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* ReplacementFlatCharacter: To the original, now deceased Dinobot; this one doesn't have much personality aside from being Megatron's attack drone. Justified in that, as a clone powered by a piece of a spark that isn't his own, that pretty much all he ''is''. [[spoiler:This stops being the case after Rampage is killed and Dinobot II begins to take after the original Dinobot's mannerisms.]]
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* ReplacementFlatCharacter: To the original, now deceased Dinobot; this one doesn't have much personality aside from being Megatron's attack drone. Justified in that, as a clone powered by a piece of a spark that isn't his own, that that's pretty much all he ''is''. [[spoiler:This stops being the case after Rampage is killed and Dinobot II begins to take after the original Dinobot's mannerisms.]]
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* MsFanservice: Not that she has much competition for the female Cybertronians in the show, but she's remarkably and inexplicably buxom and has a distinctly feminine look, fitting for a SeductiveSpider. Her initial look was supposedly inspired by a stripper. A far cry from the other major female Maximal, Airazor, whose design is androgynous enough that ShesManInJapan.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The Megatron of ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' UsedToBeASweetKid and is legitimately trying to help his people cast off the yoke of oppression. Sure, he still has a lot of wealth and power to gain from it, but he isn't trying to threaten space and time to accomplish it.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The version of Megatron who appears in ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' is a far cry from the narcissistic, godhood-seeking, would-be tyrant of the animated series. Note that this is only by comparison. He's still entirely willing to throw minions under the bus for his schemes.
* AdmiringTheAbomination:
** In ''Other Voices, Part 2'', [[spoiler:the Vok intend to destroy the Earth with their recently unveiled "Planet Buster" weapon]]. Megatron is seemingly impressed with such disregard for life. The other Predacons are, understandably, freaked out since [[spoiler:''they're on the Earth'']].
** In "Other Victories", he admires the [[spoiler:then-Vok's emissary Tigerhawk]] for his "awesome" power.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:In the series' finale, he finds the Nemesis ship and delivers fire all over the place.]] This trait sticks around in ''Beast Machines'', to the point that Megatron [[spoiler:tries to consume every other spark in existence, becoming a god in his own right.]] This plays into the fact he seems to ''literally'' be the Cybertronian equal of TheAntichrist.
-->'''Megatron:''' I am Alpha and Omega, Optimal Optimus. Now and forever, until the very end of time!
* AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler:[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1]] Megatron's spark]] transforms him into his OneWingedAngel Transmetal II form.
* AndThisIsFor: A villainous example delivered to [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]], which doubles as his MotiveRant.
-->'''Megatron:''' And now [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]], in memory of the Decepticons, for the glory of the Predacons, for the Cybertron that is rightfully ours! And '''mine''' to rule!
* TheAntichrist: Starts quoting the Transformers equivalent of him in the "Nemesis" two-part finale. The prophecy is referring to him directly and thus he's this trope. Somewhat composited with SatanicArchetype, as the same prophecy references the Devil. In ''Beast Machines'' his role as this is further exemplified by his spark appearing less like a traditional Cybertronian spark, and more like a red ball of pulsating flame.
* ArchEnemy: To Optimus Primal, with it growing very, very personal as the series progresses.
-->'''Optimus Primal:''' We must seek the balance, Megatron. Not only between the organic and the technological, but the balance between eternal enemies: ''between you and I!''
* ArmCannon: True to form as the LegacyCharacter to the original G1 Megatron. In his original form, his beast mode's head replaced his right hand and could fire laser blasts. In his Transmetal form his tail becomes a cannon, but can be removed to let him use both hands. His Transmetal II form gives him back the head cannon in the form of the dragon head mounted on his left arm.
* TheAssimilator: His grand plan in ''Beast Machines'' is to assimilate the sparks of everyone on Cybertron so he can become a god.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He starts quoting from the Covenant of Primus in "Nemesis", by which point he's totally snapped and realized he is the Transformers equivalent of TheAntichrist.
* AxCrazy: By the end of ''Beast Wars'', he's gone completely insane, developing a god complex, firing on his own troops, and occasionally referring to himself in third person as "the dragon". In ''Beast Machines'' he's become far more sedate, but is still insane and by the end he goes right back to being completely unhinged.
* BadBoss: ''All'' of his troops are expendable and he cares nothing for their lives beyond how they can serve him best, and he never tries to pretend otherwise except for mockery of the idea. The other Predacons are very frequently insulted, shot at, or smacked around, for failure, incompetence, or just because he was in a bad mood and they said or did something that annoyed him. A particularly shining example comes up in "The Low Road" when Dinobot tries to use Tarantulas as a human shield against him; Megatron shoots Tarantulas out of his hands and mocks Dinobot for thinking that kind of ploy would work on him.
-->'''Dinobot:''' Do not fire, Megatron! I have a hostage!\\
'''Megatron:''' Why, so you do. ''[blasts Tarantulas]''
* TheBadGuyWins:
** In Season 1, he [[spoiler:successfully orchestrates Optimus' death and gloats about it to his face right before he is killed]].
** Season 2 ends with him [[spoiler:infiltrating the ''Ark'' and shooting Optimus Prime in the face, altering the timeline so that the Decepticons won the Great War and the Predacons now rule Cybertron. Unfortunately, in the Season 3 premiere, Blackarachnia intervenes and helps the Maximals restore Prime, undoing Megatron's plan.]]
** ''Beast Machines'' opens with him having already won, having conquered Cybertron and transformed it into a VillainWorld by stealing his entire race's sparks and melted their bodies down to make his Vehicon drones. Given that he's Megatron, he rubs this in Optimus' face whenever he can.
* BastardUnderstudy: Before stealing the Golden Disk, he was disciple to a Predacon kingpin named Cryotek, who wanted the disk for himself but Megatron betrayed Cryotek, leaving him to face the authorithies[[note]]which is actually the fate Cryotek had prepared for Megatron until he cleverly OutGambitted his teacher[[/note]].
* BigBad: He is the main villain in both ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'', with both series having the Maximals having to stop him from carrying out his heinous schemes.
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Vok and [[spoiler:the Tripredacus Council]] in ''Beast Wars''. Megatron is very much TheHeavy, however.
* BigBadWannabe: Zigzagged.
** While he's the main threat to the Maximals in ''Beast Wars'', it's because they're stranded on Earth, in the grand scheme of things he's a small-fry. The Maximal High Command is barely aware he exists, and the Predacons' Tripedacus Council considers him an upstart criminal who, while cunning, is too brash and arrogant for his own good. Expanded worldlore establishes this perception is actually accurate -- back on Cybertron Megatron was a protégé of the mobster Cryotek before he hijacked his mentor's scheme to steal the Golden Disk. The major problem they all overlook is that Megatron has found the means to live up to his delusions of grandeur in a way that make him a genuine threat to the galaxy. Ravage lampshades the trope.
--->'''Ravage:''' I served under the original Megatron; you may have his name, but not his army.
** Averted in ''Beast Machines'' when he returns to Cybertron and takes over the planet, extracting and imprisoning the sparks of all its citizens.
* BigNo: He gives one out [[spoiler:in the finale of ''Beast Machines'' as he falls to his death]].
* BigRedDevil: Fitting his nature and prophesied role in the Covenant of Primus, his second upgrade in the Beast Wars gives him the appearance of a giant, winged, almost organic, crimson demon with a fire spewing dragon head for an arm. He is revealed emerging from a pit of lava, just to drive it home.
* BigYes: In the GrandFinale of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he screams this after he absorbs the sparks of Cybertron's population.]]
* BodyHorror: In ''Beast Machines'', his dragon mode, the few times we see it, has large pieces ripped out of it and patched together with machinery, implying he actively tried to tear his organic parts out of himself in his pursuit of 'perfection.'
* BoomerangBigot: Develops a deep hatred for organics in ''Beast Machines''. The problem? He still has his Transmetal II dragon form. He spends the series finding a way to get rid of it so he can achieve absolute "perfection".
* BreakingSpeech: He gives a truly merciless one to Optimus when they meet for the first time in ''Beast Machines''.
--> '''Megatron:''' No, Primal, ''you'' have failed. You're still too late to save your people. Billions of Transformers, their extinguished sparks are on your hands! Perhaps if you had won the Beast Wars, things would be different. Who's to say? ''(This makes Optimus furious enough to revert to Beast Mode)'' Who's the beast now, Primal?
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Megatron is a theatrical, hammy madman who revels in being an over-the-top villain. He's also a world class [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] who nearly rewrote all of time and space and took over all of Cybertron through sheer cunning.
* CardCarryingVillain: Megatron proudly calls himself a tyrant at any opportunity, and, in his NearVillainVictory at the close of season 2, he [[EvilIsHammy dramatically proclaims]] that "evil triumphs!". In the finale of ''Beast Wars'' he finds out he's essentially the Cybertronian equal of TheAntichrist or Satan in the Book of Revelations and ''revels'' in it.
* CameBackStrong: After [[spoiler:Tarantulas and Quickstrike throw him into a pit of lava]], he comes back out as a Transmetal II, stronger than ever. [[CameBackWrong Of course, his sanity has also taken a massive hit from the experience.]]
* CameBackWrong: After being transformed into a Transmetal II by [[spoiler:Tarantulas and Quickstrike's attempt on his life]], he not only becomes stronger, but even crazier. He winds up killing [[spoiler:Quickstrike and Inferno]] while using the ''Nemesis'' to get petty revenge in the protohuman settlement and doesn't even care, when he previously treated [[spoiler:Inferno]] as something of a friend, and develops a god complex that, by the time of ''Beast Machines'', has gotten even worse to the point he's become a GodhoodSeeker.
* CharacterCatchphrase: In ''Beast Wars'' he tends to add a drawn out "yes" or "no" to the ends of his sentences. Qualifies as both a BigYes and VerbalTic, yeeessss. It's so popular, that even characters from both factions [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded it]], yeeeesss!!! It even has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t4MBhGAg8 compilation video!!!]], [[RuleOfThree yeeess!!!]]
* TheChessmaster: To an impressive degree, towards his enemies and allies, especially towards Tarantulas. He actually incorporates several other character's plans into his own without their knowledge.
** Several of his plans ''[[BatmanGambit depend]]'' [[BatmanGambit on his minions betraying him]]...
--->'''Megatron:''' Spiders spin their webs, [[VerbalTic yesss]]... but I spin them ''larger''.
** [[spoiler:When entering the ''Nemesis'', Megatron outright said that the deceased Tarantulas' treachery is his best asset.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Megatron:''' ''[when entering the control room of the Nemesis]'' Excellent. Even after his demise, the spider's treachery remains my best asset.]]
* ColdHam: In ''Beast Machines'', everything he says still drips with theatricality, but he's far more detached, almost clinical, as part of his new desire to purge his beast mode and its instincts. He goes right back to his old LargeHam self at the end of the series.
* ColonelKurtzCopy: He's a charismatic, megalomaniac DangerousDeserter with a god complex who leads a small band of renegades on an isolated planet.
* CombatPragmatist: As much as he may hate Terrorsaur's guts, the one thing he has in common with TheStarscream of his team is that he'll more than gladly shoot a distracted Maximal in the back or pull off any dirty trick to win at all costs.
* CompanionCube: His rubber ducky. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rubber_Duck Seriously.]]
* ComplexityAddiction: His greatest weakness aside from his overconfidence. He'll often sabotage himself by indulging in needlessly dramatic additions to his plots purely to play into his own bloated ego. Though he will abandon this if pressed enough.
** His search to remove his organic aspects in ''Beast Machines'' is a fine example. Rather than use the spark extractor technology on himself to transfer to a body he could have constructed to his liking, he insists on trying elaborate and dangerous experiments on his current one out of sheer paranoia and ego. [[spoiler:He only resorts to a transfer in the final battle when circumstances leave him stuck in the body of a diagnostic drone and he needs a new body to fight the Maximals himself]].
* ConsummateLiar: A good portion of his manipulative skill set involves hiding the truth from both allies and enemies.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: After DivergentCharacterEvolution kicked in, this Megatron established himself as the near-opposite of his G1 namesake. The original Megatron was infamous for being a GeneralFailure who came up with complicated and ambitious, but deeply flawed plans that never panned out. The ''Beast Wars'' Megatron on the other hand is a dangerously competent schemer who was content to wait, observe, and pick his moment to make his move while preparing gambits to utilize ahead of time, and this more devious manner of plotting won him several lasting victories over the Maximals. He is also different than the later WellIntentionedExtremist interpretations of G1 Megatron by being irredeemably evil with selfish motives.
* ControlFreak: Megatron doesn't trust anyone except himself (which, given the general back-stabbing that goes on in his ranks, is probably wise). It's taken even further in ''Beast Machines'', where he's turned all of Cybertron into a virtually lifeless husk of a world, populated almost entirely by mindless drones, all of which are controlled by Megatron himself. While he later makes use of generals for his army, Megatron values their independence about as much as he does that of the drones, being openly abusive and dismissive of them while fully intending to consume their sparks the moment they are [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer necessary]].
* CrownShapedHead: Subtly, each of his transformations give him more and more of a crown on top of his body. Symbolizing how ever closer he becomes to being the ruler of Cybertron. Ironically, [[spoiler:it is only after gaining a body based on Primal's Optimal form, in comparison Primal had it like a part of his face and even moved with his eyes, does he have a full mechanical crown]].
* CursedWithAwesome: In spite of the numerous upsides of his Transmetal II body, by ''Beast Machines'' Megatron has grown to despise it for its beast mode. He spends half the series subjecting himself to dangerous and painful experimentation to rid himself of his organic "flaw".
* CyberneticMythicalBeast: His final beast mode for the last few episodes of ''Beast Wars'' Season 3 is a red Transmetal II dragon with purple and gold wings.
* DarkIsEvil: In ''Beast Wars'', Megatron's first two bodies were primarily dark purple and black, and in ''Beast Machines'', he favours a steely gray and dark blue color scheme and operates in low lighting.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In ''Beast Machines'', he loses his hamminess and [[LaughablyEvil the comical elements of his personality]], and instead is cold and ruthless.
* DeadpanSnarker: A particularly nasty, arrogant version. When asked about why he monologues to himself, rather than to his troops:
-->'''Megatron:''' I simply have a penchant for ''intelligent'' conversation.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:His attempt to reformat Cybertron at the end of ''Beast Machines'' results in his death.]]
* DecapitatedArmy:
** Both times he's taken out in ''Beast Machines'' result in the immediate shutdown of his entire Vehicon army, save for his generals who, as the only other Vehicons with sparks, are capable of functioning independently.
