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 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 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 and his crew showed up in their warship, tracking the AllSpark's energy readings. Megatron attacked the fleeing Autobots' 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 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 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. 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, 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!
After this, the AllSpark remained on board the Autobots' at the bottom of Lake Erie for some time. Lost and Found
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 the universe. 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. The Elite Guard.
AllSpark shards are sufficiently powerful enough to sustain Transformer life, even after their Spark has been extinguished.
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 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 InuYasha than anything else.
