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Prime (disambiguation)

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The name '''Prime''' can refer to a Matrixload of different things.

==Transformer component==
* [[Roller|Prime]] is a little-used term for [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime's]] cart-sized [[drone]] usually known as '''Roller'''.
* [[Prime Force]], a team of drones used by ''[[Energon (franchise)|Energon]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]].

==Rank==
The rank [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], held by many characters, generally bearers of the [[Matrix of Leadership]].

;'''Matrix bearers'''

* [[Optimus Prime (disambiguation)|Optimus Prime]], a name that has been applied to many different characters who have a tendency to carry the [[Matrix of Leadership]].

* [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]], the form taken by Hot Rod when he gets the Matrix in most of the Generation 1 continuities.

* [[Prime Nova]], a past Matrix bearer first mentioned in the Generation 1 [[Marvel]] comics.

* [[Nova Prime]], his more grammatically correct counterpart who abandoned the Matrix for the [[Darkness (G1)|Darkness]] in the [[IDW]] comic continuity.

* [[Sentinel Prime (G1)|Sentinel Prime]], another past Matrix-bearer established by more or less every publisher of Generation 1 comics.

* [[Vector Prime]], guardian of time and space, one of the [[thirteen original Transformers]], and incidentally, apparently another Matrix-bearer.

* [[Guardian Prime]], one more past Matrix-bearer, also foisted upon us by the Dreamwave Generation 1 comics.

* [[Omega Prime]], the combined form of ''[[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]'' [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]], who has the Matrix, and ''Robots in Disguise'' [[Ultra Magnus (RID)|Ultra Magnus]], who wants the Matrix.

* [[Zeta Prime]], the ill-fated interim Prime left to glue the Autobots back together after the Decepticons' rise in [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]].

* The [[Dynasty of Primes]], the group of ancient Cybertronians who hid their Matrix and restored it in ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.
:*[[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]], a member of the Dynasty who lead an expedition which took fourteen galactic convergences to get an echo of something.
:*"[[Optimus Prime's ancestor]]", the Prime who created the [[Tomb of the Primes]].
:*[[Bendy-Bus Prime]], apparently somehow part of the Dynasty.

;'''Schmucks too good for disco'''

* [[Lio Convoy|Leo Prime]], a high-ranking Maximal with an [[Energon Matrix]], which is not the Matrix.

* [[Primal Prime]], the [[Vok]]-created Living Matrix and leader of the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]].

* [[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|Nemesis Prime]], a name that has been applied to several different characters, one of which carries the [[Dead Matrix]].

* [[Nexus Prime]], one of the 13 and the guardian of [[Rarified Energon]].

* [[Modus Prime]], the first of the [[Mini-Con|Mini-Cons]] and their leader in the ''[[Classics (2006)|Classics]]'' portion of the Generation 1 series.

* [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Prime]], the Autobot Elite Guard member and general pain-in-the-skidplate from ''[[Animated]]''.

* Longarm Prime, the Autobot intelligence officer disguise of [[Shockwave (Animated)|Shockwave]] from ''Animated''.

* [[Big Bang Prime]] an Autobot bound to [[Beta Supreme]] from ''Animated''.

* [[Override Prime]] an Autobot bound to [[Kappa Supreme]] from ''Animated''.

* Prime is also the Japanese name for ''Armada'' [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], who hung on to the Matrix after ''Armada'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] died.

==Locations==
* [[Gorlam Prime]], the old name of a planet in the same sector of space as the [[Benzuli Expanse]].

==Fictional stories==
Several stories contained the word "Prime".

;'''Television'''

* [[A Prime Problem]], in which nobody thought to check which [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] had the Matrix.

* [[Prime Target]], in which a hunter was targeting Optimus Prime, who has the Matrix.

* [[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1|The Return of Optimus Prime]], in [[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2|part 2]] of which Optimus Prime fights Rodimus Prime for the Matrix.

* ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers Prime]]'', an upcoming television series for Discovery Comunications's/Hasbro's The Hub.

