What was megatron in the first movie

During the invasion of Chicago , Sentinel demoralizes Megatron after Megatron makes a suggestion of how they will rule Cybertron together after it has arrived through the Space Bridge, who realizes he's no longer in charge. When Cybertron appears in Earth's atmosphere, Megatron shows a rare example of sadness and regret.

Towards the end of the battle, Megatron is convinced by Carly that Sentinel will take all of the power and credit for revitalizing Cybertron for himself. Megatron turns on Sentinel, declaring that Earth is his planet to rule, and severely damages him, allowing Optimus to finish him off. As Cybertron's trip through the Space Bridge fails, Megatron proposes a truce to Optimus, so long as he remains in charge of the Decepticon forces.

But the Autobot leader, knowing what Megatron has in mind, denies the offer and attacks him. Megatron proves to be too slow, as he misses a shot with his gun, allowing Optimus to pin him to the ground and embed his Energon axe in his face.

Optimus rips Megatron's head off, and drops it to the ground, finally killing him. Shortly after, Optimus uses Megatron's shotgun to execute Sentinel. Megatron returns in Transformers: Age of Exctinction as Galvatron. See Galvatron movie. Megatron returns in Transformers: The Last Knight as the main antagonist.

At some point, under undivulged circumstances, Galvatron fell under the sway of the the alien sorceress and supposed Cybertronian "goddess" Quintessa , took on a new jet alternate mode, and returned to using his true name.

Quintessa charged him with recovering the staff stolen from her by her guardian knights , which she sought to use to drain the lifeforce of Earth in order to restore the ruined Cybertron.

Learning from his new ally that Earth was, in fact, Cybertron's ancient enemy Unicron , Megatron surveyed each of the six mountainous "horns" that had begun to emerge from its surface in preparation for Cybertron's arrival, but the first breadcrumb on the staff's trail was not found until Barricade witnessed a dying knight giving Cade Yeager a talisman connected to the staff.

Megatron was angry at his subordinates failure to obtain it, but Barricade salvaged the situation with a plan to use the Transformers Reaction Force to do the work for them.

Requiring additional Decepticon reinforcements to take on Yeager's Autobot protectors, Megatron kidnapped two CIA officers, offering to trade them for the release of a squad of Decepticons of his choosing from TRF custody. Meeting with William Lennox in the desert, Megatron secured the release of Mohawk , Dreadbot , Nitro Zeus , and Onslaught only settling for the latter after his first choice, Berserker , was refused.

The Decepticons tracked Yeager to his South Dakota junkyard hideout, but their quarry had already escaped to a nearby town. Among the refuse, Megatron discovered the head of Starscream, and mused to his traitorous former lieutenant that his victory was near, pitying that Starscream hadn't lived to see his victory.

He was then attacked by Hound but he dispatched the Autobot with a blast of his fusion cannon. Megatron's team followed the autobots, but all they could find in the town was the ramshackle little Autobot Sqweeks. Megatron was disgusted by the human scent he could smell upon the tiny 'bot Yeager and the other Autobots broke cover and sprung an explosive trap. As battle with the Autobots raged, Grimlock arrived to join the fight.

The Decepticons were quickly overpowered and after Dreadbot and Onslaught fell, Megatron called a retreat, escaping with Nitro Zeus and Barricade but leaving Mohawk behind to perish. TRF then stepped in to take over the chase for Yeager. Yeager was subsequently joined by Viviane Wembly, and successfully located Quintessa's staff in the knight's ship at the bottom of the ocean. Quintessa had, in the intervening time, also placed Optimus Prime under her control and sent him to obtain the staff, but when Bumblebee helped Prime break her control, Megatron seized his opportunity, streaking in, blindsiding the disoriented Prime, and snatching the staff away.

He proclaimed to his nemesis that he had turned his back on Cybertron for the last time, and would watch earth die. As Cybertron arrived in Earth orbit, the Decepticons headed for Stonehenge , where Megatron activated the portal through which Unicron's energy would be drained.

When Burton and the British military attempted to stop them, Megatron slew Burton with a single blast. The Decepticons proceeded to relocate to Cybertron, where Megatron delivered the staff to Quintessa and led the defense of her ignition chamber against the joint forces of the Autobots, humans and Dragonstorm.

