PrymeStriker wrote:
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Jokes aside, here's an interesting question. Mind the marketing gimmick, did he really need to transform? His alt mode didn't provide him any tactical advantages, unlike others (providing faster flight for jets, intercepting radio transmissions for radios, playing back recordings for tape decks, transport for land vehicles, etc.). It's not like Megatron wanted to disguise himself anyway.
I remember when the 07 movie came out and some people thought that this, being the reason behind Megatron not taking an Earth alt mode, was some brilliant invention of the Bayverse. Now I know that when Megs crashed he wasn't in any shape to take an alt mode nor where there many around to take, but the idea that he doesn't see any need to hide himself or blend in is something that, if you look across the breath of the fiction, is fairly common to Megatrons' character.
Prime seems to transform whenever he's got a free minute, even in the comics; Megatron very rarely does. Megatron doesn't want or need to hide, and as it's already been noted that his alt mode offers no real advantages, he sort of just doesn't.
