Quintus Prime

I went into space to create alien species who could act as allies to the Transformer race! And made these guys... whoops.

The scientist of the Thirteen, Quintus Prime possesses a mind second to none. His idealism and perfectionist tendencies means that he frequently butts heads with the less imaginative members of the Thirteen. Something of a daydreamer, Quintus believes that life, in all its forms, is the most important thing in the universe, and that life should be encouraged to grow and thrive at all costs throughout the galaxy. Accordingly, he wields the Emberstone, an artifact which can accelerate biological processes in base elements.

Fiction

Aligned continuity family

The Covenant of Primus

Quintus was the tenth Prime created by Primus to fight against Unicron. His artifact was the Emberstone, and he became one of the Strategists of the Thirteen, alongside Alpha Trion, Micronus Prime and Liege Maximo. To defeat Unicron, Optimus Prime exposed his spark, its frequency almost identical to Primus's own, to Unicron's own Anti-Spark knocking both into stasis lock. Quintus subsequently used his Emberstone to awaken Optimus. After Unicron's defeat, Quintus drifted freely between the cliques formed in the group alongside Alchemist Prime and Optimus Prime.

After Maximo revealed that Prima had been plotting how likely each member of the Thirteen was to be corrupted by Unicron's presence, it came to light that Quintus had worked alongside Maximo and Megatronus to create new robot beasts – Prima was suspicious of these beasts and ordered the three to shut down their "Farm". A conflict broke out between the Thirteen over whether or not Maximo had the right to create new life – a conflict that eventually came to a head when Optimus demanded a full vote on the matter.

The vote came to a tie until Solus Prime voted against allowing Maximo to create new beasts. After Megatronus accidentally killed Solus, Quintus was among the members of the Thirteen that demanded that Megatronus be found and made to pay for his crime, but the group was surprised when Solus's dead body began to glow and melted an opening to the deep core of Primus, creating the Well of All Sparks. When Maximo was confronted at the Farm, Quintus refused to accept any personal responsibility for the beasts' creation. The Thirteen then proceeded to fight, their battle spilling into the caverns with the beasts.

With the Age of Primes over, Quintus went into space to seed life, hoping to create new races that might one day form peaceful alliances with Cybertron. His first stop was a metal-rich planet he named Quintessa. There, he created the first Quintessons, a manipulative, deceitful race which would become less than friendly with Primus's new creations. When the Quintessons arrived on Cybertron, Alpha Trion wondered what became of his brother, idly speculating that Quintus's own creations may have disposed of him when they no longer required him. The Covenant of Primus

Prime cartoon

According to legend, at the beginning of time, Unicron and Primus battled each other for eons, with neither side remaining victorious for long. Till, that is, Primus created the Thirteen. These Thirteen defeated Unicron and cast him into space. One Shall Rise, Part 1

Generation 1 continuity family

2005 IDW continuity

First appearance: Transformers #47 (mentioned), Till All Are One #9

Second from the right, and fashionably green.

Quintus was one of the Thirteen Primes who led the Thirteen Tribes that arose on Cybertron following the departure of the Knights of Cybertron. Lagrange Like four others he was attracted to the alliance at Crystal City, forming the Thirteen Primes. Unbeknownst to the Primes, one of their number, the bestial Onyx Prime, was in fact a time-travelling Shockwave from twelve million years in the future, who was manipulating history to ensure the rise, and subsequent fall, of the Primes' society. Goaded on by Shockwave's machinations, Megatronus and Liege Maximo turned on the group, killing Solus Prime and starting the First Cybertronian Civil War. Though Megatronus managed to flee Cybertron, Quintus and Nexus were able to restrain Maximo, eventually banishing him aboard Vigilem. The First Who Was Named

As the war wound down, Nexus Prime met his end at the hands of Galvatron, prompting all the remaining Primes, except Alpha Trion, to flee Cybertron. Eons later, the younger Shockwave would send one his Regenesis ores, Ore-2, to Gorlam Prime, The Crucible The First Who Was Named the resting place of Quintessa, a Titan somehow affiliated with Quintus. Ceremony

In the modern day, Quintus Prime's name was remembered in the Way of Flame, the religion of Solus Prime's colony Caminus. Lagrange

Power of the Primes toy bios

Quintus Prime's Spark passed into the possession of one of the twelve Prime Masters; hidden within a suit of decoy armor, they safeguarded the abilities of the Primes until the present day. By uniting with a larger Transformer, the Prime Master could channel the powers of Quintus's Spark and grant them unique abilities that varied with each new partner. Quintus Prime toy bio

2019 IDW continuity

Quintus Prime was one of the Thirteen. Sea of Rust I

Cyberverse cartoon

Quintus Prime was one of the Thirteen. Dweller In The Depths Silent Strike The Other One

EarthSpark cartoon

Voice actor: Clancy Brown (English), Naofumi Ichihashi (Japanese, as the Emberstone), Yasunori Masutani (Japanese, #44, #52), Gabriel Bueno (Brazilian Portuguese), Dan Osorio (Latin-American Spanish), Augustin Jacob (French)

"Squidward, you're even more handsome now!"

