Transformers Gives Optimus Primal's Brutal Transformation a New Origin
Warning: spoilers ahead for Transformers: Beast Wars #14!
IDW Publishing's Transformers comics just gave Optimus Primal's most brutal form from the Beast Wars TV show a twist that not only alters what initiated the Maximal leader's transformation, but diminishes the entire scenario with a much larger crisis — and even affects Dinobot's character and redemption. Transformers: Beast Wars #14 comes from writer Erik Burnham, artist Josh Burcham and letterer Jake M. Wood.
During this odd retcon, the Predacons stumble across and decide to use a particularly potent lode of Energon that increases the anger and aggression of Transformers not in Beast mode, infecting Optimus Primal. The Predacon Blackarachnia and Tarantulas carry out this plot by ambushing Dinobot (who's in Beast mode) and a transformed Optimus Primal. The villains utilize a weaponized version of the Energon that's been repurposed into a bomb. The resulting explosion causes Optimus to fall into an unadulterated rage once he awakens and lead a one-man assault on the Predacons himself — before getting apprehended by a new character.
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In the original TV show, Scorpinok created such a virus himself, except he had intended that it would inflict the infected target with cowardice. It's only due to his incompetence that the virus malfunctions, causing it to have the opposite effect when he later infects Optimus. More like the comics, Scorpinok's original invention also functioned as a bomb (except shaped like an insect), but that's where all similarities end, since the episode in which this occurs revolves entirely around Optimus' predicament. In fact, the Maximals try to come up with
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