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  • nobody so much "transforms" in this episode than they just sorta *melt* from one form into another lol....ahhhh G1!

  • Jessica's dad seriously needs some anger management classes. And maybe some antipsychotic medication...

  • @Bremen25 his constant hysterics really get old after the first 5 minutes lol

  • @kranktank yeah. he defnitely needs help.

  • anyone else notice at 1:24 Rodimus's head kind of slides back then shoots back?

  • @ToshitheWolf yep, every time since I first saw the ep when i was 12 or so lol

  • 7:14 hes dead jim

  • Oh and one thing what the fuck is with soundwaves face plate? 3:04

  • I love that season 3 and season 4 interprate the 86 movie soundtrack!

  • why is Defensor missing his arm when he combines?

  • wat happened to soundwaves voice!!!!!

  • The doctors are republicans!

  • Why does this scientist hate the autobots.

  • @RapidFyrez Megatron was the cause of his scars, and therefore all Transformers are to blame.

  • @AeonMagnus Thats probably the worst reason to hate the transformers iv'e ever heard that doctor has issues

  • @AeonMagnus or the dormant hate plague spores that latched when they were tested.

  • i dident know that transformers had dreams

  • lol dumb bitch 

  • WTF happened to soundwave's voice? :...(

  • @Foxstab They forgot to do the vocording for him.

  • anyone else see the racisim and AIDS metaphors in this?

  • @chiissu Quite possible. And rhodimus prime was probably the first emo on TV.

  • @chiissu Yep. It's crazy!

    

  • What the heck was Rodimus anyway.?? A hot rod R-V or something?

  • @Ja25 when optimus died he gave the matrix the hot rod and hot rod evolved

  • one of the best episode of G1 transformers!

  • Wreck-gar is really random!

  • The first seares was the best this is just sad

  • @soundwave221 This is the first series.

  • @AeonMagnus No, I think he means, when season 1and two, I like all of G1 though.

  • OMG galvatron's voice is soooo bad compared to the movies voice

  • I wonder why every human gun sounds like a laser? what's the point in that?

  • I swear I can't stand Galvatron in this series.

  • How did Metro Plex know about the plague

    

  • WHY IS DEFNSOR MISSING AN ARM

  • That's a pretty tough strike team just to save a dead body.

  • this has got to be the first episode where rodimus shows potential as a leader, and likely the last.

  • wait rodimus has a side door? dont humans get into him by opening his top window?

  • lol when rodimus looks at the statue he does a 'giggidy' motion

  • Optimus Prime died countless times.

  • @76mrlonely think he gets tired of it?

  • @chrismc410 Maybe its one of his few favorite hobbies.

  • 1:25 Why did Rodimus move his head like that? Does anyone notice that?

  • @dclaiche i did and laughed it seems to so wierd

    

  • @andresaimar2010 looks like that thing quagmire does when he says giggity giggity goo

  • hahaha star trek references lol

  • The characters seem a little unbalanced when you have some that are cars and some that can fly across the galaxy and back apparently much, much, much faster than light.

  • " I'm a doctor not a fork lift. " Classic

  • this is one really, really, really bad game of tag.

  • You seem to know a whole lot of Optimus AeonMagnus... could you please tell me the whole story? From start to end.. I know a bit, but it's a bit blurry. Would be cool if you would include the story line of other series also... Yea, it would mean a lot if you could take the time to do that for me.

  • @Siimon204 Just to be clear, are you asking specifically about G1 Optimus Prime in the various G1 cartoons? G1 Optimus Prime also appeared, and had different adventures, in other G1 media, such as comic books and video games. There are also other Optimus Primes in other non-G1 series (eg: Armada, Animated, etc).

  • @AeonMagnus Well, if you know the whole story of like everything, that would be awesome. I just really want to get a clearer picture of who i is, why, when and everything.. I would like mainly to know the G1 i guess, but if you could tell from the unicorn trilogy or something. Connecting everrything together while focusing mainly on G1.

  • @Siimon204 All the continuities are separate. Unicron Trilogy, Animated, Movie, G1, Robots in Disguise and so on are not connected; they're different Optimus Primes.

