Stories from the life of programmer Ivan Pomidorov, told by himself.
Spring day In 1988, Ivan Pomidorov, who was not yet a programmer, appeared at the entrance to the All-Union Translation Center. In his hands he held a volume of prose by Andrei Bely. Slowly flipping through the pages, Pomidorov lingered on the threshold, waiting for a job. In a good way, I should have read the book to the end. Who knew that in the next fifteen years he would no longer reach White, as well as Black.
In the Laboratory of Automatic Dictionaries under the leadership of L.Yu. Korostelev was in full swing in the process of developing an electronic dictionary together with Bulgarian colleagues from the city of Stara Zagora. Delivered from Bulgaria personal computers IZOT brands were still in their original packaging. If Pomodorov had gone to work a little earlier, he could well have become an EU computer monster. Collaborative development in the Clipper language, then transferred to C, over a distance of thousands of kilometers was not an easy task. The widespread adoption of email was still several years away. Corrections to the program code were sent by fax, and if the fax did not go through, the development teams traveled to each other on business trips. Trips to Bulgaria occurred so often that one day Pomidorov forgot to take the floppy disk with the code with him. The atmosphere of the Academy of Sciences hovered over the project. It was the best time.
In 1991, a joint venture appeared with the participation of a former citizen of Arbat who moved to America. The Soviet side provided premises, employees, the idea of the project and money for the first time. An American colleague promised to give money. In the early nineties it was still possible to believe it. For six months everything went according to plan, but there was no American money. After a month of walking around the empty office, the employees of the Arttext joint venture went home. By this time, Ivan Pomidorov was already the proud owner of a 286 computer. It should be noted that iron in those days was a scarce commodity. This now 486 computer is barely suitable for text entry. And then, according to an advertisement in the newspaper, he was exchanged for a room in Moscow. At first, happiness was dizzying. Ivan woke up at night to enter the next lines of imperishable code into the computer. Some of them are still working. But most have long been thrown out and forgotten. When the time came to decide what to do next, the suspicious Pomidorov began to pull the blanket over himself. As a result, the project finally fell apart. Leonid Korostelev left for IBM. Tomatoes turned out to be such a beetle.
It took a lot of time to finalize the program. Over the course of a couple of years, Ivan Pomidorov tried almost everything in life. He went to the labor exchange and almost took a vacancy in the computer department at some factory. Fortunately, he was ahead of him. Pomidorov was hired at a company selling computers, but he was soon fired from there for the continuous development of Multitran. He drove cars from Belgium and flew by shuttle to the Emirates. At the same time, Pomodorov did not know how to drive a car and could barely distinguish pounds from stamps. One day he brought a gold chain weighing four hundred grams. Having tried it on, he realized that this was not his path.
Slowly programming Multitran and waiting for buyers for the next car, he received an offer from his institute friend Alexei Fedotov (nicknamed the Father of Nations) to immediately appear for an interview at the Pricewaterhouse company. Ivan Pomidorov did not know any Pricewaterhouse. He knew how much a two hundred and fortieth Volvo cost and how the word "poker" is pronounced. However, he arrived for the interview in an incredibly blue shirt and a crooked tie that was reminiscent of pioneer times. Along with his resume, he submitted a description of Multitran. As they say, give it in and forget it. Yes, the turning point had come when Ivan Pomidorov could finally become a decent person. The fact is that by 1993, Multitran under DOS finally started working. It was a fully debugged resident program with a color menu and custom inserts in Assembly language. But by this point, DOS was already history. Multitran did not have a single client under DOS. Miraculously, a copy of the floppy disk with this version of the dictionary was preserved.
The 240th Volvo was bought by a non-travelling employee who was installing a nuclear power plant in Iraq. Pomodorov got a job at Pricewaterhouse. Multitran ordered to live long.
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| With Sveta and Sasha Ananyev in Niagara |
But how much depends on chance. Pomidorov’s new friend from consulting work, Sasha Ananyev, gave him a distribution kit of the second Borland C++ for Windows 3.1. “It’s wonderfully done,” Pomidorov marveled, looking at the unfamiliar functions in the first Clock test project he came across, which came with Borland. “And they are coming! Try it, or something,” Pomodorov began to edit the text of the program with an experienced hand. The clock immediately stopped, but the program displayed the word Multitran in the title before crashing. Soon the next version of the dictionary for Windows 3.1 was gradually translating words.
