

Later, Starscream's ghost, as well as a kidnapped & possessed Scourge, confronted Unicron by reactivating him in the episode "Ghost in the Machine". He was briefly mentioned by Astrotrain in the episode "Chaos" by claiming Galvatron will be more famous than him in history. They were able to pinpoint his location after replaying the footage of the final battle on the movie on his databank. Unicron's head in the third season of The Transformers G1 series.Īfter the events of the movie, Unicron made a brief appearance in the first part of Five Faces of Darkness, wherein Cyclonus, Scourge & the Sweeps visited Unicron's head to look for the whereabouts of Galvatron. Welles' voice also provided direct inspiration for the ever ambitious lab mouse, The Brain. He was voiced by the late Orson Welles, who played the villainous Henry Potter in the 1977 TV-Movie remake of It's A Wonderful Life. Unicron was then torn apart from the inside, finally blasting into debris, with his head torn free relatively intact to orbit Cybertron as a new moon. Hot Rod took back the Matrix of Leadership - turning him into Rodimus Prime - and after despatching Galvatron by throwing him out into space right through Unicrons armored skin, opened the Matrix container, allowing its energies to radiate freely. However, Galvatron was unable to withstand Unicron's torture, and obediently attacked Hot Rod - a young Autobot and the main protagonist of the film. Galvatron even tried to ally with his mortal enemies, the Autobots, in order to save Cybertron from being destroyed. He defied Unicron, trying unsuccessfully to use the Matrix as a weapon, but was tortured into obedience by him. But when Unicron devoured Cybertron's moons, Galvatron was enraged, claiming they and the planet itself belonged to him. Galvatron destroyed Ultra Magnus and took the Matrix for himself, planning to betray his master. Later, he recruited a mortally-wounded Megatron to destroy the Matrix of Leadership, transfiguring and upgrading Megatron into Galvatron while turning the bodies his Decepticon minions into Cyclonus, Scourge & the Sweeps.

He is known and feared by mechanical life forms (and all Transformers are tiny compared to him).Īt the beginning of the film, he devours the planet Lithone, leaving only one survivor (Kranix). Unicron is the main antagonist of the 1986 film The Transformers: The Movie. Generation One Cartoon series The Transformers: The Movie
