus to gather the Transformers before Unicron arrived, and Primus, seeing that his supplicant was a Decepticon, believed that the time was right for unity. He teleported the Earthbound Transformers to Cybertron, and Galvatron reveled in his own ability to "con" a god. Out of Time!

As the Transformers prepared for the impending apocalypse, Galvatron secretly helped fight some Unicron cultists who tried to assassinate Optimus Prime. The Void! But despite his covert assistance, the Transformers still scattered helplessly when Unicron arrived. Realizing that he needed to make a public appearance to set an example, Galvatron powered himself up with energy from Cybertron itself, then attacked Unicron with a single, mighty blast. Unicron swatted him aside, and he would not be seen again for the course of the battle. But he had succeeded in inspiring the other Transformers to unite against their planet-eating enemy. On the Edge of Extinction!

Here I go, here I go, here I go again. Girls, what's my weakness? Megs!

During the battle, the Ark arrived with Autobot reinforcements, but it was abandoned by the time Unicron was destroyed. Starscream and Shockwave commandeered it to conquer the newly-undefended Earth, and Galvatron was inspired to stow away, with the goal of eventually re-creating his own lost Terran empire. However, none of them were aware that Megatron was in a stasis tube in the ship's medical facility, and that he had been mistakenly re-energized with Nucleon. Galvatron encountered the disoriented Megatron wandering down a hallway, and all of Galvatron's repressed insanity erupted. Exodus!

THAT IS HOW CRAZY YOU ARE

Galvatron very nearly destroyed Megatron, fueled by a desire to excise the madness from his own mind, but he stopped himself for fear of disrupting his own history. He believed that the timeline he was in was not the one that would one day produce him, but he still didn't want to take any chances. Megatron, his own mind a chaotic mix with Ratchet's, was barely aware of anything that was happening to him. He was helpless when Shockwave saw him and attacked him, but Galvatron saved him by smashing Shockwave's head against a wall. Galvatron offered a truce to Megatron in the hopes that working with his past self would help him come to grips with the source of his madness. Megatron accepted, but their alliance was cut short when the Ark crashed on Earth again. A Savage Circle

Venturing out of the wreckage into the wilderness of northern Canada, Galvatron was set upon by the Canadian army. He did away with them easily, but he was soon confronted by another human, one whom he had almost vaporized in his own time: Spike Witwicky. This younger Spike had been drawn to the area by his Headmaster partner, Fortress Maximus, who was inside the Ark. Rejoined, the human/Autobot duo attacked Galvatron as he began to threaten a town. Galvatron, his madness utterly consuming him, fought Maximus with a feral rage, but Maximus defeated him and threw him into a frozen lake. The Last Autobot?

Earthforce

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details. Essentially, imagine if, instead of going to Cybertron after Unicron pulled him back in time, Galvatron didn't bother and went to the Ark instead.

Seeking Autobots that he could mould into a new army, Galvatron sent a "mind bug" probe aboard the abandoned Ark to scan the minds of the comatose Autobots held in stasis there in order to find suitable candidates. He was taken with Prowl's willingness to fight fire with fire, Ironhide's ability to kill when required, Sunstreaker's lack of concern for humans, Wheeljack's willingness to put the needs of the many ahead of the few and Silverbolt's ferocity.

I had all sorts of wacky adventures!

But as he studied their dreams aboard his ship and played back scenarios in which these traits had come to the fore, his mind bug suddenly ceased transmitting. Little did Galvatron realize that the device had inadvertently awoken the five sleeping Autobots and when he headed across to the Ark to investigate, he was confronted by the quintet.

