| “ | Earth... Unicron? Cybertron's ancient enemy. | „ |
| ~ Optimus Prime after Quintessa revealed to him that Unicron is Earth's core. |
Unicron is the overarching antagonist of the 2017 science fiction action film Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth and final installment in Michael Bay‘s Transformers film series.
He is an ancient cosmic god who devours every planet in his path. Because he is an ancient enemy of Cybertron, his own existence is the reason why Quintessa wants to destroy the Earth, as she believed that Unicron is the planet's true form. In addition, it is also the reason for why Cybertronians keep coming to Earth.
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Transformers: The Last Knight[]
In the distant past, Earth was formed around Unicron's body. On Cybertron, he was known as the planet's ancient enemy. The Book of Cyber-Kells was written speaking about Unicron being Earth's core, and it would come to the Trinity Library.
At some point, the alien goddess Quintessa discovered that the true form of Earth's core is Unicron and so concocted a plan to revive Cybertron by draining his life force, sending Megatron and a brainwashed Optimus Prime (now called Nemesis Prime) to retrieve the staff of the Arthurian wizard Merlin to complete her plan.
Quintessa started moving Cybertron towards Earth's solar system, causing Unicron to awaken as his six horns emerged in the Earth's surface as he reacted to the presence of his old enemy. Growing at a rate of three meters a day, Unicron's horns caused great scientific curiosity and mass panic around the globe. Sir Edmund Burton and Cogman recognized the horns for what they really were, taking them as a sign of the apocalypse.
At Stonehenge, Megatron and Quintessa begun the ritual to send Unicron's life force to Cybertron before the combined forces of the Autobots and TRF halted the process. However, enough of Unicron's life force was sent to Cybertron that it healed the majority of the damage and rendered the planet habitable once more, making the Autobots feel they could return to their homeworld.
In the aftermath, several human scientists were examining one of Unicron's horns until one of them approached Quintessa in a human disguise. She warned the scientist not to touch on the horns if he didn't want to unleash Unicron's wrath, but offered him and his colleagues a way to kill Unicron.
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- Roberto Orci was interested in having Unicron as the main antagonist of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but he was removed after Orci and Alex Kurtzman left the film's production.
- While it was never revealed why Orci and Kurtzman wanted him in the film, the most likely explanation for this is because of The Fallen's appearance in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, due to him being Unicron's apprentice in the Generation One continuity by Dreamwave Productions.
- Unicron's portrayal in this continuity is based on his Aligned incarnation. In fact, visual effects artist Chris Zammit came up with the idea that the red markings on Optimus/Nemesis and Megatron's faces were the use of Dark Energon due to its mind-control abilities and Unicron's presence in the film. The idea was scrapped, however.
- Also, Unicron's portrayal being based on his Aligned incarnation is quite odd, considering that the live-action movies wouldn't abide to the concepts established by the Aligned Continuity unlike other continuities.
- Unicron's existence in this continuity as an in-universe explanation for why Cybertronians keep coming to Earth contradicts what was established by IDW's comics, as the Transformers: Convergence prose story revealed that they keep coming to Earth due to past events always bringing them there as a result of The Fallen's actions when he betrayed the Dynasty of Primes and Soundwave forming the Human Collaborators to keep the Ark hidden on the Moon.
- The Book of Cyber-Kells, which tells about Unicron being Earth's core in the film, is based on the existing Book of Kells, which is also located at the Trinity Library in real life. However, the Trinity Library is located in Dublin, Ireland, not London, England.
