Minor (rank)

Minor is an Autobot military rank in Transformers Animated continuity.

In the Autobot military organization, Minor is a commissioned officer rank somewhere below Prime. It is generally assigned to Autobot Academy graduates, many of whom are on the fast track to the Cybertron Elite Guard. It is appended to the end of an Autobot's name, much as the Prime rank is. Minors are often assigned to train the less prestigious enlisted Autobots.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

A jerk at any rank, Sentinel Minor was the drill officer of the Autobot boot camp attended by Bumblebee and Bulkhead. Autoboot Camp It is unknown if Optimus was also a Minor.

Rodimus Prime's toy is also called Rodimus Minor not Prime.

Being that Minor-Prime-Magnus seems to be the general way ranks work in animated, Ultra Magnus may have used to be a minor too once and then a prime but it seems (by the way Bumblebee said it) "Ultra" is a main name rank too.

Trivia

• The appellative 'Minor' was first used for the Beast Wars Optimus Minor toy, but this is not a official reference to or use of a rank.