| NOTE: This page covers the Aligned Continuity Megatron as he appears in War for Cybertron as his Prime counterpart is not Entertainingly Detestable. Thus, only information from the War for Cybertron Megatron should be listed here. |
Megatron is the main antagonist of High Moon Studios' 2010 game Transformers: War For Cybertron, it's sequel, Fall of Cybertron and of the Cybertron campaign of its 2014 threequel, Rise of the Dark Spark, which takes place between the first and second games as well as the live-action movies.
Once a gladiator turned revolutionary named Megatronus who was motivated to tear down an oppressive caste system alongside his best friend, Orion Pax, a lust for power grew within Megatronus that made him much more violent, leading to him getting rejected by the Autobot High Council and straining his friendship with Orion. Becoming Megatron, he founds the Decepticons for a war against Cybertron, putting him at odds at his former best friend, Orion Pax, who has later become the Autobots' leader, Optimus Prime. For his ultimate bid of power, Megatron turned to Dark Energon, a corruptive, unstable form of Energon to bend Cybertron to his will.
He was voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
What makes Him Entertaining?[]
- Fred Tatasciore's excellent performance gives Megatron a brutal and bloodlusting personality, who relishes in his conquests and destruction of his enemies, highlighting Megatron's mad quest for power.
- His design in War for Cybertron is an excellent reimagining of the original Generation One Megatron's classic design, even giving him his signature Fusion Cannon as his primary weapon.
- Although rare, he does have some comedic moments, particularly in the first game.
- A good example is when he orders Breakdown and Soundwave to travel through the subway tunnels of Iacon and when Breakdown asks whether he is joking, Megatron replies: "Yes, Breakdown! I am known for my sparkling sense of humor... NOW GET MOVING, BEFORE I DISMANTLE YOU MYSELF!!!"
- Later, his reaction to Omega Supreme still functioning is also comedic, esspecially with Breakdown warning him about it.
- In Megatron's first scene in Fall of Cybertron, after Starscream gloats over how he managed to beat Optimus where he couldn't, Megatron simply shoots Starscream to shut him up.
- His arrogance and ego can also be funny, the best example being ordering his soldiers to attack Metroplex, a literal titan while shooting at him.
- Unlike most other Megatrons of the 2010s and early 2020s. this Megatron does not even try to redeem himself in any way and even gleefully acknowledges that he is a tyrant, although still deludedly believing himself to be the solution to ALL of Cybertron's problems.
- He certainly lives up to his reputation as a former gladiator turned brutal warlord, with the games emphasizing well how powerful and dangerous Megatron really is. Not only that, his plans while insane and outright brutal, they are well thought-out in a strategic manner.
- His background and relationship with Orion Pax/Optimus Prime add complexity and depth to his character whilst still remaining evil.
- Despite his ego and megalomania, he acknowledges the strengths and skills of some of his most loyal Decepticons, particularly Shockwave, the Combaticons, Soundwave and his cassettes.
What makes Him Detestable?[]
- While heavily implied to have been a slave gladiator who joined up his friend, Orion Pax to change Cybertron for the better, Megatron eventually abandoned such ideals becoming consumed by his hunger for power, causing the Great War, arguably becoming an even worse oppressor than the ones before him. It is also obvious that by the time the games take place, Megatron is absolutely not motivated by his original intentions at all and even gleefully admitting that he is solely motivated by sheer power lust and the fact that he enjoys the war. Ultimately. Megatron proves himself to go far past his background, becoming irredeemable in the end.
- Although he claims that he wishes to return Cybertron to it's former glory, it is clear that he is a delusional megalomaniac only serving his own selfish interests and not those of Cybertron.
- Launched the Great Cybertronian War, killing millions of Autobots and Decepticons and laying entire cities to waste, while we get a glimpse of Cybertron on the outside and how numerous destructive explosions are set up all at once just to give a scope of how and the war actually became. It's gotten to the point where Ratchet worries the war will end not because the Autobots and Decepticons made peace but both sides will wipe each other out thanks to Megatron's madness.
- He is an absolutely terrible boss to most of his Decepticons, sending them on missions which have very high chances of killing them and if they question his orders, they would be executed by Megatron himself or get threatened by Megatron. Not to mention, whenever one of his troops die, he shrugs them off as complete failures.
- Megatron attacks Starscream's Space Station, slaughtering a bunch of his troopers to harness the power of Dark Energon, looking forward to using its powers to corrupt and destroy.
- Using Dark Energon, he painfully enslaves Omega Supreme to his will to open the path to Cybertron's very core.
- He infects Cyebrtron's very core with Dark Energon, and since it was a sapient being, causes him a great amount of pain, while causing Dark Energon crystals to emerge all across Cybertron and make it uninhabitable. When Optimus Prime manages to clear the corruption, the damage was so severe, the core was forced to shutdown, not only making Cybertron incapable of sustaining life, it renders the Transformers to be an endangered species now that new Cybertronians are unable to be created, and there is no more new energon for both sides to sustain.
- In the peak of Megatron's madness, he sets up Trypticon and has him destroy several Autobot shuttles filled with evacuees wanting to flee, leading to thousands of casualties, out of a mad fit that they aren't doing in his terms when Optimus refused his truce to do the same earlier, thus is not the one in control anymore.
- Overall it is clear Megatron's ambitions will not end with Cybertron, and he wants to expand to conquer the universe and make it tremble to his name.
- Has Shockwave conduct numerous horrific experiments that sees dozens of Autobots killed.
- He then claims the Dark Spark for the sake of using its properties to strip sentient beings of free will to turn them into zombified slaves and sic them against Optimus, and then inflict such horrific fate to each and every last Autobot.
- Even when the Autobots now focus their efforts on building the Ark to leave Cybertron than continue the war against the Decepticons, Megatron is hell-bent on destroying to strand the Autobots on Cybertron and kill them all.
- Cold-bloodily executes two bound and helpless Autobot soldiers in front of Optimus out of spite while blaming him for Cybertron's ruin, despite it being entirely Megatron's fault.
- Kills through many of Starscream's loyalists and then exiled him to retake his position as leader of the Decepticons. Megatron then chastises Starscream for wasting Energon resources for the sake of creating golden statues for his vanity, and then almost immediately has said statue replaced with an even bigger statue of himself which shows how much of a hypocrite Megatron is.
- Seeks to attack the Earth to plunder it for its resources.
- Upon realizing Trypticon is still alive, Megatron cannibalizes his body to force him to permanently become his warship, the Nemesis, to punish him for killing the Autobots.
- He makes one final attempt to kill Optimus and the Autobots to ensure that they don't escape, causing numerous lives to be lost.
External Links[]
- Megatron on the Villains Wiki
- Megatron on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Megatron on the Transformers Wiki