one shall rise and one shall fall
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the origin of
Optimus Prime the greatest leader of the
Autobots well it all began about nine
million years ago oh great
it’s gonna be one of those long stories
arguably the most popular and
recognizable character in the franchise
he has gone on to star in several
television comic book and film
iterations and has been made into
countless action figures
initially the show’s creators and Hasbro
didn’t recognize just how beloved the
character had become to the show’s
audience however optimises popularity
finally became recognized in a big way
when he was killed off in the 1986
animated feature one day an Autobot
shall rise from our ranks and used the
power of the matrix to light our darkest
hour as the result of this unexpected
and emotional fan uproar the characters
soon returned and has since remained a
mainstay of the franchise throughout the
years he has undergone several changes
these included receiving a descendant
named Optimus Primal in the Beast Wars
sequel series Optimus Primal maximized
however in recent years the character
has returned to his roots and has once
again been brought to life by the iconic
voice talent of Peter Cullen what role
despite optimises incredible popularity
and prominence in popular culture many
fans still don’t know his origins
incidentally these were shown in the
episode War Dawn which debuted in the
second season of 1984 s generation one
cartoon series within the original
continuity Optimus Prime was once a
robot named Orion Pax a worker robot
created by an alien race called the
quintessons
taking place nine million years prior to
the events of the 1980s cartoon series
he was a naive and defenseless dock
warrior that was amazed at the arrival
of the new group of military robots that
could fly
however these robots led by Megatron
rebelled against their creators and
declared war on the aliens and the
Autobots alike you you can’t do this
severely damaged upon his first
encounter with Megatron Orion Pax was
rebuilt this occurred through becoming
the first test subject of a
reconstruction process crafted by the
Autobot elder alpha Trion reah merging
his optimists he discovered that he had
been given a battle-hardened
reconfiguration and a new sense of
courage he was similarly recognized as
the strongest Autobot as such he took
the mantle as their leader in a civil
war against the Decepticons and was
given possession of the Autobot matrix
of leadership a sacred artifact and
power source that endowed him with the
title of prime with this battle raging
on for millennia Optimus Prime
eventually headed up missions to search
out new worlds and energy sources this
was necessary to restore Cybertron their
mechanical homeworld which had gone dark
during the neverending conflict no sign
of Cybertron’s blacker than the inside
of the drive shaft
unless a new supply of energy is found
nobody is going to win this war taking
off with his forces in a spaceship
called the arc Megatron and his
Decepticons soon gave chase in their own
battleship called the Nemesis engaging
and raiding the ark both ships were sent
crashing into the planet Earth as a
result the two warring factions were
locked in stasis for several millennia
and were only awake to begin the Great
War in 1984 this resulted from the
volcano quaking activating the ship’s
systems soon after Optimus Prime and his
Autobots took on earth vehicle forms so
that they could hide among the humans
and battle the evil forces of the
Decepticons Optimus Prime himself
adapted a red cab truck form though this
would change throughout the many reboots
of the franchise he eventually became
redefined in Michael Bay’s films as a
red flamed Peterbilt truck and went on
to retain that form in 2010 s computer
animated series Transformers Prime
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be taking a look at the origin of
Optimus Prime the greatest leader of the
Autobots well it all began about nine
million years ago oh great
it’s gonna be one of those long stories
arguably the most popular and
recognizable character in the franchise
he has gone on to star in several
television comic book and film
iterations and has been made into
countless action figures
initially the show’s creators and Hasbro
didn’t recognize just how beloved the
character had become to the show’s
audience however optimises popularity
finally became recognized in a big way
when he was killed off in the 1986
animated feature one day an Autobot
shall rise from our ranks and used the
power of the matrix to light our darkest
hour as the result of this unexpected
and emotional fan uproar the characters
soon returned and has since remained a
mainstay of the franchise throughout the
years he has undergone several changes
these included receiving a descendant
named Optimus Primal in the Beast Wars
sequel series Optimus Primal maximized
however in recent years the character
has returned to his roots and has once
again been brought to life by the iconic
voice talent of Peter Cullen what role
despite optimises incredible popularity
and prominence in popular culture many
fans still don’t know his origins
incidentally these were shown in the
episode War Dawn which debuted in the
second season of 1984 s generation one
cartoon series within the original
continuity Optimus Prime was once a
robot named Orion Pax a worker robot
created by an alien race called the
quintessons
taking place nine million years prior to
the events of the 1980s cartoon series
he was a naive and defenseless dock
warrior that was amazed at the arrival
of the new group of military robots that
could fly
however these robots led by Megatron
rebelled against their creators and
declared war on the aliens and the
Autobots alike you you can’t do this
severely damaged upon his first
encounter with Megatron Orion Pax was
rebuilt this occurred through becoming
the first test subject of a
reconstruction process crafted by the
Autobot elder alpha Trion reah merging
his optimists he discovered that he had
been given a battle-hardened
reconfiguration and a new sense of
courage he was similarly recognized as
the strongest Autobot as such he took
the mantle as their leader in a civil
war against the Decepticons and was
given possession of the Autobot matrix
of leadership a sacred artifact and
power source that endowed him with the
title of prime with this battle raging
on for millennia Optimus Prime
eventually headed up missions to search
out new worlds and energy sources this
was necessary to restore Cybertron their
mechanical homeworld which had gone dark
during the neverending conflict no sign
of Cybertron’s blacker than the inside
of the drive shaft
unless a new supply of energy is found
nobody is going to win this war taking
off with his forces in a spaceship
called the arc Megatron and his
Decepticons soon gave chase in their own
battleship called the Nemesis engaging
and raiding the ark both ships were sent
crashing into the planet Earth as a
result the two warring factions were
locked in stasis for several millennia
and were only awake to begin the Great
War in 1984 this resulted from the
volcano quaking activating the ship’s
systems soon after Optimus Prime and his
Autobots took on earth vehicle forms so
that they could hide among the humans
and battle the evil forces of the
Decepticons Optimus Prime himself
adapted a red cab truck form though this
would change throughout the many reboots
of the franchise he eventually became
redefined in Michael Bay’s films as a
red flamed Peterbilt truck and went on
to retain that form in 2010 s computer
animated series Transformers Prime
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