Their numbers ranged from the treacherous, the fanatical, the violent, and the treacherous fanatically violent to the spastic. The Decepticons are the Transformers who sided with Lord High Protector Megatron and attempted to seize the AllSpark. The Decepticon insignia in the Michael Bay Series. During a three year lull, Starscream was ordered to build a space bridge and to mine more Energon. History Įons later, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, Knock Out and Breakdown were based on Earth, with a mass-produced Vehicon army. The Decepticon insignia in the Young Transformer Titans Prime Series.
TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED DECEPTICONS UPGRADE
The Decepticons of the future are descendants of the Decepticons of the Great War that seeks revenge.ĭecepticons retained many similarities to their Decepticon ancestors, and the Protoforms the Autobots have mined out have underwent the Great Upgrade basically took on smaller, human-sized, newer versions of the bodies from the original Decepticons. The Decepticon insignia in the Genesis Series. When Optimus Prime's best and brightest departed on this quest aboard a spacecraft, Megatron's elite followed them, and the battle that erupted led to a crash-landing on prehistoric Earth that entombed all the combatants in stasis for four million years. Against the Autobots under the command of new leader Optimus Prime, the protracted warfare ran for five million years, draining Cybertron dry of energy and forcing the Transformers to seek new power sources on other planets. Gathering like-minded warriors like the loyal Soundwave, the emotionless Shockwave and the young upstart Starscream, and brain-washing others into his service with the Robo-Smasher, Megatron slew Sentinel Prime and reignited the war. Over time, the defeated Decepticons married transformation technology with robot-mode flight powers, leading to the creation of Megatron around nine million years ago. After the fall of several successive Autobot leaders, the heroic robots turned to stealth, and invented the art of transformation with this edge, Sentinel Prime defeated the Decepticons' leader, ending the war and ushering in the prosperous Golden Age of Cybertron. Lusting for power, the Decepticons, as they now called themselves, rallied under a leader and began a war with the peaceful Autobots, who proved unable to match their inborn military skills. It is unknown exactly what role the military hardware robots played in the eventual rebellion of the robots against their creators the only ones seen to participate in the conflict were the Autobots' ancestors, led by A-3, but given their fighting ability, the proto-Decepticons seem like they would have made logical soldiers in the fight.įollowing the defeat of the Quintessons and their exile from Cybertron, a brief period of peace descended, before the base differences between the two breeds of robot led to the outbreak of conflict. The Decepticons began life as a line of military hardware robots created by the Quintessons, alongside the consumer goods robots that would become the Autobots.
Comics continuity Generation 1 comics History Synopsis Cartoon continuity History The Decepticon insignia in the G1 Series.
TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED DECEPTICONS SERIES