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[[folder:Unicron]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"'''The past shall consume the future, the dead shall consume the living, AND CHAOS SHALL REIGN SUPREME!'''"'']]
-> '''Voiced by:''' Creator/JohnNoble

An ancient evil and a mechanical god of sorts who possesses a rivalry with his counterpart Primus. Defeated eons ago, his influence continues to the present day and is a force that couldn't care less about the Autobot/Decepticon conflict.
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* AbusivePrecursors: [[spoiler:As Optimus puts it, he's, metaphorically speaking, the parent of humanity and all life on Earth. He agrees with Optimus on this, and then declares us all parasites unworthy of living]].
* AgonyBeam: His eye lasers double as this, which he uses to torture Megatron throughout Predacons Rising.
* AlternateSelf: While the comics' Transformers Multiverse establishes G1 Unicron to be a "Multiversal Constant" simultaneously existing different universes, this version of Unicron is unrelated.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His final fate. He opens the reliquary that held the Allspark, not noticing that Optimus emptied it, and the vessel sucks out Unicron's own spark and traps it]].
* ArcVillain: While typically the series' GreaterScopeVillain, Unicron takes center stage as the main villain of the "One Shall Rise" three-parter.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Optimus believes that since Unicron's initial defeat, he's "transcended physical existence".
* BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler:He reawakens when the Autobots restore Cybertron; however, his body is unresponsive thanks to the Matrix of Leadership, which forces him to take the next best vessel, which so happens to be Megatron's corpse]].
* BadassBoast: "'''Unicron is power incarnate.'''" among others.
* BadBoss: Naturally, since he's an OmnicidalManiac who wants to destroy everything. He's so awful that [[spoiler:Megatron actually pulls a HeelFaceTurn after a stint of being Unicron's slave makes him lose his taste for conquest]].
* BeardOfEvil: As is tradition for him.
** WeirdBeard: It's made of rock plates.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of ''Predacons Rising'', where he awakens due to the revival of Cybertron/his brother Primus, intent on destroying him and the [=AllSpark=], even if it mean destroying all Autobots and Decepticons, including Optimus Prime and Megatron]].
* BloodyMurder: Dark Energon is his blood. Aside from being a [[ToxicPhlebotinum dangerous]] [[PsychoSerum substance]] in its own right, it is well-suited to creating weapons. [[spoiler:Unicron himself was capable of SpontaneousWeaponCreation using Dark Energon when he was possessing Megatron's body]].
* BroughtDownToBadass: [[spoiler:In "Predacons Rising" he's not in a planet sized body like he usually is, but when limited to Megatron's body he's still powerful enough to quickly defeat Predaking]].
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Primus' Abel. Unicron longs to kill his brother by destroying Cybertron, and in lieu of that, wants Primus' inheritors, the Primes, exterminated.
* ChaosIsEvil: He's an evil, destructive god representing chaos where his benevolent and creative brother represents order, and he makes a lot of boasts that contain the word "chaos".
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:In "Predacons Rising" he dishes out one on '''Predaking'''. He's caught off guard thanks to Megatron lying to him about Predaking's loyalty, but right after Unicron's Dark Energon weapons allow him to easily beat Predaking unconscious]].
* DarkIsEvil: Unicron is primordial being of darkness and chaos, and the malignant Dark Energon is his blood.
* DemonicPossession: Does it to Megatron, albeit after a lot of effort. And by the time he does, [[spoiler:he's too late to stop Optimus from unleashing the Matrix against him]]. [[spoiler:He does it again in ''Predacons Rising'', and it's considerably easier as Megatron is "dead"]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:After losing a battle with Primus, he was left to be trapped in the center of the Earth where he plans to destroy humanity and their civilization. [[{{Satan}} Sound familiar]]]]?
* DragonRider: [[spoiler:After raising his army of Terrorcon Predacons, he takes one of them as his steed for the journey to the Well of All Sparks]].
* TheDreaded: Given the other tropes, it's unsurprising that everyone, including ''Megatron'', is more than eager to stop him, knowing the extreme danger he poses to everything.
* EldritchAbomination: He's as old as time itself. His blood's properties can resurrect the dead as berserker zombies, power up a Transformer, possibly kill a human with exposure, weaken Cybertronians if they are exposed to too much, and allow one to hear the thoughts of Unicron himself and see the future. Season 2 expands on this a little, despite him [[spoiler:seemingly dormant once again]], as his blood is used to [[spoiler:repair the Nemesis, which works but inadvertently makes it sentient (it used to be Trypticon)]] and later [[spoiler:used as a component in forging the Dark Star Saber- which ''shatters the Star Saber'']]. Season 3 expands on it slightly further, showing that [[spoiler:mixing it with Synthetic Energon causes Decepticons to mutate and become vampiric]].
* EvilCounterpart: To his brother, Primus. And the parallels are even stronger in this universe than they usually are. [[spoiler:Both of them are responsible for the survival and possible creations of a planet, Earth for Unicron, and Cybertron for Primus, respectively. The difference being, that Primus willingly allowed his spark to become one with Cybertron's core and created the Well of [=AllSparks=] to spawn new generations of Cybertronians, whereas Earth formed around Unicron's body whilst he was in stasis, and the creation of the planet and its inhabitants was completely unintentional and unwanted on Unicron's part]].
* EvilIsNotAToy:
** Megatron finds out the hard way that waking up Unicron doesn't earn him or the Decepticons any favours, scrambling into an EnemyMine to survive with them.
** Dark Energon itself is risky to use, and has the potential to harm its user. Megatron has to use a form of graded exposure to not poison himself immediately, and when Knock Out and Starscream [[spoiler:combine it with Synthetic Energon, they accidentally create a form of Cybertronic vampire/zombie hybrid.]]
** Most telling of all, [[spoiler:even incorporating Dark Energon into one's body without fatally poisoning yourself makes your body tied to Unicron, allowing him to possess Megatron after forcibly resurrecting him. Megatron spends most of ''Predacons Rising'' mentally begging for death.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: As is tradition.
* EvilerThanThou: When Megatron tries becoming his [[TheDragon Herald]], he cites this trope to basically tell him to get lost and basically forces him into an EnemyMine with the Autobots to survive. [[spoiler:In ''Predacons Rising'', he takes control of Megatron's body and makes it ''very'' clear that he's in charge, so Megatron will get nothing but oblivion when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's of no further use]]]].
* EvilIsHammy: Probably the hammiest version of Unicron ever.
-->'''Unicron:''' '''Minions of the Prime, prepare for oblivion!'''
* FantasticRacism: Unicron derides humanity as "parasites" and dismissively describes Predaking as a "primitive life form".
* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}. Unicron is an evil god and he has an ego to match. [[spoiler:Insisting that he didn't need Megatron caused him and the Decepticons to ally with the Autobots to stop him]].
