Megatron (BW)

Megatron is a Predacon and a Vehicon in the Beast Era portion of Generation 1 continuity.

Megatron has 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 at various volumes is his chutzpah. He is willing to risk everything -- time, space, himself -- if need be.

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 inside and out and exactly how to provoke them. He has no friends, only pawns. 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.

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 often sabotages himself by neglecting the quick and easy solutions for the bigger, meaner, and more complex.

Fiction

American Animated Continuity

Dreamwave Comics Continuity

After stealing the golden disk, he broke into Vector Sigma along with Dinobot and reviewed historical files on many of the Autobots and Decepticons from the Generation 1 era. He subsequently adopted the name "Megatron" for himself.

Beast Wars

Voice actor: David Kaye (US), Shigeru Chiba (Japan)

IDW Beast Wars: The Gathering Comics

After dispatching Rampage and Inferno to oversee the installation of Sentinel into the Darkside, Megatron was attacked by Magmatron, who had been assigned to arrest him by the Tripredacus Council. Although Megatron held his own against the Predacon general, he was ambushed and paralyzed by Iguanus and Drill Bit. Magmatron intended to use a transwarp shunt to transport his prisoner back to Cybertron, the intervention of Grimlock, Optimus Minor, and Razorbeast, Magmatron was sent home empty-handed. Razorbeast was tempted to dispatch the prone Megatron, but released him instead, due to his desire to avoid interfering with the timeline.

{Note: Razorbeast's refusal to destroy Megatron in order to preserve the timeline is puzzling, as Razorbeast and Megatron are contemporaries.]

Beast Machines

Voice actor: David Kaye (US), Shigeru Chiba (Japan)

3H Universe Comics

When Optimus Primal's spark is retrieved from the core of Cybertron to protect the multiverse, he wonders if this action has freed Megatron as well.

Robot Masters

Robot Masters DVD Cartoon

Voice actor: Toshitsugu Takashina (Japan)

Toys

Beast Wars

• Megatron (vs 2-pack)
• Megatron
• Megatron (Transmetal)
• Megatron (Transmetal 2)
• Megatron (Beast Wars Tenth Anniversary)

Beast Machines

• Megatron
• Megatron (Happy Meal)
• Beast Changer
• Megatron (Beast Wars Returns)

Robot Masters

• Beast Megatron

Titanium Series

• Beast Wars Megatron (3" Robot Master)

External Links

• Megatron at TFU.info

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.