Deathsaurus lands on this list because the Decepticon Justice Division is one of the most dangerous threats to any group, Decepticon or Autobot, and Deathsaurus willingly ignored the threat of their existence in order to form his own group.
His legend is so great that if Megatron ever falls, he would easily be on a shortlist to take over what remains of the Decepticon Army.
Predaking is the only combiner on this list. Not because combiners are weak, but typically the mere process of combining creates massive flaws for the fusion in question. Combining five minds into one often renders them dumb like Abominus or trapped between too many separate thought processes like Computron , or even needlessly arrogant like Superion.
Now, "evil Optimus Prime" are three words so terrifying nothing else even needs to be said, but it gets worse. The IDW comics reintroduced Nemesis as Nova Prime, a being who helped unite all the disparate tribes of Cybertron and bring civilization to the lands. Subjection is the destiny of all sentient beings. Fortunately, he wound up trapped in a Dead Universe before his whims could ever come to pass.
Within every army there are divisions and subdivisions, and Tarn is by far apart of the deadliest subdivision in the Decepticon Army: The Decepticon Justice Division. The group is always small, but with frightening abilities that make them threatening to face alone, and impossible to defeat in a group.
He takes advantage of a special voice modulator to make any enemy who hears his voice become frozen, eventually forcing their spark to shut down through the words and music he sings.
Initially Overlord met Megatron as fellow gladiators, and Megatron became the only warrior Overlord could never get a decisive victory over.
Out of desire to eventually crush Megatron more than anything, he joined the Decepticons and became one of the most dangerous members of the army…and that was before he got an upgrade! Eventually, he was tapped by Megatron to be upgraded into a Phase Sixer, capable of transforming into five different alt-modes in addition to his robot form.
Possessed of a sadistic streak a mile wide, Overlord has a penchant for forcing anyone he captures to fight against their own for their lives…only to later force them to either commit suicide or face his overwhelming might instead. Thunderwing just might be the most powerful Decepticon ever created.
He began as a simple scientist concerned about the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, pointing out how their battle was gradually destroying their planet and making it impossible to inhabit.
His mind was driven insane by the grafting, but it resulted in him becoming drastically more powerful. He was invulnerable to conventional weaponry, and the combined efforts of Autobot and Decepticon alike was still barely enough to take him down.
Eventually, he was simply swallowed by the entire planet, rendering him inert and the planet finally dead. This was not seen as a concern for Megatron, however, as by this time Starscream and his allies were seemingly destroyed on Gigantion, and Megatron now calling himself "Galvatron" again had the Omega Lock and all four Keys.
What few Decepticons remained loyal to him were too stupid to see what Galvatron had planned, and made perfect distractions as he set his final plan in motion.
If they weren't strong enough to survive the coming cataclysm, then so be it. Ultimately, Galvatron's plan failed, and the Unicron Singularity was sealed. His remaining Decepticons quickly left him, realizing what was likely to have happened to them, and eventually joined the Autobots. After Galvatron's seemingly-final defeat and death in a one-on-one duel with Optimus Prime on Cybertron's moon, the Decepticons, not knowing when to quit, rose again, albeit in a rather pathetic fashion.
Having cobbled together a rather rickety rocket, Ransack , Crumplezone and Thunderblast shanghaied the reluctant Thundercracker , who was really keen on being on the winning side for once, and flew off to parts unknown as the " New Decepticon Army ".
They made it to Mars before the rocket crash-landed. Meanwhile, the Autobot Wing Saber reported form a deep-space recon mission that he thought he had picked up traces of Starscream, seemingly backed up by Sideways and Soundwave. Landmine and the former Decepticon Mudflap raced off to join Wing Saber and investigate Founded by Megatron, the exact number of the original Decepticons is unknown. Using the Mini-Cons as weapons, they were able to conquer Cybertron and force the Autobots underground.