* FightingAShadow: Since Unicron [[spoiler:is Earth]], he can form countless copies of himself from surface materials; the Autobots can destroy as many of those as they can, but Unicron will survive.
* FinalBoss: Of Season 1 [[spoiler:and ''Predacons Rising'']].
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The few times he isn't looking at someone, he's staring straight at the camera, as if he's ''very aware'' that the people outside the TV are watching him.
* GeniusLoci: As is tradition, but ''Prime'' adds a special twist: [[spoiler:Unicron ''is'' Earth, the planet having formed around his remains. He exists as a spirit which can control the minerals in the ground to form copies of his original body]].
* GiantMook: Even the regular stone copies of Unicron are larger than the average Transformer, but in addition to these, Unicron is also capable of forming ''skyscraper''-sized versions of himself that are much, much harder to take down.
* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:Since he's the progenitor of humanity and all life on Earth, he counts as this]].
* GodOfEvil: For Cybertron, at least.
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's only appeared in three episodes to date and is rarely mentioned, but he's undoubtedly a more serious threat than Megatron. The Dark Energon Megatron used to revive himself came from Unicron, the Terrorcons ''really'' belong to Unicron, and in the tie-in video game Thunderwing is one of Unicron's creations.
* HiveMind: Combined with IAmLegion; Unicron can make multiple versions of his old body that are all share a single, unified mind, and thus at least seem to talk in complete unison.
--> '''Unicron may be one, but we all are Unicron!'''
* HumansAreInsects: What he declares upon deciding to destroy them.
* IWorkAlone: In response to Megatron's offer to became his Herald, Unicron belittles him as useless for not having killed Optimus and declares he doesn't need Megatron's aid. [[spoiler:When possessing Megatron's body in "Predacons Rising" he makes his point clear that they are '''NOT''' working together, Megatron is Unicron's vessel. Unicron controls him, and Megatron controls nothing]].
* {{Jerkass}}: In addition to being a GodOfEvil and OmnicidalManiac, Unicron is a huge dick, responding to Megatron's loyal supplication with nothing but insults and angrily derides [[spoiler:humanity]] as nothing but parasites when he finds out that [[spoiler:sentient life came into being on his body while he slept]]. He's also a BadBoss, [[spoiler:torturing Megatron while possessing him, despite the fact that there's nothing Megatron can do to actually harm Unicron]].
* TheJuggernaut: [[spoiler:While possessing Megatron in ''Predacons Rising'', Unicron is the single most powerful Transformer in the series, even managing to defeat the previous holder of that title, Predaking, without much trouble. The only thing that actually stops him is Optimus forcibly removing Unicron's Anti-Spark from Megatron's body]].
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:His declaration that all life on Earth, especially human beings, is parasitic and that they will be exterminated]]. This is even nastier as he outright acknowledges [[spoiler:they are indirectly his progeny, having formed on Earth, which formed around him.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: He has no funny traits whatsoever, and the drama - already serious for this series - only intensifies whenever he's around; although he's beaten in "One Shall Rise", [[spoiler:Optimus ends up an amnesiac and abducted by Megatron after beating him]]. [[spoiler:In ''Predacons Rising'', he actually causes Megatron to lose ''his'' only funny trait of being a DeadpanSnarker, drives him to attempted suicide and ''causes him to have a HeelFaceTurn'']].
* LargeHam: He's the God of Evil and obviously takes it in stride.
* MookMaker: [[spoiler:Since Unicron is the Earth itself, he's capable of spawning apparently infinite stone copies of his original body from the ground. That's right, the whole planet is his MookMaker and all the mooks are Unicron]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** [[spoiler:In "One Shall Rise", rejecting Megatron's offer of servitude pushed the Decepticon leader to instead aid the Autobots in defeating him]].
** [[spoiler:Once again in ''Predacons Rising'', when his torture of Megatron cements the latter's HeelFaceTurn]].
* ObviouslyEvil: The "chaos bringer" is unlikely to be good or have redeeming qualities.
* OneManArmy: He's capable fighting off many enemies in his way, whether it be Autobots or Decepticons. This was shown as he managed to painfully pummel down Optimus while still possessing Megatron through painful torture. Even when the Autobots, Decepticons and Predacons are forced to work together to face off against Unicron's army of Terrocons, their efforts are almost in vain as Unicron had provided the Terrocons enough willpower to overcome their enemies.
* OmnicidalManiac: As is tradition. Unicron seeks the destruction of all life that isn't him, with special emphasis on Cybertronians (the creations of his hated brother, Primus) and humanity (whom he loathes as "parasites" for [[spoiler:having come into being after his body became Earth]]).
* PurpleIsPowerful: His eyes, blood, and the electric discharge used by his copies are all purple.
** PurpleIsTheNewBlack: He's heavily associated with the colour purple, the way a goth might dress in all-black.
* PhysicalGod: Sort of. He's implied to have been once been this before Primus and the Thirteen Primes defeated him. He's now [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence gone past this]].
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lambasts Megatron for his sheer arrogance, thinking he can help him, and not finishing off the last "disciple of Primus".
* RedBaron: The Chaos Bringer.
* RoboFamily: [[AllThereInTheManual Not mentioned in-series]] but he's the brother of Primus.
* SatanicArchetype: For Cybertronians. [[spoiler:But to Earth he is more of a God as the devil. Or at least the Demiurge of Gnosticism]].
* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: For once in this franchise, averted. [[spoiler:Unicron is ''Earth itself'', making him truly planet-sized for the first time. His physical body might be in the planet's core but his mind is dispersed throughout the planet, making him essentially Earth]].
* SealedEvilInACan: Completely unintentionally. [[spoiler:After his defeat at the dawn of time, the entire planet Earth naturally formed around him over billions of years]].
** [[spoiler:Invoked ''Predacons Rising''. The Anti-Spark, Unicron's soul, is trapped in the indestructible reliquary that once contained the Allspark]].
* ShockAndAwe: His duplicates use electrical blasts as a weapon.
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: In the Italian dub, he's constantly referred as "The Unicron".
* SpikesOfVillainy: All over his body.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: [[spoiler:While possessing Megatron's body, he uses Dark Energon to create weapons]].
** {{BFG}}
** JavelinThrower
** SinisterScythe
* {{Telepathy}}: To a limited degree; [[spoiler:in ''Predacons Rising'', he reads an unconscious Predaking's mind to find the location of a mass grave filled with dead Predacons]].
* UnexplainedAccent: Has hints of a Scottish accent in ''Predacons Rising''.
* VoicesAreMental: AvertedTrope. Megatron's possessed body does not speak with Unicron's voice, using Megatron's actual voice actor Frank Welker instead.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: His first awakening is triggered by a planetary alignment of every single planet in our solar system.
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[[folder:Terrorcons]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FrankWelker

