To attack, he is able to use his headlights, known as the "Fire Flash" attack, and leg wheels, known as the "Gyro-Strike". The Stormbringer miniseries explains that the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron is a dead planet, ravaged by an ancient cataclysm caused by the Autobot-Decepticon War. This is also the very first incarnation of Optimus Prime to transform into a Fire Engine. Orion's hacking did not go unnoticed by Megatron, who knew he would learn the truth sooner or later. Further differences are listed in the respective sections below. Prime would make one further surprise appearance in Dreamwave's Transformers: Armada comic series, although it would not be the Prime of Dreamwave's first series. Although Optimus manages to injure Starscream and kill Grindor, he is eventually impaled and killed by Megatron. Because Optimus Prime is from a breed of transformers called the … The cab of his truck mode detaches to form Optimus himself, while the trailer transforms into a battle station mode operable by Optimus and several Mini-Cons. The Decepticons, however, got wind of the plan and used the shuttle run to attack Autobot City. 1 Fiction 1.1 Comics continuity 1.1.1 Marvel comics continuity 1.1.2 Devil's Due G.I. Early in this new series of encounters with Megatron, Red Alert contacted the Autobots on Earth and asked for Optimus Prime to join then on Velocitron. Hi-Q's biomechanical body was stripped down and reconstructed by the Last Autobot, resurrecting Optimus Prime once more with the two minds now one. He and his team return to Cybertron with Omega Supreme, the captured Decepticons, and Prowl's body and are greeted as the hero he had wished to be so long ago. Optimus Prime is the heroic and brave leader of the Autobots. Sentinel doesn't forgive him for losing her and Optimus takes full responsibility for Elita's demise. Relevance. Despite having his memory back—including his surrender of the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus still did not remember how much information he had supplied to Megatron during his time on the warship. In the first three films, he is able to transform into a conventional Peterbilt 379 cab, rather than the cab over design of his original Generation 1 body. As for Chicago, not only did Prime need to make the humans understand that the decepticons don't need the autobots to be there in order to attack the Earth, but it also gives the autobots an edge in battle as faking their deaths allows them to sneak back into Chicago to make a final stand, so it kinda makes sense as to why he did what he did. 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All memory of his past life gone, he took the name "Orion Pax" and sought his way like any other robot on the new world becoming Optimus Prime once more when receiving the Matrix of Leadership when Cybertron faced a new enemy in his former friend, Megatron and his army of followers, the Decepticons. In the animated series, Optimus Prime was originally in the Autobot Academy and friends with Sentinel Prime and Elita One. Optimus fights Megatron, but Megatron gains the upper-hand. Later, when Megatron targeted a tanker truck to scan as the alternate mode of the final protoform, Optimus Prime leaped into action in order to save the truck's human driver and, as a result, the tanker, Prime and the human were all scanned. Animated Optimus Prime, in an Earth-based fire truck mode, appears as a hidden character in the Transformers Netjet video game by Hasbro. In the lead up to the premiere of the Japanese translation of this series, TakaraTomy marketing director Masahiko Yamazaki indicated changes would be made to place it as a prequel to the 2007 Transformers live-action film. The game ends with Optimus sending a message to all surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. After Optimus and his team first met humans on Earth, they allied with them. Four million years ago, Cybertron, shaken from its orbit and drifting through space, became threatened when it floated into the path of an asteroid field. Optimus Prime is referenced in the song "I Punched Keanu Reeves" from the film, This page was last edited on 31 January 2021, at 20:27. Transformers: how comes optimus prime is bigger than the other autobots? However, Megatron attacks Optimus with his chain-flail, killing him. But Optimus has been around for just over 30 years, and he has abilities far beyond mere shapeshifting and Grimlock wrangling. Before the Great War, Optimus Prime was originally known as Orion Pax; a young data clerk who worked in Iacon, under the wing of Alpha Trion. Inspiring others to fight for freedom from oppression, Optimus is the nemesis of Megatron and his Decepticons. He received the Matrix of Leadership shortly thereafter and arranged for the Autobot evacuation of Cybertron. Via Comicbook.com we can share for you images of the upcoming Transformers Rescue Bots Jumbo