Because i hype myself up better than hasbro does most of the time.
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Galvatron was the strongest Herald of Unicron, who struck a deal with him to bring down the Primes from within and prove them to be fraudulent gods. Though several were slain in his machinations, the others killed him in return, and in the end his Spark remained dormant within Unicron until the time came for him to be reborn as a Herald once more. Eventually, he was made to possess Megatron to bind them both into servitude, only to eventually be cast out and repossess his own body after the Nebulon wars. The process left him MORE lucid than he was having to fight Megatron for control, but he's a fair bit lethargic and undergoing frequent transfusions and gradual replacements of rotted components to rebuild himself. He's not as physically imposing right this moment, but all he needs to do is aim his cannon and fire it to make his enemies feel centuries-long pent up wrath.
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G1 Scourge (pronounced like "gorge") was essentially a wizard of the dark arts and of manipulating the Spark on a physical realm, a field he grew interest in discovering the limits of his own mutant, super-resistant Spark. The Sweeps are his single-most-prolific experiment in this, being fragments of his own Spark that he cut loose and placed into protoforms matching his own, creating an army of duplicates. Should Scourge ever be killed, his spark wanders to the nearest Sweep, assimilating their fragment back into his own and allowing him to remain firmly rooted on the physical plane, and it was this trick that allowed him to be safely separated from Thundercracker after the end of the Nebulon war. He eventually cuts the Sweeps loose again once he gets the time to give them a new protoform, but depending on how bad of a job they did in protecting him, he feels himself getting lazier with it. He gave himself to Unicron willingly, hoping eons and eons at the Chaos-Bringer's side would allow him to unlock the path to truly eternal life, one that could outlive even Unicron himself.
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Cyclonus is a warrior and sole survivor from a previous universe Unicron devoured, giving himself to the Chaos-Bringer in a fit of absolute despair. At first, he rationalized it as wanting to maintain his skills... but then he realized the sad, sad truth he couldn't run from was that he just didn't want to be alone. After Unicron's demise, a similar calling kept him within the ranks of the Decepticons, but eventually the words of key Autobots break through the callouses on his heart and convince him to abandon the cause. Unlike others who were forcibly ejected from their vessels, Cyclonus willingly gave up his body to allow Skywarp his own path in life again, expecting to simply drift into the Allspark... until he felt himself pulled back, into a new body not unlike the one he truly remembered having, seeing familiar faces smiling at him.
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Black Roritchi is the emissary of the long-thought-dead Scorponok, through no one knows what's become of him after he and Zarak had fully bonded. While this emissary admits to once having been called "Fasttrack", it's a past he's quick to abandon and quicker to silence someone for should they press the issue. He says his master is busy preparing something that will ensure the domination of the galaxy ten times over... but no one amongst the Decepticons is sure what that something is. And those in positions of leadership know better than to turn their back on an MIA 'con.
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RiD2001 Scourge (pronounced like "dirge") is part of a project by Shockwave to try and duplicate not Optimus Prime, but his Unicron-spawned clone, Nemesis Prime. Being a copy of a copy and knowing this since their creation has riddled their mind full of different thoughts and feelings, all turned towards aggression and spite for everything around them, including and especially the Decepticons, but they serve all the same, under threat of a remote detonator planted right next to their brain module. Possessing Nemesis Prime's regenerative powers, the cooler head and weapon proficiency of Optimus, and their own brand of "do whatever it takes to win" scheming, they're a capable threat of the battlefield.
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"Megaplex" is the codename given to a body double of Megatron made in the event the true leader is incapacitated or otherwise indisposed, with his triple-changing functionality being passed off as an upgrade he's testing. While the physical process was a success, and the psychological conditioning was mostly done, implanting memories skipped a very vital step due to Shockwave's lack of interpersonal tact. As a result, the body double was disgusted with what he was allegedly supposed to be, and after a long-fought battle, he ended up in the care of the Autobots in a gradually-relaxing probationary cell, with memories that weren't quite his own, but nonetheless felt too real to not feel a sense of regret over. Though he's had his true name scrubbed from his databanks, he doesn't seem to care about whatever old life he had. Megaplex will do, as it stands for everything that Megatron wasn't.
