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Optimus Prime with an immortal spark?


It was revealed that Starscream has an immortal life spark and thus came back even after Galvatron blasted him into smoking dust. I've been thinking, perhaps Optimus Prime has an immortal spark the way he keeps dying and coming back. Aside from his death scene in the movie and then coming back later in the series, he has died and come back, from what I know, multiple other times if not in the cartoon than in the comics although the comics do follow a different universe with a different backstory but aside from that, perhaps it should be revealed that like Starscream, that Optimus Prime also has an immortal spark. The way they brought him back in the series, they recovered his body from the debris resulting from the explosion when he flew the ship into the Quentesson bomb, seemingly unscratched even though he had been in a really damaged condition before he was seemingly blown up including having his left arm had been sheared off, they shouldn'tve done that. It was a very poor plot to have his body to not only not be destroyed by the explosion but to be with barely a scratch. Instead of doing that, they should've had Optimus Prime's body completely destroyed in the explosion but to then have it revealed that like Starscream, that Optimus Prime has an immortal spark and so his spark survives and he somehow gets a new body, perhaps from Unicron or by some other method.

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I think it has something to do with Prime being linked to the Matrix of Leadership making him predestined to come back and save the Universe from the Hate Plague. As for Starscream, it could be that his spark is an anomaly or just like a real ghost, never made peace after being destroyed abruptly by Galvatron and had so many unresolved issues and thus refusing to crossover to the AllSpark.

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I think it has more to do with a writer painting the series/character in a corner. You'll see that in every series or sequel if a character is demanded back. It's not magic, sparks, or even pre-planned. It's just damage control.

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Killing off Optimus Prime in every single series since Generation One has become boring, repetitive and shows how lazy the script writers who work on the more modern incarnations (television, movies, comics) of the franchise have become. And yeah, when they brought back Optimus Prime the first time it was Damage Control. Starscream was a different story. His laser core (spark) was immortal and was (somewhat) intended to be from season three on. I have heard rumors (from a generation one writer) that if there had been a season four that Starscream was going to return and lead his own army against both the Autobots and Decepticons, but I read that a LONG time ago and have not been able to find the websight that I read it on.

Want proof that we are doomed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH68bSJXGE8

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If I were going to bring Starscream back, I would reformat him just like Megatron when he became Galvatron. He really should've asked for an upgraded body from Unicron, then he would've had a better stance against Galvatron.

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