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Beast Wars cartoon
- Voice actor: David Kaye (English), Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Alexandr Novikov (Russian, 2nd dub), Han Li (Chinese), Antônio Moreno (Portuguese), Hans Sievers (German) Tony Fuochi (Italian), Alejandro Villeli (Latin American Spanish), Claudio Rodríguez (Castilian Spanish), François Siener (French, season 1), Pierre Forest (French, season 2)
The original name of the Predacon known as "Megatron" is unknown; upon reading the Covenant of Primus, the grandiose and dramatic young criminal chose to rename himself after the great destroyer the book mentioned. Nemesis Part 2 Megatron found life on Cybertron intolerable, as he and his fellow Predacons lived as second-class citizens underneath the Maximals—a situation that could be traced back to the defeat of their Decepticon ancestors in the Great War centuries beforehand. The Agenda (Part III) The ruling triumvirate of the Predacons, the Tripredacus Council, were slowly biding their time, waiting for the right moment to strike, but Megatron was impatient, and had his own plan to ensure Predacon rule over Cybertron. The Council knew of Megatron, seeing him as brilliant but dangerous, and too much trouble for their liking. The Agenda (Part 1)
Gathering a gang of criminals into his service, Megatron stole the Maximal relic known as the Golden Disk. The disk contained the location data of the planet Earth, Beast Wars (Part 1) but more than that, it also hid a secret message inscribed upon it centuries earlier by the Decepticon Megatron—a daring contingency plan to prevent Decepticon defeat that directed whoever found the message to use transwarp technology to travel back through time to prehistoric Earth, to a point in time when the Autobot spacecraft the Ark lay hidden on the planet. By finding and killing the Autobot leader Optimus Prime as he lay in stasis aboard the craft, a 'bot could alter history in favor of the Decepticons, ensuring their victory in the war, and Predacon rule in the present. The Agenda (Part 2) The Agenda (Part III)
Stealing a ship, Megatron and his crew departed through a transwarp portal, but were pursued by the Maximal starship Axalon, captained by Optimus Primal. The two ships emerged from transwarp over an unknown planet, where they promptly crash-landed. The presence of two moons in the sky suggested that the world on which they found themselves was not Earth—but it was rich in energon, which Megatron could use to fuel his conquest of the Maximals one way or the other. So rich, in fact, that the Maximals and Predacons had to adopt organic beast forms to protect themselves against the massive amount of energon radiation, with Megatron taking the shape of a purple Tyrannosaurus rex.
Dinobot chastised Megatron, accusing him of leading the Predacons to the wrong planet and challenged Megatron for leadership of the Predacons. Megatron simply ignored the challenge and had Scorponok dispose of him. A short time later, Waspinator tangled with Cheetor, allowing Megatron to deliver his first speech to the Maximals, though it was cut short by a "sneaky, underhanded" attack by Cheetor, which impressed Megatron greatly. Though the Predacons appeared to have the Maximals on the run, they began to suffer from energon build up, and were forced to return to their beast modes. Beast Wars (Part 1) They followed the Maximals, catching up with them as Dinobot was dueling with Optimus Primal for leadership. Megatron took the opportunity for a sneak attack of his own, and during the destruction, some Predacon missiles uncovered a large quantity of energon located on a nearby mountain. Both teams reached the mountaintop at around the same time, but the ambient energon radiation forced them to fight in their beast modes. Despite biting a chunk out of Primal's leg, Megatron found himself on the losing end of the engagement, and out of desperation transformed to robot mode to fire a missile. The missile was deflected from its path by Dinobot, causing the energon to explode and hurling Megatron from the mountain. Beast Wars (Part 2)
All involved believed that Megatron had been seeking Earth purely for its energon, unaware of his greater scheme. Secretly, however, Megatron was able to confirm that the planet they were on was indeed Earth. At some point, using the information on the Golden Disk, he located the Ark buried within a volcano... but when faced with the enormity of the task that lay before him, and the innumerable unpredictable and dangerous possibilities that were inherent to altering history itself, he faltered. Megatron blasted the tunnel he had dug into the volcano shut to keep the Ark hidden, and resolved instead to focus on acquiring other means of power to conquer Cybertron in the present. The Agenda (Part 2)
Megatron and Terrorsaur cornered Cheetor when the Maximal was transported into their base by a freak sequence of events, but were forced to cooperate with him when the other Maximals sent a bomb through. After the bomb was successfully disposed of, Megatron attempted to do the same to Cheetor, but only succeeded in destroying the teleport effect between the two bases. Equal Measures After the discovery of a cache of energon in the Standing Stones, Megatron led his men in an attempt to gain it, but was furious when Terrorsaur intentionally blasted the energon mid-battle, destroying it. The Standing Stones triggered the arrival of an alien probe, but when Megatron and Waspinator attempted to claim it, it zapped them and absorbed Optimus Primal. Believing Primal to be dead, Megatron mounted an attack on the Maximal base, but after a lengthy fight with Dinobot, Megatron was forced to call a retreat. The Predacons pursued the Maximals to the stone circle, but retreated once more when Primal was freed from the probe. Chain of Command
While Megatron was demonstrating the Predacons' new defense systems, Terrorsaur discovered a flying mountain topped with a cache of super-energon. The power this afforded Terrorsaur allowed him to challenge Megatron and blast the Predacon leader clear off a cliff, leaving him in several pieces. Scorponok and Waspinator set about repairing Megatron behind Terrorsaur's back, and by the time the usurper returned, defeated, an outraged Megatron was waiting for him. Power Surge
When the first of the Maximal stasis pods crashed to the ground, Megatron had Waspinator and Terrorsaur ambush Optimus with only limited success. Though annoyed at their failure, he dispatched them to reach the pod while he and Scorponok headed for the Maximal base. There, he was able to distract Dinobot long enough for Scorponok to administer a slagging, before the autoguns drove them off. Megatron proceeded to the pod and held the Maximals at bay by threatening a couple of nearby white tigers, only to discover that the stasis pod was already empty. As it turned out, one of white tigers was the new Maximal, Tigatron, who transformed and fought the Predacons off. Fallen Comrades
The Predacons finally managed a victory in stealing a stasis pod and creating Blackarachnia. However, again Terrorsaur tried to usurp Megatron, this time using an apparently-turned Rattrap, who used a device to paralyze Megatron. The Predacons argued over who would be leader, but agreed to put Rattrap and Megatron away for the time being. Megatron was able to easily escape using his secret voice commands, leaving Rattrap to his fate. Revealing himself to have escaped, Megatron allowed Terrorsaur to lead the Predacons in battle with the Maximals. Terrorsaur failed miserably, showing his ineptitude to the Predacons, which was Megatron's plan all along. Double Jeopardy
Megatron sent Blackarachnia, Waspinator and Terrorsaur on a plan to blow a hole in the bottom of the Axalon. They failed. A Better Mousetrap On another occasion, Scorponok used a Cyberbee to infect Optimus Primal with a venom to turn the Maximal leader into a coward. The first Megatron knew of its failure was when Cheetor radioed the Predacon base to warn them that an enraged Optimus was on his way; in response, Megatron kicked Scorponok to the floor for his incompetence. Confronted by Primal, he offered to give him the cure if he submitted to Predacon rule. Optimus responded by ripping the Cyberbee from his own chest and sticking it on Megatron's beast mode back. Unable to reach the device, Megatron managed to have Scorponok remove it, but it promptly exploded in their faces. Gorilla Warfare
When a Maximal temporal probe neared the planet, Megatron and his Predacons successfully destroyed a communications tower which the Maximals were setting up to try to signal it. The Probe Formulating a new plan to get off the planet, Megatron had the other Predacons act dissatisfied with his leadership, causing a battle that apparently destroyed the Predacons, using a Maximal spy camera that he was aware of to play out the trick. Then, the Maximals scavenged the Darksyde for parts to repair the Axalon's stardrive. At the eleventh hour, Dinobot discovered the deception and rushed to warn the leaving Maximals. In the scuffle, Megatron snuck aboard. In the Axalon, he managed to knock out every Maximal on the ship but Rattrap, who he started crushing to death. An angered Rhinox woke up and threw Megatron off the Axalon. However, Megatron's tail weapon was stuck in the console, causing the Axalon to crash. Again. Victory
Following a Predacon defeat attributed mostly to Rhinox, Megatron had Tarantulas capture the Maximal and used his latest invention, the Transmuter, to turn Rhinox into a Predacon. Unbeknownst to Megatron, evil Rhinox was a schemer and disrupted the other Predacons. Megatron eventually found out the truth, which was the signal for the Maximals to mount an attack to rescue their friend. Megatron fought at length with Optimus, losing an arm. Ultimately Rhinox was returned to normal, and an errant shot from Waspinator destroyed the Transmuter, so that was the end of that. Dark Designs Yet another plan had Megatron create a clone of Dinobot which he sent to infiltrate the Maximal base. It backfired when the real Dinobot first defeated the clone, then masqueraded as it and used the bases defenses on Megatron. Megatron was at least happy that it turned out his clone hadn't betrayed him, as the real Dinobot had. The other Maximals turned up to chase Megatron off. Double Dinobot
