Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader, Overlord, and New Emperor of Destruction.

**Optimus Prime**, is both a fictional character and protagonist of the *Marvelous DC's* *Transformer Titans* series created by Sam Register and Bob Haney. He is the legendary, awe-inspiring commander and leader of all the Autobot forces.

Long ago, he was an archivist, a simple data and records clerk, named "**Orion Pax**", and eventually, he found satisfied with his job and place in the Iacon's Archives. He was always anxious of the inequality amongst Cybertronians.

One day, after gaining inspiration from an outspoken gladiator's call for an upheaval of the planet's society, took a stand to rid the oppressive caste system that had hindered the very freedom of all the sentient beings on Cybertron.

Little did he realize that his instructor, the master archivist, knew of the secret within Orion. When Megatron was corrupted, Orion soon learns that he was one of the last of the Primes, hidden away when The Fallen destroyed their lineage.

In response to Megatron's attempts to seize the AllSpark and conquer other worlds, the Council promoted Orion his proper title. And thus, Optimus claimed the Matrix and rallied the Autobots to stand against the Decepticons.

"*Freedom is the fundamental right of all living beings.*"

—Optimus Prime.

## Appearance

*Voice Actor*: Peter Cullen (English), Toshiyuki Morikawa (Japanese), (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Wang Wei (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Pekka Lehtosaari (Finnish), Erwin Grunspan (French), Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (German), Marco Balzarotti (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Pekka Lehtosaari (Finnish), Wan-gyeong Seong (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Poland), Dariusz Odija (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Alexander Kovriznyh (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), César Marchetti (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Blas Garcia (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Alfredo Martinez (Spain-Spanish)
*Voice Actor (Orion Pax)*: Laurie Faso (English), Masahito Kawanago (Japanese), (Japanese), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (German), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Poland), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (Canadian French), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish), Not Known (Spain-Spanish)

### Biography

Optimus Prime is the heroic leader of the Autobots. He is both brave and compassionate, inspiring greatness in those who follow him. Optimus has a strong sense of justice and righteousness and has dedicated himself to the protection of all sentient life; he will battle his foes with unyielding resolve to uphold his belief. Even the leader of the Decepticons, Megatron, begrudgingly admits his respect for Optimus Prime.

Once a simple data clerk, Optimus Prime was chosen, to his surprise, to become the leader of the Autobots. Optimus Prime believes that freedom is the right of all sentient beings. He uses his strength and bravery to rally his heroic Autobots to wage their battle against the evil forces of the Decepticons.

### Appearance

#### Robot Mode

Optimus has a gray face with a blue helmet and antennas of the same color, heavily detailed and designed with multiple plates and layers of pieces on top of each other. Optimus has two sphere shaped bases for his antennas, with dark blue coloring around it. He has windows from his vehicle mode on/in his red chest and a dark grey strip on both of his ribs.

Optimus has little similarities to his old form. His upgrade includes his windows in his chest, blue helmet and red color scheme all over his body, with the exception of his legs being gray like his face and hands.

#### Vehicle Mode

His vehicle mode on Cybertron was a Cybertronian Truck, when arriving to Earth he adapts the Earth vehicle mode of a tractor trailer.

It can attach a trailer to the back blue section. Optimus can go to Maximum Overdrive, which makes him go faster than a normal truck.

With his upgrade, he turns in an alt mode similar to that of an experimental all-terrain expeditionary fighting vehicle which was designed by the finest engineers in the army division.

* Hair Color: N/A
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Blue
* Age: Not Known
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Alpha Trion
* Dynasty of Primes
	+ Nova Prime
	+ Zeta Prime
* Autobots
	+ Bumblebee
	+ Elita-1
	+ Sideswipe
	+ Ratchet
	+ Arcee
	+ Warpath
	+ Prowl
	+ Hot Shot
	+ Drift
	+ Kup
	+ Cliffjumper
	+ Windblade
	+ Wreck-Gar
* Omega Sentinels
	+ Omega Supreme
* Mini-Cons
* Dinobots
* Dinobots
	+ Volcanicus
		- Grimlock
		- Swoop
		- Snarl
		- Slug
		- Sludge
* Wreckers
	+ Ultra Magnus
	+ Springer
	+ Bulkhead
	+ Wheeljack
* Cybertron Elite Guard
	+ Smokescreen
	+ Strongarm
	+ Jazz
	+ Blurr
	+ Safeguard
		- Jetfire
		- Jetstorm
* Aerialbots
	+ Superion
		- Air Raid
		- Silverbolt

