Optimus Primal

Optimus Primal is the main protagonist of the Beast Era saga of the Transformers franchise, serving as the main protagonist of Beast Wars: Transformers and its sequel series Beast Machines and one of the main protagonists of 3H Productions' Transformers comics.
He is the kind-hearted leader of the Maximals and the arch-nemesis of the Predacon leader Megatron. Like his ancestor Optimus Prime, whose name he took in reverence, Optimus Primal was not originally a warrior. Years earlier, Optimus Prime had been thrust into a civil war by the actions of the Megatron from his own time.
So too was Optimus Primal, who had been a starship captain on a scientific exploration mission, unexpectedly thrust by another Megatron with dictatorial tendencies into a conflict that would define the fate of the history of the universe. He took the form of a silverback gorilla and after absorbing his namesake's spark took on his "Optimal Optimus" form.
He is voiced by Garry Chalk, who would later voice Optimus Prime in Transformers Unicron Trilogy and would later portray Vice Principal Grimes in Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins and Prince Rutherford in My little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
==History==
===Beast Wars===
====Season 1====
After crash landing into Earth following the Maximals' battle with the Predacons, Optimus Primal took the form of a great ape after scanning the local wildlife. When Cheetor is running off that he got his legs stuck under a boulder, the Maximals are encountered by the Predacons while Optimus went off to save Cheetor from getting stuck. When they're on their way back to Axalon, the Maximals were countered by Dinobot who challenged Optimus for their leadership. While Optimus and Dinobot were fighting, they were almost killed by Predacons. The Maximals and the Predacons are racing to the top of the mountain for the energon until it explodes, but they were survived and Optimus declared of starting the "Beast Wars".
Cheetor went off to stop Scorponok from recovering a mega-cannon from the Predacon's ship, it caused an experimental comlink to be broken which got him into trouble with Optimus Primal. After Cheetor is rescued when he was captured by Tarantulas, Rattrap cover him up so he wouldn't get into trouble with Optimus who asked Cheetor where has he been. After Optimus cancelling the mission due to a storm, Cheetor went off to plants the survey posts until a lightning bolt hits the device which caused him to teleport into the Predacon's base, Darksyde. However, Optimus discover that the survey posts and Cheetor are missing and allows Dinobot to plant a bomb on Darksyde through teleportation. As Cheetor got back home to Axalon, Optimus scolds him for his disobedience.
When the Maximals and the Predacons are fighting at the Standing Stones for energon crystals, Optimus was absorbed by a Vok probe, but he's still functional and is able to put Rattrap in charge. Later, Rhinox tried to free Optimus from the probe but only for Waspinator accidentally released him while the Maximals and the Predacons are fighting again. Optimus then commends Rattrap for his leadership.
Discovered that Terrorsaur has absorbed the power of energon from a floating mountain, so he and Rattrap went there where Optimus went to fought with Terrorsaur while Rattrap setting up bombs to destroy the mountain and was attacked by Tarantulas. After the mountain is destroyed, Optimus and Rattrap managed to escaped from blowing up and landing safely. When a statis pod crashed down to the ground, Optimus sets off to find out but only for him to get attacked by both Terrorsaur and Waspinator, causing him to get sent to be repaired. Dinobot then activate Optimus' core conciousness who gave him an advice to set up a laser link. After Dinobot is badly injured during the Predacons' attack, Optimus is able to use a laser link to the pod in order to reformat it into a Maximal, which turned into Tigatron.
After Optimus and Dinobot were attacked by the Predacons as they get away with the stasis pod they took, Optimus tricks Rattrap into infiltrating the Darksyde and sabotage the Predacons' plans by suspecting him as a traitor. However, he then reveals the plans to his fellow Maximals. After Rhinox unveiled a new defense system Sentinel, Optimus and Tigatron went to chase down Waspinator before he returned back to Axalon to find out that the defense system is getting out of control after Rattrap and Dinobot accidentally broke it which drives the Maximals out of the Axalon. Despite this, Rattrap managed to deactivate the defense system.
While teaching Dinobot a lesson not to underestimate a fauna, they were attacked by Scorponok who fires a Cyberbee at Optimus which it attached to him, turning him into a raging berserker as result. Rhinox explained that Optimus will be destroyed by an explosion if the Cyberbee will be removed from his body. Despite ordering to lock himself up, he decide to use himself as a bait to attack the Predacons in their base. When he got to the Darksyde, Optimus went to confront Megatron and release the Cyberbee from himself before throwing it to Megatron. Luckily, Cheetor is able to find an anti-virus and then used it to cure Optimus while Megatron and Scorponok get caught in explosion because of the Cyberbee.