** In ''Beast Wars'' he was a firm believer in this trope and thought the Maximals would be rendered completely helpless without Optimus to lead them. He was proven wrong both times he attacked the Maximals after Optimus had been [[DeadlyEuphemism incapacitated]] however, as it turned out [[TheLancer Rattrap]] and [[TheSmartGuy Rhinox]] were more than capable of picking up Optimus' slack.
* DeckOfWildCards: The one on the receiving end of this trope, Megatron spends the entire series dealing with his backstabbing lieutenants more often than not. It's {{Justified}} in series as it's encouraged for the Predacons to openly challenge their leader, for failure to stop a rebellion is proof of weakness on the leader's part. Megatron being Megatron, those challenges go unsuccessfully.
* DecompositeCharacter: Along with the toyline moving the events of present-day Earth to a time-travel adventure and similary to what happened with Optimus Prime and Primal, it did this to Megatron, as the toyline originally painted ''Beast''!Megatron not as an {{expy}}/{{legacy character}} to G1 Megatron, but as the ''G1 Megatron himself'' in an upgraded form.
* DevilComplex: He took his name from an [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] figure in the Covenant of Primus. As he goes off the deep end, he becomes convinced he and this figure are one and the same. Given the that he comes close to destroying the future of his species and is outright demonic looking in his final upgrade, it's heavily implied that he's right.
* DemiurgeArchetype: When he returns to Cybertron in ''Beast Machines'', he conquers the whole planet, and his previous GodhoodSeeker complex evolves into this. He has complete command of everything but the small maximal group fighting against him, and commands the sparks/souls of all those who failed to escape him. He's heavily associated with light, hovering out of a column of light in his reintroduction and gaining a halo in his final stolen form. His rigid order contrasts with Optimus's rebellion. That said Megatron is ''not'' actually a divine figure, but a megalomaniac with a GodComplex and insane levels of power.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Megatron's operation may be small, but there's no doubt that he's a criminal mastermind.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Hand-in-hand with DecompositeCharacter, in the first season this Megatron was basically the same as the G1 Megatron, with a similar body structure in robot mode, the exact same name, and an identical plan, that being leaving Cybertron to find another planet rich with energon and harvest it to aid in the war effort. By the time the second season rolled around and it was known that the two Megatrons were different characters, this Megatron was evolved to have a more distinct personality, motivation, and physical appearance.
* DoWrongRight: [[spoiler:After Tarantulas' attempt on his life, which results in him gaining a Transmetal II body, he's less angry about the attempted murder and more that Tarantulas failed to actually kill him.]]
* DragonsAreDemonic: In Season 3, he emerges from a pool of lava with the beast mode of a red dragon. This is also when his SatanicArchetype traits are played up.
* ElectricTorture: A few episodes of ''Beast Machines'' had him subject the Vehicon generals to this if [[YouHaveFailedMe they failed him]], or just pissed him off.
* ElementalPowers: His Transmetal II body can alternate between [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]] attacks.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Inferno calls him his "Queen", which frustrates him on numerous occasions. Eventually, Inferno switches to the less embarrassing "Royalty".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Megatron still had lines to not cross. However, they all become subverted by the end.
** [[spoiler:He considers killing Optimus Prime highly risky, and debates over it before shooting him in the face upon deciding he has no other option. Doesn't stop him from gloating about it to the Maximals though.]]
** He genuinely believes the Predacons have gotten a raw deal, and genuinely wants to fix that, though he still wants to be the ruler of them. [[spoiler:Then he absorbed the sparks of nearly every Predacon alive when he conquered Cybertron]].
* EvilBrit: Or at least a very close approximation thereof.
* EvilCounterpart: To Optimus. See AmplifierArtifact for details.
* EvilGloating: Megatron likes to make sure his enemies know they've been beaten. This bites him in the ass more than once (he tries to "make the Maximals suffer" in the first episode, which gives them the opportunity to shoot them down too and thus start the Beast Wars, and later on he gives a gloating speech to a heavily damaged Dinobot, who uses the opportunity to make an improvised hammer and beat him down.)
* EvilIsBigger: With the only exception of Rampage, he towers above all the other Predacons and is noticeably taller than even the bigger Maximals like Optimus (at least before he gained his Optimal form in Season 3), Dinobot, or Rhinox.
* EvilIsHammy: In "Other Visits: Part 1", he and Tarantulas try to out-EvilLaugh each other.
* EvilIsPetty:
** In the final episode, looking at the proto humans and aboard the [[spoiler:Nemesis]] rather than conserving the ship's fire power...
--->'''Megatron:''' Hmm. I suppose, given my imminent godhood, these primitives should really be beneath my attention. Ah, still. No score is too small to settle, I always say.
** At the end of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he transfers his spark to a duplicate of Optimal Optimus's body just to fuck with Optimus.]]
* EvilKnockoff:
** He likes making evil clones of Dinobot. Though Dinobot 2 was his greatest success, there were others, including one in the first season who couldn't transform out of beast mode, and a squad of Cyber Raptors in the third season. All of these knockoffs came to bad ends (with the real Dinobot actually ''[[spoiler:eating]]'' his evil clone in one case.)
** At the end of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he inhabits a replica of Optimus' Optimal Optimus form just to spite him, and of course because it was too ironic to pass up]].
* EvilPlan: The ultimate one in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' being to restore the Predacons to glory on Cybertron. In ''Beast Machines'', it's evolved into purging Cybertron of any and all individuality and organic life until he is the only sentient being on the entire planet.
* EvilLaugh: Oh, yes. Rich, deep, and often heard.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a very deep voice.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron preaches about the chaos of individual minds, seeing the Vehicons (mindless hordes that obey Megatron's ever whim) as true peace and harmony. Downplayed, as Megatron's rhetoric has nothing to do with any actual desire for peace; his narcissism has hit new heights since the Beast Wars, and he only preaches against free will because he's a ControlFreak of the highest order who believes that he and he alone should be the sole mind governing the future of Cybertron. He's also fine with using the free will of others to his advantage, creating the Vehicon generals when the drones prove ineffective against the Maximals, and thanking [[spoiler:Tankor]] for coming up with plans that Megatron himself would never have dreamed up (and that he, true to form, hijacks for his own ends at the earliest possibility).
* EvilFeelsGood: Megatron clearly loves being the BigBad and revels in his theatrical villainy.
-->'''Megatron:''' Now, where was I? Ah yes, mindless destruction. That's always good for the spark.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The only reason he [[spoiler:[[ReforgedIntoAMinion turned Rhinox and Silverbolt into Vehicon generals]]]] in ''Beast Machines''. When the Maximals learn the generals are [[spoiler:being powered-up by Maximal sparks]], they assume it's a ploy by Megatron to deter them from destroying his generals. Turns out, he actually did it because it satisfied his twisted sense of humor.
* {{Expy}}: For G1 Megatron. In-universe, this gets him sneered at by Ravage.
* FantasticRacism: In ''Beast Machines'', he has developed a deep hatred of organic life. To the point that he's trying to purge his dragon mode despite the fact that it would actually ''help him''.
* FatalFlaw: He would probably win if he could just ''stop [[EvilGloating gloating]]'' for a minute [[VillainBall whenever he's about to win.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** He's charming, erudite, and eager to grind his enemies underneath his heel even if he has to sacrifice all of reality to do so.
--->'''Megatron:''' Why, Dinobot! [[SarcasmMode What a delightful surprise]]. Let's see, where are we now? I have the [[spoiler:Golden Disk,]] I have the [[spoiler:power to change the future]], and the only remaining obstacle in my path to ''unimaginable'' glory... is yourself. ''[sighs]''
** While far more cold and sinister in ''Beast Machines'', this quality continues to pop up, with Megatron affecting a civil and mockingly polite tone. This is especially the case when he's dealing with Optimus, treating their conversations as philosophical debates and pretending to consider Primal an old friend despite their deep, mutual loathing.
--->'''Optimus:''' What do you want from us?\\
'''Megatron:''' Oh, nothing much. Just every bit of data on the Oracle to better understand how I can fully exploit the precious sparks in my possession. I anticipate that extracting this information will be slow, painful, and, [[SarcasmMode regrettably]]... fatal.
* FinalBoss:
** In the 1997 ''VideoGame/BeastWarsTransformers'' video game, he is the final boss of the Maximals campaign.
** The [=PlayStation=] version of ''VideoGame/BeastWarsTransmetals'' features him as the final opponent of the Maximals campaign, with the Nintendo 64 version having a version of him called Megatron X serve as the final boss regardless of which character the player has selected to play as.
* FleshVsSteel: His newfound hatred of his own beast mode and all things organic in ''Beast Machines'' is the central driver of plot, impelling him as it does to purge and assimilate all other Transformers on Cybertron.
* FlyingFace: His Grand Mal body was a giant transforming spaceship with a "robot mode" resembling his own head. To communicate with those inside of it, he created a holographic projection of a smaller version of that head as an avatar.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: On Cybertron, Megatron was considered nothing but a small-time crook with delusions of grandeur, an insult to the legacy of the Decepticon leader from whom he took his name. With his arrival on Earth, however, Megatron became a threat to not just Cybertron, but all of time itself, and upon returning to his homeworld, conquered it with such swiftness and efficiency that no one saw him coming or had any hope of stopping him before Optimus Primal and crew arrived.
* GarnishingTheStory: In the last few episodes of the third season, he gets transformed into a giant transmetal dragon. No explanation is given for how he went from a ''T. rex'' to a dragon, as while they ''did'' exist in the G1 continuity and appeared during time travel, there was no sign of them throughout ''Beast Wars'', but it definitely qualifies for RuleOfCool.
* GeniusBruiser: Seeing as he has a great big purple Tyrannosaurus Rex as his alt-mode, it's a given that he'd be a bruiser. He also appears to be one of the smartest Megatrons.
* GodhoodSeeker: Megatron's endgame in ''Beast Machines'' is to assimilate every spark on Cybertron into his own, thus making himself into a god and the sole dominating intelligence (and sole intelligence ''period'') on Cybertron.
* GodzillaThreshold: His true agenda, as detailed below.
* TheHeavy: He's nowhere near as powerful as the Tripredacus Council and the Vok, but his cunning and mad plans set the series' plot into motion and he causes the most problems for the Maximals over the course of ''Beast Wars''.
* HeroKiller: He is responsible for the deaths of many Maximals; including Tigerhawk (Tigatron and Airazor), Dinobot, Rhinox and Noble.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler:It's revealed the real reason he came to Earth in the past was to destroy the original Optimus Prime within the Arc and wipe out Maximal existence. He was very hesitant and settled for the energon instead as a bonus until he no longer had any other option to win the ''Beast Wars''.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:In the series finale of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron assimilates several sparks into his own, causing his body to grow in size. The increase in mass prevents him from being able to fly or resist gravity when Optimus Primal pushes the both of them into Cybertron's organic core, where both leaders die.]]
* HulkingOut: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron has come to hate his organic beast mode and tries to repress it. But when he loses control of his emotions and gets ''angry'', he reflexively transforms into his dragon mode and will often attack first before calming down enough to transform again.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He ''despises'' treachery and tends to be particularly hateful towards his troops that try to betray him, usually Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, and Blackarachnia. He's also often to single out Dinobot in fights and attack him personally, and seems to have an obsession with trying to clone him and replace him. Of course, Megatron is entirely untrustworthy himself; he'll go back on his word as soon as it suits him, he's a BadBoss who inspires no loyalty in his troops nor does he even try to, and according to the backstory he betrayed his own boss back on Cybertron when he stole the Golden Disk for him and then made off with it himself. (to be fair though, said boss was planning on betraying him as well)
* HypocriteHasAPoint: Specifically, he despises [[DoWrongRight treachery being done]] ''[[DoWrongRight incompetently]]''. In the Predacon ranks, treason is almost a prerequisite to ruling, for if the current leader is unable to deal with being betrayed, who's to say they should still be in charge? Over half his lieutenants have tried to stab him in the back, and he's far from happy about it, but as someone who actually pulled it off towards his own mentor, he would know where they went wrong.
* AnIcePerson: After gaining a Transmetal II body, he gains the ability to use ice attacks.
* InfernalRetaliation: [[spoiler:After Quickstrike, manipulated by Tarantulas, drops him into a pit of lava while he was incapacitated by wrestling the spark of his namesake for control of their body. Megatron completes his transformation and emerges from the pit, stronger than ever and now with a dragon beast mode. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown He then proceeds to "thank" Tarantulas.]]]]
* IrrationalHatred: He inexplicably develops a burning hatred for all forms of organic life in ''Beast Machines''. Optimus even points out how this makes zero sense given he had no issues with his beast mode in the past and refuses to have his spark transferred to a new body despite hating his current one so much. It's implied his newfound disgust for all things organic is just a self-serving rationalization: instead of admitting his past failures in the Beast Wars were his own fault, he projects them on the organic elements he gained on Earth to protect his ego. Now he seeks to purge himself of those "imperfections" before embarking on his plan to achieve godhood.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The only thing that matters to Megatron is Megatron. In ''Beast Machines'', his selfishness becomes even more all-consuming. He takes over Cybertron, captures or kills every sentient being beyond himself, erases every record of all that came before him, and ultimately seeks to consume the sparks of his entire species so that he can ascend to godhood and mold the entire planet into an eternal monument to himself.
-->'''Optimus Primal:''' Is that the only ideal you serve, Megatron? Megalomania?
* {{Jerkass}}: For all his manipulative charm and cultured demeanor, Megatron revels in the suffering he causes and ''loves'' to gloat about how badly he's screwed his enemies over.
* KarmicDeath: At the end of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he is killed by Optimus Primal while he attempts to reformat Cybertron.]]
* KickTheDog: After he decides that Transmutate is useless because of its deformities, he coldly orders Inferno to execute it. Rampage only barely talks him out of it, and Megatron makes it clear that if it screws up, he will kill it without a second thought.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After surviving countless attempts on his life and things that would kill anyone else, he finally dies at the end of ''Beast Machines'' when Optimus sends them both into the core of Cybertron, disintegrating them both and reformatting the planet.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Megatron had multiple LaughablyEvil tendencies and wasn't introduced as such at first, however, Megatron progressively much more darker and when he becomes more darker, the show's tone also becomes more darker. Moment he became more darker, characters are KilledOffForReal, especially by his hand in which multiple heroes end up dying trying to stop him, with [[spoiler: both Optimus dying by his hand ending the first two seasons in chilling notes]]. His transformation into a Transmetal II dragon brought the Beast Wars to its endgame phase when he [[spoiler: attempted to destroy the Ark]] and ultimately, the very reason ''Beast machines'' is much darker than its predecessor cements on the very fact that the premise is based on Megatron '''winning''' and ruling Cybertron and performed a virtual genocide against the Transformer race, even [[spoiler: killing off most of the Maximals in the penultimate episode and forced Primal to make a permanent HeroicSacrifice to finish off Megatron]]. This is all while in this series, Megatron's iconic LargeHam LaughablyEvil tendencies were downplayed than before until the end.