Eventually they were beaten due to the arrival of Unicron: his heralds slaughtered the entire Decepticon base on Cybertron, and the Chaos-Bringer's arrival forced them to join forces with the Autobots. With Megatron shot dead during the Unicron battle, the peace held for a period of years. The origins of these Decepticons began when the Fallen turned on his brother Primes in an attempt to seize power at the cost of humanity's existence.
One account has it that the Fallen gathered a small army of construction drones to assist him and named them Decepticons. Tales of the Fallen issue 3 Either way, he would become known as the first Decepticon and would go on to become the Sidious to Megatron's Vader Revenge of the Fallen , tempting the latent aggressive edge in the Protector.
Filled with dreams of power and paranoia of losing that power, Megatron reformed the Cybertron defense force into a massive engine of war, ready to wipe out entire alien species who would dare challenge them. When science leader Optimus Prime 's opposition became known, Megatron branded them traitors and declared his followers to be the Decepticons.
Soon after, The Fallen commanded Megatron to build the Nemesis , a ship that would carry his sarcophagus and Decepticon soldiers in their search for the Matrix of Leadership left on Earth. Megatron was commanded to remain on Cybertron, so Soundwave commanded the expedition. Most of the Decepticons left Cybertron, leaving Megatron with a reduced, but still potent, army. The Decepticons began the war, destroying any who defied them.
When the Allspark was thrown into space, Megatron followed after it, eventually landing on Earth, where he became frozen. Transformers Despite the absence of their supreme leader, the Decepticons were able to conquer Cybertron and drive the Autobots off-world while operating under the joint leadership of Shockwave and Soundwave. In , Shatter and Dropkick learnt that Optimus Prime was planning to regroup the Autobots on Earth while torturing B "Bumblebee" , and attempted to summon the Decepticon fleet and bait a trap for the rebels, only to be slain before they could make the transmission.
Starscream began a search for Megatron and the AllSpark. After a while, Starscream began to focus more on the AllSpark, hoping Megatron would remain lost, something the other Decepticons began to suspect. Ghosts of Yesterday In , Starscream's retrieval team made their way to Mars , destroyed the Beagle 2 Rover and made their way to Earth. Movie Prequel. A few days later, Frenzy hacked Air Force One 's computers.
Although he was unable to find out the truth about Sector Seven , he avoided detection and managed to get a clue in Sam Witwicky , whose ancestor Archibald Witwicky had discovered Megatron a century earlier.
His glasses had been marked with coordinates to the AllSpark's location, so Barricade and Frenzy attempted to confront the boy. As Starscream ordered the Decepticons to mobilize, Frenzy shut down the temperature controls while Starscream destroyed the external generators. Megatron was freed, but Bumblebee took the Cube with a group of survivors from Blackout's attack to Mission City, meeting with Optimus Prime's Autobots along the way. After the battle of Mission City, Starscream, who had survived, stole Frenzy's remains to access whatever information the humans had on the AllSpark to build his own AllSpark.
Returning to Cybertron, Starscream proclaimed himself Decepticon leader and began building the replica.
One month later, the replica was ready, but it didn't work properly and Dreadwing made a coup attempt. Starscream barely survived and made his way back to Mars, questioning his purpose. The Reign of Starscream. When he received word that the Autobots would be helping the humans destroy Megatron's remains, and hoping to destroy Prime, Megatron, and the traitor Wreckage all at once, Starscream returned to Earth.
Although he managed to destroy Wreckage, Prime had already left with Megatron's body. Just as he defeated Bumblebee, Starscream received word from Soundwave, who had brought the Nemesis to Earth's solar system. After meeting up with Soundwave, Starscream explained the situation, and returned to the Nemesis to awaken the remaining Decepticons and oversee the spawning of more hatchlings while Soundwave lead a scout team to Earth. Dispatching Ravage and the Constructicons , the Decepticons managed to restore Megatron's Spark and bring him back to life.
