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User:Magnus Maximus

2010-07-10T09:17:51Z

Magnus Maximus: bye bye

[[Image:UK Grimlock.gif|right|Me no like you.]]
{{disambig2|the socially retarded misanthrope|a history lesson|Wikipedia:Magnus Maximus}}
:''Magnus Maximus is not the messiah. He's a very naughty boy from [[fandom]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|G1]], [[Beast Wars (franchise)|BW]], [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|RiD]] and [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Animated]] continuities.

I think I'm pretty much done with this place. Have fun, kids.

Talk:Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)

2010-07-10T08:50:07Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Hasbro and the cons */

==Missing lyrics==
I've listened to all three versions, but I have no idea what Stan's singing in that middle 8 section. Google brings up a load of user-submitted lyric sites that all claim it says "Galaxy's worried they'll retreat", but I don't buy that. Thoughts? Ideas? Can someone maybe try to corner Stan at BotCon this year and ask him? - [[User:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus]] 03:29, 22 June 2010 (EDT)

Didn't this sort already have approval in 2007 when Hasbro showcased it on their Transformers website and it was the BotCon 2007 song? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 07:17, 22 June 2010 (EDT)

==Title==
Shouldn't it be "'Til All Are One", like the CD? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:26, 22 June 2010 (EDT)
: The WFC credits sequence uses "Till." --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 08:34, 22 June 2010 (EDT)
::Which is good, since "'Til" is an abortion of an English word. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 18:26, 22 June 2010 (EDT)
:::A till is a cash register, or something you do to ground. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:34, 22 June 2010 (EDT)
::::Nah. "Till" in this usage is actually older than the word "until." It's funny, because it's the first thing I ever managed to correct a teacher on. In first grade, the teacher told me I was wrong when I used "till" instead of "'til." I told her to look it up in the dictionary (but not, y'know, condesdendingly, but defensively). I won! I was surprised that I won. But I musta read it somewhere and copied its spelling. --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] 18:39, 22 June 2010 (EDT)
:::::Ahhh, I feel all topsy turvy now! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:04, 22 June 2010 (EDT)
:For the record, I got the spelling off of the ''In This Life'' album/StanBush.com. - [[User:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus]] 03:20, 23 June 2010 (EDT)

==Hasbro and the cons==
If BotCon 1997 wasn't officially sanctioned by Hasbro, why did they get toys and get graced by Hasbro's presence? --[[User:ItsWalky|ItsWalky]] [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Till_All_Are_One_%28Transformers_Theme%29&curid=54593&diff=467545&oldid=467418 18:01, 22 June 2010 (EDT)]
:So then why do the BotCon and 3H pages say that it only became official in 2003? Also, [http://www.reocities.com/dairylandtransfans/DTFdairyconfanfics.html Dairycon has had a load of toys], and Hasbro were at [[Hasbro UK exclusive limited Edition Handmade Samples|AutoAssembly 2008]] and are at TFCon this year (and probably a few more), but that doesn't make those cons official, right? - [[User:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus]] 03:20, 23 June 2010 (EDT)
::Dairycon exclusives are mass-produced customs and thus far all TFCon exclusives have been bootleg toys. Even Nightbird is an Animated Arcee modded by a third party. Meanwhile, the BotCon exclusives, ever since 1996, have always been Hasbro molds authorized by Hasbro to be redecoed into exclusive figures. Therein lies the difference. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 04:13, 23 June 2010 (EDT)
::::That's fair enough, but it still only answers part of the question. But whatever, I really don't care that much. If you guys are saying that there's no discernible difference in the Hasbro/BotCon relationship before and after 2002, and that the decision to not use the word "Transformers" here or anywhere on any of the 3H music albums was a purely stylistic one, and that the best way to explain the situation is to remove all mention of it, then who am I to argue? Do you also contend that Toys-R-Us is basically on par with the Hasbro Toy Shop, because they get given exclusives to sell too, right? - [[User:Magnus Maximus|Magnus Maximus]] 04:50, 10 July 2010 (EDT)
:::I am still waiting for Magnus Maximus to reply to my question about this song being available for download on Hasbro's Transformers site in 2007 and being the BotCon 2007 theme song. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 10:53, 29 June 2010 (EDT)
::::[http://www.botcon.com/botcon07/guest07-bush.cfm Here's where it says it was the BotCon 2007] theme song. Unfortunately, Hasbro's news post on the 2007-era Transformers.com site where they put up the full mp3 of this song is long gone. But yes, doesn't this suggest that this song was sanctioned by Hasbro 3 years ago and that this article is inaccurate? --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:34, 5 July 2010 (EDT)

June 25

2010-06-23T07:23:22Z

Magnus Maximus:

<noinclude>{{cal-date|6|25}}</noinclude>
*'''1963:''' [[John Benjamin Hickey]] ([[Theodore Galloway]] in ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'') is born.
*'''1998:''' ''[[Beast Wars (cartoon)|Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers]]'' — To Protect the Peace... is released on VHS in Japan by [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]].
*'''2003:''' The ''[[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Transformers: Super-God Masterforce]]'' DVD BOX 02 is released in Japan by [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]].
*'''2003:''' ''[[Armada_(cartoon)#Columbia_Music_Entertainment|Micron Legend — Volume 3]]'' is released on DVD in Japan by [[Columbia Music Entertainment]], coming with the "[[Linkage Part 3]]" mini-comic and [[exclusive]] [[Midship]] toy.
*'''2003:''' [[Cold War|''War and Peace'' #3]] and [[More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|''More Than Meets The Eye'' Issue #3]] are released in the US by [[Dreamwave Productions]].
*'''2005:''' The ''[[Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' episode "[[Invasion|Guardian of the Earth, Live Convoy]]" airs in Japan.
*'''2010:''' The video game ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'' is released in the UK by [[Activision Blizzard|Activision]].

June 22

2010-06-23T07:22:34Z

Magnus Maximus:

<noinclude>{{cal-date|6|22}}</noinclude>
* '''1966:''' [[Tomoko Maruo]] (voice of [[Rami]], [[Fire]] and [[Minerva]] in ''[[Victory (cartoon)|Victory]]'') is born.
* '''1974:''' [[Ryō Naitō]] (voice of ''[[Beast Wars II (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]]'' [[DJ (BWII)|DJ]], ''[[Beast Wars Neo (cartoon)|Beast Wars Neo]]'' [[Hydra (BWN)|Hydra]], ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Car Robots]]'' [[Slapper (RID)|Gusher]] and more) is born.
* '''1977:''' [[Sarah Edmondson]] (voice of [[Lori]]) is born.
*'''2001:''' ''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers: 2010]]'' DVD BOX is released in Japan by [[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]].
* '''2002:''' The ''[[Robots in Disguise (cartoon)|Robots in Disguise]]'' episode "[[Landfill (episode)|Landfill]]" premieres in the UK.
* '''2004:''' The ''[[Armada (cartoon)|Transformers: Armada]]'' "Battle for the Mini-Cons" and "Power of the Mini-Cons" DVDs are released in the US by [[Rhino Entertainment|Kid Rhino]].
*'''2005:''' ''[[Cybertron (cartoon)|Galaxy Force]]'' — Vol. 01 is released on DVD in Japan by [[Victor Entertainment]], packaged with an exclusive redeco of the [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Exillion]] figure.
* '''2008:''' ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Transformers Animated: Transform and Roll Out]]'' is released on DVD in the US by [[Paramount Pictures]].
* '''2009:''' The US premiere of ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' is held in Westwood, California, during the [[Wikipedia:Los Angeles Film Festival|Los Angeles Film Festival]].
*'''2010:''' ''[[Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron]]'' is released in the US by [[Del Rey Books]].
*'''2010:''' The video game ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'' is released in the US by [[Activision Blizzard|Activision]].

Talk:Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)

2010-06-23T07:20:54Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Hasbro and the cons */ new section

Holger Fath

2010-06-22T07:31:28Z

Magnus Maximus: link

[[Image:Holgerfath.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's got the tooooooooooooooouuuch.]]

'''Holger Fath''' is a German producer/guitarist who has recently begun working with [[Stan Bush]]. He was the producer of Stan Bush's album, ''In This Life'', which was re-released at [[BotCon 2007]] with the official [[BotCon]] theme, "[[Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)]]".

At [[BotCon 2009]]'s Paramount Party, Fath performed with Stan Bush.

He is a relentlessly cheerful man.

==External links==
*[http://www.fathcatmusic.com/ Fathcat Music]
*[http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=98278 Holger Fath, guitarist of 1984 German melodic rock group, Nation]
*[http://www.enlacemusical.com/c.php?id=10541 Holger Fath, guest guitarist for Bleth]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_EXxwDpq0 Holger Fath stars in Stan Bush's 2009 Linkin Park-esque remake of "The Touch"]

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[[Category: Musicians]]
[[Category: Convention guests]]

Talk:Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)

2010-06-22T07:29:13Z

Magnus Maximus: New page: ==Missing lyrics== I've listened to all three versions, but I have no idea what Stan's singing in that middle 8 section. Google brings up a load of user-submitted lyric sites that all clai...

Ground Zero (BotCon Theme)

2010-06-22T07:21:00Z

Magnus Maximus: Redirecting to Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)

#REDIRECT [[Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)]]

Ground Zero

2010-06-22T07:20:20Z

Magnus Maximus: disambig

{{disambig2|the BotCon '97 exclusive comic|BotCon '97's theme song|Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)}}
{{comicstory|
|seriesissue=''Tales from the Beast Wars: Transformers: Critical Mass'' #1
|next=Visitations
|image=Beastwarscriticalmass.jpg
|caption=That [[Furmanite]] is about to give [[Packrat]] the [[Furmanism|worst case of indigestion he's ever had!]]
|title="Ground Zero"
|publisher=[[3H]]
|date=[[July 18]], 1997 ([[BotCon 1997]])
|coverdate=July
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|artist=[[Andrew Wildman]]
|art assistant=[[Stephen Baskerville]]
|lettering=[[Richard Starkings|Starkings]] and [[Comicraft]]
|continuity=[[Generation 1]] via [[Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]
}}

'''A Maximal and a Predacon learn a valuable life lesson.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Fractyl]] has created a new device, [[energon armor]], using an element called [[furmanite]]. [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] urges him to finish the project (so she can use the results to conquer the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacons]]). [[Packrat]] eagerly spies on their activities, coveting the new armor.

The initial test is a success, but when Blackarachnia asks [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] for the ''pure'' [[Energon (fuel)|energon]] sample, she finds that the ant is distracted. Inferno has discovered Packrat, and he drops the pure energon crystal. This sample reacts with the furmanite that Fractyl dropped, causing a massive explosion. Fractyl deduces that furmanite must be anti-energon, and that if his device comes near any larger deposits of energon, the world could be at stake.

Of course, Packrat has taken off with the orb-shaped energon armor and is heading straight toward the energon-rich badlands. Packrat feels this device will solve his problems of being unappreciated by his group.

Meanwhile, [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]], [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]], and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] enjoy the sounds of nature—until they come across Packrat battling Inferno, that is. Packrat has gone mad with power, blasting Inferno into pieces. Fractyl arrives, warning of the dangers of his new device. Rhinox tries to talk Packrat down, but Fractyl takes a forceful approach. Packrat knocks him down but surrenders the device.

Airazor spots [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and Blackarachnia approaching. A despondent Fractyl resigns himself to his fate. However, Fractyl's good-heartedness in saving the Maximals from his device has inspired Packrat, and he gives Fractyl an idea.

As Megatron catches up, he sees Fractyl shooting at the fleeing Maximals and is pleased. Packrat's plan to make Fractyl look good to his superior works, and Rhinox is pleased with Packrat's attitude turnaround.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|h1=[[Maximal]]s
|c1=
* [[Packrat]] (5)
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (6)
* [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] (7)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (8)
|h2=[[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s
|c2=
* [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] (1)
* [[Fractyl]] (2)
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (3)
* [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] (4)
}}

==External links==
*[http://www.botcon.com/archive/story/1997/index.html Scans at botcon.com]

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[[Category:Beast Wars issues]]

The Touch

2010-06-22T07:16:37Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Trivia */ link

{{song
|title=The Touch
|image=Tftm1986e.jpg
|caption=If you don't know this song by heart, what the hell are you doing on this wiki?
|series=[[The Transformers: The Movie]]
|position=insert song
|performer=[[Stan Bush]]
|written by=Stan Bush and [[Lenny Macaluso]]
|production=[[Richie Wise]]
|arrangement=
}}

"'''The Touch'''" is a song by [[Stan Bush]], featured on the 1986 album ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]''. <strike>It is possibly the pinnacle of human achievement.</strike> It is fondly remembered by many fans for being featured in two climactic battles in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''.

"The Touch" is first featured in ''The Transformers: The Movie'' when Optimus Prime, having just arrived to [[Autobot City]], takes on several of the Decepticon forces by himself. It plays again, near the end of the feature, as [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] opens the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. The song was used again during the climactic scene of the cartoon episode "[[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2]]".
{{TOCclear}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
At an undetermined time period following the creation of the [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and [[Targetmaster|Targetmasters]] and the seeming defeat of [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], [[Powermaster]] Optimus Prime spent a good deal of time relating Transformers stories to the human schoolboy [[Tommy Kennedy]].

After a series of stories wherein he described the events of the battle with [[Unicron]], Optimus Prime had to depart to attend an interstellar peace conference in the midst of a barrage of questions from Tommy. As he was blasting off, Prime declared "But until I return, I leave you with 'The Touch'!"

Following this, the music video for "The Touch" began, although how Tommy was able to view it in the barren wasteland where his meetings with Prime typically took place is unknown. {{storylink|The Transformers (cartoon)#Season 5|Season 5}}

{{note|As Stan Bush could not have written the song for the 1986 theatrical ''The Transformers: The Movie'' within the context of the cartoon timeline (as the events of the movie had not happened at that point in continuity), it is possible that the song was simply a general release that Prime was personally fond of.

Another possibility is that a fictionalized film account of the events surrounding the battle with Unicron was created sometime after the year 2005, and that Stan Bush's music video was produced to accompany that feature. This theory is not out of the realm of plausibility; in the UK comics, resident letter answerer [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] reviewed a Transformers film in an article entitled ''[[Letters page (Marvel UK)|Film 2006 With Grimlock]]''.}}

===''War for Cybertron===
Before the war spread to [[Earth]], and seemingly millions of years before Stan Bush would have even been born, the Decepticons were fighting the Autobots on Cybertron. [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] asked [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to transform into his stationary music-playing mode and play a recording of "The Touch." The inspirational anthem emboldened Shockwave in battle, but annoyed [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]]. Shockwave informed Starscream that the Air Commander could select the music when his hit percentage exceeded Shockwave's. {{storylink|War for Cybertron|GameSpot's commercial for their Shockwave multiplayer exclusive}} {{-}}

==Lyrics==
:You got the touch
:You got the power
:Yeah

After all is said and done 
You've never walked, you've never run 
You're a winner 
You got the moves, you know the street 
Break the rules, take the heat 
You're nobody's fool

You're at your best when when the going gets rough 
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

:You got the touch
:You got the power
:When all hell's breaking loose
:You'll be riding the eye of the storm
:You got the heart
:You got the motion
:You know that when things get too tough
:You got the touch

You never bend, you never break 
You seem to know just what it takes 
You're a fighter 
It's in the blood, it's in the will 
It's in the mighty hands of steel 
When you're standing your ground

And you never give in when your back's to the wall 
Gonna fight to the end and you're taking it all

:You got the touch
:You got the power
:When all hell's breaking loose
:You'll be riding the eye of the storm
:You got the heart
:You got the motion
:You know that when things get too tough
:You got the touch

You're fighting fire with fire 
You know you got the touch

You're at your best when when the going gets rough 
You've been put to the test, but it's never enough

:You got the touch
:You got the power
:Yeah
:You got the touch
:You got the power
:Touch

==Single releases==
[[Image:The Touch single.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
;7" single
#"The Touch"
#"[[Dare to Be Stupid]]"

'''Release date:''' August, [[1986]] 
'''Labels:''' [[Scotti Bros. Records]] (US/Canada), [[Epic Records]] (UK) 
'''Prod. codes:''' 7464-06207-7 (US), ZS4-06207 (Canada), A-7318 (UK)
{{-}}

----
[[Image:The Touch picture disc.jpg|thumb|150px|]]
;12" picture disc
#"The Touch"
#"Dare to Be Stupid"
#"[[The Transformers (Theme)]]"

'''Release date:''' 
'''Labels:''' [[Scotti Bros. Records]] (Germany), [[Epic Records]] (UK) 
'''Prod. codes:''' Int127.311 (Germany), WA-7318 (UK)
{{-}}

===Album releases===
*1986 — ''[[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]'' ([[Scotti Bros. Records]])
*1987 — Stan Bush: ''Stan Bush & Barrage'' (Scotti Bros. Records)
*1997 — Stan Bush: ''[['Til All Are One (CD)|Call to Action]]'' (LA Records/[[3H Productions]]) — 1997 Remix version.
*1998 — ''[[BotCon '97: The Concert]]'' (3H Productions) — Live with [[Vince DiCola]].
*2007 — Stan Bush: ''In This Life'' (Frontiers Records) — New recording.
*2007 — ''The Transformers: The Movie — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition'' ([[Legacy Recordings]])

===Merchandise===
*2009 — ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' — Bumblebee Plasma Cannon
:A role-playing toy based on [[Movie (franchise)|live-action movie]] [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s fist, transforming into a plasma cannon. When the Autobot insignia on the side of the cannon is pressed while the blaster is in its "Try Me" setting, the toy plays various sounds, including short clips from "The Touch".

==Trivia==
{{quote|As [Prime] battles his way through the Decepticons, we HEAR an inspiring anthem of courage, strength and triumph, like "Eye of the Tiger". This theme will reprise during the film when the Autobots are battling at impossible odds.|The original movie script's request for the song that would be "The Touch".}}
*"The Touch" was originally written for the 1986 Sylvester Stallone movie ''[[Wikipedia:Cobra (film)|Cobra]]'', but the record company decided to switch it to the Transformers movie instead.<ref>http://totalscifionline.com/interviews/4062-stan-bush-still-got-the-touch</ref>
*In 2007, Bush recorded a new, updated version of "The Touch" together with "[[Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)]]" in a bid to get them onto the [[Transformers (2007)|live-action movie's]] soundtrack. [[Transformers: The Album|It didn't work]], but Bush released them both as bonus tracks on his own album ''In This Life''.
*In 2008, Bush launched a campaign to have the song included on one of the ''Guitar Hero'' or ''Rock Band'' games.<ref>http://kotaku.com/5059337/stan-bush-wants-the-touch-in-guitar-hero-rock-band</ref> It wasn't long before he announced the campaign's success, with the 2007 version of "The Touch" hitting ''[[Wikipedia:Guitar Hero: World Tour a|Guitar Hero: World Tour]]'' as free downloadable content.<ref>http://kotaku.com/5173693/stan-bush-thanks-kotaku-readers-for-their-support</ref>
*As part of the media hype building up to the release of ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', Bush released another reworked version of the song, this time with a more contemporary [[Linkin Park]]-inspired sound, renamed "The Touch: Sam's Theme". This is notable because, while completely unsanctioned or unrequested by Hasbro or Dreamworks, it is [[Holger Fath|totally hilarious]].
*"The Touch" has reappeared in numerous non-Transformers productions over the years, including the film ''[[Wikipedia:Boogie Nights|Boogie Nights]]'', the television series ''[[wikia:c:chuck-nbc:Episode 205: Chuck vs. Tom Sawyer|Chuck]]'' and even in ''[[Wikipedia:American Dad!|American Dad!]]''.
*It is @#$%ing awesome!

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKpByV5764 Video for "The Touch"]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_EXxwDpq0 Video for the 2009 remake of "The Touch"]
*[http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7580334/20101050 Gamestop's ''WFC'' ad that includes "The Touch"]

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BotCon '97 - The Concert

2010-06-22T07:14:09Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Disc 2 */ link

{{album
|series=[[The Transformers: The Movie]]
|title=BotCon '97: The Concert
|image=BotCon '97 Concert cover.jpg
|caption=
|label=[[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]]
|releasedate=June 1998
|prodnumber=
|prev='Til All Are One (CD)
|next=The Protoform Sessions
}}
'''''BotCon '97: The Concert''''' is a [[soundtrack album]] that features recordings of music performed by [[Stan Bush]] and [[Vince DiCola]] live at [[BotCon 1997]]. It was released as a convention exclusive item at [[BotCon 1998]] by [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]].

==Track listing==
===Disc 1===
#"Unicron's Theme" — from ''The Transformers: The Movie''
#"Attack on the Shuttle" — from ''The Transformers: The Movie''
#"Capture the Dream" — from the 1996 Summer Olympics
#"Say a Little Prayer" — from the album ''The Child Within''
#"Higher Than Angels" — from the album ''The Child Within''
#"Until I Was Loved By You" — from the album ''The Child Within''
#"Do You Remember" — from the album ''Stan Bush & Barrage''
#"Never Wanted to Fall" — from the album ''The Child Within''
#"Love Don't Lie" — from the album ''Stan Bush & Barrage''
#"If We Ever" — from the album ''The Child Within''

===Disc 2===
#"[[Death of Optimus Prime]]" — from ''The Transformers: The Movie''
#Credits
#"Training Montage" — from the movie ''Rocky IV''
#"Legacy" — 'audition' piece for ''The Transformers: The Movie''
#"[[The Touch]]" — from ''The Transformers: The Movie''
#"Highest Calling"
#"Never Surrender" — from the movie ''Kickboxer''
#"Critical Mass"
#"[[Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)|Ground Zero (BotCon 1997 Theme)]]"
#"[[Dare]] (Extended Version)" — from ''The Transformers: The Movie''
#"Tic Toc" — previously unreleased
#"Left Brain, Right Brain" — previously unreleased

{{stub}}

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'Til All Are One: Featuring Stan Bush and Vince DiCola

2010-06-22T07:13:16Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Disc 1: Call to Action */ link

{{disambig2|the music CD set|the catchphrase|'Til all are one}}
{{album
|series=[[The Transformers: The Movie]]
|title='Til All Are One: Featuring Stan Bush and Vince DiCola
|image='Til All Are One cover.jpg
|caption=
|label=[[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]]
|releasedate=[[July 18]], [[1997]]
|prodnumber=
|prev=The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
|next=BotCon '97: The Concert
}}
''''''Til All Are One: Featuring Stan Bush and Vince DiCola''''' is a 2-CD set which contains ''Call to Action'', [[Stan Bush]]'s album released in 1997, and all of the music score tracks composed by [[Vince DiCola]] from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' that were not on [[The Transformers: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|the 1986 soundtrack album]]. The CD set was released at [[BotCon 1997|BotCon'97]] as a convention exclusive item by [[3H Productions|3H Enterprises]] and sold out within few months. It was reissued at [[BotCon 1998|BotCon'98]].

==Track listing==
===Disc 1: ''Call to Action''===
#"[[The Touch]] (1997 Remix)"
#"Never Surrender" — from the movie ''Kickboxer''
#"Hold Your Head Up High"
#"Straight to the Top"
#"[[Dare]] (1997 Remix)"
#"Critical Mass" — featuring Vince DiCola
#"[[Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)|Ground Zero (BotCon Theme)]]"
#"Capture the Dream" — from the 1996 Summer Olympics
#"Total Surrender"
#"Highest Calling"

===Disc 2: ''The Transformers: The Movie Music Score''===
#"Unicron's Theme"
#"[[The Transformers (Theme)|TF:TM Main Title]] (Alternate)" — featuring Stan Bush
#"2005"
#"More Luck Than You Imagine"
#"Attack on the Shuttle" — not used in the movie
#"Gone Fishin'"
#"City Under Siege"
#"Showdown"
#"Witness to a Funeral"
#"Contest for Leadership"
#"Transformation"
#"Coronation"
#"Destruction of the Outer Moon"
#"Pursuit"
#"Arrival on Junk"
#"Unwelcome Visitors"
#"The Matrix Survives"
#"An Unexpected Friend"
#"Destruction of the Inner Moon"
#"Ambush"
#"Another Leader Dies"
#"Rescue"
#"All Hope Is Lost"
#"Unusual Allies"
#"The Enemy Revealed"
#"Seizure"
#"United Against the Enemy"
#"In the Belly of the Monster"
#"Their Darkest Hour"
#"Legacy" — audition piece

{{stub}}

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Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)

2010-06-22T07:12:44Z

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"'''Till All Are One (Transformers Theme)'''" is a song by [[Stan Bush]].

Originally, the song was written to commemorate [[BotCon 1997]], and was given the title "'''Ground Zero (BotCon Theme)'''". However, as [[BotCon]] was not officially sanctioned by [[Hasbro]] at the time, the lyrics actively avoided using the term "[[trademark|Transformers]]" (and other such lawyer bait), and instead generically described a battle between "robots who fight in disguise".

Ten years later, while [[Transformers (2007)|the first live-action movie]] was in production, Bush rewrote "Ground Zero" to be less ambiguous in its subject matter and re-recorded the song under its current name together with an updated version of "[[The Touch]]" in a bid to have them included on [[Transformers: The Album|the movie's soundtrack]]. That plan didn't work out, but "Till All Are One" finally received the official approval of Hasbro in [[2010]] when it was featured in the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron|War for Cybertron]]'' video game. Oh, happy day.

==Lyrics==
In a cold, faraway world 
A battle is raging between evil and good 
From the stars, they came here to Earth 
Caught in their struggle through the whole universe

Robotic warriors give it their all 
Fight in disguise, till the victor stands tall

:Transformers
:Defenders of truth
:Robots who fight in disguise
:Transformers
:When the battle is through
:Only the strong will survive
:Till all are one

Unknown soldiers fighting the war 
Use the power and wisdom from those long before 
Leads them on to victory 
Lights their darkest hour, their one destiny

Truth has its moment and right always wins 
Prepare for the fight, let the battle begin

:Transformers
:Defenders of truth
:Robots who fight in disguise
:Transformers
:When the battle is through
:Only the strong will survive
:Till all are one

Galaxy's ??? retreats to its darkest corner 
With the enemy gone, they will finally live on 
As they revel in their victory

Robotic warriors give it their all 
Fight in disguise, till the victor stands tall

:Transformers
:Defenders of truth
:Robots who fight in disguise
:Transformers
:When the battle is through
:Only the strong will survive
:Transformers
:Defenders of truth
:Robots who fight in disguise
:Transformers
:When the battle is through
:Only the strong will survive
:Till all are one

==Album releases==
*1997 — Stan Bush: ''[['Til All Are One (CD)|Call to Action]]'' (LA Records/[[3H Productions]]) — "Ground Zero" version.
*1998 — ''[[BotCon '97: The Concert]]'' (3H Productions) — "Ground Zero" version, live with [[Vince DiCola]].
*2007 — Stan Bush: ''In This Life'' (Frontiers Records)

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Commercial

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[[Image:Targetmasters.jpg|right|400px|thumb|And watch the cartoon, too! It's not nearly this pretty, but it gives you time to blink.]]
Despite the existence of comics, cartoons, and other media intended to advertise [[Toy|Transformers toys]], Hasbro has routinely commissioned standard [[television]] '''commercials''' to promote their current toy lines.

Commercials for ''Transformers'' typically use a combination of animation and live-action film featuring the characters/toys in question.

==Generation 1==
{{main|Commercial/Generation 1}}

==Generation 2==
{{main|Commercial/Generation 2}}

==Beast Wars==
{{main|Commercial/Beast Wars}}

==Beast Machines==
===1999===
* '''[[Evolution Revolution]]''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUH4qfS1xRc]
: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[The Reformatting]] and [[Master of the House]].
: ''Narration:'' Only the brief ''Coming this fall to Fox Kids.'' at the very end by an unknown narrator.
: ''It's a transformation revelation! It's Beast Machines.''

* '''Series premiere promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvSspTeF9Y]
: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[The Reformatting]] and [[Master of the House]].
: ''Narration:'' [[Beast Machines promo guy #1]]
: ''It's an all new show for a renegade group of Beast Machines.''

* '''Season One promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wj8B6ZAh9s]
: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts.
: ''Narration:'' [[Beast Machines promo guy #2]]
: ''An ape, a cat, a spider, a bat and a rat. Go wild with Beast Machines.''

[[Image:Jetstorm_and_Primal_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|That kid in the back? Way too excited.]]
* '''Deluxe Jetstorm and Optimus Primal''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUYaA4JvMQk]

: ''Animation:'' Cartoon excerpts showing Jetsorm firing at Optimus Primal and Optimus Primal jumping down from somewhere.
: ''Narration:'' [[SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!!]]
: ''Toy segment:'' Two boys at school fight in the only honorable way—badly transforming [[Optimus Primal]] and [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]].
: "Three o'clock at the flag pole." "I'll BE there!"
:* '''Deluxe Jetstorm and Optimus Primal''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csjzeY8vXqA] - Edited down from the previous commercial.

* '''Supreme Cheetor''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8G7lASN06I]

: ''Animation:'' Two excerpts featuring [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] transforming.
: ''Narration:'' None, apart from "New Beast Machines Electronic Cheetor Supreme sold separately" by the Cheetor Kid.
: ''Toy segment:'' two kids face off in a gymnasium, surrounded by cheering friends. Megatron Kid makes threats to the other kid, who whips out Supreme Cheetor. Megatron Kid congratulates Cheetor Kid after losing their match.
: ''The challenge is in the change!''

* '''Nightscream and Ultra Jetstorm''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs_268NcQew] [[Image:BM_Ultras_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Nightscream likes EXTRA ketchup on his fries!" (Actual dialog)]]

: ''Animation:'' Excerpts of Jetstorm and [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]] transforming.
: ''Narration:'' None, apart from "New Beast Machines Electronic Jetstorm and Electronic Nightscream sold separately" by Jetstorm Kid.
: ''Toy segment:'' Two kids ordering food are informed by the lady behind the counter that there are only one order of fries left, so they decide to fight it out with their Transformers. The "bad" kid grabs Ultra Jetstorm and shows it off for viewers' benefit, while the "good" kid transforms his Ultra Nightscream and shoots Jetty with his disk launcher. Nightscream Kid wins and tells Jetstorm Kid that "Nightscream likes EXTRA ketchup on his fries!" Jetstorm Kid warns him not to push it.
: "You're grounded Jetlag!"

* '''End of the Line promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykgTS7btJPk]
: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[End of the Line]].
: ''Narration:'' Beast Machines promo guy #2
: ''Notes:'' This spot aired several times throughout the morning of ''End of the Line's'' initial airing.
: ''This morning, all sides have the key to...'' "Worldwide armageddon!" "Doomsday." ''But who will be the first to turn it?''

===2000===
* '''Season Two promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibydIv9aeU]
: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts.
: ''Narration:'' Beast Machines promo guy #1 and various local announcers.
: ''Maximize your mornings for an all new season of Beast Machines!''

==Animorphs==
* A brief explanation of the [[Animorphs]] story, ending with one of the characters saying "Animorphs, Transformers!" Features [[Jake (Animorphs)|Jake]] and [[Tobias]], plus one of the [[Yeerk]]s. The synthesized "Transformers!" digital voice plays at the end.

==Robots in Disguise==
===2001===
* '''Series premiere promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry-nAFCZ0hc]
: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts.
: ''Narration:'' [[Koji Onishi]], [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] and various other Autobots as a group, [[ONLY on Fox Kids]].
: ''Strap in, because this ride's about to...'' "Transform." "Transform!" ''Transform!''
:* '''Series premiere promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvSspTeF9Y] - A slightly edited down version of the previous commercial.

* '''Series premiere promo #2''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBNahGhbUBE]
: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[Battle Protocol!]]
: ''Narration:'' ONLY on Fox Kids
: ''They came to destroy earth. NOW, the only ones strong enough to take them on, are right, under, your...HOOD!''

[[Image:Omega_Prime_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Neither golden retriever, nor lawn mower, nor white picket fence, nor bright of day, shall stay these kids from the swift completion of their appointed Prime.]]
*'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Ultra Magnus''' [http://www.ridforever.info/Video/commercials-toys/HASBRO_COMMERCIAL_OMEGA_2_.MPEG]

: ''Animation:'' [[Megatron (RID)|Megatron]] transforms, and [[Optimus Prime (RID)|Optimus Prime]] finds himself surrounded by the [[Predacon (RID)|Predacons]].
: ''Narration:'' Guy who sounds like he's talking from behind a door.
: ''Toy segment:'' Two kids who live next door to each other grab their respective Autobot Super figures and run into each other at full speed; as soon as they touch, they combine!
: ''Notes:'' One of the kids had a poster for the 1986 animated movie in his room. The whole commercial has a dubbed over feel, as Megatron and Optimus Prime sound nothing like the voices used for the show (presumably because casting had not yet been done) and the sound quality of the narration seems below that of the rest of the commercial.
:*'''Optimus Prime''' and '''Ultra Magnus''' [http://www.ridforever.info/Video/commercials-toys/RID_TOY_COMMERCIAL_2.mpg] - Same as previous commercial, but [[Neil Kaplan]] voices Optimus Prime and the narration is the actor used for the rest of the ''Robots in Disguise'' commercials. Also, the background music doesn't stop while the kids shout to each other from their windows.

[[Image:Megatron_Sky-Byte_and_Autobot_Cars_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Nope, still not fearsome or impressive.]]
*'''Megatron''', '''Sky-Byte''' and '''Deluxe Cars''' [http://www.ridforever.info/Video/commercials-toys/RID_TOY_COMMERCIAL_1.mpg]

: ''Animation:'' CGI Optimus Prime transforms from truck to super-mode; Cartoon excerpts of Megatron (with [[Daniel Riordan|correct voice]]) talking, Optimus transforming, and [[Sky-Byte (RID)|Sky-Byte]] taking a chunk out of the rear of a moving vehicle.
: ''Narration:'' Unknown
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids yell the names of the toys while showing them off or transforming them. They do this in what appears to be a poorly lit basement of some sort.
: ''Notes:'' "Prowl" just does not sound fearsome or impressive no matter how much you growl when you yell it.

* '''Team Bullet Train and Galvatron''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTgAV2EMRdQ]

: ''Animation:'' Cartoon excerpts - [[Team Bullet Train]] finishes forming [[Rail Racer (RID)|Rail Racer]]; Galvatron says "Foolish Autobots! Bring it on!".
: ''Narration:'' Unknown
: ''Toy segment:'' Two kids play with the bullet trains aboard a subway car.
:* '''Team Bullet Train and Galvatron''' [http://www.ridforever.info/Video/commercials-toys/RID-Commercial-4.mpg] - Edited from the previous commercial.

* '''Landfill and Ruination'''

: ''Animation:''
: ''Narration:''
: ''Toy segment:''

* '''''Robots in Disguise'' cartoon''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgHd5tjMEw]
: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts.
: ''Narration:'' Koji Onishi, Optimus Prime, various other Autobots as a group, and various local TV station announcers.
: ''Notes:'' This commercial is identical to the first 'Series premiere promo' except that the 'Coming Soon' tag at the end has been replaced with a tag featuring the local announcer.

* '''Coming up promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWnayVCMUC0]

: ''Animation:'' Excerpts of [[Side Burn (RID)|Side Burn]] and [[Prowl (RID)|Prowl's]] stock transformations and Optimus meeting with the [[Autobot Brothers]].
: ''Narration:'' ONLY on Fox Kids
: "Shift, shape, and strike!"

* '''Coming up promo #2''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN4yssbZv5A]

: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts
: ''Narration:'' Koji Onishi and ONLY on Fox Kids
: "Hey, wanna lift?"

==Go-Bots==
===2002===
[[Image:Go_Go_Go_Bots_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
*'''Transformers: Go-Bots''' [http://adland.tv/commercials/hasbro-playskool-transformers-go-bots-2003-015-usa]

: ''Animation:'' Cartoon excerpt of [[Aero-Bot]] transforming while [[Beast-Bot]] and [[Speed-Bot]] look on.
: ''Narration:'' [[Rap Guy]]
: ''Toy segment:'' The toys turn around on invisible turntables and transform.
: ''Notes:'' The rap is back! This commercial is the (presumably one shot) return of rap in Transformers commercials.
: ''Aero-Bot, Beast-Bot, and Speed-Bot go! They only change, when you say so!
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==Armada==
===2002===

[[Image:First_Armada_Toy_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|But when I looked behind me, I only saw... uh... nine sets of footprints?]]
* '''Mini-Cons, Red Alert, Starscream, Megatron''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4b34MifYuw]

: ''Animation:'' From a sand background, CGI [[Sonar (Armada)|Sonar]] emerges from a [[Mini-Con storage panel]]. Sped-up cartoon footage of [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] transforming.
: ''Narration:'' [[Even Keel]]
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids play with the toys in a sandy environment with a sunset background. ''Woo woo woo woo.'' "Swindle. Starscream. Missiles away. Powerlink Mini-Cons for maximum firepower!"
: ''Kidmation:'' Terrifyingly large-mouthed kids hold the toys and mouth "robots in disguise" while the camera bobs drunkenly.
: ''Newww Transformers Armada. With powerlinking Mini-Con '''warriors!'''''

* '''Megatron and Optimus Prime''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L5LGd3l6n0]

: ''Animation:'' From a watery background, CGI [[Grindor (Armada)|Grindor]] emerges from a storage panel. Cartoon excerpt: [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] stock footage.
: ''Narration:'' Even Keel
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids play with the toys in a sand-laden diorama environment. That ''can't'' be good for Prime's electronic innards.
: ''Kidmation:'' The large-mouthed kids again, with different toys.

[[Image:Armada_Supercon_commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[David Willis|Walky's]] dream job.]]
* '''Laserbeak, Hot Shot, Demolishor''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWMvc3rWfk0]

: ''Narration:'' Even Keel
: ''Animation:'' From an ice background, CGI [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] emerges from a storage panel. Cartoon excerpts: [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] stock footage; [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] and [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] running and firing.
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids play with the toys in a snowy diorama environment.
: ''Kidmation:'' The large-mouthed kids yet again, with different toys.
:* '''Laserbeak, Hot Shot, Demolishor''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BXd6S3c_F4] - Edited down from previous commercial.

* '''Series premiere promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISNz2im27U8]

: ''Animation:'' Various excerpts from the first three episodes of ''Armada''.
: ''Narration:'' [[Peter Cullen]]
: ''Notes:'' ''Armada's'' first three episodes were combined into a mini-movie for its premiere on [[Toonami]].
: ''Transformers: Armada. Friday at 4. Much more than meets the eye.''
:* '''Series premiere promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990_aKa6ZMQ] - An edited down version of the previous commercial.

* '''''Armada'' marathon''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogcXC0zzdk]

: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts, plus a brief CGI scene of TOM 2.0.
: ''Narration:'' TOM 2.0 ([[Steve Blum]])
: ''Everyone loves transforming robots, but sometimes twenty-two minutes isn't enough. We're here for ya.''

===2003===
[[Image:Jetfire_Galvatron_Optimus_Scavenger_Commercial_.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Decepticon menace.]]
* '''Galvatron, Scavenger, Jetfire, Optimus Prime''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXo2meF9hIo]

: ''Narration:'' Even Keel
: ''Animation:'' Cartoon [[stock footage]] of Optimus Prime
: ''Toy segment:'' In what looks like a [[wikipedia:Santiago_Calatrava|Santiago Calatrava]] building, Scavenger takes on Galvatron; Jetfire and Prime combine to counterattack.
: ''Kidmation:'' Two kids stand with their toys, back-to-back as if to make a final stand, while mouthing along with "robots in disguise!"

* '''Blurr, Sideways, Thrust, Sideswipe''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0gxqH7cXJY]

: ''Narration:'' Even Keel
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids play with the toys in some kind of modernist corporate office setting.
: ''Kidmation:'' Back-to-back for the final stand again, this time against the corporate office's windows.
: ''Another battle for ultimate control!'' "Blurr attacks!" ''And Sideways betrays.''

[[Image:Unicron_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Johnny didn't do so well on his science project this year.]]
* '''Unicron''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWCY1BubSg]

: ''Animation:'' Excerpt from ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' of [[Unicron]] slamming his hand down on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s surface, accompanied by a newly recorded voice-over proclaiming "The universe is mine!". Also has an excerpt of Optimus Prime stock footage with Optimus telling Unicron to "fight someone your own size."
: ''Narration:'' Even Keel
: ''Toy segment:'' A kid plays with the toys, first in front of a projected space background, then in something resembling an empty warehouse.
: "Obviously, Optimus Prime, that would not be you!"
:*'''Unicron''' [http://adland.tv/commercials/transformers-armada-unicron-battles-devours-entire-worlds-2003-015] — Edited down from the previous commercial.

===2004===
* '''[[Transformers_(Melbourne_House)|Playstation 2 Armada game]]''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQVSAZTS-E]

: Starscream: "There's no ''escape''. Soundtrack is "Wishbone" by the band [[Dropbox]], who are actually shown rocking out between excerpts of game footage.
: ''The ultimate conflict begins.''

==Robot Masters==
===2004===
[[Image:Robot Masters commercial.jpg|thumb|200px|]]
* '''[[Robot Masters (franchise)|Robot Masters]] toyline'''

:''Toy segment:'' The Decepticons and Autobots each transform through the magic of stop motion, then stand around as the camera pans and laser fire is superimposed between them.
:''Animation:'' [[Starscream (G1)|G1 Starscream]] fights [[Optimus Primal]] as [[Optimus Prime (G1)|G1 Optimus Prime]] takes on [[Megatron (BW)|Beast Megatron]]. Megatron's dino head bites Prime on the hand.
:The commercial ends with a group shot of around half of the line's figures, followed by a money shot of one character spotlighted in both their robot and alt. mode. The spotlighted character depends on which DVD you're watching.
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==Energon==
===2004===
[[Image:Energon_Optimus_and_Scorponok_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Energon Unicron? Where you been!?]]
* '''Scorponok and Optimus Prime''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfT_Z-rZ9mU]

: ''Narration:'' [[Even Keel]], with the cartoon's theme music.
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids playing with the toys in what looks like a basement or maybe a warehouse.
: ''Notes:'' Energon [[Unicron]] appears in the static shot of the toys at the end, as well as in the background of some of the other toy scenes. This suggests that a longer version of the commercial, which would feature Energon Unicron along with the other two toys, exists.
: ''Eachsoldseparatelybatteriesnotincludedactualchangetimewillvary.''

* '''Shockblast, Energon Ironhide, Jetfire''' [http://adland.tv/commercials/hasbro-transformers-energon-2-2004-015-usa]

: ''Narration:'' Even Keel, with the cartoon's theme music.
: ''Toy segment:'' Kids play with the toys on a tabletop.
: ''Shockblast is on the hunt but Powerlinx Jetfire prepares for attack.''

* '''Starscream, Terrorcons, Deluxe Autobots''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYvg9YbVtg]

: ''Narration:'' Even Keel.
: ''Toy segment:'' Various kids on viewscreens are rotoscoped into the frame like members of some sinister corporation's executive board.
: ''Kidmation:'' The three kids drop separately into the rotoscope and mouth along to the song while holding up Hot Shot [[Powerlinx|powerlinxed]] with [[Rodimus (Energon)|Rodimus]], [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] and [[Inferno (Energon)|Inferno]] powerlinxed with [[Prowl (Energon)|Prowl]].
: ''Decepticons attack with Hyper Power.''
:* '''Starscream, Terrorcons, Deluxe Autobots''' [http://adland.tv/commercials/hasbro-transformers-energon-2004-015-usa] — Edited down from the previous commercial.

[[Image:Energon_Omega_Supreme_and_Megatron_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb]]
* '''Omega Supreme and Megatron''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uePLyCXTU-s]

: ''Animation:'' Cartoon excerpt: [[Omega Supreme (Energon)|Omega Supreme]] spins around in space.
: ''Narration:'' Even Keel
: ''Kidmation:'' Two serious-faced kids on a split screen hold up Omega and [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], while mouthing along with the hard rock [[theme song]].
: "Your weapons are ''useless'' against <s>Prince of Space</s> ''him!''"

* '''''Energon'' marathon''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT-n0ojw_yY]

: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts and a brief CGI scene featuring TOM 2.0.
: ''Narration:'' TOM 3.0 ([[Steve Blum]])
: ''Next Friday, the battle to control the Earth's supply of Energon is raging so hard, we're giving Optimus and the gang some extra airtime.''

===2005===

* '''Air Team and Optimus Prime''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddVPMX0Cy54]

: ''Animation:'' Cartoon excerpts: Optimus Prime forms his super mode; The Air Team forms [[Superion Maximus]], then attacks [[Constructicon Maximus]] and [[Bruticus Maximus (Energon)|Bruticus Maximus]].
: ''Narration:'' [[Dramatic Guy]]
: ''Toy segment:'' Various shots of the toys in their robot modes.
: ''Notes:'' This commercial appears to represent an alternate continuity. Optimus Prime is implied to have created either combiners in general or just the Air Team in particular.
: ''Transformers: Energon. You can join the Powerlinx Battles.''
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==Cybertron==
===2005===
[[Image:Cybertron_Large_Figures_Commercial.jpg|right|170px|thumb|And you thought Sari's [[AllSpark Key]] was impressive.]]
* '''Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeuBAMhs_uc]

: ''Narration:'' Dramatic Guy
: ''Live-action segment:'' A kid runs down a laser-lit passageway with a frisbee-sized Cyber Planet Key, which he uses to unlock a giant door, which open to reveal a giant CG ''Cybertron'' Optimus Prime!
: ''Toy segment:'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] uses his [[Cyber Key]] Power to take down Megatron, but the giant [[Starscream (Armada)|Starscream]] has his own Cyber Key!
:''You can go to Transformers.com! Ask your parents first.''
:* '''Starscream''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHjjDI-PGTo] - Edited down from previous commercial, with new narration focusing solely on Starscream.

*'''''Cybertron'' on Toonami''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcTZiJhA17w]

: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts and a CGI scene of a Clyde explorer robot spray painting the ''Cybertron'' logo and airtime on a wall.
: ''Narration:'' TOM 3.0 ([[Steve Blum]])
: ''Transformers: Cybertron. New episodes Saturdays at seven. Unlock the power.''

*'''''Cybertron'' on the Kids' WB Aftertoons Show''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0BMiHDdaE0]

: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts, the Kids' WB rendering of the Warner Brothers' studio lot.
: ''Narration:'' [[Mr. Action]]
: ''Re-energize your weekdays with Transformers: Cybertron.''

===2006===
[[Image:CybAd DarkcrumplezoneEvacDownshift.jpg|right|170px|thumb|Somehow more exciting than the tv show.]]
*'''Crumplezone, Downshift, Evac''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDjPB6tVX2o]

: ''Narration:'' Dramatic Guy
: ''Toy segment:'' A whole little plot plays out in a impressive-looking diorama environment. [[Crumplezone (Cybertron)|Dark Crumplezone]] steals a silver-bordered [[Earth]] Cyber Key! He transforms into vehicle mode, uses the Cyber Key Power and races off with the heroic Autobots [[Downshift (Energon)|Downshift]] and [[Evac (Cybertron)|Evac]] in hot pursuit! Oh noes! Crumplezone shoves Downshift off the cliff-edge road they are racing on. Downshift is transformed and grabs Evac's rescue rope, then blasts Crumplezone into oblivion. The Key is saved!
: ''Notes:'' Oddly, and in contrast to previous commercials, [[Paul Oakenfold]]'s ''Cybertron'' [[theme song]] is not used. Instead, an alternate theme rendition is featured.
:''Ask your parents to take you to Transformers.com!''

===2007===
*'''''Cybertron'' marathon''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlVrdt4R2pU]

: ''Animation:'' Various cartoon excerpts.
: ''Narration:'' Peter Cullen
: ''All set to transform this summer? Well Toonami's got just the thing for you!''
:* '''''Cybertron'' marathon''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wsHkWrTns] - An edited down version of the previous commercial.

*'''Sneak peak after the ''Cybertron'' marathon''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vook0TzQ20A]

: ''Animation:'' Various Cybertron excerpts.
: ''Narration:'' Peter Cullen
: ''Notes:'' This spot promoted a sneak preview of ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'' that aired after a Saturday marathon of Transformers: Cybertron. Features several scenes from the movie, all of which were frequently used in promo spots.
: ''This Saturday night, we're showing you a bright and shiny sneak peak at the new Transformers movie after the Transformers: Cybertron marathon. How's nineish for you?''

==Star Wars Transformers==
===2006===
[[Image:SW_Transformers_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
* '''Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwWHqkWJ1No]

: ''Narration:'' 2006-2007 Guy.
: ''Toy segment:'' Two kids, one dressed as a [[Sith]] Lord and the other a [[Jedi]] Knight, play with their respective toys.
: ''Notes:'' Features excerpts of [[Darth Vader]] from Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
:''NEW! Star Wars Transformers. Mech mode or vehicle mode. The battle for the universe rages on!''

