All Optimus Prime has brought to Earth is war, death, and destruction. Humanity is clearly not better off giving the Transformers asylum and Optimus' refusal to leave the planet just puts more humans in danger due to the battles fought against the Cemetery Wind in Age of Extinction.
The U. Utilizing Seeds to create "transformium," the U. A new fight breaks out in Age of Extinction as the human-made Transformers are used to hunt down and destroy the remaining Autobots and Optimus Prime. Also, it is revealed that Megatron somehow transferred his consciousness into spark-less Galvatron's body and goes rogue, which causes further chaos and destruction amidst the rest of the chaos and destruction.
In the end, what has Optimus' interference on Earth left humanity with? Only the creation of new, highly advanced, and violently terrible weapons of war. Side note: Megatron has now died and been reborn twice in the series. Optimus probably doesn't know every secret of Cybertron's past but in Michael Bay's films he seems to either know next to nothing -- or has refused to share any pertinent information with the other Autobots and their human allies.
One of the more consistent expositional failures has to do with never telling anyone that the Transformers have visited Earth in the past -- many, many times in the past. In Transformers , Optimus fails to tell anyone that their greatest enemy, Megatron, has been frozen on Earth for thousands of years just waiting to be thawed out after failing to acquire the Allspark.
Surely Optimus must have known that his predecessor, Sentinel Prime, had previously crash landed on Earth's moon?
Optimus Prime's leadership not only puts his friends in danger, but gets them killed as well. Both his human and Decepticon enemies aim for Optimus but usually hit his allies in an attempt to take out the Autobot leader. In Dark of the Moon after Sentinel Prime reveals that he's made a secret pact with Megatron and the Decepticons to sacrifice Earth in order to revive Cybertron, he betrays the Autobots by blowing Ironhide's brains out.
Ironhide, the second most interesting character in the entire film series. Poor medical bot Ratchet is murdered in Age of Extinction by the vicious intergalactic bounty hunter, Lockdown, when he refuses to reveal Optimus' whereabouts.
Where was Optimus when Ratchet takes the fall? Why, he's hiding out in Mexico City. Yes, the Autobots are at war but Optimus decision to run and hide from Lockdown and the U. His soldiers shouldn't be taking the fall for Optimus' failure of leadership. As previously mentioned, Optimus Prime isn't really the go-to bot when people need a little diplomacy to solve their problems. In fact, diplomacy never seems to be an option. The only time Optimus ever negotiates something with the Decepticons was just so that he could enact an elaborate ruse in Dark of the Moon.
Optimus is as much to blame for perpetuating conflict as his Decepticon enemies. At least Megatron was willing to form a temporary truce when things got a little out of hand with Sentinel Prime's plan in the third film!
Mercilessly executing prisoners, a dogged and unflinching black and white worldview, and an inability to learn from the mistakes of war -- these are the actions of a leader who is blinded by old hatreds. Let's face it, the Transformers of Michael Bay's films are some pretty violent autonomous sentient robots. They're hardened warriors clinging onto whatever they can in order to get by.
Arguably the Optimus of the movies crosses some lines that the classic Prime in other media wouldn't. Optimus tortures Megatron with a "voltage harnass," raising the device's intensity to the point that it could kill his long-time enemy. Only due to timely and concerned interference from the other Autobots does Optimus cease his torturing of the Decepticon, clearly driven over the edge from both Megatron's goading and a desperate lifetime of nonstop fighting and war. Outmatched and outgunned in Age of Extinction , Optimus Prime decides to call in some reinforcements -- by forcibly recruiting the Dinobots Grimlock, Scorn, Slug, and Strafe to the Autobot cause.
By defeating Grimlock in battle, Optimus then subjugates the Dinobots into service. It's not like Prime gives the fire-breathing mechanical T-Rex a choice, stating: "You defend my family I was not thinking of these things when I wrote the post. In future posts I shall keep your advice in mind. You are commenting using your WordPress.
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Many of the Transformers were based on Takara designs. Optimus Prime was among the first Transformers released from Hasbro in In the Marvel comic continuity, it was established that the Decepticons came in and out of the gladiator pits on Cybertron.
Early on, the leadership of the Decepticons constantly changed due to their tendency to kill and replace their leaders. It would not be until a lowly Decepticon affiliated gladiator named Megatron assumed the throne that the Decepticons became a true threat to the rest of the population of Cybertron.
While Megatron was the primary leader, other Decepticons had prominent roles as leaders of the group. Shockwave , Scorponok , Bludgeon , and Ratbat all led the Decepticons, often overthrowing Megatron in the process or taking over the group during the period when Megatron was believed dead. In the G2 Marvel series which continues from the G1 Marvel series , it is stated that the Decepticon forces on Cybertron underwent a massive split in the wake of Megatron's disappearance when Megatron, Optimus Prime, and their respective troops crashed on Earth.
The smartest, strongest, and most intelligent Decepticons left Cybertron to colonize nearby galaxies, leaving a token leadership of overly cruel and duplicitous Decepticons to control Cybertron. On the final page of the last issue, the Liege Maximo indicates that the Decepticons and all their descendants came from him, which indicates that he is the original founder of the Decepticons.