Returning to the Decepticon flagship, the Nemesis , Megatron learned from the Fallen that the AllSpark's knowledge was now within Sam Witwicky's mind, who had destroyed the Cube when he killed Megatron. Further commanded to kill Optimus Prime, Megatron captured the boy. Although the boy escaped, Megatron, Starscream and Grindor battled Optimus, and Megatron eventually managed to kill the last Prime. Megatron then decided that a show of force was needed to compel the humans to turn Sam over to them.
The Fallen lead Decepticon protoforms to Earth and then broadcast a message demanding the humans turn over Sam. Sam was eventually found in Egypt , where the harvester was hidden under a pyramid. In Egypt, a battle took place around the pyramids. Although the Fallen managed to reclaim the Matrix, it had already been used to resurrect Optimus, who was then made super-powerful by being fused with Jetfire, a Decepticon-turned Autobot.
Optimus Prime then destroyed the harvester and confronted the Fallen, slaying the ancient Decepticon after a short, but vicious fight with him. Seeing his master's demise, Megatron, who had been severely injured during the battle, retreated with Starscream, vowing revenge. Revenge of the Fallen. After three years of relative quiet, the Decepticons returned to NEST's radar when they enacted a scheme decades in the making, luring Optimus to the crashed Ark on the Moon.
Optimus revived Sentinel Prime , who soon revealed that he had joined up with Megatron to restore Cybertron. Sentinel activated his space bridge, bringing forth an army of Decepticons who had hidden on the Moon. Sentinel issued an ultimatum to humanity: deport the Autobots from Earth or be destroyed.
Humanity complied and the Autobots left in their spacecraft, but Starscream destroyed the ship once their human operative Dylan Gould learned they would leave without a fight. The Decepticons then stormed Chicago, slaughtering thousands of humans and made the city into a fortress impenetrable to the human military. Decepticons scattered across the globe to get Sentinel Prime's pillars in place, so that they could create a space bridge large enough to bring Cybertron to Earth, enslaving humanity to reconstruct their home.
However, the Autobots had survived the destruction of their ship, foreseeing the Decepticons' treachery, and with the help of Sam Witwicky and a small crew of human allies, began a great battle to destroy Sentinel's space bridge. In the ensuing battle, the majority of the Decepticons' chain of command was killed off before the Autobots took the fight to Sentinel once the control pillar was temporarily disabled.
After a brief duel with Optimus, Sentinel ordered the Decepticons' entire Orbital Assault Carrier fleet to attack his former pupil. With Sentinel battling the majority of the Autobots, the OAC's attacking Optimus, and the Wreckers engaging the incoming terrestrial Decepticons, Gould was left to reactivate the control pillar.
Though he succeeded, he was killed by Sam, and the pillar was destroyed, taking Cybertron, the Decepticons' remaining air force, and the space bridge with it.
Sentinel attempted to escape, but was intercepted by Optimus and they fought once again. Although Sentinel managed to defeat Optimus, he was attacked and grievously wounded by Megatron, who sought to regain the power he had lost in the past few years. Megatron then asked for peace, but Optimus refused and seemingly killed the tyrant once and for all.
Sentinel Prime was then executed by Optimus Prime. Dark of the Moon. Unfortunately, this Autobot victory was quickly negated when Harold Attinger created Cemetery Wind , a secret CIA cabal who began hunting down all Autobots and Decepticons left around the globe, with the help of Lockdown , a Cybertronian bounty hunter. Five years later, less than a dozen Transformers from either faction had survived the hunt.
Though both factions were being slaughtered, Attinger claimed he was only hunting Decepticons, and their remains were sent to Kinetic Solutions Incorporated to be melted down to be made into new Transformers remote-controlled by humans. Megatron's head was recovered from Chicago, but no one except Brains discovered that the Decepticon leader had survived, and was biding his time by secretly worming his way into KSI's military prototype, Galvatron.
