Megatron (BW)


 * Megatron is a Predacon, a Vehicon, and a Decepticon in the Beast Era portion of the Generation 1 continuity family. He's also briefly known as Savage and Noble. He's a busy villain, yesss.



Megatron began with one goal: restoring glory and power to the Predacon race, with himself at the helm. What distinguishes Megatron from the countless others who share this goal is his chutzpah. He is willing to risk everything—time, space, himself—if need be. And there were times he would have made it happen were it not for Optimus Primal.

Megatron is skillful at orchestrating vast schemes by manipulating others into doing them for him—an idle suggestion here, a conspicuously-planted object of interest there. He knows his enemies inside and out and exactly how to provoke them. He has no friends, only pawns, or occasionally, pawns that are too reliable to risk losing. Because of this attitude, this superiority complex, he despises working with the very troops he needs to carry out his plans. His hubris does not make him very popular, and so he must rely on power and fear to rule them. In fact, he prefers mindless drones.

Megatron is a gambler and can sometimes be a ham. (His manner of saying "Yesss..." is practically vaudevillian.) He has a twisted sense of humor and an over-developed sense of drama which rule everything he conceives, both long and short term. When he destroys you, he wants you to know that it was he who did this, and just how badly you were had. This is his greatest weakness. Like a Bond villain, he'll gladly boast to the hero at length about how smart and clever he was, giving his victim time to formulate a counterattack (he admits the Predacons sometimes gloat too much). He often sabotages himself by neglecting the quick and easy solutions for the bigger, meaner, and more complex.

Prior to the signing of the Pax Cybertronia, Megatron was a field commander in the Predacon army, where he learned much about strategy and tactics. Upon ratification of peace with the Maximal Imperium most Predacons laid down their arms. Megatron refused and went rogue.

"The universe cowered once at the name of Megatron and it shall do so again!"

- Megatron


 * Japanese name: Megalligator (Alligator version)
 * European-market name: Metal T-Rex (Transmetal version), Dragone (Transmetal 2 version)
 * Chinese name (Taiwan): Kung-lung Wang ("King Dinosaur")
 * Chinese name(China): Ba-wang Lung ("Tyrannosaurus")
 * Botcon 2008 script reading: Joe and later Joe Convoy

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On planet Cybertron, Megatron once disagreed with Galvatron over opinions on galactic conquest, and engaged him in battle over it. At the time, Megatron momentarily let his guard down, and was defeated. Galvatron declared "Your era is over, Megatron!"

Later, Megatron noted that while Galvatron was ambitious, he cared for his underlings—and although he was loathe to admit it, he acknowledged that Galvatron probably had all the regal bearing of a new Emperor of Destruction.

Theft of the Golden Disk



 * Voice actor: David Kaye (English)

Megatron was the star pupil of the crimelord 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. This was the first known time that Megatron would co-opt the plan of someone who thought they were the ones being manipulative and backstabbing, but wouldn't be the last.

Dawn of Future's Past


On Cybertron, Megatron wore removable transformable armor, which transformed into a missile-launching armored platform, over his basic bodyframe (which transforms 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 out of the Archives, eliminating one guard and dodging another. They were swiftly 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 Darkside 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.

Bee in the City
Somehow ending up at the multiversal hub of Axiom Nexus, Megatron hid out under the alias "Joe". When he ran into Bumblebee and learned of the Key, he pretended to be a heroic character and helped rescue Bumblebee's friends, only to steal the Key. Using his experience with MacGuffins, he swiftly learned how to power himself and create an army. Unfortunately, his army turned on him after learning of bureaucracy and the amount of forms they'd have to fill in now that they were alive. However, before being carried away by his former minions, Megatron promised that he would be back, and that he would get his extremely overwrought and melodramatic revenge.

Dreamwave Generation 1
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.

Beast Wars cartoon

 * Voice actor: David Kaye (English), Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Antonio Moreno (Portuguese)

After stealing the Maximal relic, the Golden Disk, and a ship, he and his crew were followed through a transwarp portal by the Axalon. After crashing on a planet that was supposed to be Earth, yet seemingly wasn't, both the Maximals and the Predacons took organic beast forms to protect themselves against the massive amount of Energon radiation. Megatron now transformed into 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.