With the use of Dark Energon, any Cybertronian corpse can be reanimated into these mindless abominations. Mix Dark and ''Synthetic'' Energon, and you get ''vampire zombies''.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Terrorcons are all mindless, violent killing machines attack everything they saw, apart from someone infused with Dark Energon and possess a strong strong will. [[spoiler:And of course they are completely obedient to Unicron himself]]. Makes sense since they are revived by the blood of Unicron.
* {{Dracolich}}: [[spoiler:The Predacon Terrorcons in ''Predacons Rising'']].
* DumbMuscle: They aren't very smart, but they're so strong they don't need to use brains, and their masters can direct them to follow orders unquestioningly to hatch strategies.
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: The first batch have been dead for millions of years.
* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: Owing to the Dark Energon.
* MechaMooks: Undead ones, too.
* NestedMouths: [[spoiler:The result of Synthetic and Dark Energon mixing in the same body, which then passes it on to all those it infects]].
* NonHumanUndead: [[spoiler:Cylas ends up being the only exception to the rule]].
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Megatron plans to use them to invade Earth, but this didn't happen. He later ends up with a small-scale ZombieApocalypse onboard his ship.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: The whole "robot zombies" thing even gets its very own LampshadeHanging. With [[spoiler:CYLAS]], you can add [[spoiler:human-Cybertronian hybrid into the mix (albeit with the human part [[BodyHorror very much alive]] and longing for death]]), and also [[spoiler:Airachnid, who has a spider motif]]. See OurVampiresAreDifferent as well.
** "Predacons Rising" adds [[spoiler:zombie Predacons to the mix]].
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler:CYLAS and those infected by him are as much like vampires as zombies. Some are even capable of remaining sentient even after being infected]]. [[JustifiedTrope The vampirism thing was due to the Dark Energon that infected them having been combined with Synthetic Energon.]]
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Undead robots.
** VoodooZombie: They were revived through a process equivalent to necromancy.
* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: Type II, unsurprisingly.
* TheUndead: As indicated by eight of the tropes in this section.
* ThroatLight: A purple one, owing to Dark Energon.
* ZombieApocalypse: [[spoiler:Unicron raises up Zombie Predacons and uses them to ZergRush Cybertron's core]].
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[[Characters/TransformersPrimeDecepticons The Autobots]] | [[Characters/TransformersPrimeDecepticons The Decepticons]] ([[Characters/TransformersPrimeMegatron Megatron]] -- [[Characters/TransformersPrimeStarscream Starscream]]) | [[Characters/TransformersPrimePredacons The Predacons]] | '''Unicron and the Terrorcons''' | [[Characters/TransformersPrimeOther Other Characters]] | [[Characters/TransformersPrimeNonShowCharacters Non-show characters]]-]]]]]