* KnightTemplar: In ''Beast Wars'', Megatron wants a new glorious age of Predacons after suffering slavery from the Maximals. When pushed to the limit, he would commit an act of genocide against humanity and kill Optimus Prime as a maneuvers he knows will result in the very destruction of time itself and undo existence to remake it as he sees fit and create a new timestream where the Predacons have a glorious age under his rule, taken even further in an attempt [[spoiler: to destroy the Ark.]] Taken further in ''Beast Machines'' which he deems free will as an illusion and commits a virtual genocide against his own race as a result and recycles their body to make mindless machines, and his grand plan is to destroy Cybertron and all life technological and organic on it to remake it in a technological paradise.
* LargeHam: Megatron's are hammy. Cartoon villains are hammy. Beast Wars Megatron... is a ham maestro. He becomes more of a ColdHam in ''Beast Machines''... right up until the end of the series, where he goes right back to being this.
* LargeAndInCharge: Generally played straight with him. Before Rampage was conscripted into the Predacons, Megatron was the biggest of the group, and once he converted into his dragon body, Megatron dwarfed even Rampage.
* LaughablyEvil: His hamminess, sarcasm, and CR baths with his rubber duck make Megatron a blast to watch. This doesn't apply as much in ''Beast Machines'', where he's more serious and cold... right up until the end of the series, where he reverts back to his original persona for the most part.
* LegacyCharacter: He's a descendant of the original Megatron.
* LookWhatICanDoNow: At one point, he's dropped into a lava pit by [[spoiler:Quickstrike, who was manipulated by Tarantulas,]] in an attempt to kill him. [[WhyWontYouDie Instead of dying]], [[InfernalRetaliation this actually makes him stronger and crazier than ever]]; mainly because he ''also'' had the spark of his namesake inside him at the time.
* MadScientist: He shows signs of being one of these, particularly when he uses the Transmetal II Drive to create Dinobot II and starts acting like [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Dr. Frankenstein]], complete with Waspinator serving as TheIgor.
--> '''Megatron:''' I give you LIFE! ''TRANSMETAL II LIFE!'' [[EvilLaugh AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!]]
* MadLibsCatchphrase: He's prone to expressing VillainRespect by saying "I rather like him/her/them."
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: [[spoiler:He traveled to past Earth in the first place to kill Optimus Prime so the Decepticons could win the great war and thus control Cybertron.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Many of his greatest advantages were unwittingly supplied by his more treacherous underlings.
* MayorOfAGhostTown: In ''Beast Machines'' Megatron rules Cybertron after having purged it of all sentient beings besides himself and drones programmed to be incapable of disobeying him. Megatron, being the narcissist that he is, greatly prefers it this way as he is able to mold the planet into a monument to his "greatness" unopposed.
* MultipleHeadCase: A notable [[AvertedTrope aversion]]. While Megatron is one of the most famous Transformers that has his beast mode head fully visible in robot mode,[[note]]specifically for his first and third Earth bodies,[[/note]] his ''T. rex'' or dragon head simply becomes an inanimate ArmCannon when he transforms. "Before the Storm" seems to play with this trope by having his ''T. rex'' hand act like a RightHandCat in subtle ways, but this is PlayedForLaughs and can easily be explained by Megatron putting on a puppet show for himself, simply because [[BunnyEarsLawyer he's that kind of guy]].
* {{Narcissist}}: To an insane degree. In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron did everything in his power to turn Cybertron into a reflection of his own self-image. Reflected in this scene:
-->'''Megatron''': ...[[VerbalTic yeeesss]].\\
'''Blackarachnia''': Why do you always talk to yourself?\\
'''Megatron''': I simply have a penchant for ''intelligent'' conversation.
* NearVillainVictory: Several times. For all of his intelligence and chessmastering, he just can't win for definite.
** At the end of the first season, he kills [[spoiler:'''Optimus Primal''']]. This carries over to the second season and he would've killed the rest of the Maximals had [[spoiler:Rhinox not [[BackFromTheDead brought Primal back.]]]]
** In the GrandFinale, he [[spoiler:finds the Nemesis, kills Tigerhawk with it, and proceeds to attack Mt St Hilary in an attempt to destroy the Maximals and the Ark.]] If not for [[spoiler:Dinobot II]]'s HeelFaceTurn and subsequent RedemptionEqualsDeath moment, he would've won.
** But his best one of all had to be in the season two finale: He's been captured by Ravage and [[spoiler:Tarantulas]], with some help from the Maximals. His troops are either incapacitated or pursuing their own agendas. To top it off Ravage has instructions from the Tripredacus Council to eliminate all the witnesses, and what does Megatron do? [[spoiler:He plays his last card to change Ravage's allegiance, revealing the whole thing as a plan orchestrated by G1 Megatron to change the outcome of the Great War in his favor. While Ravage keeps the Maximals busy, Megatron flies to Mt. St. Hilary, threatens Silverbolt to get Blackarachnia to open the Ark for him, and attempts to RetGone the Maximals out of existence by '''blowing Optimus Prime's brains out.''']] Really, his only mistake was keeping [[spoiler:Blackarachnia, who was a Maximal Protoform and thus threatened by his attempt,]] alive long enough to betray him.
** He gets ''two'' of these in ''Beast Machines'', coming seconds away from winning both times.
* NeverMyFault: Megatron often blames others for his failures, whether it be his underlings or the Maximals, since his gargantuan ego has blinded him to the possibility he could make a mistake.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Inflicts one on Tarantulas after he [[CameBackStrong Comes Back Strong]] from his assassination attempt.]]
* NoNameGiven: He chose the name "Megatron" for himself; his original name is unknown (though in ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'', he was originally known as "Gnashteeth").
** In the IDW 2021 series, it is revealed that his name was Galavar.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Megatron was little more than a particularly ambitious but still small-time renegade in the eyes of the Tripredacus Council and Maximal High Command. However, he and his crew are the biggest threats to Optimus Primal Maximals on account of being the only other Cybertronians on prehistoric Earth.
* NotSoSimilar: On one occasion he was told he was unworthy of the respect that usually comes with the name Megatron because of the robots who had the name before him being far superior to him. Though this came from a surviving servant of the original.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Initially, he comes off as a SmugSnake with delusions of grandeur, content to have a large supply of energon. By the end of Season 1, it's clear he is a legitimate DiabolicalMastermind with grand aspirations and the intelligence to back it up, managing to kill Optimus with his clever planning, and Season 2 reveals he's a threat to time and space itself.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Although a CardCarryingVillain by trade, Megatron occasionally at least ''acts'' like his plans stand to benefit people other than him, but it's always proven to be a load of bull and that all Megatron cares about is just Megatron:
** In ''Beast Wars'', despite Megatron's card-carrying tendencies, blatant egomania and [[BadBoss abuse of his own men]] and admission he does seek power, his actions seems to be as equally motivated by power as to create a better world for the Predacons out of genuinely believing they have gotten a raw deal as slaves in his MotiveRant. Even with that it was heavily downplayed and by the time he becomes a Transmetal II dragon upon absorbing power from [[spoiler: the G1 Megtron's spark]], any belief of him being genuine now is overridden with his egomania and BadBoss tendencies become taken to the extreme, in which they are definitely long gone the moment [[AGodAmI he proclaims himself Alpha & Omega]] and believing he is TheAntichrist and his abuse of men turned to straight up sacrificing them, all culminating in a grand plot [[spoiler: to destroy the Ark and wipe out nearly the entire Transformer race, even fellow Predacons]]. This is then continued in ''Beast Machines'' in which if his acquired god complex and [[spoiler: attempt on the Ark]] by the final few episodes of ''Beast Wars'' didn't convince you, by this show it will, as during his reign of terror upon conquering Cybertron, Megatron did not only steal sparks of Maximals, but fellow Predacons as well, proving Optimus Primal's words that Megatron is just a simple megalomaniac that cares only for himself.
** Throughout ''Beast Machines'', Megatron claims several times that his efforts are meant to eliminate TheEvilsOfFreeWill and turn Cybertron into a single, elegant machine, under his guiding hand. By the end of the series, it becomes clear that Megatron is nothing but a callous, insane megalomaniac, seeking nothing less than godhood and being willing to exterminate his entire species to see it happen.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: How he usually manipulates his more traitorous minions to his own ends. He acts completely unaware of their intentions, slyly playing his own BatmanGambit.
* OhCrap: He has this reaction right before [[spoiler:Quickstrike drops him into a pit of lava under Tarantulas' orders]] in "Master Blaster".
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:His final resort in Season 2 is to kill Optimus Prime and cause a timestorm that would undo existence to alter the timestream to his image where he leads the Predacons to a glorious age. Then by the finale of ''Beast Wars'' he's so all consumed at the thought of victory that he attempts to destroy the Arc with G1 Megatron included, which would mean the destruction of both Maximals and Predacons and all Cybertronian life.]] This is taken to even greater extremes in ''Beast Machines'' in which he attempts to destroy Cybertron itself to remake it in his image.
* OneWingedAngel:
** In ''Beast Wars'' He gains his Transmetal II form with just three episodes left in the series, in time for the final battle.
** ''Beast Machines'' gives him [[spoiler:a body resembling Primal's Optimal Optimus form, having constructed it himself (albeit without the beast form). And then he grows bigger when he absorbs the sparks of nearly every single Cybertronian.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the season one finale, he contacts Optimus for a temporary ceasefire, and is genuine in the offer. Optimus immediately knows something is up, because there's no way Megatron would pull this without something else on the table.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Megatron spends most of ''Beast Machines'' plotting and directing his legions of Vehicons instead of fighting himself, only engaging in combat when directly confronted. He finally starts acting on his own in the series finale, where he uses a copy of Optimus' Optimal body to great effect.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: His beast mode is a metallic dragon in the last four episodes of the third season.
* PetTheDog: He actually has a minor case of this in "Dark Designs". Despite initially berating Scorponok for getting crushed under the crates, once he hears him out afterwards he calmly acknowledges that he was the one who made the mistake by converting Rhinox into a Predacon. As Scorponok whimpers while explaining what happened Megatron even gives him a soft, comforting "there".
* PlayingWithFire: After gaining a dragon for a beast mode, he gains the ability to shoot fire from his mouth.
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:He was initially unwilling to alter time by destroying Optimus Prime, deeming it a dangerous, extreme last resort. A tie-in game would raise the point that with Optimus and the Matrix destroyed, [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie nothing would stop Unicron when he came to Cybertron...]]]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: His tyrannosaurus bodies both had a largely purple colour scheme.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He could maul his troops if he felt like it. According to the [[AllThereInTheManual Manual]], this is how Predacon leadership works. They value successful betrayals, believing that if the leader could not fend off the treachery, they obviously were not fit to lead.
-->'''Megatron:''' Treachery requires ''no'' mistakes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has red eyes, and is a callous, genocidal megalomaniac willing to kill anyone to get what he wants.
* RetGone: [[spoiler:In "The Agenda", he tried to do erase the Maximals from history by killing Optimus Prime]].
* RiddleForTheAges: ''Something'' clearly happened to Megatron between his escape from the Maximals and their arrival on Cybertron after his conquest; by the time they arrive, he's developed a virulent hatred for the organic (including his own beast mode), and is scarred over his right eye. The intervening time and stark changes in his characterization have never been addressed.
* RightHandCat: In his first and third bodies, his beast mode head becomes one of his arms, and he's seen treating his ''T. rex'' head like one of these. There's also his rubber ducky, to a lesser extent.
* RogueAgent: Megatron is a renegade from the Predacons, acting without their knowledge to carry out his own agenda. The Tripredacus Council consider him a dangerous extremist, and even dispatch Ravage to terminate him.
* RollerbladeGood: As a Transmetal, his dinosaur feet have wheels.
* {{Sadist}}: At several points in ''Beast Machines'', he does things that have no purpose other than to make Optimus suffer, whether it be taunting him about Megatron's victory or drawing out a battle with him. [[spoiler:This tendency ultimately shoots him in the foot at the end of the series, when this gives Optimus the chance to kill Megatron and reformat the planet.]]
* SameCharacterButDifferent: In ''Beast Machines'', he's far colder, less prone to his usual theatricality, inexplicably despises organics, and is far more clinical and ruthless in general, coming off as an almost entirely different character. As the series goes on, it gradually becomes clear that the change was in attitude only; he's still the same power-hungry megalomaniac he was in the original series, it's just that his ambitions have massively grown in scale, and near the end of the series he goes right back to his previous hammy self.
* SanitySlippage: At the end of ''Beast Wars'', the combination of taking the original Megatron's spark, Tarantulas' attempt on his life, and him gaining the beast mode of a dragon causes him to go even crazier, to the point he starts occasionally referring to himself in ThirdPersonPerson and developing a god complex. He's become far more composed in ''Beast Machines'', only to lose it again at the end of the series after absorbing all the sparks of Cybertron expect for Optimus'.
* SatanicArchetype: The Covenant of Primus's passages present him as a composite of this and TheAntichrist. The fact he becomes a dragon in the end just sells it.
-->'''The Covenant of Primus:''' (about Megatron) "...and the great dragon was cast out upon the Earth... and his followers were cast out with him."
* SelfServingMemory: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron smugly claims to Optimus, currently suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia, that he won the Beast Wars. In reality, Megatron firmly lost; [[spoiler:all of his allies abandoned him, died, or both and all of his plans failed]]. [[spoiler:The only reason he actually managed to conquer Cybertron was because he was able to break out while the Maximals' ship was traveling back to Cybertron, allowing him to get there first.]]
* SheIsTheKing: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Megatron is called a "Queen" by Inferno, despite repeatedly warning the latter ''not'' to do so. Inferno also uses the more gender-neutral term "Royalty", which doesn't bother Megatron so much.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Regarding a bunch of Dinobot clones (appropriate, given Dinobot's own penchant for quoting the Bard):
-->'''Megatron:''' Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!
