Optimus wielding the Star Saber confronts Megatron, and discovers Megatron had the right hand of a deceased Prime attached to himself in order to use the Forge of Solus Prime to create his own sword the " Dark Star Saber " ( which Megatron calls the Slayer of Primes ) which is forged of Dark Energon ( the blood of Unicorn ).

* 1400 OPTIMI, or TIMI ; the name Optimus is Latin and male.

* 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

The word " Capitol " comes from Latin and is associated with the Roman temple to Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitoline Hill.

* September 13, 509 BC — The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.

Main temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus is built.

The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Capitolinus is the most important of the temples.

* Transformers In the story, Maximus Prime is a parody of Optimus Prime, like Malatron is Megatron.

In a prelude story The last days of Optimus Prime, Prime, feeling that there is no longer a place for him within the new Cybertron, journeys to J ' nwan — a quasi-mystical realm — and is greeted peacefully by Megatron.

Having now ingested Ore-13, Megatron is able to easily manage mass-displacement and thus turn into an Earth handgun ( in Escalation # 2 ), and the newfound power appears to have affected his actions-he personally went on the Brasnya mission and is confident enough to transform & battle Optimus in front of human witnesses, actions that Optimus finds out of character.

Due to the interference of Ravage ( the same future Ravage who appears in the Beast Wars ), most of the events of the original animated feature do not transpire ; most importantly the Battle of Autobot City does not occur, and Optimus Prime and Megatron do not have their final showdown, meaning that Optimus Prime does not die, and Megatron is never reformatted into Galvatron.

The first line of the toy series is the Mickey Mouse Transformer which was modeled after Optimus Prime with the same colors as its Transformer counterpart and can transform into a cartoonish trailer truck like the original version.

In the G2 Marvel series ( which continues from the G1 Marvel series ), it is stated that the Decepticon forces on Cybertron underwent a massive split in the wake of Megatron's disappearance when Megatron, Optimus Prime, and their respective troops crashed on Earth.

In the final battle in the second movie, there are many Decepticon casualties including Devastator ( destroyed by a rail gun ), Mixmaster ( cut in half and his head stomped off by Jetfire ), Rampage ( killed by Bumblebee ), Ravage ( Stripped from his spine by Bumblebee ), Scrapper and Long Haul ( killed by an airstrike ), Scorponok ( head crushed by Jetfire ) and the Fallen himself whose spark is ripped out and crushed by Optimus Prime.

Megatron offers a truce between the Autobots and Decepticons after Cybertron is destroyed as long as he's in charge of the Decepticons again, but Optimus refuses and kills Megatron and Sentinel.

Optimus is giving a piece of Cybertron's spark for safe-keeping ( The Matrix of Leadership ).

Optimash Prime is a hybrid of two children's characters, Optimus Prime of the Transformers toy line and Mr. Potato Head.

Soon thereafter, in what is known as reverse takeover, CDP Investment merged with Optimus S. A., a public company listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

According to The Transformers: Spotlight issue featuring Optimus Prime, the only Transformers gestalt is currently Monstructor, meaning the Constructicons cannot combine into Devastator at this point.

Optimus Prime deemed them too dangerous to use again, and had them sealed back up in the cavern, but when the majority of the Autobot force was captured by the Decepticons, Wheeljack freed them to go to their rescue.

In his private thoughts, however, Grimlock considered Optimus Prime too weak to lead, seeking the position for himself.

Optimus finds out he's too late and the Autobots are forced to leave Cybertron.

Like the Matrix of Cybertron Prime, this too can fit in the chest of the original Optimus Prime.

So too was Optimus Primal, who had been a starship captain on a scientific exploration mission, unexpectedly thrust by another Megatron with dictatorial tendencies into a conflict that would define the fate of the history of the universe.

Guilt-ridden and believing himself to be too old to be of any further use, Ironhide resigned from active service, against the wishes of Optimus Prime.

Optimus decided that Dinobot Island would be a good place for the Dinobots to train and practice their fighting skills, because the Ark was too small for the giant Dinobots.

Optimus decided that Dinobot Island would be a good place for the Dinobots to train and practice their fighting skills, because the Ark was too small for the giant Dinobots.

Optimus decided that Dinobot Island would be a good place for the Dinobots to train and practice their fighting skills, because the Ark was too small for the giant Dinobots.

Optimus is easily knocked down, too weak to battle him alone.

