Summary

  • Skynet used Megatron's corpse to design the ultimate killer robot, creating Terminators unlike anything fans have seen before.
  • A T-800 Terminator unknowingly saved the Autobots by hunting down the Decepticons, altering the timeline and preventing a war between Transformers and Skynet.
  • The potential power of the Terminators created using Megatron's technology is unknown, but Skynet's previous creations have already proven to be incredibly powerful.

While it seems reasonable to assume the Transformers crossover. However, that isn’t to say that one couldn’t unwittingly help the other, as Skynet actually used Megatron to design the ultimate killer robot.

Skynet created the Terminators to eradicate what remained of the human race following its initial nuclear attack against humanity. After inventing time travel - which was quickly utilized by the humans - Skynet had to keep creating increasingly deadly Terminators, as its continuous failure to destroy the ever-growing human resistance was threatening its very existence. Some of the original Terminators were the T-800 models, which were the first to look human while secretly having a robotic endoskeleton. Then, Skynet developed the T-1000, otherwise known by fans as the ‘liquid metal Terminator’. Subsequent upgrades included Terminator 3: Rise of the Machine's T-X, the T-Infinity, and the Sky-1, though the greatest out of the bunch may very well be the Terminator derived from Megatron’s corpse.

Transformers’ Megatron Unwittingly Helped Create A Powerful Terminator

Terminator using Transformers to build an army.

In Transformers vs The Terminator by David Mariotte, John Barber, Tom Waltz, and Alex Milne, a T-800 is sent back in time to 1984 when the Cybertronians first launched their attack against humanity. What the Terminator didn’t know was that the future attack came only from the Decepticons, as all the Autobots in its original timeline were slaughtered before their existence to humans was even revealed. So, when this Terminator hunted down the Decepticons’ hidden base before they killed the Autobots, it unwittingly saved the Autobots and, in turn, gave itself a fighting chance against the Decepticons. In the end, the Terminator and the Autobots beat the Decepticons, Megatron was killed, and the war between the Transformers and Skynet (which originally included humans, before all the humans were killed) never took place. At least, that’s what the Transformers of the past initially believed, as the company behind the creation of Skynet, Cyberdyne, was revealed to be in possession of Megatron’s corpse on the final page of the last book, and they were using it to create ultimate Terminators.

While it is unknown how powerful these Terminators are, as the book ended before fans could see them in action, it’s fair to say that they would have been unlike anything fans have seen before - and Skynet’s original track record proves it. Without access to extraterrestrial technology that’s specific to robots and artificial evolution, Skynet already managed to create some of the craziest, most powerful machines one could think of. For instance, the aforementioned T-Infinity has the ability to travel through time at will, and even feel anomalies/changes to the timestream that could negatively impact Skynet. Plus, the Sky-1 Terminator model proved to be stronger than DC’s Superman and Steel together, taking the heroes down like they were nothing. Those two of countless other Terminator models were created with Skynet’s earthbound resources alone, so imagine what it could do with access to Megatron.

At this point, there are no plans for this limited series to continue, so fans will just have to speculate as to how strong these Terminator/Transformers could have been. But, this book is fairly new, so with the right kind of publisher-collaboration, there’s plenty of possibilities for the next chapter to be told. Until then, however, fans will have to be satisfied with the presumption that - based on Skynet’s previous accomplishments - the Terminators were able to use Transformers’ Megatron to design the ultimate killer robot.