In the original animated series continuity, the Decepticons owe their warlike ways to their faction's origin as military hardware robots, created by the five-faced aliens, the Quintessons , while the Autobots were designed as consumer goods.
Following the rebellion that forced the Quintessons off the planet, the Decepticons - as they named themselves - lusting for power, began a civil war. The Autobots could not hope to match the superior firepower and battlefield powers of the Decepticons, and instead turned to stealth, developing the art of transformation, modifying their bodies so that they could assume other forms.
With this additional power, the Autobots were able to win the conflict, and a period of peace began, known as the Golden Age of Cybertron, when energy was plentiful and the planet shone with a golden hue. Working in secret, the Decepticons also developed transformation technology, along with new robot-mode flight powers, and, under the command of one of the first of this new breed, Megatron , they attacked one of the capital's outer cities, killing the current Autobot leader.
As the knowledge of this act was not made public, younger robots continued to idolize these powerful new flying robots - until one such young robot, Orion Pax , was duped by Megatron into allowing him access to an energy storage facility.
Megatron turned on Pax and fatally injured him, but the ancient Autobot, Alpha Trion , then rebuilt Pax into the first of a new, battle-hardy breed of Autobot - now, he was Optimus Prime , leader of the Autobots, who led them against Megatron and the Decepticons as the civil war erupted once more.
After five million years, Cybertron was nearly depleted of all its energy when the Decepticons received word that the Autobots were planning to search for new energy resources. Following the Autobot ship, the Ark , in their ship, the Nemesis , the Decepticons boarded the Ark and engaged the Autobots on their ship. Unfortunately, the Ark drifted too close to Earth and crashed landed in a volcano.
All the occupants of the Ark went into emergency stasis, while the Decepticons on the Nemesis ejected to South America. There, they scanned the forms of local insects, becoming the Insecticons. After 4 million years, the volcano the Ark was wedged in, erupted in Earth year , restarting its computer, Teletraan I.
Sending out Spy Satellites, Teletraan created alternative forms out of Earth vehicles for any transformers caught in its scanning beam Like F Eagles for Skywarp and a Semi-trailer truck for Optimus Prime. The Decepticons awakened first but later the Autobots did too, thanks to Starscream's carelessness.
By the Earth year , however, the Decepticons had succeeded in completely conquering Cybertron. In a final attempt to destroy the remaining Autobots they attacked Autobot City on Earth but were defeated. On their way back to Cybertron Astrotrain encountered difficulty leaving Earth's gravity due to an over-large payload.
Starscream convinced the others to jettison all the damaged and dying decepticons, including Megatron. Megatron was then found by Unicron who offered to rebuild him in return for destroying the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Megatron was reformed into Galvatron who returned to Cybertron , destroyed Starscream for his treacherry and reassumed command of the Decpticons.
Galvatron then attempted to use the Matrix against Unicron , provoking him into attacking Cybertron. The attack coupled with the temporary loss of Galvatron shattered the decepticon forces, allowing the Autobots to reclaim their home planet. The Decepticons fled to the planet Chaar , a world of ash and ruin, where they struggled to survive until Galvatron returned to them and reorganized them into a fighting force, battling to take back Cybertron.
The origins of the Decepticons in the IDW continuity would be explored in The Transformers: Megatron Origin , which confirmed Megatron as their founder in this timeline. On the run after an attack on an Autobot Senator after a mining dispute, Megatron stumbled onto underground gladiator games in the state of Kaon and quickly became one of its rising stars.
However, it only truly became more than this when Ratbat , seeing an opportunity for profit, dispatched Soundwave to arm the gladiators. Megatron's forces then began to commit acts of terrorism increasing in scale and daring, attracting the attention of Sentinel Prime. Kidnapping Senator Decimus as a symbol with the help of new airborne recruit Starscream Megatron issued a rallying call to the gladiators and their supporter, promising to unite them under one badge and make the whole planet their arena.
Prime's forces then found and arrested them en masse. This was all part of Megatron's plan: a supposedly informant Starscream massacred the Autobot Senate and freed the prisoners, signalling revolution and anarchy in Kaon. Megatron eventually killed Prime [ citation needed ] one-on-one as a symbol, and the Decepticons were forged. In this continuity, there are a number of differences to the traditional norm.
The Decepticons are no longer based on Cybertron due to its devastation by rogue scientist Thunderwing. Instead, they have spread out through the galaxy, using their transforming abilities to infiltrate target worlds such as Earth or Nebulos disguised as local vehicles and equipment. They then use their modes to create conflict, leading to complete anarchy as the world's political and social systems collapse.
The Decepticons then move in and harvest the world's raw resources. How the world is pacified is unknown, although The Transformers: Spotlight issue on Sixshot revealed he is often sent in to complete the destruction of entire worlds.
