Nemesis Prime (Universe)

Nemesis Prime is a Unicron-aligned Decepticon and later Autobot from the Unicron Trilogy continuity family (via the 2003 Universe toyline).

WOOLLY BULLAAAY. Woolly bully.

A Herald of Unicron, Nemesis Prime is a dark clone of an Optimus Prime who was left for dead by Megazarak to rot on the shores of the Rust Sea.^[1]

The Prime was cloned by Unicron and awoke slowly to the dark god's torture. Completely broken, this Prime is an eternal servant and begs for the consuming nothing of Unicron's victory over the multiverse. Anything is preferable to the flood of infinite suffering that is his existence.

His only weakness is what tiny, rotten portion is left of his honor. He carries the Dead Matrix within him, possibly the only thing that can kill Unicron's enemy, Primus.

Fate would have more in store for him, however. After being foiled in service to his dark master, he came to the attention of the evolved interdimensional Cybertronians known as the Alternity. Healed by them, Black Convoy now fights for the cause of good.

Fiction

Cybertron comic

A Habitrail, right through your twisted spark!

Nemesis Prime's template came from Aurex 304.0 Epsilon. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/30 There, he was left for dead by Megazarak. After being cloned by Unicron and tortured for a while, he was fitted with the Dead Matrix and sent into the Universe to do Unicron's bidding. Nemesis Prime's profile in Club magazine #6

Nemesis Prime and Ramjet arrived via dimensional portal over an abandoned Cybertron threatened by the Unicron Singularity. Quickly, they attempted to amass followers to aid them in their attempt to unleash Nemesis Prime's Dead Matrix on Primus's essence, allowing their master Unicron a posthumous victory.

Their first stop was Maccadam's Old Oil House, where they found a pair of Decepticons, Jackhammer and Crush Groove. When the pair were unwilling to join them, Nemesis and Ramjet quickly dispatched them. Nemesis realized what was left of Cybertron's inhabitants were useless to them, and so Ramjet suggested they pay a visit to Alpha Trion themselves.

Don't worry, Nemesis. He never succeeds at anything.

Alpha Trion, deep within Cybertron with Vector Sigma, was flanked by Vector Prime and Sentinel Maximus. Ramjet kept Vector Prime busy, and Sentinel Maximus was unable to prevent Nemesis Prime from grabbing Alpha Trion by the head and slamming him into Vector Sigma. After a blast from Ramjet, Alpha Trion and Vector Sigma both lay in ruins, and the two servants of Unicron made their escape. Balancing Act

Standing on the corpses of more destroyed Transformers, Nemesis Prime and Ramjet enlisted Scrapmetal drones to interface with the planet's computer systems to find Primus's spark core chamber. Balancing Act, Part 2 After he accompanied Ramjet while he enlisted the Velocitronian, Skyfall, with promises of telling of him about his forgotten past, Balancing Act, Part 3 Nemesis Prime completed his search for the location of Primus's essence. He and his allies found Downshift guarding it, and Nemesis pinned him to the wall with one of his hip-harpoons. But Downshift had alerted Vector Prime and Sentinel Maximus, and the two Autobots arrived quickly to prevent them from reaching Primus's spark. Balancing Act, Part 4

Now darken our brightest hour!

Nemesis Prime found himself facing Sentinel Maximus again, and they battled each other while traveling down the hallways leading to the spark core chamber. Unfortunately for Sentinel, Nemesis was able to blast the tunnel behind him, leaving Sentinel alone with Primus's spark core. Wasting no time, Nemesis Prime revealed the Dark Matrix from his chest compartment, and its evil energies began filling the room. Balancing Act, Pt 5

However, Nemesis Prime was suddenly taken down by Viron Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, who had been teleported by Over-Run to this Cybertron en route from the end of the Universe War. Nemesis Prime suffered heavy damage at the hands of Ultra Magnus and was sealed away inside an energon damping cell Revelations Part 1 while the Dead Matrix was locked away in the Archives. Revelations Part 2

Alternity

Boo hoo, Megatron. My template fought Galvatron and Megazarak. You're small fry.

