- The Ultimate Weapon is a piece of technology in the Generation One continuity family.
Running as an Independent.
The Ultimate Weapon is a cipher. An indeterminate unknown amid a field of known knowns that simultaneously embodies and fails to embody our hopes and dreams / fears and anxieties until proven to/not-to.
It requires 2 AA batteries.
Fiction
Generation One cartoon continuity
Seeking to take advantage of Rodimus Prime's unrelenting emo-ness self-doubt, Galvatron created a box with blinking lights and sounds and claimed it was a weapon capable of destroying Earth.
Galvatron hoped that the Ultimate Weapon's unknown nature would cause Rodimus to project all his anxieties and insecurities onto it. Instead the Ultimate Weapon helped Rodimus to conquer his doubts by externalizing them. Since logic dictated that if Galvatron had an Ultimate Weapon he would have used it long ago... the weapon had to be a fake. He had been coddling his own insecurities.
Rodimus observed that the real Ultimate Weapon was the mind.
Galvatron, pissed off, broke his toy and ran away. The Ultimate Weapon