MTMTE #48 Well Wishes
- Ravage: Megatron... sir...
- Ravage: Please get up... please. Online your optics...
- Starscream: [literally bursts in] MEGATRON HAS FALLEN!
- Ravage: What the f--
- Starscream: --I, STARSCREAM, NOW LEAD THE LOST LIGHT!!!
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#transformers #mtmteThe cover for the Transformers IDW Chistmas Special is flat out fantastic, but there are two things I really wanted to draw attention to.

MEGATRON GOT RAVAGE A BONE IN CUTE PURPLE WRAPPING

RAVAGE GOT MEGATRON A NEW FUSION CANNON <3
This is too fucking cute for me to handle omfg
RAVAGE IS A CAT
WHY IS HE GETTING A DOGGY TREAT
THIS IS NOT CUTE, IT IS MISSPECIESIZATION
SAD GAY ROBOTS TALK ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS! Cyclonus goes to Whirl for help when he is faced with a difficult choice, but things soon turn deadly when Getaway’s true intentions with Tailgate are revealed… and they don’t involve long walks on the beach and staring into each other’s eyes! It all hits the fan in MTMTE #47: “The Lopsided Triangle”, now annotated on TFWiki.Net!
ALSO THIS WEEK!

TALES! OF! SIN-TEREST! Arcee suspects Verity Carlo is involved in the disappearance of Prowl and goes rogue in an attempt to solve the mystery, while Kup calls in the only ‘bots for the job: the Wreckers! How deep does Prowl’s control go? What’s wrong with Verity? And what is… the Noisemaze? TFWiki take you through these questions and more in our annotations for SINS OF THE WRECKERS #1!
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TALES OF SINTEREST???
*eyes mcfeely*
Cross-contributed to Disciples of Boltax…
Fresh from 1984 - and imported over the Atlantic, besides - have a trio of promotional mini-posters featuring Soundwave, the Decepticon jets, and Megatron, made using stills from the earliest Transformers comic and toy commercials. These ridiculously high-resolution scans were made, respectively, from Marvel UK’s Transformers #4, #5 and #6.
I actually scanned these some time ago, but at the time wrote them off as being useless because, due to the terrible color reproduction involved, they were incredibly red-tinged. However, I recently learned about Photoshop’s “Variations” tool (which is kind of embarrassing, given how long I’ve had the program), and my new stab at fixing them up produced much better results. Megatron is still terribly yellowish, though.
Fun fact: in these scans, Starscream is the one with the grey chest and white/red wings! These early ads seem to have been the source of his first Marvel Comics color scheme, which appears to have switched the grey to blue because of comics’ limited color palette at the time.
There were also mini-posters featuring Optimus Prime and the Autobot cars, but their animation designs didn’t change as drastically, so I didn’t scan them at the time. Might go back and do them anyway now…
I’m a huge fan of James Roberts’ work in the Transformers universe. I think the above three panels do a good job encapsulating why.
The first panel comes from The Transformers #22, “Chaos Theory, Part 1,” published in 2011. It’s a flashback sequence to Megatron’s first time in jail, as he’s being questioned by a Cybertronian police officer named Springarm. The second and third panels were published just a few days ago; they’re from More Than Meets The Eye #32, “Twenty Plus One.” Without spoiling too much, Nightbeat (some combination of former hostage negotiator, judge, and detective) is trying to solve a spat of mysterious disappearances, and wants information from Megatron to help prove or disprove his working theory that all of the victims were created the same way.
The first thing I like is Robert’s consistent depiction of Megatron. Four million years (and three writing years) separate the pacifist miner from Tarn and the bloody-handed-tyrant-cum-captain, but Megatron’s response has stayed the same, for the same principled reasons: Cybertronians ought not be obligated to divulge information concerning their creation, because that information can easily be used (and has been used!) by the state to segregate Cybertron.
It would have been easy for Robert’s to let Megatron divulge his creation process in the latter scene, and pointed to this change as a sign of character growth—“it only took four million years and the death of 100 billion sentients, but Megatron has come to realize that it’s okay to answer some questions. He’s learning to trust, and he’s learning when information disclosure is important.”
But Roberts didn’t take the “character growth” cop out, and this gets me to the second, and more significant, reason I like the juxtaposition of these two scenes. Beyond Megatron’s response, look at what else has stayed consistent: in both situations, a well-intentioned police officer is asking Megatron for deeply personal, definitional information. And in their own way, Springarm and Nightbeat’s differing response help explain (and justify) Megatron’s refusal.
In the first scene, Springarm apologizes for asking the “old,” irrelevant question concerning creation type—but his apology didn’t stop the police officer from asking the question in the first place. Springarm asks his question out of an unexamined reliance on tradition, and a seeming ignorance as to how the mere continued inclusion of questions of creation is proof (particularly to Megatron) that the Cybertronian state has not “moved passed” apartheid.
In the second scene, Nightbeat makes it clear that he emphatically agrees with Megatron’s refusal—but that regardless, Megatron needs to divulge this information, because lives are at stake. There’s no reason to doubt Nightbeat or his intentions, but the point still stands: an upholder of the law is evaluating what constitutes necessity and justice, with no eye to how the information he wants will be ultimately used.
The larger point is that in any specific case—Springarm, Nightbeat, even and especially Orion Pax—a man a Cybertronian might be good and just and principled, but systems are, by their very nature, corrupting influences, and these systems have and will use matters of race creation to divide and control the populace. This is where Megatron’s opposition springs from. And if Roberts had written Megatron as answering Nightbeat’s query, it would have been a sign that Megatron’s concerns were, on some level, misplaced—that the state doesn’t mean harm, that you should trust it to use personal information in limited ways, to the betterment of all society. And for all of his many, many faults, Megatron is right to doubt that.
(Post script: Megatron’s consistency also returns to some of the ideas brought up in The Transformers #22 and #23—specifically, if the war has fundamentally changed Optimus Prime and Megatron. Prime concludes that he has stayed the same and that it’s Megatron who has lost his way. These scenes make an interesting counterpoint.)
Ravage 3 Bodies Evolution By TigerMegatron As originally posted to alt.toys.transformers In Light of the new ravage wal-mart toy & remarks by hasbro in the tech specs that shadow panter on there hasbro.com is ravage in disguise here is a COOL fanfic of mine merging all three persona's & body types. here is a brief introduction paragrap: at the end of beastwars season 3 episode 2 , tarrantulas robo done insects kick ravage body & head parts into the ocean,now the story will pick up from there. AS the VOK returns back to earth in the third season of beastwars episode number # 50 called " other victories".