Some time after Nemesis Prime was defeated in battle by the Autobots, he was inducted into the Alternity, a race of highly evolved Transformers from nine hundred thousand years into the future who could travel the multiverse at will. The enlightenment that this new state of being conferred healed Nemesis Prime's mind, and he joined the Convoy Aggregate as Convoy. His "Vector - 704" auto-avatar, a black Nissan GT-R, allowed him to blend in on modern-day Earth, where he aided the Alternity in their mission. He secretly wished to take his revenge against Unicron, but he knew his current mission against the greater threat of the Hytherion was more pressing. Because of his past, he was more ruthless in battle than his peers.^[2]

After Megatron gained powers equal to those of the Alternity by bonding himself to the hyper-dimensional beast known as the Hytherion, Convoy battled the auto-avatar of the Megatron Aggregate's leader in a barren, burning landscape. Exploiting Megatron's unfamiliarity with higher-dimensional combat, Convoy easily trapped the Decepticon within a closed time-loop, where he was repeatedly struck by the same laser blast over and over again, until his auto-avatar was reduced to scrap. Following the battle, Convoy was approached by Protector Elita Seven, who had been observing the fight and took issue with Convoy's brutal methods. When she addressed him as a "deity", he told her to call him "Knight of Darkness" instead. Arch-Nemesis!

Convoy was providing cover for a cross-universal battle when Megatron used a magical tablet to access the power of the Planicrons and sunder the Alternity's aggregate. Nemesis Prime found himself once more an individual instead of part of a dimensionally-spanning collective as a result. But there remained a glimmer of hope for the Autobots; disgusted by the senseless loss of life resulting from the Decepticon leader abusing the Planicrons' capabilities, Thundercracket released the lower-dimensional beings, disarming Megatron of his most potent weapon. But to assure themselves a total victory, the Autobots still needed to find the correct spatial doorway for the Planicrons to emerge into higher-dimensional space. This would allow them to take over as multiversal protectors. Nemesis Prime's team quickly deduced that the correct path for the Planicrons' evolution was through the BT World, and he set out with Elita Seven and Bumblebee to guide the Planicrons there. Upon their arrival to their target world, they were greeted by Grimlock and Optimus Primal. With their help, the group soon tracked down the schematics for the unfinished Critias Gate; a two-dimensional doorway for two-dimensional beings. Together, they then witnessed the Planicrons come forth through the gate. Though Megatron, barely holding on to a cohesive form as other agents were destroying his Auto-Avatars elsewhere, tried to abort the Planicrons' ascension, he was soundly defeated by his target. The Autobots cheered at the obliteration of their long-time foe.

Afterwards, the now-former members of the Alternity met one last time on the planet Athenia before parting ways and returning to their proper place in the multiverse. Convoy's destination was unspecified, his home reality gone. Alternation

TransTech

I'm the token black repaint among these obscure Prime toys.

An unspecified time later, Black Convoy became a member of the Convoy, a group of thirteen heroic leaders assembled in Nexus 208.0 Epsilon to address dire changes to the stability of the multiverse. His name was on a list of Convoy members given to Andromeda by Cheetor, which noted that he also went by the moniker "Nemesis Prime". Ironically, he was now working alongside his old enemies, the Sentinel Maximus of Primax 797.18 Epsilon and the Optimus Prime of Viron 903.0 Beta. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/05/21

Nemesis Prime was present at a meeting of the Convoy after the turmoil caused by the Waruder invasion of Axiom Nexus. Cybertron's Most Wanted

In the months to come, Axiom Nexus lost contact with the multiverse and the Offworlder Zones descended into violence and chaos as the inhabitants realized they might never go home. The Convoy had to be sent to quell unrest. Rook - Axiom Nexus News, 2015/10/20

At some point, Nemesis Prime spoke with the Brainstorm of Primax 716.21 Beta about the Alternity's experience fighting the Hytherion. Andromeda - Axiom Nexus News, 2016/12/31

Toys

Universe (2003)

• Nemesis Prime (Ultra Class, 2004)

• Takara release date: August 5, 2004
• Accessories: Missile launcher, 2 missiles, 2 "scythe" missiles, "Dead Matrix"

Universe Nemesis Prime is a Target-exclusive redeco and retool of Beast Wars Neo Big Convoy, transforming into a woolly mammoth. His beast mode has no leg articulation, but has a rubber trunk which can be controlled by pushing a lever on the top of his head. In addition, the his tusks can be moved by pulling back either of his ears.

