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|fullname = Quintessa
 
|fullname = Quintessa
|alias = The Prime of Life
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|alias = The Prime of Life <small>(self-proclaimed)</small><br>
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The Great Deceiver <small>(by the Knights of Iacon)</small><br>
The Deceiver
 
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My Maker <small>(by Optimus)</small><br>
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My Creator <small>(by Optimus)</small><br>
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The Mad Goddess
 
|origin = ''Transformers: The Last Knight''
 
|origin = ''Transformers: The Last Knight''
 
|occupation = Member of the Creators<br>
 
|occupation = Member of the Creators<br>
 
Leader of the Infernocons
 
Leader of the Infernocons
 
|skills = Exceptional intelligence<br>
 
|skills = Exceptional intelligence<br>
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Magic<br>
 
Brainwashing<br>
 
Brainwashing<br>
 
Electrokinesis<br>
 
Electrokinesis<br>
Super-strength<br>
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Telekinesis<br>
Shapeshifting<br>
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Super strength<br>
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Shape-shifting<br>
 
Flight ability<br>
 
Flight ability<br>
 
Leadership
 
Leadership
|hobby = Torturing Optimus Prime and taking control of him
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|hobby = Torturing Optimus Prime and taking control of him.
 
|goals = Revive and preserve Cybertron by encasing Earth inside it.<br>
|goals = Kidnap and corrupt Optimus Prime into becoming her own soldier, Nemesis Prime and to manipulate him into killing few of the Knights of Cybertron (Succeeded).<br>
 
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Annihilate Unicron.<br>
Manipulate Optimus Prime into defeating and killing the Autobots (failed).<br>
 
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Possess Optimus Prime and control him into completing Megatron's urge to rebuild Cypertron and its tyranny <small>(succeeded for a while, but then failed for a possible time)</small>.
Revive and preserve Cybertron by encasing Earth inside it and to destroy Unicron (ongoing).
 
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|crimes = Menticide<br>
|type of villain = Master Manipulator}}{{Quote|Optimus Prime, you destroyed your home. Do you seek redemption?|Quintessa to Prime.}}'''Quintessa''' is a major antagonist in the ''Transformers'' film series. She is a Cybertronian sorceress and one of the [[The Creators (Transformers)|Creators]] of the Cybertronian race, revealing to be the creator of Optimus Prime as she planned to use him to restore Cybertron by destroying Earth. She appears as one of the two main antagonists of the 2017 film ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' (the other being [[Megatron (Transformers Film Series)|Megatron]]), and is set to return in the unnamed sequel in an unknown role.
 
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Homicide<br>
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Attempted mass destruction<br>
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Invasion<br>
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Attempted populicde<br>
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Attempted ecocide<br>
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Malefic
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|type of villain = Manipulative Alien}}
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{{Quote|Optimus Prime, you destroyed your home. Do you seek redemption?|Quintessa to Optimus Prime.}}
   
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'''Quintessa''' is a major antagonist in the ''Transformers Cinematic Universe'', appearing as one of the two main antagonists of the 2017 film ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' (alongside [[Megatron (Transformers Film Series)|Megatron]]). She is a Cybertronian sorceress, and one of the [[The Creators (Transformers)|Creators]] of the Cybertronian race, revealing to be the creator of Optimus Prime as she planned to use him to restore Cybertron by destroying Earth.
She was voiced by Gemma Chan, who also portrayed her human form.
 
   
 
She was voiced by {{W|Gemma Chan}}, who also portrayed her human form, and [[Minn-Erva]] in ''Captain Marvel''.
==Personality==
 
Quintessa started off as cool, collected, imperturbable, and benevolent, as she considers Optimus Prime to be one of her finest creations and revered by much of the Cybertronians. However, she turns out to be extremely cold-hearted uncompromising, opprobrious, wrathful, diabolical, and manipulative, as she has no qualms in draining Earth's energies to restore Cybertron, even at the cost of killing life on Earth.
 
   
 
==Personality==
Being a powerful sorceress in general, Quintessa is shown to be deluded and treacherous, as she believes that her actions are at best for the survival of Cybertron. She also blames Optimus for the war between the Autobots and [[Decepticons]] that ravaged much of Cybertron; even when a furious Optimus pointed out that [[Megatron (Transformers Film Series)|Megatron]] (the former apprentice of [[The Fallen (Transformers)|The Fallen]] and current leader of the Decepticons) is the one responsible for causing the war in the first place, Quintessa angrily refuses to accept this and instead brainwashes Optimus into doing her bidding.
 
