Predacon Council

The three-memberPredacon Councilis in charge of thePredacons.Their identities are unknown to most Predacons, who can only speculate about their masters.

Fiction

2001Robots in Disguisecartoon

The Predacon Council sentMegatronto find and take control of the monolithic Autobot warriorFortress Maximus.Surprise Attack!Megatron refused to return to face the Council without having first destroyed the Autobots.Mystery of the Ultra Magnus

Shark Sonnets

One iteration ofSky-Bytewho ended up inAxiom Nexusadmitted to being unaware of the Council's agendas or make-up, only knowing that there were three of them. He believed Megatron to be a peer of the Councillors.Shark Sonnets, 2015/10/25

Notes

• The idea of the Predacon Council is likely derived from theTripredacus Councilfrom theBeast Warsseries(and "Shark Sonnets" cheekily added that there werethreeon this Council in 2015). The Predacon Council is a dub-original invention and does not exist in the Japanese version ofCar Robots.
• The existence of a Predacon governing body of superior authority toMegatron(and to which he is a loyal subordinate) seems at odds with how Megatron is portrayed in the rest of the series. Up until first mentioning the Predacon Council's existence, theRobots in Disguisecartoon depicts Megatron as if he is the sole leader of the entire Predacon faction. The series repeatedly states his main goal of conquering the universe all for himself, and introduces him as having already conquered several planets.Fortress Maximusis said to have been sent to Earth in the ancient past to protect the planet from Megatron. All this is likely meant to castRobots in DisguiseMegatron in a similar light to thetwoMegatronswho came before him, both of whom are self-serving and had no higher authority above them that they were loyal to (and the same is true of "Gigatron" in the original Japanese version). It seems the Predacon Council was added to the dub simply to give a surprise twist to Megatron's true reasons for coming to Earth, in the form of anotherBeast Warsreference squeezed into the series so late into its run.