Detecting another stasis pod crash, Megatron sent Scorponok and Blackarachnia to capture it. They failed. The Spark After a skirmish with Tigatron, Terrorsaur and Waspinator reported back to Megatron that they'd found a flying island, and Megatron sent Blackarachnia and Scorponok to claim it. Before they left, Megatron whispered something into Scorponok out of Blackarachnia's hearing range. The Trigger, Part 1 It was revealed that Megatron had anticipated the possibility of Blackarachnia's treachery, so he had Scorponok watch her very closely and make sure she didn't use the island against him; he had been right to use that precaution. The Trigger, Part 2 Tarantulas used a magna pulse to knock out power in both the Maximal and Predacon bases to allow him to recover a stasis pod himself. By the time Megatron caught up, a new Predacon was online—Inferno. Megatron was impressed with Inferno's fighting spirit, helping him to attack Tigatron, until Primal arrived and ruined things again. Megatron ordered Scorponok to salvage Inferno. Spider's Game
The next cunning plan Megatron would come up with involved stealing the Axalon's rectifier coil, forcing the Maximals to stay in their beast modes at all time. Once the Maximals had succumbed to their beast instincts and wandered into the jungle, Megatron assembled a hunting party, complete with drums. Despite shooting at some of the Maximals, they were unable to make any kills before Tigatron helped the Maximals integrate their beast instincts with their programming. The Maximals subsequently easily fought back, Optimus even lifting Megatron over his head. Call of the Wild After Scorponok and Waspinator reported destroying four of the Maximals, Tarantulas reported that he'd detected walking energon. Megatron concluded that the Maximals had survived the energon explosion and were contaminated, and sent Terrorsaur out to deal with them. Terrorsaur failed. Dark Voyage
During a violent storm, Waspinator was possessed by the immortal spark of Starscream and ingratiated himself into Megatron's good books. With Starscream's help, Megatron led the Predacons to victory and captured the Axalon. He left Starscream in charge, returning to the Darksyde with Terrorsaur and Tarantulas. Before leaving, he consulted with Scorponok in private; while impressed with Starscream so far, it would be wise to keep a close eye on him. Once again, that caution served Megatron well; Starscream later used the Maximals to attack the Predacon base in a double cross. In the aftermath of Starscream's defeat, Megatron put Waspinator back together and was only mildly convinced by Blackarachnia's explanation for her supposed betrayal. Possession Yet another plan backfired badly. After Tarantulas infected Rhinox with an energon discharge virus, Megatron attempted to use the counter virus as a bargaining chip, only for a massive fart from Rhinox to blow all of the Predacons away and leave them dangling from a tree. The Low Road
Later, Megatron detected a strange energy pulse and sent Inferno to investigate. The result was the discovery of a second Golden Disk, resulting in Megatron calling a ceasefire between the two factions, realizing he had more important things to worry about. Tigatron broke into the Darksyde, learning about the new Golden Disk, and escaped, however this was merely part of Megatron's plan, which required the Maximals to learn about the approach of the Vok. Before the Storm After the arrival of an alien artifact—an organic dome—Megatron allowed Optimus to go in first, later listening to the sounds of the Maximal being tortured and wishing he had a recording of it to lull him to sleep at night. The beginning of an ignition sequence provided the distraction the other Maximals needed to fight Megatron and his goons off. One of the planet's moons revealed itself to be an artificial alien construct, and as it opened into a planet-killing weapon, Megatron mused to himself that there was still another hand to be played. Other Voices, Part 1 Retiring to the Predacon base, he monitored events within the Axalon via the scanners, learning that Optimus intended to use a stasis pod turned into a spaceship by Tarantulas to destroy the Planet Buster. Megatron was able to override some of the pod's systems, preventing Primal from ejecting before the pod and the Planet Buster exploded. Other Voices, Part 2
Megatron sent Tarantulas, Blackarachnia and Quickstrike to secure a cave full of energon. They later reported back that it had been destroyed in a fight with the Maximals. Megatron was not pleased. Tangled Web Captured by the Predacons, Dinobot opted to defect back to their side. Megatron forced him to prove himself by staging a fight between him and Quickstrike, and the original Golden Disk was soon back in Megatron's hands. Unfortunately, Dinobot ultimately opted to remain a Maximal. Maximal, No More
The discovery of another alien site gave Megatron the opportunity to take a shot at retrieving the alien Golden Disk. He distracted Rhinox long enough for Inferno and Blackarachnia to incapacitate the Maximal, and managed to take the disk back into his possession. Returning to base, Megatron encountered Tarantulas, who declared himself no longer under Megatron's command, but was willing to cooperate. As the Predacons put their new plan into effect at the alien site, the Maximals arrived, only for a domed spaceship to appear. Other Visits (Part 1) After using a force field to prevent the Maximals getting in, Megatron ventured into the spacecraft and was able to use the alien Golden Disk to take control of it. His first act was to bring aboard the other Predacons (bar Tarantulas, with whom the alliance was terminated) and Optimus Primal, the latter as a prisoner. Installing Transwarp cells into the ship, Megatron intended to take it back to Cybertron and conquer the world. Tarantulas arranged for a Maximal attack, infiltrating the ship and causing it to self-destruct. Other Visits (Part 2)
After another stasis pod was found, Megatron bugged Blackarachnia and sent her and Waspinator out to find it. He soon learned that the pod contained Protoform X, a powerful Transformer with an indestructible spark, made during a Maximal experiment. With this information, he used an energon blade to cut out a piece of the creature's spark using it to control the beast, which he renamed Rampage. Bad Spark
His options growing limited, Megatron chose to test alternative, "safer" means of altering history. Using the Golden Disk, he discovered the location of a valley full of early humans, who would someday evolve into the humans who helped the Autobots defeat the Decepticons in the great war. Determining by empirical experimentation that the future could be altered, Megatron mounted an attack on the valley. The Predacons were prevented from razing it entirely by the interference of Dinobot. After defeating all of the Predacon troops singlehandedly, Dinobot knocked the disk from Megatron's hand, and destroyed it. Megatron ordered a retreat as the rest of the Maximals arrived. Code of Hero Though fascinated at the discovery of a badly-mutated Transformer, Megatron wasn't impressed when it failed to transform, and ordered it destroyed, but Rampage successfully convinced him to let Transmutate prove itself. It didn't go so well. Transmutate
Calculating that the Transwarp wavefront would soon reach Cybertron, alerting the Maximal High Council and resulting in a rescue ship being sent, Megatron realised he would have to implement a potentially final gambit. The Predacons attacked the Maximal base, but were fought off when help arrived in the form of Predacon covert agent Ravage, sent by the Predacon Tripredacus Council to apprehend Megatron. Returning to the Predacon base, Megatron sent Waspinator on a secret mission, while the other Predacons attempted to increase the fortifications. The impending attack went off without a hitch, however, and Megatron was captured. The Agenda (Part 1) Megatron was placed in a cell, and was informed by Ravage that Tarantulas was a member of the Predacon Secret Police. Megatron didn't seem too surprised by the news, and still had a hand to play—using a fragment of the Golden Disk which Dinobot had destroyed, he played back a portion of the original Megatron's hidden message, convincing Ravage to side with him. The Agenda (Part 2)
Megatron and Ravage subsequently led an assault on the Axalon, which only failed through some extremely daring work by Rattrap. Megatron fled, not back to the Predacon base, but to the Ark, prepared at last to enact his namesake's plan to change the course of history by killing Optimus Prime. At the ship, he discovered Blackarachnia and her paramour Silverbolt, the former having deduced Megatron's plans by studying the stolen backup of Golden Disk data. This proved fortuitous for Megatron, as he was to coerce Blackarachnia into helping him by threatening Silverbolt. The she-spider provided the access codes necessary to shut down the Ark's security grid and grant Megatron access to the ship. After delivering a powerful speech to the unconscious figure of Optimus Prime, Megatron blasted the Autobot in the face at full power, triggering a timestorm that began to unravel history. As reality whirled around him, he confronted the Maximals outside the Ark to gloat that, by slaying Prime, he has erased them from existence. The Agenda (Part III) Unfortunately, he failed to account for Blackarachnia; having been created from a Maximal protoform, she too would cease to exist if Megatron's plan succeeded, so she used her access codes to reactivate the Ark's security, causing Megatron to be hurled from the fact. With Blackachnia's help the Maximals were able to use Teletraan I to repair Optimus Prime, while Primal took the Autobot's spark into his own structure to protect it, in the process transforming his body into a more powerful form. Confronted by the new "Optimal Optimus", Megatron beat a retreat, but not before shooting Blackarachnia. Heading for the Axalon, he, Inferno and Waspinator were attacked and downed by Primal and Cheetor, however Megatron radioed ahead to Rampage, who was able to destroy the Maximal ship. Optimal Situation