 
Quintessa started off as cool, collected, imperturbable and benevolent, as she considers Optimus Prime to be one of her finest creations and revered by much of the Cybertronians. However, she turns out to be extremely cold-hearted, uncompromising, opprobrious, wrathful, diabolical and manipulative, as she has no qualms in draining Earth's energies to restore Cybertron, even at the cost of killing life on Earth.
   
 
Being a powerful sorceress in general, Quintessa is shown to be deluded, sarcastic and treacherous, as she believes that her actions are at best for the survival of Cybertron. She also blames Optimus for the war between the Autobots formally led by [[Sentinel Prime (Transformers Film Series)|Sentinel Prime]] and [[Decepticons (Transformers Cinematic Universe)|Decepticons]] that ravaged much of Cybertron; even when a furious Optimus pointed out that [[Megatron (Transformers Film Series)|Megatron]] (the former apprentice of [[The Fallen (Transformers)|The Fallen]] and current leader of the Decepticons) is the one responsible for causing the war in the first place, Quintessa angrily disagrees and proceeds to pin the blame for Cybertron's destruction on Optimus before brainwashing the latter into doing her bidding.
Her true goal is to destroy Cybertron's ancient enemy, [[Unicron]] which is said to be Earth's true form. She will do anything to kill him.
 
   
 
Her true goal is to destroy Cybertron's ancient enemy, [[Unicron]], which she believes to be Earth's true form. She will do anything to kill him.
== History ==
 
===Early Life===
 
Being a ruler of Cybertron alongside the other Creators, Quintessa builds herself up to become a seemingly benevolent figure for the Cybetronians and that she plans to destroy their ancient enemy, the notorious giant planet eater [[Unicron]]. However, twelve Cybertronian Knights learn that she is not what they seemed to be and that she plans to drain energy from Earth to restore Cybertron with a machine utilized by a powerful staff, as Quintessa believes that the Earth is nothing more than the dormant body of Unicron. Unwilling to let the life on Earth suffer from the Creators' wrath, the Cybertronian Knights rebelled against Quintessa and stole the technology before hiding it away on Earth, much to Quintessa's fury.
 
   
 
==History==
===Age of Extinction===
 
 
===Early life===
Qunitessa doesn't appear in the film, but she and the other Creators are mentioned by [[Lockdown (Transformers Film Series)|Lockdown]], who was sent by Quintessa to capture Optimus while all Transformers (both Autobots and [[Decepticons]]) are being hunted down by the world authorities due to the Chicago incident caused by Optimus' former mentor [[Sentinel Prime (Transformers Film Series)|Sentinel Prime]]. However, Lockdown and his conspirator [[Harold Attinger]] end up being killed by Optimus, who decides to travel to outer space to confront the Creators in order to spare the Earth from the Creators' wrath.
 
 
Being a ruler of Cybertron alongside the other Creators, Quintessa builds herself up to become a seemingly benevolent figure for the Cybetronians and that she plans to destroy their ancient enemy, the notorious giant planet eater [[Unicron]]. However, twelve Cybertronian Knights learn that she is not what they seemed to be and that she plans to drain energy from Earth to restore Cybertron with a machine utilized by a powerful staff, as Quintessa believes that the Earth is nothing more than the dormant body of Unicron. Unwilling to let the life on Earth suffer from the Creators' wrath, the Cybertronian Knights rebelled against Quintessa. They stole the technology before hiding it away on Earth and branded her as a deceiver, much to Quintessa's fury.
   
 
===''Transformers: Age of Extinction''===
===The Last Knight===
 
 
Qunitessa does not appear in the film, but she and the other Creators are mentioned by [[Lockdown (Transformers Film Series)|Lockdown]], who was sent by Quintessa to capture Optimus while all Transformers (both Autobots and [[Decepticons]]) are being hunted down by the world authorities due to the Chicago incident caused by Optimus' former mentor [[Sentinel Prime (Transformers Film Series)|Sentinel Prime]]. However, Lockdown and his conspirator [[Harold Attinger]] end up being killed by Optimus, who decides to travel to outer space to confront the Creators in order to spare the Earth from the Creators' wrath.
Quintessa made her first appearance in the film after hearing of Lockdown's death. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, Quintessa uses the space bridge technology to transport herself, her soldiers (known as the Infernocons), and the dead planet Cybertron to Earth.
 
