Optimus Prime (Transformers Original Films)

Optimus Prime, temporarily known as Nemesis Prime, is one of the main protagonists of the original continuity of the Transformers live-action film series. Originally a peaceful Cybertronian scientist and the very last Prime of the Dynasty, Optimus and his team of scientists were studying the mysterious Allspark until they were betrayed by their security unit, the Decepticons, and his twin brother, Megatron, who is now a Power-Hungry Warlord. 
Naming his squad of scientists as the Autobots, he used his team to fight the tyrannical Decepticons in order to stop them from getting the AllSpark's awesome power. He is based off his original incarnation with the same name. 
He is voiced by who also voiced the character in the original series, Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh franchise and Thaedus in the Invincible animated series.
==Personality==
Optimus Prime is an introvert, kind, humble, caring, selfless, serious, highly intelligent, calculating, and wise. He has a strong sense of justice, honor, and good morals. On the battlefield, he is a great fighter, leader, and tactician. 
Optimus is very mature, calm, level-headed, and patient, as he rarely loses his temper. Despite humanity's primitive state compared to his own race, Optimus often defends them by arguing that he sees their potential to be better rather than focusing on their flaws (even if this faith experienced some knocks after humanity rejected the Autobots following the Battle of Chicago).
Optimus shows great love for humanity as he cares deeply for humans and made a vow to himself, along with the Autobots not to harm humans at all. He swore to protect the planet Earth from threat and the Decepticons at all cost, as he did not want the planet to have the same fate as his destroyed planet Cybertron did. However, after the Chicago war caused by Megatron and Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime shows no mercy on evil humans who attacked him such as the Cemetery Wind (the CIA black ops unit who secretly disobeyed the President and the government's orders and despite the Autobots are still the government's allies) as well killing their leader, Harold Attinger who allied with the Cybertronian assassin and bounty hunter, Lockdown, while still protecting good humans who risked their lives for him such as Cade Yeager, his daughter, Tessa Yeager, and her boyfriend, Shane Dyson.
Like his fellow rebels; the Dinobots and the Knights of Iacon, Optimus Prime hates his own creators so deeply that includes Quintessa and intended to kill her and her fellow creators because she sent Lockdown to retrieve him due to the destruction of Cybertron in the Chicago war caused by Megatron.
As a tragic result of the war taking a toll on his mind, especially after the betrayal of his father and brother figures, Optimus developed a ruthless drive towards achieving his goals, showcasing no mercy to any enemy at all, giving pretty brutal deaths to many even when they are helpless and bested. If the situation really calls for it, he will go as far as to allow the Decepticons to do crimes feeling it is the only way humanity could learn they could be trusted and out of desperate measures to gain the Dinobots' help to thwart Galvatron's disastrous plots for humanity, threatens them with death if they don't follow his lead. This has gotten worse when he was brainwashed and deceived by Quintessa, Optimus became merciless to kill anyone who stand in his way until returned to his original self with the help of Bumblebee after he somehow regained his voice that was torn by Megatron during the Great War. No matter how ruthless he could ever get, Optimus is able to retain sight over his goals and know when he should not cross any lines to remain the humble and wise hero that he is. 
==Powers and Abilities==
=== Powers ===
Cybertronian Physiology/Matrix of Leadership Enhancement: As the last of the Primes, Optimus is one of the most, if not the most powerful Cybertronian, with seemingly only Megatron and Lockdown being on par. However, he is less combative than Megatron, due to spending time as head of the Science Division.
*Cybertronian Strength: Optimus has immense superhuman strength, far superior to that of almost any non-Prime Cybertronian, with him even able to take down Shockwave with ease. He is shown to be equal with Megatron, as he lifted Starscream and send him flying, knock Megatron out and cause damage in the second movie, due to Megatron's upgrade reducing his speed.
*Cybertronian Speed: Optimus has considerable superhuman speed, superior to that of an average Cybertronian, as he was shown to outrun helicopters on foot, and to even outrun Sentinel Prime when the latter was in vehicle mode.
*Cybertronian Durability: Optimus is extremely durable, practically immune to human weaponry, and usually sustaining only minimal damage while battling fellow Cybertronians. Indeed, the only way to truly slay Optimus (as Megatron temporarily did) is to pierce the spark in his chest, which only Megatron's Cybertronian blade was shown to be capable of doing. However, this is no longer an issue, with the Matrix of Leadership, Optimus survived being stabbed again by Lockdown.