Rampage disappeared while supposedly on a mission to attack the Ark with Inferno, and Megatron's scanners were unable to locate him. Deep Metal Monitoring the Maximal attempt to salvage Sentinel, Megatron sent his men out to retrieve the device. The mission was surprisingly a success, and Megatron later installed Sentinel in the Predacon ship. Changing of the Guard Megatron had also developed Cyber raptors, which were sent out occasionally to harass the early humans. When he spotted Blackarachnia and Cheetor accompanying two of the humans, he sent Waspinator and Tarantulas out with three of the raptors to attack them. It didn't go too well for the Predacons, but Megatron was brewing a new plan. Cutting Edge
Having obtained a Transmetal driver through unknown means, he embarked upon an experiment, the fruition of which was the creation of a Transmetal 2 clone of Dinobot. However, thanks to the interference of Depth Charge and Cheetor during the experiment, the Transmetal driver was lost, and the Predacons captured Depth Charge in order to interrogate him. Before they could extract the information, they were attacked by a strange feral beast, which eliminated them one by one. Megatron accidentally slagged Waspinator before being attacked by the creature himself, and sent flying off a cliff. Feral Scream Part 1 Returning to base, Megatron detected the beast roaming in the night, and realized that Cheetor had been exposed to the Transmetal driver's energies and upgraded into a new form. He dispatched Dinobot and Waspinator to capture Cheetor, but unsurprisingly they failed. Feral Scream Part 2
Megatron had his men build a new weapon—a disruptor cannon constructed in a cave on a mountain top. Unfortunately due to the bi-polar energon source that the weapon used, the Predacons were unable to get close enough to install the shielding. Megatron sent Waspinator and Inferno out to capture one of the early humans, and they came back with Una. With great difficulty, Megatron instructed her on installing the shielding and installing the stabilizer crystal. After the Maximals had rescued her, the Predacons fired the cannon, only to discover too late that Una hadn't installed the stabilizer after all. The cannon exploded in their faces. Go with the Flow Alerted by Tarantulas that the Maximals were attempting to remove Blackarachnia's Predacon shell program, Megatron assigned Inferno, Rampage and Quickstrike to help Tarantulas disrupt the Ark's power, and hopefully terminate Blackarachnia. It even mostly worked, except for the part about Blackarachnia dying instead of ending up with a new Transmetal 2 body. Crossing the Rubicon
On a later occasion, Megatron had Waspinator attack the Ark as part of a diversion. Tarantulas was able to place Optimus Primal under Quickstrike's control, enabling the Predacons to defeat the Maximals easily, and allowing Megatron to enter the Ark once more. There, he deliberately took the spark of the original Megatron and placed it in his body. Before he could do anything more, Quickstrike used Primal's body to dump in him the nearest pit of lava—a double-cross engineered by Tarantulas. Megatron did not die, but was upgraded into a new form, with a dragon as his alternate mode. After slagging Tarantulas, Megatron fought at length with Primal, only being fought off when Blackarachnia freed the other Maximals. Master Blaster
His attempt to put Quickstrike on trial for treachery was interrupted by the news that something was incoming. Tigerhawk, emissary of the Vok, obliterated the Predacon base before defeating Megatron in battle. Tigerhawk prepared to deliver the killing blow, but was interrupted, first by Optimus Primal, and then by Tarantulas. By the time Megatron recovered, Tigerhawk had been captured by Tarantulas, and Megatron flew off. Tarantulas was eventually destroyed by his quest for power, and Megatron could only watch as the Maximals welcomed Tigerhawk into their ranks. Other Victories
Desperate once again, Megatron dispatched Inferno, Waspinator and Quickstrike to find a new base, while he took the competent Predacons to search the remains of Tarantulas's lair. There, Dinobot found a hatch leading to an undersea tunnel and Megatron realised the enormity of what Tarantulas had discovered. The Predacons followed the tunnel to the Nemesis, the Decepticon flagship which had crashed at the same time as the Ark. Megatron and Dinobot entered the ancient ship, successfully powering it up and raising it out of the ocean, intending to take back to Cybertron so that Megatron might conquer the planet. Nemesis Part 1
First, however, he planned to annihilate the entire Ark rather than simply Optimus Prime: drunk on power and reciting religious scripture that he believed concerned him, he was declaring himself "alpha and omega" and that time itself was now his to command.
Heading for the Ark, Megatron stopped the ship momentarily to fire on an anthropoid settlement, despite Dinobot's objections, inadvertently killing Inferno and Quickstrike in the process. Of course, this meant that when the Nemesis arrived at its target, the fusion cannon was still recharging. Megatron instead turned a tractor beam on the Autobot ship. Primal infiltrated the Nemesis and began fighting Megatron. Though Optimus was no match for the Predacon leader, he bought the Maximals enough time to find an Autobot shuttle, which Rhinox piloted into the bridge of the Nemesis, taking Megatron out. The Nemesis crashed a second time and thus preserved history. After returning the original Megatron's spark to its proper body, the Maximals headed back to Cybertron with the incarcerated Megatron shackled to the outside of their ship. Nemesis Part 2
Beast Machines cartoon
- Voice actor: David Kaye (English), Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Francisco José (Portuguese), Jan Spitzer (German) Giorgio Locuratolo (Italian), Armando Rendiz (Latin American Spanish), Juan Diéguez (Castilian Spanish), Jean-Paul Dermont (French)
Breaking free from his constraints on the Autobot shuttle while it traveled through transwarp space, Megatron arrived back home on Cybertron well before the Maximals did. Descent He used the window of opportunity for maximum effect, releasing a virus across the planet that quickly incapacitated the population. Forbidden Fruit He then began extracting the victims' sparks and storing them in a citadel, planning to one day absorb them into his own spark. The Siege Meanwhile, he used factories to rebuild the bodies into mindless drones he called "Vehicons". Discovery Eventually, he had almost every spark on Cybertron in his possession. At some point Megatron's former follower Waspinator managed to make it back to Cybertron through unknown means. However Megatron simply extracted his spark too. The Catalyst
When the Maximals arrived in their shuttle, they found the planet empty, aside from Vehicons who immediately attacked them with canisters of a gas that infected them with the virus. The fully-Transmetal among them "devolved" into their original beast modes but were able to keep moving and escape. The remaining two, Rhinox and Silverbolt (who never received any form of upgrade on Earth), were instead paralyzed and quickly overtaken. Their sparks soon joined Megatron's collection. Descent
The escaped Maximals would have succumbed to the virus eventually if not for the Oracle reformatting them. Megatron observed their first battle against the Vehicon drones, vowing to destroy the impurity in his technological paradise. The Reformatting He would not have to wait long before a confrontation with Optimus Primal, gloating to the Maximal leader that Cybertron now belonged to the technological. The strain of controlling the Vehicon drones while attacking three targets was telling, and Primal was able to goad him into losing control, causing an overwhelming urge to transform and revealing Megatron's dragon form, now in a ragged patchwork state as a result of failed attempts to excise his organic mode. Megatron was able to quickly recover, pointing out Primal's own failure had led to the downfall of Cybertron, before reconnecting to his control harness and taking control of the drones once again. Defiant, Primal had to be dragged from the Council Citadel by the other Maximals. Master of the House
Though the Diagnostic Drone insisted that Megatron's organic side had been purged, another failed battle between the Vehicon drones caused him to revert in rage to his dragon mode yet again. In order to make his drones more flexible in capturing the Maximals, he imbued three Vehicons with captured sparks so they could think on their feet in battle. The original personalities of these "Vehicon Generals" were deeply buried under shell programs, which allowed Megatron to use sparks of the Maximals' former allies. Thus, if the Maximals discovered who they really were, they would be reluctant to destroy them. The recently captured Silverbolt and Rhinox were made into Jetstorm and Tankor, respectively. The third general, Thrust, was created from his former follower Waspinator. During the generals' first engagement with Blackarachnia and Rattrap, Megatron became aware that Blackarachnia was trying to access the computer of the Autobot shuttle they'd arrived in, and he made an attempt to access her memory while she did so. Rattrap was warned of this via a transmission made to Jetstorm, and was able to cut the link before Megatron could learn the location of the Maximal base. Fires of the Past
After raging at the three generals for their failure, Megatron sent them out, promising great rewards for whoever captured the Maximals. This paid off when Tankor returned with all four of the Maximals. Unfortunately while Megatron was getting ready to give Tankor his reward of oblivion, the Maximals escaped, and Primal was able to speak directly to Tankor's spark, turning him against Megatron. Once they'd escaped, Megatron was able to restore his control harness and remotely erase Tankor's memory of the last 20 cycles, turning him against the Maximals once more. Mercenary Pursuits The Diagnostic Drone continued to attempt to formulate ways to excise Megatron's organic side, suggesting they wait until after the Maximal problem was dealt with, however Megatron was determined to put a swift end to the matter in question. During a battle between the drones and Maximals in a Vehicon factory, Megatron retook control of the drones out of frustration over his generals' failure, only for feedback from a computer to overload his systems.
