Who is megatron

Megatron ordered that Arcee be escorted off the ship by Soundwave. Following Arcee being teleported by Soundwave off of the Nemesis, Megatron confronted Orion about the incident. He apologized for the recent commotion and asked him if he was harmed in any way. Orion confirmed that he was fine and asked Megatron why he had told him that Starscream was dead before the Decepticon leader told him that he was dead to their cause. He told Optimus that Starscream was his most trusted lieutenant until he turned traitor and joined the Autobots.

He continued by stating that never had he witnessed a more profound act of deceit before asking Orion if Starscream had done or said anything troubling to him. After Orion told him that he had not, Megatron said good and told him that perhaps it be best for him to forget about the incident and return to his project.

Megatron soon left Orion alone and began to talk to Soundwave. He told his longtime ally that he made a mistake not terminating Starscream a long time ago, calling it a mistake he did not intend to make again. However, Starscream's visit caused Orion to uncover the truth and find out that he was, in fact, Optimus Prime, the so-called leader of the Autobot "invaders". Soundwave notified Megatron of Orion finding information on Optimus Prime, and Megatron realized that harsher methods would be necessary to complete Project Iacon.

Megatron payed Orion a visit to expose Orion's findings. Orion demanded to know the full truth, but Megatron refused, causing Orion to delete his findings. Fortunately, Soundwave had recorded his findings, and the data was saved. Soundwave also informed Megatron of the activity at the space bridge and went there to find that the Autobots had taken control of it, and that one of their traps on Cybertron was activated.

Megatron ordered the guards to watch Orion while he went out and threatened to kill the archivist if he had not completed the project. Megatron realized that the Autobots must have been searching for a way to restore Orion to Optimus.

Megatron arrived at the space bridge and defeated the trio of Autobots present with ease, and waited for Arcee to return from the open space bridge with the Matrix in her possession. When Orion had overpowered his guards and came to attack Megatron, Orion declared his loyalty to the Autobots, pulled out his blades, and attacked Megatron. The amnesiac Autobot was no match for him. Interupted before killing Prime, the Decepticon leader was subsequently kept busy by Arcee, while Jack returned the Matrix to Orion, who regained his memory.

Terrified at Orion's memory restoration, Megatron released Arcee and ran towards him, blade retracted. In a valiant effort, Ratchet tried to stop him, but the Warlord mereley knocked him aside. During the lunge, Orion grabbed it with both hands, now as Optimus Prime. He then counterattacked Megatron, uppercutting him across the cave and left with the Autobots, leaving Megatron screaming furiously at his failure.

Following the first of the artifact coordinates left by Orion, Megatron and his men unearthed the Spark Extractor. Megatron then gloated about how "Orion" which was Optimus when he had amnesia led Megatron to the relic in the first place. While Megatron was bringing it back through the GroundBridge, it was taken from him by Bumblebee. Megatron tries to chase Bumblebee for the relic but the Autobot managed to escape with the others.

Back on the Nemesis, Megatron laments over the loss of the spark extractor, and regrets that he did no more than destroy Bumblebee's voice box back on Cybertron. Soundwave reminded Megatron of the other two remaining relics, which Megatron was intended on retrieving.

He then ordered Knock Out and Breakdown to retrieve another artifact before Bulkhead and Bumblebee did. Megatron was pleased when Knock Out returned with a force field generator, quickly demonstrating the object's power with his cannon-blast.

Megatron himself joined the mission to get the third artifact, and managed to secure the Forge of Solus Prime by holding a prone Bulkhead hostage. Unfortunately, Megatron soon discovered on the Nemesis that the Forge wouldn't work without the power of a Prime behind it and vowed to keep the Forge away from the Autobots, specifically from Optimus Prime. Decepticon Dreadwing arrived on Earth, joining up with Megatron and the other Decepticons aboard the Nemesis.

