Ultra Magnus (Transformers Prime)

Ultra Magnus is a major character of Transformers: Prime. He is the first commanding officer, leader of the Wreckers and former leader of the Autobot Elite Guard. He is Optimus Prime's key lieutenant and right hand man. Ultra Magnus was assigned by Optimus Prime to head the Wreckers unit, in the hopes him to instill some discipline into them. While authoritative, Magnus is also very officious to the point of irritating more "loose cannon" Autobots. 
He is voiced by Michael Ironside, who also portrayed Sam Fisher in the Splinter Cell games. 
==History==
===Backstory===
Ultra Magnus emerged from the Well of All Sparks sometime during or before the Age of Origins. He became a member of the Wreckers, a ferocious band of warriors who named themselves champions of the oppressed, protecting peaceful settlements from bandits like the Breakers, the Razers, and the Vandals.
When the Age of Wrath began, the Quintessons arrived on Cybertron and introduced civilization (and class warfare) to the population. Ultra Magnus left the Wreckers behind to help form an organized police force out of Iacon under the auspices of the elected Sentinel Zeta Prime. Most of the Wreckers had no respect for authority, and refused to join the Prime's official enforcers. They continued to operate as illegal vigilantes for the common good on the fringes of civilized society. Ultra Magnus, however, accepted Sentinel's offer and became one of his intelligence agents. In fact, all was not copacetic between Sentinel's council of thirteen and their Quintesson masters. Magnus found himself secretly gathering intelligence data on the Quintessons themselves so that the Cybertronian might one day move against their overlords. He also assisted Orion Pax in recruiting Jazz to steal a Quintesson vehicle for study and reverse-engineering by the secret order.
Revolution eventually began, as Sentinel's secret order revealed many of the lies the Quintessons told the Cybertronians upon their arrival. The Wreckers achieved legitimacy during the war, as Ultra Magnus recruited his old comrades for the uprising. On one particular mission, Ultra Magnus served as personal guard to the archivist Orion Pax, charged with bringing top secret information to certain key figures in the war effort, info which couldn't be trusted to transmissions. During this expedition, Magnus helped forge the meek librarian into a true warrior as Quintesson shock troops repeatedly barred their way, and Pax and Magnus formed a bond on the battlefield.
During the Golden Age, the Wreckers remained official law enforcement officers, presumably under the overall command of Ultra Magnus.
As war broke out again on Cybertron, this time between Autobots and Decepticons, Ultra Magnus and the Wreckers stood by Orion Pax (now Optimus Prime) and the Autobots. When the Ark launched with Prime and many of his soldiers to seek the lost AllSpark, Magnus and the Wreckers remained behind to conduct guerrilla warfare tactics against the remaining Decepticon infrastructure.
===Exodus===
Note: Exodus tells it's own account of Ultra Magnus's backstory, and of the Autobots evacuation from Cybertron, which conflicts with the Cybertron games.
Ultra Magnus was a sergeant of the Council Guardians who held back the Decepticons during the siege of the Hydrax Plateau spaceport despite overwhelming odds. Though the spaceport fell, Magnus and his main soldiers proved to be indispensable soldiers and were dubbed the "Wreckers". The Wreckers were crucial to holding Tagan Heights, battling Devastator and buying time for the scientists there to build the Protectobot combiner Defensor.
When Megatron corrupted the core of Cybertron with Dark Energon, Ultra Magnus and his Wreckers had destroyed an armored convoy on the Iacon-Hydrax road. They guarded the entrance at the Well of All Sparks with Cliffjumper while Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Jetfire descended to purge the core. When the Ark was completed, Ultra Magnus offered to stay behind and fight off Trypticon when the gargantuan Decepticon emerged. Trypticon transformed into the Nemesis and pursued the Ark into space, but with his Wreckers and Omega Supreme along with other remaining Autobots, Magnus was ready to battle Shockwave's new regime.
===War for Cybertron (DS version)===
Following Trypticon's crash-landing and subsequent rampage on Cybertron, Ultra Magnus took part in the Autobot counter-attack on the beast. At one point, he was pinned down by enemy fire, and asked Jetfire and Ironhide for assistance.
Somehow Ultra Magnus got corrupted by Dark Energon and left in the sewers, likely by the Decepticons who are known to do that sort of thing. There he ran around randomly breaking things until the Autobots, unaware of his presence, placed a bomb in the sewers, intending to prevent them from falling under Decepticon control. When the Autobots detected a strange signal coming from the collapsing sewers, they sent in a small team to investigate. The team was confronted with the sight of Magnus crashing through a wall, and realized he'd been corrupted. With time short, the Autobots fought Ultra Magnus until the Dark Energon was purged from his system and he regained his senses. Then they all high-tailed it out of the sewers before the final collapse.
===Rage of the Dinobots===
After Optimus Prime and Megatron had left Cybertron, there was still a convoy of ships that was trying to escape what was left of the war. This convoy was escorted by Ultra Magnus and the Dinobots, who fended the escape crafts from Decepticon saboteurs. After saving Swoop from the Decepticons who had surrounded him, Ultra Magnus and his personal craft exploded and crashed. Ultra Magnus was pulled from the wreckage by surviving members of the long-lost Predacon faction and relocated to their hideout. Their commander, Ser-Ket, reported to her master, Shockwave, that Ultra Magnus was theirs and ready to be re-forged. 
Before Ser-Ket's Decepticons could get to him, Ultra Magnus was broken out of his cell by the Dinobots, who were searching for a captured Swoop. After letting them know that the lost Dinobot had also fallen into Ser-Ket's clutches, he accompanied his rescuers to the prison's roof where they were confronted by Ser-Ket and her new minion... and a re-forged Swoop. Believing Swoop to be lost, Ultra Magnus suggested they leave him and focus on rescuing the other Autobots in the prison, but Grimlock ignored him and challenged Ser-Ket to a duel for Swoop's freedom.
