Transformers 2: The Fallen Mythology Explained

I’ll grant you this: when I was a kid, the first TV show I saw when I ran home from school and plop down in front of the TV was Transformers. Loved it. Couldn’t get enough of it. But as it always happens, I grew up, and Transformers grew out of my life. As a result, I never picked up any of the comics (hand-drawn Transformers “transforming” in panels just didn’t quite have the thrill of seeing them doing it on the tube in motion), so I had no idea what “The Fallen” was when the subtitle for “Transformers 2″ was recently revealed as “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen”.

And because I’m way too lazy to be poking around Wikipedia and what have you for the background, I’m just going to post an excerpt from CHUD’s hard work:

The Transformers wiki provides backstory:

At the dawn of time, Primus created new life, the 13 original Transformers, to crew his planetary form into battle against his eternal nemesis Unicron. One of these 13, his original name now lost to the mists of time, turned against his siblings, his creator, and his universe, and betrayed them all.

…this guardian of entropy became obsessed with the darker side of chaos and death, and in the black place these urges led him, the betrayer found a new god, more suited to his nature. He turned against Primus and became the Fallen. Now he is a being of power, darkness, and absolute dedication to Unicron.

Here’s what Wikipedia says about him:

Around 6.5 million years ago, a test of the experimental “space bridge” matter-transport system on Cybertron liberated the Fallen from his prison, and he materialised on Cybertron, where he quickly recruited the Chaos Trinity, three mystically-inclined Decepticons – Bludgeon, Mindwipe and Bugly – into his employ. Abducting Transformers that he identified as possessing “genetic potential” within their sparks – Grimlock, Blitzwing, Jetfire and Hot Spot – the Fallen planned to use their energies to awaken Primus from his self-imposed slumber, thereby alerting Unicron to his location, allowing the world-eater to renew hostilities with his old enemy. An attack from combined Autobot and Decepticon forces led by Shockwave and Prowl disrupted his plans, and Primus himself reached out and promptly destroyed the Fallen.

CHUD’s sources also confirm that the title does in fact refer to the character mentioned above. Read the rest of it at CHUD.

The pic above is apparently the toy version of this Fallen character (via). If I’m wrong, someone tell me.