Does Primus exist (or is he likely to exist)?
Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:03 amI know Wikis aren't completely reliable, but the article for Primus on Tfwiki argues AGAINST the "retconning of the retcon." I.e., it is still possible to conceive of Primus/Unicron in the IDW, movie, and Animated world (although it's more difficult for Animated). In regards to the movie universe:
It's no secret that, after the Unicron Trilogy, Universe and the Unicron-heavy Dreamwave Productions comic books, the fandom at large was generally quite sick of stories revolving around Unicron and Primus. It is likely no coincidence, then, that the major new universes which have been created in western media since then – those of the IDW Publishing comic books, the live-action movie and the Transformers Animated cartoon – have all eschewed use of the Primus creation myth. But what does this mean for the status of the retcon that states Primus exists in all universes?
The world of the live-action movie is a fairly cut-and-dried case. At first, The movie itself, and the comic books set in its continuity published by IDW, present the Transformers as creations of the enigmatic All Spark, with no explicit connection drawn between it and Primus. The UK's Furman-scripted Transformers magazine turned everything on its head, however, with the surprise appearance of Unicron in its eighteenth issue. While Primus was never mentioned in the course of the story, this adventure saw the Transformers voyage into the depths of Cybertron, where they discovered gears and joints that seemed like huge versions of their own interior workings – a clear reference to Cybertron being the transforming body of Primus. It seems safe to infer that Primus merely uses the All Spark as his intermediary in this universe; indeed, Takara's World of Transformers website even lists the All Spark as a sacred implement alongside other Primus-related talismans such as the Matrix and Vector Sigma.
What do you think?
It's no secret that, after the Unicron Trilogy, Universe and the Unicron-heavy Dreamwave Productions comic books, the fandom at large was generally quite sick of stories revolving around Unicron and Primus. It is likely no coincidence, then, that the major new universes which have been created in western media since then – those of the IDW Publishing comic books, the live-action movie and the Transformers Animated cartoon – have all eschewed use of the Primus creation myth. But what does this mean for the status of the retcon that states Primus exists in all universes?
The world of the live-action movie is a fairly cut-and-dried case. At first, The movie itself, and the comic books set in its continuity published by IDW, present the Transformers as creations of the enigmatic All Spark, with no explicit connection drawn between it and Primus. The UK's Furman-scripted Transformers magazine turned everything on its head, however, with the surprise appearance of Unicron in its eighteenth issue. While Primus was never mentioned in the course of the story, this adventure saw the Transformers voyage into the depths of Cybertron, where they discovered gears and joints that seemed like huge versions of their own interior workings – a clear reference to Cybertron being the transforming body of Primus. It seems safe to infer that Primus merely uses the All Spark as his intermediary in this universe; indeed, Takara's World of Transformers website even lists the All Spark as a sacred implement alongside other Primus-related talismans such as the Matrix and Vector Sigma.
What do you think?