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===Comics=== ====Japanese manga==== In the Japanese manga "Big War" #2, the Autobots [[Rodimus|Rodimus Prime]], [[Grimlock]], Kup and [[Wheelie (Transformers)|Wheelie]], along with their human allies Spike Witwicky and [[Daniel Witwicky]] send [[Computron (Transformers)|Computron]] into battle against Galvatron's new warrior combiner [[Abominus]]. The Terrorcons spit "corrosive control liquid" against Computron, taking control of him and turning him into a Decepticon. Spike luckily uses his new Exosuit to free Computron with "defense spray." Defeated, Galvatron retreats.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tfarchive.com/comics/japanese/trans182.php |title=Transformers comics, cartoons, toys and everything else! |publisher=TFArchive |access-date=2010-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710020234/http://tfarchive.com/comics/japanese/trans182.php |archive-date=2009-07-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the Transformers Manga #5, Galvatron and his Decepticons attacked the Prime Energy Tower. Galvatron ordered the Decepticons to form [[Menasor]], [[Devastator (Transformers)|Devastator]] and [[Bruticus]] and attack. Rodimus Prime counted this move by ordering in [[Superion]], [[Omega Supreme]] and [[Defensor (Transformers)|Defensor]]. Galvatron then ordered in [[Predaking]], knowing that Sky Lynx was elsewhere and couldn't counter them. Rodimus ordered the [[Omnibots]] to attack Predaking's legs. Tripping up the giant he fell into the other Decepticon giants, winning the day for the Autobots.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tfarchive.com/comics/japanese/trans155.php |title=Transformers comics, cartoons, toys and everything else! |publisher=TFArchive |access-date=2010-04-27}}</ref> Galvatron also appeared in a series of Japanese Manga comic strips set in continuity with the ''Headmasters'' series, where he attempted to destroy the Autobots with such schemes as creating his own army of [[Megatron (Transformers)|Megatron]] clones, attempting to destroy [[Fortress Maximus]] and creating a hybrid of the original Megatron and Optimus Prime named Guiltor to destroy Rodimus Prime, although he ended up teaming up with his enemy to destroy it after it went rogue. After Galvatron's seeming destruction in ''Headmasters'', this was all that was heard from Galvatron in the animated continuity for several years until the ''Battlestars: The Return of Convoy'' storyline (although not animated in itself, consisting of one manga chapter and a selection of [[magazine]] spreads, it continues the storyline of the animated series). Buried and deactivated beneath the [[ice]], Galvatron was recovered by the evil entity, [[Dark Nova]], and reformatted into '''Super Megatron''' and later on as '''Ultra Megatron''', going on to battle Star Convoy (a similarly reborn [[Optimus Prime (Transformers)|Optimus Prime]]). ====Marvel Comics==== In the world of [[Marvel Comics]], Megatron begins by rising from his beginnings as a gladiator for the [[city-state]] of Tarn. Megatron and the Decepticons were the ones who developed transformation first, using it to begin the war against the Autobots, who fought back by mimicking the technology. Eventually, Cybertron was shaken from its orbit and fell into the path of an asteroid cluster. This would result in the Ark venturing out and then crashing into [[History of life|prehistoric Earth]]. Four million years later, in 1984, the Transformers were reawakened, and Megatron was defeated twice by [[Optimus Prime]]. Throughout the series' run, Megatron would vie with Shockwave for the Decepticon leadership, be physically and mentally merged with Autobot medic Ratchet, battle his own future self in an alternate reality version of Galvatron and eventually, in Marvel's ''Generation 2'' comics, make peace with Optimus against the greater threat of Jhiaxus. Megatron also featured prominently in ''Alignment'', Simon Furman's take on what happened after the ''Generation 2'' comic. In this story, Megatron was defeated for command of the Decepticons by Galvatron II (the U.S. comics version) and left for dead. Soundwave had revived his master. Megatron took a fleet of scavenged [[Warworld (Transformers)|Warworlds]] to face the Liege Maximo. He was destroyed by Maximo's arm cannon; he unleashed an Energon-fueled blast that destroyed the Maximo. This sets up the Pax Cybertronia and the evolution of the Autobots and Decepticons into [[Maximal (Transformers)|Maximals]] and [[List of The Transformers (TV series) characters#Predacons|Predacons]]. Whether this story is reconcilable with "Reaching the Omega Point", or whether it is even part of the Transformers [[canon (fiction)|canon]] is debatable. ====TFcon comics==== Megatron appeared in the 2006 [[TransformersCon]] voice actor play. Voices in the play were performed by a variety of volunteers and the actual voice actors attending the convention. The play