Jet Racer Optimus Prime figure.. Prime then sacrificed his life one more time to destroy Unicron by plunging the Matrix into his maw. However, before Sentinel can deliver the killing blow, Megatron attacks and severely injures him, having realized that he will never be able to remain leader of the Decepticons as long as Sentinel is at large. He is defined … In this game, Optimus Primal is also a playable character. Optimus Prime sacrificed himself, dying again only a few short episodes after his rebirth. Prime took a squad of troops to aid in the battle on the planet. A distress call summoned Prime and support troops to Earth. To keep with the potato theme, the toy was labeled "Optimash Prime" and the packaging included the slogan "More than meets the fry", a potato-oriented version of the Transformers slogan "More than meets the eye". Primal was subsequently mutated into the massive "Optimal Optimus" form, which shared elements of Prime's form, prior to returning the Spark to its rightful place. Bumblebee, Jazz, Optimus Prime, Prowl, and Ratchet appeared in a New Avengers/Transformers crossover by Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing in 2007. The overspill supercharges the Autobot Brothers. As the leader of the Autobots, Prime headed up their mission to search for new sources of energy to revitalize the depleted Cybertron. In the minds of many Transformers fans, there was only one true leader of the Autobots: Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime is the leader of the main group of Autobots in the iteration of the Transformers franchise primarily marked by the 2010 computer-animated series Transformers: Prime on The Hub. Prime is then attacked and sentenced to death by the Guardian Knights for aiding Quintessa, but he is saved by Cade Yeager, who convinces Optimus to correct his mistake. This agenda led the Predacon Megatron to attack the comatose Optimus Prime in stasis on prehistoric Earth, forcing Primal to take Prime's Spark into his body in order to preserve his life while his body underwent repairs. Optimus Prime was also released as an Action Master and Powermaster toy in the original Transformers toy line. He intends to destroy it, even if it means sacrificing himself, before the Decepticons can use it to create a new army to conquer the universe. He stops attacking Hot Rod, and returns the Matrix. When the Optimus Prime of the Armada universe disappeared, pulled into another dimension by the power of Unicron, the Chaos-Bringer sent something back in his stead: a nearly dead Optimus Prime from that universe, who warned the Transformers of Unicron's coming into their universe before dying. Optimus Prime is then informed that Megatron has infected the core of Cybertron with dark energon and is given the task to undo the damage done. [29] In 2011, Takara Tomy released MP-10 Convoy, a smaller, more show-accurate version of the Masterpiece Optimus Prime figure.[30]. Optimus Prime appears among the characters in Re-Unification, the 2010 TFCon voice actor play prelude comic.[15]. When Roller is deployed, Optimus can see and hear what Roller sees and hears. [54], For the comic book series featuring Optimus Prime, see, Fictional character from the Transformers franchise, Optimus Prime box art showing his original G1 toy design, Optimus Prime in the Transformers Animated series, Generation 1 miniseries episode 3, "More than Meets the Eye Part 3" (19 September 1984). Optimus Prime is the fictional protagonist of the Transformers: Robots in Disguise (Fire Convoy in the original Japanese version) branch of the Transformers universe. Optimus sends Jazz on a high-speed destruction distraction mission, then sends Ironhide to rescue Jazz from a double-threat posed by the government agents and various Decepticon scouts. Optimus does not appear until Megatron is released and Starscream escapes with the Allspark. It can repair itself by shutting down, but it will take millions of years. Unicron Trilogy Optimus Prime is among the characters appearing in the 2004 Transformers video game for the PlayStation 2.[21][22]. In the final episode, Optimus Prime proposed a new Space Bridge project using the power of the four Cyber Planet Keys and the four great Cybertronian ships. Believing their leader dead, the rest of the Autobots attempt to buy the newly arrived Hot Rod the time to collect the clone. After this plan was a success, Optimus was eventually able to reclaim the Matrix of Leadership from Rodimus Prime and learn that the plague could be countered with wisdom, prompting him to sacrifice the accumulated knowledge of the Matrix to restore all those victims of the plague to normal. Prime calls in the Wreckers, meeting them on the surface of Cybertron in time to witness the return of the being called Thunderwing, the focal point of the apocalypse. The series begins when Optimus and his crew, after picking up a disillusioned ninja named