Executioner Knight
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- The Executioner Knight is an Autobot-allied Guardian Knight from The Last Knight portion of the movie continuity family.
The "Executioner Knight" is one of the twelve Guardian Knights. He seems to have some degree of authority over his brothers, and is able to combine with them into the mighty Dragonstorm.
Fiction
The Last Knight film
- Voice actor: uncredited (English)
After betraying their supposed creator, Quintessa, the Executioner and the Guardian Knights fled with her staff to Earth, in truth the dormant form of legendary Transformer Unicron. Sometime in the late 5th century, the human "wizard" Merlin stumbled upon the knights' spaceship, buried beneath the hills of England. He met the Knights and learned of their homeworld of Cybertron, but promised to keep their existence a secret from his peers. In 484 AD, Merlin returned to the ship and made a heartfelt plea to their leader Stormreign, seeking aid for King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in a dire battle against the Saxons.
As Stormreign bestowed upon Merlin the very staff they stole from Quintessa, the Executioner joined the other knights in forming Dragonstorm to fight alongside Arthur's men, winning them the day. In the battle's aftermath, the Knights of the Round Table forged an alliance with the Guardian Knights, beginning a heraldic order which would become known as the Order of the Witwiccans. On at least one occasion, the Executioner charged into battle alongside Arthur's men. Sir Edmund Burton's collection included an excerpt of the Bayeux Tapestry which appeared to show the Executioner and the other knights fighting in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD. Eventually, the Guardian Knights moved their ship underwater and entered a centuries-long slumber, guarding Merlin's remains and the staff Stormreign had granted to him.
In the modern day, the spaceship was located by Merlin's last descendant, and the knights awoke, the Executioner among them. After witnessing Optimus Prime steal the staff for Quintessa, and seemingly ignoring that he did it against his own will, the Executioner lead the other Knights into a violent charge against the Prime and sentenced him to death. The Executioner then made his final move with the intention of finishing Optimus for good, but was interrupted by the sudden emergence of the legendary Excalibur at the hands of Cade Yeager. Realizing Cade was their long expected "last knight", the Knights ceased their attack.
After Quintessa successfully reclaimed her staff, intending to use it to transfer energy from Earth/Unicron into the desolate Cybertron, the Executioner and the Knights joined the Autobot mission to stop her, combining into Dragonstorm from atop the deck of the Autobot ship. As part of Dragonstorm, the Executioner helped the Knights' Autobot and human allies by taking out enemy fighters and dropping Optimus Prime into the battlefield to vanquish Infernocus. After Quintessa and Megatron were defeated and their plan was foiled, Steelbane and the Knights merged into Dragonstorm and departed Earth for Cybertron alongside the Autobots. The Last Knight
Notes
- Aside from the Talisman Knight, the Executioner Knight is the only Guardian Knight to not have a toy based on his design, and thus the only one to not receive a name by Hasbro. The "Executioner Knight" moniker comes from the closed captions of the film.
- His status as an Autobot is presumed since all the other Knights are confirmed members of said faction by the toyline.