And when the abyss stared back at Megs, he blinked.

@WM-R  
“Sure beats being D-16…”

@Prof.NightJack
 
Thanks to your description, I now have the image in my head of Megs going, “Megatron, huh? I like it. I like a lot. Yeah. Megatron. Got a nice ring to it.”

@WM-R  
That’s kind of how it happened in the book Transformers: Exodus(it’s part of the Aligned continuity), a bunch of his followers started to cheer and quickly the “us” got left off and he was like “I like the sound of this better”.

@Prof.NightJack
 
Oh, so it wasn’t the same reason as IDW? ‘Megatron’ rolled off the tongue easier than ‘Megatronus’?
 
“Me! Ga! Tron!” “Me! Ga! Tron!”
 
vs
 
“Me! Ga! Tron!” “…us.”

@Scrounge  
Yep, then took the name Megatronus after one of the Thirteen Primes(guess who!) when he took over Kaon, then when Orion Pax was given the title of Prime he droped the “us” at the end.

@WM-R  
I don’t think they even got numbers. If I recall correctly from tfwiki, D-16 (the transformer who would become Megatron) took the designation from the mine shaft where he worked.

@Prof.NightJack
 
Ah. My bad. I thought you meant the IDW one. Really need to start slowing down and properly processing information before reacting to it.
 
Primus, no. I’m Blurr.

@WM-R  
Ya, I know about that in the Aligned continuity, I got the novels set in it, that’s why I said “stated out trying to help others” in my first comment.

@Prof.NightJack
 
I’d also like to add that in the Aligned/ Prime continuity, there was a caste system in place (like in the IDW comics’ backstory) where your role in life was fixed at birth and you could never change it.
 
Worse, it wasn’t consistent. One tank might become a soldier, while another a miner. Got to the point new TFs didn’t even get names, just numbers. Megs dared to take a name and stand up against the system, and Optiums sided because, well, “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
 
Then it all went wrong.

Double funny if you know what happened in the end of the series.

@bingo77  
Huh.

@Prof.NightJack
 
No, back under the autobot senate. Where those of lower classes were essentially slaves and the autobot police got their jollies beating the lower castes within an inch of their lives without repercussions.

@bingo77  
Last I know of what happened in the IDW comics was that Cybertron was now mostly non-aligned bots that elected Starscream leader.  
Doesn’t sound like the Autobots are in charge…

@Prof.NightJack  
IDW one. Technically I think Prime cybertron was supposed to be just as bad so that one too.

Twi, he may have stated out trying to help others but then it all became about power for himself, he wan’t doing it for his friends.
 
@bingo77  
What continuity are you talking about?

I actually have more sympathy for megatron than the kelpy given the state of Cybertron under the autobots…

all hail lord Megatron

Yeaaah. Sure. Lets go with that. Yeah.