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Although its physical form differs across the [[universal stream]]s in which it appears, the powers and history of the '''AllSpark''' (also spelled '''Allspark''') remain common across the [[multiverse]]: It is one of the fabled [[sacred implement]]s, the objects capable of [[Transformer afterlife|creating]] new [[Transformer]] [[Spark|life]]. Its origins are unknown, lost to the distant past sometimes predating even [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] itself, but it often gives the impression that it possesses a consciousness of some kind and is either working towards a cosmic plan of its own divining or is carrying out [[Primus|the will of a higher power]]. In truth, the physical AllSpark is but a shell to contain the incredible life-giving energies within; should that shell be destroyed the energies will remain as potent as ever, merely waiting for a new vessel to inhabit. Any fragments that would remain in the event of the AllSpark's physical destruction would still possess the incredible power that the original object did.

The AllSpark's power has long been coveted by the [[Decepticon]]s, frequently driving the [[Autobot]]s to launch it into the depths of space and putting it beyond the reach of any Cybertronian.

{{bigquote|The cube was merely a vessel; its power, its knowledge—can never be destroyed. It can only ''transform''....|[[The Fallen]] explains the true nature of the AllSpark to [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]|''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Live-action film series===
[[File:Allspark movie.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|It will tear your soul apart.]]
In this [[continuity family|universal cluster]], the Smurfette/AllSpark takes the form of a large, metallic cube inscribed with [[Cyberglyphics]]. Sources say it was created by a nameless power for a reason, but that reason is as yet unknown...<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_GB/play/details.cfm?R=841A4DEF-19B9-F369-104F-C8D8DEC0C2CE:en_GB Hasbro timeline]</ref>

{{bigquote|Before time began, there was... the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how [[Transformer|our race]] was born.|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] on the origins of [[Transformer|his race]]|''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]}}

====Movies====
{{note|The five movies are the primary component of the live-action movie continuity family. Their events should be taken as canon for all other pieces of fiction listed below, unless otherwise specified.}}
=====''Transformers'' film=====
[[File:Movie All Spark Hoover Dam.JPG|left|275px|thumb|The true power behind Ernő Rubik's success.]]
[[Sector Seven]] agent [[Seymour Simmons]] explained that the AllSpark was found in 1913, 16 years after the [[Non-Biological Extraterrestrial|N.B.E.]]-01 "[[Megatron (Movie)|Iceman]]" was found, though carbon dating tests indicated that Cube landed on Earth some twelve thousand years earlier. The [[Cybertronian language|glyphs]] on the Cube were similar to the ones on the Iceman, indicating a link between the two. In order to hide the cube's energy signature from other humans and, potentially, from other N.B.E.s, the [[President of the United States|President]] had the [[Hoover Dam]] built around it. The Iceman was also moved to the dam for further study. It was eventually determined that the Cube emitted a radiation which could [[AllSpark Mutation|bring mechanical devices to life]].

[[File:Movie2007 Bumblebee AllSpark.jpg|thumb|275px| The Allspark Cube will never threaten to stab you and in fact, cannot speak.]]
Without the AllSpark, Cybertron itself began to atrophy, becoming an uninhabitable world. The Autobots and Decepticons abandoned their planet and took to the stars, searching for the lost AllSpark, the Autobots hoping to use its power to restore their dead homeworld, the Decepticon seeking its power to animate the machines of other planets to build an army. Bumblebee succeeded in tracking the cube to Earth; the rest of the Autobots arrived there in 2007 and allied themselves with Captain Witwicky's great-grandson, [[Sam Witwicky]]. Together, they traced the cube to its hiding place in the Hoover Dam, inadvertently revealing its location to the Decepticon spy [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]], who summoned the other Decepticons and deactivated the systems keeping Megatron in cryo-stasis, bringing him back online. To get the AllSpark to safety, Bumblebee interacted with the cube and somehow prompted it to collapse from an enormous monolith into an object less than half a meter across, and accordingly lesser in mass as well as volume.

[[File:Megatron allspark merge.JPG|left|275px|thumb|More fibers and less All Spark in your diet prevent Spark attack.]]
The AllSpark was quickly taken to nearby [[Mission City]], where Sam was instructed to take it to the top of the highest building for evac. Stumbling as he ran, Sam fell and struck the AllSpark on the ground, causing it to release a wave of [[energon radiation]] which brought [[Dispensor|several]] [[Xbox 360 robot|nearby]] [[steering wheel robot|machines]] to life. Upon reaching the top of the building, Sam was confronted by Megatron, but refused to turn the cube over to him, and was sent toppling from the building. Optimus Prime came to his rescue, and during the battle that followed between Prime and Megatron, the Autobot leader told Sam to merge the AllSpark with his [[spark]] in order to destroy it. However, Sam instead merged it with Megatron's spark, destroying both the Decepticon leader and the AllSpark. Only a single fragment of the cube appeared to remain, which Prime plucked from Megatron's dead body.

Without the AllSpark, the Autobots had no means to restore their homeworld, and so elected to remain on Earth. Prime sent a message to inform the surviving Autobots of their new found home. {{storylink|Transformers (film)|Transformers}}

=====''Revenge of the Fallen'' film=====
[[File:ROTF Reedman steals shard.jpg|thumb|275px|"You got a Piece of Heart!"]]
In 2009, Decepticon spymaster [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] discovered that the surviving AllSpark fragment was being kept on Diego Garcia after hacking into a communication broadcast between NEST and General [[Morshower]]. Soundwave dispatched [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] and [[Reedman]] to retrieve the fragment, and it was subsequently used by [[Scalpel (ROTF)|Scalpel]] to resurrect Megatron from the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss.

However, unbeknownst to anyone, the shard in NEST's custody was not the only surviving piece of the AllSpark. When Sam Witwicky began packing for [[Princeton University]], a sliver of the cube was revealed to have become embedded in his shirt during the battle of Mission City, and upon touching it, Sam's mind was flooded with Cyberglyphics. As The Fallen would go on to explain, the AllSpark cube itself was merely a vessel for the knowledge within, and Sam had absorbed that knowledge upon the cube's destruction, which was now released into his mind upon contact with its remains. [[File:ROTF Sam Cube fragment.jpg|left|thumb|275px]] Sam dropped the sliver in shock, and it burned its way through his bedroom floor, falling into the kitchen below where it released a wave of Energon that brought the [[Appliancebot]]s to life. With this more immediate threat to deal with, Sam did not realize the full extent of what the AllSpark had done to his mind until his disastrous first day of class, during which he began uncontrollably babbling the specifics of the fantastic science of the Transformers to the shock and ridicule of his classmates and professor. He called upon Mikaela to bring the fragment to him, but no sooner had she arrived than Sam became targeted by the Decepticons, who desired the AllSpark knowledge in his brain to lead them to the hidden star harvester on Earth. Optimus Prime died saving Sam, and Sam, believing that the energy of the Matrix of Leadership could be used to resurrect Prime, sought out one of the Decepticon [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]s to translate the symbols he was seeing in hopes of finding a clue to its location. The Seeker they found was [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], who was slumbering in the Smithsonian, and they used the AllSpark sliver to reactivate him. Although borderline senile, the ancient Seeker was able to translate the symbols Sam saw into a riddle that pointed the way to the Matrix's hiding place. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Several further plot points centred on the AllSpark were present in the script for ''Revenge of the Fallen'', which were removed from the film itself but featured in the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|novelization]] and IDW's [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation|comic book adaptation]] of the film. The knowledge of the AllSpark was responsible for getting Sam a scholarship to Princeton, having inadvertently increased his intelligence while it lay dormant in his mind. When Megatron killed Sam at the film's climax, the AllSpark's knowledge was transferred from Sam into to the Matrix of Leadership, effectively replacing the cube as its physical form (and essentially transforming it into an object much more like the traditional depiction of the Matrix in Transformers fiction). After the death of The Fallen, Optimus Prime recovered the Matrix, reclaiming the history of the Transformers.}}

====IDW movie comics====
[[File:Defiance4 allspark creates primes.jpg|thumb|Obviously, this cube doesn't let you play ''Scrabble'' on it- so no Bonus Sprint.]]
The AllSpark was responsible for creating the planet Cybertron and the first entities that inhabited it, a race of massively powerful trans-dimensional beings that became known as the [[Dynasty of Primes]]. The AllSpark sustained the planet and the Primes through its continuous generation of [[Energon]], but the Primes soon discovered its vast power was finite, and they were at a loss on how to restore it. The answer came when a nearby star went nova, the released energy repowering the AllSpark. The Primes knew that more stars would have to be found for sacrifices in the future, and the AllSpark responded to their need by creating the Transformers, a new race of shape-changing robots to serve the Dynasty: [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seekers]] to search for suitable stars, and [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicons]] to build massive [[Star Harvester]]s to take the energy of those suns. Knowing the destructive capabilities of these harvesters, the Dynasty tempered their search with the rule to never destroy a star with a life-bearing world. The AllSpark then formed a key to activate the harvesters, the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which the Dynasty protected. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} In time, however, one of the Primes began to believe the AllSpark was talking to him, that it had chosen him as its acolyte. He began destroying inhabited solar systems to power the AllSpark and grew frustrated with the Dynasty's restrictions, constructing a star harvester on [[Earth|a primitive world]] on order to draw the other Dynasty into a trap, that he might kill them all. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 4|Tales of the Fallen #4}} Only [[Prima|one Prime]] survived the slaughter, imprisoning the rogue Prime—forever after known as [[The Fallen]]—in his [[sarcophagus]], before then hiding the Matrix away in a tomb made of the bodies of the dead Primes, giving his life to seal it. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen issue 3|Revenge of the Fallen #3}}

[[File:Defiance 1 Simfur temple.jpg|thumb|265px|left|Wait, is it smaller?]]
As the millennia rolled by, the Transformers would form a new society and the tales of the Primes and AllSpark would slip into legend. The cube itself was forgotten, lost beneath the surface of the planet and without a supply of energy regularly being harvested for it Cybertron's energy began to diminish leading to factionalization and tribal warfare amongst the Transformers. Eventually, one of the Primes' descendants, [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]] gathered a small group of loyal followers including [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and together they scoured the depths of Cybertron for the cube. The AllSpark was discovered beneath the city of [[Simfur]] and unearthed prompting an attack by Sentinel's most violent opponents the [[Thetacon (tribe)|Thetacons]]. During the battle, technical genius [[Wheeljack (Movie)|Wheeljack]] used a device to warp space and time teleporting a sun from across the galaxy into Cybertronic space. Rather than sacrifice the sun as the legends claimed was required however, Sentinel gambled that mere proximity to the star would be enough for the cube to re-energize itself... and he was correct. The AllSpark was revitalized and new life flooded into Cybertron as hostilities came to an end in the face of the truth that Sentinel had been right all along. The Thetacons constructed [[Simfur Temple|a temple]] around the AllSpark as a way of making amends for their aggression. {{storylink|Foundation issue 1|Foundation #1}}

Evidently, the Transformers declined to plumb the depths of the AllSpark's knowledge; it was said to contain the only recorded history of Cybertron, but to the Transformers, the AllSpark was the source of life, and that was all that mattered. Some time later, by which point leadership of Cybertron had shifted to an uneasy joint rulership between Optimus and Megatron, the Simfur Temple had come to be guarded by [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[Cliffjumper (Movie)|Cliffjumper]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}} Peace on Cybertron ended when the Fallen's sarcophagus was unearthed by an archaeological dig, causing the AllSpark to give off pulses, attracting the attention of a hostile [[Ejoornian|alien species]] from the [[Eshems Nebula]] who attacked Cybertron. {{storylink|Defiance issue 1|Defiance #1}} The Fallen began communicating with Megatron, and tempted him to seize the power of the AllSpark, leading him to go rogue with his own army, the Decepticons {{storylink|Defiance issue 3}} Optimus, now dubbed Optimus [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] following the discovery that he was connected to the Dynasty of Primes, formed his own army of Autobots to counter Megatron. In the war that followed, Cybertron was decimated, and eventually Optimus was forced to capture the AllSpark to keep it out of enemy hands. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

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Eventually, Prime made the decision to launch the AllSpark blindly into space to put it beyond Megatron's reach. At Optimus Prime's orders, Bumblebee and a group of Autobots served as decoys, drawing the Decepticons to [[Tyger Pax]], far enough away from the artifact's true location to buy Prime the time needed to prepare the launch. Megatron witnessed the launch from afar, and immediately took off after the cube, pursuing it across the galaxy for thousands of years. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 1|Movie Prequel #1}}

Once launched into space, the AllSpark automatically sought out the location of a harvester, and made its way to Earth, where the Fallen had constructed one thousands of years beforehand. {{storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}} The cube landed in the region of the planet that would eventually become [[Nevada]] around 10,000 BC; Megatron successfully tracked the cube to Earth, but wound up crashing in the [[Arctic]] and freezing solid for hundreds of years, to be eventually discovered in [[1897]] by Captain [[Archibald Witwicky]]. Four years later, in [[1902]], the government operatives tasked to investigating this frozen "Mega-Man" discovered the AllSpark in the [[Colorado River]]. {{storylink|Movie Prequel issue 2|Movie Prequel #2}} Metallurgist [[Lou Hoover]] and her husband [[Herbert Hoover|Herbert]] were called in by the government to examine the cube, but it would take over a decade before Herbert was able to orchestrate the diversion of the river so the cube could be excavated. The excavation of the AllSpark took place in [[1913]], but was interrupted by the arrival of the Seeker [[Jetfire (Movie)|Jetfire]], who had been stranded on Earth thousands of years ago. Jetfire accidentally triggered a discharge of Energon from the cube which brought a collection of machines to life, and the Hoovers were forced to break open the floodgates and allow the river to "drown" the creatures and submerge the cube once more. Herbert subsequently ran for [[President of the United States]] and won, orchestrating the construction of the [[Hoover Dam]] in the area to serve as a new, more durable and permanent housing for the AllSpark. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

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Following the Decepticons' defeat in Mission City, Starscream recovered the deactivated Frenzy from Hoover Dam in order to obtain the information the spy had amassed on the AllSpark from Sector Seven's database. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 2|The Reign of Starscream #2}} He beamed this data to Cybertron before returning there himself, where it was used to construct a huge [[replica AllSpark]]. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 3|The Reign of Starscream #3}} Starscream sacrificed the lives of five Autobot prisoners of war to "jump-start" his new AllSpark, only to find that the construct simply... didn't work. Before Starscream could deduce the source of the problem, the Decepticons that had been following him turned on him for his failure, and the replica cube was destroyed by [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]. {{storylink|The Reign of Starscream issue 5|The Reign of Starscream #5}}

A month after the events in Mission City, the Autobots went to a secret [[Sector Seven]] facility located in the [[Nevada]] desert to escort the remains of the deactivated Decepticons to their resting place in the [[Laurentian Abyss]]. When the AllSpark shard Prime had taken from Megatron's body pulsed with energy near the Decepticon leader's corpse, Optimus Prime feared the worst and handed it to [[Vine|Professor Vine]] for safekeeping. After the Autobots left, [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] convinced Vine to take the shard into their underground facility, since to keep it in the open would only attract Decepticons, though Vine had misgivings considering the stasis-locked Decepticon [[Wreckage (Movie)|Wreckage]] was also in the same facility. Vine's fears were well-founded: as he and Simmons moved the shard into secure storage, its energy reactivated both the very angry Wreckage and Sector Seven's own [[Landmine (Movie)|L.M.-1 units]]. {{storylink|Alliance issue 2|Alliance #2}} After the attack, the AllSpark fragment was retrieved from the rubble by [[Salani]] and returned to Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

Eventually, the Autobots and the American military entered into a [[NEST|formal alliance]] to defend Earth, and the AllSpark fragment was stored in a bunker under their base on the island of [[Diego Garcia]]. {{Storylink|Alliance issue 3|Alliance #3}}

[[File:Nefarious1 facsimile allspark.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
Following the defeat of The Fallen, a new threat emerged to bedevil both Autobot and Decepticon alike: the [[Initiative]], a mysterious cabal headed by the Transformer-hating [[Carter Newell]]. The organization sought to recreate the AllSpark, although the other members of the Initiative board did not realize Carter's true reasons for doing so: having been crippled by a Decepticon Seeker named [[Fortress (ROTF)|Fortress]] in his youth, he now sought to exterminate the Transformers with their own technology. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}}

Recovering and reanimating the remains of the deceased Ravage, the Initiative placed the Decepticon under their control and had him liberate the appliancebots from [[Guantanamo Bay]]. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 5|Tales of the Fallen #5}} They drained the AllSpark energy from their bodies in order to feed the artificial AllSpark construct they had created at their mobile base in Inyokern, [[California]], but it proved an inadequate yield: if the construct was not fed with more genuine AllSpark energy to keep it stable, it would rage out of control and destroy most of the [[Solar System]]. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 1|Nefarious #1}}

[[File:Nefarious6 carter and allspark.jpg|left|thumb|170px|"[[Emperor Palpatine|POWAH! UNLIMITED POWAH!]]]]
To feed the construct, Initiative troops penetrated Hoover Dam and gathered up the residual AllSpark energy left there after the cube's long residence. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 4|Nefarious #4}} The still-growing AllSpark consumed it quickly, but was briefly stabilized by the influx of new power, allowing Carter to connect his body and mind to the AllSpark's energies. Contact with the vast cosmic consciousness of the cube only gave him that final push into true megalomania, and during a subsequent virtual conference with the other members of the Initiatve board, he transmitted the AllSpark's energy over the network, bringing to life various pieces of equipment in the board members' offices. The feral newborn robots promptly killed all the board members, leaving him in sole control of the organization.