Prowl, are sent to clear rubble from a space bridge passage. When Elita is lost on a planet dominated by a giant spider-like aliens, he blames himself for leaving her behind, where she supposedly dies in the explosion of a wrecked Decepticon warship loaded with Energon. Cullen has commented that Prime is basically the same in the third film as the previous two, and retains the same basic personality. She turns out to be the extradimensional vampire Britt. Wise, brave, and self-sacrificing, Optimus Prime became a beacon of goodness for children everywhere, which made his death in Transformers: The Movie that much more overwhelming. Despite the efforts of Perceptor, Optimus Prime went offline after passing the Matrix and role of leader to Ultra Magnus, despite protestations. They also decided to enter the race, either to win the cup and cause as much damage as they could to the other racers. While all of the other members of the Thirteen each possessed unique abilities and artifacts, Optimus wielded no special powers or weapons. With the plague spreading rapidly, even Rodimus Prime was soon infected, requiring the Autobot Skylinx to rescue a Quintesson in the hope that it would be able to bring Optimus back to life to lead the remaining uninfected against the plague victims. The combined efforts of Prime, the Wreckers, Jetfire, the Predacon-led Decepticons, and a unit of aging Centurion drones are barely enough to render Thunderwing inert. Though Prime was eventually consumed by the abomination and destroyed, he was able to unleash the energies of the Matrix into the Swarm, purifying it. Optimus Prime is usually depicted as being a member of an ancient Transformers race called the Dynasty of Primes, often receiving the title "The Last Prime" in many stories, in which he is depicted as being the last of the Primes. Eventually, the clues lead the Autobot to Sam Witwicky. [32] Also straying from the G1 design, Prime's vehicle mode is now decorated with red flames painted onto a blue body à la Rodimus Prime, his Generation 1 successor. Orion was able to decode some of the coordinates before Starscream—who was unaware of Optimus' amnesia—called him Optimus Prime to his face. Optimus reappears in Generation 2: Redux, a Botcon magazine which is set after the events of the final episode as a flashback where he led the first generation of Autobots to pursue Galvatron and Zarak in deep space. Having been frozen in the vacuum of space, Optimus has been drifting on the far reaches of Earth's solar system for some time. He often converted to his super combat mode. “Optimus Prime was the first Autobot to be claimed and now he will be the first to carry,” announced Megatron. Although Unicron had tainted the Matrix after killing Thunderwing, Prime managed to reacquire and purify the Matrix. His weapons include his iconic ion blaster, a Barrage cannon, two retractable energon blades that extend from his forearms, which is a homage to Prime's energy axe in the Generation 1 animated series, and two retractable energon hooks that extend from his wrists. Hot Rod’s car mode was loosely based on a Lamborghini. Optimus led his small band of Autobots to stop Megatron from acquiring their power for himself. Hot Shot was saved when Optimus Prime, Vector Prime, and Landmine arrived, but Optimus was upset that Hot Shot had become involved with the locals. Consequently, he prohibits his team from mingling with the locals of Earth, Velocitron, and the Jungle Planet during their search for the Cyber Planet Keys. The first of these series, Transformers: The Headmasters, supplanted the events of The Rebirth. (Generation 1), Super Vehicles, Deluxe Vehicles, Deluxe Beasts, Autobot Leader, Supreme Commander/Ultimate Supreme Commander/Super Ultimate Supreme Commander/High-speed Mobile Supreme Commander, Sparkplug, Jetfire and Overload (Armada) Primus, Wing Saber and Leobreaker (Cybertron), "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." In the fearsome, ensuing, epic battle with Megatron, Optimus Prime sustained fatal wounds, but not before turning the tide of battle and forcing the Decepticons to flee. Orion was chosen by the High Council and became "Optimus Prime", upon being entrusted with the Matrix of Leadership by Primus himself. If your familiarity with Transformers hero Optimus Prime begins and ends with Michael Bay, then you know that he is a giant robot who turns into a truck and fights other, more evil robots, occasionally while riding a mechanical dinosaur.. In this universe, Optimus Prime transforms into a fire engine. He kills Lockdown and Harold Attinger at the film's climax as revenge for killing many of his friends, including Ratchet and Leadfoot. As a parting gesture, Starscream fired upon the Autobot ship, creating a landslide. This would have made this version of Optimus Prime an earlier version of the film character. After restoring Cybertron to life at the end of the