VOK : " O no our plan of making a transformer return to prehistoric earth has failed. tarrantulas : "ahh" ,boom. just then tararntulars explodes. TM2 cheetor : "C'mon I have to get you out of here (tigerhawk). VOK : h'mm who is this carrying tigerhawks body". VOK : l"ets scan his body (cheetor ) & try to re-duplicate it". VOK: "scanning is complete, we managed to download all of his previos body blue rints as well". VOK :"perhaps the captured spark of ravage can be of use to us after all". Just then cheetor runs out of the cavern with tigerhawk on his back. TIME passes & the VOK develpoes several startegies of there own using the time traveling factor as there main weapon coupled with the ravage experiment. the beastwars eventually end & the remaing bots head off into space to enter the time portal that will bring them back into there own time line & a direct path to planet cybertron.
RAVAGE" why am I here floating in space like this"
VOK: " you are not in space you are on our home world that is invisible to scanners & the well trained eye". RAVAGE: " how many more years will you keep my spark from joining the matrix". VOK: "you will be given a new mission & it will be to destroy the cybertronian threat". RAVAGE: I have no need of another mission,let me fade out in peace". JHIAXUS: "you should be honed to nbe given a purpose in life". RAVAGE: "JHIAXUS, how is it possible that you live,I thought you died in the TF generation 2 comics #11. JHIAXUS: " My body died but my spark merged with the VOK species & gave them a new purpose. VOK : "we are the result of spark mergers the clone-ing spark process." VOK: " since Jhiaxus was responsible for us being created ,we decided to let his park join us & lead our species into a new era & purpose. RAVAGE: " What plan, why am I here, let my spark go join the matrix". VOK : where as you have given up on yourself ,we will provide you with a new mission & give you a new body & powers to match. JHIAXUS: " he is a traitor & lacks the intelligence to carry out our orders". VOK: " we have no choice but to trust him but will implant a self destuct device should he rebell". RAVAGE: "If I decide to take the plan,then whats in it for me", VOK: "a chance to change TF history & become the leader of the cybertronian race". Ravage : " I will need a new cloaking ship ". JHIAXUS: " just make sure you get the job done". just then the complete vok inteligence takes the downloaded scans from the CHEETOR body & see that there are 3 forms of cheetor that they downloaded ( regular cheetor,tm1 cheetor & tm2 cheetor)

