Mega

Mega
Personal details
Status	Deceased
Died	Killed by A.I Zoot
Residence	The Hotel (Former)
Also known as	Josh
Physical description
Sex	Male
Skin color	Brown
Hair	Black
Eye color	Brown
Affiliation
Tribe	Technos
Position	Leader of the Technos (Former)
Relations
Parents	Unknown †
Siblings	Slade (Older Brother)
Appearances
Introduced	Series 4 Episode 41
Last appeared	Series 5 Episode 52
Portrayed by	Calen Maiava-Paris
S4 • S5

Mega is a techno and becomes their leader after Ram is overthrown.

Originally an ordinary Techno with uncertain loyalties. He helps the Mall Rats in taking down Ram, but is revealed to be manipulating the city into giving him power by creating the Zootists to scare the city. He introduces barcodes, checkpoints, and other strict regimes – revealing that he is worse than Ram, a conqueror under the guise of someone lending aid.

The Mall Rats later defeat him and he is revealed to be Slade's long lost brother. When Ram attempts to regain control by installing an AI Zoot into the Techno computers, it goes haywire and threatens to release the Virus Mark II, which Mega had been created as a last resort.

Although he initially didn't want to help, Mega attempts to stop the AI but is wounded in Reality Space and dies just before the virus is released into the city. It's later revealed in The Tribe: (R)Evolution that he was mostly responsible for Ved's disappearance.

Personality

A cold hearted human who doesn't let emotions get in the way of his plans, Mega is first seen as an ordinary Techno, who is very clever and knows a lot about computers. Mega is one of Ram’s right hand men. He controls all the intricate electrics of the city and is a computer whizz. He is very focussed with anything he does and won’t be distracted.

His intentions are not clear until Series 5, where it is revealed he had bigger ambitions and dictatorship than Ram. Believing it is for the best of the city, he creates the Zootists as a ploy to scare the City to ask for his help. As a result, he creates barriers around the city as 'protection' which he planned to expand until the entire City came under his control. Even going so far as to brand everyone with barcodes and threatening the Mall Rats to be thrown outside the barriers if they didn't cooperate, this forces Amber to be his puppet announcer.

Mega is very manipulative and cunning. This is shown when he was able to fool Jay, May, Amber and Trudy into doing his bidding by pretending to gain their trust and discarding them once they proved their usefulness. But Mega was mostly like this due to feeling anger and betrayal from his brother Slade, who he believed abandoned him. Mega refuses to acknowledge Slade until he is mortally wounded in Virtual Reality, confessing he had been completely wrong before dying.

History

Pre-Tribe

A young Mega

Slade decided to lure the tribe away from the caravan, promising he'll be back. Slade was captured but managed to break free, but he returned to the caravan only to find that Josh was gone. Slade becomes determined to find his younger brother ever since.

After the virus, Slade and his younger brother Josh (later known as Mega) hid in the safety of their caravan. When a tribe was intending on breaking into their caravan, Slade wanted to run but Josh was too scared to move.

Series 4

Calm, collected, and highly intelligent, this self-assured Techno officer assumes the guise of aiding the Mall Rats in toppling Ram from power, but guise it is. Though his motives seem pure on the surface, it is clear that they are not. This begins when Tai San makes a reappearance as a Techno, bringing the revelation that he had a hand in her reprogramming and brainwashing.

When Tai San rebels against this in belief that the Technos are about to wipe out the Mall Rats, Mega sends her away, only to reappear in the aftermath of the fake-out as if nothing had passed between them. With Jay, Amber and the rebels, Mega helped them overthrow Ram, who is dumped on the city's garbage heap by Mega.

Series 5

When Ram disappears from the garbage heap, Mega makes himself leader of the Technos. Alongside Java, the two are undertaking a city-wide scale plan to sow disorder and chaos in an effort to force the tribes into relying on the Technos. The main form of this is holographic representations of Zoot, targeted specifically at Ebony in order to break down her mind. It does exactly that. Ebony starts to lose it, freaking out at the return of Zoot, enabling her sisters to mold her into the new Zootists, which enables even more chaos.

With his plan all lining up, Mega begins to slowly morph the city and the Technos to his vision, under the guise of keeping the city safe. When the Mall Rays start to grow wary and rebel against Mega, he brings Jay and Amber in and tries to reprogram them. Unfortunately it works in the case of Jay and he loses his memory.

The Resistance manage to get Jay his memory back and they mount an attack, with the help of the former Techno Leader, Ram. Their plan works, bringing Mega down. It is whilst he is locked up that we discover that he is Slade’s brother, Josh. The two are polar opposites so this comes as quite a shock. Mega is cold to him because he believes his brother abandoned him after the virus came.

When the AI that Ram creates takes over the City, Ram cannot disable it and they bring in Mega to help. Although he manages to defeat the AI Zoot, Mega is wounded and ends up dying only moments before the Virus Mark II is released, but not before confessing to Slade he had been wrong to blame him.

The Tribe: (R)Evolution

When Ram, Jack and Ellie flee to the former Techno base located in Ram's hometown, they discover Ved is residing there and created a new tribe called The Virts. It's revealed Mega was the one who instigated Ved's disappearance by continuously accusing Ved of possible disloyalty to Ram, who decided to have him deleted. Ved survived his banishment in slavery and was able to flee to the former Techno base.

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Trivia

• Mega's actor, Calen Maiava-Paris, had originally auditioned for the role of Ram but didn't get the part. He was called a few months later to play the role of Mega instead.
• Before debuting as Mega, Calen played a Casino Minder and Trader in Series 2 Episode 7 and 16.
• His name is a clear reference to the term MEGABYTE which refers to one million bytes of information. He probably took the name as a tribute to his large memory similar to Ram.
• Mega and Patch are the only two characters who regularly wear glasses.
• Mega is somewhat based on the Antichrist in the Bible. Both first appear as heroes, both eventually become dictators, and both force people to bear a mark.
• Mega, along with Zoot and Ned, are the only characters on the show whose death was planned and not affected by their actor's sudden unavailability. Unlike most of the characters who were written out due to their actors quitting.
• Mega was voted by fans as 4th Greatest Villain in a 2015 poll.