Megatron (IDW Comics)

Megatron was an antagonist turned protagonist from the IDW Publishing comic book series The Transformers More than Meet The Eyes and it's sequel The Lost Light. This comic also features a newly antiheroic Megatron, looking for a new purpose in life and atonement.
==History==
===Past===
See: Megatron (IDW Comics)
==== Autocracy, Monstrosity, Stormbringer ====
In Autocracy, Orion Pax would agree to work with Megatron, fighting against Zeta Prime, and Megatron would shoot Zeta which would kill them. In Monstrosity, Megatron would be eaten by Trypticon with Grimlock and they would both shut Trypticon down. In Stormbringer, Megatron and Orion, now Optimus would assist each other in stopping Thunderwing.
===Dark Cybertron===
Soon after Megatron's imprisonment, he was rescued by the reanimated Metalhawk, controlled by Shockwave, and was brought to his lab as part of his plan to bring Galvatron and Nova Prime through Megatron's space bridge, after being unable to use an undead Titan. Shockwave hoped that Megatron would comply with his plans willingly, but the Decepticon leader refused and Shockwave forcibly activated the space bridge technology in Megatron's body.
The opening of the bridge in his chest caused Megatron agony, but Soundwave heard him, and led the united forces of the exiled Autobots and Decepticons to Shockwave's lab to free his leader. Nova Prime and Galvatron attempted to squeeze their way through the space bridge, but Ironhide was able to punch Nova back into the Dead Universe. Just then, Shockwave's "Necrotitan" crashed into the subterranean city, and in the chaos, Megatron was freed from the restraints holding him. No sooner had Megatron carried Ironhide to the safe hands of the other Autobots, however, than he was ripped in half from behind by Galvatron, who had successfully emerged through the portal.
After the battle was over, Galvatron and Waspinator dragged Megatron's bisected remains back into Crystal City, only to find their way barred by Bumblebee, who demanded they hand Megatron over. Galvatron attacked the Autobot, at which point Megatron took his opportunity to defeat Waspinator and Galvatron. Bumblebee dragged Megatron back to Iacon, currently being razed by the Necrotitan, where he announced to the assembled Autobots, Decepticons and NAILs his plan to withdraw to Luna 2, summon the Decepticon Justice Division and other scattered troops, and strike back. Bumblebee rejected retreating, and struck a nerve by telling Megatron he had long ago abandoned fighting for freedom and equality, and merely used it as an excuse for his actions. They received aid from Metroplex and the Lost Light. During the battle between the Titans, Megatron observed Metroplex reaching for the Lost Light; when the ship's crew explained that they had Metroplex's severed thumb aboard, Megatron had Bumblebee carry him to it, whereupon he realised that the thumb contained one of Shockwave's Regenesis ores. Megatron used his internal space bridge to teleport the thumb back to Metroplex, and the ore provided the giant with the power boost to defeat the Necrotitan.
At Bumblebee's order, Ratchet repaired Megatron's injuries and reattached his legs, reminding Megatron of his old desire to be a medic. His recent string of failures, Starscream actually succeeding, and Bumblebee's stinging words had turned him introspective, and he realised he had forgotten how he once believed winning meant turning people to your way of thinking, not dominating them. Subsequently, when Shockwave initiated his millennia-long plan to collapse all reality into a universal black hole, Megatron placed himself and the Decepticons under Bumblebee's command to co-ordinate a counter-strike, and they journeyed to Shockwave's Crystal City base to confront their mutual enemy. There, they found the weakened Galvatron, who Megatron prepared to kill in revenge, until Bumblebee talked him down. At that moment, Shockwave killed Bumblebee, driving Megatron into a rage.
Battling the empowered Shockwave, Megatron struggled to face him until Optimus Prime arrived to join the fight. Prime attempted to reason with Shockwave, but his words had little effect. Megatron opted to remove Bumblebee's insignia, he placed it upon his chest, declaring himself an Autobot. The stunned Shockwave lost control of the time machine powering his plot, causing his old personality to return. Horrified at what he had become, he allowed Megatron and Prime to kill him, which caused the time machine to collapse into a singularity. Megatron and Prime ended up being saved by the Lost Light.
Privately, Megatron confirmed to Optimus that his change of heart was genuine, and Optimus assured him that he could see past his wartime deeds and remember his original good intentions.