[[Image:SWTF Millennium Falcon Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Time to pull the wishbone!]]
* '''Millennium Falcon and Boba Fett''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrbwqLTmuRA]

: ''Narration:'' 2006-2007 Guy.
: ''Toy segment:'' Two unseen individuals demonstrate the play features of the toys in front of a "Death Star interior" background.
: ''Notes:'' Features excerpts of [[Han Solo]] and [[Chewbacca]] in the [[Millennium Falcon]] from Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

===2007===
[[Image:SWTF Death Star Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb]]
* '''Death Star''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5UtgsUK9Y]

: ''Narration:'' 2006-2007 Guy.
: ''Toy segment:'' An unseen individual demonstrates the toy's features in front of a space background.
: ''Notes:'' Features an excerpt of the Death Star destroying Antilles from Episode IV: A New Hope.
: ''Now you can control the most devastating power in the galaxy.''
{{-}}

==Attacktix==
===2006===
[[Image:Attacktix_Commercial.jpg|right|200px|thumb|I don't know. I think Prime could take him.]]
* '''Attacktix Intergalactic Showdown''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9LDLUdJq8]

:''Narration:'' 2006-2007 Guy
:''Toy segment:'' Group of kids battle with Star Wars and Transformers [[Attacktix]] figures upon a table top.
:"Optimus Prime beat Darth Vader? No. Way." ''Find out with Attacktix.''
{{-}}

==Transformers (2007) movie==
{{main|Commercial/Transformers (2007)}}
==Animated==
===Cartoon===
===2007===
*'''''Transform and Roll Out'' premiere''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKMMX2gFLg]

: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[Transform and Roll Out]].
: ''Narration:'' Peter Cullen
: ''Bumblebee. Optimus Prime. Megatron. And more, like you've never seen them before!''

*'''Series premiere promo''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otoaW8qc4ls]

: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[Transform and Roll Out]], [[The Thrill of the Hunt]], and [[Along Came a Spider]].
: ''Narration:'' Peter Cullen
: ''The Transformers are getting their own brand new series.''

===2009===
*'''''TransWarped'' premiere''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNslpFyD0Ag]

: ''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[TransWarped]]
: ''Narration:'' [[Saturday Crush Zone]]
: ''You'll get more than one episode can hold. More than you bargained for. And more than meets the eye.''

===2010 (Japanese dub)===
*'''15-second commerical''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHz9fIwn6Hg] (March [[2010]])

:''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[Transform and Roll Out]] Part 1
: ''Narration:'' [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] ([[Hiroki Takahashi]])
: ''Hello, good children, are you well? I am Optimus Prime. I'm an Autobot leader who fights for the sake of protecting peace.'' Transformers Animated ''begins on April 3 at 8am.''

*'''30-second commercial after ''[[Wikipedia:Tomica Hero: Rescue Fire|Tomica Hero: Rescue Fire]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s epilogue''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVe33iVGoCk] ([[March 26]], [[2010]])

:''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[Transform and Roll Out]] Part 1
: ''Narration:'' Optimus Prime (Hiroki Takahashi), [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] ([[Daisuke Kishio]]), [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] ([[Norio Wakamoto]])


*'''''[[Transform and Roll Out|Secret of the AllSpark]]'' 15-second commercial''' ([[April 10]], 2010)

:''Animation:'' Excerpts from [[Transform and Roll Out]] Part 3
: ''Narration:'' [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] ([[Jin Yamanoi]])

===Toys===
[[Image:Toycommercial-Animated01.jpg|right|thumb|Bulkhead isn't small! He's just faaaar away.]]
===2008===
*'''Wave 1 & 2 Voyagers and Deluxes''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch_DqDKJ_lw]
:''Animation:'' Cartoon excerpt of [[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] swooping down and firing.
:''Narration:'' [[Dynamic!]]
:''Toy Segment:'' The evil Starscream prepares to attack, with the evil Decepticons [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and... [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]]? Luckily, [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]], [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], and [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] are there to save the day. Notice how Bulkhead is SHORTER than 'Bee.
:''Notes:'' Has an end tag advertising the 'Battle Begins' Optimus Prime/Megatron two-pack.
:* '''Wave 1 & 2 Voyagers and Deluxes''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMYrWeREaQ] - Edited down from the previous commercial.

* '''Leader Megatron and Rollout Command Optimus Prime''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lGLKEO_Kk]
:''Animation:'' None.
:''Narration:'' Dynamic!
:''Toy Segment:'' Optimus Prime races through a city diorama to meet [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] and show off his "amazing auto-spin technology!" gimmick.

* '''[[McDonald's]] Happy Meal toys''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX4XTXyVW3M] (Partial)
:Kids play with [[List_of_Transformers_restaurant_promotions|Animated Happy Meal Toys]] inside a giant, Happy Meal Box-shaped Spaceship. Inexplicably, MOVIE Optimus Prime appears in the background.

*'''[[Transformers Animated: The Game]]''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYF8da0kEUs]
:Various excerpts of gameplay and animation from the game are shown, interspersed with text narration and voice over clips from Megatron, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Prowl.
:''In this time of war, victory...depends on teamwork.''

===2009===
* '''Jetstorm and Jetfire'''
:''Animation:'' None.
:''Narration:'' Unknown.
:''Toy Segment:''

==Revenge of the Fallen==
{{main|Commercial/Revenge of the Fallen}}

==War for Cybertron==
===2009===
* '''Teaser Trailer''' [http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.11&guid=kV2PWlEi]
: A brief trailer showing a transmission from Cybertron before first contact with Earth. Optimus Prime speeds into battle, transforms in mid-air and charges with his fellow Autobots - slicing a Decepticon in half - and stopping as Omega Supreme launches his energy weapon.

* '''One Shall Stand Trailer''' [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/one-shall-transformers-war/60792]

: Optimus Prime tells the story of the Transformers' war on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybetron]] while a battle takes place between the opposing sides. He then comes to the rescue of a group of Autobots under attack by Skywarp. Prime laments the war while Megatron feels the war is necessary. Their discussion of the war continues as individuals on both sides continue to fight. Eventually, the two factions form unified fronts and charge towards each other. The trailer ends just as Prime and Megatron start to clash.
:''Notes:'' Narrated by Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime. The battle depicted in this trailer is the one shown in the transmission from the teaser trailer.
: "One shall stand." "One shall fall."

[[Category:Media]]
[[Category:Toys]]

Lost and Found (Animated)

2010-05-25T13:28:38Z

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{{disambig3|Lost and Found}}
{{episode|
|series=Anitoon
|series2=AniJapan
|image=TFA Lost and Found Lugnut Blitzwing Earth modes.JPG
|caption=These two are Megatron's only hope…he's in trouble.
|ep=11
|ep2=11
|prev2=Along Came a Spider
|next2=Survival of the Fittest
|title="Lost and Found"
|airdate=[[March 1]], [[2008]] (US) [[June 12]], [[2010]] (JP)
|written by=[[Rich Fogel]]
|directed by=[[Irineo Maramba]] [[Yutaka Kagawa]]
|animation studio=[[Mook]]
}}

'''The Autobots clash with Decepticons Lugnut and Blitzwing, who come to Earth searching for their missing leader, Megatron.'''

:''Japanese title:'' 湖底の激戦 (''Kotei no Gekisen'', "Fierce Battle at the Bottom of the Lake")
:''German title:'' "'''Die alten Waffen'''" ("The Old Weapons")
:''Polish title:'' "'''Znaleziona zguba'''" ("Lost and Found")

==Synopsis==
[[Image:LugnutBlitzwingNemesis.JPG|left|170px|thumb|The scourge of poor parking.]]
A lunar rover examines recent seismic activity on the Moon's surface and stumbles upon the crashed [[Nemesis (Animated)|''Nemesis'']]. As it moves in for a closer look, a huge, unidentified object lands on the rover and crushes it. The huge thing turns out to be [[Lugnut]]. His partner, [[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] berates him for his clumsiness, but then offers some dancing lessons. An annoyed Lugnut points out they've traveled across the galaxy to find [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron's]] ship, not become light on their feet. Blitzwing comments that this is the same sector in which they lost track of [[Lockdown (Animated)|Lockdown]], and an argument breaks out (Lugnut doesn't like Lockdown), culminating in Lugnut confidently stating he ''knows'' Megatron still lives.

On Earth, [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] is rudely awakened from a stasis nap by an unapologetic [[Sari Sumdac|Sari]], who is in the middle of a street hockey game with [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]], [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] and [[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]]. The game picks up, and Bumblebee is about to score, when a trash can makes a save! Sari tries to write it off, but Ratchet is quick to notice the [[AllSpark Key]] currently plugged into said can. He tells her off, but they are interrupted when the Key begins to glow, followed by two glowing objects entering Earth's atmosphere. As a prophetic Ratchet decides this can't be good, camera-bots move in to investigate, but are quickly crushed by Blitzwing. Both he and Lugnut mistake a nearby crane as a sentient life form, and Lugnut demands to know Megatron's location. After a shove, the crane responds by slamming its wrecking ball into Blitzwing. Watching a live feed, Megatron muses over whether or not he can risk revealing himself. After all, he has already been betrayed once. At their home base, the [[Autobot]]s get ready to mobilize. Sari is all fired up, but both Ratchet and [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Prime]] tell her she needs to wait behind, as they want to protect the innocents. (Bumblebee very quickly points out that ''they're'' innocent too.)

[[Image:Lugnutfist.JPG|right|170px|thumb|''Tekken 6: Robot Revolution''.]]

Back at the construction site, Blitzwing and Lugnut have decided to devastate the place in order to draw out the Autobots. It works, and things quickly kick off as Optimus is forced to slice a tanker thrown by Lugnut in half. This promising opener falls apart when Blitzwing prevents both Prowl and Bumblebee from launching any attacks. Ratchet manages to trap some of Lugnut's missiles (though they break through his magnetic grip, they still don't hit any of the Autobots), but as Bulkhead tries to outmuscle the massive 'Con, Lugnut proves to be too powerful and throws him aside. The combined efforts of Blitzwing and Lugnut prove too much for the Autobots, and things go from bad to worse when they tell the [[Decepticon]]s that Megatron burned up "over Cleveland". Screaming "Megatron lives!", a raging Lugnut activates his [[Rocket punch|rocket fists]] and levels the entire area, flooring the Autobots and burying both himself and Blitzwing. As the Decepticons unbury themselves from the rubble, Blitzwing tells Lugnut to warn him before using his big punch…again.

As the Decepticons free themselves, Megatron becomes convinced of Lugnut's loyalty and opts to contact only him. Lugnut automatically decides to abandon the battle and answer the summons, dragging Blitzwing along and leaving behind some very confused Autobots. Blitzwing headbutts Lugnut in midair, and Lugnut responds in kind, slamming Blitzwing down into an army base. He explains he heard Megatron's voice, but Blitzwing merely hears approaching police. He suggests they scan local vehicle modes and hide, but Lugnut refuses until Megatron orders him to do so. He quickly scans a bomber, while Blitzwing, after a quick argument between his faces, scans both an assault tank and a fighter jet. [[Captain Fanzone]] arrives, but the Decepticons are already hiding in plain sight.

[[Image:TFA Lost and Found Ratchet Sari argue.JPG|left|170px|thumb|Are you Samuel James Witwicky?]]

The Autobots have returned to base and are making repairs. The constant danger of attack makes Prime decide the best thing to do would be to repair [[Teletran-1|their ship]] and take the [[AllSpark (Animated)|AllSpark]] off of Earth. Sari takes this very badly, and she is most unwilling to use the AllSpark Key to help Ratchet fix the ship. For his part, Ratchet is less than pleased about having to work with a "protoform". Prime settles it by ordering the two to be partners.

Meanwhile, Lugnut and Blitzwing are perched on a blimp, observing the city below. As Blitzwing comments on the [[Human|local wildlife]], Megatron transmits information on the AllSpark Key to Lugnut and orders the retrieval of it and the AllSpark. Lugnut immediately transforms, followed by a less-than-willing Blitzwing.

[[Image:TFA Lost and Found AllSpark vision.JPG|right|170px|thumb|"Who dares disturb the wizard!?!"]]

At [[Lake Erie]], the Autobots arrive, with Ratchet and Sari still bickering. They are quickly interrupted by Blitzwing and Lugnut. Ratchet and Sari make a break for it, but Blitzwing freezes the lake, preventing them from reaching the ship. However, they get a hand from Lugnut, who accidentally blasts a hole for them to get through. The Autobots dive in, and as Ratchet heads for their ship under , Lugnut and Blitzwing are stalled by the rest, thanks to some clever thinking from Prime. In the Autobots' ship, Ratchet has a moment alone with the ship, but ends up fighting with Sari, who storms off to the AllSpark's cargo bay. Dejected, she gets the idea of damaging the ship enough to prevent it flying, but the AllSpark Key quickly repairs it. Suddenly, the AllSpark opens to reveal an image of Megatron's head and the Key. Moments later, a fully restored Megatron materializes, and a terrified Sari panics and opens the airlock. As water pours in, Ratchet manages to save her. Sari confesses to her sabotage, but a sympathetic Ratchet explains the reason he wants to leave is because he cares about the planet and its people, especially Sari.

[[Image:ArkCannon.JPG|left|170px|thumb|This is gonna leave a mark.]]

Finally understanding, Sari agrees to help. Ratchet reveals the ship was originally a military vessel, and he hopes to bring the weapons bay back online. Outside, the Autobots are in serious trouble, but Sari's AllSpark Key soon reactivates the weapons bay, and Ratchet tells Optimus to draw the Decepticons to the ship. As they close, he activates the main cannon and blows the pair of Decepticons to kingdom come. A furious Megatron loses his link, and the Decepticons crash down onto the surface of the lake in several badly damaged pieces.

[[Image:Badsign.JPG|right|170px|thumb|Want to make a bad day worse? Just add Starscream.]]

Back at base, Sari uses the AllSpark Key to patch up Bumblebee, acting rather Ratchet like when he asks for some customization. Ratchet reveals that even with the Key, it'll take some time to get the ship up and running, so they won't be gone for a good while, and Sari smiles happily.

At the lake, Blitzwing calls for help, while Lugnut begs for a sign of Megatron's forgiveness. Remarkably they get a sign—a bad one, as Starscream shows up, promising repairs, in exchange for loyalty.
{{--}}
==Featured characters==
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*[[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet]] (3)
*[[Bumblebee (Animated)|Bumblebee]] (5)
*[[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] (6)
*[[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] (7)
*[[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]] (8)

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*[[Lugnut]] (1)
*[[Blitzwing (Animated)|Blitzwing]] (2)
*[[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] (9)
*[[Starscream (Animated)|Starscream]] (11)

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*[[Sari Sumdac]] (4)
*[[Captain Fanzone]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==
'''Hothead Blitzwing''': Careful, you copper-clad klutz! You stepped in something! 
'''Random Blitzwing''': But with a few dancing lessons, you'll be light on your stabilizing servos like me. Cha cha cha. 
'''Lugnut''': Silence, Blitzwing! I did not follow this beacon halfway across the galaxy for dancing lessons! This was Megatron's ship! 
'''Random Blitzwing''': Ahaha, Starscream never did have a knack for parking.
:—Blitzwing and Lugnut find a crashed Decepticon warship on the Moon.

[[Image:TFA Lost and Found Blitzwing Lugnut crane attack.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Hug-a-wrecking-ball day never really took off.]]

'''Hothead Blitzwing''': These can't be those miserable Autobots, they're far too small— 
'''Random Blitzwing''': But look at that one! It's big, it's bold, it's sassy! 
'''Lugnut''': You! What have you done with our beloved leader Megatron? Talk!
:—The Decepticons interrogate a highly suspicious-looking crane.

"Where is our glorious leader? Where is Megatron?!" 
"Big scary dude?" ''[to Optimus]'' "Didn't he turn into a fireball somewhere over Cleveland?"
:—'''Lugnut''' and '''Bumblebee'''

"I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: Give me some warning before you use ze punch!"
:—'''Hothead Blitzwing''' to Lugnut

'''Icy Blitzwing''': The Autobots have called in reinforcements. Perhaps we should lay low until we can determine their strength and numbers. 
'''Lugnut''': I will not hide. I will stand proudly and shout ''Megatron's name'' to the ''heavens''! 
'''Megatron''': Oh, for spark's sake...
:—Sometimes, the fanatic thing just gets ridiculous.

'''Optimus''': We'll have to repair our ship and move the AllSpark off this planet. 
'''Bulkhead''': We can't just pick up and go. How will we break the news to Sari? 
'''Bumblebee''': She's a big girl. She'll understand. 
''[Scene switches to Sari crying "No" at the top of her lungs]'' 
'''Bumblebee''': I think she's taking it well.
:—The Autobots tell Sari that they're leaving.

"Help! Give me a hand! Or-or a foot! How about a pelvis?"
:—'''Random Blitzwing''', unusually happy about being in pieces.

==Notes==
===Continuity errors===
* Blitzwing transforms to tank mode to drop into Lake Erie, but right after he plunges in and appears before the Autobots, he's in robot mode. Why didn't he just go to robot mode in the first place? (In-continuity answer: Blitzwing's angry persona uses the tank mode as opposed to the jet mode, according to [[Prowl (Animated)|Prowl]] in "[[Megatron Rising - Part 1|Megatron Rising]]", so him getting angry at Lugnut caused his transformation automatically. Out-of-continuity answer: [[To sell toys]].)
* In the Autobots' first scuffle with the 'cons, Ratchet uses his magnetic powers to grab a bunch of missiles fired by Lugnut, exclaiming that he can't hold them forever. However, they just seem to disappear after that, as it's never shown whether or not they hit anything.
* As seen in stock-footage transformations in previous episodes, when Prime transforms after he hears of Blitzwing and Lugnut on the news, he turns into a sort of half-a-fire-engine. This form was likely animated using references for his [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Voyager-scale toy]], from which the back end can be detached. In the next shot, in which he [[Roll out|rolls out]], he's a complete fire engine.
* Blitzwing's decision to scan both a jet and a tank seems to imply that he was not a [[Triple Changer]] before the scanning. However, [[The Arrival issue 5]] clearly marks him as a Triple Changer before ever coming to Earth.

===Animation errors===
*When Ratchet reactivates Teletran 1's main cannon and states that he has a plan, his broken forehead chevron is on the left side instead of the right.
*In two animation shots of Lugnut using his [[Punch of Kill Everything|rocket punch]], the ground is not iced, hinting that the animation sequence might be reused in future episodes.
*When Lugnut scans the bomber, it is much bigger than he is.
*Not so much an error as it is a curiousity, but Lugnut's faction symbol shifts from being on his shoulder panel to his chest after he scans an Earth Mode. You can actually see it for yourself on this page.

===Transformers references===
* The initial scene with the lunar rover is highly reminiscent of the destruction of the [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] probe in the [[Transformers (2007)|live-action movie]]. The two Decepticons' appearance on Earth as crash-landing meteorites also harks back to the film.

* The construction workers seen where Blitzwing and Lugnut first land are wearing outfits inspired by [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]] and [[Sparkplug Witwicky|Sparkplug]] from Generation 1.

* After the airing of "[[Transform and Roll Out]]", some fans speculated on a possible connection between the Autobot ship and [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Generation 1 Omega Supreme]], based on both Prime's dialogue referring to a weapons-system program as "Codename: Omega" and the resemblance between the ship's cannon (shown briefly) and Omega Supreme's tank turret. Adding to that speculation, in ''this'' episode, Ratchet addresses the ship as "old friend". Also, when Ratchet manages to activate the weapons systems, we see a clearer shot of the cannon, which indeed looks a lot like Omega Supreme's tank turret (it even has his color scheme). Foreshadowing? Yup, [[A Bridge Too Close, Part II|foreshadowing.]]

*This episode is the first in the series to feature the use of the words "[[Slag (slang)|slag]]" and "[[frag]]" as expletives.

*This isn't the first time a [[Armada (cartoon)|Decepticon battleship crash-landed on the moon]].

===Japanese version===

===Real-world references===
* When Lugnut overpowers Bulkhead, he comments, "Nothing moves Lugnut", similar to the minor ''X-men'' villain the [[wikipedia:Blob (comics)|Blob]].

===Trivia===
* This is the fourth episode in which Sari has received direct warnings about misuse of her AllSpark Key. The Allspark seems to have chosen the "tough love" approach and scared the message into her. How long this will last is up for debate. Bets will now be taken. Answer: [[Transwarped|Beginning of the third season]] when she uses it to upgrade herself, and it makes her go nuts and stab Bumblebee. Betting is now closed.
* In a humourous background detail, we see the Blitzwing-shaped hole, left from where he crashed barely two minutes ago, as Captain Fanzone's squadron arrives at the hangar. Oddly enough, they don't take much notice of it.
* Captain Fanzone doesn't come off too well in this episode, since he A) forgets that Transformers can disguise themselves as vehicles, and B) doesn't notice that two of the military jets are sporting unusual purple paint jobs, and one of them has tank treads under its wings, not to mention the above.
* Prime's vehicle mode has manual transmission.
* It's unclear why Sari didn't mention the AllSpark-generated vision of Megatron to any of the Autobots. (Granted, she doesn't know who Megatron is, but even so….)
* When Sari tells Bumblebee that the AllSpark Key isn't a toy, she looks like she has wrinkles under her eyes. Obviously, this is meant to show that Ratchet has rubbed off on her a little bit. Even her mouth looks like his briefly. Of course, she may have just been doing an impression of Ratchet as a joke.
* Random Blitzwing seems to have a knack for songs and dances. We'll see if it remains a trend.
* Captain Fanzone is currently driving a regular Detroit police car. [[Captain Fanzone's car|His old car]] was destroyed by [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] in "[[Blast from the Past]]," but it returns in future episodes.
* Megatron seems unfamiliar with Blitzwing and Lugnut's personalities (i.e., that the first is crazy, and the second is loyal). However, they served under him on the ''Nemesis'' fifty years ago, and exhibited the same characteristics then. This discrepancy is not explained. (Possibly Megatron did not have much direct contact with them in the past, or he may be assuming that fifty years might have changed them.) It also shows that unlike [[Megatron (disambiguation)|his counterparts]], ''Animated'' Megatron actually learns from betrayal, and is not so forgiving.

==Home video releases==
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of USA.png|20px|United States of America]] 2008 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Season One ([[Transformers Animated (cartoon)/home video|Paramount]]) — English and Spanish audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Two: Lost and Found (Paramount) — English and German audio. 
[[Image:Flag of Germany.png|20px|Germany]] 2009 — ''Transformers Animated'' — Volume Zwei: Die Alten Waffen (Paramount) — English and German audio.

[[Category:Animated episodes]]

Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity

2010-05-25T13:25:09Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Super-God Masterforce and Victory cartoons */ I think it's an interesting parrallel that we should be drawing attention to, plus it's dead space anyway

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[[Image:G1OptimusPrimeStockFootage.jpg|thumb|right|350px|"Captions are the right of all TFwiki users"]]
Come read the incredibly complex, convoluted, and competing accounts of '''[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s massive amount of appearances in the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]!

==''The Transformers'' cartoon==
:''Voice actors:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (Optimus Prime, English), [[Laurie Faso]] (Orion Pax, English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Francis Lax]] (French), [[Hubert Gagnon]] (French Canadian), [[Willi Röbke]] (German), [[Thomas Rau]] (German ''Generation 2''), [[Diego Reggente]] (Italian, first season and part of second season), [[Giorgio Melazzi]] (Italian, third season).

[[Image:Orionpax.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Ariel spends a lot of time hanging around the docks.]]

Optimus Prime began his life as an Autobot named '''Orion Pax''' during the [[Golden Age]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] nine million years ago. Together with his girlfriend [[Elita One|Ariel]] and his best friend [[Dion]], Orion was a dock-worker at a [[storage yard 67|storage yard]] who had the simple job of unloading and storing shipments of energy that came from a power plant up-river. But the times in which Orion lived were strange ones: a new breed of robot had recently appeared on the planet, with strange robot-mode [[flight]] powers that led Orion and Dion to idolize them. Ariel wasn't so sure, having heard rumors that the flying robots' leader had recently perpetrated an attack on an outer city.

[[Image:Wardawn_orion_dies.jpg|left|210px|thumb|Better get used to [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|dying horribly]], buddy.]]

One day, Orion was going about work as usual when an unfamiliar group of [[Aerialbot (G1)|five robots]] arrived on the docks, and Orion, wondering if they were new workers, introduced himself and his friends. At that moment, all attentions turned skyward as a group of the flying robots soared by overhead. Both Ariel and the newcomers urged caution in dealing with the fliers, but Orion waved off their concerns, and returned to work. Before long, Orion was shocked when he was approached by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], leader of the flying robots, who claimed to be looking for a place to store his wares. Overcome, Orion showed Megatron around the warehouses and explained that they were used for storing energy... at which point Megatron ordered his followers, the [[Decepticon]]s, to attack and steal it all! When Orion took a shot to the shoulder from the Decepticon leader, Ariel rushed to his defense, but was hit by another blast from Megatron. The enraged Orion lunged at Megatron, but was shot down by yet another blast from the Decepticon's cannon.

[[Image:Sfat prime and elita fb.jpg|right|thumb|"No girls allowed"]]

While Megatron and the Decepticons set about pillaging the warehouses, the five robots Orion had met earlier carried his body away, in hopes of finding someone to repair him. They came upon the Cybertronian machinesmith [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], who reluctantly decided to subject Orion to a new reconstruction process he had developed, which would rebuild the Autobots' frail bodies into battle-hardy configurations so that they could battle the Decepticons on even footing. Thus it was that Orion Pax became Optimus Prime, the new leader of the Autobots, and was given the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Alpha Trion had kept safe since Megatron had killed its [[U-Haul Robot|previous holder]]. While Alpha Trion set to work on rebuilding Ariel into "[[Elita One]]" using Prime's schematics as a basis, Prime confronted Megatron, introducing himself as the Decepticon's "worst nightmare". A mighty battle ensued, which came to an end when the warehouse's fuel stockpiles were blown up by the five enigmatic Autobots, who disappeared. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

Over the following five million years, Optimus Prime led the Autobots in a steady war of attrition that gradually drained Cybertron of almost all of its energy. In order to continue the fight, Prime arranged for an interstellar expedition to search for energy on other planets. Loading his best and brightest aboard a huge [[Ark (G1)|spacecraft]], Prime was the last to board, but was stopped by a cry from Elita One, who came running up to the launch platform. Prime told her that he would return for her as soon as he could, but Elita was intent on joining Prime on the mission. No debate was to be had, however, as a Decepticon attack on the platform caused an explosion that seemingly destroyed Elita. Crestfallen, Prime boarded the spacecraft and ordered a take-off, unaware that Elita had, in fact, survived. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}

[[Image:Mtmte1 prime controls.jpg|left|thumb|The Transformers spent four million years in stasis lock because Prime never learned to turn INTO the skid.]]

The Autobots' spacecraft had a troubled flight. After navigating a treacherous asteroid field, the ship was caught in a tractor beam from a [[Nemesis (G1)|Decepticon space cruiser]] that had been shadowing them, under the command of Megatron himself. Megatron's forces swarmed the Autobot ship, and the two leaders grappled until the G-force of the nearby planet [[Earth]] took hold of the craft, and dragged it down. Although Prime tried valiantly to pull the ship up, it collided with a [[Mount St. Hilary|mountain]] so violently that all the Autobots and Decepticons were knocked offline.

[[Image:Mtmte2_witiwickys_saved.jpg|215px|right|thumb|Water-boarding is unconstitutional]]

Four million years later, in 1984, a volcanic eruption jarred the ship's computer, [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], back online, and it set about reviving the Transformers indiscriminately, beginning with the Decepticons. The evil robots soon departed the Ark, but thanks to a tremor caused by a petty parting shot upon the ship from [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], the inactive form of Optimus Prime was jostled into the path of Teletraan I's restoration beam. Reconfigured by the computer to transform into a tractor trailer, Prime thanked Teletraan for its efforts with a thumbs-up, and quickly saw to the reactivation of all his fellow Autobots. Wasting no time, Prime led the Autobots in pursuing the Decepticons, who were in the process of attacking an oil rig. Prime and Megatron faced off, but Prime was promptly set upon by [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], allowing Megatron to break off the fight and collapse the oil rig with a few well-placed blasts. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} Prime quickly rescued a pair of rig workers—[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] and his son [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]—and introduced himself and the Autobots to the two grateful humans, who volunteered to help the Autobots learn more about Earth.

[[Image:Mtmte2_shermandam.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Hey, Megatron! Lemme axe you a question!"]]

Next, the Decepticons targeted [[Sherman Dam]], and Prime led the Autobots in an attempt to stop them, battling Megatron atop the dam with his retractable [[energon-axe]]. Distracted by a cry for help from Spike, Prime was knocked off the dam by Megatron, and the Decepticons escaped to carry out their next raid, this time on the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma]]. When the Autobots arrived at the mines, Sparkplug and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] were sent in to plant an explosive charge that would entomb the Decepticons. When the pair did not return, Prime drove up to the mineshaft and deployed [[Roller]] to investigate. No sooner had Roller entered the mine, however, than the charge went off, and Prime was caught in the blast and hurled off the cliff. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Prime and Roller both survived the explosion, but unfortunately, so did the Decepticons, who blasted their way free of the collapsed mine and took to the air. Prime tried to stop [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from pursuing the villains, but his old friend would not listen and was shot down. Prime was happy that Ironhide was okay, but reminded him that there was a thin line between being a hero, and being a memory.

[[Image:Mtmte3_prime_combatdeck.jpg|right|225px|thumb|In mere moments, the gun would be destroyed, but the finger would keep right on firing.]]

After the Autobots' attempt to use a phony holographic rocket base to dupe the Decepticons failed, Megatron stood poised to return to Cybertron. Prime called for volunteers for the dangerous mission to stop the Decepticons' blasting off in their new [[Decepticon Headquarters|space cruiser]], and all the Autobots stepped forward, including Spike and Sparkplug. With all his soldiers behind him, Prime led the Autobots into battle once more, and once again faced off with Megatron, this time using the additional firepower of his [[Combat Deck]] against his enemy. When the combat shifted to hand-to-hand, however, Prime was blindsided by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], affording Megatron the opportunity to call off the fight and instruct the Decepticons to board the cruiser. As the craft took off, emotion got the better of Prime, and in a rare display of short-temperedness and anger, he roared at [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] to hand over his rocket pack. With the pack's additional boost, Prime achieved escape velocity and followed the cruiser into space, but a blast from its artillery hatch sent him plummeting back to Earth. His anger fading to despair, Prime declared that the Decepticons had won... before noticing that [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] was missing. In fact, the invisible Autobot had stowed away aboard the Decepticons' cruiser and sabotaged it from within, causing it to crash back to Earth, into the ocean. Believing the Decepticons aboard destroyed, Prime ordered the Autobots back to the ship, so that they could continue rebuilding it and return to Cybertron themselves. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[Image:Too_prime_truckmode.jpg|left|thumb|225px|The smokestacks were filed down for your safety, kids.]]

One night, months later, before rebuilding was complete, Prime and Ironhide stood looking out at the ocean, and Prime confessed he was not entirely convinced that the Decepticons were gone for good. And he was right: before long, Teletraan I reported an emergency at a solar power plant, and Optimus discovered to his horror that Megatron still lived. Prime led a team of Autobots to drive the villains off, and while they were successful, the Decepticons escaped with a large quantity of energy to send to Cybertron with their new intergalactic "[[space bridge]]" transport system. Spike was captured and nearly sent across the bridge with the energy, but at the last moment, Prime blasted him free of the transport pod and then hurled Megatron into the bridge in his place. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} Megatron was not gone for long, however, and when Prime next faced his eternal enemy, it was for possession of an [[antimatter]] energy formula. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

[[Image:Divide and conquer.jpg|right|225px|thumb|He was recovering nicely until Bumblebee tripped while carrying his dynamite collection.]]

While searching for any trace of where the Decepticons' space bridge would next materialize, Prime received word of a Decepticon attack on a weapons factory and sped to the scene. In the battle that followed, Prime was badly injured by an exploding computer bank when he shielded the human workers with his body, and was taken back to Autobot Headquarters for repair. Alas, Laserbeak followed the Autobots back to their base, and while Prime was lying on a medical table with his internal mechanisms exposed, the crooked cassette struck, destroying Prime's vital [[cosmotron]] component. A team of Autobots were dispatched to Cybertron to recover a replacement cosmotron, but in their absence, the Decepticons initiated an all-out attack on the Autobots. At the last moment, the cosmotron arrived, and the repaired Prime made a dramatic entrance onto the battlefield, challenging Megatron to one-on-one combat and soundly defeating him. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

After leading the Autobots on a mission to the Arctic to stop the Decepticons from draining the energy of the Earth's core, {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} Optimus Prime okayed [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]'s project to create robotic dinosaurs to bolster their forces. Unfortunately, when the three "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]" turned out to be dangerous, simple-minded monsters, Prime ordered them destroyed. Wheeljack was able to talk him down to merely deactivating the Dinobots and sealing them in a cavern in their volcano headquarters... and a good thing, too, since soon after, when Prime and the Autobots were defeated in battle with the Decepticons at the [[Great Falls]], Wheeljack was able to bring the Dinobots back online to save the day. Realizing that "even the wisest of men and machines can be in error", Prime overruled his previous order, and allowed the Dinobots to remain part of the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

[[Image:Grimlockapologize.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Someday, my large friend, [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|the tables will be turned]]."]]

Following a mission to Peru, {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Prime was so impressed with the Dinobot trio's improved performance that he ordered the creation of two more. Unfortunately, Prime would soon learn that the Dinobots were not perfect; left alone to guard a [[Meteorini Chipperoni|strange energy-rich meteorite]], the Dinobots were approached by Megatron, who exploited their simple brains to turn them against Optimus Prime. Soon after, when Prime discovered that the meteorite was unstable and set to explode, he rushed out to warn the Dinobots, only to be attacked by them and taken to Megatron. The Decepticons had also stolen the meteorite, unaware of its impending detonation, and when the space-rock finally exploded, Prime dove into action and shoved the Dinobot leader [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] to safety. Realizing that Optimus Prime was on the side of the angels, Grimlock apologized, and he and Prime shook hands. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

[[Image:SurfsUp.jpg|right|225px|thumb|There is no way it could be cooler than this...]]

When the Decepticons constructed a massive "space pyramid" in order to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, that they might exploit the energies released in the chaos that would ensue, Prime attempted to stop Megatron from activating the third and final pylon in the system. Megatron merely laughed, and informed Prime that ''he'' would be the one to activate the pylon—for if he did not, Cybertron would be utterly destroyed! {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Prime was forced to comply and brought the pylon online, but he did not linger on the moral repercussions of his decision, and instead led the Autobots in combatting the environmental terrors that Cybertron's orbit unleashed. On top of all this mayhem, the Decepticons had also used [[hypno-chip]]s to mind-control human slaves into helping them gather energy, including Sparkplug Witwicky. Learning that Sparkplug had been taken to work on Cybertron, Prime felt that it would be best if Spike did not find out, only for the boy to overhear him discussing it. Prime permitted Spike to join a team of Autobots that were heading for Cybertron to investigate the source of the Decepticons' mind-control. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Prime then led another team of the Autobots on a mission to stop the construction of a Decepticon hydro-electric generator, cruising into battle on Transformer-sized surfboards. Things came to a head in a huge firefight on a tropical island, during which the Autobots returned from Cybertron with a device that undid the effects of the hypno-chips. Megatron cut his losses and fled with the energy he had gathered, but Prime then opened fire on his craft, blowing up the energy within and creating an explosion powerful enough to thrust Cybertron back out of orbit. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

[[Image:CountdownToExtinction.jpg|left|thumb|... I stand corrected.]]

In the wake of Cybertron's orbit, Optimus Prime and the Autobots set about repairing the damage done to Earth, when an even greater threat emerged: Starscream set an [[Exponential Generator]] to overlord and destroy the planet. For the first time—but not the last—Prime and Megatron were forced to team up for the greater good (or the lesser evil), as Megatron transformed into pistol mode and allowed Prime to wield him so that they could shoot the exponential generator into space and save Earth. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

[[Image:Tanker throw.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Eat your heart out, Superman.]]

Hearing reports of giant robotic insects in Bali, Optimus Prime led a team of Autobots to investigate. The team discovered that the insects in questions were a trio of "[[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]" who had allied themselves with Megatron, and pursued them to an oil refinery the Decepticons were in the process of plundering. In one of his most impressive feats of strength ever recorded, Optimus Prime hoisted an entire oil tanker over his head and hurled it at Megatron. The Insecticons were so awed by this display of strength that they decided to consume the gathered energon and flee, earning them Megatron's ire. Although he considered the day a victory, Prime worried that the Insecticons would inevitably ally themselves with Megatron again. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}}

[[Image:HeavyMetalWar Primedefeated.jpg|left|thumb|"I... fell on my keys.. ow."]]

When an unarmed Megatron appeared in front of Autobot Headquarters claiming that he had come only to talk, Optimus Prime agreed to hear him out, and found himself challenged to a one-on-one duel in accordance with Cybertron law. The loser of the duel and his troops would be forced to vacate Earth forever, but Prime confidently and honorably accepted the challenge. Little did Prime realize that Megatron had found a way to imbue himself with the different powers of all his Decepticon troops, and when the battle began, Prime was defeated with shocking speed. Believing that he had simply been unaware of the number of powers at Megatron's command, Prime sorrowfully agreed to leave Earth, much to the other Autobots' chagrin. When they returned to Autobot Headquarters to prepare for their departure, they discovered Megatron's newest warriors, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], in battle with the Dinobots, but Prime refused to get involved, citing the law despite Ironhide's protests. Spike's friend [[Chip Chase]] had his suspicions about the battle and used Teletraan I to scan Prime's injuries, revealing Megatron's deception. As the battle had been unlawfully won, Prime was able to disregard the law and lead the Autobots into the battle raging outside. Prime was able to blast the Constructicons' merged form of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] apart with his laser rifle, and the Autobots ganged up on the Decepticons and forced them into a lava-filled crevasse. Prime and Megatron faced off once more, and Prime sent Megatron to join his troops in the magma below. Spike asked if the Decepticons were gone forever, prompting Optimus to wonder aloud... in the vast universe, was anything truly forever? {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

[[Image:Autobotspike_prime_vs_autobotx.jpg|215px|right|thumb]]

As 1985 rolled in, Optimus Prime found himself on the receiving end of the fury of "Autobot Spike", as he struggled to bring the young Witwicky back to his right mind after his consciousness was implanted in a [[Autobot X|robot body]]. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, when Megatron threatened the stability of the [[sun]] with his [[Solar Needle]], Prime was caught off guard by the Decepticon leader and wound up staring down his fusion cannon. Megatron ordered the other Autobots to lay down their weapons, but Prime told them to leave him to his fate and destroy the needle. Refusing to risk their commander's life, the Autobots complied with Megatron's wishes, but Prime found a way out of the situation by requesting a last wish: he asked [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], who had been rendered totally subservient by the removal of one of his circuit cards, to destroy the Solar Needle for him, and the deed was done before Megatron could do anything about it. {{storylink|Changing Gears}}

[[Image:Cos prime disassembled.jpg|left|225px|thumb|"The seller promised he was mint!"]]

Responding to reports of Decepticon activity in New York City, Optimus Prime was captured by the evil robots and disassembled into his component parts by [[Hook (G1)|Hook]]. The Autobots were able to recover their leader's head, but the other parts of his body had been rebuilt into an [[alligatorcon]] that the Autobots were forced to defeat and disassemble in order to restore him. Even after his body was rebuilt, Prime was still missing his right arm, which had been mounted as a laser turret on the top of the [[Empire State Building]]. Luckily, Prime was able to remote-control his arm, and used it to blast Devastator off the building, after which the Autobots reclaimed and re-attached Prime's errant limb. {{storylink|City of Steel}} The Decepticons were not done trying to manipulate Prime for their own ends, however; for their next evil scheme, they attacked his mind instead of his body, using a [[personality destabilizer]] to turn Prime and his fellow Autobots to the side of evil. Sparkplug was able to rig up [[attitude exchanger]]s to restore the Autobots to normal, but Prime was able to avoid being tagged by the devices by splitting up into his three components and bedeviling the Autobots on three fronts. Finally, Bumblebee took it upon himself to charge into Prime, and succeeded in restoring his leader's mind. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}

[[Image:Dotm_prime_vs_torq3.jpg|right|215px|thumb]]

Numerous crazy gadgets formed the backbone of Prime's next few adventures, as he battled the Decepticons for control of [[electro-cell]]s, {{storylink|Traitor}} had to convince Ironhide to remain with the Autobots when his old friend botched a mission involved Wheeljack's new [[Immobilizer]], {{storylink|The Immobilizer}} and found himself temporarily trapped in truck mode by the [[Transfixatron]] when he and the other Autobots participated in the "Autobot Run" charity race. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Later, when the Decepticons allied themselves with the [[Sub-Atlantica]]ns and attacked [[Washington, D.C.]], Prime was felled by a blast from an anti-Transformer disruptor ray created by the Sub-Atlantican king, [[Nergill]]. Prime's diodes were pulled out of the laser fire by the fortunate arrival of Grimlock and the Dinobots, and the Dinobot leader didn't hesitate to point out that fact. Prime then transported the Dinobots to Sub-Atlantica in his trailer, and unleashed them upon the fish-men with the order to "act prehistoric!" {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}}

When Megatron took control of the super computer [[TORQ III]], Prime gave a particularly good account of himself, duping and defeating the addled computer almost single-handedly, besting Megatron in hand-to-hand combat and destroying his remote control device, and saving [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] and Spike from a sinking oil platform. {{storylink|Day of the Machines}} The Decepticons struck back with another plot that involved controlling an Earth machine; even Optimus Prime found himself outmatched by the robotic ninja [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], and his attempts to reason with the lifeless construct fell on deaf ears. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

[[Image:Primeproblem prime and clone.jpg|left|215px|thumb|"Oh noes! If only there were some way to tell them apart! [[Matrix of Leadership|Sacred lifeforce]]? What?"]]

As part of a plot to lead the Autobots to their doom in a crevasse of [[korlonium crystal]]s, Megatron created a [[Optimus Prime clone|perfect clone of Optimus Prime]], which he could remote control from a distance. Despite the Prime clone's blatantly odd behavior, the Autobots were unable to tell the difference between the two Primes, so they staged several contests in hopes of identifying the true Prime through his skills. Unfortunately, a sharp-shooting test and a race yielded no results, and the Autobots were forced to table the debate and go into battle against the Decepticons with both Primes. To fully complete the illusion, Megatron proceeded to create a clone of Starscream, which his Prime clone then destroyed, convincing the Autobots that it was the genuine article. Unfortunately, Megatron promptly blew his ruse by dismissing Spike's safety as unimportant, and all of the Autobots immediately turned on the clone and blew it to smithereens. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}}

[[Image:Dinobotisland jetpacks.jpg|right|215px|thumb]]

Next, Prime found himself allying with Megatron on two separate occasions, first to prevent the destruction of the Earth when a Decepticon attempt to drill to the planet's core went awry {{storylink|The Core}}, and then again when the Insecticons drained the [[Nova Power Core|power core]] of the [[Nova Power Plant]] and grew in size and power. In the latter instance, Prime again wielded Megatron in gun mode to shoot capsules of antidote into the Insecticons, shrinking them back to normal before they exploded. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}}

After another disastrous Dinobot rampage in Autobot Headquarters, Optimus Prime ordered the Dinobots to relocate to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], a strange prehistoric paradise the Autobots had just recently discovered. Unfortunately, the Decepticons followed the Dinobots there and began draining the island's rich sources of energy, disrupting the fabric of space and time and causing humans and other creatures from throughout time to materialize in the present day. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} Prime put his trailer to use as a holding pen for a herd of woolly mammoths, and after the prehistoric pachyderms were returned to their home time, he donned a jetpack and led a team of Autobots to Dinobot Island to stop the Decepticons' plan. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

[[Image:Master builders prime basketball.jpg|left|215px|thumb|Red bots can't jump.]]

In the midst of some basketball lessons from Spike, Prime was approached by [[Grapple]] with a design for a solar power tower, but was forced to forbid its construction on the basis that it had no means of defense against a Decepticon attack. Consumed with a desire to build the tower, Grapple and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] wound up allying with the Constructicons to construct the tower, only to be promptly turned on and entombed within it once it was complete. Prime and the Autobots rescued them, and while Prime accepted their apologies, he still had them clear up the wreckage of the tower as punishment. {{storylink|The Master Builders}}

Optimus Prime later helped test Wheeljack's new [[Negavator]] weapon and had to deal with a paranoid [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} then found himself faced with a super-powered Megatron when the Decepticon leader boosted his systems with the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Microbots}}

[[Image:MMP1 Gavel bang.jpg|right|215px|thumb|A collection of G1 Transformers toys, sold to the [[Megatron (G1)|psychotic robotic madman offscreen]].]]

After helping to save [[Central City (G1)|Central City]]'s new solar energy facility from Decepticon attack, Optimus Prime and the Autobots were honored at city hall, but the ceremony turned sour when the mayor's rival, [[Shawn Berger]], framed the Autobots for raiding an oil field using a video tape faked by the Decepticons (which featured a costumed Starscream playing the role of Prime). Prime and the Autobots were called to trial and found guilty of crimes against Earth, and Prime reluctantly accepted the court's ruling that they leave Earth and return to Cybertron aboard a craft supplied by Berger. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} Prime soon regretted his decision and ordered [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] to turn the rocket around, only to discover that Megatron had set it to collide with the sun and destroy them all. Thanks to [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]'s force field, Prime and the Autobots survived the explosion of their rocket, and returned to Earth to clear their names. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

When Optimus Prime attended [[Professor Greene]]'s demonstration of his new [[Ultra Plane]], the Decepticons attacked and destroyed the new weapon. In the battle that resulted, the Autobots and Decepticons began to suffer sudden system malfunctions that were quickly deduced to be a result of the [[cybertonium]] in their systems degenerating after four million years on Earth. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} Spike and his girlfriend [[Carly]] braved a perilous journey to Cybertron, recovering enough cybertonium to repair the Autobots, and were appointed honorary Autobots by Prime for their efforts. {{Storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[Image:Goldenlagoon_prime_perceptor.jpg|left|225px|thumb| Rare [[Lucky Draw]] Optimus and Perceptor.]]

Optimus Prime was particularly exasperated with [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] when he broadcast a rock concert back into the Autobot base, partially because of the ungodly noise, but mostly because it meant that the Autobots failed to receive a distress call from [[Professor Haley]], whose [[Voltronic Galaxer]] device had been stolen by the Decepticons. It was with Blaster's help, however, that Prime then bested Megatron in a battle on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], and so he allowed Blaster to turn Megatron's moonbase into a radio station that he could broadcast from. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}}

Prime later led the Autobots in battle for control of the [[electrum|golden lagoon]], {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} then found himself playing the role of tech-support as he talked [[Talaria]] through the activation of [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]'s signal beacon via a communications channel when the space-faring Autobot was stranded on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. Prime intended to go to Titan and rescue Cosmos himself, but Red Alert urged against it, and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] wound up going in his place.{{storylink|The God Gambit}} Prime later agreed to help the NYPD bust a carjacking ring headed up by the [[Geddis brothers]], leading to another confrontation with the Geddis's secret allies, the Decepticons. {{storylink|Make Tracks}}

[[Image:Childsplay_aron_and_prime.jpg|right|thumb| Aron just finished his cartoon accurate Optimus kitbash.]]

When the Decepticons attempted to turn a baseball stadium into a new space bridge, the mechanism malfunction, teleporting Prime, Bumblebee, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] and a quartet of Decepticons to an alien planet inhabited by giants. Prime took the diplomatic approach, introducing himself and the Autobots to [[Aron]], the alien boy into whose room they had been transported, and Aron then helped his new friends evade capture and dissection by the planet's authorities. Following a riotous sewer-surfing journey back to Aron's house, the Autobots departed the planet in a toy rocket ship Perceptor had rewired. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} On the return journey to Earth, however, the Autobots were captured by the alien gambler [[Bosch]], who brainwashed them all, save Smokescreen, and sold them to [[Lord Gyconi]] on the asteroid resort of [[Monacus]]. Prime was pitted against an [[Animalien]] in a gladiatorial battle for Gyconi's patrons' amusement before Smokescreen and Bosch secured the Autobots' freedom and restored their minds. {{storylink|The Gambler}} Upon his return to Earth, Optimus Prime faced the menace of the [[Morphobot]]s. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

When reports came in of the Constructicons mining an asteroid out in space, Optimus Prime requested that Omega Supreme investigate. The asteroid proved to be an egg containing an [[asteroid bird alien|alien bird monster]], which emerged and began attacking [[San Francisco]], but Omega ignored Prime's orders to intervene and shut off his communicator in mid-battle, preferring to seek revenge against the Constructicons. Prime was forced to intervene, getting between Omega and his quarry and finally convincing the giant Autobot to help dispose of the alien, on the basis that there were more important things in life than revenge. {{storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

Outfitted with a special coating of insulation to protect himself, Prime led a small team of Autobots to Japan to stop Megatron's latest creation, the demented energy imp known as [[Kremzeek]]. When the Autobots finally got the better of the crazy creature, Prime had to regretfully order his destruction. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}}

[[Image:Primetarget_beast_of_borneo.jpg|left|thumb|Bad touch!]]

