The Fallen (Transformers)

Megatronus/The Fallen
Transformers character
The Fallen in Dreamwave's War Within comics.
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Affiliation	Unicron
Sub-group	Micro Vehicles, Voyagers, Primes, Thirteen, Unicron
Function	First and Original Decepticon Leader, First Decepticon Overlord, Overseer of Entropy, Warrior of Darkness
Rank	10
Partner	Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave
Motto	"Destruction, like all things, is mine to command."
Alternate modes	Cybertronian Tank

Megatronus/The Fallen
Transformers character
The Fallen as he appears in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Voiced by (English)	Tony Todd (film) James Arnold Taylor (video game)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Masafumi Kimura
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Affiliation	Dynasty of Primes, later Decepticon
Sub-group	Micro Vehicles, Voyagers, Primes, Thirteen, Unicron
Function	First and Original Decepticon Leader, First Decepticon Overlord, Overseer of Entropy, Warrior of Darkness
Rank	10
Partner	Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave
Motto	"Destruction, like all things, is mine to command.", "Revenge is mine!"
Alternate modes	Cybertronian Destroyer Jet

Megatronus/The Fallen
Transformers character
Megatronus as seen in Transformers: Robots in Disguise.
Voiced by (English)	Gil Gerard
Voiced by (Japanese)	Fumihiko Tachiki
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Affiliation	Decepticon
Sub-group	Thirteen
Function	Original Decepticon & First Leader
Rank	10
Partner	Steeljaw
Alternate modes	Cybertronian Tank

The Fallen is a fictional character in the Transformers franchise. According to Hasbro, he was formerly known as Megatronus, and is a multiversal singularity, meaning that while he exists across the multiverse, he has no alternate-universe counterpart. As explained in more detail in the appropriate sections below, The Fallen has been given different origin stories in several of the different continuities in which he has appeared. Although the Fallen's origins are only suggested in his comic book appearance, they would be fully explained in Dorling Kindersley's Transformers: The Ultimate Guide.

Megatronus was one of the original Thirteen Primes created by Primus and the founder of the Decepticons in many storylines. Originally, he was depicted as having betrayed his creator by siding with Primus' dark twin, Unicron. In the final battle between Primus and Unicron, Megatronus fell victim to the same fate as his master, sucked through a black hole into another dimension. However, while Unicron emerged in another universe, the Fallen was not so fortunate, finding himself trapped in the "underspace" between dimensions. This origin has been altered or revised several times, even to the point that Primus and Unicron are removed entirely, even so, this is because he can jump through time and space, and hop dimensions, like the other Thirteen Primes.

In the 1985 Challenge of the GoBots episode "Search for the Ancient Gobonauts", "the Evil One", is retroactively a version of Megatronus, according to "Ask Vector Prime". He nearly destroyed Gobotron with a device called the Dark Heart, only to wind up under the Nazca Lines on Earth. Centuries later, Cy-Kill goes on a quest to look for the ancient villain.

In the 1984 series "Transformers: Generation 1",Episode 1 and 2 Primus created the first 13 Transformers to assist him in planet mode. The Fallen's original purpose as one of the 13 was to oversee entropy, the orderly dissolution of all things in preparation for the next creation. But the concept of destruction fascinated him too much, and he lost sight of the goal of rebirth and the necessity of restraint. His investigations into the dark sciences led him to Unicron, to whom he gave himself. Corrupted by Unicron, the Fallen then tried to sabotage his creator's body. This attempt ended in failure, and "The Fallen" fled to his master, but there was little refuge to be found: They were both sucked into a black hole.