Megastorm (BW)
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- Megastorm is the Predacon Duke of Destruction later a Cyborg Beast as well during Beast Wars II. He was later upgraded into Gigastorm.
Megastorm is the Predacon Duke of Destruction and younger brother to Galvatron, the Emperor of Destruction. He believes in being realistic and conservative when it comes to goals and strategy and hence tends to have a rather different viewpoint than his more bold and reckless older brother. Finally when Galvatron began his audacious quest for the Angolmois energy the differences between them became too great and Megastorm began to consider how he could seize the reins of command and steer them back towards sanity. Galvatron is well aware of his younger sibling's attempts at treachery, but looks the other way purely out of brotherly love.
Megastorm can transform into a tank. He was later upgraded by Angolmois into Gigastorm, a giant mechanical Hojoni, which gave him a base mode and a battle station mode, along with a Gigascouter drone. His personality was likewise magnified to drive out all compassion, weakness, and doubt. The upgrade included an enlarged title as Arch-Duke of Destruction.
Fiction
Cartoon continuity
Beast Wars II cartoons
- Voice actor: Takashi Matsuyama (Japanese)
Beast Wars Neo cartoon
Beast Wars II comic
Gigastorm was killed in battle with Lio Convoy. He shared one last, sweet scene with his older brother before dying. Galvatron swore revenge for his brother's death.
Universe Featuring the Wreckers
Games
Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle video game
A super-powerful Energon crystal is discovered on Earth, and Megastorm intends to obtain it for himself. So do several other Predacons and Maximals however, leading to a series of one-on-one battles.
Megastorm 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 travel across a pit-riddled field, sometimes involving hideously large bacteria he had to fend off.
After defeating his final opponent, Megatron, Megastorm gloats that using the crystal's power, he will finally be capable of overthrowing his older brother, Glavatron. But his plans never become reality, as Galvatron steals the crystal from under Megastorm's nose. Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle
Toys
Beast Wars
- Megastorm (Predacon, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-12
- A redeco of the first Generation 2 Megatron toy (which had not been released in Japan previously), Megastorm transforms into a large combat tank. In both modes, his main cannon stocks up to six missiles, and gravity slides the next missile into place when one is fired. Megastorm lacks the electronics present in the Generation 2 toy, however.
- Apache vs Megastorm (Vs pack, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: VS-12
- Megastorm was also available in a two-pack with the Maximal Apache.
- Gigastorm (Predacon, 1998)
- Japanese ID number: D-22
- Gigastorm is a partial retool of Trypticon, giving him a new dino-mode nose-horn as well as removing the metal ball-bearings from the outsides of the legs. He transforms from a T-rex-thing to a base-form-thing. Gigastorm lacks most of Trypticon's accessories, only coming with Gigascouter, a redeco of Full-Tilt.
Notes
- According to Ben Yee, who wrote his IDW profile, he envisioned Megastorm as having Trypticon's design specs in his database and using those as the basis of his upgraded form when empowered by Angolmois energy.
