Skullitron

Skullitron is an Autobot-allied Knight from The Last Knight portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

He chose... poorly.

Skullitron is one of the legendary Knights of Iacon and a sworn protector of the Staff of Merlin. The past millennium or so hasn't been kind to him.

His face came off, for example.

Fiction

The Last Knight film

Voice actor: Frank Welker (English)

Along with his fellow knights, Skullitron once served as a guardian to Quintessa, but eventually betrayed the sorceress, stole her staff of power and fled to earth. After an apparently long period of hiding, the human Merlin convinced the knights to aid King Arthur and his people in their battle against an invading enemy. Combining with his comrades to form Dreagonstorm, they easily turned the tide of battle in Arthurs favor and soon formed a brotherhood with the human Knights of the round table. After Merlins death, they buried him, and the staff, in an ancient ship beneath the sea and steelbane joined his brothers in an eternal vigil over it.

Skullitron laid rusting and inactive aboard the Knights' ship deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Awakened from his centuries long repose by the arrival of Viviane Wembly and Cade Yeager, the disoriented and decomposing Knight violently attempted to defend the Staff of Merlin from the human interlopers, but the arrival of the Transformers Reaction Force and ensuing battle led to the severely damaged Skullitron plunging down a chasm into the ship's bowels to his apparent death. The Last Knight

Toys

The Last Knight

Spooky scary Skullitrons send shivers down your spine.

• Skullitron (Deluxe Class, 2017)

Released as part of the Toys R Us exclusive portion of the Mission to Cybertron promotion in the The Last Knight line, Skullitron is a slight retool of Steelbane, giving the mold a new, decomposing skull face and a deco designed to evoke oxidised copper.

Unfortunately, Skullitron still suffers from the same loose ball joints, if not even to a more severe degree, as Steelbane. In terms of paint quality control, at least a small number of units is missing it's head paint operations.

Notes

• None of the Knights in the film are named; this wiki assumes based on the facial similarity to the toy that the first Knight to awaken is Skullitron.
• Skullitron's own box is strangely lacking any information on his allegiance, but the cross-sell on his wavemate Megatron's box advertises Skullitron as an Autobot.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Skullitron (スカリトロン Sukaritoron)