After receiving a distress signal from the planet of [[Tlalakan]]s, Prime ordered a team of Autobots to investigate, but was unable to go himself as he was too large for Cosmos to carry. {{storylink|Sea Change}} Later, when Megatron, Starscream, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] began feuding for Decepticon leadership, Prime was greatly amused by the whole thing, calling it a "domestic squabble" and taunting Megatron by dismissing him so he could fight the "real" leaders of the Decepticons. Prime kept the other Autobots from getting involved in the battle, and sure enough, the Decepticons wound up knocking the fight out of each other. The other Autobots agreed there was only one leader for them, and formed a throne out of their bodies for Prime to sit upon, but Prime said he preferred to roll. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}}

Optimus Prime's fame and prowess soon led him to become the target of the demented big-game hunter, [[Lord Chumley]], who sought Prime's head to go along with his other rare trophies. Chumley captured several Autobots in order to lure Prime to his estate, and of course, the Autobot leader had no choice but to comply. Battling his way through a mock-up of Cybertron itself against all kind of bizarre traps and creatures, from a ferocious [[dragon]]-like beast, to several robotic arachnids, to the interfering Astrotrain and Blitzwing, Prime succeeded in freeing his Autobot comrades, capturing Chumley, and delivering him to the authorities. {{storylink|Prime Target}}

[[Image:G1 Prime Elita energy transfer.JPG|right|220px|thumb|Oh look. Optimus Prime is having robo-sex with his sister. Better get used to seei- whoa, wait a minute.]]

Prime received the shock of his life when Megatron contacted him to inform him that Elita One was still alive, and had been captured by his Decepticons on Cybertron. Prime immediately departed for Cybertron to rescue her, but walked straight into the trap that had been laid for him, and was trussed up by the Decepticons and dangled above a vat of acid. Just as Prime was dropped, Elita used her secret power to stop time, freezing Prime in mid-air and pulling him to safety. Unfortunately, the use of her power drained almost all of her life-force, leaving her on the brink of death, so Prime loaded her aboard his trailer and set out in search of Alpha Trion, in the hope that the ancient Autobot could heal her. In the process, Prime rediscovered his own forgotten connection to his creator, when Alpha Trion shocked him with intimate knowledge of his and Elita's systems by telling him that only his own power supply could properly interface with Elita's. Prime gave Elita the power transfusion necessary to save her life, and the two lovers then joined the other Autobots in fighting off the Decepticons. Prime regretted that they had to part ways again, but Elita knew that she had to continue the fight against the Decepticons on Cybertron. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}

[[Image:Ktvs_prime_and_trion.jpg|left|215px|thumb|Optimus was just in time to keep Alpha Trion from falling for the Nigerian e-mail scam.]]

Optimus Prime had little to do in the mission to rescue [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]] from the Decepticons, merely offering theories and passing along information to Powerglide, {{storylink|The Girl Who Loved Powerglide}} but took to the fore again when Megatron created the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] to combat the Autobots on the roads. Realizing that Megatron would have to use the Cybertronian mega-computer [[Vector Sigma]] to bring the Stunticons to life, Prime took a team of Autobots to Cybertron, where they sought the aid of Alpha Trion in navigating the planet's catacombs to find the way to the computer. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} Unfortunately, Megatron made it to the computer first and brought the Stunticons online, so Prime proposed the creation of a team of jets known as the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] as a countermeasure. With Vector Sigma's [[Key to Vector Sigma|activation key]] in Megatron's clutches, Alpha Trion proposed that he merge with Vector Sigma to bring the computer back online. Prime refused, knowing it would mean the end of his creator's life, but Alpha Trion insisted that he be allowed to sacrifice himself so that the Aerialbots could live. The Autobots and Aerialbots returned to Earth, where they stopped Megatron from using the key to Vector Sigma to convert the planet into a metal sphere. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

[[Image:Cosmicrust_prime_and_perceptor.jpg|right|215px|thumb|"Perceptor, what happened?"
"It's... rust."
"But it looks like..."
"Rust."
"But it smells like..."
"RUST!"]]

When Megatron attempted to send the Aerialbots back to the dawn of time using the [[kronosphere]] time machine, Optimus Prime blasted the device before it could complete its evil work, depositing the Aerialbots nine million years in the past. Prime and the other Autobots fended off a Decepticon attack while Wheeljack rebuilt the kronosphere, and the five airborne Autobots were returned to the present just in time to turn the tide of battle. In the aftermath of the conflict, when the Aerialbots were able to refer to him with his old name of Orion Pax, Prime realised that it had been the time-tossed Aerialbots who have saved him from Megatron and brought him to Alpha Trion to be rebuilt all those millions of years ago. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

When Perceptor was kidnapped by the Decepticons and infected with the contagious [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] , Prime risked his own safety to single-handedly rescue the scientist, and wound up being infected in the process, just as Megatron had planned. Even infected, Prime met Megatron in battle while the Autobots retrieved the cure to the disease, and the Autobots won the day yet again. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

[[Image:RevengeofBruticus Primefiringguns.jpg|left|thumb|Being a hero is all about dramatic lighting. And two-fisted violence.]]

When another power struggle between Megatron and Starscream erupted, Prime was once again quite happy to ignore the whole messy affair until Starscream and his newly-built [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] attacked the unveiling ceremony for a [[Optimus Prime Memorial|memorial]] to Optimus Prime himself (rather oddly being built while he was still alive) and kidnapped Jazz and Cliffjumper. In the midst of a battle between Megatron and Starscream's force, Prime led the Autobots in rescuing their teammates. Starscream and the Combaticons were subsequently defeated and exiled from Earth, {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} but that just made matters worse, as they headed for Cybertron, conquered the planet, and used the space bridge to alter Earth's orbit and send it spiralling towards the sun. Both Autobots and Decepticons needed to use the space bridge to travel to Cybertron and stop Starscream's plan, but the Insecticons damaged the control panel, requiring Prime to donate some of his own circuitry to the repair effort, on the condition that Megatron did the same. With the bridge restored, Prime and Megatron led a united team of Autobots and Decepticons to stop Starscream and the Combaticons and save the Earth. Prime was led to believe that he had destroyed the Combaticons at the battle's end, but in reality, he had been duped by a holographic projection so that Megatron could reprogram the new Decepticons to serve him. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

[[Image:Masquerade_prime_vs_mmaster.jpg|right|230px|thumb|You re-enacted this scene countless times as a kid. You know you did.]]

After leading a team of Autobots to save the Aerialbots from a Combaticon attack in the Middle East {{storylink|Aerial Assault}} Prime led another effort to stop the Stunticons from stealing the components Megatron needed for his latest super-weapon. Prime survived a head-on collision with [[Motormaster]] (although he definitely decided it was something he would prefer not to go through again) and then disguised himself as the Stunticon leader in an effort to learn what Megatron's plan was. Accompanied by a team of four other Autobots disguised as the other Stunticons, Prime was able to infiltrate the Decepticon camp, but had not counted on the real Stunticons escaping Autobot capture and exposing their deception. The Autobots abandoned their disguises when Megatron assembled the components into his new laser weapon, but it turned out that Optimus had sabotaged the device, and it blew up in Megatron's face. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

In his final recorded adventure in the 20th century, Prime dispatched Ironhide, Gears and Bumblebee to investigate a disturbance at [[Benjamin Franklin Pierce High School]], where a group of students had stumbled onto a Decepticon plot to attack the Autobots with a gravity disruptor beam. Prime rallied the Autobots to fight off the Decepticons, and thanked the humans for their help. {{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}

[[Image:Tftm_prime_megs_finalblow.jpg|left|260px|thumb]]

Over the course of the next twenty years, the Decepticons turned their attentions away from Earth, and succeeded in seizing control of all of Cybertron. The Autobots were forced off the planet and founded [[Autobot City]] on Earth, in addition to two staging bases on Cybertron's moons. At some point during this period of time, Prime was known to have battled Megatron in a laboratory on Earth, causing an explosion that scarred scientist [[Gregory Swofford]]. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

In the Earth year 2005, Optimus Prime was stationed on [[Moonbase One]], and dispatched troops to Earth to acquire energy for an upcoming strike to take back Cybertron. The Decepticons, however, got wind of the plan and attacked the shuttle, killing its occupants. Their scheme was to use the shuttle to stage a [[Battle of Autobot City|surprise attack on Autobot City]]; an attack which would have succeeded, if not for a distress call which summoned Optimus Prime and support troops to Earth. Declaring that Megatron would have to be stopped, "no matter the cost", Prime bravely plowed through the remaining Decepticon ranks before confronting Megatron in a climactic one-on-one battle. Despite a gash being torn in his side, Prime gained the upper hand in the battle and was poised to deliver a killing blast when the young Autobot [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] leapt into the middle of the fight, having spotted that Megatron was reaching for a gun. Unfortunately, Megatron overpowered the youth and used him as a shield, preventing Prime from taking his shot, and opening fire with the gun, blasting Prime in his wound. Prime fell, and Megatron stood over him, about to deliver the final blow, but at the last moment, Prime summoned up all his strength and hurled Megatron off the platform on which they battling. With Megatron bested, the Decepticons fled, as the other Autobots flocked to the side of the wounded Prime.

[[Image:Optimusg1passingthematrix.jpg|right|thumb|"Oh, hey, I have this in me now, by the way."]]

Despite the efforts of Perceptor, Optimus Prime's wounds were fatal. Knowing his time had come, Prime passed the Matrix of Leadership, and with it leadership of the Autobots, into the hands of his old friend, the city's commander, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. With his last ounce of energy, he muttered "[['Til all are one]]", then died, his lifeforce becoming one with the ancient wisdom contained in the Matrix, joining the other former bearers within it. Soon after, when Hot Rod opened the Matrix within the body of the planet-eater, [[Unicron]], Prime 's voice was heard once more, dubbing the transformed Hot Rod "Rodimus Prime", new leader of the Autobots. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

When Rodimus Prime voyaged into the Matrix in search of answers to the mysteries of the alien [[Quintesson]]s, Optimus Prime was among the "spirit guides" who appeared to him and led him on his journey through the origin and history of the Transformer race. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

[[Image:Optimusg1zombie.jpg|left|215px|thumb|"WHERE IS SARAH CONNOR?"]]
Optimus Prime's body was entombed in a massive deep-space mausoleum with the many other fallen Autobots, but his corpse was desecrated by the [[Quintesson]]s in 2006 when they reanimated it as part of an attempt to destroy the Autobots. Pursued by the Decepticons through space, a team of Autobots led by Rodimus Prime took refuge in the mausoleum, where they were confronted by the seemingly-reborn Optimus Prime. Optimus dispatched the pursuing Decepticons, and Rodimus—never truly comfortable with the burden of leadership—happily relinquished the Matrix to his predecessor. At that point, the reprogrammed Optimus turned on the Autobots, stranding them on the mausoleum and blowing it up. The zombie Prime returned to the main Autobot force and reassumed command, intending to lure the Autobot space fleet into a trap that would destroy them all. Hot Rod's Autobots, however, were revealed to have survived the explosion of the mausoleum, and Hot Rod engaged Prime in battle. In the course of the fight, the Matrix began to overpower the Quintesson influence in Prime's mind, and he returned the talisman to Hot Rod, then ordered the rest of the Autobots clear while he piloted his flagship into the Quintessons' trap. As the Autobots watched from a distance, the flagship collided with the booby-trap detonator the Quintessons had placed on an asteroid, triggering the explosion of a nearby sun that apparently took Optimus Prime from them once more. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}

Prime's lifeforce returned to the Matrix, and he was among the spectral figures whose ethereal forms emerged from the talisman when it was stolen by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], warning him to return it to its rightful holder. Galvatron was suitably convinced. {{storylink|The Burden Hardest to Bear}}

[[Image:Roop1_prime_revived.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Optimus Prime was reborn in the electric chair for our sins.]]

While the other Autobots believed that Prime's body had been destroyed in the supernova, in actuality, just before the flagship impacted with the detonator, his remains had been recovered from the craft by two human scientists, [[Jessica Morgan]] and Gregory Swofford, who still blamed Prime for the explosion that scarred him years beforehead. Jessica's father, [[Mark Morgan]], shared Swofford's loathing of the Autobots, and his hatred only grew when, some months later, an attempt by the Decepticons to steal a heat-resistant alloy he had developed resulted in Jessica being paralyzed. Seeking revenge, Swofford and Morgan reconstructed Optimus Prime's body in an attempt to use it as a delivery system for the mysterious spores that had been released from the exploding sun, which induced hatred and madness. However, when they could not reanimate Prime, they used his body as a lure instead, bringing the Autobots to their lab, where they were infected by the spores directly. Rodimus Prime was able to escape infection and made off with Optimus Prime's body, then ordered [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] to find him a Quintesson to fully restore Prime to life. Rodimus succumbed to the "[[Hate Plague]]" before Sky Lynx returned, but the airborne Autobot succeeded in his mission, recovering a Quintesson who finally brought Optimus Prime back to life. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

[[Image:Roop2_prime_vs_prime.jpg|left|210px|thumb|Not [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] srsly.]]

The resurrected Prime led a team of Autobots to the Decepticons' base on [[Chaar]] to recover the heat-resistant alloy they had stolen, so that Prime could coat his body in it and make himself impervious to the Hate Plague. Thus protected, Optimus confronted Rodimus and defeated him in battle, reacquiring the Matrix so that he could consult the lifeforces of the ancient Autobots within it for a way to defeat the Hate Plague. Informed by "[[It]]" that the only way to cure the disease was with wisdom, Prime unleashed the concentrated wisdom of the Matrix itself to wipe out the plague. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

In 2007, Optimus Prime began to suffer visions following the release of the Matrix's energy, which foretold a great transformation for Cybertron. Prime realized that the events he had foreseen had begun with the Decepticons' theft of the key to the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}} Prime was forced to consult the spirit of Alpha Trion within [[Vector Sigma]], who informed him that the mega-computer had set these very events in motion in order to restore Cybertron's Golden Age. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}} When the Plasma Energy Chamber was opened and threatened to drive Earth's Sun supernova, Spike Witwicky and the other organic [[Nebulos|Nebulans]] who had become involved in the conflict as a result of these events were able to drain off the excess solar energy and revitalize Cybertron. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

[[Image:Puppetpmprime.jpg|right|thumb|Prime's legal troubles began after he gave Tommy "the Touch". Strangely, the prosecution never even noticed the double entendre.]]

At an undetermined point in time, through unknown circumstances, Optimus Prime was upgraded into a [[Powermaster]] body, and began associating with a human boy named [[Tommy Kennedy]]. Tommy, apparently a resident of Autobot City, interviewed Prime on a variety of topics related to Cybertronian history and lore, sometimes for school assignments, sometimes for historical reference, and sometimes simply for the heck of it. Prime regaled young Tommy with tales of the Autobots' greatest battles; [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|their arrival on Earth]], [[The Transformers: The Movie|Prime's own death and the struggle against Unicron]], [[Five Faces of Darkness|the return of Galvatron and the Quintessons' role in Transformer history]], Prime's [[Dark Awakening|brief revival at the hands of the Quintessons]] as well as his [[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1|return during the Hate Plague crisis]]. He also recounted the [[The Rebirth|the origins of the Headmasters and Targetmasters]] and, inexplicably, a tale of [[Surprise Party|Ultra Magnus's birthday]].

At this point in his career, Prime 's role seemed to be more of a goodwill ambassador, as he spent much of his time aiding fellow Autobots with minor tasks, like helping [[Joyride (Autobot)|Joyride]] repair a space bridge, refueling [[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]], and helping [[Cloudburst]] redesign his retro-rockets.

At one point, a problem with Prime's [[Memory chip|memory chip]] left him incapable of recalling specific details of various historical events. This issue was short-lived, as Tommy Kennedy managed to fix it with a small amount of effort and encouragement. Once, before leaving to attend an intergalactic peace conferences, Prime showed Tommy an informational [[The Touch|music video]] depicting the events surrounding the battle with Unicron. {{storylink|The Transformers (cartoon)|Season 5}}
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==Madman ''The Transformers'' comic==
[[Image:Madman comic PrimeHotrod.jpg|left|200px|thumb|—Or maybe you're just hepped-up on goofballs, kid.]]
In 2001, Optimus Prime led the Autobot evacuation from the Decepticons' successful conquest of Cybertron, standing as the unflinching rearguard for his fleeing Autobots. Before he left, he secretly met with Ultra Magnus at the site of the future Autobot City to discuss hiding the Matrix of Leadership, against the possibility of Prime's capture or death. Unfortunately, Soundwave had secretly recorded this clandestine meeting and moved to capture the powerful Autobot relic. To the surprise of all, the young Hot Rod managed to defeat Soundwave and secure the Matrix. When the Autobots arrived back on Earth, Optimus Prime learned of Hot Rod's deeds, and as he was handed the Matrix, a mysterious energy from the artifact passed through both Autobots. However, Prime only cryptically stated that perhaps Hot Rod's destiny was greater than the young 'bot himself knew. {{storylink|The Transformers (Madman)|The Transformers}}
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==Japanese cartoon continuity==
{{note|The events of the American animated series occur in Japanese continuity as noted above, except that the events of Season 3, which took place in 2006 in America, were moved back to 2010, and "The Rebirth" and subsequent events do not occur. Japanese animated continuity inserts a large number of additional storylines, told through various different media, into the timeline (in particular, between Season 2 and the movie, and between the movie and Season 3), as detailed below.}}

===e-Hobby pack-in comic===

During an attack on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], Optimus Prime once again found himself going toe to toe with Megatron. Prime eventually punched Megatron hard enough to send him smashing through a wall, seemingly defeating him. In reality, Prime's punch so was powerful it damaged Megatron's gyrocompass which acted as his internal stability regulators. This allowed Megatron to access a cache of [[Quantum surge|quantum surge]] energy within his circuits, upgrading him into a nigh-invulnerable [[Transmetal]]. Maybe pull your punches next time, Optimus? {{storylink|Decepticon Leader Megatron Black Ver.}}

===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic===

[[Image:FightSuperRobotLifeTransformersManga.JPG|right|275px|thumb|From ''AMERICA!'']]

When the Decepticons turned their attention to pillaging the energies of Japan in the late 1980s, Optimus Prime and the Autobots met up with a young Japanese boy named [[Kenji]], whose inventive mind helped them to defeat [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] during an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. As a token of thanks, Optimus Prime granted Kenji a special communications helmet and made him an official Autobot ally. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}}

During a Decepticon attack on Autobot Headquarters, Ratchet noticed that Soundwave and his cassettes were nowhere to be seen, so Prime dispatched a unit to Japan to search for them. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}} Not long after, Prime oversaw the early stages of the construction of the Autobots' new transforming battle fortress, [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}

While showing Kenji around the Autobots' new Tokyo base, Optimus Prime lamented that he wished his "kid brother" [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] would hurry up and arrive with his trailer upgrade. As he pondered the whereabouts of his sibling, the Decepticons attacked Yokohama. The Autobots hurried to the scene only to encounter an over-powered Megatron in his newest form: the Super Megatron Gun. The Autobots' defeat seemed assured until Magnus arrived with Prime's trailer upgrade, the [[Scramble Power Buster]]. The Scramble Power Buster trumped the might of the Super Megatron Gun, leaving Prime and Magnus to vanquish the Decepticon forces with their combined attack: the Double Cross Kick (basically, them jump-kicking the Decepticons in the spine at the same time). {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 4|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #4}}

When the Decepticons created their own counter to Scramble City, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], Prime ordered the Aerialbots into battle against the monster on an island utopia. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 6|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6}} Later, Prime and Magnus teamed up again to battle the Stunticons and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] when the two Decepticons teams posed as Autobots and besmirched the two commanders' good names. Although Menasor and [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]'s [[Decepticon Trailer Brigade|Decepticon Great Wheel]] attack proved a challenge, Prime and Magnus's "Finish Double" attack (suspiciously similar to their Double Cross Kick) soon won the day. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 7|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #7}}

===Scramble City===

[[Image:Prime_magnus_scramblecity.jpg|left|thumb|"I'm a white you under here."]]

As the 1980s rolled on, the Autobots began an initiative to construct a new battle fortress known as [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]. The facility to construct the fortress was concealed within a cavern and overseen by Ultra Magnus, but when it was discovered by Decepticon spy [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], Megatron ordered the Decepticons to destroy it. Prime led an Autobot counter-offensive, and helped to blast [[Wildrider]] free when the evil Stunticon managed to link up to Superion in an attempt to disable the Aerialbot combiner, but things were looking bleak for the Autobots until the construction of Scramble City was completed. Ultra Magnus activated the battle fortress, which transformed into its robot mode of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to send the Decepticons fleeing. As Prime thanked Ultra Magnus for his quick work, however, Megatron unleashed Trypticon upon the assembled Autobots. {{storylink|Scramble City}}

{{note|This storyline was never concluded, as a second installment of "Scramble City" was never produced.}}
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===Full Throttle Scramble Power!===
[[Image:MegatronMangaEnergonMace1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|This is why you have that axe, Prime, remember?]]
After Megatron and the Decepticons threatened humanity with their latest death ray, the [[Omega Whip]], Optimus Prime dispatched [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and his human partners, [[Toru]] and [[Jenny (G1)|Jenny]] to follow the electromagnetic trail and find the Decepticons' hidden base. Hound, Toru and Jenny were then swiftly captured.

Contemplating what to do next, Prime reluctantly dispatched the still-wet-behind-the-ears [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to deal with the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], who were trashing a power plant. The burning justice of [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] ensured his victory.

Prime and a small unit of Autobots then stormed the Decepticon base to rescue their friends. As Hound, Toru and Jenny destroyed the Omega Whip and escaped, Prime and Megatron squared off yet again (with Megatron unleashing his seldomly seen [[energon mace]]). Megatron quickly gained the upper hand in battle...until [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and ''every single Autobot soldier'' arrived as back-up. Megatron and the Decepticons immediately fled.

Toru and Jenny celebrated their success with a public display of affection. Curious, Optimus began to ask them embarrassing questions, swatting Toru in the bottom with his mighty robot finger. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}
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===''The Stargate Battles''===

[[Image:Stargatebattles_prime_cx_slice.jpg|left|thumb|225px|right]]

In the late 1990s, continued interaction between the Autobots and humankind led to a formal alliance being forged with the American government. Using technology supplied by the Autobots, the government funded the creation of "[[Warp Gate|The Trigger]]", a huge interstellar teleportation system, and Prime participated in a goodwill press conference to announce the creation of the Trigger to the world. Unfortunately, the Trigger soon became a target for the Decepticons, who had allied with a foreign power and used a human agent to gain access to the station. The Autobots were quick to repel the Decepticon attack, but only one member of the Trigger's crew survived. This man, [[Makoto (Stargate Battles)|Makoto]], offered to help the Autobots in any way that he could, and Prime told him that his kind of strength was what the Autobots needed the most. {{storylink|First Contact}}

[[Image:Stargatebattles_prime_megs.jpg|right|225px|thumb|''Rival Fusion!'']]

Three months later, Optimus Prime helped [[Professor Adle]] test his new [[C-X]] drone, which was designed to resemble Prime himself, by sparring with the remote-controlled robot so that the Professor could gather data on its performance. In the midst of the test, however, the C-X ran amok (in actuality, it had been possessed by the time-tossed ghost of Starscream), and Prime was forced to crush it beneath his trailer and sever its head with his energon-axe to stop it. The grisly scene did little to dissuade the mass of anti-Transformer protestors that had sprung up in recent months, but Prime attempted to placate the crowd by telling them that he did not ''want'' the power he wielded—he ''needed'' it, in order to protect those that could not protect themselves. {{storylink|Divided Views}}

When the Decepticons terrorized Japan with a series of powerful earthquakes, Optimus Prime confronted Megatron amidst the chaos caused by the most powerful tremor yet. The battle ended when a blast from Megatron's fusion cannon sent Prime plummeting to the depths of the ocean, apparently destroyed. {{storylink|Activation}} Subsequently, Starscream's ghost fused with the rebuilt Trigger in an attempted coup, and it was during the monumental space battle that resulted that Prime returned from his seeming demise, borne into space on [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]'s back. After saving Makoto's escape pod from burning up in re-entry, Prime was forced to join with Megatron to defeat the greater threat posed by Starscream, channelling the power of the Matrix through gun-mode Megatron to destroy Starscream and the Trigger in one mighty blast. The Transformers were all caught in the backwash of the explosion, and their flaming bodies were sent tumbling back down to Earth. Although they were not heard from again for many months, Prime and Megatron survived the experience, and their war continued. {{storylink|The Stargate Battles (issue)|The Stargate Battles}}
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===''Story of Binaltech''===
In 2003, the Decepticons attacked the Autobots on Earth with a plague of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]], leaving many of them injured. Consequently, Earth was all but defenseless when Megatron made his big push to fully take over Cybertron in 2004, and Optimus Prime found that he could not spare any troops currently fighting by his side on the Transformers' home planet to send to Earth. To resolve this situation, the Autobots on Earth worked closely with the governments of the world and various car companies on the Binaltech Project, creating advanced new "Binaltech" bodies for the various Autobot warriors damaged by the Cosmic Rust. {{storylink|Story of Binaltech, Chapter 1}}

In the midst of the Binaltech conflict, the time-travelling [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] attempted to alter history by using the [[Kronosphere]] to teleport Megatron and the Decepticon armada outside of time during a turning-point battle with Prime and the Autobots. {{storylink|Changing Lanes}} This left the Autobots to face the looming threat of [[Unicron]] alone, an opponent which Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus bravely faced together. Prime was badly damaged in the attack and passed the Matrix to Ultra Magnus, who was able to use it to destroy Unicron. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

Before departing to battle Unicron, Prime had put into motion a plan to try and undo the changes Ravage had wrought upon the timeline, having ordered [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] to use the time warp on Dinobot Island to send a message into the past. {{storylink|Darkest Hour}} Shortly after the defeat of Unicron, this plan bore fruit, and time began to correct itself. Thanks to the sudden intervention of a mysterious time-travelling entity known as "[[Optimus Primal|the Protector]]", however, the altered, "BT World" timeline was also preserved, and continued to exist as an alternate universe. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

{{Note|At this point, the original timeline was retroactively restored and the events of the ''Story of Binaltech'' diverged into a parallel universe. Skip to "[[#Robot Masters|Robot Masters]]" below to continue reading about the original timeline; exactly how many (if any) of the events related in this section, even prior to the divergence, occurred in the original unaltered timeline are unknown.}}

In this new, parallel world (known as [[universal stream]] Primax 903.0 Beta), the Protector explained that he had acted to preserve the "BT World" because it was the origin point for the ultimate evolution of Cybertronian life, the "[[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]", of whose he was an agent. Optimus Prime soon recovered from his injuries, and with the Decepticons now mostly offline thanks to the activation of the Quintesson's [[large switch|killswitch]], {{storylink|Kill Switch}} the Autobots were able to start conducting experiments under the Protector's direction that would ultimately lead to the future he had spoken of. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 3}} When the Protector's spark was stolen by the new Decepticon leader—an evil clone of Optimus known as [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]—Prime engaged his evil doppelganger in battle in Australia. During the fight, the Protector's spark fused with Prime—an experience that Prime found [[Optimal Situation|strangely familiar]]—giving him the power to destroy Nemesis Prime. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 4}}

====Alternity====

[[Image:Alternity_ultimate_silver_optimus.jpg|left|thumb]]

Experimentation proceeded apace, and eventually, the Autobots succeeded in synthesizing the substance known as [[Alternium]], which would form the bodies of their new evolved forms, and the space-time transportation system known as the [[Timaeus drive]], which would allow them to travel through the [[multiverse]]. After millennia of experimentation, effort and broadening of his perceptions, Optimus Prime eventually integrated these new technologies into his systems, and 900,000 years later, became a founding member of the Alternity. Now existing outside of time, Prime interacted with the material world through a proxy body known as an [[auto-avatar]] (a "Vector 01" model, code-named "Ultimate Silver"), which he used to travel from world to world, inviting many different incarnations of himself from different dimensions to join the Alternity. Together, they merged into one composite trans-dimensional "Optimus Prime" being, becoming a huge collective consciousness existing outside of reality, while yet retaining their individuality as a cross-time "[[Convoy Corps]]", each one controlling an auto-avatar of their own in the physical world.

Learning that his eternal enemy, Megatron had reawakened, and that he planned to lure the Alternity's natural enemy, the time-eating god-beast known as [[Hytherion]], into universal stream Primax 109.0 Beta, Prime traveled into that universe in 2007. Approaching his [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|counterpart]] from that world, Prime informed him of this looming danger, and his counterpart agreed to join the Alternity when the time came. Sure enough, in 2009, Hytherion appeared in his dimension, and so Prime returned to that world, with a "Vibrant Red" Vector 109 auto-avatar for his counterpart to inhabit. {{storylink|From Here to Alternity}} Little did the Convoy Corps suspect, however, that Megatron had summoned Hytherion for reasons greater than mere destruction. Shackling the beast's power and overwriting its consciousness with his own, Megatron was able to confer hyperdimensional powers akin to the Alternity's upon himself and many other Megatrons he had gathered from across the multiverse. {{storylink|To Mega Therion}}

[[Image:To die game begins.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

As battles between numerous different Primes and Megatrons erupted quite literally all across time and space, "Ultimate Silver" Optimus Prime was seen engaging in a cross-dimensional duel with a Megatron who hailed from universal stream [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Primax 1286:3 Kappa]]. Prime lost an arm to Megatron's tesseractal swords, but remained undeterred, observing that Megatron was fighting from the year 2009 and suspecting an ulterior motive for his being in that time period. Amused by Prime's observation, Megatron proposed a wager: if Prime could defeat him in a game of his choosing, he would answer any question he asks him honestly. Megatron's sadistic game involved manipulating the occupants of his home dimension in the year 2005, pitting them against each other in a "game full of death and suffering". While Megatron distributed a portion of his power through legions of this universe's Decepticons, Prime was only allowed to infuse his power into one being to send against them. Prime dismissed the rules as utter nonsense and refused to use another living being like a chess piece, but Megatron forced him to play the game by pointing out that the inhabitants of the dimension would only suffer if he did not. Prime selected Ultra Magnus as his champion, and the game began! {{storylink|To Die Game!}}
{{note|Alternity beings are both individuals and a collective of separate entities. More fiction about Optimus Prime's Alternity collective can be found [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|here]].}}
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===''Robot Masters''===
[[Image:Robotmasters_four_great_commanders.jpg|left|thumb|275px|If Big Convoy would just hurry the hell up, they could summon Captain Planet.]]

In 2004, the Scramble City project was expanded through the use of the newly-discovered element [[Solitarium]] to involve the construction of a fully-fledged Autobot City on Earth. This coincided with the opening of a dimensional fissure known as the [[Blasty Zone]], which transported the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] through time to the present day. This "Beast Megatron" seized control of the Decepticons, left leaderless by the mysterious absence of the original Megatron, and went up against Optimus Prime and the Autobots for control of the world's solitarium. Uniting with a team of Autobot and Maximal leaders from throughout time and space who also came through the Blasty Zone, Optimus Prime gained the power of an [[Energon Matrix]] and eventually returned all the Transformers to their home time.

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{{note|''Robot Masters'' is explicitly placed in the Japanese cartoon continuity by [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|Takara's 2007 Transformers timeline]]. However, none of the three pieces of actual ''Robot Masters'' fiction tells the story of the line in its entirety, and each of them relate certain events in notably different ways. Precisely ''which'' of the three—covered individually below—should be considered the [[canon]] one for the cartoon timeline is unknown.}}

====Pack-in comic====

[[Image:Starsaber robotmasters minicomic.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Gah! What's wrong with Prime's chest? Was he drawn by [http://grotesqueanatomy.blogspot.com/2004/05/now-thats-grotesque-anatomy.html Rob Liefeld?]]]

When a creature that seemed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' appeared just outside Autobot City, Optimus Prime and Mirage investigated, and were shocked when the dinosaur transformed into a robot mode and introduced itself as "Beast Megatron". Almost immediately, [[Optimus Primal]] appeared through the Blasty Zone, and he and Optimus Prime charged into battle against Megatron side-by-side. {{storylink|The New Battle Begins!}}

Later, the two Optimuses found themselves in battle against the huge Decepticon warrior, [[Gigant Bomb]], but were unable to hurt him because he had supercharged his armor with Solitarium. The two heroes were flattened by a powerful punch from Gigant Bomb, at which point [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] and [[Victory Leo]] appeared to join the fray. The two future heroes merged into Victory Saber and defeated Gigant Bomb, after which Prime and Primal welcomed him to the fold. {{storylink|The Victory Warriors Enter!!}}

====Online comic====

When a mysterious purple dinosaur led the Decepticons in an attack against the Autobots, Optimus Prime demanded to know the identity of the foe he was facing. The creature transformed into robot mode and introduced itself as "Beast Megatron", but Prime did not falter, and bombarded the new villain with heavy fire. Declaring Prime to be "quite the monkey", Megatron announced that the battle had merely served as a introduction, and promptly departed. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Clash! The Two Leaders}}

Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal and [[Road Rocket (G2)|Road Rocket]] were later exploring a large crevasse filled with Solitarium when they were attacked by Megatron and [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]]. The two villains detonated the crystals around the Autobots, and while Primal was able to shield them with a huge slab of rock, they were unable to stop the Decepticons from escaping with a huge load of Solitarium. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Defend the Solitarium!}}

[[Image:Robotmasters_prime_vs_megses.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

When new arrival [[Lio Convoy]] was tricked into battling Victory Saber by Megatron, it was Optimus Prime who got between the two combatants and convinced Lio Convoy that they were all on the same side by revealing his Energon Matrix, which glowed in tandem with Lio Convoy's own. The four great commanders teamed up to dispose of the Decepticons lurking nearby, and then they all welcomed Lio Convoy to the team. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Together, the 4 Great Supreme Commanders}}

Discovering an unconscious robot outside Autobot City, Prime and the Autobots brought the enigmatic newcomer inside for medical attention. The robot introduced himself as [[Reverse Convoy]] of the planet [[Vehicon (planet)|Vehicon]]. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior}} Before long, however, Prime's goodwill proved to be misplaced when "Reverse Convoy" captured him, Mirage and Optimus Primal, and revealed himself to actually be the original Megatron, inhabiting Reverse Convoy's body by means of his black hole interlink system. Although the Autobots were saved from the clutches of "Rebirth Megatron" by Victory Saber and Lio Convoy, Prime's greatest enemy had returned. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|The Dark Emperor of Destruction, Reborn}}

Prime led Primal, Victory Saber and Lio Convoy in a mighty battle against the two Megatrons, Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker, during which he had much of his right forearm torn off by Beast Megatron. As both Megatron rushed the injured Prime, he summoned his energon-axe to take the place of his lost fist and slashed the two Decepticons, claiming victory. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|And}}
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====Cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Wataru Hatano]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Robomasters g1convoy.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Check out my taint!]]

Optimus Prime sped into action to help Victory Saber in battle against Starscream and [[Wingstun]], blasting Wingstun with a sneaky shot from below. Prime then transformed into robot mode and opened fire on Starscream, but was shocked when the plummeting form of the Air Commander was snatched out of the sky by a ''tyrannosaurus rex''. Transforming to robot mode, the dinosaur introduced himself as "Beast Megatron", and revealed that he came from a different dimension, causing Optimus Prime to fear for the integrity of the space-time continuum. Before he could fret any more on the subject, Prime came under attack from Gigant Bomb and [[Smokesniper]], but quickly took refuge in a nearby canyon while Victory Saber handled the twin troublemakers. Prime then engaged Megatron in battle, but was quickly laid low by the newcomer, who called for Gigant Bomb and Smokesniper to finish him off. Instead, however, another strange new Transformer descended from the sky: Optimus Primal! Following Primal's lead, Prime united his energy with Primal's own, and together, they created the powerful "Double Convoy Tornado", which sent Megatron flying. In the aftermath of the battle, Prime thanked Primal for his help, and told him that they would definitely need his power when the Decepticons next attacked. {{storylink|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!}}

Beast Megatron would not relent, and eventually discovered a massive deposit of solitarium beneath [[New York City]]. The Decepticons razed the city in search of the element until Prime and his forces arrived to save the day, this time aided by Lio Convoy and the enigmatic Reverse Convoy. Prime battled Gigant Bomb, Smoke Sniper and Megatron once more, with a little extra firepower courtesy of Victory Saber's V-Lock Cannon, and things were going smoothly until Reverse Convoy revealed himself to actually be the ''real'' Megatron in disguise. Now going by the name Rebirth Megatron, Prime's nemesis teamed with Beast Megatron to conquer their mutual foes. Again, Prime and Primal united their power in the Double Convoy Tornado, but the Megatrons countered it with a tornado of their own. It seemed that the Decepticons' power would overcome the heroes, until Lio Convoy added his energy to the mix, becoming a shining "Lio Typhoon Arrow" that took down the two Megatrons. While the battle was over, however, the war raged on... {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters (episode)|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters}}

===''15 Go! Go!''===
[[Image:TGGStarConvoy.jpg|right|180px|thumb|"Hot Rod?! Did you shrink in the wash?"]]
[[Image:TGGLaserPrime.jpg|left|180px|thumb|"How do you think I'd look in black?"]]
Shortly before the [[Battle of Autobot City]] in 2005, an unknown saboteur badly damaged [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]'s databanks. Optimus Prime notified his Autobots of the attack and issued a command that the information be recovered as soon as possible. "[[Ravage (G1)|Black Panther Man]]", stationed on the artificial Earth satellite [[Nana]], volunteered for the important task and assigned [[Teletraan 15]] to the case. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Chapter 1|15 Go! Go! Chapter 1}}

Teletraan 15 proceeded to travel through time and space on her mission, and encountered future incarnation of Optimus Prime on several occasions. First, she travelled into the future, where [[Micromaster]] [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] saved her from a [[Novaroid]]. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Hot Rod|15 Go! Go! Hot Rod's chapter}} As Dark Nova and Ultra Megatron prepared to merge, Prime, in his "Star Convoy" form, arrived and asked Hot Rod to aid him in the coming fight. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Star Convoy|15 Go! Go! Star Convoy's chapter}} But before they could start the battle, an interruption came from an unexpected source: [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] emerged from a [[Transwarp]] portal and attacked! {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Galvatron|15 Go! Go! Galvaron's chapters 1-2}}

On another mission even further into the future, Teletraan 15 and her companion [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] were aboard [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] as he was attacked by the [[Decepticon]] jets [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]] and [[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]] on his way to his commander. Fortunately for them, Optimus Prime—now in his [[Laser Rod]] body—appeared and severed Dreadwing's wing with a single mighty slash of his sword. Teletraan 15 thought that he looked sad and wondered if he had learned his sword skills during his [[Kiss Player]] days. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Battle Convoy|15 Go! Go! Battle Convoy's chapter}}
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===''Kiss Players''===
{{note|[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]] takes place between ''The Transformers: The Movie'' and the third season of the animated series. While there is no particularly large time-gap between these stories in American animated continuity, in Japan, since the third season was moved to 2010 but the movie remained set in 2005, there was a five-year milieu that made room for plenty of new stories to be told.}}

[[Image:Illust.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Optimus is the one on the left. With the dignity.]]

Following Optimus Prime's death in the Battle of Autobot City, Tokyo was devastated when [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] crash-landed on the city after being hurled out of Unicron's body by Rodimus Prime. The death and destruction that resulted caused a massive anti-Transformer sentiment to spring up, epitomized by the formation of the government organization known as the [[Earth Defense Command]], who forced any remaining Transformers on Earth off the planet. Dissatisfaction with the EDC's extreme actions resulted in the formation of an underground resistance group for whom the death of Optimus Prime was a rallying point. Among these commandos was a young woman [[Marissa Faireborn]], who had been rescued by Optimus Prime back in 1996 when a mission that her [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|soldier father]] had been on had gone bad. Marissa had formed a great friendship with Prime in her childhood, and came to see him as a surrogate father figure, and perhaps a little bit more. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #34}}

[[Image:Kissplayers2 prime marissa.jpg|right|thumb|These x-rays uncover the darnedest things.]]

When Prime's corpse was covertly flown to Japan by the EDC, {{storylink|Kiss Players issue 1|Kiss Players #1}} Marissa's commandos attacked the convoy transporting the Autobot leader's body. Believing that they had secured Prime's body, the commandos were taken by surprise and slaughtered by the [[Ne squad]] [[Kiss Player]] [[Ringo Chikuma|Ringo]] and her [[Autorooper]] partner, who burst out of the torso of the decoy Prime body that had been atop the flatbed truck. As the sole surviving member of the squad, Marissa discovered that the true body was being transported within Prime's own trailer nearby. Slicing the trailer open, she was too late to prevent an EDC Autorooper from partially fusing with Prime. Reflecting on her childhood memories of playing with the kindly Autobot leader, Marissa lovingly kissed his faceplate. In an explosion of energy that destroyed the trailer, the two [[ParasiTech|fused]] and Prime was reborn in a new, living body. The pair had become Kiss Players! {{storylink|Kiss Players issue 2|Kiss Players #2}}

Marissa and Prime promptly made themselves scarce, and began travelling together, battling the monstrous creatures known as [[Legion]] that Galvatron's dispersed cells had also produced, while also eluding the EDC. Marissa thought of Prime as her boyfriend, {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #1}} and Prime himself certainly cared for the girl, unwilling as he was to put her in harm's way, despite the prodigious knife-wielding skills that she could share with him via their kiss-fusion. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #4}}

[[Image:Marissa convoy stack.jpg|left|150px|thumb|She prefers the Japanese version's longer stacks.]]

Prime had little use for Marissa's other great skill—surfing—given his own [[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3|experience in that area]], {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #7}} so instead, he found a better use for Marissa's surfboard by using his new powers to transform it into a knife so he could make use of the skills Marissa's fusion gave with him. Marissa was not very happy, {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #10}} but took it in stride, and dubbed the new weapon the "[[Surfblade]]". In response, Prime named her shirt "The Three Skull Brothers," after the image on it. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #16}}

Prime and Marissa had a close relationship, as the girl washed Prime in "intimate" spots like his stick shift and gas tank, {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #19}} and they would go on "dates" together, at one point visiting the seaside, only to wind up in battle with a Legion created from the fusion of an octopus and a shipwreck. Prime regretted that these activities had to be carried out under the cover of night, and vowed that he and Marissa would visit the beach under the light of the sun. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)#CD_collections_and_special_episodes|Someday, Under the Sun}}

[[Image:PrimeKP.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Unable to take it anymore, Optimus tries to punch his way free of the Kiss Players Universe. Hey, it worked for Superboy-Prime.]]

Soon, Optimus Prime found himself suffering from a recurring nightmare filled with visions of his old enemy, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. In the grip of one of these hallucinations, Prime lost control of himself and almost crushed Marissa in his fist, but was thankfully able to regain his senses before he hurt her. Marissa and Prime subsequently fused, and were able to corral a legion of Legion for an attack upon the EDC headquarters. They found their way barred by a pair of most unexpected opponents: [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] had returned to Earth and become Kiss Player partners with Marissa's old friend, [[Shaoshao Li]]. Hot Rod believed Prime to be an impostor, and Shaoshao wished to see him dead so that she might "reclaim" Marissa as her friend, having long hated Prime for "stealing" Marissa away from her. Prime and Hot Rod began battling, but EDC Kiss Player [[Atari Hitotonari]] soon entered the fold and broke up the battle. The attack on EDC headquarters was broken off, and Prime and Marissa now found they had to elude Hot Rod and Shaoshao as well as the EDC's forces. {{storylink|Kiss Players issue 3|Kiss Players #3}}

[[Image:KPPrimeGoldbug.jpg|left|thumb|You, Sharkticon. Devour the human faster.]]

After viewing a seaside fireworks display for their "last date", {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #34}} Marissa and Prime again launched a Legion-backed attack upon the EDC. This time, however, Marissa, Shaoshao, Atari, Prime and Hot Rod all decided to set their differences aside in order to discover the true, dark secret lurking within the EDC. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #37}} Venturing into the mysterious [[Genital System]] facility hidden beneath the EDC headquarters, the team discovered a mad plot by EDC Commander [[Hitoshizuku Amaō]] to resurrect her daughter, who had died in Galvatron's impact. Thanks to the efforts of Marissa and her friends, the plan was foiled, the [[anti-electron]] field keeping Transformers off Earth was deactivated, and Galvatron's cells were extracted from the Legions and Kiss Players and reconstituted within his body, which was launched off into space. As a result, Marissa lost her Kiss Player powers, and Prime slipped back into death once more. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)#CD_collections_and_special_episodes|You, I and the Spinning Earth}}

Marissa did get a few chances to see her friend again, however. In 2007, she, Shaoshao and Atari were transported back through time by the [[Sparkbot]]s to 1984 where they witnessed Prime's battle with Megatron atop [[Sherman Dam]]. Although invisible to residents of the past, Marissa was instructed by the Sparkbots to kiss Prime, and when she did so, a piece of what the Sparkbots claimed was the "[[Allspark]]" emerged from within him. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio play #40}} While travelling on through time to search for more pieces of the Allspark, the girls accidentally crashed in 2010 and wound up in the clutches of the [[Quintesson]]s. Prime (and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]) helped Marissa once more by rescuing her and her friends from death in the fangs of the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Tokyo Toy Festival 2007 live script-reading}} Later still, Shaoshao embarked on a marathon Prime-kissing session (much to her own disgust), quickly jumping through time to kiss Prime in his Star Convoy, "Nucleon Quest," [[Action Master]] and [[Laser Rod]] bodies successively. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio play #44}}
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===''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers''===

[[Image:2010_manga_primes.jpg|right|thumb|300px|And eat your greens or no dessert!]]

After boarding a Decepticon spaceship, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] became trapped by the schemeing Galvatron. Galvatron quickly bested him in combat and Rodimus, badly injured, was ready to give up. Lucky for him, the spirit of Optimus Prime reached out to him from within the Matrix and encouraged him to get up and keep fighting. Inspired by his predecessor, Rodimus Prime outwitted Galvatron, escaped and destroyed their spaceship. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 1|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #1}}

When the Quintessons reactivated Optimus Prime as a rampaging zombie {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}, they made it a point to copy his schematics while they had the opportunity. Teaming with the Decepticons, they then obtained the schematics of Megatron. Combining the best aspects of both, they created the Colossal Cannon Soldier [[Guiltaur]]. {{storylink|Transformers 2010 (story page)|Transformers 2010 Part 4}}

Guiltaur was then unleashed upon Rodimus Prime and, eventually, Galvatron. The two enemies teamed up and defeated the powerful warrior, with Rodimus swearing to do it in the name of Optimus Prime's honor. With Guiltaur destroyed, it was revealed the behemoth had been controlled by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] all along. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 4|Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #4}}

===''The Great Transformer War''===

Following his resurrection, in the year 2011, Optimus Prime and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] engaged in a battle against [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and the Decepticons in deep space. Galvatron fled the battle, leaving Hot Rod to request pursuit. Optimus told him not to, and instead to regroup back at [[Athenia]], as he suspected the Decepticons had a much greater scheme in mind. Indeed, Optimus was correct, as Galvatron was preparing for his full-blown invasion of planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 3|The Great Transformer War #3}}

===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
[[Image:Headmasters-primedies.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Some time before the Transformers' war left Cybertron, Optimus Prime engaged the Decepticons with his men. Later, on Earth, a suspiciously similar battle with the Decepticons resulted in, er, Prime's death.

{{note|Optimus Prime appears in two Cybertronian flashback battles within the episode, alongside the same team of Autobots, suggesting that they represent the same fight. He also appears in one further flashback battle on Earth, which depicts his death in a scene that doesn't match up to his ''actual'' death in ''The Transformers: The Movie''. This was a continuity patch-job by the ''Headmasters'' production staff, as the movie hadn't been released in Japan yet. }}

One year after Prime's resurrection, in 2011, the Autobots had entered into an even closer relationship with Earth and began the colonization of other worlds, the first of which was the planet [[Athenia]], where Optimus Prime was stationed. It soon became apparent, however, that when Prime had released the energy of the Matrix to cure the Hate Plague, the consequences were more far-reaching than he had anticipated—without the energy of the Matrix to act as a balancing factor, [[Vector Sigma]] had become destabilized, and the Decepticons suddenly returned to exploit this, assaulting Cybertron in order to seize control of the mega-computer. The intensity of the battle caused [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] to recall the Cybertronian skirmish that Optimus took part in 4 million years ago — or another one very much like it. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}}

[[Image:Headmasters_prime_death.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Rodimus finally receives his Nemesis Prime RealDoll.]]

Prime took a squad of troops to aid in the battle on the planet, and when the arrival of the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|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. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Guided through the dangers of the planet's catacombs by the spirit of Alpha Trion while the other Autobots searched for the Matrix on Earth, Prime eventually arrived at the computer, only to find his way barred by [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. Hot Rod then arrived with the Matrix, with which Alpha Trion merged, re-energizing it and transforming Hot Rod back into Rodimus Prime; for the first time, the two Primes fought side-by-side and defeated Galvatron. Before Rodimus could implement the Matrix to stabilize Vector Sigma, however, Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to perform the task, merging with the computer and restoring its balance to save the planet. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

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===''The Headmasters'' comic===
Following Prime's death, a great bronze [[Optimus Prime memorial|statue]] was erected on planet [[Athenia]] in order to [[Optimus Prime memorial|memorialize]] him. Oddly, only [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] and the [[Headmasters of Justice]] attended its unveiling. Speaking for all the Headmasters, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] announced that Optimus Prime was the greatest warrior who ever lived. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 1}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' and ''Victory'' cartoons===
[[Image:Ginrai_1stapp.jpg|thumb|right|"Well tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be..."]]
Once they had defeated the Decepticons, the Autobots had planned to somehow resurrect their fallen leader, using the technology developed on the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]] to give him a new body. However, shortly after it had been built, the [[Transtector]] intended for Optimus was among those stolen by the self-proclaimed "Decepticon god" [[Devil Z]]. It was then hidden on Earth where it was eventually found by, and [[Godmaster|bonded with]], a human named [[Ginrai]]. {{storylink|Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!}} The Transtector later gained sentience of its own, which meant that it ultimately could not be used for its intended purpose. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}} For whatever reason, the Autobots didn't try to build another one.

