AllSpark

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Although its physical form differs across the universal streams in which it appears, the powers and history of the AllSpark remain common across the multiverse: It is one of the fabled sacred implements, the objects capable of creating new Transformer life. Its origins are unknown, lost to the distant past, sometimes predating even 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 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 all of the incredible power that the original object did.

The AllSpark's power has long been coveted by the Decepticons, ultimately requiring the Autobots to launch it into the depths of space, putting it beyond the reach of any Cybertronian.

Fiction

Live-action movie universe

It will tear your soul apart.

In this universal cluster, the 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>Hasbro timeline</ref>

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IDW pre-movie comics

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: Seekers to search for suitable stars, and Constructicons to build massive star harvesters 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. 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 a primitive world on order to draw the other Dynasty into a trap, that he might kill them all. Tales of the Fallen #4 Only 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. Revenge of the Fallen #3

Wait, is it smaller?

As the millennia rolled by, the Transformers would form a new society, and the tales of the Primes and the 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, gathered a small group of loyal followers, including Optimus and 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 Thetacons. During the battle, technical genius 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 a temple around the AllSpark, as a way of making amends for their aggression. 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 and Cliffjumper. 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 alien species from the Eshems Nebula who attacked Cybertron. 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 Defiance issue 3 Optimus, now dubbed Optimus 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. Defiance #4

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. 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. Defiance issue 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. Movie Prequel #2 Metallurgist Lou Hoover and her husband 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, 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. Irreplaceable

Titan Magazines pre-movie comics

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 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. Prelude: Optimus Prime

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. Prelude: Megatron

Later on, a space-travelling 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 "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... Lost In Space 3: Ironhide

Transformers film

The true power behind Ernő Rubik's success.

Sector Seven agent Seymour Simmons explained that the The AllSpark was found in 1913, 16 years after the N.B.E.-01 "Iceman" was found, though carbon dating tests indicated that Cube landed on Earth some twelve thousand years earlier. The 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 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 bring mechanical devices to life.

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, and 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, 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 a object less than half a meter across, and accordingly lesser in mass as well as volume.

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 several nearby 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. Transformers

Titan Magazines post-movie comics

Come on give me a seven!

Immediately after the end of the clash in Mission City, the battle's sole Decepticon survivor, 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 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. Starscream's Militia

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The following events occur in a splinter timeline where Megatron won the battle of Mission City.

After defeating Optimus Prime, Megatron killed Sam Witwicky and claimed the All Spark, 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 transform Earth into a new Cybertron. 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 All Spark 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 All Spark'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 the All Spark in order to save the Earth. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5 A fragment of the All Spark 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 All Spark could have corrupted it somehow, Optimus Prime assigned Ratchet as the shard's guardians, Aftermath Part 1 but Ratchet could not resists trying to use the shard to revive Jazz—who was reborn as an amoral villain, proving the fragment had been indeed corrupted. Dark Spark

The Autobots were soon to discover that destroying the All Spark had not kept the Earth from danger: the planetary transformation process had reached the planet's core before it had been stopped, and the All Spark "infection" was now threatening to tear the planet apart. Return to Cybertron: Part 1 Simultaneously, on the dying Cybertron, Stockade and his small band of Decepticons sent out a signal into deep space in the hope of contacting any entity related to the All Spark, and drawing it to Cybertron so it could revive the planet.

They succeeded; unfortunately, the entity they summoned was Unicron, the Anti-Life. Return to Cybertron: Part 2 After the Autobots helped stop Unicron, Stockade provided them with the Nucleon they need to negate the All Spark infection on Earth. 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 All Spark 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 All Spark fragment into Megatron's corpse, resurrecting him. Revolution Part Three

IDW post-movie comics

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. The Reign of Starscream #2 He beamed this data to Cybertron before returning there himself, where it was used to constructed a huge replica AllSpark. 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. 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 Professor Vine for safekeeping. After the Autobots left, 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 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 L.M.-1 units. Alliance #2 After the attack, the AllSpark fragment was retrieved from the rubble by Salani and returned it to Optimus Prime. Alliance #3

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

Revenge of the Fallen film

"You got a Piece of Heart!"

In 2009, Decepticon spymaster 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 and Reedman to retrieve the fragment, and it was subsequently used by 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.

The power is mine!

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 Appliancebots 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 Seekers to translate the symbols he was seeing in hopes of finding a clue to its location. The Seeker they found was 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 into a riddle that pointed the way to the Matrix's hiding place. Revenge of the Fallen

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 novelization and IDW's 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 post-Revenge of the Fallen comics

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 in his youth, he now sought to exterminate the Transformers with their own technology. 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. 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. Nefarious #1

To feed the construct, Initiative troops penetrated Hoover Dam and gathered up the residual AllSpark energy left there after the cube's long residence. 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. 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 (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. Nefarious #6

Cyber Missions

During a series of battles that followed the defeat of The Fallen, the AllSpark was repeatedly and rather anomalously referred to as if it still existed, when the cube had long since been destroyed. When describing a clash between Sideswipe and Barricade, Optimus Prime claimed that the Autobot warrior was acting "in defense of the AllSpark" Cyber Missions #6; Megatron claimed he was searching for the AllSpark; and Optimus Prime described the Autobots as "defenders of the AllSpark". Decepticons Attack Maybe they were talking about the AllSpark knowledge that's now in the Matrix...?

