AllSpark (Animated)
| The name or term "Allspark" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Allspark (disambiguation). |
- The AllSpark is an artifact in the Transformers Animated continuity
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, Autobots and Decepticons 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 unlikely allies into a team.
It can also unfold really purdy.
Fiction
Animated cartoon
Optimus Prime and his crew from the Ark 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 told them of its history and significance in the Great War, believe it the AllSpark had now found them, rather than the other way around. Almost immediately, the Decepticon leader Megatron and his crew showed up in their warship, the Nemesis, tracking the AllSpark's energy readings. Megatron vowed to take the AllSpark himself, but was sabotaged with a bomb by his lieutenant, Starscream. The explosion sent the Ark careening almost totally out of control until the AllSpark activated a nearby space bridge, which itself exploded after the Ark went through.
The ship emerged from warp 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 quickly befriended a young girl named Sari Sumdac, who convinced him to take her aboard the Ark 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. It reconfigured her 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 without having to exert themselves much, 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. 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. Transform and Roll Out!
Ever since Starscream's attack on Detroit, the AllSpark has remained on board the Ark at the bottom of Lake Erie. Lost and Found
 Spoiler warning: Plot details for Megatron Rising - Part 2 follow. of the next episode/issue in the series or 30 days after release, whichever is sooner |
The day of reckoning the Autobots had long feared came to pass when Megatron was restored and went to claim the AllSpark for his own. 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 AllSpark. In the resulting energy surge, the AllSpark was destroyed and its energy dispersed. With its destruction, Sari's key effectively became the most powerful Cybertronian artifact on the planet Earth. Megatron Rising - Part 2
Notes
The AllSpark's powers, enigmatic origin, and storyline role are very similar to the synonymous device from the 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 them great power as long as the crystal remains intact.
