Megatron is incredibly powerful & intelligent, the equal of Autobot Leader Optimus Prime. His fusion cannon can convert any small amount of matter into large quantities of explosive nuclear energy. The cannon can fire a blast up to 12 miles & release enough energy to flatten a small town. He can use his circuitry to connect the cannon interdimensionally with a black hole, where it can draw on anti-matter as its power source. The blast from this is greater, but it creates a tremendous strain to do this for even one blast.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Warrior

First Appearance: Transformers #1

: Skywarp can reach a top speed of 1500 mph. But what makes him unique is his ability to instantly teleport himself a maximum distance of 2.5 miles. He also carries a heat seeking missile launcher and a variable caliber machine gun.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Decepticon Aerospace Commander

First Appearance: Transformers #1

Starscream is one of the fastest flyers of the Decepticons, reaching speeds up to Mach 2.8. He can climb to suborbital altitudes of 52 miles and nose dive down to near ground level in mere minutes. This makes him particularly effective in surprise attacks and hit and run actions. He can shoot cluster bombs a distance of 40 miles, each of which can level an area 10,000 feet square. His null-ray rifle can interrupt the flow of electricity in any circuitry it hits for periods of up to two minutes, effectively preventing the operation of many machines dependent on those circuits during that period.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Warrior

First Appearance: Transformers #1

: Like his fellow Decepticon jet fighters, Thundercracker can attain speeds of up to 1500 mph. He has the additional ability to produce controlled sonic booms of deafening magnitude that can be heard within a 200 mile radius. He can launch a drone rocket with a range of 500 miles that behaves similarly to a cruise missile and has the concussive force of 3000 lbs. of TNT. He has a shoulder mounted automatic incendiary gun that shoots at 100 rounds per minute heat resistant ceramic bullets containing a highly explosive flammable material that ignites on impact.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Warrior

First Appearance: Transformers #1

His screaming voice and belligerent manner alone could shake up an opponent, but Frenzy can enhance this effect by spinning the drum like devices in his torso. Rolling the drums against each other produces a high pitched, grating sound of up to 200 decibels which can severely disrupt the electrical flow within the circuits of any one within earshot, resulting in all sorts of mechanical malfunctions. He's particularly adept at disorienting his opponents by neutralizing their auditory and balance centers.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Interrogation

First Appearance: Transformers #1

In robot mode, Laserbeak can fly at speeds of up to 250 mph two independently targetable laser canons that c an fly on their own. Laserbeak emits a laser beam that is able to pierce 2 inch thick plate steel at a distance of 30 miles. Laserbeak uses these beams like a surgeon uses his scalpels -with extreme precision. He employs this talent to persuade captives to reveal secret information - before he disposes of them.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Communications

First Appearance: Transformers #1

Soundwave's sensors can detect radio transmissions of the lowest energy levels. He can even "read minds" by monitoring the electrical impulses inside someone's brain circuitry, if he's standing nearby. He serves as the Decepticons' communications relay station -he can keep them all in radio contact with each other within a radius of 100 miles. His photographic memory is due to the immense information storage capacity of the magnetic disks in his chest. He carries a high amplification directional radio-wave sensor and a concussion blaster gun. He also has great physical strength.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Saboteur

First Appearance: Transformers #1

Ravage can hide his presence from others virtually completely. He can shield any electromagnetic radiation inside him from being detected by any monitoring devices. His walk is soundless. And he can disappear from sight in subdued light or shadows. He has his own monitoring devices in his nose module that give him a superior sense of smell, hearing and full spectrum electromagnetic wave detection. He carries two low radiation one megaton proton bombs, which he can fire over 3 miles distant or set in place with a timer.

Allegiance: Decepticon

Function: Military Operations Commander

Among the Decepticons, Shockwave's power is second only to Megatron's. His total command of the electromagnetic spectrum allows him in his gun-ray mode, to emit a coruscating beam of energy in a wide variety of forms: high-energy explosive gamma rays, x-rays that allow him to see through almost anything, blinding visible light, super-hot infrared rays and radio waves that can either send messages or jam other radio signals are but a few of the weapons in Shockwave's arsenal. Never having been adapted by the Ark to an Earthly form, Shockwave remains a size consistent with his robot mode when he transforms to a ray-gun, that is, more than 35 feet long. He can fly in either mode using powerful jet thrusters in his heels (which become the handle in his ray-gun mode.)