* SlasherSmile: Gives a pretty freaky one when finding Rampage and uses his energon blade to cut off half his spark.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: [[DownplayedTrope Well,]] ''[[DownplayedTrope further]]'' [[DownplayedTrope into evil.]] Megatron starts off as an evil, megalomaniacal sociopath, but his SanitySlippage results in him getting even ''worse'', turning into a deranged OmnicidalManiac [[AGodAmI with delusions of godhood]]. Then he somehow manages to get even eviler in ''Beast Machines'', committing what amounts to genocide on his own race.
* TheSociopath: Megatron is self-centered, self-important, cruel, manipulative, has no respect for any authority apart from his own, has no empathy, and is extremely narcissistic.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: [[spoiler:In ''Beast Wars'', Megatron's Transmetal II body was easily able to overwhelm Optimal Optimus. Yet when he faces off with the techno-organic Optimus in ''Beast Machines'', he can just barely manage to draw with him (though this may be justified as a side-effect of the failed attempts to rid himself of his organic components).]]
* TaughtByExperience: The last leg of the first season of ''Beast Machines'' double subverted this. [[spoiler:Tankor is revealed to be Rhinox, someone who nearly deposed and killed Megatron after being remade into a Predacon on ''Beast Wars'']]. Viewers were surely questioning why Megatron would repeat such a dangerous mistake and why he seemed so unaware of what was going on. Megatron, however, was not only ObfuscatingStupidity, but he fully anticipated possible treachery by [[spoiler:installing secret safeguards in Tankor's programming. Rhinox is immobilized the second he actually tries to kill Megatron]].
* TautologicalTemplar: In ''Beast Machines'', to an insane degree. He's firmly convinced that all the crimes he comitted actually improved the Transformers race as a whole, and at no point ever does he show the slightest hint of doubt that what he's doing is for a good cause.
->''"Cybertron is a haven for machines ! While Optimus was deluded by the false visions of a malfunctioning computer, I have been restoring Cybertron's purity and surely, that is the most honorable cause of all !"''
* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: He's a ''T. rex'' in both his original and Transmetal beast modes. And he is a charismatic but cruel leader of the Predacons, willing to [[BadBoss sacrifice his minions]] and [[OmnicidalManiac reality itself]] just to ensure victory for his Decepticon ancestors.
* ThirdPersonPerson: After gaining a Transmetal II body, he starts occasionally referring to himself as "the Dragon" in third person.
* TinTyrant: Megatron's initial robot mode isn't all that grandiose, but by Transmetal, he's got thick metallic armor and mocking Dinobot for leveling a stick at it (before being struck with a stone hammer). By Transmetal II, he is fully decked out in armor in a foremost vainglorious display befitting a Megatron (this transformation occurring from having absorbed the spark of his namesake, fittingly). However, Megatron is also called this ''verbatim'' by Tarantulas, in a passing swipe at Megatron's [[{{Narcissist}} overblown ego and need for glory.]] Megatron fires back, "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Treacherous arachnid.]]"
* TookALevelInCynic: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron sports a more sedate, cold attitude, although hints of his old fondness for melodrama bleed through every now and again, and towards the end of the series, he starts to regain his old, hammier persona.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was never even remotely a good guy, but he becomes ''even worse'' by the time of ''Beast Machines'', attempting to carry out an AssimilationPlot tantamount to planetary genocide, fully embracing [[AGodAmI his god complex]], and dropping his FauxAffablyEvil demeanor in favor of a more openly ruthless, no-nonsense persona.
* TVGenius: He's undoubtedly sophisticated, intelligent, and verbally elegant. Unfortunately for him, his social skills and inability to attract and maintain followers through anything other than fear, brutality, or blackmail pretty much establish him as TheFriendNobodyLikes among his own Predacon troops. Not counting Inferno, who honestly has more than a few loose screws, Scorponok is practically the ONLY character in the show of relatively sound mind who likes Megatron.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Neither the Predacon or Maximal leadership thinks of him as more than a crook with delusions of grandeur. He manages to steal a ship and nearly unravel time, then take over Cybertron near-singlehandly.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale of ''Beast Machines'', while Optimus calmly accepts his fate as they plunge to their deaths in Cybertron's core, Megatron screams with impotent rage and fear the whole time.]]
* TheUnfettered: Nothing, not even reality itself, is safe from this megalomaniac.
* UnskilledButStrong: While he's a skilled battlefield tactician and good long-term planner, Megatron's combat style really boils down to punching, straightforward kicks, blasting other 'bots, and, while in beast mode, biting and tail-slamming his opponents. Not that there's much wrong with it because a lot of the times, his overwhelming brute force will get him through a lot of scraps. However, it doesn't always serve him well because throughout all three seasons, there have been characters who beat him through simply being more skilled than him (Dinobot) or just possessing more raw power (Tigerhawk).
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', Megatron is shown to have been a NiceGuy even willing to talk with Maximals before his mentor Double Punch screwed him over.
* VerbalTic: [[invoked]] A long drawn-out "Yeeeess..." or "Noooo...". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJkvwoddxY The former was uttered 166 times throughout the series]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cT3dPKnnY&t=50s According]] to Kaye, the now-iconic tic was an accidental ThrowItIn. It came out of his delivery of Megatron's first 'Yes' in the Pilot (which was written normally without the now-familiar inflection). Per the request of VO Director Creator/SusanBlu and the production crew, Kaye did it again and stretched it out longer. The rest is history.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Though abusive and manipulative to his subordinates, he has proven to be the only one capable of leading his nearly-psychotic crew of Predacons. He proved this to Terrorsaur once by granting him command during a crisis and watching him fail spectacularly.
* VillainBall: Megatron's main weakness. He himself acknowledges that Predacons gloat too much, but can't quite shake the habit. The series is bookended with him ignoring Dinobot / Dinobot II's advice in favour of something more fun- which [[spoiler:[[NiceJobFixingItVillain only results in him killing Quickstrike and Inferno, his last two Predacons aside from Dinobot II]]]].
* VillainDecay: Impressively inverted. His schemes in the first season are largely simple plots to acquire Energon. Then at the end of Season 1, he masterminds the destruction of the Vok's superweapon and the death of Optimus, after which he starts threatening time itself. And ''then'' in ''Beast Machines,'' he successfully wipes out all of Cybertron and comes within a stone's throw of destroying the resistance and completing his designs for an entirely mechanical world.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** After [[spoiler:Tarantulas' failed assassination attempt and absorbing the spark of the original Megatron]] give him a Transmetal II body, Megatron just loses his mind and becomes increasingly irrational and unhinged, culminating in him [[spoiler:trying to destroy the ''Ark'' even though it would mean the destruction of both the Maximals and Predacons alike]].
** [[spoiler:Right before Optimus kills them both in the finale of ''Beast Machines'', he begins panicking and loses his cool, culminating in a BigNo.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Downplayed with Inferno. Megatron treats Inferno as his most useful pawn, but genuinely likes him for his loyalty, even if he finds him to be incompetent. He even rescues Inferno in the middle of a battle for no real reason. [[spoiler:Killing him with the ''Nemesis'' while firing on the protohuman settlement in the series finale is what finally makes it clear Megatron has lost it completely.]]
* VillainousValor: While he did pull a VillainExitStageLeft many times during the series, he undeniably embodies this trope when he doesn't quit against Tigerhawk despite being in awe at his power.
* VillainRespect: Whenever Megatron is threatened or simply runs into someone as evil, violent, or cunning as him, his usual response is to proclaim he "rather likes" them.
* VisualPun: Megatron is an aspiring GalacticConqueror, and in his first two bodies, his beast mode was a Tyrannosaurus; for most of ''Beast Wars'', Megatron was ''literally'' a tyrant lizard. Megatron being who he is, he may well have chosen his beast mode just for the pun.
* VocalDissonance: In Beast Mode, his articulate tone of voice is quite odd to hear coming out of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
* VocalEvolution: In ''Beast Machines'', his voice becomes even deeper and he loses his smug, jovial tone for a more cold, serious tone.
* WeHaveReserves: He seems to value his troops' lives slightly less than a normal person does pocket lint and would probably kill them all in a second if they proved to be no longer useful. An impressive feat, since at no time does he have more than a handful or so Predacons, even if some are MadeOfIron and being blown to bits is more of an inconvenience than anything else.
* WickedCultured: Speaks with an aristocratic accent, fond of quoting literature, and is often found soaking in a energon hot tub.
* WouldHitAGirl: The most blatant example is when he slaps Blackarachnia in "Aftermath" out of anger for working with Tarantulas behind his back.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: By the time of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron has grown to despise organic life, up to and including his own organic beast mode, which he spends all of the first season struggling to rid himself of. This goes even further in the second season, where he spends the first few episodes trapped in an ''entirely'' organic body until he manages to liberate his spark.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His reaction to realizing his new body is a Diagnostic Drone.
-->'''Megatron:''' [[LargeHam I LIVE! I LIVE! I]]- ...What kind of puny body is this? ''(Descends into {{Angrish}} as Rattrap mocks him)''
* YourSoulIsMine: Before the start of ''Beast Machines'', he used a combination of his transformation locking virus and the beginnings of his army to steal the sparks of nearly all of Cybertron. By the time he released his own spark to take the Grand Mal as a new body, he began consuming the sparks in his collection to boost his power. At the climax of the series, he had absorbed so many into himself that he attained near-godlike power.
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[[folder:Scorponok]]
!!Scorponok
!!!Function: Desert Attack Commander
!!!Beast Mode: Scorpion
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Don Brown
-->'''Debut:''' ''"Beast Wars (Part 1)"''
->''"Megatron is our leader! He rewards loyalty and punishes those who oppose his will."''
Scorponok was the second-in-command of the Predacons following Dinobot's rebellion against Megatron in the first episode. He was the only Pred at the start to display full loyalty to Megatron, which in Megatron's eyes made up for his lack of real intelligence. His undying loyalty to Megatron meant that he would clash with Terrorsaur and Blackarachnia at times. Scorponok would die in a freak accident in the Season 2 premiere.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: The Megatron of ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' UsedToBeASweetKid and is legitimately trying to help his people cast off the yoke of oppression. Sure, he still has a lot of wealth and power to gain from it, but he isn't trying to threaten space and time to accomplish it.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The version of Megatron who appears in ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'' is a far cry from the narcissistic, godhood-seeking, would-be tyrant of the animated series. Note that this is only by comparison. He's still entirely willing to throw minions under the bus for his schemes.
* AdmiringTheAbomination:
** In ''Other Voices, Part 2'', [[spoiler:the Vok intend to destroy the Earth with their recently unveiled "Planet Buster" weapon]]. Megatron is seemingly impressed with such disregard for life. The other Predacons are, understandably, freaked out since [[spoiler:''they're on the Earth'']].
** In "Other Victories", he admires the [[spoiler:then-Vok's emissary Tigerhawk]] for his "awesome" power.
* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:In the series' finale, he finds the Nemesis ship and delivers fire all over the place.]] This trait sticks around in ''Beast Machines'', to the point that Megatron [[spoiler:tries to consume every other spark in existence, becoming a god in his own right.]] This plays into the fact he seems to ''literally'' be the Cybertronian equal of TheAntichrist.
-->'''Megatron:''' I am Alpha and Omega, Optimal Optimus. Now and forever, until the very end of time!
* AmplifierArtifact: [[spoiler:[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 G1]] Megatron's spark]] transforms him into his OneWingedAngel Transmetal II form.
* AndThisIsFor: A villainous example delivered to [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]], which doubles as his MotiveRant.
-->'''Megatron:''' And now [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]], in memory of the Decepticons, for the glory of the Predacons, for the Cybertron that is rightfully ours! And '''mine''' to rule!
* TheAntichrist: Starts quoting the Transformers equivalent of him in the "Nemesis" two-part finale. The prophecy is referring to him directly and thus he's this trope. Somewhat composited with SatanicArchetype, as the same prophecy references the Devil. In ''Beast Machines'' his role as this is further exemplified by his spark appearing less like a traditional Cybertronian spark, and more like a red ball of pulsating flame.
* ArchEnemy: To Optimus Primal, with it growing very, very personal as the series progresses.
-->'''Optimus Primal:''' We must seek the balance, Megatron. Not only between the organic and the technological, but the balance between eternal enemies: ''between you and I!''
* ArmCannon: True to form as the LegacyCharacter to the original G1 Megatron. In his original form, his beast mode's head replaced his right hand and could fire laser blasts. In his Transmetal form his tail becomes a cannon, but can be removed to let him use both hands. His Transmetal II form gives him back the head cannon in the form of the dragon head mounted on his left arm.
* TheAssimilator: His grand plan in ''Beast Machines'' is to assimilate the sparks of everyone on Cybertron so he can become a god.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: He starts quoting from the Covenant of Primus in "Nemesis", by which point he's totally snapped and realized he is the Transformers equivalent of TheAntichrist.
* AxCrazy: By the end of ''Beast Wars'', he's gone completely insane, developing a god complex, firing on his own troops, and occasionally referring to himself in third person as "the dragon". In ''Beast Machines'' he's become far more sedate, but is still insane and by the end he goes right back to being completely unhinged.
* BadBoss: ''All'' of his troops are expendable and he cares nothing for their lives beyond how they can serve him best, and he never tries to pretend otherwise except for mockery of the idea. The other Predacons are very frequently insulted, shot at, or smacked around, for failure, incompetence, or just because he was in a bad mood and they said or did something that annoyed him. A particularly shining example comes up in "The Low Road" when Dinobot tries to use Tarantulas as a human shield against him; Megatron shoots Tarantulas out of his hands and mocks Dinobot for thinking that kind of ploy would work on him.
-->'''Dinobot:''' Do not fire, Megatron! I have a hostage!\\
'''Megatron:''' Why, so you do. ''[blasts Tarantulas]''
* TheBadGuyWins:
** In Season 1, he [[spoiler:successfully orchestrates Optimus' death and gloats about it to his face right before he is killed]].
** Season 2 ends with him [[spoiler:infiltrating the ''Ark'' and shooting Optimus Prime in the face, altering the timeline so that the Decepticons won the Great War and the Predacons now rule Cybertron. Unfortunately, in the Season 3 premiere, Blackarachnia intervenes and helps the Maximals restore Prime, undoing Megatron's plan.]]
** ''Beast Machines'' opens with him having already won, having conquered Cybertron and transformed it into a VillainWorld by stealing his entire race's sparks and melted their bodies down to make his Vehicon drones. Given that he's Megatron, he rubs this in Optimus' face whenever he can.
