IDW Transformers: Dawn of the Autobots Teasers - Megatron

I am not bothered by this. Rather intrigued, actually.

But, cue mass hysteria in 3... 2... 1...

Well. Looks like Rodimus will get a chance to punch him after all.

Sabrblade wrote:But, cue mass hysteria in 3... 2... 1...

You realise keep posting stuff like that will only incite these things to happen?...Stop poking the dog and maybe it'll stop biting you.

I haven't read a single IDW book accept the Hoist comic that came with the Generations figure, but I am aware of many things that happens in them (thanks to this site) and I am intrigued. But I'm tentative of jumping into such a large book series with a lot of interwoven stuff, plus...I learned from my days collecting X-Men and Spider-man that every comic series seems to ret-con or throw excuses around for stories to shift and re-boot all too often, especially when a concept or story is stale, limits things or people just outright hate. (Ben Riley, anyone?) I dunno. I don't like it when long running, well built comics come to a dead end and pull an excuse out of it's arse to somehow restore status Quo. Does this happen much in IDW's TF comics?
Plus...I'm really bad at remembering to pick issues up, especially when I have no where to get them from here. And I prefer cartoons. Still, I can keep up with stuff on TF wiki at least.
Question though; Doesn't Megatron have the black stealth bomber body?

Megatron ditched the stealth bomber mode in RID before Dark Cybertron.

I'm just hoping we get a toy of this now. I'm sure if it has the Bot logo I can find some Reprolabels.

I am behind on all the dark cybertron stuff, but this looks like it might be a Pan Cybertron push with the autobots being the symbol of a united cybertron.

Just had a thought. If Megatron is showing an autobot badge, and he is obviously not an autobot, then is windblade truly an autobot?

hinomars19 wrote:I haven't read a single IDW book accept the Hoist comic that came with the Generations figure, but I am aware of many things that happens in them (thanks to this site) and I am intrigued. But I'm tentative of jumping into such a large book series with a lot of interwoven stuff, plus...I learned from my days collecting X-Men and Spider-man that every comic series seems to ret-con or throw excuses around for stories to shift and re-boot all too often, especially when a concept or story is stale, limits things or people just outright hate. (Ben Riley, anyone?) I dunno. I don't like it when long running, well built comics come to a dead end and pull an excuse out of it's arse to somehow restore status Quo. Does this happen much in IDW's TF comics?
Plus...I'm really bad at remembering to pick issues up, especially when I have no where to get them from here. And I prefer cartoons. Still, I can keep up with stuff on TF wiki at least.
Question though; Doesn't Megatron have the black stealth bomber body?

To answer your first line of questions, IDW really hasn't done any retconning at all. With a mixture of torrenting and buying trades in comic shops, I've managed to read all of idw's Generation 1 comics and they've been very strong on their stand of having one very large "G1" universe and have just continued adding onto it as the years go on, they only split their G1 universe into 2 comics after the end of the D-Void catastrophe, when Optimus renounced his title as a prime and the autobots split into the groups that stayed with bumblebee and the groups the left with Rodimus, and that I feel was just to make story telling easier and at the same time get new revenue. But I think after Dark Cybertron is over they'll be merging the books together again and even then still just continue their stories without any need to "reboot." As for the megatron question, he had the Bomber body up to when the comic split into Robots in Disguise and More Than Meets the Eye. It was heavily damaged after the D-Void catastrophe and when he returned he needed a new one which Shockwave and Soundwave rebuilt for him.

Unicronobot wrote:To answer your first line of questions, IDW really hasn't done any retconning at all.

"All Hail Megatron" did a whole bunch of retconning, whose retcons themselves had to be retconned by many many post-AHM issues in order to restore sense and logic in fitting with the pre-AHM Simon Furman stories.

Umm...

wat
Help, my brain's broke, someone send for help.

Sabrblade wrote:

Unicronobot wrote:To answer your first line of questions, IDW really hasn't done any retconning at all.

"All Hail Megatron" did a whole bunch of retconning, whose retcons themselves had to be retconned by many many post-AHM issues in order to restore sense and logic in fitting with the pre-AHM Simon Furman stories.

So the retcon retconned a lot of retconning which have retconned the retcon?

Oh God, I've gone cross-eyed...

Mindmaster wrote:Umm...

wat
Help, my brain's broke, someone send for help.

