Galvatron - Transformers: Robots in Disguise

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

This version of Galvatron started out as Megatron a six-changer, powerful enough to transform into five additional modes besides his robot form - twin-headed dragon, bat-gargoyle creature, race car, spaceship and claw (GigaDragon, GigaBat, GigaFormula, GigaJet and GigaHand in Japanese). Each form has its own different frightening capabilities, making Megatron a very unstable and unpredictable fighter. (In Car Robots, each mode even had its own personality.) Unlike his namesake, Megatron would often sit back from a conflict and allow his subordinates to do the dirty work. Like his counterparts, he is arrogant, but unlike them, he also was incompetent, as most of his schemes were badly planned and badly executed.

In the original Car Robots series, the character was developed as a new, unique villain character (who turned into a modified hand-gun for another Decepticon to fire), rather than a Megatron, however the name was used in the US due to recognition, as well as maintaining ownership of the trademark.