Since you guys brought up Battlestars earlier, can we get a post talking Super/Ultra Megatron, or at least show off some pictures so folks can see how incredibly awesome his design is?
There’s not a tremendous amount to say, so hey, why not! After Galvatron was buried under an iceberg by the Autobot Headmasters in the latter stages of The Headmasters anime in 1987…
…that was it for the OG Decepticon leader for a couple of years. Guys like Scorponok, Overlord, and Deathsaurus rose to replace him, but after their successive failures, 1991′s “Return of Convoy” storyline saw evil alien Dark Nova resurrect Galvatron after something like 20 in-universe years and reformatted him into “Super Megatron,” to counter Optimus Prime, who had just been revived from his own death as “Star Convoy.”
After Optimus and his team, the “Battlestars,” merged into the colossal “Triple Combination Battlestar Attack” vehicle, it became apparent that “Super” Megatron wasn’t cutting it, so Dark Nova upgraded him again into “Ultra” Megatron:
Even that wasn’t enough, and Ultra Megatron got blown to biscuits, but Dark Nova himself then merged with his remains to become “Star Giant.”
But of course our heroes prevailed and Star Giant was destroyed. 2013′s Metrowars slipped an extra chapter into Megatron’s story, as it revealed that Ultra Megatron’s body was recovered by Straxus, who attempted to brainwash him via a mental link, observing that if Megatron did not stop fighting him, then Megatron’s “diabolical nature” would soon “crumble away.”
This little retcon served as an explanation for Megatron’s restored “sanity circuits” in the Japanese Generation 2 storyline, when he worked with Optimus Prime to form the “Cybertron Alliance”… until humans killed an old friend of his, and everything went south again.
