Every Megatron Death in Transformers Explained.

1986: a god tortures a yes out of a dying warlord and rebuilds him into someone else's soldier — new name, new voice, new owner. 2014: a defense contractor mines his severed head for tech, and a marketing meeting hands his own name to a product. Both times the word for what happened is the same. Repossessed. This traces every Megatron death across the franchise's continuities and finds the pattern nobody talks about: he never actually gets to come back. Something else does. A god's puppet. A corporation's asset. A corpse someone else is driving. Two times — only two, ever — he chose his own ending instead of having it handed to him. One of those got quietly undone in the next series. Only one held. Starting point: a mining designation with no name at all, and the exact moment that changed. Because the whole four-decade pattern only makes sense once you know what he was before he was Megatron. Which death actually counts, and which ones are just someone new wearing him? Argue it out below.