===More Than Meets the Eye===
====Crimes against the Species====
====Aboard the Lost Light====
The founder and former leader of the Decepticons who's suffered a realisation and became "co-captain" after convincing those at his trial that only the Knights Of Cybertron could fairly judge him. Though rigid and strict, he hopes to redeem himself through the crew's quest and to rekindle his writer persona.
Shortly after Megatron's Arrival, the crew of the Lost Light would attempt to track and follow Thunderclash as they believed that Thunderclash may have been able to locate the Knights Of Cybertron. One month later, Megatron would accept therapy with Rung, where Megatron would mention that they had met before, at Maccadam's. After this, Megatron would inspect writing on the door to his room aboard the ship and come into contact with Whirl, who would begin fighting Megatron and eventually attempt to punch Megatron's stomach before realising that his hand had entered the space bridge inside Megatron's body. Following this, Whirl gave up and was told by Megatron that he would forget that this had occurred if they cleaned the writing off of his door.
Later on, Trailcutter would accidentally cause a coffin the crew discovered to open while drunk and Megatron would moderate their fuel intake using a chip and make them Security Director on the ship. They would then check the coffin's contents, and find the corpse of Rodimus. They would find out that the body appeared to be from the future but would be stopped from investigating further as the ship began vanishing around them. Getting into the rodpod, other crewmembers also began to disappear and Tailgate would suggest the possibility that Megatron was doing it. Ravage would suddenly reveal themselves to have been staying on-board the ship, having been sent by Soundwave to check on Megatron.
Those left on the ship would find a duplicate Lost Light, which had been destroyed, with duplicate bodies appearing in the ship. Megatron would then lock themselves in a room with Ravage after Skids suggested the events unfolding around them were being done by Megatron. Megatron would mention during this conversation with Skids that they no longer had their fusion cannon, it had been burned. After a discussion with Ravage over Megatron's choices, they would come across more bodies of other members of the Lost Light crew, Megatron would state that the ship had been attacked by the Decepticon Justice Division, he would state that there are no survivors before finding and picking up a duplicate Rewind. Nautica would mention that they had worked out why their Lost Light had disappeared and where the ship they were in had come from. They would say that quantum engines let you jump from point a to point b, bypassing the distance in-between and that point a is always fixed when the jump is made but that there are potentially billions of point b's and by selecting one, the others are eliminated. They thought this meant when the Lost Light originally took off and exploded it caused the engines to malfunction, narrowing the point b's into two and meaning that the ship chose both.
Discovering that the ship's leaking quantum foam may rip a nearby planet to shreds, Skids would convince Megatron to use their mass-displacement abilities to enter and turn off the duplicate's engine, stopping the planet's possible destruction and returning their Lost Light. They would find out that Trailcutter's brain module had been crushed by Kaon, and that Brainstorm had travelled back in time using their briefcase. Megatron would say that 'he's going to kill Orion Pax.'
====Do Not Go Gentle====
===Lost Light===
====A New World====
====The Great Return====
== Notes ==
* Even before his change of heart, IDW's Megatron was painted in a far more sympathetic light than the Megatron of G1. The original Megatron was a criminal from day 1 who assassinated the benevolent Sentinel Prime in a despicable murder and ended the Golden Age of Cybertron, plunging the planet into a dark age out of his powerlust. IDW's Megatron was a honest miner who was dissatisfied with Cybertron's Dark age and snapped after being wrongfully imprisoned, eventually killing the one who helped usher the dark age, the ruthless Sentinel Prime in honorable combat.
* A Furai Flame Toys Model Kit of this version of Megatron was created in July 2019, and Leader class Combiner Wars Megatron from 2015 featured an Autobot logo sticker.
* James Roberts, writer of IDW Publishing's More Than Meets The Eye stated on twitter that Scott Walker's The Old Man's Back Again is Megatron's season two theme song.
==Gallery==
Megatron-mtmte-season2-nick-roche.jpg|Megatron and Ravage on a promo for More Than Meets the Eye "season 2".
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MTMTE44-MegatronFlowers.jpg|Megatron, at his marker on "Necroworld", where each flower represents a memorial to someone he had killed in the past.
Model kit.jpg|Flame Toys Megatron Autobot Ver. Model Kit
== External Links ==
* Megatron on the Villains Wiki
* Megatron on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
* Megatron on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
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