Despite the loss of a formidable crony, Megatron positioned himself on the new world and the "Beast Wars" began. Being on a world filled with Energon allowed Terrorsaur to find a superhorde, and power himself to great levels. With this power, Terrorsaur was able to demolish Megatron in battle and take over the Predacons. However, through the Maximals' actions, the superhorde was destroyed. Terrorsaur was eventually ridden of his newfound power and returned to an angered Megatron, who was rebuilt by Scorponok.



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.

Megatron later formulated a plan to get off Earth. First, he 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. 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.

Later, Megatron caught wind of the return of the Vok and called a ceasefire between the two factions, realizing he had more important things to worry about. He carefully manipulated events so the Maximals would find out about the Vok and that Tarantulas's attempt to escape with a modified stasis pod would succeed. The Vok did indeed return, and planned to destroy the planet the Transformers were on with their massive Planet Buster (cleverly disguised as the Moon). Optimus Primal stopped the Buster by using Tarantulas's stasis pod as a kamikaze weapon. Megatron, having planned (via a virus) to hijack the pod for that purpose anyway, decided to take advantage of this and locked the pod door so that Primal could not escape and was destroyed alongside the Planet Buster.

The quantum surge from the exploding planet buster bathed Megatron in quantum energies, upgrading him into a Transmetal. Megatron quickly rallied his forces and attempted an all-out attack on the leader-less Maximals. Megatron and the Predacons took the upperhand in battle until a Transmetal Optimus Primal (brought back online by Rhinox) saved the day. He was annoyed to find the Disks had been stolen from him by Dinobot and that Blackarachnia had destroyed his back-ups (while lying that Dinobot had done it).

With both factions now aware that the planet they were stranded on was really prehistoric Earth, Megatron was free to put his full plan into motion. He continued his operations without the Disks and successfully retrieved them, simultaneously plotting to alter history and to exploit any new Vok incident. However, both the Maximals and Tarantulas ruined his attempt to hijack the Vok Metal Hunter, and Dinobot both destroyed the Golden Disk and ruined Megatron's attempt at eradicating the human race's prehistoric ancestors to alter the Great War. With the humans scattered, only a fragment of the Disk remaining and the quantum surge meaning the Tripredacus Council knew where to send their agents, Megatron could only gamble.



The gamble paid off; the Tripredacus Council sent former Decepticon Ravage to capture Megatron, while Blackarachnia fled to the location of the crashed Ark, having gained its location and Teletraan I's access codes from the Disk back-ups. From behind his cell, Megatron manipulated Optimus Primal into a trap while using the Disk's one last fragment (containing part of the original Megatron's message) to get Ravage to switch loyalties to him. While his army fought the Maximals, Megatron arrived at the Ark just as Blackarachnia had done all the work for him and forced her to give him access. He finally took "the ultimate risk", the mission from the first Megatron that he'd been previously been unwilling to completely follow, and attempted to alter history by assassinating the unconscious Optimus Prime. By doing so, he intended to ensure the defeat of the Autobots and thus the victory of the Decepticons and Predacons.

The Maximals managed to save Prime's life by having Teletraan I repair his body while Optimus Primal kept his spark within his own structure, transforming his body into a more powerful form. The Maximals defeated Megatron and returned Prime's spark to its proper place.



Megatron did not rest. He went on to reverse-engineer alien technology, gained by means unknown, to create the Transmetal 2 process and create himself a loyal clone of Dinobot. He also worked towards taking control of Optimus and seizing control of the new Maximal base, allowing him to enter the Ark again. Wanting to replicate the effect Optimus Prime's spark had on Primal, he deliberately took the spark of the original Megatron and placed it in his body. He was transformed into a powerful dragon and able to give Optimus Primal a sound beating, until chased away by the recovered Maximal group.



Even this power was useless when Tigerhawk arrived and casually destroyed the Predacon base. Desperate once again, Megatron investigated the now-deceased Tarantulas's base for anything of value—and found the legendary Decepticon battleship, the Nemesis, rebuilt and with Transwarp capabilities. Bringing it out of the ocean depths, Megatron intended to pilot it back to the future and lay waste to the Maximals on Cybertron.

First, however, he planned to annihilate the entire Ark rather than simply Optimus Prime.

Primal infiltrated the Nemesis and kept Megatron busy until Rhinox could fly a shuttlecraft through the bridge and take the Predacon 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.

