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| The name or term "Megatron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Megatron (disambiguation). |
- Megatron is a Decepticon leader from the Animated continuity family.
If you were to ask Megatron to describe himself in one word, he'd probably go with "heroic". He sees himself as a freedom fighter leading the Decepticons out of the days of "Autobot tyranny". The fact he's hoping to replace that with Decepticon tyranny isn't really a concern... to him, at least. A fanatic at spark, he revels in every Autobot who suffers at Decepticon hands and doesn't register beings like humans as anything more than "collateral damage."
Megatron demands loyalty from the Decepticons as a whole, loyalty he gains through his fear and awe-inspiring power and abilities. With the combined threat of a sharp mind, his signature fusion cannon, a pair of deadly swords and simple brute strength there aren't many who would dare cross him. Still, he has no problem occasionally manhandling his troops as a gentle reminder.
He is extremely intolerant of treachery and deals with said treacherous bots using methods of vicious no-nonsense efficiency unlike other Decepticon leaders. He is also a shrewd strategist who effortlessly wraps others around his fingers.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
- Voice actor: Corey Burton (English), Norio Wakamoto (Japanese), Jan Spitzer (German), Mirosław Neinert (Polish), Raffaele Farina (Italian), Junseok Song (Korean), Affonso Amajones (Portuguese), Mario Santander (Latin American Spanish, season 1 and 2), Alexander Páez (Latin American Spanish, season 3), Arto Nieminen (Finnish)
Eons ago Megatron overthrew the previous Decepticon leader Megazarak and took control of the faction for himself. He gave speeches and wrote manifestos calling for the Decepticons to rise up and take control of both Cybertron and the AllSpark from the Autobots. Finally, on the Cycle of Infamy he took the Decepticons from mere rhetoric to outright war. The Decepticons overran Autobot space but the Autobots under Ultra Magnus had one major advantage—space bridge technology which allowed them to move about the galaxy more easily. The Decepticon advance ground to a halt. However, Megatron's forces continued to fight on until the Autobots sent the AllSpark through the space bridge to random coordinates.
Realizing that the AllSpark was the key to defeating the Autobots, Megatron abandoned the Cybertron theater and began searching the galaxy aboard his massive flagship the Nemesis. Megatron also lost the codes to Project Omega when the bounty hunter Lockdown failed to bring him Arcee. With the war going badly after this, Megatron tried a last-ditch attempt with the False Calm and sent his troops at sub-light speeds to Cybertron. During the Battle for Iacon Megatron destroyed Gamma Supreme. Ultimately the attack failed and the Decepticons were finally forced to agree to an armistice and exile. The Thrill of the Hunt
However, Megatron continued to search for the AllSpark. Four million years later, the Nemesis's crew discovered a small Autobot repair vessel after detecting the AllSpark. When Starscream volunteered to attack Megatron saw his ambitions all too clearly and pointedly remarked that he wasn't about to let four million solar cycles of searching for the AllSpark end with Starscream "[laying his] greasy wings on it". No, Megatron would strike the Autobot ship and take the AllSpark himself. Just prior to his departure Starscream approached him again, ostensibly to wish him luck but actually to place an overload device on his leader's back. This device went off just as Megatron's fusion cannon was about to breach the hull of the Autobots' ship. The Autobot crew managed to steer the now-failing ship through an asteroid field and into a nearby space bridge.