    In the G1 cartoon, before he was Optimus Prime, he was Orion Pax. When Megatron first showed up, Orion was impressed by these new flying robots. Until Megatron shot him, his girlfriend Ariel, and best friend Dion. Alpha Trion rebuilt Orion Pax into a new generation of Autobot, as Optimus Prime. Ariel became Elita One.

  • War rages on Cybertron, blah, blah, blah, energy reserves are depleted, the Autobots venture into space, are intercepted by the Decepticons, both ships crash on Earth. Four million years later, they're awakened on Earth and rebuilt with Earth forms as alternate modes. They meet Spike and Sparkplug, have adventures and battles on Earth. In the animated movie, set in 2005, the Autobot City on Earth is attacked by Megatron and his goons, and Optimus Prime dies facing off against Megatron.

  • Hot Rod, a young rookie, is chosen by the Matrix of Leadership, carried all these years by Optimus Prime, to be the new leader, and becomes Rodimus Prime.

    Optimus Prime is resurrected as a zombie by the Quintessons, enemies of both the Autobots and Decepticons. The idea is for the Autobots' beloved leader to be programmed to lead them into a trap which will kill them all. However, Optimus Prime breaks free of the programming and springs the trap himself to save his Autobots.

    Except....

  • Except that in this episode, "The Return of Optimus Prime" these humans are out in space and come across Optimus Prime's ship before it sets off the trap, and they pull him out. They use his dead body as bait to lure the Autobots into their own trap and infect the Transformers with a disease. And it's pretty successful. To save the world, the uninfected Autobots, Decepticons and Quintessons have to team up to resurrect Optimus Prime properly. They do, and he saves the universe.

  • Now, this is where things differ. In the US, they aired a 3-episode mini-series called Rebirth. In it, Optimus Prime starts getting visions. Due to a series of accidents, several Autobots and Decepticons team up with humanoid aliens, with the humanoids becoming their heads or guns (Headmasters and Targetmasters). Optimus Prime realizes his visions relate to these new partnerships bringing on a new golden age of Cybertron. They do. (Prime's involvement in this is mostly peripheral.)

    In Japan...

  • However in Japan they aired an entirely different full-length cartoon series instead of Rebirth. It also involves Headmasters and Targetmasters (the series is called "Headmasters"), but the nature of the Headmasters and Targetmasters is much different. And about 3 episodes into the series, Optimus Prime dies again. Most of the old characters are written out or die.

    Optimus Prime is resurrected yet again in Japan, much later, as Star Convoy. Galvatron is resurrected as Ultra Megatron...

  • Optimus Prime (Star Convoy) wins, Ultra Megatron is upgraded into Super Megatron, Star Convoy wins again.

    If you google: "Optimus Prime cartoon continuity", you'll get a more detailed look.

    In the comic book series, it's all different. Same character, different events. In the other cartoon shows, it's a different character altogether. There are multiple different continuities, and variations within those continuities. There are probably a good 50 or more Optimus Primes, across the universes.

  • (Oops, other way around. Super Megatron, then Ultra Megatron.)

    In the Dreamwave G1 comics, for example, Optimus Prime's origin is different. He was called Optronix and his backstory is different. In one offshoot of G1, after his death in the cartoon movie, he was temporarily resurrected as a Dodge Ram truck. In Animated, Optimus Prime is younger, less experienced, and had never previously met Megatron before. In the live-action film series and Unicron Trilogy, it's different again.

  • You could seriously fill books with information about all the Optimus Primes in the different continuities (eg: G1, Animated, Unicron, and of course Shattered Glass, where he's actually evil) and micro-continuities (cartoons, comic books, toy bios). You're best to look up one of the Transformers wikis - either will do. Google this: transformers wiki optimus prime disambiguation

    The Optimus Prime disambiguation pages list all the different Optimus Primes and link to pages and sub-pages for each.

  • "I'm a doctor, not a forklift!"

    "His Engines! They Canna take the strain!"

    "He's dead,Jim!"

