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| “ | I am Unicron. I am the darkest corner of your mind. I am the cruelty hidden in your heart. I am savagery. I am rage. I am hate. Every murder you imagine, every bleeding fantasy, every vengeance. Every repressed urge, every unrealized perversion. I am all of these. Every intelligent creature turns its tools to murder eventually. I am there, in the sweat and the blood, and the inertia of an action that once done cannot be undone. I am hunger. The energy released by a life extinguished is my food, strife the wine with which I drink it down. The geography of dreams deferred and love unrequited mirror the sublime hills and valleys of my brainwaves. I am the dense, unfathomable insanity of a possessed mind. Entropy, decay, death are things of the natural order—petty, corporeal facsimiles of my will. I am beyond such things. I am no mere force of nature. No phenomenon to be studied, codified, and circumvented by the inventiveness of lesser beings. I am the collapse of natural order. A formless, infinite nothing petty corporeal minds cannot imagine. Total annihilation. Peace in an endless emptiness the heart and totality of which I alone encompass. I am power incarnate. I am Unicron. And I live again. | „ |
| ~ Unicron explaining his power upon his resurrection. |
| “ | You cannot save yourself from me. I am as inevitable as destiny. | „ |
| ~ Unicron to Galvatron after the later tries to free himself from him. |
| “ | Your minions may think they are wearing me down, Optimus. But with every attack, they are feeding me. | „ |
| ~ Unicron explaining how exactly the true nature of his power and strength come from. |
Unicron is the overarching antagonist of Hasbro's Transformers franchise.
He is a giant cosmic demonic Cybertronian god who serves as a multiversal singularity desiring to find peace by consuming and destroying all reality around him, as well as the twin brother and arch-nemesis of Primus, the creator of the Transformers. He was also the master of the Fallen and formerly that of Galvatron.
Throughout animation, Unicron was voiced by the late Orson Welles in 1986's Transformers: The Movie and the late Roger C. Carmel in The Transformers Season 3.
Appearance[]
In his original, divine form, Unicron is depicted as an armored warrior, including a horned helmet, and wielding a spiked mace. This is exclusive to the G1 Marvel comics.
Unicron has a robotic version of pretty much the same shape - humanoid, but made of metal, with horns and spikes and massive skeletal wings. In robot mode, Unicron is more than half as tall as Cybertron's diameter; even in the smallest version, therefore, he is about a thousand miles in height, while taken as the largest version he would stand over forty thousand miles tall.
His planet mode looks like a giant, mechanical world with a metal ring and a circular mouth with immense, horn-like crushing mandibles, capable of tearing a planet's crust open. His size as a living planet is a matter of contention, but he is typically about a quarter of the diameter of Cybertron which, depending on the version, is the size of Saturn or smaller than Earth's moon.
Characteristics[]
Unicron devouring the planet Lithone.
Unicron is the eternal archenemy of his twin brother Primus and, overall, of all Cybertronian race, Autobots and Decepticons alike. He is known as the Dark God, Chaos Bringer, and the Planet Eater, and he is dedicated to consuming the multiverse. His goal is to bring an end to the annoying creation boasting independence around him and find peace by becoming the living center of a swirling, infinite torrent of nothingness at the end of all things. To undertake this seemingly overwhelming task, Unicron is able to travel across realities at will, a meandering plague upon existence itself. Integrated into his systems are incomprehensible quantum computers which calculate probabilities forward and backwards in time, in perpetuity, giving his processors an ever-changing, evolving map of the multiverse.
The only thing that he fears is Primus' essence, contained inside the Matrix.
Frequently, Unicron will make deals with lesser beings, giving them vast new powers in exchange for their servitude. These minions are sometimes stripped entirely of their free will, but others follow him willingly. However, Service to Unicron is a double-edged sword, for it causes insanity and loss of self. And in the end, no matter their intent, Unicron's plans ultimately call for their consumption as well.
Unicron fulfills his mission one world at a time, by physically traveling through space - at speeds greater than light speed - and consuming planets, preferably life-bearing ones, and breaking them down to energy so that there is not even debris left. Sometimes, he transforms former denizens of planets and gives them immense additional powers; but they are Unicron's slaves, constantly under his control. Once Unicron has emptied a universe of life and matter - it is intimated he can even feed on stars - he moves on to the next, and he will continue to do this until all that is not part of him has become a part of the void - has become nothing.