Tales of the Beast Wars
Antagony, future-born Herald Maximo of Shokaract, arrived on prehistoric Earth 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.

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 nanoprobe "mind drill". That triggered a suicide device that killed her before he could gain any information; Megatron was left with no information, beyond that her master would surely try again.

Almost immediately after his transformation into dragon form, Megatron detected a temporal breach. Having his troops ambush the Maximals (who had also detected), he attempted to reach the time-traveller (Windrazor) and gain access to the future, not caring what would happen if he took the original Megatron's spark with 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.

Megatron's reaction to a horrifically powerful spark-devouring demigod, and time and space being shattered into a chaotic maelstrom was to 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 future. Megatron is hardcore. He failed, but this was a crucial distraction that helped bring about Shokaract's defeat.

Universe
When Optimus Primal's spark is revived from the within the Matrix to protect the multiverse, this action freed Megatron's spark as well. The reborn Megatron returned to the ranks of the Predacons, but this time, Optimus Primal found himself in an uneasy alliance with him against Unicron. Megatron traveled with his old nemesis from universe to universe, wherever the growing multiversal conflict had spread. But now with Unicron disappeared into the Unicron Singularity, it remains to be seen whether Megatron's insane ambition will resurface.

Prior to the Universe Conflict an alternate dimension's Megatron was killed by a Tigerhawk who was corrupted by the Vok. Yet another dimension's Megatron was killed by it's realities Obsidian and Tankor. All three Megatron-murderers were eventually promoted to the rank of Unicron's General. It seems that killing Megatron may be part of Unicron's criteria for choosing a General.

Beast Wars II cartoon
Galvatron tried to summon a Megatron to Gaea using a time machine. Maybe this one. Maybe not.

When his brother Megastorm screws up the wavelength calculations and instead summons the titanic Majin Zarak, Galvatron is pleased and declares, "we obtained a weapon far superior to Megatron".

Robot Masters

 * Voice actor: Toshitsugu Takashina (Japanese)

Taking advantage of the Blasty Zone 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 the 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 arch nemesis, Optimus Primal.

Beast Megatron later discovered a large deposit of solitarium beneath New York City, and along with Starscream, Smokesniper, Gigant Bomb and Wingstun, laid waste to the Big Apple. 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 betrayed them. Now going by the name Rebirth Megatron, he teamed up with Beast Megatron and the pair made trouble for the Autobot commanders. However, the Autobots were able to defeat the two Megatrons, sending the villains into retreat.

Beast Wars Reborn


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 one of his messengers to meet Primal and Megatron within the spaceship.

Beast Wars Metals manga
Megatron was a bumbling oaf constantly leading the Predacons against the forces of the Maximals.

The Gathering


In Lio Convoy's opinion, Megatron was a simple wild card, no real threat when compared with Magmatron. This drives 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 Darkside, 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. 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 Ascending
Ravage attempted to free Megatron after his capture, but didn't progress very far in his plans. Despite this, Megatron arrived to a battle-damaged Cybertron, having finally completed his transwarp journey, and having arrived long before the Maximals responsible for his defeat, thanks to Shokaract's suicide, with little else to stand in his way. Yessssss...

Beast Machines cartoon

 * Voice actor: David Kaye (English), Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Francisco José (Portuguese), Jan Spitzer (German)



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. He used the window of opportunity for maximum effect, releasing a virus across the planet that quickly incapacitated the population. He then began extracting the victims' sparks and storing them in a citadel, planning to one day absorb them into his own spark. Meanwhile, he used factories to rebuild the bodies into mindless drones he called "Vehicons." Eventually, he had almost every spark on Cybertron in his possession.

Clearly Megatron had changed since the Beast Wars, not only in his goals, but also in his mannerisms. Gone was the ham who sought conquest for the sake of glory and power and the Predacon cause. He spoke not of revenge on the Maximals, but rather of the liberation of all Transformerkind from the chaos of free will. He referred outright to his own ascension to godhood. And he had also developed a sense of honor, keeping his word to his enemies even at the risk of future losses. This was quite the change, as right up to the end of the Beast Wars he would flatten a subordinate for even mentioning "the H word." In that time, he had also positively reveled in his dinosaur and dragon beast modes. But on his return to Cybertron, something convinced him that beast modes and other vestiges of the organic were an abomination which should be scoured from the planet, leaving only technological purity. Despite his pontifications, Megatron himself had not achieved the "purity" of which he spoke. His dragon form remained, and at times, it overwhelmed his control. His unfruitful attempts to remove the organic elements from his own body became a source of constant frustration. This was a new and even madder Megatron.

