Gigatron (G1)
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- Gigatron is a Decepticon from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Gigatron is a Decepticon commander who enjoys the simple pleasure that is war and doesn't see why people have to complicate it by, say, claiming it to be over. He sometimes acts rashly and relies on his trusty second-in-command, Hellbat, to keep him on the right path.
Fiction
IDW Generation 1 continuity
During the war, Gigatron learned from Deadlock and Turmoil that an army of stone soldiers was hidden on an obscure planet, though Megatron saw no use for it at the time. Centuries later, refusing to accept that the war had ended, he returned to absorb the army into his forces, but couldn't find it. Empire of Stone #2 Fortunately, Deadlock—having defected and changed his name to Drift—also arrived on the planet, where he was captured and brought before Gigatron. Empire of Stone #1 Gigatron convinced the former Decepticon to lead him to the stone army in exchange for freeing his friend Ratchet, but went back on his word on the advice of Hellbat. When the captives then tried to escape, he lost his temper, cut off their escape route and would have killed them on the spot if Hellbat hadn't again intervened, convincing him to imprison them instead. Empire of Stone #2
Toys
Robots in Disguise
- Megatron (Ultra, 2001)
- Japanese ID number: D-001
- Accessories: 2 missiles, 2 missile launchers
- Gigatron was repurposed from Car Robots Megatron. The only new-mold bad guy from the Car Robots line, Megatron (or "Gigatron", as he was called in Japan) has six different configurations: robot, jet, bat, two-headed dragon, giant hand (awesome), and roadster. His hand mode has a spring-loaded "gripping" gimmick (oh hell yeah). He comes with a pair of pressure-launch missile launchers that can double as swords, or be combined to form a single naginata-like weapon.
- Gigatron was later retooled into "Devil Gigatron", and it was this slightly modified version of the mold that Hasbro released in their Robots in Disguise line (see "Galvatron" for specific details). The blades of his missiles were also rounded off a bit more to comply with safety standards.
- The Hasbro version of this mold was also used to make Timelines Deathsaurus.
- Oddly enough, in Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, Simon Furman boasts that Hasbro's Megatron had ten modes and was a completely different toy from Gigatron. While Megatron could convert into all 10 alternate modes, the instructions only mentioned the original 6. Also, the Hasbro version is not a completely different toy from the Takara version so much as it is a slightly retooled version.
Notes
- Gigatron is a Generation 1 version of Robots in Disguise Megatron, whose name in Japan was Gigatron.
