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**SKYBOUND** ***Optimus Prime*** wins with **910** votes *(upvotes + comments)* **G1** - 320 **TFP** - 102 **WFC/FOC** - 18 **IDW** - 12 **Armada** - 5 **RID 2001** - 3 **Marvel** **Comics** - 3 **TFA** - 3 **Bayverse** - 3 **ROTB** - 2 **WFC Trilogy** - 2 **Cyberverse** - 1 ***TOTAL VOTES***: **1384** Also, **G1** had the most comments with **47** in total, while **Skybound** only had **40**. Link to [Day 1 (Optimus Prime)](https://www.reddit.com/r/transformers/comments/1c8lafn/which_incarnation_is_definitive_day_1_optimus/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

I love the skybound version but DEFINITIVE Optimus?? That’s such recency bias he hasn’t even existed for a year! Should’ve been G1 (original comics or cartoon), that’s what everyone thinks of as Optimus. This doesn’t give me a lot of hope for the rest of these polls

To be fair, Skybound Optimus is a well-balanced combination of everyone's favourite Optimus traits across incarnations: G1's kindness, heart and inspiration PLUS Bayverse's larger-than-life epicness, general badassery and raw power, which are quite synonymous with the modern image of Optimus Prime, beyond his "strong enough to be kind" schmick, imo.

Yeah it is WAY too soon to assert anything about skybound. It is going well but theres only 7 issues... Thats almost nothing

whoever voted bayverse should be... given a special reward

That’s rude. Imagine how pissed the Geewuners would be if it was the other way around.

Because calling Bayverse Prime the definitive Optimus Prime would be ridiculous. Skybound is perfect because it builds and balances elements of the character we've been given over the years. Meanwhile, Bayverse Prime brings a much more violent, blood-thirsty Prime to the table. Not to call it a terrible iteration of the character, but it's certainly not "definitive"

With a nice helmet to wear around the house

I think it might be the Bumblebee movie Takes all the new features introduced and popularized by the Bayverse (and we can't understate the impact that version of the character has had) while also blending in some classic G1 elements that balance out the character and make him more than just another Autobot soldier

I really wish they didn't mute his voice for like 80% of the movie again. Dylan O Brian voicing Bee was perfect, why must they take away such perfection? :(

Grown ass Autobot must be a puppy child at all cost!

I felt that way about Johnny Yong Bosch in WFC only for him to lose his voice inFOC.

I’d say this or Animated. Much as I love G1, bumblebee’s one of the few characters that’s really evolved in a good way from it.

I love that movie! My only gripe is following the B can't talk trope. Give the bot a voice!!

I totally agree. I think it’s my biggest issue with prime- LET BEE SPEAK! That said, my immediate reaction- though I’ve changed my mind since, it’s got some real potential- to the TFONE trailer was “I hope they show Megatron destroying bee’s vocal cords”.

Can I say Bumblebee (movie)? Though really, it's IDW for me.

I really liked IDW Bee for a good while, but he became very tedious in the Robots in Disguise arc on Cybertron. He just couldn’t catch a break and it forced him into being this dour failure. It also never made sense that he needed a cane when other bots have had their entire bodies replaced.

I mean they did say it was psychosomatic.

Ah did they? That’s fair enough then. I think it stuck in my mind as annoying as it’s just another layer to making the poor little dude miserable. They really needed to counter all the gloom by giving him some more wins instead of making all his efforts fail.

Prime or animated

Animated

Animatd bee

Bayverse or bumblebee movie, reasoning is that bayverse was so impactful that it recaracterized him in basically every incarnation after, bumblebee cause it’s like bayverse but more refined

For how much I like other incarnations of Bee I have to agree here. It’s made such an impact that it is impossible to overlook.

Love him or hate him, Bayverse BB is what most people think of when thinking of Bumblebee. Even if you have a different idea for what the character is, Bayverse BB probably had a major influence on it, save for G1. 

Heck, even in Animated he's probably only present because of his movie popularity. He would have been Hot Shot, actually Hot Shot would probably have taken Bee's job completely if it wasn't for Bayverse reviving him. Hasbro had lost Bumblebee trademark after G1, and he had no appearances until 2007 movie.

I have to agree, even if I mostly despise the impact Bay Bee had on the rest 

Tbh I just dislike his voice box, I love American muscle so I’m biased lol

To me it’s Animated Bumblebee

Knightverse

Transformer Animated. I always loved that is biggest weapon wasn’t his speed or stingers but his obnoxious attitude.

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Knightverse Bee

Animated and Prime

Knightverse bee

Animated or Earthspark take the cake for me

Animated

Idw Bumblebee, they did the heart very well.

Bayverse. It made the battle mask, door wings, and radio voice all iconic and recognizable character traits for Bee. Plus BBM/RotB Bee has an almost identical face.

Bayverse definitely set the standard for his design. I enjoy chubby little G1 Bee but I like the sleek bot mode with door wings and the muscle car alt more. I do feel like they kinda forgot to give him a personality though. He’s just the loyal Autobot who does ninja kicks.