Occupying the body of Optimus Prime comes with [[the many deaths of Optimus Prime|its drawbacks]], and it seems that even if the bot in question doesn't actually happen to be Prime, it doesn't mean they should be an exception. After a scuffle with the Decepticons' new [[Emperor of Destruction]] [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]], the sentient Transtector Ginrai accepted his fate and [[death|bought the energon farm]]. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Quick to act, the Autobots built him a fresh new body, and Ginrai was reborn as [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}} They still didn't build another body for Optimus, though. By then, they'd already moved on and found [[Star Saber (Victory)|someone new]] to settle down with.
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===''The Battlestars'' story pages and comic===
[[Image:PrimeZodiak.jpg|left|225px|thumb|''You got the—'' No, hang on... Nevermind.]]

Over 15 years after his merging with Vector Sigma, Optimus Prime's lifeless body was spirited away in a sinister plot to destroy the Autobots by [[Dark Nova]], the big bad guy du jour. Nova duplicated Prime's body, using the copy to create the evil [[False Convoy]]. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #3}} The elite Autobot team, the [[Battlestars]], defeated False Convoy and retrieved the real Prime's body from Planet [[Lucifer]], and then used the mysterious energy source known as the [[Zodiac]] to restore Prime to life. Transformed into '''Star Convoy''', Prime was also reunited with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], who became his [[Micromaster]] partner. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #4}}

[[Image:Starconvoy magami.jpg|right|thumb|"Occasionally you meet a nice one—Star Convoy, E.T. ... but usually they just turn out to be some kind of big lizard!"]]

After Star Convoy and [[Sixliner]] defeated a swarm of Dark Nova's [[Novaroid|Great Novaroid]] drone warriors, {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #5}} the mysterious creature decided to resurrect Prime's oldest nemesis, and plucked [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from the icy grave he had been cast into years beforehand by the Autobot Headmasters, recreating him as [[Megatron (G1)|Super Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #6}} The two old foes clashed in battle at the North Pole, with Star Convoy emerging victorious {{storylink|The Battlestars (manga)|The Battlestars special}} but Super Megatron soon returned with an army of [[Galaman|Great Galaman]] drones to back him up. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #7}} Defeated by the "[[Triple Combination Battlestar Attack]]" that combined all the power of Star Convoy, [[Sky Garry (ROC)|Sky Garry]] and [[Grandus (ROC)|Grandus]], Super Megatron was again upgraded by Dark Nova into Ultra Megatron. Star Convoy and the Battlestars met him in battle once again, and again, they claimed victory. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #8}}

His pawn having failed him, Dark Nova absorbed Ultra Megatron into his body, transforming them both into the gargantuan "Star Giant". {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #9}} Star Giant proved to be virtually indestructible from the outside until Star Convoy got the bright idea of giving the villain [[Furmanism|the worst case of indigestion he'd ever had]]. Holding Star Giant's massive mouth open, he ordered Sky Garry and Grandus to move in. After all three were swallowed, they began taking Star Giant down from the inside while simultaneously fighting off his various defensive systems. As soon as the trio escaped from Star Giant's interior, the monster exploded, leaving only his head slightly intact. As it happens, Megatron was housed inside Star Giant's noggin and survived the attack. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #10}}

===Nucleon Quest Convoy bio===
Following the defeat of Star Giant, the restoration of Cybertron (following its devastation in 2011) began, but the planet was in the throes of a chronic energy shortage. In order to re-energize the struggling planet, Optimus Prime upgraded himself into a Powermaster by fusing with the Nebulan scientist [[Hi-Q]]. Protecting his body with a Phase Modulation Shield, Prime ventured into a black hole to obtain the super-energy [[Nucleon]], which was used to restore Cybertron to its former glory.
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===''G-2'' story pages and pack-in comic===
[[Image:G2AllianceBeginsAndEnds.jpg|left|225px|thumb|The alliance would have lasted if they'd gotten more than one chair.]]
With Cybertron restored, Optimus Prime upgraded himself into a new [[Action Master]] body. Megatron eventually recovered from his defeat and with his sanity circuit fully restored at last, joined with Prime to form the [[Cybertron Alliance]]. Things were good for a little while, as Megatron's attempts at peace were genuinely sincere, and the alliance ushered in what would be called the Second Generation of the Transformers. However, after human soldiers killed one of his dearest comrades, Megatron adopted a new tank body and started the war anew, believing he could bring a more stable peace to the galaxy by ruling it with an iron fist. {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|Autobots vs. Decepticons: Combat Secrets }}

[[Image:G2 manga hero prime.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Uh oh, [[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]]! You've cheesed off Prime so much he's broken through the panel borders!]]
To counter Megatron, Optimus Prime upgraded his body into a new Missile Trailer mode. Rallying a new wave of Autobot warriors, Optimus diligently repelled Megatron and the Decepticons. In one early encounter, Prime managed to rescue [[Electro]] and [[Volt]] from Megatron by firing his "Matrix Saturn" attack. He immediately recommended that Megatron and all his Decepticons leave the area at once. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #1}} Megatron, of course, refused, and continued his attack. Prime, Electro and Volt combined their firepower, leaving Megatron in a smoke-filled crater. As Electro moved in to administer the killing blow, Megatron emerged from the smoke unscathed, effortlessly plucking Electro up by his head. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #2}} Against Prime's orders, Volt immediately rushed Megatron from behind to free his captured friend. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #4}}

At one point, the secrecy of the Autobot field base became a priority, leaving Megatron to order warriors such as [[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]] to tail other Autobots and locate Prime. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #5}} Prime's location was eventually compromised when [[Skyjack]] slipped past all Autobot radar. Astonished at the Decepticon's stealth, Prime was unable to stop Skyjack from returning to Megatron with his location. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #7}} Meanwhile, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] began to study the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and discovered a new property within it called the [[Reconfiguration Matrix]] which could grant Autobots new powers. {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|Optimus Prime of the Autobots has Fallen!}}

[[Image:G2PrimeJustice.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"SHALOM!"]]
Prime and Megatron eventually met to do battle, with Prime coming out on top as Megatron slowly ran low on fuel. Prime offered Megatron one last chance to surrender, but was caught off-guard by [[Hooligan (G2)|Hooligan]], who blasted him in the back with his missile attack, destroying Prime's back-mounted weaponry unit. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #9}} Megatron then ordered [[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]] and [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]] to swoop in and finish Prime off before he could recover. The pair of Decepticons proceeded to bomb Prime mercilessly before turning him over to Megatron for the kill. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #10}} With a surprising lack of satisfaction, Megatron blasted Prime to pieces, killing his ancient foe at last. Victorious, Megatron offered Prime a final prayer, only to be interrupted by...Prime! The essences of the previous Autobot Supreme Commanders within the Matrix of Leadership activated the Reconfiguration Matrix to forge him a new body. Optimus Prime became '''Battle Convoy''' and easily trumped Megatron's power. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #13}} {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|Birth of the New Supreme Commander Battle Convoy!}}

Prime and Megatron then agreed to a one-on-one duel following the "Law of Cybertron": total banishment to the defeated and his forces. After a lengthy and painful battle, Prime narrowly managed to best Megatron, forcing him and the Decepticons to retreat into deep space. Prime was last seen wounded, being aided off the battlefield by Volt and Electro. {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|The Autobots Triumph in the Battle of Good Vs. Evil!}}
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===e-Hobby storyline===

[[Image:Black_hybrid_prime_manga.jpg|right|thumb]]

When the universe came under threat from an [[Galvatron II|alternate-reality incarnation of Galvatron]], Prime used his [[Reconfiguration Matrix]] to once again transform his body into a form resembling his original. Armed with powerful solar-powered missile launchers created by the Decepticons that were so energy-consumptive that Prime required a sunlight-absorbing [[black body]] coating to operate them at full power, Prime put his new body to use rescuing Laser Ultra Magnus from Galvatron's clutches. {{storylink|Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version}}

To combat the Decepticons' aggressive energy raids, Wheeljack and [[Ga'mede]] put their heads together and duplicated Prime's new black form to create twenty-one battle droids that would play on the Decepticons' subconscious fear of Optimus Prime. These "[[Eldedroid]]s" were placed under the remote control of [[Flip Sides]] and sent out onto the battlefield. <ref>''Masterpiece'' Convoy Black Ver.‎ [[bio]]</ref> Later experimentation with the Eldedroids involved placing human minds in control of them; the first successful test subject was a human named [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Dan]]. This Eldedroid, along with [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]], [[Splashdown]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], was dispatched by Optimus Prime to investigate Decepticon involvement in recent attacks on human shipping vessels. Prime was worried about Dan, but Ironhide encouraged him not to be so pessimistic. {{storylink|MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.‎}}

==References==

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Ginrai (human)

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:''Ginrai is a [[human]] and [[Autobot]] [[Godmaster]] from the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Ginrai comb1.gif|right|320px|thumb|"Hair this perfect doesn't just happen!"]]
Being a soldier is not the life for '''Ginrai''' (ジンライ ''Jinrai''). Command structures, fixed routines, forced formality, following orders, knowing your place and toeing the line are his complete antithesis—so it was really the worst luck in the world for him to be born [[Japan|Japanese]]. A Nagano native, Ginrai found the atmosphere of his home country unbearably stifling, and left for the [[United States of America|United States]] at the young age of seventeen to "find himself." The very definition of a free spirit and a lone wolf, he took a job as a long-haul truck driver for [[Union Transportation]] which offered him the freedom and solitude of the open road. Despite his desire for isolation and self-exploration, however, he is hugely popular amongst his "brothers" in the trucker fraternity, as his easygoing personality allows him to get along with people like a house on fire.

Ginrai's life was turned upside down when he discovered that he was an [[Autobot]] [[Godmaster]] and became bonded to a [[Transtector]] from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]]. Now wearing the visage of the legendary Autobot commander [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Ginrai has found his entire worldview changed by the evil of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]], a force he painfully realizes is too great for him to overlook. It would not, Ginrai figures, be a good thing for the Decepticons to rule the world. After all, he lives there.

Ginrai's signature attack technique is the "Atomic Fire Guts", which sees him condense his [[Chōkon Power]] into his gun and release it as a blast of roiling flame. Ginrai can combine with his own trailer to become '''Super Ginrai''', upgrading his attack into the more-powerful "Special Fire Guts", and then again with the drone [[Godbomber]] to become '''God Ginrai'''. As God Ginrai, his Fire Guts attack is powered up once more, becoming the ultimate single-strike final attack known as the "God Fire Guts", which transforms Ginrai's entire body into a blazing fireball.

:''[[Omni Productions]] dub name'': '''Optimus Prime'''
:''Russian TV dub name'': '''Оптимус Прайм''' (Optimus Prime)

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Hiroshi Takemura]] (Japanese)

The events that would bring Ginrai into contact with the Transformers began an indeterminate number of years ago, when the super-energy alien being and self-styled "Decepticon god" [[Devil Z]] stole several [[Transtector|Transtectors]], including one intended to be used by the legendary Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], from an area of space known as the [[G Nebula]]. Already filled with the [[Chōkon Power|Tenchōkon]] of the nebula, the Transtectors were then scattered across the Earth by Devil Z, that they might absorb the planet's [[Chōkon Power|Chichōkon]]. Devil Z planned to have human beings bond to the Transtectors, adding their inherent [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] to the equation, thereby creating a new super-robotic lifeform: [[Godmaster|Godmasters]]. {{storylink|Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!}}

[[Image:Ginraiarmor.jpg|left|180px|thumb|It rides up the crotch.]]
Through undivulged circumstances, the Transtector intended for Prime assumed the form of a red tractor trailer cab and came to rest in a small garage in California. The unwitting [[Garage owner (Masterforce)|garage owner]] rented the cab to several truckers, but always found it returned early with complaints of unusual, even supernatural, incidents.

Two years after coming to America, Ginrai happened to be transporting an ill dolphin from [[Baney Aquarium]] to the [[Ocean Research Institute of California]], which was run, unbeknownst to him, by the Autobot [[Pretender]] [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]]. Destiny stepped in when Ginrai's truck broke down on the way, and he pulled in at this very garage, where the owner rented him the Transtector to complete his delivery. In the glove box of the cab, he discovered a pair of [[Master-Brace|Master-Braces]] and slipped them on his wrists, only to discover that he was unable to remove them. When Diver laid eyes upon the bracelets, he recognized the basic design of them and insisted that Ginrai take him back to the garage where he had found the truck. On the way, however, they were attacked by the Decepticon Godmaster brothers [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]], who forced the truck off a cliff. Accidentally touching the bracelets as he attempted to escape the crushed cab, Ginrai was infused with the Masterforce, and a suit of armor materialized around him, healing both himself and the Transtector as they combined and transformed. Now a Godmaster himself, Ginrai saw the shocked Decepticons off. {{storylink|A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai}}

[[Image:Ginrai 1stapp.jpg|right|250px|thumb|You think my front looks great, wait until you see my back!]]
Ginrai was at first unsure of what to make of his new powers and was not entirely keen on joining the Autobots, as the notion of operating as part of a command structure and being tied down to a specific place ran directly counter to his desire for freedom in his life. Although he promised to aid them when necessary "for the sake of the world"—a mantra for which he admitted he had a weakness—he soon bore witness to the true evil of the Decepticons when Hydra and Buster killed several of his fellow truckers while searching for him. In spite of this, Ginrai was still not entirely willing to join the Autobots, but fate would continue to pushing him into doing so. {{storylink|Ginrai: God On of Rage!!}}

Ginrai soon suffered a prophetic dream, after which he discovered three more pairs of Master-Braces in his Transtector, indicating the presence of more Godmasters on Earth. When Ginrai brought the bracelets to Japan for study at the [[Autobot Base (Masterforce)|Autobot base]], {{storylink|A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva}} events began to escalate as his Transtector activated on its own, transporting Ginrai to his birthplace of Nagano, or more specifically, a construction site at the base of Mount Yatsugatake there. Blasting for a tunnel through the mountain had been blocked by a mysterious object, which proved to be a trailer for Ginrai's truck, which burst from the tunnel during another battle with Buster and Hydra. {{storylink|Friend or Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!}} Later still, the two brothers lured Ginrai into a public battle so that they might blame the conflict on him and turn public opinion against the Autobots. The plan failed, but a friend of Ginrai's offered the suggestion that his becoming a Godmaster was the will of God Himself. {{storylink|Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai}}

[[Image:Superginrai 1stapp.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Ginrai!]]
Not long thereafter, in a battle with [[King Poseidon]], Ginrai discovered that his cab and trailer were capable of performing a "Double On", merging together to create the super-robot "Super Ginrai". {{storylink|Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai}} Additionally, after appearing on television in hopes of locating the remaining three Godmasters, to whom he would give the Master-Braces, Ginrai successfully located [[Lightfoot]], {{storylink|Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter}} [[Ranger]] {{storylink|An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger}} and [[Road King]] and recruited them to the Autobot side. {{storylink|At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen}} During this time, Ginrai was also challenged to a duel by the wandering [[Six Changer]], [[Sixknight]], who had been manipulated into doing so by the Decepticons. Sixknight lost the fight and was shocked to discover that he had been bested by a human being, {{storylink|A Powerful Foe!! Sixknight the Wanderer}} but was affected so deeply by Ginrai's explanation for how this could be so that he wound up siding with the Autobots. After this string of successes the Autobot leader [[Metalhawk]] stepped down as commander and requested that Ginrai take his place. After some deliberation and much hassling from the other Autobot Pretenders, who wouldn't let him say no, Ginrai accepted. {{storylink|The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!}}

[[Image:Ginrai defeated.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Though badly wounded, I must go home for the show!"]]
When [[Grand Maximus]] arrived on Earth to inform Ginrai's Autobots of the impending arrival of the Decepticon super-weapon, [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]], he provided them with the schematics necessary to create the drone [[Godbomber]]. {{storylink|Life? Death? Lightfoot Must Choose}} Metalhawk and the Pretenders raced to finish the construction of Godbomber, but as the so-called "Bomber Project" neared completion, Ginrai was lured into the desert by a disguised Buster and Hydra (under the auspices of performing some stunt driving for a movie) and was attacked and beaten within an inch of his life by the Decepticon Ambassador of Destruction, [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Following a failed attack on the Bomber Project facility, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} the barely healed Ginrai insisted upon taking the fight to the Decepticons, combining with the completed Godbomber to form "God Ginrai". {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} In his new form, Ginrai confronted Overlord and BlackZarak on the moon, where he fully embraced his role as protector of Earth and defeated the Decepticons with the aid of Grand Maximus. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}

[[Image:Godginrai onmoon.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Ginrai, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes!]]
Upon returning to Earth, Ginrai was lured into a trap in the Middle East by Overlord, during which Godbomber revealed a hidden power by transforming into a robot mode. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Godbomber's robot mode also helped save the day when Ginrai and Lightfoot were entombed in a cave when attempting to stop the eruption of an underwater volcano, {{storylink|Escape!! The Underwater Volcano Erupts}} leading the Decepticons to target him for destruction. Luring Ginrai to the heartland of America, the villains ambushed and badly wounded the Autobot leader, leaving him unable to use his Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber. Luckily, the day was saved when the Headmaster Juniors discovered they were able to take control of Godbomber together. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}

When it seemed as though the Autobots had finally been joined by the final Godmaster, a young man named [[Clouder]], Ginrai welcomed him into their ranks with open arms. Metalhawk, however, proved to be less trusting, and soon exposed Clouder as a Decepticon spy. Unfortunately, this was not enough to stop the plan the Decepticons had put in motion; while Ginrai and the Godmasters were occupied battling Buster and Hydra in a nearby city, the Autobot base was crippled by Clouder's sabotage and attacked by the rest of the Decepticons en masse. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} Ginrai was unable to prevent the destruction of the base, but was approached by Clouder in the aftermath. Clouder had been left to die in the base by the other Decepticons, and now wanted to work with the Autobots, which Ginrai permitted. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}

[[Image:Godginrai vs blackzarak.jpg|right|180px|thumb|She can't take anymore, Cap'n!]]
After failing to contact Grand Maximus, Ginrai headed out into space to search for him and found him trapped inside a powerful [[black hole]]. Ginrai too fell victim to the singularity's pull, but he and Grand Maximus were able to combine their energies to destroy it from within and escape. The black hole had, in fact, been created by BlackZarak, who had been able to travel to Earth and join the Decepticons there during Ginrai's imprisonment. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} With BlackZarak now bolstering their forces, the Decepticons' campaign grew ever more aggressive, with Ginrai only just managed to save the planet from the villains' unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of the Downfall of Humanity}}

[[Image:Godfireguts.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Itching, burning sensation?]]
When [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]] was captured by the Decepticons, Ginrai was forced to come to the villains' base alone and unarmed in exchange for his safety. Things looked bad for the heroes until the self-doubting Decepticon [[Cancer]] finally switched sides and saved the day. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With Cancer's aid, Ginrai was able to lead the Autobots in an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, creating an even more powerful composite foe. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}

[[Image:Ginrai juniors.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Go go, Transformo Rangers!]]
After conclusive final battles with Hydra and Buster {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} and Overlord, {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} Ginrai confronted the fused Devil Z/BlackZarak entity atop the Matterhorn. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} As their battle raged down the mountain, Ginrai succeeded in decapitating the villain, but BlackZarak simply assumed a new, serpentine alternate mode and kept on fighting. The Headmaster Juniors boarded Ginrai's chest cockpit and joined their energies with him, allowing him to destroy BlackZarak's body with his God Fire Guts attack, exposing Devil Z. As the alien raged impotently, Ginrai and the Juniors united every last drop of their Chōkon Powe into the almighty Final Fire Guts attack, which destroyed Devil Z once and for all.

With Devil Z's death, the bond he had forged between Transtector and human ceased to exist, and Ginrai and the other humans were separated from their Transtectors. The Transtectors, however, had been evolved through their partnership with the humans and continued to exist as true super-robot life forms. Having been imprinted with his human partner's personality, Ginrai's Transtector departed for space to pursue the surviving Decepticons and rejoin the greater war. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}

====''Victory'' cartoon====
[[Image:Godginrai vs deathsaurus.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Vultures wait until you're dead. Deathy, not so much.]]
The Ginrai Transtector—now having taken its human partner's name as its own, becoming known as Ginrai itself—joined with the Autobot forces in space, where he became good friends with [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] and his adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]]. Before long, Star Saber was appointed Supreme Commander of the Autobots, while Ginrai became commander of the Defense Force for Space Sector Two. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}} Operating out of a base in the G Nebula, Ginrai's time was occupied battling the Decepticon forces under Overlord's control, so much so that Star Saber occasionally had to respond to emergencies in Sector Two, such as a [[Breastforce]] attack on planet [[Micro]]. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}

[[Image:Deadginrai.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Not Optimus death No#435.]]
Feeling guilty over taking up Star Saber's time in such a manner, Ginrai was quick to come to his aid when the newly reunited Breastforce [[combiner]] [[Liokaiser]] proved too much for Star Saber to handle, {{storylink|Unite! Liokaiser}} and also later when Star Saber was lured into a trap on Earth by Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]] [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. Confronting Deathsaurus in battle, Ginrai was struck by a blast from the villain's Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon and fatally damaged. {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} Despite the best medical efforts of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and [[Minerva]], Ginrai's body was left useless and immobile. Due to a slip by Perceptor, however, he learned of the existence of a reconstruction process conceived by Star Saber that would allow him to become a power-up for the Autobot leader. Star Saber refused to allow him to submit to the process, revolted at the notion of using his close friend's body in such a way, but Ginrai insisted. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Perceptor and Wheeljack brought his life functions to an end, then restored him to Star Saber's specifications as [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}
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====''Kiss Players''====
Operating under the direction of the [[Sparkbot|Sparkbots]], [[Marissa Faireborn]] travelled forward in time from 2007 to witness Ginrai's first battle with Overlord in the desert. Thinking he was Optimus Prime, she kissed him to obtain a fragment of what she believed was the "[[AllSpark]]" that had bonded to him (although in actuality, it was a fragment of [[Unicron]]'s [[Angolmois|lifeforce]]). Discovering he was a human man, she was somewhat horrified to find that she had kissed someone ''other'' than Optimus Prime, and begged her Sparkbot companion [[Angela]] not to tell anyone. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #43}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' comic===
[[Image:Ginrai manga.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Dude, get out of the way, that truck's coming right at you!]]
When Ginrai, the first Autobot Godmaster, was discovered in America by Diver, it was immediately arranged for him to travel to Japan to meet with the rest of the Autobots. As Metalhawk and the Headmaster Juniors awaited his arrival at [[Harumi Wharf]], however, they were attacked by the Decepticon Godmasters, Hydra and Buster. The Autobots were unable to match the Decepticons' power, but salvation soon came in the form of a red tractor trailer: Ginrai had arrived, and saw the villains off with a blast of Chōkon Power. In the aftermath of the battle, Metalhawk commented on Ginrai's similarity to Optimus Prime and wondered if he could be his reincarnation. Ginrai dismissed the notion, explaining that he had chosen to do this not because he was fated to, but specifically because he had only one life, and wanted to use it in service of the forces of good. {{storylink|Enter on the Stage! The Name of the Savior Is Ginrai!}}

[[Image:Superginrai manga.jpg|right|250px|thumb|If he gets a [[black repaint]], I'm outta here.]]
As leader of the Autobots, Ginrai led the heroes in investigating a mysterious Decepticon plan, only for the team to come under attack from what appeared to be a large army of legendary Decepticons, led by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Attacked by [[King Poseidon]], Ginrai was severely outmatched until the other Autobot Godmasters, Lightfoot, Ranger and Road King arrived with a trailer for his Transtector. Combining with the trailer, Ginrai became Super Ginrai and defeated King Poseidon, revealing that the legendary Decepticons were nothing more than holograms. {{storylink|Burn, Super Soul! The New Commander Super Ginrai!}}

After traveling to planet [[Athenia]] and being appointed the new [[Supreme Commander]] of the Autobots by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]], {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}} Ginrai received a power-up in the form of a transforming drone named Godbomber. When the Decepticon Ambassador of Destruction Overlord then attacked Tokyo, the newly-formed "God Ginrai" attacked him and lured him into space, where the powerful Decepticon warrior BlackZarak was in process of battling other Autobots there. Ginrai was able to turn the two villains' powers against themselves, and they badly wounded each other and fled. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}}

[[Image:Ginrai juniors manga.jpg|left|180px|thumb|An older man hugging several youngsters…uh huh.]]
After a mission to rescue Shūta and [[Cab]] from the Decepticons with the help of Grand Maximus, {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}} a mission to [[Mount Everest]] saw Ginrai struck down by the newest Decepticon Godmaster, [[Clouder|Doubleclouder]]. Left temporarily blind by the Decpticons' new [[A.O. Laser]], Ginrai was helpless, but luckily for him, an insulting remark from Cancer prompted the fickle Doubleclouder to switch sides to the Autobots and help him defeat the villains' plans. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}

After several further battles, events culminated in Devil Z taking over BlackZarak's body and turning against the other Decepticons, attempting to drain Overlord and Ginrai's Jinchōkon Power to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform. Saved by the Autobot Pretenders, Ginrai and Overlord led their respective factions in combining their energies into the "Perfect Transformer Attack" and destroying Devil Z and BlackZarak for good. With Devil Z's death, the bond he had forged between Transtector and human ceased to exist, and Ginrai and the other humans were separated from their Transtectors. The Transtectors, however, had been evolved through their partnership with the humans and continued to exist as true super-robot life forms. Having been imprinted with his human partner's personality, Ginrai's Transtector informed Overlord that they would finish their fight out in space, and the Transformers departed the planet, leaving Ginrai and the other Autobot humans to return to their lives. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}

===Transformers PD Type===
During a battle with Overlord, Ginrai announced he was going to launch a Chōkon Power attack. As he raised his gun in the air to gather Tenchōkon energy, he was suddenly hit by a bolt of lightning. Standing blacked by the shock, he wondered what the probability of that happening was. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##7 "Fight! Super Ginrai!"|Fight! Super Ginrai!}}

During a battle, God Ginrai announced he was going to perform the "biggest final attack in the Universe", much to the consternation of the Decepticons. His Chōkon Fire Guts attack sent them all flying, and, as they writhed on the ground, Ginrai asked [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] to refrain from pointing out that it was just a normal punch, or it might not work so well. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##13 "Now! Deliver the Finishing Blow! God Ginrai!!"|Now! Deliver the Finishing Blow! God Ginrai!!}}

==Toys==
===Super-God Masterforce===
[[Image:Superginrai toy generations.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Wait, the Japanese toy has shortened smoke stacks?!]]
*'''Super Ginrai''' (1988)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-307'''
**''Accessories:'' Godmaster Transtector, 2 Superconductor Rifles, 2 Particle Beam Cannons, Super Ginrai head

:A remolded version of the American [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Powermaster Optimus Prime figure]], Ginrai is a red, blue and grey tractor trailer, only able to transform into robot mode when the small Ginrai human figure is put into engine mode and snapped into place in the truck's grill, unlocking the clasp that holds the legs in place. When the cab is in robot mode, the trailer can become a battle station. Either robot or station can be armed with any of the toy's weapons, including two black "Superconductor Rifles", and two grey double-barrelled "Particle Beam Cannons," (referred to as "Cannon Craft" in "[[The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops]]"), which can be piloted by any small Godmaster figures. Cab and trailer can be merged into "Super Ginrai", whose head is a separate piece, and can go on to combine with the separately sold Godbomber to become God Ginrai.

:Differences between Ginrai and Powermaster Optimus Prime include retractable super-robot fists, a die-cast metal cab with translucent blue plastic windows, shortened smokestacks, a more metallic grey plastic, chrome on the Godmaster Ginrai engine, and silver paint rather than stickers for the small robot's upper legs.

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*'''God Ginrai''' (1988, 2002)[[Image:GodGinrai toy.jpg|right|275px|thumb|I can almost touch my toes! (not really)]]
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-310'''
**''Accessories:'' Godmaster Transtector, 2 Superconductor Rifles, 2 Particle Beam Cannons, Super Ginrai head, God Cannon, Tachyon Missile

:Super Ginrai was also sold in a gift set with Godbomber, who can interact with Ginrai in several ways. Trailer-mode Godbomber can hook up either directly to Ginrai's cab or to the back of Ginrai's own trailer and be towed along behind him, while any of Ginrai's weapons can plug into the holes in Godbomber's wings and chassis. Most prominently, of course, Godbomber diseassembles into various component parts that combine with Super Ginrai to form God Ginrai. Godbomber's legs become boots known as "God Legs", to which Ginrai's Particle Beam Cannons attach; his chest and wings form the "God Wing" backpack; his arms clip over the top of Ginrai's own as the "God Punch"; and his back becomes a chromed chestplate called the "God Breast", into the top of which the spring-loaded, missile-firing "God Cannon" plugs. The toy also features a secondary, lesser combination referred to as the "God Breaster," which involves attaching the God Breast to Super Ginrai, and plugging Godbomber's wings into his arms.

:The God Ginrai gift set was reissued in Japan in 2002 with the notable modification of blue eyes for the small Ginrai robot and a slightly different shade of red paint on the cab. However, it was notoriously over-produced, and online retailers were still selling it even years later, at greatly reduced prices.

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[[Image:Firegutsginrai toy.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Remember kids, always use the proper sunscreen.]]
*'''Fire Guts God Ginrai''' (e-Hobby exclusive, 2002)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-310E'''
**''Accessories:'' Godmaster Transtector, 2 Superconductor Rifles, 2 Particle Beam Cannons, Super Ginrai head, God Cannon, Tachyon Missile

:Released to coincide with the 2002 reissue of the God Ginrai giftset, this redeco casts the Autobot leader in reds and oranges, representing Ginrai using his "God Fire Guts" attack from the animated series. Fire Guts God Ginrai featured his own unique packaging, with recolored [[package art]], and was limited to 1600 pieces.

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===Transform Jr===
*'''Ginrai''' (1988)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF Super Ginrai 1'''
**''Accessories:'' Blue gun, robot head, die-cast Super Ginrai figurine

[[Image:Ginrai junior toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
:Like the other figures in the ''[[Transform Gōkin|Transform Jr]]'' line, this version of the basic Ginrai cab robot is a simplified version of its larger counterpart. And when we say simplified, we ''mean'' simplified—the figure features no Godmaster engine gimmick, and its head is simply pulled off and set aside for transformation. The figure comes packaged with a small die-cast metal figurine of Super Ginrai.

*'''Shirei Kichi''' (司令基地 "Command Base") (1988)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF Super Ginrai 2'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 red guns, Trailer post, 2 wheel pieces, ramp, Super Ginrai head

:This ''Transform Jr'' figure is a simplified version of Ginrai's trailer, which can transform to base mode, hitch up to the separately sold cab robot and combine with it to form Super Ginrai. The toy includes a cardboard mock-up of Ginrai in torso mode to complete the super robot's look in-package.

*'''God Ginrai''' (1988)
**''Accessories:'' Blue gun, small robot head, die-cast Super Ginrai figurine, 2 red guns, trailer post, 2 wheel pieces, ramp, Super Ginrai head, "God Breast" chestpiece, 2 "God Punch" arms

:This giftset includes both the ''Jr'' "Ginrai" and "Shirei Kichi" figures and all the accessories which came with them plus the attachments necessary to transform Super Ginrai into God Ginrai. Due to the nature of his construction, though, God Ginrai's fist-holes are blocked off, leaving him unable to hold the weapons which came with his components. Furthermore, as his attachments consist only of two arms and a chestpiece (no boots, no backpack), they cannot combine into Godbomber. The set also includes some sort of plastic "shield" with a cardboard insert depicting the Autobot [[insignia]], which appears to be a pocket or belt clip, or something. We really don't know.

==Merchandise==
===Super-God Masterforce===
[[Image:Ginrai masterbrace toy.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Jinchōkon bling]]
*'''Godmaster-Braces—Ginrai''' (1988)

:Ginrai's Master-Braces came alive with this role-play set, including two golden-chromed bracelets with handcuff-style hinges, and a small clip-on "communicator" pin.

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===Parody Deformed===
*'''Super Ginrai''' (1990)

[[Image:Ginrai pd models.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Gundam? Never heard of it.]]
:A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super-deformed]] model kit of Super Ginrai was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s "[[Parody Deformed]]" line of [[Candy toy|candy toys]]. The seventh figure in the series, he came with a "[[Transformer PD Type]]" comic about himself, "Fight! Super Ginrai!", and something that could charitably be described as "chocolate".

*'''God Ginrai''' (1990)

:A similar model kit of God Ginrai followed in the next wave of the "Parody Deformed" series, this time packaged with something accused of being "gum". As the thirteenth figure of the line, God Ginrai came with the "Transformer PD Type" comic, "Now! Deliver the Finishing Blow! God Ginrai!!".

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===Super Collection Figure===
*'''God Ginrai''' (2000)

[[Image:Ginrai scfs.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Insert Super Saiyan joke here.]]
:This PVC figure was available in the first act of [[Takara]]'s "Super Collection Figure" series, in both full-color and clear plastic versions. In 2002, it was released as "Powermaster Optimus Prime in Apex Armor" in the first wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line.

*'''Super Ginrai''' (2000)

:The second "Super Collection Figure" of Ginrai was available in the second act of the series series, in both full-color and clear plastic versions.

*'''Fire Guts God Ginrai''' (2001)

:The original God Ginrai PVC was re-released in solid metallic golden four the fourth act of the "Super Collection Figure" series, available only as a rare chase figure. The "Fire Guts" concept was apparently the inspiration for the "Powermaster Optimus Prime Spark Attack" figure that was released in the second wave of the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line, although that figure was cast entirely in translucent yellow-orange plastic, rather than solid golden.

*'''Ginrai''' (2001)

:The fourth and final Ginrai PVC rendered the character in his basic robot form. The PVC, which was released in the fifth, ''Masterforce''-centric act of the series, was available in both full-color and metallic silver "petwer" versions. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Ginrai came packaged with the head and torso of the wave's BlackZarak "Build-A-Figure".

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==Notes==
*The human Ginrai's appearance is designed after screen actor [[Wikipedia:Yujiro Ishihara|Yūjirō Ishihara]].
*According to his [[tech specs]], there is a generator named '''[[Ultra Matrix]]''', which contains far more energy than the [[Sun]], mounted within Ginrai's Transtector. No actual fiction ever featured this device, though it was mentioned in magazines such as ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]''.
*Ginrai's supplementary [[bio]] card states that he is 20 years old. It also implies that he is an American of Japanese descent instead of a native of Japan.
*''Super-God Masterforce'' head writer [[Masumi Kaneda]] stated that God Ginrai (ゴッドジンライ) was named so that omitting every other Japanese syllable yields the word Gojira (ゴジラ), better known in the west as [[Godzilla]].
*According to the episode "[[The Earth Family of Good and Evil]]", Ginrai is good at surfing and skateboarding.
*The relationship between Ginrai and Optimus Prime is a bit... sketchy, to say the least. Precisely why Ginrai's Transtector looks so much like Optimus Prime is not detailed in the series itself, with the explanation only being delivered in "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]". Here, it is stated that the Transtector was created for Optimus Prime, but stolen by Devil Z... only for this to be seemingly contradicted seconds later, when it is said that the Transtector's trailer was to be used by a hero from planet Master. One might presume that this just means the trailer alone wasn't intended for use by Prime, or perhaps that the plan was not to use the Transtector to ''resurrect'' Prime, but to create a ''new'' Optimus Prime. It's all terribly odd. Whatever the original ill-defined intention may have been, years later, the [[Kiss Players (radio drama)|''Kiss Players'' radio drama]] clarified things by outright stating the Transtector was created as part of a plan to resurrect Prime after his [[Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime|most recent death]]. In the manga, Metalhawk makes mention that Ginrai looks like the legendary Cybertron warrior, Convoy. However, nothing is actually mentioned about a relationship with the two other than cosmetic similarities.
*The reissue God Ginrai giftset was the basis for the [[Commemorative Series]] "Powermaster Optimus Prime with Apex Armor" release, which was notable for referring to the Powermaster figure as "Ginrai," rather than by the traditional name of Prime's Powermaster partner, [[Hi-Q]]. [[Dreamwave Productions]]' "[[More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye]]" profile series sidestepped any mind-bending continuity conundrums by just presenting Ginrai as a different name for Hi-Q.
*When Hasbro wanted to create an ''[[Alternators]]'' Dodge Ram toy, Takara reportedly demanded that it be made into [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the figure sell, only for the ''Binaltech'' release of the toy to wind up being solicited not as Prime, but as Ginrai. Ultimately, ''[[Binaltech]]'' Ginrai was cancelled, and the figure was later released as Prime in the ''Alternators'' and ''Kiss Players'' lines, but not before [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] produced character and story information to go along with it. This storyline, made available in 2007's unofficial publication, ''The Transformers Binaltech Stories: Profiles and Technical Specifications'', would have seen Ginrai travel back in time from the far future and possess a Binaltech body intended for [[Roller]] in order to repair the damage caused to the timeline by [[Operation: Distant Thunder]], thereby preserving his own future. Unlike the unreleased story for his fellow ''Binaltech'' cancellation victim, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], which can be fit into the published ''Binaltech'' continuity, Ginrai's intended story was modified into [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Black Convoy]]'s fiction and therefore is not compatible with the official ''Binaltech'' continuity.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Cybertron/SuperGinrai/superginrai.htm Ginrai at TFU.info]

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Devil Z

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:''Devil Z is a super-energy being from the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Deril Z.gif|right|320px|thumb|It's the Magic Cyst of Devil Z!]]
The origins of the self-styled "Decepticon God" '''Devil Z''' are shrouded in mystery. Seemingly lacking any corporeal form, he exists purely as a pulsating globe of iridescent energy and is only ever identified as a "super-energy being" hailing from the far reaches of the galaxy.<ref>The true nature of Devil Z is never explained in any broadcast episode of ''[[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)|Super-God Masterforce]]''. These few scant details of his origins are revealed in the final chapter of the [[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|''Masterforce'' manga]] and "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]".</ref> As the "Führer of Darkness" (闇の総統 ''Yami no Sōtō''), he commands the [[Decepticon]]s on Earth, via his "Ambassador of Destruction", [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]], and the main Decepticon force in space, through his brainwashed servant, [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]]. Although he almost always acts through his pawns, rarely dirtying his own hands (er, metaphorically speaking), he is terrifyingly powerful in his own right, able to generate enough energy to devastate a planet with his [[Devil Power]].

Devil Z's goal is creation of the ultimate lifeform, the [[Godmaster]], which he sought to accomplish by fusing [[Transformer]]s and [[human]] beings into one, thereby creating a lifeform that could wield all three aspects of [[Chōkon Power]]. To this end, he stole a collection of eight [[Transtector]]s from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]], and spirited them away across time and space to [[Earth]]. With the Transtectors scattered across the planet, Devil Z entered a deep slumber at the bottom of an ocean trench, awakening in the early years of the 21st century to begin his plan. Devil Z quickly built his army by capturing and brainwashing the current Decepticon leader Scorponok (who had just recreated himself as BlackZarak) and liberating the Decepticon [[Pretender]]s from the Earthly prisons their Autobot counterparts had sealed them in epochs beforehand, and then recruited a pair of humans named [[Giga]] and [[Mega]]. Devil Z merged these two humans to the largest of the Transtectors, transforming them into Overlord, the first of the Godmasters, and charged them with locating the remaining Transtectors hidden across Earth.

:''English-Malay dub names:'' '''The Great Lord''', '''Zee'''

==Fiction==
===''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Hidekatsu Shibata]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Devilz on throne.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Oh man, I think the acid just kicked in!]]
While Giga and Mega were busy conducting their search for the Godmaster Transtectors, Devil Z resided in the underwater base occupied by the Pretenders, perched atop a tentacled dais from which he silently regarded his subjects. When [[Blood]] called upon his power to animate the first wave of [[Destroid]]s {{storylink|Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt}} and to drive animals in [[Africa]] into a frenzy {{storylink|Panic! Protect the Wild Animals!!}}, Devil Z complied, but when [[Gilmer]] happened to walk past his pillar, muttering to himself about the ineptitude of the [[Headmaster Junior]]s, Devil Z struck him with a bolt of energy, causing the Pretender to beg his forgiveness. {{storylink|Go, Goshooter - Showdown in the Wasteland}}

After Giga and Mega successfully located and trained the first new Godmasters, [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]], he brought his two sets of troops together in his underwater base. {{storylink|Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers|Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers}} {{storylink|A Fierce Battle!! The Autobots Are in Trouble}} The first major obstruction in Devil Z's plan came not long after, when the Autobots recruited a Godmaster of their own, [[Ginrai]]. {{storylink|A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai}} Devil Z was finally heard to speak when he vowed that no more Godmasters would become Autobots, and ordered Ginrai's destruction. {{storylink|Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai}} Unfortunately for Devil Z, what he had failed to realize was that all the remaining Transtectors he had stolen had been intended for Autobot use, and consequently, the human beings who merged with them all allied with the Autobots, thwarting his attempt to increase his army. {{storylink|Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter}} {{storylink|An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger}} {{storylink|At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen}}

This failure did not sit well with Devil Z, who summoned BlackZarak back to Earth, only to have him forced back into space by Ginrai after a dramatic battle on the moon. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}} However, during this prolonged stay in space, BlackZarak mastered localised gravity manipulation, allowing him to create black holes which he used to teleport himself directly to Earth. Once there, he and the other Decepticons enacted Devil Z's "Operation M-1", rampaging across the planet until the Autobots stopped them. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}}

Having now witnessed the untapped potential for power within human beings, Devil Z formulated "Operation M-2"—the complete destruction of humankind through use of the atmosphere-destroying "[[Death Para-Machine]]". The Autobots yet again foiled his plan and destroyed the Death Para-Machine, but the willingness of their emperor to wipe out mankind had already planted a seed of doubt within the minds of Giga and Mega. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of the Downfall of Humanity}}

[[Image:Devilz2.jpg|right|200px|thumb|My God...it's full of stars!]]
Not long thereafter, when the Autobots invaded the Decepticon base, an outraged Devil Z played his trump card. Declaring that he would now reveal his true form to the assembled Autobots and Decepticons, Devil Z exploded with light, transforming first into a bizarre embryonic creature, and then into a sinister crimson mist that flowed into BlackZarak. Now in control of the powerful Decepticon's body and mind, Devil Z promptly collapsed the Decepticon base in a failed attempt to destroy the Autobots. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}} Subsequently, the Decepticons relocated to the Amazon, where the hybrid Devil Z/BlackZarak entity announced his intention to revisit his plan to wipe out mankind. Again, Giga voiced his concern over the drastic nature of the plan, but again, Devil Z ignored him, driving the wedge between the alien and his servant even further. As it turned out, Devil Z's contempt for flesh was even shared by Hydra and Buster, who petitioned Devil Z to purge them of their humanity and merge them completely with their Transtectors so that they could become purely robotic lifeforms. Devil Z complied, and the newly-robotic Hydra and Buster were sent to battle Ginrai while Devil Z unleashed his Devil Power on a devastating attack on North America. {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} When the Autobots arrived to stop him, Devil Z responded by turning his Devil Power on the four former Decepticons who had since joined up with the Autobots—[[Wilder]], [[Bullhorn]], [[Cancer]] and [[Clouder]]—separating them from their Transtectors and bringing the robotic bodies to life as true super-robot lifeforms. {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}}

For Devil Z's final attack on Earth, he moved the Decepticons to the peak of the Matterhorn in the Alps and unleashed his Devil Power over Europe. The Autobots again gave chase, and Ginrai once again bested Hydra and Buster in combat, leading the enraged Devil Z to take out his frustrations on the two brothers. As he lashed them with his spear and blasted them with energy beams, Overlord finally spoke out against his emperor, but his concern for his subordinate was met only with contempt. Able to bear no more, Overlord attempted to strike Devil Z, but was cut down by the giant Decepticon, and would have been destroyed had Ginrai not arrived in time to save him. Devil Z was kept busy by [[Sixknight]] while Ginrai got Overlord to safety, and by the time he had destroyed the Six Changer, Ginrai had returned to the mountain peak to face off against him. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} Uninterested in fighting Ginrai, Devil Z transformed BlackZarak to scorpion mode and attempted to depart, intending to head for Antarctica, where he had already planted an amplifier for his Devil Power that would allow him to eliminate mankind with ease. Ginrai, of course, did not let him leave without a fight, dragging him back down to the mountain and prompting Devil Z to inflict the ultimate punishment: he unleashed his Devil Power on Ginrai, intent on transforming him into a true robot as he had done with Hydra and Buster, removing from him the humanity he so coveted. Thankfully, Ginrai was rescued by [[Grand Maximus]], and his revenge was swift, as he punched BlackZarak's head clean off his shoulders.

[[Image:Devilz vs ginrai.jpg|left|225px|thumb|]]
The Autobots' believed that Devil Z was down, but the loss of his host's head did little to impede the alien's evil, and he simply transformed BlackZarak's body into a new serpentine form to continue the fight. At that point, Overlord appeared and opened fire on his leader, and Devil Z responded by killing Giga and Mega and bringing the Overlord Transtector to life as a true robot. Furious at the unrepentant evil of Devil Z, Ginrai merged his powers with those of the Autobot Headmaster Juniors, and unleashed a super-charged version of his God Fire Guts attack upon the villain, reducing BlackZarak's body to ashes. Without a host to contain it, the energy orb of Devil Z coalesced in front of Ginrai once more, growing to enormous size and raging impotently that the Godmasters were tools that would never be able to defeat their maker. Defiantly, Ginrai and the Juniors summoned up every ounce of their energy for the "Final Fire Guts" attack, and Ginrai dove like a flaming spear into the heart of Devil Z, who screamed and exploded in a coruscating wave of light and darkness.

At the sight of Devil Z's death, the surviving Decepticons immediately turned tail and fled into space. The aliens' death also severed the bond he had forged between the humans and their Transtectors, and the Autobots found themselves separated from their robot bodies. The Autobot Transtectors were brought to life, and they pursued the surviving Decepticons back into space. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' comic===
[[Image:Devilz manga.jpg|right|180px|thumb|]]
Devil Z came into contact with Giga and Mega when the couple drowned at sea, and he elected to use his powers to resurrect them as his emissaries and servants. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}} At first, he left most of the work up to them, clinging to the shadows, handing down commands without ever being seen, and being spoken of only rarely by his subordinates. Exactly where he was based was never revealed; he does not appear to have remained on Earth after awakening.

When the Decepticons' attempt to defeat the Autobots with holograms of legendary Decepticons from years past failed, Buster inquired if there were any ''real'' troops they could call on, and Giga announced that they would have to wait for Devil Z's order. {{storylink|Burn, Super Soul! The New Commander Super Ginrai!}} The order came soon, as he instructed the Decepticons on Earth to join forces with the space-based Decepticon forces and attack the Autobots on [[Athenia]]. During the ensuing battle, Devil Z's existence was revealed to the Autobots when the Decepticons boasted that they had all been united under his rule. {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}}

[[Image:Devilz head on%21.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Devil Z always did want to get ahead in life.]]
Devil Z proceeded to upgrade BlackZarak's powers, {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}} and brought the giant Decepticon back to Earth. After several further failures on the Decepticons' part, Devil Z took matters into his own hands, transforming Buster and Hydra into true robots, and possessing BlackZarak's body, positioning his glowing orb between the Decepticon's shoulders in place of his actual head. In this form, Devil Z appeared during a battle between Ginrai and the other Decepticons, and transformed BlackZarak's body into a new serpentine mode as everyone looked on in shock. Devil Z then turned on the other Decepticons, and attempted to drain theirs and Ginrai's Jinchōkon, intending to absorb it and thereby transform ''himself'' into the ultimate lifeform. His absorption beam was blocked by the sudden arrival of the wholly-robotic Autobot Pretenders, saving Ginrai and the Decepticons from a nasty fate, and the Decepticons all decided to join with the Autobots to defeat their treacherous former master. Climbing aboard Grand Maximus, all the Transformers united their energies in the "Perfect Transform Attack", and the super-charged Grand Maximus charged into Devil Z, destroying him and BlackZarak for good in a blinding explosion of pure Chōkon Power.

The death of Devil Z resulted in the bond he had forged between the humans and their Transtectors being severed, causing the humans to be separated from their robot bodies, and the Transtectors to come to life as true super-robot lifeforms. Additionally, his destruction caused the energies sustaining Giga and Mega to cease, and they died along with him. The now-living Autobot and Decepticon Transtectors resolved to take their war back into space, where they would rejoin their respective factions and continue their conflict. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}
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==Trivia==
* BlackZarak would later be resurrected by the supernatural [[Violen Jiger]] for the events of the ''[[Zone (franchise)|Zone]]'' anime and manga. Whether or not he was revived with Devil Z's consciousness or his own original mind was never expounded upon, but it seems unlikely that Violen Jiger would have taken that risk.
* Devil Z's name is pronounced with the Commonwealth "zed", rather than the American "zee". Or if you were feeling particularly weeabooish, you could pronounce it "zetto".
* Devil Z holds the…''unique'' honor of being the only Decepticon big bad to have a ''song'' dedicated to him: "[[Uchū no Shihaisha - Devil Z]]" (宇宙の支配者・デビルZ "Ruler of the Universe — Devil Z"). This "image song" was originally sold on a [[Masterforce Hit Song Collection|''Masterforce'' soundtrack]] in 1988, and was recently re-issued on both the ''[[History of Music: 1984-1990]]'' and ''[[Song Universe]]'' 5-disc sets. The song was performed by [[Toshiya Igarashi]], who also performed the intro and ending songs for ''Masterforce''. Just in case you weren't clear on how evil he was, the song opens with a screaming refrain of "BAD BAD BAD!" Because…y'know, he's ''bad''.
* Due to the events of ''Masterforce'', the [[Scorponok (G1)#Super-God Masterforce|BlackZarak toy]] also doubles as a Devil Z toy. But then, so does a [[wikipedia:Plasma globe|plasma globe]], or even steam from a kettle...

