As you can see, in the history of Cybertron, the Decepticons had to be stronger and more resilient due to their duties and jobs. They were mostly soldiers and warriors, which means that they had to be strong. The Autobots, on the other hands, were pacifists, labourers, and artisans and they — initially at least — had no need for physical strength, which is why they were weaker than the Decepticons.
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Why are the Decepticons stronger? About The Author. Arthur S. Poe Arthur S. Poe has been fascinated by fiction ever since he saw Digimon and read Harry Potter as a child. Since then, he has seen several thousand movies and anime, read several hundred books comics, and played several hundred games of all genres. Each planet boasted Energon with different attributes, and he eventually attempted to combine them all in order to cause all of reality to collapse into a singularity that would power Cybertron for an eternity.
During the opening battle of Transformers: The Movie , both Autobot and Decepticon sides suffer heavy losses -- including the deaths of their respective leaders, Optimus Prime and Megatron. But while Optimus was allowed to rest for a while longer, Megatron wound up in the clutches of Unicron, planet consumer.
Granting Megatron a second chance, he transformed the Decepticon leader into a new warrior, more powerful than ever, who then returned to lead the Decepticons into battle time and again. In the most recent comic, Galvatron is actually even older than Megatron, existing near the dawn of the creation of Cybertronians, and was a powerful gladiator who joined with The Fallen to rise up against the Primes.
He spent time terraforming planets to be suitable to cybernetic life at the behest of his boss, but after centuries of that work he eventually grew tired. With that in mind, he collected his own troops and went AWOL. He may have abandoned Megatron, but he continued to destroy planets in the name of the Decepticons. Deathsaurus lands on this list because the Decepticon Justice Division is one of the most dangerous threats to any group, Decepticon or Autobot, and Deathsaurus willingly ignored the threat of their existence in order to form his own group.
His legend is so great that if Megatron ever falls, he would easily be on a shortlist to take over what remains of the Decepticon Army. Predaking is the only combiner on this list.
Not because combiners are weak, but typically the mere process of combining creates massive flaws for the fusion in question. Combining five minds into one often renders them dumb like Abominus or trapped between too many separate thought processes like Computron , or even needlessly arrogant like Superion. Now, "evil Optimus Prime" are three words so terrifying nothing else even needs to be said, but it gets worse.
The IDW comics reintroduced Nemesis as Nova Prime, a being who helped unite all the disparate tribes of Cybertron and bring civilization to the lands.
Subjection is the destiny of all sentient beings. It shouldn't come as a surprise when one names Optimus the strongest Autobot. Sentinel Prime was once the leader of the Autobots before his shocking betrayal. A son. His name was Sky Rocket Rocket for short. He loved being with his parents, playing with his friends and his little sister Jade who was born eight years later and training alongside Megatronous Megatron.
Carly Witwicky is a fictional character and a human ally of the Autobots in the Transformers universe. No, Bumblebee is not Optimus Prime's son. In , Hasbro and Takara Tomy released a toy line that included robots that could transform into vehicles. During the battle, all Decepticons are destroyed, except for Starscream, Barricade, and Scorponok, but the Autobots lost their one-member, Jazz. Grimlock is among the strongest of the Transformers, possibly an equal to, or even superior to Optimus Prime and Megatron in most continuities.
In Tyrannosaurus rex mode, his powerful jaws can snap virtually anything that comes between them. He also can breathe fire and shoot an energy ray from his mouth. He is, perhaps, the oldest Transformer anybody knows. Urban legend says his body also crumbles, but no such footage is known to exist. Under Bludgeon's guidance, the scattered cells came together to form the " Decepticon Vengeance Division ", being dispatched by Starscream to contain and destroy Unicron at G Nebula Though the fleet's firepower was immense, Bludgeon himself was loyal to Unicron, the Decepticons subsequently being warped into Unicron's heralds.
