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When theGeneration 2animated series was aired, animated bits of the film with Unicron in it were edited into the episode "More Than Meets The Eye Part 1". Primus is the twin brother of Unicron, his eternal foe, whom he battled for eons This was subsequently expanded on and combined with aspects of the various Marvel Comics stories inTransformers: The Ultimate Guide, published by Dorling Kindersley and written bySimon Furman, who had written all three prior tellings in the first place. Death's Head then aided Rodimus Prime, projecting his mind into Unicron's where they battle, until Unicron's head was destroyed by explosives, and his essence was sealed within the Matrix. WriterSimon Furmanrevealed that a future storyline of theEnergoncomic would have included another attack by Unicron, had the series continued. InThe Transformers: The Movie,after the Decepticons flee from a battle with the Autobots, they dump their mortally-wounded comrades into space. 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Grill, Awakened by the restoration of Cybertron, Unicron cast around for a new vessel for his anti-spark, and found Megatron's body at the bottom of the ocean. With Unicron's destruction inEnergon, the collapse of his body resulted in the creation of an enormousblack holewhich, if left unchecked, would consume and destroy everything. Much to everyone's shock, a volcano near the site of Optimus and Megatron's battle exploded and released a load of Dark Energon from the Earth's core. The character Unicron first appeared in the opening scene of 1986'sThe Transformers: The Movie, immediately making clear his driving goal by consuming the small world ofLithonein the year 2005. Defeated Primus in combat and Primus had to trick him into becoming a planetoid. Eventually escaping Bumblebee, Unicron flies after Optimus and Unicron then opens the container, but upon finding it empty, he realizes too late that it is a trick, and his energy form is sucked into the container, freeing Megatron from his control and defeating Unicron once and for all, also destroying his legions of undead Predacons. Unicron soon made his presence known to the Transformers much earlier than 2005. Thus, Megatron becameGalvatron, and began to carry out his assigned task, although he was loath to do so. Later, theCybertronTransformers learned fromPrimushimself that destroying Unicron resulted in an imbalance between good (Primus, who still existed) and evil (Unicron, who was gone); this imbalance factored into the creation of the black hole, known as the Unicron Singularity in American fiction or the Grand Black Hole in Japan. With Megatron trapped in the rift, Unicron does not encounter the Decepticon leader, and therefore does not make theFaustian Pactto reformat him intoGalvatron. Using these, they were able to make a decisive strike by teleporting the entire Decepticon army to Cybertron, then teleportingCybertronto the far reaches of space. Unicron is one of the biggest, fiercest threats to peace and order in the Transformers universe, but the character had never appeared in the Transformers film series until now. The following piece contains spoilers for Transformers: The Last Knight. Although he immediately sank back into slumber, Primus's scream echoed throughout the universe, to the fringes of known space where Unicron heard it. It failed, due to a combined strike byProwl's Autobots andShockwave'sDecepticons, with the Fallen being killed byPrimushimself. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. WebBefore entering a voluntary system's shutdown, Primus created the Matrix of Leadership to serve as a conduit of his essence in order to guide the transformers against Unicron. Subsequently, when the battered bodies of Decepticon leaderMegatronand several of his troops were set adrift in space byStarscreamfollowing a furious battle with theAutobots, Unicron appeared before them and offered Megatron a deal: in exchange for a new body, and new troops, Megatron would destroy theAutobot Matrix of Leadership, the only thing that could stand in Unicron's way. Sure enough, BW sequel comic Primeval Dawn depicts a revived Tarantulas as a creation of Unicron. Meanwhile, Megatron ordered the Decepticon Miners to mine the Dark Energon that spilled and at the same time he sought Unicron's attention at the maw of a volcano. He used pieces of Unicron to remake his body, as well as reviveStarscream, his most loyal subject. "The one" was a dimension in which created Primus and Unicron. The black hole itself has begun to devour space and time, unravelling historical events and building new ones. One of the thirteen turned on Primus and sided with Unicron, however, and the war culminated in a battle that saw Unicron and this traitor, the "Fallen", sucked through a black hole into another universe. With the engines now burnt out and no energy on the planet, the Decepticons were marooned there, at the cost of the Autobots never being able to go home. AlthoughDreamwave