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Come read the incredibly complex, convoluted, and competing accounts of '''[[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s massive amount of appearances in the [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]!

==''The Transformers'' cartoon==
:''Voice actors:'' [[Peter Cullen]] (Optimus Prime, English), [[Laurie Faso]] (Orion Pax, English), [[Tesshō Genda]] (Japanese), [[Francis Lax]] (French), [[Hubert Gagnon]] (French Canadian), [[Willi Röbke]] (German), [[Thomas Rau]] (German ''Generation 2''), [[Diego Reggente]] (Italian, first season and part of second season), [[Giorgio Melazzi]] (Italian, third season).

[[Image:Orionpax.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Ariel spends a lot of time hanging around the docks.]]

Optimus Prime began his life as an Autobot named '''Orion Pax''' during the [[Golden Age]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] nine million years ago. Together with his girlfriend [[Elita One|Ariel]] and his best friend [[Dion]], Orion was a dock-worker at a [[storage yard 67|storage yard]] who had the simple job of unloading and storing shipments of energy that came from a power plant up-river. But the times in which Orion lived were strange ones: a new breed of robot had recently appeared on the planet, with strange robot-mode [[flight]] powers that led Orion and Dion to idolize them. Ariel wasn't so sure, having heard rumors that the flying robots' leader had recently perpetrated an attack on an outer city.

[[Image:Wardawn_orion_dies.jpg|left|210px|thumb|Better get used to [[The many deaths of Optimus Prime|dying horribly]], buddy.]]

One day, Orion was going about work as usual when an unfamiliar group of [[Aerialbot (G1)|five robots]] arrived on the docks, and Orion, wondering if they were new workers, introduced himself and his friends. At that moment, all attentions turned skyward as a group of the flying robots soared by overhead. Both Ariel and the newcomers urged caution in dealing with the fliers, but Orion waved off their concerns, and returned to work. Before long, Orion was shocked when he was approached by [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], leader of the flying robots, who claimed to be looking for a place to store his wares. Overcome, Orion showed Megatron around the warehouses and explained that they were used for storing energy... at which point Megatron ordered his followers, the [[Decepticon]]s, to attack and steal it all! When Orion took a shot to the shoulder from the Decepticon leader, Ariel rushed to his defense, but was hit by another blast from Megatron. The enraged Orion lunged at Megatron, but was shot down by yet another blast from the Decepticon's cannon.

[[Image:Sfat prime and elita fb.jpg|right|thumb|"No girls allowed"]]

While Megatron and the Decepticons set about pillaging the warehouses, the five robots Orion had met earlier carried his body away, in hopes of finding someone to repair him. They came upon the Cybertronian machinesmith [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]], who reluctantly decided to subject Orion to a new reconstruction process he had developed, which would rebuild the Autobots' frail bodies into battle-hardy configurations so that they could battle the Decepticons on even footing. Thus it was that Orion Pax became Optimus Prime, the new leader of the Autobots, and was given the [[Matrix of Leadership]], which Alpha Trion had kept safe since Megatron had killed its [[U-Haul Robot|previous holder]]. While Alpha Trion set to work on rebuilding Ariel into "[[Elita One]]" using Prime's schematics as a basis, Prime confronted Megatron, introducing himself as the Decepticon's "worst nightmare". A mighty battle ensued, which came to an end when the warehouse's fuel stockpiles were blown up by the five enigmatic Autobots, who disappeared. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

Over the following five million years, Optimus Prime led the Autobots in a steady war of attrition that gradually drained Cybertron of almost all of its energy. In order to continue the fight, Prime arranged for an interstellar expedition to search for energy on other planets. Loading his best and brightest aboard a huge [[Ark (G1)|spacecraft]], Prime was the last to board, but was stopped by a cry from Elita One, who came running up to the launch platform. Prime told her that he would return for her as soon as he could, but Elita was intent on joining Prime on the mission. No debate was to be had, however, as a Decepticon attack on the platform caused an explosion that seemingly destroyed Elita. Crestfallen, Prime boarded the spacecraft and ordered a take-off, unaware that Elita had, in fact, survived. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}

[[Image:Mtmte1 prime controls.jpg|left|thumb|The Transformers spent four million years in stasis lock because Prime never learned to turn INTO the skid.]]

The Autobots' spacecraft had a troubled flight. After navigating a treacherous asteroid field, the ship was caught in a tractor beam from a [[Nemesis (G1)|Decepticon space cruiser]] that had been shadowing them, under the command of Megatron himself. Megatron's forces swarmed the Autobot ship, and the two leaders grappled until the G-force of the nearby planet [[Earth]] took hold of the craft, and dragged it down. Although Prime tried valiantly to pull the ship up, it collided with a [[Mount St. Hilary|mountain]] so violently that all the Autobots and Decepticons were knocked offline.

[[Image:Mtmte2_witiwickys_saved.jpg|215px|right|thumb|Water-boarding is unconstitutional]]

Four million years later, in 1984, a volcanic eruption jarred the ship's computer, [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]], back online, and it set about reviving the Transformers indiscriminately, beginning with the Decepticons. The evil robots soon departed the Ark, but thanks to a tremor caused by a petty parting shot upon the ship from [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]], the inactive form of Optimus Prime was jostled into the path of Teletraan I's restoration beam. Reconfigured by the computer to transform into a tractor trailer, Prime thanked Teletraan for its efforts with a thumbs-up, and quickly saw to the reactivation of all his fellow Autobots. Wasting no time, Prime led the Autobots in pursuing the Decepticons, who were in the process of attacking an oil rig. Prime and Megatron faced off, but Prime was promptly set upon by [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]], allowing Megatron to break off the fight and collapse the oil rig with a few well-placed blasts. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 1}} Prime quickly rescued a pair of rig workers—[[Sparkplug Witwicky]] and his son [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Spike]]—and introduced himself and the Autobots to the two grateful humans, who volunteered to help the Autobots learn more about Earth.

[[Image:Mtmte2_shermandam.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Hey, Megatron! Lemme axe you a question!"]]

Next, the Decepticons targeted [[Sherman Dam]], and Prime led the Autobots in an attempt to stop them, battling Megatron atop the dam with his retractable [[energon-axe]]. Distracted by a cry for help from Spike, Prime was knocked off the dam by Megatron, and the Decepticons escaped to carry out their next raid, this time on the [[Ruby Crystal Mines of Burma]]. When the Autobots arrived at the mines, Sparkplug and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] were sent in to plant an explosive charge that would entomb the Decepticons. When the pair did not return, Prime drove up to the mineshaft and deployed [[Roller]] to investigate. No sooner had Roller entered the mine, however, than the charge went off, and Prime was caught in the blast and hurled off the cliff. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 2}} Prime and Roller both survived the explosion, but unfortunately, so did the Decepticons, who blasted their way free of the collapsed mine and took to the air. Prime tried to stop [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] from pursuing the villains, but his old friend would not listen and was shot down. Prime was happy that Ironhide was okay, but reminded him that there was a thin line between being a hero, and being a memory.

[[Image:Mtmte3_prime_combatdeck.jpg|right|225px|thumb|In mere moments, the gun would be destroyed, but the finger would keep right on firing.]]

After the Autobots' attempt to use a phony holographic rocket base to dupe the Decepticons failed, Megatron stood poised to return to Cybertron. Prime called for volunteers for the dangerous mission to stop the Decepticons' blasting off in their new [[Decepticon Headquarters|space cruiser]], and all the Autobots stepped forward, including Spike and Sparkplug. With all his soldiers behind him, Prime led the Autobots into battle once more, and once again faced off with Megatron, this time using the additional firepower of his [[Combat Deck]] against his enemy. When the combat shifted to hand-to-hand, however, Prime was blindsided by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]], affording Megatron the opportunity to call off the fight and instruct the Decepticons to board the cruiser. As the craft took off, emotion got the better of Prime, and in a rare display of short-temperedness and anger, he roared at [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] to hand over his rocket pack. With the pack's additional boost, Prime achieved escape velocity and followed the cruiser into space, but a blast from its artillery hatch sent him plummeting back to Earth. His anger fading to despair, Prime declared that the Decepticons had won... before noticing that [[Mirage (G1)|Mirage]] was missing. In fact, the invisible Autobot had stowed away aboard the Decepticons' cruiser and sabotaged it from within, causing it to crash back to Earth, into the ocean. Believing the Decepticons aboard destroyed, Prime ordered the Autobots back to the ship, so that they could continue rebuilding it and return to Cybertron themselves. {{storylink|More than Meets the Eye, Part 3}}

[[Image:Too_prime_truckmode.jpg|left|thumb|225px|The smokestacks were filed down for your safety, kids.]]

One night, months later, before rebuilding was complete, Prime and Ironhide stood looking out at the ocean, and Prime confessed he was not entirely convinced that the Decepticons were gone for good. And he was right: before long, Teletraan I reported an emergency at a solar power plant, and Optimus discovered to his horror that Megatron still lived. Prime led a team of Autobots to drive the villains off, and while they were successful, the Decepticons escaped with a large quantity of energy to send to Cybertron with their new intergalactic "[[space bridge]]" transport system. Spike was captured and nearly sent across the bridge with the energy, but at the last moment, Prime blasted him free of the transport pod and then hurled Megatron into the bridge in his place. {{storylink|Transport to Oblivion}} Megatron was not gone for long, however, and when Prime next faced his eternal enemy, it was for possession of an [[antimatter]] energy formula. {{storylink|Roll for It}}

[[Image:Divide and conquer.jpg|right|225px|thumb|He was recovering nicely until Bumblebee tripped while carrying his dynamite collection.]]

While searching for any trace of where the Decepticons' space bridge would next materialize, Prime received word of a Decepticon attack on a weapons factory and sped to the scene. In the battle that followed, Prime was badly injured by an exploding computer bank when he shielded the human workers with his body, and was taken back to Autobot Headquarters for repair. Alas, Laserbeak followed the Autobots back to their base, and while Prime was lying on a medical table with his internal mechanisms exposed, the crooked cassette struck, destroying Prime's vital [[cosmotron]] component. A team of Autobots were dispatched to Cybertron to recover a replacement cosmotron, but in their absence, the Decepticons initiated an all-out attack on the Autobots. At the last moment, the cosmotron arrived, and the repaired Prime made a dramatic entrance onto the battlefield, challenging Megatron to one-on-one combat and soundly defeating him. {{storylink|Divide and Conquer}}

After leading the Autobots on a mission to the Arctic to stop the Decepticons from draining the energy of the Earth's core, {{storylink|Fire in the Sky}} Optimus Prime okayed [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]]'s project to create robotic dinosaurs to bolster their forces. Unfortunately, when the three "[[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]]" turned out to be dangerous, simple-minded monsters, Prime ordered them destroyed. Wheeljack was able to talk him down to merely deactivating the Dinobots and sealing them in a cavern in their volcano headquarters... and a good thing, too, since soon after, when Prime and the Autobots were defeated in battle with the Decepticons at the [[Great Falls]], Wheeljack was able to bring the Dinobots back online to save the day. Realizing that "even the wisest of men and machines can be in error", Prime overruled his previous order, and allowed the Dinobots to remain part of the Autobot ranks. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

[[Image:Grimlockapologize.jpg|left|250px|thumb|"Someday, my large friend, [[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Masterpiece|the tables will be turned]]."]]

Following a mission to Peru, {{storylink|Fire on the Mountain}} Prime was so impressed with the Dinobot trio's improved performance that he ordered the creation of two more. Unfortunately, Prime would soon learn that the Dinobots were not perfect; left alone to guard a [[Meteorini Chipperoni|strange energy-rich meteorite]], the Dinobots were approached by Megatron, who exploited their simple brains to turn them against Optimus Prime. Soon after, when Prime discovered that the meteorite was unstable and set to explode, he rushed out to warn the Dinobots, only to be attacked by them and taken to Megatron. The Decepticons had also stolen the meteorite, unaware of its impending detonation, and when the space-rock finally exploded, Prime dove into action and shoved the Dinobot leader [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] to safety. Realizing that Optimus Prime was on the side of the angels, Grimlock apologized, and he and Prime shook hands. {{storylink|War of the Dinobots}}

[[Image:SurfsUp.jpg|right|225px|thumb|There is no way it could be cooler than this...]]

When the Decepticons constructed a massive "space pyramid" in order to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit, that they might exploit the energies released in the chaos that would ensue, Prime attempted to stop Megatron from activating the third and final pylon in the system. Megatron merely laughed, and informed Prime that ''he'' would be the one to activate the pylon—for if he did not, Cybertron would be utterly destroyed! {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 1}} Prime was forced to comply and brought the pylon online, but he did not linger on the moral repercussions of his decision, and instead led the Autobots in combatting the environmental terrors that Cybertron's orbit unleashed. On top of all this mayhem, the Decepticons had also used [[hypno-chip]]s to mind-control human slaves into helping them gather energy, including Sparkplug Witwicky. Learning that Sparkplug had been taken to work on Cybertron, Prime felt that it would be best if Spike did not find out, only for the boy to overhear him discussing it. Prime permitted Spike to join a team of Autobots that were heading for Cybertron to investigate the source of the Decepticons' mind-control. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 2}} Prime then led another team of the Autobots on a mission to stop the construction of a Decepticon hydro-electric generator, cruising into battle on Transformer-sized surfboards. Things came to a head in a huge firefight on a tropical island, during which the Autobots returned from Cybertron with a device that undid the effects of the hypno-chips. Megatron cut his losses and fled with the energy he had gathered, but Prime then opened fire on his craft, blowing up the energy within and creating an explosion powerful enough to thrust Cybertron back out of orbit. {{storylink|The Ultimate Doom, Part 3}}

[[Image:CountdownToExtinction.jpg|left|thumb|... I stand corrected.]]

In the wake of Cybertron's orbit, Optimus Prime and the Autobots set about repairing the damage done to Earth, when an even greater threat emerged: Starscream set an [[Exponential Generator]] to overlord and destroy the planet. For the first time—but not the last—Prime and Megatron were forced to team up for the greater good (or the lesser evil), as Megatron transformed into pistol mode and allowed Prime to wield him so that they could shoot the exponential generator into space and save Earth. {{storylink|Countdown to Extinction (episode)|Countdown to Extinction}}

[[Image:Tanker throw.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Eat your heart out, Superman.]]

Hearing reports of giant robotic insects in Bali, Optimus Prime led a team of Autobots to investigate. The team discovered that the insects in questions were a trio of "[[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticons]]" who had allied themselves with Megatron, and pursued them to an oil refinery the Decepticons were in the process of plundering. In one of his most impressive feats of strength ever recorded, Optimus Prime hoisted an entire oil tanker over his head and hurled it at Megatron. The Insecticons were so awed by this display of strength that they decided to consume the gathered energon and flee, earning them Megatron's ire. Although he considered the day a victory, Prime worried that the Insecticons would inevitably ally themselves with Megatron again. {{storylink|A Plague of Insecticons}}

[[Image:HeavyMetalWar Primedefeated.jpg|left|thumb|"I... fell on my keys.. ow."]]

When an unarmed Megatron appeared in front of Autobot Headquarters claiming that he had come only to talk, Optimus Prime agreed to hear him out, and found himself challenged to a one-on-one duel in accordance with Cybertron law. The loser of the duel and his troops would be forced to vacate Earth forever, but Prime confidently and honorably accepted the challenge. Little did Prime realize that Megatron had found a way to imbue himself with the different powers of all his Decepticon troops, and when the battle began, Prime was defeated with shocking speed. Believing that he had simply been unaware of the number of powers at Megatron's command, Prime sorrowfully agreed to leave Earth, much to the other Autobots' chagrin. When they returned to Autobot Headquarters to prepare for their departure, they discovered Megatron's newest warriors, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], in battle with the Dinobots, but Prime refused to get involved, citing the law despite Ironhide's protests. Spike's friend [[Chip Chase]] had his suspicions about the battle and used Teletraan I to scan Prime's injuries, revealing Megatron's deception. As the battle had been unlawfully won, Prime was able to disregard the law and lead the Autobots into the battle raging outside. Prime was able to blast the Constructicons' merged form of [[Devastator (G1)|Devastator]] apart with his laser rifle, and the Autobots ganged up on the Decepticons and forced them into a lava-filled crevasse. Prime and Megatron faced off once more, and Prime sent Megatron to join his troops in the magma below. Spike asked if the Decepticons were gone forever, prompting Optimus to wonder aloud... in the vast universe, was anything truly forever? {{storylink|Heavy Metal War}}

[[Image:Autobotspike_prime_vs_autobotx.jpg|215px|right|thumb]]

As 1985 rolled in, Optimus Prime found himself on the receiving end of the fury of "Autobot Spike", as he struggled to bring the young Witwicky back to his right mind after his consciousness was implanted in a [[Autobot X|robot body]]. {{storylink|Autobot Spike}} Later, when Megatron threatened the stability of the [[sun]] with his [[Solar Needle]], Prime was caught off guard by the Decepticon leader and wound up staring down his fusion cannon. Megatron ordered the other Autobots to lay down their weapons, but Prime told them to leave him to his fate and destroy the needle. Refusing to risk their commander's life, the Autobots complied with Megatron's wishes, but Prime found a way out of the situation by requesting a last wish: he asked [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], who had been rendered totally subservient by the removal of one of his circuit cards, to destroy the Solar Needle for him, and the deed was done before Megatron could do anything about it. {{storylink|Changing Gears}}

[[Image:Cos prime disassembled.jpg|left|225px|thumb|"The seller promised he was mint!"]]

Responding to reports of Decepticon activity in New York City, Optimus Prime was captured by the evil robots and disassembled into his component parts by [[Hook (G1)|Hook]]. The Autobots were able to recover their leader's head, but the other parts of his body had been rebuilt into an [[alligatorcon]] that the Autobots were forced to defeat and disassemble in order to restore him. Even after his body was rebuilt, Prime was still missing his right arm, which had been mounted as a laser turret on the top of the [[Empire State Building]]. Luckily, Prime was able to remote-control his arm, and used it to blast Devastator off the building, after which the Autobots reclaimed and re-attached Prime's errant limb. {{storylink|City of Steel}} The Decepticons were not done trying to manipulate Prime for their own ends, however; for their next evil scheme, they attacked his mind instead of his body, using a [[personality destabilizer]] to turn Prime and his fellow Autobots to the side of evil. Sparkplug was able to rig up [[attitude exchanger]]s to restore the Autobots to normal, but Prime was able to avoid being tagged by the devices by splitting up into his three components and bedeviling the Autobots on three fronts. Finally, Bumblebee took it upon himself to charge into Prime, and succeeded in restoring his leader's mind. {{storylink|Attack of the Autobots}}

[[Image:Dotm_prime_vs_torq3.jpg|right|215px|thumb]]

Numerous crazy gadgets formed the backbone of Prime's next few adventures, as he battled the Decepticons for control of [[electro-cell]]s, {{storylink|Traitor}} had to convince Ironhide to remain with the Autobots when his old friend botched a mission involved Wheeljack's new [[Immobilizer]], {{storylink|The Immobilizer}} and found himself temporarily trapped in truck mode by the [[Transfixatron]] when he and the other Autobots participated in the "Autobot Run" charity race. {{storylink|The Autobot Run}} Later, when the Decepticons allied themselves with the [[Sub-Atlantica]]ns and attacked [[Washington, D.C.]], Prime was felled by a blast from an anti-Transformer disruptor ray created by the Sub-Atlantican king, [[Nergill]]. Prime's diodes were pulled out of the laser fire by the fortunate arrival of Grimlock and the Dinobots, and the Dinobot leader didn't hesitate to point out that fact. Prime then transported the Dinobots to Sub-Atlantica in his trailer, and unleashed them upon the fish-men with the order to "act prehistoric!" {{storylink|Atlantis, Arise!}}

When Megatron took control of the super computer [[TORQ III]], Prime gave a particularly good account of himself, duping and defeating the addled computer almost single-handedly, besting Megatron in hand-to-hand combat and destroying his remote control device, and saving [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Jetfire (G1)|Skyfire]] and Spike from a sinking oil platform. {{storylink|Day of the Machines}} The Decepticons struck back with another plot that involved controlling an Earth machine; even Optimus Prime found himself outmatched by the robotic ninja [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird]], and his attempts to reason with the lifeless construct fell on deaf ears. {{storylink|Enter the Nightbird}}

[[Image:Primeproblem prime and clone.jpg|left|215px|thumb|"Oh noes! If only there were some way to tell them apart! [[Matrix of Leadership|Sacred lifeforce]]? What?"]]

As part of a plot to lead the Autobots to their doom in a crevasse of [[korlonium crystal]]s, Megatron created a [[Optimus Prime clone|perfect clone of Optimus Prime]], which he could remote control from a distance. Despite the Prime clone's blatantly odd behavior, the Autobots were unable to tell the difference between the two Primes, so they staged several contests in hopes of identifying the true Prime through his skills. Unfortunately, a sharp-shooting test and a race yielded no results, and the Autobots were forced to table the debate and go into battle against the Decepticons with both Primes. To fully complete the illusion, Megatron proceeded to create a clone of Starscream, which his Prime clone then destroyed, convincing the Autobots that it was the genuine article. Unfortunately, Megatron promptly blew his ruse by dismissing Spike's safety as unimportant, and all of the Autobots immediately turned on the clone and blew it to smithereens. {{storylink|A Prime Problem}}

[[Image:Dinobotisland jetpacks.jpg|right|215px|thumb]]

Next, Prime found himself allying with Megatron on two separate occasions, first to prevent the destruction of the Earth when a Decepticon attempt to drill to the planet's core went awry {{storylink|The Core}}, and then again when the Insecticons drained the [[Nova Power Core|power core]] of the [[Nova Power Plant]] and grew in size and power. In the latter instance, Prime again wielded Megatron in gun mode to shoot capsules of antidote into the Insecticons, shrinking them back to normal before they exploded. {{storylink|The Insecticon Syndrome}}

After another disastrous Dinobot rampage in Autobot Headquarters, Optimus Prime ordered the Dinobots to relocate to [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]], a strange prehistoric paradise the Autobots had just recently discovered. Unfortunately, the Decepticons followed the Dinobots there and began draining the island's rich sources of energy, disrupting the fabric of space and time and causing humans and other creatures from throughout time to materialize in the present day. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 1}} Prime put his trailer to use as a holding pen for a herd of woolly mammoths, and after the prehistoric pachyderms were returned to their home time, he donned a jetpack and led a team of Autobots to Dinobot Island to stop the Decepticons' plan. {{storylink|Dinobot Island, Part 2}}

[[Image:Master builders prime basketball.jpg|left|215px|thumb|Red bots can't jump.]]

In the midst of some basketball lessons from Spike, Prime was approached by [[Grapple]] with a design for a solar power tower, but was forced to forbid its construction on the basis that it had no means of defense against a Decepticon attack. Consumed with a desire to build the tower, Grapple and [[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] wound up allying with the Constructicons to construct the tower, only to be promptly turned on and entombed within it once it was complete. Prime and the Autobots rescued them, and while Prime accepted their apologies, he still had them clear up the wreckage of the tower as punishment. {{storylink|The Master Builders}}

Optimus Prime later helped test Wheeljack's new [[Negavator]] weapon and had to deal with a paranoid [[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]], {{storylink|Auto Berserk}} then found himself faced with a super-powered Megatron when the Decepticon leader boosted his systems with the [[Heart of Cybertron]]. {{storylink|Microbots}}

[[Image:MMP1 Gavel bang.jpg|right|215px|thumb|A collection of G1 Transformers toys, sold to the [[Megatron (G1)|psychotic robotic madman offscreen]].]]

After helping to save [[Central City (G1)|Central City]]'s new solar energy facility from Decepticon attack, Optimus Prime and the Autobots were honored at city hall, but the ceremony turned sour when the mayor's rival, [[Shawn Berger]], framed the Autobots for raiding an oil field using a video tape faked by the Decepticons (which featured a costumed Starscream playing the role of Prime). Prime and the Autobots were called to trial and found guilty of crimes against Earth, and Prime reluctantly accepted the court's ruling that they leave Earth and return to Cybertron aboard a craft supplied by Berger. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1}} Prime soon regretted his decision and ordered [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] to turn the rocket around, only to discover that Megatron had set it to collide with the sun and destroy them all. Thanks to [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]]'s force field, Prime and the Autobots survived the explosion of their rocket, and returned to Earth to clear their names. {{storylink|Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2}}

When Optimus Prime attended [[Professor Greene]]'s demonstration of his new [[Ultra Plane]], the Decepticons attacked and destroyed the new weapon. In the battle that resulted, the Autobots and Decepticons began to suffer sudden system malfunctions that were quickly deduced to be a result of the [[cybertonium]] in their systems degenerating after four million years on Earth. {{storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1}} Spike and his girlfriend [[Carly]] braved a perilous journey to Cybertron, recovering enough cybertonium to repair the Autobots, and were appointed honorary Autobots by Prime for their efforts. {{Storylink|Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2}}

[[Image:Goldenlagoon_prime_perceptor.jpg|left|225px|thumb| Rare [[Lucky Draw]] Optimus and Perceptor.]]

Optimus Prime was particularly exasperated with [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] when he broadcast a rock concert back into the Autobot base, partially because of the ungodly noise, but mostly because it meant that the Autobots failed to receive a distress call from [[Professor Haley]], whose [[Voltronic Galaxer]] device had been stolen by the Decepticons. It was with Blaster's help, however, that Prime then bested Megatron in a battle on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]], and so he allowed Blaster to turn Megatron's moonbase into a radio station that he could broadcast from. {{storylink|Blaster Blues}}

Prime later led the Autobots in battle for control of the [[electrum|golden lagoon]], {{storylink|The Golden Lagoon}} then found himself playing the role of tech-support as he talked [[Talaria]] through the activation of [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]'s signal beacon via a communications channel when the space-faring Autobot was stranded on [[Titan (moon)|Titan]]. Prime intended to go to Titan and rescue Cosmos himself, but Red Alert urged against it, and [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] wound up going in his place.{{storylink|The God Gambit}} Prime later agreed to help the NYPD bust a carjacking ring headed up by the [[Geddis brothers]], leading to another confrontation with the Geddis's secret allies, the Decepticons. {{storylink|Make Tracks}}

[[Image:Childsplay_aron_and_prime.jpg|right|thumb| Aron just finished his cartoon accurate Optimus kitbash.]]

When the Decepticons attempted to turn a baseball stadium into a new space bridge, the mechanism malfunction, teleporting Prime, Bumblebee, [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Inferno (G1)|Inferno]], [[Smokescreen (G1)|Smokescreen]] and a quartet of Decepticons to an alien planet inhabited by giants. Prime took the diplomatic approach, introducing himself and the Autobots to [[Aron]], the alien boy into whose room they had been transported, and Aron then helped his new friends evade capture and dissection by the planet's authorities. Following a riotous sewer-surfing journey back to Aron's house, the Autobots departed the planet in a toy rocket ship Perceptor had rewired. {{storylink|Child's Play (episode)|Child's Play}} On the return journey to Earth, however, the Autobots were captured by the alien gambler [[Bosch]], who brainwashed them all, save Smokescreen, and sold them to [[Lord Gyconi]] on the asteroid resort of [[Monacus]]. Prime was pitted against an [[Animalien]] in a gladiatorial battle for Gyconi's patrons' amusement before Smokescreen and Bosch secured the Autobots' freedom and restored their minds. {{storylink|The Gambler}} Upon his return to Earth, Optimus Prime faced the menace of the [[Morphobot]]s. {{storylink|Quest for Survival}}

When reports came in of the Constructicons mining an asteroid out in space, Optimus Prime requested that Omega Supreme investigate. The asteroid proved to be an egg containing an [[asteroid bird alien|alien bird monster]], which emerged and began attacking [[San Francisco]], but Omega ignored Prime's orders to intervene and shut off his communicator in mid-battle, preferring to seek revenge against the Constructicons. Prime was forced to intervene, getting between Omega and his quarry and finally convincing the giant Autobot to help dispose of the alien, on the basis that there were more important things in life than revenge. {{storylink|The Secret of Omega Supreme}}

Outfitted with a special coating of insulation to protect himself, Prime led a small team of Autobots to Japan to stop Megatron's latest creation, the demented energy imp known as [[Kremzeek]]. When the Autobots finally got the better of the crazy creature, Prime had to regretfully order his destruction. {{storylink|Kremzeek!}}

[[Image:Primetarget_beast_of_borneo.jpg|left|thumb|Bad touch!]]

After receiving a distress signal from the planet of [[Tlalakan]]s, Prime ordered a team of Autobots to investigate, but was unable to go himself as he was too large for Cosmos to carry. {{storylink|Sea Change}} Later, when Megatron, Starscream, [[Blitzwing (G1)|Blitzwing]] and [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] began feuding for Decepticon leadership, Prime was greatly amused by the whole thing, calling it a "domestic squabble" and taunting Megatron by dismissing him so he could fight the "real" leaders of the Decepticons. Prime kept the other Autobots from getting involved in the battle, and sure enough, the Decepticons wound up knocking the fight out of each other. The other Autobots agreed there was only one leader for them, and formed a throne out of their bodies for Prime to sit upon, but Prime said he preferred to roll. {{storylink|Triple Takeover}}

Optimus Prime's fame and prowess soon led him to become the target of the demented big-game hunter, [[Lord Chumley]], who sought Prime's head to go along with his other rare trophies. Chumley captured several Autobots in order to lure Prime to his estate, and of course, the Autobot leader had no choice but to comply. Battling his way through a mock-up of Cybertron itself against all kind of bizarre traps and creatures, from a ferocious [[dragon]]-like beast, to several robotic arachnids, to the interfering Astrotrain and Blitzwing, Prime succeeded in freeing his Autobot comrades, capturing Chumley, and delivering him to the authorities. {{storylink|Prime Target}}

[[Image:G1 Prime Elita energy transfer.JPG|right|220px|thumb|Oh look. Optimus Prime is having robo-sex with his sister. Better get used to seei- whoa, wait a minute.]]

Prime received the shock of his life when Megatron contacted him to inform him that Elita One was still alive, and had been captured by his Decepticons on Cybertron. Prime immediately departed for Cybertron to rescue her, but walked straight into the trap that had been laid for him, and was trussed up by the Decepticons and dangled above a vat of acid. Just as Prime was dropped, Elita used her secret power to stop time, freezing Prime in mid-air and pulling him to safety. Unfortunately, the use of her power drained almost all of her life-force, leaving her on the brink of death, so Prime loaded her aboard his trailer and set out in search of Alpha Trion, in the hope that the ancient Autobot could heal her. In the process, Prime rediscovered his own forgotten connection to his creator, when Alpha Trion shocked him with intimate knowledge of his and Elita's systems by telling him that only his own power supply could properly interface with Elita's. Prime gave Elita the power transfusion necessary to save her life, and the two lovers then joined the other Autobots in fighting off the Decepticons. Prime regretted that they had to part ways again, but Elita knew that she had to continue the fight against the Decepticons on Cybertron. {{storylink|The Search for Alpha Trion}}

[[Image:Ktvs_prime_and_trion.jpg|left|215px|thumb|Optimus was just in time to keep Alpha Trion from falling for the Nigerian e-mail scam.]]

Optimus Prime had little to do in the mission to rescue [[Astoria Carlton-Ritz]] from the Decepticons, merely offering theories and passing along information to Powerglide, {{storylink|The Girl Who Loved Powerglide}} but took to the fore again when Megatron created the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]] to combat the Autobots on the roads. Realizing that Megatron would have to use the Cybertronian mega-computer [[Vector Sigma]] to bring the Stunticons to life, Prime took a team of Autobots to Cybertron, where they sought the aid of Alpha Trion in navigating the planet's catacombs to find the way to the computer. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1}} Unfortunately, Megatron made it to the computer first and brought the Stunticons online, so Prime proposed the creation of a team of jets known as the [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] as a countermeasure. With Vector Sigma's [[Key to Vector Sigma|activation key]] in Megatron's clutches, Alpha Trion proposed that he merge with Vector Sigma to bring the computer back online. Prime refused, knowing it would mean the end of his creator's life, but Alpha Trion insisted that he be allowed to sacrifice himself so that the Aerialbots could live. The Autobots and Aerialbots returned to Earth, where they stopped Megatron from using the key to Vector Sigma to convert the planet into a metal sphere. {{storylink|The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2}}

[[Image:Cosmicrust_prime_and_perceptor.jpg|right|215px|thumb|"Perceptor, what happened?"
"It's... rust."
"But it looks like..."
"Rust."
"But it smells like..."
"RUST!"]]

When Megatron attempted to send the Aerialbots back to the dawn of time using the [[kronosphere]] time machine, Optimus Prime blasted the device before it could complete its evil work, depositing the Aerialbots nine million years in the past. Prime and the other Autobots fended off a Decepticon attack while Wheeljack rebuilt the kronosphere, and the five airborne Autobots were returned to the present just in time to turn the tide of battle. In the aftermath of the conflict, when the Aerialbots were able to refer to him with his old name of Orion Pax, Prime realised that it had been the time-tossed Aerialbots who have saved him from Megatron and brought him to Alpha Trion to be rebuilt all those millions of years ago. {{storylink|War Dawn}}

When Perceptor was kidnapped by the Decepticons and infected with the contagious [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]] , Prime risked his own safety to single-handedly rescue the scientist, and wound up being infected in the process, just as Megatron had planned. Even infected, Prime met Megatron in battle while the Autobots retrieved the cure to the disease, and the Autobots won the day yet again. {{storylink|Cosmic Rust (episode)|Cosmic Rust}}

[[Image:RevengeofBruticus Primefiringguns.jpg|left|thumb|Being a hero is all about dramatic lighting. And two-fisted violence.]]

When another power struggle between Megatron and Starscream erupted, Prime was once again quite happy to ignore the whole messy affair until Starscream and his newly-built [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] attacked the unveiling ceremony for a [[Optimus Prime Memorial|memorial]] to Optimus Prime himself (rather oddly being built while he was still alive) and kidnapped Jazz and Cliffjumper. In the midst of a battle between Megatron and Starscream's force, Prime led the Autobots in rescuing their teammates. Starscream and the Combaticons were subsequently defeated and exiled from Earth, {{storylink|Starscream's Brigade}} but that just made matters worse, as they headed for Cybertron, conquered the planet, and used the space bridge to alter Earth's orbit and send it spiralling towards the sun. Both Autobots and Decepticons needed to use the space bridge to travel to Cybertron and stop Starscream's plan, but the Insecticons damaged the control panel, requiring Prime to donate some of his own circuitry to the repair effort, on the condition that Megatron did the same. With the bridge restored, Prime and Megatron led a united team of Autobots and Decepticons to stop Starscream and the Combaticons and save the Earth. Prime was led to believe that he had destroyed the Combaticons at the battle's end, but in reality, he had been duped by a holographic projection so that Megatron could reprogram the new Decepticons to serve him. {{storylink|The Revenge of Bruticus}}

[[Image:Masquerade_prime_vs_mmaster.jpg|right|230px|thumb|You re-enacted this scene countless times as a kid. You know you did.]]

After leading a team of Autobots to save the Aerialbots from a Combaticon attack in the Middle East {{storylink|Aerial Assault}} Prime led another effort to stop the Stunticons from stealing the components Megatron needed for his latest super-weapon. Prime survived a head-on collision with [[Motormaster]] (although he definitely decided it was something he would prefer not to go through again) and then disguised himself as the Stunticon leader in an effort to learn what Megatron's plan was. Accompanied by a team of four other Autobots disguised as the other Stunticons, Prime was able to infiltrate the Decepticon camp, but had not counted on the real Stunticons escaping Autobot capture and exposing their deception. The Autobots abandoned their disguises when Megatron assembled the components into his new laser weapon, but it turned out that Optimus had sabotaged the device, and it blew up in Megatron's face. {{storylink|Masquerade}}

In his final recorded adventure in the 20th century, Prime dispatched Ironhide, Gears and Bumblebee to investigate a disturbance at [[Benjamin Franklin Pierce High School]], where a group of students had stumbled onto a Decepticon plot to attack the Autobots with a gravity disruptor beam. Prime rallied the Autobots to fight off the Decepticons, and thanked the humans for their help. {{storylink|B.O.T. (episode)|B.O.T.}}

[[Image:Tftm_prime_megs_finalblow.jpg|left|260px|thumb]]

Over the course of the next twenty years, the Decepticons turned their attentions away from Earth, and succeeded in seizing control of all of Cybertron. The Autobots were forced off the planet and founded [[Autobot City]] on Earth, in addition to two staging bases on Cybertron's moons. At some point during this period of time, Prime was known to have battled Megatron in a laboratory on Earth, causing an explosion that scarred scientist [[Gregory Swofford]]. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

In the Earth year 2005, Optimus Prime was stationed on [[Moonbase One]], and dispatched troops to Earth to acquire energy for an upcoming strike to take back Cybertron. The Decepticons, however, got wind of the plan and attacked the shuttle, killing its occupants. Their scheme was to use the shuttle to stage a [[Battle of Autobot City|surprise attack on Autobot City]]; an attack which would have succeeded, if not for a distress call which summoned Optimus Prime and support troops to Earth. Declaring that Megatron would have to be stopped, "no matter the cost", Prime bravely plowed through the remaining Decepticon ranks before confronting Megatron in a climactic one-on-one battle. Despite a gash being torn in his side, Prime gained the upper hand in the battle and was poised to deliver a killing blast when the young Autobot [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] leapt into the middle of the fight, having spotted that Megatron was reaching for a gun. Unfortunately, Megatron overpowered the youth and used him as a shield, preventing Prime from taking his shot, and opening fire with the gun, blasting Prime in his wound. Prime fell, and Megatron stood over him, about to deliver the final blow, but at the last moment, Prime summoned up all his strength and hurled Megatron off the platform on which they battling. With Megatron bested, the Decepticons fled, as the other Autobots flocked to the side of the wounded Prime.

[[Image:Optimusg1passingthematrix.jpg|right|thumb|"Oh, hey, I have this in me now, by the way."]]

Despite the efforts of Perceptor, Optimus Prime's wounds were fatal. Knowing his time had come, Prime passed the Matrix of Leadership, and with it leadership of the Autobots, into the hands of his old friend, the city's commander, [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]]. With his last ounce of energy, he muttered "[['Til all are one]]", then died, his lifeforce becoming one with the ancient wisdom contained in the Matrix, joining the other former bearers within it. Soon after, when Hot Rod opened the Matrix within the body of the planet-eater, [[Unicron]], Prime 's voice was heard once more, dubbing the transformed Hot Rod "Rodimus Prime", new leader of the Autobots. {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

When Rodimus Prime voyaged into the Matrix in search of answers to the mysteries of the alien [[Quintesson]]s, Optimus Prime was among the "spirit guides" who appeared to him and led him on his journey through the origin and history of the Transformer race. {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4}}

[[Image:Optimusg1zombie.jpg|left|215px|thumb|"WHERE IS SARAH CONNOR?"]]
Optimus Prime's body was entombed in a massive deep-space mausoleum with the many other fallen Autobots, but his corpse was desecrated by the [[Quintesson]]s in 2006 when they reanimated it as part of an attempt to destroy the Autobots. Pursued by the Decepticons through space, a team of Autobots led by Rodimus Prime took refuge in the mausoleum, where they were confronted by the seemingly-reborn Optimus Prime. Optimus dispatched the pursuing Decepticons, and Rodimus—never truly comfortable with the burden of leadership—happily relinquished the Matrix to his predecessor. At that point, the reprogrammed Optimus turned on the Autobots, stranding them on the mausoleum and blowing it up. The zombie Prime returned to the main Autobot force and reassumed command, intending to lure the Autobot space fleet into a trap that would destroy them all. Hot Rod's Autobots, however, were revealed to have survived the explosion of the mausoleum, and Hot Rod engaged Prime in battle. In the course of the fight, the Matrix began to overpower the Quintesson influence in Prime's mind, and he returned the talisman to Hot Rod, then ordered the rest of the Autobots clear while he piloted his flagship into the Quintessons' trap. As the Autobots watched from a distance, the flagship collided with the booby-trap detonator the Quintessons had placed on an asteroid, triggering the explosion of a nearby sun that apparently took Optimus Prime from them once more. {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}

Prime's lifeforce returned to the Matrix, and he was among the spectral figures whose ethereal forms emerged from the talisman when it was stolen by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]], warning him to return it to its rightful holder. Galvatron was suitably convinced. {{storylink|The Burden Hardest to Bear}}

[[Image:Roop1_prime_revived.jpg|right|220px|thumb|Optimus Prime was reborn in the electric chair for our sins.]]

While the other Autobots believed that Prime's body had been destroyed in the supernova, in actuality, just before the flagship impacted with the detonator, his remains had been recovered from the craft by two human scientists, [[Jessica Morgan]] and Gregory Swofford, who still blamed Prime for the explosion that scarred him years beforehead. Jessica's father, [[Mark Morgan]], shared Swofford's loathing of the Autobots, and his hatred only grew when, some months later, an attempt by the Decepticons to steal a heat-resistant alloy he had developed resulted in Jessica being paralyzed. Seeking revenge, Swofford and Morgan reconstructed Optimus Prime's body in an attempt to use it as a delivery system for the mysterious spores that had been released from the exploding sun, which induced hatred and madness. However, when they could not reanimate Prime, they used his body as a lure instead, bringing the Autobots to their lab, where they were infected by the spores directly. Rodimus Prime was able to escape infection and made off with Optimus Prime's body, then ordered [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] to find him a Quintesson to fully restore Prime to life. Rodimus succumbed to the "[[Hate Plague]]" before Sky Lynx returned, but the airborne Autobot succeeded in his mission, recovering a Quintesson who finally brought Optimus Prime back to life. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1}}

[[Image:Roop2_prime_vs_prime.jpg|left|210px|thumb|Not [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] srsly.]]

The resurrected Prime led a team of Autobots to the Decepticons' base on [[Chaar]] to recover the heat-resistant alloy they had stolen, so that Prime could coat his body in it and make himself impervious to the Hate Plague. Thus protected, Optimus confronted Rodimus and defeated him in battle, reacquiring the Matrix so that he could consult the lifeforces of the ancient Autobots within it for a way to defeat the Hate Plague. Informed by "[[It]]" that the only way to cure the disease was with wisdom, Prime unleashed the concentrated wisdom of the Matrix itself to wipe out the plague. {{storylink|The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2}}

In 2007, Optimus Prime began to suffer visions following the release of the Matrix's energy, which foretold a great transformation for Cybertron. Prime realized that the events he had foreseen had begun with the Decepticons' theft of the key to the [[Plasma energy|Plasma Energy Chamber]]. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 1}} Prime was forced to consult the spirit of Alpha Trion within [[Vector Sigma]], who informed him that the mega-computer had set these very events in motion in order to restore Cybertron's Golden Age. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 2}} When the Plasma Energy Chamber was opened and threatened to drive Earth's Sun supernova, Spike Witwicky and the other organic [[Nebulos|Nebulans]] who had become involved in the conflict as a result of these events were able to drain off the excess solar energy and revitalize Cybertron. {{storylink|The Rebirth, Part 3}}

[[Image:Puppetpmprime.jpg|right|thumb|Prime's legal troubles began after he gave Tommy "the Touch". Strangely, the prosecution never even noticed the double entendre.]]

At an undetermined point in time, through unknown circumstances, Optimus Prime was upgraded into a [[Powermaster]] body, and began associating with a human boy named [[Tommy Kennedy]]. Tommy, apparently a resident of Autobot City, interviewed Prime on a variety of topics related to Cybertronian history and lore, sometimes for school assignments, sometimes for historical reference, and sometimes simply for the heck of it. Prime regaled young Tommy with tales of the Autobots' greatest battles; [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 1|their arrival on Earth]], [[The Transformers: The Movie|Prime's own death and the struggle against Unicron]], [[Five Faces of Darkness|the return of Galvatron and the Quintessons' role in Transformer history]], Prime's [[Dark Awakening|brief revival at the hands of the Quintessons]] as well as his [[The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1|return during the Hate Plague crisis]]. He also recounted the [[The Rebirth|the origins of the Headmasters and Targetmasters]] and, inexplicably, a tale of [[Surprise Party|Ultra Magnus's birthday]].

At this point in his career, Prime 's role seemed to be more of a goodwill ambassador, as he spent much of his time aiding fellow Autobots with minor tasks, like helping [[Joyride (Autobot)|Joyride]] repair a space bridge, refueling [[Sky High (Pretender)|Sky High]], and helping [[Cloudburst]] redesign his retro-rockets.

At one point, a problem with Prime's [[Memory chip|memory chip]] left him incapable of recalling specific details of various historical events. This issue was short-lived, as Tommy Kennedy managed to fix it with a small amount of effort and encouragement. Once, before leaving to attend an intergalactic peace conferences, Prime showed Tommy an informational [[The Touch|music video]] depicting the events surrounding the battle with Unicron. {{storylink|The Transformers (cartoon)|Season 5}}
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==Madman ''The Transformers'' comic==
[[Image:Madman comic PrimeHotrod.jpg|left|200px|thumb|—Or maybe you're just hepped-up on goofballs, kid.]]
In 2001, Optimus Prime led the Autobot evacuation from the Decepticons' successful conquest of Cybertron, standing as the unflinching rearguard for his fleeing Autobots. Before he left, he secretly met with Ultra Magnus at the site of the future Autobot City to discuss hiding the Matrix of Leadership, against the possibility of Prime's capture or death. Unfortunately, Soundwave had secretly recorded this clandestine meeting and moved to capture the powerful Autobot relic. To the surprise of all, the young Hot Rod managed to defeat Soundwave and secure the Matrix. When the Autobots arrived back on Earth, Optimus Prime learned of Hot Rod's deeds, and as he was handed the Matrix, a mysterious energy from the artifact passed through both Autobots. However, Prime only cryptically stated that perhaps Hot Rod's destiny was greater than the young 'bot himself knew. {{storylink|The Transformers (Madman)|The Transformers}}
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==Japanese cartoon continuity==
{{note|The events of the American animated series occur in Japanese continuity as noted above, except that the events of Season 3, which took place in 2006 in America, were moved back to 2010, and "The Rebirth" and subsequent events do not occur. Japanese animated continuity inserts a large number of additional storylines, told through various different media, into the timeline (in particular, between Season 2 and the movie, and between the movie and Season 3), as detailed below.}}

===e-Hobby pack-in comic===

During an attack on [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]], Optimus Prime once again found himself going toe to toe with Megatron. Prime eventually punched Megatron hard enough to send him smashing through a wall, seemingly defeating him. In reality, Prime's punch so was powerful it damaged Megatron's gyrocompass which acted as his internal stability regulators. This allowed Megatron to access a cache of [[Quantum surge|quantum surge]] energy within his circuits, upgrading him into a nigh-invulnerable [[Transmetal]]. Maybe pull your punches next time, Optimus? {{storylink|Decepticon Leader Megatron Black Ver.}}

===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers'' comic===

[[Image:FightSuperRobotLifeTransformersManga.JPG|right|275px|thumb|From ''AMERICA!'']]

When the Decepticons turned their attention to pillaging the energies of Japan in the late 1980s, Optimus Prime and the Autobots met up with a young Japanese boy named [[Kenji]], whose inventive mind helped them to defeat [[Menasor (G1)|Menasor]] during an energy raid on [[Tokyo]]. As a token of thanks, Optimus Prime granted Kenji a special communications helmet and made him an official Autobot ally. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 1|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #1}}

During a Decepticon attack on Autobot Headquarters, Ratchet noticed that Soundwave and his cassettes were nowhere to be seen, so Prime dispatched a unit to Japan to search for them. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 2|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #2}} Not long after, Prime oversaw the early stages of the construction of the Autobots' new transforming battle fortress, [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 3|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #3}}

While showing Kenji around the Autobots' new Tokyo base, Optimus Prime lamented that he wished his "kid brother" [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] would hurry up and arrive with his trailer upgrade. As he pondered the whereabouts of his sibling, the Decepticons attacked Yokohama. The Autobots hurried to the scene only to encounter an over-powered Megatron in his newest form: the Super Megatron Gun. The Autobots' defeat seemed assured until Magnus arrived with Prime's trailer upgrade, the [[Scramble Power Buster]]. The Scramble Power Buster trumped the might of the Super Megatron Gun, leaving Prime and Magnus to vanquish the Decepticon forces with their combined attack: the Double Cross Kick (basically, them jump-kicking the Decepticons in the spine at the same time). {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 4|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #4}}

When the Decepticons created their own counter to Scramble City, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], Prime ordered the Aerialbots into battle against the monster on an island utopia. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 6|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6}} Later, Prime and Magnus teamed up again to battle the Stunticons and [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticons]] when the two Decepticons teams posed as Autobots and besmirched the two commanders' good names. Although Menasor and [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]'s [[Decepticon Trailer Brigade|Decepticon Great Wheel]] attack proved a challenge, Prime and Magnus's "Finish Double" attack (suspiciously similar to their Double Cross Kick) soon won the day. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers issue 7|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #7}}

===Scramble City===

[[Image:Prime_magnus_scramblecity.jpg|left|thumb|"I'm a white you under here."]]