;'''Comics'''

* [[Prime Time!]], an issue of the Marvel Comics Generation 1 [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)|comic book]] in which Optimus Prime gets back the Matrix.

* [[Prime Directive]], a six-part [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]] Generation 1 miniseries which has a bunch of Autobots reactivated by the Matrix.

* [[Vector Prime: In the Beginning]], an issue of the [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club (magazine)|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club comic]] which includes a flashback with Optimus Prime opening the Matrix.

In addition, there is [[Prime Spark]], a prose story in which ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], who happens to be a Matrix-bearer, meets some other Transformers named [[Optimus (disambiguation)|Optimus]], including Generation 1 Optimus Prime, who also happens to be a Matrix-bearer.

==What it is not==
Prime should not be confused with:

*[[Prima]], the first Transformer and Matrix-bearer.

*[[The Fallen]], one of the original Transformers who abandoned his Prime name when he betrayed his brothers and abused the Matrix.

*[[Primon]], because there just aren't enough past Matrix-bearers on this page.

*[[Primus]], Transformer God, who ''made'' the Matrix.

*[[Optimus Primal]], the [[Trukk not munky|munky]] from ''[[Beast Wars (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'', who had an Energon Matrix in Japan.

*[[Primacron]], the mighty ape-like creator of [[Unicron]], who just doesn't get it.

*The [[thirteen original Transformers]], who as a whole are sometimes simply called '''the Primes'''.

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Primal Prime

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:''Primal Prime is a [[Maximal]] from the [[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Wrecker Primal Prime.jpg|right|250px|thumb|"Non-Optimus-Prime-toy-into-Optimus-Prime" repaint #765.]]
'''Primal Prime''' is, essentially, the Living [[Matrix]]. Born from the [[Vok]]'s fusion of their [[Datasphere|knowledge]], detritus left aboard the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'', and life-giving energies from the [[Matrix of Leadership]], Primal Prime possesses great power and understanding. He is literally an army of one, able to assume multiple [[alternate mode]]s, all of which are armed, deadly, and mobile. He is a conglomeration of [[Prime (rank)|Primes]], assembled into a single, mighty force for good.

However, though he has the presence and conviction of a Prime, he is still technically a newborn. What memories he has are but faint shadows of those long departed. Though he can converse with the departed spark of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], leads Cybertron's finest, and is looked up to by even [[Hot Rod (G1)|former Autobot leaders]], he worries that he is too detached, too gullible, to lead his troops sufficiently. These crushing doubts are seemingly his only weakness.

==Fiction==
===''Universe: Featuring the Wreckers''===
[[Image:Primal Prime Birth.JPG|left|300px|thumb|Hope Quickstrike didn't leave a... present in there.]]
After the [[Beast Wars (event)|Beast Wars]], sensing the approach of a new enemy, the [[Vok]] reanimated [[Tigerhawk]]'s binary spark and used it to create [[Transmetal]] [[Tigatron]] and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. Traveling to Earth themselves, the Vok used the [[Master Blaster|Optimal Optimus control suit]], the [[Transmetal driver]], and the [[Matrix of Leadership]] hidden within [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to create their new emissary: Primal Prime. This new hero's spark, wisdom, and power would all be donated by the Matrix itself. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 1}} Primal Prime met the newly recreated Tigatron and Airazor, warning them [[Universe (2003 comic)|darkness would be coming]] and that he would be responsible for it. Nevertheless, the Maximals still decided to follow Primal Prime and went in search of more comrades to help their cause.

