>What if Megatron had a predecessor who was STRONGER and EVILLER, but also EXACTLY LIKE MEGATRON... And his name wasn't Megatron, it was MegatronUS...Who writes this shit?
>>153220524The fallen was originally a dreamwave thing, but the haslab group extended upon it with some lore book.And in that lore book and other media, he's depicted as this hekin tragic figure who killed his ober out of blind rage or some shit.I'm not sure if I'm missing stuff, but I really don't care because the aligned continuity is fucking shit.
>>153220524>>153220734Megatronus is unironically most interesting in TF:One where he was a genuinely heroic guy celebrated for his might whose iconography was appropriated and corrupted by MegatronMaking him the Transformers equivalent of the Swastika is better than making him what? The THIRD Satan equivalent Transformer?
Where do you think Megatron got the name from?
>>153220524Robert Kirkman owns you and he can do what he wants to you OP you fucking pauper
>>153220734>the aligned continuity is fucking shitwrong
>>153220793Megaton+Electron
>>153220951Well yeah, in real life, but in-universe he named himself after Megatronus.
>>153220793Sunstreaker, named after the ancient pre-Cybertronian diety S'nst-R'k'r
>>153220945correct actually lmao
>>153220945I should clarify. The cybertron games and prime were good, but the aligned continuity was poorly handled. It was trying to e a bases for all transformers media to take inspiration going forward, but it took those games and the tv show and try desperately to make them connect.It didn't matter how many tie ins they made, the cybertron games and prime just can't cohesively connect with each other.So that's why the aligned continuity is shit.
>>153221078Prime is good, the games are good, the novels are good. cope.
>>153221176Nah lol
>>153220778>The THIRD Satan equivalent Transformer?He's not Satan, he's Judas.
>>153220524megatronus is basically thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZCl5xgfrk4
>>153221363Is regular devil Liege Maximo?
>>153221277>>153221363>>153221390Unicron is SatanLiege Maximo is the Anti-ChristMegatronus the Fallen is Judas
>>153221186how am I supposed to argue with you now that you clarified your position as being essentially the same as mine? damn I wanted to try and claim that TFP is the spiritual successor to Beast Wars
>>153220524I feel like this kind of retcons DWJ's run which implied the Decepticon stuff was this new movement which is why Genvo fell into it
>>153221168All aligned really was was a new broad continuity. Like how Marvel and Sunbow are both G1 despite a bunch of differences. The idea was that they’d share backstories and characterization, which is more than most G1 continuities have in relation to another.The idea of aligned was basically a way to fuse G1 elements ( and a few others) with movie ones. The WFC games were chosen as a basis for the continuity, because they wanted a classic G1 feel at the core of the universe.
>>153220524https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Fallen#Conceptual_history
>>153221506Who loves ya baby?
>>153221614But it failed tho
>>153221363Why does super devil looks like Dungeon Keeper?
>>153221064Fitting name for best autobot
>>153220524>"The Matrix of Oppression"
>>153220778Imagine being One Megatronus and finding out some psycho named himself after you and turned your actual face into a symbol of fear and war. I’d be beyond fucking pissedAlso, I’m pretty sure others have noticed, but I think it’s a good subtle showing of D-16/Megatron’s character that the only thing he really brings up about Megatronus is how strong and powerful he was. Not what he fought for or used his strength and power for, just that he was the biggest baddest motherfuckerIt’s why he followed Sentinel and fell in with the High Guard so easily. He really believed in that might makes right mentality. Same with Sentinel who also respected Megatronus’s power which is why he stole his cog. I dunno I just think it’s neat
I hate how people think that the only way to generate thread discussion is through a bait OP
>>153220524It's certainly silly. I come away every issue with more questions
>>153220524I've like The Fallen as a design and concept since he was introduced in Dreamwave, but I don't care for his real name being 'Megatronus' and Megatron being named after him. It's just lore bloat that devalues the main villain of Transformers by having him be named after or inspired by someone else.>>153220793What was wrong with it just being his name?
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_(myth)
I think my main issue with him in Skybound is that he kind of makes Megatron feel lesser as a character and repeats the whole plot beat of him grooming Starscream by having the Fallen groom Megatron in return.Plus Megatron is already an enormously powerful despot who eats his own kin so trying to one-up him just doesn't work.
>>153220524>MEGATRONUS>MegatronUS>Megatron But AmericanTruly the most evil robot.
>>153224761Not funny. Didn't laugh.
>>153222846matrix means "womb", kirkman's betting on incelbux
>>153220793By that logic, we need to find out how Megatronus got his name- Oh, I know! Before him there was an even MEANER Transformer named Megatronusus!
>>153226452Funny
>>153224577I don't think it lessens Megatron, Skybound already established him as a dark prime with his own evil matrix.This just completes the concept, making Megatron the latest in a lineage of dark primes going back to the Fallen. And instead of passing on wisdom like Autobots, the Decepticons groom the next leader through torture.
>>153220524The fallen being named megatronus is a later thing, and him being the decepticon leader is from the bayverse and not really anywhere else up to this comic
Beast wars is to blame in a roundabout way.
>>153228336RiD15 treated him as the first Decepticon too.
>>153229229because they were copying bayverse, instead of the aligned fallen lore
5000 hours in MSPaint
>>153226894That sounds stupid as fuck lmao
>>153226452ew
>>153228336there is something fairly grim about Energon copying Pat Lee's homework but putting Michael Bay's name on it
>>153220524Why not Gigatron? Then you have have Gigatron, Megatron and Galvatron.
>>153220524I thought Skybound Transformers was meandering a bit but it's amazing how much worse it got with Kirkman as the writer.
>>153224761>>153230008Kek
>>153232251>Why not Gigatron?Different guy.
>>153224761Go die already Chomsky.
>>153232204You do know that hasbro launced their newest toyline with megatronus designed to be 90% dreamwave fallen last year,right ?They use designs that are on market rn,Dwj modeled prime after 3rd party masterpiece toy
>>153232251There are megatron,galvatron,super megatron,gigatron,magmatron and Niggatron (d16 from TfOne)Cancelled concepts include Bigotron who was Megatron BUT NOW HES BIGGER and Bigotron who used racial slurs mid battleTheres also that half optimus half megatron clone that starscreams ghost possesedThat guy was cool,he had a giant revolver cylinder on his forearm
Sohttps://bleedingcool.com/comics/energon-universes-m-a-s-k-1-gets-200000-orders-from-comic-stores/Image is better in handling the IP than IDW was throught its entire run.>>153232251Because Megs is evolving into Animated Megatron, so he is ditching tank mode for Attack Helicopter, if not he is getting the B2 Body mixed with AnimatedAlso Is cloudfare shitting itself again?
>>153232644I hate that tracker got blacked but fuck that is one sexy camaro
>>153232251Gigatron is some lazy asshole from the future who tried to take over a gap year. Not exactly the most intimidating Con leader
>>153222586They both probably inspired by Lord of Darkness from Legend
>>153232644One got Dan WattersThe other got Brandon EastonNot too hard to see who draws more dimes