    Classic Star Trek lines by Wreck-Gar!

  • Rodimus dreams?? Robots sleep.?

  • i didant know tarns formers can fiy

  • It was Alpha Trion not the Qunitessons who created Optimus Prime, some leader he is.

  • @OrangeLightning86 All transformers were originally made by the Quintessons, but Alpha Trion 'rebuilt' Orion Pax into Optimus Prime (and Pax's girlfriend Ariel into Elita One) after Megatron's rampage. Paradoxically, the Aerialbots went back in time, and saved Orion Pax/Optimus Prime

  • @arglwyddanfradwrus It pays to do research, I take back what I said.

  • @OrangeLightning86 What you said was sort-of true, to be fair!

    The Quint's made Orion Pax and Aerial, Alpha Trion repaired/rebuilt them into Optimus Prime and Elita One

  • wheres cup?

  • lmao "Im a doctor not a forklift"  " hes dead jim"

  • lmao "hes dead jim"

  • always thought Orion Pax was called "Orion Path".

  • Session's 3 and 4 i think are better than 1 or 2 (but not that they sucked because they didnt) but they killed off the main dude's and brought in the anooying dude's like wheelie, blurr. And the screw up's like Hot Rod.

  • what the heck is wrong with sound waves voice and i hate when shows go this way when the autobots and decepticons dont always fight

  • those dumb asses are stupid as hell

  • whos the yellow panther

  • I assume you mean Steeljaw, one of Blaster's cassettes.

  • WAIT! Optimus was black and white how could he fly and recolour himself when he's dead?

  • Why did he tell steel jaw to transform?

    wouldn't that make him a cassest?

  • Wth, was the Dark Awakening episode before or after the Original Movie, because if it was after the movie how the hell did he die again? And even if he was brought back why isn't he all scratched and fucked up like how he died in the movie?

  • He died in the movie, he was resurrected as a zombie in "Dark Awakening", he sacrificed himself at the end of that episode, but in "The Return of Optimus Prime" we find out his body was salvaged before the explosion.

    After he died in the movie, you could imagine that his body was fixed up somewhat for internment, just as dead people are made up, etc for burial. However the difference between the end of Dark Awakening and the flashback in RoOP is just moments. That's G1 continuity for you.

  • 2:41 did he say bumblebee?

  • Lol its like there playing tag xD

  • It's like the rage virus from 28 days later lol

  • @Forzaabruzzo that where they got it from

  • Jessica is the only sensible person in that whole prejudiced trio.

  • Last time I remembered Optimus Prime was blown apart from the bomb heading towards the Sun in episode 73 'Dark Awakening', so how is his body in perfect order with both arms still flying the ship like it never blew.

    Guess they got away with a lot more mistakes back then...lol

  • lol Galvatron! theyve all gone mad! this is no placr for me!!! really galvy?

  • It's a good thing STeeljaw didn't transform, what good would a tape do.

  • wow im so lost with this show cuz its before my generation of cartoons, y is rodimus leader and not magnus?

  • It's covered in the Transformers movie (search my videos or playlists).

    When Optimus Prime died, he passed the Matrix to Ultra Magnus, and became leader. However, he couldn't use the Matrix. Eventually Hot Rod's destiny was revealed when he used the Matrix to destroy Unicron, and was upgraded into Rodimus Prime.

    This is not the first time stuff like that has happened, nor was it the last. Alpha Trion held the Matrix without becoming leader, and Sky Garry's position as leader was temporary.

  • the leaders of the autobots where named "prime" in the old cartoons... rodimus took over after optimus... ultra magnus is just a soldier in the old cartoons...

    if you asked me the old "original" cartoons still are the best version of the transformer cartoons... =)

  • @69mrbrightside691 watch the 86 Movie then watch season 3 from the start, all answers there

  • Love all the star trek lines that Wreckgar says.

  • lol! "Its the madness plague galvatron! If they touch you you become infected!"

    old galvatron was infected a loooong time ago rodimus ;)

  • 3:43 I see goldbug before bumblebee turns into him, weird.

  • what the fuck happened to soundwaves voice?

