Primal Essence

The Primal Essence is something that Transformers swear by.

Fiction

Marvel Generation 1 comics

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

Hosehead exclaimed: "By the Primal Essence! What is that?" upon seeing the Deathbringer. Deathbringer

Dogfight, after seeing a Vrobian outside the window, screamed: "By the Primal Essence!" Kings of the Wild Frontier.

Coming face to face with the Matrixspawn for the first time, one of the Transformers at VsQs cried: "By the Primal Essence!" Dark Creation

Notes

• One would think the Primal Essence to have some connection to the Dark Essence, Unicron's "soul". Simon Furman came up with both concepts. Alternatively, it's another name for the Primal Program.