Optimus Prime (War for Cybertron trilogy)

Optimus Prime is the main protagonist of the Transformers franchise. Sadly, he was butchered badly in Netflix's Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy. He is voiced by Jake Foushee, who also voiced Nemesis Prime in the same series.

Why Cybertron Doesn't Need His Freedom

 * 1) For starters, this version of Optimus Prime can´t make up his mind about anything.
 * 2) Prime was derailed from a noble, selfless, competent, and likable leader into an egotistical, selfish, incompetent and unlikable one for the Autobots.
 * 3) He is a terrible leader. Even Unicron Trilogy Optimus at his dumbest was still a good leader.
 * 4) In the first episode, he was completely and pathetically weak as a fighter as he just got himself overpowered by Megatron.
 * 5) He never listens to his fellow Autobots, even to his lover Elita-1.
 * 6) He is extremely egotistical, as he constantly believes he is in the right and as said earlier, never listens to the other Autobots.
 * 7) He even willingly leaves some of his Allies, including Elita, to die on Cybertron, which was ultimately for nothing.
 * 8) He ultimately dooms Cybertron by sending the AllSpark into space.
 * 9) Viewers are supposed to root for Prime and root against Megatron, but his actions make him come off as an incompetent, delusional egotist who is practically a hopeless nitwit and Megatron being a responsible, smart, honorable leader. In fact, Megatron even says to Elita that she'd be a better leader than Prime. Long story short, we are rooting against Prime and admiring Megatron instead of the other way around.
 * 10) He's the reason for Ultra Magnus's death and use as a host for Shockwave's virus.
 * 11) He got himself and the other Autobots, including Bumblebee, captured by Deseeus and in so putting himself and his allies he brought with him in danger when he arrogantly drove Deseeus insane.
 * 12) For some reason in the future after failing to retrieve the Allspark and got himself killed, he was reincarnated into Nemesis Prime and just committed treason by betraying the Autobots and every single Cybertronian and teams up with Galvatron who was Megatron and his archenemy. From this pointer, this makes him more worse as a villain than who he was.
 * 13) He was at first in denial that he wasn't even Nemesis which makes him a complete idiot of not realizing it until he met his future self in the final episode. This shows just how narcissistic this version of Optimus Prime is.
 * 14) Idiotic Move: As his future self, Nemesis Prime, he chose to destroy his past counterpart which is an idiotic movie because if he does kill his past self, he would have never existed which would cause a time paradox.
 * 15) At the end of Kingdom, he ultimately gets completely scot-free for everything he'd done up to that point, thus making him a huge Karma Houdini
 * 16) His motive of "Cybertron needs freedom" is an extremely shallow excuse, as he dooms Cybertron, and gets many of his own troops killed, all of which are his fault.
 * 17) He wouldn't offer peace with Megatron and would rather get himself and the other Autobots killed in their darkest hour. This shows he is SO egotistical to the point he couldn't care less for his fellow Autobots.
 * 18) His reason to continue his war was so petty that it was all literally just because of Alpha Trion's death by Megatron. While it is sad that Alpha Trion died by Megatron's hands but Optimus took it way too far. This makes him a complete psychopath who just wanted petty revenge, making him similar to his Michael Bay counterpart.
 * 19) Jake Foushee tries too much trying to impersonate Peter Cullen.
 * 20) Due to all the actions above, he's better off being the antagonist than the protagonist.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) His design is cool and somewhat faithful to G1.
 * 2) His toy counterparts are quite good.
 * 3) He does get some character development.
 * 4) He still genuinely cares about Elita-1 and many of his Autobots.

Trivia

 * 1) Nemesis Prime in the trilogy is actually an evil Optimus Prime from a bad future where the AllSpark never returned to Cybertron
 * 2) Jake Foushee would later voice Optimus Prime in Cyberverse, who is a much better Optimus Prime and Foushee's voice acting would massively improve in that same series.