#tfa megazarak

[transingthoseformers]

I. Would kill. For a pre-war TFA episode (or three to be honest) that shows Megatron's journey from beginning to when he becomes the feared warlord. What was Megazarak actually like?! How bad were things before that fueled Megatron's desire to rise above everyone??? Did he used to lack confidence before or was it something he's always had?

EXACTLY!!!!

It'd be so cool

[nightmare-xlife]

The ponies are escalating. What started as a fun re-designing exercise, has now turned into a full blown AU.

So have a small comic, a family tree and some doodles and designs. As well as a few notes at the end with some explanations and small bits of lore.

Extra Notes:

I always liked the theory, that in TFA the protoform of Sari came from the Decepticons or more specifically Megatron.

I also find it incredibly hilarious how in Season 1, Megs keeps trying to build himself a new body, but just causes more sentient bots to be created, making him essentially a dad.

So I made both Soundwave and Sari his kids, although he only raised Soundwave (extremely reluctantly) and left Sari at a random door in a neutral town with her adoptive father Professor Sumdac.

I already have a few plot points focused around Megatron's family, mainly how his own raising impacted him as a father.

The idea of the 'cons giving up their kids is a reappearing theme. Since the Autobots and Decepticons are at war, a lot of 'cons leave their young in neutral towns, so they are not impacted by the war.

The Autobots are the complete opposites. They heavily rely on their community to help raise their young. Especially siblings help each other out.

As an example, Ultra Magnus and Alpha Trion were both single-fathers when raising OP, SP and RP, so they worked together. When one of them had a shift or had to go to the frontlines, the other took care of the kids. They also lived in the same house for convenience. This meant that cousins like OP and SP grew up seeing each other more as brothers.

The younger ponies also tend to early on become part of the war. In hard times, they would be considered the last line of defense and would be taking care of the younger fillies.

Some of the earlier, more saver missions young ponies get to do are reconnaissance/scouting missions, where small teams are sent out to look for new resources, allies and places to set up base.

On one these missions, Optimus's team ends up in the neutral town Sari is living in, known as Detroit. From there our story kicks off as Sari decides to set out together with Team Prime. This gets back to Megatron, who sends out his own team to track them down, determined to make sure Sari does not end up an Autobot.

[pasquiart]

Megatron, are you still angry with your brother?

Optimus, Megatron, Ruby and Val: what do they do to have fun together, that is, family time? 🤔🤔🤔

[yinandyang1]

Here Is once again another TFA au :) Context at the end.

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Ultra Magnus knew he shouldn't keep his old friends past life from his new one but remembering the pain and trauma of dieing especially at the hands of the former Decepticon leader, it was even worse to the fact he had a relationship with Megatron.

While Ultra is debating about telling Optimus. Megatron is wondering why the hell this tiny Autobot has the face of someone WHO HE DID NOT HAVE A CRUSH ON. And Optimus is wondering what the actual frag is going on, why is Megatron not killing him, what is happening to Ultra Magnus, also he has to deal with Sentinels shit. (His past personality may come out and Chuck a weapon at Sens head)

Context: Megazarak was killed/offlined by a mech named Orion Pax a former blackSmith and gets reincarnated.

[max-amorphosis]

OK These came out way too edgy for my liking. I swear, they weren't as edgy in my head. Idk how to fix it, because I spend way too much time on these.

Anyway, have SG Optimus, MegaZarak who i made into a dragon in this AU and an unnamed OC. (1/2)

[menori-ori]

Also here is a little bit what's happening from FireMists side

(convoy is sick so thats why he looks like that)

I'm finished with this piece! Here we have Miss Capitan Silvus with my oc FireMist and IceBerg ;P

Hope you guys like it, drawing that took me longer than expected

[quibbs126]

Oh yeah, so here’s yet another concept, one that I made up a couple months ago or so but I’m pretty sure I never posted

Essentially the idea was to have all the “sort of Megatrons”, as I call them, in one place. Currently that list makes up Beast Wars Megatron, Galvatron, and Megaempress, but I might be missing some others

But the full idea was that the Autobots defeated Megatron, and he was assumed dead, but now afterwards three more bots have suddenly shown up and are each taking their place as leaders of the Decepticons, splitting them up between them. So basically now the threat’s tripled