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.

The escaped Maximals would have succumbed to the virus eventually if not for the Oracle reformatting them. This was the beginning of Megatron's undoing, for their new technorganic bodies were both immune to the virus and (while in beast mode) invisible to Vehicon sensors. Megatron's first resulting change in strategy was to imbue three Vehicons with captured sparks so they could think on their feet in battle. The original personalities of these "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 the Predacon Waspinator for reasons that remain opaque.

Megatron considered using the same technology on himself, transferring his own spark to a "pure" Vehicon body. But he decided it not worth the risk to expose his spark, however briefly.

Rhinox eventually awakened and went rogue, planning a grand scheme to usurp Megatron's dominance, but Megatron effortlessly seized control of his traitor-general's evil plan at the last minute and almost wiped out all resistance with the Key to Vector Sigma. At the last moment, Optimus unleashed the Plasma Energy Chamber force and the combined energies destroyed Megatron's body. He was presumed dead, but the combined energies had actually succeeded in separating his organic half from his body—unfortunately, his spark went with it and was now 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, got the Maximals to help transfer his spark to the Grand Mal, a vessel shaped in his own head.

With Tankor destroyed and Jetstorm eventually reformatted into Silverbolt, Megatron used the sparks of famous generals Obsidian and Strika to replace them. He also managed to gain a link to the Oracle itself, stealing the knowledge from Primal. This gave him the ability to move ahead with his grand plan—to consume the captured sparks and eventually consume/replace the Allspark itself—but Nightscream temporarily stopped him by depolarize Megatron's own spark. Now severed from a body, it jumped between discarded shells and attacked everyone in a zombie like fashion' Rattrap would use a spark extractor to repolarize his spark, allowing Megatron to regain his senses, but trapping him in a Diagnostic Drone.



Immediately following this, Megatron launched an all-out battle for the sparks and suceeded in capturing them, as well as the sparks of all the Maximals and obliterating their technorganic orchard—leaving just Optimus Primal and himself as the only two Transformers on the entire planet. To add insult to injury, he uploaded his spark into a copy of Primal's old Optimal Optimus form. Over the conflict, his personality had gradually become more like that of his Beast Wars self, and by this point he was once again hamming it up—revelling in his victory, mocking his enemies (his stated reason for copying Optimus' old body) and deliberately not killing Optimus outright, and having melodramatic outbursts when in his new body.

At the end of a fierce one-on-one fight, Megatron won and began consuming his amassed sparks, growing ever more powerful and planning to become both the new Matrix and the new core consciousness of Cybertron. However, he'd made his old mistake—leaving Optimus alive (to make him watch his "ascension") instead of killing him. When he attempted to use the Key to Vector Sigma to transform the planet's organic core into technomatter, Primal managed to dislodge them both. They plummeted into the planet's goopy core and from there, Primal was able to reformat the entire planet, destroying himself and Megatron completely, but freeing all the lost sparks to repopulate their newly redecorated planet.

Transformers Legends Anthology
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.

3D Battle-Card Game
Megatron leads a ragtag group of Decepticon warriors from various backgrounds (and/or universes) against Optimus Primal and his Autobot allies.

Beast Wars

 * Optimus Primal VS Megatron (Basic 2-pack, 1996)
 * Japanese ID number: VS-6
 * Accessories: Gun/tail
 * The initial version of Beast Wars Megatron transformed into a green alligator.


 * Whether this toy can be considered the Beast Wars Megatron character as seen in the primary fiction is a matter of debate. Released before the animated series began, which established Megatron as a separate entity from  G1 Megatron, the accompanying profiles and mini-comic seem to assume that the Beast Wars are a progression of the same characters from the Autobot/Decepticon war.  Whether the animated series' retcon affected this set of toys is probably a matter of personal preference. It can be interpreted as representing one of the more interesting micro-continuities.


