I think my retcon is kinda easier to swallow - also, I'd like to believe that "virtual Optimus Prime" - the one that hacked the Decepticon's computer and led the Autobot Pretenders in their first battle, was the original Optimus Prime. It was this action that convinced Goldbug that virtual Prime was the one true Optimus Prime, as he commanded the Pretenders in the exact same fashion that the true Optimus Prime would have. That and the fact that there's something ridiculously neat about thinking that Optimus Prime's core consciousness and Spark could be stored in a 133mm Single-Density floppy diskette! Haw! :D

 

You got the Touch! Arise, Floppimus Prime!

I think my retcon is kinda easier to swallow - also, I'd like to believe that "virtual Optimus Prime" - the one that hacked the Decepticon's computer and led the Autobot Pretenders in their first battle, was the original Optimus Prime. It was this action that convinced Goldbug that virtual Prime was the one true Optimus Prime, as he commanded the Pretenders in the exact same fashion that the true Optimus Prime would have. That and the fact that there's something ridiculously neat about thinking that Optimus Prime's core consciousness and Spark could be stored in a 133mm Single-Density floppy diskette! Haw! :D

 

You got the Touch! Arise, Floppimus Prime!

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Speaking of floppydisks, remember when Chip Chase ripped one in two with his bare hands?

joshlowe is right. Ditto the Decepticon Mayhem Attack Squad, and the fact that Thunderwing was Decepticon commander on Cybertron, not to mention the existence of Autobase etc. - all this originated from the UK comics.

 

In answer to your question X-BoB: ya know, I never thought of post-LAN-death Optimus Prime as being a copy. My understanding is that moments before Megatron killed Optimus Prime, Ethan Zachary saved a copy of Optimus Prime's core consciousness on a floppy disk! Damn! And of course, this backup copy Prime had lost most of his memories which Ethan tried to restore - and it was eventually this copy that would be uploaded into the Powermaster Prime "Transtector" that was created on Nebulos - thus the birth of Powermaster Optimus Prime. But considering that we are dealing with what is essentially a digital entity, Powermaster Optimus Prime is for all intents and purposes, the original Optimus Prime. I'm not entirely sure how the hell it worked, but somehow Prime's Spark must have been transferred along with his core consciousness into that disk - because as we know, a Transformer simply cannot live without his/her Spark (or "Primal Essence" as it was known in the Marvel Comics). That Spark would have been transferred from the disk to the PM Transtector. This is pure conjecture from my POV of course - the comics never really cleared this issue up, so it could be argued that PM Prime is just a damn good copy of the original Prime who died after being PWN'd at Counterstrike. :P But the only slight anomaly with that notion is that Powermaster Prime still retained the spiritual link with the Matrix that only the original Optimus Prime would have had - a bond which Optimus Prime claim he had forged with the Matrix after carrying it for millions of years. If PM Prime was a mere clone, then that clone would not inherit the long-forged affinity with the Creation Matrix - his bond with the Matrix would only be as deep as Thunderwing's; both Transformers being created with a natural affinity with the Matrix. But Prime claimed to have a higher bond with the Matrix because he had carried it for so much longer than Thunderwing. This leads me to favour the notion that Prime's Spark may have been copied by Ethan Zachary, and that thus PM Prime is actually the original Optimus Prime, and not just a copy.

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it was me that asked, not X-Bob.

 

You know, that makes sense, and doesn't reek of nonsensical fanboy retcon, like a lot of explenations for stuff I see tend to do.

 

I doubt the spark/prime essance itself was copied... I'd guess his spark just floated around in a coma for a while and when the mind was restores, so was the spark. kind of like what happened to Optimus in "The return of Optimus Prime", I guess.

Speaking of floppydisks, remember when Chip Chase ripped one in two with his bare hands?

Yeah! And in "Autobot Run", Chip stands up from his wheelchair to catch something that Spike throws at him!! Damned FAKE!

 

it was me that asked, not X-Bob.

Oh, sorry man. I'll be sure not to confuse the two of you again (sic). :P :P