Primal Prime carried the Matrix of Leadership into battle with [[Tarantulas]] (whose apparent Vok-caused death had all been a ruse allowing him to steal their power) and his minions. In a tragically decisive battle, Tarantulas tore open Primal Prime’s chest and removed the Matrix, gloating about the beginning of the "End of Days". Airazor bemoaned the fact that, by separating the Matrix from Optimus Prime and containing it within Primal Prime, the Vok had dissolved "the primal forces that bound it to a leader-born", making it vulnerable to Tarantulas's goals. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 2}}

[[Image:Primal Prime Vok.jpg|right|150px|thumb|I'm gonna Vok you UP.]]
The shock of the Matrix's forcible removal sent Primal Prime into a sort of limbo, with the Maximals assuming his synapse network had been burned out. While in limbo, Primal Prime communed with the Vok, who divulged their origins as the [[Swarm (G2)|Swarm]] and said they were "of the source, of the core, forever committed to the safeguard of The Plan." The Vok then went on to merge with Primal Prime using him as a vessel, a pure font of energy to rival the Matrix itself. The newly Vok-empowered Primal Prime emerged behind Tigatron and prepared to go into battle. {{storylink|Primeval Dawn Part 3}}

{{note|Due to [[3H Productions|3H]]'s loss of the Transformers license, future installments of the story were canceled, so the events between this point and the beginning of "Wreckers" (see below) were unknown for many years. Artist [[Dan Khanna]] posted a quick summary of the (largely unscripted) end to "Primeval Dawn" in the Allspark message board.<ref>[http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=40029&view=findpost&p=801367 Allspark forum post by Dan Khanna], December 3, 2007</ref> The Vok-powered Primal Prime was to ultimately defeat Tarantulas in battle, and along with [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], [[Packrat]], [[Spittor (BW)|Spittor]], [[Sonar (BW)|Sonar]], [[Ramulus]], [[Fractyl]], and [[Tigatron]], he would travel to ''[[Beast Machines (franchise)|Beast Machines]]''-era [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] in a "stable [[transwarp]] portal".}}

After arriving on Cybertron through a transwarp portal from [[Earth]]'s past, Primal Prime and his entourage of Beast Wars rejects were suddenly under attack from [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon drones]]. The [[Wrecker|Wreckers]] commander [[Apelinq]] intervened, inoculating Primal Prime and his team from [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s virus, moments before Apelinq was attacked by [[Mirage (BM)|Mirage]] and the two vanished into that same transwarp portal. By the time Apelinq had found his way back, Primal Prime had taken command of the remaining Wreckers (which after Megatron's takeover, was seemingly comprised of just [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]]). Primal Prime seemed natural in the role, so Apelinq took a backseat.

[[Image:Primalprimedeparture.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Smush smush smush.]]
Later in the [[Battle for the Spark|Battle for the Sparks]], the Wreckers rescued [[Optimus Primal]] and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] from attacking Vehicons. After Apelinq and Optimus Primal caught up on their [[Reaching the Omega Point|forgotten history together]], Primal and Nightscream accompanied the Wreckers on their visit to the [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]], where other small groups had also been summoned. Unbeknownst to Primal Prime, the Oracle was actually a tool of the [[Quintessons]], but despite this deception, [[Vector Sigma]] was able to break through the Oracle shell program and give Primal Prime a genuine order.

Primal Prime and his Wreckers were to travel off-planet. After Rodimus sought out [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], and while being joined by [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]], [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]], and [[Rotorbolt (Universe)|Rotorbolt]], the Wreckers fought their way through an army of Vehicons to secure an [[Autobot]] shuttle. Succeeding, they left Cybertron for their mysterious destination. {{storylink|Departure}}

Shortly after liftoff, the Wreckers detected a stowaway on board. [[Devcon (G1)|Devcon]], a former bounty hunter and [[Imperial Peace Marshal]], had started tearing up the place and bullying everyone who crossed his path. Primal Prime, Apelinq, and Rodimus managed to settle him down, but Devcon still begrudged the Wreckers for harboring Predacons and former Decepticons amongst their ranks.

Suddenly, their shuttle was sabotaged from within, and to Primal Prime's horror, Packrat detonated the back half of the ship, removing the Wreckers in the front half of the shuttle from risk, but killing Sonar, Spittor, and the [[Deployer|Deployers]]. Primal Prime had separated Packrat and prepared their injured for repairs when he received a call inside his mind from [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], warning him of a traitor amongst their ranks.