 * More recently, the Beast Wars Sourcebook has asserted that, in IDW's version of Beast Wars continuity, Megatron's alligator body was suggested by the Darkside's computer as a potential altmode, but he rejected it in favour of the more powerful T-Rex, without ever actually reformatting into it. Thus, this micro-continuity posits alligator-mode Megatron as an essentially theoretical altform that never actually came to be. Suuure.


 * This mold was additionally used to make the purple-recolored Megalligator (who may or may not be a separate character to either Megatron or G1 Megatron). It was also proposed for Albitron.


 * Megatron (Ultra, 1996)
 * Japanese ID number: D-1
 * Accessories: Two missiles, water squirter


 * This Megatron transformed into a purple organic Tyrannosaurus dinosaur. He has limited articulation in beast mode, but his dinosaur head can shoot water. In robot mode, he has no hands, as his right arm ends with his dino head, and his tail, folded into a pincer, forms his left arm. The outer shells of his dinosaur thighs conceal spring-loaded missile launchers that fire anchor-shaped projectiles.


 * His robot head feature two bat-like wing adornments that fold to become a battlemask.


 * This mold was also used to make Beast Machines Dinobots T-Wrecks.


 * Megatron (Basic, 1997)
 * Japanese ID number: D-6
 * Accessories: Gun/tail
 * This is a release of the basic Megatron toy alone. It possesses no difference to the multi-packed toy.


 * Convobat vs Megaligator (Basic 2-pack, 1997)
 * Japanese ID number: S-1
 * Accessories: Gun/tail
 * This figure is a purple redeco of Megatron's alligator form, and was sold with a red and blue redeco of Bat Primal. This may or may not be intended to be the same character as Megatron or G1 Megatron.


 * Megatron (Transmetal Mega, 1998)
 * Accessories: Tail/whip


 * The third Beast Wars Megatron toy transformed into a mechanical Tyrannosaurus. In beast mode he has some useful articulation, located in his legs, jaw and tail. As with all Transmetal toys, he has a 'third' vehicle mode, in this case a tyrannosaurus with roller skates (which flip out from his legs) and jet engines on the sides on upper thighs.


 * Really.


 * In robot mode, he finally has two hands, with his tail becoming a flexible, segmented cutlass weapon, though it was depicted in most media as a new version of his main cannon. This cutlass/cannon weapon can be stored at his side on the connector piece it was attached to when in beast mode.


 * He is one of the many victims of the crippling disease known as Gold Plastic Syndrome


 * This mold was retooled used to make Armada Predacon.


 * Megatron (Transmetal 2 Ultra, 1999)
 * Accessories: Three missiles


 * The final version of Beast Wars Megatron transformed into a mostly mechanical dragon, with articulation in his legs, little dragon arms and his flexible, rubber neck with vacuum metalised overlapping plates attached on top. The neck was flexible able to be controlled and locked into position by a small lever located at its base. Two projectiles stored in his wings can be fired from a spring-loaded launcher inside his dragon's mouth.


 * In robot mode, Megatron resembles a winged demon, appropriate given his characterisation. His chest is dominated by a small cockpit with a control chair inside (see Trivia). Megatron's dragon neck and head replaces his left arm, with an additional missile launcher above his helmet.


 * Transmetal 2 Megatron has a third 'vehicle' mode, which appears to be an afterthought, as it basically involves the dragon sitting very low to the ground so the wheels mounted on the legs and body can make contact and roll.


 * This mold was also used to make Robots in Disguise Cryotek.

Beast Wars Metals

 * Metals Megatron (Mega, 1999)
 * Japanese ID number: D-40
 * Accessories: Tail/whip


 * The Japanese version of Transmetal Megatron is slightly different. The Japanese version uses black instead of the brown of the American version (enabling it to not suffer the frequent breakage problems), the American version had a light purple-ish glittery plastic for the beast-mode hands, tail, and skates while the Japanese had simple light gray instead, and the copper was darker on the Japanese version. This mold was retooled used to make Armada Predacon.


 * Dragon Megatron (Ultra, 1999)
 * Japanese ID number: D-47
 * Accessories: Three missiles
 * The Japanese release of the Transmetal 2 Megatron toy is exactly identical to the original American release.

Beast Machines

 * Megatron (Mega, 2000)




 * The first Beast Machines incarnation of Megatron is based on his Transmetal 2 dragon form, but with Beast Machines design style at a lower price point. The result was a weak copy of the larger, much more detailed predecessor.


