Balancing Act wrote:Unicron cloned him from the remains of an Optimus Prime from the distant past of a dimension destroyed ages ago, and tortured him for thousands fo years.
Leonardo wrote:Well, in "Beast Wars: The Gathering" from IDW the Maximals that haven't yet been to Earth all have Cybertronian alt.modes that look similar to this particular Optimus Prime (on the first page of Part 2). So, this Prime could have a truck-like mode and still be a Maximal, not an Autobot.
What I find confusing (in terms of fiction, not the toys) is that Nemesis Prime has a woolly mammoth alt.mode. I had always assumed that the Optimus Prime he was cloned from was Big Convoy, and that Lee & Khanna had used a more familiar Western moniker of "Optimus Prime" instead of the literal translation of the Japanese that is "Big Convoy". I took it to mean that Unicron tortured Optimus Prime (a.k.a. Big Convoy) and built Nemesis Prime from the remnants of Optimus.
However, having re-read it a bit closer now, it says:Balancing Act wrote:Unicron cloned him from the remains of an Optimus Prime from the distant past of a dimension destroyed ages ago, and tortured him for thousands fo years.
This implies that Unicron took the remnants of Optimus Prime, creating Optimus Prime #2, then tortured Optimus Prime #2 for thousands of years until Optimus Prime #2 became Nemesis Prime. Now, given that the Optimus Prime in the picture has no woolly mammoth kibble (and doesn't even have the same torso design as Nemesis Prime), that means that somewhere down the line Nemesis Prime must have been reformatted into a woolly mammoth. Why? Woolly mammoths aren't exactly a universal or practical disguise.
So, either the Prime in the picture is the original Prime (with no mammoth alt.mode) and Unicron's clone somehow came out with a woolly mammoth alt.mode, meaning that Unicron's 'clone' wasn't an exact copy, or that the Prime in the picture is the clone and somewhere down the line it was reformatted with a woolly mammoth alt.mode.
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