His forces held the line until Sqweeks destroyed their gun emplacment and Optimus arrived and slew Infernocus. He and Nitro fell back as the Autobots broke through the defenses and arrived to thwart their plan, and soon engaged all the Autobots together.

As he prepared to deliver a killing blow to Hound, he was briefly frozen by Hot Rods time slowing gun and blasted by Hound. He was then tackled by Bumblebee and when he prepared to blast the small Autobot, Optimus Prime intervened, slicing his fusion cannon arm off.

Megatron, despite his injury, managed to subdue Optimus and attempted to sway him by reminding him of how they had once been "brothers", but Optimus retorted that it had indeed only been once , and kicked him through the ignition chamber wall, sending him plummeting through the air. Quintessa was defeated and her plans foiled, but what happen to Megatron is unknown, and it's not clear whether he survived flying out from ignition chamber or not.

Megatron appears in the first film's video game adaptation, Transformers: The Game. Megatron is among the playable characters in the Revenge of the Fallen video game by Activision. Over the next thousand years, the Autobots and Decepticons clashed in a bloody struggle. Defiance 4. As Cybertron was devastated by the worsening war, Sentinel Prime was forced to make a deal with Megatron to seek out another planet whose resources they can exploit to restore their homeworld.

The chosen planet was the resting place of the Primes' Star Harvester. Dark of the Moon Dark of the Moon issue 3. Ironhide led an attack on Simfur Temple.

Foundation 3 Megatron stood at the gate and slaughtered many Autobots as Elita-One and her sisters used the AllSpark to activate a "torch" made by Sentinel. Optimus finally appeared to fend off Megatron and ensure Elita-One escaped to give Sentinel the torch. Sentinel boarded the Ark with the torch to retrieve Optimus from Simfur, but to both Optimus and Megatron's horror, Starscream attacked the Ark, destroying it.

The Autobots fled, but Megatron correctly deduced Optimus would return with a vengeance. Foundation 4 From his citadel , Megatron watched as Optimus and Ironhide battled their way through his defenses. When Optimus finally entered the tower, he found Megatron covered in hatchlings and daring him to kill them with him, gloating that Optimus would never go far enough.

Optimus revealed he didn't: it had all been a distraction as Wheeljack, Chromia and Arcee stole the AllSpark aboard a second Ark. With the AllSpark removed from Sentinel's device, the sun it held in place disappeared. Optimus escaped, rescuing Ironhide from Starscream and Shockwave while leaving Megatron to free himself of his hungry hatchlings.

Megatron swore he would recover the AllSpark, and that if he would have to travel across the entire universe to do so, he would kill every Autobot. Foundation During an assault on the Autobots personally led by Megatron and his hound, Blackout , the tyrant crushed an Autobot opponent's spark before casually tossing his corpse over his shoulder.

He declared that the AllSpark would be his again, to which Blackout assured his leader that he would personally see to it. Megatron was pleased by his minion's loyalty, but decided to dispatch him to assist Starscream's unit to prevent Optimus Prime's reinforcements from entering Tyger Pax. He then left to meet his destiny, but it slipped from his grasp; Prime had commissioned the AllSpark to be launched into the abyss of outer space. Defiance 4 Movie Prequel 1 Planetfall.

After realizing Bumblebee had stalled him from claiming the Cube so the operation could be completed, Megatron tore off Bumblebee's arm—removing his weapon—and crushed his voice box, destroying his vocal processors so that the young Autobot would never speak of the affront to his destiny. Movie Prequel 1 The Reign of Starscream 1 Megatron, believing Prime to be a desperate, inexperienced fool, gave chase. On the way, he detected the Nemesis's distress signal and soon found the mighty starship on a barren world, abandoned by all but his master.

Megatron was berated for allowing the Cube to slip away from his grasp and ordered to thoroughly continue his chase. Defiance 4 As Megatron tracked the AllSpark through space, he mused about his reasons for the war and how he and his "brother" were not all that different, as seen by Optimus' sentencing their home to a slow death by launching the Cube into space.

Tracing the AllSpark via energy signature to a primitive world , he lost contact with it upon atmospheric entry and crashed into the planet's icy northern pole. Low on energon , his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron went into stasis lock. Millennia later, in the year , Archibald Witwicky , the leader of the National Arctic Circle Expedition, discovered Megatron buried deep in the ice.

