Nemesis Prime (Armada)
| The name or term "Nemesis Prime" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Nemesis Prime (disambiguation). |
- Nemesis Prime is a Unicron-affiliated Decepticon from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Nemesis Prime is a monstrous Transformer sent to kill Autobot and Decepticon alike. It scanned the minds of the Transformers and took the form of Optimus Prime, as it 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 its 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
Cartoon continuity
Linkage
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
- Voice actor: Paul Dobson (English), Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese), Pekka Lehtosaari (Finnish), Juan Guzmán (Latin-American Spanish)
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
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
Transformers: Battle Tactics
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 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
Armada
(Hasbro version pictured)
- Nemesis Prime with Run-Over (Super-Con, 2003)
- Accessories: Left & right arm-pipes
- 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.
- 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.
- This mold was also used for the Cybertron Deluxe-class Optimus Prime and Universe "Battle in a Box" Ultra Magnus.
Notes
- In Micron Densetsu, Nemesis Prime never actually speaks, only roaring the whole time.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Scourge (スカージ Sukāji)
- Hungarian: Nemezisz Prájm
