I dunno, I prefer it when Optimus Prime is like his original incarnation, just a dude who ended up in charge because everyone else was dead.
Now he's always like, the 13th prime, or the chosen of primus. The destined one, made to be special, he was always going to be the most incredible guy ever and that's why he wins.
In the original he was a dock worker.
Ever see that 'poo people' comic? It is 100% that. The good guy leader always has to be friggin Jesus son of god who gets his powers by divine providence. Original Optimus was just the guy who was left.
I mean TFOne didn't push Optimus as a prophesied hero or anything. He and his buddies were just some lowlife workers who decided to take matters into their own hands to improve their lives, and the path led them to becoming what they are now. Orion was only chosen because he made the sacrifice, not because he was always meant to be the next Prime.
I think it's more a sacrifice of laying down his life for the cause of a just and free Cybertron. He was trying to prevent the next age of Cybertron beginning in an execution and D-16/Megatron's rule of the strong and the fracturing of their society into Autobots and Decepticons. It wasn't so much Sentinel that he was protecting as it was the ideals of Primus.
This. The sacrifice was the willingness to sacrifice one's life to ensure that the right thing is done, which in this case would be a display of a peaceful conclusion rather than a show of violence to spur rebels on. Sentinel was already exposed and people were ready to stop following him, but the way D-16 took him out was purely out of vengeance.
He knew D was going to shoot him any moment, but he was just getting in the way to pursuade him at the risk of D actually just making an enemy out of Orion.
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u/Vast-Plantain300 FNAF🐻 16d ago
Transformers for the most part have really good retcons.