Nemesis Prime Retrospective - The Evil Clone of Optimus Prime! 

Your mocked up G1 Nemesis Prime stuff was cool... makes me wish it had happened

I feel like Transformers Prime could have done something different with Nemesis, but it was still a pretty good episode

"Its just such ignorance which forever relegates you to the ranks of underlings starscream!" I absolutley love the dialoge of Megatron!

Never has there been a character with an identity crisis as much as Nemesis Prime.

Decepticon or not, Nemesis Prime/Scourge is really badass.

FINALLY, someone notices that Galvatron was totally more of a Nemesis Prime

The reason why Bayformers Nemesis Prime is my least favorite is because one, I hate it when our favorite Autobot turned evil which is a huge slap to the face to all Transformers fans, and two, he didn’t do anything evil throughout the movie with the exception of beating up Bumblebee and Bumblebee’s voice causing him to change his personality is anticlimactic.

Scourge is and always will be the best Black Convoy. Mostly because he's a fully fleshed out character unlike all other Nemesis Primes(in the cartoons).

The name "Nemesis Prime" is straight hardcore. Funny, but even though his name is simple, "Faker" is even more legondary

MY preferred version of Nemesis Prime? How about the one that was released as an exclusive for SDCC 2008. That one has a bio that indicates he was built by the Decepticon Warlord Straxus, who took a lowly protoform and imbued him with Optimus Prime's knowledge and combat algorithms. After Straxus died, Nemesis Prime was roaming Cybertron alone, skulking through the shadows killing Autobot and Decepticon alike. Nemesis Prime has no sense of identity, and he has no moral compass unlike the heroic Autobot he was modeled after. That version is far more brutal than the others!

RID Scourge is my favourite version of Nemesis Prime and should be an example how to use this character. He has got an own unique and ambitious personality except of being just an evil Optimus. Also, because he was more of a secondary rival to Optimus while Megatron was around.

You mentioning Real Ghostbusters is a dream come true.

I remember years ago there was a fan made comic of an origins of a nemesis Prime where he was an unknown cybertronian doing the Golden Age where he absolutely hated Orion Pax for taking his job and his girl and apparently after Orion became Optimus Prime he forced a cybertronian engineer to rebuild his body in Optimus primes image but better I suppose it's a classic case of a copycat/kill Fire with Fire scenario wish I remember who made that comic :\ ?

Scourge is my favorite. His personality made him a bad guy you could actually get behind. Ever since the first time we same a black recolor of Prime, I had always wanted them to do the same with Hot Rod. It sucks we didn't get to see it until Shattered Glass and more recently with Rodimus Unicronus.

i think i'm more in love with the IDEA of nemisis prime then i am of what we got so far. but then again, i havent' seen enough with my own eys to make that judgement.

I love the Nemesis Prime G1 style animation!

My preferred Nemesis Prime is a Herald of Unicron. A being created by Unicrons own evil to hunt down and crush the bearer of the Matrix of Leadership

I always loved the concept of Nemesis Prime, especially the color scheme for him. Although he really hasn't been used properly most incarnations of him. He's mostly there just to sell a new toy of him or whatever. The Prime one is my favorite incarnation of him. I knew metch was building their own transformer, but I didn't think it would be Nemesis Prime. Tlk one had potential to be pretty interesting, but he litteraly was just there for like 4 minutes. It would of been cool to see Optimus fighting him in control of his body thoughout the film. Oh well though we get what we get. Hopefully future incarnations of him will make him more lasting than just one appearance and make him a full character.

FINALLY I love this version of Optimus Prime

Get the pizza ready we've got another Retrospective!!

Scourge is the only toy version I ever owned, and I still have it stored away. Really fine looking design, too.

I just viewed a video about Nemesis Prime last night. It's hard to even conceive of Optimus Prime being evil in any way, but I would like to see more Nemesis Prime.

I came up with the idea that after Unicron's defeat Shockwave secretly studied his remains; researched the history of the matrix and its connections to Primus, Unicron, Cybertron, and Vector Sigma. Then Shockwave cloned Optimus Prime's corpse and made a Dark Matrix from Unicron's remains. Shockwave named his creation Nemesis Prime. For the time being N.P. serves Megatron as a sleeper agent waiting for the day when Shockwave will activate his true purpose as part of Shockwave's extremely long term master plan.

did you find it odd that Nemesis Prime of Armada ran like an ape (on all fours knuckle-walk style)?

This is exactly what I’ve been needing in my life 👏

Great video, as usual! It was very interesting seeing how different Nemesis Prime is between each continuity.

I came to re-watch this since I just got the Netflix Spoiler Pack, and while shooting my review I realized I didn't remember the Origin of Nemesis. Good thing you covered it, it was interesting to re-watch once more!

I have an idea. The idea that Nemesis Prime started as a lifeless, remote-controlled copy of Optimus Prime. However, let's say it fell into a pool of Dark Energon, which mutated him into a fully sentient robot, with the abilities of the Armada version.