 * Like his television counterpart, his wings can fold around himself to create the control armour/cloak.


 * Megatron (McDonald's Happy Meal, 2000)
 * Transforms from cloaked robot mode to a very weak dragon mode. Much of the toy is made of translucent plastic, and he uses light piping to light up the spark crystal on his dragon mode's tummy. He doesn't do it very well, though -- you sorta have to hold him up sideways to the light and hope it's working.


 * Megatron (Little Red Rooster Meal, 2000)


 * The McDonald's Happy Meal Megatron was also released in Australia through the Red Rooster restaurant chain. Like the other three toys, it came in four color schemes. He was also retooled to remove the light piping on the original. Strangely enough, the toy was labeled as "Nightscream" on the plastic baggy it came in.


 * Beast Changer (Deluxe, 2001)


 * A toy version of Savage/Noble, he transforms from a wolf-creature to a dragon creature, with no robot mode.


 * It was later redecoed in show-accurate colours for the Japanese Beast Wars Returns toyline.

Robot Masters

 * Beast Megatron (2004)
 * Japanese ID number: RM-02
 * Accessories: Claw/tail


 * Beast Megatron is a simplified version of the 1996 Ultra Beast Wars Megatron. Much smaller, it had a very similar transformation and had a sculpt resembling the television series CGI model, but a paint scheme similar to the original toy. He also came with a small laser rifle.

Beast Wars Returns

 * Megatron (Mega, 2005)
 * Japanese ID number: BR-05
 * This release is the same as the American Beast Machines Mega toy.


 * Noble Savage (Deluxe, 2005)
 * Japanese ID number: BR-11


 * A toy version of Savage/Noble and a redeco of Beast Changer, he transforms from a wolf-creature to a dragon creature, with no robot mode. The difference lies in that select red plastic parts were changed to a blue color.


 * Megahead Megatron (Deluxe, 2005)
 * Japanese ID number: BR-12
 * Accessories: Missile
 * This is a Japanese-exclusive redeco of Robots in Disguise Megabolt Megatron. Megahead Megatron transforms into a head (its design based on the Grand Mal) with scuttling spider-leg action, opening jaw for chip-eating action, and a hidden spring-loaded missile launcher in its mouth. In robot mode, the launcher swings over his head, placing a battle mask down over his face.


 * If one removes the toy's spider-legs in head mode, it fits into the head socket to the Fortress Maximus main body. Though this is likely unintended, it is pointed out here as an extra play feature.

Titanium Series

 * Beast Wars Megatron (3" Robot Master, 2006)




 * For the Titanium series, the initial 3" Megatron toy was based off his 1996 Ultra version. He's kind of squat.

Timelines

 * Megatron (Ultra-class, 2006)
 * Representing Megatron before his crash on Earth, Timelines Megatron is a redeco of the Cybertron-series Cybertron Defense Red Alert, Megatron transforms into a large, purple, eight-wheeled armored vehicle equipped with a cannon and a a new head sculpt.


 * Megatron was an at-show souvenir for BotCon 2006, coming in a two-pack with Waspinator.

Beast Wars 10th Anniversary

 * Megatron (Deluxe, 2006)
 * Accessories: Gun/tail, missile, Jungle Planet Key


 * For the 10th Anniversary of Beast Wars, Hasbro created an all-new Deluxe-size tooling based mostly upon his original 1996 Tyrannosaurus form, but with technorganic detailing. When a Cyber Planet Key is inserted into his tail, it opens up to reveal a missile launcher.


 * He is also packaged with a mini-comic-sized reprinting of IDW Publishing's The Gathering #1, a small Darksyde ship figurine, and a Jungle Planet style Cyber Planet Key without a Cyber Key Code stamped on it. On its packaging, "Predacon" is misspelled as "Preadcon," but a sticker was placed over it with the proper spelling.


 * This mold was redecoed and released as Cybertron Megatron. It's worth noting that the sculpts for both leader toys were intentionally designed to blend in with the Jungle Planet aesthetic, "in case" they didn't get a Beast Wars Anniversary release (according to Aaron Archer's statements at BotCon 2005).


 * Optimus Primal vs. Megatron (multipack, 2006)
 * Accessories: Two missiles, water squirter




 * The same figures as the Beast Wars Reborn two-pack released in the United States as a Toys "R" Us exclusive and packaged with "Possession".