He definitely had the rebellious teen angst to him too

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To be fair, that’s because Bumblebee was set in he Bayverse for a pretty solid amount of its development. Though I agree that he’s definitely the character most influenced by the Bayverse.

Knightverse, Animated or Earthspark

I’m struggling but I wanna say either Cyberverse, animated or Bumblebee movie I’m leaning towards Bumblebee Movie

IDW Bumblebee. His growth arc to a simple follower to a great leader was overall done with heart.

Either EarthSpark or animated they're both good

Bumblebee movie Bee

Animated Bee ftw

WFC Bumblebee

This is a tough one. Most Bees are going for totally different things.

G1

This is far too low...

Ngl animated bee for me

I’m going Animated, that’s my childhood boy right there

Skybound

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I'd say animated because he's a mix of his g1 counterpart being small and able to sneak by enemies and his prime counterpart with his agility

Either Animated or WFC/FOC

If it’s possible to vote for the first 10 minutes of the Bumblebee movie where he can talk… haha! Probably BBM but I wish he was able to talk the whole movie

Animated for sure takes my top spot

G1 Bumblebee. I'm not his biggest fan, but I feel like every newer incarnation of him is missing fundamental parts of his character. Like, he's not supposed to be a hardened tough guy, he's just a cheerful likeable guy doing his best. I think Perspectiveend put it best

Animated cause I like funny little yellow robot

BBM.

TFP Bumblebee

Knightverse bee. Closed second is animated bee

Prime

Definitely Knightverse.

Knightverse has already won, But anyway, the War For Cybertron Game version.

I love how with tfp they tried to combine bay bee and classic bee

Knightverse Bumblebee for me

G1 is my vote.

G1 easily. Dats muh boi right there!

I think Earthspark

Bumblebee movie Made him more of a character than just a mute guy while also sticking to what he’s most known for now

Transformers Prime

Bumblebee movie. Kind, a bit goofy, protective, still able to fight well, took stuff popular from earlier incarnations and mixed it with everything cool from bayverse

For me it’s Bayverse Bumblebee. I don’t know why but when I think of Bumblebee, it’s that version.

Earthspark

I’m not an Earthspark fan, but I have to give them serious points for letting Bee talk. 

I knew I wasn't the only one who liked that version the best.

bumblebee movie

Bayverse Bumblebee

Bumblebee movie

G1/War For Cybertron

Bumblebee 💯🫡

Knightverse for me.

Bumblebee movie Bee. He’s a good mesh of bayverse bee and g1 bee, design and personality wise.

2018 movie bumblebee

Bayverse

Knightverse Bee, it's a perfect blend of cute lovable character and expert scout in one version

Bayverse bee

BBM Bee, easily

Either TFA or WFC/FOC

Bayverse, as a kid in the 2000s that got introduced to transformers through the movies, that’s my definitive form. Especially the old 77 Camaro.

Prime bumblebee

Prime bumblebee for sure,I would usually say bee movie bumblebee but I think the prime bee looks a lot better

Skybound might have this round as well

Gotta be animated for me

Bumblebee movie

Prime and the Bumblebee movie are great incarnations... however I really wish they could have their normal voices.

Honestly, for me I feel it’s a tie between G1 and Animated, both are just great takes on the character. Plus, I’m frankly tired of the speechless Bumblebee we’ve had for so long.

Honestly? Cyberverse. He's like the perfect homogenized fusion of all the most well known bumblebee character and design traits from across the franchise and one of the best entrypoints to the franchise for new fans.

idw or animated

Movieverse bee if you think otherwise your coping

G1 it’s perfect incarnation of our favorite yellow Volkswagen Beetle the orignal too most are too kid friendly or has something else off about them

I feel like Bayverse/BBM/ROTB Bee are close enough in design that they should all be one category, but in the event they aren't, my vote order is BBM > ROTB > Bayverse. It's no secret Bayverse Bee defined the character in media to come. TFP was about as close as it got in TV series form after that. RID2015, Cyberverse, and EarthSpark switched closer to his more classic head/face design, whilst keeping the muscle car alt form and door wings in bot mode. His more classic design made appearances in places, but mostly because G1-style was the aethetic of the entire cast, like the Netflix WFC trilogy, IDW, Skybound, etc. Only other one that stands out is the WFC/FoC games, where his Cybertron form is more clearly inspired by his classic G1 design, while the rest of the cast doesn't necessarily have a blueprint they are following.

I'm gonna go with Cyberverse, he has the perfect mix of G1 and Bayverse (given the Evergreen design) and plus we get to him be both mute and have an actual voice

"Bumblebee" Bumblebee is a great solidification of the Bay design and makes for a wonderful live action earth mode. That said, the WFC game version is a beautiful Cybertronian version. He's just so squarty and round.

Animated, he’s a young bot with some attitude but a lot of bravery. And he can talk!

Earthspark

G1 obviously

Animated Bumblebee

I'll go animated, 2007 movie and Bumblebee movie one came close, but gonna stick with animated.

We should do a transformers alignment chart

Transformers prime bumblebee movie earth spark I love the bumblebee movie so much

Gotta say Animated

Animated

Animated

Can we all collectively vote the roft version of Jetfire just for shits and giggles please

Bayverse. All incarnations of Bumblebee after the Bayverse Bee took attributes from that design wether that be door wings, no voice, or muscle cars. Plus his design is just god tier

I’m saying animated personally

Animated.

