AllSpark

The AllSpark is a primordial relic that appears in various iterations of the Transformers multiverse. While its exact appearance differs in each universe it has appeared in, its powers and its importance to the Transformer race has remained consistent across all of them. It is a mysterious object that is capable of bringing life to otherwise lifeless worlds, being responsible for the creation of Cybertron and its inhabitants.

Though it appears in physical form, the AllSpark is truly pure energy bound to a physical shell. While its vessel can be damaged or destroyed, the true essence of the AllSpark is a cosmic constant; it cannot be truly destroyed, only dispersed to inevitably coalesce within a new vessel. Any fragments that would remain in the event of the AllSpark's physical destruction would still possess the incredible power that the original object did.

In various Transformers tales, the AllSpark's power has been coveted by the Decepticons and has been the reason behind the Great Cybertronian War as the Autobots have fought to prevent the relic's power from being abused.

Bayverse[]

In Michael Bay's live-action Transformers films, the AllSpark is a cube made from an unknown material and covered with alien glyphs and symbols. The origins of the AllSpark cube are a mystery to all, but what is known about it is the power it contains. It is energon in its purest state, capable of creating new Transformer life and imbuing it with intelligence and knowledge. The cube itself is but a vessel, the energy and knowledge it contains cannot be destroyed, merely transformed and bound to a new vessel.

The AllSpark is regarded as the most sacred icon in Transformer history, for it is responsible for forming Cybertron and creating all life upon it. But like with all great powers, there are those who would wish to use it for selfish and destructive purposes, such as Cybertron's former High Protector, Lord Megatron. Megatron and his Decepticon army waged a planetwide war for the Allspark, intending to use it to dominate the entire universe. The cube was jettisoned into space by the Autobots to prevent Megatron from acquiring it, but the robotic warlord took to the stars and followed it to Earth. Both Megatron and the cube crashed on Earth in different locations, with the Decepticon leader being buried in the Antarctic for countless years until being discovered by the explorer Archibald Witwicky. Through Archibald and Megatron, a secretive group within the American government discovered the AllSpark and Hoover Dam was eventually built around it, where it remained hidden until the Decepticons eventually found Earth and infiltrated human society in order to find the cube and Megatron.

Transformers (2007)[]

Both the Decepticons and the Autobots find the AllSpark cube in the custody of Sector 7, a secret government unit dedicated to investigating extraterrestrial activities on Earth. The Autobots enlist the aid of the human boy Sam Witwicky - great-great-grandson of Archibald Witwicky - who possessed his ancestor's old spectacles which were engraved with the cube's coordinates after Archibald had found Megatron in the Arctic Circle. Sam was taken into custody by Sector 7 and the Autobots and Decepticons tracked him to Hoover Dam where, sure enough, the AllSpark was being housed, along with Megatron's frozen body. The Decepticon infiltrator Frenzy snuck into the facility along with Sam and accessed the devices that kept Megatron frozen. As Megatron thawed, Bumblebee shrunk down the AllSpark to a smaller size, small enough for Sam to carry with him.

The Autobots and Sam withdrew to Mission City where a battle took place for possession of the cube, with Megatron pursuing Sam through a building and demolishing it when Sam refused to give up the cube. In the end, however, that was just what Sam did, though not quite in the way Megatron hoped. Sam thrust the AllSpark into Megatron's chest, the cube igniting and fragmenting as it ripped through the Decepticon leader's armour and burned out his spark core. Megatron was dead, and the AllSpark was seemingly destroyed, but a couple of small shards of the cube remained that still contained tremendous power. One piece was taken by the US government and sealed away, whereas Sam unknowingly retained the other.

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen[]

Two years after the events of the first film, Sam discovered the sliver of the AllSpark he retained after the Mission City incident, which burned its knowledge into the boy's mind. This made him a target for the Decepticons, who had stolen the only other cube shard from NEST and used it to reincarnate Megatron. As Megatron and The Fallen sent out their minions across the planet, Sam and his friends went in search of the Matrix of Leadership in order to ressurrect Optimus Prime, who had been slain by Megatron. Eventually the Matrix was discovered and Sam used it to restore Optimus. At the same time, the AllSpark's knowledge and power was transferred to the Matrix, which Optimus kept after defeating the Fallen.

