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AllSpark (Animated)

2008-06-04T01:33:33Z

76.66.127.21: /* Notes */

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{{disambig3|Allspark}}
:''The AllSpark is an artifact in the [[Transformers Animated]] continuity''
[[Image:AllsparkTFANI.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Before time began there was…the ''irregular decahedron''.]]
A device of unknown origin and unimaginable power, the '''AllSpark''' can create life itself and was the source of the [[Transformer]] race. For millions of years, [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s waged the [[Great War]] over controlling it, with the Autobots only managing to defeat the Decepticons after they sent the AllSpark through a [[space bridge]] portal, keeping it safely out of evil hands and effectively removing the wild card from remaining battles. If wielded by Decepticons, it would be a weapon of destruction like no other. In other words, same thing as the movie.

It seems to have a will of its own, seeking out qualified bearers and uniting even [[Sari Sumdac|unlikely allies]] into a team.

It can also unfold ''really'' purdy.

==Fiction==

===Animated cartoon===
[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] and his crew of [[Autobots]] were repairing a [[space bridge]] when it activated on them. Once Prime shut down the bridge, they stumbled across the AllSpark, hidden away inside a rock, having apparently emerged while the bridge was active. [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] told them of its history and significance in the Great War, believing that the AllSpark had now found them, rather than the other way around. Almost immediately, the Decepticon leader [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] and his crew showed up in [[Nemesis (Animated)|their warship]], tracking the AllSpark's energy readings. Megatron attacked the fleeing [[Autobot ship (Animated)|Autobots' 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 until the AllSpark activated the space bridge, which itself exploded after the ship went through.

The ship emerged in low orbit over Earth and soon crash-landed in [[Lake Erie]], not far from [[Detroit]]. Fifty years later, the Autobots came out of emergency stasis and ventured into the city to save people from a rampaging monster. [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] quickly befriended a young girl named [[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. It reconfigured her [[Sari Sumdac's key|security keycard]] into a powerful tool. With this new key, Sari could revive Autobots, activate machinery, screw up robots, and much more.

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, but again it opened, this time unleashing a powerful surge of energy that blasted away Starscream to parts unknown. Prime was left dangling from a tremendous height and quickly fell. [[The Many Deaths of Optimus Prime|He did not survive the impact]], but in desperation, Sari used her reconfigured key on him. The AllSpark intervened directly this time, and Prime's [[spark]] was restored online. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out!}}

After this, the AllSpark remained on board the Autobots' at the bottom of Lake Erie for some time. {{storylink|Lost and Found (Animated episode)|Lost and Found}}

[[Image:Megatron Rising 2 All Spark Megs boom.jpg|200px|thumb|Ouch.]]
The day of reckoning the Autobots had long feared came to pass when Megatron was restored and went to claim the AllSpark once again. Inserting the AllSpark into his chest, he planned to use it as a weapon to destroy Earth and conquer Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime used Sari's key to crack the AllSpark. In the resulting energy surge, the AllSpark was destroyed and its energy dispersed. With its destruction, Sari's key became the most powerful Cybertronian artifact on the planet Earth, if not in [[Transformers: Animated|the]] [[Continuity family|universe]]. {{storylink|Megatron Rising - Part 2}}

Crystalline shards of the AllSpark landed all throughout the greater Detroit area, and were able to endow life into any machine with sufficient cybernetic technology. An office drone and a [[Sumdac Systems]] assembly line were all awakened, and showed hostility to everything around them until they were either destroyed or had the AllSpark shards removed from them. Megatron theorizes that the shards could have spread across the entire world. {{storylink|The Elite Guard}}.

AllSpark shards are sufficiently powerful enough to sustain Transformer life, even after their Spark has been extinguished.
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==Notes==
The AllSpark's powers, enigmatic origin, and storyline role are very similar to the [[All Spark (Movie)|synonymous device]] from the [[Transformers (2007)|live-action movie]]. The look of the outer container, however, is more of an homage to the [[Matrix of Leadership]] (i.e. an orange-ish container with bracketed handles and a window in front that opens outward to reveal a glowing, blue, spherical crystal suffused with blue energy). However, the AllSpark here is angular and cubic rather than curved and spheroid like the Matrix, basically hybridizing the looks of the movie and G1 devices. Unlike its Movie counterpart, it does not kill a Transformer that merges the power source, the inner crystal, with his/her Spark, but grants him/her great power as long as the crystal remains intact, a very similar effect to that of the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. The plot device of it being scattered into several pieces that can empower other machines that must be collected by the heroes seems more like the ''Shikon Jewel'' from the long-running anime series [[Wikipedia:InuYasha|''InuYasha'']] than anything else (strangely enough, [[David Kaye]] also had a role in the English version of this series).

