Megatron Transformer Quotes

It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.

Megatron went through a lot of changes, Originally. we wanted to borrow desions from the movie version. We saw him as a tortured soul, twisted metal into his body and coming out elsewhere. He didn't have the normal anatomical breaks that our guys have, which is a guy in armor. At some point we said let's forget the movie stuff and just do our own thing. Then I went back to looking at Megatron from G1. We made him a bit rounder and spikier than the G1 version, but borrowed heavily from G1. If you look at the legs, the way the shins curve in and out and the back of the leg, the cannon on the arm, the bucket head, even things like the position of the emblem on his chest and little cuts on his ribcage, all those elements are still there. -Jose Lopez

I had done some early sketches for Megatron that were deemed too regal, too sophisticated. I really liked those designs, so when Predaking came in the picture I pulled some of those designs and implemented them in the design of Predaking. -Jose Lopez

Because he's still Megatron, but taken over by Unicron, we kept him Megatron but hinted at different elements that were more Unicron, like the horns, the spikes. Then color and texture, too, hint at the Unicron taint in him. -Jose Lopez

Starscream was a lot of fun. He went through different incarnations in the elements. I did a design of him where he was very imposing and badass. Jeft [Kline] said 'he looks like he can take down Megatron, Starscream's not about the physical element, he's all about his cunning and intelligence." We went back to the drawing board. When I did a design where I could draw a cobra right over his darkened silhouette, that sold Jeff on the design. -Jose Lopez

Here's an example: as a kid I always wanted to see Optimus peel his wheels out on Megatron's face. It's just something I did as a kid, you know, they've got these tires! We've got a director, Vinton Heuck, and in the last two or three episodes of the first season we had this giant fight at a volcano and he put that shot in there for me. Watching that I had a tear running down my face. Those moments are when I'm still watching it as a kid and I'm like "Oh my God, this is Transformers, am I going to die now? Is the circle complete?" But it's always fun. -David Hartman