The Fallen

This article is about the servant of Unicron. For the first episode of Cybertron, see Fallen (episode).

The Fallen is a Transformer in the Generation 1 continuity family.

Of all the first 13 Transformers, he's the Judasiest.

At the dawn of time, Primus created new life, the 13 original Transformers, to crew his planetary form into battle against his eternal nemesis Unicron. One of these 13 would turn against his siblings, his creator, and his universe, and betray them all.

His original name now lost to the mists of time, the betrayer turned against Primus and became the Fallen. He is a being of power, darkness, fire and absolute dedication to his new master, Unicron. At the end of the first battle between the two Gods, for his treachery, the Fallen was sealed into extradimensional limbo along with the Dark God he now served.

He is on fire.

Fiction

Dreamwave comics continuity

The War Within: The Dark Ages

Approximately 7 million years ago, while Optimus Prime and Megatron were presumed missing in a space bridge accident, the Fallen returned to Cybertron. He was intent on initiating "The Unbinding," which would break the Seal of Primus and herald the Second Coming of Unicron.

To accomplish this task, he recruited a trio of Decepticon outcasts, Bludgeon, Mindwipe, and Bugly, who hungered for a command of the occult, which the Fallen could grant. As per the Fallen's instructions, the recruits were to round up four Transformers with "unique Sparks," Hot Spot, Jetfire, Blitzwing, and Grimlock. When the recruits faltered, the Fallen stepped in, singlehandledly abducting Blitzwing from his well-guarded holding cell and besting the powerhouse Grimlock.

The four, dubbed enigmatically the "Angles of Dissolution," awakened strapped to a four-paneled apparatus deep within the core of Cybertron, the Well of All Sparks. Though a combined army of forces from several factions penetrated the Fallen's operation, his defeat came only when Primus was roused from his slumber and condemned his wayward creation to an explosive demise.

Trivia

Raaagh, pudding!

The Judasmobile.

• The Fallen was created by Pat Lee, his first (and only) original Transformers character. The early design concept not only lacked the Fallen's characteristic mouthplate, but differed incredibly from the final product. Envisioned as a medieval, ancient-looking Transformer, he glowed like a furnace, though he was not depicted as being perpetually on fire until Andrew Wildman pencilled his appearances in The Dark Ages and the colorists caught on.

• The Fallen's altmode, a tank, though designed, was never used in-fiction.

Toys

Titanium Series

• The Fallen (6-inch Cybertron Heroes, 2007)

Was announced and on-display at BotCon 2006. Instead of being based on his comic appearance, he's Don Figueroa's design for pre-Earth Megatron as seen in Infiltration and Stormbringer, but with the Fallen's head and a fiery deco.

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.