*Cybertronian Stamina: As a Cybertronian, Optimus does not require sustenance or sleep, being able to maintain physical activity for an unlimited period of time.
*Cybertronian Healing: Optimus' body is composed of living transformium metal, which allows him to heal from serious wounds at superhuman rates, with the only known exception being a pierced spark (which is a fatal wound). Optimus Prime has an enhanced healing factor, in the second movie, a badly damaged Optimus Prime was healing during the time Jetfire's parts were combining with Optimus. He is able to heal when Lockdown impaled him with his sword which isn't enough to fully kill him, but restrain him.
*Weapon Storage and Manifestation: Optimus can store and summon ton of Cybertron weapons from his body. He primary used Ion Blaster, Barrage Cannons, Machine Gun, Dual Energon Swords, Hand-Held Energon Sword, Rusty Dual Energon Sword, Knuckle-Spikes, Energon Hooks, Energon Axe, Shield, Thermal Cannon, Thermal Machine gun, Missile, Quad Barrel Shotgun, and Knuckle-Spikes. Optimus also had a weapon trailers which had his Jetwing Unit that has Gun Pods and Charged Missles. As Nemesis Prime, Optimus could also manifest a small dagger, which he used to almost kill Bumblebee. His primary weapons were Dual Energon Swords which he used until Age of Extinction where in attempt to fight Galvatron he drove the sword through his Vortex Grinder, which disintegrating most of the sword. They were later replaced by his Sword of Judgment.
*Holographic Projection: Optimus displayed the war on Cybertron to Sam and Mikaela using hologram.
*Invincibility: Optimus Prime has the Matrix of Leadership inside of his chest. As long as it stay there, Optimus Prime has invincibility to survive even Lockdown impaled Optimus' own Judgement Sword through his chest from the Fourth Movie.
*Transformation: In first to third movie, Optimus Prime transform into a blue and red flamed 379 Peterbilt truck. In Initial fourth movie, he transform into a rusty Marmon 97 semi truck. In fourth and fifth movie, Optimus Prime transform into Western Star 5700 XE semi-trailer truck.
*Flight: As seen in fourth and fifth movie, Optimus is able to fly through the air with an tremendous speed thanks to his rocket boots, and he can also withstand extreme temperatures in space.
===Abilities===
*Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Optimus is shown to be an exceptionally formidable hand-to-hand combatant. In fact, the only ones that have been able to defeat him in combat are, Megatron, the Fallen, Lockdown, and Sentinel Prime (though most of Megatron's victories were only because Optimus had already been worn down after prolonged prior fighting, while Megatron entered the battle fairly fresh). During his battle with Sentinel, he was too blinded in rage to launch an effective attack that almost got him killed and during his battle with Lockdown, Optimus choose to save Cade and almost died.
*Master Swordsman: Optimus is shown to be an immensely formidable swordsman, as he was able to down Bonecrusher, the Fallen, Megatron, Sentinel Prime and even Lockdown with his swords. He is even use his swordsman skills against multiple foes like when he was fighting Megatron, Starscream and Grindor in their Forest battle or in Chicago when he was fighting his way through the Decepticon army to Shockwave and then he used his Energon Sword with his axe against Sentinel Prime or when he his Autobots and Dinobots were fighting the KSI Robots he use his new and dangerous weapon Sword of Judgment with his new Shield against them also he was able to cut of six Infernocuses heads of with one swing.
*Master Axe Combatant: While Optimus usually favors swords or bare hands, he is shown to be highly proficient in wielding his battle axe, with him taking down Megatron and Sentinel Prime with one. In addition the feat was incredible as he only had one arm at the time. He can also charge his battle axe with energon energy to make deadly effects.
*Master Marksman: Although he prefers hand-to-hand combat, Optimus is extremely proficient in the use of firearms, as he is shown to aim his weapons at any Decepticon or even the Control Pillar with Shockwave's gun directly without missing. He also used Megatron's fusion cannon (now resembled to a stockless hand held shotgun) with only one arm.
*Expert Driver: Optimus is shown to be a highly skilled driver in vehicle mode, with him notably able to do a swift u-turn while driving at high speed, and able to rapidly transform in mid-air, even with a trailer attached to him.
*Gifted Intelligence: Optimus Prime, due to being an alien from the highly advanced planet Cybertron, and due to being many centuries old, is highly intelligent.
