@@MrJim02 Technically Unicron can eat the universe, for if I remember correctly Unicron has eaten 24.56% of the known universe, though Primacron Unicron is most likely just a planet eater........but still.
For the inhabitants of Lithone, this was the end of the world, the death of their civilisation and their race. For Unicron, it was the equivalent of going to Burger King.
Not to mention that if you pay attention, even on vhs the timing on the sound was off, a detail you'd only notice after multiple viewings as a kid or maybe just one for an OCD adult
I love how they start off showing the day to day lives of the planet's inhabitants to give us the feeling of "This isn't just some random planet shoed in to be eaten as a plot device, it's a living world filled with billions of individual lives and souls, and their most swift extinction is upon them."
I mean, that's the most trite and basic form of doing this. They literally could not have done less to make us care for this planet, it's some randoms we've never seen before for 5 minutes.
Gotta love Unicron's introduction. He comes in from between two stars and eats a planet, and at this point we have absolutely no idea exactly WHAT Unicron is. A robot? A planet? Some kind of space station? It's only later when he converses with Megatron that we find out that Unicron is actually a sentinent character, and only at the end do we realize that he's actually a giant planet-size Transformer!
I like how there's not even dust, no debris, not a single infinitesimal fragment of Lithone, so that if you couldn't even know there had once been an inhabited planet here before, there's just Unicron standing out in the cold void of space.
Yeah. Unicron probably puts out a seriously powerful gravity field to pull not just a planet in, but any satellites, debris that escapes planetary breakup...and any starships too slow or weak to get out of the field. As we see...
@@SoZo that ring Unicron has is just an extension. At a distance it makes him look like a world with a single asteroid band. But when you get closer (or he does...) you can see its physically part of him. What purpose the ring serves, other than turning into skeletal bat wings in robot mode, only Unicron knows. It lights up when he refuel, though, as well as every light on his surface, of course.
There is something about this scene that I've always found so incredibly unnerving. It coincides with the idea that our own universe is so large so unexplored and unknown, as well along with the fact that anything out there could reduce any evidence of our own existence down to zero in an instant. The universe is so expansive and beautiful yet at the same time terrifying, there are so many thing in our own galaxy and in the bigger unseen universe that pose such a great threat to use and we would be hopeless to stop, just like the people of Lithone we would be completely oblivious to the danger until we unexpectedly find it sitting outside our front door, and would have little no time what so ever to escape it. Seeing as how things on this scale do happen out there, its unsettling possible this scene has yet to find us and we may not know it until comes without warning.
A black hole could pop up tomorrow and devour every last atom of Earth, and that wouldn't change the fact that Earth has existed for billions of years, largely without being disturbed by asteroids or other outside dangers. Those are pretty good odds, relative to the lifespan of Earth's inhabitants over the years centuries millennia etc. But that only accounts for forces of nature, instead of intelligent life, like I don't know, a mechanized planet-eating behemoth
And it still shows. Their planet is not cover in all metal. I like them being robotic. Is nice to have other metallic lifeforms that aren't related to us ( although in one continuity they are).
@@Nothin2seehere-e4z For the record I don't blame you for Optimus Prime's death, Megatron was gonna shoot Prime when his gaurd was down. Also you're one of my favorite Autobots 😁😁😁
This scene always implied that the greater galaxy, beyond the reach of the Cybertronians and whatever their former empire was, had experience with Unicron. Enough that sighting him wasn't greeted with "what is THAT?" But "It's Unicron! Everyone run!" It also suggests there were other synthetic races out there unrelated to the Cybertronians, who might not have needed Energon, having other sources of power.
As someone who is new to the Transformers lore, who wasn't actually born at this point, I declare: This is terrifying and would probably be terrifying to my younger self.
As someone who watched it the cinema the week it was released I can tell it was watching the obliteration of an entire civilisation on screen was absolutely terrifying. It made you aware that the stakes were incredibly high and noone was safe.
Yeah, I picture the kids that were playing happily together and laughing crying out for their parents as they died when Unicron devoured their home planet. Of course, the presence of kids on Lithone is meant to build up Unicron as being evil and the big bad of the movie.
Atif Bashir Every good animatiom has soul. Take of nostalgia goggles. And they don't have to make it like this, since this gritty style is no longer popular.
it has nothing to do with being popular anymore, the cost of a full animation team and editing is high. cgi is a lot cheeper and takes less time and manpower, the old hand drafted styles are still very popular and much loved..!
And therein lies the critical part; "if they put care into it." There are studios who do not bother with that sort of effort, and just use quick, cheaply done CGI to produce 'passable' animation.
Looking back, this movie was probably my first introduction to cosmic horror, and to the idea that there might be things out there in the universe capable of wiping us out in an instant that we're just completely unable to stand up against. Even in Transformers, it basically takes a miracle to stop Unicron every time he shows up in the franchise, and we have nowhere near the level of technology the cybertronians do, so we'd be completely helpless if some giant planet eating machine made by an alien race suddenly showed up at our doorstep.
It will most likely be the universe itself than aliens. You want to know what causes swift deaths before we even realize what’s happening? Gamma Ray bursts, lasers of death so fast that anything in it’s way will be obliterated in a matter of seconds. And all it takes is a well placed dying star…
Just for what it’s worth. Here on earth we have all sorts of things looking up so it’s unlikely anything the size of Unicron could sneak up on us like he did here. Once detected and determined to be hostile I’m sure a whole bunch of thermonuclear weapons being hurled at him wouldn’t feel very good
@@matthewcaughey8898 Later on the movie they detonate an entire moon in Unicron's mouth and it does absolutely nothing to him. Our entire nuclear arsenal would do nothing to him.
The quality in animation is absolutely amazing... been watching this scene for hundreds of times since I was a kid and it still amazes me till this day. The choice of music is reinforces the mood of this scene as well. A real piece of art from the golden era of Japanese Animation
I saw this movie when I was 9 years old in the theater with my best friend. My older sister took us because: A. It had a 'PG' rating which was odd for a kids movie but looking back was appropriate. And B. Judd Nelson was the voice of HotRod. This scene made everyone in the theater, kids and adults alike turn to each other and say 'whoa'.. but still had smiles on our faces because this was awesome. It left an impression, but not terrifying, just impressive. Also, looking back, the music makes the scene. Well done.
Mofos really said "Okay we're gonna start the movie by teaching the kiddies about cosmic horror and it's gonna look better than shit made over 30 years later"
In Warhammer 40K, Abadon the Despoiler needed all manner of help to split a planet in half. The Death Star needed all manner of manpower to destroy one. Unicron needed just several minutes to consume one. Make way for the TRUE dark lord of Chaos.
@@fallout0624 Transformers crossover with 40K would be interesting. Decepticons would probably be defeated and fragment, while Autobots might side with Farsight. Meanwhile Mephet'ran: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT *ATE* THE WORLD ENGINE?!
What a fantastic time the 80’s was .My brother and I would watch this on vhs every Sunday morning until the tape eventually died .We both took turns on being different characters from this film and could reenact many scenes.This is a film that encapsulates the artwork of the transformers.I wish I had the toys still ,the boxes for the toys were a work of art themselves.