* BastardUnderstudy: Before stealing the Golden Disk, he was disciple to a Predacon kingpin named Cryotek, who wanted the disk for himself but Megatron betrayed Cryotek, leaving him to face the authorithies[[note]]which is actually the fate Cryotek had prepared for Megatron until he cleverly OutGambitted his teacher[[/note]].
* BigBad: He is the main villain in both ''Beast Wars'' and ''Beast Machines'', with both series having the Maximals having to stop him from carrying out his heinous schemes.
* BigBadEnsemble: With the Vok and [[spoiler:the Tripredacus Council]] in ''Beast Wars''. Megatron is very much TheHeavy, however.
* BigBadWannabe: Zigzagged.
** While he's the main threat to the Maximals in ''Beast Wars'', it's because they're stranded on Earth, in the grand scheme of things he's a small-fry. The Maximal High Command is barely aware he exists, and the Predacons' Tripedacus Council considers him an upstart criminal who, while cunning, is too brash and arrogant for his own good. Expanded worldlore establishes this perception is actually accurate -- back on Cybertron Megatron was a protégé of the mobster Cryotek before he hijacked his mentor's scheme to steal the Golden Disk. The major problem they all overlook is that Megatron has found the means to live up to his delusions of grandeur in a way that make him a genuine threat to the galaxy. Ravage lampshades the trope.
--->'''Ravage:''' I served under the original Megatron; you may have his name, but not his army.
** Averted in ''Beast Machines'' when he returns to Cybertron and takes over the planet, extracting and imprisoning the sparks of all its citizens.
* BigNo: He gives one out [[spoiler:in the finale of ''Beast Machines'' as he falls to his death]].
* BigRedDevil: Fitting his nature and prophesied role in the Covenant of Primus, his second upgrade in the Beast Wars gives him the appearance of a giant, winged, almost organic, crimson demon with a fire spewing dragon head for an arm. He is revealed emerging from a pit of lava, just to drive it home.
* BigYes: In the GrandFinale of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he screams this after he absorbs the sparks of Cybertron's population.]]
* BodyHorror: In ''Beast Machines'', his dragon mode, the few times we see it, has large pieces ripped out of it and patched together with machinery, implying he actively tried to tear his organic parts out of himself in his pursuit of 'perfection.'
* BoomerangBigot: Develops a deep hatred for organics in ''Beast Machines''. The problem? He still has his Transmetal II dragon form. He spends the series finding a way to get rid of it so he can achieve absolute "perfection".
* BreakingSpeech: He gives a truly merciless one to Optimus when they meet for the first time in ''Beast Machines''.
--> '''Megatron:''' No, Primal, ''you'' have failed. You're still too late to save your people. Billions of Transformers, their extinguished sparks are on your hands! Perhaps if you had won the Beast Wars, things would be different. Who's to say? ''(This makes Optimus furious enough to revert to Beast Mode)'' Who's the beast now, Primal?
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Megatron is a theatrical, hammy madman who revels in being an over-the-top villain. He's also a world class [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] who nearly rewrote all of time and space and took over all of Cybertron through sheer cunning.
* CardCarryingVillain: Megatron proudly calls himself a tyrant at any opportunity, and, in his NearVillainVictory at the close of season 2, he [[EvilIsHammy dramatically proclaims]] that "evil triumphs!". In the finale of ''Beast Wars'' he finds out he's essentially the Cybertronian equal of TheAntichrist or Satan in the Book of Revelations and ''revels'' in it.
* CameBackStrong: After [[spoiler:Tarantulas and Quickstrike throw him into a pit of lava]], he comes back out as a Transmetal II, stronger than ever. [[CameBackWrong Of course, his sanity has also taken a massive hit from the experience.]]
* CameBackWrong: After being transformed into a Transmetal II by [[spoiler:Tarantulas and Quickstrike's attempt on his life]], he not only becomes stronger, but even crazier. He winds up killing [[spoiler:Quickstrike and Inferno]] while using the ''Nemesis'' to get petty revenge in the protohuman settlement and doesn't even care, when he previously treated [[spoiler:Inferno]] as something of a friend, and develops a god complex that, by the time of ''Beast Machines'', has gotten even worse to the point he's become a GodhoodSeeker.
* CharacterCatchphrase: In ''Beast Wars'' he tends to add a drawn out "yes" or "no" to the ends of his sentences. Qualifies as both a BigYes and VerbalTic, yeeessss. It's so popular, that even characters from both factions [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded it]], yeeeesss!!! It even has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2t4MBhGAg8 compilation video!!!]], [[RuleOfThree yeeess!!!]]
* TheChessmaster: To an impressive degree, towards his enemies and allies, especially towards Tarantulas. He actually incorporates several other character's plans into his own without their knowledge.
** Several of his plans ''[[BatmanGambit depend]]'' [[BatmanGambit on his minions betraying him]]...
--->'''Megatron:''' Spiders spin their webs, [[VerbalTic yesss]]... but I spin them ''larger''.
** [[spoiler:When entering the ''Nemesis'', Megatron outright said that the deceased Tarantulas' treachery is his best asset.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Megatron:''' ''[when entering the control room of the Nemesis]'' Excellent. Even after his demise, the spider's treachery remains my best asset.]]
* ColdHam: In ''Beast Machines'', everything he says still drips with theatricality, but he's far more detached, almost clinical, as part of his new desire to purge his beast mode and its instincts. He goes right back to his old LargeHam self at the end of the series.
* ColonelKurtzCopy: He's a charismatic, megalomaniac DangerousDeserter with a god complex who leads a small band of renegades on an isolated planet.
* CombatPragmatist: As much as he may hate Terrorsaur's guts, the one thing he has in common with TheStarscream of his team is that he'll more than gladly shoot a distracted Maximal in the back or pull off any dirty trick to win at all costs.
* CompanionCube: His rubber ducky. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rubber_Duck Seriously.]]
* ComplexityAddiction: His greatest weakness aside from his overconfidence. He'll often sabotage himself by indulging in needlessly dramatic additions to his plots purely to play into his own bloated ego. Though he will abandon this if pressed enough.
** His search to remove his organic aspects in ''Beast Machines'' is a fine example. Rather than use the spark extractor technology on himself to transfer to a body he could have constructed to his liking, he insists on trying elaborate and dangerous experiments on his current one out of sheer paranoia and ego. [[spoiler:He only resorts to a transfer in the final battle when circumstances leave him stuck in the body of a diagnostic drone and he needs a new body to fight the Maximals himself]].
* ConsummateLiar: A good portion of his manipulative skill set involves hiding the truth from both allies and enemies.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: After DivergentCharacterEvolution kicked in, this Megatron established himself as the near-opposite of his G1 namesake. The original Megatron was infamous for being a GeneralFailure who came up with complicated and ambitious, but deeply flawed plans that never panned out. The ''Beast Wars'' Megatron on the other hand is a dangerously competent schemer who was content to wait, observe, and pick his moment to make his move while preparing gambits to utilize ahead of time, and this more devious manner of plotting won him several lasting victories over the Maximals. He is also different than the later WellIntentionedExtremist interpretations of G1 Megatron by being irredeemably evil with selfish motives.
* ControlFreak: Megatron doesn't trust anyone except himself (which, given the general back-stabbing that goes on in his ranks, is probably wise). It's taken even further in ''Beast Machines'', where he's turned all of Cybertron into a virtually lifeless husk of a world, populated almost entirely by mindless drones, all of which are controlled by Megatron himself. While he later makes use of generals for his army, Megatron values their independence about as much as he does that of the drones, being openly abusive and dismissive of them while fully intending to consume their sparks the moment they are [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer necessary]].
* CrownShapedHead: Subtly, each of his transformations give him more and more of a crown on top of his body. Symbolizing how ever closer he becomes to being the ruler of Cybertron. Ironically, [[spoiler:it is only after gaining a body based on Primal's Optimal form, in comparison Primal had it like a part of his face and even moved with his eyes, does he have a full mechanical crown]].
* CursedWithAwesome: In spite of the numerous upsides of his Transmetal II body, by ''Beast Machines'' Megatron has grown to despise it for its beast mode. He spends half the series subjecting himself to dangerous and painful experimentation to rid himself of his organic "flaw".
* CyberneticMythicalBeast: His final beast mode for the last few episodes of ''Beast Wars'' Season 3 is a red Transmetal II dragon with purple and gold wings.
* DarkIsEvil: In ''Beast Wars'', Megatron's first two bodies were primarily dark purple and black, and in ''Beast Machines'', he favours a steely gray and dark blue color scheme and operates in low lighting.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In ''Beast Machines'', he loses his hamminess and [[LaughablyEvil the comical elements of his personality]], and instead is cold and ruthless.
* DeadpanSnarker: A particularly nasty, arrogant version. When asked about why he monologues to himself, rather than to his troops:
-->'''Megatron:''' I simply have a penchant for ''intelligent'' conversation.
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:His attempt to reformat Cybertron at the end of ''Beast Machines'' results in his death.]]
* DecapitatedArmy:
** Both times he's taken out in ''Beast Machines'' result in the immediate shutdown of his entire Vehicon army, save for his generals who, as the only other Vehicons with sparks, are capable of functioning independently.
** In ''Beast Wars'' he was a firm believer in this trope and thought the Maximals would be rendered completely helpless without Optimus to lead them. He was proven wrong both times he attacked the Maximals after Optimus had been [[DeadlyEuphemism incapacitated]] however, as it turned out [[TheLancer Rattrap]] and [[TheSmartGuy Rhinox]] were more than capable of picking up Optimus' slack.
* DeckOfWildCards: The one on the receiving end of this trope, Megatron spends the entire series dealing with his backstabbing lieutenants more often than not. It's {{Justified}} in series as it's encouraged for the Predacons to openly challenge their leader, for failure to stop a rebellion is proof of weakness on the leader's part. Megatron being Megatron, those challenges go unsuccessfully.
* DecompositeCharacter: Along with the toyline moving the events of present-day Earth to a time-travel adventure and similary to what happened with Optimus Prime and Primal, it did this to Megatron, as the toyline originally painted ''Beast''!Megatron not as an {{expy}}/{{legacy character}} to G1 Megatron, but as the ''G1 Megatron himself'' in an upgraded form.
* DevilComplex: He took his name from an [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] figure in the Covenant of Primus. As he goes off the deep end, he becomes convinced he and this figure are one and the same. Given the that he comes close to destroying the future of his species and is outright demonic looking in his final upgrade, it's heavily implied that he's right.
* DemiurgeArchetype: When he returns to Cybertron in ''Beast Machines'', he conquers the whole planet, and his previous GodhoodSeeker complex evolves into this. He has complete command of everything but the small maximal group fighting against him, and commands the sparks/souls of all those who failed to escape him. He's heavily associated with light, hovering out of a column of light in his reintroduction and gaining a halo in his final stolen form. His rigid order contrasts with Optimus's rebellion. That said Megatron is ''not'' actually a divine figure, but a megalomaniac with a GodComplex and insane levels of power.
* DiabolicalMastermind: Megatron's operation may be small, but there's no doubt that he's a criminal mastermind.
* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Hand-in-hand with DecompositeCharacter, in the first season this Megatron was basically the same as the G1 Megatron, with a similar body structure in robot mode, the exact same name, and an identical plan, that being leaving Cybertron to find another planet rich with energon and harvest it to aid in the war effort. By the time the second season rolled around and it was known that the two Megatrons were different characters, this Megatron was evolved to have a more distinct personality, motivation, and physical appearance.
* DoWrongRight: [[spoiler:After Tarantulas' attempt on his life, which results in him gaining a Transmetal II body, he's less angry about the attempted murder and more that Tarantulas failed to actually kill him.]]
* DragonsAreDemonic: In Season 3, he emerges from a pool of lava with the beast mode of a red dragon. This is also when his SatanicArchetype traits are played up.
* ElectricTorture: A few episodes of ''Beast Machines'' had him subject the Vehicon generals to this if [[YouHaveFailedMe they failed him]], or just pissed him off.
* ElementalPowers: His Transmetal II body can alternate between [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]] attacks.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Inferno calls him his "Queen", which frustrates him on numerous occasions. Eventually, Inferno switches to the less embarrassing "Royalty".
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Megatron still had lines to not cross. However, they all become subverted by the end.
** [[spoiler:He considers killing Optimus Prime highly risky, and debates over it before shooting him in the face upon deciding he has no other option. Doesn't stop him from gloating about it to the Maximals though.]]
** He genuinely believes the Predacons have gotten a raw deal, and genuinely wants to fix that, though he still wants to be the ruler of them. [[spoiler:Then he absorbed the sparks of nearly every Predacon alive when he conquered Cybertron]].
* EvilBrit: Or at least a very close approximation thereof.
* EvilCounterpart: To Optimus. See AmplifierArtifact for details.
* EvilGloating: Megatron likes to make sure his enemies know they've been beaten. This bites him in the ass more than once (he tries to "make the Maximals suffer" in the first episode, which gives them the opportunity to shoot them down too and thus start the Beast Wars, and later on he gives a gloating speech to a heavily damaged Dinobot, who uses the opportunity to make an improvised hammer and beat him down.)
* EvilIsBigger: With the only exception of Rampage, he towers above all the other Predacons and is noticeably taller than even the bigger Maximals like Optimus (at least before he gained his Optimal form in Season 3), Dinobot, or Rhinox.
* EvilIsHammy: In "Other Visits: Part 1", he and Tarantulas try to out-EvilLaugh each other.
* EvilIsPetty:
** In the final episode, looking at the proto humans and aboard the [[spoiler:Nemesis]] rather than conserving the ship's fire power...
--->'''Megatron:''' Hmm. I suppose, given my imminent godhood, these primitives should really be beneath my attention. Ah, still. No score is too small to settle, I always say.
** At the end of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he transfers his spark to a duplicate of Optimal Optimus's body just to fuck with Optimus.]]
* EvilKnockoff:
** He likes making evil clones of Dinobot. Though Dinobot 2 was his greatest success, there were others, including one in the first season who couldn't transform out of beast mode, and a squad of Cyber Raptors in the third season. All of these knockoffs came to bad ends (with the real Dinobot actually ''[[spoiler:eating]]'' his evil clone in one case.)
** At the end of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he inhabits a replica of Optimus' Optimal Optimus form just to spite him, and of course because it was too ironic to pass up]].
* EvilPlan: The ultimate one in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' being to restore the Predacons to glory on Cybertron. In ''Beast Machines'', it's evolved into purging Cybertron of any and all individuality and organic life until he is the only sentient being on the entire planet.
