One of the things that has ensured the Transformers' popularity since they were first on television in the eighties is the characters. One of the other things is the fact that they transform from robots to vehicles but that's another story. It is common for writers to focus on a great good guy character and ignore the bad guys. Look at Superman as an example. Just as much effort was put into the Decepticons as the Autobots and there are great characters on both sides.
Some of the most popular Decepticons all have their origins in the original Transformers cartoon.
Starscream is by far one of the most popular Decepticons. He is one of Megatrons soldiers and sees himself as second in command. Starscream is always trying to find a way to get any advantage he can over Megatron and take leadership of the Decepticons. Starscreams problem is that he is a coward and inferior in power to Megatron. He has had his moments though. In the 1985 animated movie he enjoyed a very brief reign as leader before Megatron came back as Galvatron and blew him away.
Soundwave is another very popular Decepticon. In the original series he transforms from a cassette player into a robot and can fire out cassettes which turn into animal robots. Soundwave has a very distinctive vocoder style of voice and is often the loyal strong silent type always willing to do Megatrons bidding.
Devastator is a Decepticon made up of five separate robots called the Constructicons. They combine to form Devastator who stands over three times the size of the majority of Autobots. Devastator was seen in the Transformers movie Revenge of the Fallen but was radically different to how he is in the cartoons. He was still comprised of Constructicons but his design was based on a gorilla so he had a stooping lumbering presence.
Megatron is the leader of the Deceptcons and has a reputation as a maniac on and off the battlefield. Megatron inspires devotion through fear and a lot of violence. In the original television series he was always cooking up new schemes to get his hands on some Energon.
Megatron has transformed into many things including a tank and a Cybertronian Jet but his most famous incarnation is as a gun which is then used by one of the other Decepticons. This form of mass shifting was deemed too unbelievable for the Transformers live action movie. However, mass shifting does occur in the film when Bumblebee changes the all spark from a huge structure into a small cube.
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