Transformers Animated[]

In the Transformers Animated cartoon series, the AllSpark appears as a spherical crystal that is contained within a metallic casket. It is not known with absolute certainty if it predates Cybertron in this reality; the earliest record of its existence is its appearance in many primitive etchings from Cybertronian pre-history, dating to around eight billion years ago. The AllSpark's volatility meant that it required a housing to safely harness its powers, and so legend says that seven billion years ago, a mysterious hammer of alien origin that would become the symbol of Autobot leadership known as the Magnus Hammer was used to forge a container for the crystal sphere, which then held it through until the present day. Kept in the hands of the ruling body of Cybertron (originally the Guardians, later the Protectobots and finally the Autobots) the AllSpark was used to generate new Transformer life by infusing the protoforms formed from the protomatter mined from Cybertron's Sonic Canyons with sparks.

Around seventy million years ago, the Decepticon faction emerged, advocating the use of the AllSpark to bring Cybertron itself to life, that it might serve as a cosmic juggernaut that would allow the Transformers to return to the era of expansion and colonization of other worlds they had enjoyed nearly 700 million years beforehand. When the Decepticon leader Megazarak was ousted by a charismatic rhetorician named Megatron, tensions finally exploded, and the Autobots and Decepticons went to war for possession of the AllSpark.

After something in the vicinity of six million years of civil war, things reached a crisis point when the Decepticons began a strategic bombing campaign on Cybertron, demanding the AllSpark be turned over in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. Rather than give in to Megatron's demands, the Autobots instead sought to put the AllSpark beyond any Cybertronian's reach, launching it randomly through a space bridge to some distant corner of the galaxy, where it was hoped it would never be found.

Following this, Autobot intelligence agent Highbrow cracked an encrypted Decepticon frequency between Megatron and Scrash. Using the channel, Highbrow leaked false information that the AllSpark had wound up on Floron III. When the Decepticon fleet arrived to collect it, they were ambushed by the waiting Autobot fleet in what became known as the Ambush of Floron III.

Four million years later, an Autobot maintenance crew led by Optimus Prime were repairing a space bridge in the Azazel asteroid belt when they stumbled across the AllSpark, hidden away inside a rock. Of their number, only Ratchet recognized the relic, telling them of its history and significance in the Great War, and believing that the AllSpark had now found them, rather than the other way around. Almost immediately, a small band of Decepticons led by Megatron—long since exiled after the war's end—showed up in their warship, having detected the AllSpark's energy readings. Megatron attacked the Autobots' fleeing 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, at which point the AllSpark activated the space bridge, opening a portal through which the ship disappeared. It rematerialized over Earth, and the Autobots entered emergency stasis just before crash-landing in Lake Erie.

Fifty years later, the Autobots awoke and ventured into the nearby city of Detroit 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. Under its own power, the container opened to reveal the crystal within, which fired a beam of light at Sari's security keycard, reconfiguring it into the AllSpark Key, a powerful tool with which Sari could upgrade, modify, heal and reconfigure just about any electrical device or appliance, including the bodies of the Transformers themselves.

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 in mid-air but again it opened, this time unleashing a powerful surge of energy that blasted away Starscream to parts unknown. Prime did not survive his subsequent fall, but in desperation, Sari used the reconfigured AllSpark Key on him. The AllSpark intervened directly this time, and Prime's spark was restored online. The energy surge however served as a beacon for both the Autobots and Decepticons, both factions scrambling to come to Earth and claim the AllSpark.

Following this, the AllSpark was returned to the Autobots' ship at the bottom of Lake Erie, and kept there for safety, rather than in their new Detroit headquarters. When more and more Decepticons began appearing on Earth, the Autobots believed it would be necessary to reactivate their ship and take the AllSpark away from Earth, but Sari refused to let her new friends go, and tried to sabotage their ship. The AllSpark, however, refused to let her, automatically repairing any damaged she inflicted before opening once more to project a terrifying hologram of Megatron, warning Sari of the danger that secretly lay in hiding on Earth.