* EvilLaugh: Oh, yes. Rich, deep, and often heard.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a very deep voice.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron preaches about the chaos of individual minds, seeing the Vehicons (mindless hordes that obey Megatron's ever whim) as true peace and harmony. Downplayed, as Megatron's rhetoric has nothing to do with any actual desire for peace; his narcissism has hit new heights since the Beast Wars, and he only preaches against free will because he's a ControlFreak of the highest order who believes that he and he alone should be the sole mind governing the future of Cybertron. He's also fine with using the free will of others to his advantage, creating the Vehicon generals when the drones prove ineffective against the Maximals, and thanking [[spoiler:Tankor]] for coming up with plans that Megatron himself would never have dreamed up (and that he, true to form, hijacks for his own ends at the earliest possibility).
* EvilFeelsGood: Megatron clearly loves being the BigBad and revels in his theatrical villainy.
-->'''Megatron:''' Now, where was I? Ah yes, mindless destruction. That's always good for the spark.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: The only reason he [[spoiler:[[ReforgedIntoAMinion turned Rhinox and Silverbolt into Vehicon generals]]]] in ''Beast Machines''. When the Maximals learn the generals are [[spoiler:being powered-up by Maximal sparks]], they assume it's a ploy by Megatron to deter them from destroying his generals. Turns out, he actually did it because it satisfied his twisted sense of humor.
* {{Expy}}: For G1 Megatron. In-universe, this gets him sneered at by Ravage.
* FantasticRacism: In ''Beast Machines'', he has developed a deep hatred of organic life. To the point that he's trying to purge his dragon mode despite the fact that it would actually ''help him''.
* FatalFlaw: He would probably win if he could just ''stop [[EvilGloating gloating]]'' for a minute [[VillainBall whenever he's about to win.]]
* FauxAffablyEvil:
** He's charming, erudite, and eager to grind his enemies underneath his heel even if he has to sacrifice all of reality to do so.
--->'''Megatron:''' Why, Dinobot! [[SarcasmMode What a delightful surprise]]. Let's see, where are we now? I have the [[spoiler:Golden Disk,]] I have the [[spoiler:power to change the future]], and the only remaining obstacle in my path to ''unimaginable'' glory... is yourself. ''[sighs]''
** While far more cold and sinister in ''Beast Machines'', this quality continues to pop up, with Megatron affecting a civil and mockingly polite tone. This is especially the case when he's dealing with Optimus, treating their conversations as philosophical debates and pretending to consider Primal an old friend despite their deep, mutual loathing.
--->'''Optimus:''' What do you want from us?\\
'''Megatron:''' Oh, nothing much. Just every bit of data on the Oracle to better understand how I can fully exploit the precious sparks in my possession. I anticipate that extracting this information will be slow, painful, and, [[SarcasmMode regrettably]]... fatal.
* FinalBoss:
** In the 1997 ''VideoGame/BeastWarsTransformers'' video game, he is the final boss of the Maximals campaign.
** The [=PlayStation=] version of ''VideoGame/BeastWarsTransmetals'' features him as the final opponent of the Maximals campaign, with the Nintendo 64 version having a version of him called Megatron X serve as the final boss regardless of which character the player has selected to play as.
* FleshVsSteel: His newfound hatred of his own beast mode and all things organic in ''Beast Machines'' is the central driver of plot, impelling him as it does to purge and assimilate all other Transformers on Cybertron.
* FlyingFace: His Grand Mal body was a giant transforming spaceship with a "robot mode" resembling his own head. To communicate with those inside of it, he created a holographic projection of a smaller version of that head as an avatar.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: On Cybertron, Megatron was considered nothing but a small-time crook with delusions of grandeur, an insult to the legacy of the Decepticon leader from whom he took his name. With his arrival on Earth, however, Megatron became a threat to not just Cybertron, but all of time itself, and upon returning to his homeworld, conquered it with such swiftness and efficiency that no one saw him coming or had any hope of stopping him before Optimus Primal and crew arrived.
* GarnishingTheStory: In the last few episodes of the third season, he gets transformed into a giant transmetal dragon. No explanation is given for how he went from a ''T. rex'' to a dragon, as while they ''did'' exist in the G1 continuity and appeared during time travel, there was no sign of them throughout ''Beast Wars'', but it definitely qualifies for RuleOfCool.
* GeniusBruiser: Seeing as he has a great big purple Tyrannosaurus Rex as his alt-mode, it's a given that he'd be a bruiser. He also appears to be one of the smartest Megatrons.
* GodhoodSeeker: Megatron's endgame in ''Beast Machines'' is to assimilate every spark on Cybertron into his own, thus making himself into a god and the sole dominating intelligence (and sole intelligence ''period'') on Cybertron.
* GodzillaThreshold: His true agenda, as detailed below.
* TheHeavy: He's nowhere near as powerful as the Tripredacus Council and the Vok, but his cunning and mad plans set the series' plot into motion and he causes the most problems for the Maximals over the course of ''Beast Wars''.
* HeroKiller: He is responsible for the deaths of many Maximals; including Tigerhawk (Tigatron and Airazor), Dinobot, Rhinox and Noble.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler:It's revealed the real reason he came to Earth in the past was to destroy the original Optimus Prime within the Arc and wipe out Maximal existence. He was very hesitant and settled for the energon instead as a bonus until he no longer had any other option to win the ''Beast Wars''.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:In the series finale of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron assimilates several sparks into his own, causing his body to grow in size. The increase in mass prevents him from being able to fly or resist gravity when Optimus Primal pushes the both of them into Cybertron's organic core, where both leaders die.]]
* HulkingOut: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron has come to hate his organic beast mode and tries to repress it. But when he loses control of his emotions and gets ''angry'', he reflexively transforms into his dragon mode and will often attack first before calming down enough to transform again.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He ''despises'' treachery and tends to be particularly hateful towards his troops that try to betray him, usually Terrorsaur, Tarantulas, and Blackarachnia. He's also often to single out Dinobot in fights and attack him personally, and seems to have an obsession with trying to clone him and replace him. Of course, Megatron is entirely untrustworthy himself; he'll go back on his word as soon as it suits him, he's a BadBoss who inspires no loyalty in his troops nor does he even try to, and according to the backstory he betrayed his own boss back on Cybertron when he stole the Golden Disk for him and then made off with it himself. (to be fair though, said boss was planning on betraying him as well)
* HypocriteHasAPoint: Specifically, he despises [[DoWrongRight treachery being done]] ''[[DoWrongRight incompetently]]''. In the Predacon ranks, treason is almost a prerequisite to ruling, for if the current leader is unable to deal with being betrayed, who's to say they should still be in charge? Over half his lieutenants have tried to stab him in the back, and he's far from happy about it, but as someone who actually pulled it off towards his own mentor, he would know where they went wrong.
* AnIcePerson: After gaining a Transmetal II body, he gains the ability to use ice attacks.
* InfernalRetaliation: [[spoiler:After Quickstrike, manipulated by Tarantulas, drops him into a pit of lava while he was incapacitated by wrestling the spark of his namesake for control of their body. Megatron completes his transformation and emerges from the pit, stronger than ever and now with a dragon beast mode. [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown He then proceeds to "thank" Tarantulas.]]]]
* IrrationalHatred: He inexplicably develops a burning hatred for all forms of organic life in ''Beast Machines''. Optimus even points out how this makes zero sense given he had no issues with his beast mode in the past and refuses to have his spark transferred to a new body despite hating his current one so much. It's implied his newfound disgust for all things organic is just a self-serving rationalization: instead of admitting his past failures in the Beast Wars were his own fault, he projects them on the organic elements he gained on Earth to protect his ego. Now he seeks to purge himself of those "imperfections" before embarking on his plan to achieve godhood.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The only thing that matters to Megatron is Megatron. In ''Beast Machines'', his selfishness becomes even more all-consuming. He takes over Cybertron, captures or kills every sentient being beyond himself, erases every record of all that came before him, and ultimately seeks to consume the sparks of his entire species so that he can ascend to godhood and mold the entire planet into an eternal monument to himself.
-->'''Optimus Primal:''' Is that the only ideal you serve, Megatron? Megalomania?
* {{Jerkass}}: For all his manipulative charm and cultured demeanor, Megatron revels in the suffering he causes and ''loves'' to gloat about how badly he's screwed his enemies over.
* KarmicDeath: At the end of ''Beast Machines'', [[spoiler:he is killed by Optimus Primal while he attempts to reformat Cybertron.]]
* KickTheDog: After he decides that Transmutate is useless because of its deformities, he coldly orders Inferno to execute it. Rampage only barely talks him out of it, and Megatron makes it clear that if it screws up, he will kill it without a second thought.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:After surviving countless attempts on his life and things that would kill anyone else, he finally dies at the end of ''Beast Machines'' when Optimus sends them both into the core of Cybertron, disintegrating them both and reformatting the planet.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: Megatron had multiple LaughablyEvil tendencies and wasn't introduced as such at first, however, Megatron progressively much more darker and when he becomes more darker, the show's tone also becomes more darker. Moment he became more darker, characters are KilledOffForReal, especially by his hand in which multiple heroes end up dying trying to stop him, with [[spoiler: both Optimus dying by his hand ending the first two seasons in chilling notes]]. His transformation into a Transmetal II dragon brought the Beast Wars to its endgame phase when he [[spoiler: attempted to destroy the Ark]] and ultimately, the very reason ''Beast machines'' is much darker than its predecessor cements on the very fact that the premise is based on Megatron '''winning''' and ruling Cybertron and performed a virtual genocide against the Transformer race, even [[spoiler: killing off most of the Maximals in the penultimate episode and forced Primal to make a permanent HeroicSacrifice to finish off Megatron]]. This is all while in this series, Megatron's iconic LargeHam LaughablyEvil tendencies were downplayed than before until the end.
* KnightTemplar: In ''Beast Wars'', Megatron wants a new glorious age of Predacons after suffering slavery from the Maximals. When pushed to the limit, he would commit an act of genocide against humanity and kill Optimus Prime as a maneuvers he knows will result in the very destruction of time itself and undo existence to remake it as he sees fit and create a new timestream where the Predacons have a glorious age under his rule, taken even further in an attempt [[spoiler: to destroy the Ark.]] Taken further in ''Beast Machines'' which he deems free will as an illusion and commits a virtual genocide against his own race as a result and recycles their body to make mindless machines, and his grand plan is to destroy Cybertron and all life technological and organic on it to remake it in a technological paradise.
* LargeHam: Megatron's are hammy. Cartoon villains are hammy. Beast Wars Megatron... is a ham maestro. He becomes more of a ColdHam in ''Beast Machines''... right up until the end of the series, where he goes right back to being this.
* LargeAndInCharge: Generally played straight with him. Before Rampage was conscripted into the Predacons, Megatron was the biggest of the group, and once he converted into his dragon body, Megatron dwarfed even Rampage.
* LaughablyEvil: His hamminess, sarcasm, and CR baths with his rubber duck make Megatron a blast to watch. This doesn't apply as much in ''Beast Machines'', where he's more serious and cold... right up until the end of the series, where he reverts back to his original persona for the most part.
* LegacyCharacter: He's a descendant of the original Megatron.
* LookWhatICanDoNow: At one point, he's dropped into a lava pit by [[spoiler:Quickstrike, who was manipulated by Tarantulas,]] in an attempt to kill him. [[WhyWontYouDie Instead of dying]], [[InfernalRetaliation this actually makes him stronger and crazier than ever]]; mainly because he ''also'' had the spark of his namesake inside him at the time.
* MadScientist: He shows signs of being one of these, particularly when he uses the Transmetal II Drive to create Dinobot II and starts acting like [[Film/Frankenstein1931 Dr. Frankenstein]], complete with Waspinator serving as TheIgor.
--> '''Megatron:''' I give you LIFE! ''TRANSMETAL II LIFE!'' [[EvilLaugh AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!]]
* MadLibsCatchphrase: He's prone to expressing VillainRespect by saying "I rather like him/her/them."
* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: [[spoiler:He traveled to past Earth in the first place to kill Optimus Prime so the Decepticons could win the great war and thus control Cybertron.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Many of his greatest advantages were unwittingly supplied by his more treacherous underlings.
* MayorOfAGhostTown: In ''Beast Machines'' Megatron rules Cybertron after having purged it of all sentient beings besides himself and drones programmed to be incapable of disobeying him. Megatron, being the narcissist that he is, greatly prefers it this way as he is able to mold the planet into a monument to his "greatness" unopposed.
* MultipleHeadCase: A notable [[AvertedTrope aversion]]. While Megatron is one of the most famous Transformers that has his beast mode head fully visible in robot mode,[[note]]specifically for his first and third Earth bodies,[[/note]] his ''T. rex'' or dragon head simply becomes an inanimate ArmCannon when he transforms. "Before the Storm" seems to play with this trope by having his ''T. rex'' hand act like a RightHandCat in subtle ways, but this is PlayedForLaughs and can easily be explained by Megatron putting on a puppet show for himself, simply because [[BunnyEarsLawyer he's that kind of guy]].
* {{Narcissist}}: To an insane degree. In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron did everything in his power to turn Cybertron into a reflection of his own self-image. Reflected in this scene:
-->'''Megatron''': ...[[VerbalTic yeeesss]].\\
'''Blackarachnia''': Why do you always talk to yourself?\\
'''Megatron''': I simply have a penchant for ''intelligent'' conversation.
* NearVillainVictory: Several times. For all of his intelligence and chessmastering, he just can't win for definite.
** At the end of the first season, he kills [[spoiler:'''Optimus Primal''']]. This carries over to the second season and he would've killed the rest of the Maximals had [[spoiler:Rhinox not [[BackFromTheDead brought Primal back.]]]]
** In the GrandFinale, he [[spoiler:finds the Nemesis, kills Tigerhawk with it, and proceeds to attack Mt St Hilary in an attempt to destroy the Maximals and the Ark.]] If not for [[spoiler:Dinobot II]]'s HeelFaceTurn and subsequent RedemptionEqualsDeath moment, he would've won.
** But his best one of all had to be in the season two finale: He's been captured by Ravage and [[spoiler:Tarantulas]], with some help from the Maximals. His troops are either incapacitated or pursuing their own agendas. To top it off Ravage has instructions from the Tripredacus Council to eliminate all the witnesses, and what does Megatron do? [[spoiler:He plays his last card to change Ravage's allegiance, revealing the whole thing as a plan orchestrated by G1 Megatron to change the outcome of the Great War in his favor. While Ravage keeps the Maximals busy, Megatron flies to Mt. St. Hilary, threatens Silverbolt to get Blackarachnia to open the Ark for him, and attempts to RetGone the Maximals out of existence by '''blowing Optimus Prime's brains out.''']] Really, his only mistake was keeping [[spoiler:Blackarachnia, who was a Maximal Protoform and thus threatened by his attempt,]] alive long enough to betray him.
