Trypticon (Aligned)

"You cannot stop me, Autobots. I am... Trypticon. I am... your death."

- Trypticon, War For Cybertron Trypticon is a major antagonist and final boss of ''War For Cybertron. ''He is Megatron's transformable orbital cannon.

War For Cybertron
After Optimus Prime learned of the corruption of the Core, he ordered an evacuation of all Autobots. When Megatron started using his space station to blow up the ships, Optimus Prime sent Jetfire, Air Raid, and Silverbolt to destroy the station. Flooding it with coolant while under heavy fire, the jets were about to blow it up, until they discovered that the station itself was alive. At this point, the Trypticon orbital weapon gun began first targeting locations on Cybertron before acquiring the coordinates for Optimus Prime. The fliers hoped that they could prevent Iacon's destruction by destroying Trypticon's conversion cog, reverting him to his robot mode.

However, his robot mode was a gigantic, metal dinosaur. Jetfire destroyed his jetpack, and Trypticon plummeted to the planet below. Optimus, Ironhide, and Bumblebee went to investigate the crash and battled the titan, destroying his shoulder-mounted weapons systems by overloading them with energon batteries. The Autobots proceeded to shoot his exposed heat vents and to destroy a set of three power cores along his shoulders and back. Defeated, Trypticon made a last-ditch effort to attack, but lost his balance and fell into an energon lake below when Optimus Prime hit him with his axe.

Fall of Cybertron
After his defeat, Trypticon's body was salvaged from the Energon pool, and dismantled, kept in pieces. Sometime later, Shockwave informed Megatron of a planet rich with resources that they could reach by space bridge, and all they needed was a vessel to take them there. While the scientist worked on the space bridge, the leader led an assault on the labs where Trypticon's body parts were being held. Piece by piece, the Decepticons were able to retake the monster's body. Eventually, after some tinkering, Soundwave was able to reassemble Trypticon despite his gargantuan size. Soundwave stated that there was massive damage to the reptilian Decepticon, and it would likely take some time to repair. However, Megatron had a different idea. While unsure if the stationary Trypticon could hear him, Megatron scolded the silent brute, stating that he had not only failed to destroy the Autobots, but had failed his leader.

As punishment, Megatron initiated the Nemesis protocol, taking apart and transforming Trypticon's body into a warship. Soundwave stated that due to the massive damage to his body, Trypticon would remain a warship permanently. Megatron cared not, and carried out the procedure, with a frozen Trypticon helpless to do anything but comply. The Nemesis, as it was now referred to as, pursued the Ark as it departed Cybertron, and engaged it in a fierce ship-to-ship battle in front of the wormhole of a space bridge. After Optimus and Megatron dueled, the space bridge began tearing both ships apart, and ultimately sucked them both in.