Megatron (Robots in Disguise)
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| Transformers character | |
 Robots in Disguise Megatron |
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| Megatron (Gigatron) | |
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| Affiliation | Predacon  |
| Function | Predacon leader |
| Alternate Modes | dragon/bat/car/jet/hand |
| Series | Robots in Disguise |
| Voiced by | Daniel Riordan (U.S.) Yōichi Kobiyama (JP) |
Megatron (known as Gigatron in Japan) was the merciless leader of the Predacons (Destrongers), including Sky-Byte, Slapper, Nightscream and Gas Skunk, in Transformers: Robots in Disguise. Megatron is a Six-Changer, powerful enough to transform into five additional modes besides his robot form - twin-headed dragon, bat-gargoyle creature, race car, jet and claw (GigaDragon, GigaBat, GigaFormula, GigaJet and GigaHand in Japanese). Each form has its own different frightening capabilities, making Megatron a very unstable and unpredictable fighter. (In Car Robots, each mode has its own personality) Unlike his namesake, Megatron would often sit back from a conflict and allow his subordinates to do the dirty work.
A Predacon warlord before coming to Earth, he is believed to have decimated numerous planets in his quest for energy. Needing ever more energy, Megatron targeted Earth's energy; to that end, he kidnapped the human energy-research expert, Doctor Kenneth Onishi, using his psycho-probe to drain information on Earth's energy sources from his mind. But even his subordinates were unaware that Megatron had a greater scheme in motion...
His attempts to amass energy thwarted by the Autobots and the incompetence of his own troops, Megatron sought to bolster his forces, locating six Autobot protoforms in a crashed Cybertronian spaceship, bestowing them with military vehicle modes and corrupting them with his own Spark energy, creating the Decepticons. However, their leader, Scourge, happened to scan Optimus Prime along with the tanker that would form his alternate mode, and as a result became something of an "evil clone" of Prime, whose cruelty and cunning eventually extended to plotting against Megatron.
In the pursuit of his greater agenda, Megatron began seeking the mysterious O-Parts, which led to the Orb of Sigma, in a subterranean pyramid. The orb would lead to Cerebros, the power key to the huge Autobot battle station, Fortress Maximus, who, it was revealed, he had actually come to Earth to obtain. When Megatron was buried in the ruins of the pyramid following a failed attempt to steal the orb from the Autobots, he underwent his most startling transformation of all, as the energies of the pyramid resurrected him as the vampiric Galvatron (Devil Gigatron), able to enhance his own strength by draining the life energy from others. As Galvatron, he possessed four additional transformations - a hydrofoil, a griffin, a pteranodon and an elephant, used to terrifying effect when he drained the energy of Fortress Maximus and engaged Optimus Prime in a final battle at the Earth's core. Thankfully, Prime was able to defeat him with the gathered energy of Earth's children, courtesy of Fortress Maximus, and he was sent back to Cybertron for imprisonment.
[edit] Dreamwave Comics
The character of RiD Megatron made one appearance in Dreamwave comics Summer Special issue before the company went under. There was a contest in the issue as to whether RiD or Beast Wars would be the next Dreamwave comic series, which Beast Wars won.
[edit] Transformers: Universe
Although this character of Megatron did not appear in the Transformers: Universe series, an unreleased toy was a red remold of the RiD Megatron, and was supposed to be the new form of the Beast Wars incarnation of Megatron.
RiD Megatron was remolded as the Botcon 2005 exclusive figure Deathsaurus.