Megatron also gave his new body operational control of the other fifty drones KSI had built. This was all in order to obtain the Seed that Lockdown would eventually pay Attinger and KSI with in exchange for help in apprehending Optimus Prime, so that Megatron could cyberform a large city to announce his return and build a massive army.
Optimus only became aware of Galvatron's true nature after doing battle with the drone, and passed the knowledge on to his human ally Cade Yeager. Yeager tried to warn Joshua Joyce of Galvatron's plot regarding the Seed, but it was too late, and Galvatron rebelled, christening the drones he took control of Decepticons.
The Autobots came to rescue Joyce and the Seed in Hong Kong, but Galvatron set his army upon them, sparking a large battle. Hound and Bumblebee were nearly overwhelmed by the Decepticons until Optimus arrived with the Dinobots , decimating the majority of them.
The last few Decepticons were killed when Optimus detonated one of Lockdown's grenades. Galvatron, having escaped the battle when the Dinobots arrived, headed off for parts unknown, his plans temporarily stymied. Age of Extinction. Over the next few years, new Decepticons continued to arrive on Earth, but soon fell into disarray without a leader.
Several Decepticons were killed in skirmishes with humans and Autobots, while others were captured by the TRF. After years of anarchy, Galvatron returned to Earth with a new body and reverted to his Megatron persona, now serving Quintessa in her plan to restore Cybertron at the cost of destroying Earth.
Megatron initially kept his existence a secret to all except Barricade, who he used as a scout. Eventually, Megatron came out of hiding and reformed the Decepticon army, negotiating the release of his henchmen Mohawk , Dreadbot , Nitro Zeus , and Onslaught only settling for the latter when his request for the volatile-even by Decepticon standards- Berserker was denied. The Decepticons and Transformers Reaction Force attacked an Autobot refugee camp , but were forced into a retreat thanks to the efforts of Yeager's team of Autobots and Dinobots, with Mohawk, Onslaught, and Dreadbot perishing during the battle.
Decepticons began making their way to Cybertron after Megatron retrieved the Staff of Merlin. However, practically all Decepticons-including Nitro and Infernocus -fell before the combined might of the Autobots, the Transformers Reaction Force , Quintessa's former Guardian Knights , and their other allies as well as the British Armed Forces. Seeing as how Megatron and Barricade's current statuses are unclear, the return of the Decepticons is uncertain. The Last Knight.
War devastated Cybertron. While the Decepticons were heavily reliant on drone units to bolster their forces and were forced to automate many of their outposts, Lost In Space 3: Ironhide the risk was still too high that they might claim the AllSpark, forcing Optimus Prime to make the desperate decision to launch the AllSpark into deep space.
Megatron obsessively followed after it, and disappeared. Prelude: Optimus Prime. Around 1 billion years ago, the Destrons emerged as a new faction on the Protectobot governed Cybertron. The Destrons emerged victorious, though many Cybertronian records were forever lost due to the Great Purge. The Decepticons came to prominence as a sub-faction of the Destrons around 70 million years ago.
They advocated the use of the AllSpark to bring Cybertron itself to life, that it might serve as a cosmic juggernaut that would allow the Transformers to return to the era of expansion and colonization of other worlds they had enjoyed nearly million years beforehand. When the Decepticon leader Megazarak was ousted by charismatic rhetorician named Megatron , tensions finally exploded, and the Autobots and Decepticons went to war for possession of the AllSpark.
After something in the vicinity of six million years of civil war, things reached a crisis point when the Decepticons began a strategic bombing campaign on Cybertron, demanding the AllSpark be turned over in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. The AllSpark Almanac II Rather than give in to Megatron's demands, the Autobots instead sought to put the AllSpark beyond any Cybertronian's reach, launching it randomly through a space bridge to some distant corner of the galaxy, where it was hoped it would never be found.
