Optimus Prime (G1)

Optimus Prime is the main protagonist of the Transformers franchise.

Why He's Got The Touch

 * 1) He is a great leader and is very responsible.
 * 2) He can be quite funny many times.
 * 3) He is amazingly voiced by talented voice-over artist, Peter Cullen.
 * 4) The toys based on him are great.
 * 5) His design is creative, cool, and memorable, yet simple, and has been the basis of almost all of his other incarnations.
 * 6) His death in the 1986 film was quite sad.
 * 7) His appearance as a zombie in "Dark Awakening" is terrifying and disturbing.
 * 8) He is very patient with others.
 * 9) The rivalry between him and Megatron is extremely iconic.
 * 10) The origin story of how he became Optimus is very cool, as he used to be called Orion Pax but after being crippled by a Decepticon attack led by Megatron, he was rebuilt into Optimus Prime by Alpha Trion.
 * 11) The relationship between him and Elita-1 is very sweet.
 * 12) His famous iconic lines such as "One shall stand, one shall fall." and "Till all are one."
 * 13) His two other incarnations of him are great in their own way.
 * 14) His comic book counterparts are also great takes on his character, and the IDW Optimus helped Unicron's creator redeem himself.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) He's been flanderized a few times, such as in the Bayverse and Unicron Trilogy.
 * 2) Sometimes, he can be a Gary Stu.
 * 3) He was horribly derailed in the War For Cybertron trilogy.

Trivia

 * 1) He was originally going to fall apart after his death in the 1986 film.
 * 2) In Japan, he's called Convoy as Japanese children would find it difficult to remember and pronounce his American name.
 * 3) Him dying became a common joke in the Transformers fanbase.