Unfortunately my brother wasn't quite as enthusiastic about this movie as I was as a child, but I'm right there with you with watching it nearly every week as a kid. This was definitely my favorite movie back then.
1:57 The only thing that we know of to ever escape Unicron's gravity while he is feeding. :( Also, people keep wondering why Unicron is never seen or otherwise detected by the inhabitants of a planet/moon/etc. until it is too late. To me, the answer is simple: Unicron moves _that_ fast, at least when he's "on the hunt". Note how quickly Unicron passes by those suns. You have to be moving pretty damn fast just to fight through their combined gravitational pull alone without any effect whatsoever. That's easily faster than any ship or anything else we see in the series. By the time he moves close enough for the inhabitants of his target to see him, there's nothing they can do about it. Unicron likely only slows down just enough to engage/devour his prey.
And then that one final survivor of Lithone is later caught by the Quintessons and fed to the Sharkticons for their twisted amusement. They literally erased the last remaining bit of a whole PLANET'S existence for some shits and giggles.
Considering how Transformers have shown the capability of traveling past the light speed limit. Yeah, those two suns were GIGANTIC, they would have such an intense gravitational pull it would be unimaginable. I think Unicron does accelerate past Light speed, not gonna even try to go in on the science on that because it is literally impossible. But he needs to slow down before coming to his destination... Other wise the force will be enough to just literally crush him and the planet or anything he hits. It is also possible that Unicron does have anti-detection through electromagnetic means. I would bet that he has, as others seemingly is unable to know where he is most of the time. I mean if you know a gigantic planet eater is searching for snacks, you would try to know where he is 24/7. Either he moves so fast and jumps so much that he is unable to be tracked, or he has the worlds best camouflage system that only he will turn off when he starts feeding, and doesn't need to hide anymore. Considering that Transformers did damage him quite a bit when he transformed and the fight actually went on a while, yeah, Unicron will have a bad time if he comes in and they are all prepared, either leaving him an empty planet or ain't going down without a complete assault. Which, sure, he can deal with most, if not all of the planets. But the damage can stack on quite heavily, and Unicron is smart enough to avoid that. Until he got to Cybertron, which he really felt like torturing.
Nah, Unicron definitely not going at light speed; he would've otherwise passed those suns in much less than the blink of an eye. It's safe to assume, though, that he's doing a _hell_ of a lot of Machs in speed, though. That's easily fast enough to approach a planetoid without being seen until the end.
Deined Well, if he were going at light speed he would blitz pass these suns very quickly. (But, that said, we don't know how fast he is moving exactly. But take note that even just between venus and earth(Calculated with a medium number) is about 2 light minutes, meaning that is how much time light takes to traverse through the distance.) (He could very well be still scarily close to the speed of light(Scarily, as in, any speed higher than 1% of speed of light.)) But I assume that he has already "slowed down" at that point. You see, since slowing down does take time and probably fine adjusting is needed(Because planets move, duh, on a solar system scale you can miss a planet you want really easily if you come at it wrong.), it is safe to assume that Unicron most likely was slowing down when he approaches them. Also, no, just approaching a planetoid with a shit ton of machs isn't gonna do the trick. You see, light travels at the speed of light, and so unicron can be observed with... not even the best astronomic equipments that these civilizations can get their hands on. Now ofc, it wouldn't be so hard to be prepared for Unicron if you can observe him. But you can't, at least, those people show that unicron seems to just pop in and out of existence, eat a planet, and is nowhere to be found. Which is odd, because even earths technology today have potential to discover and trace him, it would be a bit pushy for earth to do something like that since Unicron doesn't emit a lot of light, but the chaos he brings would definitely be observable. Now, even with the lag between unicrons light reaching the planets, and how much unicron moves in between those, you can fairly easily get a general idea of where he is heading. And if you see him on a course that is towards you... well either evacuate or fight to the death. But these people seem so unprepared, as if they knew he existed but never expected him to be there. That means he has ways of by passing pretty much all detection. Which implicate that he has some ways of dodging all of those. Either, his systems are so ridiculously powerful, he can camouflage(Do note as well that he can't just send out random signals, he must actually hide himself from either shining out light or emitting certain wavelengths) Or... he can travel at, or, actually, more than the speed of light. Either literally, or by means of teleport eg generating a worm hole etc. Now why I think he does... First of all, he was nearly completely capable of knowing what happened on Earth, like immediately after it happened, able to detect the autobots on the planet of junk. And transformers have developed the technology of space bridge, which is, teleportation. Which means that Unicron might eat a planet, accelerate and teleport to another location. This means tracking him efficiently would be impossible. I do not think he can physically accelerate through the speed of light. Simply because... Damn, physics... Also as an observation point of view. When you move faster than speed of light, well... it isn't what you would think as in you would never appear in front of peoples eyes. No, but for them, causation and result seems to be screwed up. It is as if I drank the coffee first and then filled it up with coffee. It is like watching a video backwards, this can be easily proven by drawing tachyons on a space time diagram. You realizes that for some observers, he would be everywhere, at the same time, and for the rest, causation would be fvcked. But ofc this isn't shown, and because teleportation seems to be a technology that they do possess, I think it is safe to assume that Unicron has some sort of ability to warp through space and time to another location.
KrosanBeast315 Yeah, what happened to Krypton was quick. Imaging huddling in terror with your coworkers, playing what you last said to each of your family members over and over in your head, knowing there is nothing you can do but wait for the cold hands of Death to embrace you.
KrosanBeast315 it takes unicron time to Destroy a planet. because he needs to suck things in and get closer and use his horns to pull the planet to his mouth so his teeth can tear it apart and eat it from inside and turn it into energy
NickDaGamer1998+ This was indeed terrifying to watch as a kid, as I can contend. But, there was one thing that always bugged me about this scene... If so many Transformer worlds are supposed to be millions of years ahead of anything known to man, then how come NO ONE detected an object as HUGE as Unicron coming towards them sooner?!?!
The cruel thing is only Primus can truly stop Unicron. But Primus and Unicron are both immortal. Unicron has been destroyed many times and keeps coming back. It is all the fault of the entity known as The One.
Here’s hoping that there’s a scene like this in Rise of the Beasts where Unicron devours a distant planet, condemning the civilization that inhabits it to oblivion. People need to be reminded why Unicron is chaos itself.
"Chaos?" More like Extinction. (Yes, I'm aware that Unicron is called the Chaos Bringer and that in the larger TF multiverse lore he's supposed to be the cosmic embodiment of chaos to Primus' order, but I think this is much more appropriate. Even chaos isn't always evil or destructive, unlike Unicron.)
"That's no moon... it's a space station..." "What? That's to big to be a space station." *It eats Alderon* "Oh shiiiiii-" "I sense a massive disturbance in my pants!" "Bail! BAIL!" *wookie noises*
Luke: HAN THAT ROBOT THING IS GAINING ON US! Han: Settle down kid we'll be fine once we make the jump to hyperspeed Chewbacca: Roar! Han: You're right Chewie it is suck us in with some sort of tractor beam Ben: uh there are orange claws coming form both sides of the ship Han: WHAT?! Luke: Ben's right there are orange claws at both sides of the ship! Han: Everyone be quiet do you hear something? Luke: Sounds like we're inside somethi- That is the black box recording of the millennium Falcon before it was devoured by unicron. there were no survivors
This reminds me, they actually had Star Wars Transformers crossover toys. The Death Star IS a transformer too now. Oh and Han and Chewie are a combinor force. www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/HS87046lg.jpg
I do think that Entire might of both Autobots and Decepticon militaries could defeat Unicron. But I would expect 95% to 99% casualties for both of them when the entire battle was complete. and Cybertron would not be livable for even of the hardiest of Transformers. So Matrix of leadership nuking Unicron is a good thing for both Autobot and Deception alike.
