| “ | I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. I am that which is, which was, and is yet to come! And you will know my name is Megatron when I lay my vengeance upon you! | „ |
| ~ Megatron quoting the Covenant of Primus as he attacks the Maximals with the Nemesis. |
Megatron is the main antagonist of the Beast Era of the Transformers Generation One franchise, serving as the main antagonist of both Beast Wars: Transformers and Beast Machines: Transformers.
He is the leader of the Darksyders, a troop of Predacons, the descendants of the Decepticons, that were stranded on a prehistoric Earth following a confrontation with the Maximal ship, the Axalon, before becoming the ruler of Cybertron and creator/master of the Vehicons after his victory at the Beast Wars during his marooning on Earth. He is the archenemy of Optimus Primal. He renamed himself after the dark and terrifying myth, the original Megatron from the Covenant of Primus, who is heavily implied to have been Megatron himself due to the time travel.
He was voiced by David Kaye, who also voiced Megatron in the Unicron Trilogy, Cronus from Class of Titans, Klunk in Secret Agent Clank and Mysterio in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- Megatron claims he is bringing glory to the Predacons after facing unfair discrimination and oppression by the Maximals, and he may have been actually genuine in this despite the treatment he gives to his men and his power-hungry nature, but whether Megatron was indeed genuine in his intentions or not, by the end of Beast Wars, mostly after he becomes a Transmetal II dragon, such good intentions were all ultimately lost and Megatron's lust for power consumed him when he proclaims himself as Alpha & Omega and gains a huge god complex, and knowingly dooms the entirety of Cybertron in his final gambit in that series, nearly wiping out all Cybertronians and Predacons for the sake of godhood and universal domination, and sacrificed nearly all of his men for it without batting a second eye.
- If it wasn't made clear by Beast Wars finale, it would've been made clear by Beast Machines as nearly all Predacons became victims of his dark reign of terror, showcasing such intentions are lost. Ultimately by the end of the series, Optimus Primal makes it clear that Megatron is just a megalomaniac when Megatron dismisses knowledge, wisdom and love as trivialities he won't forsake ultimate power for.
- Same reason for why his actions in Beast Machines aren't out of genuinely good motives that there are evils in free will, who is willing to kill all of his drones just to remake Cybertron to his image in which he is the superior intelligence, being the same megalomaniac as usual who only uses it as a rhetoric to disguise his obviously selfish goals of power and satisfying his god complex.
- If it wasn't made clear by Beast Wars finale, it would've been made clear by Beast Machines as nearly all Predacons became victims of his dark reign of terror, showcasing such intentions are lost. Ultimately by the end of the series, Optimus Primal makes it clear that Megatron is just a megalomaniac when Megatron dismisses knowledge, wisdom and love as trivialities he won't forsake ultimate power for.
- While he does have comedic moments and is a hammy antagonist, in-universe, he is taken as a serious threat that must be stopped with his actions having disgusted the characters, with barely anyone liking him due to this. He even loses his comedic edge for most of Beast Machines, which is where Megatron's absolute worst actions come from.
- He cares nothing for his teammates, mistreating them constantly, having even shot at them, for failure, incompetence, or just merely because he is in a bad mood or they have just annoyed him.
Beast Wars[]
Season 1[]
- Megatron secretly scoffs at Scorponok's claims that they are friends, despite knowing of his undying loyalty towards him.
- Seeks to claim multiple Maximal stasis pods to brainwash them into expendable Predacon soldiers for him instead, having already succeeded with some of them, leading to the creation of Inferno and Blackarachnia.
- Has Rhinox infected with a lethal energon virus that slowly drains his power cells and forces him to sneeze dangerous lasers that could cause mass destruction and harm multiple lives, which he intends to infect the rest of the Maximals with so they can destroy each other.
- When Dinobot threatens Megatron by taking Tarantulas hostage, Megatron coldly shoots at Tarantulas while scolding Dinobot for using a stupid Maximal tactic.
- While willing to form a truce with the Autobots, it was only out of self-preservatory reasons in his plan to sacrifice Tarantulas, using the latter's cowardly attempt to betray everyone, by trapping him in the Stasis Pod to send him to the Vok's doomsday device and die in the transwarp explosion. When Optimus Primal takes his place instead, Megatron then traps him and then gloats about his victory in the Beast Wars before he inevitably dies from the explosion thanks to Megatron.