Productions' Unicron Trilogy comics were cut short halfway through theirTransformers: Energonseries, they were able to establish a very important piece of information that would be used to shape Unicron's story in future fiction. Oh, how convenient! Though the Fallen was stripped of his name as punishment for his betrayal, its legacy would live on when the leader of the Decepticons took the name for himself. There were two early attempts to produce Unicron toys for theTransformerstoyline, featuring voice clips from Welles himself, but the results never made it to production. While writerSimon Furmanhad ruled out Unicron in the main IDW G1 series, this did not prevent him from using Unicron in hisBeast Warsseries. Joe vs the Transformerscrossover produced by Devil's Due. The first modern retelling of the origins of Primus and Unicron did not come from G1-oriented media, but from a set of Armada trading cards released by Fleer. But the power of Unicron proved too much for Megatron to control, as Unicron began to take over Megatron's body. Here Unicron never even transformed to robot mode. It turns out that Optimus had stored the Allspark in the Matrix of Leadership and would soon take the Matrix into the Well, sacrificing himself to ensure the return of Cybertronian life. All rights reserved. Rodimus and several other future Autobots subsequently traveled back in time to 1989 and participated in the "Time Wars", but when they attempted to return to their own time afterward, they discovered that disruptions to the timestream had erased their future, and replaced it with one where the Decepticons ruled Cybertron. In theTransformers: Cybertroncomics, the tank version of Unicron is only the same size as an average Transformer, and is shorter than the AutobotsSentinel MaximusandOmega Prime, whom he fought. His interference includes trapping all the Decepticons in a spacial rift, with the knowledge that Unicron would soon be attacking Cybertron. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. As the war between Unicron and Primus went on, Primus realized that he was no match for his brother in combat. In Episode 16 ofBeast Machines, Rattrap called Megatron's floating head a tribute to Unicron. Amazingly, Unicron accomplished this task, wiping out all life, planets, stars and nebulae, even "the stuff of space itself" in the universe and leaving only nothingness and void. In one issue,Soundwavewas dispatched to Cybertron afterRamjetandNemesis Prime's failure. Unicron then destroyed Lithone, before beginning to journey to Earth. Unicron was defeated in his attempt to destroy Cybertron very early in its history, but emanations of his presence remained and were gathered and stored onTrypticonStation. Round 1: Both are in robot form. He had slept peacefully, alone in thevoidof un-creation that remained, until fragments of the old universe that he had overlooked reacted, causing the Big Bang and birthing the current universe. For the 20th anniversary of the original movie, Diamond Select released an eight and a half inch tall statue of Unicron and Rodimus Prime. This time he was able to physically eat planets like his Generation 1 self. 2023 Oscars predictions: See who will win at the 95th Academy Awards. The Transformers club comic has further developed Unicron's story for theCybertronera, attempting to fill in the plot holes. But Unicron was an imperfect being and turned to evil, adapting his form to transform into a giant robot. Managed to get The Fallen to betray Primus and join him. However, several references were made to consumption, so he may indeed perform the action. Hook didn't last much longer, being destroyed by an awakened Primus. Unicron formed from a cliffside as a stone likeness of his old body near Optimus, while the Autobot leader made a passioned plea to the Chaos Bringer to spare the planets' inhabitants. Although many of the official television and comics appearance of Unicron appear to present separate and distinct incarnations of the character, some writers have presented an interpretation of the sources that ties all the versions of Unicron together into a single continuity. This timeline's version of Galvatron was pulled back to 1990 by Hook, Line and Sinker and press-ganged into Unicron's service, but, like his predecessors, turned on his master by forcing Emirate Xaaron to awaken Primus in hopes of destroying Unicron. Pam Grier reflects on her most iconic roles, from, Bay has called his final go-around with the characters. Unshackled, Unicron went on a cosmic rampage, destroying all he found, with the end goal of consuming reality itself. However, his self-interestmeant hewas exiled from that faction as well. (Only one of the other gods was ever named - the Chronarchitect. To explore the fledgling universe, he created the astral being known as Unicron, and then subdivided him, creating his twin,Primus. Primus would stomp if he was at full power ( at a chunk of his power he crushed Emperor StarScream) and if not full power , he would probably still win ( it be similar to