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| “ | Well, that's just prime. | „ |
| ~ Optimus Primal's famous catchphrase. |
| “ | We don't have to do this, Megatron. There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries. Why start this up again? | „ |
| ~ Optimus trying to prevent the inevitable conflict between him and Megatron from occurring. |
| “ | The Great Transformation awaits Megatron. Prepare to be... reformatted. | „ |
| ~ Optimus Primal's last words (in Beast Machines) |
Optimus Primal is the main protagonist of the Beast Wars Era of Transformers Generation One, serving as the main protagonist of both Beast Wars: Transformers and Beast Machines: Transformers. He is a science officer who is assigned to track down the Predacon criminal Megatron and becomes his arch-nemesis.
He is voiced by Garry Chalk, who would later voice Optimus Prime in the Unicorn Trilogy.
What Makes Him Pure Good?[]
In General[]
- Despite having realistic flaws, making some mistakes and even having harbored some worldviews the original Optimus would not condone in good conscience, he makes up for them and ultimately lives up to being the pure-hearted paragon his namesake was.
- In deep contrast to Megatron who treats his team as pawns, he's a benevolent boss that greatly cares about his team.
- He learns to be more patient and understanding with Cheetor despite his mistakes, even apologizing for being so rough on at least one occasion. This plays a big role in Cheetor’s maturation and becoming a PG himself.
Background[]
- He agrees to have Protoform X disposed of non lethally when Depth Charge demanded his execution.
- As captain of the Axalon, he led his crew on deep space exploration of the universe.
- Realizing his non-combat ship was the only ship in range to intercept the rogue Megatron and his crew, he pursued them in order to bring the rogue Predacons to justice and recover the legendary Golden Disk Megatron stole.
Beast Wars[]
Season 1[]
- He ejects all of the Axalon's stasis pods into safe orbit once it was assured the Axalon would crash.
- He tries to initially settle his differences with Megatron peacefully, only resorting to violence when that fails
- He rescues Cheetor from the Predacons when Rattrap refused to, later remarking that he doesn’t give an order that he cannot do himself.
- He tries to convince Dinobot to join the Maximals, and only fights him when he refuses, he refuses to kill Dinobot when he beats him and risks his own life to save Dinobot once again from the Predacons, eventually motivating Dinobot to join the Maximals.
- He teleports a bomb into the Predacon base to destroy it when his ship briefly gains the ability to, but he puts a timer to allow the Predacons to escape, proving he values the lives of his enemies, even PE ones like Megatron and Tarantulas much to Dinobot’s chagrin.
- He rescues Rattrap from Terrorsaur and carries him to safety.
- He saves a Protoform and successfully reformats him into Tigatron who joins the Maximals
- He fakes Rattraps defection in order to infiltrate the Predacons, later sticking up for him and letting the other Maximals out of the dark, saying he wanted the defection to be believable which is why he didn’t tell them originally
- When infected with a virus that causes him to become increasingly uncontrollably aggressive, he orders that the Maximals lock him up until they can find a cure.
- He throws away his only chance of returning to Cybertron in order to rescue Dinobot, leaving no man behind.
- He leads a rescue mission to free Rhinox from the Predacon base.
- He was disgusted by Dinobot eating a fake clone of Dinobot, even though this clone was a Predacon and tried to kill them all.
- He single-handily defeats a Starscream possessed Waspinator and recaptures the Maximal base.
- He convinces Tigatron not to abandon the Maximals after his animal friend/love interest dies.
- He saves Earth from the Vok by destroying their planet buster, at the cost of his body due to Megatron’s betrayal.
Season 2[]
- He saves the Maximals from the Predacons in his new Transmetal body.
- He let Dinobot back into the Maximals despite his brief defection back to the Predacons.
- He warns Megatron not to mess with the Vok ship and potentially lead the Vok to discovering Cybertron, later destroying the control chair with Rattrap to foil Megatron's plan to conquer Cybertron.
- He congratulates Dinobot for his sacrifice to save humanity and eulogizes him.
- He comforts Silverbolt over Transmutate's death and honors his request to leave Rampage alone to grieve.
- He agrees to help Ravage arrest Megatron as he didn’t hate Predacons in of themselves, but just criminals like Megatron.
