Megastorm (BW)

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Megastorm is the Predacon Duke of Destruction from the Beast Wars II portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Still desperately tries to get his parents to stop calling him Kilostorm.

Megastorm (メガストーム Megasutōmu) 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 the Cyborg Beast Gigastorm (ギガストーム Gigasutōmu), 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)
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Galvatron set course for the planet in his ship, the Galvaburg II, along his younger brother Megastorm, the Combatrons and the Autorollers. Seeking alternate modes for his Predacons to scan, Galvatron investigated some ruins on Gaea and discovered an ancient but still-functional computer. The machine gave his troops vehicular forms, but when Galvatron demanded that the computer provide him with information on the strongest vehicle and creature from Gaean history, the resultant surge of data was so powerful that it knocked him offline. It was then that Megastorm gained his tank form and decided to become the new leader of the Destrons.

Galvatron's unconscious form was brought aboard the Galvaburg II, and he remained there, soundly sleeping, while Megastorm led the Predacons in his stead for some time. Unfortunately for Galvatron, this gave Megastorm a taste for leadership, and he eventually decided to try and dispose of his brother so that he could take Galvatron's throne for good. Hauling the unconscious Galvatron off the ship, Megastorm dropped his slumbering sibling into a well of Angolmois energy, thinking it would destroy him...only for Galvatron to be re-energized and rudely awakened! Exploiting his brother's slightly disoriented state, Megastorm claimed that it was the Maximals who had thrown him in the well, and Galvatron promptly set off to eliminate Lio Convoy and his team. Megastorm observed the ensuing the battle between Galvatron and the Maximals from afar, and he emulated their strategy with great aplomb, sending his brother sinking into the molten lava below.

Megastorm didn't realize that Starscream had also been watching the fight and had quickly recovered Galvatron from the volcano, bringing him back to the Galvaburg II, unconscious once more and sealed in a coffin of solidified lava, and so Megastorm became mad with Starscream, fearing this would conflict with his leadership.

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Beast Wars Neo cartoon

Gigastorm is one of the many Cybertronians seen rebuilding Cybertron after Unicron's attack.


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Beast Wars II comic

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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


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IDW Beast Wars comics

After Megastorm was exposed to Angolmois, his form mutated into a bipedal robotic dinosaur known as Gigastorm. With a new body came newfound confidence, so Gigastorm declared himself the leader of a subfaction within the Destrons. With his power, he created the recon drone Gigascouter.

Gigastorm set out to increase the power of his troops, exposing them to Angolmois just as he was. His efforts created the Cyborg Beasts. Beast Wars Sourcebook 2

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, Galvatron. 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

Each character possessed an alternate ending, displayed if the game was beaten with said character. Each character has only their own ending listed on their pages, see the other characters' pages for Megastorm's fate in those outcomes.

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.
  • Like some of the other Beast Wars II Predacons, Megastorm was reissued in Korea in Car Robots packaging, re-affiliated as an Autobot, and renamed. His new name: Armored Cops.
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