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"Once I have the key, I alone will reign supreme."

Unicron is the planet-sized Cybertronian god of chaos. He is the twin brother and ancient enemy of Primus. He was mentioned by Quintessa, who planned to kill him by draining his life with the Staff, forcing him to awaken.

He serves as the core for Earth, which formed around him over billions of years. Following the events of Transformers: The Last Knight, Quintessa's attempts at killing Unicron have caused him to slowly awaken from his slumber, his horns rising from the planet's core. However in the trailer of rise of the beasts, we see Unicron and earth separately, suggesting that Unicron is not in fact trapped within the earth.

”Earth...Unicron, Cybertron's ancient enemy!” — Optimus Prime, The Last Knight

There is another version of Unicron who is the devourer of planets. He exists outside of time and space and is able to travel through the multiverse.

He is the overarching antagonist of the movie Rise of the Beasts, and is set to return in future movies as the main villain.

”A vile god so large, so powerful, that it consumes entire planets as fuel. Few believed such a thing could be true, until the day we saw Unicron with our own eyes…” — Optimus Primal, Rise of the Beasts

History[]

Transformers: The Last Knight[]

In the distant past, the planet Earth formed around the inert body of Unicron. On Cybertron, Unicron was known as the planet's ancient enemy. A book that would eventually come to be held in the Trinity Library spoke of Unicron being the core of Earth. Somehow the Cybertronian sorceress Quintessa had discovered Unicron's resting point and devised a plan to restore Cybertron by draining the life from Unicron to revive the planet, sending both Megatron and a brainwashed Optimus Prime (Nemesis Prime) to Earth to reclaim the device she needed to complete her plan. In preparation, Quintessa moved Cybertron into Earth's solar system, its presence causing Unicron's six horns to sprout on the Earth as he reacted to the presence of his old enemy. Growing at a rate of three meters a day, the horns were a sign of a great scientific curiosity and mass panic across the globe. Sir Edmund Burton and Cogman recognized the horns for what they were and took them as a sign of the apocalypse. At Stonehenge, Megatron and two other decepticons began the ritual and sent Unicron's life force up to Quintessa up in Cybertron while being attacked by the Autobots and the TRF. After enough of Unicron's life force had been sent to Cybertron it had healed most of its damage to the point that the Autobots felt they were able to return to their homeworld. In the aftermath, several human scientists were examining one of Unicron's horns only to be approached by Quintessa in a human guise. She warned them against touching the horn lest they incur Unicron's wrath but offered them a way to kill the Chaos Bringer.

Titan Magazine comics[]

Unicron appears in an Titan Comic alternate timeline and is mentioned in the Titan Comic Revenge of the Fallen issue 2.6 and issue 2.13. Since Unicron can move through the multiverse, in the Titan Comic Revenge of the Fallen comics obviously mentions the one was in Titan Comic alternate timeline.

Titan Magazine Transformers alternate timeline[]

Starscream encountered Unicron in an event where Unicron attempted to devour Cybertron. It left him terrified.

In an alternate timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City, Stockade and his Decepticon chums attempted to rebirth Cybertron by sending out a summons that would attract any entity related to the lost AllSpark, and then drawing that entity into Cybertron once it arrived.

As that entity announced itself to be "Unicron the Anti-Life!", they felt like a right bunch of plonkers.

Unicron moved swiftly, transforming Cybertron into a scarier looking physical form and causing the planet's surface to becoming hostile to the Transformers on it. Stockade's attempts at communication were met with contempt and a strange attack. The new Unicron then warped into the Sol system, shot down an Autobot shuttle, and went "OM NOM NOM" at the sight of Earth.

The downed Autobots regrouped with Stockade's Decepticons and worked to take away the substance Nucleon that was powering Unicron's physical form. They succeeded in this by causing it to blow up and catch fire, which caused Unicron to draw on more Nucleon to recover, which fueled the fire and so on until the source ran out. Unicron disappeared, though whether he was dead or just gone is ambiguous.

Either way, the changes Unicron had made to Cybertron remained. The teleportation equipment he'd created was used by the Autobots to finally end the war.

Titan Magazine Revenge of the Fallen comics[]

Both Barricade and Ironhide were also aware of Unicron's existence. His sheer might scared them. They knew that you wanted to see Unicron in the third film and it sickened them.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts[]

"Rise... My hunger is killing me... What have you found?" — Unicron

Legends that predated Cybertronian civilization described Unicron as a dark god who consumed planets, but few knew of the legends, and fewer still believed them. The Maximals learned that Unicron was real only when the Chaos Bringer arrived on their doorstep to consume their planet. Unicron deployed his Terrorcon and Predacon forces led by his chief Herald Scourge, who he had long ago enslaved. Unicron tasked them with finding the transwarp key, a Maximal device that would enable him to continue his rampage across time and space at will, before he consumed the Maximal planet. Unicron was livid with Scourge for losing the key as the Maximals led by Optimus Primal fled, and commanded Scourge to find the key. Though Unicron was still able to feast on the Maximal planet, he was left in the current galaxy, forced to rely on his own power to move about space, but this soon left him starving and desperate to find another planet to feast on.

Scourge later found half of the transwarp key on Earth in 1994, but when he presented his prize to his master, Unicron scolded and tortured his minion as it was only half of the key. Scourge eventually retrieved the other half in Peru and began opening a portal in time and space for Unicron to come through. Unicron relished his apparent victory and made ready to devour Earth, but Primal and Optimus Prime's Autobots defeated Scourge and his other forces. When Prime made to destroy the portal, Unicron hastily offered Prime whatever he wanted in exchange for not proceeding, but the Autobot leader had none of it and destroyed the portal. Though Unicron had been stranded once again in his current location and time, the Autobots and Maximals acknowledged he had likely survived the collapse of the portal, but stood resolute that they would defeat him should he ever return to Earth.

Powers & Abilities[]

Powers[]

Abilities[]

  • Swordsmanship (Mid-teir)

Weaknesses[]

  • Primus
  • The One
  • The Matrix of Leadership

Trivia[]

  • Unicron is the archenemy and brother of Primus in the Transformers franchise. The two of them are considered the highest deities by the Cybertronian race, with Primus being responsible in legend for the creation of the universe, and Unicron being destined to destroy it by feeding on its matter and reality itself.
  • Unicron's body serving as Earth's core is inspired by his Transformers: Prime incarnation, while on the majority of other Transformers media he instead transforms into a single, separate planet from Earth since Earth's core is not comprised of magma but of dark energon.
  • It has been pre-established that all Unicrons throughout the Transformers universe are the same character - a multiversal singularity, of sorts - but recent developments have called these ideas into question. He's also capable of creating his Heralds
  • It is unknown if Unicron does have his Anti-Spark and Dark Energon.
  • So far, Unicron's robot mode has not yet been seen expect for part of his face.

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