Now Multitran was in wait for a new hidden threat, from which he had a one in ten chance of escaping. A year later, Alexey Fedotov moved to KPMG and took with him the slack Pomidorov, along with all his unfinished source code for the next Multitran. The danger was that three months after this, the entire Pricewaterhouse department, where Pomodorov worked, went to the project in the USA. No one from this team returned to Russia for more than a couple of weeks a year. Pomidorov, who resigned on time, remained in Moscow. Thus, Multitran was saved at the cost of just one extra hundred dollars a month.
After another year of intensive consulting activities for the benefit of Russian privatization, Multitran under Windows 3.1 finally matured. He was small and mean. 80,000 terms were loaded into an interface that was full of three rows of buttons and slightly reminiscent of an accordion. Somewhere in its depths, scattered gears from the Clock remained uncleaned. The Clock Accordion fit on three 1.44 format floppy disks and was accompanied by a hand-written packager and installer. All three treats came in a nice yellowish box. Ivan Pomidorov cut corrugation for boxes by hand and even suffered a work-related injury. Computer stores of that blessed time accepted goods for sale without any documents, and the proceeds were given out in cash at the cash register. However, buyers did not line up to purchase cute boxes, even those stained with the developer’s blood. And not everything was rosy with the shops. Some did not want to take a dictionary written by someone unknown, while others were not eager to pay the bills. IN Trading House at Smolnaya Pomodorov received a washing machine instead of money for the sold Multitrans. To be fair, we note that it still works.
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Communication with one and a half hundred computer companies also not encouraging. The maximum that the businessmen promised was 5% of the proceeds upon successful development of the project. Then Pomidorov remembered the 80% that he wanted to have from the unfinished dictionary five years earlier... In a year, Pomidorov barely sold yellow Multitrans for his monthly salary as a consultant. “Oh, youth, youth,” Pomidorov lamented, sending the unsold remains of boxes to the garage and ordering his friends to call potential clients according to the telephone directory.
Ivan Pomidorov came to the presentation of the dictionary at the Arthur Andersen company during his lunch break. The dictionary, partly written during his time at Pricewaterhouse, was displayed on a KPMG laptop. Everything is mixed up in international consulting. Nevertheless, I liked the dictionary and bought it. However, money was no longer given out at the cash register at that time. Tormented by doubts, Pomodorov even acquired the seal of the non-existent Rapid LLC. However, common sense prevailed, and in 1997 a company was opened to develop Multitran. The unoriginal Pomodorov also set his sights on someone else’s. He revived the Arttext company, named after the failed joint venture. Having finally received the money, Pomidorov immediately left consulting and for the first time in long years I got busy with the dictionary. Which undoubtedly benefited both of them. The fate of the newly-minted Artext itself, like many others in this world, was sad - after a couple of years it was killed by crooked accounting. However, such overlays could no longer affect the development of Multitran.
However, Windows 3.1 gradually lived out its life. Pomidorov was not particularly concerned about this until he heard at one of the presentations that the client would not buy the program for old Windows. “Wow, it seems like it was just written,” Ivan was perplexed, “come on, where is our Clock?” - that same evening he installed the latest Visual C++ and began developing the next version of the dictionary. Six months later, it became clear that the problem was getting worse, and Pomodorov resorted to the help of fellow developers.
From a commercial point of view, the new corporate Multitran was distributed using extraordinary methods. In the cold summer of 1998, even an employee of a musical orchestra was selling a dictionary. In those days, Ivan Pomidorov wore a hundred-dollar tie. "Good thing - big business"- Pomidorov rejoiced, counting out seventy dollars per person for participation in dinner parties. Parties and sessions were supposed to bring clients. However, the money ran out faster. “It probably wasn’t a big business,” Ivan Pomidorov guessed. He took off his tie , tied a more familiar black scarf and returned to the individual Stakhanov method, beloved by programmers of all countries, with a twelve-hour working day without holidays and weekdays.