Transform and Roll Out The Autobots pulled a victory only due to their exclusive access to space bridges , Project Omega , and their decision to send the AllSpark into deep space. Defeated, the Decepticons dispersed, and, according to Ultra Magnus , the only sight of them would be an occasional scout ship. In fact, they had been missing for so long, Optimus Prime believed a Decepticon presence was a thing of the past.
This was quickly reassessed upon encountering Megatron's crew. The ensuing confrontation over the newly rediscovered AllSpark took Megatron - injured from an assassination attempt by his lieutenant Starscream - and the Autobots to Earth, where Megatron would be sent crashing to Earth.
The Autobots' ship crash-landed in Lake Erie , and during the next fifty years, Isaac Sumdac reverse-engineered technology from Megatron's severed head to build a robotic empire.
Starscream would follow the AllSpark's trail to Earth, and the Autobots subsequently became heroes, though they were unaware of Sumdac's use of Megatron's technology. Transform and Roll Out. Megatron revived in Sumdac's lab and covertly manipulated the scientist into helping him build a new body, poising as an incapacitated Autobot.
Megatron Rising - Part 1 Megatron killed Starscream for his betrayal, but in the ensuing battle with the Autobots, the AllSpark was dispersed across the Detroit area. Though disheartened by the loss of the AllSpark, Megatron kidnapped Sumdac Megatron Rising - Part 2 and downloaded a schematic of an Autobot space bridge, plotting to build one to invade Cybertron from within.
The three Decepticons made camp in an abandoned mine that shielded their signals from the Autobots, The Elite Guard , but were surprised when Starscream was reanimated by an AllSpark fragment.
Megatron reestablished contact with his double-agent on Cybertron, Shockwave , and ordered his troops around the galaxy to begin attacking the Autobots' space bridges. Mission Accomplished. Megatron also ordered a large bounty on the rogue Starscream. A Fistful of Energon When the space bridge was completed, the Decepticons engaged in a fierce three-way battle with the Earthbound Autobots and Starscream's army of clones.
Megatron would emerge victorious with the Autobots captured and the Starscream clones defected to his side, though the space bridge ended up malfunctioning and sucked in him and Starscream. A long night of bickering ensued. Team Chaar and other Decepticons around the galaxy began succeeding in taking the Autobots' space bridges, but were dismayed when Megatron failed to arrive on Cybertron to begin the invasion. Megatron and Starscream were found by the comatose Omega Supreme , and Megatron cut his losses and cancelled the invasion, seeking to use Omega to conquer Cybertron himself.
He was able to bring the Autobot to Earth to attack Optimus Prime's crew, but Ratchet 's intervention trapped Megatron and Starscream inside Omega and sent them transwarping around the galaxy randomly. His cover about to be blown, Shockwave mortally injured Ultra Magnus before escaping with the Magnus Hammer , putting Cybertron in disarray.
Where Is Thy Sting? Five Servos of Doom However, Swindle would be revived en route to Cybertron, and freed his fellow prisoners, though only he and Lugnut would escape the ship and not be recaptured. Starscream took control of the Lugnut Supremes, rigging them to blow and destroy Detroit. Prowl and Jazz reconstructed the AllSpark, killing Starscream once and for all, and managed to use the power of the AllSpark to save Detroit.
Megatron was captured by Optimus, and the Autobots returned to Cybertron with the Decepticon leader, Lugnut, and Shockwave as prisoners. Endgame, Part II. Megatron and his men would be incarcerated in Trypticon Prison , and Strika took command of the Decepticons for the time being. She ordered Team Stunticon to break out Megatron, but when they failed, Strika led an invasion of Cybertron's Energon farms. The Stunti-Con Job.
In this universe, the Decepticons are the good guys and a resistance group, intended to overthrow Autobot tyranny and their dastardly leader, Optimus Prime. Led by the heroic Megatron , the 'Cons want to liberate Cybertron and preserve freedom and life across the galaxy, no matter the cost.