  • Good point. When did Welker feel the need to change it?

  • 2:23 he's missing an arm

  • Rodimus is right, he isn't the leader Prime was. But where's Grimlock?

  • why did they change most of the voices, galvatron sounds stupid, soundwave be better off with the voice he had before....

  • wtf was up with soundwaves voice

  • 3:06 LOL look at sound waves mouth xD

  • 1:00 you should learn to hate her girl. I'd be better off without a father then with one like that.

  • him*

  • At 2:15-2:53 we finally see one of Rodimus Prime's better moments as he puts together his assault force and commands them just as Optimus Prime would.

  • Well, it's actually Ultra Magnus who puts together the assault force, and Rodimus who leads them straight to a trap.

  • Thank god they revived Optimus,i cried when he died...

  • look at gregory's face!!!

  • "He's dead, jim"

  • Why did he call Steeljaw? He looked pointless next to the cars and gestalts.

  • everybody blames Hot rod for Prime's death, but megatron still wouldve shot prime anyway, cuz prime decided to talk with him instead of blasting him...what sense does that make, megatron killed a ship full of autobots, whats there to talk about, he picked then to show mercy, thats not hot rods fault, he tried to help prime cause, prime was to busy letting megatron crawl closer to his weapon

  • Prime whould have blasted Megatron before he fired,

  • However it seemed like prime was trying to talking himself in being as merciless as megatron, sadly prime lead by example. One of which was to show a better side of the transformers nature...sadly it got him killed.

  • Heheh 80's cartoon censorship giving the police men blasters pistols and laser cannons.

  • It was set in "the future" (aka about 3 years ago).

  • @AeonMagnus 5 years now :] lol

  • Well, the movie was set in 2005, but the third season was set in 2006. But yes, we're getting further away from the 1980s vision of the future. Where is my nifty jumpsuit and transforming exosuit?

    In Japan, season 3 was set in 2010, and Takara's got a campaign this year to celebrate it. Sort of like Hasbro's 25th Anniversary thing.

  • @RobotsInFailDisguise

    I used to have a crush on Jessica. Isn't that a bit sad. Here I was having exotic visions of Jessica in lingerie. lol.

  • @pluto4847 o__________________O

  • Don'tcha just LOVE IT?? I've heard a curse word in a GI Joe cartoon before too!

  • what happen to the previous aoutobot team like jazz and all dat

  • Did you watch the 1986 movie?

  • i like watch it in my country back in 2002 but didnt remember pls tell me wat happen

  • I have the full movie in my videos - check my Playlists for "G1: Movie".

    I can give you a rundown, but I'd rather not spoil it if you're going to watch it.

  • thax man

  • Don't Defensor and Superion have a time limit on their mergers due to "battery use?"

  • So the Quintasons built Orion Pax, and Alpha Trion turned Orion Pax into Optimus Prime?

  • Yes, that is correct.

  • The Quintessons did not create Orion Pax directly - he came online during the Golden Age, which occurred after the Quintessons were chased off the planet (as seen in FFoD Pt4).

    We've seen the Transformers create new Transformers (Dinobots, etc) and there's clearly the concept of age (eg: Kup vs Hot Rod), so there's no reason to believe that every Transformer in seasons 1-4 already existed at the time of Quintesson rule. Esp since nobody alive seems to remember them.

    But Alpha Trion, yes.

  • lol! last but not least: Blur, bumblebee steeljaw and wheelie... ok... maybe least :P

  • It sounded like a commercial didn't it?

  • Rodimus is such a fag

  • yeh hes a pussy i like his vehicle though

  • Okay why would the police think bullets would work against giant robots from outer space? Honestly

  • OMG 3:03 look at soundwaves mouthpiece when ratbat enters his body. His head goes down, but his mouth stays above :D

  • omg your right

  • at 2:53 i thought that was laserbeak but soundwave proved me wrong. now i know that was ratbat.

  • I'd blame Gregory's mother for his face not the Transformers! :P

  • Love the Star Trek reference. He's dead Jim.