itself should be considered unofficial but was notable because it featured several Transformers' original voice actors reprising their Transformers roles. In this voice actor play various Transformers from different timelines and realities were swept up in a repeating wave and transported along with [[Unicron]] to Earth. The Transformers included ''Generation 1'' [[Tracks (Transformers)|Tracks]], Ariel, [[Cosmos (Transformers)|Cosmos]] and Megatron, ''Beast Wars'' [[Tarantulas (Transformers)|Tarantulas]], ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Sky-Byte]] and ''Beast Machines'' [[Tankor]]. ====Dreamwave Productions==== In the 21st-century reimagining of the Generation One Universe by [[Dreamwave Productions]], Megatron was envisioned as an ancient gladiatorial combatant in the depths of Cybertron's underworld. As victory upon victory mounted, he began to realize that the games were nothing more than an elaborate attempt by the Cybertronian elders to hide the truth of Cybertron's history from the masses. When Megatron attempted to gain access to that knowledge through exploration and research, the Cybertronian elders attempted to have him assassinated—a plan that only resulted in stirring up even more discontent among Cybertronians which allowed Megatron to begin recruiting for the Decepticon movement. It is known that at one point Megatron attempted to recruit [[Grimlock]] as one of his inner circle, but the fellow gladiator refused the position, eventually joining the Autobots. Megatron would also appear in Dreamwave's ''Transformers/[[G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero|G.I. Joe]]'' [[Limited series (comics)|limited series]]. Unlike many of the other Transformers (who were given [[World War II]] vehicle alternate modes), Megatron would keep his basic [[Walther P38]] handgun transformation, which was indeed a WWII German handgun. Forming an alliance with [[Cobra Commander]] due to their similar natures, Megatron nonetheless had a bitter personal rivalry with the tyrannical leader of the terrorist group [[Cobra (G.I. Joe)|Cobra]], resulting in Megatron killing several of his troops and Cobra Commander having to use the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] to keep him in line. Later, Megatron refuses to help the Commander since [[Combaticons|Bruticus]] had tried to crush him and allows the [[Baroness (G.I. Joe)|Baroness]] to use him in gun mode to shoot the helpless Cobra Leader. After battling Optimus Prime, he was deactivated along with all the Transformers when [[Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe)|Snake Eyes]] opened the Matrix. ====Devil's Due Publishing==== In the ''G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers'' comics printed by [[Devil's Due Publishing]], Megatron was again among the Decepticons who crashed in the Ark on Earth, but this time the Ark was discovered by Cobra, who reformatted the Autobots and Decepticons into weapons and vehicles for themselves called [[Battle Android Troopers]] controlled by the [[Tele-Vipers]]. Megatron is locked in gun mode and kept by Cobra Commander. When Optimus Prime broke free of the controls, Megatron convinced his keeper to free him to fight Optimus. Wounded by the Autobots and a malfunctioning orbiting weapons system, Megatron was eventually defeated and believed destroyed. In reality, much of his body remained and the U.S. government studied his workings to advance their own projects in military supercomputers. In the third volume of the series, it was revealed that the U.S. Government had created the android [[Serpentor]] (or, as he is called here, Serpent O.R., standing for Organic Robot) using DNA from great historical war leaders and parts from Megatron. Serpentor succeeded where Megatron had failed and captured Optimus Prime. But Serpentor's exposure to the Matrix, possession by Cobra Commander, and subsequent destruction left Megatron's legacy unfulfilled. ====Fun Publications==== The ''Transformers Classics'' comics published in the Official Transformers Collectors Club magazine are set in the Marvel Comics continuity, but in a timeline where the events of ''Generation 2'' did not occur. The story occurs fifteen years after Megatron was presumed dead in the crash of the Ark. Megatron survived, and eventually upgraded his body (based on his Classics toy) and gathered many other Decepticons to him. Soundwave helped him in recovering the body of Astrotrain, which was then used to help locate the placement of other fallen Decepticons around the globe. Those who joined Megatron included [[Laserbeak]], [[Ramjet (Transformers)|Ramjet]], [[Ravage (Transformers)|Ravage]], [[Skywarp]], [[Soundwave (Transformers)|Soundwave]], [[Starscream]] and the [[Constructicons]]. Megatron also reactivated [[Thrust (Transformers)|Thrust]], [[Dirge (Transformers)|Dirge]] and [[Thundercracker]], but the three left him to join up with Bludgeon's troops — mostly because they couldn't work with