Discovering a temporal probe launched from Cybertron passing by, the Maximals build the communications array on the Predacons' territory to contact the probe until they were attacked by the Predacons, who managed to destroy the device which prevents the Maximals from going back home to Cybertron. After they put a spycam in the Darksyde and assumed the Predacons were destroyed, the Maximals infiltrate the spaceship inside to retrieve the transwarp cell for them to go back home, except for Dinobot who volunteers to stay behind. After Dinobot stumbled across upon the surviving Predacons, they attacked the Maximals which Optimus and Cheetor went to fought them and save Dinobot. Though Cheetor and Dinobot make it to Axalon, Optimus didn't as he fell down after Scorponok shoots missiles at him. Unfortunately, Megatron has break into the Axalon and attacked the Maximals, only for him to thrown aboard but managed to trashed the controls which causing the spaceship to plummet down to the ground until Optimus managed to slow it down and land it safely.
While searching for the energon, the Maximals were attacked by the Predacons until Rhinox got them crushed by a rockslide. When Rhinox stays behind while the other Maximals went back to their base, he was captured by Megatron and Tarantulas to convert him into a Predacon, resulting in backfired as he turned against the Predacons by attacking them and causing a mess inside Darksyde, something which Optimus predicted it would be happened. Once the Maximals went to attack the Predacons, Optimus managed to cut off his right hand, which was the head of T-Rex. After Terrorsaur crushed down Dinobot inside a cave, Megatron send out Dinobot's clone to infiltrate the Axalon and tricked Optimus into leaving the base so the Predacons could attack it. However, the real Dinobot already eaten his clone, much to the Maximals' disgust. After Cheetor and Rhinox brought Airazor online, Optimus and the others were welcoming her to the Maximals.
Optimus went to rescue Tigatron when he was attacked by Waspinator and Terrorsaur, but only to find him missing. The Maximals later received the cyberbee from Tigatron which shows them a video message of him showing a floating island he found called Brigadoon. Optimus and Rattrap are on their way to the floating island until they were attacked by Terrorsaur and Waspinator and later landed there. The Maximals went to reach for Blackarachnia, but unable to stop her because she already taken control over the island until Tigatron managed to stop the island by destroying the power source, saving the Axalon and the Maximals.
While Optimus is busy running the strategic simulation, the Axalon's power systems are going down because of Tarantulas before he went to warn others. Later, he and Airazor are just in time to save Tigatron from both Megatron and Inferno. After the Predacons steal the rectifier coil from the Axalon, it forced the Maximals to stay in their beast mode for so long it made them unleashed their beast instincts from the inside, which is something that the Predacons wanted, hunting them down. Fortunately, Tigatron managed to help them embrace their beast and robotic sides of themselves, allowing them to regain their conciousness and to defeat the Predacons.
He send Tigatron to search for Cheetor, Rattrap, Rhinox and Dinobot, who were blinded during the ambush and are on their way back to the Axalon. During the Maximals' fight with Terrorsaur and Waspinator, he was able to save them from the Predacons and take them back to their base. After the Axalon is badly damaged during the storm, the Maximals are quickly defeated by the Predacons wit the help of Starscream-possessed Waspinator and then retreated to the jungle. The Maximals devised their plans to retake their base back by pretending to surrender themselves, with Optimus getting binded before releasing himself and later defeated Starscream, allowing Blackarachnia to finish him off, releasing Waspinator from getting possessed.
After Rhinox got infected by Tarantulas' energon discharge virus, he sent both Rattrap and Dinobot to work together to get the counter-virus in order to get them to stop bickering so they could get along. After the counter-virus is founded, Maximals went to ambush the Predacons' base until they escaped with the counter-virus to cure Rhinox after the Predacons got blown away by a huge energon fart. He sympathized with Tigatron after losing Snowstalker and was able to convinced him to rejoin with the Maximals by telling him that it's their duty to protect the planet from the Predacons, which succeeds as Tigatron regained his confidence after saving Optimus and Dinobot from Terrorsaur, Waspinator and Inferno.
After Inferno found a golden disk from Vok, Megatron called Optimus Primal for a truce which the latter reluctantly agrees. Became suspicious of what Megatron's been up to, Optimus sent Tigatron to infiltrate inside the Darksyde and only for them to discover that the Vok were on their way. While investigating the Bio-Dome, Optimus was captured by the Vok and is told that the planet will be destroyed.