Progress did not stand still. In 2000, only the lazy had not yet created their own website. The laziest was Ivan Pomidorov. It was as if he was waiting for something. Maybe he expected that the Internet would come to his house? It's interesting that this is exactly what happened. From a neighbor in the garage, Pomodorov learned about the existence of a local district network, created by enthusiasts and uniting computers of neighboring houses. Useful features of the network were dedicated Internet access and the ability to work with e-mail. So, soon several students appeared in Pomidorov’s apartment with wires and pliers. On the second try twisted pair was correctly compressed, and the incoming megabytes flowed through it. “It’s interesting,” Pomodorov thought on long winter evenings, thoughtfully clicking on links, “if the wire that you constantly trip over in the middle of the apartment connects me to the outside world, then the opposite is also true. Why not allow others to access my computer via the Internet ?" It turned out that to do this, it is enough to create a so-called direct IP address and install a web server. Ivan Pomidorov, who heard such serious words for the first time, invited his friends - Lenya Lyapkov, who worked on the Multitran interface, and Ilya Anikushin, one of the founders local network. After a couple of hours and glasses of coffee, everything was ready. Having received at his disposal a working and configured web server with direct access from the Internet, Ivan Pomidorov suddenly became a webmaster and Internet provider on the same balcony. He even considered purchasing a book on server management. Having thought, however, that he would have to read the book, he abandoned this idea.
All that was left was to register the website and create its content. To begin with, the site should have been named something. In particular, it seemed inconvenient to create a site with a long name that is difficult to type on the keyboard. Therefore, Ivan considered several options for the name of the site - artext.ru (after the name of the company) and mul.ru (as an abbreviation for Multitran). Deciding to stay closer to the roots, Pomidorov sighed, counted out sixteen dollars and registered
Not only the site itself, but even behind it home page didn't exist yet. It should be noted that until this moment, Ivan Pomidorov had never seen live HTML code. So he first turned to friends to make the design. Friends were not slow in making their impact. Soon the screen was filled with animated flashes of multi-ton rotating Multitrans. But the fastidious Pomidorov could not do the only thing right choice. And then he decided to start with a blank web page. The only decent design element on hand was the three-legged blue logo. Ivan attached it to the top. It already looked good. On the right, to avoid any questions, I wrote the word “Multitran” in large letters. It is still unknown what font size this word is written in. A suitable menu was found on a web design forum, where it, in turn, came from one of the Microsoft sites. Having drawn a strict bold line under this yellow-blue beauty (outlawed in all books on web design), Ivan considered his task completed. Something, however, was vaguely missing. Having surfed the Internet, the famous opportunist Pomidorov spotted a background in the color of a frightened nymph. Having installed his website with it, he was relieved to complete the work of a web designer. Subsequently, he read somewhere that the style in which the Multitran website is executed is called academic. The half-educated graduate student was no less happy than if he had found out that he was speaking in prose.
The rest was a matter of technology. The 'web' interface became the fourth (if not fifth) incarnation of the dictionary. The creation of a new world proceeded literally day by day. On the first day, the dictionary learned how to fill out an input form. On the second, he began to look for words and give translations. The third one has hyperlinks. In a couple of weeks everything was ready to receive the first visitors. There were some untidy shavings lying around here and there, and not all the pages were completely finished (by the way, they still aren’t), but overall it was time to open up.
So, in the last days of March 2001, the self-proclaimed provider Ivan Pomidorov, without any crowd of people and even without a glass of beer in his hands, connected the main Internet cable and began to wait. Visitors, however, were in no hurry to explore the new resource. Rare clicks, one every five minutes, dripped from the Internet and were reflected in a small log file. Then Ivan, in addition to the black scarf that had justified itself, used Greek fire. Through the Proz.com website, he sent several hundred spam recruiting letters to translators, and would have sent them further if the Proz moderator had not become alarmed. Multitran was also registered in search engines and counted in several ratings.
And the process began. The site gradually acquired new features. There is a forum, online updating and links to other resources. Debugging took place on a running server, since there was no other one. If something went wrong, the log identified the request that caused the error, which was immediately corrected. Visitors who regularly looked at the light created extensive statistics.
