Warning! This article contains spoilers for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.Transformers: Rise of the Beasts confirms that time travel is now a thing in the movie franchise - here's how. Serving as the seventh installment in the Transformers live-action franchise, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts unfolds seven years after the Autobots arrived at Earth in 2018's Bumblebee. The movie begins with a prologue in which Unicron and his minions of Terrorcons and Predacons attack the Maximals' planet to steal the Transwarp key. While they manage to overpower the Maximals, they fail to retrieve the Transwarp key after Optimus Primal and the other surviving Maximals flee to 1994 Earth.

With what follows, Scourge and Unicron's other henchmen arrive at Earth during their hunt for the Transwarp key, while the Autobots start their quest to find the key hoping it would take them back home. In all of these narratives surrounding the...