Starscream, who had killed them once. Megatron based his command on the wreck of the Ark in the Yukon, where he keeps the fallen body of Ratchet as a trophy and the severed, but living, head of [[Shockwave (Transformers)|Shockwave]] as an advisor. In ''Crossing Over'', when [[Skyfall (Transformers)|Skyfall]] and [[Landquake]] were presumed killed in the midst of a bloody [[Mini-Con]] civil war and attack by Unicron (set concurrently with the events of ''[[Transformers: Cybertron]]''), they were, in actuality, transported across universes, from the world of the ''Unicron Trilogy'' into the ''Marvel Comics'' timeline. Unclear what had happened, they then found themselves staring down the barrel of Megatron's cannon. The two were saved when a group of Robot Hunters in battle suits attacked Megatron. Megatron slaughtered them, only to be confronted by a team of Autobots led by Optimus Prime. Skyfall went with the Autobots, while Landquake was taken by Megatron. Back at the Ark Landquake was interrogated and swore loyalty to Megatron. Scrapper detected an unusual Energon reading similar to that of Landquake and the Decepticons went to investigate, only to be confronted by the Autobots again. In ''Games of Decepticon'', Megatron detects the arrival of [[Bug Bite (Transformers)|Bugbite]]'s ship on Earth and sends Starscream, Skywarp, and Ramjet to investigate. The Decepticons capture the Autobot spy Mirage. Returning to the Ark the Decepticons fall under the sway of Bugbite, who is using cerebro shells he stole from the Insecticon Bombshell. Megatron overcomes the shell and destroys Bugbite, as the Autobots under the command of Grimlock raid the Ark, destroying the computer and saving Mirage. Megatron appears in ''At Fight's End'' talking to Ratchet. Megatron defeated Deathsaurus in combat for leadership of the Decepticons. He orders the combiner technology that he captures from Deathsaurus to be used on the Constructicons. Megatron then attacks Iacon with his new weapon, Devastator.<ref>{{Cite journal | author= Pete Sinclair | author2= Jesse Wittenrich | name-list-style= amp | title = Battle Lines Part 5 | journal = Transformers Collectors Club Magazine| volume = 1 | issue = 41 | page= 3 |date = October–November 2011}}</ref> ====IDW Publishing==== After Dreamwave's closure, the rights to the Transformers comics were taken over by [[IDW Publishing]]. IDW would take the opportunity to reboot the Transformers universe, including a revised origin for Megatron detailing how he came to power. Here, Megatron was originally a lowly Energon miner. He also formed an uneasy truce with Starscream. In the IDW continuity, Megatron retains his role as supreme commander of the Decepticon army, although, in this continuity, they are no longer based on Cybertron (which was rendered uninhabitable by Thunderwing) and are fighting to conquer multiple worlds simultaneously. In fact, he barely seems to care about Cybertron and was willing to order its total destruction to stop the reanimated Thunderwing. Having now ingested Ore-13, Megatron is able to easily manage mass displacement and thus turn into an Earth handgun (in ''Escalation #2''), and the newfound power appears to have affected his actions—he personally went on the Brasnya mission and is confident enough to transform & battle Optimus in front of human witnesses, actions that Optimus finds out of character. His instability is also what leads the other Decepticons to awaken Starscream to stand up to him in ''Devastation''. Eventually, after witnessing [[Bumblebee (Transformers)|Bumblebee]]'s willingness to sacrifice himself in order to stop the machinations of Shockwave, Megatron does the unthinkable and joins the Autobot cause. Megatron joins the crew of the ''Lost Light'' as its captain, though the bulk of the crew refuses to accept his change of heart and mutinies against him and his new Autobot friends. Megatron subsequently leads the outcasts into battle against the fanatical Decepticon Justice Division but later is trapped in the alternate Functionist universe with his old mentor Terminus. Megatron features prominently in ''Transformers: Regeneration One'', Simon Furman's continuation of the original Marvel series in which the events of ''Generation 2'' did not occur. Here, Megatron's lifeforce is still linked to Ratchet's, and after waking up on Earth in 1994, he has built what's left of Ratchet into a battle sled. Megatron also creates a [[zombie]] army from the mostly-Decepticon victims of the Underbase-empowered [[Starscream]], while [[Lobotomy|lobotomizing]] the still-living Starscream himself. Megatron proceeds to devastate the Earth, turning its nuclear arsenal against the population and destroying Fortress Maximus. The [[Wreckers (Transformers)|Wreckers]] discover what Megatron's done in the year 2012, prompting Optimus Prime to bring an assault team from Cybertron. Megatron is defeated when Kup destroys Ratchet, stopping Megatron in his tracks and permitting Optimus to