Hall of Legendary Heroic Champions that are Awesome: Optimus Prime

(part of a regular series, praising the real and fictional celebrities that defined my adolescence and “adulthood”)

I kind of wish Optimus Prime could have been my dad. Not that I don’t love my biological father….ideally it would be more like the show “My Two Dads”. Real Dad would teach me about baseball, drinking martinis, and doing a half-assed job. Optimus would teach me how to fire laser rifles, the virtues of freedom for all sentient beings, and how to download porno on Teletraan 1. Real Mom would be there to keep the family unit stable and nag me about not having a clean room.

(Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks so highly of him. God I wish they would have had Carl Monday interview this guy.)

Of course, there would be conflicts. Optimus would want to raise me as a proper Jew but I don’t think I could give up bratwurst and bacon.

In closing, here is a picture from a Marvel comic book of O.P. meeting Ronald Reagan. I’m hoping the last word of that sentence wasn’t going to be “fuck”.