As for what’s actually going on, I don’t fully know myself, but the best I’ve been able to come up with is that Megatron’s spark was somehow split into these multiple pieces which then became these three (though despite this they are all of comparable strength to him). Don’t know if that’s the explanation I’m sticking with, but the three are all Megatron in some way. They also all hate each other and each claim to be the rightful ruler of the Decepticons

There might also be a fourth member of their group, of whom is only made reference to by the others and no one has ever seen, so nobody really knows. I had this because I don’t actually know if it’s just these three or if there’s a fourth character that would fit their bill. But I could also just make it D-16 if I wanted

I also remember there were things supposed to be distinct between each leader and their groups. I know BW Megs would be specifically techno-organic and trying to turn all of Cybertron techno-organic, and I think Galvatron might have been aligned with Unicron and a threat to Cybertron through that, but I don’t really know what Megaempress is up to, mostly because I don’t really know what her deal is because she’s only in like one thing. I think it was that while her and her rail gun were specifically very dangerous and she was unpredictable, she was comparatively the least of a problem because she wasn’t planning imminent danger to Cybertron like the other two

I just felt like sharing this since it returned to my brain just now

[blackpensils]

TFA! AU where Optimus Prime is the reincarnation of Orion Pax but not in the usual sense. But instead before the Great War, Megatron and Orion Pax were a thing (maybe even engaged) but Orion Pax died before the war started. Maybe Megazarak killed him? And that's why Megs killed Megazarak? Who knows but then millions of years later Megatron runs into Optimus Prime and refuses to learn his name at all costs because he just can't stand to think there's someone out there with his dead partners face. Fuck this guy for somehow looking like my dead fiancé!

Or something... maybe at some point Optimus starts remembering bits and pieces of Orion's time with Megatron and he gets hella confused when the memories gets... let's just say raunchy and leave it at that.

[burb-ie]

If you’re open to some Megatron lore, in TFA he’s actually not the founder of the Decepticons - he became leader after deposing Megazarak who was banished. ((This is all in the Allspark Almanac, which is a great read if you don’t mind spoilers, since it provides all the extra lore and ideas they never got to use.)) Who Megazarak is as a character is all fandom though, since he’s only mentioned that one time as being the previous leader of the Decepticons.

But this does explain why Starscream believed he could take control of the Decepticons - because that’s what Megatron did in TFA.

Also, Megatron’s character is interesting because he doesn’t believe in things like luck because he believes it’s his destiny to conquer and rule Cybertron (though this aspect of his character never really made it into the show, so you can take it or leave it, I just find it interesting). He’s a manipulative bastard who either genuinely believes or uses the rhetoric of Justice and fighting oppression in the name of conquest of Cybertron (I think this is where the phrase “Decepticons Rise Up” came from), and he’s also a snob - he twists oil barrels into goblets for him to drink out of, and brags about having the best oil to bribe people with.

He genuinely is super threatening though cause he’s crazy tactical, manipulative, and so powerful on his own that he steamrolls over teams of Autobots. He doesn’t even bother to learn TFA Optimus’ name because he seems him as so insignificant, only ever calling him “Autobot”, only using it at the very end of season 3 when Optimus foils all of Megatron’s plans.

I’m not saying you can’t play around with this stuff in your AU, I just want to give a more accurate idea of what the canon is for Megatron. TFA fandom is full of fanon, which I love, but it can be a bit misleading if you’ve never seen the show and/or never read the Allspark Almanac books about the show.

((Don’t mistake me though - The Autobots were always super flawed even in the episodes of TFA, and got even more messed up in the Allspark Almanac, so the show was surprisingly good at making both sides look flawed (even if the Decepticons are the obvious bad guys lol).))

Anyways I’m just info dumping now so I’ll stop :)

omg youre awesome thank you thank you thank you thank you

plsplspls never stop infodumping, I love to learn more about tfa as it is a very interesting show to me, and especially thank you for this Megatron infodump, cause despite my undying love for tfp i might say that tfa Megatron has got to be my favorite Megatron in the franchise so far, and I want to do him justice

pls if you want to infodump more about tfa my inbox is wide open for you to do as you please, I would LOVE to hear more

[flyinguraniumrod]

Yes, I am going to yap about it again

But I just dislike it when people throw so many basic /commonly-appearing elements from other continuities into Transformers Animated 😭 frequently replacing its original ideas.