   
 
===''Transformers: The Last Knight''===
Upon Cybertron's arrival on Earth's orbit, a comatose Optimus Prime crash-lands into Cybertron, awakening from his stasis. Awaiting Optimus' arrival, Quintessa has Optimus chained and berates him for his war against the [[Decepticons]] before using her magic to brainwash Optimus into doing her bidding. With that in mind, Quintessa dubs Optimus as "Nemesis Prime" and orders him to destroy Earth, saying that it's the dormant body of Unicron.
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Quintessa made her first appearance in the film after hearing of Lockdown's death. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, Quintessa uses the space bridge technology to transport herself, her soldiers (known as the Infernocons), and the dead planet Cybertron to Earth. Upon Cybertron's arrival on Earth's orbit, a comatose Optimus Prime crash-lands into Cybertron, awakening from his stasis. Awaiting Optimus' arrival, Quintessa has Optimus chained and berates him for his war against the [[Decepticons]] before using her magic to brainwash Optimus into doing her bidding. With that in mind, Quintessa dubs Optimus as "Nemesis Prime" and orders him to destroy Earth, saying that it's the dormant body of Unicron.
   
As the plot goes, Cade Yeager and a young girl named Izabella (who was orphaned during Sentinel Prime's attack on Chicago) learned of the ancient Cybertronian technology that existed on Earth ever since medieval times, and that it was located in the bottom of the ocean. They also learned that the ancient staff (hidden by the Cybertronian Knights during King Arthur's reign) can be used to activate the technology, and that Quintessa plans to use it to revive Cybertron by colliding it into Earth.
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As the plot goes, Cade Yeager and a young girl named Izabella (who was orphaned during Sentinel Prime's attack on Chicago) learned of the ancient Cybertronian technology that existed on Earth ever since medieval times, and that it was located in the bottom of the ocean. They also learned that the ancient staff (hidden by the Cybertronian Knights during King Arthur's reign) can be used to activate the technology, and that Quintessa plans to use it to revive Cybertron by colliding it into Earth. After the Autobots locate the staff before engaging into a fight with the Cybertronian Knights, Optimus (having followed them in secret) managed to steal the staff and fly off just as the machine arises from the ocean. During the battle on the machine, Optimus attempts to kill Bumblebee, who eventually managed to snap Optimus out of his trance. Unfortunately, Megatron managed to steal the staff from Optimus and formed a deal with Quintessa to revive Cybertron so that the Decepticons and Creators can rule it, as Quintessa anticipated that Optimus would break free from her control.
 
After the Autobots locate the staff before engaging into a fight with the Cybertronian Knights, Optimus (having followed them in secret) managed to steal the staff and fly off just as the machine arises from the ocean. During the battle on the machine, Optimus attempts to kill Bumblebee, who eventually managed to snap Optimus out of his trance. Unfortunately, Megatron managed to steal the staff from Optimus and formed a deal with Quintessa to revive Cybertron so that the Decepticons and Creators can rule it, as Quintessa anticipated that Optimus would break free from her control.
 
   
 
The Autobots then team up with the Cybertronian Knights to fight against the Decepticons and Infernocons, right before they used Lockdown's ship to stop the collision on Earth. Following the deaths of many Decepticons and Infernocons, Optimus was able to finish off Megatron by sending him off flying back to Earth, but Quintessa uses her magic to restrain Optimus, angrily swearing to kill him for ruining her plans. However, Quintessa is seemingly destroyed by Bumblebee while Viviane deactivates the machine by removing the staff from it, saving both Cybertron and Earth from colliding with each other.
 
The Autobots then team up with the Cybertronian Knights to fight against the Decepticons and Infernocons, right before they used Lockdown's ship to stop the collision on Earth. Following the deaths of many Decepticons and Infernocons, Optimus was able to finish off Megatron by sending him off flying back to Earth, but Quintessa uses her magic to restrain Optimus, angrily swearing to kill him for ruining her plans. However, Quintessa is seemingly destroyed by Bumblebee while Viviane deactivates the machine by removing the staff from it, saving both Cybertron and Earth from colliding with each other.
   