But if they fail to stop the Autobots, not only will the Autobots conquer Earth , they will also enslave the universe and all will be lost. Shattered Glass. Megatronus , a member of the Thirteen, considered himself the first Decepticon.
Lockout He killed Solus Prime Battlegrounds, Part 2 and was imprisoned for it in an alternate dimension. Battlegrounds, Part 1. The Decepticons originated from those in the lower castes of Cybertronian society in the Badlands. Megatron, a gladiator who seized control of all the gladiatorial pits and assumed the name of The Fallen, began preaching to the dispossessed on the Grid. He allowed them to bomb Cybertron and throw their society into chaos, for he rightly believed if he denied any connection to their extremist behavior, it would elevate him in the eyes of the High Council.
Even the Seeker Starscream kidnapped Sentinel Prime for him. When the Council questioned Megatron about the movement's name, he denied he had heard of it, though he also accepted it for reasons outlined above. When Halogen appointed Orion the new Prime, Megatron declared his Decepticons would continue to fight for freedom.
During the war they conquered eighty-five percent of the planet, as well as occupying Moon Base One and Trypticon Station, before poisoning the core itself with Dark Energon. When the Autobots left aboard the Ark , Trypticon transformed into the Nemesis and followed them with Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave , and Lugnut into unknown space, while Shockwave took control of the Cybertronian Decepticons.
Transformers: Exodus. During a three-year lull, Starscream was ordered to build a space bridge and to mine more Energon. Transformers: Prime Megatron returned, but not with the army Starscream had hoped for. Instead he tried to raise an army of Terrorcon zombies to eradicate humanity, but failed and perished in a space bridge implosion, leaving Starscream in command once more.
Darkness Rising It emerged he survived, and he was retrieved and placed in sickbay. Con Job Convoy. Megatron eventually returned to life, nearly killing Starscream for his part in his near-death in the space bridge explosion. Sick Mind Out of His Head Shadowzone Despite his brush with death, Starscream continued to secretly operate against Megatron Operation: Breakdown , which came to a grinding halt when Megatron forced him to beg for his life in an abandoned Energon mine.
Rock Bottom Finding neither respect from Megatron following this incident nor mercy from the Autobots , as well as seemingly being replaced by former rogue Airachnid , Starscream abandoned the Decepticons, becoming neutral, and leaving Airachnid to take his place. Seeking to attain more Dark Energon to coincide with a prophecy that he interpreted as his own destiny in the Covenant of Primus , Megatron raced to complete a second space bridge.
Optimus Prime sought to stop this plot by finally ending the Decepticon leader's life One Shall Fall , but a larger problem became apparent. Following an explosion of Dark Energon from a volcano, it was surmised that Unicron was awakening at the Earth's core. During this time, acting Decepticon leader Airachnid attempted to abandon Megatron to Unicron's wrath, but following a humiliating defeat at the hands of Soundwave, relinquished command to the communications officer.
With the power of the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus was able to defeat Unicron. However, Optimus' surrender of the Matrix's power also lost him his memories of being a Prime, and he took upon his old 'Orion Pax' persona. Orion Pax, Part 3. Former Seeker captain Dreadwing arrived on Earth, Loose Cannons and was promoted to second in command following Airachnid's departure and murder of Breakdown whose remains were recovered by human terrorist organization MECH.
Crossfire Airachnid later sent her armada of Insecticons to kill Megatron, but following her defeat at the hands of Arcee, the Insecticons were freed from her control and then integrated into Megatron's forces. Unexpectedly, the Dark Energon enhanced Nemesis gained sentience, and disabled the Decepticons and worked to complete Project Iacon and collect the relics around the world.
Through the efforts of the Autobots ' human allies , the ship's sentience was defeated, but had already located four Iacon relics. Toxicity Knock Out, Dreadwing, and Hardshell's endeavours all end in failure, Soundwave being the only victorious one.
