Megatron (Cyberverse)

This article pertains to an Inconsistently Admirable with more than one version who is Inconsistently Admirable!

Inconsistently Admirable

Full Name

Megatronus

Alias

Megatron

Lord Megatron
The Thief (By Megatron X)
Failure You Knew in This Universe (By Megatron X)

Origin

Transformers: Cyberverse

Family

Primus (creator)

Allies

Decepticons

Soundwave
Optimus Prime
Dead End
Shockwave
Hot Rod
Drift
MacAdamms
Astrotrain

Enemies

Optimus Prime (former arch-rival and best friend; amended)

Autobots
Starscream
Quintessons
The Scientist
The Judge
Megatron X (alternate self; archenemy)

Powers / Skills

Cybertronian Physiology:

Transformation
Longetivity
Installed Weaponry
Superhuman Attributes
High Durability
Flight

Charisma
Leadership
High intelligence
Brute strength
Grandmaster Combatant
Fusion Cannon
Mace Mastery
Matrix of Leadership Enhancement (briefly)

Goals

To win the Great War by claiming the Allspark

Defeat Optimus Prime and the Autobots
Rule other versions of Cybertron (all abandoned)
Save the universe from Starscream
Prevent the Quintessons from enslaving Cybertron
Prepare for the Other One's arrival (all succeeded)
To defend Cybertron from Megatron X's wrath (failed; posthumously succeeded)

Greatest Actions

Saving Cybertron by destroying Starscream and the Quintessons alongside Optimus Prim.e

Calling off the Great War to protect his universe from Megatron X.

Type of IA

Extremist Tyrant

“	Friends! Fellow Cybertronians! Hear me! I used to fight in front of you, now I fight for you! It is time we take control of our destiny. I see a future Cybertron for all Cybertronians! This is the beginning of a new era! From this day forward we stand together, 'till all are one!	„
	~ Megatron's original speech as he forms the Decepticons

“	Starscream... I mistreated you all this time. And now, I must destroy you.	„
	~ Megatron's remorse for his treatment of Starscream before killing him to save Cybertron

Megatronus, now Megatron is one of the three main protagonists (alongside Bumblebee and Optimus Prime) of Transformers: Cyberverse.

He is the tyrannical leader of the Decepticons who began the Great War against his former friend Optimus Prime, but after travelling to a different universe and seeing what he could have become if he fully embraced tyranny, he began to change for the better and started to make preparations to protect his homeworld from his variant.

He was voiced by Marc Thompson.

His Good Ranking[]

What Makes Him Admirable?[]

Unlike most versions of Megatron, he didn't gain following because of his ruthlessness in the gladiatorial ring, but because of his charisma and personality, even Bumblebee used to admire him and Optimus was a close friend and follower of his.
He initially formed the Decepticon Movement with the genuine intentions to reform Cybertron and provide equal rights, though he slowly began to change as he gathered more power.
Though he did ignite the Great War that led to Cybertron's death and the endangerment of the Transformer race, unlike most versions of him, he genuinely wished to end the war and met up with Optimus at MacAddams several times throughout it in hopes of a peace treaty.
After Starscream stole the Allspark, he agreed to have a peace treaty with Optimus and discuss how they could help each other in this crisis and get their troops to work together though ultimately nothing came of it.
After being saved by Cheetor from Starscream's scraplets attack, he chose to allow the Autobots to leave in gratitude with no pragmatic motives whatsoever.
After being freed from the Quintessons, he joined the Cybertronian Alliance and though he didn't wish to help in the conflict, after being convinced by Dead End to take the Quintessons' Multiverse drive to travel to other realities, he joined as one of the main forces in the assault, even if it was for pragmatic reasons.
Arriving to a different universe where a version of him had won the Great War, Megatron bore witness firsthand to all the atrocities he had committed and could have committed and being faced with how far he'd strayed from his main goal, chose to redeem himself by stealing Megatron X's Matrix of Leadership at the cost of his own optic.
He freed Astrotrain and the Insecticons from Megatron X's rule, bringing them back with him to his home reality.
He chose to return to his original universe in order to assist in the Quintesson crisis, finding Starscream as the new Judge, he helped free the prisoners and combined the energy of his Matrix with Optimus' in order to overwhelm Starscream with energy and kill him once and for all, saving the entire universe from anhhilation at the Quintessons' hands.
He ended the Great War by calling a ceasefire and began to prepare his world for the arrival of Megatron X, having Astrotrain and Dead End create a weapon that could send its victims into unspace and trying to get the help of the alternate Thirteen within the new Matrix.
Once Megatron X's supersoldiers began teleporting in, he had the dimensional shields raised and called Optimus in for aid.
He bestowed all his troops with multiversal energy which allowed them to defeat the first wave of invaders, and he himself took out the second wave with his personal dimension ray.
Even after being attacked and disarmed by his variant, he still tried one last attack before being fatally wounded, dying in Optimus' arms, using his last moments to encourage his old friend to defeat Megatron X.

What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]

He is too tyrannical and spent basically the entire show as the main antagonist, being responsible for most of the events that transcurred as he was the one that started the Great War and led to Cybertron's demise. Not to mention his act of trying to kill the Allspark by poisoning it with Shockwave's spark which would have led to the extinction and mass destruction of all Cybertronian life in the universe, including off world colonies, forcing Cheetor to sacrifice himself by giving his own spark to once more purify it. Also while he does become remorseful for the Great War and his treatment of Starscream, he never shows remorse for this or any of his much viler crimes, making him too corruptive for NPG.
He is considerably lethal and dangerous as he was a brutal gladitorial warrior who rose through the ranks because of his insane strength and raw power, earning his most famous victory by crushing Devastator Maximus' brain module. His lethality only increased after the war as he brutally ripped of Bumblebee's voice box in order to prevent him from revealing Megatron's plans with the Allspark to other Autobots and mercilessly murdered Starscream by sadistically chasing him through the Nemesis and shooting him point blank in the back with his Fusion Cannon before dropping him to the moon (though to be fair Starscream had tried to kill him before).
He is a huge jerk and is a very egotistical person as he refused to lend his aid initially during the Quintesson conflict even with others like Soundwave asking him to, and really only helped because Dead End promised him the chance to conquer countless realities by stealing the Quintessons' Multiverse Drive. Even after his redemption and ending the Great War he still retains many negative traits as he had Cybertron split in two to divide the factions and kept the comatose Windblade hidden on his side and only returned her because Optimus called him out for it when Bee and Whirl were on his territory and he tried to execute them.
When the Autobot desserter WildWheel returned to Cybertron looking for Optimus, Megatron completely ignored the treaty for once and led him directly to the border so he could find the Prime, offering him a place in the Decepticon ranks depending on how he returned.

Trivia[]

He alongside his IDW, Generation One Japan, Peter David, Unicron Trilogy, and One counterparts are the only Transformers characters to be both Inconsistently Admirable and Inconsistently Heinous
Megatron was mostly NPE or even Pure Evil for most of the series, but he became IA directly because of an alternate version of him that does in fact qualify as Pure Evil.