In the end, the Autobots return to rebuild Cybertron as it is now in orbit with Earth, but they are unaware that Quintessa has survived her encounter with Bumblebee and has taken refuge in Earth. Disguised as a human, Quintessa meets with a group of scientists who have discovered a giant ancient spike (which happens to be a part of Unicron). She tells the scientists not to touch the spike, saying that she can tell them how to destroy the planet eater. It is unknown what happened to her afterwards.
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In the end, the Autobots return to rebuild Cybertron as it is now in orbit with Earth, but they are unaware that Quintessa has survived her encounter with Bumblebee and has taken refuge in Earth. Disguised as a human, Quintessa meets with a group of scientists who have discovered a giant ancient spike (which happens to be a part of Unicron). She tells the scientists not to touch the spike, saying that he does not like it. Quintessa then says that she can tell them how to destroy the planet eater (Unicron). After that, she starts to show her true form. It is unknown what happened to her afterwards, though it's likely that she revealed who Unicron was, and possibly his past as well.
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==Quotes==
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{{Quote|I am Quintessa, the Prime of Life.|Quintessa introduces herself to Optimus Prime.}}
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{{Quote|You destroyed your world, YOU FOOL! |Quintessa blames Cybertron's destruction upon Optimus}}
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{{Quote|No! NOOOOOOO!!!!!|Quintessa before being defeated by Bumblebee.}}
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{{Quote|(Scientist: Are you lost?) I wouldn't do that. Don't touch him. He doesn't like it. (Scientist: He doesn't like what?) Unicron? 'Cause I can show you how to kill him.|Quintessa (in her human disguise) talking to one of the scientists about Unicron.}}
   
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
 
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Screenshot_2017-04-13-10-32-40_1 (1).jpg|Quintessa coming before Optimus Prime after chaining him.
 
Screenshot_2017-04-13-10-32-40_1 (1).jpg|Quintessa coming before Optimus Prime after chaining him.
 
Transformers_-The-Last-Knight-_-Fight-_-Paramount-Pictures-UK.jpg|Quintessa confronting with Optimus.
mqdefault.jpg|Quintessa's wrathful stare.
 
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download.jpg|Quintessa
 
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Transformers_-The-Last-Knight-_-Fight-_-Paramount-Pictures-UK.jpg|Quintessa confronting with Optimus
 
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transformers_last_knight_5.jpg|Prime: '''''I will kill you''''' Quintessa: ....
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tumblr_owd4ctn1E81uk0eoko1_1280.png|I am Quintessa.... The prime of life
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tumblr_owd4ctn1E81uk0eoko5_1280.png|Quintessa: '''''*Smirks*'''''
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tumblr_owd4ctn1E81uk0eoko6_1280.png|I made you.... You are mine to command
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tumblr_owfjaa6LSd1qcrr5qo1_1280.png|You destroyed your world you FOOL
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21980956_193406064534937_6170285558011527168_n.jpg|I felt her... SHE MUST NOT ENTER!!
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tumblr_owd4ctn1E81uk0eoko2_1280.png|Prime trying to kill her
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22580327_1471249872959398_7696844933625282560_n.jpg|Say hello to my friend.... Bumblebee
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21568824_798307920346537_4867544135147454464_n.jpg|Earth will die....
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ZYjIN9CAgGY.jpg|And your world will be reborn....
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tumblr_owfkkpMlep1qcrr5qo1_1280.png|You traitor!!
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Quintessa defeat.png
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
*She is known to be the first major villain in the ''Transformers'' film series to be female.
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*She is known to be the first major villain in the ''Transformers'' film franchise to have female traits. The only female villains in the film series before Quintessa were [[Alice]] and the female human collaborators of [[Dylan Gould]] in ''Dark of the Moon''.
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**On another note, Quintessa is the second ''Transformers'' villain to disguise herself as a human (the first being Alice).
*She has a resemblance of Medusa in Greek Mythology.
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*She has a resemblance of [[Medusa (mythology)|Medusa]] in Greek mythology.
*Given the fact that Quintessa is revealed to be the employer of Lockdown and the creator of Optimus Prime, it might be possible that she may also be the creator of Megatron since both Optimus and Megatron considered them to be brothers before their feud.
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*Given the fact that Quintessa is revealed to be the employer of Lockdown and the creator of Optimus Prime, it might be possible that she may also be the creator of Megatron since both Optimus and Megatron considered themselves to be brothers before their feud.
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*Since Quintessa believes Earth to be Unicron, she could've attempted to evacuate the entire human race (and the plants and animals, if possible), and then test it to see if it is true. However, she took it way too far to the point of attempting to destroy Earth without even thinking about all of the people living on it; thus, she counts as a villain as well.
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*Quintessa shares similarites with ''Fast and Furious ''villain [[Cipher (Fast and Furious)|Cipher]], coincidentally both ''Transformers: The Last Knight'' and ''The Fate of the Furious'' were both released in 2017.
   
