Megatronus (WFC)

This article is about the Fallen from the Aligned continuity family. For the Fallen in most continuities, see The Fallen.

Megatronus is a member of the Thirteen from the Aligned continuity family. He is later known as the Fallen.

To have a helmet as good as this will cost you your soul...and also ten cents.

A warrior in the mold of Prima, Megatronus was his dark antithesis. He was the most complex of all the Primes, caught between warring impulses of immense passion that never allowed him to have inner peace. His personal artifact was the Requiem Blaster, a weapon that drew on the burning core of distant suns - casting beams that were of such an intensely focused plasma that no material could survive their passage.

Eventually, Megatronus was manipulated by Liege Maximo and he accidentally murdered his lover Solus Prime with the Requiem Blaster, but not before she vowed undying love for him. After a battle between the remaining Primes, Megatronus banished himself to the the stars out of shame for his actions and forever dubbed himself "The Fallen".

Fiction

The Covenant of Primus

Megatronus was one of the original 13 Primes who fought against Unicron in a climactic battle. To aid him in this task he requested that a blaster be made for him by Solus Prime. She reluctantly agreed and the Requiem Blaster was born. Megatronus soon fell in love with the Prime and she him. After the Prime's victory against the chaos bringer, Megatronus and his fellow companions felt that Unicron's evil had rubbed off on them; a fact that he strangely appeared to revel in. Later, he became friends with Liege Maximo who secretly plotted his downfall. Unwittingly playing into a scheme created by Maximo, Megatronus murdered his love Solus Prime. Although the killing was more of an accident than intentional, Megatronus felt terrible for his actions. He then dubbed himself "The Fallen" and went into exile in space, never to be seen again. The Covenant of Primus

Aligned novels

Megatronus conceived the idea of the Requiem Blaster, a weapon so powerful that it dwarfed all other weapons in existence. With great reluctance, Solus Prime agreed to forge the weapon for Megatronus, and even then only after Megatronus convinced other members of the Thirteen to petition her on his behalf as well. Even after the weapon was completed, Solus Prime showed great reluctance in allowing it to remain in existence. After demonstrating its awesome power to the Thirteen, she asked for a vote as to whether the Requiem Blaster should be destroyed. Megatronus led the group who voted in favor of retaining the Blaster, and they won by the slimmest of margins, 7-to-6.

At some later date, Megatronus killed Solus Prime in a fit of rage, and became the Fallen, forever more. The reason for the murder is not fully known at this point, although Solus did favor Nexus Prime over others in the Thirteen, a fact that had stirred jealousy in Megatronus in the past. Though a terrible thing, Vector Prime considered the Fallen lashing out in a moment of anger forgivable over Liege Maximo's active plotting. Exiles

Megatron, who took his name to inspire fear, took a favorable view of the Fallen, considering him the one member of the Thirteen who refused to bow down to the others and would carve his own destiny. Exodus

Prime cartoon

According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Until, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. One Shall Rise, Part 1 At some point statues of Megatronus and his brothers were made. They were placed in the chamber of the High Council. A gladiator would also name himself after Megatronus before shortening his name to simply "Megatron". One Shall Rise, Part 3

When Starscream proclaimed to Optimus Prime that he wished to change sides, Bulkhead sarcastically claimed that he had been lobbing with the Fallen. Partners

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: TBA (English)

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Notes

• When the grand scope of the new Aligned continuity family became the "delivery method" for Hasbro's long-percolating tale of the Thirteen, it was also established to not be part of the multiverse in which all preceding Transformers fiction took place, which until then, had lain the groundwork for the Thirteen. As such, the new information introduced by the Aligned continuity was only true for that continuity, and even chose to ignore or overrule some previous pieces of the story that had been revealed in "Multiverse" stories. The Fallen was given a much more tragic origin story that involved no connection to Unicron
• It was the novel Transformers: Exodus, which also the Fallen's real name to be "Megatronus". New "Aligned" designs for Megatronus (and his "Fallen" form) were revealed at BotCon 2010.