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tavalya-ra:

My favorite Megatron is the “Transformers Animated” incarnation. Most of the time, he’s suave and crafty and a more cultured variety of large ham than his roaring gladiator counterparts. But TFA Megatron is also the least successful Megatron. Now, I can’t speak for all incarnations of Transformers since I haven’t seen all of them, but I’m familiar with Bayverse, Prime, War for/Fall of Cybertron, the Marvel and IDW comic runs, etc… and TFA Megatron didn’t do so well as those other Megs. He’s the Megatron who lost to the Autobots, who got himself and his entire faction kicked off Cybertron, who spent millions of stellar cycles just drifting through space looking for one relic and accomplishing nothing else…

And then I realized something else. TFA Megatron is unique in that in his version of the universe, Cybertron is not a wasteland. The planet did not get completely trashed during the war- it still exists and it is still thriving. The reason TFA Megatron lost is because he wasn’t willing to do what other Megatrons felt was acceptable or just didn’t think about at all in their pursuit of victory: destroy Cybertron.

TFA Megatron lost the war because he actually gave a fuck. He cares about his home planet. Sacrificing Cybertron wasn’t an acceptable cost. For my money, that makes him the best Megatron.