How does optimus prime die

Notably, his body turned gray as he died. The Transformers: The Movie Urban legend says his body also crumbled, but no such footage is known to exist. Being the first time he died, it was actually unexpected. Hasbro have since regretted killing Optimus, not realising how much little boys were attached to him. Sometime between and , Marissa Faireborn revived Optimus using the Galvatron cells in her body Ultimately, all the cells were put back into Galvatron , and without them, Optimus promptly died again.

You, I and the Spinning Earth. He returned from the dead twice; first as a zombie under Quintesson control as part of a plan to destroy the Autobots , only to die again when he overcame the Quintesson control through the power of the Matrix and possibly the strength of his will, and sacrificed himself to save the Autobots.

Dark Awakening He then was brought to life again and stayed alive. The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 1. Prime's death in The Transformers: The Movie was sort-of recreated in a flashback montage, but not really. Rather than die while taking down his ultimate nemesis in a one-on-one struggle to the death to defend his city, his comrades, the planet Earth , and freedom itself, he just kind of got randomly shot while in the middle of an ordinary battle outside of the Autobot Headquarters , and turned gray.

Nobody else seemed to notice this. It's not clear that Prime himself noticed it. It's about the most half-hearted death ever. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky. Optimus Prime later died again — in another act of self-sacrifice, of course — when he walked into Vector Sigma and tried to bring it back under control directly.

His body turned gray as he died, followed by a likely only symbolic scene of him telling Rodimus Prime that it would be his responsibility to keep leading the Autobots and to continue his work, seen as a transparent, light-haloed figure against the sky and heard in third person narration as Rodimus stared into the sky. Then again, given the proven existence of ghosts Birth of the Fantastic Double Prime.

Optimus Prime was revived through the efforts of Vector Sigma and Ratchet 's new healing unit, but his multiple previous deaths left their mark and Vector Sigma's power could only keep him alive for seven days. Megatronia Chapter After a week had passed, Optimus died again until a more powerful energy source could be found. Ruination Chapter, Part Two. The Battlestars managed to restore Optimus's life with the power of the Zodiac , evolving him into Star Convoy. The Battlestars.

In the Japanese version of Generation 2 , Optimus Prime was badly wounded by Megatron's fusion cannon and almost died, but was resurrected and evolved yet again, this time into Laser Rod Optimus Prime, by the power of the Reconfiguration Matrix. G-2 This article is a stub and is missing information. You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it.

Optimus Prime , after failing to live up to his moral principles while playing a video game against Megatron , actually volunteered to be killed. The Autobots launched his funeral bier into space. Fortunately, the creator of the video game, Ethan Zachary , saved a backup copy of Prime's mind on a floppy disk.

We first met this virtual Prime sixteen issues later. Pretender to the Throne! He got his new Powermaster body two issues thereafter. People Power! A previous attempt was made at making virtual Prime a new body. The body spontaneously blew up. About thirty issues later, Prime sacrificed himself again to defeat Unicron On the Edge of Extinction! Still Life! However, his Powermaster partner, Hi-Q , survived, and almost immediately began babbling about how he's really Optimus Prime.

End of the Road! This Prime wasn't done dying yet. His adventures continued in the G2 comics, and he died defeating the Swarm.

The Swarm reconstituted him three pages later in a body based on his then-current Hero toy. A Rage in Heaven! Despite being possessed by the Dark Matrix creature, a wounded Optimus Prime was able to help Rodimus Prime and Circuit Smasher stop the creature's plan to spread across the multiverse from Zero Space. At the conclusion of the conflict, Rodimus and Spike bore witness as Optimus died in his protege's arms in the Primus chamber.

In Beast Wars and Beast Machines , you could mark the end of a season by the near-death experience of one Optimus or another Optimus' lifeless body opened, presenting the Matrix of Leadership to Smokescreen, but the young Autobot placed the Forge of Solus Prime in Optimus' hand. As a result, Optimus was resuscitated in a new, more powerful body.

Sometime between and , Marissa Faireborn revives Optimus using the Galvatron cells in her body. Unfortunately, all the cells are put back into Galvatron, and without them, Optimus promptly dies again. Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki. Generation One Beast Wars. Armada Energon Cybertron. Insights Special pages Recent blog posts Forum Community portal. Social Media. Style guide. TFW Seibertron. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? The many deaths of Optimus Prime.

Yep, practically all we know about this Optimus is that he died. Technically, this is the clone. The corpse of an Optimus Prime killed by Megazarak from an alternate universe was cloned by Unicron to create Nemesis Prime.

Optimus Prime has died more than 25 times in the last 30 years across comics, cartoons, movies, and video-games. How does Optimus Prime come back to life in Revenge of the Fallen? Does Optimus Prime die in Transformers? The attempts are obvious enough: they get to keep Optimus Prime off the field for a while, give other robots in disguise the spotlight, and build up anticipation for his return.

Though, whether Optimus Primal is a descendant or suffering from the apotheosis is never confirmed. Primal died twice—once for each series he was a protagonist. In Beast Wars , Primal accidentally sacrificed himself to destroy the Vok planet killer weapon. Megatron hacked the pod he was traveling in and made sure he went down the with the ship. By the end of the following three episode arc, Primal returned with a new body that probably made your local toy store a bundle.

Given that this was the end of the saga, Primal stayed dead—unless you count the Beast Wars Reborn comics, where they were resurrected as amnesiacs by the Vok sometime later. Two deaths and two resurrections. In the beginning, before the war really exploded, Pax admired the Decepticons; they took charge and they could fly.

Then, Megatron killed his friends and shot him in the gut. That usually does change your opinion on some people. Maybe Megatron would have overrun Cybertron. Maybe Wheelie would be the leader of the Autobots. When the Ark and the Nemesis crash landed on Earth, the Autobots and Decepticons went into stasis lock for four million years until, in , Mount St.

Helen erupted, waking everyone up. I was asleep! Without that nap, Cybertron never would have recovered. A robot shark once fought a robot ape in outer space. The Decepticons opened hypnotic nightclubs and car washes.

The Beast Wars Megatron has a rubber ducky. Both sides fought it out in a VR computer game, where the leader of the losing army must die. Megatron uses cheat codes to survive, but Optimus ends up winning—at the cost of the in-game computer characters. He then tells Ethan Zachary, the programmer, to kill him. Prime dies, but Zachary saved his entire personality, memories, and programming on a floppy disk.

A year later, Prime returned in a new body: Powermaster Optimus Prime, which, yes, does sound like a gimmicky adult-themed toy. Megs successfully takes over the Ark , where his Autobot and Decepticon ancestors sleep in stasis lock. The sleeping Optimus Prime is killed by Megatron's awesome speech followed by a fusion cannon shot, incidentally , causing a time storm that affects all of galactic history.

No one figure has directly or indirectly affected the universe more than Optimus Prime. Without him, the Decepticons would rule Cybertron, and the Maximals—Autobot descendants—would all cease to exist.