him vs Giant StarScream). In the first use of this timeline, in the mega-serial,Target: 2006, Galvatron travelled back in time in an attempt to escape the control of Unicron, but Unicron was able to ensnare the minds of three Autobots - Hot Rod,KupandBlurr- and send them back in time after him to foil his plot. It is suggested, in fact, that the two brothers embody the basic concepts of reality - good and evil, order and chaos - and that their continued existence is necessary for the stability of the multiverse. The voice cast includes Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime and John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane) as Hound. Before he merged with the Core, Optimus Prime recalled Unicron's great surprise at being trapped forever in the AllSpark container. In one such vision, Megatron glimpsed the shadowed face of Unicron himself, and claimed that it was as if he could hear Unicron's own thoughts. In order to re-energise himself, Unicron implanted some of his own cells within Cybertron, where they grew and "hatched", giving birth to the diminutive race of robots called theMini-Cons. Taking control of his body for a brief moment, Galvatron once again sacrificed himself in order to stop Unicron, plunging himself into the infant sun, which ignited and gave new life to Alpha-Q's worlds. However, he spared three inhabitants, recreating them as mechanical servants Hook, Line, & Sinker. Autobots, Decepticons, and humans have all united in order to stop the threat of Unicron across the multiverse; if Unicron is the threat we're going to see in The Last Knight, both factions of Transformers may have to work together (along with old and new human protagonists) to save the universe. Jumping at the chance to work with a new cast of characters not involved in the American comics, writerSimon Furmandecided to cannibalize the best elements of the movie and work them into his stories, creating a future universe based on the movie's events, but different from the cartoon. Unicron's head was subsequently blown off into space by an explosion instigated by the Autobots. Unfortunately, over time, Unicron learned to physically shape his prison into a giant metallic planet, and Primus followed his brother, where primus planet would become the mechanical world ofCybertron. One Shall Rise, Part 1, In his three years in space, Megatron discovered the solidified form of Dark Energon, rumoured to be "the blood of Unicron". The Chaos Bringer offered Megatron a new body in exchange for servitude faced with no other choice, Megatron agreed and was remade as Galvatron. Dissatisfied by his new body's performance in battle, he tracked down Predaking, whom Megatron claimed was a loyal warrior. After gathering the capsules, Unicron attempted to make Cybertron his new body, but was finally defeated by Maximal commanderBig Convoyand his Matrix Cannon. The black hole was born, and Megatron was freed. While the Autobots retreated to base to consider Megatron's plan, the Decepticon leader engaged more of the stone Unicrons, smashing them as fast as Unicron could produce them. 177. The group fought them until they reached Unicron's anti-spark with Optimus Prime and Megatron ventured inside. This telling is effectively the same as the previous UK story, but mentions that their battle was towards the end of the era of gods, that Primus and Unicron were the last of their respective pantheons, and Primus had to defeat Unicron before he could take his place with the other gods in the "Omniversal Matrix". A collection of Furman's favorite Decepticons, the Heralds of Unicron wereG1Galvatron, Scourge, Bludgeon, Thunderwing, and Dirge, all culled from universes Unicron had previously devoured. Unicron denied Optimus's pleas, as he considered the humans "parasites", and he birthed multiple copies of himself from the landscape that surrounded Optimus Prime. Vector Prime then created a time loop around Unicron to keep him in stasis and prevent him from ever awakening. Unicron was created near the beginning of the universe by the diminutive genius known asPrimacron, who intended for him to devour all life in the universe, leaving a blank slate that Primacron could use as he saw fit. We spoke of and anticipated this figure once we ordered it from Haslab. As Optimus attempted to fight off waves of power from Unicron, Megatron was forcibly possessed by the ancient god and set against the Autobot leader. Having transcended physical form, Unicron begins to awaken as he berates Megatron for thinking of being his servant. Primus is the creator of all Transformers, Autobots and Decepticons, and loves them as his children; as a consumer of worlds, Unicron doesn't ally himself with anyone - certainly not the Decepticons. Stockade believed they could renew Cybertron by summoning a new power source, one related to the AllSpark. When Unicron eventually attacked Cybertron in the midst of the chaos caused by a Mini-Con civil war,Sentinel MaximusandOmega Primefought him off with the help of their allies. Though