In robot mode, Nemesis Prime is absolutely chock-full of weapons and gimmicks:

1. His spring-loaded cannon, formed out of the beast's head, back, and tail, can fire two missiles from two barrels in succession with a rotating dial. It is held in his hands via 5 mm post and can be stored on his back, though doing so may cause some stability problems owing to its weight.
2. His shoulders can be swung up to reveal sculpted, non-firing missile pods.
3. He has flip-out tonfa melee weapons in his forearms.
4. The two beast panels on the sides of his legs feature two spring-loaded missile launchers that fire his hook-shaped projectiles.
5. His chest panel flips down, revealing the Dead Matrix, painted black with a transparent red center. This accessory can be held by any figure with standard 5mm fist holes.

Nemesis Prime also technically has a third mode, known as the "Devastation Mode", in which his cannon is folded out in mammoth mode, and the spring-loaded missile launchers on the mammoth's side panels are deployed.

Like Big Convoy, Nemesis Prime is a renowned shellformer, as practically all of his beast mode kibble are shells that fit around the compressed robot to form this mode. Not helping matters, his instructions show you how to transform him from mammoth to robot... despite the fact that he is packaged in robot mode. This, along with the fact that several parts were turned backwards to better fit into the box, makes him rather difficult to correctly transform.

His two "scythe" missiles and the leg panels his launchers are on have been slightly retooled from the original version of this mold, with the missiles no longer being able to be inserted as deeply as before, and the panels being remolded to accommodate them. Unfortunately, this tooling change actually prevents the panels from attaching securely in mammoth mode, meaning the missiles have to be removed for transformation. Additionally, the tonfa compartments on his forearms are now removable, with their joints being detachable plastic hinges instead of fixed pin hinges.

Nemesis Prime was released in Japan as a "USA Edition" toy, and was sold exclusively at JUSCO stores starting on August 5, 2004.

• More information on Nemesis Prime at TFU.info

Alternity

Once I wasn't just every-evil-Optimus-Prime's colors.

• Convoy [Super Black] (2009)

• ID number: A-01
• Release date: June 27, 2009

Part of the second wave of Takara's Alternity line, this version of Convoy is a redeco of the mold already used for "Convoy [Ultimate Metal Silver]" and "Convoy [Vibrant Red]", transforming into a 1:32 scale Nissan GT-R. It features die-cast metal parts, an opening hood, trunk and doors, as well as an interior, complete with his feet and thighs being sculpted to form the back seats. This complex figure stands at 6.5" tall, and is armed with a pair of blasters on each arm.

The mold suffers from a minor design oversight, wherein the rear Nissan badge collides with his left leg strut when the left foot is hinged over and pegged into a clear plastic socket during transformation, with the results being that the connection is slightly crooked, isn't very secure, and sometimes pops off, and that the crooked pegging often causes the socket to crack.

Notes

• Alternators Nemesis Prime's bio makes vague reference to that character's life force coming from an "extra-spatial power source of unheard of proportions." According to the author of the bio, the power source was related to Unicron, and when Doctor Arkeville accessed it to animate his creation, he received a spark fragment from the cloning experiments that created this Nemesis Prime.^{[citation needed]}
• Nemesis Prime and Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime seemed to recognize one another on their first encounter. Nemesis probably recognized Optimus as a version of his template, and Optimus probably mistook Nemesis as Scourge. Alternate universes are fun!
• Perhaps uniquely among dimension-hopping characters, this iteration of Nemesis Prime actually appears to have changed his American-style personal name to the Japanese-style personal name of Black Convoy.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Nemesis Prime (ネメシスプライム Nemeshisu Puraimu), Convoy (Black) (コンボイ [黒] Konboi (Kuro))

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