As the 1980s rolled on, the Autobots began an initiative to construct a new battle fortress known as [[Metroplex (G1)|Scramble City]]. The facility to construct the fortress was concealed within a cavern and overseen by Ultra Magnus, but when it was discovered by Decepticon spy [[Ratbat (G1)|Ratbat]], Megatron ordered the Decepticons to destroy it. Prime led an Autobot counter-offensive, and helped to blast [[Wildrider]] free when the evil Stunticon managed to link up to Superion in an attempt to disable the Aerialbot combiner, but things were looking bleak for the Autobots until the construction of Scramble City was completed. Ultra Magnus activated the battle fortress, which transformed into its robot mode of [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] to send the Decepticons fleeing. As Prime thanked Ultra Magnus for his quick work, however, Megatron unleashed Trypticon upon the assembled Autobots. {{storylink|Scramble City}}

{{note|This storyline was never concluded, as a second installment of "Scramble City" was never produced.}}
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===Full Throttle Scramble Power!===
[[Image:MegatronMangaEnergonMace1.jpg|right|200px|thumb|This is why you have that axe, Prime, remember?]]
After Megatron and the Decepticons threatened humanity with their latest death ray, the [[Omega Whip]], Optimus Prime dispatched [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] and his human partners, [[Toru]] and [[Jenny (G1)|Jenny]] to follow the electromagnetic trail and find the Decepticons' hidden base. Hound, Toru and Jenny were then swiftly captured.

Contemplating what to do next, Prime reluctantly dispatched the still-wet-behind-the-ears [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]] to deal with the [[Stunticon (G1)|Stunticons]], who were trashing a power plant. The burning justice of [[Superion (G1)|Superion]] ensured his victory.

Prime and a small unit of Autobots then stormed the Decepticon base to rescue their friends. As Hound, Toru and Jenny destroyed the Omega Whip and escaped, Prime and Megatron squared off yet again (with Megatron unleashing his seldomly seen [[energon mace]]). Megatron quickly gained the upper hand in battle...until [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]] and ''every single Autobot soldier'' arrived as back-up. Megatron and the Decepticons immediately fled.

Toru and Jenny celebrated their success with a public display of affection. Curious, Optimus began to ask them embarrassing questions, swatting Toru in the bottom with his mighty robot finger. {{storylink|Full Throttle Scramble Power!}}
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===''The Stargate Battles''===

[[Image:Stargatebattles_prime_cx_slice.jpg|left|thumb|225px|right]]

In the late 1990s, continued interaction between the Autobots and humankind led to a formal alliance being forged with the American government. Using technology supplied by the Autobots, the government funded the creation of "[[Warp Gate|The Trigger]]", a huge interstellar teleportation system, and Prime participated in a goodwill press conference to announce the creation of the Trigger to the world. Unfortunately, the Trigger soon became a target for the Decepticons, who had allied with a foreign power and used a human agent to gain access to the station. The Autobots were quick to repel the Decepticon attack, but only one member of the Trigger's crew survived. This man, [[Makoto (Stargate Battles)|Makoto]], offered to help the Autobots in any way that he could, and Prime told him that his kind of strength was what the Autobots needed the most. {{storylink|First Contact}}

[[Image:Stargatebattles_prime_megs.jpg|right|225px|thumb|''Rival Fusion!'']]

Three months later, Optimus Prime helped [[Professor Adle]] test his new [[C-X]] drone, which was designed to resemble Prime himself, by sparring with the remote-controlled robot so that the Professor could gather data on its performance. In the midst of the test, however, the C-X ran amok (in actuality, it had been possessed by the time-tossed ghost of Starscream), and Prime was forced to crush it beneath his trailer and sever its head with his energon-axe to stop it. The grisly scene did little to dissuade the mass of anti-Transformer protestors that had sprung up in recent months, but Prime attempted to placate the crowd by telling them that he did not ''want'' the power he wielded—he ''needed'' it, in order to protect those that could not protect themselves. {{storylink|Divided Views}}

When the Decepticons terrorized Japan with a series of powerful earthquakes, Optimus Prime confronted Megatron amidst the chaos caused by the most powerful tremor yet. The battle ended when a blast from Megatron's fusion cannon sent Prime plummeting to the depths of the ocean, apparently destroyed. {{storylink|Activation}} Subsequently, Starscream's ghost fused with the rebuilt Trigger in an attempted coup, and it was during the monumental space battle that resulted that Prime returned from his seeming demise, borne into space on [[Cosmos (G1)|Cosmos]]'s back. After saving Makoto's escape pod from burning up in re-entry, Prime was forced to join with Megatron to defeat the greater threat posed by Starscream, channelling the power of the Matrix through gun-mode Megatron to destroy Starscream and the Trigger in one mighty blast. The Transformers were all caught in the backwash of the explosion, and their flaming bodies were sent tumbling back down to Earth. Although they were not heard from again for many months, Prime and Megatron survived the experience, and their war continued. {{storylink|The Stargate Battles (issue)|The Stargate Battles}}
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===''Story of Binaltech''===
In 2003, the Decepticons attacked the Autobots on Earth with a plague of [[Cosmic Rust (disease)|Cosmic Rust]], leaving many of them injured. Consequently, Earth was all but defenseless when Megatron made his big push to fully take over Cybertron in 2004, and Optimus Prime found that he could not spare any troops currently fighting by his side on the Transformers' home planet to send to Earth. To resolve this situation, the Autobots on Earth worked closely with the governments of the world and various car companies on the Binaltech Project, creating advanced new "Binaltech" bodies for the various Autobot warriors damaged by the Cosmic Rust. {{storylink|Story of Binaltech, Chapter 1}}

In the midst of the Binaltech conflict, the time-travelling [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] attempted to alter history by using the [[Kronosphere]] to teleport Megatron and the Decepticon armada outside of time during a turning-point battle with Prime and the Autobots. {{storylink|Changing Lanes}} This left the Autobots to face the looming threat of [[Unicron]] alone, an opponent which Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus bravely faced together. Prime was badly damaged in the attack and passed the Matrix to Ultra Magnus, who was able to use it to destroy Unicron. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

Before departing to battle Unicron, Prime had put into motion a plan to try and undo the changes Ravage had wrought upon the timeline, having ordered [[Skids (G1)|Skids]] to use the time warp on Dinobot Island to send a message into the past. {{storylink|Darkest Hour}} Shortly after the defeat of Unicron, this plan bore fruit, and time began to correct itself. Thanks to the sudden intervention of a mysterious time-travelling entity known as "[[Optimus Primal|the Protector]]", however, the altered, "BT World" timeline was also preserved, and continued to exist as an alternate universe. {{storylink|Binal Time}}

{{Note|At this point, the original timeline was retroactively restored and the events of the ''Story of Binaltech'' diverged into a parallel universe. Skip to "[[#Robot Masters|Robot Masters]]" below to continue reading about the original timeline; exactly how many (if any) of the events related in this section, even prior to the divergence, occurred in the original unaltered timeline are unknown.}}

In this new, parallel world (known as [[universal stream]] Primax 903.0 Beta), the Protector explained that he had acted to preserve the "BT World" because it was the origin point for the ultimate evolution of Cybertronian life, the "[[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]", of whose he was an agent. Optimus Prime soon recovered from his injuries, and with the Decepticons now mostly offline thanks to the activation of the Quintesson's [[large switch|killswitch]], {{storylink|Kill Switch}} the Autobots were able to start conducting experiments under the Protector's direction that would ultimately lead to the future he had spoken of. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 3}} When the Protector's spark was stolen by the new Decepticon leader—an evil clone of Optimus known as [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]—Prime engaged his evil doppelganger in battle in Australia. During the fight, the Protector's spark fused with Prime—an experience that Prime found [[Optimal Situation|strangely familiar]]—giving him the power to destroy Nemesis Prime. {{storylink|Unfinished Business, Part 4}}

====Alternity====

[[Image:Alternity_ultimate_silver_optimus.jpg|left|thumb]]

Experimentation proceeded apace, and eventually, the Autobots succeeded in synthesizing the substance known as [[Alternium]], which would form the bodies of their new evolved forms, and the space-time transportation system known as the [[Timaeus drive]], which would allow them to travel through the [[multiverse]]. After millennia of experimentation, effort and broadening of his perceptions, Optimus Prime eventually integrated these new technologies into his systems, and 900,000 years later, became a founding member of the Alternity. Now existing outside of time, Prime interacted with the material world through a proxy body known as an [[auto-avatar]] (a "Vector 01" model, code-named "Ultimate Silver"), which he used to travel from world to world, inviting many different incarnations of himself from different dimensions to join the Alternity. Together, they merged into one composite trans-dimensional "Optimus Prime" being, becoming a huge collective consciousness existing outside of reality, while yet retaining their individuality as a cross-time "[[Convoy Corps]]", each one controlling an auto-avatar of their own in the physical world.

Learning that his eternal enemy, Megatron had reawakened, and that he planned to lure the Alternity's natural enemy, the time-eating god-beast known as [[Hytherion]], into universal stream Primax 109.0 Beta, Prime traveled into that universe in 2007. Approaching his [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|counterpart]] from that world, Prime informed him of this looming danger, and his counterpart agreed to join the Alternity when the time came. Sure enough, in 2009, Hytherion appeared in his dimension, and so Prime returned to that world, with a "Vibrant Red" Vector 109 auto-avatar for his counterpart to inhabit. {{storylink|From Here to Alternity}} Little did the Convoy Corps suspect, however, that Megatron had summoned Hytherion for reasons greater than mere destruction. Shackling the beast's power and overwriting its consciousness with his own, Megatron was able to confer hyperdimensional powers akin to the Alternity's upon himself and many other Megatrons he had gathered from across the multiverse. {{storylink|To Mega Therion}}

[[Image:To die game begins.jpg|right|thumb|220px]]

As battles between numerous different Primes and Megatrons erupted quite literally all across time and space, "Ultimate Silver" Optimus Prime was seen engaging in a cross-dimensional duel with a Megatron who hailed from universal stream [[Transformers: Mystery of Convoy|Primax 1286:3 Kappa]]. Prime lost an arm to Megatron's tesseractal swords, but remained undeterred, observing that Megatron was fighting from the year 2009 and suspecting an ulterior motive for his being in that time period. Amused by Prime's observation, Megatron proposed a wager: if Prime could defeat him in a game of his choosing, he would answer any question he asks him honestly. Megatron's sadistic game involved manipulating the occupants of his home dimension in the year 2005, pitting them against each other in a "game full of death and suffering". While Megatron distributed a portion of his power through legions of this universe's Decepticons, Prime was only allowed to infuse his power into one being to send against them. Prime dismissed the rules as utter nonsense and refused to use another living being like a chess piece, but Megatron forced him to play the game by pointing out that the inhabitants of the dimension would only suffer if he did not. Prime selected Ultra Magnus as his champion, and the game began! {{storylink|To Die Game!}}
{{note|Alternity beings are both individuals and a collective of separate entities. More fiction about Optimus Prime's Alternity collective can be found [[Optimus Prime (G1)#Alternity|here]].}}
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===''Robot Masters''===
[[Image:Robotmasters_four_great_commanders.jpg|left|thumb|275px|If Big Convoy would just hurry the hell up, they could summon Captain Planet.]]

In 2004, the Scramble City project was expanded through the use of the newly-discovered element [[Solitarium]] to involve the construction of a fully-fledged Autobot City on Earth. This coincided with the opening of a dimensional fissure known as the [[Blasty Zone]], which transported the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] through time to the present day. This "Beast Megatron" seized control of the Decepticons, left leaderless by the mysterious absence of the original Megatron, and went up against Optimus Prime and the Autobots for control of the world's solitarium. Uniting with a team of Autobot and Maximal leaders from throughout time and space who also came through the Blasty Zone, Optimus Prime gained the power of an [[Energon Matrix]] and eventually returned all the Transformers to their home time.

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{{note|''Robot Masters'' is explicitly placed in the Japanese cartoon continuity by [[Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)|Takara's 2007 Transformers timeline]]. However, none of the three pieces of actual ''Robot Masters'' fiction tells the story of the line in its entirety, and each of them relate certain events in notably different ways. Precisely ''which'' of the three—covered individually below—should be considered the [[canon]] one for the cartoon timeline is unknown.}}

====Pack-in comic====

[[Image:Starsaber robotmasters minicomic.jpg|right|thumb|225px|Gah! What's wrong with Prime's chest? Was he drawn by [http://grotesqueanatomy.blogspot.com/2004/05/now-thats-grotesque-anatomy.html Rob Liefeld?]]]

When a creature that seemed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' appeared just outside Autobot City, Optimus Prime and Mirage investigated, and were shocked when the dinosaur transformed into a robot mode and introduced itself as "Beast Megatron". Almost immediately, [[Optimus Primal]] appeared through the Blasty Zone, and he and Optimus Prime charged into battle against Megatron side-by-side. {{storylink|The New Battle Begins!}}

Later, the two Optimuses found themselves in battle against the huge Decepticon warrior, [[Gigant Bomb]], but were unable to hurt him because he had supercharged his armor with Solitarium. The two heroes were flattened by a powerful punch from Gigant Bomb, at which point [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]] and [[Victory Leo]] appeared to join the fray. The two future heroes merged into Victory Saber and defeated Gigant Bomb, after which Prime and Primal welcomed him to the fold. {{storylink|The Victory Warriors Enter!!}}

====Online comic====

When a mysterious purple dinosaur led the Decepticons in an attack against the Autobots, Optimus Prime demanded to know the identity of the foe he was facing. The creature transformed into robot mode and introduced itself as "Beast Megatron", but Prime did not falter, and bombarded the new villain with heavy fire. Declaring Prime to be "quite the monkey", Megatron announced that the battle had merely served as a introduction, and promptly departed. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Clash! The Two Leaders}}

Optimus Prime, Optimus Primal and [[Road Rocket (G2)|Road Rocket]] were later exploring a large crevasse filled with Solitarium when they were attacked by Megatron and [[Sideways (RID)|Sideways]]. The two villains detonated the crystals around the Autobots, and while Primal was able to shield them with a huge slab of rock, they were unable to stop the Decepticons from escaping with a huge load of Solitarium. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Defend the Solitarium!}}

[[Image:Robotmasters_prime_vs_megses.jpg|left|thumb|300px]]

When new arrival [[Lio Convoy]] was tricked into battling Victory Saber by Megatron, it was Optimus Prime who got between the two combatants and convinced Lio Convoy that they were all on the same side by revealing his Energon Matrix, which glowed in tandem with Lio Convoy's own. The four great commanders teamed up to dispose of the Decepticons lurking nearby, and then they all welcomed Lio Convoy to the team. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Together, the 4 Great Supreme Commanders}}

Discovering an unconscious robot outside Autobot City, Prime and the Autobots brought the enigmatic newcomer inside for medical attention. The robot introduced himself as [[Reverse Convoy]] of the planet [[Vehicon (planet)|Vehicon]]. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|Strategic Meeting: The Mysterious New Warrior}} Before long, however, Prime's goodwill proved to be misplaced when "Reverse Convoy" captured him, Mirage and Optimus Primal, and revealed himself to actually be the original Megatron, inhabiting Reverse Convoy's body by means of his black hole interlink system. Although the Autobots were saved from the clutches of "Rebirth Megatron" by Victory Saber and Lio Convoy, Prime's greatest enemy had returned. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|The Dark Emperor of Destruction, Reborn}}

Prime led Primal, Victory Saber and Lio Convoy in a mighty battle against the two Megatrons, Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker, during which he had much of his right forearm torn off by Beast Megatron. As both Megatron rushed the injured Prime, he summoned his energon-axe to take the place of his lost fist and slashed the two Decepticons, claiming victory. {{storylink|Robot Masters (online comic)|And}}
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====Cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Wataru Hatano]] (Japanese)

[[Image:Robomasters g1convoy.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Check out my taint!]]

Optimus Prime sped into action to help Victory Saber in battle against Starscream and [[Wingstun]], blasting Wingstun with a sneaky shot from below. Prime then transformed into robot mode and opened fire on Starscream, but was shocked when the plummeting form of the Air Commander was snatched out of the sky by a ''tyrannosaurus rex''. Transforming to robot mode, the dinosaur introduced himself as "Beast Megatron", and revealed that he came from a different dimension, causing Optimus Prime to fear for the integrity of the space-time continuum. Before he could fret any more on the subject, Prime came under attack from Gigant Bomb and [[Smokesniper]], but quickly took refuge in a nearby canyon while Victory Saber handled the twin troublemakers. Prime then engaged Megatron in battle, but was quickly laid low by the newcomer, who called for Gigant Bomb and Smokesniper to finish him off. Instead, however, another strange new Transformer descended from the sky: Optimus Primal! Following Primal's lead, Prime united his energy with Primal's own, and together, they created the powerful "Double Convoy Tornado", which sent Megatron flying. In the aftermath of the battle, Prime thanked Primal for his help, and told him that they would definitely need his power when the Decepticons next attacked. {{storylink|Fight! The Group of the Strongest Commanders!}}

Beast Megatron would not relent, and eventually discovered a massive deposit of solitarium beneath [[New York City]]. The Decepticons razed the city in search of the element until Prime and his forces arrived to save the day, this time aided by Lio Convoy and the enigmatic Reverse Convoy. Prime battled Gigant Bomb, Smoke Sniper and Megatron once more, with a little extra firepower courtesy of Victory Saber's V-Lock Cannon, and things were going smoothly until Reverse Convoy revealed himself to actually be the ''real'' Megatron in disguise. Now going by the name Rebirth Megatron, Prime's nemesis teamed with Beast Megatron to conquer their mutual foes. Again, Prime and Primal united their power in the Double Convoy Tornado, but the Megatrons countered it with a tornado of their own. It seemed that the Decepticons' power would overcome the heroes, until Lio Convoy added his energy to the mix, becoming a shining "Lio Typhoon Arrow" that took down the two Megatrons. While the battle was over, however, the war raged on... {{storylink|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters (episode)|The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters}}

===''15 Go! Go!''===
[[Image:TGGStarConvoy.jpg|right|180px|thumb|"Hot Rod?! Did you shrink in the wash?"]]
[[Image:TGGLaserPrime.jpg|left|180px|thumb|"How do you think I'd look in black?"]]
Shortly before the [[Battle of Autobot City]] in 2005, an unknown saboteur badly damaged [[Teletraan I (G1)|Teletraan I]]'s databanks. Optimus Prime notified his Autobots of the attack and issued a command that the information be recovered as soon as possible. "[[Ravage (G1)|Black Panther Man]]", stationed on the artificial Earth satellite [[Nana]], volunteered for the important task and assigned [[Teletraan 15]] to the case. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Chapter 1|15 Go! Go! Chapter 1}}

Teletraan 15 proceeded to travel through time and space on her mission, and encountered future incarnation of Optimus Prime on several occasions. First, she travelled into the future, where [[Micromaster]] [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] saved her from a [[Novaroid]]. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Hot Rod|15 Go! Go! Hot Rod's chapter}} As Dark Nova and Ultra Megatron prepared to merge, Prime, in his "Star Convoy" form, arrived and asked Hot Rod to aid him in the coming fight. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Star Convoy|15 Go! Go! Star Convoy's chapter}} But before they could start the battle, an interruption came from an unexpected source: [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] emerged from a [[Transwarp]] portal and attacked! {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Galvatron|15 Go! Go! Galvaron's chapters 1-2}}

On another mission even further into the future, Teletraan 15 and her companion [[Steeljaw (G1)|Steeljaw]] were aboard [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] as he was attacked by the [[Decepticon]] jets [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]] and [[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]] on his way to his commander. Fortunately for them, Optimus Prime—now in his [[Laser Rod]] body—appeared and severed Dreadwing's wing with a single mighty slash of his sword. Teletraan 15 thought that he looked sad and wondered if he had learned his sword skills during his [[Kiss Player]] days. {{storylink|15 Go! Go!#Battle Convoy|15 Go! Go! Battle Convoy's chapter}}
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===''Kiss Players''===
{{note|[[Kiss Players (franchise)|Kiss Players]] takes place between ''The Transformers: The Movie'' and the third season of the animated series. While there is no particularly large time-gap between these stories in American animated continuity, in Japan, since the third season was moved to 2010 but the movie remained set in 2005, there was a five-year milieu that made room for plenty of new stories to be told.}}

[[Image:Illust.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Optimus is the one on the left. With the dignity.]]

Following Optimus Prime's death in the Battle of Autobot City, Tokyo was devastated when [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] crash-landed on the city after being hurled out of Unicron's body by Rodimus Prime. The death and destruction that resulted caused a massive anti-Transformer sentiment to spring up, epitomized by the formation of the government organization known as the [[Earth Defense Command]], who forced any remaining Transformers on Earth off the planet. Dissatisfaction with the EDC's extreme actions resulted in the formation of an underground resistance group for whom the death of Optimus Prime was a rallying point. Among these commandos was a young woman [[Marissa Faireborn]], who had been rescued by Optimus Prime back in 1996 when a mission that her [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|soldier father]] had been on had gone bad. Marissa had formed a great friendship with Prime in her childhood, and came to see him as a surrogate father figure, and perhaps a little bit more. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #34}}

[[Image:Kissplayers2 prime marissa.jpg|right|thumb|These x-rays uncover the darnedest things.]]

When Prime's corpse was covertly flown to Japan by the EDC, {{storylink|Kiss Players issue 1|Kiss Players #1}} Marissa's commandos attacked the convoy transporting the Autobot leader's body. Believing that they had secured Prime's body, the commandos were taken by surprise and slaughtered by the [[Ne squad]] [[Kiss Player]] [[Ringo Chikuma|Ringo]] and her [[Autorooper]] partner, who burst out of the torso of the decoy Prime body that had been atop the flatbed truck. As the sole surviving member of the squad, Marissa discovered that the true body was being transported within Prime's own trailer nearby. Slicing the trailer open, she was too late to prevent an EDC Autorooper from partially fusing with Prime. Reflecting on her childhood memories of playing with the kindly Autobot leader, Marissa lovingly kissed his faceplate. In an explosion of energy that destroyed the trailer, the two [[ParasiTech|fused]] and Prime was reborn in a new, living body. The pair had become Kiss Players! {{storylink|Kiss Players issue 2|Kiss Players #2}}

Marissa and Prime promptly made themselves scarce, and began travelling together, battling the monstrous creatures known as [[Legion]] that Galvatron's dispersed cells had also produced, while also eluding the EDC. Marissa thought of Prime as her boyfriend, {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #1}} and Prime himself certainly cared for the girl, unwilling as he was to put her in harm's way, despite the prodigious knife-wielding skills that she could share with him via their kiss-fusion. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #4}}

[[Image:Marissa convoy stack.jpg|left|150px|thumb|She prefers the Japanese version's longer stacks.]]

Prime had little use for Marissa's other great skill—surfing—given his own [[The Ultimate Doom, Part 3|experience in that area]], {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #7}} so instead, he found a better use for Marissa's surfboard by using his new powers to transform it into a knife so he could make use of the skills Marissa's fusion gave with him. Marissa was not very happy, {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #10}} but took it in stride, and dubbed the new weapon the "[[Surfblade]]". In response, Prime named her shirt "The Three Skull Brothers," after the image on it. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #16}}

Prime and Marissa had a close relationship, as the girl washed Prime in "intimate" spots like his stick shift and gas tank, {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #19}} and they would go on "dates" together, at one point visiting the seaside, only to wind up in battle with a Legion created from the fusion of an octopus and a shipwreck. Prime regretted that these activities had to be carried out under the cover of night, and vowed that he and Marissa would visit the beach under the light of the sun. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)#CD_collections_and_special_episodes|Someday, Under the Sun}}

[[Image:PrimeKP.jpg|right|225px|thumb|Unable to take it anymore, Optimus tries to punch his way free of the Kiss Players Universe. Hey, it worked for Superboy-Prime.]]

Soon, Optimus Prime found himself suffering from a recurring nightmare filled with visions of his old enemy, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. In the grip of one of these hallucinations, Prime lost control of himself and almost crushed Marissa in his fist, but was thankfully able to regain his senses before he hurt her. Marissa and Prime subsequently fused, and were able to corral a legion of Legion for an attack upon the EDC headquarters. They found their way barred by a pair of most unexpected opponents: [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] had returned to Earth and become Kiss Player partners with Marissa's old friend, [[Shaoshao Li]]. Hot Rod believed Prime to be an impostor, and Shaoshao wished to see him dead so that she might "reclaim" Marissa as her friend, having long hated Prime for "stealing" Marissa away from her. Prime and Hot Rod began battling, but EDC Kiss Player [[Atari Hitotonari]] soon entered the fold and broke up the battle. The attack on EDC headquarters was broken off, and Prime and Marissa now found they had to elude Hot Rod and Shaoshao as well as the EDC's forces. {{storylink|Kiss Players issue 3|Kiss Players #3}}

[[Image:KPPrimeGoldbug.jpg|left|thumb|You, Sharkticon. Devour the human faster.]]

After viewing a seaside fireworks display for their "last date", {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #34}} Marissa and Prime again launched a Legion-backed attack upon the EDC. This time, however, Marissa, Shaoshao, Atari, Prime and Hot Rod all decided to set their differences aside in order to discover the true, dark secret lurking within the EDC. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #37}} Venturing into the mysterious [[Genital System]] facility hidden beneath the EDC headquarters, the team discovered a mad plot by EDC Commander [[Hitoshizuku Amaō]] to resurrect her daughter, who had died in Galvatron's impact. Thanks to the efforts of Marissa and her friends, the plan was foiled, the [[anti-electron]] field keeping Transformers off Earth was deactivated, and Galvatron's cells were extracted from the Legions and Kiss Players and reconstituted within his body, which was launched off into space. As a result, Marissa lost her Kiss Player powers, and Prime slipped back into death once more. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)#CD_collections_and_special_episodes|You, I and the Spinning Earth}}

Marissa did get a few chances to see her friend again, however. In 2007, she, Shaoshao and Atari were transported back through time by the [[Sparkbot]]s to 1984 where they witnessed Prime's battle with Megatron atop [[Sherman Dam]]. Although invisible to residents of the past, Marissa was instructed by the Sparkbots to kiss Prime, and when she did so, a piece of what the Sparkbots claimed was the "[[Allspark]]" emerged from within him. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio play #40}} While travelling on through time to search for more pieces of the Allspark, the girls accidentally crashed in 2010 and wound up in the clutches of the [[Quintesson]]s. Prime (and [[Bumblebee (G1)|Goldbug]]) helped Marissa once more by rescuing her and her friends from death in the fangs of the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticon]]s. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Tokyo Toy Festival 2007 live script-reading}} Later still, Shaoshao embarked on a marathon Prime-kissing session (much to her own disgust), quickly jumping through time to kiss Prime in his Star Convoy, "Nucleon Quest," [[Action Master]] and [[Laser Rod]] bodies successively. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio play #44}}
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===''The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers''===

[[Image:2010_manga_primes.jpg|right|thumb|300px|And eat your greens or no dessert!]]

After boarding a Decepticon spaceship, [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] became trapped by the schemeing Galvatron. Galvatron quickly bested him in combat and Rodimus, badly injured, was ready to give up. Lucky for him, the spirit of Optimus Prime reached out to him from within the Matrix and encouraged him to get up and keep fighting. Inspired by his predecessor, Rodimus Prime outwitted Galvatron, escaped and destroyed their spaceship. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 1|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #1}}

When the Quintessons reactivated Optimus Prime as a rampaging zombie {{storylink|Dark Awakening}}, they made it a point to copy his schematics while they had the opportunity. Teaming with the Decepticons, they then obtained the schematics of Megatron. Combining the best aspects of both, they created the Colossal Cannon Soldier [[Guiltaur]]. {{storylink|Transformers 2010 (story page)|Transformers 2010 Part 4}}

Guiltaur was then unleashed upon Rodimus Prime and, eventually, Galvatron. The two enemies teamed up and defeated the powerful warrior, with Rodimus swearing to do it in the name of Optimus Prime's honor. With Guiltaur destroyed, it was revealed the behemoth had been controlled by the ghost of [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]] all along. {{storylink|The Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers issue 4|Story of Super Robot Lifeforms: The Transformers #4}}

===''The Great Transformer War''===

Following his resurrection, in the year 2011, Optimus Prime and [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]] engaged in a battle against [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] and the Decepticons in deep space. Galvatron fled the battle, leaving Hot Rod to request pursuit. Optimus told him not to, and instead to regroup back at [[Athenia]], as he suspected the Decepticons had a much greater scheme in mind. Indeed, Optimus was correct, as Galvatron was preparing for his full-blown invasion of planet [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. {{storylink|The Great Transformer War issue 3|The Great Transformer War #3}}

===''The Headmasters'' cartoon===
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Some time before the Transformers' war left Cybertron, Optimus Prime engaged the Decepticons with his men. Later, on Earth, a suspiciously similar battle with the Decepticons resulted in, er, Prime's death.

{{note|Optimus Prime appears in two Cybertronian flashback battles within the episode, alongside the same team of Autobots, suggesting that they represent the same fight. He also appears in one further flashback battle on Earth, which depicts his death in a scene that doesn't match up to his ''actual'' death in ''The Transformers: The Movie''. This was a continuity patch-job by the ''Headmasters'' production staff, as the movie hadn't been released in Japan yet. }}

One year after Prime's resurrection, in 2011, the Autobots had entered into an even closer relationship with Earth and began the colonization of other worlds, the first of which was the planet [[Athenia]], where Optimus Prime was stationed. It soon became apparent, however, that when Prime had released the energy of the Matrix to cure the Hate Plague, the consequences were more far-reaching than he had anticipated—without the energy of the Matrix to act as a balancing factor, [[Vector Sigma]] had become destabilized, and the Decepticons suddenly returned to exploit this, assaulting Cybertron in order to seize control of the mega-computer. The intensity of the battle caused [[Kup (G1)|Kup]] to recall the Cybertronian skirmish that Optimus took part in 4 million years ago — or another one very much like it. {{storylink|Four Warriors Come out of the Sky}}

[[Image:Headmasters_prime_death.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Rodimus finally receives his Nemesis Prime RealDoll.]]

Prime took a squad of troops to aid in the battle on the planet, and when the arrival of the Autobot [[Headmaster (technology)|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. {{storylink|The Mystery of Planet Master}} Guided through the dangers of the planet's catacombs by the spirit of Alpha Trion while the other Autobots searched for the Matrix on Earth, Prime eventually arrived at the computer, only to find his way barred by [[Cyclonus (G1)|Cyclonus]] and [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. Hot Rod then arrived with the Matrix, with which Alpha Trion merged, re-energizing it and transforming Hot Rod back into Rodimus Prime; for the first time, the two Primes fought side-by-side and defeated Galvatron. Before Rodimus could implement the Matrix to stabilize Vector Sigma, however, Optimus Prime sacrificed himself to perform the task, merging with the computer and restoring its balance to save the planet. {{storylink|Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime}}

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===''The Headmasters'' comic===
Following Prime's death, a great bronze [[Optimus Prime memorial|statue]] was erected on planet [[Athenia]] in order to [[Optimus Prime memorial|memorialize]] him. Oddly, only [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus Prime]] and the [[Headmasters of Justice]] attended its unveiling. Speaking for all the Headmasters, [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]] announced that Optimus Prime was the greatest warrior who ever lived. {{storylink|The Headmasters issue 1}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' and ''Victory'' cartoons===

[[Image:Ginrai_1stapp.jpg|thumb|right|"Well tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be..."]]

Once they had defeated the Decepticons, the Autobots had planned to somehow resurrect their fallen leader, using the technology developed on the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]] to give him a new body. However, shortly after it had been built, the [[Transtector]] intended for Optimus was among those stolen by the self-proclaimed "Decepticon god" [[Devil Z]]. It was then hidden on Earth where it was eventually found by, and [[Godmaster|bonded with]], a human named [[Ginrai]]. {{storylink|Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!}} The Transtector later gained sentience of its own, which meant that it ultimately could not be used for its intended purpose, {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}} and later went on to be rebuilt into [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}
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===''The Battlestars'' story pages and comic===
[[Image:PrimeZodiak.jpg|left|225px|thumb|''You got the—'' No, hang on... Nevermind.]]

Over 15 years after his merging with Vector Sigma, Optimus Prime's lifeless body was spirited away in a sinister plot to destroy the Autobots by [[Dark Nova]], the big bad guy du jour. Nova duplicated Prime's body, using the copy to create the evil [[False Convoy]]. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #3}} The elite Autobot team, the [[Battlestars]], defeated False Convoy and retrieved the real Prime's body from Planet [[Lucifer]], and then used the mysterious energy source known as the [[Zodiac]] to restore Prime to life. Transformed into '''Star Convoy''', Prime was also reunited with [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], who became his [[Micromaster]] partner. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #4}}

[[Image:Starconvoy magami.jpg|right|thumb|"Occasionally you meet a nice one—Star Convoy, E.T. ... but usually they just turn out to be some kind of big lizard!"]]

After Star Convoy and [[Sixliner]] defeated a swarm of Dark Nova's [[Novaroid|Great Novaroid]] drone warriors, {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #5}} the mysterious creature decided to resurrect Prime's oldest nemesis, and plucked [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]] from the icy grave he had been cast into years beforehand by the Autobot Headmasters, recreating him as [[Megatron (G1)|Super Megatron]]. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #6}} The two old foes clashed in battle at the North Pole, with Star Convoy emerging victorious {{storylink|The Battlestars (manga)|The Battlestars special}} but Super Megatron soon returned with an army of [[Galaman|Great Galaman]] drones to back him up. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #7}} Defeated by the "[[Triple Combination Battlestar Attack]]" that combined all the power of Star Convoy, [[Sky Garry (ROC)|Sky Garry]] and [[Grandus (ROC)|Grandus]], Super Megatron was again upgraded by Dark Nova into Ultra Megatron. Star Convoy and the Battlestars met him in battle once again, and again, they claimed victory. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #8}}

His pawn having failed him, Dark Nova absorbed Ultra Megatron into his body, transforming them both into the gargantuan "Star Giant". {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #9}} Star Giant proved to be virtually indestructible from the outside until Star Convoy got the bright idea of giving the villain [[Furmanism|the worst case of indigestion he'd ever had]]. Holding Star Giant's massive mouth open, he ordered Sky Garry and Grandus to move in. After all three were swallowed, they began taking Star Giant down from the inside while simultaneously fighting off his various defensive systems. As soon as the trio escaped from Star Giant's interior, the monster exploded, leaving only his head slightly intact. As it happens, Megatron was housed inside Star Giant's noggin and survived the attack. {{storylink|The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars story page #10}}

===Nucleon Quest Convoy bio===
Following the defeat of Star Giant, the restoration of Cybertron (following its devastation in 2011) began, but the planet was in the throes of a chronic energy shortage. In order to re-energize the struggling planet, Optimus Prime upgraded himself into a Powermaster by fusing with the Nebulan scientist [[Hi-Q]]. Protecting his body with a Phase Modulation Shield, Prime ventured into a black hole to obtain the super-energy [[Nucleon]], which was used to restore Cybertron to its former glory.
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===''G-2'' story pages and pack-in comic===
[[Image:G2AllianceBeginsAndEnds.jpg|left|225px|thumb|The alliance would have lasted if they'd gotten more than one chair.]]
With Cybertron restored, Optimus Prime upgraded himself into a new [[Action Master]] body. Megatron eventually recovered from his defeat and with his sanity circuit fully restored at last, joined with Prime to form the [[Cybertron Alliance]]. Things were good for a little while, as Megatron's attempts at peace were genuinely sincere, and the alliance ushered in what would be called the Second Generation of the Transformers. However, after human soldiers killed one of his dearest comrades, Megatron adopted a new tank body and started the war anew, believing he could bring a more stable peace to the galaxy by ruling it with an iron fist. {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|Autobots vs. Decepticons: Combat Secrets }}

[[Image:G2 manga hero prime.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Uh oh, [[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]]! You've cheesed off Prime so much he's broken through the panel borders!]]
To counter Megatron, Optimus Prime upgraded his body into a new Missile Trailer mode. Rallying a new wave of Autobot warriors, Optimus diligently repelled Megatron and the Decepticons. In one early encounter, Prime managed to rescue [[Electro]] and [[Volt]] from Megatron by firing his "Matrix Saturn" attack. He immediately recommended that Megatron and all his Decepticons leave the area at once. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #1}} Megatron, of course, refused, and continued his attack. Prime, Electro and Volt combined their firepower, leaving Megatron in a smoke-filled crater. As Electro moved in to administer the killing blow, Megatron emerged from the smoke unscathed, effortlessly plucking Electro up by his head. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #2}} Against Prime's orders, Volt immediately rushed Megatron from behind to free his captured friend. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #4}}

At one point, the secrecy of the Autobot field base became a priority, leaving Megatron to order warriors such as [[Jolt (G2)|Jolt]] to tail other Autobots and locate Prime. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #5}} Prime's location was eventually compromised when [[Skyjack]] slipped past all Autobot radar. Astonished at the Decepticon's stealth, Prime was unable to stop Skyjack from returning to Megatron with his location. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #7}} Meanwhile, [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] began to study the [[Matrix of Leadership]] and discovered a new property within it called the [[Reconfiguration Matrix]] which could grant Autobots new powers. {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|Optimus Prime of the Autobots has Fallen!}}

[[Image:G2PrimeJustice.jpg|left|thumb|225px|"SHALOM!"]]
Prime and Megatron eventually met to do battle, with Prime coming out on top as Megatron slowly ran low on fuel. Prime offered Megatron one last chance to surrender, but was caught off-guard by [[Hooligan (G2)|Hooligan]], who blasted him in the back with his missile attack, destroying Prime's back-mounted weaponry unit. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #9}} Megatron then ordered [[Dreadwing (G2)|Dreadwing]] and [[Smokescreen (G2)|Smokescreen]] to swoop in and finish Prime off before he could recover. The pair of Decepticons proceeded to bomb Prime mercilessly before turning him over to Megatron for the kill. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #10}} With a surprising lack of satisfaction, Megatron blasted Prime to pieces, killing his ancient foe at last. Victorious, Megatron offered Prime a final prayer, only to be interrupted by...Prime! The essences of the previous Autobot Supreme Commanders within the Matrix of Leadership activated the Reconfiguration Matrix to forge him a new body. Optimus Prime became '''Battle Convoy''' and easily trumped Megatron's power. {{storylink|G-2 (pack-in comic)|G-2 #13}} {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|Birth of the New Supreme Commander Battle Convoy!}}

Prime and Megatron then agreed to a one-on-one duel following the "Law of Cybertron": total banishment to the defeated and his forces. After a lengthy and painful battle, Prime narrowly managed to best Megatron, forcing him and the Decepticons to retreat into deep space. Prime was last seen wounded, being aided off the battlefield by Volt and Electro. {{storylink|G-2 (story page)|The Autobots Triumph in the Battle of Good Vs. Evil!}}
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===e-Hobby storyline===

[[Image:Black_hybrid_prime_manga.jpg|right|thumb]]

When the universe came under threat from an [[Galvatron II|alternate-reality incarnation of Galvatron]], Prime used his [[Reconfiguration Matrix]] to once again transform his body into a form resembling his original. Armed with powerful solar-powered missile launchers created by the Decepticons that were so energy-consumptive that Prime required a sunlight-absorbing [[black body]] coating to operate them at full power, Prime put his new body to use rescuing Laser Ultra Magnus from Galvatron's clutches. {{storylink|Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version}}

To combat the Decepticons' aggressive energy raids, Wheeljack and [[Ga'mede]] put their heads together and duplicated Prime's new black form to create twenty-one battle droids that would play on the Decepticons' subconscious fear of Optimus Prime. These "[[Eldedroid]]s" were placed under the remote control of [[Flip Sides]] and sent out onto the battlefield. <ref>''Masterpiece'' Convoy Black Ver.‎ [[bio]]</ref> Later experimentation with the Eldedroids involved placing human minds in control of them; the first successful test subject was a human named [[Daniel Witwicky (G1)|Dan]]. This Eldedroid, along with [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]], [[Splashdown]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], was dispatched by Optimus Prime to investigate Decepticon involvement in recent attacks on human shipping vessels. Prime was worried about Dan, but Ironhide encouraged him not to be so pessimistic. {{storylink|MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver.‎}}

==References==

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Ginrai (human)

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:''Ginrai is a [[human]] and [[Autobot]] [[Godmaster]] from the [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)|Super-God Masterforce]] portion of the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Ginrai comb1.gif|right|320px|thumb|"Hair this perfect doesn't just happen!"]]
Being a soldier is not the life for '''Ginrai''' (ジンライ ''Jinrai''). Command structures, fixed routines, forced formality, following orders, knowing your place and toeing the line are his complete antithesis—so it was really the worst luck in the world for him to be born [[Japan|Japanese]]. A Nagano native, Ginrai found the atmosphere of his home country unbearably stifling, and left for the [[United States of America|United States]] at the young age of seventeen to "find himself." The very definition of a free spirit and a lone wolf, he took a job as a long-haul truck driver for [[Union Transportation]] which offered him the freedom and solitude of the open road. Despite his desire for isolation and self-exploration, however, he is hugely popular amongst his "brothers" in the trucker fraternity, as his easygoing personality allows him to get along with people like a house on fire.

Ginrai's life was turned upside down when he discovered that he was an [[Autobot]] [[Godmaster]] and became bonded to a [[Transtector]] from the [[G Nebula 89|G Nebula]]. Now wearing the visage of the legendary Autobot commander [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], Ginrai has found his entire worldview changed by the evil of the [[Decepticon|Decepticons]], a force he painfully realizes is too great for him to overlook. It would not, Ginrai figures, be a good thing for the Decepticons to rule the world. After all, he lives there.

Ginrai's signature attack technique is the "Atomic Fire Guts", which sees him condense his [[Chōkon Power]] into his gun and release it as a blast of roiling flame. Ginrai can combine with his own trailer to become '''Super Ginrai''', upgrading his attack into the more-powerful "Special Fire Guts", and then again with the drone [[Godbomber]] to become '''God Ginrai'''. As God Ginrai, his Fire Guts attack is powered up once more, becoming the ultimate single-strike final attack known as the "God Fire Guts", which transforms Ginrai's entire body into a blazing fireball.

:''[[Omni Productions]] dub name'': '''Optimus Prime'''
:''Russian TV dub name'': '''Оптимус Прайм''' (Optimus Prime)

==Fiction==
===Cartoon continuity===
====''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon====
:''Voice actor:'' [[Hiroshi Takemura]] (Japanese)

The events that would bring Ginrai into contact with the Transformers began an indeterminate number of years ago, when the super-energy alien being and self-styled "Decepticon god" [[Devil Z]] stole several [[Transtector|Transtectors]], including one intended to be used by the legendary Autobot leader [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], from an area of space known as the [[G Nebula]]. Already filled with the [[Chōkon Power|Tenchōkon]] of the nebula, the Transtectors were then scattered across the Earth by Devil Z, that they might absorb the planet's [[Chōkon Power|Chichōkon]]. Devil Z planned to have human beings bond to the Transtectors, adding their inherent [[Chōkon Power|Jinchōkon]] to the equation, thereby creating a new super-robotic lifeform: [[Godmaster|Godmasters]]. {{storylink|Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!}}

[[Image:Ginraiarmor.jpg|left|180px|thumb|It rides up the crotch.]]
Through undivulged circumstances, the Transtector intended for Prime assumed the form of a red tractor trailer cab and came to rest in a small garage in California. The unwitting [[Garage owner (Masterforce)|garage owner]] rented the cab to several truckers, but always found it returned early with complaints of unusual, even supernatural, incidents.

Two years after coming to America, Ginrai happened to be transporting an ill dolphin from [[Baney Aquarium]] to the [[Ocean Research Institute of California]], which was run, unbeknownst to him, by the Autobot [[Pretender]] [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]]. Destiny stepped in when Ginrai's truck broke down on the way, and he pulled in at this very garage, where the owner rented him the Transtector to complete his delivery. In the glove box of the cab, he discovered a pair of [[Master-Brace|Master-Braces]] and slipped them on his wrists, only to discover that he was unable to remove them. When Diver laid eyes upon the bracelets, he recognized the basic design of them and insisted that Ginrai take him back to the garage where he had found the truck. On the way, however, they were attacked by the Decepticon Godmaster brothers [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]], who forced the truck off a cliff. Accidentally touching the bracelets as he attempted to escape the crushed cab, Ginrai was infused with the Masterforce, and a suit of armor materialized around him, healing both himself and the Transtector as they combined and transformed. Now a Godmaster himself, Ginrai saw the shocked Decepticons off. {{storylink|A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai}}

[[Image:Ginrai 1stapp.jpg|right|250px|thumb|You think my front looks great, wait until you see my back!]]
Ginrai was at first unsure of what to make of his new powers and was not entirely keen on joining the Autobots, as the notion of operating as part of a command structure and being tied down to a specific place ran directly counter to his desire for freedom in his life. Although he promised to aid them when necessary "for the sake of the world"—a mantra for which he admitted he had a weakness—he soon bore witness to the true evil of the Decepticons when Hydra and Buster killed several of his fellow truckers while searching for him. In spite of this, Ginrai was still not entirely willing to join the Autobots, but fate would continue to pushing him into doing so. {{storylink|Ginrai: God On of Rage!!}}

Ginrai soon suffered a prophetic dream, after which he discovered three more pairs of Master-Braces in his Transtector, indicating the presence of more Godmasters on Earth. When Ginrai brought the bracelets to Japan for study at the [[Autobot Base (Masterforce)|Autobot base]], {{storylink|A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva}} events began to escalate as his Transtector activated on its own, transporting Ginrai to his birthplace of Nagano, or more specifically, a construction site at the base of Mount Yatsugatake there. Blasting for a tunnel through the mountain had been blocked by a mysterious object, which proved to be a trailer for Ginrai's truck, which burst from the tunnel during another battle with Buster and Hydra. {{storylink|Friend or Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!}} Later still, the two brothers lured Ginrai into a public battle so that they might blame the conflict on him and turn public opinion against the Autobots. The plan failed, but a friend of Ginrai's offered the suggestion that his becoming a Godmaster was the will of God Himself. {{storylink|Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai}}

[[Image:Superginrai 1stapp.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Ginrai!]]
Not long thereafter, in a battle with [[King Poseidon]], Ginrai discovered that his cab and trailer were capable of performing a "Double On", merging together to create the super-robot "Super Ginrai". {{storylink|Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai}} Additionally, after appearing on television in hopes of locating the remaining three Godmasters, to whom he would give the Master-Braces, Ginrai successfully located [[Lightfoot]], {{storylink|Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter}} [[Ranger]] {{storylink|An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger}} and [[Road King]] and recruited them to the Autobot side. {{storylink|At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen}} During this time, Ginrai was also challenged to a duel by the wandering [[Six Changer]], [[Sixknight]], who had been manipulated into doing so by the Decepticons. Sixknight lost the fight and was shocked to discover that he had been bested by a human being, {{storylink|A Powerful Foe!! Sixknight the Wanderer}} but was affected so deeply by Ginrai's explanation for how this could be so that he wound up siding with the Autobots. After this string of successes the Autobot leader [[Metalhawk]] stepped down as commander and requested that Ginrai take his place. After some deliberation and much hassling from the other Autobot Pretenders, who wouldn't let him say no, Ginrai accepted. {{storylink|The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!}}

[[Image:Ginrai defeated.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"Though badly wounded, I must go home for the show!"]]
When [[Grand Maximus]] arrived on Earth to inform Ginrai's Autobots of the impending arrival of the Decepticon super-weapon, [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]], he provided them with the schematics necessary to create the drone [[Godbomber]]. {{storylink|Life? Death? Lightfoot Must Choose}} Metalhawk and the Pretenders raced to finish the construction of Godbomber, but as the so-called "Bomber Project" neared completion, Ginrai was lured into the desert by a disguised Buster and Hydra (under the auspices of performing some stunt driving for a movie) and was attacked and beaten within an inch of his life by the Decepticon Ambassador of Destruction, [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]. {{storylink|Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?}} Following a failed attack on the Bomber Project facility, {{storylink|Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?}} the barely healed Ginrai insisted upon taking the fight to the Decepticons, combining with the completed Godbomber to form "God Ginrai". {{storylink|God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!}} In his new form, Ginrai confronted Overlord and BlackZarak on the moon, where he fully embraced his role as protector of Earth and defeated the Decepticons with the aid of Grand Maximus. {{storylink|God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon}}

[[Image:Godginrai onmoon.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Ginrai, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes!]]
Upon returning to Earth, Ginrai was lured into a trap in the Middle East by Overlord, during which Godbomber revealed a hidden power by transforming into a robot mode. {{storylink|Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado}} Godbomber's robot mode also helped save the day when Ginrai and Lightfoot were entombed in a cave when attempting to stop the eruption of an underwater volcano, {{storylink|Escape!! The Underwater Volcano Erupts}} leading the Decepticons to target him for destruction. Luring Ginrai to the heartland of America, the villains ambushed and badly wounded the Autobot leader, leaving him unable to use his Chōkon Power to animate Godbomber. Luckily, the day was saved when the Headmaster Juniors discovered they were able to take control of Godbomber together. {{storylink|Destroy Godbomber!!}}

When it seemed as though the Autobots had finally been joined by the final Godmaster, a young man named [[Clouder]], Ginrai welcomed him into their ranks with open arms. Metalhawk, however, proved to be less trusting, and soon exposed Clouder as a Decepticon spy. Unfortunately, this was not enough to stop the plan the Decepticons had put in motion; while Ginrai and the Godmasters were occupied battling Buster and Hydra in a nearby city, the Autobot base was crippled by Clouder's sabotage and attacked by the rest of the Decepticons en masse. {{storylink|Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!}} Ginrai was unable to prevent the destruction of the base, but was approached by Clouder in the aftermath. Clouder had been left to die in the base by the other Decepticons, and now wanted to work with the Autobots, which Ginrai permitted. {{storylink|Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes}}

[[Image:Godginrai vs blackzarak.jpg|right|180px|thumb|She can't take anymore, Cap'n!]]
After failing to contact Grand Maximus, Ginrai headed out into space to search for him and found him trapped inside a powerful [[black hole]]. Ginrai too fell victim to the singularity's pull, but he and Grand Maximus were able to combine their energies to destroy it from within and escape. The black hole had, in fact, been created by BlackZarak, who had been able to travel to Earth and join the Decepticons there during Ginrai's imprisonment. {{storylink|BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space}} With BlackZarak now bolstering their forces, the Decepticons' campaign grew ever more aggressive, with Ginrai only just managed to save the planet from the villains' unholy [[Death Para-Machine]]. {{storylink|Crisis! The Day of the Downfall of Humanity}}

[[Image:Godfireguts.jpg|left|225px|thumb|Itching, burning sensation?]]
When [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]] was captured by the Decepticons, Ginrai was forced to come to the villains' base alone and unarmed in exchange for his safety. Things looked bad for the heroes until the self-doubting Decepticon [[Cancer]] finally switched sides and saved the day. {{storylink|God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base}} With Cancer's aid, Ginrai was able to lead the Autobots in an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, during which Devil Z fused with BlackZarak, creating an even more powerful composite foe. {{storylink|The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform}}

[[Image:Ginrai juniors.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Go go, Transformo Rangers!]]
After conclusive final battles with Hydra and Buster {{storylink|Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn}} and Overlord, {{storylink|Autobots! Desperate Attack!!}} Ginrai confronted the fused Devil Z/BlackZarak entity atop the Matterhorn. {{storylink|Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z}} As their battle raged down the mountain, Ginrai succeeded in decapitating the villain, but BlackZarak simply assumed a new, serpentine alternate mode and kept on fighting. The Headmaster Juniors boarded Ginrai's chest cockpit and joined their energies with him, allowing him to destroy BlackZarak's body with his God Fire Guts attack, exposing Devil Z. As the alien raged impotently, Ginrai and the Juniors united every last drop of their Chōkon Powe into the almighty Final Fire Guts attack, which destroyed Devil Z once and for all.