Upon landing on [[Archa Nine]], Primal Prime formed a scout team composed of Ramulus, Apelinq, himself, and their new medic-bot [[CatSCAN]]. In the woods, they found themselves surrounded by the natives, and after a misunderstanding, they were introduced to the natives' Transformer guardians, [[Glyph (G1)|Glyph]] and [[Tap-Out (G1)|Tap-Out]]. The pair had been stranded on Archa Nine for several hundred years and now watched over the [[Akalouthan|Akalouthans]] and the mysterious artifact they worshiped, the [[Divine Light]]. Suspecting the object was what the Oracle had sent them after, Primal Prime retired to Glyph's library, allowing the event Alpha Trion had warned him of to come to pass. Wishing to steal the Divine Light, Cyclonus damaged Rotorbolt, killed Packrat, and was about to escape Archa Nine with the object when Primal Prime and the others returned to find him. After mocking them for their inability to function as a team, thus allowing him to steal the artifact easily, Cyclonus left. Primal Prime hung his head in shame, knowing he'd failed. {{storylink|Betrayal|Betrayal}}

In the aftermath of their betrayal on Archa Nine, Primal Prime retreated into himself and the Matrix. Ultimately, Primal Prime decided that the Oracle chose him for a purpose, and that he should have faith in himself and in his team, no matter what had transpired. Gathering the Wreckers, he told them to prepare to leave Archa Nine immediately, for he had been given a new destination during his communion with Primus. However, Apelinq's skepticism continued to nurture, and the others had growing doubts of their own.

[[Image:Primalprimerollout.jpg|right|250px|thumb|It's just like G1, but with giant monkey fists.]]
They traveled to an icy planet ten systems away, and Primal Prime ordered Apelinq, Rodimus, Arcee, and Ramulus to follow him quickly outside, while Apelinq protested their hastiness. Apelinq's worries were, for the moment, unwarranted, as the sole inhabitant of the planet seemed to be the excommunicated Quintesson [[Al-Badur]]. Though the Wreckers eyed him uneasily, he was willing to tell them the history of the Quintessons' attempts to use Vector Sigma to enslave the Transformers race. When Al-Badur revealed that the Oracle itself was a Quintesson creation devised to control Vector Sigma, Primal Prime was taken aback. Had they been led astray this whole time?

However, for Apelinq, the pieces now fit together, and he recounted how the real Vector Sigma had broken through the Oracle shell program, giving them a real mission. Primal Prime was reassured during the brief moment before the Sharkticons attacked. Though the Sharkticons were armed with strange (yet somehow familiar) technology, they were eventually overtaken by the Wreckers. With Al-Badur, the Wreckers left once again, but this time for Cybertron. {{storylink|Disclosure|Disclosure}}

{{note|In the unpublished script to ''[[The Wreckers: Finale Part 1|The Wreckers'' #4]], while en route to Cybertron, Apelinq was able to identify the Sharkticons' technology as belonging to the outlaw [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]]. After decoding a message within the technology alerting the Wreckers to a Quintesson plot to retake Cybertron, Primal Prime pressed on even more urgently. Cryotek desired to use the Divine Light to harvest the power of Primus itself! Though his warriors' weariness in putting faith in Primal Prime had come to a crest, he was able to extinguish his own doubts, and (with Ramulus' help) inspire the Wreckers to act.}}

During the Wreckers' transit to Cybertron, Alpha Trion once again contacted Primal Prime through his Spark. Primal Prime was fraught with confusion, worried that if the Oracle were truly a Quintesson creation, if that meant Optimus Primal and his [[Technorganic|technorganics]] were a horrible misstep. Alpha Trion reassured him. Primus works in mysterious ways. However, before Alpha Trion could finish the warning he intended to deliver, Primal Prime's contact with him was interrupted, and Primal Prime awoke. After arriving in orbit above the newly reformatted Cybertron and finding a full-scale Quintesson invasion, Primal Prime ordered his troops to concentrate only on Cryotek, the real threat. Taking Apelinq, Ramulus, [[Tigatron]], and Al-Badur with him, Primal Prime leapt from the still-airborne shuttle into the battle below.

