Life Spark

Life Spark is a Decepticon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

LIFESPARK evolved into CYCLONUS!

Life Spark is apparently a Decepticon. His personality or characteristics are unknown.

Fiction

Marvel UK comics

Cyclonus claimed to be recreated from Life Spark by Unicron. Target: 2006

Notes

• The term "Life Spark" originates with an early draft of The Transformers: The Movie, in which it was used to refer to the life force of a Transformer. Upon reading a summary of the feature, which he had not yet seen, author Simon Furman misinterpreted this as the name of an actual Decepticon.
• In said draft, the "Life Spark" is essentially analogous to the spark, the life force of a Transformer that would be introduced in the Beast Wars cartoon some ten years after the film was released. Unlike the pulsating spheres of Beast Wars, Life Sparks are described as small glowing versions of the Transformer to whom they belong—a very "ghostly" interpretation of the idea. Other specifics include:
  • When Megatron is wounded in his battle with Optimus Prime, he realizes that his death is imminent, and requests that the Decepticons remove his Life Spark and place it in an urn in the Hall of Heroes, the customary resting place of Decepticon Life Sparks. Rather than be cast into space by Starscream, Megatron survives the trip back to Cybertron, at which point fighting breaks out in the Hall of Heroes over who will be the next leader. In the chaos, a statue is knocked over and falls on Megatron, destroying his body, and, having not been enshrined, his Life Spark then floats off into space, where it goes on to be recovered by Unicron and given a new body as Galvatron.
  • Other Life Sparks from the Hall off Heroes are also released into space from their urns at the same time Megatron was destroyed, and it is from these Life Sparks that Cyclonus, his Armada, Scourge, and the Sweeps are built. So, hey, Cyclonus was originally Murdron or Ghoulon or somebody.
  • Optimus Prime's Life Spark takes the place of the Matrix of Leadership in this version of the story, being transferred to Ultra Magnus in a beam of light, then sucked out of Magnus and placed into a bottle by Galvatron. Its power transforms Hot Rod into Rodimus Prime, and as he and Galvatron fight, the bottle is broken, and Optimus Prime's Life Spark is released and destroys Unicron as the Matrix did in the finished film.