Soon after, the Autobots and NEST arrived, having tracked the Initiative to their base, which had since moved to [[Crater Lake]] in [[Oregon]]. To fight back, Carter instructed that all the Transformers that had been captured and brainwashed by the Initiative over the years be released, and that he would power them with the artificial AllSpark. This proved too much for the cube to handle, and it went into meltdown. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 5|Nefarious #5}}

Carter refused to listen the warnings of the Initiative staff, using the AllSpark's power to kill [[Hank Kirkpatrick]] before being badly wounded by Reedman, who had been released by Ravage for just that purpose. Believing that the AllSpark would heal his wounds given time, Carter retreated in a portion of the mobile base, but was pursued by Optimus Prime, [[Buzzsaw (ROTF)|Buzzsaw]] (at the command of Soundwave, watching from above) and Fortress, who had been serving as the living core of the mobile base and had been freed by Carter's relative and Initiative staffer [[Ingrid]]. Prime caused Carter's vehicle to crash, and recovered the artificial AllSpark from the wreckage, attempting to stop its meltdown by feeding it with energy from his own [[Spark]]. Buzzsaw proceeded to kill Carter, and Fortress then convinced Prime to hand over the AllSpark construct so that he could teleport it away to the depths of space, where it exploded without harming any innocent life. {{storylink|Nefarious issue 6|Nefarious #6}}
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====Titan movie comics====
[[File:UKmoviecomic1 allspark launched.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb]]
While Bumblebee's team distracted Megatron, Optimus Prime himself had to press the fatal button that would launch the AllSpark into space. While he was struggling with the decision at the last moment, fearing the potential slow death he would be condemning Cybertron to if he carried through with his plans, an alarm alerted Prime to the attack of a drone that had been specifically sent to destroy him. Instructing his assistant [[Arctus]] to launch the AllSpark if he did not return in ten [[Units of time|cycles]], Prime headed out to battle the drone, but the fight only wound up carrying them back into the AllSpark's chamber. To destroy the drone, Prime transformed to his cometary [[protoform]] mode and smashed clean through it, rendering himself unconscious in the process. When Prime awoke, he looked up to see the AllSpark rocketing away into space. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 1|Prelude: Optimus Prime}}

[[File:UKmoviecomic2 alkaris anomaly.jpg|thumb|225px]]
The AllSpark had not been cast blindly into the sea of stars, however: It had, in fact, been launched directly towards the [[Alkaris Anomaly]], a wormhole that could potentially transport the cube to an infinite number of locations in the universe. Briefly delayed by an Autobot [[tractor beam]], Megatron could not stop the cube from entering the wormhole, and instead chose to follow it into the anomaly. While the AllSpark was disgorged somewhere in the vicinity of the Sol system, to eventually crash on Earth, Megatron was deposited by the wormhole in some other, far off star system, leaving him to hunt for the Cube through the endless reaches of space. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2|Prelude: Megatron}}

Later on, a space-travelling [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] would be captured by an alien craft—its inhabitants appeared to be immense entities that claimed the All Spark had been stolen from them, and did a psychic probe of Ironhide. They turned out to be "[[:File:Titan5 digitalghosts.JPG|electrical ghosts]]", a digital imprint from another time kept alive by the photon-rich atmosphere; the ship was a derelict, salvaged by another (rather feeble) alien race that had been using these ghosts as a front. The ship contained a device attuned to AllSpark energy though, making it clear the original inhabitants ''did'' have some connection to the AllSpark... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 5|Lost In Space 3: Ironhide}}

[[File:UKmoviecomic7 allspark energy.jpg|thumb|215px|Come on give me a seven!]]
Immediately after the end of the clash in Mission City, the battle's sole Decepticon survivor, [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]], set upon the collection of machines that the All Spark had brought to life during the chaos. From each of them, he plucked the spark of life that the All Spark had granted them, which took the form of small red cubes like the All Spark itself. By placing them into the bodies of his fallen Decepticon comrades, Starscream reanimated them as a kind of robotic [[zombie]] and sent them against the recuperating Autobots. [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] was able to deduce what was powering the undead Decepticons, and instructed his allies to target the All Spark energy signatures in their bodies, thereby allowing them to destroy them again. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|Starscream's Militia}}

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After defeating Optimus Prime, Megatron killed Sam Witwicky and claimed the AllSpark, bonding himself to it and gaining the ability to channel its power. The cube was installed at a base in Savannah, [[Georgia]], where Megatron began using it to [[cyberforming|cyberform]] Earth into a new Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 9|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1}} Megatron placed Optimus Prime in cryo-stasis, but Bumblebee and [[Mikaela Banes]] freed him, and the two leaders battled, with Megatron's ability to channel the energy from the AllSpark allowing him to heal any wound Prime inflicted. Bumblebee saved the day when he hit Megatron with a nano-virus provided by Sector Seven that blocked the AllSpark's energy, successfully killing him. At the same time as this fight went on, Ratchet and Ironhide penetrated the Georgia base, and Ratchet was forced to detonate the AllSpark in order to save Earth. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5}} A fragment of the AllSpark survived the explosion, which, due to the cube's very nature, could conceivably possess all the power of the original object. Fearing that Megatron's link to the AllSpark could have corrupted it somehow, Optimus Prime assigned Ratchet as the shard's guardian, {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 14|Aftermath Part 1}} but Ratchet could not resist trying to use the shard to revive [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]—who was reborn as an amoral villain, proving the fragment had been indeed corrupted. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 16|Dark Spark}}

The Autobots were soon to discover that destroying the AllSpark had not kept the Earth from danger: the planetary transformation process had reached the [[Earth's core|planet's core]] before it had been stopped, and the AllSpark "infection" was now threatening to tear the planet apart. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17|Return to Cybertron: Part 1}} Simultaneously, on the dying Cybertron, [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]] and his small band of Decepticons sent out a signal into deep space in the hope of contacting any entity related to the AllSpark, and drawing it to Cybertron so it could revive the planet. [[File:UKmoviecomic25 starscream allspark fragment.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95]] They succeeded; unfortunately, the entity they summoned was [[Unicron]], the Anti-Life. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 18|Return to Cybertron: Part 2}} After the Autobots helped stop Unicron, Stockade provided them with the [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] they need to negate the AllSpark infection on Earth. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 20|Return to Cybertron: Part 4}}

Starscream discovered that Megatron still lived on in a form, having downloaded his consciousness into the module he had used to control the AllSpark at the moment of his death. Starscream had absorbed this module into himself, and so wound up being "haunted" by Megatron, who cajoled and taunted him into placing the module and an AllSpark fragment into Megatron's corpse, resurrecting him. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 25|Revolution Part Three}}
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====''Cyber Missions''====
When describing a clash between [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]] and [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] that followed the defeat of the Fallen, Optimus Prime claimed that the Autobot warrior was acting "in defense of the AllSpark". {{storylink|Cyber Missions 6|Cyber Missions #6}} Megatron claimed he was searching for the AllSpark; and Optimus Prime described the Autobots as "defenders of the AllSpark". {{storylink|Decepticons Attack}}

===''Animated'' continuity family===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[File:Animated allspark.jpg|325px|thumb|Obligatory mysterious life-giving MacGuffin.]]

The AllSpark of this universe is a sphere of blueish crystal. It is not known with absolute certainty if it predates Cybertron in this reality; the earliest record of its existence is its appearance in many primitive etchings from Cybertronian pre-history, dating to around eight billion years ago. The AllSpark's volatility meant that it required a housing to safely harness its powers, and so legend says that seven billion years ago, a mysterious hammer of alien origin that would become the symbol of Autobot leadership known as the [[Magnus Hammer]] was used to forge a container for the crystal sphere, which then held it through until the present day. Kept in the hands of the ruling body of Cybertron (originally the [[Guardian (Animated)|Guardians]], later the [[Protectobot (Animated)|Protectobots]] and finally the Autobots) the AllSpark was used to generate new Transformer life by infusing the [[protoform]]s formed from the protomatter mined from Cybertron's [[Sonic Canyons]] with Sparks.

Around seventy million years ago, the Decepticon faction emerged, advocating the use of the AllSpark to bring Cybertron itself to life, that it might serve as a cosmic juggernaut that would allow the Transformers to return to the era of expansion and colonization of other worlds they had enjoyed nearly 700 million years beforehand. When the Decepticon leader [[Megazarak (Animated)|Megazarak]] was ousted by a charismatic rhetorician named [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]], tensions finally exploded, and the Autobots and Decepticons went to [[Great War (Animated)|war]] for possession of the AllSpark.

After something in the vicinity of six million years of civil war, things reached a crisis point when the Decepticons began a strategic bombing campaign on Cybertron, demanding the AllSpark be turned over in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}} Rather than give in to Megatron's demands, the Autobots instead sought to put the AllSpark beyond any Cybertronian's reach, launching it randomly through a [[space bridge]] to some distant corner of the galaxy, where it was hoped it would never be found. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

Following this, Autobot intelligence agent [[Highbrow (Animated)|Highbrow]] cracked an encrypted Decepticon frequency between Megatron and [[Scrash (Animated)|Scrash]]. Using the channel, Highbrow leaked false information that the AllSpark had wound up on [[Floron III]]. When the [[Decepticon fleet]] arrived to collect it, they were ambushed by the waiting [[Autobot fleet]] in what became known as the [[Ambush of Floron III]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

[[File:TFA TFandRollout TheAllsparkdiscovered.jpg|left|215px|thumb|Before time began there was…the irregular decahedron.]]
Four million years later, an Autobot maintenance crew led by [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] were repairing a space bridge in the [[Azazel asteroid belt]] when they stumbled across the AllSpark, hidden away inside a rock. Of their number, only [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] recognized the relic, telling them of its history and significance in the Great War, and believing that the AllSpark had now found them, rather than the other way around. Almost immediately, a small band of Decepticons led by Megatron—long since exiled after the war's end—showed up in [[Nemesis (Animated)|their warship]], having detected the AllSpark's energy readings. Megatron attacked the Autobots' fleeing [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|ship]] to claim the AllSpark himself, but his attempt was sabotaged by a bomb placed on him by his lieutenant, [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]]. The explosion sent the Autobots' ship careening out of control, at which point the AllSpark activated the space bridge, opening a portal through which the ship disappeared. It rematerialized over [[Earth]], and the Autobots entered emergency stasis just before crash-landing in [[Lake Erie]].

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Fifty years later, the Autobots awoke and ventured into the nearby city of [[Detroit]] to save people from a rampaging monster. [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] quickly befriended a young girl named [[Sari Sumdac (Animated)|Sari Sumdac]], who convinced him to take her aboard the Autobots' ship when his teammate [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] was badly injured. While aboard, Sari came in contact with the AllSpark, which decided for some reason to open up to her—in more ways than one. Under its own power, the container opened to reveal the crystal within, which fired a beam of light at Sari's security keycard, reconfiguring it into the [[AllSpark Key]], a powerful tool with which Sari could upgrade, modify, heal and reconfigure just about any electrical device or appliance, including the bodies of the Transformers themselves.

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For a time, the Autobots were celebrated as Detroit's newest superheroes, but then Starscream tracked them down. He took hostages and demanded the AllSpark in exchange for their return. With Sari's help, the hostages were freed, but Starscream still managed to get hold of the AllSpark, and he quickly started obliterating sections of Detroit with it. Prime attempted to wrestle the AllSpark away from him in mid-air but again it opened, this time unleashing a powerful surge of energy that blasted away Starscream to parts unknown. Prime [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|did not survive]] his subsequent fall, but in desperation, Sari used the reconfigured AllSpark Key on him. The AllSpark intervened directly this time, and Prime's [[spark]] was restored online. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

The energy surge however served as a beacon for both the Autobots and Decepticons, both factions scrambling to come to Earth and claim the AllSpark. {{storylink|Dispatches}}

Following this, the AllSpark was returned to the Autobots' ship at the bottom of Lake Erie, and kept there for safety, rather than in their new Detroit headquarters. When more and more Decepticons began appearing on Earth, the Autobots believed it would be necessary to reactivate their ship and take the AllSpark away from Earth, but Sari refused to let her new friends go, and tried to sabotage their ship. The AllSpark, however, refused to let her, automatically repairing any damaged she inflicted before opening once more to project a terrifying hologram of Megatron, warning Sari of the danger that secretly lay in hiding on Earth. {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}}

[[File:Megatron Rising 2 All Spark Megs boom.jpg|215px|thumb|Ouch.]]
The day of reckoning the Autobots had long feared came to pass when Megatron—whose decapitated head had been recovered by Sari's father in his youth and had since been kept in his laboratory—was restored through the power of Sari's stolen key. Invading the Autobots' now-airborne ship, Megatron tore the crystal sphere of the AllSpark from its container and inserted it into his chest, planning to use it as a weapon to destroy Earth and conquer Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime was able to reclaim Sari's AllSpark Key, and used it to crack the crystal, causing an energy surge that led the AllSpark to shatter explosively. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

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The AllSpark's physical form may have been destroyed but its power was as potent as ever, merely dispersed. Portions of its substance also remained in the form of crystalline shards, which rained down across the greater Detroit area, yielding a variety of different effects. The earliest shards discovered had embedded themselves into [[Sumdac Systems]]'s [[automaton]]s, machinery and vehicles causing them to go berserk, {{storylink|The Elite Guard}} while other vehicles actually wound up being brought to life by the shards' power, creating [[Wreck-Gar (Animated)|Wreck-Gar]], {{storylink|Garbage In, Garbage Out}} [[Scrapper (Animated)|Scrapper]], and [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Constructicons}} The human supervillains of Detroit were even able to get their hands on a few shards and put them to nefarious uses: [[Master Disaster (Animated)|Master Disaster]] used one to build a remote that allowed him to control other machines and fix the results of his underground street races, [[File:Bridgetoofar1 starscreams shard.jpg|thumb|215px]] {{storylink|Velocity (episode)|Velocity}} and [[Slo-Mo]] found a shard that allowed her to slow down time. {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}}

Starscream also felt the life-giving power of a shard: having been killed by Megatron shortly after his restoration, the treacherous Decepticon was brought back to life by a fragment and rendered essentially immortal for as long as it remained lodged in his head. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}} By breaking off small chips of the fragment, Starscream was able to create an army of clones of himself that he intended to use to usurp Megatron as Decepticon leader. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}} During the subsequent attack, however, Starscream was decapitated by a [[Headmaster unit]], and Megatron used his head and the AllSpark fragment within it to power his newly-constructed space bridge. To stop Megatron's plan to invade Cybertron, the Autobots used all the shards they had collected to bring their ship—in actuality the giant Autobot warrior [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]]—back online. Omega shut the bridge down by absorbing its [[unspace|transwarp]] energies, but was sucked through the vortex just before it closed, taking all the fragments the Autobots had gathered with him. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}} Nevertheless, the Autobots were seen with another shard in their possession soon after, which inadvertently merged with a [[Headmaster unit]] and a fork lift to create [[Dirt Boss (Animated)|Dirt Boss]]. {{storylink|Three's a Crowd}}

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Some time later, working with [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]] to complete his training in the use of [[processor-over-matter]], [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] successfully communed with the AllSpark, summoning together tiny slivers of its substance and energy to re-form a shard. This revelation came at the best possible time: soon after, Megatron attacked Detroit with three [[Lugnut Supreme|clones of Omega Supreme]], powered by AllSpark shards he had salvaged from the giant Autobot's body. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}} [[File:TFA Prime with Matrix.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|It may not light our darkest hour, but it sure does look cool.]] To save the city, Jazz and Prowl combined their abilities to reconstitute as much of the AllSpark as they could, intending to use its power to project a shield over the metropolis. Although the pair were able to summon and re-combine many crystals, including Starscream's, they were unable to gather enough to accomplish the task, and so Prowl sacrificed himself, adding his own spark to the crystal mass, providing the necessary power. The AllSpark generated a shield that protected Detroit from the explosion caused by bombs Starscream had planted in the Omega Supreme clones, and the Autobots emerged triumphant. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

Discovering that the reconstituted AllSpark was as volatile as legend claimed, Optimus Prime used the Magnus Hammer (previously stolen from [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] by [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] but later reclaimed by the Earthbound Autobots) to forge a new, smaller container for the crystal that he called an "[[AllSpark Matrix]]". {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}} Wearing this Matrix around his neck on a chain, Prime led the victorious Autobots back to Cybertron. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

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====''Shattered Glass Animated''====
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In a twisted mirror-universe version of this universe, the AllSpark crystal is red, rather than blue. It was shattered under undivulged circumstances, and at least some of the remaining fragments came into the possession this universe's incarnation of [[Isaac Sumdac (SG Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]], who experimented with them by implanting them into [[Sari Sumdac (SG Animated)|his Sari]], who in this reality was the feral protoform he had imprisoned and raised in his lab. The AllSpark energies unleashed Sari's true power, giving her a battle mode, and the crystal fragments now permanently jut from various spots over her body. {{storylink|BotCon 2011|Sari's lithograph bio}}

===Aligned continuity family===
====Aligned novels====
The AllSpark resided in the [[Well of All Sparks]] on Cybertron, where it carried out the will of [[Primus]] by creating every Cybertronian life. When the Autobot/Decepticon war erupted, however, the AllSpark briefly ceased to produce life in a seeming act of divine rebellion, only to apparently change its mind and create one final generation — including [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]]—who entirely joined the Autobots. As the Decepticons besieged [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] made the decision to eject the AllSpark into space.