Accidentally triggering Megatron's navigation system, Witwicky was blinded by a burst of light from the Decepticon leader's eyes, which imprinted the location of the AllSpark on his glasses. Movie Prequel 2 Witwicky was subsequently driven insane by the experience, and upon his return to land, became the subject of attention by the United States government, who recruited adventurers Walter Simmons and Theodore Joseph Wells to investigate his fantastic claims.

Simmons, Wells and their group followed Witwicky's route back to the Arctic, arriving early , where they discovered Megatron's frozen body, and like Witwicky before them, inadvertently activated one of his systems upon entry into the cave, bringing him partially back on-line.

The energy pulse this released caught the attention of Jetfire , a Seeker abandoned on Earth by The Fallen, who quickly made his way to the Arctic, believing that The Fallen himself was the source of the pulse. Discovering the truth, Jetfire angrily informed Megatron that he has never heard of him, and punched him in the face. Simmons and Wells's group subsequently used explosives to send Jetfire punging into the freezing ocean; Megatron, too, was submerged, but jut before the cold overwhelmed him and he shut down again, he weakly proclaimed his name, which Simmons mis-heard as "Mega-Man".

Original Simmons's organization set about constructing an environment dome around Megatron so he could be excavated and studied, which was completed in Then, in , the group discovered the AllSpark in the Colorado River, and quickly drew a correlation between it and their frozen "Mega-Man" because of the similar symbols that they were both decorated with.

Movie Prequel 2. Eventually naming itself Sector Seven and arranging construction of the Hoover Dam to contain the AllSpark, the group initially planned to move Megatron to the dam as well in Movie Prequel 3 Unfortunately, some delays in the installation of the cryo-block system that would keep Megatron frozen delayed the planned move, however, and the outbreak of World War II put it on permanent hold.

Weapon It was in when Sector Seven definitively learned that they could not trust the Arctic cold to keep Megatron frozen when Communist sabotage of the organization's Arctic command post caused the Decepticon leader to thaw out, threatening the lives of the skeleton crew manning the base.

Walter Simmons called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the base, freezing Megatron solid once more only minutes after he awoke. Movie Prequel 4. In the aftermath of the battle in Mission City, Sector Seven hauled away Megatron's corpse along with the other Decepticon bodies. The clandestine human organisation brought the bodies to a secret facility in the Nevada desert, with the intention of getting every bit of information they can out of the dead Decepticons before they were forced to dump them into the sea.

Alliance issue 1 When he arrived to oversee the burial of those who fell in Mission City, Optimus Prime noticed the surviving AllSpark fragment glowed when near Megatron's body, and gave it to Professor Vine for safekeeping. Alliance issue 3.

Later, after Megatron's machinations with The Fallen were undone by Optimus and his Autobots, Megatron freed Shockwave, whose inactive body had been captured by humans much as his had been. Rising Storm 2 When Starscream dared to question Megatron's latest scheme, the Decepticon leader took out his frustration by pummeling his underling, reminding him to always remember his place in the Decepticon hierarchy.

Fed up with being pushed around, Starscream shoved Megatron back and took to the air. Megatron didn't bother to pursue, as he knew that one way or another, Starscream would always return to him. Transformers: Starscream. Megatron sent out Shockwave to retrieve Starscream and his subordinates, who have clandestinely begun dealing Cybertronian weaponry to humans.

Rising Storm 1 As he waited, Megatron fumed about Optimus Prime's past decision to send out the AllSpark into space, internally justifying to himself all his past deeds as necessary evils in the face of Optimus's own transgressions against their species.

Rising Storm 2 While Shockwave and Starscream did their parts in Megatron's scheme, Megatron stayed behind in Nambia, teaching the hatchlings under his care to recognize the image of Optimus Prime, presumably to know him as their enemy.

Rising Storm 4. Transformers: Beginnings. Hiroshi Benson 's laboratory to build an Energon converter. Just before Megatron and Optimus could dish it out, Megatron grabbed a hold of Hiroshi but failed to stop the human from explaining how to use the control set against the Decepticons.

