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* This is actually a symptom of a personality disorder known as [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Primus_apotheosis Primus apotheosis]] in the ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW''. The affected individual ends up idolizing [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] ''way'' too much and instead of being merely willing to risk their lives for the sake of others in need, as Prime would, they go out of their way to find even the most minor of 'noble sacrifices' which would cost them their lives. This problem is widespread enough to affect 1 in every 50 Autobots (and the occasional Decepticon). Pyro, in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', is called by Autobot psychiatrist Rung "the worst case of Prime apotheosis [I've] ever seen." He spends the entire series obsessing over dying in a blaze of glory or complaining that the various ways the team is about to die aren't great enough. [[spoiler: Ultimately he dies when he's unceremoniously torn limb from limb by a pack of Decepticons during a failed HeroicLastStand]].

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* This is actually a symptom of a personality disorder known as [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Primus_apotheosis Primus apotheosis]] in the ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW''. The affected individual ends up idolizing [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] ''way'' too much and instead of being merely willing to risk their lives for the sake of others in need, as Prime would, they go out of their way to find even the most minor of 'noble sacrifices' which would cost them their lives. This problem is widespread enough to affect 1 in every 50 Autobots (and the occasional Decepticon). Pyro, in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', is called by Autobot psychiatrist Rung "the worst case of Prime apotheosis [I've] ever seen." He spends the entire series obsessing over dying in a blaze of glory or complaining that the various ways the team is about to die aren't great enough. [[spoiler: Ultimately he dies when he's unceremoniously torn limb from limb by a pack of Decepticons during a failed HeroicLastStand]].



** IDW Optimus is a lot better about this in the Death of Optimus Prime oneshot, where he symbolically dies (i.e. gives up the name Optimus Prime) so his Autobots can remain on a restored Cybertron while he is exiled for being a living symbol of the now-ended war. He takes his old name of Orion Pax and immediately begins wandering space, doing good wherever he can like a knight errant. He's actually quite happy since he is no longer weighed down by the TheChainsOfCommanding.

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** IDW Optimus is a lot better about this in the Death of Optimus Prime oneshot, where he symbolically dies (i.e. gives up the name Optimus Prime) so his Autobots can remain on a restored Cybertron while he is exiled for being a living symbol of the now-ended war. He takes his old name of Orion Pax and immediately begins wandering space, doing good wherever he can like a knight errant. He's actually quite happy since he is no longer weighed down by the TheChainsOfCommanding.
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* Kaname chews Sousuke out for this behavior in the first volume of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' after he insists [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown she leave him behind and escape Sunan alone]]. As far as she's concerned, noble {{Heroic Sacrifices}} are neither noble nor heroic when you clearly don't care if you live or die, and if he really wanted to do something for her, he ought to ''live'' for her. [[WorthLivingFor So he does.]]

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* Kaname chews Sousuke out for this behavior in the first volume of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' after he insists [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown she leave him behind and escape Sunan alone]]. As far as she's concerned, noble {{Heroic Sacrifices}} Sacrifice}}s are neither noble nor heroic when you clearly don't care if you live or die, and if he really wanted to do something for her, he ought to ''live'' for her. [[WorthLivingFor So he does.]]

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