With Devil Z's death, the bond he had forged between Transtector and human ceased to exist, and Ginrai and the other humans were separated from their Transtectors. The Transtectors, however, had been evolved through their partnership with the humans and continued to exist as true super-robot life forms. Having been imprinted with his human partner's personality, Ginrai's Transtector departed for space to pursue the surviving Decepticons and rejoin the greater war. {{storylink|A Battle... and Then...}}

====''Victory'' cartoon====
[[Image:Godginrai vs deathsaurus.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Vultures wait until you're dead. Deathy, not so much.]]
The Ginrai Transtector—now having taken its human partner's name as its own, becoming known as Ginrai itself—joined with the Autobot forces in space, where he became good friends with [[Star Saber (Victory)|Star Saber]] and his adopted human son, [[Jean Minakaze|Jean]]. Before long, Star Saber was appointed Supreme Commander of the Autobots, while Ginrai became commander of the Defense Force for Space Sector Two. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}} Operating out of a base in the G Nebula, Ginrai's time was occupied battling the Decepticon forces under Overlord's control, so much so that Star Saber occasionally had to respond to emergencies in Sector Two, such as a [[Breastforce]] attack on planet [[Micro]]. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}

[[Image:Deadginrai.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Not Optimus death No#435.]]
Feeling guilty over taking up Star Saber's time in such a manner, Ginrai was quick to come to his aid when the newly reunited Breastforce [[combiner]] [[Liokaiser]] proved too much for Star Saber to handle, {{storylink|Unite! Liokaiser}} and also later when Star Saber was lured into a trap on Earth by Decepticon [[Emperor of Destruction]] [[Deathsaurus (Victory)|Deathsaurus]]. Confronting Deathsaurus in battle, Ginrai was struck by a blast from the villain's Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon and fatally damaged. {{storylink|A Deadly Battle}} Despite the best medical efforts of [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and [[Minerva]], Ginrai's body was left useless and immobile. Due to a slip by Perceptor, however, he learned of the existence of a reconstruction process conceived by Star Saber that would allow him to become a power-up for the Autobot leader. Star Saber refused to allow him to submit to the process, revolted at the notion of using his close friend's body in such a way, but Ginrai insisted. {{storylink|Ginrai Dies!!}} Perceptor and Wheeljack brought his life functions to an end, then restored him to Star Saber's specifications as [[Victory Leo]]. {{storylink|Fight!! Victory Leo}}
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====''Kiss Players''====
Operating under the direction of the [[Sparkbot|Sparkbots]], [[Marissa Faireborn]] travelled forward in time from 2007 to witness Ginrai's first battle with Overlord in the desert. Thinking he was Optimus Prime, she kissed him to obtain a fragment of what she believed was the "[[AllSpark]]" that had bonded to him (although in actuality, it was a fragment of [[Unicron]]'s [[Angolmois|lifeforce]]). Discovering he was a human man, she was somewhat horrified to find that she had kissed someone ''other'' than Optimus Prime, and begged her Sparkbot companion [[Angela]] not to tell anyone. {{storylink|Kiss Players (radio drama)|Kiss Players radio drama #43}}

===''Super-God Masterforce'' comic===
[[Image:Ginrai manga.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Dude, get out of the way, that truck's coming right at you!]]
When Ginrai, the first Autobot Godmaster, was discovered in America by Diver, it was immediately arranged for him to travel to Japan to meet with the rest of the Autobots. As Metalhawk and the Headmaster Juniors awaited his arrival at [[Harumi Wharf]], however, they were attacked by the Decepticon Godmasters, Hydra and Buster. The Autobots were unable to match the Decepticons' power, but salvation soon came in the form of a red tractor trailer: Ginrai had arrived, and saw the villains off with a blast of Chōkon Power. In the aftermath of the battle, Metalhawk commented on Ginrai's similarity to Optimus Prime and wondered if he could be his reincarnation. Ginrai dismissed the notion, explaining that he had chosen to do this not because he was fated to, but specifically because he had only one life, and wanted to use it in service of the forces of good. {{storylink|Enter on the Stage! The Name of the Savior Is Ginrai!}}

[[Image:Superginrai manga.jpg|right|250px|thumb|If he gets a [[black repaint]], I'm outta here.]]
As leader of the Autobots, Ginrai led the heroes in investigating a mysterious Decepticon plan, only for the team to come under attack from what appeared to be a large army of legendary Decepticons, led by [[Galvatron (G1)|Galvatron]]. Attacked by [[King Poseidon]], Ginrai was severely outmatched until the other Autobot Godmasters, Lightfoot, Ranger and Road King arrived with a trailer for his Transtector. Combining with the trailer, Ginrai became Super Ginrai and defeated King Poseidon, revealing that the legendary Decepticons were nothing more than holograms. {{storylink|Burn, Super Soul! The New Commander Super Ginrai!}}

After traveling to planet [[Athenia]] and being appointed the new [[Supreme Commander]] of the Autobots by [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress]], {{storylink|The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops}} Ginrai received a power-up in the form of a transforming drone named Godbomber. When the Decepticon Ambassador of Destruction Overlord then attacked Tokyo, the newly-formed "God Ginrai" attacked him and lured him into space, where the powerful Decepticon warrior BlackZarak was in process of battling other Autobots there. Ginrai was able to turn the two villains' powers against themselves, and they badly wounded each other and fled. {{storylink|God Ginrai's Amazing Super-God Combination!}}

[[Image:Ginrai juniors manga.jpg|left|180px|thumb|An older man hugging several youngsters…uh huh.]]
After a mission to rescue Shūta and [[Cab]] from the Decepticons with the help of Grand Maximus, {{storylink|The Earth Family of Good and Evil}} a mission to [[Mount Everest]] saw Ginrai struck down by the newest Decepticon Godmaster, [[Clouder|Doubleclouder]]. Left temporarily blind by the Decpticons' new [[A.O. Laser]], Ginrai was helpless, but luckily for him, an insulting remark from Cancer prompted the fickle Doubleclouder to switch sides to the Autobots and help him defeat the villains' plans. {{storylink|Decepticons' Great Counterattack!}}

After several further battles, events culminated in Devil Z taking over BlackZarak's body and turning against the other Decepticons, attempting to drain Overlord and Ginrai's Jinchōkon Power to transform himself into the ultimate lifeform. Saved by the Autobot Pretenders, Ginrai and Overlord led their respective factions in combining their energies into the "Perfect Transformer Attack" and destroying Devil Z and BlackZarak for good. With Devil Z's death, the bond he had forged between Transtector and human ceased to exist, and Ginrai and the other humans were separated from their Transtectors. The Transtectors, however, had been evolved through their partnership with the humans and continued to exist as true super-robot life forms. Having been imprinted with his human partner's personality, Ginrai's Transtector informed Overlord that they would finish their fight out in space, and the Transformers departed the planet, leaving Ginrai and the other Autobot humans to return to their lives. {{storylink|The Birth of the Super Lifeforms}}

===Transformers PD Type===
During a battle with Overlord, Ginrai announced he was going to launch a Chōkon Power attack. As he raised his gun in the air to gather Tenchōkon energy, he was suddenly hit by a bolt of lightning. Standing blacked by the shock, he wondered what the probability of that happening was. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##7 "Fight! Super Ginrai!"|Fight! Super Ginrai!}}

During a battle, God Ginrai announced he was going to perform the "biggest final attack in the Universe", much to the consternation of the Decepticons. His Chōkon Fire Guts attack sent them all flying, and, as they writhed on the ground, Ginrai asked [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] to refrain from pointing out that it was just a normal punch, or it might not work so well. {{storylink|Transformer PD Type##13 "Now! Deliver the Finishing Blow! God Ginrai!!"|Now! Deliver the Finishing Blow! God Ginrai!!}}

==Toys==
===Super-God Masterforce===
[[Image:Superginrai toy generations.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Wait, the Japanese toy has shortened smoke stacks?!]]
*'''Super Ginrai''' (1988)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-307'''
**''Accessories:'' Godmaster Transtector, 2 Superconductor Rifles, 2 Particle Beam Cannons, Super Ginrai head

:A remolded version of the American [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys|Powermaster Optimus Prime figure]], Ginrai is a red, blue and grey tractor trailer, only able to transform into robot mode when the small Ginrai human figure is put into engine mode and snapped into place in the truck's grill, unlocking the clasp that holds the legs in place. When the cab is in robot mode, the trailer can become a battle station. Either robot or station can be armed with any of the toy's weapons, including two black "Superconductor Rifles", and two grey double-barrelled "Particle Beam Cannons," (referred to as "Cannon Craft" in "[[The Battle Begins! The United Earth-Space Troops]]"), which can be piloted by any small Godmaster figures. Cab and trailer can be merged into "Super Ginrai", whose head is a separate piece, and can go on to combine with the separately sold Godbomber to become God Ginrai.

:Differences between Ginrai and Powermaster Optimus Prime include retractable super-robot fists, a die-cast metal cab with translucent blue plastic windows, shortened smokestacks, a more metallic grey plastic, chrome on the Godmaster Ginrai engine, and silver paint rather than stickers for the small robot's upper legs.

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*'''God Ginrai''' (1988, 2002)[[Image:GodGinrai toy.jpg|right|275px|thumb|I can almost touch my toes! (not really)]]
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-310'''
**''Accessories:'' Godmaster Transtector, 2 Superconductor Rifles, 2 Particle Beam Cannons, Super Ginrai head, God Cannon, Tachyon Missile

:Super Ginrai was also sold in a gift set with Godbomber, who can interact with Ginrai in several ways. Trailer-mode Godbomber can hook up either directly to Ginrai's cab or to the back of Ginrai's own trailer and be towed along behind him, while any of Ginrai's weapons can plug into the holes in Godbomber's wings and chassis. Most prominently, of course, Godbomber diseassembles into various component parts that combine with Super Ginrai to form God Ginrai. Godbomber's legs become boots known as "God Legs", to which Ginrai's Particle Beam Cannons attach; his chest and wings form the "God Wing" backpack; his arms clip over the top of Ginrai's own as the "God Punch"; and his back becomes a chromed chestplate called the "God Breast", into the top of which the spring-loaded, missile-firing "God Cannon" plugs. The toy also features a secondary, lesser combination referred to as the "God Breaster," which involves attaching the God Breast to Super Ginrai, and plugging Godbomber's wings into his arms.

:The God Ginrai gift set was reissued in Japan in 2002 with the notable modification of blue eyes for the small Ginrai robot and a slightly different shade of red paint on the cab. However, it was notoriously over-produced, and online retailers were still selling it even years later, at greatly reduced prices.

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[[Image:Firegutsginrai toy.jpg|right|275px|thumb|Remember kids, always use the proper sunscreen.]]
*'''Fire Guts God Ginrai''' (e-Hobby exclusive, 2002)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''C-310E'''
**''Accessories:'' Godmaster Transtector, 2 Superconductor Rifles, 2 Particle Beam Cannons, Super Ginrai head, God Cannon, Tachyon Missile

:Released to coincide with the 2002 reissue of the God Ginrai giftset, this redeco casts the Autobot leader in reds and oranges, representing Ginrai using his "God Fire Guts" attack from the animated series. Fire Guts God Ginrai featured his own unique packaging, with recolored [[package art]], and was limited to 1600 pieces.

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===Transform Jr===
*'''Ginrai''' (1988)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF Super Ginrai 1'''
**''Accessories:'' Blue gun, robot head, die-cast Super Ginrai figurine

[[Image:Ginrai junior toy.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
:Like the other figures in the ''[[Transform Gōkin|Transform Jr]]'' line, this version of the basic Ginrai cab robot is a simplified version of its larger counterpart. And when we say simplified, we ''mean'' simplified—the figure features no Godmaster engine gimmick, and its head is simply pulled off and set aside for transformation. The figure comes packaged with a small die-cast metal figurine of Super Ginrai.

*'''Shirei Kichi''' (司令基地 "Command Base") (1988)
**''Japanese ID number:'' '''TF Super Ginrai 2'''
**''Accessories:'' 2 red guns, Trailer post, 2 wheel pieces, ramp, Super Ginrai head

:This ''Transform Jr'' figure is a simplified version of Ginrai's trailer, which can transform to base mode, hitch up to the separately sold cab robot and combine with it to form Super Ginrai. The toy includes a cardboard mock-up of Ginrai in torso mode to complete the super robot's look in-package.

*'''God Ginrai''' (1988)
**''Accessories:'' Blue gun, small robot head, die-cast Super Ginrai figurine, 2 red guns, trailer post, 2 wheel pieces, ramp, Super Ginrai head, "God Breast" chestpiece, 2 "God Punch" arms

:This giftset includes both the ''Jr'' "Ginrai" and "Shirei Kichi" figures and all the accessories which came with them plus the attachments necessary to transform Super Ginrai into God Ginrai. Due to the nature of his construction, though, God Ginrai's fist-holes are blocked off, leaving him unable to hold the weapons which came with his components. Furthermore, as his attachments consist only of two arms and a chestpiece (no boots, no backpack), they cannot combine into Godbomber. The set also includes some sort of plastic "shield" with a cardboard insert depicting the Autobot [[insignia]], which appears to be a pocket or belt clip, or something. We really don't know.

==Merchandise==
===Super-God Masterforce===
[[Image:Ginrai masterbrace toy.jpg|right|100px|thumb|Jinchōkon bling]]
*'''Godmaster-Braces—Ginrai''' (1988)

:Ginrai's Master-Braces came alive with this role-play set, including two golden-chromed bracelets with handcuff-style hinges, and a small clip-on "communicator" pin.

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===Parody Deformed===
*'''Super Ginrai''' (1990)

[[Image:Ginrai pd models.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Gundam? Never heard of it.]]
:A small blue and white, non-transforming [[super-deformed]] model kit of Super Ginrai was available as part of [[Kabaya]]'s "[[Parody Deformed]]" line of [[Candy toy|candy toys]]. The seventh figure in the series, he came with a "[[Transformer PD Type]]" comic about himself, "Fight! Super Ginrai!", and something that could charitably be described as "chocolate".

*'''God Ginrai''' (1990)

:A similar model kit of God Ginrai followed in the next wave of the "Parody Deformed" series, this time packaged with something accused of being "gum". As the thirteenth figure of the line, God Ginrai came with the "Transformer PD Type" comic, "Now! Deliver the Finishing Blow! God Ginrai!!".

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===Super Collection Figure===
*'''God Ginrai''' (2000)

[[Image:Ginrai scfs.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Insert Super Saiyan joke here.]]
:This PVC figure was available in the first act of [[Takara]]'s "Super Collection Figure" series, in both full-color and clear plastic versions. In 2002, it was released as "Powermaster Optimus Prime in Apex Armor" in the first wave of [[Hasbro]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron]]'' line.

*'''Super Ginrai''' (2000)

:The second "Super Collection Figure" of Ginrai was available in the second act of the series series, in both full-color and clear plastic versions.

*'''Fire Guts God Ginrai''' (2001)

:The original God Ginrai PVC was re-released in solid metallic golden four the fourth act of the "Super Collection Figure" series, available only as a rare chase figure. The "Fire Guts" concept was apparently the inspiration for the "Powermaster Optimus Prime Spark Attack" figure that was released in the second wave of the ''Heroes of Cybertron'' line, although that figure was cast entirely in translucent yellow-orange plastic, rather than solid golden.

*'''Ginrai''' (2001)

:The fourth and final Ginrai PVC rendered the character in his basic robot form. The PVC, which was released in the fifth, ''Masterforce''-centric act of the series, was available in both full-color and metallic silver "petwer" versions. In eight out of every ten cases, the pewter version of Ginrai came packaged with the head and torso of the wave's BlackZarak "Build-A-Figure".

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==Notes==
* The human Ginrai's appearance is designed after screen actor [[Wikipedia:Yujiro Ishihara|Yūjirō Ishihara]].

* According to his [[tech specs]], there is a generator named '''[[Ultra Matrix]]''', which contains far more energy than the [[Sun]], mounted within Ginrai's Transtector. No actual fiction ever featured this device, though it was mentioned in magazines such as ''[[Comic Bom Bom]]''.

* Ginrai's supplementary [[bio]] card states that he is 20 years old. It also implies that he is an American of Japanese descent instead of a native of Japan.

* ''Super-God Masterforce'' head writer [[Masumi Kaneda]] stated that God Ginrai (ゴッドジンライ) was named so that omitting every other Japanese syllable yields the word Gojira (ゴジラ), better known in the west as [[Godzilla]].

* According to the episode "[[The Earth Family of Good and Evil]]", Ginrai is good at surfing and skateboarding.

*The relationship between Ginrai and Optimus Prime is a bit... sketchy, to say the least. Precisely why Ginrai's Transtector looks so much like Optimus Prime is not detailed in the series itself, with the explanation only being delivered in the featurette added to the video release of "[[You Too Use the Masterforce to Transform]]". Here, it is stated that the Transtector was created for Optimus Prime, but stolen by Devil Z... only for this to be seemingly contradicted seconds later, when it is said that the Transtector's trailer was to be used by a hero from planet Master. One might presume that this just means the trailer alone wasn't intended for use by Prime, or perhaps that the plan was not to use the Transtector to ''resurrect'' Prime, but to create a ''new'' Optimus Prime. It's all terribly odd. Whatever the original ill-defined intention may have been, years later, the [[Kiss Players (radio drama)|''Kiss Players'' radio drama]] clarified things by outright stating the Transtector was created as part of a plan to resurrect Prime after his [[Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime|most recent death]]. In the manga, Metalhawk makes mention that Ginrai looks like the legendary Cybertron warrior, Convoy. However, nothing is actually mentioned about a relationship with the two other than cosmetic similarities.

*The reissue God Ginrai giftset was the basis for the [[Commemorative Series]] "Powermaster Optimus Prime with Apex Armor" release, which was notable for referring to the Powermaster figure as "Ginrai," rather than by the traditional name of Prime's Powermaster partner, [[Hi-Q]]. [[Dreamwave Productions]]' "[[More Than Meets The Eye (G1)|More Than Meets The Eye]]" profile series sidestepped any mind-bending continuity conundrums by just presenting Ginrai as a different name for Hi-Q.

* When Hasbro wanted to create an ''[[Alternators]]'' Dodge Ram toy, Takara reportedly demanded that it be made into [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] to help the figure sell, only for the ''Binaltech'' release of the toy to wind up being solicited not as Prime, but as Ginrai. Ultimately, ''[[Binaltech]]'' Ginrai was cancelled, and the figure was later released as Prime in the ''Alternators'' and ''Kiss Players'' lines, but not before [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] produced character and story information to go along with it. This storyline, made available in 2007's unofficial publication, ''The Transformers Binaltech Stories: Profiles and Technical Specifications'', would have seen Ginrai travel back in time from the far future and possess a Binaltech body intended for [[Roller]] in order to repair the damage caused to the timeline by [[Operation: Distant Thunder]], thereby preserving his own future. Unlike the unreleased story for his fellow ''Binaltech'' cancellation victim, [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]], which can be fit into the published ''Binaltech'' continuity, Ginrai's intended story was modified into [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Black Convoy]]'s fiction and therefore is not compatible with the official ''Binaltech'' continuity.

==External links==
*[http://www.tfu.info/1988/Cybertron/SuperGinrai/superginrai.htm Ginrai at TFU.info]

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G Nebula 89

2010-05-25T13:04:20Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Super-God Masterforce cartoon */ link fix

:''G Nebula 89 is a location from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Gnebula89.jpg|right|275px|thumb|I like my galaxies sunny-side-up.]]
'''G Nebula 89''' (G星雲89 ''G Seiun 89''), also known simply as "the G Nebula", is a region of space which proved significantly important to the development of the Transformers' war in space in the early 21st Century. The nebula is closely tied to the [[Godmaster]]s, who trace their origins there, and who later returned to the nebula to continue their battles.

==Fiction==
===''Super-God Masterforce'' cartoon===
After the Transformers' war moved off of Earth and transitioned into a series of space-based exchanges between [[Athenia]] and [[Chaar]], the super-science of planet [[Master (planet)|Master]] formed the backbone of the conflict. The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s relocated their [[Transtector]] program to the G Nebula, where both factions continued to construct more of the lifeless Transformer bodies that had played such an important role in the [[The Headmasters (franchise)|battles of 2011]]. Concurrently, the Autobots even sought a way to use the technology to resurrect the deceased [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]].

Things took a turn for the worse with the arrival of the evil alien energy-being and self-styled Decepticon "god", [[Devil Z]]. Seeking to create the ultimate super-robot lifeform, Devil Z stole eight Transtectors from the G Nebula, including the one intended for Optimus Prime, and spirited them away to Earth, scattering them across the planet. Already saturated with the [[Chōkon Power|Tenchōkon]] of the G Nebula (the "power of the heavens"), the Transtectors absorbed the planet's Chichōkon (the "power of the Earth"), and were eventually bonded to human beings, adding Jinchōkon (the "power of Man") to the equation, transforming them into the almighty Godmasters. {{storylink|Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!}}

===''Victory'' cartoon===
[[Image:Battle in the g nebula.jpg|left|150px|thumb|]]
After the Godmasters defeated Devil Z on Earth, both groups rejoined their respective factions in space, and the Autobots went on to form the [[Galactic Peace Alliance]], dividing the universe up into different sectors that were individually protected. {{storylink|The Brave Hero of the Universe - Star Saber}} The Sector Two Defense Force, led by [[Ginrai|God Ginrai]], set up its headquarters within the G Nebula, which in 2025 went on to serve as a regular battleground for Ginrai's Autobots and [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]'s Decepticons. {{storylink|Planet Micro - The Mysterious Warrior}}

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God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon

2010-05-25T13:03:41Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Trivia */ link fix

{{episode
|series=Masterforce
|ep=27
|image=Surfaceofthemoon.jpg
|caption="We can breathe here then?" "I guess those candy-butt astronauts didn't have the stones to try it." "I could ''never'' say that about an astronaut."
|title="God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon"
|japanese=ゴッドジンライ・月面の対決
|romaji=God Jinrai - Getsumen no Taiketsu
|production code=
|production company=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]], [[Toei]]
|airdate=[[November 1|1 November]] 1988
|writer=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|director=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''On the lunar surface, God Ginrai fights a desperate battle against Overlord and BlackZarak, with the fate of the world at stake!'''

:''Omni Productions dub title:'' "'''Battle in Space'''"
:''Also known as:'' "'''Showdown on the Moon'''"
:''Latin-American dub name:'' "'''Duelo de Titanes'''" ('''"Duel of Titans"''')

==Synopsis==
[[Image:BlackZarakMasterforce1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|]]
On the surface of the moon, [[Ginrai|God Ginrai]] has been badly wounded by [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] and [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]]. BlackZarak continues to pummel the crippled Autobot, but Overlord requests that be allowed to take over, for fear of BlackZarak being injured. The battle rages on, and Ginrai is able to dispatch Overlord with his God Cannon, only for BlackZarak to strike back, toppling Ginrai into a crater and pouncing on him in scorpion mode. Ginrai hurls his foe off of him, but his respite is short lived when Overlord appears again and separates into his component parts for a two-pronged attack. Again, the God Cannon saves his bacon when he blasts the Megajet out of the air with it, but BlackZarak then shoots Ginrai in the back, knocking the God Cannon off his body and out of his reach.

[[Image:Masterforce ep27 GodGinraiEarth.jpg|right|200px|thumb|]]
Down on Earth, the [[Autobot|Autobots]] find that a magnetic storm is cutting off communications with Ginrai. [[Lander]] attempts to defuse the tense mood in the room by joking that Ginrai doesn't realize that they're trying to contact him because they're calling him "commander," but the [[Headmaster Junior|Headmaster Juniors]] don't take the joke well, and he and the [[Pretender|Pretenders]] retire for a drink. [[Lightfoot]] and the Juniors attempt to relax with tea, and [[Cab]] and [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]] try relaxing with a Rubik's Cube, but it only frustrates them more. At the instant the communications console starts to beep, everyone rushes over, but it is only [[Grand Maximus]] on the other end of the line, who reports that he is heading for the moon at that very moment.

Back on the moon, the injured Ginrai has managed to escape his foes for a few moments and reclaim the God Cannon, but before long, he finds himself trapped, with a Decepticon on either side. Suddenly, Ginrai evens the odds by splitting off from [[Godbomber]], who circles around behind Overlord while Ginrai draws his fire and blasts him in the back. Overlord loses his grip on his blaster and Ginrai seizes it, opening fire on BlackZarak, but the monstrous Decepticon dodges and sends Ginrai rolling across the lunar surface with an unrelenting volley of blasts. Just as BlackZarak seems poised to deliver the killing blow, a hail of laser fire rakes the moon's surface, forcing him back—Grand Maximus has arrived! Grand transforms into his giant robot mode and engages BlackZarak in hand-to-hand combat, giving Ginrai the time he needs to make contact with the Autobots on Earth. As he updates them on the situation, he looks down on the Earth, at last truly recognizing the beauty of the planet compared to the rocky wasteland of the moon, and vows to be its protector. Emotionally charged, he turns and dives into the fray, knocking BlackZarak back.

[[Image:Masterforce ep27 GodGinrai&BraveMaximus.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hi Ho Silver! Away!]]
With the numbers between the two sides now even, Overlord encourages BlackZarak to pull out and head for Earth in accordance with [[Devil Z]]'s wishes, but Ginrai recombines with Godbomber and he and Grand give chase. The battle continues in space, with Ginrai blasting Overlord back down to the moon's surface as Grand Maximus and BlackZarak trade blaster fire in their ship modes. Ginrai boards Grand and delivers a massive blast of [[Chōkon Power]], sending BlackZarak tumbling down to the moon as well. There, BlackZarak finds Overlord and instructs him to return to Earth and inform Devil Z of the situation, but Overlord is indignant at being given orders, and insists that BlackZarak must accompany him to Earth. BlackZarak refuses, and Overlord only acquiesces because of his injuries. In seconds, Ginrai and Grand Maxims are upon them again, and Overlord flees while BlackZarak tackles Ginrai head on. A "God Punch" attack from Ginrai forces BlackZarak back, and he follows it up with his "God Fire Guts" attack, wreathing himself in flaming Chōkon Power and crashing like a meteor into BlackZarak. BlackZarak's body tumbles back to the ground, having been decapitated by the sheer force of the blast... but as his disembodied head lies burning on the ground, his headless body rises unsteadily, and flees into space, heading away from the Earth! Although Ginrai is concerned that the threat of BlackZarak is not over, Grand Maximus assures him that the rest can be left in his hands. He parts ways with Ginrai and heads after BlackZarak, and Ginrai then heads back down to Earth to reunite with the other Autobots, who are busy celebrating his victory, with Lander once again in favor of a drink to do the job.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
* [[Godbomber]] (3)
* [[Metalhawk]] (4)
* [[Lander]] (11)
* [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] (12)
* [[Phoenix]] (13)
* [[Grand Maximus]] (17)

'''Human Autobots'''

* [[Shūta Gō]] (5)
* [[Ginrai]] (6)
* [[Cab]] (7)
* [[Minerva]] (8)
* [[Lightfoot]] (14)
* [[Ranger]] (15)
* [[Road King]] (16)

|c2=
* [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] (10)

'''Human Decepticons'''

* [[Mega]] (1)
* [[Giga]] (2)
* [[Overlord (Masterforce)|Overlord]] (9)

}}
==Quotes==
"I can see the Earth from here... It's a beautiful planet, the Earth. But there's nothing here. It's a rocky, dead world. If even one of the Decepticons from space reaches the Earth, it will become a dead world like the moon. The Earth must be protected by its people! Like how you fought against the Decepticons for us unknowing humans, Hawk... Now it's my turn to do the same!"
:—'''Ginrai''' gives a speech before charging into battle.

==Notes==
===Animation or technical errors===
* In the opening shot of Overlord standing over a fallen God Ginrai, the latter is missing the boosters on the bottom of his right foot.
*After performing the "God Punch" on BlackZarak, God Ginrai's left forearm turns from red to blue a moment before his gauntlets reattach.

===Continuity errors===
*At the end of the [[God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!|previous episode]], BlackZarak appeared in robot mode and impaled God Ginrai through the shoulder with his spear. And yet, at the start of this episode, he's in scorpion mode, goes through a super-dramatic showy-offy transform sequence as if this was the first time we were seeing his robot mode, and—in what can only be described as a moment of ''utter'' bizarreness—Overlord isn't sure who he is! And throughout all of this, ''Ginrai's still got the puncture wound in his shoulder!'' This is bad enough on its own, but it's compounded by the fact that the episode is preceded by a "last time" segment that ''shows clips of all this happening!!''
*The ignorance even carries over to the Autobots, who all claim never to have heard BlackZarak's name before!

===Continuity notes===
*This episode brings to a close the current story arc of the series—centred on the looming threat of BlackZarak, the creation of Godbomber and the formation of God Ginrai—which has been running since "[[Life? Death? Lightfoot Must Choose]]".
*Ginrai recalls the Decepticons' asteroid bombardment of Earth from "[[Expose the Decepticons' Dark Deception!]]", realizing that BlackZarak was responsible for it.
*In the course of the battle, Ginrai discovers that Overlord is not, as he had previously thought, the leader of the Decepticons. It's easy to forget as a member of the audience, but the Autobots are thus far unaware of the existence of [[Devil Z]], and this is the first hint they receive.
*Ginrai was appointed Autobot commander back in "[[The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!]]", but this has not really been touched on since then, and he has been seen taking orders from Metalhawk. It is this episode in which he truly embraces his role as protector of Earth and leader of the Autobots.
*Previously seen in "[[Save the Little Girl! The Chōjin Warriors, the Godmasters|Save the Little Girl! The Chojin Warriors, the Godmasters]]" (as the "Atomic Fire Guts") and in "Expose the Decepticons' Dark Deception!" (as the "Super Fire Guts"), Ginrai unleashes the third—and most famous—form of his "Fire Guts" attack for the first time in this episode: the "God Fire Guts."

===Trivia===
*This episode features the second appearance of the insert song, "[[Kiseki no Transformer]]".
*Okay, so, you're probably wondering how the heck BlackZarak is able to function perfectly when his head's been blasted off his body. It's not the last time it happens in the series, either, but like so many other things, no explanation is ever actually offered, either in the broadcast series, or in any of the direct-to-video clip episodes. The answer to this conundrum is actually given in the Masterforce ''[[Super-God Masterforce (manga)|manga]]'', of all places, but even then, to understand it, one must understand that BlackZarak is, in fact, the original [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] from ''[[The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]''—a fact which is ''also'' not revealed in the broadcast series, but which ''was'' explained in "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]". [[Decepticons' Great Counterattack!|Issue #9]] of the manga explains that Scorponok does not connect to this new Transtector as a head, but is, in fact, wired into the chest compartment. This, then, is how he is able to survive having his noggin blasted off—because that's not where his brains are.
*BlackZarak employs the [[The Transformers: The Movie|age-old]] [[More than Meets the Eye, Part 3|tactic of]] [[The Ultimate Doom, Part_2|choking a robot]], electing to do so in the airless vacuum of space.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|jsubs}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 02 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — The Takara Collection Vol 2 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' ([[Metrodome]]) — Optional commentary by [[Chris McFeely]]. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Takara Collection (Metrodome) — Optional commentary by Chris McFeely. 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''The Transformers: Super God Masterforce'' ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Japan Generation 1'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

[[Category:Super-God Masterforce episodes]]

Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai

2010-05-25T13:02:02Z

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{{episode
|series=Masterforce
|ep=14
|image=Eliminateginrai.jpg
|caption=Winner of the [[Motormaster]] lookalike contest.
|title="Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai"
|japanese=ゴッドマスタージンライを抹殺せよ
|romaji=Godmaster Ginrai o Massatsuseyo
|production code=
|production company=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]], [[Toei]]
|writer=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|director=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|airdate=[[July 19|19 July]] 1988
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''The command goes out for the Decepticons to utterly destroy Ginrai, and he inadvertently makes himself easy to find when he appears on television searching for the remaining Godmasters!'''

:''Omni Productions dub title:'' "'''The Hunt has Begun'''"
:''Also known as:'' "'''Destroy Ginrai'''"

==Synopsis==
[[Image:EliminateGinrai Devil Z speaks.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
The [[Decepticon]]s are still smarting over the fact that an [[Autobot]] [[Godmaster]] has been created in [[Ginrai]], but [[Giga]] is given pause to wonder—if, as he has been led to believe, all Godmasters originated with a Decepticon soul, how is it that one bonded to a human who sympathizes with the Autobots? Before the question can sink into the minds of those around him, however, a voice cuts through the air that insists there is no time to question the matter. This voice emanates from the pulsating globe of light that has for so long lain silent, perched on an altar in the middle of the Decepticon base—it is the voice of [[Devil Z]], the mysterious emperor of the Decepticons! Giga and [[Mega]] fall to their knees when their lord speaks, and hear his command that no further Godmasters must become Autobots. Spurred on by these words, Giga turns to [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] and issues his newest command—Ginrai must die!

Having acquired a trailer for his [[Transtector]], Ginrai has returned to America to show it to [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] and [[Lander]]. Steadily becoming more and more convinced that destiny has something in store for him, Ginrai decides to get proactive, and has had an idea that will help him to find the three fated owners of the [[Master-Brace|Master-Braces]], but decides to keep it as a surprise for the two worried Pretenders.

[[Image:EliminateGinrai Ginrai on TV.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Elsewhere in America, the Decepticon [[Headmaster Junior|Headmaster Juniors]] are drowning their sorrows at a bar after failing to defeat Ginrai in their last encounter. [[Cancer]] flips on the television to an [[CNM TV|entertainment show]] that is just beginning its audience participation segment, where a viewer named "Mr. X" is about to show the viewers an "interesting vehicle". Cancer just about manages to stay upright when "Mr. X" turns out to be Ginrai, who transforms to robot mode right there on live television and introduces himself, before making a plea—if anyone feels like they're being manipulated by fate, or have had strange and unusual things happen to them, contact him through the show. [[Bullhorn]] is all fired up to go on the offensive, but the others tell him to leave it to Buster and Hydra. Lander has also seen the broadcast, and tells Diver about it, but they both take it in stride.

[[Image:EliminateGinrai throw rocks at Ginrai.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
The next day, Ginrai tunes his radio into the show to hear the responses that have come in, but unfortunately, they're all from crazies, including one guy who claims that both he and Ginrai are aliens. As he travels along, [[Gilmer]] pinpoints his location and radios it to Hydra and Buster, who quickly track him down—but the brothers opt instead to wait until Ginrai has entered the nearby city, planning to blame him for the devastation their fight will cause to increase anti-Autobot sentiment among humans. They shadow Ginrai as he arrives at his delivery point, and then begin their attack, injuring Ginrai's client, [[Sam (Masterforce)|Sam]]. Ginrai transforms to robot mode and battles the two Godmaster brothers, but the fight has the desired effect—as their workplace is steadily destroyed, Ginrai's fellow truckers all begin hurling junk at him to get him to leave. With the plan working, Hydra and Buster lead him further into the city, deliberately rounding up humans as spectators to watch as they fight; Buster even tells them that Ginrai began the duel. The brothers beat Ginrai down and summon some [[Lobclaw|Lobclaws]] to finish him off, but just then, Lander and Diver arrive and take care of the [[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacons]] while Ginrai pursues the fleeing Decepticon Godmasters. Enraged by what they have done to him and his reputation, he unleashes a major burst of [[Chōkon Power]], knocking the villains from their feet; Lander and Diver soon arrive, having disposed of the Seacons, and the Godmasters flee.

[[Image:EliminateGinrai Ginrai forgiven.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
A little later, Ginrai visits the injured Sam in the hospital with his fellow truckers. He apologizes for the fight, but Sam brushes it off. Sam has thought long and hard about Ginrai's incredible powers, and has come to one conclusion—they are the work of God, who is telling Ginrai to protect others with them. Sam has brought all the other truckers around, and they all apologize to Ginrai for their earlier actions. A little later, Ginrai meets with Diver, who tells him that Lander is running damage control and informing the people that saw the fight that he had nothing to do with it. Diver does point out, however, that if Ginrai is already that self-conscious about his reputation and that of the Autobots, it makes him a good candidate for leader for someday...

Meanwhile, back at the Decepticon base, yet another failure has forced Mega and Giga's hand—it is time for them to play their trump card, in the form of the mighty Seacon combiner, [[King Poseidon]]!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Lander]] (7)
* [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] (8)

'''Human Autobots'''

* [[Ginrai]] (6)

|c2=
* [[Devil Z]] (5)
* [[Gilmer]] (12)
* [[Lobclaw]] (14)
* [[Turtler]] (15)
* [[Tentakil (Masterforce)|Tentakil]] (16)
* [[Kraken]] (17)
* [[Gulf]] (18)
* [[Overbite (Masterforce)|Overbite]] (19)
* [[King Poseidon]] (20)

'''Human Decepticons'''

* [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] (1)
* [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] (2)
* [[Mega]] (3)
* [[Giga]] (4)
* [[Cancer]] (9)
* [[Wilder]] (10)
* [[Bullhorn]] (11)

|c3=
* [[Sam (Masterforce)|Sam]] (13)

}}
==Quotes==
"Everything Ginrai does makes me feel like I'm going to have a heart attack!"
:—'''Lander'''

==Notes==
===Animation or technical errors===
*The announcer from the TV show can be heard to start speaking, offscreen, before Cancer actually changes the channel.
*Bullhorn's scar switches to the right-hand side of his face when he throws his drink at Cancer.
*As Hydra and Buster gloat to Ginrai that they've turned the humans against him, there's a shot of a completely empty street. The following shot suggests that it should have been full of horrified humans.

===Continuity notes===
*At long last, it speaks—the glowing sphere that the audience has frequently seen within the Decepticon base since "[[Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt]]" is finally revealed in this episode to be the Decepticon emperor, Devil Z. However, do not expect to learn anything ''more'' about him—it is never explained in the series as broadcast exactly what he is or where he comes from. It was not until "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]" that he was explained to be an energy being from the far reaches of the galaxy (and even that's not especially satisfactory).
*Ginrai found the three sets of Master-Braces in "[[A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva]]".
*Ginrai asks Diver to "say hi to the dolphin" for him, referring to the dolphin he delivered into his care back in "[[A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai]]".

===Real-world references===
[[Image:Youcandance.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Cancer attempts to will Madonna's clothes off]]
*Pinned up on the wall of the bar the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors visit is a poster for "You Can Dance" (based on the cover of the cassette release), an album by singer [[Madonna]]. Of course, that album was contemporary for the time the show was being aired (released as it was in November 1987)—but given that ''Super-God Masterforce'' is supposed to take place several years after 2011, that bar might want to think about redecorating...
*[[Wikipedia:Gordon's Gin|Gordon's Gin]] still comes in bottles almost identical to the one Sam produces at the end of the episode.

===Trivia===
*Beginning with this episode, two new eye-catches (commercials bumpers) are introduced. The familiar Metalhawk, King Poseidon and Goshooter bumpers remain, while the Blood and Ginrai bumpers are phased out and replaced with one of Hydra and Buster merging into Darkwings, and one of Ginrai combining with his trailer to form Super Ginrai. Of course, he doesn't do this in the show itself until ''next'' episode—rather amazingly, the "next episode" preview ''didn't'' spoil this, revealing simply the name and a silhouetted image of Super Ginrai, instead of just showing the character, so obviously, it was up to the bumper to pick up the slack and deprive the audience of any kind of surprise.
*Hydra displays some shockingly bad combat tactics in this episode. At one point, he is wielding both his blasters, and is within arm's reach of an unarmed Ginrai... and instead of ''shooting him'', he flips his blasters around, grabs them by the barrels and uses them as clubs! Then, when Buster is holding Ginrai in a headlock, Hydra approaches, blaster in hand... only to shunt it away, punch him a bit and then call up a Lobclaw! Dude, JUST SHOOT HIM.
*Lander appears to have been on another date when he calls Diver...

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|jsubs}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 01 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — The Takara Collection Vol 2 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Takara Collection (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''The Transformers: Super God Masterforce'' ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Japan Generation 1'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

[[Category:Super-God Masterforce episodes]]

A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva

2010-05-25T13:01:18Z

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{{episode|
|series=masterforce
|ep=12
|title=A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva
|japanese=奇妙な友情キャンサーとミネルバ
|romaji=Kimyō na Yūjō: Cancer to Minerva
|translation=
|image=Strangefriendship.jpg
|caption=They're being forced to sit through ''[[Energon (cartoon)|Energon]]''.
|production code=
|production company=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]], [[Toei]]
|written by=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|directed by=[[Hiroki Shibata]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|airdate=[[June 28|28th June]] 1988
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}

'''In an attempt to learn the secrets of the Godmasters, the Autobots capture Cancer, who develops the world's worst case of Stockholm Syndrome.'''

:''Omni Productions dub title:'' "'''A Friendship is Born'''"
:''Also known as:'' "'''The Miraculous Friendship'''"

==Synopsis==
Driving down a deserted highway in his [[Transtector]] in the dead of night, [[Ginrai]] is suddenly swept up by a tornado and tossed to the side of the road. Thrown from his truck, he lies unconscious for some time before awakening to see a strange, shimmering ball floating in the air above him. Bolts of energy lance from the sphere, and Ginrai attempts to flee, but he is caught by one and trapped in it, unable to cross his [[Master-Brace]]s. Just then, three small figure-eight shapes descend from the sky and fire their own energy at the sphere, causing it to vanish. The figure-eights glow brightly and surround Ginrai...

[[Image:StrangeFriendship Truck punch.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
...who awakes with a start in his bed. The dream has left the [[Godmaster]] vaguely unsettled, and the feeling is only worsened when he gets in his Transtector and discovers that three new sets of Master-Braces have appeared in its glove box! He immediately meets with [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]], who contacts [[Metalhawk|Hawk]], and they arrange for Ginrai to bring the bracelets to the [[Autobot]] base in [[Japan]] for study. The [[Headmaster Junior]]s meet him at the harbour as his ship comes in... but watching from the rooftops nearby are the [[Decepticon]] Juniors, having been dispatched to keep an eye on the situation. As the four Autobots return to their base, the young Decepticons shadow them by moving through the forest at the side of the road, but [[Shūta Gō|Shūta]] spots them, and a battle ensues. Ginrai makes quick work of the three punks, and when [[Wilder]] and [[Bullhorn]] come around, they discover that the Autobots have captured [[Cancer]]!

[[Image:StrangeFriendship Ginrai Cancer struggle.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Back at the Autobot base, Cancer fights and wriggles for all he's worth as Ginrai handcuffs him to a cot, much to [[Minerva|Minerva's]] disgust. She treats a cut on Cancer's cheek with minimal protestation from the boy, but when she tries offering him a glass of orange drink, he kicks it from her hand, shattering it and cutting her. Shūta and Cab are furious, but still Minerva prevents them from taking out their anger on Cancer. Meanwhile, Ginrai and Hawk attempt a scan of the bracelets Ginrai found, only for the equipment to explode when they attempt to gauge the level of power they contain. There is no doubt that these are the Master-Braces of three future Godmasters, but Ginrai is less than enthused, as his free-floating life is becoming increasingly tied down by what feel like the manipulations of destiny. In a moment of anger, determined to understand properly what is happening to his life, he bursts into Cancer's cell and seizes the boy, demanding that Cancer tell him everything he knows about what Godmasters are. Minerva intervenes, getting Ginrai to back down, and offers Cancer the drink again. He relents and thirstily accepts. The Juniors are ordered from the room, and Ginrai repeats his question. This time, Cancer starts to give him answers...

[[Image:StrangeFriendship Minerva monitors.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Cancer relates the story of Godmasters as he has been told it by Giga and Mega. Godmasters, Giga claims, are godly beings from the depths of space, who serve as messengers for the Decepticons. The Godmasters currently on Earth came to the planet in the ancient past, although originally, they were not multiple beings, but one giant entity which split seven "offspring" off from itself when it entered Earth's atmosphere. The seven offspring fell on land, while the main body was buried deep in an ocean trench until the present day, when they awoke, took the form of Transtectors, and awaited human life with which to bond. Giga and Mega, it is revealed, are bonded to the main body.

[[Image:StrangeFriendship Minerva thanks Cancer.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Now aware that, although they have only three sets of Master-Braces, there are four more Godmasters hidden somewhere on Earth, the Autobots make a show of releasing Cancer. Ginrai, however, slips a homing beacon onto the back of his shirt as he is taken back to the forest where Wilder and Bullhorn are still searching for him. As Cancer is being transported, [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] rendezvous with the two remaining Decepticon Juniors, arriving on the scene just as Cancer is being set free (with a wayward glance back in Minerva's direction). Hydra instantly spots the homing beacon and crushes it. The signal cutting out allows Ginrai and Hawk to realize that something is wrong, and Ginrai speeds to the Juniors' aid in battle against the Godmasters. Buster, however, has his blaster to Minerva's head... only for Cancer to snatch her away, begging the Godmaster brothers not to kill anyone! Surprised and distracted by this turn of events, Hydra is flattened by Ginrai and orders a retreat. Cancer blushes furiously as Minerva thanks him, claiming that it was merely payback for the drink and rushing off after his comrades.

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Metalhawk]] (2)
*[[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] (3)
'''Human Autobots'''
*[[Ginrai]] (1)
*[[Shūta Gō]] (12)
*[[Minerva]] (13)
*[[Cab]] (14)
|c2=
*[[Devil Z]] (2)
*[[Blood]] (11)
'''Human Decepticons'''
*[[Giga]] (4)
*[[Mega]] (5)
*[[Cancer]] (6)
*[[Bullhorn]] (7)
*[[Wilder]] (8)
*[[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] (9)
*[[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] (10)
}}

==Quotes==
"Man, nothing but the inconceivable happens to me."
:—'''Ginrai'''

"So my tractor-trailer is from outer space..."
:—'''Ginrai''' sums up what they've learnt.

==Notes==
===Continuity errors===
*While their sudden appearance is basically just intended to be creepy and prophetic, the fact is, it's never actually explained where in the hell the other Master-Braces came from (they couldn't simply have been lying in the truck, or Ginrai would have found them when he found his own), nor why they weren't with their own Transtectors, the way [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]]'s were, or how [[Clouder]]'s will be shown to be later in the series.
*When Shūta transforms shortly before Minerva is taken hostage, he's driving along in his Transtector for no apparent reason.