Stranger Eons When Unicron arrived at Cybertron, the Decepticon citizenry swarmed into Metroplex , Our Finest before the entirety of the population was teleported to Earth by the magic of the Spectral Knights. Road's End. Along with all other factions, the Earth-bound Decepticons joined in the attack on the DVD, Assembly settling into a new life on Earth once Unicron had been defeated.
Ceremony Post. After being reactivated in , the Decepticons carried out operations on Earth, seemingly under the command of Starscream Cultural Appropriation , before the war spread beyond Earth and turned increasingly violent, resulting in the Earth Defense Command banning all Transformers from their space.
At an unidentified point in the 21st century, Unicron reformatted, or revived, Megatron into the powerful Galvatron who continued, or retook, Decepticon leadership. The Inexorable March. The Decepticons then invaded the planet Nebulos via infiltration protocol before the intervention of the Human Confederacy turned the war hot and ended in the Scouring of Nebulos.
The enormous loss of life was the final straw for the humans , who restricted all Cybertronians to the Allowed Zone , where the war could do no further harm to the galaxy. The battle ended in a humiliating defeat for the Decepticons, and resulted in the Allowed Zone being cut in half. Galvatron himself would eventually be executed via a Quintesson judgement. Cultural Appropriation Thunderwing led his troops to seize the Underbase on Artemis and bonded with the ancient artifact's power.
Rendered insane, he cut a swath of destruction across Cybertron, forcing the Autobots and Decepticons to once again unite to combat their mutual foe. Thunderwing's defeat marked the technical end of both Autobots and Decepticons as both parties reorganized themselves into the Builders of Cybertron.
Not All Megatrons. Having created the Energon Matrix to substitute for the lost Vector Sigma , Cerebros created the Predacons as the descendants of the Decepticons. Head Games. When the Great War broke out, the Decepticons quickly proved themselves a superior fighting force to the former Autobot rulers. The Truth We Make Despite this, the length of the war caused some teams, such as the Raptoricons , to abandon the conflict entirely.
Life Finds a Way. A Decepticon project throughout the war was the recreation of the Creation Matrix, Deadly Aim Shockwave undertaking many an experiment to this end. The Toxic Transformer. The Decepticon experiments eventually created the Matrix of Malice which unleashed Thunder Mayhem on the planet, the combiner's destructive rampage wiping out Cybertronian civilization, the Autobots included.
Deadly Aim Some Decepticon units managed to survive by fleeing on starships and in stasis pods, Life Finds a Way with even Megatron himself managing to flee in a personal craft. Four million years ago, the Decepticons pursued the Autobots into the Sol asteroid belt , their boarding of the Ark causing it to crash on prehistoric Earth and knocking all aboard into stasis lock. The Decepticons were reawakened in the s and began a secret war over Earth's supply of energon before World War III forced them off the planet.
Trailing the Autobots aboard Trypticon , the Decepticons boarded Fortress Maximus in orbit of Cygnus Seven , the act again causing all aboard to fall into stasis lock when the Autobot ship crashed. In the 23rd century, a Federation survey team unknowingly reactivated Maximus.
Awakened first by the Titan's repair protocols, Megatron healed his troops and led an attack on the surface. Prime's Directive, Part Two.
While Decepticon firepower made quick work of the mining colony, they were unprepared for the intervention of the USS Enterprise , its photon torpedos proving able to damage the Decepticons. Falling back to a nearby moon, the Decepticons found Trypticon being occupied by the Klingons , Megatron soon smooth talking the aliens into an alliance. Prime's Directive, Part One. Enraged, Megatron ordered a retreat from Cygnus Seven to pursue Starscream. Prime's Directive, Part Four. The Decepticons caught up with Starscream on Kronos , within the chambers of the Klingon High Council , and began conquering the planet.
When the Autobots and Starfleet arrived to defend Kronos, Soundwave unleashed his audio disruptor waves on their foes, only to learn that the Klingons were deaf to the frequency he utilized. Caught off-guard, the Decepticons were subject to a surprise attack by a fleet of warbirds. By the terms of James T. Kirk 's peace with Gorkon , the Decepticons were left behind in Klingon custody.