The day of reckoning the Autobots had long feared came to pass when Megatron—whose decapitated head had been recovered by Sari's father in his youth and had since been kept in his laboratory—was restored through the power of Sari's stolen key. Invading the Autobots' now-airborne ship, Megatron tore the crystal sphere of the AllSpark from its container and inserted it into his chest, planning to use it as a weapon to destroy Earth and conquer Cybertron. However, Optimus Prime was able to reclaim Sari's AllSpark Key, and used it to crack the crystal, causing an energy surge that led the AllSpark to shatter explosively.

The AllSpark's physical form may have been destroyed but its power was as potent as ever, merely dispersed. Portions of its substance also remained in the form of crystalline shards, which rained down across the greater Detroit area, yielding a variety of different effects. The earliest shards discovered had embedded themselves into Sumdac Systems's automatons, machinery and vehicles causing them to go berserk, while other vehicles actually wound up being brought to life by the shards' power, creating Wreck-Gar, Scrapper, and Mixmaster. The human supervillains of Detroit were even able to get their hands on a few shards and put them to nefarious uses: Master Disaster used one to build a remote that allowed him to control other machines and fix the results of his underground street races, and Slo-Mo found a shard that allowed her to slow down time.

Starscream also felt the life-giving power of a shard: having been killed by Megatron shortly after his restoration, the treacherous Decepticon was brought back to life by a fragment and rendered essentially immortal for as long as it remained lodged in his head. By breaking off small chips of the fragment, Starscream was able to create an army of clones of himself that he intended to use to usurp Megatron as Decepticon leader. During the subsequent attack, however, Starscream was decapitated by a Headmaster unit, and Megatron used his head and the AllSpark fragment within it to power his newly-constructed space bridge. To stop Megatron's plan to invade Cybertron, the Autobots used all the shards they had collected to bring their ship—in actuality the giant Autobot warrior Omega Supreme—back online. Omega shut the bridge down by absorbing its transwarp energies, but was sucked through the vortex just before it closed, taking all the fragments the Autobots had gathered with him. Nevertheless, the Autobots were seen with another shard in their possession soon after, which inadvertently merged with a Headmaster unit and a fork lift to create Dirt Boss.

Some time later, working with Jazz to complete his training in the use of processor-over-matter, Prowl successfully communed with the AllSpark, summoning together tiny slivers of its substance and energy to re-form a shard. This revelation came at the best possible time: soon after, Megatron attacked Detroit with three clones of Omega Supreme, powered by AllSpark shards he had salvaged from the giant Autobot's body. To save the city, Jazz and Prowl combined their abilities to reconstitute as much of the AllSpark as they could, intending to use its power to project a shield over the metropolis. Although the pair were able to summon and re-combine many crystals, including Starscream's, they were unable to gather enough to accomplish the task, and so Prowl sacrificed himself, adding his own spark to the crystal mass, providing the necessary power. The AllSpark generated a shield that protected Detroit from the explosion caused by bombs Starscream had planted in the Omega Supreme clones, and the Autobots emerged triumphant.

Discovering that the reconstituted AllSpark was as volatile as legend claimed, Optimus Prime used the Magnus Hammer (previously stolen from Ultra Magnus by Shockwave but later reclaimed by the Earthbound Autobots) to forge a new, smaller container for the crystal that he called an "AllSpark Matrix". Wearing this Matrix around his neck on a chain, Prime led the victorious Autobots back to Cybertron.

Aligned continuity[]

Novels[]

The AllSpark resided in the Well of All Sparks on Cybertron, where it carried out the will of Primus by creating every Cybertronian life. When the Autobot/Decepticon war erupted, however, the AllSpark briefly ceased to produce life in a seeming act of divine rebellion, only to apparently change its mind and create one final generation — including Bumblebee—who entirely joined the Autobots. As the Decepticons besieged Iacon, Optimus Prime made the decision to eject the AllSpark into space.

Many cycles later, after the war had drained Cybertron of energon, forcing the Autobots and Decepticons to depart the planet, the Autobot Ark emerged from the space bridge to an unknown spiral galaxy, and detected the energy of the AllSpark nearby.

