Transformers Superpowers Of Megatron Screen Rant. Transformers The Last Knight, the fifth film in the inordinately loud and explode y robot film series, has officially made its theatrical debut. Director Michael Bay says that this will be his last go at the franchise, which hes also said about the past few installments, so well believe it when Transformers 6 shows up without his name above the title. What we do know for certain, however, is that The Last Knight will once again feature the Decepticon leader Megatron as a major villain after he spent most of the last entry as a severed head in a lab. Megatron and Autobot hero Optimus Prime have been fighting for as long as the Transformers series has existed in any form. And over the past three decades of runs, re runs, reboots, and re imaginings, he has displayed an astounding array of surprising powers and abilities that rivals even those of his noble nemesis. Most of them make sense insofar as anything in a series about alien robots that can turn into other things makes sense but others leave us with a level of confusion that we typically only feel while watching one of Michael Bays Transformers movies. But if youre excited about the new film or just a fan, were offering a rundown on the sometimes weird things the evil robot can do. Here are 1. 5 powers you didnt know Megatron had. Be sure to share your favorites or ones we missed in the comments. Turning into a gun. If everything you know about Megatron comes from the live action film franchise, this one will be new to you. Megatron has been the main villain of the Transformers series for decades, but he definitely has a few surprising abilities you didnt know about. The big screen incarnation of the baddie becomes a Cybertronian jet in his alternate mode, which is a huge departure from the original version. Old school, Generation 1 Megatron has a far different and more ominous disguise when he isnt running around trying to defeat the Autobots while simultaneously thwarting his underling Starscreams attempts to overthrow him. He turned into a gun. And because he was the bad guy, it was a Nazi gun. Specifically, Megatron became a modified version of a Walther P3. German Wehrmacht replaced its standard issue Luger in the early 1. Even weirder, Megatrons robot mode includes a massive fusion cannon mounted on his arm. And youd think that would become the barrel in his gun form, but no its the scope. All of this is confusing. Transformers Universe is a cancelled free to play browser based massively online tactical action game, or MOTA. First unveiled at Botcon 2011, closed beta testing. 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He was formerly known as Hot Rod and was first seen in The Transformers. And if youre wondering what tactical advantages a huge robot gains by turning into a handgun, Megatron had another trick to make this transformation useful. Mass and size manipulation. The idea of a robot who turns into a gun is already pretty silly even before you realize that its a useless ability if nobody can fire the thing. Thats why writers gave Megatron another, supplemental power to go along with his shapeshifting. He was also capable of decreasing in size so that other Decepticons or even humans could carry and wield him after he changed. This is the kind of creative juggling one has to do when you start with the idea of a toy robot that turns into a gun you know, for kids and then have to work backward to fit it into a coherent narrative. The writers of the first Transformers movie considered this ability cheating, since they wanted to present as realistic a version of these characters as possible, and thats why Megatron turns into a jet in the films. Comics and cartoons shied away from this weird ability as time went on, but every once in a while, Megatron regains his arbitrary ability to shrink. Right hand energy flail. This power goes all the way back to the pilot of the TV series. One scene has Megatron and Optimus Prime grappling on top of a dam. And because giant robots fighting on top of a huge, concrete slab that is only barely containing the power of a river is somehow not exciting enough, the two foes bring out some extra weapons to jazz it up. Optimus right hand retracts to issue forth an energy axe, and Megatron responds with his own light weapon, a mace. This is the only time either of these implements appears in the entire original series, but its somehow one of the most iconic moments in the whole show. Were not going to think too hard about why super advanced robots from another planet would employ medieval weaponry, light based though it might be. Well just pile it on with all of the other things about this universe that dont add up and enjoy the amazing trash talking that happens during that fight. Optic weaponryOptic weaponry is the Transformers universes fancy term for eye lasers. Megatron isnt the only Cybertronian who can turn on these high beams. Optimus Prime breaks them out sometimes, and all of the Predicons in the Beast Wars animated series can make like Cyclops from the X Men as well. This ability has yet to appear in the movies, which is odd because it provides a new way for Michael Bay to blow something up. The closest it gets is in the Twilights Last Gleaming storyline, which appears in a movie tie in series that UK comic brand Titan Magazines started publishing in 2. In that arc, Megatron breaks out his laser face to try to murder Optimus before some complicated sci fi things happen that kill him, instead. His use of the ability on the first animated series is comical and basically useless. He uses his optics to scare off a crowd of race fans in the episode The Autobot Run. This is instead of just slaughtering them mercilessly, which would be more in character but probably even less appropriate for a kids show than that part where he transforms into a Nazi handgun. Flamethrower. This ones about as obscure as it gets other than that part where Megatron has a flamethrower in The Last Knight. But were including it because you may not know that the new movie isnt the first time he has unleashed the fire. In all of the Transformers series, Megatrons flamethrower appears exactly once, in the strategy guide for the 1. Famicom game Transformers Mystery of Convoy. Thats it it doesnt even happen in the game. Mystery of Convoy follows Ultra Magnus on a journey through a deadly realm of bad controls and really dodgy gameplay, and, of course, Megatron is the final boss. The strategy guide presents a little comic to give players a hint about the villains weak spot, but before it gets to the useful tip, the Decepticon grows to a huge size and blasts Magnus with a gout of flames from his fusion cannon. Even as Transformers lore goes, thats pretty obscure. Turning into a real world racecar. Its easy to look at the Transformers franchise cynically, considering it was a multimedia effort to sell useless albeit awesome hunks of plastic and advertising space during cartoon blocks. And in 2. 01. 3, the minds behind the series tossed on another layer by adding a further tie in with the Super GT racing championship. Transformers GT was a toy line that mixed up the property by having all of its robot heroes and villains change into real life vehicles that ran in the series. And to justify this, the line comes with a bit of lore that says that eventually, the Autobots and Decepticons get tired of fighting their wars with punches and varying degrees of laser eyes and settle their differences with friendly races. And they model their own contests on Earths Super GT to make the synergy complete. The weirdest part of this whole stunt or the biggest ripoff was that all of the toys used the same molds they just had different paint jobs, stickers, heads, and accessories. Cyber Key vehicle thrusters. Transformers Cybertron was a mixed animation series that served as a sequel to the similarly rough looking Armada and Energon. Its about the Autobots and Decepticons racing sometimes literally to uncover the parts of a machine called the Omega Lock, which is the only way to stop a huge black hole from devouring their home planet. Megatrons more interested in claiming the Locks power for his own, surprising no one. 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