Burning Justice


 * ''Burning Justice is a nebulously-defined power-up in Transformers.

Burning Justice is a mysterious power called forth by the self-righteous indignation of heroic Autobots and Maximals and bestowed to their champion as he does battle. More than a simple remote battlefield recharge, Burning Justice can also provide an exponential power-up, repair grievous bodily injury, raise the dead, temporarily suspend laws of thermodynamics, cause spontaneous recoloration and make thousands and thousands of julienne fries.

Humans have been shown to engage in similar behavior, though the transfer-of-power resulting from these actions is less tangible.

More rarely Decepticons have displayed similar abilities, but unlike the "heroic" version, which confers augmented abilities onto the recipient from their network of friends and supporters, Decepticons acquire this power-up by severing connections with their extended network (often betraying or destroying them in the process,) and somehow collecting their power. An act of betrayal is not required, simply resolving to "cut the ties" with friends and subordinates holding one back can result in a massive surge of newly-unbound power.

"The secondary heroes stand around and watch, calling on their burning spirit and hearts of justice to empower the main hero from afar."

- TransTech Shockwave

The primary mechanism by which Burning Justice (and its malevolent counterpart) functions appears to be belief, where the depth and conviction of beliefs directly corresponds to the absurdity of the result.

Burning Justice may be a Spark-related phenomena, (explaining the diminished results in humans, whose lifeforces are much less powerful than a Transformer Spark. )

Any relationship to the Fundamental Belief, a similar power collectively wielded by Earth's children of the Robots in Disguise universe, is unknown.