Optimus Prime (SG)
| This article is about the evil Autobot leader. For his heroic counterpart, see Optimus Prime (G1). For other meanings, see Optimus Prime (disambiguation), Nova Prime (disambiguation). |
- Optimus Prime is the leader of the evil Autobots from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
Optimus Prime is the sadistic, tyrannical leader of the evil Autobots, a cruel and ambitious villain whose plans fall nothing short of universal conquest. First stop: Earth! The only thing standing in Prime's path to domination is Megatron, a young and noble Decepticon willing to lead a small band of rebels in a fight for freedom.
Long ago, he was a librarian named Optronix who cheated his way up through Cybertronian society. He formed the war-loving Autobots and initiated a war against the complacent, but it wasn't until a crucial, yet undocumented moment that he truly turned insane. He suspends the corpses of his enemies and would-be usurpers on the walls, talking to them as if they still lived. He is completely unhinged, prone to deadly outbursts against even his most loyal followers.
However, a chance encounter with the rare benevolent side of Unicron has restored Prime's sanity, turning him into the being known as Nova Prime, who now fights for peace in the universe.
Fiction
Shattered Glass
Dangerously obsessive, Optronix worked as a librarian in the Great Cybertronian Archives during the Golden Age. Backstabbing his way up the ranks, he soon amassed a following of like-minded Cybertronians who believed in his code of advancement through conflict. Suddenly, his armies attacked, sweeping through cities and killing those who refused to join them. Shattered Glass BotCon 2008 Optimus Prime profile card Among those who joined Prime in the second Cybertronian war was his brother Ultra Magnus. BotCon 2012 Treadshot profile card When the scientist Starscream turned down Optronix's offer, he ordered Starscream's Crystal City home to be destroyed in front of him. BotCon 2008 Starscream profile card With their spoils, his "Autobots" began arming themselves with more complicated weaponry, but Optronix, now named Optimus Prime, saved the most advanced upgrades for himself. His hunger for power and knowledge ended one day without warning; he discovered something terrible that destroyed his mind, and in place of his cold calculations was now an unhinged mind bent on random, indiscriminate violence. He strung up his countless victims along the walls of his headquarters in Iacon and began talking to them, asking them mockingly for advice.
But Megatron, a young champion from Polyhex, gathered an army to oppose him. Megatron's forces also had a way to counter Optimus Prime's military superiority: the ability to configure their bodies into alternate forms. It did not take long for Optimus Prime to steal this "Decepticon" technology for himself. Shattered Glass
At some point Ultra Magnus staged a coup. It ended unsuccessfully, with Optimus ripping off Magnus's face and imprisoning him on Paradron. Invasion
When the Decepticons destroyed all but one of the rogue mercenary group named the Wreckers in the battle of Praxus-Delta, Optimus Prime welcomed their leader, Rodimus, into his ranks. BotCon 2008 Rodimus profile card Increasingly paranoid, Optimus Prime began suspecting his subordinates of treachery. He killed the leader of his elite Seeker unit, Drench, and when he learned of Seeker Sideswipe's dissatisfaction with his leader's assassination, Prime staged an ambush to kill him. However, not only did Sideswipe narrowly escape and join the Decepticons, BotCon 2008 Sideswipe profile card one of Optimus's few friends and savior at the Torus Heights battles, another Autobot, happened to be at the location of the ambush and did get killed. Optimus never learned of this though, and assumed Cliffjumper had died in the battle at Darkmount. Shattered Glass Optimus chose Rodimus in place of Sideswipe and Bumblebee to take Drench's place as the Seeker unit's new leader, having him rebuilt into the fearsome Goldbug. BotCon 2008 Goldbug profile card
Optimus began looking elsewhere. He targeted the distant planet Earth for conquest, had several of his Autobots reconfigure their bodies to transform into the machinery native to the planet, and began construction of an Ark. However, he requested so much weaponry to be built onto the starship that the integrity of the launching platform was in question. He dismissed these concerns.
Close to the Ark's completion, Cliffjumper appeared to return from the dead. At first, he was readily welcomed back into their ranks, but they quickly learned that he was not their Cliffjumper at all, but a Cliffjumper doppelganger. Prime shot him and ordered his body dumped in the Rad Zone. This backfired, as Cliffjumper was recruited by the Decepticons, and during a subsequent full-scale Decepticon attack, his glass gas weaponry was used in an attack on the Ark launching platform. Prime's plans to conquer Earth were stopped for the moment. Shattered Glass
After a later Autobot ambush at the recently rediscovered Arch-Ayr fuel dump, the Cliffjumper doppelganger angrily rushed Optimus Prime, followed by the combined forces of the Mayhem Suppression Squad. Despite it all, Optimus Prime kept on his feet, though his rage was growing with every blow. No one, however, was expecting the sudden arrival of an army of Dinobots led by the exiled mad scientist, Wheeljack. Optimus Prime ordered the rampaging Dinobots to destroy the Decepticons, but instead the beasts attacked each other. During the chaos, both sides withdrew.