When the Autobots and Decepticons arrived on the planet Aquatron, the Curator, as part of a Quintesson plot to reclaim Cybertron, claimed to know the AllSpark's location, offering to reveal it to Optimus Prime should the Prime cooperate with the "peace talks" that would occur the next morning.

Transformers: Prime[]

The AllSpark was composed of pure energy. In order to protect it from Megatron, Alpha Trion forged a vessel to hold it and Optimus Prime oversaw its ejection into space. It eventually ended up in the extremely hazardous Theta Scorpii system, where it remained until Cybertron was restored. Using the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus guided Wheeljack aboard Ultra Magnus's ship, personally retrieving the artifact from a plasma storm. When the two returned to Cybertron, the AllSpark's energy signature, near identical to Primus's own, drew the attention of Unicron, having been roused from slumber by Primus's own awakening. Seeking to devour and destroy the AllSpark, Unicron shot down Magnus's ship, but was detained before he could. Seizing the opportunity, Optimus Prime merged the AllSpark with the Matrix of Leadership, using its emptied vessel to trap Unicron's Anti-Spark. As a consequence, this meant his own spark, merged with the Matrix, could not be separated from those within the AllSpark, forcing Optimus to sacrifice his life to reignite the Core.

Transformers: Cyberverse[]

Its origins unknown, the AllSpark was the source of Cybertronian life. To traverse the metallic planet, the AllSpark spawned a series of GroundBridge portals.

During the Great War, Megatron sought to use Vector Sigma to reprogram the AllSpark and birth an army of loyal Decepticons. Learning of this plan, the Autobots took measures to protect the AllSpark, intending to place it in secure storage; Bumblebee was entrusted with delivering the sacred object to its safe haven. His journey there was interrupted when the AllSpark began speaking to him; stopping to investigate this, he (and part of the surrounding landscape) was briefly covered in energy emanating from the AllSpark before a message from Grimlock broke his entrancement and the AllSpark returned to its normal quiescent state. Arriving at the storage facility his delay proved fortuitous as the Decepticons destroyed it just before he could enter; Bumblebee was able to flee from Starscream and his Seekers with his precious cargo. Later, it was decided to take the AllSpark away from Cybertron via space bridge; the Decepticons' attempt to prevent this nearly succeeded, with Optimus Prime forced to throw the AllSpark through a damaged and failing space bridge portal, transporting it to a random location somewhere in the universe.

Without the AllSpark however, Cybertron's condition began to decline. Realizing the mistake he'd made, Optimus made plans to leave Cybertron and bring the AllSpark back home.

The AllSpark crashed on Earth during the era of Pangaea. Its original landing site was unknown as it again spawned a network of GroundBridge portals, using them to traverse the organic planet, eventually coming to rest in the heart of Africa, at the nexus of all the portals. The AllSpark called upon the spark of Cheetor, resurrecting him and giving him a new body so he could protect it.

The Ark starship was eventually launched to find the AllSpark. The journey however took much longer than the crew expected and they all sequestered themselves into stasis pods... a second before Teletraan-1 detected the AllSpark and set course for Earth to collect it.

Some 66 million years later, the Decepticons were able to deduce that the AllSpark had ended up on Earth, leading Windblade to journey there to attempt to find it before the Decepticons could. When Slipstream and her squad had failed in their job, Shockwave came to Earth with magnetic disruptors, intending to use them to scour Earth of organic life so the Decepticons could quickly locate the AllSpark.

When the rest of Decepticon High Command arrived on Earth, they enacted a plan to destroy Earth so they could find the AllSpark in the debris field, first trying this via a Planet Smasher and then via using planetary engines to ram the moon into the Earth.

The frequent clashes had drawn the attention of Cheetor, resulting in both Autobots and Decepticons learning of the GroundBridges. Using the portals as a map, both factions located the AllSpark but only Optimus Prime and Megatron were permitted into its chamber. As Cheetor oversaw the two duelling for the AllSpark, it was stolen by the exiled Starscream who sought to use it and Vector Sigma to create his own army.