Season 2[]
- Megatron was unfazed that Terrorsaur and especially Scorponok, who is one of the only 2 minions he has that is genuinely loyal to him, died during the Quantum Surge. This is made worse that the Quantum Surge happened by sacrificing Primal to destroy the Planet Buster to orchestrate a Transwarp explosion, so he feels no remorse being responsible for their deaths.
- Using their damaged memory banks, Megatron goads Quickstrike and Silverbolt to his side of villainy, with Quickstrike even staying with the Predacons.
- When Silverbot feels uncomfortable taking his orders, Megatron then threatens him to do so at gunpoint, and then strangles him when he feels their attack on the Maximals is done in a dishonorable way.
- When he thought Quickstrike was questioning his orders, Megatron strangles him, releasing him when the guy was asking if he could actually enjoy their enemies suffering.
- When Inferno continuously calls him "his Queen", Megatron then chokes him out of annoyance.
- Extracts half of Rampage's spark and places it on a vice, so he can torture him to submission by squeezing it.
- Plans to erase humanity from existence, Megatron attempts to burn down the valley humanity originates from, committing a genocide against the anthropoids. By doing so, Megatron causes the death of Dinobot, who succumbs from the wounds he received defending it, which Megatron even knows and has no remorse for, more angered by Dinobot using the last of his strength to destroy the Golden Disk.
- Threatens Blackarachnia to kill Silverbolt if she doesn't give him the access codes.
- While hesitant on the thought of kill Optimus Prime to erase the Maximals from existence and shattering time as a result, planning to do so as a last resort, when Megatron finally does the act, he feels no remorse for it, with the immediate action he does being taunting the Maximals of their eventual erasure from existence.
- He was also willing to sacrifice 3 of his own minions, Inferno (his most loyal follower), Quickstrike & Rampage, as a result because he knew that they came from Maximal origins, thus they would be erased from existence to.
- The only reason Megatron was unwilling to do such action was it would destroy time itself, and thus he is risking omnicide in a very dangerous way that could even kill Megatron himself, and was only abstaining for so long due to self-preservation. So his lack of remorse when doing the act is even worse.
Season 3[]
- As a result of both of his attempts to rewrite the timestream to his image by the genocide against humanity and the murder of Optimus Prime, Megatron was deemed by the Vok one of the biggest threats to the entire space-time continuum.
- For her betrayal and redemption, Megatron shoots Blackarachnia to near death.
- Creates multiple Cyberraptors and has them attack anthropoid settlements, ordering a hit on 2 anthropoid kids Cheetor and Blakarachnia were returning to their tribe.
- Creates a clone of Dinobot using Rampage's spark, which would torture Rampage for a while, much to Megatron's indifference.
- Indirectly drives Cheetor mad when an accident with Megatron's transmetal contraption leads to him being driven feral and unable to escape it whenever he is in beast mode. Megatron is unfazed by this, even wanting to exploit Cheetor as one of his tools to use.
- Has Una, an anthropoid girl, kidnapped so Megatron can use her to install the shields of his disruptor array and then install the stabilizer chip. While he wants Waspinator to deliver her unharmed, when Una finishes the work Megatron instructed, Megatron then tells Tarantulas he deems her obsolete and wants her disposed of.
- Orders Tarantulas to attack the Maximal base so it can disrupt power and prevent an operation to remove Blackarachnia's core programming, succeeding in murdering Blackarachnia indirectly.
- Has Tarantulas use one of his arachnoids to hijack Optimus Primal's spark to have Quickstrike control it, placing him in an "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" state as he was aware of his surroundings when Megatron and Tarantulas enslaved him to access the Ark and Tarantulas' plans.
- While he does have some admiration for the original Megatron, he is merely fanatical about him, willing to kill him when he attempts to destroy the Ark in the series finale of Beast Wars (which invalidates his good intentions also), which itself would wipe out nearly the entire Cybertronian race from existence as a result of the time storm, due to being so caught up with the thought of victory.
- On his way to destroy the Ark, he uses the Nemesis to lay waste to the Earth, moving on to destroy an entire anthropoid settlement, intending to exterminate them all.