** DropTheHammer

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* BloodyMurder: Aside from being a [[ToxicPhlebotinum dangerous]] [[PsychoSerum substance]] in its own right, it is well-suited to creating weapons. [[spoiler:Unicron himself was capable of SpontaneousWeaponCreation using Dark Energon when he was possessing Megatron's body]].

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of ''Predacons Rising'', where he awakens due to the revival of Cybertron/his brother Primus, intent on destroying him and the [=AllSpark=]], even if it mean destroying all Autobots and Decepticons, including Optimus Prime and Megatron]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: An example so [[DeconstructedTrope extreme]] that it turns the trope on its head. [[spoiler:In ''Predacons Rising'', Unicron's torture and DemonicPossession of Megatron is initially somewhat satisfying to watch, given all the oppression the latter has inflicted on others and is now getting a taste of his own medicine. However, it gets so bad that Megatron not only attempts to commit ''suicide'', but once Unicron's free of Megatron's body, the latter does a HeelFaceTurn after realizing all the pain and suffering he's caused]].

* TheRedBaron: The Chaos Bringer.

An ancient evil, a mechanical god of sorts who possesses a rivalry with his counterpart Primus. Defeated eons ago, his influence continues to the present day and is a force that couldn't care less about the Autobot/Decepticon conflict.

* TheDreaded: Given the other tropes, it's unsurprising.

--> '''Unicron:''' '''Minions of the Prime, prepare for oblivion!'''

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a pretty epic one to Megatron.