Many cycles later, after the war had drained Cybertron of energon, forcing the Autobots and Decepticons to depart the planet, the Autobot ''[[Ark (WFC)|Ark]]'' emerged from the space bridge to an unknown [[Milky Way|spiral galaxy]], and detected the energy of the AllSpark nearby... {{storylink|Transformers: Exodus|Exodus}}

When the Autobots and Decepticons arrived on the planet [[Aquatron]], [[Inquirata (Prime)|the Curator]], as part of a [[Quintesson]] plot to reclaim Cybertron, claimed to know the AllSpark's location, offering to reveal it to Optimus Prime should the Prime cooperate with the "peace talks" that would occur the next morning. {{storylink|Transformers: Retribution|Retribution}}

====Ask Vector Prime====
As the Great War tipped in the Decepticons' favour, Optimus Prime and Alpha Trion made the decision to launch the AllSpark into space. The Autobots made their way to the [[Well of All Sparks]], where there existed controls for such an eventuality, with [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] inputting the command sequence that sent the artifact off Cybertron. {{storylink|Bumblebee at Tyger Pax}}

====''Prime'' cartoon====
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The AllSpark was composed of pure energy. In order to protect it from [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]], [[Alpha Trion (WFC)|Alpha Trion]] forged a vessel to hold it and [[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] oversaw its ejection into space. It eventually ended up in the extremely hazardous [[Theta Scorpii]] system, where it remained until [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] was restored. Using the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Optimus guided [[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]] aboard [[Iron Will|Ultra Magnus's ship]], personally retrieving the artifact from a [[plasma storm]]. When the two returned to Cybertron, the AllSpark's energy signature, near identical to [[Primus]]'s own, drew the attention of [[Unicron/Aligned|Unicron]], having been roused from slumber by Primus's own awakening. Seeking to devour and destroy the AllSpark, Unicron shot down Magnus's ship, but was detained before he could. Seizing the opportunity, Optimus Prime merged the AllSpark with the Matrix of Leadership, using its emptied vessel to trap Unicron's Anti-Spark. As a consequence, this meant his own spark, merged with the Matrix, could not be separated from those within the AllSpark, forcing Optimus to sacrifice his life to reignite the [[Core]]. {{storylink|Predacons Rising (Prime)|Predacons Rising}}

It was common for Cybertronians to swear by the AllSpark. {{storylink|Darkness Rising, Part 3}} {{storylink|Darkest Hour (episode)|Darkest Hour}}
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====2015 ''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon====
Upon his return to [[Earth]], the evil [[The Fallen|Megatronus]] tried to execute his doomsday plot of using his [[spark fuser]] to combine the Anti-Spark of [[Unicron]] from Earth's core with the AllSpark from Cybertron in order to destroy both planets. He activated his staff, causing a portal to open in the sky and the AllSpark to come through, but Optimus managed to shatter the fuser, sending both AllSpark and Anti-Spark back to their resting places and ruining Megatronus's plan. {{storylink|Battlegrounds, Part 2}}

====''Rescue Bots Academy'' cartoon====
Along with many other items in his [[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] memorabilia collection, [[Wedge (RBA)|Wedge]] owned a model replica of the AllSpark. {{storylink|Bee Prepared}}

===''Angry Birds Transformers'' comic===
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The AllSpark was a cube-shaped artifact entrusted to [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] for safe-keeping. When it was lost within a [[unspace|quantum tunnel]] following a fight with the Decepticons, it landed in [[universal stream|another dimension]] and became the '''EggSpark'''. Everything and everyone who came in contact with the artifact were transformed by its energies. Members of the [[Flock]] became [[Autobird]]s, and [[Bad Piggies]] became [[Deceptihog]]s. {{storylink|Angry Birds Transformers issue 1|Angry Birds Transformers #1}} Even eggs were affected by its power, becoming aggressive and dangerous [[Eggbot (AB)|Eggbot]]s. Eventually, the land itself came to be affected, and [[Piggy Island]] began to sprout [[Terror Tower]]s and other metallic structures. {{storylink|Age of Eggstinction!}} But the EggSpark needed energy, which it began to drain from Piggy Island. If left unchecked, this would have meant the death of the land itself. The Eggspark's influence soon spiraled out of control, and the terrain began to metamorphose into techno-matter. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fowlin'!}} Thanks to the combined efforts of the Autobirds and Deceptihogs, the EggSpark was launched off-planet. Its effects on Piggy Island were reversed, and the artifact found its way back to its point of origin. When the EggSpark returned to its native universe, it also assumed its original, cube-shaped configuration. {{storylink|Hard Boiled}}
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===''Cyberverse'' cartoon===
{{voiceactor|Additional voices ([[Ashleigh Chrisena Ricci]], [[Haley Carter Chapel]], and/or [[Todd Perlmutter]], English)|[[Ênio Vivona]] and others (Brazilian Portuguese)}}
[[File:AllSpark (Cyberverse - Allspark).jpg|thumb|left|"Infinite sides means infinite outcomes. If I rolled it, anything could happen. Our faces could melt into jelly. The world could turn into an egg! Or you could just roll an eight, who knows. That's why I have to keep it in this cheap plastic case."]]
Its origins unknown, the AllSpark was the source of Cybertronian life. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}} To traverse the metallic planet, the AllSpark spawned a series of [[GroundBridge]] portals. {{storylink|Trials}}

During the [[Great War (Cyberverse)|Great War]], [[Megatron (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] sought to use [[Vector Sigma]] to reprogram the AllSpark and birth an army of loyal [[Decepticon]]s. {{storylink|Megatron Is My Hero}} Learning of this plan, the [[Autobot]]s took measures to protect the AllSpark, intending to place it in secure storage; [[Bumblebee (Cyberverse)|Bumblebee]] was entrusted with delivering the sacred object to its safe haven. His journey there was interrupted when the AllSpark began speaking to him; stopping to investigate this, he (and part of the surrounding landscape) was briefly covered in energy emanating from the AllSpark before a message from [[Grimlock (Cyberverse)|Grimlock]] broke his entrancement and the AllSpark returned to its normal quiescent state. Arriving at the storage facility his delay proved fortuitous as the Decepticons destroyed it just before he could enter; Bumblebee was able to flee from [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] and his [[Seeker (Cyberverse)|Seekers]] with his precious cargo. Later, it was decided to take the AllSpark away from Cybertron via [[space bridge]]; the Decepticons' attempt to prevent this nearly succeeded, with [[Optimus Prime (Cyberverse)|Optimus Prime]] forced to throw the AllSpark through a damaged and failing space bridge portal, transporting it to a random location somewhere in the universe. {{storylink|Allspark (Cyberverse)|Allspark}}

Without the AllSpark however, [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s condition began to decline. Realizing the mistake he'd made, Optimus made plans to leave Cybertron and bring the AllSpark back home. {{storylink|Matrix of Leadership (episode)|Matrix of Leadership}}

The AllSpark crashed on [[Earth]] during the era of [[Pangaea]]. Its original landing site was unknown as it again spawned a network of GroundBridge portals, using them to traverse the organic planet, eventually coming to rest in the heart of [[Africa]], at the nexus of all the portals. {{storylink|Trials}} The AllSpark called upon the spark of [[Cheetor (Cyberverse)|Cheetor]], resurrecting him and giving him a new body so he could protect it. {{storylink|Dark Birth}}

The ''[[Ark (Cyberverse)|Ark]]'' starship was eventually launched to find the AllSpark. The journey however took much longer than the crew expected and they all sequestered themselves into [[stasis pod]]s... a second before [[Teletraan-1 (Cyberverse)|Teletraan-1]] detected the AllSpark and set course for Earth to collect it. {{storylink|The Journey}}

Some 66 million years later, the Decepticons were able to deduce that the AllSpark had ended up on Earth, leading [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] to journey there to attempt to find it before the Decepticons could. {{storylink|Fractured}} When [[Slipstream (Cyberverse)|Slipstream]] and her squad had failed in their job, [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] came to Earth with [[magnetic disruptor]]s, intending to use them to scour Earth of organic life so the Decepticons could quickly locate the AllSpark. {{storylink|The Extinction Event}}

When the rest of [[Decepticon High Command]] arrived on Earth, they enacted a plan to destroy Earth so they could find the AllSpark in the debris field, first trying this via a [[Planet Smasher]] and then via using [[planetary engine]]s to ram the [[Moon (moon)|moon]] into the Earth. {{storylink|Sea of Tranquility}} {{storylink|Bad Moon Rising}}

The frequent clashes had drawn the attention of Cheetor, resulting in both Autobots and Decepticons learning of the GroundBridges. {{storylink|Bring Me The Spark Of Optimus Prime}} Using the portals as a map, both factions located the AllSpark but only Optimus Prime and Megatron were permitted into its chamber. As Cheetor oversaw the two duelling for the AllSpark, it was stolen by the exiled [[Starscream (Cyberverse)|Starscream]] who sought to use it and Vector Sigma to create his own army. {{storylink|Trials}}

Beyond certifiable at this point, Starscream believed he'd been to the AllSpark and back, convinced he was acting out a higher purpose by killing off all Cybertronians and reuniting their sparks in the AllSpark. [[Acid Storm (Cyberverse)|Acid Storm]] managed to reprogram Vector Sigma to create an army for Starscream but it was an army of [[Scraplet]]s, {{storylink|Dark Birth}} whom Starscream believed were reborn [[Ancient]]s. {{storylink|Parley}} When leading his Scraplets to attack the [[Nemesis (Cyberverse)|''Nemesis'']], Starscream embedded the AllSpark on his shoulder. When Cheetor touched the AllSpark, it destroyed Starscream's [[spark armor]] as well healing all the Scraplet inflicted wounds. {{storylink|Starscream's Children}}

When the perpetually duelling [[Jetfire (Cyberverse)|Jetfire]] and [[Sky-Byte (Cyberverse)|Sky-Byte]] arrived on Earth, Starscream smoothed talked both of them into letting him use the AllSpark on them and grant them spark armor. As a result, both now knew the AllSpark's location and informed their leaders. {{storylink|Infinite Vendetta}}

[[File:Cyberverse I Am The Allspark Megatron.jpg|thumb|250px|Megatron prepares to roll for initiative.]]
Acid Storm eventually cracked Vector Sigma's security, ordering the AllSpark to shed its physical form and merge with Starscream. Empowered by the artifact, Starscream absorbed the sparks of his Seekers before he set out to the GroundBridge nexus so he could do the same to all Autobots and Decepticons, using the AllSpark to first arrest their motor functions. Optimus Prime, however, managed to call on the energies of the Matrix of Leadership, the talisman blasting the AllSpark out of Starscream and reconstituting its physical form. After a short battle, the Autobots escaped back to the ''Ark'' with the AllSpark and Starscream. {{storylink|I Am The Allspark}}

Wasting no time, the Autobots launched the ''Ark'' and made for the orbiting space bridge so that the AllSpark could heal Cybertron. As they neared the wormhole, they were intercepted by the ''Nemesis'', the Decepticon ship's artillery nearly crashing the Autobot ship before Cheetor used the AllSpark to repair it. Even with such a miracle, they failed to make it to the space bridge before [[Shockwave (Cyberverse)|Shockwave]] destroyed it, forcing them to take the long way home. {{storylink|Escape From Earth}}

Wheeljack hooked up a system to fuel the ''Ark'' via the AllSpark's power, even creating remote energy chips for his comrades so they could taste its endless reserves of energon. Having gotten his servos on one of the chips, Starscream hacked into the system and exposed the Autobots to too much of the AllSpark's power, sending them out of control until Optimus shut down the system. {{storylink|Party Down}} When the Autobots crossed paths with the [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]], Cheetor used the AllSpark to, largely, reconstitute the aliens' [[Sharkticon homeworld|homeworld]]. {{storylink|Wiped Out}}

As they continued onwards, the ''Ark'' sailed by a [[Cybertronian colonies|Cybertronian colony]] that had been founded by the ailing [[Titan (group)|Titan]] [[Croaton (Cyberverse)|Croaton]]. Heavily damaged by [[alien]] invaders, Croaton telepathically reached out to the [[cityspeaker]] [[Windblade (Cyberverse)|Windblade]] and had her bring the AllSpark to his [[spark]] chamber. Once its power had healed him, he returned the artifact to Cheetor. {{storylink|Ghost Town}}

After receiving a distress signal from [[Chromia (Cyberverse)|Chromia]], the Autobots tried to use an old space bridge to get home but found themselves trapped in [[unspace]] along with alternate versions of themselves. Using the power of all the AllSparks, the Autobots were able to open a portal back to reality. {{storylink|The Crossroads}}

When the Autobots entered Cybertronian airspace, they anticipated a Decepticon attack, abandoning the ''Ark'' to be destroyed by a [[laser snare]], Cheetor carrying the AllSpark to safety. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron I}} {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron II}}

Guarded by [[Hot Rod (Cyberverse)|Hot Rod]] and Bumblebee, Cheetor tried to reach the [[Well of All Sparks]] via the underground tunnels only for the trio to be attacked by [[Drift (Cyberverse)|Drift]], revealed as a deep cover Decepticon, who tried to claim the AllSpark only for Hot Rod to bar his path. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron III}}

Arriving at the Well, Bumblebee and Cheetor briefly faced off against Shockwave before they returned the AllSpark to its resting place, revitalizing Cybertron. With Vector Sigma destroyed, Megatron ordered Shockwave to destroy the AllSpark, the scientist extracting his own spark and having it corrupt the AllSpark forcing Cheetor to sacrifice his own life to preserve the artifact. {{storylink|Battle For Cybertron IV}}

Off in deep space, Starscream had been found by the [[Quintesson]]s, selling out his species and the AllSpark to the aliens. In gratitude, the Quintessons incorporated Starscream into their new [[Judge (Cyberverse)|Judge]], {{storylink|The End Of The Universe I}} leeching away the AllSpark's energy to fuel his transformation. {{storylink|The Scientist}} {{storylink|The Alliance}}

====Alternate universe====
In another reality, [[Megatron X (Cyberverse)|Megatron]] executed Optimus outright when the Prime refused to stand with the Decepticons before destroying the Autobots. Free of any resistance, Megatron used the AllSpark to create his [[Decepticon supersoldier]]s. {{storylink|The Other One}}

===Generation 1 continuity family===
====''Regeneration One''====
In the aftermath of a Decepticon attack on [[Cresta Superior]], a member of the [[Primum Fugae]] named [[Rook (G2)|Rook]] touched down on the planet to survey the damage. In contact with his leader, [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]], Rook reported a detection of "trace elements of AllSpark source matter" left behind by those responsible for the attack. {{storylink|Destiny, Part One}}

====Metal Earth online bios====
Megatron was almost totally destroyed by the AllSpark. {{storylink|Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Metal_Earth|''Metal Earth'' Megatron}} <ref>[https://www.metalearth.com/megatron Metal Earth Megatron online bio]</ref>

====''Transformers/Ghostbusters''====
The source of Cybertronian life, when the AllSpark became known to [[Kremzeek]] the Scavenger, he sought out the metallic planet to absorb its power. Unfortunately for the Scavenger, not only had the Autobots fled Cybertron with the artifact in their possession, but his arrival coincided with that of [[Gozer]]. Sensing an opportunity, Kremzeek approached the stranded members of [[Decepticon High Command]] and turned them into [[ghost]]s so they could live through the Traveler's terrible wrath. Despite this, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] refused to aid their saviour in seeking the AllSpark, resulting in him absorbing them into his being. Cowed by such an act, [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] pledged his loyalty to the Scavenger and was sent into the galaxy to find the AllSpark. When the Seeker made his way to [[Earth]], he sent out a Cybertronian beacon to draw the attention of the Autobots, as part of a trap to get to the AllSpark. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 1}} {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 2}} {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}}

When the Autobots [[Ectotron|Ectronymous Diamatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] touched down on Earth, Starscream noted to the displeased Scavenger that Optimus could be used as leverage for the AllSpark. After punishing Starscream, Kremzeek opted to simply beat Optimus to death and absorb the Prime's essence so that he could learn the AllSpark's location before he was dispersed by the [[Ghostbusters]]. Defeating Kremzeek however, set free the Decepticon ghosts that he'd imprisoned. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 4}} Once Megatron, Shockwave, and Soundwave had been detained in [[ghost trap]]s, Starscream having opted for the better part of valour, Optimus Prime took them with him, hoping to use the AllSpark to restore their bodies. {{storylink|Ghosts of Cybertron Part 5}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
After departing Cybertron, the Autobots and Decepticons pursued the Allspark through space. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Earthrise|War for Cybertron: Earthrise product descriptions}}

====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
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{{voiceactor|[[Linsay Rousseau]] ([[Elita One (G1)|Elita-1]] projection, English), [[Edward Bosco]] ([[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] projection, English)}}
The source of all Cybertronian life, the Allspark, not seen for ten thousand stellar cycles before the Great War, was thought to be a myth before [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]]'s work led Shockwave to conclude of its existence. When he brought his findings to Megatron, the scientist proposed using the Allspark to create a "reformatting wave" to turn the Autobot resistance into Decepticons. Held prisoner, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] overheard this and transmitted the Decepticons' plan to the Autobots, the Decepticons picking up on the transmission and using it to bait their foes into a trap. {{storylink|Siege episode 2}} Upon being informed of the existence of a [[space bridge]], Optimus Prime decided to launch the Allspark off Cybertron so that the Decepticons could not pervert its power. {{storylink|Siege episode 3}}