With the ship now plummeting through the Earth's atmosphere, a wounded Megatron still managed to thrash the crew soundly and nearly claimed the AllSpark. Quick thinking on the part of the ship's captain Optimus Prime sent the Decepticon leader out the cargo hatch and into free fall. Megatron fell from the sky and crashed in Paw Paw, Michigan, where his head was found by a young Porter C. Powell. Transform and Roll Out
Over the next fifty years, Powell built a weapons and robots by reverse-engineering Megatron's components while Megatron's inert head remained secretly in Powell's private lab, the source of the human's engineering genius. Powell would become an international arms dealer, selling the weapons he created and making a fortune. Nearing the fiftieth anniversary of his discovery, Powell had used Megatron's technology to create the ultimate weapon: Serpent Organic Robot, an android that combined the personalities of several of Earth's most famous warmongers and Megatron. After being prematurely activated by a group of special government operatives who had infiltrated Powell's lab to investigate his illegal activities, Serpent O.R. flashbacked to the memory of Megatron's destruction and attacks them. He then plugged himself into Megatron's deactivated head and learned the history of the Transformers, subsequently considering himself the son of Megatron. Serpent O.R. went on to enact his own agenda, while Megatron's remains were left where they lay in Powell Tower. Home Is Where the Spark Is
Serpent O.R. would later travel to the Autobots' ship and claim the AllSpark (reawakening the Autobots in the process), absorbing it's energy to transform himself into a full-sized Decepticon resembling Megatron, even taking on Megatron's name and identity as his own. This "new Megatron" would go on to hijack the Autobot's and use it to travel back to Cybertron, realizing his destiny of becoming the next leader of the Decepticons Megatron Rising - Part 1
Titan Magazines
Apart from showing interest in the activities of Quake-Maker, Burnout! Megatron seemed idle... but what the Autobots were unaware of was that he'd constructed a Spark-less drone unit, Afterburn, as a prototype of a future army, and then sent Afterburn off to spy on the Autobots.
He not only received repeated communications from his spy but gained directions to the Autobot base! Megatron entered with explosive results Divebomb and then killed Afterburn while rubbing Bumblebee's nose in it. He proceeded to summon the other Decepticons and thrash most of the Autobots with ease making some really bad puns along the way, only stopped when Starscream secretly got him buried under a crane. Starscream then "saved" him, making Megatron think he'd turned over a new leaf and thus giving him temporary command until he got better. Megatron's Revenge
Animated shorts
While Megatron gave an inspirational speech to his Decepticons (which seemed to be very similar to another message he'd sent out), Starscream proceeded to make fun of him behind his back—making faces, giving Megatron bunny ears, and shaking his butt at his leader. Megatron was suspicious of Starscream's actions, but each time he turned to look, his lieutenant was standing there innocently, doing nothing unseemly. Megatron apparently decided to let it go, as did the other Decepticons (even Lugnut), until he finally caught Starscream in mid-heckle and dealt with him by blasting him through a wall. Starscream Heckles Megatron
Games
Transformers Animated: Action Packs
Transformers Animated: Action Packs
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
Toys
Animated
Voyager Class
- CYBERTRON Mode Megatron (Voyager, 2008/2010)
- Japanese ID number: TA-06
- Accessories: Missile
- A larger, bulkier, more detailed, and more gimmick-laden iteration of the same character design used in the deluxe-scaled versus pack toy. Note that while both modes of both toys look very similar, they have different transformation mechanisms and are not a simple upscaling/downscaling of each other. Where the deluxe version is straight silver, this version has a pearl-gray paint scheme. The figure features an automorph gimmick in the chest, which closes like a clamshell in transforming to robot mode. A second automorph gimmick is built into the energon blades on the cannon, swinging them into place to form a polearm. Red translucent plastic is heavily used throughout the figure, including in the light piping for the head and the missile for the spring-loaded cannon. Even his fingers are made of energon, it seems.
- This toy apparently had a safety modification done late on in the design process (late enough that it doesn't show up on the instructions), possibly as a result of drop test failure. The strut that holds his fusion cannon has been reinforced, and as a result, his cannon cannot be mounted flush against his arm. It is also noted that his cannon easily pops off.
- As with the smaller figure above, it's not obvious exactly what end is the front of his spaceship mode. Neither orientation really matches up to the version seen in the show, which had the fusion cannon mounted in a way that's impossible with both toys.
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Megatron (メガトロン Megatoron)
- Mandarin: Wēi Zhèn Tīan (威震天, "Extremely Prestigious", literally "Heaven-shaking Might")
