Not that continuity and common sense matter all that much in the Transformers movie franchise, but there’s one issue that’s been bothering me since the first film. Are Transformers naturally evil? And are Optimus Prime and his team the outcasts fighting against the true nature of Transformers?

I base my theory on one very specific factor from the first film: the All Spark, and how it brings machines to life. The All Spark is the giant (and then later tiny) cube that everybody’s fighting over in the end.

According to Optimus, the All Spark “holds the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born.”

They show the All Spark creating life in the first movie, so I think it’s safe to assume that the All Spark gave life to the robots on Cybertron and that’s how their civilization was born. Then the All Spark went into hiding on Earth, and the Decepticons are trying to find it and use it to turn all of Earth’s technology into an evil army. Fair enough.

My problem is in what happens when the All Spark creates life. Remember this guy:

Crazy Nokia Phone!

The humans have managed to harness the power of the All Spark and they use it to turn small machines into Transformers in the little box. When this guy is created, he immediately tries going on a killing spree. He’s evil and monstrous and starts attacking everybody! But why? Why does the All Spark turn the machine evil?

It happens again at the end of the movie when the All Spark brings life to a steering wheel, an X-Box 360 and a Mountain Dew Machine.

I love this guy!

Every machine that the All Spark turns into a Transformer is automatically evil and attacking people. So that begs the question of why? The Decepticons never get their hands on the All Spark, they never have a chance to corrupt it or anything. Yet it’s automatic function is to turn machines evil.

And then in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon, we learn that the Decepticons have an overwhelming force. The Autobots have a handful of soldiers, never more than a dozen. But the Decepticons have hundreds of robots and warriors, some who have been on Earth for a long time and some who are buried on the moon waiting for…something. That part wasn’t clear. But Jetfire from the second film is really old; he’s a former Decepticon who has been on Earth so long that he was put in the Smithsonian.

So while Optimus and most of his team are still out in the cosmos, the Decepticons have been on Earth for decades!

The Decepticons have a much larger army, have been around on Earth for much longer than the Autobots and the All Spark – the relic that gave life to the Transformers – automatically turns machines evil.

All rather suspicious, I’d say.