Sabrblade wrote:

Unicronobot wrote:To answer your first line of questions, IDW really hasn't done any retconning at all.

"All Hail Megatron" did a whole bunch of retconning, whose retcons themselves had to be retconned by many many post-AHM issues in order to restore sense and logic in fitting with the pre-AHM Simon Furman stories.

So the retcon retconned a lot of retconning which have retconned the retcon?

Oh God, I've gone cross-eyed...

Basically, Furman created a certain special status quo that portrayed the war as a galactic cold war fought in secret with protocols and standards, but then along came Shane McCarthy with All Hail Megatron, which set out to change the scheme of everything into being "like the G1 cartoon, but edgy!" The war was changed into having been started because of the Matrix and things like Cybertron's poisonous atmosphere were hastily neutered with little explanation. The the Mike Costa-penned ongoing came along with wanting to be like a mishmash of G1 with more of a Movieverse feel to it, while also trying to explain some of the retcons caused by All Hail Megatron along the way with newer retcons. Then we come to the current era with both James Roberts and John Barber telling more stories that go off and do their own thing (until "Dark Cybertron", that is) while occasionally patching up any additional continuity errors from the past. 'Course, there's the Flint Dille/Chris Metzen-penned "Autocracy" and "Monstrocity" series that made more retcons, but were more workable with the Roberts/Barber stuff since they kept referencing those.

Thankfully, as TFWiki says, John Barber is "God's gift to continuity." (He even helped to make sense out of the whole Movieverse timeline)

Dead Metal wrote:

Perfect, Dead Metal.

The Autobot symbol really suits the big guy in my opinion.

Admittely I am not too enthralled with the IDW soap opera universe. I feel the characterization was off and the stories just way too complex to follow. Keep in mind I don't read comics so this could be the norm. However, I did enjoy the Dreamwave a bit better than IDW.

Just to be clear, MTMTE and RID are not merging again after Dark Cybertron.
Roberts, Milne, Griffith, Burcham, Perez and other people working on them have confirmed that there will be (at least) the two ongoings once the crossover is done.

Va'al wrote:Just to be clear, MTMTE and RID are not merging again after Dark Cybertron.
Roberts, Milne, Griffith, Burcham, Perez and other people working on them have confirmed that there will be (at least) the two ongoings once the crossover is done.

Yeah, these three teasers look like they're for three different series to me:

• Orion Pax and Earth - Robots in Disguise
• Windblade and Cybertron - her series
• Megatron and the Lost Light - More Than Meets The Eye

maybe Megatron loves a good quest as well?

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:Just to be clear, MTMTE and RID are not merging again after Dark Cybertron.
Roberts, Milne, Griffith, Burcham, Perez and other people working on them have confirmed that there will be (at least) the two ongoings once the crossover is done.

Yeah, these three teasers look like they're for three different series to me:

• Orion Pax and Earth - Robots in Disguise
• Windblade and Cybertron - her series
• Megatron and the Lost Light - More Than Meets The Eye

True dat, true dat.

We know one of the 'heroes' is going to die, as is teased in the Dark Cybertron #12 solicit. And Roberts mentioned on Twitter that all the MTMTE season 2 solicits are very spoilery too, so as soon as those pop up, we'll know more.

As it stands, I am very intrigued.

So who is Megatron now? At the end of Transformers Prime he run off crying a changed man and now in the comic universe he is sporting an Autobot symbol. I am sure he will just end up going back to who he has always been.......

Prime and the IDWverse are not the same storyline, only the Beast Hunters comics were.

Right now, Megatron is being used as a means to an end in Shockwave's plan, after a return from the fight with D-Void in Chaos and an attempted planetary takeover in RID. He will soon fight Galvatron though, according to the solicits.

I want this as a figure. Heroic Autobot Megatron. (Suddenly, Shattered Glass mainstream canon figure line?)

Megatron is not evil for evils sake he was a freedom fighter who lost his way, so after cybertron is free of tyranny this makes sense.

Megatron on the lost light

ausbot wrote:Megatron is not evil for evils sake he was a freedom fighter who lost his way, so after cybertron is free of tyranny this makes sense.

Yet the timing is suspicious. A repentant Megatron in IDW just a few short months after a repentant Megatron in Prime? Is this perhaps some attempt to put Megatron out of his usual role as main antagonist in favor of slotting in a new one?

