That would work, if Devil Zed himself wasn't also an already ancient dude.
Legends gave him a proper origin story (one which I really like since it totally jibes with the G1 cartoon's lore as originally presented, and definitely feels like something the writers of Masterforce could have written...
The first of the Japanese-made G1 cartoons, The Headmasters, was made and began airing in Japan months before The Rebirth first premiered in the West.
They knew ahead of time that The Rebirth was only going to be three episodes, and so they got started making their own show long before The...
Then again, they might have been looking at literally every other video game movie to come out during all of those times (that weren't Pokémon movies) and went, "Oh that's why we didn't."
And Japanese TF media has since doubled down on that origin being the true one, with the original one told by Devil Z in the series (that the Godmaster Transtectors were all originally one entity that split off into components when they were first brought to Earth) being sort of a mixture of...
The Junkion has molded chains wrapped around its forearms that kinda make it look like a prisoner.
It also has little dual-blasters sticking out from its wrists, Wolverine-claw-style.
Whatever its name turns out to be, it looks like a pretty tough customer built for war.
The more I think about the casting of Hemsworth as Optimus, the more I'm reminded that if Cullen hadn't won his audition for Optimus for the first movie back in 2007, Bay would have instead had Optimus voiced by Liam Neeson.
Lies.
Deep Space Nine and Voyager both ran for seven seasons, the same number of seasons as TNG. And all three had roughly the same number of hour-long episodes (splitting up all of the 2-hour-long episodes of each show in half):
TNG: 178
DS9: 176
VOY: 172
Deep Space Nine had an amazingly...
I mean, Unicron was on his way to functionality in TLK, with a cliffhanger hinting that he's still coming.
And the Optimus in this movie is still that same Optimus from Movie 1/ROTF/DOTM/AOE/TLK.
That's mostly inspired from how Nemesis Prime was a reprogrammed Optimus Prime from a dark future ruled by Unicron in the Netflix Kingdom cartoon.
Some are suspecting this film to have some plot similarities with that show, all in the name of Hasbro wanting a more consistent broad-strokes lore...
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