'Til all are one

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 the Autobots. 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 cartoon 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 Generation 1 continuity

An ornate hall in the Acropolex had the sentence "True freedom exists when all are one." inscribed on the floor. Ruins

The Decepticons seemed 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. Megatron Origin issue 2

Rotorstorm made fun of Pyro's primus apotheosis by tricking him into saying "'til all are one." Bullets

Bombshell wanted the Transformers to join together into "all-who-are-one"--a singular united intelligence under his control. Devisive

Drift observed that Hot Rod overused the phrase. "Rodimus" replied that Optimus Prime used it, and Drift simply replied that the legendary Autobot leader had used it about "once a decade" in epic circumstances, not just because they won at Fullstasis. Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations

While Chromedome probed Overlord's memories, he inserted a "Trepan's Trigger", altering the Decepticon's memories so that the phrase was associated with all his past defeats. Later, when Rodimus inevitably said it while being choked by Overlord, the phrase triggered Overlord's pathological fear of defeat and immobilized him. The crew was able to force Overlord into his slow cell and Chromedome launched the cell into space and destroyed it. Remembrance DayUnder Cold Blue Stars

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

proof

The phrase is proof that transformers never learnt to speak properly, because if they did, they would say 'untill all are one'