Talk:Optimus Prime (G1)
I vote that we keep this article blank untill the last possible moment
This isn't a democracy, X-BoB. It's the Internet. You fail at wiki.
I think this article should be done as soon as possible. Because of, y'know its massive importance and stuff. BeastWarrior 08:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't we refeare to Optimus Prime as Convoy in the articles on the JPN shows?
Sentenial Prime shouldn't be in the first paragraphs, as he's not in all contuities JMO-X-BoB58
It warrants discussion - after all, he is the most powerful of the Go-Bots...
Dreamwave Continuity
The article says: "Optimus Prime started life as Optronix (Orion to his friends)"
Does anyone have an issue reference for this (the Orion part)? I admit that my DW knowledge isn't too great, but I don't recall this.--G.B. Blackrock 15:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
It's from the Keepers Trilogy. -Derik 17:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- That explains it, then. I don't really consider the Keepers Trilogy as canon, never having bothered to read it. However, since it is official, it's appropriate here.--G.B. Blackrock 17:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- Cannon's a touch call witht he Keepers Trilogy. The Optronix thing, for isntance, was originalyl drafter for Optimus Prime's MtMtE profile (IIRC) but the MTMTE thing was drasticly re-tooled midway through, and so it didn't make it intot he entry-- but apparently Scott Ciencen had access to a draft of it which he used for Prime's backstory.
- As for the Keepers Trilogy's overall continuity... it doesn't mesh any WORSE than the first Dreamwave mini-series. (Faint praise though that be.) Plus it made some definite motions to align itself mroe closely to the comcis co ntinuity at the endof the 3rd book. ...and if I remember my timeline right, Superion's head showed up in Anihilation before it would have been written into TF#0. -Derik 00:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Stuff
"Auntie" was, so far as I know, not an acronym. As well, it was definitely the name for the Ark's computer in the US, so I removed the italics as I didn't think those events/reasonings were UK-specific.
As well, the Intraformers competition is not from the UK - it's from Sureshot's Transformers: Universe profile. But as I didn't look it up yet, I wasn't sure if I should un-italize the mention of "before he was named Optimus Prime" that's mentioned with it. --Monzo 03:14, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
- Marvel continuity, from the intraformers sharpshooting competition arose, never had a 'pre optimus Prime.' He was always just Optimus Prime. (And was called such even when a junior officer, as seen in the Underbase saga.)
- Optimus Prime was a gifted athlete beginning to study for a medical profession when the war broke out. Presumably the shooting competition was part of Prime's athlete days- shooting is an Olympic sport after all. (Well,part of one.)
- If you want to split the difference on the entry, I suggest changing 'before he was named Optimsu Prime' to either before the war began or before the war began in earnest. The latter is only loosely justified by the text of comics continuities (the city-ststes had standaign armies and apparently fought- the great games were suppsoed to be a formalized sublimation of this) but it does have the marit of fitting well with War Dawn (and thus fits the new post* continuities which've come along that smosh both continuities together) without actually being wrong in the context of its original occourence. -Derik 03:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
- And it's not like civilians don't do shooting sports as a hobby or anything. -hx 04:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
