The piecemeal origins of the individual toys are largely responsible for the enormous disparity in scale and style of the early toys, as it paired regular road vehicles, large military gear and household items together. When brought in as a single toy line, they were given the Transformers brand and established the "sapient robot" aspect of the story.Īfter the original toy line, further incarnations were designed specifically for the mega-hit Transformers brand, creating a more internally-consistent style, though still with inappropriate sizes between toys.
Optimus Prime: The Leader of the Autobots and known as Convoy in the Japanese dubs (though occasionally referred to as First Convoy or Shodai Convoy when around other characters named Convoy).At any given point there might be three distinct toylines for the franchise depending on the companion media of the time, while the broader " Generations " and " Masterpiece " lines reimagine classic characters with more modern, advanced and sometimes pricier versions. In the original cartoon continuity he appeared to be the supreme leader of all Autobots by a sort of divine right and was shown to have the "Matrix of Leadership," a mystical artifact that has been passed down for generations of Cybertronian leaders. Some incarnations have him merely being supreme commander of the military (this was the case in the original Marvel comics until his civilian superiors were massacred) or simply in command of a small force as opposed to the whole faction. Optimus Prime is often portrayed as a conflicted pacifist shouldering the burden of military leadership. His typical alternate form is some sort of heavy vehicle like a semi-truck or a fire engine. His impact was so great that many leader-type characters take cues from him, such as having a trailer attachment, a faceplate and a heroic red, white and blue colour scheme. Even his counterparts in the Beast Era like Optimus Primal (a gorilla), Lio Convoy (a lion) and Big Convoy (a woolly mammoth) have design elements from him despite the very different alternate modes.
He is often a megalomaniac whose thirst for power is unmatched and orchestrated the civil war when the Autobots wouldn't just accept him as their leader, though some versions of him invoke He Who Fights Monsters or Fallen Hero. Often portrayed as one of the most powerful Decepticons alive, but usually mad and brilliant at the same time. His original form was a Walther P38 pistol modeled after the variant created for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. note This was back in the days when children were allowed to play with realistic looking firearm toys. In later versions his alternate mode usually takes on the form of a tank or heavily armed air vehicle (jet, helicopter, etc) and if the toys feel nostalgic they make a "futuristic" (i.e. Many of his incarnations are rebuilt into a more powerful form and renamed Galvatron, though this isn't a hard and fast rule.
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