As in other continuities, Megatron is in command, and thus far has had to deal with the rebellion of Starscream 's Earth infiltration unit and the reemergence of Thunderwing, as well as moving on to Earth in order to harvest the extremely powerful Energon variant Ore, something which promises to give the Decepticons a significant edge over the Autobots. Predacons are a faction in the fictional Transformers universe created by Hasbro.
Previously the name Predacon had been associated with the Transformer group which combined to form Predaking. The faction made their first appearance in the Beast Wars toyline and animated series, and have been represented in various Transformers animated series, comic books and toylines since. A Predacon is most commonly represented as a Decepticon descendant with a new smaller, more energy-efficient body. Though the Decepticons and Predacons share many similarities, several important differences exist, such as leadership and ideals for example, choosing a pretense of peace with the Maximals rather than maintain a war at all costs.
It is not completely known as to how the faction gained predominance over all the other various Decepticon factions, although the comic book miniseries Beast Wars: The Gathering has provided hints that their heritage may be found in the original combiner team Predacons , hints confirmed by the subsequent Timelines: Dawn of Futures Past , which confirmed that Razorclaw, Divebomb and the other Predacons had been working behind the scenes.
Due to the similarity in circumstances between Megatron, Ravage and the Tripredacus Council and Kurtz, Willard and the American's presence in Vietnam in the film Apocalypse Now the writers of Beast Wars used the classic line, "Terminate, with extreme prejudice" in the similar context.
In this continuity, the Decepticons were not the name of the evil faction, but rather a sub-faction created by Megatron. The main faction was instead the Predacons carrying the name of the main villains over from Beast Wars , who transformed into mechanical animals. Realising that their ability to travel as Earth vehicles gave the Autobots an edge in stealth, Megatron decided to take drastic action.
Megatron recovered the protoforms of six Autobots that had crashed to Earth some time before looking for Fortress Maximus. Scanning them with vehicle modes at a military base and infusing them with a fraction of his spark energy to ensure their new loyalty, the first five became the Commandos.
But when Megatron tried to scan a tanker truck as an alternate mode for the leader Scourge , Optimus Prime was scanned as well, resulting in much of Prime's personality being scanned as well.
With an infusion of Megatron's spark energy to complete the concoction, Scourge was born, emerging from his pod as a dark twin of Optimus Prime, who proved that Megatron's programming had over-ridden any Autobot goodness within him. Appointed leader of the new "Decepticons", they quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with.
The newly created Decepticons would try many schemes over the course of the series, including attacking various dams and faking their defection to the Autobots. But their leader, Scourge, had grander ambitions in mind. The copy of Optimus' personality had been warped by Megatron's evil influence, but the individuality of Optimus remained and Scourge now wanted to control both Predacons and Decepticons.
He would seize his chance when Fortress Maximus was awakened, directing him to destroy Galvatron Megatron's new form. The attempt failed and Galvatron took a terrible revenge - he stripped the Decepticons of their individuality, turning them into little more than drones.
After Galvatron's defeat by Omega Prime , the Decepticons were among those sent back to Cybertron for imprisonment, except for Sky-Byte. In the Unicron Trilogy continuity, the early history of the war is not expounded upon. The Decepticons, however, remain the main antagonists, with whom the Autobots have been warring for quite some time. The enslavement of the small, power-enhancing Mini-Cons has long been a major goal of the Decepticons, and the Mini-Cons are seen as key to winning the war.
Near the end of Armada, the Autobots and Decepticons join forces to defeat the planet-devouring Unicron, and the beginning of Energon sees them as uneasy allies. Many return to Megatron's side when he returns. Cybertron sees a much smaller Decepticon force than the previous two series, and what has become of most of the survivors of the earlier series remains unknown.
As Megatron's true plans are discovered, most of the Decepticons, unwilling to be sacrificed as pawns as their leader seeks to remake the universe, again battle a common foe alongside the Autobots. The end of the series sees three of the comic-relief characters, with a reluctant Thundercracker, desiring to begin a new Decepticon force, and take off in a makeshift rocket.
It makes it as far as Mars before it crashes, as the ending credits montage of the final episode shows. The foursome survives, however. The fates of the other surviving Decepticons remains unknown, though evidence of Starscream's survival is discovered. The Decepticons make an appearance in the the Transformers live-action film.
Originally Optimus Prime and Megatron ruled Cybertron together, due to the power of the Allspark , a mysterious device that could give life to Transformers - and keep Cybertron itself alive. Eventually, Megatron began to desire its power for himself and assembled a like-minded army of separatists - the Decepticons. Megatron soon struck, and Cybertron became embroiled in civil war.
This would later seem to be changed, however, by the sequel films, where it is revealed that Sentinel Prime was the leader of the Autobots and The Fallen the leader of the Decepticons when the war broke out. Optimus would only take command after Sentinel was seemingly killed in action and Megatron served as The Fallen 's field commander due to the latter's incapacitation.
The subsequent prequel novel Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday revealed that Starscream seized command of the Decepticons after Megatron's disappearance. Like the Autobots, the Decepticons are designed to look more organic in the movie.
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