Optimus Prime was furious at the Autobots' failure. At Side Burn's clever suggestion, Prime ordered Wheeljack be put in charge of rebuilding the Ark, a task that the mad scientist felt was beneath him. Also, he demanded that the Dinobots be hunted down and gathered for the Autobots' purposes.
Blurr and Rodimus returned triumphantly with eight Dinobots, though Rodimus had lost his hand in the process. Optimus Prime stood over Rodimus as he awoke from Ratchet's table: the traitorous Seeker now had a buzzsaw in place of where his hand used to be. A suitable punishment! Prime told Rodimus he should be grateful he let him live at all. Perhaps he should use the saw to remove that ridiculous thing from his face? Though Blurr and Rodimus thought Grimlock had died during their search for the Dinobots, sure enough, Grimlock appeared, alive and strangely very intelligent, within their base. Optimus Prime was about to punish Grimlock as well, but Grimlock pointed out a fuel system error in the blueprints of the Ark. The evil Autobot leader let the Dinobot leader go, but demanded someone be brought to him he could destroy. Dungeons & Dinobots
When Optimus Prime ordered the Ark fixed, he knew that the Decepticons would try to follow the Autobots into space. Jazz mentioned that Ricochet had taken care of the Decepticons. Optimus's eyes filled with rage as he learned that Ricochet had captured Megatron. Prime immediately left to reprimand Ricochet for stealing the honor of destroying Megatron. Upon his arrival at the Temple of Knowledge, Optimus and Ricochet were attacked by a group of Decepticon Micromasters, allowing Megatron to escape. After a few turnabouts, Megatron won the day. The Ark launched without Optimus Prime (due to Rodimus' treachery), so Prime ordered a retreat. Once back at the launch site, he learned from Blurr that Rodimus had thrown the Autobots loyal to Prime off the ship. Optimus Prime ordered Ricochet to the Agonizing Rehabilitation Chambers for his impudent plan of capturing Megatron. He also promised that Blurr had failed him for the last time. Do Over
In one of Aquarius's explanatory flashbacks to Breakaway, Topspin, and Landquake, Optimus Prime asked Ironhide how progress was coming on Omega Doom. He was pleased to hear that it was going well, and gloated that once the behemoth was finished, the galaxy would be his for the taking.
In the present day, Rodimus promised that his assassins would take down Optimus Prime at the same time Alpha Trion's agents took down Megatron, thus paving the way for their own conquering. Reunification: Part 3
Or not.
After the assassination of Megatron, (of which Optimus learned about second-hand from Around Cybertron) Around Cybertron #6 Hound and Remote Patrol Six made their move, surrounding Optimus Prime and Ricochet as they discussed Megatron's death, intending to kill Optimus and install Rodimus in his place as Prime. Hound's rally cries failed to impress Optimus, and the Autobot leader proceeded to use Ricochet as a living shield against a blast from Warpath's chest-mounted cannon, before crushing Kup's head with his bare hands, destroying Warpath's chest cannon, taking out Hound by flinging Warpath into him, and cannon-blasting Camshaft in the head.
However, the battle was not over yet, as Alpha Trion, Sky Lynx, and Nightscream had arrived to kill Optimus themselves. However, Prime introduced the trio to a completed Omega Doom, who reduced Alpha Trion to a distant smear on the ground, before going off to destroy the Decepticons while Optimus dealt with Sky Lynx and Nightscream. Reunification: Part 5 The Coming Storm: Part 1
Optimus Prime was destroyed and left to die during an important battle in Sector 17 of the Mirtonian Quadrant. After Prime was abandoned by his troops, he dragged himself into a nearby CR chamber, and with the help of a local tech, he was upgraded into a new body with a sword made out of a mysterious "G-Metal". Optimus Prime returned to Polyhex and murdered many of those who had abandoned him. BotCon 2012 Optimus Prime profile card
Some time after Prime returned, his brother Ultra Magnus and the Junkions were sprung from the prison planet of Paradron by Wheeljack and Tracks. Optimus Prime watched over a viewscreen as Magnus killed several of his most loyal warriors. After Magnus and his new army escaped via the stellar spanner into an alternate universe, Optimus Prime activated a distress beacon, knowing that Magnus's rival Treadshot would do his dirty work for him. Invasion
In 2015, Prime mounted an all-out assault on Decepticon City. Before long, Galvatron arrived from Cybertron, and the two leaders wound up in a one-on-one confrontation. Optimus quickly gained the upper hand, but scheming interference by Rodimus led to the Autobot leader taking a serious gunshot wound. Memory's Splinter With the tide turned, the Autobots retreated to Sky Lynx, with Blaster carrying the injured Optimus aboard. Restoration
En route to Cybertron, Sky Lynx announced that he had insufficient power to carry all his passengers there, and Optimus was among those who Rodimus dumped out. Floating through space, Prime found himself in the presence of Unicron. Familiar Reflections However, the fragment of Unicron he encountered was his rare good side, so Unicron restored Prime's sanity and rebuilt him into Nova Prime as a messenger of justice. With X-Brawn, Checkpoint, and the Autotroopers serving as his Knights of Unicron, Nova Prime returned to Cybertron to end the threat of the evil Autobots. He defeated Rodimus in combat and cast him down into the depths of Cybertron. Out of the One, Many
Unfortunately, while Nova Prime's forces were rounding up the other Autobots, Unicron's opposite number Primus chose to manifest himself. The deity-turned-planet reverted to his robot mode, and intended to eliminate the infestation of other-dimensional vermin from his plane, including the positive universe's planet Earth. Surprisingly, Earth transformed into a Light God named Gaea, empowered by the Rarified Energon of that world as her lifeblood. As the dark Primus and Gaea battled, Nova Prime brought his troops within range and fired as one at Primus's eye, blinding him long enough for Gaea to defeat him.