===Transformers references===
*The sphere of light seen by Ginrai in his prophetic dream is the same mysterious orb that viewers have been occasionally seeing in the Decepticon base. As we've explained before, it's the Decepticon emperor, [[Devil Z]], but that has not yet been revealed in the show, and the mystery surrounding it only increases with this episode.
*This episode returns to the enigmatic claim made by Mega and Giga that Godmasters are their children, as seen back in "[[A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai]]". We are now able to understand that claim—they are bonded to the "main body" (the identity of which will not be revealed until "[[Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?]]", a dozen episodes away) from which the other seven Godmaster Transtectors split off. Hence, they consider those seven Godmasters their children. HOWEVER, this story does not fit in the slightest with what "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]" reveals about Godmasters and their origins, or, indeed some other things seen in the show itself—least of all why, if they were all originally Decepticons, Ginrai's Master-Braces had Autobot symbols on them from the outset. Go read the [[Godmaster]] article for the proper origin of these guys. All indications would be that the story related in this episode is a skewed version of the truth, full of lies and half-truths passed on to Giga and Mega by Devil Z. So it's not particularly helpful that it's the ''only'' origin story told in the entire broadcast series.
*The silhouetted figures that Ginrai imagines when thinking of the Godmasters for the first time are, indeed, the animation models for [[Lightfoot]] and [[Road King]] at least; the third one doesn't look bulky enough to be [[Ranger]]. However, the second time they are shown, at the end of the episode, none of them really seem to match up.

===Real-world references===
*As well as mysterious bracelets, the glove compartment of Ginrai's truck contains a packet of [[Wikipedia:Lucky Strike|Lucky Strike]] cigarettes.

===Trivia===
*It is not explicitly stated in the anime how Mega and Giga discovered the Transtector with which they became bonded. The ''Super-God Masterforce'' manga, however, reveals that they were a couple who drowned at sea. Drifting to the bottom of the chasm where the Transtector lay, they were restored to life by Devil Z and bonded with it.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|jsubs}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 01 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — The Takara Collection Vol 2 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Takara Collection (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''The Transformers: Super God Masterforce'' ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Japan Generation 1'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva}}
[[Category:Super-God Masterforce episodes]]

A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai

2010-05-25T13:00:05Z

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{{episode|
|series=masterforce
|ep=10
|title="A Hero Is Chosen—His Name Is Ginrai"
|japanese=選ばれたヒーロー・その名はジンライ
|romaji=Erabareta Hīrō—Sono Na wa Ginrai
|image=Aheroischosen.jpg
|caption=[[Trukk not munky|猿じゃなくて、トラックだぞ]]!
|production code=
|production company=[[TakaraTomy|Takara]], [[Toei]]
|writer=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|director=[[Takao Yoshizawa]]
|animation studio=[[Toei]]
|airdate=[[June 14|14 June]] 1988
|continuity=[[Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity]]
}}
'''On the day that he discovers a mysterious truck, a young man named Ginrai suddenly finds himself caught up in the war between the Autobots and Decepticons.'''

:''Omni Productions dub title:'' "'''The Appointed Hero'''"
:''Also known as:'' "'''The Chosen Hero is Ginrai'''", "'''A Hero is Chosen and His Name is Ginrai!'''"

==Synopsis==
In the [[Decepticon]] base, [[Giga]] and [[Mega]] reveal a secret that they have hidden from [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] and [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]]—they are not the only [[Godmaster]]s on Earth. The other Godmasters, however, are incomplete beings, lacking a human component, and Giga fears that they could wind up bonded to human beings that would sympathize with the [[Autobot]]s. He and Mega enigmatically refer to the other Godmasters as their "children", and refuse to permit such a fate to befall them, so Hydra and Buster are dispatched to begin searching the world for the remaining Godmasters.

[[Image:HeroisChosen Ginrai and owner inspect truck.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"I dunno, it's a bit G1. Do you have anything in a fire truck or maybe a gorilla?"]]
At the [[Ocean Research Institute of California]], [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] is on the telephone with the head of [[Baney Aquarium]], who has arranged for a sick dolphin to be delivered to the institute so that Diver can take care of it. The dolphin has not yet arrived, however, and Diver soon receives a call from the trucker making the delivery—a young Japanese man named [[Ginrai]]—who explains that his truck broke down along the way. He has stopped at a rental shop, where the [[Garage owner (Masterforce)|owner]] informs him that it will take two or three days to replace his cab, but Ginrai explains that he needs it right away. Cautiously, the owner explains that he does have one cab that will do the job, but that previous owners have reported strange, vaguely supernatural phenomena while driving it. Ginrai is unfazed, and the owner offers to sell it to him; Ginrai decides to complete his delivery as a test drive to see if it's worth the purchase.

[[Image:HeroisChosen Diver spots the bracelets.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
Ginrai soon arrives at the Ocean Research Institute, and busies himself washing the cab as the dolphin is unloaded. Lost in thought, he is unable to stop a fork lift from pranging the truck, denting its fender. Soon, he moves on to cleaning out the interior, and discovers a metal sphere in the glove box, which splits open to reveal a pair of golden bracelets. He slips the bracelets on his wrists, but, looking at his reflection in the rear view mirror, decides they don't suit him... only to discover that he is unable to remove them. As he struggles with them, Diver approaches the cab, and is shocked to see the Autobot [[insignia]] glowing on the bracelets. Diver demands to know where he got them from, and Ginrai explains; Diver requests that he take him to the rental shop. As the two talk on the drive, Ginrai reveals that he has no idea what Decepticons are, and relates the notion of trying to stand up to such powerful beings to the time that he saw an escaped buffalo raging in a city and kept his distance. When Diver explains that his bracelets will allow him to become just as powerful, however, Ginrai nearly swerves off the road in shock.

[[Image:HeroisChosen truck railing.jpg|thumb|left|200px]]
Meanwhile, Hydra and Buster's search has brought them to America, the continent where they were merged with their [[Transtector]]s. They meet with the [[Headmaster Junior]]s, who tell them about a strange rumor going around about a dented truck which fixed itself, and are able to identify the rental shop which loaned the truck out. The two Godmasters immediately head out on the truck's trail...

Ginrai and Diver continue their discussion about the bracelets and the strange phenomena, until suddenly, the truck begins to surge with energy, and begins veering across the road. The dent in the fender slowly begins to disappear, but the truck itself goes crashing off a cliff; Diver leaps free in mid-air and transforms into robot mode, but Ginrai is trapped inside the cab as it lands at the foot of the cliff with the trailer crashing on top of it. As Diver hauls the trailer off, Hydra and Buster appear in the sky overhead and transform to robot mode, intending to take the truck for themselves. Diver tries to fend off the two Godmasters while, inside the cab, the injured, bloodied Ginrai struggles to reach for the door handle. He collapses halfway, and his arms drop, allowing the two bracelets to touch—and in an explosion of light, Ginrai is instantly healed when a suit of armor materializes around his body.

[[Image:Chokonpower.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
The Transformers outside react in shock as the truck itself begins to heal, its crippled and buckled frame springing back into shape perfectly. But the shocks are not over yet—Ginrai bursts through the roof in a flare of energy, and with a cry of "God On", combines with the truck, which transforms into a battle-primed robot! Ginrai himself is suitably shocked by the experience, not to mention the realisation that the robot trying to help him is Diver, and when he learns that Buster and Hydra are Decepticons, his anger activates his [[Chōkon Power]], which he uses to send the two brothers fleeing.

Diver and Ginrai return to their human forms as the sun sets, and Ginrai explains that he left Japan because of the country's stifling atmosphere and came to America as a freelance trucker to enjoy the freedom of the open road, but now he is not sure who he is. Whatever questions Ginrai may have about his identity, though, Diver is sure of one thing – he is the first Autobot Godmaster!

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] (6)
'''Human Autobots'''
* [[Ginrai]] (7)
|c2=
* [[Devil Z]] (3)
'''Human Decepticons'''
* [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] (1)
* [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] (2)
* [[Mega]] (4)
* [[Giga]] (5)
* [[Cancer]] (9)
* [[Bullhorn]] (10)
* [[Wilder]] (11)
|c3=
* [[Garage owner (Masterforce)|Garage owner]] (8)
}}

==Quotes==

"The only thing you've been granted is power, but you haven't been given hearts. As long as you are heartless, you cannot surpass humans!"
:—'''Diver''' on the Godmaster brothers.

==Note==
===Animation or technical errors===
*This episode corrects the error from the previous two, in which the parts of Hydra's robot mode which should be red were colored grey-white.

===Continuity notes===
*The explanation behind Mega and Giga's strange reference to the Godmasters as their children is... a bit on the complicated side. The story behind this unusual claim is expanded on in "[[A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva]]"—see that article for more details.
*Boy, Ginrai sure does look a lot like [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], doesn't he? Not once during all of ''Super-God Masterforce'''s broadcast run is this strange similarity addressed—it was eventually explained in "[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]" that he looks that way because his Transtector was originally intended for use by Prime.

===Trivia===
*It's not immediately clear, but since the dent that the truck receives when it's under Ginrai's care doesn't heal until ''after'' the Headmaster Juniors tell Buster and Hydra about the rumor, presumably the rumor resulted from the same thing happening when it was being driven by someone else—that being one of the "mysterious phenomena" said to surround the truck.
* A segment of this episode was included on the [[Kid Rhino]] release of season 1 of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the Sunbow cartoon]] as "Japanese scene clip". It featured the Omni Productions dub soundtrack and covered the truck breaking through the railing, Diver's transformation, and the truck's impact.

==Home video releases==
{{homevidnote|jsubs}}
;DVD
[[Image:Flag of Japan.png|20px|Japan]] 2003 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 01 ([[Geneon Universal Entertainment|Pioneer LDC]]) — Japanese audio only. 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2006 — The Takara Collection Vol 2 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' ([[Metrodome]]) 
[[Image:Flag of UK.png|20px|United Kingdom]] 2007 — ''Transformers'' — The Complete Takara Collection (Metrodome) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2008 — ''The Transformers: Super God Masterforce'' ([[Madman Entertainment]]) 
[[Image:Flag of Australia.png|20px|Australia]] 2009 — ''The Transformers: Japan Generation 1'' — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)

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[[Category:Super-God Masterforce episodes]]

List of Super-God Masterforce episodes

2010-05-25T12:58:28Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Transformers: Super-God Masterforce: 1988–1989 */ Super-Secrets

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==Transformers: Super-God Masterforce: 1988–1989==
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|-
!#!!Title!!Japanese title!!Writer!!Director!!Original airdate!!Production code
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rise Up!! Pretenders]]"
|EpisodeNumber=1
|OriginalAirDate=12 April 1988
|Aux1=立て!! プリテンダー
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Tetsuo Imasawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The sudden reappearance of the Decepticons on Earth forces the long-hidden Autobot Pretenders to drop their human disguises and rejoin the fight.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt]]"
|EpisodeNumber=2
|OriginalAirDate=19 April 1988
|Aux1=恐慌! デストロンの人間狩り
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons transform human corpses into undead "Destroids," and then attack the island nation of Karin, where the Autobots must team up with the island's prince, Cab, to save the day.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Kidnapping!? The Targeted Jumbo Jet]]"
|EpisodeNumber=3
|OriginalAirDate=26 April 1988
|Aux1=誘拐!? 狙われたジャンボジェット
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Seeking live humans for their Destroid experiments, the Decepticons attack jumbo jets, bringing the Autobots into contact with a young girl named Minerva.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Birth! Headmaster Jrs]]"
|EpisodeNumber=4
|OriginalAirDate=3 May 1988
|Aux1=誕生! ヘッドマスターJr
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Takao Yoshizawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Shūta, Cab and Minerva become Headmaster Juniors, but the Decepticons have recruited humans to their side as well.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Rage!! Little Devils with No Need for Rules]]"
|EpisodeNumber=5
|OriginalAirDate=10 May 1988
|Aux1=大暴れ!! ルール無用の小さな悪魔
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Minerva is forced to overcome her fear of fighting when the Decepticon Headmaster Juniors cause chaos as they seek revenge on a motorcycle gang from Wilder's past.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Go, Goshooter - Showdown in the Wasteland]]"
|EpisodeNumber=6
|OriginalAirDate=17 May 1988
|Aux1=行けゴーシューター・荒野の対決
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Hiroki Shibata]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Wilder continues to revisit his past when he kidnaps a former member of his gang who turned against him, and Shūta has to lead the Headmaster Juniors in rescuing him.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Panic! Protect the Wild Animals!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=7
|OriginalAirDate=24 May 1988
|Aux1=パニック! 野生動物を守れ
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Tetsuo Imasawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=It's the Autobots to the rescue when the Decepticons cause animals to stampede in Africa in a scheme to destabilize the balance of nature!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers]]"
|EpisodeNumber=8
|OriginalAirDate=31 May 1988
|Aux1=超戦士・ゴッドマスター兄弟
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A new element enters the Masterforce war in the form of Hydra and Buster—the Godmasters!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Fierce Battle!! The Autobots Are in Trouble]]"
|EpisodeNumber=9
|OriginalAirDate=7 June 1988
|Aux1=激戦!! サイバトロン危うし
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The construction of the world's largest tidal power plant in the Karin Islands quickly attracts the attention of the Decepticons, and the Autobots are once again faced with the power of the Godmaster brothers.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai]]"
|EpisodeNumber=10
|OriginalAirDate=14 June 1988
|Aux1=選ばれたヒーロー・その名はジンライ
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Takao Yoshizawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the day that he discovers a mysterious truck, a young man named Ginrai suddenly finds himself caught up in the war between the Autobots and Decepticons.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Ginrai: God On of Rage!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=11
|OriginalAirDate=21 June 1988
|Aux1=ジンライ怒のゴッドオン!!
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=While Ginrai debates over whether or not to join the Autobots, the Decepticons begin a series of fatal attacks on his trucker friends in an effort to draw him out.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva]]"
|EpisodeNumber=12
|OriginalAirDate=28 June 1988
|Aux1=奇妙な友情キャンサーとミネルバ
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Hiroki Shibata]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=In an attempt to learn the secrets of the Godmasters, the Autobots capture Cancer, who develops the world's worst case of Stockholm Syndrome.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Friend or Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=13
|OriginalAirDate=12 July 1988
|Aux1=敵か味方か!? モンスターの正体!!
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Tetsuo Imasawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The chase is on when Ginrai's Transtector activates on his own, and leads the Autobots and Decepticons to a mystery buried at a construction site.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai]]"
|EpisodeNumber=14
|OriginalAirDate=19 July 1988
|Aux1=ゴッドマスタージンライを抹殺せよ
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The command goes out for the Decepticons to utterly destroy Ginrai, and he inadvertently makes himself easy to find when he appears on television searching for the remaining Godmasters!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai]]"
|EpisodeNumber=15
|OriginalAirDate=2 August 1988
|Aux1=壮絶!! スーパージンライ誕生
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=To rescue a group of kidnapped children and defeat the menace of King Poseidon, Ginrai must discover a new transformation!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter]]"
|EpisodeNumber=16
|OriginalAirDate=9 August 1988
|Aux1=ライトフット劇的な出逢い
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Takao Yoshizawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The search for the next Godmaster leads Ginrai to Canada, and young man named Lightfoot!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger]]"
|EpisodeNumber=17
|OriginalAirDate=16 August 1988
|Aux1=敵? 第三のゴッドマスターレインジャー
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Attempting to track down new leads on the location of the remaining Godmasters, the Autobots venture into the Rocky Mountains, where they cross paths with a forest patrolman named Ranger, but Minerva suspects that he is working with the Decepticons!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Powerful Foe!! Sixknight the Wanderer]]"
|EpisodeNumber=18
|OriginalAirDate=23 August 1988
|Aux1=強敵!! さすらいのシックスナイト
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Hiroki Shibata]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=A new threat to the Autobots arrives from space in the form of Sixknight, a six-changer who targets Ginrai in order to prove his worth to the Decepticons. But Sixknight is in for a shock when he discovers the true nature of his opponent…
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen]]"
|EpisodeNumber=19
|OriginalAirDate=30 August 1988
|Aux1=勢揃い! ゴッドマスター四銃士
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Michihiro Kanayama]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The search for the fourth Godmaster bring the Autobots and Decepticons to France, where the Headmaster Juniors attend the final of the World Grand Prix, and meet the champion racer, Road King.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=20
|OriginalAirDate=13 September 1988
|Aux1=サイバトロン戦士シックスナイト?!
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Both Sixknight and Cancer have been greatly affected by their experiences with the Autobots and decide to do something about their conflicted loyalties.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Save the Little Girl! The Chōjin Warriors, the Godmasters]]"
|EpisodeNumber=21
|OriginalAirDate=20 September 1988
|Aux1=少女を救え! 超神戦士ゴッドマスター
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Cab's return home is an unhappy one thanks to the latest scheme by the Decepticons, which puts the life of his childhood friend Copo in danger.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Life? Death? Lightfoot Must Choose]]"
|EpisodeNumber=22
|OriginalAirDate=27 September 1988
|Aux1=生か? 死か? 絶体絶命ライトフット
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Takao Yoshizawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As the Decepticons' newest plan slowly begins, Lightfoot finds himself alone against the Decepticons with his father's life at stake.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Expose the Decepticons' Dark Deception!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=23
|OriginalAirDate=4 October 1988
|Aux1=デストロンの黒い罠をあばけ!
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Decepticons prove that you shouldn't believe everything you see on TV.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?]]"
|EpisodeNumber=24
|OriginalAirDate=11 October 1988
|Aux1=スーパージンライ砂漠に散る!?
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Hiroki Shibata]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Ginrai faces his greatest challenge yet when Mega and Giga reveal their true power.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?]]"
|EpisodeNumber=25
|OriginalAirDate=18 October 1988
|Aux1=破られるか! ボンバー計画
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Michihiro Kanayama]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=With Ginrai out of commission, the Decepticons initiate an all-out attack on the Bomber Project.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=26
|OriginalAirDate=25 October 1988
|Aux1=ゴッドジンライ・宇宙へ!!
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=With the Bomber Project completed, God Ginrai heads for the moon, and the battle of his life!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon]]"
|EpisodeNumber=27
|OriginalAirDate=1 November 1988
|Aux1=ゴッドジンライ・月面の対決
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=On the lunar surface, God Ginrai fights a desperate battle against Overlord and BlackZarak, with the fate of the world at stake!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado]]"
|EpisodeNumber=28
|OriginalAirDate=8 November 1988
|Aux1=オーバーロード・超魂竜巻の恐怖
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Takao Yoshizawa]], [[Atsutoshi Umezawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Overlord formulates a plan for revenge against Ginrai, but Godbomber is about to unveil a surprising new power that will thwart his evil scheme!
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Escape!! The Underwater Volcano Erupts]]"
|EpisodeNumber=29
|OriginalAirDate=15 November 1988
|Aux1=脱出!!　海底火山大爆発
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=When Lightfoot investigates the eruption of an underwater volcano, he discovers the site of a new Decepticon base.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Destroy Godbomber!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=30
|OriginalAirDate=22 November 1988
|Aux1=ゴッドボンバーを破壊せよ!!
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=In the heartland of America, the Decepticons spring a trap that puts Godbomber in danger, forcing the Headmaster Juniors to discover a new power that will save the day.
}}

{{Episode list
|Title="[[Appearance!! The Final Godmaster]]"
|EpisodeNumber=31
|OriginalAirDate=29 November 1988
|Aux1=出現!!　最後のゴッドマスター
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Michihiro Kanayama]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The final Godmaster Transtector turns up in possession of a young man named Clouder. But this particular Godmaster has a special ability which could spell the downfall of the Autobots...
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=32
|OriginalAirDate=6 December 1988
|Aux1=秘密指令! サイバトロン基地を破壊せよ!!
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Installed as a double-agent within the Autobot ranks, Clouder begins a sabotage scheme that sets up the their base for the an all-out Decepticon attack.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes]]"
|EpisodeNumber=33
|OriginalAirDate=13 December 1988
|Aux1=ピンチ! サイバトロン基地大爆発
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]], [[Hiromichi Matano]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=With God Ginrai trapped in battle with Overlord and Decepticon forces swarming the Autobots' base, catastrophe seems unavoidable.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space]]"
|EpisodeNumber=34
|OriginalAirDate=20 December 1988
|Aux1=ブラックザラック・宇宙からの破壊者
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Atsutoshi Umezawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=At last, BlackZarak arrives on Earth, and chaos follows in his wake, as Decepticon attacks spread thin the Autobot forces on Earth, and Ginrai and Grand Maximus fall victim to a deadly trap in space.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Crisis! The Day of the Downfall of Humanity]]"
|EpisodeNumber=35
|OriginalAirDate=10 January 1989
|Aux1=危機! 人類滅亡の日
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=With construction of a new Decepticon weapon occurring in the shadow of the moon, time is against the Autobots as they race into space in an attempt to stop the destruction of all life on Earth!
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?]]"
|EpisodeNumber=36
|OriginalAirDate=17 January 1989
|Aux1=ゴッドジンライ・キャンサーを救う!?
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Learning that BlackZarak is about to attack China, Cancer attempts to go to the rescue of his friends and countrymen.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base]]"
|EpisodeNumber=37
|OriginalAirDate=24 January 1989
|Aux1=ゴッドジンライデストロン基地の決戦
|Aux2=[[Hiroyuki Hoshiyama]]
|Aux3=[[Michihiro Kanayama]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=When Shūta and Clouder are captured while attempting to infiltrate the Decepticon base and used as bait to lure Ginrai into a trap, things look grim for the Autobots... until help comes from a most unexpected source!
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform]]"
|EpisodeNumber=38
|OriginalAirDate=31 January 1989
|Aux1=究極合体!! 新生命体ブラックザラック
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Yoshikata Nitta]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=In the midst of an all-out attack on the Decepticon base, Devil Z finally stands revealed, and the Autobots are faced with their deadliest enemy yet!
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn]]"
|EpisodeNumber=39
|OriginalAirDate=7 February 1989
|Aux1=死闘!! ゴッドジンライVS新生ダークウイングス
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Hiromichi Matano]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Hydra and Buster turn to Devil Z in a final attempt to gain the power they need to destroy Ginrai.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Autobots! Desperate Attack!!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=40
|OriginalAirDate=14 February 1989
|Aux1=サイバトロン! 決死のアタック!!
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Atsutoshi Umezawa]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=As BlackZarak's Devil Power throws America into chaos, Overlord seeks to prove the power of the flesh to Devil Z, and he engages Ginrai in their final, decisive confrontation.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z]]"
|EpisodeNumber=41
|OriginalAirDate=21 February 1989
|Aux1=極悪非道! デビルZの正体
|Aux2=[[Toyohiro Ando]]
|Aux3=[[Katsutoshi Sasaki]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=The Autobots track the Decepticons to the Matterhorn, and the final battle between the two factions begins.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[A Battle... and Then...]]"
|EpisodeNumber=42
|OriginalAirDate=28 February 1989
|Aux1=戦闘…そして
|Aux2=[[Yoshihisa Araki]]
|Aux3=[[Jōhei Matsūra]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=It’'s BlackZarak versus God Ginrai – the power of evil against the power of man, and the winner will decide the fate of Earth!
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Fight! Super Ginrai]]"
|EpisodeNumber=43
|OriginalAirDate=Video release
|Aux1=戦え! スーパージンライ
|Aux2=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|Aux3=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Clip show.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Begin the Bomber Project! The Creation of God Ginrai]]"
|EpisodeNumber=44
|OriginalAirDate=Video release
|Aux1=ボンバー計画発令! ゴッドジンライ誕生
|Aux2=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|Aux3=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Clip show.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[The Secret of Godbomber!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=45
|OriginalAirDate=Video release
|Aux1=ゴッドボンバーの秘密!
|Aux2=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|Aux3=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Clip show.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Great Turn-Around! Autobot Warriors!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=46
|OriginalAirDate=Video release
|Aux1=大逆転! サイバトロン戦士!
|Aux2=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|Aux3=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Clip show.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[You Too Use the Masterforce to Transform]]"
|EpisodeNumber=47
|OriginalAirDate=7th March 1989
|Aux1=マスターフォースで君もトランスフォーム
|Aux2=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|Aux3=[[Masumi Kaneda]], [[Michihiro Kanayama]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Clip show.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title="[[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]"
|EpisodeNumber=Special
|OriginalAirDate=Video release
|Aux1=秀太･グランドのマスターフォース超ひみつ!
|Aux2=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|Aux3=[[Masumi Kaneda]]
|ProdCode=
|ShortSummary=Clip show.
}}

[[Category: Episode lists|Super-God Masterforce]]
[[Category: Super-God Masterforce episodes| ]]

Transformers: Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)

2010-05-25T12:54:14Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Episodes */ Super-Secrets

{{nav-masterforce}}

'''''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce''''' (トランスフォーマー超神マスターフォース Toransufōmā: Chōjin Masutāfōsu) is a Japanese animated series that ran throughout 1988 into the early months of 1989 for 43 broadcast episodes, in support of the [[Super-God Masterforce (toyline)|toyline]] of the same name. "[[Chōjin Masterforce no Theme]]" plays as its opening theme and "[[Moero! Transformer]]" for its ending.

==Overview==
[[Image:MasterforcePoster1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Before Time Force, Wild Force, and Mystic Force...]]
With the conclusion of the first Japanese-exclusive ''Transformers'' [[franchise]], ''[[The Headmasters (cartoon)|The Headmasters]]'', head writer [[Masumi Kaneda]] felt that he had brought the story concepts introduced in ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]'' to a conclusion, and sought to make a "fresh start" with ''Super-God Masterforce''. Whereas ''The Headmasters'' had featured the existing cast of the American animated series, and gradually introduced new characters as it progressed, ''Super-God Masterforce'' was, on the surface, almost entirely divorced from what had gone before, featuring only a cast of entirely new characters in a new scenario. Although links between ''Masterforce'' and the events and characters of ''The Headmasters'' were expanded upon in various other media and articles, the series itself is remarkably self-contained, to the point of frustration, with many important background aspects not fully divulged in the course of the broadcast series.

There is a very human-centric focus in ''Masterforce'', with the basic theme of the series being that "with the Masterforce, you too transform"—that human beings are to be responsible for the defence of their own planet. This resulted in the very ''different'' approach the series takes, which sees the figures released that year by [[Hasbro]] as [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] and [[Powermaster]]s reimagined as "[[Headmaster Junior]]s" and "[[Godmaster]]s"—human beings who connect to lifeless [[Transtector]] bodies and actually ''become'' Transformers themselves. In a similar thematic move, the Autobot Pretenders do not don exterior shells and pass themselves off as "giant humans," as in American fiction, but instead perform an ill-defined holistic transformation that actually alters them at a cellular level, shrinking them down into human forms.

For some inexplicable reason, this was the first Transformers cartoon to be shown in Russia, followed by the other Japanese cartoons (in the wrong order), which left many Russian children very confused as far as continuity goes.

==Storyline==
After the events of ''The Headmasters'', the [[Earth]] has been free of [[Transformer]]s for several years, until the emergence of the [[Decepticon]] [[Pretender]]s. This group of villains were pursued to Earth during the Stone Age by a group of Autobots led by [[Metalhawk]], and when both teams crash-landed on the planet, they used their special "Pretender" powers to adopt new disguises. Metalhawk and his Autobots took on the forms of human beings and began to live among the burgeoning humanity, guiding the evolution of their culture and society, while the Decepticons became monstrous creatures and tormented early man as "demons." Eventually, the Autobot Pretenders defeated the Decepticons and sealed them away, but as the series begins, they have been liberated from their prisons by the evil alien energy-being, [[Devil Z]], to play a role in his schemes.

With the return of the Decepticons, the Autobot Pretenders are forced to drop their disguises and take up arms once again, gaining allies in three young human children ([[Shūta Gō]], [[Cab]] and [[Minerva]]) who are imbued with the power of the "Masterforce" and bond with three Transtectors sent to Earth from the planet [[Master (planet)|Master]]. The Decepticons recruit their own Headmasters Juniors as well, and as the battles on Earth progress, the true objective of Devil Z's plan comes to light. The arrival of [[Mega]], [[Giga]], [[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] and [[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] heralds the quest for the "[[Godmaster]]s"—super-powerful lifeforms that are the perfect fusion of human and Transformer, able to manipulate [[Chōkon Power]]. With these four warriors on the side of the Decepticons, the Autobots must find Godmasters of their own, and succeed when they are joined by a young trucker named [[Ginrai]], who soon recruits three more Autobot Godmasters.

Incensed by this failure, Devil Z ups his plans by summoning [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] (the newest incarnation of Decepticon leader Scorponok, who is busy leading the Decepticons against the Autobots out in space) to Earth. Discovering his plan, [[Grand Maximus]] races to Earth to inform the Autobots of BlackZarak's approach. Our heroes create [[Godbomber]], a drone that serves as an upgrade for Ginrai, enabling him to transform into "God Ginrai" and fight in space, allowing him to beat BlackZarak back.

The Autobot suffer a grave loss when the final Godmaster, [[Clouder|Doubleclouder]], is discovered and sides with the Decepticons, using his ability to adopt two robot forms to infiltrate the Autobots and destroy their headquarters. Without a base of operations, the Autobots are at a disadvantage when BlackZarak returns and merges with Devil Z to bring about the destruction of Mankind. As characters lose their humanity, change their alliances, and engage in final battles, everything comes down to a climactic duel between God Ginrai and BlackZarak atop the Matterhorn, where the Autobot hero must beat his opponent, or all life on Earth will be forfeit.

==Episodes==
{{main|List of Super-God Masterforce episodes}}

{{collist|3|
#[[Rise Up!! Pretenders|Rise Up!! Pretenders]]
#[[Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt]]
#[[Kidnapping!? The Targeted Jumbo Jet]]
#[[Birth! Headmaster Jrs]]
#[[Rage!! Little Devils with No Need for Rules]]
#[[Go, Goshooter - Showdown in the Wasteland]]
#[[Panic! Protect the Wild Animals!!]]
#[[Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers]]
#[[A Fierce Battle!! The Autobots Are in Trouble]]
#[[A Hero Is Chosen - His Name Is Ginrai]]
#[[Ginrai: God On of Rage!!]]
#[[A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva]]
#[[Friend or Foe!? The True Form of the Monster!!]]
#[[Eliminate the Godmaster Ginrai]]
#[[Heroism!! The Birth of Super Ginrai]]
#[[Lightfoot: A Dramatic Encounter]]
#[[An Enemy? The Third Godmaster, Ranger]]
#[[A Powerful Foe!! Sixknight the Wanderer]]
#[[At Full Strength! The Four Godmaster Gunmen]]
#[[The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!]]
#[[Save the Little Girl! The Chōjin Warriors, the Godmasters]]
#[[Life? Death? Lightfoot Must Choose]]
#[[Expose the Decepticons' Dark Deception!]]
#[[Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?]]
#[[Will the Bomber Project Be Destroyed!?]]
#[[God Ginrai - Into the Sky!!]]
#[[God Ginrai - Showdown on the Surface of the Moon]]
#[[Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado]]
#[[Escape!! The Underwater Volcano Erupts]]
#[[Destroy Godbomber!!]]
#[[Appearance!! The Final Godmaster]]
#[[Secret Orders! Destroy the Autobot Base!!]]
#[[Disaster! The Autobot Base Explodes]]
#[[BlackZarak - Destroyer from Space]]
#[[Crisis! The Day of the Downfall of Humanity]]
#[[God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?]]
#[[God Ginrai: Showdown at the Decepticon Base]]
#[[The Ultimate Combination!! BlackZarak, the New Lifeform]]
#[[Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn]]
#[[Autobots! Desperate Attack!!]]
#[[Malevolent and Inhuman! The True Form of Devil Z]]
#[[A Battle... and Then...]]
#[[Fight! Super Ginrai]]
#[[Begin the Bomber Project! The Creation of God Ginrai]]
#[[The Secret of Godbomber!]]
#[[Great Turn-Around! Autobot Warriors!]]
#[[You Too Use the Masterforce to Transform]] [[Shūta and Grand's Masterforce Super-Secrets!]]}}

==Cast==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
'''[[Godmaster]]s'''
*[[Ginrai]]/Super Ginrai/God Ginrai ([[Hiroshi Takemura]])
*[[Lightfoot]] ([[Tsutomu Kashiwakura]])
*[[Ranger]] ([[Hōchū Ōtsuka]])
*[[Road King]] ([[Kaneto Shiozawa]])
*[[Clouder]] ([[Takeshi Kusao]])
'''[[Pretender]]s'''
*[[Metalhawk]] ([[Katsuji Mori]])
*[[Diver (Masterforce)|Diver]] ([[Yūji Mikimoto]])
*[[Lander]] ([[Ryōichi Tanaka]])
*[[Phoenix]] ([[Masato Hirano]])
'''[[Headmaster Junior]]s'''
*[[Cab]] ([[Hiroko Emori]])
*[[Minerva]] ([[Yuriko Yamamoto]])
*[[Shūta Gō]] ([[Yumi Tōma]])
'''Others'''
*[[Godbomber]]
*[[Grand Maximus]] ([[Ikuya Sawaki]])
*[[Sixknight]] ([[Show Hayami|Shō Hayami]])

|c2=
'''[[Godmaster]]s'''
*[[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] ([[Keiichi Noda]])
*[[Giga]] ([[Keiichi Noda]])
*[[Mega]] ([[Rihoko Yoshida]])
*[[Buster (Masterforce)|Buster]] ([[Yoku Shioya]])
*[[Hydra (Masterforce)|Hydra]] ([[Ken Yamaguchi]])
'''[[Pretender]]s'''
*[[Blood]] ([[Kōji Totani]])
*[[Dauros]] ([[Daisuke Gōri]])
*[[Gilmer]] ([[Masaharu Satō]])
'''[[Headmaster Junior]]s'''
*[[Bullhorn]] ([[Kōzō Shioya]])
*[[Cancer]] ([[Akari Hibino|Yōko Ogai]])
*[[Wilder]] ([[Keiichi Nanba]])
'''[[Seacon (Masterforce)|Seacons]]'''
*[[King Poseidon]] ([[Masato Hirano]])
**[[Turtler]] ([[Masato Hirano]])
**[[Gulf]]
**[[Kraken]]
**[[Lobclaw]]
**[[Overbite (Masterforce)|Overbite]]
**[[Tentakil (Masterforce)|Tentakil]]
'''[[Sparkdash]]'''
*[[Guzzle (Masterforce)|Guzzle]]
*[[Javil]]
*[[Sizzle (Masterforce)|Sizzle]]
'''Others'''
*[[Devil Z]] ([[Hidekatsu Shibata]])
*[[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] ([[Banjō Ginga]])
*[[Browning]] ([[Fushigi Yamada|Kyōko Yamada]])

|c3=
*[[Donq]]
*[[Professor Gō]]
|nonumbering=true
}}

==Home video releases==
[[Image:MadmanMasterforce.jpg|thumb|150px|Australian DVD release]]
===Japan===
{{main|Geneon Universal Entertainment}}
*''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 01 (2003)
*''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' — DVD Box 02 (2003)

===United Kingdom===
{{main|Metrodome}}
*The Takara Collection Vol 2 — ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' (2006)
*''Transformers'' — The Complete Takara Collection (2007)

===Australia===
{{main|Madman Entertainment}}
*''The Transformers: Super God Masterforce'' (2008)
*''The Transformers: Japan Generation 1'' — Complete Collection (2009)
{{-}}

== External links ==
* [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC_%E8%B6%85%E7%A5%9E%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9 ''Transformers: Super-God Masterforce'' at the Japanese Wikipedia]

[[Category:Masterforce| Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)]]
[[Category:Television series]]

File:Movie Activity Book cover.jpg

2010-05-25T02:32:20Z

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Cover for the ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]].

{{hastak|nocategory=true}}

[[Category:Movie book covers]]

HarperCollins Publishers

2010-05-25T02:24:42Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Hunt for the Decepticons */

[[Image:HarperCollins logo.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
'''HarperCollins Publishers''' is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. The company came into being in 1989, when News Corp. acquired Scottish firm William Collins, Sons and Co, and merged it with a New York firm, Harper and Row. HarperCollins is one of the largest publishing companies in the world with over 30 imprints. They have released many Transformers books focused on the children and young adult fiction markets.

==Titles published==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
;Story books
*''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]''
*"[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*"[[Sam's New Car]]"
*"[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Meet the Autobots]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Meet the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers|Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]]
*[[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
;Story books
*"[[Attack of the Dinobots!]]"
*"[[Bumblebee Versus Meltdown]]"
*"[[Clash of the Constructicons]]"
*"[[Starscream Flies Again]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Robot Roll Call]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[The Decepticons Invade!]]"
*''[[Be the Hero]]'': "[[Prime Suspect]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Web of Deception]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Time-Quake]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers Animated: How to Draw|How to Draw]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Transformers Animated 2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar|2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar]]
*[[Transformers Animated Annual 2009|''Transformers Animated'' Annual 2009]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book|Coloring and Activity Book with Pens]]
*[[Transformers Animated Bumper Sticker Book|Bumper Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Mini Sticker Book|Mini Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Sticker Activity Book|Sticker Activity Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Tattoo Activity Book|Tattoo Activity Book]]

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
;Story books
*''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]''
*"[[The Last Prime]]"
*"[[When Robots Attack!]]"
*"[[Operation Autobot]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Reusable Sticker Book|The Reusable Sticker Book]]

===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
*"[[Satellite Meltdown]]"
*"[[Buddy Brawl]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]"

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/ HarperCollins' official site]

[[Category: Companies]]

Satellite Meltdown

2010-05-25T02:23:46Z

Magnus Maximus:

{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Hunt for the Decepticons|Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons]]''
|title="Satellite Meltdown"
|image=Satellite Meltdown cover.jpg
|caption=
|next=Buddy Brawl
|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]
|written by=[[Lucy Rosen]]
|illustrated by=[[Maercelo Matere]]
|date=[[August 3]], [[2010]]
|imprint=HarperFestival
|price=$3.99
|pagecount=24
|ISBN=9780061991790 0061991791
|printed in=
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==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
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==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Transformers-Hunt-Decepticons-Satellite-Meltdown/?ISBN=9780061991790 Listing at HarperCollins.com]

[[Category:Storybooks]]

Buddy Brawl

2010-05-25T02:23:30Z

Magnus Maximus:

{{comicstory
|next=
|seriesissue=''[[Hunt for the Decepticons|Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons]]''
|prev=Satellite Meltdown
|image=Buddy Brawl cover.jpg
|caption=
|title="Buddy Brawl"
|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]
|written by=[[Lucy Rosen]]
|illustrated by=[[MADA Design, Inc.]]
|date=[[December 7]], [[2010]]
|imprint=HarperCollins
|pagecount=32
|price=$3.99
|ISBN=9780061991769 0061991767
|printed in=
}}

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
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==Notes==
{{stub}}

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Transformers-Hunt-Decepticons-Buddy-Brawl/?ISBN=9780061991769 Listing at HarperCollins.com]

[[Category:Storybooks]]

Transformers (2007 books)

2010-05-25T02:11:37Z

Magnus Maximus: updating HarperCollins list

{{nav-movie}}

[[Image:Optimusvsmegatroncover.jpg|thumb|right|200px|"I'm a PC" "And I'm a Mac!"]]
[[Del Rey Books]] panders to the bibliophile market.

* [[Ghosts of Yesterday|Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday]] - Prequel novel
* [[Transformers (novel)|Transformers]] - Film novelization
* [[Transformers: The Junior Novel]] - Film novelization for larval humans

[[HarperCollins Publishers]] released books for the younger set:
;Story books
*''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]'' - Illustrated storybook of the film
*"[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*"[[Sam's New Car]]"
*"[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Meet the Autobots]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Meet the Decepticons]]"
;Activity books
*[[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers|Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]]
*[[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]]

[[Publications International]] released several audio "Play-A-Sound" storybooks:

* [[Transformers (interactive Play-a-Sound Storybook)|Transformers]] - a retelling of the movie
* [[Bumblebee Rumble]] - [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]]'s fight with [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]]

[[Category:Books]]
[[Category:Movie]]

HarperCollins Publishers

2010-05-25T02:08:55Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Titles published */

[[Image:HarperCollins logo.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
'''HarperCollins Publishers''' is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. The company came into being in 1989, when News Corp. acquired Scottish firm William Collins, Sons and Co, and merged it with a New York firm, Harper and Row. HarperCollins is one of the largest publishing companies in the world with over 30 imprints. They have released many Transformers books focused on the children and young adult fiction markets.

==Titles published==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
;Story books
*''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]''
*"[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*"[[Sam's New Car]]"
*"[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Meet the Autobots]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Meet the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers|Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]]
*[[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
;Story books
*"[[Attack of the Dinobots!]]"
*"[[Bumblebee Versus Meltdown]]"
*"[[Clash of the Constructicons]]"
*"[[Starscream Flies Again]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Robot Roll Call]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[The Decepticons Invade!]]"
*''[[Be the Hero]]'': "[[Prime Suspect]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Web of Deception]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Time-Quake]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers Animated: How to Draw|How to Draw]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Transformers Animated 2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar|2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar]]
*[[Transformers Animated Annual 2009|''Transformers Animated'' Annual 2009]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book|Coloring and Activity Book with Pens]]
*[[Transformers Animated Bumper Sticker Book|Bumper Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Mini Sticker Book|Mini Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Sticker Activity Book|Sticker Activity Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Tattoo Activity Book|Tattoo Activity Book]]

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
;Story books
*''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]''
*"[[The Last Prime]]"
*"[[When Robots Attack!]]"
*"[[Operation Autobot]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Reusable Sticker Book|The Reusable Sticker Book]]

===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
*"[[Buddy Brawl]]"
*"[[Satellite Meltdown]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]"

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/ HarperCollins' official site]

[[Category: Companies]]

File:Ratchet to the Rescue cover.jpg

2010-05-25T02:08:05Z

Magnus Maximus: Cover for the ''I Can Read!: Hunt for the Decepticons'' book "Ratchet to the Rescue". {{hastak}}

Cover for the ''[[I Can Read!]]: [[Hunt for the Decepticons]]'' book "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]".

{{hastak}}

File:ROTF Coloring Book cover.jpg

2010-05-25T02:05:14Z

Magnus Maximus:

Cover for the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (books)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' [[Revenge of the Fallen: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]].

{{hastak|nocategory=true}}

[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen book covers]]

File:ROTF Coloring Book cover.jpg

2010-05-25T02:04:24Z

Magnus Maximus: Cover for the ''Revenge of the Fallen (books)|'' Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons. {{hastak|nocategory=true}} Revenge of the Fallen book covers

File:Movie Activity Book cover.jpg

2010-05-25T02:01:57Z

Magnus Maximus: Cover for the ''Transformers (2007)|'' Activity Book and Gel Pen. {{hastak|nocategory=true}} Category:Move book covers

Cover for the ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]].

{{hastak|nocategory=true}}

[[Category:Move book covers]]

File:Movie Coloring Book cover.jpg

2010-05-25T01:59:51Z

Magnus Maximus: Cover for the ''Transformers (2007)|'' Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers. {{hastak|nocategory=true}} Category:Movie book covers

Cover for the ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers|Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]].

{{hastak|nocategory=true}}

[[Category:Movie book covers]]

Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers

2010-05-25T01:57:35Z

Magnus Maximus:

{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]''
|image=Movie Coloring Book cover.jpg
|caption=
|title=Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers
|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]
|written by=[[Lana Jacobs]]
|date=[[May 22]], [[2007]]
|imprint=HarperFestival
|pagecount=32
|price=$3.99
|ISBN=9780060888268 0060888261
|printed in=
}}

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
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==Notes==
{{stub}}

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Transformers-Coloring-Activity-Book-Stickers-Lana-Jacobs/?ISBN=9780060888268 Listing at HarperCollins.com]

[[Category:Movie activity books|Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]]

HarperCollins Publishers

2010-05-25T01:56:41Z

Magnus Maximus: /* Transformers (2007) */

[[Image:HarperCollins logo.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
'''HarperCollins Publishers''' is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. The company came into being in 1989, when News Corp. acquired Scottish firm William Collins, Sons and Co, and merged it with a New York firm, Harper and Row. HarperCollins is one of the largest publishing companies in the world with over 30 imprints. They have released many Transformers books focused on the children and young adult fiction markets.

==Titles published==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
;Story books
*''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]''
*"[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*"[[Sam's New Car]]"
*"[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Meet the Autobots]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Meet the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers|Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers]]
*[[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
;Story books
*"[[Attack of the Dinobots!]]"
*"[[Bumblebee Versus Meltdown]]"
*"[[Clash of the Constructicons]]"
*"[[Starscream Flies Again]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Robot Roll Call]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[The Decepticons Invade!]]"
*''[[Be the Hero]]'': "[[Prime Suspect]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Web of Deception]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Time-Quake]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers Animated: How to Draw|How to Draw]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Transformers Animated 2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar|2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar]]
*[[Transformers Animated Annual 2009|''Transformers Animated'' Annual 2009]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book|Coloring and Activity Book with Pens]]
*[[Transformers Animated Bumper Sticker Book|Bumper Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Mini Sticker Book|Mini Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Sticker Activity Book|Sticker Activity Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Tattoo Activity Book|Tattoo Activity Book]]

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
;Story books
*''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]''
*"[[The Last Prime]]"
*"[[When Robots Attack!]]"
*"[[Operation Autobot]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Reusable Sticker Book|The Reusable Sticker Book]]

===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
*"[[Buddy Brawl]]"
*"[[Satellite Meltdown]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]"

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/ HarperCollins' official site]

[[Category: Companies]]

Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers

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{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]''
|image=Movie Coloring Book cover.jpg
|caption=
|title=Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons
|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]
|written by=[[Lana Jacobs]]
|date=[[May 22]], [[2007]]
|imprint=HarperFestival
|pagecount=32
|price=$3.99
|ISBN=9780060888268 0060888261
|printed in=
}}

==Synopsis==

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==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Transformers-Coloring-Activity-Book-Stickers-Lana-Jacobs/?ISBN=9780060888268 Listing at HarperCollins.com]

[[Category:Movie activity books|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]

File:The Quest for the AllSpark cover.jpg

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Cover for the ''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]'' book "[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]".

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[[Category:Movie book covers]]

Category:Revenge of the Fallen activity books

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[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen|Activity books]]
[[Category:Activity books]]

Revenge of the Fallen: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons

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{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''
|image=ROTF Coloring Book cover.jpg
|caption=
|title=Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons
|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]
|written by=[[Devan Aptekar]]
|art=[[MADA Design, Inc.]] and [[Guido Guidi]]
|imprint=HarperFestival
|pagecount=32
|price=$4.99
|date=[[May 12]], [[2009]]
|ISBN=9780061729676 0061729671
|printed in=
}}

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
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==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Transformers-Revenge-Fallen-Coloring-Activity-Book-Crayons/?ISBN=9780061729676 Listing at HarperCollins.com]

[[Category:Revenge of the Fallen activity books|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]

Category:Movie storybooks

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[[Category:Storybooks]]

Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Stickers

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Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen

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{{comicstory
|seriesissue=''[[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]''
|image=Movie Activity Book cover.jpg
|caption=
|title=Activity Book and Gel Pen
|publisher=[[HarperCollins Publishers]]
|written by=[[Jenny Bak]]
|date=[[May 22]], [[2007]]
|imprint=HarperFestival
|pagecount=32
|price=$4.99
|ISBN=9780060888275 006088827X
|printed in=
}}

==Synopsis==

==Featured characters==
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==Notes==
{{stub}}

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Transformers-Activity-Book-Gel-Pen-Jenny-Bak/?ISBN=9780060888275 Listing at HarperCollins.com]

[[Category:Movie activity books|Activity Book and Gel Pen]]

HarperCollins Publishers

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[[Image:HarperCollins logo.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
'''HarperCollins Publishers''' is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. The company came into being in 1989, when News Corp. acquired Scottish firm William Collins, Sons and Co, and merged it with a New York firm, Harper and Row. HarperCollins is one of the largest publishing companies in the world with over 30 imprints. They have released many Transformers books focused on the children and young adult fiction markets.

==Titles published==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
;Story books
*''[[Transformers: The Junior Novel]]''
*''[[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]]''
*"[[The Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*"[[Sam's New Car]]"
*"[[Optimus Prime Versus Megatron]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Meet the Autobots]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Meet the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen|Activity Book and Gel Pen]]

===''Transformers Animated''===
;Story books
*"[[Attack of the Dinobots!]]"
*"[[Bumblebee Versus Meltdown]]"
*"[[Clash of the Constructicons]]"
*"[[Starscream Flies Again]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Robot Roll Call]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[The Decepticons Invade!]]"
*''[[Be the Hero]]'': "[[Prime Suspect]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Quest for the AllSpark]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Web of Deception]]"
*''Be the Hero'': "[[Time-Quake]]"

;Activity books
*[[Transformers Animated: How to Draw|How to Draw]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Transformers Animated 2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar|2009 Make-Your-Own Mini Calendar]]
*[[Transformers Animated Annual 2009|''Transformers Animated'' Annual 2009]]
*[[Transformers Animated Coloring and Activity Book|Coloring and Activity Book with Pens]]
*[[Transformers Animated Bumper Sticker Book|Bumper Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Mini Sticker Book|Mini Sticker Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Sticker Activity Book|Sticker Activity Book]]
*[[Transformers Animated Tattoo Activity Book|Tattoo Activity Book]]

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
;Story books
*''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]''
*"[[The Last Prime]]"
*"[[When Robots Attack!]]"
*"[[Operation Autobot]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[I Am Optimus Prime (ROTF)|I Am Optimus Prime]]"
*''I Can Read!'': "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]"

;Activity books
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons|Coloring and Activity Book and Crayons]]
*[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Reusable Sticker Book|The Reusable Sticker Book]]

===''Hunt for the Decepticons''===
*"[[Buddy Brawl]]"
*"[[Satellite Meltdown]]"
*''[[I Can Read!]]'': "[[Ratchet to the Rescue]]"

==External links==
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/ HarperCollins' official site]

[[Category: Companies]]

Category:Movie activity books

2010-05-25T01:47:39Z

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[[Category:Activity books]]

Transformers: Activity Book and Gel Pen

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