Transformers Do you think the devastator name is a placeholder for megatron himself?

[Iceburgeruk]

Finally, I’m guessing the tank pictures are Devastator – a Tank Decepticon who wreaks havoc in the big-ass giant robot brawl late in the film

OH! For those Talkbackers wondering about Megatron in this movie...Megatron is a JET in this draft of the script. There are indications that certain Transformers' names and/or "identities" may have/might still change, so I suppose there's a chance this might not stick. And, Optimus is a truck.

A tank with devastator`s name in a fight late in the film. Sounds like they are trying to dodge fan arguements about the gun-tank issue by bringing in the cyberton jet bit as a red herring and secretly having megatron as the tank. It just seems to make sense to me they get the fans complaining about the cybertron jet idea so that the whole tank/gun issue is long forgotten when the movie comes out.

Thereby many fans will be so angry that megatron is supposed to be a cyberton jet that when they reveal in the cinema that he is a tank fans will be relieved and forget that they ahd spent 200 pages of message board space saying they would blow up ilm if megatron was a tank and not a gun.

It`s like the way marvel brought organic webshooters into the spidey comic. In a plotline they gave spidey organic webshooters and the ability to talk to insects and bugs. Fans were so annoyed by talking to bugs rubbish that the backlash over the organic webshooters was far more muted than the inferno that erupted when the idea was put forward in the pre-production of the spidey movie. A couple of months later the bug talking ability was dropped and then fans had been coerced into accepting the organic webshooters bit.

I dunno if the organic webshooters bit is still there in the comics but the ploy was sound and very cunning.

 

[DorkyFresh]

if the tank DOES have a battle late in the film, then i'm more inclined to believe that it IS Megatron.

Megatron as a tank.....makes sense. Megatron as a jet....doesn't make sense.

Megatron has to appear all powerful and a LEADER of the Decepticons. a tank perfectly fills that role. a jet fits Starscream much more than it does Megatron...especially since i don't remember any jets ever having a huge cannon (like the one strapped to Megatron's arm).

oh...and this will help me sleep tonight, hehe

And, Optimus is a truck.

 

[WalkingDead]

It all depends on how it's done. If in the script Devastator stands around with Megatron in certain scenes, then NO, the tank is it's own TF.

If in the script the tank is in battles but not seen with Megatron. Then YES, more than likely the tank is Megatron.

 

[zer00]

It is highly possible. The tank does look Megatronish. I guess I wouldn't count out the possibility. All in all the changing of the names in the script idea are working pretty well to keep us on our toes. they did say months ago that Megs would be a tank. And like Walking said, if he appears in scenes WITH megatron, then he's a different character. And if Jet Megatron is refered to by name then there's a bigger chance of Megatron being a jet.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Since we don't have the actual script it's impossible to tell but this Stealth Jet they have is a big deal so i could see them wanting it to be the main villain but is it possible Megs could have 2 transforming modes in this and be both ?

 

[Iceburgeruk]

Since we don't have the actual script it's impossible to tell but this Stealth Jet they have is a big deal so i could see them wanting it to be the main villain but is it possible Megs could have 2 transforming modes in this and be both ?

That is true. That would make megatron seem even more powerful if he was the first triple changer to be seen in the transformers movieverse.

(And on a related point glance over at the sequels board. No one seems to have noticed my poll about what should be included in the second film. If you simply don`t care at this point then it doesn`t matter.)