But their subterranean attack on the Predacon gangster, grown to intimidating size and power by the Divine Light, was costly. Primal Prime had sacrificed himself, taking a fatal hit that was intended for Apelinq. With two of the Wreckers' most powerful disposed of, leaving only Devcon, [[Tigatron]], Ramulus, and the Quintesson, all hope seemed lost.

Suddenly, a glowing titan formed before them, from the combined bodies of Apelinq and Primal Prime into a single powerful entity: [[Sentinel Maximus]]. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

A year later, Primal Prime was one of several Transformers from across the [[multiverse]] suggested by [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] for [[Optimus Primal]] to recruit into his [[Children of Primus]]. Optimus Primal decided to pluck [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] and [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] back from death instead. {{storylink|Homecoming (issue)|Homecoming}}
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==Toys==
===Beast Machines===
[[Image:Primalprimetoy.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Primal Prime saves his gorilla mode for very special occasions to which you are not invited.]]
*'''Primal Prime''' (Super, 2000)
**''Accessories:'' Gun, 4 missiles

: Primal Prime, a red and blue [[retool]] of [[Optimus Primal|Optimal Optimus]], was available in limited quantities of 10,000. Like Optimal Optimus, Primal Prime featured electronics and four transformations—robot, ape, jet, and armored transport. When a back section of the cannon module was pulled, its eyes and shoulder-mounted missile launchers lit up and the launchers fired. It came with four missiles, two of which stored on its legs. Its forearms featured blast-away armor plates that could also be pegged to its upper arms. The red and blue colors are designed to make him look more like [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].

:The mold previously fired its missiles and lit up lights in its head simultaneously. Primal Prime was retooled to have separate triggers for the lights and missiles, so as to avoid kids (or adults) shooting themselves in the face. There are other minor molding differences, such as explanatory arrows on the inside of his shoulders (indicating which holes are peg-holes instead of screw-holes).

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/PrimalPrime/primalprime.htm More information on Primal Prime at TFU.info]''
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===Titanium Series===
[[Image:Primalprimetitanium.jpg|right|150px|thumb|An unreleased toy of a 3H Wrecker? How could this happen???]]
*'''Primal Prime''' (6-inch Cybertron Heroes, unreleased)
: ''[[Titanium Series]]'' Primal Prime was to (naturally) be a redeco of the [[Optimus Primal|Optimal Optimus]] toy. Unfortunately the line was canceled and there are no plans to release any new figures, including Primal Prime. Primal Prime was listed as a co-sell on Titanium Grimlock's packaging, suggesting that the toy may yet surface, but there has been no confirmation. It's more likely the packaging was just unchanged for Grimlock's release.

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==Notes==
[[Image:Primalprimetheborrower.jpg|right|150px|thumb|I got yer pose!]]
* Primal Prime really takes the whole "amalgamated Matrix bearers" thing to heart. In "[[Departure]]" he borrows iconic poses from both [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (his "main event" leap in "[[End of the Road! (US)|End of the Road!]]") and [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (his dramatic pointing in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''). He may be conspiring with [[Ramulus]], however, who helps set up the first homage by paraphrasing [[Thunderpunch]]'s line.

* The apocalypse that Primal Prime foresees in "[[Primeval Dawn Part 2]]" is the [[Universe war|Universe conflict]]. He says it will be his fault, and that's technically true. The [[Wrecker|Wreckers]]' failure to stop [[Cryotek (RID)|Cryotek]] from obtaining the [[Divine Light]] results in Primus's powers being online long enough to attract the attention of [[Unicron]].

* So if Primal Prime was eligible for consideration to pull into the ''Universe'' war, does that mean that Primus was totally willing to let some universe's Cryotek use the Divine Light to subjugate his essence in that timestream? Or was Primus just, y'know, gambling that Primal Prime wouldn't eventually die and could be sent back to where he was stolen from? Primus works in mysterious, potentially short-sighted ways.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.seibertron.com/toys/gallery.php?id=528&size=0&start=0 Primal Prime toy image gallery at Seibertron.com]

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