Editing Megatron (section)

====IDW Publishing====
[[IDW Publishing]]'s 2006 comic book, ''[[Beast Wars: The Gathering]]'', sees Megatron's old rival from Cybertron, Magmatron, travel back to the time of the ''Beast Wars'' (shortly after Megatron's failed attempt at killing Optimus Prime) at the behest of the Tripredacus Council. Activating all the remaining stasis pods on the planet, Magmatron quickly assembled a Predacon army of his own, including a reanimated Ravage. Although Magmatron had ambitions to stage a coup like Megatron, he did not want to reveal his intentions to the Tripredacus Council yet and aimed to capture Megatron for them as his mission required, to divert suspicion. Revealing himself to Megatron, the two would-be tyrants battled, but Megatron was captured when Magmatron's lackeys Iguanus and Drill Bit managed to knock Megatron out. Magmatron aimed to send him back to Cybertron, but due to the intervention of [[Razorbeast]], [[Optimus Minor]], and [[Grimlock]], Magmatron was sent back to Cybertron instead. Razorbeast left the unconscious Megatron on Earth, fearing an alteration to the time stream if he captured him.

Megatron's presence is felt in IDW's second ''Beast Wars'' series as well, with [[Ravage (Transformers)|Ravage]] (resurrected as a Transmetal by Magmatron) aiming to capture Razorbeast's chronal armband, which would allow him to interfere with the "main" timestream (the ''Beast Wars'' of the TV show). He planned to free Megatron from his imprisonment on the Autobot shuttle and ally with him to kill all the Maximals on the planet. His plan was thwarted by Razorbeast. However, in the very last panel of the series, Megatron is seen overlooking a ravaged Cybertron, presumably having just arrived from his long transwarp journey before his Maximal rivals.

Megatron has a biography printed in the ''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' by IDW Publishing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/comics/news/article_1343405.php/Creators_of_Transformers_Beast_Wars_The_Gathering_are_back |title=Creators of Transformers: Beast Wars: The Gathering are back |publisher=Monsters and Critics |date=2007-09-15 |access-date=2010-04-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404084332/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/books/comics/news/article_1343405.php/Creators_of_Transformers_Beast_Wars_The_Gathering_are_back |archive-date=April 4, 2012 }}</ref> In 2016, he also appeared in the "Dawn of the Predacus" comic released at the [[BotCon]] convention that year, with IDW publishing the comic in place of Fun Publications. In this storyline, set some 300 years before the Beast Wars, Megatron's form—a [[Reboot (fiction)|Retool]] of ''Robots in Disguise'' Megatron/Galvatron—is the result of having his body reconstructed with Techno-Organic Tri-Malteranium, a technology also known as "TM3". In this story, Megatron is a Decepticon commander who, after learning of Galvatron's death and the Tripredacus Council's resolution to call a cease-fire, orders his forces—including [[Predaking]]—to attack. His force is then engaged by Magnaboss, but after learning of Predaking's defeat he is stunned by Ravage, and later disciplined for failing to follow the orders of the Tripredacus Council.