  • this is one bad game of tag

  • hahaha all the star treck refrences at 7:20

  • and i am calling the  guy who was going to melt optimus the human megatron.

  • Never thought of that before. XD

  • the statue at 1:15 has nothing to do with Optimus

  • look. don't blame hot rod for prime's death.

    it was megatron. megatron killed prime.

  • Megatron did the killing of PRIME directly.

    Hot Rod is the indirect causer.

  • Optimus' death was Hot Rod's fault.  However, I don't think that's what made Hot Rod a total dick. He just had no identity as a leader for the two or so seasons he was leader. It would have been cooler if he was more reckless, like he is in this scene. Instead, he's mostly just confused and gives dumb speeches in the episodes.

  • After seeing this episode when I was a little boy, I had a nightmare about a madness plague effecting everybody I know.

  • @japstoryeditor Experienced that tons of times since watching it when I was a kid.. One of the best episodes!

  • Hot Rod and I will call him this because he doesnt deserve to be called the other name has dreams of Prime. Thats what I call guilt. Guilt that he killed Prime

  • soundwaves voice is terrible

  • @samuriazombie

    True, they lost the original voice actor, who did a much better job.

  • optimus is a god compared to all the other autobots, hei's the man!

  • they help we walk raaaar well lets think here the autobots are good why does the nutcase never learn. do what i say becuse i am your father braa. next time say F U daddy neigh

  • it seems like i somehow missed a part of the show. i saw her leave in the autobot ambulance, and then him give a big rant and put prime on the melter. then suddenly she was back with robolegs stopping him?

  • Rodimus Prime, sighhh great thing Optimus returns

  • i skipped most of the episodes. where's spike, carly and sparkplug?

  • Sparkplug doesn't appear in post-movie episodes; he's probably either dead or retired, since it's 20 years later.

    Spike and Carly appear in a few episodes, along with their son Daniel.

  • does the red dust-plague turn them uncontrollably aggressive ... or drunk? hmm...

  • It makes them uncontrollably agressive. But of course they retain a considerable measure of intellegence such as being able to speak and somewhat being able to be reasoned with for a short amount of time before they attack or infect their victims.

  • 1:25-1:27 : Rodimus' head nod would have been a good intro for him to start singing Optimus' greatness.

    And he wants to give up the Matrix cause he feels he isnt deserving, that he could not live up to Optimus' legacy. which is true.

  • I think that was a glitch, he looked like a pidgeon lol

  • lol wreck-gar quoting star trek!

  • Galvatron is perceptive, isn't he? He somehow knew they were talking about Prime just from "His body is in the lab".

  • I guess you could say that he assumed that was the case, since ... whatever that things name is... would only come back to report important info.

  • oh hes on the ball like you wouldnt even know

  • Who are the Throttlebots?

  • Throttlebots? Are they new in this ep? Finally! Last but not least...he has to say that after you have two fighting teams that form giants and then...the rest. Blur was amazingly fast in the movie, but since then he just seems to talk quickly.

  • Whats with Soundwaves voice, and his face at 3:07?

    And why are they hanging around in a Baseball stadium?

  • Looked like a Football/Soccer Stadium or Race Track. And it was some sort of accent error.

  • they need to bitch slap those people

  • Rodimus Prime needs more confidence he would not survive a micro second int the First great war

  • I never liked the way the writers punked out Rodimus Prime; Hot Rod had a good coming of age story in the TF movie, but as Rodimus in the series they made him whiney and insecure. As much as I loved Optimus, they should have left him dead or not killed him off in the first place, and allowed Rodimus Prime to grow into a proper leader.

    Just my little geek-rant...lol

    Thanks for posting!

  • Hey, that's possible.

  • the new transformer movie is filming right now

  • Indeed.

  • I thought Alpha Trion built Optimus Prime?! Or maybe the Quintessons built Orion Pax, who was Optimus Prime before the Great War?

  • True, but Vector Sigma and the Quintessons built the Transformers, as well as Alpha Trion, so it's only natural they say that.

  • Optimus Prime Memorial looks like strange formed pile of junk ! Couldn't they make it more... Optimus-like?