I don't care that it's because sometimes somebody (probablt not-too-knowledgeable) is simply making an AU. The other times the reason for that is merely a lack of knowledge and I happen to feel like it would be an a-hole move to "break the fun" with explanation, to be honest, as it became really normalized and a ,,uwu owo uvu" non-negative thing to do that. I am not pointing to any exact person because 'why?', no need to, and they (plural) kinda pop out and disappear like mushrooms xd

TFA is a continuity with many original elements and slapping such stuff here is just so..... you really are unable to handle deviations from the most common form, right anon?

Primus + thirteen original primes and TFA Optimus being one of them? So many continuities have that and to me it became a bit annoying at this point. The reason why they don't actually exist here is so oofing based, I like it sm, respect, and I am not even an a(nti)theist XD. Additionally, I don't think an actual matrix of leadership even exists here, the thing OP had as a necklace(lol) quite resembles it, however, those were technically just allspark fragments, weren't they?

Another severely distinguishing part of the Transformers Animated continuity are the relations between the 'good, ol', usual' main dudes: Optimus Prime and Megatron. The latter has been around for milions of years and is very experienced (he defeated and replaced Megazarak as Decepticon leader 14 milion stellar cycles ago. Yes, he wasn't the creator of that movement, another lovely thing), whereas Optimus Prime (not Orion Pax! But I will get to that later) is a mere space bridge repair crew leader, not leader of a faction, and is definitely less than 2 milion years old, as it's established in the first episode that he has not seen the war in person.

So, what do certain people do? MINERZ- Desperately attempt to put in the unmatching puzzle, which is taken from a few other continuities, since ,,the tale of Orion Pax and Megatronus/D-16" friendos became quite a tradition. There was no Orion Pax! One could metaphorically call the OP which we see in the show like that, however, in reality there is simply no actual tfa Orion Pax, and I am of the opinion that that's amazing. I doubt that Megatron could have "been a miner before the war", since I think the more likely option is him just being a part of one of Destron groups/armadas, as they are warframes made for conquest.

By the way... oh boy the main goal of the Decepticons in tfa lore is something for another discussion-

The dynamic Optimus and Megatron have here is absolutely amazing and it highlights the way Optimus must go through in order to became a renowned hero... Optimus does NOT gain a big power up and knowledge from some silly wee artifact, he earns the Magnus hammer (also an artifact probably, but not on mAtRiX level) by himself and Megatron finally starts remembering his name, which he never did before that because OP was such a meaningless vermin in his eyes before Megan got defeated. Megatron, the severely old and great leader of quite an ancient faction almost every Autobot fears and has heard many childish scary stories about - the Decepticons.

Oh Primus and once I've seen somebody call TFA Bumblebee..... B1-27 😭😭 well, wouldn't be surprised if he went by a serial number before being given a name in the Autobot boot camp. Hmmm... which kinda seems like high school..... CHILD SOLDIERS LET'S GGOOOOOO /silly /hardJ

Time for conclusion since I think my brain juice is about to run out

I don't mean to target or hate on people who throw in that stuff, however, I am of the opinion that following the widely-praised, most common form has a stupid and quite degrading impact on originality, which I think it's what this franchise really needs. TFA may be jus' another transformers continuity, it does have a lot of things in common with other stuff, but most of its unique elements should be a bit appreciated, instead of replaced.

The Transformers franchise is in desperate need of new concepts, original ideas and greater reinventions. It's not just typical geewuuners who directly whine about even the slightest changes, but also people from the more twitter/tumblrina side who are unable to resist the urge to spill one continuity into another, despite the elements contradicting the concepts from the target continuity.

Oh no and I just got reminded of something a few people did to tfa Elita-1... I am sorry but making her look so much like the Skybound one, especially with that stupid head, face expression and shade of pink makes her so ugly XDDD. Oh primus I think her TFA colors are really nice, since a "fembot" does not need stereotypically feminine colors to be one, and how her head design also has a ponytail like G1 Ariel (the pre-Elita-1 form)... so yeah holy cheese XDD ..... I understand not liking a version of a fav character, especially when they had been done so dirty by the narrative (Cyberverse Lockdown is so eh), but maannn, that is so much

Lemme repeat it again, I understand difference of opinions, that somebody can dislike a version of a character, I don't mean to act so ,,grrrr >:c" towards those people, but I am still going to have my own thoughts, da, which can be expressed thanks to the freedom that is given, especially on the internet

[transingthoseformers]

So... If Megatron wasn't the leader of the decepticons, who do you think it would/could be?