### Enemies

* Decepticons
	+ Megatron
	+ Shockwave
	+ Barricade
	+ Blitzwing
	+ Lugnut
	+ Soundwave
		- Frenzy
		- Rumble
		- Laserbeak
		- Buzzsaw
		- Ravage
	+ Airachnid
	+ Insecticons
		- Kickback
		- Sharpshot
		- Hardshell
	+ Seekers
		- Starscream
		- Thundercracker
		- Dirge
		- Thrust
		- Sunstorm
		- Ramjet
		- Skywarp
		- Slipstream
	+ Lockdown
	+ Astrotrain
	+ Trypticon
	+ Galvatronus
		- Cyclonus
		- Cyberwarp
		- Skyjack
		- Treadshock
		- Riotgear
* Combaticons
	+ Bruticus
		- Onslaught
		- Vortex
		- Brawl
		- Blast Off
		- Swindle
* Constructicons
	+ Devastator
		- Dirt Boss
		- Scrapper
		- Scavenger
		- Mixmaster
		- Long Haul
		- Bonecrusher
		- Hook
* Predacons
	+ Predaking
* Stunticons
	+ Menasor
		- Motormaster
		- Dead End
		- Wildrider
		- Drag Strip
		- Breakdown
		- Offroad
		- Blackjack
* Ancient Decepticons
	+ the Fallen

## Abilities and Powers

Optimus, back as an archivist, he had yet full, military usage and had supportive tools for *only* certain combat purposes. His main one are his arm mounted grappling hook launchers, which Optimus use to swing through the air, or to reach things a distance away from him. The launchers in his arms can also shoot out bolas to tie up the legs of his opponents, fire retardant foam, and low friction gel.

Optimus wields a rocket powered axe. The axe can transform from a small hatchet into a full sized battle axe, and the handle can extend even further to allow Optimus to pole vault when needed. The rocket engine assists with swings to lend more power to attacks.

Optimus also exhibited an ability to tap into phone and radio signals, using an antenna built into his "ear piece" and also demonstrated an ability to track signals back to their origin.

Optimus Prime also possesses a retractable mouth-plate/battle mask like the other Autobots for battle mode purposes. He also has a retractable visor to survey an area, locating certain things, or some other computer-like means.

On top of all this, Optimus Prime has extensive Cybertron Academy training, before he became Zeta Prime's right hand man. In addition to his agility and Elite Guard-class skills, he has the tactical knowledge that comes with the role, such as tricking Knock Out and Lugnut.

Optimus Prime is one of the strongest Autobots alive, possesses a wide variety of skills and abilities, and a formidable opponent in battle. Optimus is armed with two arm blaster cannons and long blades. He also possess the Star Saber plus with the Matrix of Leadership, which makes him the strongest Prime alive.

After Unicron and Predaking, he is undoubtedly the strongest fighter in the series. This is shown by the fact that he is capable of defeating several Insecticons with little to no effort in both of his bodies. It should be noted that even Megatron struggled to kill even one Insecticon.

After being repaired by Forge of Solus Prime's remaining power, Optimus gained a new stronger and more powerful body with a jetpack and armed with an energon minigun. He also a new energon blaster and rockets in his vehicle form. After Optimus reclaimed his weapon and killed Megatron with the Star Saber, Optimus reclaimed his weapon though, it is not seen using it after that.

### Abilities

As the last of the Cybertronian Primes, Optimus is one of the most, if not the most powerful Cybertronian.