After [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] had received the [[Alpha Trion Protocols]], he used them to locate the Allspark in the [[Rust Sea|Sea of Rust]]. {{storylink|Siege episode 5}} Leading a team, Optimus claimed the Allspark, reconstituting its physical form and made for the space bridge, only for Megatron to deduce his scheme and intercept him. Though Megatron won their fight and claimed the artifact, he was blindsided by Bumblebee allowing Optimus to seize the Allspark and hurl it through the space bridge, {{storylink|Siege episode 6}} to the planet [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}

Without the Allspark, Cybertron's condition worsened, prompting the Decepticons to begin construction of a vessel to evacuate the planet and find a new world to conquer. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 1}}

In space, the ''Ark'' managed to locate the Allspark but lacked the energon reserves to fly to its location. Its crew instead sought to make use of another space bridge to reach it. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 3}} After a trip to the [[Dead Universe]], {{storylink|Earthrise episode 5}} the ''Ark'', now followed by the Decepticon ship, the ''Nemesis'', made it to Earth but a space battle prevented either faction from retrieving the Allspark. {{storylink|Earthrise episode 6}}
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====2019 IDW continuity====
Existing at the very core of Cybertron, the AllSpark was a massive spark from which all other sparks were spawned from. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} The AllSpark sent these new sparks to the surface via the [[Well of All Sparks]]. {{storylink|The World In Your Eyes Part Three}}

During the [[War of the Threefold Spark]], [[Exarchon]]'s ultimate ambition was to use his abilities to usurp the AllSpark only to be defeated before he could do so. Upon his return, he resumed his campgain, showing to [[Soundblaster (G1)|Soundblaster]] the drill tank he planned to use to burrow down to the AllSpark. {{storylink|War's End Part Two}} Though the Threefold Spark managed to begin drilling down to the planet's core, he was ultimately destroyed by [[Zetar (G1)|Zetar]] before he could come anywhere near the AllSpark. {{storylink|War's End Part Four}}

====''History of the Transformers''====
According to Cybertronian mythology, Primus used the AllSpark to create Cybertron. {{storylink|History of the Transformers}}

====''Canon/Transformers''====
The AllSpark, which came to [[Earth]] from another world, reformatted [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Refraktor-1]] into [[EOS R5]] cameras. An EOS R5 known as [[Focus One]] was imbued with the supernatural power of the AllSpark, and was sought after by intelligence agencies around the world.
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==Games==
===''Transformers The Game'' (console)===
====Autobot campaign====
[[File:Moviegame sam gives prime allspark.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]
The AllSpark was held in Hoover Dam behind a laser security grid. Once liberated by Bumblebee, it began to shrink to a more manageable size, but gave off jolts of energy as it did so, bringing the surrounding machinery to life as [[Energon drone]]s. After fending the critters off, Bumblebee took the AllSpark to Mission City, but it continued radiating Energon all the way, producing more and more Energon drones from the city's machines to bedevil the Autobots.

Following a huge subsequent battle with the Decepticons, Sam Witwicky was in the middle of handing the AllSpark to Optimus Prime when the apparently-defeated Megatron sprang to life and lunged at them. Prime seized the Decepticon leader's flail weapon and pulled him in, ramming the All Spark into Megatron's chest and destroying him. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}
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====Decepticon campaign====
[[File:Moviegame megatron absorbs allspark.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
After the Autobots recovered the All Spark from Hoover Dam and brought it to Mission City, Sam Witwicky handed it off to Optimus Prime, who proceeded to play cat-and-mouse around the city with Megatron, trying to keep the cube out of his clutches. Unfortunately, Optimus tired before Megatron did, and the villain succeeded in killing him and obtaining the AllSpark. Megatron proceeded to safely absorb the cube into his body, boosting his power to obscene levels, and prepared to conquer the rest of Earth. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (console)|Transformers The Game}}
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===''Transformers The Game'' (PSP)===
[[File:Psp game allspark sculpture.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Mysterious military organization "The Corporation" had a large stone sculpture of the AllSpark decorating their front lawn, so presumably they were a division of, a cover or front for, or an alternate version of Sector Seven.

During the battle in Mission City, Megatron himself targeted Bumblebee for attack, swooping down on the little Autobot from above and seizing the AllSpark. Channelling its energies, Megatron then faced off against Optimus Prime in a protracted city-wide battle, using the cube's power to bring surrounding vehicles to life to make things even tougher for the Autobot leader. Eventually, Prime was able to knock the AllSpark from Megatron's grasp, at which point Sam Witwicky stepped in, grabbing the cube and plunging it into Megatron's chest, destroying him. {{storylink|Transformers The Game (PSP)|Transformers The Game}}
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===''Transformers: Autobots''===
[[File:Ds autobots energon drone.jpg|thumb]]

When Bumblebee located the AllSpark inside Hoover Dam, he didn't just have to get through a forcefield to recover it—he also had to deal with the Energon drones the cube began to create in some panicked act of self-defense, apparently believing itself to be under attack. Bumblebee persisted, fighting his way through the beasties and shutting the forcefield down, recovering the now-shrunken AllSpark.

Soon after, during the Battle of <s>Mission City</s> [[Tranquility]], Megatron claimed the AllSpark from Bumblebee, but this did not stop the [[Create-A-Bot (Autobot)|Autobot Create-A-Bot]] from attacking him. The brave Autobot succeeded in knocking the cube from Megatron's hand, and sacrificed his own life grabbing it and slamming it into Megatron's chest. The Decepticon leader was greatly weakened by the blast, allowing Optimus Prime to finish him off once and for all. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Autobots}}
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===''Transformers: Decepticons''===
At the height of the battle in Mission City, Starscream tracked Bumblebee down and exterminated him, obtaining the power of the AllSpark for himself. Killing both [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] and [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] with his new powers, [[Starscream (Movie)|Lord Starscream]] was then faced with his own protégé, the [[Create-A-Bot (Decepticon)|Decepticon Create-A-Bot]], and used his AllSpark abilities to create Energon drones to keep him occupied rather than kill him. This momentary generosity proved Starscream's undoing, however, as the Create-A-Bot defeated the drones, and managed to knock the AllSpark from Starscream, slamming it into him in hopes of destroying him. While the heroic act left the Create-A-Bot on the verge of death, Starscream was not hurt at all... until Megatron entered the scene, scooped up the AllSpark, and used its powers to destroy him. {{storylink|Transformers Autobots/Decepticons|Transformers: Decepticons}}
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===Allspark Highway===
The Autobots recovered the AllSpark, but had to carry it down treacherous dirt roads in a sort of relay race to get it to safety. The Decepticons repeatedly tried to snatch it from them, but eventually they just sorta gave up after [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] got hold of it, and the Autobots were victorious! {{storylink|Allspark Highway}}

===Transformers: The Ride – 3D===
[[File:AllSparkshardTheRide.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1]]
The AllSpark shard was stationed inside a NEST base. Though [[Ravage (ROTF)|Ravage]] and [[Sideways (ROTF)|Sideways]] tried stealing it, [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], [[Evac (Ride)|Evac]] and [[you]] kept it safe from them. Evac and you got into a chase with Megatron and his Decepticons as they tried to take the the AllSpark shard from you both. The shard was eventually destroyed when Evac plunged it into Megatron's spark to kill him. {{storylink|Transformers: The Ride – 3D}}
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===''Transformers Animated: The Game''===
[[File:Eliteguard allsparkfragment.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]

Megatron hired [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] to gather up scattered AllSpark fragments that he would use to power the space bridge he had secretly constructed. As coincidence would have it, the Autobots got wise to Megatron's plan just as they were dealing with some Sumdac drones that had gone berserk as a result of an AllSpark fragment becoming lodged in the machinery that was constructing them. They proved unable to stop Lockdown from obtaining the fragments, and Megatron departed through the space bridge to Cybertron. Optimus Prime and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] followed, but the bridge shut down before [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] could follow, requiring the little Autobot to find some more fragments to power it back up. He located a few with Sari's help, but they were promptly stolen by Lockdown, who intended to sell them on to the highest bidder. With a timely assist from Prowl, Bumblebee reclaimed the shards from Lockdown and was able to rejoin his teammates on Cybertron. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The Game}}
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==Toys==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
[[File:Movietoy japanese allspark accessory.jpg|thumb|Dude, how are we supposed to play craps with this!]]
*'''Arcee Black Version''' (Deluxe Class, 2008)
*'''Incinerator''' (Voyager Class, 2008)
*'''Landmine''' (Deluxe Class, 2008)
*'''Stockade''' (Deluxe Class, 2008)

:While the "[[AllSpark Power]]" [[subline imprint]] was quite expansive in [[Hasbro]] markets, featuring numerous new figures and [[redeco]]es in various size classes, in Japan, [[TakaraTomy]] elected to release only [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]], [[Landmine (Movie)|Landmine]], [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]], and an exclusive black redeco of [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]]. Each of these four figures came packaged with a small plastic AllSpark accessory that was not available with any Hasbro's releases of the figures.
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===''Asia Premium Series''===
*'''Optimus Prime Ultimate Edition''' (Supreme Class, 2015)

:This highly detailed, overly painted, and accessory-laden version of ''[[Asia Premium Series]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Asia Premium Series|Optimus Prime]] Ultimate Edition comes with a bonus die-cast 'mini Allspark cube' with a Metal Card! It is a different mold from the plastic AllSpark Power one listed above.
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===''Masterpiece Movie Series''===
[[File:Masterpiece-MPM8-Megatron-AllSpark-interaction.jpg|thumb|300px]]
*'''Megatron''' ([[2019]])
**''ID number'': '''MPM-8'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': '''[[August 31]], [[2019]]'''

:This titanic version of Megatron comes with a tiny allspark cube to replicate his death scene.

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[[File:TF-MPM-09-Jazz-Sam-Witwicky-figurine.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Autobot Jazz''' ([[2019]])
**''ID number'': '''MPM-9'''
**''TakaraTomy release date'': '''[[November 2]], 2019'''

:[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|''Masterpiece Movie Series'']] [[Jazz (Movie)#Masterpiece Movie Series|Jazz]] comes with a static figurine of [[Sam Witwicky]] running and holding the AllSpark cube.
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===''Transformers: The Last Knight''===
[[File:Transformers-TLK-Allspark-Tech-Allspark.jpg|thumb|200px]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' (Starter Set, 2017)
*'''Sqweeks''' (Starter Set, 2017)

:This Allspark cube came in any Starter set from the Allspark Tech line. It makes sound effects when placed in a figure and uses a USB for recharging. It also sports a different design, just to accommodate the lighting gimmick as well.
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===''Generations''===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy''====
[[File:Fireblast Trilogy Spoiler Pack Megatron Allspark.jpeg|thumb]]
*'''Spoiler Pack''' (Leader Unboxing, [[2021]])
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====''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''====
[[File:Fireblast Buzzworthy Worlds Collide Allspark.jpg|thumb]]
*'''Worlds Collide''' (4-pack, 2021)
**''Series'': '''''War for Cybertron Trilogy'''''
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==Merchandise==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
[[File:Allspark paperweight.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''All Spark Cube''' (2007)

:Released by [[PopBox Collectibles]], this 1:4 scaled, 7cm paperweight replica of the AllSpark is made from die-cast metal. It also comes with a small 3x3x2cm square perspex base.
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[[File:Allspark usb hub.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67| "because it has all our porn stored on it."]]
*'''AllSpark 4-socket USB hub''' (2007)

:Sculpted in the likeness of the AllSpark, this 4-port USB hub features an Optimus Prime sound clip—"We must protect the AllSpark Cube!"—that plays when new hardware is connected, and can also be triggered at will via a secret button.
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[[File:Allspark cube with candy.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
* '''AllSpark Cube with candy''' (2007)

: Produced by [[Frankford Candy & Chocolate Company]] for Hasbro's [[Cap Candy]] brand, this AllSpark is made up of a set of eight interconnected cubes that can be opened and folded into various different configurations to reveal pictures of the Transformers. The hollow cubes have delicious life-giving candy pieces inside!
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[[File:Allspark party favors.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
* '''Allsparks cubes''' (2007)

: Like the candy cubes above, these sticker-labeled plastic folding party favor Allsparks {{sic}} cubes can be opened and stacked in different configurations to complete images of the movie Transformers, but they're much smaller and there's no candy involved. Created by DesignWare, a subsidiary of the [[American Greetings]] greeting card company. (Says it all, doesn't it?)
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===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
*'''AllSpark Cube''' (Surprise Cup, 2009)
: A small and oddly semi-transparent AllSpark cube, with an attached cord to be used as either a keychain or a cellphone dangler, was one of eight possible miniatures that could be found as a freebie in the bottom of each [[Nestlé]] [[Surprise Cup]]. Interestingly, these first started popping up in European ice cream booths around March 2009, a good couple of months before the usual assortment of toys and merchandise for Revenge of the Fallen hit retail shelves.
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[[File:Allspark rubiks cube.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67| Because Rubik's cubes weren't nerdy enough.]]
*'''Rubik's Cube Allspark Edition''' (2009)

:Originally slated to be released in 2008, this item was held back and was instead released in new packaging as part of the [[Milton Bradley]]'s ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' merchandise line. While it comes in the standard [[Rubik's Cube]] colors, the cube itself is cast in light grey plastic and the patterns seen on the movie AllSpark are printed on the colored facets, as well as an Autobot and Decepticon sigil on the white and yellow faces, respectively. This actually makes this version harder than the original Rubik's Cube, as the center faces must be properly aligned so that the patterns match up correctly. It comes with a grey stand with [[Vacuum metallizing|vacuum metallization]] on one of the three embossed Rubik's logos.
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===Prime 1 Studio===
[[File:Prime 1 Studio Museum Bumblebee AllSpark.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''Bumblebee''' (2015)
**''Movie:'' '''''Dark of the Moon'''''
**''ID number:'' '''MMTFM-04EX'''

:Limited to 500 pieces, the exclusive version of the [[Prime 1 Studio]] ''Museum Masterline'' [[Bumblebee (Movie)/merchandise#Prime 1 Studio|Bumblebee]] based on his ''Dark of the Moon'' design comes with a small replica of the AllSpark.
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==Notes==
*The concept of the AllSpark was introduced in the first live-action movie, derived from hybridizing the concepts of previous life-giving talismans of Transformer lore, the Matrix of Leadership and [[Vector Sigma]]. The term "Matrix" was off limits because of the [[The Matrix|movie of the same name]], so instead, the object was known as "[[energon cube|the Energon Cube]]" for most of the film's production, even appearing under that name in the movie's [[Transformers (novel)|novelisation]]. Producer [[Don Murphy]] was never entirely happy with the name, however, and so it was rechristened "the AllSpark" for the finished film. The finalized moniker came from the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' cartoon, wherein it was the secondary name of the [[Transformer afterlife]].
*In one instance in the Cybertronian subtitles used in the first movie, the object is named "All Spark". This particular spelling was also used consistently in [[Titan Books|Titan]]'s [[United Kingdom]] ''[[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|Transformers]]'' comic.
* In July 2007, several items from the movie were auctioned off on e-bay including the 'Hero' AllSpark prop used for closeups, with the money benefiting the {{w|Fisher House Foundation}}, a living facility attached to many US Military Hospitals. The auction collected 99 bids and the prop was sold for US $20,100.
* While the ''Animated'' cartoon drew upon the movie in developing its AllSpark, sharing its life-giving powers, enigmatic origins, and fated launch into space, the ''Animated'' AllSpark's outer container was designed in homage to the object that inspired them both, the Matrix of Leadership. As noted at [[BotCon 2008]], the ''Animated'' creative team had no intention of providing an in-story origin for their AllSpark, because to do so would run the risk of making the artifact less interesting, or being so bizarre that it shattered the audience's willing suspension of disbelief, or being so wildly convoluted that explaining it all would get in the way of telling the actual story, or all of the above.
*The launching of the ''Prime'' novel-verse AllSpark was detailed in the apocryphal story, "[[Bumblebee at Tyger Pax]]".
* "AllSpark" with camel casing, distinct from the [[Transformer afterlife|afterlife name]] was the standard spelling for the life-giving object until 2018 when the ''[[Transformers: Cyberverse (franchise)|Cyberverse]]'' franchise officially used the normal capitalization "Allspark" as the standard. "AllSpark" was still utilized sparingly, namely in the subtitled trailers for the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''AllSpark''' (オールスパーク ''Ōrusupāku'')
*''Dutch:'' '''Oervonk''' (roughly "Primordial Spark")
*''French:'' '''Matrice''' (Europe, "Matrix", ''Animated'' cartoon only)
*''Hungarian:'' '''Örök Szikra''' ("Ever Spark")
*''Indonesian:'' '''Sēpark''' ("Spark")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Huǒzhòng''' (火种源, "Source of Spark")
*''Polish:'' '''Wszechiskra''' ("Allspark")
*''Russian:'' '''Iskra''' (Искра, "The Spark")
*''Spanish:'' '''La Chispa Vital''' (Europe, "The Vital Spark"), '''la Chispa Suprema''' (America, "The Supreme Spark")
*''Ukrainian:'' '''Vseiskra''' (Всеіскра, "Allspark")
*''Czech:'' '''Zážehnice''' (''Transformers'' film, "Igniter"), '''Prajiskra''' ("Primordial Spark")

==References==
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Joshua Joyce

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[[File:AOE-JoshuaJoyce.jpg|thumb|300px|Probably didn't get along too well with Steve Jobs.]]
:''Joshua Joyce is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)|Age of Extinction]] portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

The technologies industry attracts, and indeed would not exist in the first place without, brilliant and determined inventors. However, the cutthroat forces of the modern world economy often push these geniuses into a state of narrow focus, trying to develop the next big thing without properly considering consequences or moral and ethical ramifications. '''Joshua Joyce''', head of [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]], is one of those who fell into this trap in his quest to create a line of human-made remote-controlled Transformers. But underneath, there may still be some good in him.

