The more I think about this mysterious "Primon" that Furman retroactively added to the original Marvel list of Matrix bearers, the more I begin to realize that there may have been a way to fit him back into the Marvel G1 lore using what was already there, and what a missed opportunity that has...
Frankly, what evidence was there that they were the same guy? No fiction has ever suggested that they were, and the only fiction that ever would have explored such an idea would more likely than not have come from Fun Pub, but they (or more precisely Jim Sorenson) leaned into the opposite...
In what ways? From the time of the Last Autobot's debut in 1991 to the introduction of Vector Prime in 2005, the Last Autobot hadn't been used in any TF fiction.
See, I always believed that Vector Prime and the Last Autobot were always meant to be separate individuals from the get-go, based on the bottom-right panel of this page from "Vector Prime: In the Beginning" (one of the first appearances of Vector Prime in any media, even preceding the premiere...
I also liked the new spin on the plague, presenting it now as a biological weapon specifically created to infect Autobots and Decepticons as opposed to any and all lifeforms. Keeps it from getting out of hand that way. More controlled as a weapon.
You know, if Hasbro had really wanted to schedule the release of TF One around the anniversary of something, TFTM came out on August 8, 1986. While August 8, 2024 was that movie's 38th anniversary, it was also a Thursday, and a lot of movies released on Fridays nowadays do tend to receive early...
Not unless they made him a much bigger figure than Vector Prime, considering how large he was as a character in the comics compared to Optimus Prime:
He only showed up in one issue, the last issue, so I can easily see someone who hadn't read the comics since they ended not remembering his...
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