He welcomed the Decepticon to his ranks, stating that he was as loyal as his twin Skyquake. However, Dreadwing had arrived to seek vengeance on the one responsible for his twin's death. Following Soundwave's playing of a clip of Skyquake's demise, Megatron related that Skyquake had died under the command of Starscream and not of his own.

After Dreadwing related that every Autobot on Earth would die for his twin's death, Megatron reminded him that Autobots were only dealt with when he commanded. After Dreadwing went after the Autobots regardless, he contacted Megatron, whom reminded him that he had ordered him not to do so. After Dreadwing told him of his current attempt to kill Optimus, Megatron related to him that Optimus was not so easily vanquished, a fact that he had been trying to get his fellow Decepticons to realize each time one tried to kill him.

Regardless, Megatron allowed Dreadwing to have his vengeance, only in the memory of his departed twin and told Soundwave that he would be surprised if they ever hear from Dreadwing again. He proceeded to order Dreadwing to kill her on his upcoming mission, telling him to avoid fighting her in corners.

Ultimately, Dreadwing failed and his other loyal Decepticon Breakdown was killed instead by Airachnid. Megatron angrily scolded Dreadwing for not going after his deceased comrade's remains.

The Decepticons were soon contacted by Airachnid, whom's signal was being tracked by Soundwave and challenged Megatron to come and defeat her. Though Dreadwing asked him if he could accompany him, Megatron angrily deemed that he had his chance and failed before taking off to fight Airachnid. Megatron came to Airachnid's location and was soon attacked by that of her Insecticon , whom profoundly pushed him and began to fight him.

While Megatron battled the beast, he told Airachnid that she and her Insecticon would do best to remember his own previous training in the pits of Kaon, as he had killed three Insecticons simultainously in a gladiator battle during his prime.

Despite being surprise attacked and without his fusion Canon, he was able to defeat and kill the Insecticon, the beast had a large amount of stress placed on his body, causing Megatron to fall to the ground after the Autobots came down to him.

He asked Optimus if he planned to take him prisoner, only for the Autobot leader to place his blaster in front of his face. However, Megatron's luck managed to come into effect when Dreadwing, disobeying his orders arrived with the other Decepticons. Though Optimus planned to kill Megatron there and now, he gave in after Dreadwing stated that the Decepticons would not attack him in return if he spared him. However, as Megatron left, he pulled the unthinkable by going back on Dreadwing's word and ordering the Vehicons to attack the Autobots while he and Dreadwing made an escape.

While flying, he promoted Dreadwing to that of his new second-in-command. With the Decepticons returning from their quests to retrieve the relics, Megatron questioned how only Soundwave was able to bring him back anything other than an excuse.

While the Decepticons began to defend themselves from their leader, Hardshell admitted to having killed Bulkhead, something that made Megatron deem that perhaps their endeavors had not been wasted after all. After stopping Hardshell and Knock Out from engaging in battle, Megatron asked Hardshell if he was certain that the one called Bulkhead was exterminated, being assured by him that the Insecticon had succeeded in terminating the Autobot by his very own hand.

In regards to his ally's near-death at the hands of Hardshell, Autobot Wheeljack had began an assault on the Decepticons and their mines. As Knock Out complained over his paint job being ruined by the Insecticons, Megatron told him to spare him the dramatics and told him that it was merely a scratch.

While Knock Out continued to bicker with Hardshell, Megatron was called away by a Vehicon, alerting him of a call that was coming from one of their mines. He asked him what seemed to be the problem after being alerted and discovered from the Vehicon that the caller would only speak to him. Recognizing the caller as Wheeljack, he told the Autobot that the loss of one mine would hardly be a blow to the Decepticon cause after the Autobot told him that he was sitting on one.

Wheeljack told him that he was going to continue his attacks on the mines until he was given what he wanted, causing Megatron to ask what it might be before he discovered from the Autobot that Bulkhead had only nearly been killed and questioned Hardshell immediately. While Hardshell proclaimed his innocence and told his leader that the Wrecker was lying, Megatron ordered that if he had not killed Bulkhead, he best kill Wheeljack after telling the Insecticon that he owed him a spark.