After discovering that Tarantulas and Blackarachnia turned the stasis pod into an escape ship that will send it away to the Planet Buster that will blow up alongside it, Optimus volunteers to get inside the ship and stop the superweapon against his comrades' wishes. While he was on his way to stop the Planet Buster from blowing up the planet, Megatron sabotaged Optimus' chance of escaping from the pod before he was blown up to bits alongside the superweapon.
====Season 2====
After Optimus is reborn with a new transmetal body thanks to Rhinox, he later returns to save his fellow Maximals from almost getting defeated by the Predacons and welcomed Silverbolt to the team after he defects from Megatron. He later orders Rattrap to remove his stuff from his quarters.
Optimus was seen volunteers himself for a test when Rhinox tried to find out the limits of the new Transmetal forms before Cheetor informed him about what the Predacons are up to. Optimus called Dinobot to lead Rattrap in a mission on Predacon ground, which the latter accepts. Later, he and Silverbolt went to Rattrap and Dinobot after Megatron left in anger at his betrayal and forgive Dinobot and welcomed him back to the Maximals after discovering his attempted betrayal. After Optimus failed to stop both Tigatron and Airazor from getting captured by an alien site they were patrolling on, the site has later transformed into another alien weapon called Metal Hunter, which Megatron later took control over the weapon and used it to capture him as a prisoner until Rattrap went to rescue him and destroyed the spaceship. After he and Rattrap escape, Optimus hoped they'll get both Tigatron and Airazor back somehow.
After discovering the stasis pod of Proform X, Optimus explains the backstory of how the experiment goes wrong so much it made him turn into who he is. While checking out the stasis pod, the fight between the Maximals and the Predacons causing the explosion so much that is sending each of them flying in separate ways. After Optimus and Cheetor were able to be recovered, they managed to save both Silverbolt and Blackarachnia from the Protoform X, who is later known as Rampage, before he was later taken to the Predacons by Megatron. Optimus and the rest of Maximals went to mourned Dinobot after he sacrificed himself to protect the group of anthropoids from the Predacons. After discovering a strange creature by the name of Transmutate, Optimus and Silverbolt took her to the Axalon and deemed her to be dangerous, angering Silverbolt as result. During the fight between Silverbolt and Rampage, Transmutate sacrifice herself to stop it before Optimus arrives.
When Ravage arrived to arrest Megatron for his crimes against the Pax Cybertronia, the Maximals agreed to help him which they stormed the Darksyde and captured Megatron. After reprimanding Silverbolt for his relationship with Blackarachnia, Optimus and Cheetor went to cave to get some energon from one of Tarantulas' stashes, but they were ambushed by Inferno who almost blowing them up to death after the cave collapsed. The Maximals are horrified of discovering that Ravage has teamed up with Megatron.
The Predacons began to attack the Axalon until it was foiled by Rattrap before the Maximals went to pursue Megatron. Megatron then founds the Ark and went inside to destroy Optimus Prime, foiling Maximals' plan to stop him from doing so as they were erasing from their existence.
====Season 3====
To prevent this from happening, Optimus Primal took Optimus Prime's spark and merge with his own, causing himself to gained a new, large form of his own, which Megatron dubbed him as "Optimal Optimus". Despite this, the Maximals failed to stops the Predacons from destroying their base Axalon. Optimus Prime's spark back to its rightful owner, restoring history back to normal. The destruction of Axalon caused the Maximals to move to the volcano where the Ark is.
Depth Charge has arrived on the planet to pursue for Rampage. When Optimus got to their location, he took Depth Charge for repairs. Despite Optimus had him fixed, Depth Charge refused to join with the Maximals because he's still calling him out for the mistakes he did. Optimus Primal had an idea of retrieving Sentinel from the remaining wreck of Axalon by having Rattrap getting inside subaquatic stealth vessel to get it, but Depth's Charge interference accidentally sabotaged the Maximal's chance of getting Sentinel which allowed the Predacons getting the device on their hands. Despite this, Depth Charge is agreed to join with the Maximals.
Optimus Primal and Cheetor went out to save the anthropoids from a bunch of cyber raptors. When the two anthropoid children Chak and Una were separated from their tribe, Optimus ordered both Cheetor and Blackarachnia to take them back to their home. Later, Optimus and Silverbolt went to help Cheetor and Blackarachnia for the back-up when they were attacked by cyber raptors. However, Tarantulas attacked Optimus by shooting him with his new cyber venom, though he was later repaired. While Optimus and Cheetor are tried to save the stasis pod from both Megatron and Waspinator, he was injured and went back to the base for repairs after Cheetor accidentally made him fall when he tried to stop Waspinator from getting his hands on the stasis pod. Cheetor went to retrieve the Transmetal driver from Megatron's cloning machine, but only for him to be supposedly destroyed, much to Optimus' grief after hearing this, blaming himself for being hard on him.
