AllSpark Mutations (alternatively known as Energon Mutations) are a subspecies of Earth Transformers from the planet Earth, created when ordinary Earth machines got exposed to sources of Energon such as the AllSpark.
Biology[]
Anatomy[]
AllSpark Mutations share a similar biology to other Cybertronians, though they vary by size. Mutations born from vehicles are about the same size as traditional Cybertronians in robot mode. Mutations born from electronic devices are smaller in size, some of which being roughly the same size as Humans.
Culture and society[]
Unlike fully sentient Cybertronians, the semi-sapient AllSpark Mutations are violent, feral beings who mindlessly attack anything in their immediate vicinity.
History[]
In 1913, Jetfire discovered the AllSpark excavation site in the Colorado River basin and came into conflict with the men who would go on to found Sector Seven. His touch activated the AllSpark and unleashed a surge of energon that brought four nearby machines to life: a shotgun, a radio, a car, and the crane holding the AllSpark. While Roy Thompson and Theodore Wells dispatched the radio and the gun, Herbert Hoover opened the water bypass from the nearby dam, destroying the crane. The car managed to escape in the confusion and laid low for twenty years until a pair of criminals named Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow used it during their infamous crime spree. When Sector Seven finally caught up with the rogue machine, Margaret Simmons destroyed the car using an experimental electrical weapon.
While experimenting on the AllSpark over the next few decades, Sector Seven's research team learned how to channel and harness its life-giving radiation and turn ordinary human machines into Cybertronians. Megatron planned to use the AllSpark to bring all of Earth's machinery to life, creating a new army of Decepticon conquerors. According to Agent Seymour Simmons, Nokia-brand cell phones are particularly nasty compared to other electronic devices. Indeed, one such test subject created in 2007 manifested a tiny machine gun and attempted to break containment before Simmons euthanized the creature with a powerful electric pulse.
As Sam Witwicky fled from Decepticons during the battle of Mission City, he accidentally dropped the AllSpark cube and unleashed an uncontrolled energy pulse that brought three more machines to life: a soda machine, an Xbox 360, and a steering wheel. While mopping up after the battle ended with Megatron's death and the AllSpark's destruction, Ironhide, Captain Lennox, Technical Sergeant Epps and a few other soldiers tracked down and destroyed the steering wheel and Xbox. Concurrently, Ratchet crushed and neutralized the soda machine just as it had ambushed Sam.
In 2009, it was discovered that a second AllSpark fragment got mixed up in the tattered t-shirt Sam had been wearing during the battle of Mission City. When he found the fragment, he accidentally dropped upon being shocked by its energies. The shard burned through the floor of his bedroom, landing in the kitchen before discharging a burst of energy which brought many of the electronic devices in the Witwicky kitchen to life. These "Appliancebots" rampaged through the house and attempted to kill him and his parents until Bumblebee destroyed all of the mutations.
Several months later, Ravage broke into a military installation in Guantanamo Bay and stole the remains of the Appliancebots on behalf of his new enigmatic masters, the Initiative. He got as far as Florida but was knocked offline by an explosion at Kingdom Petrochemicals. The Appliancebots laid scattered around Ravage's body at the bottom of a tank until a team sent by the Initiative arrived to absorb and collect the residual AllSpark energy from them. Though Ravage was eventually reactivated by Buzzsaw, the Appliancebots were left nonfunctional.
Initiative leader Carter Newell used a neural conduit to beam this AllSpark energy across the country, remotely animating a paper shredder, an air conditioning unit, a copy machine, and a coffee maker. These mutations promptly assassinated the other board members of Project: Nefarious, though it remains unclear what became of them afterwards.
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Sector Seven Mutations[]
Mission City Mutations[]
Appliancebots[]
Initiative Mutations[]
Notes[]
- The phrase "AllSpark Mutations" comes from issue 1 of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen prequel comic Alliance.
- When asked about the evil nature of on-screen AllSpark Mutations, screenwriter Roberto Orci explained that the AllSpark "is meant to power Cybertron [rather than] adapt human technology". Whereas Optimus Prime wanted to "use the AllSpark to repower Cybertron as it was intended", Megatron wanted to "abuse it by creating Transformers directly". This would have resulted in the creation of "soulless, primal Transformers". And because Earth's technology was "reverse engineered from Megatron", Orci believes that this also "affects the outcome."[1][2]
- In the video game Transformers: Autobots, the AllSpark produces drones from the local machinery to defend itself when the Autobots attempt to retrieve it. As such, the AllSpark Mutations' feral behavior can be interpreted as a survival mechanism.
- According to the original concept script treatment for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the reason why AllSpark Mutations are soulless, primal beasts is because they were created without the aid of the Creation Matrix. Described as a relic based on the Matrix of Leadership introduced in The Transformers: The Movie, the Creation Matrix is said to provide newborn Cybertronians created by the AllSpark with souls.[3][4]
- In the original script of Transformers, the Nokia-bot's role was originally meant for an iPod owned by Glen Whitmann. During an early version of this scene, the iPod mutation acted in the same way as the Nokia-bot, while also playing the Suicidal Tendencies song "Master of No Mercy".
- According to director Michael Bay, the iPod-Bot was replaced with the Nokia-Bot because Apple refused to license the iPod as a psychotic robot that would quickly get murdered.
- Other AllSpark Mutations mentioned in the aforementioned script include various devices in a truck, plasma televisions, and the Xbox 360 robot. While the Xbox 360 remained in the final cut, the truck devices and plasma TVs were replaced by Dispensor and the steering wheel.
- Bumblebee originally featured a scene where the titular Autobot inadvertently brought the electronics in Charlie Watson's house to life, necessitating a slapstick fight sequence in which Bumblebee, Charlie, and Memo had to unplug the hostile Energon mutations to deactivate them. Martin Short was also slated to appear as part of the film's cast, presumably voicing at least one of the mutations. This scene was cut very late in production, enough so that a version of it would find its way into both the junior novel and Junior Reader adaptations.
- It is because of the removal of this scene that several plot holes regarding the electronics in Charlie's house after Bumblebee invertedly trashes it exist, such as random positioning of said electronics and Sally Watson asking why the television's cord was cut.