If so... well, I still don't get it. Megatron was already given the chance for peace, and instead degenerated into a more conventional sadist during RID. He is the cause of the majority of the galactic damage caused by the Cybertronian civil war. To think that Optimus or Bumblebee or Rodimus would ever accept this madman into their ranks and give him the rite of Autobrand boggles my mind.

I'm curious to see how it plays out, but I strongly suspect I'll hate it when it does.

Henry921 wrote:

ausbot wrote:Megatron is not evil for evils sake he was a freedom fighter who lost his way, so after cybertron is free of tyranny this makes sense.

Yet the timing is suspicious. A repentant Megatron in IDW just a few short months after a repentant Megatron in Prime? Is this perhaps some attempt to put Megatron out of his usual role as main antagonist in favor of slotting in a new one?

If so... well, I still don't get it. Megatron was already given the chance for peace, and instead degenerated into a more conventional sadist during RID. He is the cause of the majority of the galactic damage caused by the Cybertronian civil war. To think that Optimus or Bumblebee or Rodimus would ever accept this madman into their ranks and give him the rite of Autobrand boggles my mind.

I'm curious to see how it plays out, but I strongly suspect I'll hate it when it does.

What if it's not Megatron though? What if it's just the body..?

Henry921 wrote:

ausbot wrote:Megatron is not evil for evils sake he was a freedom fighter who lost his way, so after cybertron is free of tyranny this makes sense.

Yet the timing is suspicious. A repentant Megatron in IDW just a few short months after a repentant Megatron in Prime? Is this perhaps some attempt to put Megatron out of his usual role as main antagonist in favor of slotting in a new one?

If so... well, I still don't get it. Megatron was already given the chance for peace, and instead degenerated into a more conventional sadist during RID. He is the cause of the majority of the galactic damage caused by the Cybertronian civil war. To think that Optimus or Bumblebee or Rodimus would ever accept this madman into their ranks and give him the rite of Autobrand boggles my mind.

I'm curious to see how it plays out, but I strongly suspect I'll hate it when it does.

I don't understand why the even decided to give him such an elaborate back-story to show how good his intentions and views are. Sure Megatron Origin did show that he kinda descended into his position, but I liked it more before the super extensive revolutionist retcon.

Va'al wrote:
What if it's not Megatron though? What if it's just the body..?

Ooo, that's a good theory. But who would be in it? Oh man, wouldn't it be hilarious if it was Swerve?

leokearon wrote:Megatron on the lost light

That is utterly hilarious!

leokearon wrote:Megatron on the lost light

I never realized how much I needed this in my life.

Mindmaster wrote:

leokearon wrote:Megatron on the lost light

I never realized how much I needed this in my life.

The resemblance to the Shoomer scene is uncanny...

Va'al wrote:The resemblance to the Shoomer scene is uncanny...

Quick, someone redo the Megatron comic to mimic this scene!

Va'al wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

leokearon wrote:Megatron on the lost light

I never realized how much I needed this in my life.

The resemblance to the Shoomer scene is uncanny...

Lol, they would make such good room mates, they even share hobbies!

I can see the scenes already, Swerve talking and annoying him, and Megatron contemplating using his fusion canon on himself or Swerve.

Also, how will the DJD react to this? Will their heads explode? Will they hunt Megatron, going against the very thing they said they waited for? Or will they stop and open a holiday resort?

Someone pointed out that *when* Overlord catches up with the Lost Light, he will be very very very happy indeed. Add the DJD to that, and it's a giant Deceptigasm.

Va'al wrote:Someone pointed out that *when* Overlord catches up with the Lost Light, he will be very very very happy indeed. Add the DJD to that, and it's a giant Deceptigasm.

When, so he survived? I did kinda expect that.

Dead Metal wrote:

Va'al wrote:Someone pointed out that *when* Overlord catches up with the Lost Light, he will be very very very happy indeed. Add the DJD to that, and it's a giant Deceptigasm.

When, so he survived? I did kinda expect that.

Oh, we "don't know". Last we saw him he was floating about in space.

Va'al wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:

Va'al wrote:Someone pointed out that *when* Overlord catches up with the Lost Light, he will be very very very happy indeed. Add the DJD to that, and it's a giant Deceptigasm.

When, so he survived? I did kinda expect that.

Oh, we "don't know". Last we saw him he was floating about in space.

Ah OK, thought something happened in Dark Cybertron.