3. Silverbolt (Beast Wars)
Honestly, Beast Wars could fill most of this list. Whereas some of the hardcore fanbase (i.e. late 20somethings with long-suffering spouses) consider it to have been a turning point in terms of canon, characterisation and long-term fanfiction jerkin/spurtin', any sane being could only conclude that Transformers turning into animals was lame as all hell. Silverbolt was one of the poster children or Beast Wars, turning into a totally kick-ass wolf/hawk hybrid with ye medieval values about cutting up Predicons and an unholy desire to do the nasty with spiders, later revamped into a peacock/humanoid hybrid who turns into Carmen Maranda on crack. Avoid this wreck at all costs, unless you want to see a complete jerkass emulate Batman by sucking hard.
2. The Twins (Revenge Of The Fallen)
Transfromers (2007) gets a lot of crap, but let's get real here: it was Michael Bay exercising his savant abilities to the max, melding Ferris Buller vs The Terminator with lashings of mech combat. Revenge of the Fallen proceeded to shit all over that legacy with a dull villan, waaay to much Shia LaBeouf and all the toy tie-ins no sane human could ever give a crap about, ever. The Twins top the bunch with mechanical minstrel show attitude and little to no revelance to the plot at hand: Transformers 2 was packing an Autobot made of swords but still focused hard on these racist nitwits - one of them voiced by Spongebob Squarepants himself, Tom Kenny. A charitable analysis might find these two robbo-klan dorkasses to be parodies of the Xbox Live subculture but let's be brutal here - this was a Michael bay film here, and he finds this kind of shit funny. And thus was Transformers 2 only barely a fun alternative to testicular torsion.
1. Megatron (Generation 1)
Some claim Megatron is one of the most sinister and enduring villains of the Saturday morning idiot box. These people have somehow ignored the fact this ancient galactic dominator transforms into... a nine millimetre handgun! Had Megatron limited his endless thirst for conquest to liquor stores he would have experienced relative success, but the tin-plated douche set his sights on fighting trucks, tanks and robot dinosaurs, all the while promoting a fully functional fighter jet who openly expressed the desire to murder Megatron every three seconds. The original Megatron toy (hastily repurposed from the Japanese Microchange line of tiny, impotent cowards in hiding) also has what can only be described as a trusting robot dong with a trigger guard. Hasbro soon wised up, and Megatron became a tank. A tank with bright neon jungle camo. You know, for infiltrating sweet macaw raves.
