Edited sentence: Furman and other writers on DreamWave's various G1-related titles depicted Prime as being fairly consistently troubled by similar issues as aforementioned.Furthermore, most fans acknowledge that the fact that the cartoon depiction the transformers with unaltered robot modes in Cybertronian flashbacks is implausible.Given a new origin distinctly different from those of the cartoon and comic, Prime's pacifism is shown to stem from a former career as an intellectual non-combatant, an archivist.However, other portrayals have suggested that Prime is a leader secretly plauged by self-doubt and, more importantly, a conflicted sense of pacifism.More recently the now-defunct 21st-century relaunch of the G1 continuity by DreamWave also depicted a brooding Prime.Particularly under major writer Simon Furman, Prime was contstantly depicted with raging internal monologues about his profound longing for peace and hatred of warfare, the effect of the Transformer's war on human bystanders, his own effectiveness as a leader, the pointlessness  of their eons-long conflict and even the destiny of the Cybertronian race iteself.See individual entries on these series.The cartoon continuity shows Optimus questioning his decisions on several occasions, but the most comprehensive depictions of this more troubled Prime originate in the Transformers comics.There have been several interpretations of this character; some see Optimus Prime as simply a wise but essentially upbeat gung-ho battlefield general who leads by example.This interpretation, which is arguably the most common, has led some to find the undiluted purity of spirit and righteousness of leadership to make the character one-dimensional and boring.This philosophical, conflicted Optimus Prime was continued by Furman in the Transformers Generation 2 comic, with Prime covering much the same territory as well as the seeming futility of his continuous death and rebirth whilst dancing what he refers to as the "oblivion shuffle" with his arch-nemesis Megatron.This point is debatable, however, as Optimus taking possession of the Matrix for the first time was never depicted