120 Facts About Megatron

Megatron is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Transformers media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy.

Megatron is the cruel and tyrannical leader of the Decepticons, a faction of sentient, war-mongering robotic lifeforms that seeks to conquer their home planet of Cybertron and the rest of the known universe.

When Megatron grew corrupted by his power, Orion would utilize his teachings against him as Optimus Prime.

Megatron has become one of the franchise's most iconic characters and a widely recognized villain in popular culture.

Megatron is the founder of the Decepticon uprising and their most feared leader.

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Megatron is able to transform into a Walther P38, delivering more focused energy blasts than he could in his robotic form.

Megatron is a Decepticon, one of the lineal descendants of the military hardware robots created by the Quintessons on their factory world of Cybertron.

Megatron appeared in the short-lived online Universe cartoon, where he plots to steal gasoline in order to produce Energon.

Megatron made a cameo in the pilot of the Transformers: Animated series on a historical video being viewed by Optimus Prime.

Megatron was featured in the 1993 Transformers: Generation 2 coloring book "Decepticon Madness" by Bud Simpson.

Galvatron appeared in a series of Japanese Manga comic strips set in continuity with the Headmasters series, where he attempted to destroy the Autobots with such schemes as creating his own army of Megatron clones, attempting to destroy Fortress Maximus and creating a hybrid of the original Megatron and Optimus Prime named Guiltor to destroy Rodimus Prime, although he ended up teaming up with his enemy to destroy it after it went rogue.

Megatron featured prominently in Alignment, Simon Furman's take on what happened after the Generation 2 comic.

Megatron took a fleet of scavenged Warworlds to face the Liege Maximo.

When Megatron attempted to gain access to that knowledge through exploration and research, the Cybertronian elders attempted to have him assassinated—a plan that only resulted in stirring up even more discontent among Cybertronians which allowed Megatron to begin recruiting for the Decepticon movement.

Unlike many of the other Transformers Megatron would keep his basic Walther P38 handgun transformation, which was indeed a WWII German handgun.

Later, Megatron refused to help the Commander as Bruticus tried to crush him, and allowed the Baroness to use him in gun mode to shoot the helpless Cobra Leader.

Joe vs The Transformers comics printed by Devil's Due Publishing, Megatron was again among the Decepticons who crashed on in the Ark on Earth, but this time the Ark was discovered by Cobra, who reformatted the Autobots and Decepticons into weapons and vehicles for themselves called Battle Android Troopers controlled by the Tele-Vipers.

Megatron was locked in gun mode and kept by Cobra Commander.

Megatron survived, and eventually upgraded his body and gathered many other Decepticons to him.

Those who joined Megatron included Laserbeak, Ramjet, Ravage, Skywarp, Soundwave, Starscream and the Constructicons.

Megatron's based his command from the wreck of the Ark in the Yukon, where he keeps the fallen body of Ratchet as a trophy and the severed, but living, head of Shockwave as an advisor.

Megatron slaughtered them, only to be confronted by a team of Autobots led by Optimus Prime.

In Games of Decepticon, Megatron detects the arrival of Bugbite's ship on Earth and sends Starscream, Skywarp and Ramjet to investigate.

Megatron overcomes the shell and destroys Bugbite, as the Autobots under the command of Grimlock raid the Ark, destroying the computer and saving Mirage.

Megatron defeated Deathsaurus in combat for leadership of the Decepticons.

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Megatron'sinstability is what leads the other Decepticons to awaken Starscream to stand up to him in Devastation.

Megatron joins the crew of the Lost Light as its captain, though the bulk of the crew refuses to accept his change of heart and mutinies against him and his new Autobot friends.

Megatron subsequently leads the outcasts into battle against the fanatical Decepticon Justice Division, but later is trapped in the alternate Functionist universe with his old mentor Terminus.

Megatron creates a zombie army from the mostly-Decepticon victims of the Underbase-empowered Starscream, while lobotomizing the still-living Starscream himself.

The Wreckers discover what Megatron's done in the year 2012, prompting Optimus Prime to bring an assault team from Cybertron.

Megatron is defeated when Kup destroys Ratchet, stopping Megatron in his tracks and permitting Optimus to destroy him once and for all.

Megatron is largely "off-screen" for most of the Binaltech saga, reflecting the absence of a Megatron figure in that toyline.

Beast Wars and Beast Machines version of Megatron appears in the aforementioned parts of the Transformers animated series, toy lines, and multiverse.

In Beast Machines, Megatron's personality underwent a change to become a much darker character.

Megatron went into seclusion, using Cryotek's plundered inventions to develop the technology that he used to enslave Cybertron.

Megatron was intended to appear in an upgraded form during the Universe storyline, but the line was canceled before this could come to pass.

However, during the crew's journey back to Cybertron, Megatron would escape and beat the others back to the planet, taking it over as he had in Beast Machines.