Beyond certifiable at this point, Starscream believed he'd been to the AllSpark and back, convinced he was acting out a higher purpose by killing off all Cybertronians and reuniting their sparks in the AllSpark. Acid Storm managed to reprogram Vector Sigma to create an army for Starscream but it was an army of Scraplets, whom Starscream believed were reborn Ancients. When leading his Scraplets to attack the Nemesis, Starscream embedded the AllSpark on his shoulder. When Cheetor touched the AllSpark, it destroyed Starscream's spark armor as well healing all the Scraplet inflicted wounds.

When the perpetually duelling Jetfire and Sky-Byte arrived on Earth, Starscream smoothed talked both of them into letting him use the AllSpark on them and grant them spark armor. As a result, both now knew the AllSpark's location and informed their leaders.

Acid Storm eventually cracked Vector Sigma's security, ordering the AllSpark to shed its physical form and merge with Starscream. Empowered by the artifact, Starscream absorbed the sparks of his Seekers before he set out to the GroundBridge nexus so he could do the same to all Autobots and Decepticons, using the AllSpark to first arrest their motor functions. Optimus Prime, however, managed to call on the energies of the Matrix of Leadership, the talisman blasting the AllSpark out of Starscream and reconstituting its physical form. After a short battle, the Autobots escaped back to the Ark with the AllSpark and Starscream.

Wasting no time, the Autobots launched the Ark and made for the orbiting space bridge so that the AllSpark could heal Cybertron. As they neared the wormhole, they were intercepted by the Nemesis, the Decepticon ship's artillery nearly crashing the Autobot ship before Cheetor used the AllSpark to repair it. Even with such a miracle, they failed to make it to the space bridge before Shockwave destroyed it, forcing them to take the long way home.

Wheeljack hooked up a system to fuel the Ark via the AllSpark's power, even creating remote energy chips for his comrades so they could taste its endless reserves of energon. Having gotten his servos on one of the chips, Starscream hacked into the system and exposed the Autobots to too much of the AllSpark's power, sending them out of control until Optimus shut down the system. When the Autobots crossed paths with the Sharkticons, Cheetor used the AllSpark to, largely, reconstitute the aliens' homeworld.

As they continued onwards, the Ark sailed by a Cybertronian colony that had been founded by the ailing Titan Croaton. Heavily damaged by alien invaders, Croaton telepathically reached out to the cityspeaker Windblade and had her bring the AllSpark to his spark chamber. Once its power had healed him, he returned the artifact to Cheetor.

After receiving a distress signal from Chromia, the Autobots tried to use an old space bridge to get home but found themselves trapped in unspace along with alternate versions of themselves. Using the power of all the AllSparks, the Autobots were able to open a portal back to reality.

When the Autobots entered Cybertronian airspace, they anticipated a Decepticon attack, abandoning the Ark to be destroyed by a laser snare, Cheetor carrying the AllSpark to safety.

Guarded by Hot Rod and Bumblebee, Cheetor tried to reach the Well of All Sparks via the underground tunnels only for the trio to be attacked by Drift, revealed as a deep cover Decepticon, who tried to claim the AllSpark only for Hot Rod to bar his path.

Arriving at the Well, Bumblebee and Cheetor briefly faced off against Shockwave before they returned the AllSpark to its resting place, revitalizing Cybertron. With Vector Sigma destroyed, Megatron ordered Shockwave to destroy the AllSpark, the scientist extracting his own spark and having it corrupt the AllSpark forcing Cheetor to sacrifice his own life to preserve the artifact.

Off in deep space, Starscream had been found by the Quintessons, selling out his species and the AllSpark to the aliens. In gratitude, the Quintessons incorporated Starscream into their new Judge, leeching away the AllSpark's energy to fuel his transformation.

Generation 1[]

War for Cybertron trilogy[]

The AllSpark was the source of all Cybertronian life, existing in a symbiotic relationship with Cybertron. It had been absent from Cybertronian society for ten thousand stellar cycles before the Great War, was thought to be a myth before Alpha Trion's work led Shockwave to conclude of its existence. When he brought his findings to Megatron, the scientist proposed using the AllSpark to create a "reformatting wave" to turn the Autobot resistance into Decepticons. Held prisoner, Ultra Magnus overheard this and transmitted the Decepticons' plan to the Autobots, the Decepticons picking up on the transmission and using it to bait their foes into a trap. Upon being informed of the existence of a space bridge, Optimus Prime decided to launch the AllSpark off Cybertron so that the Decepticons could not pervert its power.

