Sabrblade wrote:Caelus wrote:Or wait for a 3rd Party/Shapeways Beast Machines Megatron face for the general release Optimal Optimus, and treat that as the 'Nemesis' version.
Yeah, as if the third parties of today care about Beast Machines.
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Thinking about that finale brings up a neat idea for my own head canon - Throne of the Primes Optimal is Optimus Primal and Megatron after falling into the core of Cybertron together.
I mean, think about it: In their last battle, Megatron shows up in a reproduction of Primal's Optimal body, then proceeds to whip out a throne, begins absorbing all the sparks of his prisoners causing him to grow remarkably in size, manifests a big spinning halo of energy, starts cyberforming the core of Cybertron with the Key to Vector Sigma, and ultimately announces his plan to merge his consciousness with Cybertron. Primal responds by transforming Megatron's giant throne into a mess of technorganic vines that attack Megatron, and then plunges them
both into the core before the Key can finish its work. Megatron's plan is technically seen through, just with two deviations - when he plunges into the core, it's still partially 'organic', and Optimus goes with him, monologuing about Cybertron needing both of them to create balance.
So, consider that in the context of the rest of Transformers - The Matrix of Leadership was sometimes said to contain the wisdom of Primus and all the previous Primes (sometimes its described as essentially the exact same thing as the Allspark). When someone is 'chosen' by the Matrix they are given that wisdom, and (usually) a big boost in size. The Matrix, though, ends up 'spent', either drained fighting Unicron (G1 Marvel) or the Hate Plague (G1 Cartoon). Cybertron is forced to continue on without the divine guidance of the Matrix.
Megatron's plan to absorb all of the imprisoned sparks, then, feels like a sort of demented attempt to create his own replacement for the Matrix, and his big bump in size and power certainly makes it look like his plan was partially successful. His plan to merge with the core of Cybertron would have carried that further, granting him access to Primus's wisdom and power. Essentially, he was trying to become a Prime by force, like Napoleon crowning himself Emperor.
Optimus Primal - who'd briefly held the real Matrix - better understood what being chosen should mean - safeguarding the balance between creation and destruction, order and chaos, reason and emotion, oppression and anarchy. He recognized the line that Megatron had crossed: Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. But rather than throw himself into the core of Cybertron to merge with it first and slap Megatron down with the planet itself, Optimus Primal chooses to hurl them both into the core together, saying that Cybertron needs them both for balance. Given that Primal and Megatron both have the distinction of having spent time with their sparks merged with those of others (their predecessors), it makes sense that Primal would be mentally prepared to merge himself with Megatron.
So imagine then, that Megatron's plan still fundamentally succeeded - He emerged from the crucible of (re)creation reborn in an upgraded body, deeply tied to Cybertron and its people. However, rather than dominate the planet and its populace as a 100% technological monstrosity, bereft of empathy, and driven only to expand and grow, thanks to Primal's contribution *they* become a true Prime, together. They become Optimal Prime - the optimal combination* of Megatron's intellect and Primal's wisdom, Megatron's logic and Primal's compassion, Megatron's willpower and Primal's kindness, Megatron's ambition and Primal's humility.
Optimal Prime saunters out, finds Megatron's giant throne (which had been reformatted into a viney thing by Primal), sits down with his big swirling halo, and prepares to lead Cybertron into a new era, saying (in the voice of Transformers Animated's Optimus Prime) "Yes... that's just Prime."
*It's even reflected in the toy! Optimal Megatron had eliminated the beast mode from Optimal Optimus's body, keeping only the two vehicle modes. In contrast, Optimal Prime, representing the balance between the two, gives up the APC mode and regains Primal's gorilla mode. Also fun, the gorilla mode can separate into two semi-independent parts.
So yes, from now on I will imagine the gorilla half of Optimal being Beast Wars Megatron, whom Cybertron/Primus has essentially sentenced to doing community service, with Primal permanently bound to him as his parole officer/sponsor/eternal frienemy.
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