The Energon Pub

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I had a very odd idea after viewing Beast Machines for the third time (I'm a much bigger fan of Beast Wars than I am of Beast Machines ).

I imagined what would happen if Megatron had succeeded, merging himself with the Matrix and consuming all of the Transformers' sparks into himself to become a supreme being.

I imagined that he could have actually become the being that we know as Unicron. He turns Cybertron into his new body (the monster planet we're all too familiar with from the '86 movie) and uses Transwarp technology to travel back in time, intending to consume the Matrix itself and prevent the destruction of himself (since he read in the historical archives that the Matrix was used by the Autobots to destroy Unicron).

In doing so, much like what happened in Beast Wars, instead of accomplishing his goals, he simply fulfills what history had written. In attempting to destroy the Matrix of leadership and prevent his own demise, he fulfills it and is destroyed in the past.

The end result would be a time loop of sorts, where all life on Cybertron ends with the singular event of Unicron's (BW Megatron's) transcendence into godhood, where he travels back in time to prevent his own demise, only to meet his doom.

Of course, this concept flies in the face of several origin stories to Unicron (not to mention the entire existence of anyone called 'Primus'), but it was just a thought I had.

[BeastProwl]

MY BRAIN!

[xyl360]

MY BRAIN!

yes, it's definitely a mind twister, but at the same time, it's kinda a neat way to 'wrap up' (i.e. END) the entire G1 continuity (since Has/Tak have now abandoned it for the Unified continuity).

I guess if you really wanted to include the fact that Megatron lost at the end of Beast Machines (or at least didn't ascend), then one could imagine him being resurrected/reformatted after descending with Primal and then defeating Primal and returning to achieve his original goal.

That kinda scraps Transtech (which never came to fruition anyway), but one might also imagine that it took Megatron a loooong time to return, which would provide time enough for the events of the Transtech series to take place (assuming anyone even imagines a Transtech continuation to the G1/BW continuity).