third season, the series's finale movie, Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising, saw his recovery of the AllSpark and subsequent sacrifice to save it from Unicron and return it to Cybertron's core. Weakened and damaged, Optimus crawls to reach the Allspark. The character of Optimus Prime first appears in the 2007 Transformers film as the leader of the Autobots in the search for the AllSpark. After assisting NEST operatives in fighting Shockwave at Chernobyl, Optimus learns that the humans have concealed the discovery of an ancient Cybertronian ship on the moon. Optimus Prime "Autobots, transform and roll out!" At the end, though, in a battle with Megatron, Optimus Prime was forced to throw the AllSpark into the space bridge hole (thus moving the AllSpark off Cybertron without use of the Ark). Prime had been forced to ally with his arch-rival Megatron to end the destruction. Optimus proclaims that they sacrificed their lives to protect the Allspark, and their sacrifice will not be in vain. Later, the Transformers were all transported to Cybertron by Primus to battle Unicron. In Transformers: Decepticons, Optimus Prime lands on Earth along with the other Autobots to stop the Decepticons. In parting, the Swarm recreated Prime in a new form, and he and Megatron set out to lead the united Autobots and Decepticons into a new age. On a mission with the Triggerbots to stop Megatron from claiming the Underbase, Prime was forced to jettison the massive databank into space to prevent anyone from acquiring its power. These stranded Autobots were rescued by some other Autobots. Without the energy of the Matrix to act as a balancing factor, Vector Sigma had become destabilized. The sequel series, Transformers: Generation 2, began an undisclosed period of time later. When the arrival of the Autobot Headmasters tipped the battle in their favor, Prime broke off from the main attack and headed down into the depths of the planet, planning on stabilizing Vector Sigma at any cost. In the Autobot Campaign, Optimus Prime provides intelligence and missions to Bumblebee in his search for the Allspark. Bludgeon's recovered files bring Optimus Prime to Earth, where an Autobot detachment led by Prowl has discovered that a Decepticon infiltration unit led by Starscream has broken standard protocol after discovering a new form of Energon. Optimus Prime also appeared in Transformers: Rescue Bots, stated to take place in the same universe as Prime, as the leader of the Autobots who transformed into a semi-trailer truck, though unlike his Prime appearance, it was flatnosed like his G1 counterpart. When Megatron, the leader of the new group of robots, approached him with inquiries about using one of the dock warehouses, Orion was swayed by Megatron. Prime confronts the new threat, who turns out to be the Decepticon Triple Changer Shockwave. Primal is one of the Maximal descendants of the Autobots, who took the name to honor Optimus Prime. However, Optimus is resurrected during the battle in Egypt by Sam using the Matrix of Leadership. Before Optimus was the Prime he is, he went by other names. The core informs Optimus that it is far too corrupted. Optimus Prime appears near the end of the Decepticon Campaign. During the fight, Optimus manages to master the Magus Hammer's power in order t overwhelms Megatron to the point of being acknowledged by name. With the Matrix now empty, Optimus mused that all would be a little wiser now from the knowledge it had given them, and it was up to them all to refill it. During the battle of Chicago, Optimus kills Shockwave, the Driller, and many Decepticon Protoforms. Although Magnus remained a free agent, refusing to take orders from his brother, over time, his animosity dwindled, and he frequently helped the Autobots by combining with Prime to battle the Predacons and Decepticons. Hidden on Earth as common, everyday vehicles, the Autobots are forced to emerge when Megatron and his Predacons arrive and wreak havoc in their attempts to attain the power of Earth's various energy sources. Optimus then returns to an intel role as he guides Bumblebee in his mission to retrieve the Allspark from Hoover Dam. At San Diego ComicCon 06, it was announced that original Optimus Prime voice actor, Peter Cullen, would reprise his role for the third film. Rallying Transformers across Cybertron to the cause, Prime faced Shockwave, but was defeated and had the Matrix ripped from him and used to activate Vector Sigma. Optimus Prime is an Autobot from the Universe continuity family. Unable to match Megatron in combat, Optimus urges Sam to push the AllSpark into his chest, which will destroy them both. Realizing that the planet is dying, Optimus orders a mass evacuation of all Autobot cities, but many transport ships are destroyed by the Decepticon satellite Trypticon, under orders from Megatron that no one shall leave the planet. I think it's funny how, even