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This article pertains to an Inconsistently Admirable with more than one version who is Inconsistently Admirable! |
| “ | Fate rarely calls upon us at the moment of our choosing. | „ |
| ~ Optimus Prime to Sam |
| “ | In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith, days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet and it's people. | „ |
| ~ Optimus' speech after killing Sentinel |
| “ | Knights, Autobots - this cannot and will not be the end. To save Earth and her people, we are going to steal Quintessa's staff. Only you, Viviane, can take it back. I will lead the way into her chamber, and when the account of the ages is etched into the cosmos, let those who exist long after us know that this was our finest hour! | „ |
| ~ Optimus rallies his allies to fight Quintessa |
Optimus Prime, briefly known as Nemesis Prime while brainwashed, is one of the three main protagonists (alongside Sam Witwicky and Cade Yeager) 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, who is now their corrupted power hungry leader, Megatron. 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 Peter Cullen in English and by Tessho Genda in Japanese.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
Transformers (2007)[]
- He told Sam to put the cube on his chest and was willing to sacrifice himself to ensure Megatron couldn't get his hands on it and wipe out humanity in the process.
- He prevents Ironhide from harming Sam's parents.
- While he doesn't save Bumblebee from Sector Seven, it was only because he did not wish to harm the humans.
- He saw goodness in humanity while Autobots such as Jazz and Ironhide didn't, so he may have considered the possibility of Sam persuading Sector Seven to spare Bumblebee.
- He was remorseful for killing Megatron, stating that he left him no choice due to his vile actions.
Revenge of the Fallen (2009)[]
- He helped take down the Decepticons in Shanghai.
- He protected Sam in the Forest Fight at the cost of his life (though he was later revived).
- After being revived by the Matrix of Leadership, he foils the Fallen's plans of destroying the Earth by destroying the Star Harvester and putting him down for good. He then takes the Matrix of Leadership and places it into his chest for safekeeping.
- In the end of the movie, Optimus thanked Sam for saving his life.
Dark of the Moon (2011)[]
- He revived Sentinel Prime in hopes of thwarting the Decepticons plans for Earth and was horrified when it turned out that he was a traitor.
- He tried to prevent Sentinel from using the pillars to call the Decepticons and after Optimus confronted him, he tried to reason with him telling him that they should protect the humans.
- In the end, he managed to kill Megatron and Sentinel, putting an end to their chaos and saving Chicago City.
- In the comic/novel version depicting the originally intended ending, he accepts Megatron's truce, which was more genuine unlike in the film.
Age of Extinction (2014)[]
- After the events in Chicago and seeing that Cemetery Wind was going to hunt him and his species, he ordered all Autobots to avoid contact with humans to avoid attracting attention.
- Although he was hostile towards Cade, Tessa, and Lucas, it was because he thought they were planning to hurt him; eventually, he lowered his weapon and showed gratitude to Cade for saved him.
- He attacks Cemetery Wind soldiers in self-defense when they threaten Cade and his daughter Tessa.
- He helps Cade, Tessa, and Shane escape from the soldiers, and then he checks the perimeter for any danger.
- He also shows his respects to Cade for the loss of his friend Lucas.
- He calls all the Autobots together so they can assemble.
- He prevents Hound and Drift from trying to kill Cade, Tessa, and Shane.
- He decided to embark on a mission to find out the truth about why Cemetery Wind and Lockdown were hunting them.
- Leads a successful raid into Kinetic Solutions Industries and nearly succeeds in exacting his revenge before cleverly picking up that the CEO, Joshua Joyce, was trying to bait him into killing him to gaslight him that he and the Autobots deserved all the suffering they had for 5 years.
- He tells Cade about the seed and Megatron's plan to destroy Earth.
- He requests the help of Grimlock and the rest of the Dinobots to fight the Decepticons.
- He destroys the Lockdown ship's magnet, thus preventing further death and destruction.
- He fought Lockdown individually, and when Harold Attinger was about to kill Cade, he dodged to help him.
- While he did break his code by killing Harold Attinger, it was only to save Cade's life from him, making the kill justified due to how murderous and unstable Harold was.
- He saves Cade's life from Lockdown, avenging Ratchet and many others who were killed by him.
- He decided to return to Cybertron alone to confront his creators and prevent them from coming to Earth.
The Last Knight (2017)[]
- He showed remorse for what he did when he was brainwashed by Quintessa as Nemesis Prime.
- He saves Earth from Quintessa.
- He is currently rebuilding Cybertron with the rest of the Autobots without the need of the staff.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is too lethal and homicidal. Although some of his kills can be considered justified towards the Fallen, Megatron, Sentinel Prime, Shockwave, Lockdown and Harold Attinger (that without counting Megatron, they were all pure evil), he is bloodthirsty towards other Decepticons who did less and executes them when they are helpless and/or bested, even hunting down those who are minding their own business (debatably without harming any humans) and going as far as to threaten to kill two humans, not to mention that he kills his enemies in unnecessarily brutal ways, such as in Revenge of the Fallen when he kills Grindor by ripping his face in half with his hooks and when he infamously rips off the Fallen’s face before impaling him through the chest with his bare hands and in Dark of the Moon during the battle of Chicago when he rips out Shockwave’s eye through his throat, killing the latter.
- Though him cutting off the Fallen’s finger was in self-defense, and the reason for ripping his face off was most likely because of how he brought shame to the other ancient Primes due to his heinous acts, as needlessly brutal as it sounds on paper.
- He (initially) agreed with Cade's initially jerkish behavior towards Shane, implying he was once a control freak towards Bumblebee in the distant past.
- Though Cade’s behavior merely amounted to him wanting to protect his daughter (albeit in his own misguided way), the dialogue still implies Optimus may have not yet learned to be a good leader by then.
- Brutally beats Grimlock down for opposing him and then threatens the Dinobots with death if they don’t follow him as leader and join the Autobots, even pointing and rubbing a blade near Grimlock's head to show the threat.
Trivia[]
- To highlight his IA status, Optimus Prime's iconic voice actor, Peter Cullen, had a extremely hard time say one of Optimus' lines within the movies, and couldn't stand that he would say words like "Give me your face" or "We will kill them all" as it was unlike the original version who would never say such ruthless lines.
- He's one of the only versions of Optimus Prime, alongside his Shattered Glass Nova Prime and JohnnyFlash counterparts to be Inconsistently Admirable as most of his incarnations lack corrupting qualities to the point of qualifying as Pure Good or at least Near Pure Good.
- Out of all them he is the only one to not qualify as Inconsistently Heinous due to him not passing the high heinous standards of the BayVerse unlike the two who is able to pass their works heinous standards.
- Although he is not a Near Pure Evil crossover like Megatron, he stands out as the only Optimus Prime in the franchise to share a moral scaling with his version of Megatron.
- His corruptive qualities were mostly limited to every movie after the first. So while his killing of Bonecrusher was quite brutal, it was only to protect bystanders including a mother and her child, and Bonecrusher was too hate-filled in his last moments to be reasoned with.
- He is one of few Inconsistently Admirable characters to also be considered Pure Good: that being in the comics and games adaptions of the Bayverse Saga, where any corruptive traits he had are absent or diminished/subverted.
- Him, Sentinel Prime and Nova Prime are the only Primes to be Inconsistently Admirable.
External Links[]
- Optimus Prime on the Heroes Wiki.
- Optimus Prime on the Transformers Movie Wiki.
- Optimus Prime on the Transformers Wiki.
- Optimus Prime on the TFwiki.net.
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