Celestial Spires

The Golden Spires of Iacon are buildings from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Golden Spires of Iacon are towers in Iacon, located within the Great Dome. The Autobots often refer to them to signify amazement, surprise or exasperation.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Generation 1

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Optimus Prime let out a "By the Celestial Spires" when Megatron destroyed the Sherman Dam. Decepticon Dam-Busters!

Optimus Prime vowed "[b]y the Spires of Iacon" that the Decepticons would pay for abducting (and partly dismembering) Bumblebee. Crisis of Command!

Jetfire felt alienated from the other Autobots and talked about this with his creator Buster Witwicky. To illustrate the difference between him and the others, he mentioned that he'd never seen the Celestial Spires. The Gift

To delay the destruction of the Ark, Ratchet called the Decepticons' attention to a machine by exclaiming "By the Golden Spires of Iacon!". Rigging the machine to explode, Ratchet leaped out of the way and the attending Decepticons took the brunt of the explosion. All the Familiar Faces!

Marvel UK Comics future timelines

Seeing Rodimus Prime go apeshit on Galvatron for killing Blurr, Arcee reacted with "By the Celestial Spires!"

Generation 2

Optimus Prime reacted with a "By the Spires!" when the Autobase in Nevada suddenly came under attack. Tales of Earth Part Six

IDW continuity

Pyro let out a "By the sacred Spires!" when he first saw a human with his own eyes. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1

Notes

• The Spires, or rather the Autobots's tendency to swear by them, is one of the few Marvel UK details that Simon Furman brought over to the US comics when he began writing those.