Talk:Optimus Prime (other incarnations)

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Retractable energon blade?
Where does it say anywhere that the retractable blade that is used in the 2007 film is energon? I'm removing unless a reference is brought forth. ~ Auzemandius {talk/contrib} 09:17, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Individual articles for movie incarnations of Transformers
Over $700 million for each of the two movies... does that tell you something? The live-action movies now have their own expansive continuity with comics, sequels, novels, etc. and I think that the movie incarnations of the Transformers characters should be moved off this page and onto their own articles, such as Optimus Prime (films) and Megatron (films) I made a split proposal; I know that it's normally used for articles that are too large, but due to the expansiveness and popularity of the Transformers movie universe, I believe that the film's characters should have their own article, especially since there are arguably more "pointless" articles on movie characters such as Mikaela Banes.Eh! Steve (talk) 13:05, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * To be fair, Mikaela does have more lines, more screen time and higher billing for her actress than Optimus has in the two films. Mathewignash (talk) 14:11, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Despite this, Prime was a major selling point and icon of the films while Mikaela wasn't. Although the humans played a bigger role than the robots, they actually "shaped" the films a bit less in my opinion. Anyway, at the very least, since Sam doesn't have his own article, Mikaela's article should simply be a section in a "List of characters in the Transformers films" article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.222.102.37 (talk) 22:34, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
Why the heck in the sources section does it say "SCRUTINY!!!!!"?!? Isna &#39;Kasamee (talk) 18:39, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Unnecessary plot summary
All this plot summary already exists at the two articles I pointed out: Transformers (film) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Is there a reason you're reverting good-faith edits without explanation? That's not an acceptable way to discuss changes. — chro • man • cer 21:57, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that the sections are too wordy, but I don't want to see them blanked. Do you think we could edit them down to just a brief couple of sentences of what Optimus did in the films? I'd work on that if you agree. Mathewignash (talk) 23:48, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * That's a reasonable compromise to improve the article, I just didn't take very well to being reverted without explanation. I do think that the nonfree image should go: it's already found at Transformers (film), and per WP:NFCC suggestions, could simply be referred to as being there instead of being duplicated here. I am, however, still a little confused at to what you are talking about in your edit summary re: Decepticons/Predacons. Can you clarify? — chro • man • cer 01:16, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a plan on the summary. About the photo though, it's listed as free crediting it to USAF photo gallery, because that photo was taken when they displayed the movie vehicles at an airforce base in 2007. It's used as a free photo on a number of Wikipedia pages. Are you sure it's not free? Mathewignash (talk) 02:00, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I was thinking of the wrong image. I'm concerned about several of the other images here: the toys in particular. I'm going to look into it, but I'm not sure we can justify some of them. It bears a little further work. I'll see. In the meantime, I've cut the plot summary down, but it's just a beginning. You think you can do the same to the video games, books, etc. mentioned in the rest of the article? I'm sure there's enough summary on their individual pages. — chro • man • cer 03:29, 8 June 2011 (UTC)