They actually got started earlier in the United EX fiction, which was set contemporaneously to Operation Combination. The Japanese text in the image I posted mentions that their Energon Matrices were created jointly between the Autobots and humans, which is a callback to United EX in which...
Hear, hear! It robbed any and all meaning of him inheriting the Matrix because of what made him special as a person as Orion Pax, and instead made it so that he was born special. It took away any and all humble beginnings he had in the Exodus novel and ruined the notion of "Anyone can be a hero"...
What I mean is, modern fiction doesn't want to explore the possibility that anyone other than Optimus himself is the rightful bearer of the Matrix, because they want Optimus to be the Chosen One instead of Rodimus.
You know, going by the original movie saying that Hot Rod was the one destined to bear the Matrix, along with the modern lore of the Matrix's true bearer being the second coming of the Thirteenth Prime, that would kind of make Rodimus the Arisen instead of Optimus.
Heh, but no modern fiction...
It still baffles me that the Last Autobot from Marvel G1 wasn't included in the roster (the one Hasbro uses, not the "multiversal Thirteen" AVP gave us, which did include him), since his whole thing was being the last of the original generation of Transformers created directly by Primus himself...
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