While in this weakened state, he was approached by Rattrap, who offered to defend Megatron for the night in return for weaponry. Though the other Maximals turned up, Rattrap fought them back. Megatron encouraged him to use the weapons to terminate the Maximals, but Rattrap refused, pointing out that the sun was coming up and their agreement was at an end. In return, Megatron let him go free. The Weak Component
The attempts to remove Megatron's organic form continued, with little success, and he turned down the Diagnostic Drone's suggestion to simply build a new body for himself, as it would require leaving his spark unprotected for a short period of time. Instead they implemented a new plan: attempt to capture Nightscream and work out how to reverse the process the young Maximal used to acquire an organic mode. During the mission, the Diagnostic Drone was reprogrammed by Tankor, whose Rhinox personality had resurfaced, and was now actively working in competition with Megatron to create a technological utopia. When the next attempt to purge Megatron's dragon mode failed (as Tankor instructed), the Diagnostic Drone suggested that the failure was caused by Megatron himself. Survivor
After Tankor's apparent destruction, Megatron demanded the Diagnostic Drone find out what happened. The Maximals, meanwhile, attempted to attack a Vehicon factory, with the intent of stealing a Mole Drone, and Megatron demonstrated his power over Cybertron by moving the very buildings themselves around in an attempt to crush the Maximals, and elevating the factory in an attempt to tip them out. The Key Megatron questioned Thrust and Jetstorm over Tankor's whereabouts prior to his demise. Unknown to any of them, the "death" had been a trick on Tankor's part, and the real Tankor had the Diagnostic Drone take the opportunity to reveal the discovery of the Key to Vector Sigma, capable of transforming organic matter into technomatter, to Megatron. Though Megatron was encouraged by the idea it could purge Cybertron of organic life, he was suspicious of the Drone's inadvertent slip of the tongue regarding what the Key would do to him, and ordered the Key be loaded on to select drones only. Tankor's plan to force Megatron's hand by providing the Maximals with a catalyst to make their vines grow faster eventually paid off, and Megatron ordered the key loaded onto all of the Tank Drones. The Catalyst
Of course, Megatron also made sure the Tank Drones were under his sole control first. Tankor then provided Primal with the whereabouts of the Plasma Energy Chamber, capable of purging all technology from Cybertron, in an attempt to force Megatron to use the keys. Megatron did not believe that Primal would actually go through with opening the chamber, and, distrustful of the Diagnostic Drone's motives, destroyed it. During the Maximal's last push for victory, Megatron found himself confronted by Optimus Primal once more, and crowed over his opponent as the other Maximals were transformed into technomatter. However Primal was able to provoke another appearance by Megatron's beast mode, and attempted to reformat him. The attempt was interrupted by Tankor, who prepared to zap Megatron with a Key, but was promptly restrained. Megatron announced that having a free agent was part of his plan, and had handed him the key to victory. Optimus, finally determined to win at any cost, opened the Plasma Energy Chamber, and Megatron responded by triggering the key weapon, causing a maelstrom of clashing energies. End of the Line
When the Maximals entered the Council Citadel, all they found of Megatron was his body, which disintegrated. Despite this the evidence of Megatron's influence remained—following Optimus Primal's resurrection, the Maximals found themselves face-to-face with a giant ship, resembling a stylised version of Megatron's own head, which rose above the city. Fallout The ship did not contain Megatron's spark though; The combined energies had actually succeeded in separating his organic half from his body—unfortunately, his spark went with it and become trapped in a purely organic Transformer. He took the identity of "innocent" Maximal Noble and, preying on Nightscream's survivor guilt and Optimus's inherent goodness, attained the confidence of the Maximals. Savage Noble With their help, he was able to gain entry back into the Council Citadel, and attempted to access the control harness, only to discover it would not interface with his organic form. Using a spark extractor, he ripped his own spark out and flew into the giant floating head, possessing it and reactivating Cybertron. Prometheus Unbound
Intent on gaining access to the Oracle, Megatron seized Primal and Cheetor, bringing them aboard the ship in preparation to tear the information from them. He was able to communicate with them by appearing as a hologram of moving Cybertronix, announcing that the procedure would be terminal. Before it could be completed, Silverbolt, who had been reformatted from Jetstorm by Blackarachnia, arrived and freed the two Maximals. In Darkest Knight Unwilling to admit defeat, Megatron deployed his own variation of the Hate Plague, infecting all of the Maximals but Primal. Optimus instead was scooped up by a tentacle and taken aboard the floating head for a frank discussion about free will versus universal harmony. As it turned out, Optimus was able to help the Maximals overcome their anger and reformat their neural pathways, though Megatron was amused by Primal's afterthought that not all of their issues came from the virus. A Wolf in the Fold Following Botanica's arrival, Megatron used the giant head's spaceship mode to destroy the rampantly-growing plant life she'd brought with her. Home Soil
With the Maximals numbering seven, and Thrust increasingly incapable of keeping up, Megatron used the sparks of famous generals Obsidian and Strika to replace them. Though they subsequently failed to destroy the Maximals, Megatron thanked them for keeping his enemy busy while he finalised his plans for the collection of sparks. The Strike He gave his generals orders to find the Maximals and take Optimus alive. Primal had ventured down into the lost city of Iacon with Nightscream, giving Megatron the opportunity to strike. Tricking the Maximal leader with a huge hologram of Optimus Prime, Megatron was able to extract the codes to access the Oracle. On the other hand, Primal was able to use the link to determine the location of the lost sparks without Megatron knowing. The Search
Megatron began preparing for his "grand ascension", separating his spark from the giant head and starting to consume the many sparks he had captured. The Maximals managed to get a team onto the ship, but were immediately seized by metal tentacles and forced to watch as Megatron continued to devour the sparks, intending to unite every spark on the planet into one perfect being—himself. Rising out of the head, Megatron began to draw the Maximals' sparks from their bodies. He was forced to pause to destroy his organic half, Noble, which had continued to roam Cybertron after his spark had left it. Anguished at the loss of his friend, Nightscream used his sonic attack on Megatron's spark, apparently dispelling it. The Siege
Depolarized, Megatron's spark drifted through the streets of Cybertropolis, attempting to possess bodies but unable to stay in them for any period of time, and only able to operate them in the barest, zombie-like fashion. After attacking the Maximals in a seemingly-random pattern, his spark was captured by Rattrap in a spark extractor and repolarized. The net result—Megatron was able to possess a new body, however he soon realized that he was trapped in the shell of a Diagnostic Drone. This didn't hinder him from capturing the Maximals and attempting to reformat Primal's spark, and, though Botanica swiftly came to the rescue, Megatron still escaped thanks to the loyalty of his three generals. Spark of Darkness
While working on a new plan, Megatron had his generals attack the Maximals, who had holed up in the giant head. Unsatisfied with his current body, but having no time to design a new one, Megatron searched the archives for a suitable template, finding Optimus Primal's "optimal" form to be suitably ironic. When an escape pod was launched from the Grand Mal, Megatron found the harmonics-matching disk inadvertently provided by Rattrap, sending the frequency to the Vehicons so they could bring down the ship. The Downward Spiral Though the Maximals fought back, eliminating the Vehicon Generals, Megatron had constructed a new body for himself—a copy of Primal's old "Optimal Optimus" form, though without its beast mode. Seizing control of the Cycle drones, he was able to rip the Maximals' sparks from their bodies, leaving himself and Primal as the last two functional mechanisms on the planet. When Legends Fall
There followed an all-out battle between the two mortal enemies, which raged across the city. Primal was seemingly beaten when he found the remains of the technorganic orchard, devastated by Megatron's drones, and Megatron took him back to the surface. There, Megatron claimed his giant throne, and absorbed the rest of the sparks, growing in size. Preparing to use the Key to Vector Sigma to reformat Cybertron's organic core, Megatron severed Primal's connection to the Oracle. However Primal received encouragement from the spirits of his Maximal comrades, and by reformatting Megatron's throne, was able to dislodge him. They plummeted together into Cybertron's core, where Primal was able to trigger the reformatting of the entire planet, destroying himself and Megatron completely, but freeing all the lost sparks to repopulate their newly redecorated Cybertron. Seeds of the Future
Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity
Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base
After NAVI-ko acquired a new body and intelligence on "Nemesis Prime", Megatron sent NAVI-ko through transwarp to Yokohama in 2014 to acquire the dark clone of Optimus Prime. After Nemesis Prime shed his evil and reverted to being Yokohama Convoy, Megatron realized his plans were foiled and ordered NAVI-ko to return. Yokohama Decepticon Secret Base
Cloud
While the Maximals were trying to help out the wayward Hot Rodimus and SARA of the Cloud World, they investigated an energon mine, only to find Megatron and his Predacons waiting there. The two sides battled, and Hot Rodimus took the opportunity to transform into helicopter mode to pursue his true quarry. Bemused by the presence of this larger Transformer, Megatron sent Waspinator and Terrorsaur to give chase. Rodimus was able to get rid of his pursuers and encountered his target, the Shockwave from his world. The two's battle set off the nearby energon, forcing the Predacons to retreat. Wild
In another fight with Shockwave, Hot Rodimus thought back to their confrontation with the Beast Warriors, including Megatron. TFC-A03
Beast Wars Diorama Story
Some time after Starscream fled from prehistoric Earth, Megatron and a group of Predacons, including Waspinator, Blackarachnia, a time-displaced Archadis, and Wolfang, battled a contingent of Maximals comprising Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Cheetor, Colada, and Dinobot in a forest. After all the Transformers transformed into robot mode, Megatron attacked Optimus Primal with the jaws of his T. rex head-hand. Primal blocked the attack with his dual Cyber Blades and then fought Megatron off with his Mega Blasters. Optimus Primal Chapter Though Primal blocked his "Tyranno Fang" attack, Megatron was able to counter by shooting a "Laser Buster" from the mouth of his T. rex head-hand. Megatron Chapter
Some time into the battle, a warp opened, bringing with it Jazz, Ironhide, Starscream, Optimus Prime, and Ratchet, who were Decepticons and Autobots from another universe. Tigatron and Gimlet also joined the battle, and, after being defeated by the Maximals, Starscream joined the Predacons. Tigatron Chapter Blackout later appeared and joined the Predacons, as well. As the battled raged, the Megatron from the other universe came in through the warp. Gimlet Chapter
The Decepticon Megatron brought along Brawl, and the two Megatrons combined their troops into a fearsome force against the Autobots and Maximals. The Predacon Megatron battled Optimus Primal in the ensuing skirmish. The Maximals' savior came in the form of Motorarm, who then went on to battle Tarantulas. Megatron battled Primal again, and the two factions then took formation against each other with the intention of combining their energies to attack the opposing side. The Predacon Megatron led the combined Predacon/Decepticon force. With Motorarm leading the charge, the Maximals and the Autobots attacked first. Motorarm Chapter
Later, through the power of energon, both Optimus Primal and Megatron attained the giant "Energon Power Mode". The energies coursing in their bodies granted both improved abilities and the two battled. TM-SP Character Data File
Robotmasters comic
Megatron travelled to Earth in the year 2004 through the Blastizone with a minion, Psycho-Orb, in tow. Seeking to harness the power of the solitarium that Earth contained, Megatron set out to amass a force by taking over leadership of the Decepticons. He went to their underwater base and challenged Starscream, who was leading the Decepticons in the absence of the original Megatron. The battle for command ended in Megatron's favor, Change in Command: The Usurper Decepticon and he attacked the Autobots two days later. Megatron introduced himself to Optimus Prime, who was unaware of the mysterious purple Tyrannosaurus rex. The battle ended in retreat when firepower overwhelmed the Decepticons. Clash! The Two Leaders The New Battle Begins! Uneasy with the silence following Megatron's disappearance during the Beast Wars, Optimus Primal searched for Megatron, finding the Blastizone and arriving in 2004's Earth. To War! Optimus Primal He would meet up with Optimus Prime himself as the two battled Beast Megatron again. The New Battle Begins!
Two months after Megatron took leadership away from him, Starscream created the Arsenal Force weapons in a bid to take leadership back. When Megatron demanded to see the weapons Starscream has created, the Seeker provided a very personal demonstration by blasting the Predacon with it. Megatron was unfazed and allowed Starscream to live for making such interesting weapons. Starscream Grins 3 Times...
Star Saber and Victory Leo joined the Autobots. Together, they promised to defeat Megatron. The Victory Warriors Enter!! Later, Double Face, acting as a double agent for the Decepticons, provided the Autobots with information about a solitarium lode on Chaar. There, they were met with Megatron and Double Face in a trap for the Autobots. Megatron blasted the Autobots and the Decepticons ran off with the solitarium. Defend the Solitarium!
Megatron was given falsified data on creating a "black body" coating for himself by Starscream. Due to his "beast" physiology, the Predacon leader was upgraded with no ill-effects, despite Starscream's intentions. With energy stolen from the other Decepticons, Megatron then launched an attack on the Autobots. Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal, both empowered by solitarium, came to thwart his evil scheme, and Megatron was forced away. Afterwards, his body built an immunity to the black body upgrade, meaning he could no longer use its power. Megatron realized that it could be troublesome if Starscream was the only one among his ranks to have access to the black body power. He swapped out the remaining chip necessary for the upgrade with the one that contained the falsified data, and allowed Starscream to have it and be hoist by his own petard. Black Body
In 2005, when a confused Lio Convoy arrived on Earth, Megatron took advantage of the opportunity and convinced the lion that the Autobots of the era were evil invaders battling the heroic Decepticons. When Victory Leo and Star Saber flew by, Lio Convoy struck and battled the two, much to Megatron's amusement. Lio Convoy Storms In Unfortunately for the Predacon, both Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal intervened, and Lio Convoy was convinced of the goodness of the Autobots. With the energies of the Matrix and the Energon Matrices, the four Supreme Commanders attacked and forced Megatron and his Decepticons to flee. Together, the 4 Great Supreme Commanders
Hope came to the Decepticons when Air Hunter reported the incoming return of the original Megatron, Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior who was revealed to be inhabiting the body of Reverse Convoy as "Rebirth Megatron". At the Decepticon base, the Megatrons took a liking to each other discussed their stock of solitarium and how they could conquer the universe with it. To get even more, they decided to make a decisive attack on the Autobots. The battle lasted for three days and three nights till the Decepticons were defeated. With the power of solitarium, Megatron, Optimus Primal, and Psycho-Orb returned to the Beast Wars. And Then
Legends comic
In the late 1980s, quantum surge energy that the original Megatron absorbed while his spark was inside the Predacon Megatron's body suddenly granted the Decepticon a "Transmetal" form. Slugslinger's Ambition
The Arcee of another universe retold the story of Megatron and Optimus Primal's battle in the core of Cybertron. Bonus Edition EX Rattrap The end of this battle resulted in a new era for the planet, with a reconfigurated Vector Sigma as its leader. The remnants of Megatron's Grand Mal served as a monument. Bonus Edition EX Blue Big Convoy
Beast Wars Reborn
After their deaths in the core of Cybertron, both Megatron and Optimus Primal awoke inside a bizarre temple-like spaceship which was hurtling through space. Neither had any memory of who they were or how they got there, only their own names and a feeling of discomfort between one another. The pair went about investigating the ship in search of answers. While Megatron's memory was lost, his personality remained mostly intact: he was more concerned with seizing control of the ship before Primal did in order to gain the upper hand.
They eventually found a data log and discovered that their sparks had been taken and they were reborn into new bodies (unbeknownst to them, bodies identical to their original Earth forms). However, their memories were intentionally not uploaded into their new bodies. While searching the log they discovered that the ship's main power source was a Golden Disk lodged within a giant pillar. Megatron immediately raced to obtain the Disk and Primal followed him. The closer they got to the disk the more the ship attempted to thwart their advance by manipulating its atmosphere conditions.
Once they reached the chamber the ship's environment suddenly morphed to that of a decaying planet littered with the corpses of robots. The corpses came to life and began shambling toward them, intent on eating their sparks. They made short work of the zombies, leaving Megatron to obtain the Golden Disk and Primal with a feeling that he shouldn't entirely trust Megatron.