Now that brings back a lot of memories for me when I was very little. And seeing Unicron devouring that planet still gives me chills onto this day. ( The whole movie gives me chills, though).
it really makes me sad on how peaceful lithone was (at least in that section of the planet) with families together, children playing, and even trying to advance their society even further and unicron just destroys it all all because of his hunger :(. It makes me wonder how many other worlds like Lithone were consumed like unicron. I'm glad rodimus prime avenged them all
I believe that the Lithonians didn't deserve that. Especially the childern. We also have childern, but not as much as the organics and Lithonians do. It also depends on the continuity, like in UT, there are no Cybertronian kids. However, in the Sunbrow cartoon you have Cybertronian kids like Wheelie.
It wasn’t hunger that motivated the Planet Eater… it’s hatred. Pure, unbridled hatred towards all existence. He ate that planet because it existed, and he wants nothing to exist except for himself, and the void.
The truly horrifying thing about Unicron is that, unlike Galactus, there is no need for him to destroy planets. He doesn't have a genuine all-consuming hunger. He's not a force of nature. He has no real need to destroy a planet. He even has faster methods of doing so, he just doesn't use them. He does this, because he is genuinely offended by the mere existence of reality, and wants to destroy everything as slowly and painfully as possible.
A Blood Raven this unicron is just an avatar of the real unicron. the real unicron is above the power of nature and a multiversal threat. also the real unicron has eaten a bit of the marvel multiverse.
Unicron as a whole is a "Multiversal singularity" Until some guy (Namely Nexus Prime) made that not exactly true anymore. But he was actually a force of nature, he exist to destroy, he exist to eat away the planets. The dude creating Unicron in the G1 Universe is simply a way of implementing him into the universe. But now the creature does hold the title of G1 Unicron creator as of now, since Nexus Prime decided to fvck with everyone and destroyed Multiversal Singularity the concept itself. This allowed for different Unicrons that isn't actually avatars, and more like a fragment of the whole thing. Which actually made the possibility of "Shattered glass" Unicron. Who was a GOOD GUY, and turned the evil Optimus Prime into Nova Prime to actually do good things. However it is not really sure if Primus is effected by Nexus Prime, as Primus seems to origin from something bigger than the multiverse. This made different continuities a reality, and these doesn't effect each other anymore.
holy cow i remember watching this movie over and over as a kid-- this scene was so oddly terrifying but i never realized it due to how mesmerizing it was to see the world be consumed into nothing, until the rest of the movie played out
Even the scene of Unicron's internal components breaking down materials into 'food supply' is creepy. Damn, he's like the ultimate user and consumer. No world stands a chance!
It would be great if they remade this movie. One day, Lithonians go about their lives in peace and happiness. Then astronomers and scientists monitoring the skies deliver the devastating news to the world governments. With less than a day left, the governments are unable to keep the extinction level event a secret. The alarms begin to sound off, and the world becomes silent as it contemplates its fate. Unicron's shadow blots out the light from the neighboring star. The planet erupts into chaos as the Lithone's citizens fight their way to the desperately-constructed escape ships. Unicron's horns pierce the atmosphere, scorching the surface of the planet. Historic cities are pulverized as Unicron's horns crash into the planet to begin his feast. Just a few ships carrying Lithone's only remnants of its existence manage to escape Unicron's gravitational pull. As all traces of life and activity fade from the planet, Unicron is glowing with replenishment, as it prepares to seek out its next planet to devour. Imagine all that with the latest animation and cg!
The scene is already too classic as is, remaking this movie is totally unnecessary. The hand-painted cell animation in this film already suits it perfectly, modern animation and CGI wouldn't be as good.
Folks making fun of the "chomp chomp" sound, but without that a lot of viewers would not have made the connection that Unicron is feeding on this world. They considered their audience and made a smart choice. Also... NOM NOM NOM LOLZ
I had a dream recently that I was on the planet about to be eaten by Unicron and I was setting a bomb to blow him up I woke up with loud boom turns out lightning struck not to far from my house and for a moment I thought Unicron was actually devouring our world.
Seriously you guys really you people really need to stop watching Transformers before bed I swear everybody always ends up with the weirdest s*** dream ever
we all know that Transformers the movie robbed Star Wars but Unicorn was more up-close-and-personal than the Death Star that's what made him more scarier...ijs
Shazzplayz :O of course not. i wouldn't mind decent CGI (like the work done in the original jurassic park or the force awakens) but full on Gerry Anderson filmed in pyrotechnics-porn would be ideal.
To add to the horror, you can see that the Lithonian ship actually made it past the secondary crusher, meaning he witnessed Unicron's digestion process and probably died a much slower death...
I can't unsee this, and neither shall you. At 1:08, Unicron is mislayered, and approaches from in front of the skyline, making him look like an annoying little fly.
What? 35 years now? 35 years I've been watching this scene. Back when I would rent the VHS from basically any video store that had it; because if you're an 80s kid you *know* finding Transformers the Movie on the shelf was damn near impossible, I would constantly rewind this scene. 35 years. There's beautiful science that I think it was my first experience with. Nebula, a Binary star system, a blue and a red star, massive solar prominences. Then Unicron, serenely passing between them. With genuinely spectacular and haunting theme music. I love the details on Unicron, the way his hull? Skin? He's a planet sized Transformer and appears to have polar ice caps. Or would they be continents? A gold ring of an equator. Planetary rings that are basically his battery charge indicator. Then the happy every day lives of the Lithonians. Then a very hungry Armageddon bears down on them. Then he eats, digests, and glows. Satisfied with his meal. There was more that struck me about Unicron. Star Trek's the Planet Killer (believe it or not, I hadn't seen Star Wars by the time this movie came out). The way Unicron's maw produces a column of light when he speaks reminded me of Light Hope in She-Ra, which I also loved, which granted even more of an otherworldly godly feel to him. And of course Orson Welles voice. But this scene. In 2:26 seconds, they showed what a Transformer deity looks like. And why you should fear the evil one. And it has STUCK for decades.
As an 11-year-old kid, I was a bit underwhelmed by this movie but not, I now realize, by this scene: it's one of the worst evil deeds I've ever witnessed in a story. There's almost no better way to put across to the audience the scale of the threat that would be faced in this movie, and what a vast, destructive, and remorseless evil Unicron was.
They knew who/what Unicron was by name. They were aware of him and yet still could not engineer a countermeasure. All they could do was hope against hope that the Planet-Eater would not happen upon their home. And their luck in that hope ran out.
I remember the moment where unicron zooms past the screen as a kid I was thinking... "oh shit, bad things are gonna happen, never seen anything like this in transformers."
