AllSpark (Movie)
| The name or term "Allspark" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Allspark (disambiguation). |
- The All Spark is an object in the movie continuity.
The All Spark is a physical object of mysterious origin. A large, metallic cube, it is inscribed with ornate runes and is responsible for creating a race of dimension-hoppers, the Transformer race and the planet of Cybertron itself.
| “ | Before time began, there was... the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. | ” |
—Optimus Prime on the origins of his race, Transformers | ||
- Hungarian name: Örök Szikra (translates roughly to "Ever-spark")
- Polish name: Wszechiskra
Fiction
IDW Transformers movie comics
The All Spark's origins are unknown. What is known is it was responsible for creating Cybertron and a number of entities, only to end up depleted of energy. It could, however, be repowered by the energy from suns. To harvest this energy it created a new race of helpers, the Transformers. Transformers called seekers had the ability to travel into interstellar space and sought out suitable suns. Other Transformers constructed harvesters which enabled the collection of such energy.
Its original creations were betrayed and killed or incapacitated by one of their own, leaving the Transformers the sole inhabitants of Cybertron. Defiance issue 4
The Transformers were unaware of their predecessors or the All Spark's origin, but to them the All Spark was the source of life, and that was all that mattered. In return for this act of creation and the continued sustaining of Cybertron, the Transformers tended to the All Spark and kept it safe. Under the reign of science division leader Optimus Prime and defense force leader Protector Megatron, the Transformers flourished. Prime Directive issue 1 The peace ended when the Fallen's sarcophagus was dug up, causing the All Spark to give off pulses, attracting the attention of a hostile alien species who attacked Cybertron. This led to an increasingly darker Megatron Defiance issue 1 to be tempted by the Fallen into trying to seize the power of the All Spark.
Now Lord of Cybertron, Megatron went rogue with his own army, the Decepticons, branding those who followed Optimus traitors. Defiance issue 3 Optimus Prime formed his own army, the Autobots, to counter Megatron. In the war that followed, Cybertron was decimated, and eventually Optimus was forced to capture the All Spark to keep it out of enemy hands. Defiance issue 4 The Autobots fought valiantly, but the Decepticons quickly gained ground.
Eventually, Prime made the decision to launch the All Spark blindly into space. At Optimus Prime's orders, Bumblebee and a group of Autobots served as decoys, drawing the Decepticons—who thought they had the All Spark—to Tyger Pax, far enough away from the artifact's true location to buy Prime the time needed to prepare the launch. Megatron himself took a personal hand in the torture of Bumblebee, attempting to force him to reveal the All Spark's location, but his efforts went in vain, and the All Spark was blasted into space to put it beyond Megatron's reach. In response, Megatron crushed Bumblebee's voice box and began to follow the All Spark into deep space. Prime Directive issue 1
Once launched into space, the AllSpark would seek out on its own the location of a harvester. Defiance issue 4
Titan Magazines Transformers comics
The All Spark was not merely launched blindly into space, however—its trajectory was leading it 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 All Spark 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 All Spark energy though, making it clear the original inhabitants did have some connection to the All Spark... Lost In Space 3: Ironhide
When it turns human non-sentient mechanical devices into Transformers, the All Spark energy within them forms into small, red All Spark cubes; these can be removed and placed into other things. Starscream used this to make zombie Decepticons. Starscream's Militia It can also cyberform planets. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 1
When Megatron claimed the All Spark, he both used it to transform Earth into a new Cybertron Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5 and personally bonded with it, being able to channel its power. Ratchet was forced to destroy it to stop it. Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5 However, a fragment survived: due to the nature of the Cube, it could end up possessing the same power as the original All Spark. However, there was a risk that Megatron's link to it has corrupted the Cube. Ratchet was assigned to guard it Aftermath Part 1 but eventually weakened and decided to use the fragment to revive Jazz—who was reborn as an amoral villain, proving the fragment had been indeed corrupted. Dark Spark
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 was not a nice one at all Return to Cybertron: Part 2 and possessed the entire planet before it was finally stopped.
Transformers (2007) movie
The All Spark 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 type of radiation[1] which could bring mechanical devices to life.
Years later, when Megatron eventually came back online due to the intervention of his soldiers, Sam Witwicky convinced Sector Seven (with the help of Captain William Lennox's men) to release Bumblebee, explaining he could help. Bumblebee interacted with the cube and 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. Bumblebee and a military escort, soon joined by the Autobots, took the Cube to Mission City, where Sam ran through the city avoiding the Decepticons. Along the way, Sam stumbled, and the All Spark released a wave of energon radiation which animated several nearby machines into living robots. During the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, the Autobot leader told Sam to merge the Cube with his spark.
