kevin michael richardson was the voice of optimus prime in the transformer movies.
kevin michael richardson was the voice of optimus prime in the transformer movies.
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bullet::::- optimus prime (voiced by peter cullen) is the second leader of the autobots after sentinel, the last prime of dynasty of primes, one of the guardian knights, keeper of the matrix of leadership and the narrator of the series. he transforms into a 1997 red and blue peterbilt 379 semi-trailer truck in the first three films, a rusty 1973 marmon semi cab-over truck in the beginning of the fourth film, and later a blue and red western star 5700xe custom phantom semi-truck. in the first film, optimus prime arrives on earth with ratchet, ironhide, and jazz trying to find the allspark. at mission city, he kills bonecrusher and battles megatron, but sam pushes the allspark into megatron's chest, killing him and destroying the cube. as a result, bumblebee spoke for the first time and cybertron can no longer be restored. afterward, optimus and the other autobots form an alliance with the humans and work closely with nest. in "", optimus is killed by megatron after a battle with him, starscream and grindor. near the end of the film, he is later revived by sam with the matrix of leadership and is fused with jetfire, making him more powerful. optimus prime then faces the fallen and megatron. after a vicious fight, optimus severely wounds megatron and kills the fallen. in "", optimus revives sentinel prime using the matrix of leadership and revealed he was the leader of the autobots before him. but, sentinel later betrays the autobots and joins the decepticons to restore cybertron with the pillars. during the battle in chicago, optimus kills sentinel prime (avenging ironhide's death) along with all decepticons, including the driller, shockwave, and finally megatron. optimus finally has a trailer similar to his generation 1 counterpart, and has been redesigned to look more heroic. the trailer contains enhanced weapons, a shield and a flight gear. optimus loses his right arm to sentinel prime at the film's climax. in "", he is being hunted by both the transformer-hating harold attinger and a cybertronian bounty hunter, lockdown, who is working for the creators to bring him to cybertron. soon after his capture and in the battle of hong kong, optimus tames the four legendary warriors (the dinobots) and rides grimlock to fight galvatron (megatron reincarnated) and his new army of man-made transformers. after defeating galvatron's army, he successfully kills lockdown and harold attinger (avenging the deaths of ratchet, leadfoot, sideswipe, dino, roadbuster and lucas among others). he then sets the dinobots free and ask his fellow autobots to protect cade and his family before taking the seed into space and going after the creators. in "", when frozen and floating past jupiter, he arrives at cybertron, now a dead planet. there he finds quintessa, the prime of life. she brainwashes optimus to do her bidding and gives him a red marking to achieve her goal of destroying earth, which she reveals is an ancient enemy planet called "unicron". she tells prime that he must retrieve her staff to rebuild cybertron. prime's eyes turn purple, his paint scheme turns to black, and he becomes nemesis prime under quintessa's control. later, just as he is about to kill bumblebee, bee speaks for the first time in 10 years. the sound of his friend's long lost voice causes prime to return to normal, shown by his eyes turning blue again and his red marking disappeared. he rides with dragonstorm into battle. after brutally slaughtering quintessa and saving both worlds, optimus and all transformers finally leave earth to return to cybertron as it remains in orbit over earth. prime reappears in "bumblebee", in which he is designed more like his g1 self. in the film, he leads the autobots against the decepticons trying to take over cybertron, but is forced to retreat when decepticon reinforcements led by soundwave and shockwave attack them. realizing that cybertron has fallen, he orders all autobots to get to their escape pods. however, he has given bumblebee the task to protect earth and set up a base for them before being attacked by ravage and other decepticons. in the end of the film, he praises bumblebee for keeping earth safe.
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