Unicron Singularity
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The destruction of Unicron upset the balance of good and evil. This unbalance created a distortion of space-time resembling a black hole called the Unicron Singularity near the planet Cybertron that threatened to destroy the universe. It's also responsible for almost every plot hole in the franchise.
| “ | This thing you speak of, it is no ordinary black hole. | ” |
| —Primus, "Balance" | ||
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Fiction
Unicron Trilogy cartoon continuity
Cybertron cartoon
When the black hole manifested itself in their reality, the Autobots on Cybertron immediately took action, establishing a network of sensor probes to scan the black hole. Red Alert monitored the black hole's expansion from a remote station, observing the destruction of the planet Moriturus and reporting back to Optimus Prime. With the black hole steadily drawing nearer and nearer to Cybertron, and its effects already wreaking havoc across the planet, Prime's only course of action was to evacuate Cybertron, relocating the population to Earth. Fallen
The effects of the black hole were even felt outside of the linear universe by the ancient Transformer Vector Prime, guardian of the timestream. While attempting to view the future, Vector Prime discovered that there was no future to see: the black hole would spread across the entire multiverse, consuming all possible realities and timelines. Guardian Knowing that only the power of Primus could stop Unicron's evil, Vector Prime re-entered the timestream and joined with Optimus Prime's Autobots, directing them in a search for the lost Cyber Planet Keys that would awaken Primus and enable him to seal the black hole. Fallen Optimus Prime was not entirely convinced that a mystical solution was necessary when technological options were left to explore, and had Red Alert attempt to collapse the black hole using a gravitron grid. Alas, the black hole's power proved too much for the grid and caused it to overload, but the Autobots remained unconvinced by Vector Prime's tale until Red Alert spoke up on his behalf and talked the heroes into searching for the lost talismans. Hidden
The Autobots' quest eventually led them to obtain three of the four Cyber Planet Keys, from Velocitron the Speed Planet, the Jungle Planet, and Earth itself. The Cybertron Defense Team laid the path back to Cybertron with the aid of their human allies, plotting a space bridge course through the warps in space and time that the black hole had created around the planet. Assault The Cyber Planet Keys were subsequently brought to Cybertron, where they were used to transform the planet into the body of Primus himself. Cybertron Optimus Prime substituted the power of his Matrix of Leadership for that of the fourth Cyber Planet Key in the hopes that it would be enough, and the re-energized Primus unleashed his power as a beam that he fired into the heart of the black hole. Unfortunately, without the fourth key to restore his full power, Primus succeeded only in halting the black hole's expansion, failing to destroy it. Titans
The Autobots finally succeeded in acquiring the fourth and final Cyber Planet Key from Gigantion the Giant Planet, at which point all four keys were stolen by Galvatron. Showdown Galvatron ventured into the black hole itself and unleashed the power of the keys on its dark heart, intending to accelerate its universal degeneration, destroying all of reality and remaking the universe in his own image. As the Jungle Planet threatened to become the first victim of the black hole's accelerated pull, and planets all across time and space were ravaged by the dark energies unleashed, Optimus Prime, Override, Scourge, Evac, and Metroplex confronted Galvatron within the black hole and defeated him, regaining possession of the Cyber Planet Keys. His power at last fully replenished, Primus channelled his power through the massive starship known as the Ark, and with one definitive blast, the black hole was finally obliterated. End
Cybertron comic
Vector Prime revealed that the Unicron Singularity was created when Primus's plan to trap Unicron in an Energon Sun, giving off life rather than consuming it, spectacularly backfired. The sun instead collapsed into a black hole which consumed the infant universe it had once nurtured, and then expanded into space near Cybertron. Balancing Act, Pt 5
The black hole's pull was so strong that even Unicron's presence in alternate realities were drawn into it, throwing the entire universal balance out of whack. As the Unicron Singularity replicated itself across these worlds, its space-time distortions drew them together, histories overlapping in a somewhat messy fashion. The continued expansion of the Unicron Singularity threatened to consume the entire Universe and, owing to its self-replicating nature, eventually the entire multiverse. Balancing Act, Part 2
Optimus Prime, recently arrived on this Cybertron from the Universe War, revealed that that conflict had abruptly ended when Unicron was destroyed as a result of the Singularity's effects spreading throughout the multiverse. Vector Prime understood that this indicated the threat posed by the black hole was more urgent than the inhabitants of one universe might be able to perceive. Revelations Part 2
Galaxy Force comic
Cybertron toy bios
The black hole created an anomaly in space-time which brought one universe's version of the Mini-Cons Mirage, Downshift, and Dirt Boss to the Speed Planet and Earth of another reality. Wal-Mart exclusive Override two-pack toy bio Wal-Mart exclusive Dirt Boss two-pack toy bio
Ask Vector Prime
Aurex 503.21 Gamma was threatened by the Unicron Singularity, but the crisis was apparently abated. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/03
In Aurex 1104.30-DB Zeta, Superion, Defensor, and Rail Racer fought Devastator in the Combiner Wars in the shadow of the Unicron Singularity. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/31
The Unicron Singularity caused portions of Primax 496.22 Alpha to be replicated in Aurex 1104.30-JH Zeta. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/26
Aurex 1006.0 Beta was also threatened by the Singularity. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/19
Games
Transformers Cybertron: Primus Unleashed
When the enormous black hole threatened to suck the entire universe in, the planet of Cybertron transformed into Primus and flew towards it. By blasting the dark matter flying out of the black hole, he caused debris to fly back into it, weakening and sealing it before it could destroy the whole of reality. Transformers Cybertron: Primus Unleashed
Notes
- The black hole was never called "the Unicron Singularity" or was refered as Unicron in the cartoon, instead having the accurate but unimaginative name "the black hole".
- The Fun Publications Cybertron fan club comic created the idea that the Unicron Singularity was warping and altering space-time to explain away continuity errors between the English dub of the Cybertron cartoon and the two previous series to which it was supposed to be a sequel. It is possible that it could also be used as a blanket explanation for continuity errors in the previous series and things like Sky Shadow's backstory as well. Using this excuse, one could effectively explain away every plot hole from every fictional continuity ever. Gotta love Fun Publications.
- Dreamwave's Energon comic was cancelled before it reached its end; had it completed its story, the final issue would have introduced the black hole, created when Unicron's destruction caused a nearby portal to an alternate universe to implode. Simon Furman's original pitch for a new Transformers comic to IDW Publishing built upon this, with Unicron's destruction destabilizing both the Cybertron and Generation 1 realities, but IDW ultimately went in a totally different direction.[1]
- The alternate, stand-alone Japanese version of Cybertron, Galaxy Force, made no blatant stated connection between Unicron and the "Grand Black Hole". However, the Grand Black Hole appeared in the present time because the (unspecified) Dark God, the source of darkness in the universe that opposes Primus, was trapped within a Matrix-type object, separating it from the universal balance. However, since then, Takara has released an official timeline of events that ties up the three series. The explanation given for the Grand Black Hole now agrees with the Hasbro fiction.
- The planet Cybertron itself was swallowed up by the Grand Black Hole in Galaxy Force's first episode. In the American version, these scenes were omitted so that the black hole merely hovered threateningly near the planet. This does make more sense, given that characters would return to the planet later in the series and not face any of the negative effects of being in a black hole, such as dying horribly.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Grand Black Hole (グランドブラックホール Gurando Burakku Hōru)
References
- ↑ Pitch printed in The Best of Simon Furman