Waspscream's forces later saved Silverbolt, and the threat of other resistance groups soon pushed Megatron to recruit Obsidian as a new general; however, without Strika to serve as his counterbalance Obsidian turned against Megatron and overthrew him.

However, in the very last panel of the series, Megatron is seen overlooking a ravaged Cybertron, presumably having just arrived from his long transwarp journey before his Maximal rivals.

Megatron had a biography printed in the Beast Wars Sourcebook by IDW Publishing.

Megatron'sforce is then engaged by Magnaboss, but after learning of Predaking's defeat he is stunned by Ravage, and later disciplined for failing to follow the orders of the Tripredacus Council.

Megatron was featured in the 2006 BotCon tale Timelines: Dawn of Futures Past, which picked up where the Dreamwave story left off.

In Timelines, Megatron seems to already be known to other characters by that name, whereas in Dreamwave's story, he only takes the name after taking possession of the disk.

Megatron appeared in the 2008 BotCon voice-actor play "Bee in the City", voiced by David Kaye.

Once Bumblebee frees his friends, Megatron reveals himself as he uses the key to bring an army to life.

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However, his legacy would continue to plague that universe, as his associate Cryotek would use the Transwarp technology Megatron contributed to their efforts to launch a campaign across time and space.

Megatron's story continued in the pages of the biography printed by Fun Publications for the 25th-anniversary Optimus Primal toy.

Megatron appears among the characters in Re-Unification, the 2010 TFCon voice actor play prelude comic.

Short-lived Transformers: Robot Masters line released exclusively in Japan saw Megatron transported through the mysterious "Blastizone" to Earth in the early 21st century, where he sided with the Decepticons, currently led by Starscream after the disappearance of Megatron.

Oddly, the Robot Masters series depicted Megatron standing as tall as original Decepticon characters, when Maximals and Predacons were much smaller.

Predacon warlord before coming to Earth, Megatron is believed to have decimated numerous planets in his quest for energy.

Similarly, in another universe the tyrannical Megazarak would use the remains of the fallen Megatron to create an undead Megabolt to serve as his own controller for Fortress Maximus.

Megatron will stop at nothing in order to achieve his ultimate object, that is to say, to rule over the entire Universe, in the end.

In Micron Legend Megatron did not rename himself Galvatron when he received his power boost.

Megatron appears among the characters in Re-Unification, the 2010 TFcon voice actor play prelude comic.

Megatron returned the Mini-Cons and joined the battle against Unicron, but secretly planned to let the Autobots die and then strike a bargain with Unicron.

Megatron was shocked to learn the power of Optimus Prime when he Powerlink with Wing Saber and turned back all the Decepticons, and then Megatron himself.

Later, during the events of the Unicron Singularity, Megatron would be reformatted into Beast Megatron rather than Galvatron, and eventually face the similarly reformatted Beast Optimus in battle before being destroyed by Vector Prime's sword Rhisling.

Additionally, Bay states in the DVD that Megatron's face was originally different from the one shown in the film, but he asked it to be redesigned due to fans reacting with strong opposition to it once Megatron's design was unveiled before the film was completed.

Megatron appears in Transformers, the first film of the series.

Megatron pursues the Autobots and their allies to Los Angeles, where he quickly disposes of Jazz before battling Optimus Prime.

Sam declines, prompting Megatron to knock the boy off the roof of the building with his flail.

Megatron's body is later dumped into the Laurentian Abyss, along with the other dead Decepticons.

Megatron is revived by Scalpel and the Constructicons with an AllSpark shard and now takes on the form of a Cybertronian winged tank.

Megatron then declares to Starscream that the Decepticons must reveal themselves to the humans in order to flush out Sam, and assists the Fallen in ordering the world's humans to find Sam and bring him to the Decepticons.

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Megatron then greets him but is blown away by an upgraded Optimus Prime .

Towards the end of the battle, Megatron is convinced by Carly Spencer that Sentinel will take all of the power and credit for revitalizing Cybertron for himself.

Angered, Megatron turns on Sentinel and severely damages him, declaring that the Earth is his planet to rule.

When Cybertron's trip through the Space Bridge fails, Megatron slyly proposes a truce to Optimus, so long as he remains in charge of the Decepticon forces.

In Transformers: Age of Extinction, it is revealed Megatron's mind is actually still alive and in stasis inside his severed head.

Megatron returns in Transformers: The Last Knight, reborn, having discarded his identity as Galvatron and having gained new body that resembles a Dark Knight, and taken a new vehicle mode in the form of a Cybertronian jet, though how remains unspecified in the film .

Megatron then goes after Cade, and attacks his hideout, but Cade and his companions lure Megatron into a trap, killing all the Decepticons except him, Barricade and Nitro Zeus.

Megatron is eventually defeated by Optimus during the melee over the staff when he has his arm sliced off and is kicked out of Quintessa's chamber into thin air.

Megatron finally reveals himself in Cyber Missions 4, when Optimus and Sideswipe track his spark's signal, which leads them to an abandoned warehouse.