From another dimension beyond time and space, Primus recognized that something was amiss and sent Vector Prime to meet Primal and Megatron within the spaceship. The Mysterious Temple in Space
Primal found his suspicions confirmed after Megatron discovered that part of the ship let him convert any object into antimatter, effectively giving the ability to turn anything—or anyone—into a particle-annihilating bomb. Their subsequent battle was quickly interrupted by a strange being calling itself Soundblaster, who informed them that the ship's power over space and time was his own—and wished to give this power to Megatron. Master of the Game
Megatron readily accepted Soundblaster's offer, though he thought to himself that Soundblaster was hiding something. The catch was quickly revealed: Megatron first had to complete a rite of succession. The Zeonomicon, source of Logos Prime's power, was released from the ancient's body, and hidden away on an organic planet. Megatron was annoyed, thinking he and Optimus would be competing in a hunting game for the artifact. Soundblaster began to explain that the Golden Disk detailed the rite in full. Before he could elaborate, Optimus snatched the disk away. Soundblaster, unfazed, granted Megatron and his rival their memories back before sending them to the planet's surface. Planetfall
On the planet, Megatron set to work, seeking Animatron's Cyber Planet Key, beating up Scavage for information. Realizing the need to adapt to this universe's peculiarities, Megatron tore out Scavage's key port and attached it to his body, and the planet's psionic energy converted him into an Animatronian-style Transmetal. He showed up at the Rectangular Valley's doorstep seeking out Optimus Primal and the Golden Disk he had, knowing it was necessary to place upon a nearby obelisk to get the Zeonomicon. Primal used the power of the Cyber Planet Key to reformat into an equivalent body and the two raced off to the obelisk. Both vanished from sight and were never seen again, but Backstop believed the fact that a new day dawned on the planet was proof enough of who won the fight. The Extraordinary Reformat
Kiss Players
Upon meeting the lost Shaoshao Li on his universe's Cybertron, Safeguard noted that Logos Prime had brought two Transformers from Shaoshao's world to this universe a long time ago. It was prudent for Shaoshao to find how they may have returned to their native universe, as she needed to return the "Allspark" fragments she collected to ensure its future. Kiss Players #50
Beast Wars II cartoon
In the far future, Galvatron tried to summon Megatron to Gaia using a time machine. When his brother Gigastorm screwed up the wavelength calculations and instead summoned the titanic Majin Zarak, Galvatron was pleased and declared, "We have obtained a weapon far superior to Megatron". Lio Convoy in Imminent Danger!
Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic
Megatron in his dragon form was a spectator of the second week of the Speedia 500 on Velocitron. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3
Beast Wars Official Guidebook
Terrorsaurer was upgraded by Megatron into a gaudy purple body that increased his speed and evasion. He was renamed "Terrorsaur". Beast Wars Official Guidebook
3H comics
- Voice actor: David Kaye (English)
Megatron was mentored by the gangster Cryotek, who engineered the plot to steal the Golden Disk. Megatron, however, betrayed him and took the Golden Disk for himself to Earth.[1]
At some point after Inferno was born, Fractyl briefly daydreamed about impressing Megatron with his new discovery, the energon armor producing furmanite. When he failed even in his dreams, however, Fractyl reconsidered alerting Megatron just yet.
In reality, Megatron was summoned by Blackarachnia when the Maximal Packrat stole some of Fractyl's furmanite. He arrived on the scene in time to see Fractyl bravely chasing off the Maximal pack, after recovering the dangerous furmanite. Well done, Fractyl! (Oh, if only he knew...) Ground Zero
Antagony, future-born Herald Maximo of Shokaract, arrived on prehistoric Earth after the quantum surge to protect the Dark Essence of Unicron. She attempted to terminate Megatron, who quickly conned her into fighting Optimus and then took her captive when she went into stasis lock. Visitations
He began patiently (and happily) torturing her for information on the future she came from, and when that failed he hacked into her mind using a mind-drill "borrowed" from Tarantulas. That triggered a safety-against-betrayal device that erased her mind before he could gain any information; Megatron was left with no information, beyond that her master would surely try again. Herald
Almost immediately after his transformation into dragon form, Megatron detected a temporal breach. Unbeknownst to him, he had already been observed by a time-traveller that had emerged from Transwarp, Windrazor. Schism Having his troops ambush the Maximals (who had also detected the anomaly), he attempted to reach the time-traveller and gain access to the future, not caring what would happen if he took the original Megatron's spark within him. In the process, he encountered the Dark Essence and almost became a willing vessel for it, until it realised Windrazor would be easier to control. When the Fuzor fought the influence off, Shokaract himself emerged. Paradox
Megatron's reaction to a horrifically powerful spark-devouring demigod, and time and space being shattered into a chaotic maelstrom... was to stride through the reality soup and blackmail said demigod by opening fire on the Dark Essence of the Chaos-Bringer, demanding knowledge of the future or he'd cause the erasure of Shokaract's entire timeline. Megatron is hardcore. He failed, but this was a crucial distraction that helped bring about Shokaract's defeat. Terminus
In the timeline that Shokaract, Windrazor et al. came from, Megatron had conquered Cybertron with an army of Predacons and a pre-Unicronian Shokaract had been one of his soldiers. Windrazor recognised him on sight and knew of the famous Beast Wars.ParadoxSchism The timeline was changed by Shokaract's defeat so Cybertron's probably safe eh readers?
When Megatron returned to Cybertron from Earth, his former mentor Cryotek offered to rid him of his hated beast mode, wishing to take the powerful Transmetal 2 dragon form for himself. The painful metamorphosis left Cryotek disabled. Using this opportunity, Megatron stole Cryotek's research and used it to conquer Cybertron.[1] His conquest was swift, catching those who would have prepared Cybertron from its enemies unprepared. Apelinq's War Journals
As part of his "experimental meanderings", Megatron created the Mutants, whom he considered "wretched".
Some time after Megatron finally removed himself of his organic beast mode, he created the new Vehicon Generals Quake and Blastcharge, assigning them experimental Vehicon drones. They were charged with hunting down and destroying the Wreckers, the Dinobots, and the Mutants. They failed, despite the assistance of Spy Streak. As Megatron saw the Wreckers fly off in a stolen spaceship, he simply called it a temporary setback. Departure
After technorganic Cybertron was achieved, Optimus Primal's spark was revived from the within the Matrix to protect the multiverse. However, this action freed Megatron's spark as well. Escape Megatron did not visibly resurface, however, until a dark chapter in the Universe War, amidst "the Culling", when the Maximal High Council and a great portion of Cybertron's population itself was snuffed out by the Minions of Unicron. It is not known exactly how, but when the chaos of this genocide settled, Megatron had taken a powerful position within the remaining Predacon military. At first, Megatron began antagonizing Primal as he had before, but Megatron quickly learned that he and Primal would do better to first team up against Unicron. He and Primal traveled to several universes, preparing them for the coming battle and winning new allies. But now with Unicron disappeared into the Unicron Singularity, Primal fully expects Megatron's insane ambition to resurface. Optimus Primal's profile in Club magazine #9
Razorclaw continuity
In one splinter timeline of Primax 496.22 Alpha shortly after the death of Optimus Primal, minor atmospheric perturbations caused Silverbolt's stasis pod to land far from the Axalon, and absent Silverbolt's intervention Megatron slew the Maximals. Only Tigatron and Airazor survived, and when Megatron's machinations continued to threaten the Vok, the Vok dispatched the unified form of Tigatron and Airazor, Tigerhawk, to Earth to end Megatron's reign. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/07 Tigerhawk managed to kill Megatron, Universe Razorclaw profile but in doing so he nearly fell victim to the timestorm which resulted from Megatron absorbing the spark of his namesake. The timestorm tore reality apart, and Unicron plucked Tigerhawk from its remains Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/07 to become his general, Tigerhawk becoming Razorclaw. Universe Razorclaw profile
Robotmasters cartoon
- Voice actor: Toshitsugu Takashina (Japanese)
Taking advantage of the Blastizone as a means of time travel (and apparently size-enhancer), Megatron journeyed to a point in history where the original Megatron had gone missing, leaving the Decepticons without a leader. "Beast Megatron" took command of the Decepticons, leading them on a quest to collect a powerful element, solitarium, from within Earth. Beast Megatron's plans were quickly thwarted by Optimus Prime and a troop of time-displaced Autobots and Maximals, including Star Saber, Victory Leo, Lio Convoy, and Beast Megatron's nemesis, Optimus Primal. Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!