Prime's Directive, Part Five. The ' Ascenticon' faction began with Termagax , noted Cybertronian engineer and philosopher, in the aftermath of the War of the Threefold Spark. Dissatisfied with the way Cybertron had developed in response to the Nominus Edict , Termagax created the Ascenticon to become part of the Cybertronian senate and institute reforms, starting with scrapping the Edict.
Termagax's student, a young firebrand named Megatron , became the first Senator of the Ascenticon faction. Over time, Termagax's dissatisfaction with Cybertronian society grew more extreme, until she eventually recused herself from society entirely, leaving the Ascenticons in Megatron's hands Megatron shared his mentor's desire to get rid of what he saw as the restrictions on Cybertron's growth, but not her grassroots approach. Megatron began a scheme to make sure the Ascenticons rose to power, even if by mass deception.
Megatron's scheme began with the creation of a sub-faction, called The Rise , composed of those radically opposed to the Edict, and the Autobot hegemony. The intent was to have the Rise creation friction, which would turn the Autobots increasingly fascistic, and therefore drum up support for the Ascenticon way.
Unknown to all, Megatron had Shockwave returned from exile to whip the Rise into suitable shape. In the senate, the Ascenticons proved contentious, siding against the Autobots and Reversionist factions.
In public, Megatron began giving rallies, gaining popular support while condemning the violence of the Rise. As the cycles passed, their rallies grew harder and harder to control as support for their cause grew and grew, with the most recent rally having injured a dozen people. Senator Orion Pax attempted to parley with Megatron , seeking a delay of the latest Ascenticon rally in Tarn , but Megatron rebuffed these efforts, simply stating that he sought change on Cybertron, and as long as he was allowed to speak he would continue to do so.
While the Guard was nominally under the command of Elita-1, it was Senator Soundwave who was in charge of recruitment, and the senator was extremely untrusting of any recruit with Autobot sympathies. Acting quickly, Soundwave contacted the Rise to deal with the situation. In the ensuing investigation, the security services found evidence of the Rise's activities and armaments, and officer Barricade's connection to these events.
Elsewhere, recruitment for the Guard began to surge, including Barricade. Megatron, on learning of Soundwave's actions, was outraged at the decision.
He quickly updated his plans, to accelerate events. Broadcasting a speech to Cybertron as a whole, Megatron declared the Ascenticons would no longer wait peacefully for change to come, but force it, before unveiling a revised version of the Ascenticon insignia.
Soon after, Ascenticons began branding themselves with the new insignia. Elsewhere, Soundwave approached Sentinel Prime, stating the Ascenticon viewpoint that the planet's situation dictated an immediate, accelerated election, which Sentinel angrily refused. Meanwhile, Soundwave covered the Ascenticons' tracks, erasing the knowledge of when 'bots such as Quake and Barricade had joined up.
On hearing of a fight between Risers and the security service, Soundwave ordered Elita and Bumblebee to intervene and show Cybertron the new face of the Ascenticons.
After witnessing the fallout of the Rise's actions, The Change In Your Nature Part Two Megatron visited Shockwave and beat him until he agreed to fall into line within the command chain of the Ascenticons. Sentinel Prime made plans to arrest the Ascenticon leaders at an upcoming Senate session only for Heretech to reveal this to Megatron, driving the Ascenticon leader to accelerate his plans.
When the Senate met, Megatron's forces attacked the building, overpowering the guards and taking the Senators hostage where Megatron cast aside the mantle of "Ascenticons" and adopted Sentinel's mocking moniker of "Decepticons". We Have Deceived You Now in control of Iacon, the Decepticons focused their attention on winning over those Cybertronians who controlled the everyday functions of society.