Megatronus succeeded in drawing out the Anti-spark, he was ultimately thwarted by the efforts of Bumblebee's team, aided by the revived Optimus Prime, and the Anti-spark returned to Earth's core. After Unicron's demise a meteor of Dark Energon with Thunderwing sealed within crashed on Earth,Optimus Primecame across the meteor and found Thunderwing who revealed that he was a minion of Unicron and his mission was to destroy the Matrix. He relented after the misunderstanding was cleared up. Also he had no energy weapons besides his eye beams and mouth fire, Primus was built like a tank with both his cyber key hand cannons, dual shoulder cannons, Leg missiles, and moon chucks. Travelling across realities, he arrived to find that the Autobots and Decepticons had already defeated Unicron, but elected to remain in this world for a time to safeguard against his potential return. His head was soon visited byCyclonus, who accessed the memory bank to discern the fate of Galvatron, who had been hurled from Unicron through space byRodimus Prime. Primal Scream. But even then, given who's telling them the so-called truth, that could very much The war between Unicron and Primus came to its seeming end during a climactic battle in which one of the Thirteen, Megatronus Prime, who would forever afterwards be known asThe Fallen, betrayed Primus and became an acolyte of Unicron. Unicron is the evil twin brother of Primus, who is the creator god of the Transformers. The storyline for theBotconfan convention from 1998 to 2000 featured Unicron's life force ending up on prehistoric Earth following the destruction of his body inTransformers: The Movie. [11]Unicron appears in a flashback in "The Coming Storm: Part 1". A theory about God that doesn't require looking through a telescope. It was the backstory printed on Unicron's card which introduced the concept of the two being brothers created to explore the new universe by an extra-dimensional entity, here named the "Allspark". While Unicron did not appears in theTransformersfilm series, he still appeared in the comics. Unicron has his universe's Galvatron and the rest of the G1 Deceptions. How exactly he factors into the current iteration of the myth is unknown.). Thunderwing even went as far as to seek help from the Decepticons for the repairs needed. However, it was first developed in the 2003 Transformerscomic mini-series "War Within: The Dark Ages." And so Unicron went on to become the engine of destruction that menaced the universe in recent years. Primus himself immediately slipped back into his sleep, but it was too late. Through this disguise, Shockwave orchestrated the creation of Unicron by the Antillans, whose planet the Transformers had invaded. The Dreamwave equivalent of Unicron may be the same size, as the Cybertron of the Dreamwave universe was also said to be the size of Saturn. Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Primus went on to become the planet Cybertron, and grew new life in the form of Transformers; Unicron eventually learned to transform his planet form into a giant robot form using the energy from consumed planets, and went on to become the scourge of the multiverse. This was subsequently expanded on and combined with aspects of the various Marvel Comics stories in Transformers: The Ultimate Guide, published by Dorling Kindersley and written by Simon Furman, who had written all three prior telling in the first place. In fact, one scene in the movie shows Jazz driving out of one of Unicron's eyes, just small enough to fit through them, though in another scene the Quintesson ship Hot Rod arrived is tiny compared with the eye. From Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett to a potential Best Supporting Actress toss-up, see who EW thinks will win at the 2023 Oscars. Shockwave's ultimate plan was to let Unicron devour Cybertron, and with it the mystical Talisman, which held the power to destroy the Chaos Bringer. The positively-charged Energon of Earth reacted with the negatively-charged Energon running through Unicron, tearing open a fissure in reality leading to a new area of space where planets Unicron consumed were recreated and sustained through the Energon radiated from Unicron's head, which had now become a glowing red sun. [citation needed]In this version of events, Unicron and Primus were again twin heralds, giant metal planetoids created by the "One", who were sent to explore the universe. - December 6, 2016 12:50 pm EST. [6][7]In season 3, it is shown that the eyes fromMetroplexandTrypticon(both city-sized Transformers) are the perfect size to use as replacement parts when Unicron orders the ghost of Starscream to steal them. Before the Primus/Unicron mythos reached its present form it went through several distinct versions in the Marvel Generation 1 comics and elsewhere. In "Revelations, Part 2", whenOptimus Primewas called to another dimension to fight Unicron's heralds, he reflected back on the final battle between Primus's forces and Unicron's army - where Unicron would have suddenly