Optimus Prime (Armada)
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Optimus Prime is the Autobot leader in Unicron Trilogy continuity.
Optimus Prime fights for truth, justice, and the Autobot way. He has led the search for the Mini-Cons, faced the resurrection of a dark god, and now aims to stop Megatron from obtaining the Cyber Planet Keys.
He thinks Hot Shot has leadership potential and tends to recruit teenage children.
Japanese Name: Convoy (Armada), Grand Convoy (Energon), Galaxy Convoy (Cybertron)
Fiction
Animated continuity
Armada
Voice actor: Gary Chalk (US) Toru Okawa (Japan)
Optimus Prime initially appears in the first episode of Transformers: Armada, "First Encounter", rescuing three human children from the Decepticon leader, Megatron. He befriends these children and introduces his crew of Autobots to them.
He soon leads his crew around the world, searching for the long-lost Mini-Con Transformers, before the Decepticon forces can take them and use them for their own evil deeds. However before long, the Autobots must face the arrival of the dark god, Unicron.
Energon
Voice actor: Gary Chalk (US) Katsuyuki Konishi (Japan)
Upgraded into a new form, Optimus Prime has made peace and teamed up with the humans on earth. Bearing the Spark of Combination, which allows those who carry ot to combine with others who carry it, too. He soon bestows it upon the majority of his Autobot soldiers, and together they face the return of the evil Unicron...
Cybertron
Voice actor: Gary Chalk (US) Taiten Kusunoki (Japan)
Facing the peril of his home planet being engulfed by a black hole created by the destruction of Unicron, Optimus Prime leads the Transformers to Earth, and thus, to safety, and they begin to look for a way to save their planet, in the Cyber Planet Keys. However, Prime soon finds the Decepticons are back, and they, too, are searching for the Planet Keys.
Dreamwave Comics continuity
Armada
Optimus Prime first appeared on Cybertron, when Hot Shot tells him that the Decepticons are attacking Mini-Con villages. Later on, when the war comes to Earth, he saves the kids from Megatron (Armada), who is trying to get the Mini-Cons that they have befriended. Later, after retrieving a Mini-Con escape pod in Alaska, he is suddenly pulled into an alternate reality Cybertron, one in which Unicron has already decimated the planet and is preparing to return and consume it. He is ultimately rescued by Jetfire and Over-Run, and uses his knowledge of the fate that awaits Cybertron to rally both Decepticons and Autobots together and defeat the Chaos Bringer.
Energon
Transformers Legends Anthology
Toys
Armada
- Optimus Prime (Super Base)
- Japanese ID number: MC-01
- Optimus Prime (Supercon)
- Japanese ID number: MC-06
- Optimus Prime (Happy Meal)
- Powerlinx Optimus Prime
Energon
- Optimus Prime
- Japanese ID number: SC-01
- SL Grand Convoy
- Japanese ID number: SC-13
- SL Grand Convoy w/ Kicker
- Japanese ID number: SS-03
- Optimus Prime versus Megatron (Toys "R" Us Deluxe)
- Optimus Prime (Happy Meal)
- Optimus Prime (other Happy Meal)
Cybertron
- Optimus Prime
- Japanese ID number: GC-01
- Optimus Prime (Burger King)
- Optimus Prime (deluxe)
- Sonic Convoy
- Japanese ID number: EX-02
- Galaxy Force Optimus Prime
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