Beast Wars Reborn

 * Convoy vs Megatron (2006)
 * Japanese ID number: BWR-01
 * Accessories: Two missiles, water squirter


 * For the 10th Anniversary of Beast Wars, Takara retooled the original 1996 Ultra-sized Megatron toy, giving him a new head sculpt and a new paint scheme based upon the appearance of the CGI model used in the Beast Wars television series.


 * The 1996 Ultra-sized Optimus Primal was also retooled and redecoed in the same manner.

Beast Wars Telemocha Series

 * Megatron (Deluxe, 2007)
 * Japanese ID number: TM-02
 * Accessories: Claw/tail
 * A redeco of Robot Masters Megatron, with extensive paint details based upon the larger Ultra class Beast Wars Reborn reissue. He came packed with a DVD of an episode of the japanese Beast Wars dub.


 * DX Megatron (Ultra, 2007)
 * Japanese ID number: TM-SP
 * Accessories: Two missiles, water squirter
 * An extensive show-accurate redeco of the original Ultra-class Megatron mold, even more so than the Reborn toy - without the recently remolded show-accurate head. What the hell?

Metal Monument

 * Metal Monument Megatron (TAKARA, 1999)
 * As the name suggests, the product is a die-cast statue of Megatron. The head is convertible/removable in order to change the normal one with the battle mask/mutant head. The box art and the design of the product are both done by Hirofumi Ichikawa.

3D Battle-Card Game

 * Predacon Megatron (2007)
 * A 52-point "rare" character in the 3D Battle-Card Game's "Energon Wars" expansion, Megatron "transforms" into a purple approximation of a T. rex. He uses the same parts layout as Grimlock and Cruellock, although his robot mode is assembled differently.  Megatron is nominally the leader of the Decepticons in the set.

Robot Heroes

 * Rattrap vs. Megatron (2008)
 * Silverbolt vs. Transmetal Megatron (2008)

Trivia

 * Megatron's initial basic Beast Wars toy is a retool of Iguanus with new alligator and robot heads, and no frill. The screw hole for the frill bracket remains. Both toys were released at roughly the same time.


 * The concept art for the original Ultra class figure was largely the same, except in one minor difference: The left arm would have housed an open three clawed hand. The idea of that wouldn't be revisited until the 10th anniversary Deluxe Megatron.


 * In a bit of little known trivia, Hasbro originally intended Inferno to be the new body for Megatron. According to a 1997 interview conducted by fan HooksX, Bob Forward stated: "For a while there Hasbro was planning to make the Inferno toy the new Megatron. We were going to kill Megatron and bring him back as Inferno."


 * Throughout the series, Megatron seems to have a mild obsession with creating clones of Dinobot, as seen with the purely biological clone, the Cyber raptors and Dinobot II. Some people never know when to let a relationship go.


 * The Japanese dub of Beast Wars chose to interject humor at every available opportunity. Due to this, Megatron's personality and character were taken on a complete U-turn. Instead of being a smooth and charismatic leader, he was a screaming maniac and a bumbling oaf. His most notable character-trait in Japan was that whenever he was fired-upon or startled he would let-out a high-pitched shriek like a little girl.


 * Originally, Transmetal 2 Megatron, along with Optimal Optimus and Tigerhawk were to have small driver-like figures sitting on control chairs located in cockpits on their bodies. These drivers were meant to represent their sparks. But Hasbro then later realized that kids might confuse these spark representations as drivers controlling the robots, so they were abandoned, but the cockpits remain.
 * The spark pilot was eventually used in the Japanese release of Cryotek.


 * Megatron was mentioned in the Sector Seven game,belonging to a Spider T which may or may not be Tarantulas, Megatron was described as "a purple lizard. Said "Yes!"" a lot and was called a "Silly Tin Tyrant". "Sleeping Dragon" was also said which could be a mention of Megatron's Dragon Mode.


 * During Beast Wars, Megatron said "yesss..." 163 times and "no..." 54 times. Someone was clearly bored, yeeesss.


 * During the entire series, he refers to every Maximal by name, with the sole exception of Cheetor. Maybe he doesn't like Kid-appeal yellow character types?


 * As of 2008, this is the only Megatron, With the exception of Megatron to last more than 2 seasons without changing his name to Galvatron at least once.