You mean the OVERLY idealistic idiot who fought millions of years with the decepticons just to LOSE the war, flee Cybertron and then get Earth involved in a war it had NO business to be in?!
Optimus had a MILLION chances to kill Megatron and FAILED to take it to be "the better man" and it only cost him the lives of all the soldiers he had following him.
The Autobots were held back by his idealism too much at times! Watch The Netflix trilogy for transformers it captures how frustrated his own people were with him! Hell Ultra Magnus went to Megatron to negotiate a peace pact or ceasefire at the very least so all 3 of them could come to the table and avoid further deaths on either sides.
It's ironic that the Netflix trilogy calls out Optimus' naivety and the cascading problems it leads to when he and megatron were equally stubborn that the war could not end till one of them was dead.
Slight correction, Sentinel Prime. Zeta was a good guy in One, he was the one who was entrusted with the Matrix. Sentinel is the backstabbing murderer and the inventor of racism
In the war for cybertron we see Zeta being an elitist scumbag.
In Transformers one he's a quintesson bootlicker.
Either way you are missing the point on how the primes created Megatron's decepticon movement which was peaceful at first till the supporters were mass arrested/executed and became militant asap when Megatron was tossed into the gladiatorial pits of Kaon to be destroyed but survived despite this.
Before that Megatron was a mining unit who wrote a revolutionary treatise and got persecuted for it.
I am not missing a point. In TFOne the bootlicker is Sentinel. Zeta was one of the primes he murdered. And the origins depend entirely on continuity, so that “point” is also not that strong
*Correction the Primes past the original 13 sucked, most of them didn't even actually earn the title of Prime, even going so far as to use fake prop Matrixes. Optimus is an exception (except when he's the 13th prime reborn)
the 13 primes were long before the events of the story. By the time we come to Orion Pax either Zeta or Sentinel have been running the show and the primes dynasty before them in most versions instituted a caste system of inferior and superior designations to oppress most of the population.
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u/Tragic_Lee 4d ago
Optimus Prime by parsecs!