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==Navigation==
* Quintessa shares the similarities with the following villains:
 
 
{{Transformers Cinematic Universe Villains}}[[pl:Quintessa]]
** [[Roodaka]] from the ''BIONICLE'' series:
 
*** Both are the main villains of the story sequels.
 
*** Both manipulated and turned the main heroes to the dark side (Quintessa to Optimus Prime, Roodaka to [[Vakama]]).
 
*** Both are defeated by the heroes but revealed to be alive in the end.
 
** [[Cipher (Fast and Furious)|Cipher]] from the ''Fast and Furious'' franchise:
 
*** They both are female warlords who have unlimited access to technology to take over their worlds by force.
 
*** They tend to use the main heroes (Optimus Prime and Dom Toretto) for their own purposes.
 
** [[Juno (Assassin's Creed)|Juno]] from the ''Assassin's Creed'' series:
 
*** Both are higher female beings commanding lower beings, given as how Juno leads her cult of human followers.
 
*** Both are the main antagonists of their respective series.
 
*** Both are Fascists, believing their own respective races are the ultimate race and are deities to other lesser races.
 
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Revision as of 20:31, 26 May 2020

Optimus Prime, you destroyed your home. Do you seek redemption?
~ Quintessa to Optimus Prime.

Quintessa is a major antagonist in the Transformers Cinematic Universe, appearing as one of the two main antagonists of the 2017 film Transformers: The Last Knight (alongside Megatron). She is a Cybertronian sorceress, and one of the Creators of the Cybertronian race, revealing to be the creator of Optimus Prime as she planned to use him to restore Cybertron by destroying Earth.

She was voiced by Gemma Chan, who also portrayed her human form, and Minn-Erva in Captain Marvel.

Personality

Quintessa started off as cool, collected, imperturbable and benevolent, as she considers Optimus Prime to be one of her finest creations and revered by much of the Cybertronians. However, she turns out to be extremely cold-hearted, uncompromising, opprobrious, wrathful, diabolical and manipulative, as she has no qualms in draining Earth's energies to restore Cybertron, even at the cost of killing life on Earth.

Being a powerful sorceress in general, Quintessa is shown to be deluded, sarcastic and treacherous, as she believes that her actions are at best for the survival of Cybertron. She also blames Optimus for the war between the Autobots formally led by Sentinel Prime and Decepticons that ravaged much of Cybertron; even when a furious Optimus pointed out that Megatron (the former apprentice of The Fallen and current leader of the Decepticons) is the one responsible for causing the war in the first place, Quintessa angrily disagrees and proceeds to pin the blame for Cybertron's destruction on Optimus before brainwashing the latter into doing her bidding.

Her true goal is to destroy Cybertron's ancient enemy, Unicron, which she believes to be Earth's true form. She will do anything to kill him.

History

Early life

Being a ruler of Cybertron alongside the other Creators, Quintessa builds herself up to become a seemingly benevolent figure for the Cybetronians and that she plans to destroy their ancient enemy, the notorious giant planet eater Unicron. However, twelve Cybertronian Knights learn that she is not what they seemed to be and that she plans to drain energy from Earth to restore Cybertron with a machine utilized by a powerful staff, as Quintessa believes that the Earth is nothing more than the dormant body of Unicron. Unwilling to let the life on Earth suffer from the Creators' wrath, the Cybertronian Knights rebelled against Quintessa. They stole the technology before hiding it away on Earth and branded her as a deceiver, much to Quintessa's fury.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Qunitessa does not appear in the film, but she and the other Creators are mentioned by Lockdown, who was sent by Quintessa to capture Optimus while all Transformers (both Autobots and Decepticons) are being hunted down by the world authorities due to the Chicago incident caused by Optimus' former mentor Sentinel Prime. However, Lockdown and his conspirator Harold Attinger end up being killed by Optimus, who decides to travel to outer space to confront the Creators in order to spare the Earth from the Creators' wrath.

