Fallen (Transformers)

The Fallen

The Fallen is a comic character who features in Transformers.

Biography

Dreamwave

The Fallen (? - 6.5 million years ago) was one of the original thirteen Transformers created by Primus. He became known as the Fallen after he betrayed his creator by allying himself with Unicron. After a great battle, Unicron was sucked into a black hole, and the Fallen was sucked in with him.

Millions of years later, during an accident with experimental Space Bridge technology, the Fallen returned to Cybertron prepared to carry out a catastrophic event known as the Unbinding. The Fallen recruited three young Decepticons - Bludgeon, Mindwipe and Bugly - to carry out his dirty work.

The Fallen manipulated events on Cybertron to keep each of the factions busy while he captured four Transformers to carry out the Unbinding. Capturing Jetfire, Grimlock, Hot Spot and Blitzwing, the Fallen prepared to open the Well of Allsparks and send a beacon to summon Unicron. Later, intervention by Shockwave and the Decepticons who had allied with Grimlock's Lightning Strike Coalition, as well as being attacked by Jetfire, failed to stop him. The Fallen was stopped during the final moments by Primus himself, who sucked the Fallen into the Well of Allsparks. He is presumably gone for good.

Aligned

Megatronus Prime

Twelve million years ago, in the primitive age that followed the departure of the Knights of Cybertron, the 'bot who would become "Megatronus" was a humble nomad who wandered the deserts of prehistoric Cybertron alongside the shepherd Onyx and his flock of beasts. One day, the flock came across a badly damaged Transformer in the wastes—unbeknownst to any of them, this was Shockwave, who had been cast backwards in time following the destruction of his chronal drive.

Having recognized the figures for who they would become, Shockwave slew Onyx without a moment's hesitation, sending his followers fleeing all of them, that is, except one of Onyx's compatriots. Realizing that he could use his understanding of Cybertron's past to set the planet's history along the preordained course that he knew it must follow, Shockwave dubbed Onyx's terrified compatriot "Megatronus," naming him after the Decepticon leader that would one day arise. Fashioning a new body for himself from Onyx's remains, Shockwave thus became "Onyx"; knowing from history that Megatronus's conquests would lead to the eventual unification of Cybertron, "Onyx Prime" trained Megatronus in the ways of war and deliberately inspired him to build an empire of his own.

His tutelage complete, Shockwave set Megatronus on the lands to the west, and Shockwave's pupil soon established a kingdom that became known as the "Darklands". As his power and influence grew over the course of his campaigns, Megatronus became a feared warrior and tyrant, and took to calling himself "The First Who Was Named."

Late into his conquests, Megatronus marched on neighboring Protohex and easily annexed it into the Darklands, overthrowing its ruler Septimus Prime and murdering his Supplicants of Arrius. There, he recruited the gladiator twins Arcee and Galvatron, who proved their loyalty to him by slaughtering their old master. The pair thus became the vanguards of the army as Megatronus continued their eastward advance, conquering the Forgotten Plains, deposing Liege Maximo, and giving them the opportunity to attack the humble village that would one day become the Crystal City. Unbeknownst to Megatronus, "Onyx Prime" and Liege Maximo had arrived beforehand and galvanized the local tribes into allying with his army of beasts to battle Megatronus - and, by doing so, deliberately providing the necessary impetus that would unite the scattered tribes of Cybertron into a single civilization. Megatronus fought on the front lines before three Titans, drawn to the sounds of battle, arose from the ground. Megatronus paused to look, giving Onyx the opening to fight his way through Megatronus's forces, meet with his old friend, and convince him to stand down. The two armies quickly ratified a proper truce, and Megatronus and his warriors joined the alliance of Primes.

IDW

Nexus Prime claimed that Megatronus worked in collusion with Liege Maximo leading to the First Cybertronian Civil War between the Thirteen and the tribes each Prime led.

Notes

• The Fallen was created by Simon Furman and Andrew Wildman where he made his first appearance in Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages v1 #1 (October, 2003) by Dreamwave Productions.
• According to Hasbro, the character was once deemed a multiversal singularity meaning that while he exists across the multiverse but this was removed in an event called the Shrouding where all multiversal singularities within the Hasbro-Takara multiversal now exist as separate beings within each universe.

