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Maybe this is a STUPID question but... DID Optimus Prime have a name befor he was Prime?

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Postby Saber Prime » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:25 am

Ironhide and Ratchet didn't know what Optimus and the Ariealbots were talking about after they got back to the present so Ironhide can't be Dion or he would have remembered being there.

Ultra Magnus I think allready has a backround of being Magnus, getting damaged, and being rebuilt with the armor. (isn't that why he's never show without the armor?)
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Postby Leonardo » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:32 am

Uncrazzimatic wrote:
Saber Prime wrote:What I'd really like to know is, who did Dion turn into? Elita-One and Optimus Prime both kept their original colors and not much elce so if you matched Dion's color sceme with that of another transformer in the future that would make him... Huffer?


Some people like to think it's Magnus or Ironhide, but neither are ever actually even hinted at as being Dion. The horrible truth is that Dions dead.


Right, the story's about a civil war that has raged for millions of years. Casualties are expected and Dion is one of them.
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Postby Saber Prime » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:51 am

Leonardo wrote:
Uncrazzimatic wrote:
Saber Prime wrote:What I'd really like to know is, who did Dion turn into? Elita-One and Optimus Prime both kept their original colors and not much elce so if you matched Dion's color sceme with that of another transformer in the future that would make him... Huffer?


Some people like to think it's Magnus or Ironhide, but neither are ever actually even hinted at as being Dion. The horrible truth is that Dions dead.


Right, the story's about a civil war that has raged for millions of years. Casualties are expected and Dion is one of them.
Don't mean to go off subject but what idiot came up with the name "civil" war? There's nothing "civil" about it.
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Postby Brakethrough » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:09 am

Saber Prime wrote:
Leonardo wrote:
Uncrazzimatic wrote:
Saber Prime wrote:What I'd really like to know is, who did Dion turn into? Elita-One and Optimus Prime both kept their original colors and not much elce so if you matched Dion's color sceme with that of another transformer in the future that would make him... Huffer?


Some people like to think it's Magnus or Ironhide, but neither are ever actually even hinted at as being Dion. The horrible truth is that Dions dead.


Right, the story's about a civil war that has raged for millions of years. Casualties are expected and Dion is one of them.
Don't mean to go off subject but what idiot came up with the name "civil" war? There's nothing "civil" about it.


There is, just not in the sense of "civility". It's a "civilization" war, since it is a war between different factions of a single nation, or in this case, planet. No outside invasion.
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Postby Predacon Rampage » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:59 am

Dragonoth wrote:Makes me wonder what Ultra Magnus would have been called if he got the matrix instead of Hot Rod. :-?

I actually would of preferred Ultra Magnus to get it, I liked him both better as character, and his design. He would of turned into a better looking replacement for Prime.
If only Ultra Magnus could shake that line. "I can't deal with that right now."
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Postby Wreckgar » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:57 am

Predacon Rampage wrote:[/color]
If only Ultra Magnus could shake that line. "I can't deal with that right now."[/size]


A line I always feel is unfairly used against Ultra Magnus. When he says it, he is trying to make sure everyone onboard his ship survives against very difficult odds. He doesn't say it to be flippant or uncaring. He quite literally cannot deal with it at that time.

Anyway, back on topic, I find myself changing my mimd about which name I prefer all the time, but generally come down on the side of Optronix.

Another way to think of it is Orion Pax was injured and rebuilt by Alpha Trion as Optronix, who eventually got the Matrix and became Optimus Prime. Just a way to bodge together continuities really.
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Postby Leonardo » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:05 pm

Wreckgar wrote:Another way to think of it is Orion Pax was injured and rebuilt by Alpha Trion as Optronix, who eventually got the Matrix and became Optimus Prime. Just a way to bodge together continuities really.


I like that. I hadn't considered that.
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I didnt pay attention to what he was called before he became Optimus Prime.

Postby Mighty Scorponok » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:25 pm

Altough I am a TransFan, I didnt pay attention to what he was called before, but I like the name Orion Pax. But Pax stands for unity, so he was some kind aUnifier before?. Well maybe because he unified All Autobots to raise arms and fight?.
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Re: I didnt pay attention to what he was called before he became Optimus Prime.

Postby Emperor Galvatron » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:29 am

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Mighty Scorponok wrote:Altough I am a TransFan, I didnt pay attention to what he was called before, but I like the name Orion Pax. But Pax stands for unity, so he was some kind aUnifier before?. Well maybe because he unified All Autobots to raise arms and fight?.

The name loosely translates as 'peace hunter'.
I like the idea of him being rebuilt as Optronix then Optimus as well.
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Postby Decepticon Spike » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:36 pm

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Wreckgar wrote:
Predacon Rampage wrote:[/color]
If only Ultra Magnus could shake that line. "I can't deal with that right now."[/size]


A line I always feel is unfairly used against Ultra Magnus. When he says it, he is trying to make sure everyone onboard his ship survives against very difficult odds. He doesn't say it to be flippant or uncaring. He quite literally cannot deal with it at that time.



Finally! After all these years, someone agrees with me!
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