though there is more than one Autobot in that conglomeration, it is still called Optimus Maximus. After some initial difficulty, Optimus is able to get the hang of the device, only to be shot down by Starscream's female clone, Slipstream. After nearly getting himself and the other Autobots killed, Create-A-Bot apologizes to Optimus personally. (, Activators, Bumper Battlers, Deluxe Vehicles, Micro Vehicles, Voyagers, Supreme Vehicles, Bumblebee, Rodimus Minor, Ratchet, Bulkhead, and Prowl. Optimus appeared throughout the first season as a vision to Bumblebee, though he was only allowed to do so when the latter's need was dire. The Maximals were occupied throughout the remainder of the series protecting Prime and the other Transformers aboard the crashed Ark until the Predacons were defeated. The actual events of the Autobots and Decepticon coming to Earth were never printed by Dreamwave comics, but flashbacks of the events are printed later. Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Optimus Prime is a Transformer from the planet Cybertron. In the series, the interference of Jetfire and the Technobots, in a plot organized by the Decepticon Bludgeon, alerts Prime to the possibility that the Cybertronian cataclysm might be re-ignited and spread to other planets. It was named the 30th greatest movie superhero of all time by "Total Film Magazine".[33]. Although the original Japanese incarnation of Transformers: Cybertron, known as Transformers: Galaxy Force, was produced apart from Armada and Energon, the series, as originally conceived by Hasbro, was as the third part of the trilogy. Optimus Prime is the largest, strongest and wisest of all Autobots. In almost every version of the mythos, Optimus is the leader of the Autobots, a faction of Transformers who are rivals of the Decepticons, another faction. Orion Pax was put to work on Project Iacon, a project to decode the coordinates of, and then recover, several Cybertronian relics hidden on Earth. After rescuing Omega Supreme, Optimus, Ironhide, and Prowl fight their way to the core, but it's too late. This Optimus Prime may look somewhat familiar, but in this case, size does matter. Override, Dirt Boss, Ransack, Crumplezone, Optimus Prime, Hot Shot, Red Alert, Landmine, Clocker, and Brakedown participated in the qualification round. We all wondered what it must be like to be in contact with these stellar beings that could turn into a motor veh [3] As the current Matrix of Leadership bearer, Optimus Prime is the de facto leader of the Autobots, a faction of a transforming species of synthetic intelligence from the planet Cybertron. Decepticons are always (usually) bigger. The same applies to the Megatron of this era. Optimus also helps Ironhide against Mindwipe. The ladder/hose section houses Prime's Power Stream water cannon, capable of shooting freezing streams of water, called his Blizzard Storm attack. When they arrived, Shockwave was there to arrest them as war criminals. Years of war against his old friend/rival, Megatron, have brought Optimus and his team to Earth. When the war began, Prime quickly made a name for himself as a combat leader of the Autobots. During the promotion of the Transformers films, Optimus Prime appeared in several commercials. It was designed by the creative design team of Hiroyuki Obara, Shoji Kawamori, famous for his work in Macross, and Kohjin Ohno. Various monuments to Optimus Prime appeared on Cybertron in Beast Machines, one of them a holographic statue in Iacon that Megatron took control of in order to trick Primal. During the battle for the possession of the Allspark, Optimus goes offline after defeating Starscream, only to be revived by Sari Sumdac and her Allspark-infused key. Optimus Prime returns in Transformers: The Last Knight, which is set three years after the events of the previous film. Before his departure, Prime had entrusted a small portion of the Matrix to Spike Witwicky, who was forced by the product chief, General Hallo, to use it to reactivate Prime. 9 years ago. Feels his role is the protection of all life, including Earth-life. [8] Across the assorted continuities of the original Transformers universe, there have been various interpretations of Optimus Prime. [24] Optimus Prime is one of the Autobots featured in Transformers: The Ride at Universal Studios theme parks. Optimus Prime appears in the Transformers Animated series in 2008 as a red semi-trailer truck, able to be fitted with many "trailer" attachments, most notably one that effectively makes him a fire truck. With this action, he proved his wisdom and skill to the Autobot Council of Elders. He orders the Aerialbots Jetfire, Silverbolt and Air Raid to fly and destroy Trypticon. However, Sentinel Prime later betrays the Autobots, murders Ironhide, wipes out most of NEST, and brings an army of Decepticons to Earth with Space Bridge Pillars.

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