
In a fight to stop him, Megatronus is defeated (but not killed) by the Primes and forever known after as the Fallen. The Primes had a directive not kill suns on planets that house life, but one robot called Megatronus Prime goes rogue and puts a Harvester in what will later be the Egyptian desert, making him the original Decepticon. They created star-absorbing machines called Sun Harvesters to manufacture Energon, the aforementioned Transformer lifeblood.
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A prologue in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen shows early man encountering a ship full of bots in the year 17,000 B.C., when beings called the Seven Primes arrived on an exploratory mission to harvest energy. The Transformers didn’t return to Earth for a long time after the Jurassic age. Related StoriesĬhildren Disconcertingly Pull Focus in New Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer
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The plot of Age of Extinction is all about the quest to get one of these Seeds, and all you need to know is that the good guys win, and Optimus Prime launches himself into space with it at the end of the movie along with a message to the Creators to stay the hell away from Earth. The Creators want to destroy life on Earth to get material for more robots the dinosaurs didn’t really go extinct, they were just turned into Dinobots. We get a look at this process in a prologue scene where alien ships hover above a dinosaur-filled valley on ancient Earth, and then disperse floating explosives that, when detonated, turn all lifeforms in the blast radius into an elemental metal called Transformium (the advanced alloy Transformers are made of, natch). In Transformers: Age of Extinction we learn that roughly 65 million years ago, an alien race called the Creators sent ships out across the cosmos to “cyberform” thousands of planets with devices called Seeds. (Phew!) But Chicago gets seriously destroyed in the process, and “Remember Chicago” becomes the inflection point in Transformer-human relations as they exist in The Last Knight.īased on the Last Knight trailer, this movie is going back to the beginning, but haven’t Transformers been on Earth since before the Middle Ages? Then the whole third movie, Dark of the Moon, is about Megatron and Sentinel finally linking up to fulfill their dastardly plan to reap Earth’s resources by using a thing called a Space Bridge to pull Cybertron through space and merge it with our planet. Obviously, he loses and the AllSpark is destroyed. The whole first movie is about how Megatron came here to retrieve the AllSpark - which is made of Energon, the lifeblood of Transformers - so he could rebuild his species with it. On their way here, though, Megatron crashed himself into some Arctic ice and froze for thousands of years the same thing happened to Sentinel, but on the moon. Carbon dating places its arrival here around 10,000 B.C.Īs that war ended, Megatron made a pact with a traitorous Autobot named Sentinel Prime to ditch Cybertron for Earth, enslave humanity, and use our planet’s resources to rebuild their home world. The planet was destroyed in the process of the war, and the cube was lost in the far reaches of space, otherwise known as Earth. The civil war on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons was instigated by Megatron, and fought over control of the cube. The first Transformers movie opens with Optimus Prime delivering a voice-over about the significance of the AllSpark, a cube of energy that has the power to create worlds and fill them with life. They used to, and the bad guys keep trying to bring it back. Why are they even here? Don’t they have their own planet? So here, then, is a brief history of Transformers time.

The Last Knight will introduce a bunch of new concepts into the Transformers mythology - the staff of Merlin the original “Knights” of the Transformers race, who established the first cooperative link with humans through King Arthur Quintessa the Deceiver, creator of all Transformers the order of the Witwiccans the answer to the great mystery of Stonehenge - but it’s understandable if you haven’t made a flowchart of the franchise to keep track of all the things we already know about the descendants of Cybertron. “Why they keep coming here?” But the truth is, we already know a lot about how the robots of Cybertron got to Earth, why they came in the first place, and why they’ve stuck around. “You want to know don’t you?” Anthony Hopkins asks in the trailer.


Transformers: The Last Knight is the fifth installment in Michael Bay’s multibillion-dollar franchise, and it’s being marketed as a movie of answers.