After helping to establish Cybertronian culture, Quintus Prime left his homeworld on a mission to seed life on planets all across the galaxy, intending to create new races that could be allies of Cybertron in the future. Using the power of his Emberstone, he would trigger the evolution of life on a planet, then quickly move on to the next world, leaving the races he spawned to fend for themselves. His first creations, the Quintessons, desired to know the purpose of their existence, and so set off into space in search of their absent creator—but when they discovered that they were just one of many experiments Quintus had abandoned, they grew bitter and sought to destroy Quintus and all his creations, and take the power of the Emberstone for themselves. Fleeing the Quintessons, Quintus took refuge on primordial Earth, where he fused his spark with the Emberstone, and used its power one last time to create the Titan Terratronus, who would protect the stone from all who would misuse its power. Terratronus deceived the Quintessons into thinking Quintus and the stone had left Earth, then placed the stone in a subterranean cave marked with Quintus's insignia. Age of Evolution, Part 1 Witwicky, Part 1

Millions of years later, when later generations of Cybertronians came to be stranded on Earth, the human siblings Robby and Mo Malto found the Emberstone beneath the town of Witwicky. Age of Evolution, Part 1 Judged worthy of its power by Quintus's spirit, Witwicky, Part 1 the pair's touch activated the stone, and as Quintus's voice rang out, dubbing the children the "legacy of hope," the stone's power created two new Transformers, Twitch and Thrash from a pool of water, and manifested cyber-sleeves on Mo and Robby's arms that emotionally bonded them to the robots. Secret Legacy, Part 1 When they later explored the cave system with Bumblebee, the scout found a message in Ancient Cybertronian but failed to notice Quintus' insignia. Friends and Family

After Optimus Prime was informed of how the Terrans had come to life, he recognized the Emberstone and, with Alex Malto's aid, explained Quintus Prime to the younger audience. When the Maltos and Terrans were surrounded by Arachnamechs, Mo beseeched Quintus for aid, and the Prime's voice responded and activated the Emberstone to create Hashtag, Jawbreaker, and Nightshade. Age of Evolution, Part 1

When Robbie fell ill, and Optimus theorized that only the Emberstone would be able to help him, a distressed Mo tried to use her cyber-sleeve to contact Quintus Prime. In frustration, Mo wished that she'd never touched the Emberstone at the same time that Mandroid claimed the artifact. Bringing the Malto family to his starship, which had been orbiting Earth abandoned for millions of years, Quintus's spirit showed Mo a simulation of what her life would have been like had she never touched the stone. Mandroid then teleported aboard, hoping to crash the ship to end the Maltos, only for the Emberstone to empower Mo's cyber-sleeve enough that she managed to defeat him. Quintus then appeared to the Maltos, thanking Mo for answering his call but warning that there were still trials ahead. Prime Time

One film

Guess the universal greeting doesn't work on nasty creatures who only look like you.

Quintus Prime and the other twelve Primes were created by Primus at the dawn of Cybertron, and they ruled Cybertron benevolently through its Golden Age. When a war with the Quintessons threw the planet into a protracted, violent conflict, the Primes' secretary, Sentinel Prime, herded the thirteen into a Quintesson ambush within a remote cave. Quintus would be killed during the battle, with his brothers' and sisters' bodies resting in a hidden cave for fifty cycles before being rediscovered by miners Orion Pax, D-16, Elita, and B-127.

A vision of Quintus Prime and the other Primes later appeared as Alpha Trion declared a damaged Orion Pax to be the next wielder of the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus Prime.Transformers One

Toys

Power of the Primes

The one with tentacles was too obvious.

• Quintus Prime (Prime Master, 2018)
  • TakaraTomy ID number: PP-20
  • TakaraTomy release date: August 25, 2018
  • Accessories: Decepticon Bludgeon decoy armor, kanabō/gun

• Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)

Power of the Primes Quintus Prime is a Prime Master with Bludgeon decoy armor, visually based on the original Pretender's inner robot and shell. Quintus Prime/Bludgeon is a partial tooling of Vector Prime/Metalhawk, swapping that toy's grey sprue for yellow parts with new detailing. The new weapon piece is modeled after a kanabō (a metal stick), and uniquely can be wielded as such with the alternate 3mm plug on the end.

This toy has identical features to the other Prime Masters in the line. The decoy armor has a weapon piece which can fold out to create a weapon mode, or detach and be held in the armor's 3 mm-compatible hand. The Titan Master-like robot can store inside the decoy armor or ride Legends Class figures in vehicle mode, and is fully compatible with toys from the previous Titans Return line. The "Power Swap" gimmick means its spark form can plug onto any decoy armor's weapon form (which has a 5 mm post to be held by larger figures), Deluxe Class figures' chest armor, Voyager Class figures' bucklers, Leader Class figures' Matrix (in place of their Matrix core), combiners' torsos (in place of their Enigma of Combination), or the Scepter of Sparks. With the power of your imagination, this bestows the Prime Master's unique power on the larger figure.

Notes

• Quintus Prime's name derives from, naturally, the Quintessons, his creations in various continuities.
• The Covenant implies that Quintus Prime may have also invented space bridge technology; the Quintessons are said to have reverse-engineered its incredibly advanced principles from a mysterious source, but they themselves did not fully understand how the device worked.
• Quintus Prime was inspired by Johnny Appleseed, going throughout the universe to spread new life.^[1]

Foreign names

• Japanese: Quintus Prime (クインタスプライム Kuintasu Puraimu)
• Hungarian: Quintus Fővezér ("Supreme Commander Quintus")
• Mandarin: Wúcháng Tiān (无常天)

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