- Although he was critical of Silverbolt’s relationship with Blackarachnia, it was pretty justified as he had far more experience with her and knew she was a duplicitous backstabber, not to mention Sliverbolt's feelings for her were clearly impairing his judgement(at least from Primal’s point of view). On the other hand, Silverbolt felt alienated and betrayed, as he expected Primal to be less stubborn and see at least some good in her, as Optimus Prime (for example) would. Regardless, he learns to let go of his distrust of her and apparent ire at Silverbolt when she helps save history, and lets her join the Maximals despite her still insisting on being called a Predacon at first.
Season 3[]
- He takes Optimus Prime’s spark to save history and prevent Megatron from killing him, making Primal indirectly responsible for Prime’s actions in G1.
- He puts up with Depth Charge being a complete jerk and offers him a spot on his team.
- He saves two young early anthropoids and helps escort them back to their tribe.
- Although he threatened to rip out Depth Charge’s core processor, it is likely he was actually bluffing in this heat-up moment, and he wanted to know what happened to Cheetor who was briefly presumed dead.
- He reasons with Cheetor to successfully get him to overcome his feral Transmetal II beast mode.
- Contrary to Blackarachnia's assumptions, he never planned on forcibly removing her shell program, informing her it had always been her choice and thereby stopping her from permanently leaving the Maximals.
- Additionally, he informed Blackarachnia that the Maximals would've helped her become a transmetal if she asked, reminding her that she was part of his team regardless if she was a Predacon and thanked her for all her help.
- He takes no joy when the Vok seemingly kill the Predacons and hopes the G1 Megatron’s spark is still functioning.
- He defends Megatron from being executed by Tigerhawk, arguing that the timestream would be further damaged if he dies with the original Megatron’s spark still inside him.
- He tried to get a redeemed Dinobot II to save himself and was saddened by his demise.
- He defeats Megatron to end the Beast Wars.
- He eulogizes all the fallen Maximals that made their victory in the Beast Wars possible.
Beast Machines[]
Season 1[]
- He relearns the art of transformation and teaches it to the surviving Maximals.
- He is able to briefly reach out to Tankor to get him to save the Maximals.
- After Nightscream was critically injured, he severely strains his own power to reformat him into a techno-organic to save him.
- He figures out Rhinox willingly became a villain, but stops the Maximals from forcibly reformatting him, respecting Rhinox's choice even though the other Maximals frowned upon letting their old friend do more evil.
- Although he becomes a religious fanatic in the first half of Beast Machines (undoing much of his personal progress by the end of Beast Wars) and made arguably some of the biggest mistakes of his life (including getting excessively furious at his own troops on two occasions in episode 3, blindly following the Oracle’s directions at his troops’ expense, and finally using the Plasma Energy Chamber in desperation to destroy Megatron, destroying himself and Rhinox/Tankor as well in the process), he subverts his corrupting qualities once more as he is revived to restore true balance.
- In fact, realizing that permanent apocalyptic damage would soon occur because of the clash between the Plasma Energy Chamber he controlled and the Key to Vector Sigma Megatron wielded, he took control of both energies and plunged into himself, sacrificing himself to save Cybertron.
Season 2[]
- He apologizes immensely for his fanatical/jerkish behavior in the first season and is content to remain in the Matrix to atone for his misguided actions until the Maximals remind him of the hero he was, and he realizes his true mission is to bring techno-organic balance.
- He shows Noble compassion and vows to help him control his violent side.
- After Megatron infects the Maximals with the Hate Plague, he figures out a solution to cure them all.
- He restores Botanica's mental functions, allowing her to explain her origins and join his team.
- Additionally, he respects her wishes to be a pacifist.
- He eulogizes Noble for his sacrifice that helped the Maximals stop Megatron's first attempt at devouring the sparks of all Cybertronians to become a god.
- He (albeit briefly) was able to redeem Strika and Obsidian, subverting his questionable decision to give up on peacefully persuading Rhinox to turn good again.
- He saves Cybertron and all Transformers by sacrificing himself and Megatron to restore balance and reformat Cybertron into a techno organic planet.
- Although he kills Megatron, it was necessary to save all Transformers from Megatron’s genocide and to restore balance to Cybertron.
Transformers Universe[]
- He is revived to fight in the Universe War and later requests Rhinox and Depth Charge to be revived as well, even if the latter didn't appreciate it at first.
External Links[]
- Optimus Primal on the Heroes Wiki
- Optimus Primal on the TFWiki.net
- Optimus Primal on the Transformers Wiki
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