{{quote|Maybe all [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|he]] wants to hear you say is that some things should never be invented.|[[Cade Yeager]]|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Stanley Tucci]]
{{voiceactor|[[Hideyuki Umezu]] (Japanese dub)|[[Óscar Gómez]] (Latin-American spanish dub), [[Pep Antón Muñoz]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Bernard Alane]] (European French dub), [[Jacques Lavallée]] (Canadian French dub), [[Lutz Mackensy]] (German dub), [[Antonio Sanna]] (Italian dub), [[Jorge Lucas]] (Portuguese dub), [[İsmail Yıldız]] (Turkish), [[Ali Ekber Diribaş]] (Turkish, teaser trailer)}}
[[File:Joshua Joyce Transformium Experiment AOE.jpg|thumb|right|300px|You just gotta love the new inventions the Capitol churns out, ladies and gentlemen!]]
To fulfill his childhood dream of making the world a better place, Joyce partnered his KSI with [[Harold Attinger]]'s [[Cemetery Wind]] CIA unit to create a line of man-made [[Transformer]]s to serve the United States and the rest of the world. Following the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Battle of Chicago]], Cemetery Wind began hunting down all Earth-bound Transformers, donating their remains to Joyce for his company to melt down and use as raw materials to make their own drones. However, Cemetery Wind was also slaughtering the heroic [[Autobot]]s, apparently knowing this and caring little, Joyce told his employees that the remains they received were those of the evil [[Decepticon]]s. To further aid in the operation, Joyce came to rely on [[Brains]] to help with the construction of the drones, treating the diminutive Autobot as a slave, and callously torturing him whenever he spoke out against his captor.

It was during this time that Joyce "cracked the code" of the Transformers' primal metals, dubbing it "[[Living metal#Live-action film series|Transformium]]". However, with Earth's limited supplies of the element running low and the demand for Transformium in the labs outgrowing the input from Cemetery Wind's hunts, Joyce and Attinger entered a deal with the non-aligned Cybertronian bounty hunter [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who in exchange for Attinger's help finding [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], would hand over a [[Seed]], which upon detonation would produce enough Transformium to last Joyce a century. Among Joyce's smaller operations were attempts to build improved counterparts of Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], though to his dismay, the intended doppelgänger of Optimus, a military prototype, kept resembling [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] with each iteration.

[[File:AOE-OptimusJoyceConfrontation.jpg|left||thumb|300px|Optimus just never gets through to the [[Seymour Simmons|well]]-[[Theodore Galloway|dressed]]-[[Charlotte Mearing|higher-up]] type.]]
However, Joyce's plans began to fall through, as did his alliance with Attinger, when [[Cade Yeager]], an ally of the Autobots, infiltrated KSI's headquarters in [[Chicago]]. Yeager was apprehended and delivered to Attinger for interrogation, but Yeager was soon rescued when the Autobots stormed the facility, having learned of the demise of [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], and the desecration of not only his corpse but of all other Cybertronian victims of Cemetery Wind. Joyce personally confronted Optimus, and despite being intimidated by the Autobots' rage and firepower (much to the freed Brains' pleasure), kept his composure and smugly informed the Autobots that the world would approve of what he had done for the sake of technology. Joyce further explained that humanity could now produce their own Transformers, rendering the Autobots obsolete. A disgusted Optimus led the Autobots in a retreat, and it was at that moment Attinger ordered Joyce to send Galvatron and [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] after the Autobot leader, declaring the raid a terrorist attack and worthy of a CIA op in retaliation. Joyce reluctantly consented, and his reluctance proved well-founded, as Galvatron not only opened fire on civilians without an order, but he ''spoke'', a function he was never programmed to do. To his immense disgust, Joyce found opposition from Attinger when he declared Galvatron a failure and scrambled paramedics to the prototype's casualties, who dismissed the damage since innocents died every day. To Joyce's surprise, Lockdown arrived on the scene and apprehended Prime before Galvatron could finish the fight.

In the wake of the destructive Autobot raid and Galvatron's unsuccessful field test, Joyce ordered all prototypes moved to their facilities in [[China]]. [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] intercepted this information and provided Cade with Joyce's phone number. Cade warned Joyce that his prototypes had minds of their own, and tried to appeal to his conscience as an inventor. Though Joyce put up a facade, he heeded Cade's warning and ordered additional security around Galvatron. Attinger soon delivered the Seed to Joyce, but Joyce, disillusioned with his ally for his callousness during the field test and remembering Cade's warning, tried to decline the Seed. Attinger aggressively warned him to not back out, but it was at that moment that Galvatron activated on his own and breathed life into the other fifty KSI drones, taking them as his own Decepticon army. As the drones destroyed the lab, Joyce is kill by a MONSTER!!!!! and DEAD!!!!!!

===''Dee Dee and the Man'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Frank Welker]]
After 10 years later a remain of Joyce with other human protagonists is killed by Overlord. While Vilgax putting all human protagonists mutated into a monsters look like Nigel from Rio putting by stabbing his head to brainbox with Mandark confusion, and anger at being turned into "freaks" after Joshua openly told them that the killed Autobots like Optimus and Autobots. First he meet Kraang Subprime and other Decepticons until the Kraangs and Nigel are still searching for humans. Two humans were spotted and were captured by the Kraang. The Kraang is about to mutate them until Nigel is kill by Ms. Mimi with died.

After All of the humans were returned to Earth while the Kraang's are teleported back to Dimension X. Soon Nigel is already crashed by a huge meteor to destroyed the city.

==Notes==
*In the months leading up to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]]'', Stanley Tucci was revealed as part of the film's cast to reprise his role as Joshua Joyce. This ultimately turned out not to be the case, with Tucci being recast as a [[Merlin|new character]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Joshua Joyce''' (ジョシュア・ジョイス ''Joshua Joisu'')

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Joshua Joyce

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[[File:AOE-JoshuaJoyce.jpg|thumb|300px|Probably didn't get along too well with Steve Jobs.]]
:''Joshua Joyce is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)|Age of Extinction]] portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

The technologies industry attracts, and indeed would not exist in the first place without, brilliant and determined inventors. However, the cutthroat forces of the modern world economy often push these geniuses into a state of narrow focus, trying to develop the next big thing without properly considering consequences or moral and ethical ramifications. '''Joshua Joyce''', head of [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]], is one of those who fell into this trap in his quest to create a line of human-made remote-controlled Transformers. But underneath, there may still be some good in him.

{{quote|Maybe all [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|he]] wants to hear you say is that some things should never be invented.|[[Cade Yeager]]|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Stanley Tucci]]
{{voiceactor|[[Hideyuki Umezu]] (Japanese dub)|[[Óscar Gómez]] (Latin-American spanish dub), [[Pep Antón Muñoz]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Bernard Alane]] (European French dub), [[Jacques Lavallée]] (Canadian French dub), [[Lutz Mackensy]] (German dub), [[Antonio Sanna]] (Italian dub), [[Jorge Lucas]] (Portuguese dub), [[İsmail Yıldız]] (Turkish), [[Ali Ekber Diribaş]] (Turkish, teaser trailer)}}
[[File:Joshua Joyce Transformium Experiment AOE.jpg|thumb|right|300px|You just gotta love the new inventions the Capitol churns out, ladies and gentlemen!]]
To fulfill his childhood dream of making the world a better place, Joyce partnered his KSI with [[Harold Attinger]]'s [[Cemetery Wind]] CIA unit to create a line of man-made [[Transformer]]s to serve the United States and the rest of the world. Following the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Battle of Chicago]], Cemetery Wind began hunting down all Earth-bound Transformers, donating their remains to Joyce for his company to melt down and use as raw materials to make their own drones. However, Cemetery Wind was also slaughtering the heroic [[Autobot]]s, apparently knowing this and caring little, Joyce told his employees that the remains they received were those of the evil [[Decepticon]]s. To further aid in the operation, Joyce came to rely on [[Brains]] to help with the construction of the drones, treating the diminutive Autobot as a slave, and callously torturing him whenever he spoke out against his captor.

It was during this time that Joyce "cracked the code" of the Transformers' primal metals, dubbing it "[[Living metal#Live-action film series|Transformium]]". However, with Earth's limited supplies of the element running low and the demand for Transformium in the labs outgrowing the input from Cemetery Wind's hunts, Joyce and Attinger entered a deal with the non-aligned Cybertronian bounty hunter [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who in exchange for Attinger's help finding [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], would hand over a [[Seed]], which upon detonation would produce enough Transformium to last Joyce a century. Among Joyce's smaller operations were attempts to build improved counterparts of Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], though to his dismay, the intended doppelgänger of Optimus, a military prototype, kept resembling [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] with each iteration.

[[File:AOE-OptimusJoyceConfrontation.jpg|left||thumb|300px|Optimus just never gets through to the [[Seymour Simmons|well]]-[[Theodore Galloway|dressed]]-[[Charlotte Mearing|higher-up]] type.]]
However, Joyce's plans began to fall through, as did his alliance with Attinger, when [[Cade Yeager]], an ally of the Autobots, infiltrated KSI's headquarters in [[Chicago]]. Yeager was apprehended and delivered to Attinger for interrogation, but Yeager was soon rescued when the Autobots stormed the facility, having learned of the demise of [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], and the desecration of not only his corpse but of all other Cybertronian victims of Cemetery Wind. Joyce personally confronted Optimus, and despite being intimidated by the Autobots' rage and firepower (much to the freed Brains' pleasure), kept his composure and smugly informed the Autobots that the world would approve of what he had done for the sake of technology. Joyce further explained that humanity could now produce their own Transformers, rendering the Autobots obsolete. A disgusted Optimus led the Autobots in a retreat, and it was at that moment Attinger ordered Joyce to send Galvatron and [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] after the Autobot leader, declaring the raid a terrorist attack and worthy of a CIA op in retaliation. Joyce reluctantly consented, and his reluctance proved well-founded, as Galvatron not only opened fire on civilians without an order, but he ''spoke'', a function he was never programmed to do. To his immense disgust, Joyce found opposition from Attinger when he declared Galvatron a failure and scrambled paramedics to the prototype's casualties, who dismissed the damage since innocents died every day. To Joyce's surprise, Lockdown arrived on the scene and apprehended Prime before Galvatron could finish the fight.

In the wake of the destructive Autobot raid and Galvatron's unsuccessful field test, Joyce ordered all prototypes moved to their facilities in [[China]]. [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] intercepted this information and provided Cade with Joyce's phone number. Cade warned Joyce that his prototypes had minds of their own, and tried to appeal to his conscience as an inventor. Though Joyce put up a facade, he heeded Cade's warning and ordered additional security around Galvatron. Attinger soon delivered the Seed to Joyce, but Joyce, disillusioned with his ally for his callousness during the field test and remembering Cade's warning, tried to decline the Seed. Attinger aggressively warned him to not back out, but it was at that moment that Galvatron activated on his own and breathed life into the other fifty KSI drones, taking them as his own Decepticon army. As the drones destroyed the lab, Joyce kill by a MONSTER and DEAD!!!!!!

===''Dee Dee and the Man'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Frank Welker]]
After 10 years later a remain of Joyce with other human protagonists is killed by Overlord. While Vilgax putting all human protagonists mutated into a monsters look like Nigel from Rio putting by stabbing his head to brainbox with Mandark confusion, and anger at being turned into "freaks" after Joshua openly told them that the killed Autobots like Optimus and Autobots. First he meet Kraang Subprime and other Decepticons until the Kraangs and Nigel are still searching for humans. Two humans were spotted and were captured by the Kraang. The Kraang is about to mutate them until Nigel is kill by Ms. Mimi with died.

After All of the humans were returned to Earth while the Kraang's are teleported back to Dimension X. Soon Nigel is already crashed by a huge meteor to destroyed the city.

==Notes==
*In the months leading up to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]]'', Stanley Tucci was revealed as part of the film's cast to reprise his role as Joshua Joyce. This ultimately turned out not to be the case, with Tucci being recast as a [[Merlin|new character]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Joshua Joyce''' (ジョシュア・ジョイス ''Joshua Joisu'')

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Kinetic Solutions Incorporated

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:''Kinetic Solutions Incorporated is a corporation from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Kinetic Solutions Logo.jpg|thumb|Wake the f*** up, Samurai! We have a [[Megatron (Movie)|Transformer]] to build.]]
In the aftermath of the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Battle of Chicago]] and the subsequent cleanup efforts, robotics company '''Kinetic Solutions Incorporated''' (abbreviated as '''KSI''') stands poised to dominate the world's technological marketplace with cutting edge technology aimed at the consumer market. Headed by [[Joshua Joyce]], many of the company's innovations are reverse-engineered from [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] sources.

Because that's worked out so well before.

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
Joshua Joyce began KSI as a boy, with a dream to make the world a better place. After the [[Decepticon]] invasion of [[Chicago]], KSI began reverse engineering Cybertronian corpses in an attempt to create man-made Transformers for military use. Joyce eventually came into contact with [[Harold Attinger]], who promised him the "[[Seed]]" with which he could make more "[[Living metal#Live-action film series|Transformium]]", the metal which all Transformers came from, in exchange for 500 million shares of the company. KSI built as many as fifty Transformers, all under remote control, including [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]], [[Junkheap (AOE)|Junkheap]], [[KSI Sentry|KSI Sentries]], [[KSI Boss]]es, "[[Two Head]]s", and the [[Oreo Transformer]]. The pride of their CEO was "Galvatron", a drone created using data from Megatron's severed head. [[Brains]] was forced to work for them and was tortured whenever he spoke. Because of this, he declined to tell them Megatron was still alive and manipulating KSI, more specifically the Galvatron drone he wanted to use for a new body, resulting in it always looking like him instead of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]. Megatron equally made Galvatron capable of acting on his own and able to override the other drones. Attinger informed Joyce that [[Cade Yeager|a civilian]] had hacked their tech and knew of KSI's involvement in the Transformer hunts. Fortunately for Joyce, the civilian came to him, and Joyce happily turned him over to Attinger. However, KSI would soon suffer a crippling blow to their operations.

The Autobots eventually learned what KSI was doing and were very ticked. Optimus Prime was enraged to the point that he ordered his men to storm KSI's Chicago headquarters and he didn't care if humans were caught in the crossfire. When the Autobots arrived, they made a point to cause as much damage as possible. They destroyed most of the inactive prototypes and the Oreo Transformer along with the laboratory before Joyce convinced them that KSI was defending Earth from attacks just like the one they were committing and that humanity didn't need the Autobots. Visibly disgusted by Joyce, Optimus ordered his men to retreat. Before they left they freed Cade and Brains.

When the Autobots left, Attinger had Joyce deploy the only two drones that were spared, Galvatron and one Stinger, against them. Unknown to KSI, Megatron was eager for revenge on Optimus and transferred his mind to Galvatron. When the drones were deployed, Galvatron killed civilians freely and even ''spoke''. When they were recalled, Joyce had all the prototypes moved to a Chinese facility and expressed his fury that Galvatron had malfunctioned. Joyce's confidence turned shaky after Attinger revealed that he alone had been backing KSI's Transformers project, not the CIA as Joyce had been led to believe, effectively making Joyce an unwitting war-criminal.

After a call from Cade Yeager alerting him of Galvatron's true nature, Joyce placed Galvatron under extra security. Regardless, Galvatron activated himself, announced to the humans he was his own being, and took control over all their drones. He had them destroy the facility and great a huge earthquake, mutated facility by the Overlord and his Decepticons with its laser guns to created a huge crack called the giant Mount Valdrock.

Million of years later Jiminy witnesses through a hatch that the MUTANT MYTHICAL BEAST were being rounded up by Vilgax and his minions. The Monsters were then inspected and those who couldn't talk were stripped of their remaining clothes before being put into a solitary confinement, then taken back to the ferry that took the humans to the Prison with tied a shackled. They were then behave like Smurfette, put into a horrible Brain-box and great triggered for a chaos. Those like Joshua Joyce that could mutated after being killed by Lythos after Galvatron is active with his own being and took control over all of their drones had them destroy the facility were kept behind until they lost their voices or simply used to pull the Dr. Shockwave's lab mutation him will be turned into a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.

After destroy giant Mount Valdrock by the meteor is suck to a unknown cybertron called Headquarter of Lawbots by the Overlord.

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] was hesitant to overuse the word "Transformium" due to KSI's overzealous legal department. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/03}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Shadows Rising''===
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==Toys==
===''Kre-O''===
*'''Galvatron Factory Battle''' (2014)
**''Set number'': '''???'''
**''Pieces'': '''388'''
**''Kreons'': [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]], [[Vehicon (Kre-O)|Vehicon]], 2 KSI workers, Dr. Littleman.
**''Accessories'': Dr. Littleman's Spanner, KSI Worker's gun

: Available only with the "Galvatron Factory Battle" building set, Three human Kreons were featured on the set: One is a generic dark-skinned KSI scientist, a KSI security guard, and [[Dr. Littleman]]. They use the new smaller Kreon body from the Kre-O "Cityville Invasion" brand.
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Starscream (Animated)

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:''Starscream is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Starscreamanimated.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Special skills: <s>barefist fighting</s> backstabbing, aggressive negotiation, dramatic oratory, self-resurrection, clone production, [[chin]]-stroking.]]
'''Starscream''' is easily as accomplished, powerful and deserving of leadership as [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. At least, that's what he thinks. Power-hungry and driven by jealousy, Starscream operates through three ideals: lying, manipulation and deception. And when all else fails, a bit of sabotage never goes astray. Wise bots are careful about turning their backs on Starscream, just in case it's the day he finally decides to shove in the knife.