Though the Decepticons fought back, they found their power outmatched by the invader. Unable to flee, Megatron was approached by Kremzeek the Scavenger who had come seeking the AllSpark , shuttled off Cybertron by the recently departed Autobots. Bargaining with the Decepticon leader, Kremzeek turned Decepticon High Command into ghosts , leaving the Decepticon army to be destroyed by Gozer along with their planet.
When Kremzeek was defeated on Earth, his Decepticon prisoners were freed. Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4 Though Optimus offered to use the AllSpark to revive them, Megatron attacked his arch-foe in a vengeful fury, even dreaming of possessing Optimus and using the Autobots to rebuild the Decepticon Empire , before he was detained in a ghost trap.
Soundwave and Shockwave were likewise imprisoned by the Ghostbusters while Starscream fled the planet. In the aftermath, Optimus took the Decepticon ghosts with him, hoping to one day rehabilitate and resurrect them, while Ectotron opted to patrol the galaxy for any more Decepticon spectres that might be out there.
Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5. In the original timeline, in the year , the Decepticons aboard the Ark awoke first, taking advantage of the situation to execute their Autobot foes. Free of any resistance, the Decepticons conquered Earth, defeating Skywatch , an organization born to challenge them, and forcing its supercomputer, Skynet , to surrender some time prior to the year Skynet was later executed by Starscream in when it was found to have only feigned surrender.
Enemy of My Enemy Part Two. Before its death, Skynet had succeeded in constructing a time displacement device , sending a lone T unit back in time to destroy the Decepticons before they could awake in Enemy of My Enemy Part One. While the unit arrived too late to prevent the Decepticons' reactivation, and lacked the capability to destroy them, its interference allowed the Autobots to survive, the Decepticons withdrawing from the Ark as a result.
After scouting the nearby area, they launched an attack on a Cyberdyne Systems facility, Enemy of My Enemy Part Two where they clashed with the Autobots once again. Enemy of My Enemy Part Three. By interrogating the personnel of Cyberdyne Systems, Starscream had managed to deduce that the T was from the future and threatened to destroy the humans unless it worked with him.
Though the android deduced that the hostages were expendable, it agreed to work with Starscream. When the Seeker attacked Soundwave, the chaos allowed the Autobots to overpower the Insecticons , turning the tide of the battle against the Decepticons. When Starscream tried to turn the time traveller against Megatron, the Decepticon leader contemptuously hurled the interloper back at Starscream, downing the traitor but leaving Megatron open to a crippling attack from Optimus.
After Soundwave had chased off Starscream, only to then be downed by the T and Sarah Connor , the Autobots hurled the T into Megatron's open wound, destroying the tyrant from within. Taking their prisoners back to the Ark , the Autobots discovered that the duplicitous T had destroyed their ship.
With no means of returning to Cybertron, Optimus proposed that the Autobots and Decepticons work together for the time being, a truce that Thundercracker, Skywarp, Bombshell and Skrapnel agreed to. Enemy of My Enemy Part Four. As they fought to hold a malfunctioning space bridge , the portal suddenly activated and dragged the Decepticons and their foes to the land of Equestria.
Upon arrival, Megatron aligned himself with Queen Chyrsalis , the one whose magic had brought the Cybertronians to Equestria. Transformation Is Magic The nature of their arrival however had left the Decepticons scattered across the land, forcing Megatron to rally them. Pet Sounds. Though the changelings hoped to trap the Decepticons in Equestria and let them raze the land, it was soon discovered that changeling magic was not required to return to Cybertron, Optimus Prime combining the Matrix of Leadership with Twilight Sparkle 's magic to send the Decepticons home.
While Shockwave reported that the Decepticons had not seized any magical artifacts, he noted it was possible to instead bring magic to Cybertron. Four million years prior to , the Decepticons boarded the Ark and caused it to crash on Earth, knocking all aboard into stasis lock. Having used the DeLorean time machine to skip ahead form , Rumble decided that was unsalvageable and claimed the DeLorean to travel back to and built up his strength for the next decade before he hacked into the Ark to ensure that it repaired only his fellow Decepticons who executed the prone Autobots.
