Unicron
A living mechanical planetoid that consumes worlds. In the 1986 animated film he was voiced by Orson Welles — the actor's final role.
Where he comes from
A primal force of destruction, Primus's eternal opposite. In some versions a god of chaos, in others a creation that escaped control.
Story
Unicron is a living mechanical planet that devours entire worlds. He has no motives in a human sense: he embodies destruction and hunger itself.
In the 1986 film he was voiced by Orson Welles — the actor's final role. In Transformers: Prime Unicron sleeps at Earth's core, and in Rise of the Beasts he seeks the Transwarp Key to reach new worlds.
Classifier: traits & abilities
- Faction
- His own
- Role
- Devourer of worlds
- Alt-modes
- Ringed planet
- Weapons
- Abyss-like jaws, energy beams, armies of servants
- Abilities
- Consuming planets, rebuilding other Transformers (Galvatron), mind influence
- Strengths
- Cosmic scale, near-immortality
- Weaknesses
- The Matrix of Leadership; reliance on servants in early stages
- Personality
- Merciless, primal, all-consuming
- Key relationships
- Primus, Galvatron, the Thirteen Primes
- First appearance
- 1986
- Voice (1986)
- Orson Welles
Filmography
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie |
| 2002–2006 | Unicron Trilogy |
| 2010–2013 | Transformers: Prime |
| 2023 | Rise of the Beasts |
Main screen appearances; not an exhaustive list.
Fan prequel: «The First Hunger»
An original story by this site. Not part of the official canon.
In the beginning there was no hunger. There was only space and two sparks gazing at each other across the void.
One spark created: gathering dust into worlds, light into stars. The other watched and did not understand why. Every new world seemed like noise disturbing the silence that had come first.
Then the second spark touched another's world for the first time — and it vanished. Silence returned, for a moment. That moment was enough for hunger to be born. Ever since, Unicron has searched for that first silence in every world he devours, and found it nowhere.
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