VOK : " SCANNING is complete let the spark of ravage now join the body of regular cheetor's newly designed body". just then the ravage spark enters the new body. JHIAXUS: " why were the original yellow cheetor colors not used,why black"? VOK: "the color black was chosen,so it could hide better in the shadows". RAVAGE:" H'MM this new body is stronger,from now on my code name shall be "shadow". VOK: "get the time portal ready Jhiaxus". Jhiaxus:" what course shall I set it at", Shadow: "prehistoric earth". VOK: " no ,we are done with that time line, we are sending you back in time to 2005". Jhiaxus:" WHY 2005 ,? VOK: so ravage can destroy the TF transformers while there confused in battle". Jhiaxus: " but what if unicron found out,he would destroy us immediately, unicron is in-destructable & has never been destroyed , surely were no match for him,there is nothing that can destroy him". VOK : "DONT question my orders, just press the time portal button". JUST then shadow gets into his cloaked ship & heads fopr the 2005 time portal. Shadow arrives in the 2005 time frame cloaked in his ship invisible.

MEGATRON: " reach there defenses constructicons,merge into devestator". constructicons merge into devestator & start attacking autobot city. DEVESTATOR : "prepare to die" MEGATRON : " I better get out of here " Optimus prime: " dinobots ,destroy devestator". Grimlock: " why you not come with us prime to atobot city". Optimus prime : " I have to find megatron & talk some sense into him". just then the dinobots & prime leave the shuttle i& head for earth in different directions. OPTIMUS PRIME: " megatron slow down,we need to talk". megatron: " decepticons attack prime". just then some of the decepticons attack prime. PRIME: "your not getting away that easy". just then prime fights his way through to megatron & corners him on top of a high mountain". MEGATRON: " state your business prime". just then the 2 leader talk things out MEANWHILE VOK: "Lets check up on shadow through our spy cameras & listening devices. VOK :" come in shadow,do you read me". SHADOW:" who is this ". VOK : "its the vok , talking to you through a device we implanted on your body,which allows us to tele-communicate to you from any time period or placve: VOK : " whats the situation now". SHADOW: " NOT much megatron & prime are talking out there differences & soon prime will convince megatron to become good again & the deepticons will follow megatron's lead & the 2 fighting factions will unite into a new faction called cybertronians". Shadow: " there's no reason for me to witness this historic moment, You placed me in the wrong time era. VOK : " you fool, you will change history & make the cybertronain alliance void". JHIAXIUS : " whats going on here VOK, I thought the mission was to be mild,this is too extreme, surly unicron will awaken. VOK: " THATS impossible unicron doesnt awake until 2021"/ Jhiaxus : " I am against this order your givving ravage", VOK : "ravage ,destroy the peace negoations between megatron & prime by killing both leaders". Ravage : " say what". VOK : "you have your orders". RAVAGE: " I WONT obey these orders,megatron is my mentor". VOK: " its them or you ravage, you are a mere puppet to us,a slave". just then the VOK sends electronic pulses throught ravages body & spark. Shadow: " I beg of you stop ,I will carry out your orders". VOK: " CONSIDER ,that a warning,next time you dis-obey us we will activate the self destruct button & kill you. Jhiaxus: " why are you doing this ,its wrong". VOK : "how dare you question our orders decepticon". Jhiaxus:" I am the leader here". VOK " correction,you were the leader". JHAIXUS:"I wont let you get away with this". just then a massive war takes place on the invisible VOK planet & the entire VOK attack Jhiaxus & Jhiaxius loses the battle & is damaged beyoind repair, just then Jhiaxus sees a ship & sets a course for a unknown time line . Jhiaxus wanted to go to 2005 but because he was getting fired on he rushed the process. before the ship got destroyed, thus Jhiaxus goes went into a unknown time line. VOK : "should we send a ship to pursue him". other VOK members: " NO ,Jhiaxus is damaged so badly he wont last through the time portal traveling procedure. VOK : " Jhiaxus ,only has a minute or 2 worth of life before his spark dies". VOK : " LETS attend to matters at hand, shadow cloaks the ship & fire torpedos at the 2 leaders". SHADOW : " as you wish". just then as prime is talking to megatron, a cloaked shot fires & hits megatron. Megatron: "I thought we were discussing peace prime, how dare you send one of your autobots to attack me from behind". PRIME: "what are you talking about". just then megatron turns around & shows prime the battle wound on his back. Megatron: " megatron transform gun mode". MEGATRON: " what why cant I transform, you studied my weakness & made a autobot hit me in the right spot". PRIME:" I dont know what your talking about". Megatron :" how dare you take me for a fool & here I was trying to reach a peace betwwen us". just then megatron & prime attack each other. Shadow : "What have I done, was my personal life so precious to me that I would risk the lives of others, I dont care if the VOK kills me , I must set things right before Its too late. KUP: "stay out of the fight hotrod,thats primes fight". Hotrod : " yes Kup". just then kup gets a call from autobot city & rushes away from the scene. hotrod watches the battle from a far. Ravage : " I must de-cloak & show myslef to hotrod", just then shadow de-cloakes & lets hotrod see him".