Having no need of two Rumbles however, the Megatron of the new timeline executed the time traveller, sparing his head for the future knowledge it held. With none to oppose them, the Decepticons conquered Earth within a year, enslaving its population and forcing the humans to produce energon cubes. One Decepticon however, the number-cruncher Gigawatt , found himself unable to tolerate Megatron's needlessly brutality and abandoned the Decepticons, scanning the DeLorean, gaining its time travel abilities, and defecting to the Autobots, hoping to use his new powers to undo Megatron's reign.
In the Robots in Disguise cartoon , the Decepticons were a brand new faction that came into being during the events of the story. Because there were so few Decepticons only six or seven , and because they were a subset of the Predacon antagonists, they can almost be viewed as a subgroup rather than a proper faction. The Decepticons were created on Earth when Megatron 's forces captured a set of stasis pods from an ancient Transformer spaceship that had been found on Earth , leading to the birth of the Commandos and Scourge.
The toy version of Galvatron was also labeled as a Decepticon, although this "change" in the character's faction was only mentioned once in the cartoon series. For the Hasbro toyline , several other non-show Decepticons were added to the ranks to help fill out the line. It is currently unknown how many, if any, of these Decepticons, share a similar origin to the show's "brainwashed Autobots" origins, though one of them, Axer , is actually a dimension-hopper who arrived from a Generation 1 universe.
In Viron Additionally, the components of Devastator and Dominus Trannis were among the surviving Autobots, only to be brainwashed by the Robo-Smasher and implanted with Predacon personality components. Only Defensor and the remaining Predacons, led by Sky-Byte , were able to defeat this new Decepticon empire and bring the war to a bittersweet end.
The exact origins of the Decepticon faction are a bit muddled. It is widely assumed, though never directly confirmed, that the movement was founded by Megatron. Also, the enslavement of the power-enhancing Mini-Cons is considered to be the impetus to the Decepticons' rise to a massive multi-planet-spanning army, though at what point in the war this occurred is unclear; it's possible the Mini-Cons' arrival was what gave Megatron the opportunity to rise to power, or that they arrived after the war had already begun.
Either way, the Mini-Cons fueled the war machine for centuries, and the war with the Autobots soon spread from Cybertron to other worlds. The self-imposed exile of the Mini-Cons to an unknown destination was seen as a major setback for the Decepticons and something of a pyrrhic victory for the Autobots , but despite this, the war continued, as both sides had amassed a large enough power base to continue on without the little buggers. The Autobots and Decepticons seemed to fight to a stalemate, neither able to gain a distinct advantage over the other.
When a signal reached Cybertron centuries later that the Mini-Cons had landed on Earth , it seemed neither side was capable of sending a full force to retrieve them, despite the power they contained. Though the Decepticon force sent to Earth was small in numbers, it was far from insignificant; Megatron himself led the squad, backed by some of his most trusted warriors. When Megatron returned to Cybertron, the overwhelming majority of the Mini-Cons were in the protective custody of the Autobots, but Megatron was unfazed; he had assembled the Mini-Cons required to make the three legendary weapons: the Star Saber , Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster.
Bolstered by this new power and the apparent death of Optimus Prime , Megatron attempted to take Cybertron once and for all. But Megatron's now calling himself Galvatron return to Cybertron was the beginning of the end of the Decepticon army. When Unicron revealed himself as a threat to both armies, fueled by the negative psychic energies from centuries of death and destruction, the two sides eventually joined to beat back the planet-eater.
Despite the truce, Galvatron and Prime engaged in a brutal duel on the surface of the weakened Unicron after the three legendary weapons had been removed from his core. Realizing their battle was keeping Unicron active, Galvatron sacrificed himself, and both Unicron and Galvatron disappeared into nothingness.
Galvatron's final orders to his troops still stood: work with the Autobots. There were, of course, dissenters, most of whom were captured and imprisoned.