**Master Tactician: Optimus' exceptional tactical skills are displayed when he leads the Autobots into battle.
**Master Leader: Optimus is shown to be an excellent leader, with his fellow Autobots always obeying his orders in battle.
*Master flyer: When in robot and flight modes, he is good at flying as demonstrated starting from Revenge of the Fallen to The Last Knight.
==Equipment ==
*Ion Blaster: One of Optimus Prime's primary weapons is an ion blaster, though he prefers to use his Energon Swords in combat, leaving the blaster stored inside his back. Once fired, it releases a wave of radiation condensed into an energy ball that will destroy anything in its path. In Transformers, during the battle of Mission City, Optimus managed to get off a single shot of his ion blaster at Megatron before he was sent flying by the latter's fusion cannon. Two years later, in Revenge of the Fallen, Optimus was fighting Demolishor in Shanghai and critically injured the Decepticon by putting several point blank shots into his head. He later executed the dying Constructicon with a shot through the optic. Several days later, Optimus shot at Megatron and Starscream with his ion blaster and barrage cannon while rescuing Sam Witwicky. Three years later, Dark of the Moon, during his battle against Sentinel Prime in Chicago, Optimus Prime tried to defend himself from the Decepticons fighter ships using his ion blaster, but was mostly unsuccessful and apparently lost his blaster in the explosions.
*Energon Swords: One of Optimus Prime's primary weapons are Energon Swords. He used it to easily cut off Bonecrusher's head. In the second movie, Optimus used his two swords against the three Decepticons and he throw his right Energon Sword at Grindor's leg. In his fight against Megatron and the Fallen, he cut off Megatron's right arm. In the third Movie, Optimus used his Energon Sword with a shield against the Driller and Shockwave. He used his swords to kill multiple Decepticons in Chicago. His Energon Sword was crumbled by Galvatron.
*Energon Battle Axe: Optimus used his battle axe against Sentinel Prime. He tore off Megatron's head with his axe.
*Barrage Cannon: In Revenge of the Fallen, after Sam Witwicky was captured by the Decepticons, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee arrived at the abandoned warehouse and fought with the Decepticons. While Bumblebee rescued Sam, Mikaela and Leo, Optimus Prime battled against Megatron and Starscream using his barrage cannon and ion blaster.
*Mega Striker: In Dark of the Moon, after arriving in Chicago, Optimus used the Mega Striker to save Sam, Epps and a team of former NEST soldiers from a Decepticonship and used again to hold off an oncoming attack so the Autobots to escape the building they were being pinned down in. In Age of Extinction, Optimus used it to defend the Yeager family when Cemetery Wind, showed up on their property looking for Prime. Optimus use it during the ensuing chase to defend himself against Lockdown. After Optimus' upgrade, the gun was used again as the Autobots stormed KSI's headquarters in Chicago.
*Vector Shield: Optimus received this (along with his sword) in Transformers: Age of Extinction. This shield became his secondary weapon to fight his enemies. Normally for defensive purposes, this shield can also be use for offensive purposes as it was used to kill Harold Attinger. Later in the next movie Optimus used this to battle Bumblebee when he was brainwashed by Quintessa. Later on he used this to defeat Quintessa and her minions.
*Sword of Judgment: Optimus received this (along with his shield) in Transformers: Age of Extinction. This sword was among many of the weapons stored inside Lockdown's "trophy case", a separate ship that docks off of the main Knight Ship. It became his primary weapon to fight his enemies. This sword was used against him in his battle with Lockdown but he later killed Lockdown with this sword. Later in the next movie Optimus used this to battle Bumblebee when he was brainwashed by Quintessa. Later on he used this to cut off Megatron's arm but Megatron brought him down and almost used it to kill Optimus before he got kicked out of the lair.
*Matrix of Leadership: This is an ancient and powerful artifact Optimus gained in Revenge of the Fallen after he was resurrected with it thanks to Sam but The Fallen came, and took it to activate the Sun Harvester and after he killed The Fallen, defeated Megatron and destroyed the Star Harvester Optimus went to the rubble of the Sun Harvester, took back the Matrix and hid it in his chest. In Dark of the Moon he used the Matrix to re-awaken his former mentor Sentinel Prime after he and Ratchet found him in the Ark on Moon and brought Sentinel to Earth NEST base. Later, when offering the Matrix to Sentinel and him rejecting it, never see it again possibly restored back to his Spark cavity off-screen.