* **Master hand-to-hand combatant:** Optimus is shown to be an exceptionally formidable hand-to-hand combatant. In fact, the only ones that have nearly defeated him in combat are Megatron and Lockdown.
* **Master swordsman:** Optimus is shown to be a formidable swordsman. He was able to kill Megatron with only an arm and a battle axe within 15 seconds as shown is the third movie. Optimus Prime was also able to decapitate the drillerbot with his dual energon swords.
* **Master marksman:** Although he prefers hand-to-hand combat, Optimus is extremely proficient in the use of firearms.
* **Master tactician:** Optimus is shown to be a master tactician.
* **Master leader:** Optimus is shown to be a great leader.
* **Expert driver:** Optimus is shown to be an expert driver in vehicle mode. In the first movie, he was able to do a swift u-turn, while driving at a high speed and in the third movie, he was able to transform at a high speed in mid-air even with a trailer attached to him.
* **Cybertronian strength:** Optimus is shown to be strong compared to that of an average Cybertronian. He was able to take down Shockwave with ease in the third movie. He is capable of lifting over 2,000 tons.
* **Cybertronian speed:** Optimus is shown to be a fast compared to that of an average cybertronian. He was shown to outrun helicopters.
* **Healing Factor:** Optimus Prime has an enhanced healing factor, a badly damaged Optimus Prime was healing during the time the sword was removed from his chest.
* **Invincibility:** Optimus Prime has the matrix of leadership inside his chest. As long as it stays there, Optimus Prime has invincibility. He was able to survive a sword through the chest from Lockdown.

## History

### Past

#### Early years

In the waning years of the Golden Age of Cybertron, Orion Pax worked as an archivist and clerk in the Iacon Archives, and was friend to Ariel and Dion, mentored by Alpha Trion. His interests lay with the tales of ancient Cybertronian history, but the more he learned about the past, the more he grew concerned about the present. There was a disparity in freedom among the classes of his race, and the ruling class was corrupt and all-powerful. In seeking a solution to this inequity, Orion found inspiration and Dion found idolization in the words of a gladiator named Megatronus, that led the two joined forces to end corruption and bring equality to the masses. Orion and Megatronus became close allies, almost like brothers.

During a meeting at Maccadam's Old Oil House, Orion was drawn to the charismatic Megatronus' campaign for change so much, he assured Megatronus he would author the speech Megatronus was to give at their upcoming rally. At the rally, Optimus stood amongst Megatron’s closest allies as he unveiled the revolution movement. Though the rally was a success, Ariel wasn't so sure, having heard rumors that there had recently been secretive yet perpetrated attacks on an outer cities and Megatronus' growing power would begin to reveal darker shades of his personality and ambition. She warns Orion that Megatronus' ideas of revolution would be threatened to turn into war, Orion did not wanted to believe that at the time.

One day, both Megatronus and Orion Pax appeared before the Cybertron Council. However, when the pair presented their ideas towards the Council members, they discovered their ideologies were vastly different from each other, where Megatronus stated it was his intention to overthrow the Council by force and instate himself as the next Prime. But Orion however disbevieved in violence as a means of achieving justice - it was his speech that warmly touched the council and drew their attention, whom personally recommended to Orion that he should be named the next Prime. Driven by jealousy and hatred, this event caused Megatron to left angrily, cut of all ties with Orion and the council, and disappeared for six years ever since.

One day, Orion was heading to work as usual when at that moment, Dion and Ariel alerted Orion the Archives was under attack. Before long when the trio arrived, Orion was shocked when he was approached by Megatronus — now "Megatron" — had returned and began his conquest, with his followers, the Decepticons. Orion tried to speak to Megatron and try to peacefully resolve their issues. But Megatron was to infuriated to listen, Megatron declared open war on his old friend and his faction. When Orion took a shot down by a blast from the enraged Decepticon leader's cannon, Ariel tried to rush to his defense, but was hit by another blast from Megatron, and Orion and Ariel were severely injured.

While Megatron and his troops set about pillaging and destroying, Dion with the help of the five robots Orion had met earlier carried their bodies away, in hopes of finding someone to repair them. Alpha Trion took them to Alpha Trion, who brought them to the Cybertronian machinesmiths to help. The Cybertronian Machinesmiths: Nautica and Rung had reluctantly decided to subject Orion and Ariel to a new reconstruction process they had developed, which would rebuild the Autobots' frail bodies into battle-hardy configurations so that they could battle the Decepticons on even footing. Thus it was that they were rebuilt into Optimus and Elita-1 respectively.

## External links

* Optimus Prime *Wikipedia*
* Optimus Prime *Heroes Wiki*
* Optimus Prime *Teletraan 1: The Transformers Wiki*
* Optimus Prime *Transformers Wiki*