Galvatron II
| The name or term "Galvatron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Galvatron (disambiguation). |
- Galvatron is a Decepticon from an alternate Generation 1 future.
Galvatron is Megatron reborn in the fires of Unicron. In an alternate timeline, Unicron consumes Cybertron and Galvatron is given Earth to rule. It is the year 2009, and only a handful of Autobots remain; even their leader, Rodimus Prime, has fallen. What chance, then, do the rest of us have?
Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Galvatron originally controlled the Americas in an alternate 2009 where Unicron had been victorious in his attack on Cybertron. He knew that the other countries of Earth were planning a nuclear strike against the force-field with which he barricaded the continents. He thought that his shield could withstand, and absorb, the energy of the attack. This Galvatron was quite mad in his home time — he lethally punished his close lieutenant, Cyclonus, and continued to 'kill' a long-dead Rodimus Prime whose remains he'd strung up on what was left of the World Trade Center.
Before he could make good his plans for nuclear energy, though, he was snatched through time to 1991 by Hook, Line, and Sinker, minions of a Unicron who 'may or may not become' the one who created Galvatron. This Unicron tried to use Galvatron as a soldier in his own attack on Cybertron, but Galvatron quickly turned against him. He assisted Emirate Xaaron in his attempts to awaken Primus; Unicron sent Hook, Line and Sinker to eliminate Galvatron, but he easily destroyed the trio.
After Unicron's destruction, a group of Decepticons hijacked the Ark, and Galvatron stowed away on board. He then fought against and subsequently allied with this era's Megatron, teaming up with him to destroy Shockwave before the Ark crashed on Earth. Now driven completely mad, he wreaked havoc until he was defeated by Fortress Maximus. He hasn't been seen since Maximus threw him into a frozen lake.
Japanese THS mini-comics
Galvatron II later arrived in a new universe to menace it with his own personal Warworld. To meet this threat, the Reconfiguration Matrix within the Matrix of Leadership resurrected Ultra Magnus in a new Laser Rod body.
Magnus put up a rather poor fight and Galvatron II succeeded at defeating and nearly killing him, but before he 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, who was not amused.
Toys
Generation 1
- Galvatron II (Decepticon, 2006)
- Japanese ID number: D-66
- Galvatron II was an e-Hobby exclusive; it has the physically retooled parts of the 2006 Galvatron reissue, but with the gray paint scheme of the original 1986 toy. It also has one additional voice clip and extra stickers to add gold filigree details that had previously been seen only on a pre-movie advertisement. These stickers are very difficult to apply.
- Galvatron II also includes the Creation Matrix, a green redeco of "Anime" Galvatron's Matrix of Leadership.
Trivia
- Compared to the first Galvatron, this guy was a bit underwhelming. His predecessor was shot by just about every Transformer you can name, buried under a volcano, soundly beaten by Unicron on more than one occasion then lost half of his head before finally being destroyed by a rift in space and time. Makes you wonder how this guy managed to beat Rodimus Prime in his own time, but met his end thanks to a frozen lake.
(Although this version of Galvatron had conquered Earth, was swatted like a fly by Unicron after shooting his master and bounced along the surface of Cybertron through a building and survived without a scratch on him and then managed to survive the Ark crash landing into Earth a second time)
- That's not rouge he's wearing in the picture at the top—it's the fires of evil burning within his soul.
- Galvatron II's end is unintentionally similar to Galvatron's final fate in "The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg" from the Japanese anime The Headmasters.
