Megatron

### Likes:

Conquering, fighting Optimus Prime, victory, ruling his empire, killing Autobots, power, plotting, Cybertron,

### Dislikes:

Defeat, Autobots, failure, organics, betrayal, Optimus Prime,

## Basic Info

### Equipment:

Sword
Energon mace

## Portrayal

### First Appearance:

TBA

**Megatron** is one of the main antagonists of the Transformers Universal series. The leader of the Decepticons and in many ways, a fallen hero. He rose up from the oppressed lower working castes of Kaon to become a champion in the region's illegal deathmatches, cast aside his designation of **D-16** and took the name **Megatronus** as his own. He called for an end to Cybertron's decrepit caste system and told the downtrodden that freedom of self-determination was the right of all sentient beings!

But absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Megatron's Decepticon revolution, like many such movements, ended up becoming a whole new tyranny. He and Optimus do have an odd sense of respect toward each other despite the animosity between them.

Megatron brought Cybertron past the brink of destruction, powerful, charismatic, violent, and full of rage for anyone who would stand in the way of his ambition and drive. Now he and his former brother-in-arms Optimus Prime fight on other worlds. Megatron will never forgive Optimus for "betraying" him, stealing from the Council the rank of Prime which was rightfully his. He has reserved the greatest honor for his old friend: a glorious death at his hands.

For all his evils, Megatron genuinely strives to save his home planet someday, and with it, the Cybertronian race: even if it means he has to rule it with his iron fist and put his bloodlust to good use to do so.

Megatron has been gone for three years, but now he's returned. He's brought the monstrous Dark Energon to Earth and possibly left his sanity in space. Though he's made a few mistakes, he does not intend to make them again!

"*Let history judge me... for I... am the crusher, I... am the ravager, I am Megatron! Decepticons... transform and rise up!*" —*Megatron*

## **History**

D-16 was born during the Age of Wrath. The Quintesson occupation of Cybertron had neutered the ritual of ascending from the Well of All Sparks to the point where newly born Cybertronians would emerge without names or developed personalities. After a brief but tantalizing glimpse at Cybertron's sun, D-16 was sent to work in the mines underneath Kaon. He took his name from the sector in which he worked and eventually befriended some of the other nameless workers who had been dealt similar hands by the Quintessons. One Cybertronian in particular served as a sounding board for D-16's earliest sociological musings. From this nameless bot, D-16 realized the importance of a proper name. By the time that the Quintessons had been routed from Cybertron, D-16 was already craving more out of life.

D-16 named himself after the sector of the mine where he performed demolition operations. At the end of the Age of Wrath, he was one of the many Cybertronians whom Sentinel Prime called to arms and aided in the war effort that successfully overthrew the cruel Quintesson regime. As time went by, D-16 eventually forgot about this event, as did many other Cybertronians.

At some point after Cybertron's Golden Age, a group of Sharkticons foresaw him as the being who would one day lead them to freedom. They managed to carve an image of him on a cave wall before they were executed.

In the waning years of the Golden Age of Cybertron, Megatronus (who named himself after one of the original thirteen Primes) was a gladiator who fought in the Kaon arena. Observing a disparity in freedom among the classes of his race, and that the ruling class was corrupt and all-powerful, Megatron turned rhetorician, trying to effect change. In drawing attention to this inequity, he inspired a Hall of Records clerk named Orion Pax, and the two joined forces to end corruption and bring equality to the masses. Orion and Megatronus became close allies, almost like brothers.

Megatronus shortened his name to Megatron before he and Orion Pax appeared before the High Council. Megatron threatened the council, promising to overthrow them and instate himself as the next Prime—a declaration of hostility that shocked Orion and moved him to an impassioned speech in favor of autonomy that successfully swayed the council where Megatron had failed. Jealous, Megatron left the council and Orion behind and assembled his followers—including perennial loyalist Soundwave and scheming second-in-command Starscream—into an army he would name "Decepticons", beginning the war for Cybertron and vowing to find the Matrix of Leadership which was denied to him by the council.