However, Hardshell was killed and his body was brought back to the warship where an Insecticon informed Megatron it was a human girl , which made Megatron look deeply surprised. Nevertheless, he allowed "Cylas" the opportunity to prove himself worthy of a place in the Decepticon ranks by supplying them with a Project Damocles satellite. Though the initial results were promising, he sent Cylas to terminate Raf when the boy's hacking threatened to railroad their plans.

When Cylas failed to do so and the satellite was stopped, Megatron called him back, and handed the former MECH commander over to Knock Out for dissection. When Soundwave decoded another set of Iacon relic coordinates, Megatron initiated a decoy relic beacon to give them the advantage over the Autobots, and went to fetch the latest relic with a team.

Though hoping it would be a Decepticon weapon, Megatron was stunned when it turned out to be the Star Saber. In spite of his great might, he was unable to extract the sword and had the Decepticons chip away a chunk of the mountain to be hauled away by the Nemesis in an effort to ensure it did not fall in Optimus's hands. Unfortunately, the arrival of a new Autobot delayed them long enough that the other Autobots discovered the deception.

Optimus quickly managed to get hold of the sword despite Megatron's best efforts, cleaving an entire mountain in two. Terror-strucken of the incredible power his enemy just accquired, the Autobot leader unleashed the sword's power, Megatron was forced to retreat in his ship, noting it was now the Decepticons' darkest hour. Coming up with a new plan to combat the Star Saber, Megatron took Dreadwing through the space bridge to Cybertron, and broke into the tomb of a Prime.

Once Soundwave decrypted a new set of coordinates, he got the opportunity to test it on Arcee and Smokescreen when the pair found the first Omega Key, whom he swept aside with ease.

With new-found confidence, Megatron challenged Prime to a duel, to which he won. Still though, Megatron was unable to stop the Autobots from getting away with the Omega Key. He did take a custom to his new weapon, arm, and vowed that even if Optimus has the Iacon relics, it wouldn't be enough to take on Megatron with his new sword.

Gloating of his destruction of the Star Saber, he allowed Knock Out the opportunity to retrieve the next relic. Upon his return with another Omega Key, Megatron was intrigued by the relic, believing it to be part of a larger piece, and put the doctor to work analyzing it. He was less impressed with Dreadwing who returned empty handed from his mission which would be the second time , and asserted that they needed to locate the Autobot base to recover their relics.

Then Soundwave decrypted the final part of the Iacon databse, revealing Smokescreen to be relevant to their search. After they extracted the Omega Key from Smokescreen, Megatron had Knock Out perform a cortical psychic patch procedure on the Autobot to learn their purpose. After discovering that all four could be used to revitalize Cybertron, he left Knock Out to find out where the Autobot base was, Megatron went to place the Omega Key in storage. However Smokescreen escaped and snatched it out of his grasp and made off with the other key as well.

Though Megatron and his men gave pursuit as the Autobot jumped off their ship, Smokescreen got away. The Decepticon leader told Dreadwing they would need to locate the Autobot base quickly to retrieve the other keys, only to find Starscream on the bridge, with all four of the Omega Keys as a peace offering. Intending to find what Starscream really planned, Megatron had himself plugged into the rogue Decepticon with a psychic patch.

Despite most of Starscream's memories turning out to be incriminating, he was eventually convinced to allow Starscream to rejoin the Decepticon ranks. Megatron attempted to stress to Dreadwing that the Decepticons needed to be united.

Unfortunately Dreadwing was more interested in slagging Starscream, and Megatron had to blow a hole through him, thus killing Dreadwing. Megatron vowed at Starscream to not make him regret which one of them he spared.

He and his men were attacked by the Autobots, who got away with the Keys while Megatron was otherwise occupied with fighting Optimus with his fixed Star Saber. Knocked back while blocking an energy wave from the Star Saber, Megatron was shocked that Smokescreen brought the spark extractor which destroyed Megatron's men and left the warlord by himself as he destroyed the device with his sword.

