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Originally posted by: Rhoq
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Originally posted by: Terranigma Freak
Did you even watch the friggin' show? If you did, you'd know that Primal is a DESCENDANT of the original Optimus Prime. They're 2 different characters. And from what I heard, Armada sucks like hell. Actually, both Armada and Energon sucked like hell.
Yep. "Optimus Primal" chose his name in honor of the legendary Autobot leader "Optimus Prime".
Actually, "Optimus Primal" became his name after his self-image updated to include his animal form. That's why he and his crew had to introduce themselves to each other after they emerged from the ship. They probably don't even really know who they were or what they were like before the change. It's like how when you dream of the past, you see yourself as your current self, not as the you that was present at that time.
But yeah, he's still an entirely different Bot than the original Optimus Prime. In Beast Wars, Megatron (named after Megatron) once reffered to Primal as an "Optimus unit" which suggests that there were a lot more Transformers like them on the Beast Wars-era Cybertron, probably wherever a heroic leader was needed, like Captaining ships and whatnot. But Primal was the only one who got stuck on that planet with Megatron. Which of course, makes Beast Machines all the more pathetic.
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But here in Canada, they supposedly don't like the word "Wars" in animated shows. Therefore, "Beast Wars" became "Beasties", and another one of Mainframe's shows, "War Planets", became "Shadow Raiders". Yeah, I don't get it either. Peace-loving Canadians, we are.
It's because YTV and Mainframe are/were really close. YTV supported Mainframe before they were even Mainframe. YTV just "asked" about toning down the "Wars" bit, and Mainframe was happy to oblige.
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The first cartoon, was developed by Marvel and had a comic book tie in. The comic actualy came first though and theres a serious split ammong transformers fans over which is offical cannon.
Both are wrong. The toys are cannon. The cartoons and the comics are seperate continuities which borrow from each other.
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Beast Wars basicaly took story elemnts from both the cartoon and Comic so they really made tings more confusing.
At first they were trying to make it in a "bubble" universe, which could be the sequel to any version, but wasn't specific enough to nail down, but then it became clear enough to be a third contrinuity, borrowing from the other two.
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G1 was what i grew up on and will always be the best in my mind, BW was pretty good only cuz it had good animationa nd the story tried to fit in with G1 a lot, but there were inconsistancies, like how Starscrams Ghost showed up in BW yet Unicron restored him to life in the G1 cartoon rigth near the end. So he would still be alive when BW took place.
He could've still died again in the supposedly vast span of time between G2 and the Beast Wars era. Plus a second trip to ghost form would've made it very clear that there was something odd about his spark.
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Also BW tookplace in the PAST so his ghost still wouldn't be around because he was still alive in that time frame, go figure.
He was a ghost in the Beast Wars era, and he passed through the transwarp tunnel which took him to prehistoric Earth in the same way the Maximal and Predacon ships did.
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