Though not as powerful as Megatron (despite what he thinks of himself), Starscream is by no means a wimp. His weapons can demolish large buildings, and he can fly around so fast that he can break free of [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet's]] magnetic powers. Unfortunately, all these abilities are offset by an enormous ego and the tendency to make long, overbearing speeches when he should just get on with it and fight. More than once, his leanings towards bombast have caused him to miss a golden opportunity. Sadly, he doesn't seem to be learning from these mistakes.

{{bigquote|Fools! I am Starscream!...Hold your applause! Kneel and worship the TRUE leader of the Decepticons!...assuming I can ever dispose of that accursed Megatron.|Starscream|''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac|The AllSpark Almanac]]''}}

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
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{{voiceactor|[[Tom Kenny]] (English), [[Jin Yamanoi]] (Japanese)|[[Alexander Kovriznyh]] (Russian), [[Stefan Staudinger]] (German), [[Krzysztof Korzeniowski]] (Polish), [[Daniele Demma]] (Italian), [[Alexis Quiroz]] (Latin American Spanish, season 1 and 2), [[Leonardo Salas]] (Latin American Spanish, season 3), [[Francisco Barreiro]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Ricardo Sawaya]] (Brazilian Portuguese Seasons 1 and 2), [[Armando Tiraboschi]] (Brazilian Portuguese, Season 3), [[Kari Tamminen]] (Finnish), [[Sylvain Lemarié]] (French)}}

[[Image:HumanErrorPt1-StarscreamTeeth.jpg|left|200px|thumb|He gained strength and speed and shiny teeth and as the Huntsman was reboo-oorn!]]
''During the [[Great War (Animated)|Great War]], Starscream destroyed [[Theta Supreme]] while he was being towed away for repairs.'' {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II|The AllSpark Almanac II}}

Starscream was aboard the ''[[Nemesis (Animated)|Nemesis]]'' when it came across an [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Autobot repair ship]] that appeared to be emitting the energy signature of the fabled [[AllSpark#Animated continuity family|AllSpark]]. Starscream's doubt of the AllSpark's very existence and his dismissal of Megatron's millennia-long search did not sit well with [[Lugnut (Animated)|Lugnut]], and an argument broke out on the bridge until Megatron himself arrived and all fell silent. Starscream was forced to eat his words when [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] confirmed that the energy coming off the ship was indeed that of the AllSpark, but quickly volunteered to secure it for his leader. Seeing through his lieutenant's greed, Megatron put a dent in Starscream's wing and rose to obtain it for himself. As he was leaving, however, Starscream arrived at the airlock to wish Megatron luck and patted him on the back, planting a [[shatter bomb]] on him in the process. As Megatron attacked the Autobot ship, the device overloaded his circuits and caused an explosion that led Starscream to believe that Megatron was no more. In the aftermath of the blast, Starscream got so caught up in his own greatness that he didn't notice that his comrades had left him on the ship, hurtling towards an exploding space bridge.

[[File:Starscreamship-Dispatches.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.1|right]]
Surviving the explosion, Starscream spent the next fifty [[Units of time|solar cycles]] searching for the AllSpark on his own, using the damaged ship as a base (and probably getting a few screws loose in his [[Processor#Central/Cerebral/Core processor|central processor]] in the meantime). Detecting the faint signal of the AllSpark on [[Earth]], Starscream tapped into television broadcasts from the planet and discovered that the Autobot ship had landed there. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}} ''While heading for the planet, Starscream was approached by Blackarachnia, who was also seeking the AllSpark for her own purposes and proposed an alliance. Starscream was unsurprisingly unwilling to share power, and he booted Blackarachnia out into space just before the ship warped away. Starscream was so occupied by the task, however, that he failed to notice Earth's [[Moon (moon)|moon]] appearing in the ship's path.'' {{storylink|Dispatches}}

[[File:Roll Out Jet Mode.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|left|''Those clouds don't scare me they can't disguise.'']]
One crash-landing later, Starscream abandoned the ruined hulk of the ship and headed down to Earth, immediately drawing the attention of military jets. After a brief dogfight, Starscream scanned one of the jets as an alternate mode in order to continuing searching incognito. The search did not go on long, as Starscream found the Autobots watching a [[Crimson Angels]] air show, and he quickly joined in the proceedings. Upon revealing himself to the Autobots, he quickly thrashed each of them individually, mocking their belief that they had defeated "the great Megatron" while boldly admitting to planting the bomb. Though his arrogance initially trumped his physical power, a sustained blast allowed Starscream to claim the AllSpark. [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] managed to recover and grabbed Starscream in midair. The two's struggle for the AllSpark opened its container, unleashing a burst of its energy that sent Starscream hurtling off. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out}}

[[Image:StarscreamProfessorArrivalIssue2.jpg|thumb|Oh, so ''that's'' what happened to Whatisname...]]
''Starscream landed in the wilderness where he lay, unconscious and undisturbed, for an unspecified period of time. Eventually, Starscream came back online, only to discover that his body had succumbed to [[stasis lock]], leaving him immobile. As "luck" would have it, it was at this moment that he was happened upon by the villainous [[Professor Princess]], whom Starscream attempted to sweet-talk into triggering his manual reset. She was insistent upon "fixing up" Starscream first, plastering him with makeup and a wig, but when the horrified Starscream screamed at her, she just decided to blast him. Her rainbow-blast jumpstarted Starscream's systems, and he seized the Professor, but before he could reduce her to a pink stain, she threatened to broadcast an image of the prettified Starscream all over the world and perhaps the galaxy. Preferring ''not'' to be hideously embarrassed, Starscream let her live and quickly departed, unaware that she'd worked her fashion magic on his wings, too.'' {{storylink|The Arrival issue 2#"Whatever Happened To Whatisname?"|Whatever Happened To Whatisname?}}

[[Image:Megatron rising 1 Starscream freakout.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"Do you have any idea how long I spent preparing that speech!?"]]
Starscream laid low on Earth, until he found a badly damaged [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] and Lugnut, offering them help in exchange for their loyalty. {{storylink|Lost and Found (episode)|Lost and Found}} After some threats that won their loyalty, Starscream repaired the two. As the Decepticons bickered, Lugnut began prostrating himself to an outside communication. Sending Lugnut and Blitzwing to do as the caller commanded and find the [[AllSpark Key]], Starscream traced the call to [[Sumdac Tower]]. Blasting his way in, Starscream found Megatron still alive, though reduced to nothing but his head. Unaware that Megatron was aware of Starscream's betrayal, the Seeker launched into the smug monologue to end all smug monologues, to savour his victory before he was interrupted by the senseless heroics of the Autobot [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]. Enraged at his speech being interrupted, Starscream turned his attention on the Autobot, allowing Megatron to remotely take control of the Tower's hardware to attack Starscream. The brawl being taken to the roof of the building, Starscream prepared to execute a cornered Bumblebee before a repaired Megatron burst from the tower roof. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 1}}

[[Image:PayThePiper.JPG|150px|thumb|Ghost in three...two...one...]]
Observing Megatron's fight with the Autobots, Starscream debated his options, aiding the Autobots to kill Megatron now or serving until a better opportunity presented itself, before Megatron decidedly won the fight. Deciding that his decision had been made for him, Starscream dramatically landed atop Lugnut. Being cordially greeted by Megatron, Starscream's guard was sufficiently lowered for Megatron to take his revenge, jabbing the AllSpark Key into Starscream's chest and draining the traitor's [[spark]]. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

[[Image:Jagged.JPG|left|150px|thumb|All tied up and ready for ''Kiss Players''.]]
One way or another, Starscream's body ended up on a garbage barge where an AllSpark fragment became embedded into his forehead. Resurrected, Starscream swore revenge on Megatron. Tracking Lugnut and Blitzwing, Starscream made his way to the Decepticon base. Though quicker on the draw, Starscream was soundly defeated and executed by Megatron. Reawakening in a ditch, Starscream discovered the AllSpark fragment. Using this newfound immortality to his advantage, he made several more attempts on Megatron's life but was soundly defeated each time. Deciding that he needed a new approach, Starscream found a second AllSpark fragment and used it to draw out Megatron. Embedding the shard in a train, Starscream watched with glee as the Autobot [[Elite Guard]] struggled with the shard before they managed to claim it. Cursing his luck, Starscream was confronted by Megatron who knocked him out of the sky. Recovering again, Starscream blasted [[Ultra Magnus (Animated)|Ultra Magnus]] and took back the second fragment. Though shrugging off all the Autobots' attacks, he was put in stasis lock when Optimus outmaneuvered him and bound him in [[stasis cuff]]s. Gagged and imbolizied, he was loaded aboard the [[Sigma Supreme|Elite Guard vessel]]. {{storylink|Mission Accomplished}}

[[File:FirstandSecond-Starscreamcaptive.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|right]]
While in transit on said vessel, Starscream somehow blasted his way out, once again vowing revenge against Megatron. {{storylink|First (and Second) in Flight}} Magnus sent word to Optimus Prime, warning him that Starscream was most likely on his way back to Earth. Megatron, eavesdropping on the conversation, offered a substantial reward for bringing Starscream to him.

Making his way back to the wreckage of the ''Nemesis'', Starscream turned his focus to the [[protoform]]s aboard and the cloning potential. Concocting a new plan, Starscream [[Starscream clone (Animated)|cloned himself]] several times before bringing two of them, [[Clone number 3370318|one embodying his cowardliness]] and [[Clone number 2716057|the other his sycophancy]], online. When confronted by [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], Starscream again found himself in stasis cuffs before [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]] arrived to try and claim the bounty on Starscream. Freed by his one of his minions, Starscream sent them both to Earth to enact his latest plan to kill Megatron.

[[Image:Lotta starscreams.jpg|thumb|left|Megs is gonna have a field day.]]

When both clones were brought before the Decepticon leader, Starscream activated their self-destruct protocols but his dramatic countdown and speech allowed the Autobots to send the immobile clones high into the sky, where they exploded without harming anyone. On the ''Nemesis'', Starscream watched Megatron increasing the bounty on him, this time stipulating that it had to be the ''real'' one. Cursing Megatron (again), Starscream dismissed his failure, noting he had plenty more clones. {{storylink|A Fistful of Energon}}

[[Image:Starscream with Slipstream.jpg|thumb|right|Technically, she is my sister, and therefore unable to take me as her lover. After much soul searching, I have reluctantly decided, "What the hell", I just won't tell her.]]

Starscream later produced five more clones of himself, each embodying one aspect of his personality: [[Skywarp (Animated)|cowardice]], [[Thundercracker (Animated)|ego]], [[Sunstorm (Animated)|sycophancy]], [[Ramjet (Animated)|deception]], and...[[Slipstream (Animated)|something else]]. After his egotistical clone usurped his speech, Starscream led his armada to Megatron's base, blasting through the roof just as the Decepticon [[space bridge]] came online. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part I}}

[[Image:TFA ABTC1 Screamer Clones Emerge.jpg|left|thumb|There can be only one!]]
Upon reaching the base, the clone army attacked, leading to a free-for-all against Megatron's forces and the Autobots who'd assembled to stop the Decepticon leader's plan. After briefly duelling Megatron, who demanded that Starscream fall into line, the clones overwhelmed and restrained the [[Decepticon leader]]. Seizing Megatron's discarded sword, Starscream, after wryly assuring Megatron that he'd tell everyone that he died fighting valiantly while naming Starscream as his successor, prepared to kill his former leader before he was suddenly head-jacked by [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Isaac Sumdac]] in a [[Headmaster (Animated)|Headmaster]] unit.

The shock of the act allowed Megatron to shake himself free of the clones whereupon he blasted the Headmaster off Starscream's body which landed on, and pinned down, Starscream's head. Panicking, he told his clones to attack, but was outraged when they all sided with Megatron instead. Starscream's head was then glued to one of the walls by [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]]'s concrete.

[[Image:TFA ABTC2 Megatron Screamer End.jpg|150px|right|thumb|So, Megatron, how've you been?]]
When the [[space bridge]] ran out of power to maintain the portal to Cybertron, Megatron replaced the AllSpark fragment with Starscream's head, which overloaded the power systems. As the space bridge collapsed, Starscream was transwarped to a distant sector of the galaxy without his body but in the company of a stasis-locked Megatron. A long night of bickering commenced. {{storylink|A Bridge Too Close, Part II}}

[[Image:TransWarpedStarscreamsScream.jpg|thumb|left|200px|How... literal. And disturbingly yonic.]]
Manoeuvring himself, Starscream began using his teeth to chip away at Megatron's stasis cuffs. When Megatron began offering notes on Starscream's performance, the Seeker's rage reacted with the AllSpark fragment to generate a sonic cannon in his mouth. Before the two could take stock, [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] materialized in front of them, though immobile. The two managed to enter the colossus only for the act to revive him. Though Omega was ready to execute them both, Megatron convinced the Sentinel that they should be transported back to Cybertron to stand trial. When repeated transwarp jumps sent Omega back into stasis, Megatron plugged Starscream into the Sentinel's systems, revitalizing Omega and allowing Megatron to bend the giant to his will.

[[Image:TransWarpedDigitalStarscream.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Take me to ATARI!]]
Megatron used Omega Supreme to attack the Autobots on Earth only for Prowl to gain access to the giant's systems and help him overpower Megatron's control. With no paying attention to him, Starscream took the opportunity to possess Omega's systems. Though ready to use Omega to kill Megatron, the Decepticon leader convinced Starscream to conquer Cybertron instead. Agreeing, Starscream reverted to starship mode and jumped to Cybertron, unaware that the Autobots had planted a [[plasma dynamic thruster]] on his new body. No sooner had Starscream made it back home did the thruster cause his new body to start randomly warping around the galaxy. {{storylink|TransWarped}}

When the Autobots became trapped in [[Soundwave (Animated)|Soundwave's]] virtual reality, Starscream was among the Decepticons who invaded and attack Detroit. However, Prowl was able to phase into his head, knocking him out.{{storylink|Human Error, Part I}}

At some point during Starscream and Megatron's warping adventures, Starscream stopped controlling Omega Supreme's body, again reduced to a sarcastic head. After one of the warp jumps, Lugnut suddenly smacked into their windshield and joined their merry group. {{storylink|Decepticon Air}} After Lugnut had removed the plasma dynamic thruster, the Decepticons managed to steer Omega Supreme to Cybertron, though the journey left the Sentinel drained of energon. Though Starscream repeatedly advocated evacuation before the Autobot military descended on them, noting their lack of access to the weapon systems, Megatron refused to evacuate until they picked up [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]], who had obtained the Autobot [[Arcee (Animated)|Arcee]], the original holder of Omega's activation codes. Transwarping back to Earth's moon, Starscream noted Lugnut's anger at Megatron complimenting Shockwave. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

[[Image:TFA-Endgame-MegatronFieldDay.jpg|left|thumb|Megs has his field day.]]
Goading Lugnut into fighting Shockwave, Starscream used the distraction to roll himself back to his old headquarters, the wrecked ''Nemesis'', where he used a [[protoform]] and one of his many clone bodies to restore his body. Megatron then arrived and destroyed the remainder of Starscream's inactive clones. Though Starscream tried to squirm out of punishment by offering the clones as a new Decepticon army, Megatron revealed his bold ambition of making Decepticon clones of Omega Supreme. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}} Seeing another chance to dispose of Megatron, Starscream surreptitiously wired large scale shatter bombs into the clones. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}

When Shockwave forced Arcee to beam the activation code, Starscream made another power grab and knocked down Megatron. However, he was in turn tackled by the eternally loyal Lugnut, who ended up becoming the template of the three "[[Lugnut Supreme]]s".

[[Image:TFA-Endgame-StarscreamBits.jpg|thumb|right|"It’s incredible! I can feel, I can touch, I’m alive! I can fondle, I can fiddle! Phwooar! I am ali—"]]
Though Starscream smugly pointed out that the clones were but sparkless shells without slivers of his AllSpark fragment, Megatron revealed that he'd found more AllSpark fragments in Omega Supreme's spark chamber. Deeming Starscream of no further use to him, Megatron blasted Starscream's lower body to smithereens with his a point-blank round from his [[fusion cannon]] and left him on the surface of the Moon. {{storylink|Endgame, Part I}}

Still sustained by the AllSpark fragment, Starscream physically pulled himself back together and flew back to Earth to bear witness to his clone gambit. When he arrived in Detroit however, his AllSpark fragment was telekinetically snagged by Prowl and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]]'s [[processor-over-matter]] as they attempted to reassemble the AllSpark. Though he frantically opened fire, Starscream failed to deter the two. His AllSpark fragment removed, Starscream's second life ended and his sparkless corpse fell to the Earth, finally dead.