Megatron starts dueling Optimus, then Sideswipe joins in with him.

Megatron gets away, but he leaves a trail of tank tread marks that lead out of the warehouse.

Ripping open one of the cars, Megatron berated Soundwave for being captured so easily, until it was revealed it was simply a hologram of his communications officer.

Megatron declared it a trap, to which Optimus replied that it was a moment later.

All of the Decepticons, including Megatron, leave Earth, but not before the commander declares that he will return.

Megatron appears in the prequel novel Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday, where it is revealed that reverse-engineering of his body has produced a spacecraft called Ghost-1.

The spacecraft is sent into space in 1969, where the humans on board encounter Megatron, who is briefly reanimated in the middle of a battle between the Americans and the Soviets.

Novelization for Transformers: Dark of the Moon ends with Megatron laying down his weapons and calling for a truce in earnest.

Out of anger, Megatron betrays the Fallen and allows Optimus to kill him for good.

Megatron is gravely injured, but the artifact awakens and heals him, swaying him with promises of power.

Autobots attempt to hide the Allspark, but Megatron sees through the ruse and launches a full-scale attack, during which the Allspark is launched into space.

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Yet another version of Megatron was featured in BotCon's 2015 "Cybertron's Most Wanted" storyline.

Megatron'soriginal alternate mode is an unknown Cybertronian space vehicle but becomes a tiltrotor aircraft once he is rebuilt to blend in with Earth.

Megatron is the most cool-headed among his other adaptations, despite being just as arrogant as his predecessors.

Megatron is captured by the Autobot Targetmasters in "Do Over", but was freed thanks to help by the Predacons and Whisper.

In Reunification, Megatron greets a Quintesson and the dimensional travelers Breakaway, Topspin Skyfall and Landquake after their escape from the Autobot combiner Computron.

Megatron introduces the travelers to Heatwave but then is shot by the traitor Cyclonus, who is working for Alpha Trion.

Megatron appears in a flashback in "The Coming Storm", depicting his rebirth as Galvatron by Nexus Prime.

Megatron appears to be based on the deluxe-sized Beast Wars 10th-anniversary Megatron toy with Optimus Primal's color scheme.

Megatron is the leader of the main group of Decepticons in the 2010 computer-animated robot superhero TV series Transformers: Prime.

Megatron'sname was shortened to simply Megatron by the chanting crowds at one match, and he took it as his own unique name.

The Generations Megatron toy was picked at the 6th-best toy of 2010 by Topless Robot.

Megatron was a regular character in the Transformers: Prime animated series, the main antagonist along with Unicron, and one of the main characters in War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron.

Megatron began talking with his old friend, Orion Pax, who became a mentor to him.

When "Megatron" was rejected by the Autobot High Council, he waged war on Cybertron and left the planet wasted.

Megatron then found himself teaming up with Team Prime, at that time, to counter the threat of Unicron.

Shortly after the destruction of the base Megatron sent massive search parties to find the surviving Autobots and was even given a Predacon to look for them.

However, when his lone beast evolved and transformed, Megatron became fearful of what he was capable of and scrapped it.

Series' finale movie, Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising, though "killed", Megatron was awakened by Unicron, who took possession of his body and reformatted him with new improvements upon his chassis.

Megatron then regained control of his body, but then abandoned any plans of conquest, having realized the true meaning of oppression by Unicron's treatment of him.

Megatron appears in the short story Bumblebee at Tyger Pax By Alex Irvine.

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Megatron appeared as a final boss in Transformers Battle Circuit, a simple Flash-based video game on the Hasbro web site.

Megatron appeared as a playable character in the fighting games Transformers Battle Universe, a Net Jet game in which four incarnations of the character are playable, and DreamMix TV World Fighters, a crossover between various franchises including Transformers.

The Generation 1 version of Megatron is offered as a downloadable character for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game.

Armada Megatron is among the characters appearing in the 2004 Transformers video game for the PlayStation 2 as a boss.

Beast Era Megatron appears in the 1999 Game Boy Color video game Ketto Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyo Ketteisen.

Movie Megatron appears in the first film's video game adaptation, Transformers: The Game.

Megatron stops him in his path and kills him with his flail.

Movie Megatron is among the playable characters in the 2009 Revenge of the Fallen video game by Activision.

Megatron appears as a playable character in the fighting games Transformers Battle Universe, a Net Jet game.

Megatron is among the characters who appear in the TRANSFORMERS CVBERVERSE Battle Builder Game.

Movie Megatron is one of the Decepticons featured in Transformers: The Ride at Universal Studios theme parks.

Younger version of Prime Megatron appears in the 2010 video game Transformers: War for Cybertron voiced by Fred Tatasciore.

Megatron blames Optimus Prime for the death of the planet, but is killed by Metroplex.

Megatron appears in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, set in between War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, in which he attempts to harness the power of the Dark Spark.

The original 1984 Megatron toy was released in Japan as part of Takara's Microman line under the name "MC-12 Gun Robo".