With some help from Starscream, Megatron got hold of the Autobots' human friends to use as a bargaining chip to secure the return of the Keys. Once he had the Keys back, Megatron had the lock activated and revealed that he intended to use it on both Cybertron and Earth so he'd have two worlds to rule, starting with Earth. Though the Autobots escaped, Megatron would have the last laugh, as he knew the location of their base and used the Omega Lock to create a fortress there before Optimus destroyed it.

If he could not conquer Cybertron, he could at least conquer Earth. From the Nemesis, he and his men attacked and destroyed the Autobot base as their first act of aggression. As the Decepticons were unable to find any corpses in the rubble, Megatron ordered worldwide surveillance. He got the opportunity to test his new citadel's fusion cannons on some foolishly attacking humans, and contacted Agent Fowler, claiming to want to co-exist peacefully with humanity.

With the continuing failure of Starscream to get any information out of the captive Wheeljack, Megatron sent Knock Out to Cybertron to search for the relics lost during the Omega Lock battle. He was pleased when Knock Out returned with the long lost Shockwave. Megatron appointed Shockwave his first lieutenant in charge of science.

With failures mounting, including an aborted attempt by Starscream to track down the Autobots by freeing Wheeljack with a tracking device attached, Megatron's anger grew, leading Shockwave to bring to Earth a Predacon he had cloned. After viewing the Predacon, Megatron told Shockwave that it did his spark good to see him tampering with creation. Though he received advisement from Starscream to not approach the Predacon, Megatron ignored him and referred to the Predacon as primal magnificence.

Shockwave had the Predacon examine spilled energon of Wheeljack, with Megatron then sending the beast off to find him by uttering "let the hunt begin. Later on, Megatron ended up berating Starscream and asking why his forces were scattered for no logical reason. Soundwave then presented a hologram representation of the Harbinger to Megatron who then proceeded to scream at Starscream over leaving Decepticon technology fully operational and unsecured. He later went on to stop and defeat Ultra Magnus from destroying Darkmount's cannon energy supply before forcibly bringing him to the top of Darkmount to announce his intentions; to execute all their prisoners, and to fire Darkmount's fusion cannons at the nearest human metropolis.

He was then stopped by the untimely return of his enemy, Optimus Prime who had returned with a new form and proceeded to pummel Megatron, going as far as to send Megatron flying into the throne on the fortress. A short time later, he tried to stop Prime from destroying Darkmount, however, Prime gained the upper hand and threw Megatron into Darkmount's power core.

Utterly defeated and horribly weakened, Megatron was then led from the crumbling base to the Nemesis. After the return of Optimus Prime and the destruction of Darkmount, [6] Megatron's forces would continue to dominate in their search for Predacon bones in order to raise an army of beast warriors. With the revelation of Predaking 's ability to transform and his newfound intelligence, [10] Megatron realized that the Predacons were a potential threat and decided to terminate Project Predacon.

Following Starscream's advice, he allowed the Autobots to discover Shockwave's laboratory and destroy all the Predacon clones. Predaking would later swear revenge on the Autobots, not knowing of Megatron's treachery. The destruction of the clones would also reveal a means to restore Cybertron and cyberform Earth as Synthetic Energon was shown to react with cybernucleic acid to form cybermatter. Megatron would then commit his forces to rebuilding the Omega Lock and complete the formula for Synthetic Energon.

To achieve that goal, he had the Autobot Medic Ratchet captured and convinced him to further complete his work on the subject. However, he didn't count on Ratchet convincing the Predacon that the Decepticon leader was really responsible for the destruction of the clones. During their conflict, Predaking easily tackled Megatron, sending him flying across a hallway after a brutal beating.