The homemade guest book was filled with reviews from users intoxicated by unexpected happiness. But Ivan Pomidorov looked doubtfully at the half-disassembled server, busily rustling with requests under the kitchen table. “Is this really the best dictionary on the Runet?” (note, he didn't say that). And Pomodorov again, with an unwavering hand, corrected the code of the multi-tran search engine and planed new terms for the database. The scanners buzzed busily, producing gigabytes of unprocessed glossaries. It cannot be said that Pomidorov did not try to get rid of at least this tedious work. He even sent scanners to Ukraine. However, during the entire existence of Multitran, it was possible to attract outside people to prepare only three dictionaries.
Sometimes the programmer Pomodorov took the sin upon himself - he pulled out the main Internet wire if Internet users occupied all the files on the server and frankly interfered with work. More often, however, the local network failed, it was simply not designed for uninterrupted communication. Either a thunderstorm burned out the hubs, or hooligans stole switches.
The moment of revelation came on April 1, 2002, exactly one year after the site opened. Waking up early in the morning, Pomodorov, as a joke of humor, prepared a text about the closure of the site and posted it on his home page. Already in the middle of the day it became clear that this was too much. Shock and awe reigned in the translation community. It gradually began to dawn on Pomidorov that Multitran Ru was no longer just a homepage.
However, a period of unrest still lay ahead. The local network generally worked, but sometimes crashed for no apparent reason. The server ominously stopped buzzing, and the lights of the hub did not blink. Pomodorov rushed from the phone to catch the network administrator. “I’m sleeping,” the administrator most often answered and hung up. There was nothing to catch here. After some time, the connection was somehow restored, and everything returned to normal. “The miracle of the Internet,” Pomidorov marveled.
In May 2001, very difficult times came. A new provider appeared, bought up the old network and began to reorganize it. Ironically, the first thing they did was cut the wires leading to Ivan Pomidorov’s house. Pomodorov grabbed the multitran server and, like a hive, dragged it to Ilya Anikushin, who still had a connection. After which both mentioned characters went on May holidays to raft, as it turned out, on the same river. On the third day of the trip, at the confluence of Msta and Berezaika, halfway to St. Petersburg, Ivan Pomidorov’s kayak caught up with Ilya Anikushin’s catamaran. "I wonder if there's a connection?" - asked Pomidorov. " More likely“No,” answered Anikushin. And they buried further on their way.
The connection was restored only three weeks later after numerous negotiations with the new provider. Some of the site's visitors fled during this time, but two-thirds returned on the first day of the server's re-opening.
In the fall of 2002, the situation began to heat up again. An electrician showed up in the area, repairing some communications. He carried out rolling blackouts in electrical wires, causing entire segments of the local network to suffer, and then disappearing to God knows where. In addition, the old web server was running at the limit of its physical capabilities. Finally, Ivan Pomidorov decided to change the server and install it from the provider.
However, not the Internet alone. Having emerged from the wilds of the Internet, on a sunny autumn day, programmer Pomodorov wandered around the Softool 2002 exhibition. He looked with reverence at the impressive stands of his colleagues in linguistic development. “Hmm, what a vast farm,” Pomidorov marveled, mechanically collecting free plastic bags. “But under Linux there are not enough dictionaries. It doesn’t work out well,” Pomidorov thought further. And approaching the ALT Linux stand, without hesitation, he offered them Multitran in all its source codes. So Multitran was the first of the dictionaries to cross the cross-platform barrier and settled in the country of the Antipodes. It’s true that at twenty you want to get everything, at thirty you want to sell everything, and at forty you want to give everything away. Pomidorov wanted to allocate a million dictionary entries for Linux, just to be sure. However, the database copying program contained an error, and 1,170,000 articles became freely available.
Meanwhile, the site was gaining momentum. If at first it was necessary to lure visitors, now Pomodorov did not know where to go from them. Just three months after installation, the new server could no longer cope with the load. It’s good that not a single online media found out about Multitran... Otherwise, the fall of the site would have been inevitable. Related professions that Ivan is now mastering are project speed profiling and server hardware upgrades. The other day he held a SCSI disk in his hands for the first time in his life. What will come of this is unknown, since certified electrical engineer Ivan Pomidorov has not yet assembled a single computer on his own.