[[Image:TFAni EndgamePart2 Screamer Offlined.jpg|left|thumb|The ''seventh'' time's the charm.]]
Despite passing, Starscream's gambit took hold when Lugnut was ejected from Omega Supreme's systems. Though his clones built up to detonation, risking the destruction of everything in a five hundred mile radius, Omega Surpeme managed to destroy one of them, deactivating its explosive, while the other was encased in an AllSpark-powered force field and failed to destroy anything. {{storylink|Endgame, Part II}}
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==='''Astroboy (film)'''===
Starscream was spark had been extinguished in the second life ended and his sparkless corpse fell to the Earth, finally dead, his brain remained intact within his severed head. Starscream's remains were acquired by KSI, who forced Brains to download and decrypt data from the Decepticon leader's brain to help them crack the secrets of Transformium and create their own range of man-made Transformer drones. Company head Joshua Joyce intended for the centerpiece of this line, the military drone Jerk to be physically patterned after Megatron blasted Starscream's lower body to smithereens with his a point-blank round from his fusion cannon and left him on the surface of the Moon but Starscream's still-functional mind secretly influenced the Transformium, causing it to take a shape not dissimilar to his own appearance, so that the a new body for himself. Over the next five years, became aware of KSI's alliance with the Cybertronian bounty hunter Lockdown and Cemetery Wind. Learning of the cyber forming Seed the humans were going to receive as payment for helping Lockdown capture Optimus, Starscream schemed to steal it and use it to create enough Transformium to build a massive Decepticon army. As the go-between, Brains was aware of the Decepticon leader's plan, but declined to notify his captors of any of this, because seriously, screw those guys.

After four prototype Jerk were junked by KSI due to their "inexplicably" Starscream-like appearance, they were forced to put the fifth into action after the Autobots attempted a raid on their Chicago facility. Before it rolled out, Starscream transferred his mind into the drone's body (or, as Brains put it, "infected it with his evil nasty chromosomes") and was thus reborn, a spark-less, soul-less 'bot without fear. He initially pretended to obey KSI's remote control, but quickly began to exhibit his free will, firing his weapons unbidden and showing a reckless disregard for civilian bystanders. When Optimus Prime engaged Jerk in battle, he could sense the essence of Starscream within the drone, but before their fight could reach a definitive end, Lockdown interceded and abducted Prime. Fallen was retrieved from the field by a furious Joyce, who declared the drone's signs of autonomy as critical flaws. Brain's revealed Jerk's scheme to Cade Yeager, who called Joyce and alerted him of the danger The Fallen posed should he obtain the Seed. Having ended his deal with Lockdown, Attinger handed over the Seed he'd received in exchange for Optimus. Though efforts were made to tighten security, Jerk activated on his own as he bellowed his name, then animated KSI's other Transformers mutated, absorb the trashed KSI's lab equipment around him, before bursting out of the building and terrorizing a political press conference. The Fallen rampages through Hong Kong He searches for Astro so they can fight, and attempts to leave to go down to the surface world. Astro tries to battle monster, but the only thing that can stop monster for good is to bring the Blue Core near his Red Core. Astro is willing to give his life to save the inhabitants of Hong Kong, so he flies directly into monster's, and overloads its systems with the Blue Core. Astro and President Stone both survived the ordeal, with the latter being arrested for the destruction he had caused, much to his fury.

====Titan ''Animated'' comic====
[[Image:Starscreamanimated_DinoMIGHT.jpg|right|150px|thumb|"''They're not singing<br>they're not singing<br>they're not singing any morrrre!''"]]

Megatron kept uncovering Starscream's hide-outs, so Starscream took [[Starscream clone (Animated)|his clone army]] and seized control of the Autobots' own base, reasoning the Decepticons would never look for him ''there''. His plan was undone by the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]]. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 17#Dino-MIGHT!|Dino-MIGHT!}}

He later acted as the backer for the supervillain [[Crossroads]], giving him a sliver of Megatron (no, it ''wasn't'' explained how he got it) that completed the man's robot-controlling gauntlets. Starscream didn't care that Crossroads was going to hurt robots, as long as he made sure to turn the city against the Autobots. Boo, hiss! {{storylink|Animated Comic issue 3|Crossroads!}}

Later still, he appeared out of nowhere to hack into the [[Wraith-X]] stealth bomber and send it off to bomb Detroit to bits, seemingly just for shits and giggles. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 23|Divebomb}} It turned out he'd been let back into the Decepticons for... some reason, joining their massed attack on the Autobot base. Of course, he used that as a way to ensure Megatron had an "accident", and then "saved him"; as a result, Megatron became stupid and believed he could be trusted with temporary command of the Decepticons... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 24|Megatron's Revenge}}
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====''Legends'' comic====
During her time in the [[Legends World]], [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] confirmed to [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] that she was a clone of Starscream but admitted that she had no idea what happened to him. She then mistook "[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Starscream]]" for her own Starscream, assuming that he'd remodeled his body like she had. {{storylink|LG-16 Slipstream Sequel}} Later, Starscream was revived by an AllSpark fragment provided by [[Swindle (Animated)|Swindle]], and they both joined Slipstream in her plan to sneak in and break the Decepticons out of Trypticon Prison. {{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}}
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===Animated shorts===
[[File:TFA StarscreamsFantasy Triumph.jpg|thumb|150px]]
Starscream mocked Megatron during a speech by the latter. His butt regrets the ordeal now. {{storylink|Starscream Heckles Megatron}}

Starscream later went on to defeat all the Autobots singlehandedly, declaring himself supreme Decepticon leader. The other Decepticons gladly accepted this, prostrating themselves before him and eagerly offering servitude to their new leader...until Megatron punched Starscream awake, threatening harsh penalties should he ever start dozing off during a staff meeting again. {{storylink|Starscream's Fantasy}}

===''The Cool'' comic===
Starscream was part of Megatron's band of Decepticons, chasing down the Autobots who had rediscover the long-lost Allspark. He was visibly frustrated when Megatron along with the Autobots disappeared through a Space Bridge gate. {{storylink|The Cool Extra issue 3|The Cool Extra #3}}

Leading [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], Starscream lead the Decepticons in an attack on [[Detroit]] against the Autobots. Clashing directly with [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], Starscream's ultimate goal was to seize the [[AllSpark#Animated|AllSpark]]. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 1}}

[[Image:TheCoolStarscreamDeath01.jpg|200px|thumb|left|So was this supposed to be ''funny'' or ''horrifying''?]]

Starscream ultimately succeeded, snatching the AllSpark out of [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]]'s hands. He announced to the stunned Autobots that he had destroyed [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] with his own hands and would now use the power of the AllSpark to cull the weak from the universe. Optimus Prime had other ideas, however, and falling down from the sky in vehicle mode, transformed to robot mode and grabbed one side of the AllSpark. Refusing to let Starscream use its power for evil, Prime opened the AllSpark, unleashing all its energy. Starscream took the energy square to the face, apparently getting vaporized. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 2}}

Starscream survived the blast and was present fighting [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] at [[Sumdac Systems]] headquarters when Megatron was reborn. Annoyed, Starscream declared he'd make the most of it and attempted to brown-nose up to his old boss. Megatron was aware of his previous attempt to assassinate him, however, and promptly tore a hole through his torso, killing him. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 5}}

Having survived his apparent "death", Starscream proceeded to create a pair of clones ([[Clone number 3370318|Clone #3370318]] and [[Clone number 2716057|Clone #2716057]]), rigged them with explosives and devised a convoluted plot to use them to destroy Megatron. When the plan failed due to Autobot interference, Starscream registered his annoyance, but calmly promised that there was more to come from his [[Starscream clone (Animated)|Clone Army]]. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 6}}

[[Image:StarscreamCloneArmyAttack01.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''This magic that's happened right before my eyes.'']]

More indeed, as Starscream lead his Clone Army into battle to seize the Decepticon [[space bridge#Animated cartoon|Space Bridge]]. Starscream was shocked at the sight of Megatron and Optimus Prime fighting side by side against him, and was then infuriated when Megatron proceeded to regard his troops as little more than an annoyance and laughed at Starscream's aspirations of universal conquest.{{storylink|The Cool Episode 7}}

At some point, Starscream had his head severed by [[Isaac Sumdac (Animated)|Professor Sumdac]] and a [[Headmaster unit]]. Clutching Starscream's whimpering noggin, Megatron proceeded to mock his ambitions of universal conquest, then ordered [[Mixmaster (Animated)|Mixmaster]] to install Starscream into the Space Bridge in order to power the device. Starscream screamed in horror as the Space Bridge activated, but the power of his [[AllSpark#Animated|AllSpark]] fragment proved too much and caused the Space Bridge to overload.{{storylink|The Cool Episode 8}}

Luckily, Starscream found himself warped through the Space Bridge to the same coordinates as [[Omega Supreme (Animated)|Omega Supreme]] and Megatron. Unluckily, Megatron decided to power the deactivated Omega with Starscream's [[spark]]. ''Luckily'', this proved fortuitous, as the link allowed Starscream to seize control of Omega's systems. Clutching and taunting Megatron, Starscream returned to Earth for revenge against the Autobots. Megatron and Optimus were forced to join forces to defeat him. Megatron plunged his sword into the main chip of Starscream's link system, then ordered Optimus to incinerate it. Optimus did so with the "[[Magnus Hammer|Magnus Hammer Thunder Attack]]", deactivating Omega Supreme. Optimus then ordered [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] to find whatever traces of Starscream were left in Omega and remove them. {{storylink|The Cool Episode 9}}

Starscream's head had landed in a pile of debris which, unfortunately for him, happened to be located right next to Megatron's missing fusion cannon. Plucking up the cannon and Starscream, Megatron powered his cannon with Starscream's head and AllSpark fragment, creating a blast powerful enough to blow Optimus Prime to pieces. Prime survived, however, and the AllSpark fragment leapt from Starscream's forehead and into Prime's hand, empowering him with awesome energy. The loss of the AllSpark fragment, however, killed Starscream. {{storylink|The Cool Episode Final}}
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==Commercial appearances==
Starscream was summoned to his [[Starscream (G1)|Generation 1 counterpart]]'s home dimension when the latter fumbled a "[[continuum transmorpher]]" while attempting to upload his toy review online. The two Starscreams then discussed how awesome [[BotCon]] was. They also teamed up to blast [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], but argued over which one of them was now the new Decepticon leader. Not that it mattered, since Megatron was far from being defeated... {{storylink|Who is the Greatest Starscream Of All Time?}}

==Games==
===Transformers Animated: ''Action Packs''===
{{note|Starscream is featured as a playable game card. He is a silver card, has a value of 5 points, and has the following power: "+1 to all villains."}} {{storylink|Transformers Animated: Action Packs}}

==Toys==
===''Animated''===
[[File:Ani-toy Starscream VoyH.jpg|right|300px|thumb|What? Decepticon sigil not upside down? HERESY! HERESYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! ''(Hasbro Version Pictured)'']]
[[File:Transformers-Animated-TA-07-Starscream.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|''(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)'']]
*'''Starscream''' (Voyager, 2008)
**''Takara ID number:'' '''TA-07'''
**''Takara release date:'' [[March 27]] [[2010]]
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles

: Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Transformers Animated]]'' Voyagers, Starscream transforms into a futuristic, forward-swept wing jet fighter based upon the [http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/ Su-47 (S-37) Berkut Experimental Fighter] and the [http://macross2.net/m3/macrossplus/yf-19.htm YF-19 "Alpha One"] from the series ''{{w|Macross Plus}}''. He is cast in matte plastics and decoed with matte paint meant to invoke the look of the show's animation cels.

: His twin "sonic shock blaster" spring-loaded missile launchers can slide forward, opening panels on his forearms (referred to as blasters on the packaging). Landing gear in his vehicle mode flip down from his undercarriage, and his blasters flip forward or back for a "hidden" attack. He also features two [[Automorph Technology|automorph]] gimmicks. When his nose cone is pushed in, his undercarriage folds into his hips. Folding his shoulders down also pushes up his head. Though not really an "automorph", with the arms and legs out of the way, his spring loaded wings fold down by themselves. His arms are also ''just'' poseable enough to stroke that enormous chin.

: For an added piece of [[Show-accuracy]], one could mistransform his arms and leave them out to the side in vehicle mode so that his blasters sit underneath the wings, although this would result in his arms and hands being exposed.

: His missiles have tiny shark faces molded into them.

: The [[TakaraTomy]] release of the figure does not try for a ''more'' "show accurate" representation, in fact going in the opposite direction to make him extra-shiny. While using the same base plastic colors and (mostly) paint layouts, this version as rich metallic blue paint on the top half of his nosecone and wings that does not match the bluish-gray plastic, plus metallic red paint on his chest. Don't ask us. his faction symbols are also purple with white outlines as opposed to the Hasbro version's gold... which ''is'' more show-accurate, we'll give them that.

:As with [[Seeker (body-type)|past incarnations]], Starscream was [[redeco]]ed as [[Skywarp (Animated)#Toys|''Animated'' Skywarp]] and [[Sunstorm (Animated)#Fantastic Toys|''Animated'' Sunstorm]], and would have been used for [[Thundercracker (Animated)#Voyager|''Animated'' Thundercracker]] had that release not been cancelled.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Starscream/starscream.htm More information on Voyager Starscream at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:TFA-Activators-Starscream.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|I shall call him Screamer and he shall be mine and he shall be my Screamer. Come here, Screamer!]]
*'''Starscream''' (Activators, 2008)

: A smaller, simpler version of Starscream was released in the first line of ''Animated'' [[Activators]]. This version of Starscream has a spring-loaded [[autotransformation]] gimmick that springs him from Harrier jet mode to robot mode in one easy step by pressing the bright red button located at the jet's upper section (although some minor adjustments are still needed to complete the robot mode), although robot to Harrier jet is still that good old manual click-it-up yourself transformation, giving you the best of both worlds.

: Activators Starscream greatly resembles Voyager Starscream, especially when compared to several other Activators and their respective larger toys, with the only discernible difference between Activators and Voyager Starscream is that Activator Starscream's wings sit lower on his back. Most notably, this toy possesses more show-accurate weapons than its Voyager counterpart, due to the lack of a launching mechanism. Unlike the Voyager, his arms are not poseable enough to do a chin-stroking stance.

: The instructions did not mention that you need to flip out the landing gears on his pair of legs, which allows the jet mode to become least prone to falling down and more balanced while standing on a flat surface.

: This mold was also used to make ''Animated'' [[Dirge (Animated)#Toys|Dirge]], [[Ramjet (Animated)#Activator|Ramjet]], [[Skywarp (Animated)#Activator|Skywarp]], and [[Thundercracker (Animated)#Toys|Thundercracker]]

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/ActStarscream/starscream.htm More information on Activators Starscream at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:Legends animated starscream purpledeco.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The Decepticon formerly-known-as-Starscream.]]
*'''Rescue Ratchet''' (Animated 3-pack, 2008)

: An even smaller, simpler Legends-class version of Starscream! He features an oddly sparkly purple base plastic, and a very sparsely-painted head.

: He was only available in a [[Target]]-[[exclusive]] box set with Deluxe-class "[[Ratchet (Animated)#Rescue|Rescue Ratchet]]", as well as a Legends-class [[Prowl (Animated)#RescueRatchet|Prowl]].

: This mold was also used to make [[Ramjet (Animated)#Toys|Ramjet Clear White Version]], [[Skywarp (Animated)#ClearEZCollection|Skywarp Clear Purple Version]], [[Sunstorm (Animated)#ClearEZCollection|Sunstorm Clear Orange Version]], [[Thundercracker (Animated)#ClearEZCollection|Thundercracker Clear Blue Version]], and [[Starscream Clone Black Version]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/AniLegendsStarscream/starscream.htm More information on Legends Starscream at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Ani-toy Starscream McD US.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|right|Alt-mode or nap time?]]
*'''Starscream''' (McDonald's Happy Meal Toy, 2008)
**''McNumber'': '''4'''

:An ''even'' simpler (but not smaller) version of Starscream with a very simple transformation sequence was released in the [[McDonald's]] ''Animated'' Happy Meal promotion. A tad unique among the ''Animated'' Happy Meal toys, he has given up an accurate vehicle mode for an accurate robot mode.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/McStarscream/starscream.htm More information on McDonald's Starscream at TFU.info]''

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[[Image:TFA_McD_Starscream_Jumpstarter.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"I'm sensing a [[Starscream (Armada)/toys#Happy Meal toy|pattern]] here..."]]
*'''Starscream''' (McDonald's Happy Meal toys, 2008)

: McDonald's restaurants in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela got a completely different Happy Meal Starscream toy. This version is a ''very very'' simplistic version of Starscream, converting from non-articulated robot mode to a "folded" robot with three wheels (which is a very non-show-accurate alt-mode). Like the [[Jumpstarter]] toys, he features a pull-back motor in vehicle mode that propels him forward on smooth surfaces; after a short run the latch that keeps his spring-loaded legs releases, causing him to flip forward and into upright robot mode.

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*'''Speed of Sound Showdown: Bumblebee / Starscream''' (multi-pack, [[March 27]] 2010)
**''Accessories:'' 2 missiles

: In the Takara ''Animated'' line, Voyager-class Starscream available both as an individual toy, and in a "Speed of Sound Showdown" (音速の対決, ''onsoku no taiketsu'' two-pack (also called "Blazing Bullets" on English on the box-back) with Deluxe [[Bumblebee (Animated)#Deluxe_Class|Bumblebee]]. Released in the first wave of ''Animated'' product, both toys are identical to their individual (Takara) releases.

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[[Image:AnimatedSuperCollectionVol2Starscream.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
*'''Animated Super Collection Vol. 2''' (multipack, [[October 2|Oct 2]] 2010)

: In Japan, the "Animated Super Collection Vol. 2" giftset contained slight redecos of Activators Starscream, [[Bulkhead (Animated)#AnimatedSuperCollection|Bulkhead]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)#AnimatedSuperCollection|Bumblebee]] and [[Grimlock (Animated)#AnimatedSuperCollection|Grimlock]]. Starscream's insignia went from gold to a more traditional purple and white, but is otherwise mostly identical to the Hasbro release.

