Zeta Prime (One)

Zeta Prime is a Transformer from One.

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Zeta Prime is one of the Primes and the first wielder of the Matrix of Leadership.

Fiction

One film

Voice actor: James Remar (English), Yōji Ueda (Japanese), Sven Brieger (German), Thomas Semeraro (Italian), Yeong-jun Si (Korean)

Zeta Prime was one of the original thirteen Primes created by Primus, and the very first to wield the Matrix of Leadership. He ruled with his siblings until the Quintessons invaded. After years of war, Zeta and the other Primes responded to the intel of a Quintesson council of generals reported by Sentinel, unaware that the aide was luring them into a trap. As the Primes held their own, Sentinel enacted his plan and wounded Zeta with the deceased Nexus Prime's weapon. Zeta was shocked by Sentinel's actions, who stated he wanted the power to lead Cybertron before killing the wounded Prime and removed the Matrix from his torso, only for it to disintegrate as Primus deemed Sentinel unworthy. Zeta and his kin laid there for fifty cycles until miners Orion Pax, D-16, Elita, and B-127 discovered their bodies with Alpha Trion's message for help. A vision of Zeta among his fellow Primes later appeared to a heavily damaged Orion Pax as he fell into Cybertron's core as Alpha Trion announced that Orion had been chosen by Primus to carry the Matrix and was reformatted with a new name: Optimus Prime. Transformers One

Notes

• "Zeta Prime" is not one typically associated with the Thirteen, usually being a character representing one of Optimus Prime's predecessors. As the thirteenth Prime's identity is traditionally kept vague, Zeta takes that role in the film's depiction of the Thirteen, due to the need to portray them in a more direct fashion than usual.

Foreign names

• Mandarin: Jìng Tiān Zé (竞天择)