MTMTE 32: Megatron and Ravage

A dramatic reading of MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE #32. Script by James Roberts, Art by Alex Milne, Colours by Joana Lafuente and Josh Perez, with voices by me.

[GamiCross]

"If the world thinks of you as a monster, what does it matter? The world is wrong. But when you start to think of YOURSELF as a monster. . . "

[justinmontana]

I constantly forget that Ravage is a full Cybertronian, so hearing him talk and reason like one is rather refreshing

[seanripper]

He overthrew a tyrannical government and became even worse than they were at their worst. Optimus made him see that.

[DaBirdman]

could anyone have ever imagined that a cartoon show based on a line of toys could be the basis of chilling dialog like this?

[commentscomplaints]

Wow...an actual reason for the villain to become a Hero.

[samuelmeyer]

This summarizes why Megatron becoming an Autobot is a fantastic story.

[defender]

"I always wanted to be a medic"

And he'd get that chance. He took it. He became a healer.

And a hero.

[kac]

"I came to hate the person I'd become."
What I really gets me about this line is that Megatron stayed this way to the end of the series. On Necrobot's planet when he saw how many lifes he had ended he just stood in silence. He might have redeemed himself in the eyes of the crew of Lost Light, he started to care for the innocent. But till the end, he thought of himself as a monster, which resulted in him being unable to use the matrix.

[Laserbeak]

Ravage: "Dead? Or just resting?"

That part gets me everytime!!!

[NoversalStudios]

it feels pretty sad, especially from Ravage's point of view; almost like he idolized Megatron like a servant to king, or a son to a father. Rather strange, but not unfamiliar in the transformers universe. I like it.

[emperorstarscream]

COME ON PEOPLE LET'S MAKE THIS TO AN ANIMATED SERIES

[doctorbird]

I just cried over an old man robot talk to his robot cat in a comic based off some gimmicky toys. I still cried though.

[BBmetalhead]

It's stuff like this that almost makes me forget that Transformers, at its core, is a marketing ploy to sell toys (which don't get me wrong I freaking love these toys). And yet the franchise has evolved over 3 decades and has become more than just a toyline.

[Arcjaw]

The soul-destroying pain Ravage must be feeling while he's hearing this. The mountains of regret Megatron is feeling. All captured in a few panels from a comic book. And all this from the mind of someone who gets the characters from an (admittedly) cringey 80s toy commercial with some of the greatest characters in Sci-fi

[acrazysheepdog]

To see the tyrant and warlord, the Mighty Lord Megatron, sitting down in a room, with Ravage, reflecting on his actions and what he had become is truly one of the best character turn arounds I’ve ever seen. James Roberts, you did a hell of a good job with this story.

[thenightmarecontinues]

Megatron was a philosopher who worked the mines of Cybertron, he wished for society to change. He was beaten and imprisoned for his words, he gained his followers and began a rebellion. The ranks of the deceptions grew, but as the battles raged on Megatron's spark became colder and he became a tyrant in place of the Senate.

No longer was it about freedom but about domination.

Megatron gets a happy ending, due to an explosion that duplicates the ship he was on that had both autobot and deceptions he had two lives to live. The one where he faces punishment for the atrocities he committed and his other self leaves the galaxy to explore what the unknown has to offer him.

IDW may be one of the greatest comic characters ever written, it's a journey. It's absolutely a tragedy that we won't ever get another Marvel/IDW crossover where we can have this Megatron have a talk with another former villain, Magneto

[MrStingBlade]

I like the idea that Megatron just sat down one day and went "Whoa I've done some pretty messed up stuff.. I am the bad guy"

[trial_with_an_error]

The fact that Soundwave felt Ravage's death from across an entire solar system...

[XenoJehuty]

I love how you sound like Corey Burton's Megatron. Who I felt was really the 'thinking man's Megatron' whose voice could be charismatic as well as menacing. Frank Welker is the primeo Megatron but his Megs fits the more...ruthless and 'sick, twisted' Megatron truly far gone from the path of light.

[SamaritanPrime]

There are things in life that I never thought I'd see.

Megatron as an Autobot? WHAT? It's almost inconceivable outside of bad fan fiction.

But here... here... it's happened, it's real, and I understand. Megatron had become the very thing he'd fought against, and had never stopped to consider it until his conversation with Optimus Prime. One can only imagine the thoughts that ran through his mind afterwards.

And to top it all off, Megatron WANTS to be an Autobot.

What a time to be alive.