HOTROD : " Whoa ,were did you come from". Shadow: " hotrod I am from the future, you must help me stop this fight between megatron & prime". HOTROD : " are you crazy those two will ripp us apart in seconds". the VOK LISTENS in on the conversation VOK : "how you dis-obey us shadow". SHADOW : " I am not your puppet anymore". SHADOW : "hotrod carry on the mission without me ,your the TF races last hope, the matrix is a power souce,dont let it fall into the hands of evil. HOTROD : " what are you talking about". RAVAGE : I studied ancient cybertrian law & unicron is the brother of primus & the only way for unicron to die is by using the matrix. HOTROD: "WHO'S unicron ". VOK : " prepare to die ravage". just then the remote controlled self destruct button gets pressed. Ravage explodes & ravages last words to cheetor are . RAVAGE : "carry on the mission without me". HOTROD : " yes sir". just then hotrod rushes into the battle but with the 2 power house transformer leaders fighting he is no match & gets in the way. megatron & prime die thus the voks mission was a success. UNICRON:" Who disturbs my sleep". unicron feels the matrix within prime & unicron got awakened in 2005 instead of his original wake up of 2021 because he sensed the pain of the matrix getting damaged when prime died thus that pain & noise awoke him earlier. TIME passes throughout the TF movie & the altered events make unicron rebuild megatron into galvatron ,while prime gives the matrix to ultra magnus. unicron sends galvatron to attack the autobots & unicron wants the matrix destroyed.the 2 autobot ships get blasted by galvatron & the sweeps, galvatron eventually destroy ultra maguns & gets the matrix. Hotrod: " I SENSE something is wrong" Hotrod " head for planet junkion". hotrod gets there & finds out the matrix was ripped from ultra magnus chest. hot rod then remebers the words shadow told him & heads for galvatron to get the matrix back. Meanwhile on VOK planet: VOK : "the ravage spark has returened to us thanks to the remote control device implanted in it. VOK : " LETS use ravage at our disposable again & send him to the beastwars season 2 agenda part 1 to 3 epsodes time line" VOK :" PERHAPS he can change events on the beastwars time era & make beastwars megatron not get killed at the end of beatwars season 2". OTHER VOK members : " how can we trust him again". VOK : " he will be a mere brain washed slave & rememer noting, all he will remember is what we let him remember.". just then the VOK gets the downloaded body of cheetor's TM1 form & colors it black again so it can blend in the shadows better & the vok calls him ravage again. just then ravages re-awakeness in his new TM1 body. Ravage : " WHO am I ". VOK : " You are ravage our slave,you will do our bidding". Ravage " yes master" VOK : you are to go to the beast planet & destroy the maximals & the preadacons". RAVAGE : "Yes master".

