Unicron

Unicron
General Information
Homeworld	Himself (generally) Earth ("Aligned" continuity and The Last Knight only)
Species	Cybertronian God
Gender	Male
Family	The One (creator) Primus (twin brother)
Status	Dependent on version
Behind the Scenes
Universe	Transformers(formerly) Star Wars

Unicron is a Primordial God who became a gargantuan robotic organism and the ancient enemy of the Cybertronian God Primus.

Biology

Appearance

Unicron is a Cybertronian-like entity scaling at a planet-level size with orange, white, and grey armor. He has six horn-like protrusions stemming from his shoulders and two horns on his head.

Powers and abilities

Unicron possesses transformation abilities akin to Cybertronians, his alternate mode being a metallic planet akin to Cybertron.

Unicron can resurrect and reformat deceased Cybertronians into his heralds. For example, Primax iterations of Unicron have reformatted Decepticon leader Megatron into the far more powerful Galvatron. He has also reformatted Autobot leader Optimus Prime into the darker Nemesis Prime.

Unicron can create vast armies of drones and other foot soldiers such as regular Sweeps, Dead End Drones and other Mini-Cons, and undead Terrorcons, the latter of which is powered by Dark Energon, Unicron's lifeforce.

Unicron can give immense power to whoever he chooses as heralds and holds dominion over the Terrorcon faction, legions of insectoid Sweeps, and a tribe of Animatronian Scorponoks previously associated with the Predacon faction.

It is possible that Unicron is the most powerful Cybertronian in existence, even more so than Primus, who is secretly the planet Cybertron itself and is technically larger.

History

Unicron is the enemy of all Cybertronian factions, being the fabled destroyer and ancient enemy of Cybertron. His existence goes back probably to the very creation of the Cybertronians. However, it is debated as to whether he had disguised himself as a moon to transcend the countless ages or was trapped in that form by Primus.

Unicron has been defeated many times but never totally destroyed; one of these was when both the Decepticons and the Autobots set aside their war and joined forces to defeat Unicron and stop him from destroying Cybertron.

Gallery

Primax Cluster

Unicron's planet mode

Unicron's antibodies

Uniend Cluster

Unicron's robot mode as seen in Transformers: Prime

A clone manifestation of Unicron

Unicron's interior

Unicron's antibodie

Tyran Cluster

Unicron's horn emerging from Earth's surface

Unicron's planet mode

Unicron's interior/eyes

Malgus Cluster

Unicron's robot mode

Notes

• Unicron's appearances in both The Transformers: The Movie and season 3 of The Transformers are extraordinarily consistent about him never actually moving his mouth while speaking, suggesting his voice may be broadcast as opposed to physically produced.
• Transformers: Armada and its sequels Energon, and Cybertron are collectively known as the Unicron Trilogy, having been named as such by Hasbro designer Aaron Archer because of Unicron's importance in each series.
• Transformers screenwriter Roberto Orci was interested in having Unicron appear in the live-action film series as far as early development on Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
  • Unicron would eventually make his live-action debut in Transformers: The Last Knight, albeit with only his horns and allusions to his planet mode appearing in the film. This incarnation is portrayed as an ultra-terrestrial threat that eventually became Earth's core/true form, much like his "Aligned" continuity counterpart.
  • Luckily, Unicron would officially make his proper live-action debut in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. His portrayal in that film is more in line with his Generation 1 and Unicorn Trilogy counterparts, being a planet-eating god of destruction.
• Derrick J. Wyatt considers Unicron to be an unnatural "uberpredator" of Cybertronians.
• Unicron's profile in The Transformers Universe states that eating planets (and stars) increases his size and his hunger. This detail would eventually become canon in issue #0 of IDW Publishing's Transformers: Unicron comic miniseries.
• According to Transformers: Cyberverse writer Mae Catt, the crew behind the show wanted to avoid a storyline featuring Unicron because of how repetitive it had become.

Development

• In early preproduction for The Transformers: The Movie, Unicron was referred to as the Entity. A model sheet from later in the movie's preproduction revealed that, at one point, the planet Unicron would turn into the robot Ingestor. An early rough draft of the film detailed some of the specifics of this; the disembodied voice of Ingestor would have presented itself to Megatron as merely the master and custodian of the planet Unicron, communicating from somewhere within the planet. He would remake the Life Spark of Megatron and other fallen Decepticons into Galvatron and his troops and implore them to bring him Energon to feed the planet, consumed with straw-slurping and lip-smacking sounds. Only at the draft's climax were Ingestor and Unicron revealed to be one and the same, as the energy the planet had been absorbing was revealed to be required to power the planet's transformation into robot mode. We used "robot" loosely, though; many pieces of organic terminology are used throughout the draft to describe planet and robot forms, such as the planet being covered in what appeared to be grass trees, but which were actually the hairs of his humanoid form. At the end of the early rough draft, Unicron is destroyed completely by the Life Spark of Optimus Prime.
• Character designer Floro Dery claims his designs for Unicron were very large and complicated. For example, there were three drawings of Unicron's internal organs that were 2'x7' each. Dery also explains that Unicron's television monitor-covered core is "like security monitors in a building," and that he must watch these screens manually to know what is going on, rather than the information being diverted directly into him from the screens' source. And finally, the orbiting moon that is seen in the discarded Generation 1 prototype by Takara was intended to be "a kind of mini-Unicron, like Mini-Me of Dr. Evil." Floro Dery's kind of eccentric.
• Floro Dery's production notes as shown on his designs for Unicron (then "The Entity") reveal some very interesting things that don't quite come through in the original film or were dropped:
  • The spheres on Unicron's rings are meant to be roughly equivalent in size to Earth.
  • The surface of Unicron was originally a dense jungle of metal and mechanical creatures.
  • Dery's roundabout reasoning for giving Unicron rings is explained: "Saturn sounds like Satur [presumably meaning satyr]. Satur is synonymous with the Devil. The Entity is a Devil-like planet. This is the reason why I designed the Entity like the planet Saturn."
  • A moon is included (as in Takara's Generation 1 toy prototype), but never explained aside from being flashy and conductive. Scenes involving "The Satellite Moon of Unicron" exist in very early drafts of the movie but were moved to a planet that would become the Junkion in later drafts.
  • All the circular portions on the planet's surface were to flash and reflect different colors to "dazzle the viewers" and eliminate the epileptics in the audience.
• The earliest known Dery sketch of Unicron gives him somewhat pronounced "nostril" slots, which is a detail that was eliminated on subsequent character model sheets... but still shows up in certain AKOM-animated episodes of the Generation 1 cartoon, particularly "Ghost in the Machine".
• An earlier version of Unicron's head, modeled by Satoshi Urushihara, showed up during his planet-to-robot transformation in The Transformers: The Movie. Originally animated for a promotional video for the film, this version lacks facial hair and has extra greebles all over his face. It also colored the helmet entirely gray, save an orange mohawk.
  • In IDW Publishing's comic book adaptation, Don Figueroa drew a hybrid between the two designs, combining the facial hair from the final design and the orange mohawk from the alternate design.