But what he fears that the only way for him to be destroyed is the Autobot Matrix of Leadership which is the only weapon and key to kill him once and for all.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Cybertronian Deity Physiology: As a cybertronion god Unicron is cosmic in stature.
- Nigh-Omnipotence: Unicron's cosmic abilities make him almost all-powerful.
- Master Manipulation: Unicron is able to manipulate other beings by making unfair deals with them, and giving them powers. However, he also desires to consume them.
- Transforming: Unicron is able to transform himself. He is a deity, but can turn into the colossus of robots...which can transform into a world which consumes other worlds.
- Consumption: Unicron, in his planetary form, can consume entire worlds and all the life living on them. In The Transformers: The Movie, he was also able to consume Galvatron in his robotic form, simply by picking him up and dropping him into his mouth. In Transformers Armada & Energon Unicron is also shown to consume planets with a powerful Chest Warp cannon in robot mode.
- Immortality: Due to him being a deity like Primus, Unicron is immortal, and cannot die of old age nor cannot be destroy or eradicated from existence. He cannot be defeated by customary means.
- Dark Energon: Dark Energon is Unicron's life blood. His blood has the ability to reanimate the deceased Cybertronians into Terricons. For a living Cybertronian who possessed his blood who temporarily died, Unicron blinded them into his anti-spark and used their blood as a vessel.
- Dark Energy Manipulation: Unicron can manipulate vast sources of dark cosmic energy. He can breathe fire and even fire beams of cosmic energy from his eyes and hands.
- Dark Electrokinesis: Unicron can fire dark electricity from his hands.
- Matter Manipulation: Unicron can use his cosmic energy to manipulate matter. He is able to reconstruct broken transformers and make them his heralds.
- Hatred Absorption: Unicron is shown to be bred into Hatred, absorbing the negativity of beings in the cosmos. It appears to be his conduit for power and evolution. In Armada, when the Autobots and Decepticons banded together to destroy Unicron, they would unleash countless barrages of weapons onto Unicron, hoping to destroy the chaos bringer. However would he would correct the latter, showing to be growing immensely powerful, with every attack they wreak upon him, along with Optimus and Megatron's bloody combative match within Unicron, in order to end the ties between the faction. Their fight and lust for battle, reactivated Unicron's lifeforce, allowing him to escape.
Weakness[]
- The Autobot Matrix of Leadership: The Autobot Matrix of Leadership’s power is the only key and weapon to destroy Unicron and end him for life. Unfortunately Unicron can only be delayed by the Matrix of Leadership nor he cannot die he will simply regenerate in another universe.
Quotes[]
The Transformers: The Movie
| “ | Unicron: Megatron... Megatron... welcome, Megatron! Megatron: Who... who said that? Unicron: I... am Unicron. Megatron: Show yourself! Unicron: I have summoned you here for a purpose. Megatron: No one summons Megatron! Unicron: Then it pleases me to be the first. Megatron: State your business. Unicron: This is my command: you are to destroy the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. It is the one thing, the only thing that can stand in my way. Megatron: You have nothing to fear. I've already crushed Optimus Prime with my bare hands! Unicron: You exaggerate. Megatron: The point is he's dead, and the Matrix died with him! Unicron: No, the point is you're a fool! The Matrix has been passed on to their leader... Ultra Magnus. Destroy it for me. Megatron: Why should I? What's in it for me? Unicron: Your bargaining posture is highly dubious... but very well, I will provide you with a new body and new troops to command. Megatron: And? Unicron: And NOTHING! You belong to me now. Megatron: I belong to NOBODY!! Unicron: Perhaps I have misjudged you. Proceed... on your way to oblivion. Megatron: AAAAAH!!! NO, NO!! I ACCEPT YOUR TERMS!!! I ACCEPT!!! Unicron: Excellent. [proceeds to reassemble Megatron] Behold... Galvatron! And these shall be your minions... Scourge the tracker, and his henchmen, the Sweeps. Cyclonus the warrior, and his armada. And this... shall be your ship. Now go... destroy the Autobot Matrix. Galvatron: I will rip up Ultra Magnus and every other Autobot until the Matrix has been destroyed! To Cybertron! Unicron: Destroy the Matrix! |