* Convoy / Optimus Prime ( late 2001 New Year Special Re-issue ): Made of solid die-cast metal, this Matrix was designed to fit inside the chest cavity / seats of the original Optimus Prime / Convoy toy.

It was thought to be older than the more famous temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, and was still a landmark in Martial's time, in the late 1st century.

The second Medici lion was sculpted in the late 1500s by Flaminio Vacca from a capital from the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

Ultimately, it was when Optimus Prime threw himself into harm's way to save Grimlock from an explosion that he accepted his mistake and rejoined the Autobots.

In the story Crossing Over by Fun Publications Grimlock was among Autobot troops of Optimus Prime who responded to the sighting of Megatron and arrived in time to save the dimensional traveling Autobot Skyfall from Megatron's wraith.

When Megatron corrupts the Core of Cybertron with Dark Energon, Optimus gets the Matrix of Leadership from Cybertron's core while trying to save it.

Sentinel later refused to believe that Ultra Magnus and Jazz were walking into a Decepticon trap, so Optimus tricked him into a pair of stasis cuffs in order to save the day.

After Blackarachnia sacrificed herself to save the Autobots from a transwarp energy-overloaded Waspinator, Sentinel expressed regret for what had happened to her, even taking blame for what had happened that day, and burying the hatchet with Optimus.

In the story Crossing Over by Fun Publications Mirage was among Autobot troops of Optimus Prime who responded to the sighting of Megatron and arrived in time to save the dimensional traveling Autobot Skyfall from Megatron's wraith.

In the Earth year 1985, Elita One was captured by the Decepticons to lure Optimus Prime into a trap, but expended all her energy using her stasis powers to save Prime from death by acid.

Before long, however, Buster had a much more pivotal role to play in the war, when the powerful Decepticon, Shockwave defeated and deactivated all the Autobots, save medical officer Ratchet, and planned to create new troops using the power of the Creation Matrix within Optimus Prime's mind.

Meanwhile Shockwave succeeds in getting through to Megatron at last and in warning him of the explosive device installed by Starscream in the Arkeville's laboratory, so that Megatron and Optimus Prime have time to prevent the explosion and to save the Earth.

In " The Search for Alpha Trion ", when Optimus Prime returned to Cybertron alone to save Elita One, Ironhide leads Inferno and Powerglide after him.

Little is known about this incarnation of Bludgeon, save that, in his pre-Pretender form, he attempted to kill Optimus Prime shortly after he had received the Matrix.

The Decepticons launched and targeted Earth with the cannon, but Optimus Prime absorbed the blast with his Matrix, sacrificing himself to save the planet.

In the story Crossing Over by Fun Publications, Jetfire was among Autobot troops of Optimus Prime who responded to the sighting of Megatron and arrived in time to save the dimensional traveling Autobot Skyfall from Megatron's wraith.

As this occurs, Optimus Prime's elite team of Autobot warriors are approached by the ancient Transformer Vector Prime, who has emerged from his resting place in the void outside of time to inform them of the legendary Cyber Planet Keys, ancient artifacts of power which can stop the black hole and save the universe.

When Optimus ordered Maximus to " Sacrifice to save your life ; if not I shall make you die in torment ," Maximus answered, " I have always wished it ; it is in order to pass out of this short and miserable life to the life eternal that I have declared my faith.

Sludge was among the Autobots who joined Optimus Prime in his mission on board the Ark to save the planet Cybertron from a meteor shower 4 million years ago.

With a smirk of satisfaction, Ravage openly spilled the details of his plans, just as Unicron had been spotted on a collision course for Cybertron, revealing that his audacious plan may save some of those Autobots destined to meet their end during the events of the proper timeline ( dubbed ' Prime Time ' by Wheeljack, with Ravage's altered timeline noted as ' Ravage Time '), but that they were all expendable in his plans save Optimus, as he held the one thing that could defeat the Chaos Bringer.

He had many adventures, including being shot down by a teleporting Skywarp (" The Master Builders "), acting as a " giant evil alien " in a Hollywood film (" Hoist Goes Hollywood "), delivering the miniaturized Perceptor, Brawn and Bumblebee to knock out the Heart of Cybertron within Megatron (" Micro-bots "), and travelling to Cybertron to save Optimus Prime and battle the Decepticons alongside the female Autobots, where he was reunited with his long lost love Moonracer (" The Search for Alpha Trion ").