Junkion (planet)
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Junkion (also called Junk, or the Planet of Junk) is a planet-sized garbage dump. It is inhabited by the Junkions, a race of scrap-robot Transformers led by Wreck-Gar.
The Junkions have based their entire culture around TV broadcasts from Earth.
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Fiction
Generation 1 continuity family
Generation 1 cartoon continuity
The Transformers cartoon
When an Autobot shuttle containing Ultra Magnus, Perceptor, Springer, Arcee, and Daniel Witwicky was damaged in a battle with Galvatron, it was piloted to Junkion for repairs. The Decepticons tracked them down in order to kill Ultra Magnus and steal the Matrix of Leadership, a plan which they succeeded with. The other Autobots hardly had any time to mourn, however, as the native Junkions revealed themselves, deemed the Autobots intruders, and attacked them. The battle halted when Hot Rod, Kup and the Dinobots landed on the planet, and subsequently made peace with the Junkions using the universal greeting. The natives then repaired Ultra Magnus and revealed their own spaceship to aid in the battle against Unicron. The Transformers: The Movie
Many of the very same Autobots from before were later attacked by Decepticons on the planet of Goo, and were saved by Wreck-Gar who brought them to Junkion. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 Wreck-Gar was later watching TV on his planet when he was kidnapped by a Quintesson. The Killing Jar
Even later, a Quintesson journal drifted away from the explosion of Quintessa and ended up on Junkion. The Quintessons sent Sharkticons to retrieve it, but the defensive Junkions immediately attacked them. In return, the Quintessons starting putting subliminal messages in the TV signals reaching Junkion, causing the Junkions to distrust all other lifeforms. This was eventually fixed when Blaster countered the signal with one of his own. The Big Broadcast of 2006
Macrocosmic Seekers
While scavenging, Scrapheap discovered a chunk of Optimus Prime's armor that had somehow come to rest on the planet. Hope within the Scrapheap A Gift from the Planet of Scrap The planet subsequently became the site of a brief skrimish between Rodimus, Kup, Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge before they were all abducted by Seeker. Unending Battle
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel UK letters page
Junkion is the closest inhabitable planet to Cybertron.[1]
Marvel future timelines
After an Autobot shuttle sets down on Junkion for repairs, Galvatron and the Decepticons engage the occupants in battle. The Sweeps draw and quarter Ultra Magnus, allowing Galvatron to abscond with the Matrix. In the wake of their departure, the Junkions launch an assault on the demoralized Autobots. The battle was interrupted by the arrival of a Quintesson vessel containing additional Autobots. Hot Rod convinced the Junkions of their peaceful intentions and an alliance was forged. The natives revealed the secret of Junkion — the planet is an immense space ship. It blasted off to do battle with Unicron. The Final Battle!
After the destruction of Unicron, his head floated off through space and crash-landed on the planet, called Junk, where Unicron used mind control to force the Junkions to build him a new body out of the planet itself. He was destroyed before the plan was completed. The Legacy of Unicron!
Regeneration One
When sent through Zero Space by the Dark Matrix, Hot Rod arrived on Junk in Galvatron II's native timeline, seeing his counterpart in this reality, Rodimus Prime, locked in combat with Galvatron. Though Hot Rod tried to warn his alternate self of Scourge and Cyclonus, Rodimus' shock at seeing himself allowed the Decepticons to kill the Prime. Rodimus' Matrix of Leadership was sent flying and landed at Hot Rod's feet. When he claimed it, transforming him into Rodimus Prime, the Dark Matrix brought him back to his version of Cybertron. Less Than Zero
The Transformers Sticker Adventures
When a damaged Autobot shuttle crashed on Junk, Perceptor, Arcee and Springer discovered that the piles of junk were a perfect source for spare parts. Unfortunately they were attacked by the Junkions, who were interested on Blurr's high-speed engine. As the fight raged on, Hot Rod and Kup arrived in search of their friends, and Kup's use of the Universal Autobot Greeting made the Junkions far friendlier. The shuttle was soon repaired and the Autobots departed. Battle on the Junk Planet
Dreamwave Generation One continuity
After finding Megatron drifting in deep space, Wreck-Gar took him back to Junk and fixed him up. He also helped the Decepticon salvage several damaged Aerospace Extermination Squadron drones which had been "discarded" on the planet after the Age of Internment. Runnin' with the Devil
Collect and Save
The starship Reclamation, crewed entirely by Recyclons, happened on the planet Junk while searching the universe for salvage. They were all ready to start recycling the planet when Wreck-Gar attempted to greet him, and was blasted for his troubles. The Junkions chased the interlopers off, but the Recyclons weren't ready to abandon their find. They attempted a new plan, wherein Captain Salvage would distract the Junkions with peace talks, while the others tried to recycle the planet from space. This didn't go much better, and soon the Recyclons and their ship were turned into junk. Collect and Save
2005 IDW continuity
