G1: Rodimus Prime to Hot Rod

From: Dark Awakening

Rodimus Prime returns the Matrix to Optimus Prime, and reverts to being Hot Rod. (Not really a transform.)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Transformers
• G1
• Rodimus
• Prime
• Hot
• Rod

[calleyne90]

WTF was 0:04 about?

[AeonMagnus]

@calleyne90 When Rodimus Prime opened his chest?

[Shadowlit001]

Give me back that fucking matrix IMMEDIATELY! You've run this organization right into the fucking ground Hotrod!

[AeonMagnus]

@nicholascooney No, the gun, the blasts from it and the big Megatron pulling the trigger are responsible for his death. Hot Rod was accidentally responsible for a tactical shift. It doesn't even qualify as legal negligence.

People go on about "Hot Rod killed Prime" as if Megatron wasn't even there. Megatron pulled the trigger. Multiple times. You might as well arrest the deer that ran onto the road, causing you to flip your car. The other Autobots didn't go on about it, why should you?

[Primus2X]

@AeonMagnus The parts around his eyes turned black, an animation error probably

[NintendexF8000]

Little error at 0:05 , when Hot Rod reaches into his chest compartment, his had goes BEHIND the door way. LOL!

[PunchSydeironReviews]

From Rodimus Prime to (basically) a shorter Rodimus Prime.

[justice30349]

I AM THE BIGGEST FAN....EVER...BUT YALL TALKIN BOUT THIS LIKE ITS REAL LIFE...SMH!

[KoopaTroop90]

@Muskrat4893 He was reborn as a puppet for the Quintessons.

[PivotMMZ]

@Shadowlit001 rude awakening, right?

[AeonMagnus]

Or, at least, said anything about it. It basically smacks of a global warming pirate (Google can explain): correlation does not equal causation. People see a glow and believe it's caused by and causes certain events. But nothing any of the other characters actually do or say backs any of it up. There really isn't anything in the movie or anywhere else to support this misconception. And yet people (supposedly a consensus) have it. I'd never heard of it until I uploaded the movie a few years ago.

[AeonMagnus]

@99krenger99 The biggest problem with the theory is that it says that we as an audience, with something like 5 seconds of exposure to this Matrix thing, know more about it than the Autobots who have lived with it in their culture for millions of years (albeit by a big tap-dancing retcon). So, even if nobody shouted "Noooooo!!!" to HR's attempt to catch it (due to Hasbro's need to position him as the new leader), none of them, not Perceptor or Optimus himself, realized HR would become leader.