During the battle that followed, he planted mind-controlling devices on Wheeljack and Prowl, designed to bring out the mental flaws in them that he had observed and shape them into a form he could use. Being Autobots, however, they proved to be much better beings than Galvatron had given them credit for, easily overcoming his control and turning their weapons on him. Downed by the blast, Galvatron was immediately leapt upon by Prowl, who planted a device hastily constructed by Wheeljack on his head, plunging the Decepticon in a "sleep" mode of his own. Placed in a stasis capsule, Galvatron slumbered... trapped in a recurring nightmare by the Autobots, in which Rodimus Prime dismembered him over and over again. ...Perchance to Dream

Regeneration One

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Template:Noterg1 Mindful of the loose ends left over from the end of the war 21 years previously, Kup trained at Debris against solid light simulations of Megatron, Bludgeon and Galvatron. Loose Ends #1 It seems that Kup was right on the money, because just as Circuit Smasher deactivated the Ark's computer, Auntie and Optimus Prime killed Megatron, Galvatron came bursting out of the cracks in the ice where he'd been buried! Loose Ends #5

Galvatron made his way to the site of the crashed Ark, arriving about the same time as Starscream. Natural Selection #1

Galvatron surprised Starscream with a cannon-augmented backhand to the face, and demanded (upon threat of destruction) to know why the treacherous Air Commander had returned to the derelict starship. When Starscream could only manage to emit an unintelligible grunt, Galvatron concluded that the damage to Starscream's cranial module was more than plate-deep, that he was being denied the use of his voice tracks. He decided to spare Starscream for the moment, and had him lead Galvatron to the object of Starscream's interest - hidden behind Auntie's core, the body of Shockwave, plugged directly into the Ark! Natural Selection #2 Galvatron proceeded to restore the Ark to operational capacity, leaving Shockwave in place to serve as the Ark's operating system Natural Selection #3.

Galvatron completed the repairs necessary to restore the Ark's flight capability, apparently unaware that both Shockwave and Starscream were fully conscious, the former having used his link to the Ark to remove Megatron's blocks on the Seeker's mind. Nonetheless, Galvatron brought the Ark airborne, just as Optimus Prime arrived on the scene. The Autobot spotted Galvatron through the bridge viewport, though Prime wondered if this was actually Megatron.Natural Selection #5

As the Ark traveled to Cybertron, Galvatron reflected on the past, and how in his own timeline, he had watched as Unicron consumed his homeworld, leaving only Earth for him to rule. He vowed that in this timeline, though, Cybertron would be his. Destiny #1

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages

His real problem is that he just won't stop living in the past.

In the late 1980s, soon after the activation of Metroplex, Megatron and his "new subordinate," Galvatron II, battled Ultra Magnus and Optimus Prime atop the giant robot's shoulder. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers part 9 Magnus and Prime would later successfully defeat and apprehend Galvatron in a later battle. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers part 15

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e-HOBBY comics

Beware my dangerous puns!

Galvatron II would arrive to another Primax universe from a Primax Gamma universal stream<ref name="ehobby gii"/> and threaten the galaxy with a fleet of Warworlds.

Within the Matrix, the soul of the fallen Matrix-bearer Ultra Magnus became aware of Galvatron's threat. Magnus reached out to Optimus Prime and used the Autobot leader's Reconfiguration Matrix to resurrect himself in a new Laser Rod body. Magnus quickly assembled a strike force to counter Galvatron.<ref>e-HOBBY Laser Ultra Magnus bio</ref>

Ultra Magnus's new Laser Rod body afforded him little advantage over Galvatron, who handily defeated and nearly killed him. But before Galvatron could finish his foe off, Optimus Prime (upgraded with new missile launchers and a heat-absorbing "Black Body" coating) intervened, destroying Galvatron's arm cannon. Although weaponless, Galvatron took the blow in stride and continued to mock Optimus Prime. Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version

Galvatron II would go on to usurp Megatron's leadership of the Decepticons, demoting his counterpart to guarding a subterranean headquarters. MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.