This is the thing I've always liked about this film The way unicron comes from between the two suns with that unsettling music has to be the best introduction for main antagonist
It's such a horrifying and yet amazingly rendered sequence, even now, as an adult, but then there's the little bitey noises like he's eating an apple
thanos vs unicron.. the battle of planet destroyers...
@@MrJim02 More like Unicron vs. Galactus, no?
@@fuscinula that would make it too.
@@MrJim02 Technically Unicron can eat the universe, for if I remember correctly Unicron has eaten 24.56% of the known universe, though Primacron Unicron is most likely just a planet eater........but still.
Lol I’ve always laughed at the bitey noises, too.
For the inhabitants of Lithone, this was the end of the world, the death of their civilisation and their race.
For Unicron, it was the equivalent of going to Burger King.
An apt yet disturbing picture.
In bacteria perspective, the same is true everytime we wash our hands XD
For them the day Unicron graced your planet was the most important day their lives but for him it was Tuesday.
you effin' beat me to it... :O)
But for me... it was Tuesday.
Terrifying devastation, millions of lives lost, and they all died to the sound of 2:09 *monch* *monch* *monch*
Im glad someone else in the comments mentioned the straight up cookie chomp sound effect
Sounds like Snoopy chomping on a bone.
Way to kill the mood
Not to mention that if you pay attention, even on vhs the timing on the sound was off, a detail you'd only notice after multiple viewings as a kid or maybe just one for an OCD adult
@Lord Revan at least there were survivors.
I love how they start off showing the day to day lives of the planet's inhabitants to give us the feeling of "This isn't just some random planet shoed in to be eaten as a plot device, it's a living world filled with billions of individual lives and souls, and their most swift extinction is upon them."
Yes, I agree with u on that one. My friend, an entire planet of innocence, was destroyed and gone.
I mean, that's the most trite and basic form of doing this. They literally could not have done less to make us care for this planet, it's some randoms we've never seen before for 5 minutes.
calm down edgelord sociopath @@transfo47
And the very last one of them, the last remnant of this world, was fed to the Sharkticons for the Quintessons' sick amusement.
This basically set the tone that this wasn't going to be the transformers we were used to seeing on TV where nobody really gets hurt. Epic movie.
The 80's were brutal
@@DV_Dark_Jedi considering this was the era that gave us RoboCop and the terminator. Yes, yes it was.
If only they replicated it in the new movie ROTB
80's kids had a good introduction to cosmic horror with this.
2:08 Unicron, one of the most feard entitys in the whole universe, comes with classic chewing sound effect. 😂😂😂
No multiverse
Probably had to add that after the test audience of kids were crapping their pants in terror.
CHOMP
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
THE most feared entity of their universe.
Gotta love Unicron's introduction. He comes in from between two stars and eats a planet, and at this point we have absolutely no idea exactly WHAT Unicron is. A robot? A planet? Some kind of space station? It's only later when he converses with Megatron that we find out that Unicron is actually a sentinent character, and only at the end do we realize that he's actually a giant planet-size Transformer!
well we know one thing from the start: they may be robots but it's definately brown pants time for them.
He's a Lovecraftian Old God. I remember reading issue 150 of the UK Transformers comic and my mind being totally blown away by it.
Piggy Oink Oink hes a robot
We also find out that he's the god of chaos and Lord of darkness lol
1. Another pig loving youtuber! I’m not alone.
2. For me, Unicron seemed a lot more scarier after he transformed in the original movie.
I like how there's not even dust, no debris, not a single infinitesimal fragment of Lithone, so that if you couldn't even know there had once been an inhabited planet here before, there's just Unicron standing out in the cold void of space.
whats that ring thing around unicron when he transforms into planet mode
Yeah. Unicron probably puts out a seriously powerful gravity field to pull not just a planet in, but any satellites, debris that escapes planetary breakup...and any starships too slow or weak to get out of the field. As we see...
@@Kalebfenoir How about u answer my kestion i been askin my whole life???????...
@@SoZo that ring Unicron has is just an extension. At a distance it makes him look like a world with a single asteroid band. But when you get closer (or he does...) you can see its physically part of him.
What purpose the ring serves, other than turning into skeletal bat wings in robot mode, only Unicron knows. It lights up when he refuel, though, as well as every light on his surface, of course.
@@Kalebfenoir thanks for a answer..hope some dayz we can be frendz..
The scariest thing about outer space is that it's so massive we can't say for sure that something like Unicron is NOT out there.
...oh fuck...😳
@@Jack-iu2gl space is fascinating and also FRIGHTENING!
*black holes
Oh fuck I hope we don't but never say never
Because the universe is infinate in theory somewhere in the universe a being like Unicron most likely could exist
There is something about this scene that I've always found so incredibly unnerving. It coincides with the idea that our own universe is so large so unexplored and unknown, as well along with the fact that anything out there could reduce any evidence of our own existence down to zero in an instant. The universe is so expansive and beautiful yet at the same time terrifying, there are so many thing in our own galaxy and in the bigger unseen universe that pose such a great threat to use and we would be hopeless to stop, just like the people of Lithone we would be completely oblivious to the danger until we unexpectedly find it sitting outside our front door, and would have little no time what so ever to escape it. Seeing as how things on this scale do happen out there, its unsettling possible this scene has yet to find us and we may not know it until comes without warning.
LoneStag 1998 Unicron could be real, imagine that. You walking around then suddenly there is a giant planet eating planet.
A black hole could pop up tomorrow and devour every last atom of Earth, and that wouldn't change the fact that Earth has existed for billions of years, largely without being disturbed by asteroids or other outside dangers. Those are pretty good odds, relative to the lifespan of Earth's inhabitants over the years centuries millennia etc. But that only accounts for forces of nature, instead of intelligent life, like I don't know, a mechanized planet-eating behemoth
it would take millions of light years to reach us and we would notice it but humanity would end before it even reaches half way through earth
Emperor are you talking about Unicron? If you are I agree with your statement.
@@custommediacreations Yeah
This is actually a pretty terrifying opening sequence to an 80s "kid's movie". And yet I love every moment of it!
Cmon bruh a little genocide never hurt a good opener for a kids movie.
Last episode: Autobots try to stop a wacky robot made by a couple of school students
Next episode: The genocide of an entire race
The creators: Parkour!
I mean, there’s Scramble City too.
If they ever get to Galactus in the MCU, I want his intro scene to be like this.
Better than what Rise of the Silver Surfer portrayed him as. Ugh!
I think unicron only out sizes galactus in terms of height but for strength it might be an even match
@@thelonelystankmuncher8879 ya probably
Same
@@thelonelystankmuncher8879 depends on the versions
Fun fact: In a very early draft, Lithone was a planet of living rock creatures.
And it still shows. Their planet is not cover in all metal. I like them being robotic. Is nice to have other metallic lifeforms that aren't related to us ( although in one continuity they are).
That explains the name.
@@Nothin2seehere-e4z For the record I don't blame you for Optimus Prime's death, Megatron was gonna shoot Prime when his gaurd was down. Also you're one of my favorite Autobots 😁😁😁
@@Ozymandias2x just a liquid fluid
No it wasn't look at them they look.like Alien Robots
One of the darkest and most horrifying openings to a movie EVER! And this really left an impression on me as a kid. This movie has balls. BIG BALLS.