** He gets ''two'' of these in ''Beast Machines'', coming seconds away from winning both times.
* NeverMyFault: Megatron often blames others for his failures, whether it be his underlings or the Maximals, since his gargantuan ego has blinded him to the possibility he could make a mistake.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Inflicts one on Tarantulas after he [[CameBackStrong Comes Back Strong]] from his assassination attempt.]]
* NoNameGiven: He chose the name "Megatron" for himself; his original name is unknown (though in ''ComicBook/BeastWarsUprising'', he was originally known as "Gnashteeth").
** In the IDW 2021 series, it is revealed that his name was Galavar.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Megatron was little more than a particularly ambitious but still small-time renegade in the eyes of the Tripredacus Council and Maximal High Command. However, he and his crew are the biggest threats to Optimus Primal Maximals on account of being the only other Cybertronians on prehistoric Earth.
* NotSoSimilar: On one occasion he was told he was unworthy of the respect that usually comes with the name Megatron because of the robots who had the name before him being far superior to him. Though this came from a surviving servant of the original.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Initially, he comes off as a SmugSnake with delusions of grandeur, content to have a large supply of energon. By the end of Season 1, it's clear he is a legitimate DiabolicalMastermind with grand aspirations and the intelligence to back it up, managing to kill Optimus with his clever planning, and Season 2 reveals he's a threat to time and space itself.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Although a CardCarryingVillain by trade, Megatron occasionally at least ''acts'' like his plans stand to benefit people other than him, but it's always proven to be a load of bull and that all Megatron cares about is just Megatron:
** In ''Beast Wars'', despite Megatron's card-carrying tendencies, blatant egomania and [[BadBoss abuse of his own men]] and admission he does seek power, his actions seems to be as equally motivated by power as to create a better world for the Predacons out of genuinely believing they have gotten a raw deal as slaves in his MotiveRant. Even with that it was heavily downplayed and by the time he becomes a Transmetal II dragon upon absorbing power from [[spoiler: the G1 Megtron's spark]], any belief of him being genuine now is overridden with his egomania and BadBoss tendencies become taken to the extreme, in which they are definitely long gone the moment [[AGodAmI he proclaims himself Alpha & Omega]] and believing he is TheAntichrist and his abuse of men turned to straight up sacrificing them, all culminating in a grand plot [[spoiler: to destroy the Ark and wipe out nearly the entire Transformer race, even fellow Predacons]]. This is then continued in ''Beast Machines'' in which if his acquired god complex and [[spoiler: attempt on the Ark]] by the final few episodes of ''Beast Wars'' didn't convince you, by this show it will, as during his reign of terror upon conquering Cybertron, Megatron did not only steal sparks of Maximals, but fellow Predacons as well, proving Optimus Primal's words that Megatron is just a simple megalomaniac that cares only for himself.
** Throughout ''Beast Machines'', Megatron claims several times that his efforts are meant to eliminate TheEvilsOfFreeWill and turn Cybertron into a single, elegant machine, under his guiding hand. By the end of the series, it becomes clear that Megatron is nothing but a callous, insane megalomaniac, seeking nothing less than godhood and being willing to exterminate his entire species to see it happen.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: How he usually manipulates his more traitorous minions to his own ends. He acts completely unaware of their intentions, slyly playing his own BatmanGambit.
* OhCrap: He has this reaction right before [[spoiler:Quickstrike drops him into a pit of lava under Tarantulas' orders]] in "Master Blaster".
* OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:His final resort in Season 2 is to kill Optimus Prime and cause a timestorm that would undo existence to alter the timestream to his image where he leads the Predacons to a glorious age. Then by the finale of ''Beast Wars'' he's so all consumed at the thought of victory that he attempts to destroy the Arc with G1 Megatron included, which would mean the destruction of both Maximals and Predacons and all Cybertronian life.]] This is taken to even greater extremes in ''Beast Machines'' in which he attempts to destroy Cybertron itself to remake it in his image.
* OneWingedAngel:
** In ''Beast Wars'' He gains his Transmetal II form with just three episodes left in the series, in time for the final battle.
** ''Beast Machines'' gives him [[spoiler:a body resembling Primal's Optimal Optimus form, having constructed it himself (albeit without the beast form). And then he grows bigger when he absorbs the sparks of nearly every single Cybertronian.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the season one finale, he contacts Optimus for a temporary ceasefire, and is genuine in the offer. Optimus immediately knows something is up, because there's no way Megatron would pull this without something else on the table.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Megatron spends most of ''Beast Machines'' plotting and directing his legions of Vehicons instead of fighting himself, only engaging in combat when directly confronted. He finally starts acting on his own in the series finale, where he uses a copy of Optimus' Optimal body to great effect.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: His beast mode is a metallic dragon in the last four episodes of the third season.
* PetTheDog: He actually has a minor case of this in "Dark Designs". Despite initially berating Scorponok for getting crushed under the crates, once he hears him out afterwards he calmly acknowledges that he was the one who made the mistake by converting Rhinox into a Predacon. As Scorponok whimpers while explaining what happened Megatron even gives him a soft, comforting "there".
* PlayingWithFire: After gaining a dragon for a beast mode, he gains the ability to shoot fire from his mouth.
* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:He was initially unwilling to alter time by destroying Optimus Prime, deeming it a dangerous, extreme last resort. A tie-in game would raise the point that with Optimus and the Matrix destroyed, [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie nothing would stop Unicron when he came to Cybertron...]]]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: His tyrannosaurus bodies both had a largely purple colour scheme.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: He could maul his troops if he felt like it. According to the [[AllThereInTheManual Manual]], this is how Predacon leadership works. They value successful betrayals, believing that if the leader could not fend off the treachery, they obviously were not fit to lead.
-->'''Megatron:''' Treachery requires ''no'' mistakes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has red eyes, and is a callous, genocidal megalomaniac willing to kill anyone to get what he wants.
* RetGone: [[spoiler:In "The Agenda", he tried to do erase the Maximals from history by killing Optimus Prime]].
* RiddleForTheAges: ''Something'' clearly happened to Megatron between his escape from the Maximals and their arrival on Cybertron after his conquest; by the time they arrive, he's developed a virulent hatred for the organic (including his own beast mode), and is scarred over his right eye. The intervening time and stark changes in his characterization have never been addressed.
* RightHandCat: In his first and third bodies, his beast mode head becomes one of his arms, and he's seen treating his ''T. rex'' head like one of these. There's also his rubber ducky, to a lesser extent.
* RogueAgent: Megatron is a renegade from the Predacons, acting without their knowledge to carry out his own agenda. The Tripredacus Council consider him a dangerous extremist, and even dispatch Ravage to terminate him.
* RollerbladeGood: As a Transmetal, his dinosaur feet have wheels.
* {{Sadist}}: At several points in ''Beast Machines'', he does things that have no purpose other than to make Optimus suffer, whether it be taunting him about Megatron's victory or drawing out a battle with him. [[spoiler:This tendency ultimately shoots him in the foot at the end of the series, when this gives Optimus the chance to kill Megatron and reformat the planet.]]
* SameCharacterButDifferent: In ''Beast Machines'', he's far colder, less prone to his usual theatricality, inexplicably despises organics, and is far more clinical and ruthless in general, coming off as an almost entirely different character. As the series goes on, it gradually becomes clear that the change was in attitude only; he's still the same power-hungry megalomaniac he was in the original series, it's just that his ambitions have massively grown in scale, and near the end of the series he goes right back to his previous hammy self.
* SanitySlippage: At the end of ''Beast Wars'', the combination of taking the original Megatron's spark, Tarantulas' attempt on his life, and him gaining the beast mode of a dragon causes him to go even crazier, to the point he starts occasionally referring to himself in ThirdPersonPerson and developing a god complex. He's become far more composed in ''Beast Machines'', only to lose it again at the end of the series after absorbing all the sparks of Cybertron expect for Optimus'.
* SatanicArchetype: The Covenant of Primus's passages present him as a composite of this and TheAntichrist. The fact he becomes a dragon in the end just sells it.
-->'''The Covenant of Primus:''' (about Megatron) "...and the great dragon was cast out upon the Earth... and his followers were cast out with him."
* SelfServingMemory: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron smugly claims to Optimus, currently suffering from LaserGuidedAmnesia, that he won the Beast Wars. In reality, Megatron firmly lost; [[spoiler:all of his allies abandoned him, died, or both and all of his plans failed]]. [[spoiler:The only reason he actually managed to conquer Cybertron was because he was able to break out while the Maximals' ship was traveling back to Cybertron, allowing him to get there first.]]
* SheIsTheKing: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Megatron is called a "Queen" by Inferno, despite repeatedly warning the latter ''not'' to do so. Inferno also uses the more gender-neutral term "Royalty", which doesn't bother Megatron so much.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Regarding a bunch of Dinobot clones (appropriate, given Dinobot's own penchant for quoting the Bard):
-->'''Megatron:''' Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war!
* SlasherSmile: Gives a pretty freaky one when finding Rampage and uses his energon blade to cut off half his spark.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: [[DownplayedTrope Well,]] ''[[DownplayedTrope further]]'' [[DownplayedTrope into evil.]] Megatron starts off as an evil, megalomaniacal sociopath, but his SanitySlippage results in him getting even ''worse'', turning into a deranged OmnicidalManiac [[AGodAmI with delusions of godhood]]. Then he somehow manages to get even eviler in ''Beast Machines'', committing what amounts to genocide on his own race.
* TheSociopath: Megatron is self-centered, self-important, cruel, manipulative, has no respect for any authority apart from his own, has no empathy, and is extremely narcissistic.
* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: [[spoiler:In ''Beast Wars'', Megatron's Transmetal II body was easily able to overwhelm Optimal Optimus. Yet when he faces off with the techno-organic Optimus in ''Beast Machines'', he can just barely manage to draw with him (though this may be justified as a side-effect of the failed attempts to rid himself of his organic components).]]
* TaughtByExperience: The last leg of the first season of ''Beast Machines'' double subverted this. [[spoiler:Tankor is revealed to be Rhinox, someone who nearly deposed and killed Megatron after being remade into a Predacon on ''Beast Wars'']]. Viewers were surely questioning why Megatron would repeat such a dangerous mistake and why he seemed so unaware of what was going on. Megatron, however, was not only ObfuscatingStupidity, but he fully anticipated possible treachery by [[spoiler:installing secret safeguards in Tankor's programming. Rhinox is immobilized the second he actually tries to kill Megatron]].
* TautologicalTemplar: In ''Beast Machines'', to an insane degree. He's firmly convinced that all the crimes he comitted actually improved the Transformers race as a whole, and at no point ever does he show the slightest hint of doubt that what he's doing is for a good cause.
->''"Cybertron is a haven for machines ! While Optimus was deluded by the false visions of a malfunctioning computer, I have been restoring Cybertron's purity and surely, that is the most honorable cause of all !"''
* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: He's a ''T. rex'' in both his original and Transmetal beast modes. And he is a charismatic but cruel leader of the Predacons, willing to [[BadBoss sacrifice his minions]] and [[OmnicidalManiac reality itself]] just to ensure victory for his Decepticon ancestors.
* ThirdPersonPerson: After gaining a Transmetal II body, he starts occasionally referring to himself as "the Dragon" in third person.
* TinTyrant: Megatron's initial robot mode isn't all that grandiose, but by Transmetal, he's got thick metallic armor and mocking Dinobot for leveling a stick at it (before being struck with a stone hammer). By Transmetal II, he is fully decked out in armor in a foremost vainglorious display befitting a Megatron (this transformation occurring from having absorbed the spark of his namesake, fittingly). However, Megatron is also called this ''verbatim'' by Tarantulas, in a passing swipe at Megatron's [[{{Narcissist}} overblown ego and need for glory.]] Megatron fires back, "[[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Treacherous arachnid.]]"
* TookALevelInCynic: In ''Beast Machines'', Megatron sports a more sedate, cold attitude, although hints of his old fondness for melodrama bleed through every now and again, and towards the end of the series, he starts to regain his old, hammier persona.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He was never even remotely a good guy, but he becomes ''even worse'' by the time of ''Beast Machines'', attempting to carry out an AssimilationPlot tantamount to planetary genocide, fully embracing [[AGodAmI his god complex]], and dropping his FauxAffablyEvil demeanor in favor of a more openly ruthless, no-nonsense persona.
* TVGenius: He's undoubtedly sophisticated, intelligent, and verbally elegant. Unfortunately for him, his social skills and inability to attract and maintain followers through anything other than fear, brutality, or blackmail pretty much establish him as TheFriendNobodyLikes among his own Predacon troops. Not counting Inferno, who honestly has more than a few loose screws, Scorponok is practically the ONLY character in the show of relatively sound mind who likes Megatron.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Neither the Predacon or Maximal leadership thinks of him as more than a crook with delusions of grandeur. He manages to steal a ship and nearly unravel time, then take over Cybertron near-singlehandly.
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale of ''Beast Machines'', while Optimus calmly accepts his fate as they plunge to their deaths in Cybertron's core, Megatron screams with impotent rage and fear the whole time.]]
* TheUnfettered: Nothing, not even reality itself, is safe from this megalomaniac.
* UnskilledButStrong: While he's a skilled battlefield tactician and good long-term planner, Megatron's combat style really boils down to punching, straightforward kicks, blasting other 'bots, and, while in beast mode, biting and tail-slamming his opponents. Not that there's much wrong with it because a lot of the times, his overwhelming brute force will get him through a lot of scraps. However, it doesn't always serve him well because throughout all three seasons, there have been characters who beat him through simply being more skilled than him (Dinobot) or just possessing more raw power (Tigerhawk).
* UsedToBeASweetKid: In ''Beast Wars: Uprising'', Megatron is shown to have been a NiceGuy even willing to talk with Maximals before his mentor Double Punch screwed him over.
* VerbalTic: [[invoked]] A long drawn-out "Yeeeess..." or "Noooo...". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJkvwoddxY The former was uttered 166 times throughout the series]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5cT3dPKnnY&t=50s According]] to Kaye, the now-iconic tic was an accidental ThrowItIn. It came out of his delivery of Megatron's first 'Yes' in the Pilot (which was written normally without the now-familiar inflection). Per the request of VO Director Creator/SusanBlu and the production crew, Kaye did it again and stretched it out longer. The rest is history.
