Nemesis Prime (Armada)

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Nemesis Prime is a Unicron-affiliated Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
50% Optimus Prime + 50% Decepticon = 100% Wha???

Nemesis Prime is a monstrous Transformer sent to kill Autobot and Decepticon alike. He scanned the minds of the Transformers and took the form of Optimus Prime, as he was the most powerful and respected in all their minds. As a duplicate of Optimus Prime, Nemesis has all of Prime's strength and power, in addition to his own ability to reconstruct himself.

Nemesis Prime wields the Vorpal Saber, a twisted clone of the Star Saber, and has a Mini-Con partner named Run-Over.

Fiction

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Cartoon continuity

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Linkage

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Basically, he's not a nice guy. Nice effects, though.

Nemesis Prime was granted the Doomstone and was sent to ravage, devastate and destroy any world he came across, accompanied by Run-Over and the Aerial Extermination Mini-Con Team. The death-agonies and negative psychic energies of the beings he destroyed were stored inside the Doomstone, which was at some point taken from him and later transferred into Ravenus. Linkage Part 11

Armada cartoon

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Voice actor: Paul Dobson (English), Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese){{#if: Pekka Lehtosaari (Finnish), Juan Guzmán (Latin-American Spanish), Anders Byström (Swedish), Ronaldo Júlio (Brazilian Portuguese), Michel Dodane (French)|, Pekka Lehtosaari (Finnish), Juan Guzmán (Latin-American Spanish), Anders Byström (Swedish), Ronaldo Júlio (Brazilian Portuguese), Michel Dodane (French)}}
Oh my god, what happened to your faaaaace?!

Nemesis Prime was encountered by a party of Transformers on a strange planet composed of salt and technorganic materials, after they fell into a worm hole that had taken shape due to Unicron's lack of a physical body. Nemesis Prime was a Unicron-created being that was very savage and feral in nature, using his Vorpal Saber nearly to destroy several of the Autobots and Decepticons. Although he was beastly and insane, his exact motives and personality were unknown, as he was simply a puppet of Sideways. Nemesis Prime was eventually destroyed by a combined blast from Galvatron using the Requiem Blaster and Optimus Prime using his new Overload power unit. Sideways was seen fleeing the scene in trans-phase mode, while Nemesis Prime's remains were scattered about the area. Mysteriously, the planet immediately began to break down and was destroyed afterwards. Puppet

Ask Sideways

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After hijacking Vector Prime's Axiom Nexus News column, known liar Sideways agreed that Nemesis Primes and Grand Scourge were the same being. Ask Sideways, 2015/06/28

Games

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Transformers: Battle Tactics

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Nemesis Prime Armada participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was an Epic character who first appeared in the "Armada: Episode IV: Land Military Team" event, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character. Transformers: Battle Tactics

Toys

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Armada

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I am darkness, I am the night.
(Hasbro version shown)
  • Nemesis Prime with Run-Over (Super-Con, 2003)
Part of the eighth and final wave of Hasbro's Armada Super-Cons, Nemesis Prime is a redeco of the Super-Con Optimus Prime toy, transforming into a longnosed truck cab of made-up model. In truck mode, his trailer hitch allows him to pull the various trailers available to the Super Base Optimus Prime mold. Plugging a Mini-Con onto the Powerlinx plug on his robot mode back unlocks a "punching" action that moves his arms back and forth when the plugged-in Mini-Con is pushed up and down. While his arm-mounted exhaust pipes can be easily removed, there's not really anything you can do with them, as they cannot combine into a handgun like the Super Base Optimus's arm-pipes.
(Takara version shown)
He came with his Mini-Con partner Run-Over, who can also become a handgun Nemesis Prime (or any toy with 5 mm post-compatible points) can hold.
In Japan, he was only available as a mail-away item from TV Magazine (limited to 5000 pieces) under the name Scourge, a nod to Hasbro's Robots in Disguise Scourge. There are a number of small but significant differences between Hasbro and Takara's versions of the toys; the Hasbro version is cast in midnight-blue and sandy-tan plastics, where the Takara version is more brownish-black and neutral light gray. (Scourge's Mini-Con, "Sweep", shares the change in plastic colors.) The Takara version also appears to have a smaller number of paint applications with less color variety.
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Generations

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Nemesis kneels before the Monster Mash and pledges his loyalty to the graveyard smash.

Generations Armada Nemesis Prime is a new-head retool of Commander Class Armada Universe Optimus Prime; representing his "regenerating" face from the Armada cartoon. Specifically, the exact frame we have pictured above. His coloration is based on his cartoon appearance, as opposed to his Hasbro toy, lacking any of that swaggy off-white bone tan it had. He also doesn't feature a Decepticon insignia, with the plate on the top of his truck mode also being retooled to now be smooth and blank.
Nemesis Prime entirely omits Optimus's combiner trailer, (which he can still combine with, showing off a brand new Super Mode not mentioned in his instructions) but rather includes the Air Defense Mini-Con Team. They combine into the Star Saber for him to wield. Nemesis retains Optimus's large ion blaster and smokestack guns, which serve as additional weapons for him to use. If desired, the ion blaster can store in his truck bed via the 5 mm ports back there which totally aren't hands.
Nemesis's chest panel can be opened up to reveal his dark copy of the Matrix. Painted gold but with a red core, you could say it represents the Doomstone.
This set was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 as an exclusive for the fall 2025 editions of New York Comic Con and MCM London in the west, and was a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive in Japan. On the first day of NYCC, the set was also made available to pre-order for Hasbro Pulse Premium members only, opening for non-premium members on November 3. Initially announced at US$74.99, the set would cost US$89.99 upon release.

Notes

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Oh, this guy's gonna be a huge deal, totally.
  • In Legends of the Microns, Nemesis Prime never actually speaks, only roaring the whole time.
  • According to Joe Kyde, he created Armada Nemesis Prime at the half-serious suggestion of Aaron Archer. The unfinished deco sheet somehow made it to Dreamwave Productions, who prominently featured him on a pull-out poster included with the (nearly-chart-topping) fifth issue of their first G1 miniseries—leading the Hasbro team to actually produce the figure. Kyde's preliminary deco served as the starting point for Takara's, while the Hasbro version ended up being produced independently.<ref name ="Kyde"/>

Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Scourge (スカージ Sukāji), Nemesis Prime (ネメシスプライム Nemeshisu Puraimu)
  • Hungarian: Nemezisz Prájm

References

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