Oh man no matter which version of Prime you're talking about it gets confusing very quickly! Would love to see a retrospective on either the different Cassette-Bots(both Autobot & Decepticon)or maybe even Dr. Archevil himself, he was always been one of my favorite characters & I always wondered if his cybertronic implants gave him any special powers or new abilities. Another great in-depth video as always Rodimus!

0:33 Screwattack will be proud

Thank you so much for making this video! This guy is by far my favorite Transformer, I love the story and the idea of him as a whole! You did an amazing job and giving your audience and viewers your knowledge and info on this character, would highly recommend this for anyone who is a fan of Transformers or even wants to learn more about them! Keep up the great content! (:

Scourge is still the best iteration of the character for me. He goes from being Megatron's lackey, to a time-space travelling robot that rides on Skybyte and commands Ruination. You don't get cooler than that. IDW would be up there too, but then he reverted by to Nova and lost all of his cool powers. On a side note, there was a version of Nemesis you didn't really touch upon which was named Grand Scourge. Who funnily enough tried to impersonate Scourge (or rather Black Convoy since this was a Japanese comic) to control Ruination (or Baldigus.) Pretty much a similar deal to Armada and Universe Nemesis Prime, in the sense that he was created by Unicron. The only difference is that he goes universe skipping to kill Convoys of any era. I really enjoyed the video though, its nice seeing someone talk so in-depth of Transformers.

Doesn't Motormaster have the same concept of Nemesis Prime? He and the other Stunticons were made to copy the Autobot's vehicular mode, with Motormaster being the leader (just like how Optimus is the leader of the Autobots). He has the same alternate mode as Optimus Prime and he has an intense rivalry with Optimus. Also, he has something that doppelgangers always have: an opposite personality. Optimus is a noble and compassionate leader while Motormaster is a jerk to his team. Motormaster seems like the original Nemesis Prime before it was a thing.

Man I love me some nemesis prime

BEYOND AMAZING VIDEO RODIMUSPRIMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I enjoyed that fan made animation of Nemesis Prime, as though he actually appeared in the Transformers G1 cartoon. :D I was happy when, I believe it was in 2008 when the SDCC version of Nemesis Prime was released, Hasbro decided to retrograde Nemesis Prime into G1 continuity. :D Keep up the outstanding work you do, your videos are fantastic. ;D

Optimus prime:Wazzup! Nemisis prime:Wazzuup! Optimus prime:WAZZUUUP!

I love Scourge from robots in disguise.

I like the Nova Prime origin, the corruption of a Prime. I think this fits better with the power of the Primes line.

You deserve more subs. You are one of the coolest RU-vidrs ever

Amazing! I absolutely love these origin Bios, sometimes you feel like you kinda know but you just don't know the real story. Great video!

The intro music to your videos is absolutely badass! Would love this music to play every time I came In to a room

I like how each of the convoy faces( maximal/autobots that share the same face as Optimus Prime) such as Lio Convoy, Big Convoy and now Optimus Primal have there own Nemesis counterpart

Nemesis prime is my be all end all favorite character and pallette color. His color scheme just oozes power, aggression, and strength. And let's face it if everyone loves the big bot, his true evil persona is nothing to turn your nose up at.

It will be so coolto have a Transformers series with Nemesis Prime as the main villain

You forgot Darkwing Duck vs. Negaduck in the opening monologue! Love the vid!

How did Optimus get reprogrammed like by a magical slap to the cheek?!? EDIT: Thanks RodimusPrimal! I'll be posting my own videos in my own channel within the week probably! Thanks for the ❤️!

Nice G1 art

Always imagined the black flat nose freight liner in Terminator 2 suddenly transforming into Nemesis while chasing John Conner through the LA storm drain system.

Always have liked Nemesis Prime, pretty awesome you covered one of my favorite Decepticons ever! Great video as always!

These are awesome, man, keep them up

I would of thought that dark awakening zombie Optimus would have been considered nemesis prime too as he was re programmed and brought back to life by the quintessons just like the last night Optimus was.

Amazingly, the Prime Wars nemesis Prime is my favorite.

I’m so glad I’ve found your channel l! It’s reignited my love of Transformers! Keep up the good work Rodimus!

Awesome video, worth the wait.

I wish one of the stories was that they used Optimus Prime's dead body from the animated movie. No just me?

Love the addition of the swordbird Giza , its a slept on minicon!

This was so cool! I'm definitely getting an nemesis prime figure

i like the mech from TFP

Wow great retrospective video here Rodimus. I do not have many of the "dark Optimus toys", in fact I only have Scourge, but that may have to change!! Keep the videos coming bro you do great work.

Nice video even though there is one Nemesis Prime missing, the Animated one from The Complete Allspark Almanac. Still a very informative video! Hope you had a good Halloween and that was a good G1 Nemesis opening if he got to be in the show and Cullen voicing him!

I loved this video. It has given me more ideas for my truck build, themed on Nemesis Prime.

Another amazing video man ! As always I love watching your videos !

