"A warrior finds honor only in the total destruction of his enemies."

Box artwork by Marcelo Matere

Sequence 24. Name Nemesis Prime. Homage Armada Nemesis Prime. Allegiance Decepticon. Vehicle Mode 2005 Dodge Ram SRT-10. License Plate "NEMESIS" (California) Product Code / Assortment 81456. Release Date July 2006 Date Purchased 17 October 2006. Source / Price Case Fresh $31.05. Variants None known. Remolds None (recolor of Optimus Prime).

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For years, Dr. Arkeville has labored during his rare free moments in a laboratory hidden even from his DECEPTICON® allies, as well as the prying eyes of Concurrence agents. He has painstakingly built this shell with his own hands, made out of parts pilfered from DECEPTICON repair lockers over a period of months. It is the most powerful of the Binaltech bodies created: a near perfect melding of robot technology, Earthling construction and miniaturization techniques, enhanced with the improvisations of one of Earth’s most brilliant technical minds.

This plan was hatched years ago when Arkeville had the opportunity to remain close to OPTIMUS PRIME® long enough to acquire a near-complete scan of his programming using a subspace-impulse cloner of his own design. Years of hacking since has brought Arkeville to a level of understanding of TRANSFORMERS programming decades beyond any other on Earth. Housed within this deadly shell is a near complete clone of the great OPTIMUS PRIME, reprogrammed as a tool of destruction and a scion of command. If MEGATRON® cannot be trusted to destroy the AUTOBOTS® and leave Earth in his hands, then Arkeville will provide the DECEPTICONS® with a leader more than fully capable of doing so. His NEMISIS PRIME is more than a weapon; he is the ultimate military commander – ruthless, efficient, calculating and above all wise. He is a consummate warrior, a perfect fighter, a victory engine.

One thing only remains: to provide a motive force, that thing the TRANSFORMERS refer to as a Spark. Recent experimentation with the subspace displacement technology of the AUTOBOT® Translink Project has revealed an extra-spatial power source of unheard of proportions. Linking this power source to his creation should be a simple matter of constructing the appropriate subspace conduits. And once this is done NEMESIS PRIME will rise, and all who stand against him will be laid waste.

Homage Rating

• Vehicle class: Semi truck vs. pickup truck: 6.
• Vehicle make: Not even close, COE semi vs. Dodge: 5.
• Vehicle model: Not even close, generic COE semi vs. RAM SRT-10: 3.
• Vehicle mode color scheme: Both black: 9.
• Robot mode color scheme: Broadly similar: 6.
• Weapon(s): Completely different: 4.
• Head sculpt: Fairly similar, while being updated: 8.
• Character name: Identical: 10.
• Transformation scheme: Not really: 2.
• X-factor: Poor articulation; almost a shellformer; too much vehicle "kibble" in robot mode; completely different from original; first (and so far, only) character homage to a different era than Generation 1 (Armada); San Diego Comic Con / Hasbro Toy Shop.com / Asia exclusive: 1.