Due to the fact that the site was created gradually from different sides, Pomidorov had a split personality. So, for some reason he began to sign the guest book as the Webmaster (apparently in memory of the creation of the main page). Taking this opportunity, today he takes the first step towards himself.
A robot equipped with thermonuclear weapons, the ability to grow in size (with a height of 10 meters) and high intellectual abilities, is an extremely dangerous enemy. It's no surprise that the Transformers Defenders are willing to sacrifice themselves to save a powerful source of energy from Megatron's clutches. But the fight won't be easy. After all, the leader of the Decepticons is ready to do anything to gain power over the Galaxy.
History of creation
Megatron owes his birth to the Hasbro company, which in 1984 released the first batch of plastic robots under the common name “Transformers”.
The toy manufacturer, who managed to become famous thanks to “My Little Pony,” did not at all plan to develop a story about intergalactic battles. A biography of Megatron and other Decepticons was invented by Jim Shooter - Chief Editor Marvel, with whom Hasbro worked to promote the series. To increase sales, it was decided to launch comics of the same name.
The development of future heroes was entrusted to Bob Budiansky. The editor of the robot series claims that the meaning of the name Megatron is related to the scientific term "megaton", meaning a powerful explosive force. By the way, Bob came up with the names and characteristics of the robots in just one weekend.
The release of the comic boosted Transformers sales, but the launch of the cartoons of the same name beat the estimated numbers. The popular series remained in demand on the toy market for two decades. Gradually, plastic robots were replaced by new heroes.
The second wave of popularity captured Megatron and his team after the announcement of the film, which he undertook to direct. The film company Paramount Pictures based the plot of the blockbuster storyline the first comics (over 20 years, glossy magazines were relaunched several times), dedicated to the confrontation between the Decepticons and Autobots. The ratings of the film franchise confirm that such a decision turned out to be extremely correct.
"Transformers"
The biography of the cruel and cunning leader of the Decepticons began in the mines of the planet Cybertron. Designed to mine energon, Megatron undergoes rapid evolution and assumes the position of gladiator. During the next battle, the robot meets the planet’s archivist.
Creatures so different in character are found mutual language. Smart machines spend a lot of time together and even call each other brothers. Everything changes when power comes into play between friends.
Having achieved a change in government, Megatron and Optimus Prime receive a leadership matrix. But first of all, the inhabitants of Cybertron entrust control of the planet to Prime. Megatron's character is to blame - the cruel robot does not spare either enemies or allies. Angry at other cars and ex best friend, Megatron creates his own gang. His team members are called Decepticons, which means "deceived."
Wanting to gain power, the rebel leader makes an attempt to capture the Great Spark - a powerful artifact with unprecedented energy. The war for leadership ravaged the planet, and the Spark itself disappeared from the sight of the warring factions.
After a lengthy search, Megatron picks up signals from an artifact on Earth. Having set out for the long-awaited prey, the robot ends up in the Arctic Ocean, from which it cannot get out on its own.
Megatron owes his own salvation from icy captivity to a scientist named Archibald Witwicky. A man accidentally comes across a smart machine and sends the motionless find to the laboratory, from where Megatron is rescued by the Decepticons who arrived after the leader.
Prolonged adaptation on Earth caused the loss of temporary advantage. By the time the search for Spark began, Optimus Prime and other Autobots (Bumblebee, Jazz and others) had already settled in the United States. Therefore, attempts to find the desired artifact are accompanied by constant clashes with former allies.
Another factor that Megatron did not take into account was people. Thanks to the active assistance of the caring inhabitants of the Earth to the Autobots, the leader of the Decepticons collapses. The robot's spare parts, preserved after the final battle, were buried by the military near Canada.
Two years later, the villain finds a way to resurrect. But now, in addition to the search for weapons, Megatron is occupied with another question: how to regain power over the group, which, during the leader’s absence, found a new leader. Alas, the cunning robot has to settle for a secondary place on the team.
However, soon the newly-minted leader of the Decepticons is defeated. Megatron hides in the desert to think about the current situation and develop a plan that will finally destroy Optimus Prime.
Realizing that he cannot defeat his long-time enemy on his own, Megatron does not hesitate to attract former Autobot allies to his side. However, help from Sentinel Prime still does not bring the desired result. The result is sad. Megatron is defeated and completely loses his physical shell.