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| ~ Unicron transforming Megatron into Galvatron before sending him and his forces off. |
| “ | Galvatron: Unicron! Why did you torture me?! Unicron: You have failed! Galvatron: No, Unicron! Ultra Magnus is dead, and the Matrix destroyed! Unicron: The Matrix has not been destroyed, and Ultra Magnus lives on the planet of Junk, stalk him, tear him apart, and destroy the Matrix! |
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| ~ Unicron berating and torturing Galvatron for his failure. |
| “ | Galvatron: Unicron! UNICRON! See this? The Matrix! I now have that which you most fear! You will do my bidding, or TASTE MY WRATH! Unicron: You underestimate me, Galvatron. |
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| ~ Unicron berating Galvatron for his attempted betrayal. |
| “ | For a time... I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron... but now, you shall witness... ITS DISMEMBERMENT!! | „ |
| ~ Unicron to Galvatron before attempting to destroy Cybertron. |
| “ | Destroy him, Galvatron. NOW!! OR YOU YOURSELF SHALL BE OBLITERATED!! | „ |
| ~ Unicron mentally torturing Galvatron to kill Hot Rod. |
| “ | Destiny... you cannot destroy... MY DESTINY!!! | „ |
| ~ Unicron's last words. |
War for Cybertron Trilogy
| “ | You will suffer for this moment of treachery. | „ |
| ~ Unicron chastising Galvatron in War for Cybertron: Earthrise. |
| “ | You cannot save yourself from me. I am as inevitable as destiny. | „ |
| ~ Unicron to Galvatron in War for Cybertron: Kingdom. |
| “ | Using the Dead Universe to move through time was a foolish risk. Nevertheless, it has given me ideas. So... I shall begin... again. | „ |
| ~ Unicron speaking to Galvatron and Nemesis Prime in the final scene of "War for Cybertron: Kingdom". |
Trivia[]
- Although Megatron/Galvatron is responsible for driving the entire plot of the Transformers series, Unicron is shown to be the most dangerous villain, because he would choose to destroy Cybertron (and all reality) rather than taking it over.
- Unicron's planet mode is essentially a ripoff of the Death Star, in fact in Transformers 2004 for the PS2, Unicron dies the same way the Death Star explodes in the original Star Wars films.
- In some original scripts of the film, The Matrix of Leadership was supposed to give Unicron a powered up form, as Unicron was always meant to be a planet, but when he accidentally fused his core with the Matrix he would transform into a robot.
- Working names for Unicron prior the 1986 film's release was "The Entity" and "Ingestor".
- In 2004, Unicron was said to be a "Multiversal singularity", meaning that in all universes, Unicron was the same dimension hopping entity, despite their different origins. However, due to how complicated the concept was, it was eventually written out in 2015 as a result of an in-story multiversal event known as the Shrouding. As a result, each Unicron (and the other Multiversal singularities) from every universe/continuity/timeline are their own separate being.
- Unicron is told to be the opposite of Good according to Transformers: Cybertron, making his twin brother Primus the opposite of Evil.
- Unicron is Satan/The Devil/Anti-God of the Transformers Multiverse, which can be interesting convivence as Primus is stated to be God.
- He is ranked eighth in Top 10 Most Powerful Cartoon Villains Ever by Watchmojo.
- He fought Galactus from Marvel Comics in DEATH BATTLE! and lost. The fight begins when Unicron destroys a world simply to prevent Galactus from having it, a petty act that Galactus finds despicable.
- Unicron's origins in the original cartoon was depicted to most fans and critics as a lackluster concept for the villan of the 86 film built as this unstoppable force of nature, only to be created by an animal anthropomorphic creature scientist, even the Matrix being shown as Unicron's creator assistant. Resulting in TF Marvel Comics writer Simon Furman to flesh out Unicron's backstory properly, along with introducing Primus as Unicron's brother, even depicting the Matrix as a creation of Primus's lifeforce. This concept would continue for most of the modern iterations of Unicron and Primus often depicting Unicron as this ancient mythological deity.
External Links[]
- Unicron on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Unicron on the Transformers Wiki
- Unicron on the TFWiki
- Unicron on Wikipedia