"Category: Comedy"
I'm not even joking, check the description
The balls to do that... I'm not even mad, that's impressive
Good clean PG content fun for all the family
I did not eat her, it's not true! It's bullshit! I did not eat her! I did not! Oh hi, Cybertron.
02:08
pilkers2 This movie was made back when PG actually meant something
This scene always implied that the greater galaxy, beyond the reach of the Cybertronians and whatever their former empire was, had experience with Unicron. Enough that sighting him wasn't greeted with "what is THAT?" But "It's Unicron! Everyone run!"
It also suggests there were other synthetic races out there unrelated to the Cybertronians, who might not have needed Energon, having other sources of power.
As someone who is new to the Transformers lore, who wasn't actually born at this point, I declare: This is terrifying and would probably be terrifying to my younger self.
As someone who watched this dozens of times as a kid, this scene was equally terrifying and awesome.
Not even the most traumatic scene in the movie for kids who grew up with Transformers.
As someone who watched it the cinema the week it was released I can tell it was watching the obliteration of an entire civilisation on screen was absolutely terrifying.
It made you aware that the stakes were incredibly high and noone was safe.
I only just realized yesterday that KIDS were killed in this scene...
In genocide, children are always the victims most affected.
One of the ships escaped. Maybe some children were in it. There's hope.
as they travel through the cosmos they carry with them the hopes and dreams of there people they now through them
Yeah, I picture the kids that were playing happily together and laughing crying out for their parents as they died when Unicron devoured their home planet. Of course, the presence of kids on Lithone is meant to build up Unicron as being evil and the big bad of the movie.
Dude the whole movie is so violent! I remember watching it as a kid and just shaking afterwards! =)
To the inhabitants of Lithone, it was the worst day of their lives.
But for Unicron, it was Tuesday.
A regular day tuna fish sandwich for lunch 😂. Cybertrons moons for dinner
A light snack.
Watched it first in the late 80s. They cannot make animations/movies like this anymore, despite better graphics. This animation has soul!
Atif Bashir Every good animatiom has soul. Take of nostalgia goggles.
And they don't have to make it like this, since this gritty style is no longer popular.
it has nothing to do with being popular anymore, the cost of a full animation team and editing is high. cgi is a lot cheeper and takes less time and manpower, the old hand drafted styles are still very popular and much loved..!
@@mr_ozzio5095 But CGI can look good if they put care into it.
And therein lies the critical part; "if they put care into it."
There are studios who do not bother with that sort of effort, and just use quick, cheaply done CGI to produce 'passable' animation.
Pixar says hi
Looking back, this movie was probably my first introduction to cosmic horror, and to the idea that there might be things out there in the universe capable of wiping us out in an instant that we're just completely unable to stand up against. Even in Transformers, it basically takes a miracle to stop Unicron every time he shows up in the franchise, and we have nowhere near the level of technology the cybertronians do, so we'd be completely helpless if some giant planet eating machine made by an alien race suddenly showed up at our doorstep.
It will most likely be the universe itself than aliens.
You want to know what causes swift deaths before we even realize what’s happening? Gamma Ray bursts, lasers of death so fast that anything in it’s way will be obliterated in a matter of seconds.
And all it takes is a well placed dying star…
Just for what it’s worth. Here on earth we have all sorts of things looking up so it’s unlikely anything the size of Unicron could sneak up on us like he did here. Once detected and determined to be hostile I’m sure a whole bunch of thermonuclear weapons being hurled at him wouldn’t feel very good
@@matthewcaughey8898 I'm sure we're also not the first species to have thought of that
@@matthewcaughey8898none of the technology we have here would even bruise Unicron lol. He was created by a deity and is the Satan of transformers
@@matthewcaughey8898 Later on the movie they detonate an entire moon in Unicron's mouth and it does absolutely nothing to him. Our entire nuclear arsenal would do nothing to him.
The quality in animation is absolutely amazing... been watching this scene for hundreds of times since I was a kid and it still amazes me till this day. The choice of music is reinforces the mood of this scene as well. A real piece of art from the golden era of Japanese Animation
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Lithone just got fricken hellstar remina’d
ive heard about that before, what is it?
@@howwwwwwwwwww a very good but disturbing manga.
Woah what are u doing here Schrodinger
Wow
Xd
There is so much detail in the art in this movie it is amazing
Yes! You can even notice the scientist guy for a split second at 2:05, every frame was so cool
Unicron flies point blank inbetween a binary star system and doesnt give a fuck. Just a sign of his power in the universe. amazing
And then he Death Star’s one planet and two entire moons in short order
I saw this movie when I was 9 years old in the theater with my best friend. My older sister took us because: A. It had a 'PG' rating which was odd for a kids movie but looking back was appropriate. And B. Judd Nelson was the voice of HotRod.
This scene made everyone in the theater, kids and adults alike turn to each other and say 'whoa'.. but still had smiles on our faces because this was awesome. It left an impression, but not terrifying, just impressive. Also, looking back, the music makes the scene. Well done.
The rating it would've got now didn’t exist in 1986
@@superplushtiman7ti075actually this movie came out after PG-13 was introduced
I mean to be fair it’s just robots getting killed, I’ve seen worse on Y7 television
Mofos really said "Okay we're gonna start the movie by teaching the kiddies about cosmic horror and it's gonna look better than shit made over 30 years later"
Yep. Let's Scar a Generation! (said to the cadence of "Let's build some hurtin' bombs!")
In Warhammer 40K, Abadon the Despoiler needed all manner of help to split a planet in half. The Death Star needed all manner of manpower to destroy one. Unicron needed just several minutes to consume one.
Make way for the TRUE dark lord of Chaos.
Way late I know, Unicron would make the Inqustion blush at how efficiently he could destroy planets
Not even several minutes, he at most needed 4-5 minutes
@@fallout0624 Transformers crossover with 40K would be interesting. Decepticons would probably be defeated and fragment, while Autobots might side with Farsight.
Meanwhile Mephet'ran: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT *ATE* THE WORLD ENGINE?!
What a fantastic time the 80’s was .My brother and I would watch this on vhs every Sunday morning until the tape eventually died .We both took turns on being different characters from this film and could reenact many scenes.This is a film that encapsulates the artwork of the transformers.I wish I had the toys still ,the boxes for the toys were a work of art themselves.
Unfortunately my brother wasn't quite as enthusiastic about this movie as I was as a child, but I'm right there with you with watching it nearly every week as a kid. This was definitely my favorite movie back then.
The conversation between Unicron and Megatron was absolutely iconic. From memory to this day.
1:57
The only thing that we know of to ever escape Unicron's gravity while he is feeding. :(
Also, people keep wondering why Unicron is never seen or otherwise detected by the inhabitants of a planet/moon/etc. until it is too late. To me, the answer is simple: Unicron moves _that_ fast, at least when he's "on the hunt".
Note how quickly Unicron passes by those suns. You have to be moving pretty damn fast just to fight through their combined gravitational pull alone without any effect whatsoever. That's easily faster than any ship or anything else we see in the series. By the time he moves close enough for the inhabitants of his target to see him, there's nothing they can do about it. Unicron likely only slows down just enough to engage/devour his prey.
