Black hole (phenomenon)
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A black hole is an astronomical feature that occurs when a massive star collapses into a extremely small singularity so dense than not even light can escape its gravitational field.
Transformers have encountered black holes on a number of occasions and they have frequently been shown to function as portals between alternate universes.
Fiction
Generation 1 continuity family
Generation 1 toy bios & packaging blurbs
Megatron can tap into a black hole and draw on antimatter within it as a weapon.[1] He rarely does this because, dude, it's throwing antimatter around.
Optimus Prime journeyed into a black hole to discover nucleon.[2] His Powermaster body was outfitted with a phase modulation shield to accomplish this.[3]
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Transformers cartoon
A Quintesson ship with a captured Autobot, Decepticon, human, and Junkion aboard passed through a black to a negative universe where the color spectrum was reversed. On the opposite side was a "white hole" through which they returned. The Killing Jar
Super-God Masterforce cartoon
BlackZarak used magnetism to harness the power of black holes, and used one to trap Grand Maximus. God Ginrai later found himself trapped in the same hole. They escaped by combining their Chōkon Power and blasting the singularity at the heart of the black hole. BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space
Robots in Disguise
Toy bios
The bounty hunter Axer traveled from another dimension into this one through a black hole.[4]
Unicron Trilogy
Cybertron cartoon
Unicron's destruction created an especially large black hole which threatened to destroy the multiverse. Fallen The black hole destroyed anything that got near it. Red Alert tried to destroythe black hole using a gravitron grid, but it didn't work. Hidden On the last episode of Transformers: Cybertron, Optimus Prime with the help of Vector Prime destroyed the black hole using the Cyber Planet Keys.
Live-action film series
Revenge of the Fallen Battle Bios
Devastator's Vortex Grinder weapon generates artificial black holes which draw in nearby objects to be crushed.[5]
Aligned continuity
The Requiem Blaster works by drawing power from the gravity of a black hole, a quasar's sound waves, or a supernova's thermal energy (whichever is closer). Transformers: Exiles
References
- ↑ Generation 1 Megatron's original on-package bio (scan at BotchTheCrab.com)
- ↑ Action Master packaging blurb (scan at Seibertron.com)
- ↑ Nucleon Quest Super Convoy's toy pack-in bio (scan at TFTechSpecs.com, translation at TFU.info)
- ↑ Axer's Robots in Disguise on-package bio (scan at TFTechSpecs.com)
- ↑ Revenge of the Fallen Devastator's Battle Bio (published on Hasbro.com)