JUST then the vok send ravage through the time portal & he accidentally gets caught in the space time anonally & gets sent to the triprdacus base by accident. TRIPREDACUS TRIO: " Something is heading towards our secret base, can it be tarrantualas. TRIPREADACUS TRO : "NO his energy sgnature is not detected. just then ravages smashes into the tripreadacus secret base. Ravage: " I am ravage,is this the beastars time era & is this earth". Tripradacus trIo: " Who are you & who sent you" just then the Ravage gets stunned & the tripreadacus trio examine him on a table". TRI TRIO: " he appers to have advanced technolgy built within him & is brain washed,there is a mind control device too. just then theTripredacacus trio opperate on ravage & take out the vok implants & un-brain wash him. however ravage lost some of his memory & gets it back little by little through out my fanfic, until he finally remembers everything. Ravage: " HOW did I get here, last I remember blaster shot me in the TF 2005 movie & I died. Tripreadacus trio: " we found you & repaired you are no longer a decepticon but a predacon now. RAVAGE : " HOW can I re-pay you for saving my life". Tripreadacus trio : " we ask you to merly go back & check up on tarrantulas & help him complete his mission, after you complete this mission , we are even". Ravage: " sounds fair". THUS the beastwars season 2 death of megatron gets altered & megatron lives all the way to the end of beastmachines season 2 & dies in the last episode of BM season. the events that took place in beastwars season 2 agenda part 1 to 3 was because of the vok that send ravage back in time & the Tripradadaus trio that altered his mission in the agenda mission instead thus changing history once again.

MEANWHILE: ON PLANET VOK: VOK : we lost all contact with ravage ,his implants are gone. VOK : "he DIDNT complete his mission again,his spak will return to us & his new tm2 body is built for him for his next mission. OTHER VOK: destroy the tm2 body because ravage will fail again. TOO bad the VOK hasent discovered that once ravage got the implants out by the tripreadadus trio his spark was released from there control,thus ravages spark is at last going to join the matrix on cybertron & ravages spark is traveling through space from earth to cybertron. VOK : " ravage hasent returned, I am growing tired of trusting our plans to another species other than us, just then the VOK ripps out the sparks of airrazor & tigerhawk & combine both empty bodies & the 75% of the vok race enter the tigerhawk body & head for earth in season 3 beastwars episode #50, " other victories". a small number of VOKS stay behind on the vok planet,.just then jhiaxus comes back from the future beastmachine era & retuns back to the VOK planet. Jhaixus destroys the remaining VOK with his ship & grabs the tm2 new ravage body & heads back towards the beastmachine era. AS Jhiaxus is in space traveling through time to the very begginning of beastmachines Jhiaxus intecepts ravages spark before it reaches cybertron, Jhiaxus is still heavilly damaged but presses on. JHIAXUS: " ravage you cant join the matrix yet cybertron needs you". RAVAGE: " aren't you part of the VOK". Jhaixus:: " I was wrong & have killed the remaing VOK species,the VOK species is 100% gone". Ravage : " wow, I never thought that could happen,". ravage:" what's wrong Jhiaxus you are bleeding badly"., Jhiaxus:" Megatron is running wild on cybertron in the very begginning of beastmachines before the maximals arrive on beastmacines season 1 episode 1". Ravage : how can I hep , I am just a spark & my body is gone". Jhiaxus: " I got your new tm2 black colored body from the VOK before I destroyed them". Jhiaxus : " please take this body & help the cybertronians on cybetron fight Beast Megatron, help me correct my evil ways, through you ravage I will help save that which i helped the vok destroy. RAVAGE: " I will do my best to complete your wish". just then ravages spark enters his new tm2 body. Jhiaxus : " its time , I died & my spark joined the matrix, I will see your spark in the matrix on day. Ravage: "its time I saved cybertron from megatron. SADLY ravage is too late & megatron has the whole planet under his control , ravages teams up with a bunch of maximals & heads for vector sigma. once there ravage summons vector sigma.