And then that one final survivor of Lithone is later caught by the Quintessons and fed to the Sharkticons for their twisted amusement.
They literally erased the last remaining bit of a whole PLANET'S existence for some shits and giggles.
Considering how Transformers have shown the capability of traveling past the light speed limit.
Yeah, those two suns were GIGANTIC, they would have such an intense gravitational pull it would be unimaginable.
I think Unicron does accelerate past Light speed, not gonna even try to go in on the science on that because it is literally impossible.
But he needs to slow down before coming to his destination...
Other wise the force will be enough to just literally crush him and the planet or anything he hits.
It is also possible that Unicron does have anti-detection through electromagnetic means.
I would bet that he has, as others seemingly is unable to know where he is most of the time.
I mean if you know a gigantic planet eater is searching for snacks, you would try to know where he is 24/7.
Either he moves so fast and jumps so much that he is unable to be tracked, or he has the worlds best camouflage system that only he will turn off when he starts feeding, and doesn't need to hide anymore.
Considering that Transformers did damage him quite a bit when he transformed and the fight actually went on a while, yeah, Unicron will have a bad time if he comes in and they are all prepared, either leaving him an empty planet or ain't going down without a complete assault.
Which, sure, he can deal with most, if not all of the planets. But the damage can stack on quite heavily, and Unicron is smart enough to avoid that.
Until he got to Cybertron, which he really felt like torturing.
It's certainly impossible to accelerate that fast without warping space.
I don't think even a handy aether theory's gonna help there...
Nah, Unicron definitely not going at light speed; he would've otherwise passed those suns in much less than the blink of an eye.
It's safe to assume, though, that he's doing a _hell_ of a lot of Machs in speed, though. That's easily fast enough to approach a planetoid without being seen until the end.
Deined
Well, if he were going at light speed he would blitz pass these suns very quickly.
(But, that said, we don't know how fast he is moving exactly. But take note that even just between venus and earth(Calculated with a medium number) is about 2 light minutes, meaning that is how much time light takes to traverse through the distance.)
(He could very well be still scarily close to the speed of light(Scarily, as in, any speed higher than 1% of speed of light.))
But I assume that he has already "slowed down" at that point.
You see, since slowing down does take time and probably fine adjusting is needed(Because planets move, duh, on a solar system scale you can miss a planet you want really easily if you come at it wrong.), it is safe to assume that Unicron most likely was slowing down when he approaches them.
Also, no, just approaching a planetoid with a shit ton of machs isn't gonna do the trick.
You see, light travels at the speed of light, and so unicron can be observed with... not even the best astronomic equipments that these civilizations can get their hands on.
Now ofc, it wouldn't be so hard to be prepared for Unicron if you can observe him.
But you can't, at least, those people show that unicron seems to just pop in and out of existence, eat a planet, and is nowhere to be found.
Which is odd, because even earths technology today have potential to discover and trace him, it would be a bit pushy for earth to do something like that since Unicron doesn't emit a lot of light, but the chaos he brings would definitely be observable.
Now, even with the lag between unicrons light reaching the planets, and how much unicron moves in between those, you can fairly easily get a general idea of where he is heading.
And if you see him on a course that is towards you... well either evacuate or fight to the death.
But these people seem so unprepared, as if they knew he existed but never expected him to be there.
That means he has ways of by passing pretty much all detection.
Which implicate that he has some ways of dodging all of those.
Either, his systems are so ridiculously powerful, he can camouflage(Do note as well that he can't just send out random signals, he must actually hide himself from either shining out light or emitting certain wavelengths)
Or... he can travel at, or, actually, more than the speed of light.
Either literally, or by means of teleport eg generating a worm hole etc.
Now why I think he does...
First of all, he was nearly completely capable of knowing what happened on Earth, like immediately after it happened, able to detect the autobots on the planet of junk.
And transformers have developed the technology of space bridge, which is, teleportation.
Which means that Unicron might eat a planet, accelerate and teleport to another location.
This means tracking him efficiently would be impossible.
I do not think he can physically accelerate through the speed of light.
Simply because... Damn, physics...
Also as an observation point of view.
When you move faster than speed of light, well... it isn't what you would think as in you would never appear in front of peoples eyes.
No, but for them, causation and result seems to be screwed up.
It is as if I drank the coffee first and then filled it up with coffee.
It is like watching a video backwards, this can be easily proven by drawing tachyons on a space time diagram.
You realizes that for some observers, he would be everywhere, at the same time, and for the rest, causation would be fvcked.
But ofc this isn't shown, and because teleportation seems to be a technology that they do possess, I think it is safe to assume that Unicron has some sort of ability to warp through space and time to another location.
1:08 Unicron is on the wrong layer
They probably drew that space background and the city background on the same layer without thinking about this scene.
can't blame since it's 80s movie
you've ruined the entire movie for me
Digby, what are you doing here?
“MORBILUS! LOOK! HE’S ON THE WRONG LAYER!”
I showed this scene to explain lovecratian horror to a friend.
Claire Stark unicron... is actually a good way to show lovecraftian horror now that i think about it
Without driving him insane, yes this represents lovecraftian horror well.
That.. is actually pretty brilliant. Imma use that one.
he is an Eldritch abomination, so it does make perfectly good sense to use this scene to explain lovecratian horror to anyone.
Damn, good one. Unicron IS kind of an unfathomable horror after all so I suppose he’s as good an example as any.
I think this is FAR WORSE than what happened to Planet Krypton...
KrosanBeast315 Yeah, what happened to Krypton was quick.
Imaging huddling in terror with your coworkers, playing what you last said to each of your family members over and over in your head, knowing there is nothing you can do but wait for the cold hands of Death to embrace you.
KrosanBeast315 it takes unicron time to Destroy a planet. because he needs to suck things in and get closer and use his horns to pull the planet to his mouth so his teeth can tear it apart and eat it from inside and turn it into energy
NickDaGamer1998+ This was indeed terrifying to watch as a kid, as I can contend. But, there was one thing that always bugged me about this scene... If so many Transformer worlds are supposed to be millions of years ahead of anything known to man, then how come NO ONE detected an object as HUGE as Unicron coming towards them sooner?!?!
two words : plot hole
The cruel thing is only Primus can truly stop Unicron. But Primus and Unicron are both immortal. Unicron has been destroyed many times and keeps coming back. It is all the fault of the entity known as The One.
that is one hell of an introduction to one of if not the most dangerous foe the Transformers have ever faced
Here’s hoping that there’s a scene like this in Rise of the Beasts where Unicron devours a distant planet, condemning the civilization that inhabits it to oblivion.
People need to be reminded why Unicron is chaos itself.
"Chaos?" More like Extinction.
(Yes, I'm aware that Unicron is called the Chaos Bringer and that in the larger TF multiverse lore he's supposed to be the cosmic embodiment of chaos to Primus' order, but I think this is much more appropriate. Even chaos isn't always evil or destructive, unlike Unicron.)
Only a few seconds, but what was there was awesome
Good lord the music for this scene is just perfect
Indeed.
