The Transformers' Optimus Prime may hold some sort of record when it comes to sacrificing himself for whatever greater good du jour the Autobots are defending that day. But maybe his strangest example of self-sacrifice came in the pages of Transformers #105-106, which saw the stalwart leader voluntarily have himself destroyed - because he lost a video game. The story introduces us to Ethan Zachary, a self-proclaimed "gamester" and employee at a lab called Energy Futures Solutions. He's using the lab's massive screen to play Multi-World, a surprisingly prescient precursor to modern MMORPGs. The lab is working to develop a device called a Hydrothermocline, which draws energy from the ocean's thermal layers to create sustainable energy. A device the Decepticons are eager to get their hands on.
Upon the evil robots' arrival at the lab, though, they're greeted by the Autobots, determined to stop them. Ethan tries to flee and is captured by the Decepticons. As the two sides ready for battle, Ethan chimes in with a suggestion that will settle the dispute AND keep the Hydrothermocline from being damaged in the melee: settle it in his video game. Soon, in the weirdest version of a LAN party ever, all of the Cybertronians are plugged into Multi-World. But before play starts, Megatron has a condition. He insists each team's leader pack themselves full of explosives, with the loser going out with a literal bang.
Optimus agrees and with the press of a button, both crews find themselves in Ethan's virtual playground. One of Prime's first instructions to his companions is that "Even though this world isn't real, we are still Autobots. We must remain true to our principles." That'll be important in a minute. Several battles ensue, with the Autobots eliminating one Decepticon after another, in most cases with the aid of the games non-playable characters, which the Autobots aim to protect during each scuffle.
With only Megatron remaining, he faces off against the entire Autobot crew, and when he eventually plunges to his death, the Decepticon quickly uses a back door in the game's code and respawns directly behind Prime, blasting him in the back, sending the Autobot leader tumbling down the same pit Megatron had just fallen into. But at the last moment, Optimus is able to grab onto a nearby pipe, which topples the structure upon which Megatron is standing, sending the villain once more falling down the same chasm. But with him fall a handful of the virtual NPCs that populate the game.
With all participants back in the lab, the Autobots declare victory, urging Ethan to detonate Megatron, but moments before he can hit the button, Optimus intervenes, somehow reasoning that killing a series of ones and zeros in a computer game is tantamount to killing IRL innocents, he insists that it's he who lost. Optimus tells Ethan to detonate his explosives, and after startlingly little hesitation, the "gamester" explodes the Autobot, killing him once and for all.
Except of course it's not once and for all. Prime has pulled the "noble hero's death" routine more times than Shia LaBeouf has screamed, "OPTIMUS!" In this case, Ethan had foresight enough to store the entirety of Optimus' consciousness as he was plugged in. And it somehow all fit on a 1987 floppy disc, so it wouldn't be long before we saw him again.
https://screenrant.com/transformers-optimus-prime-killed-himself-video-game/
2020-04-25 05:15:49Z
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