Meet The Leader Of The Decepticons - Transformers Megatron

By Russell Masina

If you're wise to the most recent box office smash hits, you're familiar with the Transformers series of films that have been put out. Though there are just 2 installations, you can be promised a lot of to come out in the coming years. You may not realize that these films were prefaced of comic books, novels and a couple of animated television shows. There are a lot of Transformers that you may see a benefit in recognizing for the sake of interpreting the films more effectively. With the exception of Optimus Prime, possibly the most significant to recognize is Transformers Megatron.

For this article and the sake of space, I will not delve into any of the other Transformers more than is necessary, so that you can focus exclusively on why Megatron is important to the franchise.

Much like Optimus Prime and the Autobots, Megatron is a very powerful and respected leader. Through the course of many comics and episodes, it became evident that Megatron was the most effective and feared leader that the Decepticons ever had. He ruled by fear tactics and through violent outbursts. He was a brutal force in the war on Cybertron as well.

The Decepticons are from Cybertron, a planet that also saw the creation and evolution of the Autobots. Basically this is a classic good vs. Evil story. The Autobots fought the Decepticons because they refused to reason in any other fashion. Their war spans the whole length of the comics, series, and is now beginning to be retold in part through the movies. Megatron battles for control of the Allspark, or The Matrix as it was known through the comics and television series.

Optimus Prime and Megatron were once friends it is assumed, although now they are always up at arms. It is believed that Optimus is saddened at the reality of what the Autobots and Decepticons could do together, where Megatron just finds it all amusing. Their bad blood began when Megatron turned on the bots of Cybertron and formed the Decepticons.

Megatron at first departed for Earth, even in the current films, to plunder its resources to substantiate Cybertron. He went with a grouping of his most faithful Decepticons. He was pursued there by Optimus Prime and his most trustworthy Autobots who planned to end him. The lone manner that Cybertron could become the planet that it used to be, it would cost Earth its living for substantiation. Optimus Prime hailed to deliver us from devastation. Megatron would obliterate us entirely in a second for his self-serving intention.

I can only hope that you understand who Megatron is. Much like any Transformer, there is more than meets the eye. There have been glimpses of compassion and loyalty, but for the most part it is brutal leadership by fear and intimidation. - 31409

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