In other media

Television

• In Transformers: Power of the Primes, Megatronus Prime appeared in the setting of the Hasbro/Machinima animated web series where he was voiced by actor Mark Hamill. Long ago, Megatronus was hailed as a hero for his defeat of Unicron using the Requiem Blaster. However, he and his lover Solus Prime clashed over what to do with the Blaster afterwards, as Megatronus wanted to keep it for his own rather than see it destroyed. As the two fought, the weapon was accidentally discharged, killing Solus and leaving Megatronus to grieve. The other Primes took back the Blaster from Megatronus, sealing it away, and he placed himself into exile until he could find a way to reunite with his deceased love. Many years later, Megatronus orchestrated the events of both the Combiner Wars and Trypticon's resurrection from behind the scenes in an attempt to claim the Enigma of Combination and the Matrix of Leadership. To this end, he recruited Overlord to his cause and guided him to the Matrix of Chaos within Unicron's remains, promising Overlord immense power after his plan had succeeded. Hot Rod also joined the ranks of his acolytes after Overlord used the Matrix of Chaos to turn him into Rodimus Cron. After Trypticon's defeat, Victorion attempted to claim the Enigma and Matrix, but Megatronus surrounded them with a fiery aura, destroying part of Victorion's arm. He appeared before the other Transformers, warning them that their time had come to an end. Megatron attempted to distract Megatronus with an angry outburst, giving Optimus Prime and Fortress Maximus a chance to surprise attack him, but Megatronus brushed Maximus aside and killed Optimus. With no one else daring to challenge him, Megatronus took the two relics and departed to complete his plans. Determined to reunite with Solus, Megatronus turned his sights towards the missing Requiem Blaster. Unsure where it might have been hidden, he began searching its most likely hiding places, burning them to the ground when left empty-handed. In the Well of Sparks, he began gathering the sparks of Overlord's and Rodimus Cron's victims and installed the Enigma and Matrix into an device which, when combined with the Blaster, would be capable of ripping the spark from every Transformer. Taking notice of the Blaster being fired, Megatronus rushed to the Athenaeum Sanctorum, where he revealed his plan. After clashing with Megatron, Optimus Primal and a Unicron-possessed Rodimus, he grabbed the Blaster and took off to put his plan into motion.
• In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Megatronus Prime appeared in the setting of the 2015 animated television series where he was voiced by English actor Gil Gerard and by Japanese actor Fumihiko Tachiki in the dub. In the distant past, Megatronus killed Solus Prime where he was eventually imprisoned in another dimension that led to him holding both Earth and Cybertron responsible for his defeat. He maintained a degree of agency over the events in this world, and he was able to influence events so that the prison ship Alchemor crash-landed on Earth, releasing its cargo of Decepticon convicts in the process. From there, Megatronus bided his time. Eventually, he contacted the Decepticon revolutionary Steeljaw, who had just suffered a humiliating rout at the hands of Bumblebee's Autobots. Introducing himself as "the first Decepticon", Megatronus struck a bargain with Steeljaw: if Steeljaw helped free him from his prison, Megatronus would let Steeljaw and his gang have the Earth. Steeljaw reluctantly agreed. Megatronus interrupted Steeljaw while the latter was scheming, demanding to know if they had made progress on the device that would allow him to escape. Steeljaw retorted that he needed more Decepticons to help him with the task, but Megatronus was less than moved, using his telekinetic powers to make Clampdown pull on his arm hard until Steeljaw capitulated. Megatronus informed his new servant that the device would require a mass of sufficient metal to anchor the energies generated by his arrival- namely, the Crown City Colossus. Although the Autobots, accompanied with a reborn Optimus Prime, attempted to intervene, their efforts weren't enough to stop Steeljaw from activating the portal. A triumphant Megatronus materialized, ready to carry out his plan. Megatronus moved to attack the weakened Autobots, but was intercepted by Optimus, and the two began dueling. Megatronus gained the upper hand and managed to slash at Optimus, knocking him into the water and temporarily taking him out of the fight. Megatronus retieved his fallen Spark fuser and activated it, intending to draw the remnants of Unicron's anti-spark from the Earth's core and merge it with the AllSpark, destroying both Earth and Cybertron. When Steeljaw realized this, Megatronus retorted that he had never technically lied to him about his right to own Earth... or whatever would be left of it. Megatronus restrained the furious Steeljaw with his telekinesis and opened a rift in the sky. Fighting Steeljaw distracted Megatronus long enough for Bumblebee to resuscitate Optimus, and the two Autobot leaders moved in to finish him off after Megatronus hurled Steeljaw away. While Optimus once again dueled with Megatronus, Bumblebee, Strongarm, and Sideswipe used their Decepticon Hunters to power themselves up. Optimus managed to shatter Megatronus's Spark fuser, closing the rift and ruining his plan. Furious, Megatronus redoubled his attack. Drift helped to drop part of the Colossus on Megatronus. The weight of the statue was enough that Bumblebee's team could blast him with a sustained burst of energy, disintegrating his body and seemingly destroying him, though Bumblebee questioned if he truly was destroyed.

Films

• In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the Fallen appeared in the setting of the live-action film where he was voiced by English actor Tony Todd and by Japanese actor Masafumi Kimura in the dub. Nineteen thousand years ago, The Fallen accompanied his brother Primes to Earth in an attempt to harvest the star it orbited. Just as they had completed construction of the Star Harvester, however, The Fallen discovered a primitive race of hunters. The Primes invoked their rule of the sanctity of life and refused to activate the harvester, but The Fallen despised the humans as simple insects and attempted to activate the Harvester. A great battle took place, but ultimately, The Fallen was defeated and the remaining Primes hid themselves and the Matrix of Leadership, and The Fallen's harvester was concealed within a pyramid in Egypt. The Fallen dispatched the Seekers to locate the Matrix, but they proved unable and he eventually abandoned them. The Fallen became known as the first Decepticon, and he became the master of Megatron, leader of the faction. He employed Megatron in the pursuit of the AllSpark, but after Megatron's defeat at Mission City, the AllSpark was reduced to a mere fragment.

Appearances

• Transformers: War Within: The Dark Ages v1: (2003)

Links

Internal Links

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External Links

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