@@thenew4559 turned into moon and new body and small head he hiding untrackable in cybertron location view
Dude even to this day this scene is still dark
1:58 When he takes a complete bite out of the planet in the background...terrifying!! o_O
intellektualPoet I didn’t even notice that until you mentioned it. This makes this scene much more heart wrenching.
How absolutely terrifying as a child, the moment unicron appears in between those two planets, the soundtrack everything is so dark and gloomy.
Let’s face it y’all... this is the most epic intro of ANY 80’s movie ever. That says a LOT.
When you realize that Unicron destroyed the planet just to light up his planet mode's ring...
Probably powering up to go FTL...
I love at 2:09, even though Unicron is devouring a whole planet they still use that cartoon chomping sound.
"That's no moon... it's a space station..." "What? That's to big to be a space station." *It eats Alderon* "Oh shiiiiii-" "I sense a massive disturbance in my pants!" "Bail! BAIL!" *wookie noises*
Alderaan*
My starwars knowledge has failed me.
:/
Luke: HAN THAT ROBOT THING IS GAINING ON US!
Han: Settle down kid we'll be fine once we make the jump to hyperspeed
Chewbacca: Roar!
Han: You're right Chewie it is suck us in with some sort of tractor beam
Ben: uh there are orange claws coming form both sides of the ship
Han: WHAT?!
Luke: Ben's right there are orange claws at both sides of the ship!
Han: Everyone be quiet do you hear something?
Luke: Sounds like we're inside somethi-
That is the black box recording of the millennium Falcon before it was devoured by unicron. there were no survivors
QuestGiver I'm screen shorting this comment and I'm. Gonna save it for the rest of my life. TOO FUNNY
This reminds me, they actually had Star Wars Transformers crossover toys. The Death Star IS a transformer too now. Oh and Han and Chewie are a combinor force.
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At least the Decepticons on Cybertron put up a fight.
Yes, they did.
I guess the Lithonians weren't fighters. Then again we know very little about them. We was busy with the war and all.
Shockwave had them mobilized in a hurry when Unicron appeared.
I do think that Entire might of both Autobots and Decepticon militaries could defeat Unicron. But I would expect 95% to 99% casualties for both of them when the entire battle was complete. and Cybertron would not be livable for even of the hardiest of Transformers. So Matrix of leadership nuking Unicron is a good thing for both Autobot and Deception alike.
@@mlpartclub412 0:30 quantum computer inside of they're
Now that brings back a lot of memories for me when I was very little. And seeing Unicron devouring that planet still gives me chills onto this day. ( The whole movie gives me chills, though).
it really makes me sad on how peaceful lithone was (at least in that section of the planet) with families together, children playing, and even trying to advance their society even further and unicron just destroys it all all because of his hunger :(. It makes me wonder how many other worlds like Lithone were consumed like unicron. I'm glad rodimus prime avenged them all
I believe that the Lithonians didn't deserve that. Especially the childern. We also have childern, but not as much as the organics and Lithonians do. It also depends on the continuity, like in UT, there are no Cybertronian kids. However, in the Sunbrow cartoon you have Cybertronian kids like Wheelie.
@Robert Davis The 2nd
You know. I wonder if all Lithones have childern/family. Maybe it's only this city that have childern on it.
Uicron doesn't have hunger. He does it for hatered and probably for fun.
Cybertronian kids www.deviantart.com/shark235/journal/Child-Cybertronians-Updated-17-833628468
It wasn’t hunger that motivated the Planet Eater… it’s hatred. Pure, unbridled hatred towards all existence. He ate that planet because it existed, and he wants nothing to exist except for himself, and the void.
What a perfect way to introduce the Chaos Bringer into Transformers mythology.
As horrific as this intro is, never forget Prime's words: "One day, a warrior shall rise from our ranks, and light our darkest hour."
Unicron's brother Omnicron was just recently named after the new Coronavirus variant.
The truly horrifying thing about Unicron is that, unlike Galactus, there is no need for him to destroy planets.
He doesn't have a genuine all-consuming hunger. He's not a force of nature. He has no real need to destroy a planet.
He even has faster methods of doing so, he just doesn't use them.
He does this, because he is genuinely offended by the mere existence of reality, and wants to destroy everything as slowly and painfully as possible.
A Blood Raven
this unicron is just an avatar of the real unicron. the real unicron is above the power of nature and a multiversal threat. also the real unicron has eaten a bit of the marvel multiverse.
Unicron as a whole is a "Multiversal singularity"
Until some guy (Namely Nexus Prime) made that not exactly true anymore.
But he was actually a force of nature, he exist to destroy, he exist to eat away the planets.
The dude creating Unicron in the G1 Universe is simply a way of implementing him into the universe.
But now the creature does hold the title of G1 Unicron creator as of now, since Nexus Prime decided to fvck with everyone and destroyed Multiversal Singularity the concept itself.
This allowed for different Unicrons that isn't actually avatars, and more like a fragment of the whole thing.
Which actually made the possibility of "Shattered glass" Unicron.
Who was a GOOD GUY, and turned the evil Optimus Prime into Nova Prime to actually do good things.
However it is not really sure if Primus is effected by Nexus Prime, as Primus seems to origin from something bigger than the multiverse.
This made different continuities a reality, and these doesn't effect each other anymore.
Unicron is by no means a force of nature. He is simply chaos itself.
@@dutchsurvival9761 yes true want destroying everything to satify himself
They literally call him Lord of Chaos and Chaos bringer.
You know what you're in store for when a movie starts off like this.
holy cow i remember watching this movie over and over as a kid-- this scene was so oddly terrifying but i never realized it due to how mesmerizing it was to see the world be consumed into nothing, until the rest of the movie played out
This was the perfect ending to Orson Welles' career
Shame he didn't realize that himself
Unicron approaches from behind their 2 suns. They never saw him coming! Amazing!
Its like a planet hunting like in the savanna
To the people who live on the planet, it's the Apocalypse. But to Unicron, it's like having a KFC family bucket for one.
Even the scene of Unicron's internal components breaking down materials into 'food supply' is creepy. Damn, he's like the ultimate user and consumer. No world stands a chance!
It would be great if they remade this movie. One day, Lithonians go about their lives in peace and happiness. Then astronomers and scientists monitoring the skies deliver the devastating news to the world governments. With less than a day left, the governments are unable to keep the extinction level event a secret. The alarms begin to sound off, and the world becomes silent as it contemplates its fate. Unicron's shadow blots out the light from the neighboring star. The planet erupts into chaos as the Lithone's citizens fight their way to the desperately-constructed escape ships. Unicron's horns pierce the atmosphere, scorching the surface of the planet. Historic cities are pulverized as Unicron's horns crash into the planet to begin his feast. Just a few ships carrying Lithone's only remnants of its existence manage to escape Unicron's gravitational pull. As all traces of life and activity fade from the planet, Unicron is glowing with replenishment, as it prepares to seek out its next planet to devour.
Imagine all that with the latest animation and cg!
David Curry That would be awesome
You should watch Melancholia then.
I would love to see that.
That would be neat.
The scene is already too classic as is, remaking this movie is totally unnecessary. The hand-painted cell animation in this film already suits it perfectly, modern animation and CGI wouldn't be as good.
If they do a reimagining of this sequence in the new Movie, I will bust.
