// DATABASE ACCESS: TARGET [MEGATRON]
He is the Gladiator of Kaon. The Lord of the Decepticons. The brother-turned-nemesis of Optimus Prime. Throughout the history of the Transformers films, Megatron has been a constant force of tyranny, seeking to restore Cybertron no matter the cost to Earth.
From his animated origins in 1986 to his terrifying live-action incarnations, his words are as sharp as his fusion cannon. Accessing audio logs now...
Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Context: The animated classic where Megatron ultimately falls, only to be reborn by Unicron as Galvatron.
Unicron: "I have summoned you here for a purpose."
Megatron: "Nobody summons Megatron."
Unicron: "Then it pleases me to be the first."
Megatron: "I belong to nobody!"
Megatron: [Sounding surprised] "Prime."
Optimus Prime: "One shall stand, one shall fall."
Megatron: "Why throw away your life so recklessly?"
Optimus Prime: "That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron."
Megatron: [Feigning defeat] "No more, Optimus Prime! Grant me mercy, I beg of you!"
Optimus Prime: "You, who are without mercy, now plead for it? I thought you were made of sterner stuff!"
Starscream: "Who disrupts my coronation?"
Galvatron (Megatron): "Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy."
Starscream: "Megatron? Is that you?"
Galvatron (Megatron): "Here's a hint!" [Blasts Starscream into ash]
Megatron: "I would have waited an eternity for this... It's over, Prime."
Megatron: [Executing Ironhide] "Such heroic nonsense."
Transformers (2007)
Context: Michael Bay's first entry. Megatron breaks out of the Hoover Dam after being frozen for decades.
Megatron: "Humans don't deserve to live."
Optimus Prime: "They deserve to choose for themselves!"
Megatron: "Then you will die with them! Join them in extinction!"
Megatron: "I am Megatron!"
Jazz: "Is that all you got, Megatron?"
Megatron: "Come here, you little cretin!"
[Megatron rips Jazz in half]
Megatron: "You want a piece of me? No, I want TWO!"
Megatron: "You fail me yet again, Starscream."
Optimus Prime: "At the end of this day, one shall stand, one shall fall!"
Megatron: "You still fight for the weak! That is why you lose!"
Megatron: [Chasing Sam] "I smell you, boy!"
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Context: Resurrected at the bottom of the ocean, Megatron returns to serve his master, The Fallen.
Megatron: "Starscream, I'm home."
Megatron: "There is no command but mine!"
Megatron: [To Optimus] "Is the future of our race not worth a single human life?"
Optimus Prime: "You'll never stop at one!"
Megatron: "Then I'll take you all on!"
Megatron: [To Sam] "Flush the fleshling out! Come here, boy! Closer... you are so weak!"
Starscream: "Not to call you a coward, master, but sometimes... cowards do survive."
Megatron: "This isn't over."
Megatron: "Even in death, there is no command but mine."
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Context: Damaged and hiding in Africa, Megatron plots a secret alliance with Sentinel Prime to enslave humanity.
Megatron: "All hail Megatron!"
Megatron: "Here we are. Fight us NOW."
Megatron: [Looking at Cybertron in the sky] "Cybertron... you are saved, at last."
Carly: "You want to run the world, and you want to be his bodyguard?"
Megatron: "I am... my own master!"
Sentinel Prime: "I have deigned to work with you that our planet may survive! I will never work FOR you!"
Megatron: "Now, we need a truce. All I want is to be back in charge. Besides... who would you be without me, Prime?"
Optimus Prime: "Time to find out."
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
Context: Megatron's consciousness possesses a human-made prototype drone, reborn as Galvatron.
Galvatron: "I am reborn."
Optimus Prime: "You have no soul!"
Galvatron: "That is why I have no fear!"
Galvatron: [To his drones] "Kill him! Crush him!"
Galvatron: [Highway chase] "What was that? I can't hear you!"
Galvatron: "We will meet again, Prime... for I am reborn!"
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Context: Megatron returns to his original name and form, seeking the staff of Merlin to heal Cybertron.
Megatron: [To Optimus] "We were brothers once!"
Optimus Prime: "Once."
Megatron: "I knew you couldn't do it. Your time is over."
Megatron: "We are the Decepticons."
Megatron: [To humans] "You want to know, don't you? Why they keep coming to Earth."
Megatron: "This planet is hell."
Megatron: [Before battle] "Make peace with your maker."
