Triple-Threat Prime

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"Triple-Threat Prime" is an Autobot from the Beast Wars: Uprising portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.

Fighting the good fight at the twilight of the Great War, Triple-Threat Prime was an Autobot leader who was well known for his many clashes with Galvatron.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

The Autobot who would become Triple-Threat Prime had already risen to the rank of Autobot leader before the Autobots arrived to liberate Master from Decepticon hands. They found allies in the native Cyberdroids - those Optimus loyalists who had fought the Malignus insurgency. Autobots and Cyberdroids liberated the deposed triumvirate of Apex, Hi-Q, and Diac.

Hoping to check the power-mad Galvatron and his three Cyberdroid allies, the Autobot leader binary-bonded himself to the three Cyberdroids. Thus empowered, Triple-Threat Prime battled Galvatron and his forces across Master in a series of epic conflicts. What became of him after the Autobots were forced to abandon the planet to the Decepticons is unknown. A Brush With Infamy

Notes

  • So who is Triple-Threat Prime? The most obvious suggestion is that it's Optimus Prime, recovered from his (literally) untimely death four million years ago, as documented in "A Change to the Agenda". Narrator Nucleon mentions that the Optimus faction took their name from the "once-and-future" Autobot leader... and let's be honest here, Optimus coming back from the dead is a well-trodden plot point. A convincing argument could also be made in favor of Rodimus Prime, who is generally considered to be the arch-enemy of Galvatron; "Micro-Aggressions" sees the former Autobot leader in disgrace for transgressions that aren't made clear.