Triage After mistakenly reporting Bulkhead's destruction to Megatron, Hardshell was himself destroyed by a vengeful Wheeljack and Miko. Breakdown's remains were used to save the mortally wounded Nemesis Prime MECH leader Silas - to Megatron and Knock Out's disgust - who attempted to join the Decepticon ranks, but when his offering of Project Damocles was destroyed by the Autobots, he was hauled away for dissection by Knock Out. The effort did bear fruit in that the location of Raf Esquivel's home was discovered, The Human Factor narrowing down the location of the Autobot base.
Hard Knocks. Additionally, the Decepticons found the existence of the Omega Keys on Earth, though they were unaware of their true function. Knock Out successfully retrieved a Key, while Dreadwing lost one, but it turned out new Autobot recruit Smokescreen is the final Key, and was promptly kidnapped by Soundwave.
However, the rogue Starscream was able to steal all three Autobot Keys, and proposed to use them as a bargaining chip to return to the Decepticons. Inside Job. Naturally, Megatron was less than convinced of Starscream's loyalty, and watched his memories via cortical psychic patch to find his true motives. While evidence of Starscream's treachery was rampant, Megatron allowed him to return since the Decepticons must be united to revive Cybertron.
However, Dreadwing was enraged and disillusioned by Megatron's pardon, since his leader was apathetic to Skyquake becoming one of the undead, Patch but his attempt to murder Starscream was halted when Megatron killed him with his own blaster.
Starscream returned to his position of second-in-command, and worked out the location of the Omega Lock on Cybertron. Megatron battled the Autobots on their home planet, lost the Keys, but Starscream, Knock Out and Soundwave kidnapped the Autobots' human allies and held them hostage.
Regeneration The Autobots handed over the Keys in exchange for the children, and Megatron turned the power of the Omega Lock on Earth to cyberform it. Optimus used the Star Saber to destroy the Omega Lock and all hope of restoring Cybertron, but Megatron launched a full-scale invasion of the Earth from his new fortress of Darkmount , with his first act of aggression being destroying the Autobot base.
Darkest Hour. In the wake of the Autobots' defeat, and having found no corpses in the base's remains, the Decepticons increased global surveillance to find them - also dealing a similarly devastating blow against the United States military with its fusion cannons.
Megatron feigned a desire for peace to the US government, a cover for his eventual violent conquest of Earth. A search on Cybertron for the missing relics turned up Shockwave , Darkmount, NV who is quickly reinstated into the Decepticon command structure as first lieutenant of all scientific endeavors, to Starscream's chagrin. Efforts to find the Autobots resulted only in failure, leading Shockwave to unleash the massive Predacon he cloned, Predaking to hunt down the Autobots, Scattered only for it to come home empty-handed.
Prey The Autobots were able to spread the Decepticon ranks thin and away from Darkmount, and the newly arrived Ultra Magnus lead the regrouped team to assault the fortress. The attack was eventually halted and the Autobots were taken prisoner, only for an upgraded Optimus Prime to arrive and single-handedly turn the tide. Earth's military was able to bring Darkmount crumbling to the ground, forcing the Decepticons to go on the defense and return to using the Nemesis as their base of operations.
The Decepticons turned their efforts to cloning, and enjoyed a string of successful ventures to retrieve Predacon fossils to engineer an army of the extinct beasts thanks to the efforts of Shockwave and Soundwave, Project Predacon the Predacon, Chain of Command and Knock Out.
However, this only created a new form of Terrorcon that craved and drained Energon from a victim, starting a plague that threatened the entire ship. The Decepticons struggled to repel the infected, until Cylas freed Airachnid from her stasis pod. The former prisoner killed Cylas and called the Insecticons to rejoin her, but Airachnid's latest attempt to overthrow Megatron was put down by Soundwave, who bridged her and her army to a dead moon of Cybertron.
