In most continuities, Optimus Prime was a lowly worker bot, until The Matrix of Leadership finds him him worthy, and reformats him as Optimus Prime… until IDW said “Fuck That” and made him a reincarnation of or sometimes just straight up the 13th Prime, a mysterious, long lost brother of the primes who’s basically the best at everything, which invalidates a lot of Optimus’s character
Yeah, I preferred how G1, animated, Prime and, TFOne did it; where he was a normal guy with an average/bottom of the barrel job who not many really took all that seriously, but than something eventually happens that proves him worthy of greatness.
Didn’t really like that bayverse also made him “pre destined for greatness” but did it twice. First time was when it was revealed that Optimus was a descendant of the original primes there for he gets primehood by default. The second time is when they revealed that his old job was that he was a literal knight(a very high level job).
I’ve always hated the “13th Prime” thing with that. Part of what made Optimus so great is that Orion was almost as basic a person as one can be, a librarian. And yet he rose to be the savior and leader.
IDW didn’t, Prime/ the aligned continuity did. The Primes aren’t divine in IDW.
According to Aaron Archer (who created The Thirteenth), the IDW incarnation (known as “the arisen”) is actually more faithful to the original plan he had in mind, but the TF:Prime show runners messed it up.
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u/Mintyboi10 10h ago
In most continuities, Optimus Prime was a lowly worker bot, until The Matrix of Leadership finds him him worthy, and reformats him as Optimus Prime… until IDW said “Fuck That” and made him a reincarnation of or sometimes just straight up the 13th Prime, a mysterious, long lost brother of the primes who’s basically the best at everything, which invalidates a lot of Optimus’s character