Transformers: The Last Knight

Quintessa made her first appearance in the film after hearing of Lockdown's death. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, Quintessa uses the space bridge technology to transport herself, her soldiers (known as the Infernocons), and the dead planet Cybertron to Earth. Upon Cybertron's arrival on Earth's orbit, a comatose Optimus Prime crash-lands into Cybertron, awakening from his stasis. Awaiting Optimus' arrival, Quintessa has Optimus chained and berates him for his war against the Decepticons before using her magic to brainwash Optimus into doing her bidding. With that in mind, Quintessa dubs Optimus as "Nemesis Prime" and orders him to destroy Earth, saying that it's the dormant body of Unicron.

As the plot goes, Cade Yeager and a young girl named Izabella (who was orphaned during Sentinel Prime's attack on Chicago) learned of the ancient Cybertronian technology that existed on Earth ever since medieval times, and that it was located in the bottom of the ocean. They also learned that the ancient staff (hidden by the Cybertronian Knights during King Arthur's reign) can be used to activate the technology, and that Quintessa plans to use it to revive Cybertron by colliding it into Earth. After the Autobots locate the staff before engaging into a fight with the Cybertronian Knights, Optimus (having followed them in secret) managed to steal the staff and fly off just as the machine arises from the ocean. During the battle on the machine, Optimus attempts to kill Bumblebee, who eventually managed to snap Optimus out of his trance. Unfortunately, Megatron managed to steal the staff from Optimus and formed a deal with Quintessa to revive Cybertron so that the Decepticons and Creators can rule it, as Quintessa anticipated that Optimus would break free from her control.

The Autobots then team up with the Cybertronian Knights to fight against the Decepticons and Infernocons, right before they used Lockdown's ship to stop the collision on Earth. Following the deaths of many Decepticons and Infernocons, Optimus was able to finish off Megatron by sending him off flying back to Earth, but Quintessa uses her magic to restrain Optimus, angrily swearing to kill him for ruining her plans. However, Quintessa is seemingly destroyed by Bumblebee while Viviane deactivates the machine by removing the staff from it, saving both Cybertron and Earth from colliding with each other.

In the end, the Autobots return to rebuild Cybertron as it is now in orbit with Earth, but they are unaware that Quintessa has survived her encounter with Bumblebee and has taken refuge in Earth. Disguised as a human, Quintessa meets with a group of scientists who have discovered a giant ancient spike (which happens to be a part of Unicron). She tells the scientists not to touch the spike, saying that he does not like it. Quintessa then says that she can tell them how to destroy the planet eater (Unicron). After that, she starts to show her true form. It is unknown what happened to her afterwards, though it's likely that she revealed who Unicron was, and possibly his past as well.

Quotes

I am Quintessa, the Prime of Life.
~ Quintessa introduces herself to Optimus Prime.
You destroyed your world, YOU FOOL!
~ Quintessa blames Cybertron's destruction upon Optimus
No! NOOOOOOO!!!!!
~ Quintessa before being defeated by Bumblebee.
(Scientist: Are you lost?) I wouldn't do that. Don't touch him. He doesn't like it. (Scientist: He doesn't like what?) Unicron? 'Cause I can show you how to kill him.
~ Quintessa (in her human disguise) talking to one of the scientists about Unicron.

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Trivia

  • She is known to be the first major villain in the Transformers film franchise to have female traits. The only female villains in the film series before Quintessa were Alice and the female human collaborators of Dylan Gould in Dark of the Moon.
    • On another note, Quintessa is the second Transformers villain to disguise herself as a human (the first being Alice).
  • She has a resemblance of Medusa in Greek mythology.
  • Given the fact that Quintessa is revealed to be the employer of Lockdown and the creator of Optimus Prime, it might be possible that she may also be the creator of Megatron since both Optimus and Megatron considered themselves to be brothers before their feud.
  • Since Quintessa believes Earth to be Unicron, she could've attempted to evacuate the entire human race (and the plants and animals, if possible), and then test it to see if it is true. However, she took it way too far to the point of attempting to destroy Earth without even thinking about all of the people living on it; thus, she counts as a villain as well.
  • Quintessa shares similarites with Fast and Furious villain Cipher, coincidentally both Transformers: The Last Knight and The Fate of the Furious were both released in 2017.

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