Where is Optimus Prime?

[Hursticon]

Obviously, Convobat suffers from Primus Apothesois.

[GoktimusPrime]

That's what they said about Hi-Q... even locked him up in solitary thinking he'd gone cuckoo... and look how that turned out

[liegeprime]

That's what they said about Hi-Q... even locked him up in solitary thinking he'd gone cuckoo... and look how that turned out

Yeah so when you think about it more closely there's this rotting organic matter inside Optimus Prime years later down the line... eeeew Prime must stink then, heheheh good thing Hi Q isnt claustrophobic coz being locked inside a robot with all those wires and plates coming at you like that, that's a nightmare, kinda reminds me of that scene in Superman #3(?) - against a supercomputer where the Supercomputer transforms Vera (one of the villains) into this Android/cyborg by absorbing her and putting chips and wires into her .....very creepy...creeped me out when I was a kid.

[bowspearer]

The actual initial question is actually kind of fallacious as it really should be "Where is Prime in each continuity?"

The problem is that the moment you look at one continuity, the answer completely changes.

Certainly the Japanese Convobat is G1 Prime, however the US version clearly suffers from "Prime Apotheosis" as the Tech spec for Primal states that the Primal (ape) is an upgrade of Primal (bat) if you take Primal (ape) as a different character to G1 Prime.

Of course this presumes that the US toy continuity and the cartoon continuity are identical when they are not. The Tarrantulas in the Toyline is different to the one in the show- much in the same way that trademark circumvention resulted in Jetfire never appearing in the Cartoon and Skyfire never getting a toy with the exception of a one off Custom (ultimately they had different bodies, different profiles and different names). Therefore it is entirely possible that in the Tech Spec continuity in the US, Convobat and Primal are the both their respective G1 namesakes.

Furthermore, IIRC, the Beast Wars US Cartoon is a continuation of the Marvel G2 comic (eg the Vok being the Swarm, etc) rather than the G1 Cartoon, making that a completely the two exist in alternate realities.

Therefore Convobat and US Cartoon continuity Optimus Primal exist in alternate realities, where in the US Cartoon.

But then considering that Convoy and Optimus Prime exist in alternate realities as of TF:TM (the Japanese and US versions take place in different years), or even Scramble City for that matter, this is hardly surprising.

In the US continuity, Prime never became Star Convoy.

In the Japanese continuity, Convoy never became a Power Master (Ginrai was a different character to Convoy) or an Action Master.

Then you have the Manga, the Marvel US comic and the Marvel UK comic (which is meant to fit into the US continuity but doesn't).

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Well, to quote Gok, I think this is the most accurate answer to the question:

[Verno]

If you don't mind!

I started the discussion first, champ.

[bowspearer]

When you copyright and trademark it, I'll keep that in mind

[Hursticon]

If you don't mind!

I started the discussion first, champ.

You're a trend setter man.

[bowspearer]

You're a trend setter man.

Hmm, do we all chip in for a medal for him? I'm thinking the chocolate kind