Sep 9, 2026 · 37 min · 14 segments
The Story of the Autobot built for the moments when absolutely everything has already gone horribly wrong.From TRANSFORMERS OMEGA SUPREME'S bizarre origins as a giant motorized base to the…
Named after the omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, which is exactly why we use it to mean the end.
The final part.
Alpha and omega.
The beginning and the end.
The complete entirety of something.
And supreme.
A word that works on a few levels at once.
The highest authority.
The greatest degree of something.
Or a member of Motown's premier all-female group and one of the most successful chart-topping acts of the 1960s.
Put those two words together and you get a name that's basically a mission statement.
The final answer.
The last word.
The end of the line in the best possible sense.
And then you have this function.
The fan space, which doesn't exactly conjure images of dynamic action or excitement.
Quite the opposite, actually.
A base is where you plant your feet and stand still.
Your stronghold, where you dig in and don't move.
And unless you're the blob, that's an action that requires a whole lot of power.
A robot who can shatter a mountainside with a single blow, possesses a clawed arm that can lift 300,000 tons.
a plasma blaster that can pulverize a 12-foot steel cube, and a head-mounted laser cannon that can hit something the size of a soda can from 50 miles away.
And all of that went to defense.
Named after the omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, which is exactly why we use it to mean the end.
The final part.
Alpha and omega.
The beginning and the end.
The complete entirety of something.
And supreme.
A word that works on a few levels at once.
The highest authority.
The greatest degree of something.
Or a member of Motown's premier all-female group and one of the most successful chart-topping acts of the 1960s.
Put those two words together and you get a name that's basically a mission statement.
The final answer.
The last word.
The end of the line in the best possible sense.
And then you have this function.
The fan space, which doesn't exactly conjure images of dynamic action or excitement.
Quite the opposite, actually.
A base is where you plant your feet and stand still.
Your stronghold, where you dig in and don't move.
And unless you're the blob, that's an action that requires a whole lot of power.
A robot who can shatter a mountainside with a single blow, possesses a clawed arm that can lift 300,000 tons.
a plasma blaster that can pulverize a 12-foot steel cube, and a head-mounted laser cannon that can hit something the size of a soda can from 50 miles away.
And all of that went to defense.
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