For a decade, Autobot and Decepticon worked side by side in a somewhat stable truce. Both sides found themselves the target of attacks from Unicron again; hordes of Terrorcon drones , sent by Alpha Quintesson to steal energon ore with which to revive the now-shattered husk of Unicron.
What the alien did not count on was that Galvatron's spark had survived within the remains, and was siphoning energon from Unicron's body. Soon the Decepticon leader revived himself in a new form, calling himself Megatron again drove off Alpha Quintesson, and along with an elite cadre of soldiers and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of mindless Terrorcon drones, began his new plans for conquest.
When news of Megatron's return reached Cybertron, hundreds of Decepticons rose up and rebelled, eager to get back to conquering. But having been joined to Unicron for so long apparently had given Megatron a taste of godhood; he had no more interest in amassing a galaxy-spanning army of troops. Countless Decepticons died in the resulting battles, with Megatron more than willing to sacrifice them without a thought to attain ultimate power for himself.
As "the Powerlinx Battles" -as they came to be called- came to their climax, Megatron calling himself Galvatron again found that his actions and thoughts were being influenced and controlled by the dark spark of Unicron. Unwilling to let Unicron stand in his way, Galvatron ultimately sacrificed himself again and seemingly destroyed Unicron's spark by plunging himself into a newly formed energon sun created by Primus.
What little remained of the once-mighty Decepticon army after Megatron's loss was at best a loose association of criminals, thugs, and lunatics, with no real political or military power to speak of.
For a decade, Cybertron was once again at peace, with the population overwhelmingly Autobot or neutral. The Transformers had withdrawn from Earth and its other colonies to focus on revitalizing their homeworld after the devastation of the Powerlinx Battles.
However, two great catastrophes shattered this peace; the energon sun collapsed in on itself, forming the powerful black hole known as the Unicron Singularity , which threatened to devour Cybertron and, if left unchecked, the entire universe Megatron's goal of attaining godhood was now at hand. By obtaining the legendary Omega Lock and the four Cyber Planet Keys , Megatron intended to accelerate the growth of the black hole, consuming the universe in a vast sea of nothingness that only he would survive, then use his powers to re-create the universe in his image.
To this end, he had no need of an army. He gathered a small group of allies and lackeys to seek the items he needed, but they were nothing more than pawns to him, to be used and discarded at a whim. The Decepticons briefly regained their status as a mass army of individuals when Starscream , who had long suffered at Megatron's hands since the beginning of the Decepticons, made his own bid for ultimate power with the help of the Planet X agent Sideways.
Having sealed Megatron and his troops in a trap, Starscream freed hundreds of criminal Transformers who had been locked up on Earth for millennia, and formed his own globe-spanning army. However, numerous Decepticons were killed in the battles with the Autobots, and it soon became apparent that Starscream, like Megatron before him, didn't care.
Most of these criminals soon abandoned Starscream and went into hiding. As for Megatron, he too had deserters among his own considerably small ranks. Most notably, the powerful Scourge , leader of the Jungle Planet and the colossal Menasor from Gigantion , both of whom eventually joined forces with their former enemies the Autobots.
This was not seen as a concern for Megatron, however, as by this time Starscream and his allies were seemingly destroyed on Gigantion, and Megatron now calling himself "Galvatron" again had the Omega Lock and all four Keys. What few Decepticons remained loyal to him were too stupid to see what Galvatron had planned, and made perfect distractions as he set his final plan in motion.
If they weren't strong enough to survive the coming cataclysm, then so be it. Ultimately, Galvatron's plan failed, and the Unicron Singularity was sealed. His remaining Decepticons quickly left him, realizing what was likely to have happened to them, and eventually joined the Autobots.
After Galvatron's seemingly-final defeat and death in a one-on-one duel with Optimus Prime on Cybertron's moon, the Decepticons, not knowing when to quit, rose again, albeit in a rather pathetic fashion.
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