Editing Megatron (section)

=== ''Transformers One'' ===
{{Blockquote|I trusted [[Sentinel Prime|Sentinel]], with everything! I will never follow a so-called leader ever again.|D-16 in ''[[Transformers One]]''}}
In ''[[Transformers One]]'' (2024), Megatron reappeared as D-16, voiced by [[Brian Tyree Henry]]. As D-16, he is a Energon mining robot with his best friend Orion Pax, and admires the legendary Megatronus Prime. They secretly enter a race organized by Cybertron's leader, Sentinel Prime, but lose. While Sentinel is impressed by their stunt, a jealous guard Darkwing, reassigns them to garbage incineration, where they meet B-127. The three discover a chip among the junk containing a distress message from Alpha Trion, one of the Primes, revealing coordinates to his location on the surface.

Accidentally taking Elita-1 with them, they find Alpha Trion alongside the corpses of the other Primes. Alpha Trion reveals that Sentinel betrayed the Primes and has been secretly working for the Quintessons, giving them regular supplies of Energon in exchange for letting him rule Cybertron while removing the miners' transformation cog to keep them subservient. D-16 is outraged that Sentinel lied to him, and receives his cog to transform into a silver tank. D-16 and his team manage to escape from Sentinel's guards, but they are captured by the High Guard, Cybertronians rebelling against Sentinel. D-16 refuses to take orders from anyone else and seizes command of them by defeating their leader, Starscream, with a new fusion cannon he transforms. D-16 grows increasingly aggressive since learning the truth, before Sentinel's guards attack and capture D-16, B-127 and half of the High Guard being taken to Iacon for public execution.

D-16 is tortured by Sentinel, upon learning that he took the cog of his idol, Megatronus Prime, before being branded with his symbol. After being rescued by Orion and showing Sentinel evidence of his betrayal, D-16 refuses to spare Sentinel and attempts to execute him in revenge, but is stopped by Orion, who is then mortally injured after taking the shot meant for Sentinel instead. Though initially horrified, D-16 is overcome by anger and betrays Orion, dropping him to his death. After killing Sentinel, D-16 announces his new rule over Cybertron after taking Megatronous' cog inside Sentinel, renames himself Megatron, and commands the High Guard to destroy Iacon. Megatron fights against Elita and B-127, and before he could kill them, Orion Pax is resurrected as Optimus Prime and confronts him. Megatron is enraged that Optimus is given the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and fights him, but in a single combat, is defeated. He is then called out for using his new powers to destroy Iacon instead of what Alpha Trion intended, and as punishment, Optimus exiles him and the High Guard. Megatron swears revenge against Optimus before leaving Iacon with the rest of the High Guard. Despite being defeated, Megatron vows to rule Cybertron, renames the High Guard as the Decepticons, and declares war on Optimus and the newly-christened Autobots.