According to the historian Pentius, Junkion was once a living, plentiful world. However, its natural resources were eventually depleted by its arrogant inhabitants, and without energon to power its great engines, the world ground to a halt. Its gravimetric pull began attracting space junk until the planet was completely covered in trash, burying the utopian civilization that once lived there and forcing the surviving inhabitants to turn to scavenging and cannibalism. Fallout On the other hand, Pentius was deceptive and had memories of Quintessons ruining various planets in the past, and Sharkticons were known to live on Junkion... Primacy #1 Regardless of the truth, Junkion became known to the galaxy as a hellish world and no one dared settle it, though brave and/or foolish travelers would occasionally visit to test their mettle against the planet's many trials. Faces of Darkness
Junkion was a mere myth to the people of Cybertron, who believed it to be littered with horrible scrap-eating zombies. Wreckage No Transformer had dared visit the planet for millions of years until the day Scorponok chose to strand Megatron there as a unique form of punishment. And whaddya know, it turned out to be littered with hostile, cannibalistic Junkions like the legends claimed. Derelicts Megatron defeated the natives attacking him in the Scrap Wastes area, then used the junk littering the ground to repair his injuries. Wreckage While taking cover from an ionized acid rain storm in the Howling Wastes, he found the shipwrecked Pentius who had been stuck on Junkion for centuries and managed to map most of the planet. After hearing that there was a way off the planet near the Pillar of Rust, Megatron freed the alien and forced him to guide him there. Faces of Darkness To get there they had to cross the Acid Sea, where Megatron was attacked by Sharkticons. Rage After reaching the Pillar of Rust, killing Pentius and defeating the Terrorcons, he used their ship to leave the planet. Prey
Megatron later returned to Junkion, cowing the inhabitants and bringing them to Cybertron as part of the Decepticon army. Primacy #2
Shortly afterwards, both Shockwave and Prowl returned to Junkion to claim the planet's gravimetric core for use as a weapon which sparked the "Battle of Junkion". Eventually one of the two tacticians decided the best way to win the battle was to detonate the core, destroying the planet. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain
Despite this, Galvatron seemingly visited Junkion as he traveled the galaxy recruiting soldiers for his anti-D-Void army. Heart of Darkness #3 Similarly, Blitzwing and Astrotrain later threatened to send Soundwave to Junkion, though how one might have done this is unknown. Shockpoint
Having been part of the Battle of Junkion, Soundwave recounted it to his allies in 2017, when a group of Junkions arrived on Earth. A Lonely Pillar on the Plain
Prime Wars Trilogy marketing material
Junkion was the possible location of one of thirteen Titans, alongside Cybertron, Unicron, Dominius, Nebulos, Antilla, Paradron, Caminus, Earth, Velocitron, Biosfera, Aquatron, Botropolis, Micron, and Gigantion. Titan Force[2]
Cybertron comic
Jackhammer is not happy when he gets bossed around by "stinking refugees from the Junk Planet." Whether this meant there is a Junk Planet in this continuity is unknown, but don't expect Jackhammer to explain. Scattered molecules don't talk. Balancing Act
Animated cartoon
Junk was a robotic planet in the Autobot Commonwealth. The AllSpark Almanac II
Aligned novels
Junkion was a planetoid in interstellar space, with no sun or moon. It was a world of towering trash mountains and deep valleys stratified with garbage and refuse of all kinds; a ring of abandoned spaceships surrounded the planet, and many of these same hulks had fallen planetside. These ships were from all across the galaxy, including Quintesson, Cybertron, and Velocitron. This peculiar geography owed its origins to the fact that Junkion was not a naturally occurring world. In fact, deep beneath the planet the Requiem Blaster lay forgotten, and its formidable gravity brought many drifting pieces of space junk together. Junkion was later used in the early days of the Golden Age as a place to dump refuse and garbage from colonization efforts across the galaxy. This same planetoid found itself home to all kinds of criminals, pirates, and outlaws on the run. Over time, however, the space bridge project failed, and the lowlifes on the planet were forced to adapt and innovate. Since then, Junkion developed a stable and thriving society based on scavenging and recycling refuse. Teams of Junkion scavengers prowled the landscapes for anything useful, which was collected and recycled into something new. Exiles
Knights of Unicron
Wreckstock, located on the Planet of Junk, was the fourteenth venue for the Knights of Unicron on their 2014 "Till All Are One" tour. Knights of Unicron (band)
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
Transformers Roleplaying Game
Junkion has an above-average gravitational pull and a strong magnetic field that made it an attractive target for Cybertronian colonization. Over the generations, the planet became known as the galaxy's number one dumping site and recycling center, and the Junkions, descendants of the original Cybertronian colonists, officially maintained a neutral stance in the face of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict. Members of both sides were allowed on the planet to scrounge for usable components under a strict non-aggression treaty. Decepticon Directive
Notes
- The idea of Junkion as a spaceship, as seen in the Marvel comics movie adaptation, came from an earlier script draft for The Movie. Some vestiges of this concept remain in the final product, such as Wreck-Gar's line that the "new, improved Junkion planet is sleek, sexy import with turbo handling."
- The alternate mode of Wheelie's Universe toy is a "Junk Planet speeder".
Foreign names
- Japanese: Junk (ジャンク Janku)
- French: Kradok (from Crado, "Filthy")
- Mandarin: Lājī Xīng (垃圾星, "Planet Junk")
- Russian: Utilion (Утилион)
