If you keep yourself informed and into the latest box office blockbusters, then you are no stranger to the Transformers series of movies that have been released. While there are only two installments, you can be assured of more to come in the future. You might not know that these movies were preceded by comics, books and a few animated series. There are many Transformers that you could benefit from knowing in terms of understanding the movies better. Other than Optimus Prime, perhaps the most important to know is the Transformers Megatron.

If you keep yourself informed and into the latest box office blockbusters, then you are no stranger to the Transformers series of movies that have been released. While there are only two installments, you can be assured of more to come in the future. You might not know that these movies were preceded by comics, books and a few animated series. There are many Transformers that you could benefit from knowing in terms of understanding the movies better. Other than Optimus Prime, perhaps the most important to know is the Transformers Megatron.

For this content and the interest of space restraints, I'll not dig into some of the additional Transformers to a higher degree than is essential, and so that you are able to concentrate entirely why Megatron is crucial to the franchise.

You see, Megatron like Optimus Prime is a leader. Many consider him through all the mediums of comics, books, television animated series and movies to be the best leader the Decepticons ever had. While its nice to be considered the best, you always have someone who wants your spot. The fact remains that for as long as he lived, Megatron was a brutal and tyrannical leader of the mighty Decepticons.

You see, both factions (the good and the bad) are from Cybertron. This entire story from the occurrences on this planet and the fights they campaigned afterward produce a standard good vs. Evil base. The film just generates a glance into the warfare that the Autobots and the Decepticons have been combating for a long time. Megatron desires a lot of things. Among these things that he desires is the Allspark that's upon Earth, because this is the instrument that animates machines.

Megatron and Prime were once acquaintances it's presumed, though today they're forever up at arms. It's thought that Optimus is saddened at the fact of what the Autobots and Decepticons could have done collectively, where Megatron merely sees it entirely laughable. Their animosity started while Megatron turned on the bots from Cybertron and organized the Decepticons.

Megatron went to Earth to pillage its natural resources with the help of the other Decepticons after Cybertron was in shambles. He was pursued there by Optimus Prime and his loyal Autobots to thwart this process. That is how the battle moved to Earth in the first place. Cybertron was emptied out of all of its resources and life trying to sustain a war for years, and its revival was directly related to Earth's destruction. So Megatron set off to pillage our world, and Optimus Prime set out to stop him.

I can only hope that you understand who Megatron is. Much like any Transformer, there is more than meets the eye. There have been glimpses of compassion and loyalty, but for the most part it is brutal leadership by fear and intimidation.