What is Megatron's most evil act?

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  1. Novaburnhilde

    Novaburnhilde Destron Enforcer

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    There was a plot in Mike Costa's ongoing that always stuck out to me for how cruel it was: converting his dead / dying body into a bunch of handheld weapons and leaving them for humans to find, the weapons themselves seeming to express some level of sentient thought and playing on peoples paranoia regarding Cybes.

    At one point Megatron leaves a bunch of injured and dying Autobots in a city of scared and heavily armed humans. This was the catalyst which lead to Jazz needing to put down an irrational and dangerous human waving around a super-weapon.

    It's so diabolical.
     
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  2. DerVernichter

    DerVernichter Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, Costa's run was kind of underwhelming for the most part, but it still had some hints of greatness here and there.
     
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  3. maloney4playz

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    oh, you know, attempting to destory the timeline and then culling the entire population of cybertron is up there
     
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    I'll follow the sentiment that BM Megatron still stands as the big Meg you think of who really truly fucked over every last living being he ever met.

    But I've always nurtured a touch of personal disgust when TFP Megatron's immediate response to finding out he'd condemned a child to near death through Dark Energon poisoning was to laugh in Optimus's face about it.
     
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  5. Yellow Shirted Kid

    Yellow Shirted Kid His name is Devastator, not Brawl

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    Something I've thought about is that when Prime Megatron put roboSatan's blood in his veins, he found out years later after dying that his soul was barred from the traditional Cybertronian afterlife because of it. None of his other crimes were brought up in that discussion either, only having Unicrons blood inside of him.

    So in essence, Megatron committed the Transformers version of the unpardonable sin, and Starscream did as well. That's incredibly dark for a children's series when you think about it.
     
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    by the logic that "you cannot enter the allspark if unicron's blood has flowed through your veins", would this mean that any cybertronians that were resurrected by the blood like cliffjumper, skyquake or the MANY terrorcons, are condemned to a hellish purgatory?
     
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    Yellow Shirted Kid His name is Devastator, not Brawl

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    Probably not because those bots were already dead. Their souls would've already joined the Allspark
     
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    In Animated, he won numerous battles by wiping out the battlefields themselves. That's pretty evil
     
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    Why are the insides of his mouth red?
     
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  10. Rojixus

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    Why wouldn't it be red?
     
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    G1 Cartoon Megatron haveing a machine go around and forcibly reprogram/rebuild bots into Decepticons may be the most "Evil" thing that version of him did.
     
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  12. Signal LancR

    Signal LancR Bah weep gragnah

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    This is something of a cop out, but Energon Megatron wiping everyone's memories was pretty messed up. Mostly because the audience gets given the finger for emotionally investing in the Armada characters, but in-world is still pretty evil.

    The entire setting of Beast Machines is full on Megatron wet dream territory though, as others have stated.
     
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