However, Sam instead merged it with Megatron's spark, destroying both Megatron and the All Spark. Gazing at his dead brother for one last time, Optimus fished a fragment of the All Spark out of Megatron's chest.
Without a means to restore their homeworld, the Autobots elected to remain on Earth, and Prime sent a message to inform the surviving Autobots of their new found home. Transformers
IDW Transformers movie comics
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. When the All Spark shard pulsed with energy near Megatron'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 Wreckage was also in the same facility. Optimus Prime, feeling something was wrong, ordered Ironhide and Bumblebee to go back to the Nevada facility to retrieve the All Spark fragment. As Simmons and Vine are moving the relic into secure storage, it suddenly flies out of their hands and onto Wreckage's chest, reactivating the very angry Decepticon and Sector Seven's own L.M.-1 units. During Wreckage's rampage, Vine was convinced that they had to find the shard before it caused more havoc, but he was caught in the blast of Starscream's attack on his fellow Decepticon and killed. Alliance issue 2
In the aftermath of the attack, Simmons was more interested in finding the fragment of the All Spark than mourning the death of Vine. Salani retrieved the All Spark ahard from the rubble and returned it to Optimus Prime. Eventually, the Autobots and the American military entered into a formal alliance to defend Earth. The All Spark fragment was stored in a bunker under their base on the island of Diego Garcia. Alliance issue 3
Revenge of the Fallen movie
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However, the shard in NEST's custody was not the only surviving piece of the All Spark. When Sam Witwicky arrived at college and began unpacking, a sliver of the All Spark fell out of the hoodie he wore during the battle of Mission City. Revenge of the Fallen (film)
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Games
Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons
Throughout both games, the Autobots and Decepticons are racing to Hoover Dam to recover the All Spark and Megatron's frozen body from Sector 7 control. As the Cube is approached, it creates drones from nearby equipment to defend itself, finally explaining the aggressive tendencies of the robots created on Earth.
In the Autobots ending, Create-a-Bot smashes Megatron in the chest with the cube, finally ending his god-mode and opening him up for attack, but in the process sacrifices himself so that Optimus Prime can finish the Decepticon leader once and for all.
Basically, the Decepticons version ends the same, but with the evil Blum-bot attacking Starscream so that Megatron can destroy the traitor. Unlike the Autobots version, however, Starscream seems largely unharmed, if not empowered. This doesn't end well for Create-A-Bot OR Starscream, though, as Megatron still destroys his former second-in-command, then kills the newbie for being "weak." Transformers Autobots/Decepticons
Notes
- The movie's All Spark was derived from hybridizing the concepts of Vector Sigma and the Matrix of Leadership, but the term "Matrix" was off limits because of the movie of the same name, and it's a big cube because, in the original screenplay, it was going to be called the "Energon Cube" instead. Optimus Prime's description in the movie intro would suggest it also bears similarities to a Cyber Planet Key from Transformers Cybertron. Being the object that brought robotic life to Cybertron would also make it comparable to the Key to Vector Sigma of Generation One.
- The All Spark also bears no small resemblance in form and function to the Underbase, in that it's a giant cube-shaped object with remarkable powers that was launched from Cybertron in order to keep it out of Megatron's hands, and then flew aimlessly through space for millions of years.
- By stating Cybertron and the Transformers were created by the All Spark, the movie retcons the retcon that Primus is Cybertron & the source of Transformer life across all continuities. Unless, that is, the All Spark is Primus' proxy or means through which he acts.
Toys
Transformers (2007)
- Various AllSpark Power toys
- A small version of the All Spark was available with Japanese versions of the AllSpark Power toys.
Merchandise
- All Spark Cube with candy (2007)
- A small transparent cube filled with yummy life-giving candy pieces.
- Allsparks cubes (2007)
- 4 sticker-labeled plastic folding party favor/puzzle Allsparks [sic] cubes that can be opened and stacked in different configurations to complete images of the Movie Transformers. Created by DesignWare, a subsidiary of the American Greetings greeting card company. (Says it all, doesn't it?)
Transformers (2007)
- All Spark Cube (2007)
- Released by Popbox Collectibles, this 1:4 scaled, 7cm paperweight replica of the All Spark is made from die-cast metal. It also comes with a small 3x3x2cm square perspex base.
Revenge of the Fallen
- Rubik's Cube Allspark Edition (2009)
- Originally slated to be released in 2008, this item was held back and will instead be released in new packaging as part of the Milton Bradley's Revenge of the Fallen merchandise line.
Trivia
- In July 2007, several items from the 2007 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.
References
- ↑ Identified as Energon in Transformers The Game
