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During discussion about DotM ending I can't understand. Many people complains about Optimus killing Megatron, but no one question a Megatron doing after his victory over Sentinel. Optimus was beaten, crippled and defensles, one shout should be enough to end this once and for all. Yet Megatron wasted all adventage he has to all this "Who would you be without me, Prime?" nonsense. Why won't gain glory of be a "Slayer of Primes" and run away? The worst thing is that Megatron dos'ent do anything during his talk do Autobot leader. He simply give his mortal enemy time to regain strenght and die in inceribly lame fight.

Some people say that he want truce to turing everything back... But why he need Prime to this? The best way to end this was to eliminate Autobots leader.

I think that Megactron stupid doing in this scene is a effect of Bay's changing in the last moment, after spoilers revealed the truce. Unfortunetly the rest of movie remain the same, and that is how Megatron acting like a total idiot here. Actually, this is the main reason why i become Bay-hater. I simply belive that a great conflict between Megatron and Optimus should'nt end with that pathetic conclusion.

Megatron was pretty pissed at Sentinel Prime, after he said Megatron wasn't working with him, but for him, and consequently shot him off the building. That hurt his pride big time, and you know how Megatron gets when he's downplayed. He'll do anything to get back on top, the quickest way was to eliminate the would-be usurper. Prime wasn't a priority at the time, in fact in Revenge of the Fallen it was said only a Prime can kill another Prime. Megatron must have kept that in the back of his mind for Sentinel.

To illustrate, in the 1986 animated movie, after Megatron was reformatted into Galvatron he wasted no time in killing Starscream for his treachery and usurping his rightful place as Decepticon leader.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: in fact in Revenge of the Fallen it was said only a Prime can kill another Prime. Megatron must have kept that in the back of his mind for Sentinel.

Firstly, it was said that Fallen can be killed only by a Prime, there was ever confirmed that Optimus have Similiar Power, and we must remeber that Megatron killed Optimus in Forest Battle. I can say even more: Fallen can simply lie to Megatron to protect his influence and maybe life.

Prime wasn't a priority at the time

But Sentinel was already defited, also, he dose'nt look like he was able to fight. Megatron supposed to have enough time to finish them both. Instead, he completly underrated Optimus(even after events of RotF) and offer him a truce.

It wasn't really a truce, he was asking Optimus to surrender and called it a truce. If he killed Optimus the other Autobots would have kept fighting and the Decepticons were defeated at that point. He thought he had the advantage against Optimus and getting him to surrender was the only chance he had.

will it be galvatron in tf4 or will bay create another decepticon to take his place

Evil_the_Nub wrote:If he killed Optimus the other Autobots would have kept fighting and the Decepticons were defeated at that point. He thought he had the advantage against Optimus and getting him to surrender was the only chance he had.

With Optimus death Autobots will los all Bots with leadership ability, maybe without Ratchet. And if fe can stole a Matrix of Leadership, he could have a very long time to gathering a new forces to future invasion.

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Evil_the_Nub wrote:It wasn't really a truce, he was asking Optimus to surrender and called it a truce. If he killed Optimus the other Autobots would have kept fighting and the Decepticons were defeated at that point. He thought he had the advantage against Optimus and getting him to surrender was the only chance he had.

If Megatron managed to kill Optimus, it would have been over. Even in Megatron's degraded condition, he could have fought and beaten the other Autobots, even if he was by himself. Perhaps not in a 1-on-7 fight (vs. Wreckers, Bee, Ratchet, SS, Mirage (miniatures don't count, am I missing anyone else?)) but if he got away he could regain his strength (assuming that killing Optimus in a fight took a lot out of him) and fight them later. And no, if Megatron didn't run his mouth and was ready to fight, Prime wouldn't have won. The only reason Prime beat Megatron at the end of DotM was because he surprised him.

It would be over on earth. Appearantly, there's a ton of robots in space. Who knows what trouble Megs could have gotten besides 7 bots?

As far as I'm concerned, I blame it on Paramount's decision to change the ending so it was different from the other mediums' (that's what I heard, anyways.)

I've re-watched DOTM over a dozen times so far, and it just seems so nonsensical for Megatron to do what he did. OP was right to kill him, given who and what Megatron is (ruthless dictator), but the circumstances seem so forced.

Having Carly play the instigator is pure nonsense; he'd have to be a retard to fall for that. Megs should have come to despise Sentinel the moment his face was pushed against the wall, and made his own plans to kill Sentinel when the time was right.

And his proposal for a truce? It's just not in character for someone as brash, proud and egotistical as Megatron. With Cybertron destroyed, Megatron would be overcome with grief and anger, and he'd challenge OP to a final fight, even though he knows he'll lose. A warrior's death is Megatron's one final victory.

That would be more like Megatron, instead of grovelling for a truce.

TL;DR, Megs acted out of character, and should have challenged OP to a fight to the death instead of beg for peace.