* VetinariJobSecurity: Though abusive and manipulative to his subordinates, he has proven to be the only one capable of leading his nearly-psychotic crew of Predacons. He proved this to Terrorsaur once by granting him command during a crisis and watching him fail spectacularly.
* VillainBall: Megatron's main weakness. He himself acknowledges that Predacons gloat too much, but can't quite shake the habit. The series is bookended with him ignoring Dinobot / Dinobot II's advice in favour of something more fun- which [[spoiler:[[NiceJobFixingItVillain only results in him killing Quickstrike and Inferno, his last two Predacons aside from Dinobot II]]]].
* VillainDecay: Impressively inverted. His schemes in the first season are largely simple plots to acquire Energon. Then at the end of Season 1, he masterminds the destruction of the Vok's superweapon and the death of Optimus, after which he starts threatening time itself. And ''then'' in ''Beast Machines,'' he successfully wipes out all of Cybertron and comes within a stone's throw of destroying the resistance and completing his designs for an entirely mechanical world.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** After [[spoiler:Tarantulas' failed assassination attempt and absorbing the spark of the original Megatron]] give him a Transmetal II body, Megatron just loses his mind and becomes increasingly irrational and unhinged, culminating in him [[spoiler:trying to destroy the ''Ark'' even though it would mean the destruction of both the Maximals and Predacons alike]].
** [[spoiler:Right before Optimus kills them both in the finale of ''Beast Machines'', he begins panicking and loses his cool, culminating in a BigNo.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Downplayed with Inferno. Megatron treats Inferno as his most useful pawn, but genuinely likes him for his loyalty, even if he finds him to be incompetent. He even rescues Inferno in the middle of a battle for no real reason. [[spoiler:Killing him with the ''Nemesis'' while firing on the protohuman settlement in the series finale is what finally makes it clear Megatron has lost it completely.]]
* VillainousValor: While he did pull a VillainExitStageLeft many times during the series, he undeniably embodies this trope when he doesn't quit against Tigerhawk despite being in awe at his power.
* VillainRespect: Whenever Megatron is threatened or simply runs into someone as evil, violent, or cunning as him, his usual response is to proclaim he "rather likes" them.
* VisualPun: Megatron is an aspiring GalacticConqueror, and in his first two bodies, his beast mode was a Tyrannosaurus; for most of ''Beast Wars'', Megatron was ''literally'' a tyrant lizard. Megatron being who he is, he may well have chosen his beast mode just for the pun.
* VocalDissonance: In Beast Mode, his articulate tone of voice is quite odd to hear coming out of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
* VocalEvolution: In ''Beast Machines'', his voice becomes even deeper and he loses his smug, jovial tone for a more cold, serious tone.
* WeHaveReserves: He seems to value his troops' lives slightly less than a normal person does pocket lint and would probably kill them all in a second if they proved to be no longer useful. An impressive feat, since at no time does he have more than a handful or so Predacons, even if some are MadeOfIron and being blown to bits is more of an inconvenience than anything else.
* WickedCultured: Speaks with an aristocratic accent, fond of quoting literature, and is often found soaking in a energon hot tub.
* WouldHitAGirl: The most blatant example is when he slaps Blackarachnia in "Aftermath" out of anger for working with Tarantulas behind his back.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: By the time of ''Beast Machines'', Megatron has grown to despise organic life, up to and including his own organic beast mode, which he spends all of the first season struggling to rid himself of. This goes even further in the second season, where he spends the first few episodes trapped in an ''entirely'' organic body until he manages to liberate his spark.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His reaction to realizing his new body is a Diagnostic Drone.
-->'''Megatron:''' [[LargeHam I LIVE! I LIVE! I]]- ...What kind of puny body is this? ''(Descends into {{Angrish}} as Rattrap mocks him)''
* YourSoulIsMine: Before the start of ''Beast Machines'', he used a combination of his transformation locking virus and the beginnings of his army to steal the sparks of nearly all of Cybertron. By the time he released his own spark to take the Grand Mal as a new body, he began consuming the sparks in his collection to boost his power. At the climax of the series, he had absorbed so many into himself that he attained near-godlike power.
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[[folder:Scorponok]]
!!Scorponok
!!!Function: Desert Attack Commander
!!!Beast Mode: Scorpion
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Don Brown
-->'''Debut:''' ''"Beast Wars (Part 1)"''
->''"Megatron is our leader! He rewards loyalty and punishes those who oppose his will."''
Scorponok was the second-in-command of the Predacons following Dinobot's rebellion against Megatron in the first episode. He was the only Pred at the start to display full loyalty to Megatron, which in Megatron's eyes made up for his lack of real intelligence. His undying loyalty to Megatron meant that he would clash with Terrorsaur and Blackarachnia at times. Scorponok would die in a freak accident in the Season 2 premiere.
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* MsFanservice: Not that she has much competition for the female Cybertronians in the show, but she's remarkably and inexplicably buxom and has a distinctly feminine look, fitting for a SeductiveSpider. Her initial look was supposedly inspired by a stripper. A far cry from the other major female Maximal, Airazor, whose design is androgynous enough that ShesManInJapan.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is homicidally insane, thinks he's really an ant, and won't stop calling Megatron his Queen, but he's infallibly loyal and a capable soldier so Megagtron tolerates it.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Is homicidally insane, thinks he's really an ant, and won't stop calling Megatron his Queen, but he's infallibly loyal and a capable soldier so Megagtron Megatron tolerates it.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: As a FemmeFatale whose wrapped many a bot around her finger with a flirt and a wink to get whatever she wants, she eventually finds herself genuinely falling in love with Silverbolt.
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* UseYourHead: She does this several times to great effect, one of her victims being Silverbolt.
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* UseYourHead: She does this several times to great effect, one of her victims being Silverbolt.Silverbolt whose particularly hard head ended up downing her as well.
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* BeingEvilSucks: His tenure as a Predacon results in him receiving countless humiliating defeats and injuries and nothing but scorn and abuse from his colleagues. [[spoiler:He has enough in the finale and quits.]]
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* BeingEvilSucks: His tenure as a Predacon results in him receiving countless humiliating defeats and injuries and nothing but scorn and abuse from his colleagues. [[spoiler:He has [[spoiler:He's had enough in the finale and quits.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Beast Machines'', Waspinator is the only one of the original Predacons to still be alive - and, if you discount [[DefectorFromDecadence Blackarachnia]] whom is actually a brainwashed maximal and not a member of the predacon race, the only surviving Predacon at all.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Beast Machines'', Waspinator is the only one of the original Predacons to still be alive - and, if you discount [[DefectorFromDecadence Blackarachnia]] Blackarachnia]], whom is actually was only a brainwashed maximal Maximal and not a member of the predacon Predacon race, the only surviving Predacon at all.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Beast Machines'', Waspinator is the only one of the original Predacons to still be alive - and, if you discount [[DefectorFromDecadence Blackarachnia]], the only surviving Predacon at all.]]
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* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Beast Machines'', Waspinator is the only one of the original Predacons to still be alive - and, if you discount [[DefectorFromDecadence Blackarachnia]], Blackarachnia]] whom is actually a brainwashed maximal and not a member of the predacon race, the only surviving Predacon at all.]]
* CriminalAmnesiac: Like the other protoforms, Quickstrike is awoken with no memory or idea of who he is, combined with his BoisterousWeakling attitude, this makes it easy for Megatron to tell him that he's one of his Predacon soldiers and that the maximals are his foes.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Silverbolt. Both are MixAndMatchCritters with an unusual code of honour and regard for the ladies, though in his case it's an evil {{Cowboy}} as opposed to a KnightInShiningArmor.
** Also, in a way, to Dinobot. Though it never really gets brought up in the show, Quickstrike was never actually reprogrammed as a Predacon like Blackarachnia and Inferno, so he is technically a Maximal who decided the Predacons were a better fit for his sensibilities, whereas Dinobot is a fully-programmed Predacon who chose the Maximal side.
** Also, in a way, to Dinobot. Though it never really gets brought up in the show, Quickstrike was never actually reprogrammed as a Predacon like Blackarachnia and Inferno, so he is technically a Maximal who decided the Predacons were a better fit for his sensibilities, whereas Dinobot is a fully-programmed Predacon who chose the Maximal side.
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* EvilCounterpart: To Silverbolt. Both are MixAndMatchCritters with an unusual code of honour and regard for the ladies, though in his case it's an evil {{Cowboy}} as opposed to a KnightInShiningArmor.
** Also, in a way, to Dinobot. Though it never really gets brought up inKnightInShiningArmor. Both are also tricked into joining the show, Quickstrike predacons, but only Silverbolt was never actually reprogrammed as a Predacon like Blackarachnia and Inferno, so he is technically a Maximal who decided the Predacons were a better fit for his sensibilities, whereas Dinobot is a fully-programmed Predacon who chose the Maximal side.smart enough to realize that Megatron tricked him.
** Also, in a way, to Dinobot. Though it never really gets brought up in
* InsufferableImbecile: Quickstrike is very stupid and constantly wants to fight, this made it very easy for Megatron to convince Quickstrike he was actually a predacon and teach him all the wrong things. Unlike Silverbolt, Quickstrike was too much of a moron to ever realize he'd been had. Quickstrike is so stupid, that unlike Blackarachnia, he never even realizes that Megatron's plan will result in him being [[RetGone erased from history]].
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* NotBrainwashed: Unlike some of the other protoforms who joined the Predacons, Quickstrike never had a shell program installed nor was tortured into joining; he's just naturally so psychotically violent that the Predacons were a better fit. It's never elaborated upon if his attitude is because of the damage he suffered when crashing onto the planet, his beast forms overriding/enhancing his normal aggression, or if he truly was this much of a jerkass to begin with.
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* NotBrainwashed: Unlike DownplayedTrope some of the other protoforms who joined the Predacons, Quickstrike never had a shell program installed nor was tortured into joining; he's just naturally so psychotically violent that the Predacons were a better fit. however he was given amnesia and tricekd into joining. It's never elaborated upon if his attitude is because of the damage he suffered when crashing onto the planet, his beast forms overriding/enhancing his normal aggression, or if he truly was this much of a jerkass to begin with.with or due to being taught this behavior from the rest of the predacons.
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* PsychoForHire: He's ready to follow whoever gives him more opportunities to kill.
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* PsychoForHire: He's ready to follow whoever gives him more opportunities to kill.[[BoisterousWeakling fight]].
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*LadyKillerInLove: Gender-inverted. As a FemmeFatale whose wrapped many a bot around her finger with a flirt and a wink, she eventually finds herself genuinely falling in love with Silverbolt.
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* HuskyRusskie: Given a Russian accent to keep up the spy/agent theme.
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* HuskyRusskie: Given a Russian accent to keep up the spy/agent theme. Oddly enough, the one time he spoke in the original series, he didn't sound Russian.[[note]][[Podcast/TheMagnusArchives But then, how could he sound anything? He's made of plastic]].[[/note]]
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* GutturalGrowler: His voice started off as being somewhat gravelly and having a noticeable growl to it. He keeps said growl after his VocalEvolution into being more shrill, though it isn't as noticeable anymore.
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* GutturalGrowler: Just like the original, and even more intimidating in this case since he's basically a cybernetically enhanced zombie.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: If you take ''Webcomic/TransformersLegends'' as canon, then poor Waspinator finally gets his happy ending. [[spoiler:Not only does he get restored to his original body, he's now fully accepted by the Maximals, joining the ''Beast Machines'' era Maximals and a revived Rhinox as one of their own.]]
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* GrandTheftMe: He got hijacked by the spark of G1 Starscream in the episode, "Possession".
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* GrandTheftMe: He got hijacked by the mutant spark of G1 Starscream in the episode, "Possession"."Possession":
-->'''Waspinator:''' What is this? Program does not respond! Waszzpinator does not understand!
-->'''Starscream:''' (''as he's possessing him'') [[LampshadeHanging I'll bet Waspinator seldom]] ''[[LampshadeHanging does!]]'' But try not to let it depress you, bug-face...
-->'''Waspinator:''' What is this? Program does not respond! Waszzpinator does not understand!
-->'''Starscream:''' (''as he's possessing him'') [[LampshadeHanging I'll bet Waspinator seldom]] ''[[LampshadeHanging does!]]'' But try not to let it depress you, bug-face...
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* TheWorfEffect: Played with. In his first appearance he's a nigh-invulnerable juggernaut that takes anything thrown at him and shrugs it off. However, the very same episode along with subsequent appearances diminish this to a degree, showing that he can be caught off-guard or taken down with significant firepower. Powerful characters such as Depth Charge, Tigerhawk, or Optimal Optimus can also take him down.
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* TheWorfEffect: Played with. In his first appearance he's a nigh-invulnerable juggernaut that takes anything thrown at him and shrugs it off. However, the very same episode along with subsequent appearances diminish this to a degree, showing that he can be caught off-guard or taken down with significant firepower.firepower, such as Silverbolt knocking him off a cliff or Dinobot jamming Waspinator into his gun-barrel while he's in tank mode. Powerful characters such as Depth Charge, Tigerhawk, or Optimal Optimus can also take him down.
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* VillainousVirtues: Determination. No matter how much abuse is thrown at him, he never gives up and continues to function, somehow.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: The subtext is certainly there. Dinobot II is Megatron's final and most triumphant attempt to recoup the loss of his defected (Megs would argue [[defective HeelFaceTurn]]) lieutenant.
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* FlatCharacter: He doesn't have much personality aside from being Megatron's attack drone. Justified in that, as a clone powered by a piece of a spark that isn't his own, that pretty much all he ''is''. [[spoiler:This stops being the case after Rampage is killed and Dinobot II begins to take after the original Dinobot's mannerisms.]]
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* ReplacementFlatCharacter: To the original, now deceased Dinobot; this one doesn't have much personality aside from being Megatron's attack drone. Justified in that, as a clone powered by a piece of a spark that isn't his own, that pretty much all he ''is''. [[spoiler:This stops being the case after Rampage is killed and Dinobot II begins to take after the original Dinobot's mannerisms.]]
* ReplacementGoldfish:Of Dinobot.The subtext is certainly there. Dinobot II is Megatron's final and most triumphant attempt to recoup the loss of Dinobot.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: As mentioned in Silverbolt's profile, Waspinator school's the Fuzor in battle ''three times''. From ''Changing of the Guard":
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* VerbalTic: He buzzes certain words in the English version, the Japanese version punctuates his sentences with "bun" instead.
