Rodimus Primal

This subject of this article goes by multiple names that apply to other articles as well. See Rodimus (disambiguation), Primal (disambiguation).

Rodimus Primal is a Transformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

You can't see me!

_{This character has no official visual representation in any Transformers product or media... yet, at least.}

Rodimus Primal is a heroic commando leader with four modes: robot, large Transmetal gorilla, and two vehicle modes.

Fiction

In Primax 208.06 Zeta, Rodimus Primal and the Wreckers were a resistance group against Obsidian's Vehicon rule of Cybertron. After the defeat of the Vehicons, Rodimus Primal formed a new High Council along with Waspscream, Icebird, and Magmatron. Ask Vector Prime, 16 August 2015

Rodimus Primal is a canonized version of "Optimal Rodimus Primal", a proposed concept mentioned by Jon Hartman and Glen Hallit at BotCon 2000 of an updated version of Rodimus Prime as a redeco of Optimus Primal's Super Class Optimal Optimus toy.^[1] This plan did not come to fruition, and instead Optimal Rodimus Primal's role in The Wreckers comic went to Rodimus and Primal Prime instead. Whether the canonical Rodimus Primal is an upgraded Rodimus or an independent character is unspecified and left for the reader to decide.

↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JI1J_MYay4&t=6200s "BotCon 2000 Highlights (Raw)" timestamp 1:43:20
Guest: "And also, I was curious, which toys you were offered to do as exclusives this time?
Jon Hartman: "Optimal Optimus was one of them. We backed out because they were doing it themselves."
Glen Hallit: "Right. We had him redone as Rodimus Primal. Yellow fins, red, orange, it’s a direct one-to-one match. It would have worked, too. It would have worked, but they pulled it."