Editing Megatron (section)

====Marvel Comics====
In the world of [[Marvel Comics]], Megatron begins by rising from his beginnings as a gladiator for the [[city-state]] of Tarn. Megatron and the Decepticons were the ones who developed transformation first, using it to begin the war against the Autobots, who fought back by mimicking the technology. Eventually, Cybertron was shaken from its orbit and fell into the path of an asteroid cluster. This would result in the Ark venturing out and then crashing into [[History of life|prehistoric Earth]]. Four million years later, in 1984, the Transformers were reawakened, and Megatron was defeated twice by [[Optimus Prime]]. Throughout the series' run, Megatron would vie with Shockwave for the Decepticon leadership, be physically and mentally merged with Autobot medic Ratchet, battle his own future self in an alternate reality version of Galvatron and eventually, in Marvel's ''Generation 2'' comics, make peace with Optimus against the greater threat of Jhiaxus.

Megatron also featured prominently in ''Alignment'', Simon Furman's take on what happened after the ''Generation 2'' comic. In this story, Megatron was defeated for command of the Decepticons by Galvatron II (the U.S. comics version) and left for dead. Soundwave had revived his master. Megatron took a fleet of scavenged [[Warworld (Transformers)|Warworlds]] to face the Liege Maximo. He was destroyed by Maximo's arm cannon; he unleashed an Energon-fueled blast that destroyed the Maximo. This sets up the Pax Cybertronia and the evolution of the Autobots and Decepticons into [[Maximal (Transformers)|Maximals]] and [[List of The Transformers (TV series) characters#Predacons|Predacons]]. Whether this story is reconcilable with "Reaching the Omega Point", or whether it is even part of the Transformers [[canon (fiction)|canon]] is debatable.