Ultra Magnus (TFA)


 * Ultra Magnus is an Autobot in the Transformers Animated continuity family.

Ultra Magnus is Optimus Prime's superior officer. He is also the Supreme Commander of the Autobots and the leader of the Cybertron Elite Guard. His earth altmode is an 8-wheeled Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck.

He has a hammer the size of a lamp post so he can deal with things.

Like Ratchet, he is a veteran of the Great War.

Animated

 * Voice actor: Jeff Glen Bennett (English), Garald Paradies (German)

During the Great War, an Autobot intelligence agent was in danger of falling into Decepticon hands. Ultra Magnus sent Ratchet to recover her so the access codes she held in her databanks couldn't be used to deal a devastating blow to the Autobots.

Long after the end of the war, an Autobot Academy washout named Optimus Prime attempted to contact Magnus to report that 1) he and his maintenance ship crew had discovered the legendary AllSpark, and 2) they were now being pursued by Decepticons. Though nearly denied by Sentinel Prime, Optimus Prime got patched through to Ultra Magnus to report on the discovery. Magnus still didn't believe the Decepticons would pose much of a threat, but agreed to dispatch some ships to escort Prime's ship, the Ark. He warned Prime not to pull any heroics, as it wasn't in Prime's programming.

This, of course, would all go out the window once it was discovered that the Decepticons in pursuit were in Megatron's flagship, at which point he decided to deal with it.

Animated

 * Ultra Magnus (Leader, 2008)
 * Surprisingly, his toy will not be an Optimus Prime redeco, and there was much rejoicing (yay...).