Megatron (Beast Wars)

Megatron was the leader of the predacons during the beast Era, and fought in the Beast Wars on Pre-Earth. He is the main antagonist of Transformers: The Beast War.

Character History
Long ago, Megatron was Jolt, an Autobot who lived on Cybertron after the end of the Machine Wars. He, like Optimus Prime many years before him, worked in the Iacon Hall of Records, where he discovered much about the history of the Decepticons, and slowly he became brainwashed by this knowledge and began to desire power, and that greed then consumed. Changing his name to Megatron, he gathered a group of rebels from across Cybertron and had them storm the capital Building, where the Autobot High Council sat. The rebellion failed, however, and the Decepticon band was captured and imprisoned. All but one.

The one remaining member, Wasp, planned the escape of his master and allies. When the time came for the group to be transported from their Cybertron custody to a prisoner outpost on Earth's moon, Wasp made preparations to intercept the ship. However, during their breakout, the Decepticons were interrupted by a team of Maximal scientists, who were onboard their passing ship. A firefight ensued before Megatron ordered the ship to rammed into the Maximals and they collided, before a fantastic falsh of white light consumed them both. They both crash landed on the prehistoric Earth below, where Megatron decided to take on the forms of Earth's creatures, just as the Maximals had. Megatron himself took on the alternate form of a tyrannosaurus-rex, and dubbed himself and his team of criminals Predacons.

Character Biography
Megatron then discovered that the planet was covered with many Energon deposits, and he faced off against the Maximal leader, Optimus Primal, numerous times in various attempts to steal the Energon. However, Megatron then remembered that he had smuggled a valuable Decpeticon artifact from Iacon into prison with him; the Golden Disk. However, it had been considered lost in the crash. Megatron recovered the final shard, only to learn that it only seemed to contain a message from the original Megatron.

However, it was lated discovered that this Megatron was in fact a clone of the original, and that he had been shot down by the Vok over Earth. Megatron then discovered the clone's body and ressurected him. The clone revealed himself to be a herald of the Vok; mysterious alien beings who posed as a common foe to the Maximals and Predacons. Megatron and Optimus teamed up breifly to face the clone and the Vok, who had possessed the Maximal Dinobot. In the battle, Megatron was badly damaged by Dinobot after killing the clone before Optimus destroyed Dinobot. However, although the Maximals presumed that Megatron had been lost, he then returned to the Predacons, only now under control of the Vok.

The Vok later revealed to a captive Optimus that he had interferred in their plans for Earth and now had to restart life there. Optimus rebelled aginst this; stating that he could allow the living creatures to die. The Vok then began their destruction of the planet's surface. Megatron and Optimus had one last battle on Earth before the Vok graciously opened a portal, which allowed them to return to Cybertron in their own time period. Optimus defeated Megatron in a one on one and then dragged him back through the portal as the Vok restarted Earth.

Upon return to Cybertron, the fugitive Predacons were imprisoned, but Megatron revealed that he had several contacts who remained on Cybertron after his failed rebellion, including the Autobot Air Raid. Air Raid unleashed a deadly virus that shut down Cybertron, allowing Megatron to break free and take control. Megatron then murdered Air Raid and set about reshaping Cybertron in his image. However, Optimus reorganized his Maximals as a revolutionary force and vowed to take Megatron down and liberate Cybertron. In the ensuing Revolutionary War, many Predacons or Decepticons and Maximals and Autobots died. Optimus faced Megatron one final time and then threw him down a reactor shaft to his supposed death.

However, Megatron returned, but now his body was a mere Spycam. He remained secretly in control of his forces while Optimus attempted to rebuild Cybertron. Megatron then discovered the preserved body of the original Optimus Prime, and transferred his spark into him, becoming Galvatron. Galvatron released a second wave of his virus, killing many Cybertronians, and enticing Optimus to call for a mass evacuation of Cybertron. As the last two beings on Cybertron, Galvatron and Optimus had their final battle before Optimus knocked both them down a shaft leading directly into Cybertron's core. Upon their deaths, Cybertron was reborn a technoorganic paradise.