| NOTE: This article is about the Transformers Aligned Continuity version of Unicron. For other versions go to the disambiguation page. |
| “ | Before the beginning, there was Primus and there was Unicron. One the incarnation of creation, the other of destruction. For eons, Primus and Unicron battled. The balance of power shifting between them more times than could be counted. Only by creating the Thirteen, the original Primes that proceeded me, was Primus able to defeat Unicron, and cast him out. Primus became one with the very core of our planet, creating life through the Well of All Sparks, while Unicron was never to be heard from again... until now. | „ |
| ~ Optimus Prime, telling a non-firsthand account of Unicron's origins. |
| “ | Do you know me, follower of Primus? (Optimus Prime: Unicron the Chaos Bringer.) Good. Now know me as Unicron, your destroyer! | „ |
| ~ Unicron to Optimus Prime. |
Unicron, also known as the Planet Eater and the Chaos Bringer, is the overarching antagonist of the Aligned continuity of the Transformers media franchise.
He was one of the two oldest Cybertronians in existence who are the gods, alongside his twin brother Primus, who he sought to destroy, alongside Earth, Cybertron and spread chaos throughout the entire universe.
He was voiced by John Noble, who also voiced Scarecrow in Batman: Arkham Knight. While possessing Megatron, he was voiced by Frank Welker, who also voiced the Kandarian Demon in The Evil Dead, Thumper in A Bug's Life, Megatron in Transformers: The Game and the Red Death in How to Train Your Dragon, and Shockwave in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While legends claim that he is the incarnation of destruction, he actually was one-half of a primordial being and came to his own logic that all life was beneath him and meaningless, meaning he chose to become a representation of destruction and has moral agency.
- Even the claims of him being the incarnation of destruction is generally from second-hand legends than from actual facts.
- Unicron's blood is known as Dark Energon which holds the power to reanimate the deceased Cybertronians as Terrorcons. The Terrorcons' only purpose is to destroy anything that gets in their way.
- It was also because of it that Megatron was able to corrupt the core of Cybertron to the point it got shut down, causing the Great Exodus.
- Out of a belief that all other life in existence are all beneath him, he sets to ravage all that he can so nothing else is else except him, destroying countless planets and all life in them.
- He wanted to kill his twin brother, Primus for creating lower beings than him and coming to the ideology that all life is equal.
- Eons later as the Earth's core, despite Megatron offering his own service to him, Unicron shows his ungratefulness by dismissing him as weak and continuing to attempt to kill Optimus Prime.
- As Unicron awakens, Optimus tries to convince Unicron to stop his evil deeds by showing him the value of human life and warning him of the devastation his awakening will do to humanity.
- Unicron chooses to view them as parasitic lifeforms and decides that he will personally enjoy annihilating the lot of them.
- He tortures Megatron's spark for his own entertainment by possessing his body and barring him from the afterlife, intending for him to be tormented inside his own mind for all eternity.
- While his spirit is controlling Megatron's body, Unicron creates an army of Terrorcons from fossils of Predacons and goes to Cybertron to poison and kill Primus, who is now Cybertron's core, destroying the entire planet and all life, Autobot, Decepticon, and Predacon alike, on it so that he can be free to bring chaos and death to the universe.
- Unicron also tries to devour the Allspark, the very afterlfie for the Transformers housing the souls of not only those who have passed but also of the souls that would later come to live on the future, as a final act of spite to Primus and Optimus Prime.
- At the end, Unicron's actions are so vicious, that Megatron of all people, who was for most of the series a vicious imperialist who before his death on Bumblebee's hands, had no actual redeeming qualities, ended up redeeming himself upon getting a horrific reminder of how oppression really feels like to its victims and lost any desire to inflict further harm.
Trivia[]
- Unicron is one of the four Transformers Aligned Continuity villains to be Pure Evil, alongside Silas, Airachnid and The Fallen. This is also, alongside his Generation One, Unicron Trilogy, Prime Wars Trilogy and Reboot Films, one of five incarnations of Unicron to be Pure Evil.
- Additionally, Unicron is arguably the evilest and vilest villain in the Aligned Continuity, due to his desire of creating chaos by devouring worlds after deeming all life beneath himself; even willing to destroy all Autobots and Decepticons (including Optimus Prime and Megatron), as well as humankind, out of spite against Primus for defeating him eons ago, that even the initially irredeemable Megatron ends up abandoning his old ways when Unicron made him his slave.
External links[]
- Unicron on the Villains Wiki
- Unicron on TFWiki.net
- Unicron on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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 Aligned Pure Evils
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