BEASTIES!!Originally Posted by Megatrons Cannon
When the Beast Wars toys first came out (so before the cartoon was out), the toy bios and comic portrayed them as being continuations of the Autobots and Decepticons - i.e. that Optimus Primal was Optimus Prime in a new form and Megatron was G1 Megatron etc. But then when Vancouver based Mainframe Entertainment made the cartoon, they threw that out the window and created a new canonical premise where the Maximals and Predacons were NOT the Autobots and Decepticons with new modes, but rather the descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons - centuries after the Autobot-Decepticon "Great War" had ended and the old factions were officially disbanded.
I think Beasties Megatron is a great character; whereas G1 Megatron was more inclined to use direct force, BW Megtron used guile/deception and played everyone (allies and enemies) off each other in order to obtain his goals. As Beasties Megatron once adaptly said, "Deception is the better part of valour."
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