TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on MEGATRON

You would have waited an eternity for this! Celebrating 150 episodes, and 150,000 subscribers, it's finally time for The Basics on MEGATRON!

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Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

[LordProteus]

Megatron: "Nobody summons Megatron!"
Chris McFeely: "But it's our 150th episode special!"
Megatron: "All right, just this once, I may be summoned."

[camerongrow]

I really love how Frank Welker evolved his Megatron voice. He did raspy great, but the voice he has now is a perfect mix of rasp and intimidation.

[stephencastro]

"Thank you Chris McFeely. Unlike some of my other warriors you never failed me."

- Megatron

[Obi-Wan_Kenobi]

If you didn't already know, Frank Welker is also the voice of Fred from Scooby Doo. It's crazy that the same guy has been voicing these two iconic characters for 30 years (Megatron) and 50 years (Fred) respectively!

[TFfangeek]

Megatron, a villain that has been terrifying and entertaining generations past and present and who will always come back to show how evil the Decepticon tyrant is for both Autobots and Transformers fans alike.

[SwiftpawWolffox]

"Your true lord and master has returned!" - You could not of picked a better line to start with for mentioning Prime's Megatron and him being Welker's return to the role in animation.
Ol' G1 Buckethead will always be nostalgic but Prime and Animated are two of the best incarnations of Megatron, showcasing more of how he is a cruel, manipulative Magnificant Bastard that's only maliciously violent when he needs to be.

[YEYawson]

The version of Megatron I like the most is the TFA version, which I grew up with. Such a calm, cool and collected villain in the series.
And I also love his own catchphrase, "Decepticons, transform and rise up!"

[shona-sof]

IDW Spoilers:

The scene where Autobot Megatron was faced with a physical representation of how many lived he'd ended in an ocean of flowers is _stunningly_ powerful. It's now central to how I see the character.

[BossEvasion]

When I first learned that ol' Megs became an Autobot in the IDW Comics, I was a little hesitant to learn more, thinking it would have some kind of contrivance to it. But when I saw your dub of his conversation with Ravage, I found it amazing and one of the most incredible face-turns in fiction.

[erikbjelke]

"Even cosmically-empowered, you are pathetic, Starscream!"

So, fun fact. . . ages ago, my mom came home one day with this HUGE package that was every single comic book published by Marvel that month, including the first appearance of the merged Megatron-Ratchet in Transformers. I managed to snag the following issue while vacationing with my grandparents, a rare treat for me as a kid to read two consecutive issues of the same comic. So yeah, that definitely ranks as one of my most memorable Megatron moments (try saying that five times fast!) for a wide variety of reasons.

[Gojirawars]

The more Chris talks about _Prime, _ the more I want him to do an entire episode about the whole show.

[diranocusrex]

You forgot that Megatron did something no other 80s bad guy had done and killed the epic goody two shoes. All hail MEGATRON!

[Atomicsaurian]

The current, "definitive" story of Optimus and Megatron ironically mirriors the story of Charles and Magnus from Marvel's X-men. Both want the same ends but one favored peaceful transition and the other violence and revolution.

[jeebus]

Aligned/Prime Megatron is my favorite iteration of the character, hands down. I love his design, his backstory with Orion/Optimus and just hearing Welker as Megatron again was so damn good.

[DominatorLegend]

12:44 Gotta say, that was an excellent moment to show Welker's return. He's indeed the rightful lord and master of all Decepticons.

[iron]

"If I cant' be a gun, i'll be everything but a gun" - Megatron.

[macroberts]

I would have waited an eternity for this...

[SnakeRoadComicsOfficial]

What's interesting about the G1 cartoon is that Megatron isn't the first decepticon but just their recent leader. That implies there was a leader or leaders before him. I would love to see some stories on that.

[HORRIOR]

There ain't nothing basic about Megatron.

ALL HAIL MEGATRON!

[UnseenBubby]

Something I enjoyed about the WFC Trilogy was that Megatron was unsure in himself. He wasn't happy the war was going on for so long and it had taken a toll on Cybertron. He did believe that he was fighting for the good of all Cybertronians, and showed a remarkable level of restraint when Shockwave proposed increasingly brutal and unethical ways of gaining power. I love the scene during Earthrise, where Shockwave is building a warship powered on Energon from living Cybertronians, Megatron visits a failing factory in order to gain insight on whether to keep going with a plan. The workers there practically worship Megatron, believing whole heartedly in the Decepticon cause. It deeply unsettles him when he realizes that he has to do increasingly brutal actions to save Cybertron.