Ser-Ket was defeated, only for her master Shockwave to appear, defeat Ultra Magnus and the others with an EMP, and bring them to his lab to finish his experiments on the Dinobots. Everyone but Grimlock was left in a cell, but broke out by having Magnus and Slug fake an argument, tricking the guards into opening the cell to try to calm them down. After the Dinobots rescued Grimlock and defeated the avatar Shockwave was using to experiment on him, Ultra Magnus joined the rest of the Autobot fleet in space while the Dinobots elected to remain on Cybertron.
===Retribution===
Shockwave finally made his move against Alpha Trion, arresting the sage from the Hall of Records. With Alpha Trion's neutrality no longer permitted, Ultra Magnus planned a rescue op. He assembled a team of Wreckers including Springer, Wheeljack, Jetfire, and Rack n' Ruin to infiltrate Iacon, access the Tower of Shockwave, and retrieve Alpha Trion. They were provided support by the recently reactivated Omega Supreme, who would act as a suitable...distraction for their op.
Inside Iacon's walls, Ultra Magnus brought the Wreckers to Maccadam's Old Oil House, who was secretly working with the Autobot resistance. Maccadam still shared the occasional oil with his Decepticon overlords, gathering intelligence. One of his patrons was an engineer who provided information on the Tower's mag-lev elevator, allowing the Wreckers to access it underground. The Wreckers were nearly accosted by Ratbat and the Decepticon city garrison, but Magnus radioed Omega Supreme who began long-range bombardment of the city, drawing away the Decepticons.
The Wreckers infiltrated Shockwave's secret lair and recovered Alpha Trion, but the situation was more dire than they anticipated. Shockwave had been trying to access Vector Sigma using Alpha Trion's systems, but the Quintessons had secretly tapped into that same circuitry to reactivate the long dormant Space bridge, beginning a Sharkticon invasion of Cybertron. The Wreckers raced to the Archives, where Alpha Trion intended to detonate the remaining articles of Cybertronian history that the Quintessons could claim. They were interrupted by General Tyrannicon of the Sharkticons, who jammed Alpha Trion's detonator. Fortunately, light-years away, Megatron had claimed the Sharkticon Matrix and therefore ended the Quintesson control over their slaves. Tyrannicon's troopers turned on him and each other, causing the all-but successful invasion to collapse in a matter of minutes.
===Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters===
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====Predacons Rising====
Following the ceremony promoting Bumblebee to warrior, Optimus Prime disembarked with Wheeljack to find the AllSpark and left Ultra Magnus in charge during his absence. Ultra Magnus took part in patrols to try and find the missing Starscream, Shockwave and Predaking. Instead he and Smokescreen ran into Darksteel and Skylynx, and despite Magnus's best attempts he was severely injured in the ensuing battle against Skylynx. Tended to by Ratchet, Magnus missed out on the battle to defeat Unicron, leaving Bumblebee to take command of the team in his absence. He was present and conscious, albeit on a reclining medical table when Optimus Prime gave a final speech and sacrificed himself to restore the AllSpark to Cybertron.
==Personality==
Ultra Magnus is a stern, yet fair leader. He prefers to follow exact protocol as he even expected the Autobots to call him "Sir." In spite being in charge of the Wreckers, he does not approve of their loose cannon lifestyle which brings him with odds with Wheeljack. Since being on Team Prime, Ultra Magnus is less "by the book" and has adapted more to Team Prime's command style. After battling Predaking, Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack now have respect for each other. Wheeljack would often look out for Magnus and Magnus would do the same in return. Team Prime now respects Ultra Magnus and treats him like a family member.
In Predacons Rising, Ultra Magnus referred Smokescreen as "kid" than Soldier, which indicates that he can be warm-hearted. His traits are passed on by Strongarm. In the Robots in Disguise comics, he notes that he considers Bumblebee to be a friend, something that the younger Autobot admitted was pretty significant for the taciturn commander.
==Powers and Abilities==
Ultra Magnus is incredibly tough as he was able knock out Starscream with a single punch and lift the Forge of Solus Prime with ease. He also managed to easily dispatch Shockwave, even with just one hand. Megatron, however is out of Ultra Magnus' range, having been unable to beat him one on one. He is also a skilled pilot being able to fly his ship and the Nemesis. It has been shown that he is a brilliant military tactician as he planned a sly assault on Darkmount, which succeeded in getting rid of Predaking before it attacked. His plan failed as he had underestimated the size of the Decepticon army and the fury with which it would fight.
Though Magnus has been able to beat almost every Decepticon he has come across, he seems to struggle with Predacons as Predaking crushed his hand and Skylynx severely crippled his body and left him in a hospital bed.
He is capable of hand-to-hand combat and is capable of performing various forms of battle tactics.
==Trivia==
*Ultra Magnus's officious personality is inspired by his IDW counterpart, and his leadership of the Wreckers by his long association with the group. 
*Ultra Magnus wielding the Forge of Solus Prime, a hammer, is inspired by the Magnus Hammer from his Animated counterpart, as is his leadership of the Elite Guard. 
==Gallery==
UltraMagnusWFCDSconcept.jpg|Ultra Magnus in the DS version of Transformers: War for Cybertron.
FOC-Magnusmodel.jpg|Ultra Magnus in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.
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Ultra Magnus, Smokescreen and Wheeljack.png|Ultra Magnus, Smokescreen and Wheeljack show the glory.
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