It's Animated for me and it's honestly not even close

Where does the bumblebee below eartshpark and beside rid come from?

Animated Bumblebee.

I like the representation of the character in transformers animated , g1 , and wfc/foc those are the definitive imo

Bumblebee movie Bee

Either the War for Cybertron trilogy, or Prime

Animated by far.

Bumblebee from the bumblebee movie. It’s a great mix of g1 and bayverse!

Marvel, but mainly for while he was Goldbug so that may not count.

G1

WFC. He had that eager little brother energy he was known for in G1 tuned to fit a more brutal setting. He had that youthful exuberance that was really refreshing bouncing off Optimus and Ratchet.

TFP Bee is what I grew up with so it's what I'll stick by.

Prime

TFP for me

Personally, Animated had the best Bumblebee. As it was the last time Bumblebee was written as Bumblebee and not as Hot Shot/Hot Rod like in current media.

Prime Bee gets my vote. He's a nice middle ground between scrappy fighter and cute human companion. I honestly don't like the new Movie Bee that much, it feels like they're trying too hard to make him marketable.

Rebooted live action universe or Earthspark

Prob bayverse

Skybound is definitive optimus? I’d have thought it would me more to the tune of G1 or Bayverse

To be fair, I'd say Skybound does seem to be a healthy balance of G1 and Bayverse's best without sacrificing the other-? 910 votes is a *whopping* majority!

Bayverse

Bayverse Bumblebee.

Bayverse. He’s the reason why kids say “bumblebee!!” When ever they see a yellow car that may or not even look like a Camaro

Hard call but honestly prime. Can see the argument for animated or bay tho

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I would say IDW

IDW Bumblebee was such a tragic character.

Prime or Bayverse.

Bayverse

Hotshot

Personally I say prime, it was accurate to his fun and bright personality but also his seriousness and passion when it came to his identity, his friends and his combat. He also had some really good episodes about his transformation being such a large part of him and the scene of him killing megs + regaining his voice was top tier

BB movie

I’m voting for the Bee from the High Moon duology because he’s one of the few bees I liked.  But shout out to Bay Bee for his sheer influence(that I sometimes hate) 

Bumblebee movie

IDW

Gonna have to go with Bumblebee Movie Bee as well.

IDW

For me, it's either Prime or WfC.

Bumblebee Movie

Prime and Bayverse

Prime or Bayverse

Bayverse it started his hype

It has to be the bumblebee movie for me

I like them all but bayverse is my favorite, especially age of extinction bee I just love most.

Prime has some of the best designs

Cyberverse

Prolly just childhood bias but Bayverse ez

a hard choice but I'd have to say... Cyberverse.

I hate to say it but Bayverse. My daughter was weirded out seeing B talk in the TF:One trailer. That's when I realized it's Bayverse Bee, unfortunately.

I WAS going to say TFP. But I think a lot of comments are right. Bumblebee movie. His character has changed a lot over the years. And I think that's the best mix of them all

I think Idw is the best for me as it showed the innocence of the character while also having him progress into a leader like character

Honestly? Cyberverse. Was mute for a time before being able to speak. Overall a cheery guy you wanna protect too, but still competent on his own. Not too G1, not too bayverse

Bayverse honestly

Rise of the Beasts fight me

If you were to ask Instagram which version is definitive, pretty much all of these would be Prime or WFC/FOC lol. I’m not gonna vote for now but I look forward to seeing how these posts turn out.

I'm tied between bayverse, animated, and WfC/FoC

Bumblebee 2018 movie

Bayverse bee.

I think it depends on which century you were born in.

My Definitive Bumblebee is the one from Earthspark. He's just the perfect version of the character as far as I'm concerned, from the design to the voice to the personality. Alt-mode's pretty good too.

Knightverse bee

Generally I prefer my Bumblebee in one of two ways: a sweet cinnamon roll or a trash talking little shit. For the first one, that would probably be Cyberverse, Prime, or G1 while for the 2nd that'd be Animated or Bay. Overall, I'd say Cyberverse or Animated are my definitive Bees.

g1

Bumblebee (movie)

I think G1 is the vest to be honest, the closest for me would be animated.

FOC Bumblebee, is the G1 with more edge

As much as I hate to admit it I would say Bayverse Bee. The public (non transformers fans) seem to think of this bumblebee when bee is mentioned. People always go "hey thats bumblebee!" When they see a yellow camero and I dont think any transformer other than Optimus Primes truck has ever achived this popularity and recognition from the non transformer fans (normal people)

It’s gotta be his own movie version

Bbm/rotb just because they fixed his horrifying face from the bayverse films, that shit looked more scarier than any of the villains.

Between Bumblebee movie and Earthspark for me. I especially like the way Bumblebee is portrayed as a teacher in Earthspark. I think overall I’m going to give it to Bumblebee movie Bee in the end though

Honestly, the movies kinda get this character, especially the Bumblebee movie. The movies have such an impact on this guys entire legacy it’s crazy.