Vector Sigma : " who dares awaken me" Ravage :" I am one of your creation, can you re-configure these cybertronians & make them immune to the virus megatron has set loose on cybertron. Vector sigma: "your wish is my command". just then vector sigma re-configures the cybertronians into 4 dinobots & 4 mutants. Vector sigma : " I am also know as the oracle". ravage: " a group of maximals is returning to cybertron to try to free the planet, in case I am un-sucessful please give optimus primal the 411 on the situaton & guide him throuhout the beastmachine season 1 & 2 ". Ravage:" also please reformat the returning maximals ( primals crew) & make them inmmune to the virus like you did for the dinobots & mutants. Vector sigma : " if you are un-successful in your mission, I will give primal visons & also reformaton him & his maximals. Ravage:" thank you". just then ravage notices a bunch of beat up equipment & re-builds them into beast riders & deployers. the battle is now under way & megatron for the first time ever builds a small army of vechicons that are mirage & scavenger, they are without spark & are a entire drone army. just then Magmatron returns home to cybertron & sees the fighting situation. sadly ravage gets cornered by 100 vechicon drones & is near dead,megatron watches on as the leader of the rebellion slowly dies. magmatron approaces to ravage. Magmatron: " whats going on here ". ravage: " megatron has gone mad & has killed all of our people, I formed a rebellion against him but am now dying". Magmatron: " how dare one robot decide the fate of our own planet & kill a entire race of transformers". Ravage : " please continue my mission & take over as the leader of the rebellion.". Magmatron:" I will do my best to save our planet". justthen ravage dies & at long last his spark joins the matrix with Jhiaxus. Magmatron : " we MUST fight megatron hard, EVERYONE attack the drones,while I go after megatron. a battle like never before seen happens & megatron & magmatron have a face off battle. Magmatron :I will show you no mercy & will kill you for what you did". Megatron: " you talk big,lets fight". ALL of a sudden megatron & magmatron have a vicious battle , magmatron manages to scar megatrons eye & both get beaten badly by each other, magmatron is stronger & almost kills megatron BUT Magmatron : " its time you died by my hand". MEGATRON : " HARDLY, drones attack,".

the drone attack a badly beaten Jhiaxus. Megatron : " my drones have completly destroyed the 4 dinobots ,4 mutants,beast riders & mutants". MAGMATRON: " I wont let you win". MEGATRON : " Good bye magmatron, you failed & so did the rebellion." just then megatron delivers the final blow that completly destroys magmatron & magmatrons spark joins the matrix. MEGATRON : " I won at last, but primals crew should be returning to cybertron in exactly 100 years, I wont make the same mistakes I made with ravage & the rebellion." MEGATRON: " I will build a exosuit & control cybertron by remote control & design even stronger vechicons. Megatron: " now all I have to do is wait for primal & his crew so I can catch them off guard & destroy them quickly. THIS IST HE END OF MY FANFIC, the next chapter that idiot bob skir wrote & its called machines & will be 2 seasons long that has 26 episodes in it.
THE OLD MAN’S BACK AGAIN! A desperate last gamble that might mean the sacrifice of one of their own gives the Autobots a chance to fight back - but what will it take for Megatron to join them? Find out in MTMTE #54, the penultimate chapter of THE DYING OF THE LIGHT, now on TFWiki!
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#this does not fill me with confidence
yeah the glass sucks but it’s still no match for our shitty weak bears
fail glass covering our cringe bears