Transformers Beast Wars Fixes Megatrons Biggest Tactical Weakness

Transformers: Beast Wars Fixes Megatron’s Biggest Tactical Weakness

Megatron is famously beset by traitors throughout Transformers history, but IDW’s Beast Wars comic just flipped the script with his reaction.

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Transformers Beast Wars Fixes Megatrons Biggest Tactical Weakness

Warning: spoilers ahead for Transformers: Beast Wars #10!

In the latest issue of IDW Publishing’s Transformers: Beast Wars comic, Megatron breaks a habit established by his TV incarnation and the uber-villain who gave him his name, refusing to overlook the treachery of his underlings.

Transpiring long after the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, Beast Wars initially emulated the same dynamic between Megatron and Starscream with the second, Predacon Megatron and Terrorsaur. Both Starscream and Terrorsaur share an appetite for usurpation, continually endeavoring to overthrow their respective leader but inevitably failing each time. But rather than getting thrown onto the scrap heap, each Megatron allows their respective traitor to live – and scheme – another day. The Megatron of IDW’s latest Beast Wars continuity, however, doesn’t seem to be as forgiving and tolerant of treachery as his predecessors, when he attempts to kill Starscream just for thinking about betraying him in Transformers: Beast Wars #10 by writer Erik Burnham and artists Josh Burcham and Winston Chan.

To almost get himself killed, Terrorsaur literally only says, “Maybe it’s time Megatron was replaced by a leader with real vision.” Of course, Terrorsaur makes this comment unaware that Megatron is standing behind him. Megatron demands that Terrorsaur prove himself in battle right at that very moment. Megatron quickly bests Terrorsaur, who attempts to flee, and is about to incinerate him at point blank range when Tarantulus saves him at the last moment. Megatron never did anything quite like this in the TV show, even when Terrorsaur actually attempted to replace him rather than just talking about it offhandedly. To overthrow Megatron, Terrorsaur even temporarily powered himself up using his own private stash of energon, teamed up with an undercover Rattrap, and later tried again with the Maximal Rhinox who had been turned into a Predacon with a Transmuter. And each time, Megatron let Terrorsaur live.

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Even though the original Megatron eventually vaporizes Starscream as Galvatron in 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie, he and his namesake would always let their treacherous subordinates live whether they were Starscream or Terrorsaur. What’s interesting, however, is that in IDW’s current Beast Wars continuity, Tarantulus not only saves Terrorsaur but convinces Megatron to let him live by pointing out that he’s a resource that still gives the Predacons a tactical advantage as a flyer and that Terrorsaur has likely learned his lesson. This is interesting because Beast Wars made significant changes to Megatron and Tarantulus seven issues earlier, when the Predacon leader actually participated in the torture of the captured Maximal Nyx. In the TV show, Tarantulus always indulged his twisted appetite for torture in secret without Megatron’s help. It seems that with a closer bond comes a surprising amount of influence.

While Megatron doesn’t end up killing Terrorsaur, the comic explains that this was his first instinct, and he’s only talked out of doing so by an influential minion and a well-reasoned argument. Megatron is no longer depicted as someone who will tolerate constant treachery, making him all the scarier as a result. Although it’s intriguing that IDW’s Transformers: Beast Wars comic has made this rendition of Megatron much less tolerant of betrayal from Terrorsaur, writer Erik Burnham is continuing to entangle the Predacon leader with Tarantulus in ways that the TV show never explored, transforming Megatron into a much more terrifying villain than both his cartoon counterpart and original Transformers namesake.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/transformers-beast-wars-megatron-terrorsaur-tarantulas-traitor-comic/

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