Quintessa (TLK)

Quintessa is an apparent Transformer from The Last Knight portion of the movie continuity family.

That's so sweet, I'm getting cavities.

Quintessa is a mysterious and powerful space sorceress. The self-described "Prime of Life", she claims to have created the Cybertronian species and considers Cybertron to be hers to command.

Then again, she's also been referred to as "The Great Deceiver", so how much of what she says is actually true may be up for debate. What does appear to be true about Quintessa is that she's a ruthless, genocidal psychopath with massive delusions of grandeur—an overall "charming" personality that, quite frankly, makes her more endearing to the tyrannical Megatron than to the noble Optimus Prime.

Fiction

The Last Knight film

Actress: Gemma Chan

Voice actor: Sayaka Kinoshita (Japanese dub), Li Bingbing (Chinese dub), Caroline Victoria (European French dub), Véronic Rodrigue (Canadian French dub), Berenice Weichert (German dub), Chiara Gioncardi (Italian dub), Isabela Quadros (Portuguese dub), Isabel Valls (Castilian Spanish dub), Kerygma Flores (Latin-American Spanish dub), Müjde Çapraz (Turkish dub)

It would seem, my little Princess, that in your anger, you destroyed them both.

The true origins and motives of the being known as Quintessa are unknown. She professed to be the creator and goddess of Cybertron, but in the distant past, her twelve Guardian Knights came to understand that she was not as benevolent as she appeared, and so stole her powerful staff and hid it on Earth.

In the present day, seeking to repair the shattered Cybertron—ravaged by the Autobot/Decepticon war—Quintessa took control of the deserted planet and began moving it across space, intending to replenish it by draining the lifeforce of Earth—or as she knew it, Cybertron's ancient enemy Unicron. To accomplish this, she required her staff, and under undivulged circumstances, made contact with the Decepticon leader Megatron, charging him with locating it for her.

As Cybertron entered Earth's solar system, Optimus Prime—who had previously left Earth in search of his creators—came across it and set down on its surface. As Optimus entered Quintessa's base, Quintessa intimated that she was the creator he had been searching for, which prompted Optimus to attack her, but she easily restrained him. Striking Optimus across the cheek, she left a red "scar" that spread over his face, placing him under her control. Redubbing him "Nemesis Prime", Quintessa dispatched him to Earth as another agent to search for her staff.

"I will wreak a terrible revenge."

The brainwashed Optimus would ultimately fail in his mission as his old friends helped him break Quintessa's control, but not before the staff had been located. Megatron, however, snatched victory from the jaw's of Optimus's defeat, stealing the staff and delivering it to Quintessa as Cybertron arrived in Earth's atmosphere. Quintessa triggered the energy transfer from Earth to Cybertron, and charged Megatron with defending her as she used her own body as a conduit between staff and planets. A combined assault from the Autobots, humans, and Knights vanquished all her forces, but her own power remained more than enough to stop Optimus when he tried to take her on directly. Unfortunately for Quintessa, Optimus was only a distraction; his frontal assault left her open to an attack from the rear by Bumblebee, who blasted and seemingly vaporized her.

The Autobots and their allies subsequently stopped Quintessa's plan by recovering the staff and retaking control of Cybertron. Quintessa, however, was not yet defeated. Disguising herself as a human, she approached one of the scientific expeditions studying one of Unicron's horns in a desert. Cautioning them against touching Unicron, she offered them a way to kill him... The Last Knight

Kre-O comic

Quintessa was among the evil Kreons summoned by Megatron to conquer the Legends World. Special Chapter

Toys

The Last Knight

Anime sure is weird.

• Infernocus (Legion Class Combiner 5-pack, 2017)

• Known designers: Ken Christiansen (concept artist)

Only available in the Toys"R"Us exclusive Infernocus box set, Quintessa is a small translucent blue figurine with no articulation.

Notes

• Quintessa is loosely based on the Quintessons of Generation 1 lore, while her name comes from their home planet. Her design is also reminiscent of that of Quintus Prime.
• It is never made clear whether Quintessa is one of the "Creators" mentioned in Age of Extinction, as the only glimpse of an apparent Creator in that film shows an organic hand; she claims she is one, but she's also a known liar and manipulator.
• Kreon Quintessa wears the Knock Out helmet and Wheeljack wing backpack.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Quintessa (クインテッサ Kuintessa)
• Korean: Quintessa (쿠인테사 Kuintesa)
• Mandarin: Quintessa (Taiwan, 昆特沙, Kūntèshā; China, 昆塔沙 Kūntǎshā)