Beast Megatron later discovered a large deposit of solitarium beneath a city, and along with Starscream, Smokesniper, Gigant Bomb, and Wingstun, laid waste to the location. The Autobots, accompanied by Reverse Convoy, arrived and dealt with Beast Megatron's forces quickly. However, Reverse Convoy revealed himself to be the original Megatron in disguise and turned on them. Now going by the name Rebirth Megatron, he teamed up with Beast Megatron and the pair made trouble for the Autobot commanders in the form of a tornado-style attack. However, the Autobots were able to defeat the two Megatrons, countering the villains' attack with their own variation of it, sending Beast Megatron and his allies into a retreat. Lio Convoy Storms In
Robotmasters 3D diorama manga
While the Autobots under Optimus Prime helped Athens prepare for the Olympics, Megatron sent Gigant Bomb and Smokesniper to disrupt their efforts. However, the Decepticon duo soon discovered that they were outnumbered by the Autobots and surrendered. Megatron fumed. Robotmasters Vol. 1 Soon, he obtained the amazing Arsenal Force and bestowed its energies to his underlings. But they couldn't do any damage before Star Saber and Victory Leo appeared at the scene and literally slashed the energy out of the Decepticons. Robotmasters Vol. 3 Another of Megatron's plots involved a secret base disguised as an artificial satellite, but it was destroyed in a battle between Delta Seeker and X-Gunner. Robotmasters Vol. 6
Beast Megatron joined forces with his predecessor, Megatron, who was in a new form as Reverse Convoy. They, along with Double Face and Starscream, gloated over three of the Autobot leaders stuck in a trap that drained them of their energies. But the tide turned when Lio Convoy and a new Optimus Prime arrived on the scene and all of the Autobot commanders used their combined energies to blast away the Decepticons. Robotmasters Vol. 11
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
After stealing the Golden Disk, Megatron broke into Vector Sigma along with Dinobot and reviewed historical files on many of the Autobots and Decepticons from the era of the Great War. He told Dinobot to refer to him henceforth as Megatron. More than Meets the Eye #8
After the Beast Wars, Megatron traveled back to Cybertron while chained to the side of a shuttle. Ain't No Rat
Taking advantage of a destabilizing transwarp funnel, Megatron muscled himself free from his restraints. When Rattrap pulled the plug on the ship's Transwarp drive, the Autobot shuttlecraft was returned to Prehistoric Earth, and Megatron melted a hole into its bulkhead to attack the Maximals within. Shell Game #1
Transformers Legends anthology
After Optimus Primal died to destroy the Planet Buster, two time-displaced versions of Megatron were waiting in Maccadam's Old Oil House with Megatron and Megatron, when the equally time-displaced versions of Optimus Primal emerged from a meeting with Optimus Prime and Optimus Prime. Prime Spark
After having taken the spark of the original Megatron into his body, Megatron found himself talking to his Decepticon counterpart, who goaded him into attempting a new plan. Quickstrike kept the Maximals busy while Megatron burned his way into the Ark. There, he implanted a fragment of the original Megatron's spark into the stasis locked body of Starscream, allowing the two Megatrons to control the Seeker's body. He realised too late that the original Megatron's plan was to return the Decepticon leader's spark to his original body using Starscream. A battle of will ensued, which the beast Megatron ultimately won, subduing the older Megatron before himself being forced to flee the Ark by the Maximals. A Meeting of Minds
When Megatron was defeated by Nightscream, the spark of Rhinox attempted to act as a spirit guide and redeem the tyrant. Megatron proved to be a lost cause. While briefly tempted to move on, his inherent hypocrisy manifested and—despite fervently advocating the eradication of individuality—refused to relinquish his own identity. Rhinox's attempts at enlightenment were misconstrued, and his efforts only strengthened Megatron's desire for apotheosis. Repeated returns to Cybertron convinced him that godhood was still within his reach and as he charged his particles with "purity of purpose", erased Rhinox's spark from existence. Singularity Ablyss
2006 IDW Beast Wars continuity
The 'bot who would come to call himself "Megatron" was involved in the tail-end of the Great War, and commanded a small handful of troops on the battlefield. In a decisive battle, both Optimus Prime and Galvatron wound up dead, and the news of their demise quickly spread. Seeing opportunity, Megatron contacted his higher-ups, and petitioned that their forces strike decisively while the Autobots were still in disarray. His request was denied, but Megatron opted go through with his plans anyways.
As luck would have it, the Autobots' peace negotiator came to speak with his squad first, and Megatron let loose Predaking in response to his pleas for an armistice. Although he involved himself in combat for a brief moment as well, Megatron left Predaking to "deal with the rabble" while he led the rest of his soldiers in an attack on the Primal Council. The Autobots' counter-offensive came in the form of Magnaboss, who quickly overpowered Megatron's troops as transmatter rained down on the battlefield, converting all those it touched into a quantum state of proto-cybermatter. Tarantulas joined Megatron on the field, and informed him that the transmatter was coming from a doomsday weapon triggered by Galvatron's death, and that Predaking had taken his own life out of shame for his involvement with Galvatron's mad schemes. Refusing to be demoralized, Megatron readied to press his attack... only to be sniped by a stun-cannon. The Tripredacus Council then personally surrendered to the Autobots on behalf of all Decepticons. Megatron was trialed for his involvement in the war, and forcefully downgraded into a less-powerful body after the signing of the Pax Cybertronia. Dawn of the Predacus
Upon his arrival on prehistoric Earth, the Dark Side's computer suggested that Megatron take on a crocodilian alt mode. Unimpressed, Megatron chose instead to reformat himself with the genetic material of a Tyrannosaur. Beast Wars Sourcebook #2
As Magmatron surveyed the timestream, he witnessed several key events during the Beast Wars. Among these were several moments involving Megatron, such as Megatron appearing menacing in his first T-rex body's beast mode, Megatron recruiting Quickstrike and Silverbolt to the Predacons, Megatron conversing with Ravage while bound by energy shackles, and finally Megatron unleashing a torrent of energy upon the stasis-locked Optimus Prime. The Gathering #1
In Lio Convoy's opinion, Megatron was a simple wild card, no real threat when compared with Magmatron. This drove home the fact that Cybertron had no idea of the damage Megatron had and would inflict, or the lengths he would go to becoming arguably the most powerful Transformer since the Great War.
After dispatching Rampage and Inferno to oversee the installation of Sentinel into the Dark Side, Megatron was attacked by Magmatron, who had been assigned to arrest him by the Tripredacus Council. Although Megatron proved more than a match for the experienced Predacon general individually, he was ambushed and paralyzed by Iguanus and Drill Bit. Magmatron intended to use a transwarp shunt to transport his prisoner back to Cybertron. The Gathering #3 Thanks to the intervention of Grimlock, Optimus Minor, and Razorbeast, Magmatron was sent home empty-handed. Razorbeast was tempted to dispatch the prone Megatron, but released him instead, due to his desire to avoid interfering with the timeline. The Gathering #4
Ravage attempted to free Megatron after his ultimate capture at the end of the Beast Wars, but didn't progress very far in his plans. The Ascending #1 However, the temporal shockwaves caused by Shokaract's suicide knocked Megatron free of his bonds atop the Autobot shuttle. Making his own way through the timestream, he arrived on a battle-ravaged Cybertron, long before the Maximals responsible for his defeat would emerge, with little else to stand in his way. Yeeess... The Ascending #4
Waspscream continuity
In Primax 208.06 Zeta, Megatron's forces received assistance from the Starscream of Primax 206.15 Gamma. This Starscream, having lived through Optimus Primal's gambit before, used his knowledge to press the advantage, and the Maximals were defeated. The Vok responded by trying to sterilize Earth, but Megatron tricked Blackarachnia into destroying the Planet Buster while she was attempting to escape Earth. The resulting quantum surge granted all the Predacons except Scorponok transmetal forms. The hybrid "Waspscream" entity launched a successful coup against Megatron. Megatron and his loyalists Inferno and Scorponok were captured, and Megatron himself was humiliatingly secured to the exterior of the Autobot shuttle which Waspscream's forces used to return to modern day Cybertron. However en route, Megatron managed to break free and arrive decades ahead of Waspscream's Predacons. He used his knowledge of the future to create a transformation virus, unleashing it on Cybertron's unsuspecting population shortly before Waspscream's arrival, harvesting the populace's sparks and turning their bodies into Vehicon drones. Upon the arrival of Waspscream's crew, however, most of them escaped thanks to their transmetallization. Megatron only managed to capture their prisoners, Inferno, Scorponok, and Silverbolt, offering them the opportunity to serve him. Inferno leaped at the chance and became the commander of the Scrapmetal drones while Scorponok and Silverbolt refused. Megatron used their sparks anyway, turning them into the Tank Drone commander Tankor and Aero Drone commander Jetstorm. Meanwhile, Waspscream's Predacons were drawn to the Oracle, which granted them technorganic bodies. The Predacons proceeded to wage a valiant Spark War against Megatron and the Vehicons, eventually liberating Silverbolt and prompting Megatron to unleash a new general, the Autobot military genius Obsidian. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16 Obsidian, however, schemed against Megatron, getting Tankor to assassinate Megatron and seizing control of the Vehicons for himself. Universe Tankor profile
Timelines
- Voice actor: David Kaye (English)
The Predacons Scourge, Buzz Saw, and Max-B worked for Megatron. The three of them, in disguise, gave the captured Flamewar a test to ensure her loyalty to Decepticon glory. When she passed, they revealed their true identities and offered her a place under Megatron. Intimidation Game
Megatron was the star pupil of the crime lord Cryotek, and successfully carried out his plan to steal the Golden Disk. Cryotek loved him like a son—which didn't stop him setting up Megatron to take the fall for the crime, knowing he'd betray him some day anyway. Unfortunately for Cryotek, "some day" was today—Megatron had everyone on the mission who wasn't loyal to him killed, had the data for the location of the Disk secretly decoded by Tarantulas, and then kept it for himself while directing the Maximals to his tutor. Theft of the Golden Disk
On Cybertron, Megatron wore removable transformable armor, which transformed into a missile-launching armored platform, over his basic bodyframe (which transformed into a hovertank). This quickly-discarded outer shell was possibly used to comply with the ratification of the Pax Cybertronia, which required Predacons to lay down their arms. A Predacon field commander before the peace, Megatron refused to comply with these new regulations and struck out on his own to destroy the Maximal Imperium.