The only thing that remains from the cunning manipulator is artificial intelligence, which is carelessly transferred into a new android. However, this does not mean at all that the true strategist and bloodthirsty warrior will not return to his previous form and make another attempt to take over the Galaxy.
Film adaptations
Megatron first appeared on television in 1984 - the animation studio Toei Animation launched the animated series The Transformers. For four seasons, viewers watched the confrontation between Autobots and Decepticons. The voice of the leader of the Earth invaders was given by actor Frank Welker.
The continuation of the animated series was released in 1996 and was called “Battle of the Beasts.” The main characters of the adventures were the descendants of the characters involved in the creation of Toei Animation. The power-hungry robot was voiced by actor David Kaye.
In 2007, the confrontation between robots interested the producers of Paramount Pictures. The development of Megatron required specialists in visual effects painstaking work, therefore, the character in the film “Transformers” underwent numerous modifications, including at the request of the hero’s fans. The actor was entrusted with voicing the leader of the Decepticons.
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” (2009) is a continuation of the popular film franchise. The fallen leader of the robots will once again attempt to seize power. This time Megatron will face a battle with old enemies and the support of new allies. Hugo Weaving was once again offered the voice of the tyrant.
In 2010, the united universe was supplemented by the animated series Transformers: Prime. The animated film tells about Megatron's return to Earth and the robot's confrontation with Optimus Prime, an old enemy and leader of the Autobots. The hero appears in 55 of 65 episodes. Frank Welker was offered to return to voicing the character.
Continuation of the dynamic blockbuster – “Transformers 3: Dark side Moons" - published in 2011. Megatron does not give up attempts to seize power over the Galaxy, using not very honest means for these purposes. But the already famous Autobots will again stand up to defend the Earth.
In 2017, unexpectedly for fans of robot adventures in the film “b,” the role of the main antagonist again went to Megatron. Fans, confident that the Decepticon leader died in yet another battle, were happy about the next confrontation between the tyrant and his beloved Autobot Optimus Prime.
Quotes
“You fight on the side of the weak and that’s why you lose.”
“A smart tyrant always allows fools to act in a crisis.”
“What motivates you, little man? Fear or courage? Nowhere to run. Give me the Spark, silly, and I’ll let you live.”
“Even in death there is no other command but mine!”
Optimus Prime and Megatron once considered each other brothers and ruled the planet together. Megatron led the army, and Optimus led the scientists, but after contact with Fallen, he decided that the available power was not enough, and also secretly entered into a conspiracy with Sentinel Prime. As a result of the conflict that broke out, Allspark was thrown from the planet, and Megatron followed him. Having landed on the North Pole of the Earth, he found himself frozen in the ice, and later found by the explorer Archibald Witwicky.
The specially created organization "Sector 7" moved the frozen Megatron to its base in the Hoover Dam, but in 2007 he was discovered and freed by the Decepticons. In the ensuing battle, Sam Witwicky placed the Allspark into the Decepticon's chest, ending his life. Megatron's body was buried in the Laurentian Trench, where he was later found by his subordinates and revived with the help of a shard of Allspark.
The restored Megatron defeated Optimus Prime in battle, but escaped the subsequent battle in Egypt. Instead, he hid in Africa, where he tried to raise a new generation of Decepticons. Sentinel Prime took over leadership. Megatron nevertheless intervened in the final battle between Optimus and Sentinel, and then tried to surrender, but was killed.
However, Megatron's head retained the ability to interfere with what was happening, thanks to which Galvatron was created, who inherited part of his personality.
The Transformers (Generation 1)
Megatron was created by the Decepticons as the ideal leader, and when he launched an offensive, the Autobots suffered a crushing defeat. Soon, almost the entire planet was captured by the Decepticons. When the war depleted Cybertron's rich resources, he followed the Autobots to Earth.
The Decepticon leader came up with incredible plans to destroy his enemies, but they were not destined to come true, and he suffered defeat after defeat. He also had to constantly put Starscream in his place, who doubted the leader's ability to achieve final victory over the Autobots. In 2005, Megatron led an attack on an Autobot city on Earth, which resulted in the Decepticon being severely wounded. Helpless, Megatron was thrown into open space, where he was found by Unicron and remade into Galvatron.