Animated

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 Guardians, later the Protectobots and finally the Autobots) the AllSpark was used to generate new Transformer life by infusing the protoforms formed from the proto-matter 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 was ousted by charismatic rhetorician named Megatron, tensions finally exploded, and the Autobots and Decepticons went to 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. 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. Transform and Roll Out

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Before time began there was…the irregular decahedron.

Four million years later, an Autobot maintenance crew led by 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 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 their warship, having detected the AllSpark's energy readings. Megatron attacked the Autobots' fleeing ship to claim the AllSpark himself, but his attempt was sabotaged by a bomb placed on him by his lieutenant, 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.

Fifty years later, the Autobots awoke ventured into the nearby city of Detroit to save people from a rampaging monster. Bumblebee quickly befriended a young girl named Sari Sumdac, who convinced him to take her aboard the Autobots' ship when his teammate 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.

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 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. Transform and Roll Out

Following this, the AllSpark was returned to the Autobots ship of 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. Lost and Found

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. Megatron Rising - Part 2

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 Systemss automatons, machinery and vehicles causing them to go berserk, The Elite Guard, while other vehicles actually wound up being brought to life by the shards' power, creating Wreck-Gar, Garbage In, Garbage Out, Scrapper and Mixmaster. 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 used one to built a remote that allowed him to control other machines and fix the results of his underground street races,

Velocity and Slo-Mo found a shard that allowed her to slow down time. 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, rendered essentially immortal for as long as it remained lodged in his head. 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. 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—back online. Omega shut the bridge down by absorbing its transwarp energies, but was sucked through the vortex just before it closed, taking all the fragments the Autobots had gathered with him. 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. Three's a Crowd

Some time later, working with Jazz to complete his training in the use of processor-over-matter, 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 clones of Omega Supreme, powered by AllSpark shards he had salvaged from the giant Autobot's body. Endgame, Part I

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. Endgame, Part II

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

Aligned continuity family

Exodus novel

This universe's 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—who entirely joined the Autobots. As the Decepticons besieged Iacon, 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 emerged from the space bridge to an unknown spiral galaxy, and detected the energy of the AllSpark nearby... Transformers: Exodus

Prime cartoon

Multiple characters have sworn by the AllSpark. Darkness Rising, Part 3

Games

Transformers The Game (console)

Autobot campaign

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 drones. 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. Transformers The Game

Decepticon campaign

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. Transformers The Game

Transformers The Game (PSP)

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. Transformers The Game

Transformers: Autobots

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 Mission City, Megatron claimed the AllSpark from Bumblebee, but this did not stop the 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. Transformers: Autobots

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 and Barricade with his new powers, Starscream was then faced with his own protégé, the 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. Transformers: Decepticons

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 got hold of it, and the Autobots were victorious! Allspark Highway

Transformers Animated: The Game

Megatron hired 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 followed, but the bridge shut down before 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. Transformers Animated: The Game

Toys

Transformers (2007)

Dude, how are we supposed to play craps with this!

• Arcee Black Version (Deluxe, 2008)
• Incinerator (Voyager, 2008)
• Landmine (Deluxe, 2008)
• Stockade (Deluxe, 2008)

While the "AllSpark Power" subline imprint was quite expansive in Hasbro markets, featuring numerous new figures and redecoes in various size classes, in Japan, TakaraTomy elected to release only Incinerator, Landmine, Stockade and an exclusive black redeco of Arcee. Each of these four figures came packaged with a small AllSpark accessory that was not available with Hasbro's releases of the figures.

Merchandise

Transformers (2007)

• 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.

"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.

• 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 four interconnected transparent plastic 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!

• 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?)

Revenge of the Fallen

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 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 metallization on one of the three embossed Rubik's logos.

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 movie of the same name, so instead, the object was known as "the Energon Cube" for most of the film's production, even appearing under that name in the movie's 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 cartoon, where it was the name of the Transformer afterlife.

• In one instance in the Cybertronian subtitles used in the first movie, the object's named is parsed "All Spark". This particular parsing was also used consistently in Titan's United Kingdom 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 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 AllSpark was detailed in the apocryphal story, "Bumblebee at Tyger Pax".

Foreign names

• Japanese: AllSpark (オールスパーク Ōrusupāku)
• Dutch name: Oervonk (roughly "Ancient Spark")
• Hungarian: Örök Szikra ("Ever Spark")
• Polish: Wszechiskra ("Allspark")
• Russian: Iskra ("The Spark")
• Spanish: La Chispa Suprema (America, "The Supreme Spark")
• Ukrainian: Vseiskra ("Allspark")

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