*Quad Barrel Shotgun: Optimus used this weapon in The Last Knight, against one of the knights in Merlin’s Tomb, against the TRF soldiers, and against Bumblebee as Nemesis Prime. Like his other weapons he is able to summon or store this weapon from himself.
== Weaknesses==
*AllSpark: Optimus could be slain if the AllSpark was placed into his chest, much the same way Megatron was (though notably not permanently).
*Damaged Spark: Optimus was temporarily slain by Megatron when the latter pierced his chest and the spark within it.
*Body Part severed: Like humans, Optimus would suffered damage when his own body part torn off cause his energon to leak as when Sentinel Prime cut off his arm with his blade in third movie and being damaged by Cemetery Wind and Lockdown, caused his ear fall off in the fourth movie.
*Stasis Lock: After being damaged by Lockdown and the Cemetery Wind, Optimus remained into stasis lock until he was awoken and helped by Cade Yeager. On his quest to find and kill his creators in space, Optimus also remained in stasis and floating in space until he was awakened after crash landed on Cybertron.
*Quintessa's Brainwashing: Optimus, due to having possibly been created by Quintessa, was vulnerable to her brainwashing, with her thus forcibly converting him into the ruthless and malevolent persona of "Nemesis Prime." Only when hearing Bumblebee's voice again made Optimus snap out and regain his original heroic persona.
==Quotes==
==Trivia ==
*Optimus Prime is voiced by his original voice actor, Peter Cullen since the Generation One series. With his reception warmly received by fans and critics alike, he continues to voice the character from now on.
*Optimus Prime both voice actor Winnie the Pooh, In English he is voiced by Peter Cullen who also voiced Eeyore, and in Japanese dub he is voiced by Tesshō Genda who also voiced Tigger.
*During the release of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, there was a popular fan theory that the main antagonist Scourge was a corrupted version of this Optimus.
*Cullen hated working with Kelsey Grammer and Titus Welliver on the fourth film. Because of this, Grammer and Welliver are the most hated actors by fans and were expelled from the franchise.
*Cullen considered Kelsey Grammer as his arch-nemesis due to Harold Attinger killed the Autobots and possibly Sam Witwicky, which angered him and all the fans.
*During the release of Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer clips, his winged fighter form was confirmed to be an advanced version from Jetfire's leftover parts from second movie.
*Its unclear why Optimus Prime didn't uses his winged fighter armor form after the second and third movies. One possible theory, after being upgraded into Cybertronian Knight, Optimus Prime capable to flight via his advanced feets without need a wings.
*In Age of Extinction, his evasion mode bear resembles to his G1-cartoon counterpart. Which rechieved praise and positive criticism from a lot of fans.
*It's still unknown how Optimus Prime having his appearance resembles a "knight" in both fourth and fifth movie.
** One possible theory, Optimus Prime likely already a cybertronian knight since beginning. As Lockdown claimed both Optimus Prime and Dinobots are type of Cybertronian Knights.
*This version of Optimus has been criticized by some fans for being too edgy, violent, merciless and even bloodthirsty, especially compared to his other incarnations who were far more peaceful. Peter Cullen himself has said he had trouble with some of Optimus' dialogue, such as 'we will kill them all.'
**Also, infamously saying "Give me your face!" to the Fallen before tearing his face off. Also, even though he was a traitor, Optimus executed Sentinel Prime, despite his fallen mentor being helpless. Also, after Megatron's uncharacteristic suggestion of peace, Optimus instead fought him and ripped his head from his body (this and it being attached to a broken robotic spine might be a reference to the Predator from its titular film, which was voiced by Peter Cullen).
***Perhaps a reason for his psychopathic turn could be his death in the Revenge of the Fallen. Prior his death, Prime displayed the typical speech and attitude of the character, but upon revival, he displayed the more blood-thirsty nature. Although, since the film series consistently ignores or forgets plot points, Prime's viciousness may simply be more of such poor writing.
==See Also==
*Optimus Prime - his other self from current timelines
==External Links==
*Optimus Prime on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki.
*Optimus Prime on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki.
*Optimus Prime on the Transformers Movie Wiki.
*Optimus Prime on the Transformers Wiki.
*Optimus Prime on the TFwiki.net.
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