Optimus Prime (Armada)
| The name or term "Optimus Prime" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Optimus Prime (disambiguation). |
- Optimus Prime is the Autobot leader in the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
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's also died a couple times, and tends to find a second-in-commandy-type to combine with to form a super robot.
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 it 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 (remodelled once again) 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.
Note:Galaxy Convoy is not the same character as Convoy/Grand Convoy
Dreamwave comics continuity
Armada
Optimus Prime is notified by Hot Shot that the Decepticons are attacking Mini-Con villages. Later on, when the war comes to Earth, he saves the kids from Megatron, who is trying to get the Mini-Cons that they have befriended. 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
Ten years after the defeat of Unicron, Over-Run showed Prime how to commune with Cybertron itself. Doing so reformatted the Autobot leader into a body capable of Powerlinking with a team of 'drone' vehicles, and granting the ability to combine with each other to other Autobots.
Upon returning to Earth, he decided that the Autobots will no longer hide from the inhabitants, but work with them openly. This decision led, among other things, to the Autobots' induction into the UN.
When last seen (before the bankruptcy of Dreamwave Productions), he was trapped in the remains of Unicron, after Megatron's trapped spark used him to regain his freedom.
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)
A redeco of the super mold was planned to be released with Smallest Transformers Optimus Prime as a Target exclusive, but was cancelled.
Cybertron
- Optimus Prime
- Japanese ID number: GC-01
- Optimus Prime (Burger King)
- Optimus Prime (deluxe)
- Optimus Prime (Legends of Cybertron)
- Sonic Convoy
- Japanese ID number: EX-02
- Galaxy Force Optimus Prime
Attacktix
- Super Optimus Prime (Galactic Showdown, 2006)
- Super Optimus Prime (Booster, 2006)
External links
- Optimus Prime at TFU.info
- Energon Optimus Prime redeco with Smallest Transformers Optimus Prime gallery]