Gaea reverted into her planet mode, now existing as a mechanical world, and replaced Primus as the Cybertron of that reality. As a council of governors formed to oversee the united Cybertronians of two worlds, Nova Prime and his Knights served as guardians of the rulers. His insanity finally quelled, Nova Prime was at peace and found his new world...beautiful. The Future Buried...
Lil Formers
Optimus Prime ran afoul of Nemesis Prime, who accused him of "biting his style." Lil Formers
Recordicons
At some unspecified point in time, a team of Autobots somehow under the command of both Rodimus Prime and Optimus Prime fought Thundercracker and Ravage in the Transformers' greatest battle on Earth, "Digital Doom on the Highway to Destruction". According to Ravage, anyway. Recordicons #3
SD SG
Optimus Prime meta-complained about the idea of him turning good. He said "they" would never do that to the likes of Megatron or Starscream, before being provided examples of both. SD SG #1
Toys
Timelines
- Shattered Glass (BotCon box set, 2008)
- Accessories: Aero-fairing "ion blaster", smokestack rifle
- Timelines/Shattered Glass Optimus Prime is a purple, gray, and black redeco of heroic Classics Optimus Prime, transforming into a semi cab of undetermined, probably made-up model. In robot mode, his aero fairing transforms into a large ion blaster, and his smokestacks transform into a smaller blaster. Additionally, both can combine together to form a back-mounted shoulder weapon. The left side of the wind vane has the tampograph marking which writes "Til all are gone!".
- Optimus Prime is only available as part of a set of six toys, along with Autobot Jazz, Grimlock, Goldbug, Razorclaw, and Starscream.
| Classics mold: Optimus Prime | ||
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- Invasion (BotCon souvenir set, 2012)
- Accessories: "G-Metal" sword
- Optimus Prime is a redeco of heroic Transformers Optimus Prime, and transforms into a racing truck in the same colors as the 2008 figure. A large Autobot insignia adorns the hood; along one side of the hood is inscribed "I shall stand...", with the other side reading "... the rest shall fall". He features a rub sign on his roof, and has a (non-detachable) matrix gimmick in robot mode formed by a relief pattern on the inside of the cab's side windows, which is visible through the windshield/chest in robot mode. He also comes with a sword that he can wield with both hands, and is folded up and stored between his legs in truck mode, forming the fifth wheel.
- Optimus Prime was packaged with Timelines/Classics Kick-Over, available for purchase by BotCon 2012 attendees.
- This mold was also used to make Timelines Scourge, and was also retooled into Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus.
| Transformers (2010) mold: Optimus Prime (Deluxe Class) | ||
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- Nova Prime (Deluxe, 2015)
- Accessories: blaster, axe
- The first of two Transformers Collectors' Club exclusives for 2015, Nova Prime is a redeco of that same year's member incentive figure, Lio Convoy. Both were retooled from Thrilling 30 Orion Pax and feature a new head. Nova still comes with the blaster and axe, which can store via a 5mm peg on either side of the vehicle mode. Nova Prime comes in a box with an additional space to store Lio Convoy inside as well.
- This mold was also used to make BotCon 2015 Galva Convoy. This toy also officially doubles as Generation 1 Nova Prime.
Masterpiece
- Shattered Glass Optimus Prime (11-2016)
- ID Number: MP-10SG
- Accessories: Ion blaster, Matrix accessory, energon-axe, trailer/Combat Deck, Roller
- A Hasbro Asia exclusive, "Shattered Glass Optimus Prime" is a redeco of MP-10 Convoy. He transforms into a Freightliner FL86, and comes with a hand-held laser blaster which can collapse and store inside a compartment on his back in either mode, as well as a battle axe that slips over Optimus Prime's right hand. He also lacks the Spike Witwicky figurine. Shattered Glass Optimus Prime also comes with his own Combat Deck.
Notes
- Optimus Prime's bio art was featured on the back of one of two T-shirts made available at BotCon 2008, and later on the Fun Publications Official Transformers Collectors' Club web-store.
- Shattered Glass fiction writers Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak have said that evil Optimus sounds like Venger, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon villain voiced by Peter Cullen.
- Unlike his heroic doppelgänger, this version of Optimus Prime was never depicted in fiction with a trailer, outside of a single lithograph that introduced us to the nefarious Combat Deck. His 2016 Masterpiece figure, on the other hand, gives him one.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Optimus Prime (オプティマス・プライム Oputimasu Puraimu)