While Megatron managed to outmaneuveur the Predacon at the start, the King quickly utilized his extreme strength to overpower him. Though it did take Predaking conciderable effort to push Megatron a bit back while wrestling him in a strength struggle.

Starscream however, distracted Predaking long enough by blasting his back with a missile for Megatron to deliver a brutal punch and flip-throw the Predacon behind him.

Congratulating the beast for his fighting spirit, Megatron then declared that his undefeated status as Champion of Kaon was a combination of his might and cunning. He calmly opened the airlock behind Predaking, which had the drag of the wind the Predacon struggling to stay within the ship.

Megatron lamented that he should have faced him in his Beast form before blasting the Predacon out the airlock. At that point, the Autobots attacked the Nemesis, leading up to the final battle with the Decepticons. Megatron then engaged in battle with Optimus Prime, having the advantage of the Dark Star Saber, which allowed him to destroy Optimus' jet-pack and ground him to the Nemesis.

However Optimus' new body allowed the Autobot leader to handle Megatron in hand-to-hand combat. Due to the actions of the humans taking over the bridge, his own saber being knocked from his grasp, the Wreckers destroying his remaining troops, Smokescreen bringing the Star Saber into the fray, and Optimus contingiously forcing him further back, Megatron found himself being pushed into a corner.

He then pushed Optimus away and fired his fusion cannon at Bumblebee as the scout tried to bring the Star Saber to Optimus Prime, which resulted in 'Bee dying and falling into the Omega Lock before disintegrating. Devestated, this caused the Autobot leader to go into a rage while nearly pummeling Megatron to death, Megatron however, was able to turn the tables again with the Dark Star Saber and send Prime over the edge of the Lock with only a grasp on the side.

Regaining his footing, Megatron slowly walked to the edge of the Omega Lock , where he saw a wounded Optimus hanging on. He was about to deliver the finishing blow, but was distracted when he heard a new voice from behind, the voice belonged to the resurrected Bumblebee; who had been restored by the cybermatter in the Omega Lock. In that instant, Bumblebee pierced Megatron's chest with the Star Saber, extinguishing his Spark and slowly killing him as the others looked on in dismay, shock with even Optimus expressing sadness.

For the first time, Megatron found himself unable to even swin the Dark Star Saber even with all his might , which slipped through his fingers. Falling to one knee, the Dexepticon warmongerer was desperatley clinging to his life, until his Spark ceased. Megatron's lifeless body then fell to Earth, burning through the atmosphere along the way.

With their leader finally dead, the remaining Decepticons retreated with Starscream and Shockwave forced to share the last remaining escape pod from their ship. Megatron's body ended up underwater in Earth's ocean. The Dark Energon within him made it unable for him to join the AllSpark. Megatron was awoken by Unicron, who himself was awoken by the echo of Primus reawakening. Unicron transferred his entire mind into Megatron's body and upgraded it into a striking resemblance to Galvatron and took off for Cybertron.

Among the upgrades was a Super-Luminal Space Drive, which allowed Megatron to reach Cybertron in mere hours without the need for a Space Bridge or ship despite the great distance between the two planets. Unicron forcefully told Megatron he would not be a ruler as Unicron would just use his body to destroy Cybertron, much to Megatron's dismay and shock. Unicron then traveled to Darkmount in an attempt to assassinate Bumblebee , Arcee , Smokescreen and Bulkhead.

The four first believed it to be Megatron only to be corrected that it was in fact Unicron in possession of Megatron's body. Despite being in possession of great power, Unicron failed to extinguish any of the Autobots, beacuse of his sluggish movements and lack of profeciency in combat.

Though Megatron berated that their new form forced an entire squadron of Autobots to flee, the Chaos Bringer called victory over lesser beings insignificant and far from a victory since they did not perish. Unicron deemed it fit to find a greater instrument of destruction. Following the blast of fire emitted by Predaking, Unicron asked his lakey what the creature before was. Megatron tricked Unicron into believing that the Predacon warrior was still loyal which led to the still alive Predaking attacking them both, in the hopes the beast would inflict enough damage on him to drive Unicron from his body.

