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| “ | Megatron: Sentinel, the betrayer, is dead. But his death has given life to a new enemy... a stronger enemy... a personal enemy. We will not be blinded by his deception! We are the ones who are... Decepticons! Rise up! Decepticons: (chanting) Rise Up! Rise up! Rise up! |
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| ~ Megatron officially abolishing the Cybertronian High Guard and establishing the Decepticons. |
The Decepticons, formerly known as the Cybertronian High Guard or simply the High Guard, are major characters of the 2024 animated sci-fi action movie Transformers One. They were once Cybertron's most powerful and legendary warriors under the leadership of Starscream and serving the Primes.
However, after discovering Sentinel Prime's true nature and betrayal as well the Primes' demises, the High Guard went into hiding and fighting within the shadows, plotting for their next attack to eliminate Sentinel when the time is right. Eventually, they came across D-16 and his allies who, after defeating Starscream, assumed control of the High Guard and led an attack on Sentinel Prime.
After Sentinel's death, D-16 rebranded himself as Megatron and continued to lead their attack on Iacon; but were eventually defeated and exiled; by Optimus Prime for their crimes, leading to them rebranding themselves as the Decepticons, swearing vengeance on Optimus and the Autobots.
History[]
Past[]
| “ | We were once the High Guard. We witnessed Sentinel's betrayal; saw the Primes fall. Since that day, we've been fighting from the shadows, doing whatever we can sabotage Sentinel. | „ |
| ~ Starscream explaining the High Guard's origin. |
The High Guard were the most powerful Cybertronians and legendary warriors that were recruited; by the Thirteen Primes along; with their chief advisor, Sentinel. They had fought alongside the Primes to protect Cybertron against threats like the Quintessons. But after seeing Sentinel's betrayal as he slaughtered the Primes and usurped power with help from the Quintessons, the High Guard went into hiding on the surface continuing to fight in the shadows to sabotage Sentinel. However, over the next 50 cycles, they eventually came to believe that might makes right over unifying all of Cybertron. They established a base in an old Quintesson ship that crashed during the war.
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Following Orion Pax, D-16, Elita-1, and B-127's escape from the Death Trackers, they unknowingly trespassed into the High Guard's hiding spot, where they were mistaken for spies and captured for interrogation. But D-16 remained defiant and challenged Starscream for leadership, which ended successfully. But Airachnid leads Sentinel's forces to attack their headquarters before the D-16 could to launch an attack, capturing half of the High Guard, including D-16, Starscream, and Bee as prisoners.
In Sentinel's tower, the false Prime had planned to publicly execution them for treason, a siege had led by Orion and Elita; with the remaining High Guard; with Soundwave and Shockwave to free them. In the ensuing battle, the High Guard fought against Sentinal's legion; until D-16 had killed Sentinel; by ripping him apart. They then had assisted the now Megatron in destroying lacon, endangering everyone in the process, choosing to follow Megatron; even against Optimus Prime, the newly rebuilt Orion Pax equipped with the Matrix of Leadership. Following their rampage being halted and defeating Megatron, he had banished them all from lacon back to the surface.
Swearing vengeance on Optimus Prime, Megatron branded the High Guard; with the symbol of Megatronus face; completely reestablishing them as the Decepticons for the upcoming war against the Optimus Prime and the newly established Autobots.
Known Members[]
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Trivia[]
- The sticker of Megatronus Prime's mask that D-16 wore would eventually become the symbol for the Decepticons in the end.
- The sticker (and by extension Megatronus's face itself) is based on the original 1984 iteration of the Decepticon insignia, while the faction symbols that Megatron stamps on the Decepticons at the end of the post-credits scene are based on the badge's redesign from 2007 film.
- Unlike many continuities, in this continuity, Megatronus did not serve as the secret founder of the Decepticons, since he died before the alliance is born. Megatronus's only association with the alliance is his face being used as its emblem, due to Megatron idolize him.
- The Decepticons being former warriors that served to protect Cybertron appears to be similar to how the Decepticons were formed in the IDW comics of Michael Bay's Transformers films, in which the Decepticons once acted as the military guardians of Cybertron before their fallen descent. It also aligns with details from the Generation 1 cartoon continuity, which stated that the Decepticons were originally mass-market military robots.
- Considering on what happened to him in the film, D-16/Megatron is the only miner bot to become an Decepticon and not an Autobot, considering he is founder of the former after becoming the ruthless tyrant at the end of the film.
- The Decepticon's philosophy that all that matters is the strength of one bot over another ultimately proved to be flawed and is the reason why they fail to defeat Optimus in the final battle because:
- During the battle, Megatron spend most of the time try to shoot Optimus's face with his gun, and thus missed many opportunities to shoot him in the body.
- They prefer physical combat over strategy, which is evidence by how they all just charge at Optimus instead of shooting him from far or flying and then rain down firepower from above.
- They underestimate Optimus because they have a number advantage over him, not caring that Optimus was blessed with the Matrix, which contains the Primes's knowledge about the High Guard, including their weakness.
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