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Swindle (Animated)

2008-06-04T01:04:33Z

76.66.127.21: /* Trivia */

{{disambig3|Swindle}}

:''Swindle is a [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Swindle-SUV.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Ladies and gentlebots, I'm going to show you the greatest upgrade ever made. The SwindleCo™ Blast-o-Matic™ can blast your enemies to julienne fries with all the precision and quality you've come to expect from a SwindleCo™ product. But wait, there's more!"]]

Quick, hide the silver! An entrepreneur with few equals, the smooth-talking '''Swindle''' is always ready to make a deal. Trading extensively with many alien races and loaded down with their respective technologies, his goods are highly useful to interstellar warlords, bounty hunters, and many, many others. Though nominally a Decepticon, he just views the Cybertronian civil war as yet another business opportunity, one which has kept him living posh for centuries and could be great for his bottom line again now that it's starting back up.

{{quote|Scruples? You'd sell your own motherboard to the highest bidder.|[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]|"[[SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy]]"}}

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Fred Willard]] (English)

{{Spoiler|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}}
[[Image:Swindle and weapon.jpg|thumb|200px|left|"What would you say if I told you that you don't ''have'' to fight Autobots. You'd say I'm crazy, right? That I'm out of my head? Well that is ''exactly'' what I'm telling you about this amazing product from SwindleCo™"]]
Swindle found out about the situation on Earth after a little business transaction with [[Lockdown|a certain bounty hunter.]] Upon his arrival, he made a deal with the newly formed [[Society of Ultimate Villainy]] ; they steal components he needs, and he will give them monetary compensation. He set the arrangement up anonymously, communicating with them through the radio in their new getaway vehicle, a present of sorts that he'd provided. When they had stolen the parts, he had them construct a generator. Sadly, the deal went sour when he asked [[Slo-Mo]] to hand over her AllSpark powered time piece. She refused, and he let them in on his little secret; he ''was'' the getaway vehicle.
[[Image:TFASwindlefullyarmed.jpg|thumb|right|150px|"That's not all, though! If you order ''right now'', I am offering this exclusive accessory package, compliments of the good folks here at SwindleCo™!"]]
He dispatched most of the SUV and used his forcefield (acquired in a deal with a race known as the [[Vok]] from [[Nexus Zero]], nice folks) to protect himself from Slo-Mo's watch. He took it from her, and contacted his old client [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]]. After a few pleasantries, he demonstrated the generator's ability to freeze everything mechanical in Detroit, including the [[Autobot]]s. Unfortunately, before the deal could go through, [[Bumblebee (Animated)|a shielded Autobot]] and the SUV burst in, and managed to knock him over the side of the parking block he had stationed himself on. While he managed to reacquire the watch, he was frozen in his vehicle mode when a blast ricocheted off of the Autobot's shield. He was last seen being towed [[Captain Fanzone|by the police]], who promised to strip apart the paralysed sentient being and sell his insides at a police auction. Bloody ''hell!''. ([[B.O.T. (episode)|The irony probably wasn't lost on him]].) {{storylink|SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy}}

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==Toys==
===Animated===
*'''Swindle''' (Deluxe, 2008)

: Swindle transforms into an armored Humvee-styled vehicle with roof-mounted cannon. This cannon mounts on his right arm in robot mode.
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==Trivia==
* Swindle's design is quite heavily influenced by his [[Swindle (G1)|Generation 1 namesake]]'s animation [[character model]], from the "squarehead" with large purple optics to the windshield-chest with grill-stomach to the right-arm-mounted cannon which can be mounted on the back of his vehicle mode. As a result, Swindle is the first and currently only Decepticon to not have red eyes.
* Swindle is a double-homage, as he also features a chest cannon that is quite similar to his [[Swindle (Movie)|movie namesake]].
* He also makes a reference to Binaltech Swindle, who possessed a forcefield because his body was meant to be [[Trailbreaker]]'s, but couldn't -use- it. This Swindle doesn't have that issue.
* He has a [[Wikipedia:bolo tie|bolo tie]]. That's awesome.
* [[Derrick J. Wyatt]] has noted that Swindle's mannerisms are based on [[wikipedia:Ron Popeil|Ron Popeil]]. (Coincidentally enough, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] has done a song about Popeil...)

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