The crisis weakened the Decepticons with the loss of the Insecticons and the infected Vehicons, having depleted more than half of their military strength. Shockwave subsequently speeded up progress on Project Predacon, Thirst but Predaking revealed his sentience and ability to transform on the verge of the project's completion. The former beast asked to lead the coming Predacons on Megatron's behalf, but the Decepticon leader and his command staff knew better than to give him control of a more powerful army than the depleted Decepticons.
Following a plot engineered by Starscream, the Decepticons allowed the Autobots to destroy the Predacons before they escape their pods, to Predaking's horror and rage. The destruction of the lab, coupled with the presence of Synthetic Energon, resulted in the lab being filled with pure Cybermatter. Shockwave realized the Cybermatter could cyberform entire worlds.
Megatron resolved to restore the Omega Lock and rule a cyberformed Earth and a revived Cybertron, but found the synthetic Energon formula was incomplete, and had Ratchet delivered to him by the captured Soundwave, while his lieutenants gathered human technology to repair the Omega Lock.
Minus One As the device was being restored, Megatron appealed to Ratchet to finish the synthetic Energon formula, playing on the medic's love for his home to outweigh his reservations about aiding the leader of the Decepticons.
Ratchet eventually consented when he was shown the nearly completed Omega Lock Persuasion and soon completed the formula. In return, Megatron turned him over to the vengeful Predaking, but Ratchet - having learned the truth thanks to a slip up from Knock Out - revealed Megatron's plot to wipe out Project Predacon. Predaking turned on the Decepticons and slaughtered countless Vehicons, but was bested by Megatron in combat. Ratchet gave his comrades a way onto the warship, and Megatron mobilized his remaining army for their last stand.
Synthesis While Megatron battled Optimus with the Dark Star Saber, Jack and Miko banished Soundwave to the shadowzone on the bridge, while the other Autobots fought to capture the ship.
However, the scout's corpse, having fallen info the Omega Lock, was revived by the Cybermatter, and ran Megatron through with the Star Saber, finally killing the leader of the Decepticons once and for all. Third, you consider the Decepticons to be stronger. Therefore you write that they get control of more resources than the Autobots, build bigger and more powerful weapons, and subsequently destroy more Autobots.
These ideas, fellow writers, are false. War is a battle for survival. If either side wishes to survive, they have to fight for it and fight for it aggressively. Being a principled people does not mean that the Autobots would not inflict massive casualties of their own on Decepticon forces.
While many Autobots would indeed be more inclined toward peace, that does not mean that they would be willing to forfeit their lives in some delusion that the Decepticons would spare them for that desire.
War inflicts heavy casualties, but not necessarily to one side. If the two forces are equally matched, and I see no reason why the Autobots would lack either the weaponry to battle the Decepticons or the will power to do so, then the Autobots would not become nearly extinct in the fight for Cybertron as you have portrayed. Their numbers would nearly match those of the Decepticons. Unfortunately for us Autobot fans, the same would go for the Decepticons. They would not suffer near total annihilation either.
Both sides should be able to meet as equals in the number of combatants and the potency of their weapons. If the Autobots want peace, then it stands to reason that they will fight for it. Anyone who wants something enough is usually willing to work hard to get it.
The Autobots are, and should be, no exception. If there are an equal number of Autobot and Decepticon warriors in a story, that means there would be a greater number of sales for merchandise resulting from the shows. If there are as many Autobots in a story as there are Decepticons, then those armies of toys can only get larger. The greater the overlap especially in mundane details the higher our expectation that the characters and their situations will more or less completely conform to the principles, laws, behaviours of the real i.
The less marked the overlap, or, conversely, the greater the discrepancies between our knowledge of the world and the conditions of the fictional world, the lower our expectations that significant aspects of our experience will matter in the fictional universe.
It seems to me that your argument rests on a kind of cross-cutting between fiction and non-fiction which, while compelling to the extent that it draws attention to the reality of armed or military conflict, underplays the crucial distinction between the two. Fiction exists to tell the reader something the writer wants him to notice, or pay attention to, or think, or change.
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