disappeared, his existence ended by the black hole created by his defeat inTransformers: Energon. Until, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. After Unicron's demise, a meteor of Dark Energon with Thunderwing sealed within crashed on Earth. Unicron seized control of his body again for a new vessel and set out to rejoin with his Spark, but aPrimus-empowered Optimus Supreme engaged him in battle once more, and drew all of Unicron's consciousness out of Galvatron and sealed it within his own Spark. With the danger apparently over, Galvatron challenged Prime to a final battle, but the hatred between the foes stirred Unicron to life again, and upon realizing this, Galvatron decides to sacrifice himself to make sure there will be no more hatred. He used his Dark Energon to revive the Predacons as an army of Terrorcons, and led them across the Hydrax Plateau to the Well of All Sparks. Per Unicron's telling of events, he was a primal force of evil at the dawn of the universe, who led a legion of Dark Armies against his mortal foe, Primus, Lord of the Light Gods (note the plural). Although Unicron had played a major role in the above-mentioned Japanese series, he had not been featured as a major player in American fiction for over a decade. Unicron is dangerously powerful. It is unfortunate how badly underestimated and downplayed he is. Unicron is superior to his brother, Primus. Hes Round 2: Primus has assistance from the Autobots of his universe. Though Unicron's role in the story itself was suitably minor, it offered the first glimpse of his greater mental power. In 1987, Simon Furman began writing the U.S.Transformersseries in addition to the UK comics, and immediately set in motion an epic Unicron-themed story. The Decepticons may be the most frequent antagonists in theTransformers franchise, but there is often an even greater evil lurking in the shadows: The Chaos Bringer, Unicron. To explore the fledgling universe, he created the astral being known as Unicron, and then subdivided him, creating his twin, Primus. The darkness particularly grew in Prima, whom Unicron had physically bitten, who had created a chart tracking which of the Primes were more similar to Primus and Unicron. When the war on this planet between the forces of Maximal leaderLio ConvoyandPredaconleaderGalvatron(a different individual bearing the same name as Unicron's original creation) culminated in the explosion of Galvatron'sNemesisbattle fortress, the resultant energy surge revived Unicron's consciousness. WebPrimus is the living creator-God of the Transformer race, whose body became the planet Cybertron. His lust for destruction finally sated, Unicron entered a deep sleep - but he had not been thorough enough. However later in the episode when Trypticon moves Unicron's head, the head is larger than Trypticon's entire body. A strange set of non-human creaturesopposed Unicron, threatening to attack him with a metal devouring organic spore. Over time, matter gravitated towards Unicron's fallen form, eventually forming a planet which found an orbit around a distant star. The plan fell apartafter the Talismanwas removed from Cybertron before Unicron devoured the planet. Optimus Prime came across the meteor and found Thunderwing, who revealed that he was a minion of Unicron and his mission was to destroy the Matrix. Unlike the destructive, chaos-loving Unicron, Primus is a lover of order and creation. Similarly, Optimus Prime sought out Unicron elsewhere, traveling to the area which the Autobots believed to be the strongest epicenter of his consciousness. Primacron The first origin given for Unicron was given in Season 3 of The Transformers cartoon, years before Simon Furman came up with Primus. The Covenant of Primus, Unicron was defeated in his attempt to destroy Cybertron very early in its history, but emanations of his presence remained and were gathered and stored on Trypticon Station. Unlike hisDecepticon counterpart fromG1, this Thunderwing was a creation of Unicron, meant to seek out and destroy the Matrix of Leadership. In Optimus Prime's later view, Unicron had likely begun to transcend physical form. If you love to imagine the planet-exploding battles of the fictional gods who will never be, taking pointless knowledge gathered from a life spent reading and gaming and swinging it like a gladiator's sword in discussions on reddit then welcome home, my friend. James Gunn Reveals New Superman, Batman Movies and More, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Transformers: The Last Knight IMAX 3D Featurette, Transformers Bumblebee Spinoff Moving Forward With Harley Quinn Movie Writer, Transformers: 5 Facts to Know About Unicron, New Smash Up! Hot Rod took the Matrix from Galvatron during the battle, and becameRodimus Prime. Starscream demanded that Unicron restore his own body so that he could complete the required connections; but once Unicron had done so, Starscream, somewhat predictably, double-crossed him and refused to finish the job.
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