@FoldabotZ
Don’t forget about the RID 2001, Unicron Trilogy, Animated, Cyberverse, Knightverse/Capleverse and EarthSpark versions of Optimus Prime. Man. Optimus really is the “dad character”, main character and face of the entire Transformers franchise. Especially when Peter Cullen, Neil Kaplan, Gary Chalk, David Kaye, Jon Bailey, Jake Fouschee and Alan Tudyk give the character to life throughout 38 years. Even when Peter Cullen’s late brother Larry told him how to be and act like a real hero.

@FoldabotZ
Well, season four was conceived to be a five-episode season. And season four titled “The Rebirth” was the final season of the cartoon and it was originally gonna end with over 100 episodes. But due to waning interest in Transformers at the time and the box office failures of both the Transformers movie and the My Little Pony movie (the G1 movie that is a prelude to the MLP G1 cartoon) in addition to a soured relationship between Sunbow and Marvel Productions which cut the budget considerably, Hasbro decided to end the cartoon so quickly by reducing “The Rebirth” into a three-part endgame arc by closing out the cartoon for over 98 episodes instead, thus leading to the series’ at-times rushed feeling and pacing, complete with barely any character development for the majority of the new characters. Also, after being released on home video, the G.I. Joe movie aired on tv and was cut into five parts to close out the G.I. Joe cartoon for over 95 episodes and a feature length film based on the cartoon and act as a prelude to the revival sequel series that was animated by DIC instead of Sunbow and hosted by the Sergeant Slaughter himself, Robert Remus. And it was the same movie that nearly killed off Duke during the film’s production thanks to the severing fan backlash of Optimus Prime’s death in the Transformers movie which lead to Prime’s resurrection at the end of season three. The Transformers cartoon ended on a high note where the Autobots earn their happy ending by entering a new golden age of a now revitalized Cybertron while the Decepticons earn their bad ending but we’re still at large alongside the Hive as well as the Quintessons, as the Decepticons and the Hive were lost seen flying through space returning to Chaar still plotting to get revenge on the Autobots. And I heard that a YouTuber named “RodimusPrimal” said that many fans who have watched the ending of the cartoon wanting a continuation, or an epilogue, or a sequel series that just never happened or never been made. Especially if they want to see new characters introduced in the 1988 and 1989 toy lines. And even the cartoon already ended, a pseudo fifth season aired in 1988 known as the rerun season where a Powermaster Optimus Prime told stories to Tommy Kennedy in a wasteland outside of Autobot City on Earth to bookend of a small list of two episodes, four story-arcs, and even the movie split into five parts much like the G.I. Joe movie. The rerun season is a retelling and repeating version of the entire story of the cartoon. Also, if Optimus Prime is the “dad character” of Transformers in the first two seasons, then maybe Rodimus Prime became the new “dad character” in season three after Optimus is killed off in the film until he was brought back by the end of season three which makes Optimus became the “dad character” again. Well, for me, Optimus is like the Grover Cleveland of Transformers while Rodimus Prime is like the Benjamin Harrison of Transformers.

@Background Pony #9AF1
Yes, I know he was in the movie(it’s where he died) and in the final 2 seasons(though I don’t consider season 4 a full season as it was just a multi-part episode). What I’m saying was that in the first 2 seasons he was a “dad character” and then the movie the movie made a shift in his depiction, making him the “modern” Optimus Prime we see currently in the Bay films, Prime, Prime Wars, and the War for Cybertron series.

@FoldabotZ
Well, don’t forget to mention that Prime is in the final two seasons of the G1 cartoon as well as the movie. Even though he wasn’t the main character of the entire third season since he’s replace by Hot Rod’s reformatted form of Rodimus Prime after he’s killed off at the end of the film’s first act.

But IDW Publishing Comic Books, is disgusted the title “Friendship in Disguise II” But it renamed into “The Magic of Cybertron!”

@FoldabotZ  
Emphasis on the “fun”, at least. Besides, even back then, he was a perfect leader for the Autobots.

@Background Pony #18E5  
You clearly haven’t seen Prime back in the first 2 seasons of the 80s cartoon. He wasn’t the stoic, speech-making, yet awe-inspiring, leader he is these days. Naw, he used to be a corny, wise-cracking, fun, uncle/dad figure.

@Background Pony #18E5  
 
Dude’s played basketball before, I think a peace sign isn’t that big a deal.

Oh hell no. Optimus peace sign? What next? Megatron dabbing?

The title for the sequel comic later change to “The Magic of Cybertron”.

@Joshua  
i think its two different books read the titles

Dude… what’s the point of choosing? Both covers feature Optimus Prime. That makes them all fantastic.