Megatronus Prime

FULL NAME Megatronus Prime ALIAS The Fallen The First Decepticon

ORIGIN Transformers: Generation One OCCUPATION Right-Hand of Unicron POWERS / SKILLS No information GOALS Obtain the 4 Transformers he requires for his ritual to break the Seal of Primus (succeeded). Break the Seal and unleash Unicron to annihilate the entire universe (nearly succeeded, but failed).

CRIMES Mass destruction Warmongering Terrorism Conspiracy Attempted mass murder Kidnapping Attempted omnicide

TYPE OF VILLAIN Hegemonic Fallen Hero LESS NOTE: This article is about the Generation One version of The Fallen/Megatronus Prime, for other versions, go to the disambiguation page. Do not speak. Understand that you are simply casualties of war. A war of the Gods! For eon, a stalemate: two equal and opposite forces locked away from each other, the one exiled, the other hidden. Until now. The Seal of Primus will break and chaos will follow! THE FALLEN'S SPEECH TO JETFIRE AS HE PREPARES TO BREAK THE SEALS AND UNLEASH UNICRON.

Megatronus Prime, also known as the Fallen, is a major antagonist of the Transformers franchise, first debuting as the main antagonist of the 2003-2004 arc, The War Within: The Dark Ages in the Dreamwave comic series.

He was one of the original thirteen Primes created by Primus, on his war to safeguard existence from his twin brother, Unicron. Having grown a love for entropy and decay, Megatronus was seduced to evil and become Unicron's servant, turning against his creator and his fellow Primes, in which he is now only called the Fallen and dubbed the first Decepticon, slowly using his mastery over the dark sciences to manipulate his way to bring forth Unicron's wrath.

PAST: Megatronus Prime was one of the Thirteen Primes created by the Lord of the Light, Primus, in order to preserve existence from primus' twin brother, Unicron the Chaos Bringer, who seeks to ravage through the universe until he is all that exists. Like all Primes, Megatornus' purpose was to ensure the orderly dissolution of all things after reality was ravaged by Unicron beyond repair to pave way for the next creation by Primus. However, the concept of destruction fascinated Megatronus too much and this slowly corrupted him, losing sight of his goals and the necessity of restraint. Investigating into the dark sciences, Megatronus went to Unicron, becoming his servant. Now corrupted as Unicron's servant, Megatronus attempted to destroy Primus to pave way for Unicron's wrath. However, this attempt failed and Megatornus, now dubbed the Fallen, fled to Unicron. However, Primus still found them and Primus exiles them to a dimension outside of the space-time continuum called the Unspace.

The War Within: The Dark Ages

When Optimus Prime pushes Megatron into a Space-Bridge and ends up destroying it, the Space Bridge accident weakened the barriers within reality and Unspace that frees the Fallen as he materializes and walks Cybertron again. Finally freed again, the Fallen seeks to initiate the Unbinding and bring forth the return of Unicron. But first, he spends years, if not millennia, manipulating the Autobot-Decepticon war, splintering them into several factions that are always in constant and escalating conflict with each other.

As the time of the "Unbinding", the Fallen enlists a trio of Decepticon outcasts called the Chaos Trinity, consisting of Bludgeon, Mindwipe and Bugly, tempting them to satisfy their desire to unlock the use of the dark sciences if they provide . Leading them all to the Well of the Allspark hidden inside Cybertron, explaining to his new minions that the Unbinding required four Transformers to function as "angles in the geometry of dissolution", naming Grimlock as the first angle. Beginning the construction of a spark draining machine within the Well of the Allspark in preparation of the Unbinding. However the Trinity got tired of the Fallen's praises and want a more tangible reward. The Fallen responds by grabbing Bludgeon's face and revealing a glimpse of what all he sought, promising if they help him he can open the door fully. With this, Bludgeon became much more inspired to do the Fallen's bidding and hunt down the targets.

While the Chaos Trinity orchestrate chaos drawing out the Protectobots to fight and be defeated by Devastator while Bludgeon sets out to lured in their 2 targets, Grimlock and Jetfire in one fell swoop, having ambushed Jetfire during a cross-territory meeting with Shockwave. However, Grimlock arrived earlier, to which the Fallen himself intervenes, catching Grimlock's energn sword with his bare hands. Having fought Grimlock and knocking him out with a huge blast of energy, before knocking out Jetfire too who summarised that the Fallen must be before the Golden Age, dragging them away to the well as he orders the Chaos Trinity to capture the third angle, leaving the fourth one to him. Breaking into the Autobot Headquarter to abduct Blitzwing from his holding cell, the Fallen shrugs off any of the Attacks by Jazz, Sunstreaker and Mirage and disintegrates their weaposn before knocking them all out.

With the Trinity's success in capturing Hot Spot, the 4 angles are ready and strapped into the Fallen's machine. The Fallen then explains to Jetfire on how they are all just casualties for a war among the gods as he begins. Beginning the ceremonious occasion, the Fallen drains their sparks and siphons their life forces to begin the Unbinding and break the Seal of Primus so he can finally awaken Unicron and cause the end of reality itself. However, a combined army of multiple factions defeat the Chaos Trinity and infiltrate the Fallen's operation. While the Fallen boasts on how they are all too late, Jetfire arranges for a forcefield to surround the seal, having known the true extent of the Fallen's plans, impressing him. However the Fallen lowers his guard as the radiating of hand as Primus himself, awoken after the breaking of the seal, unleashes a torrent of searing energy to reimprison him for his crimes.

Other Versions Transformers: Prime Wars trilogy Main article: Megatronus Prime (Titans Return) In this ambiguous sequel to the original Generation One television series, Megatronus appears as the main antagonist of the Prime Wars trilogy, serving as the overarching antagonist of Transformers: Combiner Wars, the overarching antagonist of Transformers: Titans Return and the main antagonist of Transformers: Power of the Primes. Unlike the mainstream version from the Dreamwave continuity, this version is comparatively more sympathetic. In the planned 6th issue of the third The War Within series, "Age of Wraith", the Fallen would've made his grand return after Shockwave broke the Seal for his cloning experiments, with his essence having escaped and corrupted Sunstorm and then Jetfire following the clone's destruction. However, due to Dreamwave shutting down due to legal problems before the issue could be published, the Fallen still remains imprisoned. The Fallen was originally a multiverse singularity, in which all versions of the Fallen are the same version in every Transformer media as his avatars as only one Megatronus Prime existed across the entire multiverse, which often lead to conflicting backstories. However, like all other multiversal singularities in the entire Transformers franchise, this was all done away as a result of the Shrouding, making every version of the Fallen as simply different versions from each other. In a fit of jealousy and rage, Megatronus Prime finally turned on his former allies, declared war on his brethren, and changed his name as the Fallen (フォーレン, Fōren), the founder of the original Decepticons, and the master of his apprentice Megatron.