:While the [[stock photography]] of the individual toys showed Animated Super Collection Starscream as being brighter than its American counterpart, this seems to have been a trick of the lighting, as the released toy remained its standard colors.

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[[Image:AniLegendsStarscreamClearPurple.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Everybody stop calling me "Cyclonus"!]]
*'''Starscream Clear Purple Version''' (EZ Collection, 2010)

:A redeco of Legends Starscream in mostly translucent purple with some parts, such as his wings, in opaque lavender.

: He was only available at [[JUSCO]] stores in Japan (but not at ones in their {{w|Ryukyu Islands|Ryukyu}} branch, who knows why), given away for free to customers who purchased Voyager-class [[Optimus Prime (Animated)/toys#Voyager Class|Optimus Prime]] or [[Megatron (Animated)#Voyager Class|Megatron]].

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[[File:Ani-toy Starscream EZClearLimited.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
*'''EZ Collection Limited Clear Version''' (EZ Collection, 2010)

:The "EZ Collection Limited Clear Version" set included a redeco of Legends Starscream in mostly translucent purple with opaque purple parts. Unlike the above "Clear Purple Version", this toy retained the normal version's [[paint operation]]s.

:The set was given away at Family Mart stores in Japan as part of their raffle token promotion. The "EZ Collection Limited Clear Version" set was prize D, and included four different translucent EZ Collection figures, the other three being [[Bumblebee (Animated)#LimitedClear|Bumblebee]], [[Optimus Prime (Animated)/toys#LimitedClear|Optimus Prime]], and [[Prowl (Animated)#LimitedClear|Prowl]].

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===''Universe'' (2008)===
[[Image:Universe2008-toy LegendsAniStarscream.JPG|upright=1.66|thumb|And yet, his ego remains as big as ever.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Legends, 2008)

:Legends-class Starscream transforms surprisingly similarly to his larger counterparts. He is notable for being the only version of the character to have his weapons mounted correctly on his upper arms, rather than his lower arms (though this is largely because he completely lacks elbows). However, as with his past versions, he is again not gray, but apparently a shade of blue.

:This figure was redecoed in the Animated line, in a Target exclusive [[Starscream (Animated)#RescueRatchet|three-pack]] with Rescue Ratchet and Prowl.

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===''EZ Collection''===
*'''Starscream''' (EZ Collection, 2010)
**''ID Number'': '''EZ-20'''

: In Japan, The ''Universe'' Animated Starscream toy was re-released (without significant differences) as part of the third volume of EZ Collection, in blindpacked packaging.

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===''Mini EZ Collection''===
[[File:TFA-Mini-EZ-Colle-Starscream.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Definitely not his ''Best Day'' Ever.]]
*'''Starscream''' (Mini EZ Collection, <s>2010</s>)

:Intended to be released as part of TakaraTomy's new ''Mini EZ Collection'' line, this Starscream was to be an all new, 2-inch mold that converted from robot into a jet, with improved robot mode proportions, though the jet mode was a bit wonky.

:The figures were set for a November 2010 release, but they were quietly canceled.

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==Notes==
*In a podcasted audio interview, [[Marty Isenberg]] revealed that he originally wanted to play Starscream's name ironically — he wanted the character to have a quiet, whispery tone, as he '''really''' didn't like the screechy voice of [[Starscream (G1)|the original Starscream]] (though, at the same time, he pointed out that he has nothing against [[Chris Latta|his actor]]). [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] argued against this idea, and Tom Kenny's reading finally won Marty over.
*There is some confusion as to precisely what weapons Starscream has. According to the Decepticon character descriptions sent out in the initial [[Cartoon Network]] press release for ''Transformers Animated'', Starscream "can affect a sonic scream and produce powerful blasts of sound that can send enemies spinning through the atmosphere". His toy packaging declares that he has "twin sonic shock blasters" rather than the [[null-ray]]s of his Generation 1 counterpart, while a bio on the [[Hasbro]] website declares that ''Animated'' Starscream '''does''' have null-rays... while otherwise being a direct copy of the press release text, which doesn't mention them anywhere. What is unquestionably Starscream's "sonic scream" appears in the season three episode "TransWarped", apparently a modification created by the AllSpark fragment in his head. Similarly, in the same episode, Blurr tells [[Skywarp (Animated)|Skywarp]] and [[Thundercracker (Animated)|Thundercracker]] to use alternating sonic pulses to destabilise the concrete the trio are trapped in. This could point to Starscream's arm-mounted cannons being sonic shock blasters, as he was addressing Skywarp, but also could be a reference to Generation 1 [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] and his ability to create sonic booms.
*Several times in the series, Starscream's alt-mode is called a "harrier jet". In the real world, this term actually refers to just one specific jet type — the [[United Kingdom|British]]-designed V/STOL-capable {{w|Harrier Jump Jet}} — which very clearly is not Starscream's altmode. Then again, the series is set about 100 years in the future, so perhaps the jet designs or terminology could have changed.
*Originally, Starscream was to be revived once again near the end of "[[Endgame, Part II]]", courtesy of [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]] and another AllSpark fragment. This scene was cut for time, but was shown in ''[[Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II]]'' in storyboard format.
*Starscream holds the unique distinction of writing his own character profile in the first ''AllSpark Almanac''.
*Likewise, he is the only one to introduce himself in the ''Transformers Animated'' profile short "[[Meet Starscream]]." Everyone else is introduced by a different character in their respective featurettes.
*Starscream never does learn that the bomb he placed on Megatron in the first episode only wounded him, and goes the whole series under the delusion that he was the one who originally offlined Megatron. You would have thought someone would have wanted to rub his face in the failure.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Starscream''' (スタースクリーム ''Sutāsukurīmu'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Hóng Zhīzhū''' (China, 红蜘蛛, "Red Spider")
*''Russian:'' '''Skandalist''' (Скандалист, "Troublemaker")

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:''Kinetic Solutions Incorporated is a corporation from the [[live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[File:Kinetic Solutions Logo.jpg|thumb|Wake the f*** up, Samurai! We have a [[Megatron (Movie)|Transformer]] to build.]]
In the aftermath of the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Battle of Chicago]] and the subsequent cleanup efforts, robotics company '''Kinetic Solutions Incorporated''' (abbreviated as '''KSI''') stands poised to dominate the world's technological marketplace with cutting edge technology aimed at the consumer market. Headed by [[Joshua Joyce]], many of the company's innovations are reverse-engineered from [[Transformer|Cybertronian]] sources.

Because that's worked out so well before.

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
Joshua Joyce began KSI as a boy, with a dream to make the world a better place. After the [[Decepticon]] invasion of [[Chicago]], KSI began reverse engineering Cybertronian corpses in an attempt to create man-made Transformers for military use. Joyce eventually came into contact with [[Harold Attinger]], who promised him the "[[Seed]]" with which he could make more "[[Living metal#Live-action film series|Transformium]]", the metal which all Transformers came from, in exchange for 500 million shares of the company. KSI built as many as fifty Transformers, all under remote control, including [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]], [[Junkheap (AOE)|Junkheap]], [[KSI Sentry|KSI Sentries]], [[KSI Boss]]es, "[[Two Head]]s", and the [[Oreo Transformer]]. The pride of their CEO was "Galvatron", a drone created using data from Megatron's severed head. [[Brains]] was forced to work for them and was tortured whenever he spoke. Because of this, he declined to tell them Megatron was still alive and manipulating KSI, more specifically the Galvatron drone he wanted to use for a new body, resulting in it always looking like him instead of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]. Megatron equally made Galvatron capable of acting on his own and able to override the other drones. Attinger informed Joyce that [[Cade Yeager|a civilian]] had hacked their tech and knew of KSI's involvement in the Transformer hunts. Fortunately for Joyce, the civilian came to him, and Joyce happily turned him over to Attinger. However, KSI would soon suffer a crippling blow to their operations.

The Autobots eventually learned what KSI was doing and were very ticked. Optimus Prime was enraged to the point that he ordered his men to storm KSI's Chicago headquarters and he didn't care if humans were caught in the crossfire. When the Autobots arrived, they made a point to cause as much damage as possible. They destroyed most of the inactive prototypes and the Oreo Transformer along with the laboratory before Joyce convinced them that KSI was defending Earth from attacks just like the one they were committing and that humanity didn't need the Autobots. Visibly disgusted by Joyce, Optimus ordered his men to retreat. Before they left they freed Cade and Brains.

When the Autobots left, Attinger had Joyce deploy the only two drones that were spared, Galvatron and one Stinger, against them. Unknown to KSI, Megatron was eager for revenge on Optimus and transferred his mind to Galvatron. When the drones were deployed, Galvatron killed civilians freely and even ''spoke''. When they were recalled, Joyce had all the prototypes moved to a Chinese facility and expressed his fury that Galvatron had malfunctioned. Joyce's confidence turned shaky after Attinger revealed that he alone had been backing KSI's Transformers project, not the CIA as Joyce had been led to believe, effectively making Joyce an unwitting war-criminal.

After a call from Cade Yeager alerting him of Galvatron's true nature, Joyce placed Galvatron under extra security. Regardless, Galvatron activated himself, announced to the humans he was his own being, and took control over all their drones. He had them destroy the facility and great a huge earthquake, mutated facility by the Overlord and his Decepticons with its laser guns to created a huge crack called the giant Mount Valdrock.

Million of years later Jiminy witnesses through a hatch that the MUTANT MYTHICAL BEAST were being rounded up by Vilgax and his minions. The Monsters were then inspected and those who couldn't talk were stripped of their remaining clothes before being put into a solitary confinement, then taken back to the ferry that took the humans to the Prison with tied a shackled. They were then behave like Smurfette, put into a horrible Brain-box and great triggered for a chaos. Those like Joshua Joyce that could mutated after being killed by Lythos after Galvatron is active with his own being and took control over all of their drones had them destroy the facility were kept behind until they lost their voices or simply used to pull the Dr. Shockwave's lab mutation him will be turned into a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.

After destroy giant Mount Valdrock by the meteor is suck to a unknown cybertron.

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] was hesitant to overuse the word "Transformium" due to KSI's overzealous legal department. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/03}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Shadows Rising''===
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==Toys==
===''Kre-O''===
*'''Galvatron Factory Battle''' (2014)
**''Set number'': '''???'''
**''Pieces'': '''388'''
**''Kreons'': [[Optimus Prime (Kre-O)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]], [[Vehicon (Kre-O)|Vehicon]], 2 KSI workers, Dr. Littleman.
**''Accessories'': Dr. Littleman's Spanner, KSI Worker's gun

: Available only with the "Galvatron Factory Battle" building set, Three human Kreons were featured on the set: One is a generic dark-skinned KSI scientist, a KSI security guard, and [[Dr. Littleman]]. They use the new smaller Kreon body from the Kre-O "Cityville Invasion" brand.
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Joshua Joyce

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[[File:AOE-JoshuaJoyce.jpg|thumb|300px|Probably didn't get along too well with Steve Jobs.]]
:''Joshua Joyce is a [[human]] from the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (franchise)|Age of Extinction]] portion of the [[live-action film series]] [[continuity family]].''

The technologies industry attracts, and indeed would not exist in the first place without, brilliant and determined inventors. However, the cutthroat forces of the modern world economy often push these geniuses into a state of narrow focus, trying to develop the next big thing without properly considering consequences or moral and ethical ramifications. '''Joshua Joyce''', head of [[Kinetic Solutions Incorporated]], is one of those who fell into this trap in his quest to create a line of human-made remote-controlled Transformers. But underneath, there may still be some good in him.

{{quote|Maybe all [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|he]] wants to hear you say is that some things should never be invented.|[[Cade Yeager]]|''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Age of Extinction'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Stanley Tucci]]
{{voiceactor|[[Hideyuki Umezu]] (Japanese dub)|[[Óscar Gómez]] (Latin-American spanish dub), [[Pep Antón Muñoz]] (Castilian Spanish dub), [[Bernard Alane]] (European French dub), [[Jacques Lavallée]] (Canadian French dub), [[Lutz Mackensy]] (German dub), [[Antonio Sanna]] (Italian dub), [[Jorge Lucas]] (Portuguese dub), [[İsmail Yıldız]] (Turkish), [[Ali Ekber Diribaş]] (Turkish, teaser trailer)}}
[[File:Joshua Joyce Transformium Experiment AOE.jpg|thumb|right|300px|You just gotta love the new inventions the Capitol churns out, ladies and gentlemen!]]
To fulfill his childhood dream of making the world a better place, Joyce partnered his KSI with [[Harold Attinger]]'s [[Cemetery Wind]] CIA unit to create a line of man-made [[Transformer]]s to serve the United States and the rest of the world. Following the [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Battle of Chicago]], Cemetery Wind began hunting down all Earth-bound Transformers, donating their remains to Joyce for his company to melt down and use as raw materials to make their own drones. However, Cemetery Wind was also slaughtering the heroic [[Autobot]]s, apparently knowing this and caring little, Joyce told his employees that the remains they received were those of the evil [[Decepticon]]s. To further aid in the operation, Joyce came to rely on [[Brains]] to help with the construction of the drones, treating the diminutive Autobot as a slave, and callously torturing him whenever he spoke out against his captor.

It was during this time that Joyce "cracked the code" of the Transformers' primal metals, dubbing it "[[Living metal#Live-action film series|Transformium]]". However, with Earth's limited supplies of the element running low and the demand for Transformium in the labs outgrowing the input from Cemetery Wind's hunts, Joyce and Attinger entered a deal with the non-aligned Cybertronian bounty hunter [[Lockdown (ROTF)|Lockdown]], who in exchange for Attinger's help finding [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]], would hand over a [[Seed]], which upon detonation would produce enough Transformium to last Joyce a century. Among Joyce's smaller operations were attempts to build improved counterparts of Optimus and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], though to his dismay, the intended doppelgänger of Optimus, a military prototype, kept resembling [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] with each iteration.

[[File:AOE-OptimusJoyceConfrontation.jpg|left||thumb|300px|Optimus just never gets through to the [[Seymour Simmons|well]]-[[Theodore Galloway|dressed]]-[[Charlotte Mearing|higher-up]] type.]]
However, Joyce's plans began to fall through, as did his alliance with Attinger, when [[Cade Yeager]], an ally of the Autobots, infiltrated KSI's headquarters in [[Chicago]]. Yeager was apprehended and delivered to Attinger for interrogation, but Yeager was soon rescued when the Autobots stormed the facility, having learned of the demise of [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]], and the desecration of not only his corpse but of all other Cybertronian victims of Cemetery Wind. Joyce personally confronted Optimus, and despite being intimidated by the Autobots' rage and firepower (much to the freed Brains' pleasure), kept his composure and smugly informed the Autobots that the world would approve of what he had done for the sake of technology. Joyce further explained that humanity could now produce their own Transformers, rendering the Autobots obsolete. A disgusted Optimus led the Autobots in a retreat, and it was at that moment Attinger ordered Joyce to send Galvatron and [[Stinger (AOE)|Stinger]] after the Autobot leader, declaring the raid a terrorist attack and worthy of a CIA op in retaliation. Joyce reluctantly consented, and his reluctance proved well-founded, as Galvatron not only opened fire on civilians without an order, but he ''spoke'', a function he was never programmed to do. To his immense disgust, Joyce found opposition from Attinger when he declared Galvatron a failure and scrambled paramedics to the prototype's casualties, who dismissed the damage since innocents died every day. To Joyce's surprise, Lockdown arrived on the scene and apprehended Prime before Galvatron could finish the fight.

In the wake of the destructive Autobot raid and Galvatron's unsuccessful field test, Joyce ordered all prototypes moved to their facilities in [[China]]. [[Drift (AOE)|Drift]] intercepted this information and provided Cade with Joyce's phone number. Cade warned Joyce that his prototypes had minds of their own, and tried to appeal to his conscience as an inventor. Though Joyce put up a facade, he heeded Cade's warning and ordered additional security around Galvatron. Attinger soon delivered the Seed to Joyce, but Joyce, disillusioned with his ally for his callousness during the field test and remembering Cade's warning, tried to decline the Seed. Attinger aggressively warned him to not back out, but it was at that moment that Galvatron activated on his own and breathed life into the other fifty KSI drones, taking them as his own Decepticon army. As the drones destroyed the lab, Joyce kill by a MONSTER and DEAD!!!!!!

===''Dee Dee and the Man'' film===
:''Actor:'' [[Frank Welker]]
After 10 years later a remain of Joyce with other human protagonists is killed by Overlord. While Vilgax putting all human protagonists mutated into a monsters look like Nigel from Rio putting by stabbing his head brainbox with Mandark confusion, and anger at being turned into "freaks" after Joshua openly told them that the killed Autobots like Optimus and Autobots. First he meet Kraang Subprime and other Decepticons until the Kraangs and Nigel are still searching for humans. Two humans were spotted and were captured by the Kraang. The Kraang is about to mutate them until Nigel is kill by Ms. Mimi with died.

After All of the humans were returned to Earth while the Kraang's are teleported back to Dimension X. Soon Nigel is already crashed by a huge meteor to destroyed the city.

==Notes==
*In the months leading up to ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (franchise)|The Last Knight]]'', Stanley Tucci was revealed as part of the film's cast to reprise his role as Joshua Joyce. This ultimately turned out not to be the case, with Tucci being recast as a [[Merlin|new character]].

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese'': '''Joshua Joyce''' (ジョシュア・ジョイス ''Joshua Joisu'')

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