Well, I guess I'll go ahead and give the origins of
my Maximus Prime. Bear with me 'cause it may take a little while
:
In my own little storyline (which I'm thinking about writing down, I haven't decided yet), I have a character named Overdrive, who is operations officer on the Ark, transforms into an F-150, and whose personality is based off my own, in that even though he isn't the biggest, he has one of the biggest "hearts" and will do what is required of him. Well, during the final battle between Optimus' Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons, Megs unleashes a deadly weapon that wipes out most of his own force as well as nearly every Autobot. Only Overdrive survives by hiding under the fallen body of Devastator. When the surviving Decepticons leave, Overdrive goes in search of Optimus Prime. He finds him and realizes that he is going to die. So Optimus tells him of a ship that apparently was sent out to find the Ark but crashlanded on Earth. Then Optimus gives Overdrive the Matrix and (like Hot Rod to Rodimus Prime), Overdrive is transformed into the new Prime and changes from an F-150 to a F-450. Now, when I was coming up with the name of the new Prime, I wanted something unique, simple, and meaningful. And then I had an idea as I was either watching or thinking about the movie Gladiator and the central character, Maximus, who falls from glory to slavery and leads the gladiators in a revolt against the Emperor. And I thought to myself, "That's what my guy's doing! He is having to rise up from defeat, rally a group of somewhat rag-tag warriors, and challenge the power that rules over Earth." (BTW, after the Autobots are defeated, Megatron builds a new army from reprogrammed Autobots in orbit around Earth when the Ark fell under attack by the Nemesis-- kinda like the Axalon. After he builds his army, he enslaves the human race and hoards every energy source on the planet and prepares the Nemesis for their return to Cybertron.) So that's how
I arrived with my character, Maximus Prime.
Get all that?
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