Eh i guess he wasnt used till the second movie
Unicron's stomach is the real hell
Imagine rise of the beasts opening like this
Omg don't even get me thinking, it'll be breath taking
We haven't seen it but bet my toenails it could
Unicron just ate that planet like an apple and sended billion aliens to hell..... thats horrifying
With childern on it! That show how evil he was.
@@Nothin2seehere-e4z well I mean still it's planet wide murder the younglings don't really change it that much
@@Nothin2seehere-e4z nanotechnology metal or claytronic lifeform are rarest
Folks making fun of the "chomp chomp" sound, but without that a lot of viewers would not have made the connection that Unicron is feeding on this world. They considered their audience and made a smart choice. Also... NOM NOM NOM LOLZ
I had a dream recently that I was on the planet about to be eaten by Unicron and I was setting a bomb to blow him up I woke up with loud boom turns out lightning struck not to far from my house and for a moment I thought Unicron was actually devouring our world.
Same happened with me a year ago, insane!
Seriously you guys really you people really need to stop watching Transformers before bed I swear everybody always ends up with the weirdest s*** dream ever
@@yolandadiaz7262 am I the only one who has not had that issue?
@@patricklenigan4309 it's not Yolanda smartass it's her nephew
And to think, Michael Bay in The Last Knight, made Earth form around Unicron.
Who would dare to call such fine anime outdated?
Like Arnie T-800 wisely put it:
Old fashionable but never obsolete.
This is not anime
1:59 when you just don't give a fuck about anything anymore
Unicron’s legacy still lives as his brother Omicron appears on Earth.
Damn.
There's nothing more helpless than knowing you're about to die and you can't do anything about it. That's what these beings experienced.
When Kirby becomes a planet.
in this very scene, unicron (along with his theme music) always reminded me of that magnet and compactor from brave little toaster...
we all know that Transformers the movie robbed Star Wars but Unicorn was more up-close-and-personal than the Death Star that's what made him more scarier...ijs
mattirzz mattimus- the power inside Unicron would melt Darth vaders brains out of his ears,way too much spyonic energy.
It didn't rob star wars at all
@@donovan2424 fact his survive but actually getting end up deceased get ate by sharkticon
2:08 'Om nom nom' - Unicron
Now that's how you open a Transformers Movie.
Unicron Welles:
"This is tough on the palette, it's unpleasant to eat...unrewarding."
This is epic animation, music and art all rolled into one
The Transformers equivalent of Marvel's Galactus!
Even has a minion
Silver surfer= Galvatron
More like the one below all
You gotta love the cartoony “chomp chomp” sound effects from the teeth gears eating up the planet.
if i had the money i'd pay dearly to see this remade in live action using mostly practical effects.
Not by Micheal Bay though.
Shazzplayz :O
of course not. i wouldn't mind decent CGI (like the work done in the original jurassic park or the force awakens) but full on Gerry Anderson filmed in pyrotechnics-porn would be ideal.
Shazzplayz :O to late
I'd settle for another animation. They put so much love in this animation. Not to be all "the good ole days" but it's not to this degree anymore.
It would be impossible to make a movie about giant robots with mainly practical effects.
Just this scene alone is better than all of the Michael Bay films put together.
I'm assuming the category of comedy is the result of either a) Massive sarcasm, or b) Twisted sense of humor.
+Missionary of the Adepta Sororitas My words precisely
Maybe it was the chomping noise in Unicron's "digestion" of the planet
You know, in hindsight, that probably would be part of it.
To add to the horror, you can see that the Lithonian ship actually made it past the secondary crusher, meaning he witnessed Unicron's digestion process and probably died a much slower death...
Orsen wells voiced him perfectly
I can't unsee this, and neither shall you.
At 1:08, Unicron is mislayered, and approaches from in front of the skyline, making him look like an annoying little fly.
Oh yeah, it's the only flaw in this scene, been there since the beginning.
I will now never unsee that.
I also feel if he’s right up against the planet he should be, a little bigger in the skyline.
What? 35 years now? 35 years I've been watching this scene. Back when I would rent the VHS from basically any video store that had it; because if you're an 80s kid you *know* finding Transformers the Movie on the shelf was damn near impossible, I would constantly rewind this scene. 35 years. There's beautiful science that I think it was my first experience with. Nebula, a Binary star system, a blue and a red star, massive solar prominences. Then Unicron, serenely passing between them. With genuinely spectacular and haunting theme music. I love the details on Unicron, the way his hull? Skin? He's a planet sized Transformer and appears to have polar ice caps. Or would they be continents? A gold ring of an equator. Planetary rings that are basically his battery charge indicator. Then the happy every day lives of the Lithonians. Then a very hungry Armageddon bears down on them. Then he eats, digests, and glows. Satisfied with his meal.
There was more that struck me about Unicron. Star Trek's the Planet Killer (believe it or not, I hadn't seen Star Wars by the time this movie came out). The way Unicron's maw produces a column of light when he speaks reminded me of Light Hope in She-Ra, which I also loved, which granted even more of an otherworldly godly feel to him. And of course Orson Welles voice.
But this scene. In 2:26 seconds, they showed what a Transformer deity looks like. And why you should fear the evil one. And it has STUCK for decades.
One of the most hardcore opening scenes ever
This is legit 1000 times more terrifying and intimidating than just watching the death star vaporize a planet in a single shot.
1:10 did anyone notice unicrons circle thing went in front of that building when the building should block the view?
Yeah, animators admitted later it was an editing error
does it really matter
Joseph Kondrey nope, I was just pointing it out
Oops.
scale does not exist in transformers
What a way to start an animated film an introduce the bad guy.
Who is here after the 2nd trailer of Transformers Rise of the Beasts ?
Me
Epic animation truly loved how unicorn consumed the planet
I like how the video is labeled ''comedy'' xd.
"Coronation, Starscream? This Is Bad Comedy."
@@zyenull
Megatron? Is that you?
@@Nothin2seehere-e4z Here's a hint.
This scene always disturbed me as a kid.
Vladimir Auditore because your a bitch
+MICOLE WHYTE very mature
Vladimir Auditore Matrix Ex Machina
The thing is that mutilated robot always frightened me as a kid. Another example would be the destroyed robot city from Samurai Jack vs Ultrabots
I always loved it
Why does a movie from the 80s based on a cartoon to sell action figures do such a good job of inspiring dread. Unironically great cosmic horror.
As an 11-year-old kid, I was a bit underwhelmed by this movie but not, I now realize, by this scene: it's one of the worst evil deeds I've ever witnessed in a story. There's almost no better way to put across to the audience the scale of the threat that would be faced in this movie, and what a vast, destructive, and remorseless evil Unicron was.
They knew who/what Unicron was by name. They were aware of him and yet still could not engineer a countermeasure. All they could do was hope against hope that the Planet-Eater would not happen upon their home.
And their luck in that hope ran out.
Who is here from the 2nd trailer for RotB??
DAMN that is cold AF!! he even ate the escape craft!
I remember the moment where unicron zooms past the screen as a kid I was thinking... "oh shit, bad things are gonna happen, never seen anything like this in transformers."
This is the thing I've always liked about this film
The way unicron comes from between the two suns with that unsettling music has to be the best introduction for main antagonist