Universe Classic Series bio

At a time when the Decepticons were a scattered confederation of assassins and warlords, Galvatron arrived from parts unknown and quickly asserted his dominance. Crushing all who opposed him, he united the Decepticons into a powerful army "capable of threatening the entire universe." Rumors about his past were plentiful, but facts were hard to come by. Mostly the Decepticons simply cowered before his might, their fear preventing them from even thinking about following anyone else. Those few who dared to conceive otherwise simply hoped that one day a rival would emerge who could best the tyrant.<ref>Universe Classic Series Galvatron bio</ref>

It is unclear where this story fits in continuity, or even which Galvatron is being referred to. If one assumes the Classic Series bios to be an extension of the Classics comic book, then he is likely Galvatron II, as that is the only Galvatron established in that continuity. However, if one assumes that the Classic Series bios are not tied to any particular continuity, then the identity and timeframe of this Galvatron become likewise open-ended.

Toys

Generation 1

"I got a Matrix full of kryptonite, ah."
  • Galvatron II (2006)
    • ID number: D-62-S
    • Accessories: Laser Rifle, Particle Cannon, Particle Cannon connector, Creation Matrix w/ chain
The e-HOBBY exclusive Galvatron II sports the physically retooled parts of the 2006 Galvatron reissue—a screeching face and new electronics (a laser noise, the transformation sound effect and five phrases spoken by Seizō Katō) that operate on two AA batteries rather than a 9-cell—but with the gray paint scheme of the original 1986 toy. The die-cast metal Matrix accessory that the Galvatron reissue came with (itself a redeco of the accessory from New Year Special Convoy) is recolored in metallic green in the style of the comics' Creation Matrix.
In terms of unique features, Galvatron II also comes with a sheet of optional small gold filigree stickers to make the toy match his first appearance in the TV Magazine story pages described above. These stickers are very difficult to apply. Additionally, he features a unique sound clip: where the original reissue barked "Destron gundan, transform!" ("Decepticon army, transform!"), Galvatron II declares "Washi no kobun ni naran noka!" ("You will be my servant!")
This is the only toy explicitly identified as Galvatron II. For other Galvatron toys, see Galvatron (G1)/toys.


Notes

  • The "Galvatron II" name originates from "Alignment", a non-official story written by Simon Furman, where it was used as a way to distinguish the two different Galvatrons that emerged in Marvel UK continuity. It was made official years later with the release of the e-HOBBY "Galvatron II" toy.
  • Galvatron II's end in the Marvel comic is unintentionally similar to Galvatron's final fate in "The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg" from the Headmasters anime.
  • We know it's Galvatron II in "...Perchance to Dream" because Transformers: Dinobot Hunt says so.
  • Which Galvatron was more impressive? After the movie, "Galvatron I" went on in the UK comic to be shot by just about every Transformer you can name, buried in a volcano, soundly beaten by Ultra Magnus on more than one occasion, then half-decapitated before finally being destroyed by a rift in space and time. The cartoon timeline was kinder to him, but he still blew up two planets and drove another one insane. On the other hand, Galvatron II helped Unicron win, then killed Rodimus Prime and conquered the Americas, successfully lied to Primus (who, as a god, can be expected to know everything), used that lie to set the entire Transformer race against Unicron (whom he then shot in the face), got a divine swat in return, bounced through a building and across Cybertron's surface but survived without a scratch, then was the only one to immediately walk away from the Ark's second crash on Earth.
  • The human child Makoto can be seen brandishing a Galvatron-themed wrist-communicator in "Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 7", a story which takes place before Galvatron's creation. Later retcons make it possible that the device is designed after Galvatron II, who had dimension-hopped into the Japanese continuity around that time. Considering the nature of wrist-communicators, devices which allow the user to contact and summon the Transformer they're shaped after, that would mean that a small Japanese boy had the power to command the most batshit insane Transformer in history. Hmmmm.
  • The e-HOBBY storyline takes cues from "Alignment", which originated the term "Galvatron II" and established the character as having a fleet of Warworlds.

Foreign names

  • Japanese: Galvatron II (ガルバトロンII Garubatoron Tsū)


References

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