However, Cheetor was proven to be survived as he make it back to the base. After Cheetor transformed into his feral beast mode, Optimus Primal demanded Depth Charge the truth about what happened to him, which he took Cheetor outside where he forced him to admitted his unusual transformation of his second Transmetal form which made him feral, but he managed to calmed him down later on.
Optimus Primal and Rhinox's discussion over the possibility of removing Blackarachnia's Predacon shell programming causing her to leave since she believed no one of the Maximals ever trusted her, though she later agreed to go back with them after Optimus explained that her removal of shell programming will be her decisions. Optimus Primal ordered Cheetor to go back to the base for repairs while Rattrap and Depth Charge went to rescue Una from the Predacons. When Blackarachnia's shell programming began to deteriorating, Rhinox tried his best to separate the Predacons' shell programming off of her. However, the Predacons found out about this and began to attack the base to distract them from saving Blackarachnia's life, indirectly succeeding in temporarily killing her. After Blackarachnia transformed into her Transmetal form and saved Silverbolt from Rampage, Optimus reprimanded her of what she did wasn't the Maximal thing to do.
Waspinator lured the Maximals out of the base to allow Tarantulas to fire a dart at Optimus Primal which allowed Quickstrike to take control of him, making him put his fellow Maximals imprisoned and helps Megatron to merge his spark with the original Megatron's until he was freeing from the control by Blackarachnia. He went to fought a newly upgraded Megatron until the rest of the Maximals backed him up.
When Tigatron and Airazor were combined into Tigerhawk and blow up the Predacon's base, Optimus Primal went down to the site due to being concerned over the timeline if original Megatron's spark will be destroyed. He tried to reasoned with Tigerhawk, but only for him to be plunged down to the ground by them. After Tarantulas is destroyed, Tigerhawk regained their conciousness and were happy to rejoined with the Maximals.
Discovering that Megatron is went for the Nemesis, he and Tigerhawk went to stop him from reaching the ship but to no avail. While Tigerhawk went to face the Nemesis alone, Optimus Primal returns to help his fellow Maximals to activate the Ark. After hearing that Tigerhawk is destroyed, he went to face Megatron alone at the Nemesis until Rhinox used a borrowed Autobot shuttle to stop the Predacon leader, defeating him and ended the Beast Wars as result.
===Beast Machines===
====Season 1====
In Cybertron, Optimus awakens and find himself in his original beast mode. He found himself chased by a group of Vehicons and hide. He found Rattrap hiding. The two Maximals reunites with Cheetor and Blackarachnia. They found out that Megatron managed to conquer Cybertron
====Season 2====
==Prime Wars Trilogy==
== Transformers Reboot Films ==
==Gallery==
OptimusPrimalRender.png|Optimus Prime in Beast Wars
BeastWarsPt1 Primal in CR chamber.jpg|Optimus Primal in gorilla beast mode
BadSpark Optimus robot mode.jpg|Transmetal Optimus Primal
Char0.jpg|Transmetal Optimus Primal in gorilla mode
12-250852858-750x750.jpg|Optimal Optimus
240px-Optimusprimal-mbtv.jpg|Optimus Primal in Beast Machines
Optimusprimal2a.jpg|Primal's gorilla mode in Beast Machines
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CybertronianPrimal.png|Primal's Cybertronian form
Optimus-Primal-Earth-Wars.jpg
TFF BotRelease Blog-Web OptimusPrimal.png
Feral Scream 2 Optimus mean.jpg
File:Optimus-2|Optimus Primal's theme in Beast Machines. 
==Trivia==
* In one of his earliest showings, he was once depicted as a Bat, along with Megatron as a Crocodile, before he was turned to a Gorilla, and the latter being a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
* Two modernized versions of this character ( Prime Wars Trilogy and Rise of the Beasts), are played by the same voice actor, Ron Perlman.
* An Optimal Optimus toy can be seen in "The Nightmare Room" episode: "Scareful what you wish for" where the protagonist: Dylan throws it in a box of toys he's moving into the antic. The toy is called a Megamorpher and is missing an arm.
== External Links ==
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* Optimus Primal on the TFwiki.net
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