Editing Megatron (section)

====Fun Publications====
Megatron was featured in the 2006 [[BotCon]] tale ''Timelines: Dawn of Futures Past'', which picked up where the Dreamwave story left off. Much more of the background surrounding his theft of the Golden Disk artifacts was revealed. A feared general in the Predacon army, he went rogue from the Predacons after the signing of the Pax Cybertronia—a peace treaty between the Maximal and Predacon factions—and took the name of Megatron. He swiftly gathered a crew of like-minded individuals and, while [[Waspinator]] and [[Terrorsaur]] stole a ship, he, Dinobot, and Scorponok stole the disk, battling the guards and destroying one, leaving [[Tigatron|the other]] to commandeer a ship to pursue them. Picked up by their ship, they fled and were pursued by two ships—one of which was the ''[[Axalon]]''. Tarantulas was able to decode enough information from the Golden Disk to set a course through transwarp space. With a little help from [[Laserbeak]] and Buzzsaw (secretly sent by [[Divebomb]] to ensure Megatron's plan to change history succeeded), they destroy one of their pursuers, and the newly christened ''[[Dark Side (Transformers)|Darkside]]'' flees into Transwarp space, with the ''Axalon'' in pursuit—thus beginning the ''Beast Wars''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Seibertron.com |url=http://www.seibertron.com/comics/view.php?comic_id=848 |title=Transformers: Timelines #1: "Dawn of Future's Past" |publisher=Seibertron.com |date=2006-09-28 |access-date=2010-04-27}}</ref>

To marry the visual appearance of Megatron's pre-Beast form seen in the first episode of the ''Beast Wars'' animated series (indeed, Megatron is the ''only'' character whose entire body is depicted, albeit briefly, prior to reformatting into a beast mode) with the toy of the character available exclusively at the convention, the story notes that Megatron adopts a detachable suit of armor that transforms into a missile tank, similar to a Pretender Shell or [[Ultra Magnus]]'s outer armor in Dreamwave's series. The tank is his toy; the character's profile in the widespread release of the comic notes that his original body transforms into a hover tank. Notably, ''Timelines'' presents a slightly different version of the disk's theft to the story presented in Dreamwave comics. In ''Timelines'', Megatron seems to already be known to other characters by that name, whereas in Dreamwave's story, he only takes the name after taking possession of the disk. Whether the two are reconcilable is unknown.

Megatron appeared in the 2008 BotCon voice-actor play "Bee in the City", voiced by David Kaye. After losing Optimus Prime and Sari to the Transtech incarnation of Shockwave, Bumblebee and [[Flareup (Transformers)|Flareup]] meet Megatron, who goes by the name of "Joe" to avoid any attraction. Learning of the Allspark key on Sari's person, Megatron offers his aid. Once Bumblebee frees his friends, Megatron reveals himself as he uses the key to bring an army to life. However, when his army realizes the consequence of their coming to being within Transtech Cybertron, a mutiny ensues as Megatron is dragged off while vowing revenge.

"Ask Vector Prime" also introduces an alternate version of Megatron created by the events of the Binaltech storyline who later invades the ''Robots in Disguise'' universe and is transformed into the villainous "Megahead Megatron". Establishing a horde of Vehicons as his original counterpart had, he proceeded to plunge Cybertron into a Spark War, with Mirage as one of his many victims. However, he was eventually defeated due to the actions of the Binaltech Alternity in dispatching a crew of similarly created Maximals—including Air Attack Optimus Primal—to challenge his efforts. However, his legacy would continue to plague that universe, as his associate Cryotek would use the Transwarp technology Megatron contributed to their efforts to launch a campaign across time and space.

Megatron's story continued in the pages of the biography printed by Fun Publications for the 25th-anniversary Optimus Primal toy. Even his death at the conclusion of ''Beast Machines'' would not be the end of Megatron's villainy. Due to the inextricable link that had been forged between himself and Optimus Primal when Cybertron was reformatted, Primal's return to life to lead the "Children of Primus" against the machinations of [[Unicron]] meant that Megatron was also brought back to the land of the living. This time, however, the two old enemies found themselves in an uneasy alliance, traveling from universe to universe to wherever the multiversal conflict had spread. While this storyline would never play out, the design used for Megatron's Universe form—a remold/redeco of ''Robots in Disguise'' Megatron—would later see use in the "Dawn of Predacus" storyline for BotCon 2016.