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'''Rodimus Prime''' is a [[fictional character]] from the ''[[Transformers (toyline)|Transformers]]'' [[Transformers Universes|universe]].

==Transformers: Generation 1 (1986)==
{{Transformers character|
 name           = Rodimus Prime 
|image          =Five Faces 1.JPG 
|caption        =
|affiliation    = Autobot
|subgroup       =
|function       = Autobot Leader
|partner        =
|motto          = ''"Experience is the benchmark of maturity."''
|alternatemodes = Futuristic [[recreational vehicle]] ([[Cab over]] [[Pontiac Firebird]])
|series         = [[Transformers: Generation 1]] <BR>[[Transformers: Titanium]]
(contracted; show full)se of dark magenta in place of red (although, in the third season of the cartoon series, Rodimus is usually colored maroon instead of the magenta seen at the end of the movie). In the same style as Optimus Prime’s toy, the Rodimus toy’s trailer disconnects from the cab and unfolds into a battle station; in the animated series, this feature was not included, and the rear portion of Rodimus's vehicle mode is consistently (bar one anomalous instance) shown to unfold from his legs.

===Animated series===

[[Image:Rodimus_toon.jpg|left|thumb|Robot mode]]⏎
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In the year 2005, when the massive planet-eating robot [[Unicron]] attacked the Transformers’ homeworld, Hot Rod confronted the Decepticon leader, [[Galvatron]], within the giant’s body. In the struggle that ensued, Hot Rod seized the Matrix from around Galvatron's neck, and, bathed in its power, was transformed into Rodimus Prime, who easily picked up Galvatron and hurled him through Unicron's body and far into space. Rodimus proceeded to open the Matrix, destroying Unicron with its energies and establishing himself as the new Autobot leader.

[[Image:Rodimus_toon.jpg|left|thumb|Robot mode]]⏎
Rodimus did not have time to rest on his laurels as commander, immediately finding himself and the Autobots targeted by the [[Quintesson]]s, who lured him to their planet of [[Quintessa]] and detonated it in hopes of destroying the Matrix. Rodimus and the Autobots survived, however, and Rodimus proceeded to voluntarily short-circuit himself to allow his life-force to enter the Matrix, feeling that the answer to the mystery of the Quintessons’ identity lay within it. His hunch proved correct – the Quintesson(contracted; show full)

====Transformers: Headmasters====
While Hot Rod never became Rodimus again in the [[United States|US]] ''Transformers'' series, going on instead to become a [[Targetmaster]], he ''did'' return to action in the 1987 Japanese-exclusive series, ''[[Transformers: The Headmasters]]'', which replaced ''The Rebirth'' in Japanese continuity. 

[[Image:Rodimus_hm.jpg|
lefright|thumb|Rodimus appoints Fortress Autobot Commander]]Picking up one year after the return of [[Optimus Prime]], Hot Rod led the operation to recover the Matrix – which had been concealed on Earth to allow it to recharge after the depletion of its energies – in order to use it to stabilize the mega-computer, [[Vector Sigma]]. Returning to Cybertron with the Matrix in his grasp, Hot Rod was about to aid Optimus Prime in battle when the ghost of ancient Autobot [[Alpha Trion]] merged with the Matrix, rechargin(contracted; show full)

The later Superlink series version of Rodimus has returned from a similar journey to the begun in Headmasters, although the timeline and details not fit into the original continuity, but merely pays homage to it.

===Marvel Comics===
[[Image:Rodimus_comic.jpg|
righleft|thumb|Rodimus's comic book design]]Rodimus Prime played no role in the U.S. ''Transformers'' series from [[Marvel Comics]], save for the out-of-continuity adaptation of the animated series episode, ''The Big Broadcast of 2006,'' and one brief appearance when readers were offered a glimpse of the alternate future world of 2009. In this timeline, Rodimus ''lost'' the battle inside Unicron, and Cybertron was consumed; Unicron subsequently gave (contracted; show full)where he and the two Decepticons were captured by the mental powers of Unicron, whose decapitated head still survived on the planet. Discovering this and facing the disaster of a Decepticon all-out assault that Unicron had caused, Rodimus led an attack on the Chaos-Bringer's head and worked with Death’s Head to project his consciousness into Unicron’s mind, in order to combat him there. When Unicron’s head was destroyed with explosives, his mind was sealed within the Matrix.[[Image:Rodimus_comic2.jpg|
lefright|thumb|Rodimus and Death's Head]]

When the [[Quintessons]] targeted Cybertron for colonization in 2008, they matched their attack on the planet with one on Autobot City. When Arcee was injured, an unwitting Rodimus used the Matrix to heal her, exposing it and allow the Quintesson general Ghyrik to steal it. Rodimus, now Hot Rod once again, had to use his own skill and ingenuity to reacquire the talisman and defeat Ghyrik; the larger Quintesson force was taken out after Hot Rod activated [[Metroplex ((contracted; show full)

Centuries later, in 2356, a weakened Rodimus, his body withered by containing Unicron within it, looked back upon the past, telling a young Autobot student of the nature of evil. The influence of Unicron was able to corrupt the student towards evil before Rodimus could realize what was happening.

===3H Enterprises===
[[image:wreckers2-17b.jpg|
righleft|thumb|Rodimus Prime consults [[Quickmix (Transformers)|Quickmix]], [[Skids (Transformers)|Skids]], [[Perceptor]] and [[Rad (Transformers)|Rad]] about his plans.]]
(contracted; show full)* [http://www.tfu.info/1986/Autobot/RodimusPrime/rodimusprime.htm TFU page]

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