Exactly how big is Unicron?

[Candlelight]

He's supposed to be this big and massive planet killer that devours worlds and yet when you look at all the comparison images he's not that big:

- When he's devouring Lithone at the start of TF:TM he's quite big, a few hundred/thousand km across maybe. Lithone is clearly a fairly large moon-sized world.
- When he's speaking to Megatron, the scale puts Unicron at a few miles at most.
- When Galvatron returns to Unicron after destroying Magnus's shuttle, he's a bit bigger than before, but not by much.
- Then during the final battle it varies. He tears at Cybertron which clearly makes him quite large, but then he swallows Galvatron, which seems to make him smaller. Then the Quintesson ship collides with his eye and he seems bigger. Not to mention the Dinobot attack on his ass makes him seem smaller again.

I know it's a cartoon and nitpicking but regardless, he's not exactly the 'big' monster he's made out to be.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I don't really think there have been any dimensions of length stated regarding Unicron.

 

[Neroon]

You could go to the Trek Tech forum and ask him.......

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

My God man, he eats planets, PLANETS!

 

[Thestral]

He's as big as he wants to be. You gonna argue with him?

 

[Greylock Crescent]

And Soundwave was also the size of a cassette recorder ... just go with it, man!

 

[Canadave]

You could go to the Trek Tech forum and ask him.......

Beat me to it.

 

[Mr Light]

He gets bigger when he gets excited.

 

[Unicron]

I have magic scaling properties, just like many other Transformers.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Aww you're supposed to say "I..AM UNICRON!!"

 

[Sindatur]

Heh, I thought the title said "Exactly How Big is a Unicorn?" ...And I thought, "Well...that's kinda personal"

 

[Saga]

Heh, I thought the title said "Exactly How Big is a Unicorn?" ...And I thought, "Well...that's kinda personal"

 

[BlobVanDam]

Since it's a movie, and a cartoon, the answer is probably "however big is convenient for that particular scene".


And how big is the alternate universe Enterprise?

 

[Broccoli]

It is amusing to read here that people should just go with it as Unicron seems to change size in the cartoon (which is probably the right attitude to have given the subject material), but if the character was to appear in one of the TF movies and did the same thing, people would be crying foul (well, maybe not so much here, but look at the talkbacks on such places as SHH or AICN).

 

[Greylock Crescent]

It is amusing to read here that people should just go with it as Unicron seems to change size in the cartoon (which is probably the right attitude to have given the subject material), but if the character was to appear in one of the TF movies and did the same thing, people would be crying foul (well, maybe not so much here, but look at the talkbacks on such places as SHH or AICN).

I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm certainly okay with a bit of absurdity both in G1 and in the live-action films -- heck, I thought the first film was thoroughly absurd and expected the second one to be more of the same -- which is probably why I enjoyed the sequel while just about everyone else felt scandalized by it.

 

[T.Geiger]

He's as big as he wants to be. You gonna argue with him?

According to Wikipedia, about the size of Saturn. But given Unicron's status in the Transformers multiverse as essentially an Elder God, the above answer may actually be correct.

 

[14thDoctor]

I don't see any reason why Unicron couldn't just mass shift to whatever size is most convenient at a given time. It's not like he wouldn't have the power available to do so.

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ Doesn't Unicron require massive amounts of Energon though?

 

[God Magnus]

Heh, I thought the title said "Exactly How Big is a Unicorn?" ...And I thought, "Well...that's kinda personal"

It depends if he takes his medication a couple hours beforehand...

 

[God Magnus]

He's as big as he wants to be. You gonna argue with him?

That's about right. And what others have said about him being whatever size suits the scene.

Look at it this way, in the episodes following the movie when Unicron was just a head floating around Cybertron, he enlists Starscream to help him get replacement eyes and then make Cybertron his new body. Where does he get the eyes? From the "city" Transformers Metroplex and Trypticon. The thing is, their eyes should be relatively tiny compared to his, but somehow they fit perfectly snug. Even as a kid I thought "That doesn't make much sense but I'm going to roll with it."