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Ultra Magnus is the main antagonist of IDW Comics' 2021 Transformers: Shattered Glass series, a reboot of the 2008 Pun Publications series of the same name.
Once a shy, nerdy lawmaker who was working for Optimus Prime, he was appointed to be the head of his Secret Police, the Wreckers, to enforce Optimus' reign over Cybertron. Upon being criticized by Shockwave for his cowardice, Ultra Magnus has become more ruthless, overthrowing Optimus Prime to take control of the Titan, Metroplex, and use him to eliminate the Decepticons.
Personality[]
Ultra Magnus in this series is nothing unlike his mainstream characterization as Optimus Prime's loyal battle brothers who would ensure Prime's benevolent legacy can continue, as he is a treacherous, egotistical maniac who would turn on Optimus. Once a shy and nerdy bureaucrat who was a stickler for the rules, in truth he was always a spineless coward who secretly craved power for himself, which is why he is willing to abandon his principles to enable Optimus, a person he knows will abuse the law, and both him and Magnus' old friend, Shockwave will call him out on. Even back then, Ultra Magnus reacts very negatively to his ego being jabbed, such as violently throwing Kup at Impactor when the former snarked on how Ultra Magnus had no law for the current situation. While initially afraid of his own might, when Shockwave calls him out for his lack of backbone when it comes to morals, Ultra Magnus took this to heart and embraced his own ruthlessness that he gleefully carries out Orion's orders to torture Shockwave just so he can get back at Shockwave for his comment.
Ultra Magnus is perhaps even more dangerous than Optimus, especially by the present. While Optimus' pride makes him reluctant to act, Ultra Magnus takes notice to threats and tries to act first. He feels entitled to Optimus' success as he knows Ultra Magnus' Wreckers is why he got so far, and when Optimus brushed him one too many times, he betrays Prime and actually pulls off the coup. It also shows how insecure Ultra Magnus is, as he feels the Autobots will follow his lead on Optimus' former body, ultimately willing to do anything to ensure he himself can live up to his own inflated ego, no matter the cost.
Appearance[]
Appearance wise, this Ultra Magnus shares the same design of his appearance as his mainstream counterpart, being a stocky, boxy build with a colour-scheme and a helmet shaped similarly to Optimus, barring the mouthplate. Unlike his original version, this Magnus' helmet is red in colour and so are his optics. And the plain robotic face is not even his true face. It is simply a hologram to mask his real skull like face with blue optics with a horned helmet that is comparable to Bludgeon.
Biography[]
Ultra Magnus was originally a shy bureaucrat in Cybertron, knowledgeable on Cybertron's laws. This has allowed him to be the unofficial advisor to Orion Pax (the bot who will become Optimus Prime) to keep his attempts to rule over Cybertron legal. This will strain his friendship with Senator Shockwave, as they both know Orion doesn't care for the law and wants to abuse it the moment the time is right. That time comes when Orion has Magnus become the leader of his secret police force, to which Optimus bluntly calls out his secret lust for powers and take the job. When Shockwave confronts this, while Magnus tried to keep the peace, one of his men, Impactor, gets angered by Shockwave's barbs, to which another, Kup, snarks on how Magnus doesn't have a law to resolve the situation to which Magnus hurls Kup onto Impactor, dazing the former and heavily damaging the latter. Shockwave then asks if Magnus truly didn't know how to defuse the situation or really didn't want to until his ego was bruised, calling him as a coward.
This jab at Ultra Magnus' ego snaps him and he fully embraces his role as the ruthless leader of the Wreckers. Leaving Impactor's severely damaged body behind and dismissing him from the Wreckers, Ultra Magnus enforces Orion Pax's oppressive reign over Cybertron, culminating in him gleefully leading the Wreckers to massacre the entire Cybertronian Senate. Ultra Magnus personally ripped apart many of the Senators. At the end, he had Shockwave kidnapped under Orion's orders, gleeful in subjecting him to the barbaric Empurata torture, painfully removing his head and arms which are repalced with a fingerless and faceless arms and face to revoke his empathy, all to get back at Shockwave for his comment.
Thanks to Ultra Magnus, Orion Pax, who is now Optimus Prime, was able to secure his rise to power and enforced the Great War which will turn to Cybertron and Earth into desolate wastelands with only sparse pockets of civilization remaining, in which Magnus would secretly take out all threats to the Autobot supremacy. Long after the war is at the end and the Autobots had fractured into 3 factions that follow the 3 warlords, Optimus, Prowl and Goldbug (the new identity of Bumblebee). To keep tabs on what all is happening, Ultra Magnus has placed moles on each factions. Slicer was Ultra Magnus' appointed mole on Goldbug's team, keeping him up to speed on the unearthing of the titan, Metroplex. Once Goldbug's city, the Golden City, has fallen to the hands of Megatron and the Decepticon resistance, Ultra Magnus is not concerned about that, but on what would happen should Goldbug makes away with Starscream's immortal spark to awaken Metroplex.
Ultra Magnus then heads to Pax to discuss recent events, and when interrupted by Whirl and Sunstreaker who recites Cybertronian laws to bar him from entering to which Magnus intimidates them to let them into Optimus' room. Voicing his concerns on both the Decepticons claiming the Golden City and Goldbug being on his way to awaken Metroplex, Optimus is not interested, coming up with his own plan to instead use the Wreckers to simultaneously charge against Prowl, the Decepticons and Goldbug's Titan. Ultra Magnus is unimpressed, calling Optimus out on how he owes all of his successes to him. Performing a coup on Optimus, Ultra Magnus succeeds.
Still insecure over leading the Autobots as himself, Ultra Magnus has his and Optimus' bodies switched, to which while Ultra Magnus triumphs in Optimus Prime, Optimus can be left in a mutilated shell of Magnus' old body, his voice box disabled so he can't even scream in pain. Trying to awaken Metroplex, Ultra Magnus seeks to use the Titan to rampage all across Cybertron, hoping he could wipe out all Decepticons in the calamity that shall ensue. However, Slicer turns on Magnus as he sees Magnus for the madman he is, helping Soundwave face him off to which Magnus gets knocked out. By the time he reawakens, Jetfire removed Starscream's spark from Metroplex, sending him to crash down to the surface. Furious, Magnus tries to kill Soundwave however Slicer shoots him dead in disgust of how far he had fallen, sending his corpse to tumble out of Metroplex.