destroy him once and for all. In an interview, writer [[Simon Furman]] indicated that Galvatron made his first [[IDW Publishing]] appearance in ''[[The Transformers: Spotlight]]'' issue featuring [[Nightbeat (Transformers)|Nightbeat]]. Unlike other incarnations, this Galvatron was not a recreated Megatron, but instead a separate Transformer from the Golden Age of Cybertron who is driven by a belief in having a great destiny. He was one of the crew of the lost ''[[Ark (Transformers)|Ark-1]]'', which had secretly been seeking out (under orders from Nova Prime<ref>{{cite comic | Writer = [[Simon Furman]] |title=[[The Transformers: Spotlight]] | date=August 2007 |Issue=9 (Optimus Prime) |Publisher= [[IDW Publishing]]}}</ref>) an anomaly that was "a door to somewhere else... a dark mirror of the Matrix itself".<ref>{{cite comic | Writer = [[Simon Furman]] |title=[[The Transformers: Spotlight]] | date=July 2007 |Issue=8 (Galvatron) |Publisher= [[IDW Publishing]] |page=13}}</ref> Galvatron deliberately flew the ''Ark'' into the anomaly to find out the answers, thus marooning the crew in the Dead Universe. In the present day, he heads for Cybertron to obtain Thunderwing's body, destroying an alien observation station on the way. On Cybertron, Galvatron killed [[Leadfoot (Transformers)|Leadfoot]] and easily overpowered Hound's unit, though he left them alive as a small act of defiance against his master. He made his first appearance in the main storyline in issue 3 of ''[[The Transformers: Devastation]]'', being sent to Earth by Nemesis Prime to stop the Reapers from destroying it too soon. He turned the Reaper leader into a dead being able to kill by touch (like himself) and left it to decimate his fellow Reapers. Caught between this and the Ore-13-charged Decepticons, the Reapers were soon annihilated, and Galvatron left with the body of [[Sixshot]]. He then reported back to Prime, who made it clear in conversation with [[Jhiaxus]] that he was not unaware of Galvatron's rebellious ambitions.<ref name="devastation 6">{{Cite comic|writer=[[Simon Furman]]|penciller=[[E. J. Su]]|title=[[The Transformers: Devastation]]|issue=6|date=February 2008|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]}}</ref> As with the Marvel version of Galvatron, he is seemingly invincible and shrugs off powerful weapons. Unlike other incarnations of the character, he appears to be able to kill and decay others by touch<ref>{{cite comic | Writer = [[Simon Furman]] |title=[[The Transformers: Spotlight]] |date=July 2007 |Issue=8 (Galvatron) |Publisher= [[IDW Publishing]] |page=15}}</ref> and can even survive being shot through the head at close range by powerful weapons. In ''Devastation'' he is shown to be able to confer his touch of death onto others, turning the Reaper leader into an unwilling "giver of unlife".<ref>{{cite comic | Writer = [[Simon Furman]] |title=[[The Transformers: Devastation]] | date=February 2008 |Issue=6 |Publisher= [[IDW Publishing]] |page=13}}</ref> There are hints that he is not actually alive—after surviving his headshot, he responded to a cry of "He's not dead!" by thinking "Wrong", and he has referred to the others in the Dead Universe as actually being dead: "I killed them".<ref>{{cite comic | Writer = [[Simon Furman]] |title=[[The Transformers: Spotlight]] | date=July 2007 |Issue=8 (Galvatron) |Publisher= [[IDW Publishing]] |page=22}}</ref> ====Kiss Players==== Although Megatron himself would not make an appearance in the Japanese-exclusive ''[[Transformers#Transformers: Kiss Players (2006–2007)|Kiss Players line]]'', he would nonetheless have a small role to play. When [[Rodimus Prime]] hurled [[Galvatron]] out of [[Unicron]] at the climax of ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'', Galvatron hurtled through space, out of control, until he eventually crash-landed in [[Tokyo]], devastating much of the city. Although comatose, Galvatron's Unicron-corrupted cells spread throughout Earth and fused with various creatures. ====Binaltech==== Megatron is largely "off-screen" for most of the Binaltech saga, reflecting the absence of a Megatron figure in that toy line. Due to the interference of Ravage (the same future Ravage who appears in the [[Beast Wars]]), most of the events of the [[The Transformers: The Movie|original animated feature]] do not transpire; most importantly the Battle of Autobot City does not occur, and Optimus Prime and Megatron do not have their final showdown, meaning that Optimus Prime does not die, and Megatron is never reformatted into Galvatron. ====Unite Warriors==== The Unite Warriors storyline—exclusive to Japan—introduced the character of Megaempress, a female Decepticon whose bio states that she was created from parts left over from Megatron's construction. She thus considers herself to be Megatron's wife—or the Transformer equivalent—and Empress of the Decepticons; whether Megatron views her in this fashion is unknown.
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