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This article is about the catchphrase. For the music CD set, see 'Til All Are One: Featuring Stan Bush and Vince DiCola.

I SAID that already!

"'Til all are one" is a phrase knit through Transformers mythology and legend, often used as a rallying cry by Transformers, most frequently the Autobots.

The peace of one planet will become the peace over the universe and the peace of the universe will become the peace over all universes, 'til all are one!Primus, "Homecoming"

That which does not become part of the one shall become void.The Vok, "Other Voices, Part 1"

Maintain the balance, until all are one.Primus, "Trap"

Until the Day, 'til all are one.Cybertronian maxim, "The Transformers: The Movie"

For The One is power ultimate. And there are those who would divert its creation to their own ends.The Vok, "Primeval Dawn Part 1"

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Meaning

It's been translated as either until the end of the Great War, when all Transformers shed their factional affiliations, or until all are rejoined into the Allspark of Primus.

Fiction

Generation 1 Animated Continuity

The phrase was first introduced as Optimus Prime's deathbed mantra, and it would then be repeated regularly by Ultra Magnus, Rodimus Prime, and many of the other Autobots. The Transformers: The Movie

It even appears in the movie's closing theme: The last verse ends with a declaration that although the stand has been made and the immediate battle is over, the war with the powers of darkness will continue "'til the day when all are one."

Having seized the Matrix of Leadership, Galvatron gloated that "all shall be one" under his rule. The Burden Hardest to Bear

Beast Wars

Rhinox refers to the Matrix dimension as a place "where all are one." Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)

Beast Machines

As Megatron consumed the captured sparks of every Cybertronian, he urged "let us all become one!" Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege

Robots in Disguise

Omega Prime's Matrix Blade had this phrase written across the hilt. Omega Prime toy

Unicron Trilogy

Cybertron

When communicating with the Autobots, Primus would intone the phrase in reference to their quest to restore his Allspark. Later, when he created the Ark out of the four Cybertronian starships signifying the unity of the Transformers, he said that all were finally one. End

Dreamwave comics continuity

You're on this council, but we do not grant you the rank of Prime.

The Autobot Council of Ancients held court in a chamber embossed with the same logo that had appeared on Omega Prime's sword. The War Within #1

The Seal of Primus also had "'til all are one" written on it. Conflagration

IDW comics continuity

The Decepticons seem to have a much darker use for the phrase. During a gladiatorial death match between Megatron and an unnamed opponent, the crowd begin to chant the phrase, apparently attempting to goad Megatron into finishing off his opponent. It is unknown why the crowd would choose this chant to encourage a gladiator to kill someone. Megatron Origin issue 2

Shattered Glass

The evil Optimus Prime sports a mocking juxtaposition of the famous saying on his alternate mode, reading "'Til all are gone!" Shattered Glass

Notes

• The phrase has its roots in early script drafts of The Transformers: The Movie. Rather than feature the Matrix of Leadership, early versions of the movie's story instead had "Life Sparks", Transformer life-forces very similar to the sparks that would later be introduced in Beast Wars. Upon his death, Prime transfers his own Life Spark to Ultra Magnus, and then utters a prototypical version of the phrase clearly derived from this practise: "Til all Life Sparks are one!" The original intent of the phrase, then, was clearly to reference a time when all Transformer life had ceased and become one in the afterlife, long before the idea of a singular afterlife for the entire race was independently created by other writers.

See also

• Darkest hour