A surprise punch from Optimus staggered Megatron and gave Hydrobot enough time to snitch the device away and use it to release a shock burst of H-Boostium through Bumblebee's stingers towards the Decepticons, prompting them to retreat.

A New Friend. He believed the Transformers could gain ultimate power via the All Spark, power to reshape their alternate modes into anything they imagined. Breaking all Cybertronian laws, he made direct contact with the All Spark to test his theory and found himself with a mighty new alternate mode. Megatron V. Ratchet tried to negotiate a peace and was almost murdered by Megatron in the process.

Ratchet Profile When Arcee fought injustices outside of any faction, Megatron personally made an example of her. Arcee bio. To stop Megatron getting the AllSpark, the Autobots tricked him into looking for it at Tyger Pax Movie Prequel 1 while they launched towards the Alkaris Anomaly , a wormhole that could potentially transport the cube to any one of an infinite number of locations in the universe. Megatron, noticing the launch, was fully capable of catching up to the cube before it would enter the wormhole, but as he passed Cybertron's moon, he found himself ensnared by an Autobot tractor beam of remarkable strength that pulled him down to the moon's surface.

Megatron was able to create a drone unit capable of zeroing in on Optimus Prime's unique energy matrix signature within his spark core. Prelude: Optimus Prime. Enraged by the ignominy of it all, Megatron turned his weapons on the Autobots responsible, but quickly calmed down enough to realize that this was only playing into their hands, and instead ordered Devastator to take his place in the battle.

Megatron swooped back into space, hot on the AllSpark's heels, but was unable to stop the cube from falling through the anomaly. Determined to have the AllSpark's power, Megatron chose to enter the wormhole himself, only to be spat out in some far-off star system, with no trace of the AllSpark Prelude: Megatron. Megatron entered the Solar System , where he freed The Fallen from his pocket dimension prison on one of Saturn 's moons. The Fallen's profile. Even when Megatron was missing in action, the idea he might come back was enough to stop Lockdown from killing Decepticons who'd ticked him off.

Adrift in Space and Time The only exception was Bludgeon but in the early s, Megatron with Wheelie was his catspaw attacked and defeated this upstart. None of Bludgeon's men dared mess with Megatron. He was fully linked to it and drew on its power—"It is me and I am it! Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4. Optimus Prime got the snot beaten out of him, every attack he landed on Megatron being repaired by AllSpark power.

However, he distracted Megatron long enough for Bumblebee to hit him with the other thing they'd broken into the Dam for: Sector Seven's greatest weapon, a nanovirus that targeted AllSpark operation frequencies.

Infected, the tyrant was consumed from within by his own power and collapsed dead. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5. Or so it appeared. He'd downloaded his mind into the AllSpark interface module, knowing Starscream would take it and assimilate it into himself. And so Megatron was able to be a voice in Starscream's head for weeks and weeks—and finally, when Starscream had suffered a setback and wanted a plan to stop the Autobots, Megatron gave him one: to let him out The Decepticon Who Haunted Himself.

While Starscream didn't, he did follow Megatron's tactical suggestions. He had the Decepticons use both carrot promise of truce and stick multiple attacks to make the US government, prompted by the mind-controlled President Allen , boot out the Autobots—and then nuke them as they left, giving the Decepticons a clear shot at reconquest! Revolution Part 1 This plan backfired when Stockade intervened, and Megatron visited a broken, gibbering Starscream to once again tell him the only way out was to release him and let him walk the Earth again.

Revolution Part 2. This time Starscream did And so, when Stockade's New Decepticons stormed the Decepticon Heartland , Megatron was there to "greet" them with fiery death! Megatron fought Stockade in single combat, and Nucleon -fueled punches rained down on him—only for him to grab a punch and use the momentum to hurl his opponent, berating him for lacking clear ambition to support his strength. This fight would've carried on except then the Autobots turned up.

Trashing a rebellion, conquering Earth, and killing Optimus Prime in one day?! But Optimus drew first blood, and before Megatron could truly fight back, he was forcibly teleported with his Decepticons to Cybertron. A dead Cybertron. A dead Cybertron that itself teleported to an unknown area of space, leaving them trapped with no way back and no way off, forever. Revolution Part Three. The convoy was disrupted when the driver of the lead truck spun out causing the rest of the vehicles to pile up on the icy roads.