I came back here after watching the Transformers Kingdom trailer and saw Optimus and Nemesis beat the living spark out of each other.

The Best Nemesis Prime is the Black Mamot one, since he was a Unicron Herald and then managed to get out of unicron´s Power. The other one I like is Black Convoy (RID Scourge), I don´t know why in the Dub they used the name Nemesis Prime, or Black Prime, instead of Scourge... Scourge got nothing to do with an evil copy of Optimus Prime.

One thing about all Nemesis prime is he's always a badass!!

Good job with this character I was hoping you would talk about him and you did.

My favorite toy line form of him has to be the Takara Tomy repaint of Optimus. That'll probably be my next Masterpiece I'll get if he is still in production. I already spent too much on MP Optimus since I never got him while he was in production. My favorite from the series is Scourge since that's the only version I saw of him while growing up.

3:18 Well that escalated quickly

I like your channel of Transformers! I have many of the G1 Masterpiece figures that I'd have one big figure than 5 smaller figures back in the day and I still do it as I'm older. I just have house payments and stuff. For all collectors Masterpiece figures is the only way to go!

Ah thank you for a new brilliant video Optimus. I hope you’re settling into your new home :)

Your hypothetical version of Nemesis Prime is my favorite...although I like to think that Nemesis is from another universe like Shattered Optimus, or a future version of Optimus Prime, broken by war.

All I collect is black repaints of Prime - he's just wicked cool, regardless of origin :D

This was a great video. Thanks

Glad to see that you have done your 3rd Optimus Prime body (with different colors) video

Poor Motormaster will always be 2nd fiddle to Nemesis Prime😔

I remembered something in relation to Nemesis Prime. In the Japanese Manga "Battlestars:The Return of Convoy", there is also an evil version of Prime called FALSE CONVOY.

Awesome thank you for the video.

Man, I wish the Transformers G1 series will make an episode of Nemesis Prime that way, optimus would battle him, then the final season with Rodimus would be called the Vengeance of Nemesis

Weirdly the best version of nemesis that i have seen came from a transformers fan fiction where he was optimus and started the decepticon rebellion. Its a long story but it basically chose to portray optimus as a Spartacus like character.

@RodimusPrimal, A big thank you for including the Spectral Ghostbusters from The Real Ghostbusters episode Citizen Ghost in your run down of evil doppelgangers. That is my all time favorite episode of The Real Ghostbusters. As for Nemesis Prime, I would go with the Scourge version of him as a personal favorite due his backstory.

I always liked TF Prime's Nemesis. The idea of a power-mad human copying the toughest bot they saw seems kinda right. Megs never struck me as one to waste resources copying what he wants to personally obliterate. But then again, Megs has had so many different tones...

ive watched the g1 series over and over and now i see something new that would make sense if they did make a real dark matrix nemesis prime in the g1 series that would be a game changer

Nice job

I liked the Transformers Prime Nemesis Prime, only if he was his own bot and if he had the black and teal paint job. Also if I could make my own version of Nemesis Prime, it would be that he was created by Unicron, and wielded the dark matrix, and dark star saber. Only he would take the place of Megatron, competing with Megatron, for the destruction of Optimus Prime. He would have dark copies of the other Autobots as his crew and they would go by the name of Vehicons, since this would not be by the guidelines of Transformers Prime.

I love all the possibilities with Nemesis Prime-Ultra Magnus-Optimus Prime. Three of my favorite characters

Great stuff

Nemesis Prime is one of my favorites

I don't know enough about the other iterations of Nemesis Prime to make a clear decision on who's my favorite, but I have an attachment to TFP's Nemesis which is good enough for me

Dang never knew how dark trnsfr were

Your videos are really well done. Have you thought of doing a retrospective on the various recolors of Optimus Prime? That would be fantastic!

Best version is Unicron's version

bravo, i love this. i love the evil prime.

Damn, I love these videos. That black and teal color scheme is beautiful. Especially on a MP. I eventually need to add Nemesis to my collection!

Rodimus Primal deserves more subscribers

Yesssss

Scourge is the best Némesis Prime. He must be fully included in the continuity g1 next to Fire Convoy , Gigatron. Etc.

If anybody will see this, I have my own story for Nemesis Prime: Nemion Pax and Orion Pax were literal brothers, connected by blood. They were twins, and the best of friends. But one day, during the war, Orion left Nemion for dead. He hated it. “We're brothers, the best of friends, and comrades, so you leave me here to rot?”, Nemion thought. He plotted revenge for centuries, then he found the Dark Spark. It turned him into a dark warrior that looks like Optimus, but corrupted and evil. Nemion renames himself, Nemesis Prime. Nemesis finds Optimus, and they become the worst of enemies. Edit: I also have another idea, how about Nemesis is Dion?

how did you get a g1 animation black nemisis prime clip?

I hope for S2 or S3 of cyberverse nemesis prime appear i heard rumours he would appear in S2 as his own character

Very nice! I am hoping to expand on my Nemsis Prime collection as I only got a Nendoroid of him so far.