- When Dinobot II objects his decision to use the full force of the Nemesis on a lone anthropoid, finding it dishonorable, Megatron threatens him, and does it anyway, sacrificing his final two Predacons that remained on his side, Quickstrike and Inferno (who is his one of the only two followers he has that is genuinely and undyingly loyal to him) remorselessly.
- When he first pilots the Nemesis, Megatron kills Tigerhawk, who has the combined spark of Airazor and Tigertron, thus by technicality, Megatron killed 2 people. This is what forces Optimus Primal, a Pure Good to tell, to go to the Nemesis and kill Megatron once and for all, deeming him too dangerous to live and he won't lose any more of his comrades to him. Dinobot II himself was also shocked by how dishonorable he was using capital-scale weaponry to kill him upon starting to gain bits of the honorable personality his original self had.
Beast Machines[]
Season 1[]
- After escaping from the Axalon following his defeat in Beast Wars, Megatron arrives on Cybertron and develops a virus bioweapon that would incapacitate the entire population of the planet, committing a virtual genocide against his own race by having their sparks extracted and has them stored in a citadel and barred from joining the Matrix, and then recycling their body parts to turn them into mindless Vehicon drones. This proves to be Megatron's vilest act yet.
- He is ultimately responsible for Optimus Primal nearly going down a dark path and becoming an extremist by gaslighting him into believing that Cybertron's current predicament is his fault. To remind, Optimus Primal is a Pure Good, who fortunately redeems himself from his extremist ways, but it shows how vile Megatron could be when a full-on Pure Evil.
- While he does honor his deal with Rattrap and lets him and his Maximals go for Rattrap defending him for an entire night, Megatron subverts this honor in two ways:
- Said honor is useless in the grand scheme of things due to his omnicidal plot in the finale on trying to destroy all of Cybertron, along with Rattrap, uncaring about the deal anymore, with Blackarachnia calling such plans devoid of honor. He even kills Rattrap in the penultimate episode of the series.
- After that incident, Megatron has killed Tankor and attempted to kill Nightscream, 2 people Megatron admits himself, should be thanked for their (unintentional) help in furthering his goals, basically abandoning any honor.
- Reason he does it itself may not have been out of honor and gratitude for Rattrap defending him for the entire night in the first place, as Megatron is a gambler, having enjoyed gambling opportunities, made a bet which he lost, and just accepted defeat for this time and is vowing to kill them all next time.
- He attempted to destroy all of Cybertron to remake it in his image as an elegant machine in which everyone obeys only him, destroying all free will on the planet and controlling everything, all for his big ego, ending all life (both technological and organic) for it to happen.
- His first attempt at this was through the use of the Key to Vector Sigma (killing Tankor in the process), and would've been successful, had Optimus not stopped him.
Season 2[]
- While under the guise of Noble, he tricked the Maximals into helping him reach the citadel to remove his spark from the organic body and take the form of the Grand Mau.
- He created his own version of the Hate Plague, and infected the Maximals with it to make them fight each other, all in an attempt to make Optimus believe that his vision is correct and that Optimus' is wrong.
- When Strika and Obsidian saved him from the Maximals (as he was stuck inside a Diagnostic Drone), he scolds them both for rescuing him because he wanted to fight back, despite the fact that retreat was the best course of action at the time, showing how ungrateful he was to them.
- He temporally killed all the Maximals excluding Optimus Primal by extracting their sparks.
- To become a god, Megatron devours all the billion sparks he extracted, which obliterates them. All of this was outright onscreen, which gives Megatron an onscreen kill count of billions.
- In his second attempt to remake Cybertron in his image, he uses his new god-like powers to re-create the Key to Vector Sigma and uses it to infect Cybertron's core.
- He indirectly kills Optimus Primal, who sacrifices his life to undo Megatron's damage on Cybertron by killing them both.
Trivia[]
- Both he and Tarantulas are the only villains from the Beast Era to be Pure Evil.
- While Megatron is Pure Evil in the original English dub, in the Japanese dub, he, like the rest of the show, is played for laughs thus he doesn't count in that version.
External Links[]
- Megatron on the Villains Wiki
- Megatron on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Megatron on TFWiki.net
- Megatron on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Megatron on the Shonen Villains Wiki
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