But this backfires as Unicron used his powers to easliy crush and defeat the beast. Megatron's life signal proved to be Unicron's weakness as the Nemesis could track it.

Not long into the Golden Age of Cybertron, Megatron made a small strike on an outer city, killing the then-current Autobot leader. However, this event was not made public knowledge, and young robots like the naive Orion Pax still looked up to Megatron and his followers because of their new robot-mode flight powers and their nominal battle against the corrupted system.

Orion soon learned the error of his ways when Megatron duped him into allowing him access to Energon warehouses, and Megatron fatally wounded him in a scuffle. As you can see, according to this first origin story, Megatron was — as a Decepticon — automatically evil and was a power hungry usurper who wanted to rule over Cybertron, and that was the main force behind the civil war that destroyed the planet.

This origin story portrays Megatron as a miner who fights alongside Sentinel Prime to defeat the Quintesson occupation of Cybertron. Yet, after defeating the Quintessons, a corrupt caste system was imposed on Cybertron and Megatron once again ended up among the lowest parts of the society.

Fed up with being a miner, he became a gladiator and was immensely successful. Desiring to establish a new identity for himself and reshape Cybertron, he took the name of Megatronus — in honour of the first Decepticon and one of the original Thirteen primes — which was eventually shortened to Megatron by his followers. He eventually began using his fame as a gladiator to take a political stance, crying for the lower members of Cybertronian society to rise up and claim what was rightfully theirs.

In the process of this, he attracted the attention of a data clerk named Orion Pax, who contacted Megatron and began consulting with him regarding their agenda. There Megatron argued for the destruction of the old system, while Orion called for reform; it was after their appeals that the Council renamed Orion, dubbing him Optimus Prime and charging him with seeking out the Matrix of Leadership.

Enraged by this ruling, Megatron and his Decepticons declared war against Optimus and his Autobot adherents. He was an influential revolutionary and an idol for a lot of underprivileged Transformers. And while he did initially fight for a better and more just society, his plans to completely destroy the then-current social order and build a new one were just wishes of a power hungry tyrant who lost his ideals along the way.

Ironically, Megatron succumbed to the same power-lust as the oppressors against which he had fought and we can say that it was the greed for power that ultimately corrupted him and turned him into a villain. He serves as the nemesis of the Autobot leader Optimus Prime. Megatron is usually depicted as having risen up from being a lowly worker to become a champion in gladiatorial fights.

During his early days, he mentored the young Orion Pax, and together they championed the downtrodden and preached that freedom of self-determination was the right of all sentient beings. Megatron could transform into three types of guns: a Walther P38 handgun, a particle-beam weapon, and a telescopic laser cannon. A Prime is actually the highest possible rank one can get on Cybertron and it is usually given to the leader of the Autobots, who also wields the Matrix of Leadership.

The Prime is a very important rank in the Transformers franchise. Today, the rank of Prime is associated with the Matrix of Leadership — a special item given to the leader of the Autobots — and the one carrying the Matrix is given the rank of Prime. Despite the initial developments, it was decided that only one Prime could rule over Cybertron at a time. Megatron and Starscream wanted to obtain the Matrix at one point, but were unable to; it is debatable whether they could even use the Matrix, seeing that they lack the heroic abilities usually associated with it, something with the wise and noble Optimus Prime had.

The Prime is usually one of the most powerful Transformers out there and certainly the strongest among the Autobots. Although we judge the rank based on Optimus Prime, the former Primes have also been prone to evil sentiments, especially greed and power-lust, which is why they have constantly fallen as time passed; Megatronus, one of the original Thirteen Primes, even became the founder of the Decepticons.

Not all Primes were ideal or good, but rank is usually associated with wisdom, nobility and great leadership, as is embodied in the character of Optimus Prime. Now that we know what Prime is, we can easily see that Megatron is not a Prime and why he is not one.