After Bumblebee had received the Alpha Trion Protocols, he used them to locate the AllSpark in the Sea of Rust. Leading a team, Optimus claimed the AllSpark, reconstituting its physical form and made for the space bridge, only for Megatron to deduce his scheme and intercept him. Though Megatron won their fight and claimed the artifact, he was blindsided by Bumblebee, allowing Optimus to seize the AllSpark and hurl it through the space bridge. The AllSpark passed through the Dead Universe, before it wound up on the planet Earth. Landing in a forest, the AllSpark cyberformed a copy of its temple on Cybertron.

Without the AllSpark, Cybertron's condition worsened, prompting the Decepticons to begin construction of a vessel to evacuate the planet and find a new world to conquer.

In space, the Ark managed to locate the AllSpark but lacked the energon reserves to fly to its location. Its crew instead sought to make use of another space bridge to reach it. After a trip to the Dead Universe, the Ark, now followed by the Decepticon ship, the Nemesis, made it to Earth, but a space battle prevented either faction from retrieving the AllSpark.

When the Autobots and Decepticons, aided by the Maximals and Predacons respectively, converged on the forest, the AllSpark began creating illusions to defend itself. When Optimus Prime and Megatron breached the temple, the AllSpark, using Elita-1's form as an avatar, challenged Optimus to give the Matrix of Leadership to Megatron. When the Decepticon leader greedily took it, he failed the AllSpark's test. Finding Optimus Prime worthy, the AllSpark reformed itself.

Finding the AllSpark to be dying without Cybertron, Optimus Prime insisted that they return to Cybertron. After Teletraan-I transformed the Ark into a robot mode to down the Nemesis, the ship launched for Cybertron.

Returning to see that Cybertron was a frozen wasteland, Optimus Prime made for the Temple of the AllSpark only for Galvatron and Nemesis Prime to confront the four factions, seeking to use the AllSpark to kill Unicron. As Optimus fought his future self, he entrusted the AllSpark to Bumblebee who managed to return it to its rightful place. Returned to its full strength, the AllSpark banished Nemesis Prime and Galvatron but failed to kill them, the two being saved by Unicron.

Transformers: EarthSpark[]

The AllSpark was the source of all life on Cybertron, and was at the center of the Cybertronians' war. The Decepticons wanted to use the AllSpark to create a legion of warriors, while the Autobots sought to protect the universe from its misuse. When the war found its way to Earth in 1984, the AllSpark came to Earth with them, and its removal from Cybertron threatened the survival of the mechanical world. In the final days of the war, the Autobots (and a repentant Megatron) managed to retrieve the AllSpark from Decepticon possession in the hopes of sending it back to Cybertron. During the Battle of the Spacebridge, Megatron threw the AllSpark into the spacebridge, but to protect it from the Decepticons, the spacebridge was destroyed just as the artifact entered the portal. With their only link to Cybertron cut off, the fate of the AllSpark remained unknown, and the uncertainty of whether it had returned to revive Cybertron or been destroyed in the explosion would haunt Megatron in the following years.

Years later, an image of the AllSpark, covered in flowers in honour of the lives lost during the battle, was part of the display at the Spacebridge Memorial Park, along with a statue of Megatron hurling it into the portal. With the AllSpark lost, the only known source of life for new Transformers was Quintus Prime's Emberstone, which had created the Terrans.

Trivia[]

The AllSpark artifact was first realized in Michael Bay's live-action Transformers film. However, it was initially referred to as the "Energon Cube" after the energy resources that the Decepticons were always trying to produce in the 1984 Transformers cartoon. This term was used in the novelization of the first film, but was changed to "AllSpark" before production on the film wrapped.
The term "AllSpark" was first used in the Beast Machines cartoon in reference to the Transformers' afterlife. The Cybertronian afterlife has also been referred to as the "Matrix", the "Afterspark" and the "Well of All Sparks", the place from which all sparks originate and inevitably return.