(none of the iconic decepticon high command are options here)

[nightmare-xlife]

Part two of no robots, just ponies

TFA Decepticons edition

--- Single shots below ---

Megatron - Alicorn (originally born a pegasus, he gained his horn by defeating Megazarak and becoming leader of the Decepticons)

Lugnut - Pegasus

Blitzwing - Pegasus and... something else? (be careful in the night, he bites)

Starscream - Pegasus

Blackarachnia - Changeling (originally a unicorn)

[pasquiart]

Do Convoy and Optimus exchange embarrassing stories about their husbands and children?

[mychlapci]

https://www.tumblr.com/mychlapci/756908995494723584/ok-there-is-a-sfw-tfa-megop-idea-i-really-like

You're so right tumblr user Milan the moon Is still unclaimed. Sorry, Lord Megatron sir, but it's not like your consort's name is on it. Megatron has to go through worse trials of dominance than when he fought Megazarak to become leader of the Decepticons to keep this stupid little dinky moon for his consort.

Blitzwing wants the moon for bumblebee. (after the 4th time bumblebee has to patch him up after his Stupid but flattering scuffles with Megatron, bumblebee lies and says his favorite planet is Not earth, so he doesn't really want this moon, you should have asked him first, blitzbrain! but blitzwing starts pressing him. So bumblebee blurts out not Venus or Saturn, he says a planet wayy closer to Cybertron and now blitzwing is MIA halfway across the Galaxy claiming a pretty moon for his bug. )

Lugnut does not fight Megatron directly but he does stand Frozen as strika and Megatron duke it out, because she knows that lovely bulkhead will be convinced not by pretty words or shows of force but a display of affection in the form of his favorite planets moon. Megatron faces a revolving door of cons trying to fight him for the moon for bulkhead of course. but strika is the one that he dreads most

Prowl and lockdown keep trying to steal the moon (lockdown is doing it for a client, prowl wants the decepticons to stop fighting over the moon before tjey blow it up) their heist turns into a fake dating romantic comedy , because the only way to stop Megatron from blowing them up is lying and saying they're stealing the moon cause they wanna get bonded on it .

Megatron sees deadlock for the first time in millennia cause if Anyone is giving their conjunx their planets favorite moon, it's gonna be him. Nevermind drift being an autobot now, this is a non partisan issue! Ratchet tries to get his extremely embarrassing lovely conjunx off of Earth by saying his fav planet is the one they met on, which is a lie becuz that planet was a hellhole

(also I'm eageryly awaiting those tfa megop thoughts after this week....staring at you with my big brown eyes.)

everyone wants Earth's moon... And an especially huge horde of decepticons are coming by to try and get it for Bulkhead, specifically. No one thought that his suitors would end up rivaling the likes of fucking Megatron. Bumblebee is especially salty... maybe he shouldn't have sent Blitzwing away.

All of this is giving Optimus a headache. They're turning this into an intergalactic incident and he really hopes the autobot PR office won't catch wind of it...

Also, plot twist, Megatron hired Swindle to steal the moon for him, Swindle managed to tie Lockdown into it without giving him all the facts, so when Lockdown ends up teaming up with Prowl to keep everyone's hands off of the moon, Megatron knows they're just fucking with him about the bonding thing. But he lets it go because he kind of wants to check in later and see how that went for them.

[yayasvalveplay]

Poking you on BlueSky is always a fun time lol

On a couple fun notes - I found another Ultra that I desire to punt into the sun while reading a fic, people in the MegOP Discord Server (The Matrix) have gone absolutely feral (in a good way) about your posts and want to pull you in there (I promise they're very nice), and imagine a verse where Minimus Ambus from Battlesleep is stuck dealing with the other crappy versions of Ultra Magnus.

Minimus might just commit multiple murders before going back to ride on Megazarak's massive spike.

I'm sorry They want to what? I would't be appose to going into that Discord server. Though i don't know how much I'll be chatting, But I can try. Buty Yes more people Bashing TFA Ultra Magnus!!!

[menori-ori]

Character sheet of Convoy and Megazarak in Thorns&Trons AU!

AU belongs to @pastelpaperplanes

I made some changes from the first designs that I did

Convoy's weapon is a gun >:3 he keeps it behind him and the cape covers it as well