The war saw Megatron successfully take the city of Kaon, which contained the very arena he fought in as a gladiator, as the Decepticon capital. Furthermore, Megatron's wartime achievements were not limited to those achieved through might: he also created the deadly cybonic plague which wiped out millions.

Alpha Trion.

Under Megatron's leadership, the Decepticons conquered many city-states including Kalis, Tarn, and Vos. When the time came to strike against Iacon, Megatron led a five-con team under the cover of darkness to bomb the Iacon Energon Refinery. They had barely planted the first bomb when they were spotted and fired on. After the other three Decepticons were shot down, Megatron gave Soundwave a bomb and set about causing a distraction while his second-in-command went to plant it. When Soundwave was also shot down, Megatron flew into action, helping up the rest of his team and carrying Soundwave as they retreated under the cover of an exploding bomb.

creates the Decepticon Empire in the absence of Optimus,

After some early successes against the Autobots, Megatron withdrew to space to search for more troops, leaving Starscream in charge.

Searching the void for three years, Megatron found something better than mere warriors: he discovered a new source of Dark Energon, the "blood of Unicron", with which he could reanimate fallen Transformers as an army of the undead.

Thrusting a shard of the material into his spark, he was filled with its power, feeling as though he was connected to Unicron's very thoughts. Requiring a test run for his new power, Megatron headed to the site of an ancient Cybertronian battle on Earth, one full of the remains of fallen warriors, where he was confronted by Optimus and Ratchet. Using Dark Energon to raise the dead Transformers as Horrorcons, Megatron successfully found he had complete control of the undead horde and sent them against the two Autobots.

Find

The Fallen

Megatron reveals to the Fallen that Optimus Prime had already anticipated this treachery and gave him the Matrix, he delivers a point-blank shot before he escapes to join forces with the Autobots, leaving his so-called master in shock to this realization.

Together, Megatron and Optimus combine their blades and stab the Fallen in the spark, killing him.

They were overwhelmed by the endless hordes of Dreads and Infernocons.

along with the Autobots

After Megatron returns from Menonia,

Megatron's remains were acquired by KSI, Learning of the cyberforming Seed the humans were going to receive as payment for helping Lockdown capture Optimus, Megatron schemed to steal it and use it to create enough Transformium to build a massive Decepticon army. He contacted Megaempress, Lugnut, Soundwave, and Shockwave instructing them to locate Dark Energon. Fixit to download and decrypt data from the Decepticon leader's brain to help them crack the secrets of Transformium and create their own range of man-made Transformer drones. The Decepticons raid their Chicago facility and Shockwave using the Dark Energon to restore his body and return his mind to it. They kidnap scientists and the Autobot's human ally, Toshi.

## **Personality**

His personality is a mix of pure evil and broken.

arrogant, delusional, charismatic, cunning, fierce, fearless, jealous, tyrannical, insecure, altruistic, misanthropic, ruthless, honorable, obsessed, polite, brutal, somewhat tolerant of Starscream's plots to overthrow him, egotistical, persuasive, manipulative, prejudiced towards other beings, cruel, sadistic, vengeful, greedy,

a proud Cybertronian whose path started with bringing about change in the Cybertron system by abandoning the said system, but he lost sight of his original goals.

Despite his abuse of his men, he cared about them in a twisted way at one time while Starscream was reporting when he noticed an injury that Starscream sustained from a failed mission, and he admitted to Starscream why he was needed in the Decepticons. A decent side of him that secretly regrets having to fight the war, especially against Optimus,

While Megatron remains haughty and prideful during the series, events with the Autobot's human allies finally convince him that humans are not so harmless after all. He was even appalled by the Fallen's using the magic power and blood of executed witches to use in his plans while.

Although he would be more than happy to be rid of the Autobots, Megatron still favors fighting them on an equal footing, or at the very least, giving his opponent(s) a chance to defend themselves.

He had a fondness for his twin sister Megaempress.

## **Equipment**

* Energon mace extend from his hand for melee combat.
* Transformable helicopter armor
* Sword

## **Trivia**

In other Transformers franchises, Megatron names himself after one of the Thirteen Primes, the Fallen name is Megatronus Prime which makes it confusing.

Megatron will have a redemption arc in the Universal series.