Martin Köpp

If you know anything about popular movies in the country right now, you are likely aware of the release latest installment of the Transformers series recently. There has been one other movie released before it, preceded even farther back by a slew of cartoons and comic book appearances. There are many who don't know these robots as well as they would like to. They want to understand the movies better, and be able to tell their friends or their family the difference between the Transformers Megatron and Optimus Prime.

If you know anything about popular movies in the country right now, you are likely aware of the release latest installment of the Transformers series recently. There has been one other movie released before it, preceded even farther back by a slew of cartoons and comic book appearances. There are many who don't know these robots as well as they would like to. They want to understand the movies better, and be able to tell their friends or their family the difference between the Transformers Megatron and Optimus Prime.

For the sake of this article, however, I will stick to the finer points of Megatron. This is a hugely important name to know in terms of learning what there is to know about the Transformers.

You see, Megatron like Optimus Prime is a leader. Many consider him through all the mediums of comics, books, television animated series and movies to be the best leader the Decepticons ever had. While its nice to be considered the best, you always have someone who wants your spot. The fact remains that for as long as he lived, Megatron was a brutal and tyrannical leader of the mighty Decepticons.

The Decepticons are from Cybertron, a planet that also saw the creation and evolution of the Autobots. Basically this is a classic good vs. Evil story. The Autobots fought the Decepticons because they refused to reason in any other fashion. Their war spans the whole length of the comics, series, and is now beginning to be retold in part through the movies. Megatron battles for control of the Allspark, or The Matrix as it was known through the comics and television series.

Megatron and Prime were once acquaintances it's presumed, though today they're forever up at arms. It's thought that Optimus is saddened at the fact of what the Autobots and Decepticons could have done collectively, where Megatron merely sees it entirely laughable. Their animosity started while Megatron turned on the bots from Cybertron and organized the Decepticons.

Megatron initially went to Earth, even in the new movies, to pillage its resources to sustain Cybertron. He went with a group of his most loyal Decepticons. He was followed there by Optimus Prime and his most trusted Autobots who intended to stop him. The only way that Cybertron could become the planet that it used to be, it would cost Earth its life as collateral. Optimus Prime came to save us from destruction. Megatron would kill us all in a moment for his selfish purpose.

I can simply trust that you see who Megatron is. A great deal comparable to any Transformer, there's more than meets the eye. We have seen glances of pity and allegiance, simply for the most part it's cruel leading from dread and bullying.