With some help from various sources, he assembled a crew of ragtag criminals and miscreants for the purpose of stealing the Golden Disk and using it to find Earth. Succeeding in stealing the disk, he, his lieutenant, and another accomplice fought their way past security, eliminating one guard and dodging another. They were picked up by the Darksyde, a ship stolen by the rest of their crew.
Megatron instructed Tarantulas to study the disk for the coordinates of Earth while the Darksyde battled its several pursuers. Although they were followed by the Maximal ships Axalon and the Chromia 10, the Darksyde's mission was also aided by a third ship crewed by the Predacon agents Laserbeak and Buzzsaw. Though the Chromia 10 and the Predacon ship were destroyed, the Darksyde was still followed by the Axalon. Megatron removed his transformable armor and patched a video feed through to the Axalon's captain, Optimus Primal. Declaring himself the leader of the Predacons, Megatron opened a transwarp portal through which both ships travelled. Dawn of Future's Past
Two weeks after Airazor was reborn on Earth, Megatron fought to defend an orbital weapon from the Maximals. Despite Megatron's savage attack, the launching pad was destroyed by Airazor. The Razor's Edge
Megatron's attack on the dormant Optimus Prime was observed across the dimensions by Vector Prime, who personally intervened to aid in Prime's recovery and preserve the normal flow of time. Vector Prime: In the Beginning
Ask Vector Prime
Due to the temporal shockwaves of Ravage's machinations in Primax 785.06 Alpha, a quantum duplicate of the Autobot shuttle carrying the victorious Maximals and imprisoned Megatron home from the end of the Beast Wars in Primax 496.22 Alpha was spawned, ending up in Primax 903.0 Beta. Unicron scattered the ship's crew into transwarp space, sending Megatron to Viron 102.0 Beta. There, he teamed up with local Predacon Cryotek to conquer the local Cybertron, harvesting the populace's sparks and converting their bodies into Vehicons. The Alternity shepherded the "shipwrecked" Primal, Rhinox, Rattrap, and Silverbolt to Viron 102.0 Beta to stop Megatron, activating the Oracle to guide them. Megatron eventually upgraded in a "Megahead" form, which was combated by Primal's "Air Attack" form. After the long "Allspark Battles", Primal's forces finally succeeded in vanquishing Megatron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30
A Change to the Agenda
After his attack on Optimus Prime, Megatron was thrown out of the Ark when Blackarachnia activated the ship's defense systems. However, he was not thrown far enough and the Predacon managed to reenter the Ark and blast the Autobot leader, decisively erasing the Maximals from the timeline. But before he could gloat further, Blackarachnia attacked the original Megatron with her cyber venom before she disappearing, ensuring the Predacon Megatron's nonexistence. A Change to the Agenda In the wildly different timeline that followed, the Predacon who would become Megatron would take a very different track.
Games
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)
- Voice actor: David Kaye (English), Shigeru Chiba (Japanese)
Megatron was captured by the Maximals. Unknown to his captors, however, Megatron sent a message back in time through transwarp to his past self in a last-ditch effort to change the outcome of the Beast Wars; as a result, history was drastically changed following the Quantum Surge, with many combatants gaining new Transmetal forms. In this altered timeline, Megatron went on to participate in a one-on-one beatdown involving nearly all of the other active beast warriors. At the end, he confronted his mysterious doppelganger, Megatron X.
Knowing fully that the planet where their war was taking place was in actuality prehistoric Earth, Megatron decided to make the ultimate gamble after gaining the upper hand in a grueling battle against the Maximals. Breaking into the Ark, Megatron murdered Optimus Prime while he slumbered, securing victory for both Decepticons and Predacons. However, in the year 2005, the Decepticons, having conquered both Earth and Cybertron, faced Unicron. As the Matrix died eons ago with Optimus Prime, it was unclear how the Decepticons could stand any chance against the devourer of worlds. Beast Wars Transmetals
Move list
| Beast Attacks | |
|---|---|
| C-Right | Crushing Wave |
| C-Up | Tail Smash |
| C-Left | Head Smash |
Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
- Voice actor: David Kaye (English), Shigeru Chiba (Japanese)
Maximal story
Megatron led the other Predacons in an assault on the Axalon. Unfortunately for them, Optimus Primal and his team fought back, beating the Predacons all the way back to the Darkside. With his troops now out of commission, he was cornered on the bridge, and while momentarily caught off guard when the Maximals were revealed to have regained the Golden Disk, he began to gloat and shared a revelation of his own: he had actually anticipated this, and now his own troops had infiltrated the defenseless Axalon. Mocking the Maximals one last time, he took off towards their ship. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
Predacon story
Megatron cackled over the brilliance of his latest plan: lure the Maximals to the Darkside, beat them up, then chase them back to their base to finish the job. All the other Predacons were on board, save for Rampage, until Megatron "convinced him" by squeezing his spark cage. When the Maximals took the bait and approached the Darkside, Megatron led a team of Predacons in beating them back to the Axalon. On the ship's bridge, with the Maximals all but defeated, Megatron gloated and prepared to finish off Optimus Primal. However, Rhinox arrived at that moment and activated Sentinel's auto-guns, and Megatron reluctantly ordered a retreat, swearing this was not over. Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
Move list
| Robot Mode | Beast Mode | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Special attack | Wave Geyser | Special attack | Wave Quake |
| Super attack | Storm of Vengeance | Super attack | Infernal Torch |
Notes
- Megatron's pre-beast body, seen almost entirely during "Beast Wars (Part 1)", is actually the body of the Voltron-esque Giant Robot from Mainframe's ReBoot episode "Nullzilla", with Megatron's head attached and some purple colors. Sadly, no Disrupto-Matic was to be seen.
- In the Japanese dub of Beast Wars, Shigeru Chiba's Megatron received several vocal tics; one of said tics (which was discarded early in the series) involved a habit of spitting after every lengthy session of maniacal laughter. Another new trait, played up for comedy, was his habit of screaming in a high-pitched, girlish voice when attacked, surprised or injured. His cowardice would become a running gag in the dub. When retreating at the end of "Call of the Wild", for instance, Megatron whimpered the excuse, "I have to return to my piano lessons!" This version of the villain is well-liked among the Japanese audience, with "Chibatron" being a common nickname for the character.
- A Fox Kids Fall 1999 press release for the Beast Wars sequel, then named "Beast Hunters", confirmed Megatron would conquer Cybertron but would have "hordes of Predacons" under his command rather than Vehicons. It's unclear if Megatron's Predacon conquest was ever truly planned or if Fox Kids was bending the truth as nobody knew what a Vehicon was yet. This is likely why the BotCon 1999 fiction has Megatron as a planet-ruling Predacon warlord in the future: it was trying to tie into the upcoming show!
- During the Beast Wars and Beast Machines cartoons, Megatron says "yesss..." 166 times, and "no..." 54 times. Despite this imbalance (or perhaps because of it), his final word in Beast Machines is a loud, drawn-out, tremendously hammy "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
- During audio commentary[citation needed], Bob Skir revealed that the idea for Megatron's spark inhabiting a Diagnostic Drone came from David McDermott's comment that "no matter what form Megatron's in, he will go out and kick ass".
- Megatron's season 1 T. rex model was recycled for the Mainframe Entertainment produced movie Hot Wheels: World Race as a rock statue.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cryotek's archived BotCon Online profile, also in the Director's Cut edition of "Betrayal".
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