It was determined later that the driver was the Soviet spy Sergei Tasarov who had taken the place of the Sector Seven agent Peter Hodgson. While the convoy prepared their defenses and a Soviet strike force attacked trying to obtain the Ice Man. When Megatron came partially online, it was obvious that some time had passed.

Not only was he encased in a primitive transport, but there were lifeforms fighting over him. Before Megatron could properly exterminate them, another crude transport crashed into his, causing a massive but not spark-threatening explosion.

Megatron would have been pleased to know that the fire only added to his terrifying visage in the eyes of the maggots. Regaining his composure, Megatron noticed an insect standing near him. As Megatron reached out to grab it, another insect , this one terminally damaged, began firing crude projectiles which his body armor easily deflected.

Waiting until after the creature had expended its ammunition, Megatron grabbed it in his hand, only to discover that it had packed itself with explosives, which threw Megatron to the ground when they detonated. Then, the aforementioned first insect began spraying liquid nitrogen on Megatron, causing him to go back into stasis.

Unable to escape, Megatron screamed a dark vengeance upon his captors. Ghosts of Yesterday. Megatron was born evil, always wanting domination of everything. Megatron Movie Voyager His fiery diatribes still managed to sway thousands, however. Robot Replica Megatron. At some point, Megatron took a stealth mode so he could attack Optimus without warning. Night Attack Megatron. When frozen on Earth, Megatron remained vaguely conscious and remembers a few things from when he warmed up slightly. At one point, his body was worshipped as a god by early humans.

Premium Series Megatron. After being blasted into stasis lock by the AllSpark, Megatron was dumped in the sea. He remained trapped and seething with rage until the Decepticons fixed him using cannibalized parts from themselves.

Regardless, Megatron gave no shits: he just wanted revenge! Now, feeling the AllSpark's power flowing inside him, he had the power to finally destroy Prime! We don't have enough energon cubes to power a full-scale assault.

Ready the shuttle for launch! Now all we need is a little energon and a lot of luck. Megatron : More than you imagine, Optimus Prime. Starscream : Oh, how it pains me to do this! Megatron : Wait! I still function! Starscream : Wanna bet? Megatron : Starscream! Megatron : Why should I, what's in it for me? Unicron : Your bargaining posture is highly dubious.

But very well. I will provide you with a new body, and new troops to command. Megatron : And? Unicron : And nothing! You belong to me Megatron : I belong to nobody! Unicron : Perhaps, I misjudged you. Megatron : No, no. I accept your terms! I accept! Unicron : Excellent! Megatron : Their defenses are broken, let the slaughter begin! Megatron : Soundwave, jam that transmission! Soundwave : Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Ratbat, eject.

Operation: interference. Starscream : How do you feel, mighty Megatron? Galvatron's beginning was Megatron's end. This Megatron was actually a successor named after the original, a Predacon criminal who existed hundreds of years after the Autobots defeated the Decepticons in the Great War.

After the events of Beast Wars , Megatron escaped to Cybertron where he infected the entire population with a virus, storing their sparks for use in his Vehicon drone army. A small group of Maximals the Autobots' benevolent offspring , led by Optimus Primal, attempted to free the denizens of Cybertron and bring a prophesied technorganic harmony to Cybertron. In the series finale of Beast Machines , Optimus Primal and Megatron would have one final battle, which ended with both of them falling into the core of the planet, triggering the planet's technorganic transformation.

Both Optimus and Megatron would die in the process, the final remnants of the war that always seemed to haunt Cybertron. The Transformers comics of the s and s were vastly different from the popular cartoon. In the pages of the comics, Megatron was more of a minor player, routinely having his leadership usurped by the likes of Shockwave and Scorponok. He had a handful of fakeout deaths that would take him off the board for dozens of issues at a time, but he met his final end — at least until Generation 2 — in the 79th issue of the series.

Megatron found himself involved in a plot by Starscream and Shockwave to commandeer the Autobot Ark as a final power play as the war wound down. The Autobot Ratchet ruined the Decepticons' plans, sending the Ark crashing to Earth's surface, killing himself and the three Decepticons in the process. It was a somewhat ignominious end for Megatron, but that's how the Marvel comics always treated him.