Unicron Singularity

The name or term "Unicron" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Unicron (disambiguation).

The Unicron Singularity is a spatial-temporal anomaly that crosses many (possibly all) realities in the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

A black hole is like, this giant bunghole in outer space. And it like sucks up the whole universe, and then it grinds it up and like sends it all to hell or something.

The Unicron Singularity is a frightening space-time anomaly, resembling a black hole, near Cybertron.

“	This thing you speak of, it is no ordinary black hole.	”
——Primus, "Balance"

Japanese name: Grand Black Hole

Fiction

Cybertron cartoon

When the Unicron Singularity 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 singularity'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 Unicron Singularity 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 possibly 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 singularity'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 Unicron Singularity. Unfortunately, without the fourth key to restore his full power, Primus succeeded only in halting the singularity'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 Unicron Singularity 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 Unicron Singularity was finally obliterated. End

Cybertron comic

Vector Prime revealed that the 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 faction. 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

Universes involved

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Brings new meaning to "plot hole."

It is unclear whether the Unicron Trilogy caused a "Crisis" event—permanently merging the universes caught in its snare into one, somehow jumbling them all while remaining separate, or possibly drawing them together at the point of the Singularity and releasing them after. What is clear is that the temporal changes seem to be permanent, and show no signs of 'unraveling' after the Singularity's destruction—individuals, events and locations from multiple universes now permanently co-existing in one. (The first scenario, for all intents and purposes.)

While the "gestalt" reality created by the Unicron Trilogy draws heavily on the Dreamwave Armada and Energon comics (Over-Run's backstory); and the Armada and Energon cartoons (the creation of the Energon Sun), there is some indication that other realities are also involved. The capital of Cybertron in the new reality is suddenly Iacon (Generation 1) rather than Cyber City (comic) or Central City (cartoon).

The Four wise elders would also seem to indicate a Generation 1 connection... but their presence in the Unicron Trilogy universe seems to predate the Unicron Singularity, and is more likely mundane time-travel. (That kind of thing happens a lot in Transformers.)

All this adds up to an all-purpose answer for glaring continuity errors. That's right, it sucks up continuity along with everything else.

Notes

• 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, even in non-Transformers series. Gotta love Fun Publications.

• 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, and 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.