Love, compassion, pity have no meaning for Megatron. He rose to the position of leader of the Decepticons through a combination of brute strength, cunning, ruthlessness and ferocity. On Cybertron, he was the commander-in-chief of military operations against the Autobots, who called him "The Origin of Dust." This title was created out of fear and respect for Megatron. Megatron is proud of his title. The exile to Earth made him even more angry and irritated, if such a thing is even possible. He can't wait to return to Cybertron and finish the job of destroying the Autobots. While on Earth, he completely devoted himself to the destruction of those of them who ended up here with him, but his plans go even further. He realizes that the Earth is a giant storehouse of metals and fuel, and intends to master it all with the help of his Decepticons. Moreover, his further plans are so grandiose that even the Decepticons are unaware of them - he intends to enslave the population of the Earth. No exceptions to his motto are allowed.
Abilities: Megatron is amazingly strong and intelligent. In these qualities, he is equal to the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime. Its thermonuclear cannon is capable of turning a negligible amount of matter into a huge mass of atomic explosive. The cannon fires up to 12 miles and is capable of wiping out a small town. Megatron is able to use internal electrical circuits to connect a cannon to a black hole to receive energy from anti-matter. The power of the shot in this case increases in gigantic proportion, but the procedure requires too much effort from Megatron himself, even for one single shot.
Weaknesses: Megatron has no known weaknesses.
Story in the Michael Bay universe:
Megatron was not always the evil, cruel and powerful overlord of the Decepticons. He was once a student of Sentinel Prime and a friend of Optimus. Megatron was given the honor of assuming the duties of Cybertron's protector and commander of its defense forces. However, Megatron was extremely outraged by the privileged position of Optimus, who was Prime, and therefore, most likely, the next leader of the Transformers after Sentinel. This allowed the Fallen to convince Megatron to come over to his side and start a rebellion. War broke out on Cybertron, and the rebels began to be called Decepticons. However, even without the Fallen, Megatron would sooner or later start a war to get rid of Optimus. Megatron is obsessed with his goals and desires. For their sake, he is ready to risk anything: his charges, his home planet and even his own life. Absolute power is all he wants and is fighting for. Megatron on Earth did not disguise his alternate mode, preferring to transform into a powerful space fighter.
Three years after Operation Firestorm and the death of the Fallen, Megatron showed up in Africa. A former tyrant is hiding in the Namibian desert. It adapted to local conditions by adopting the alternate mode of Earth's armored military tractor, the M915 Line-Haul Mack Titan 10-wheeler Tank Truck. He has still not fully recovered from the damage Optimus Prime inflicted on him in their last battle, and has apparently lost the ability to fly. He spent most of the time sitting on some kind of crumbling throne made of all sorts of garbage and scrap metal, allowing the drones led by Igor to restore his dilapidated body. From time to time, Megatron would sneak out of his camp in search of energy, frightening the local animals with his terrifying appearance. His exile was interrupted by a message from Laserbeak, who reported to Megatron about Optimus's fight with Shockwave and that the Autobots had discovered the remains of the missing Ark. This was exactly what Megatron had been waiting for. His trap for the Autobots worked, and it was time for the Decepticons to strike again.
After Megatron was defeated by the Allspark's power, the Decepticons found themselves decapitated and disorganized for a time. But it didn't last long. Soundwave, having connected to an American military communications satellite, intercepted a conversation between Presidential Representative Theodore Galloway and NEST management, in which he mentioned that Allspark was not completely destroyed, one of the fragments was hidden at the carefully guarded B-14 facility in an electromagnetic safe, and Megatron's body rests at the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss. Soundwave's messenger, Ravage, broke into the facility and stole the fragment. Then Scalpel (a miniature Decepticon doctor), accompanied by the Constructicons, delivered the fragment to the burial place of their leader. As a result, Megatron was resurrected and received a new, even more powerful body and an alternative mode of a Cybertronian tank. Most of all, Megatron thirsts for revenge, but now he cannot do without the help of his ancient ally - Fallen (the Fallen).
