Optimus......
TRF Durability is insane, like insane comics stuff. Michael Bay gave me a good list to dwell on.
- Optimus survives the distance from Cybertron to Earth, which is like many Solar Systems away or in G1, 100 million Light years away. He gets back up fine. Plus this is battle damaged Optimus from TF4 - shot by Lockdown's amped face cannon by the creators, has his own sword through his chest, survives debris falling on his head, survives falling off building height due to Lockdown's magnet etc.
- TF1 Optimus survives the same distance as TF4 Optimus (above) without no capsules as shown in the first movie clip. They transform from their seed like appearance into a transformer leaving no spaceship behind. Even Jazz, Ironhide, Ratchet did the same.
- Decepticon infantry clones have the same impacts too as Optimus in TF2 when they come to Earth on Soundwave's calling. Well you know what happens to these clones.
- Megatron's body survives the AllSpark for a few seconds before his core burnt out of overheat. The AllSpark is the force of the Multiverse. Prime can go toe to toe with TF1 Megs and tear off his leg in a slap.
- Megatron in TF2 Tanks high heat explosive JDAM 2,000lb bombs (remember this is his own weakness used against him - Sabot/High heat technology), then High heat Sabot round Tank gunfire, then survives The explosion of The Star Harvester along with The Matrix in his face (Star Harvestor can withstand the energy of The Solar System and The Matrix is possible infinite in energy) , then survives falling off 481ft from the pyramid slamming into more debris, then survives being flung at Supersonic speeds along with The Fallen, then survives his own Fusion cannon shooting his face off (taking an eye and part of his brain out) along with a twisted arm, then survives Prime’s amped up Thruster blast which is more powerful than his TF4 upgrade. Optimus proceeds to hurt him bad in the forest fight, making him bleed with just a right hook and dices his armor with swords too.
- Optimus is the same as Megatron but clearly can rip apart The Fallen’s armor by just shoving his fist in. Fallen can tank the Super amped Prime’s cannon with ease. This cannon obliterates the Matrix and Star Harvester which you can refer above to how powerful they are. One Bullet destroyed and penetrated the armor of The Harvester and infused an explosion that destroyed a nigh indestructible Matrix. Imagine the firepower.
- Optimus in TF5 Survives falling like 20,000–30,000 ft with debris (Cybertron) the size of a small town - a big town crashing on his head along with the autobots. They emerge unharmed.
- Optimus can tank Quintessa's beams amped by Unicron who is seconded to the Power of the AllSpark. Prime survives her beams being battle damaged who can destroy any Transformer desired and it only Staggers Prime. In the ending scene Prime is fired at by the amped beams but it only halts him and doesn't even kill him. Quintessa by her words is the "Prime of life" which could imply as 1 of the 12 creators she created the Transformer Multiverse with her beams, considering the fact she is powerful enough to repair Cybertron from little debris from TF3.
- Kicks Megatron for Miles smashing the ignition chamber.
Now don't bring in the fact human weaponry can harm the transformers. It shows you lack context on the movie series. Lennox makes it clear that "Sabot Rounds can hurt the transformers" in TF1 and 2 or known as "High heat rounds". That's why fighter jets and human bombs even have a chance at hurting the Transformers. For example, look at Megatron in TF2 Operation Firestorm, see when the Tanks hit him, his armour almost melts around him. That's Sabot rounds in use. Same as the bombing runs.
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Rewatch the scene with Scorponok and US military in the desert scene. You can see that the first weapon to hit him is the A-10's Avenger 30mm cannon, this firepower tips Scorponok over, but does no damage otherwise. The A-10's then strike Scorponok with several AGM-65E Maverick missiles. No damage only tipping Scorponok onto his back. So next, the AC-130 uses its 40mm Bofors autocannon along with its 105mm howitzer (with "sabot shells" for the latter) and this finally drives Scorponok off along with severing a chunk of his tail. But does this mean Scorponok can be harmed by 105 mm cannons, no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjTIpSu7npE Go in movie order before you argue about TF3 when TF1 clearly states the advancement in tech. Nothing in TF1 hurt the transformers until high heat weakness was discovered.
Lennox then utilized this tech from TF1 onwards. Which is why in DoTM, you see human M4's M240's M110's Grenade Launchers RPG's Missiles Tanks Bombs etc hurt the Transformers because humans learned how to insert that tech onto their rifles and handguns to be used by against the TRF. So it is the same as saying shoot Superman with Kryptonite, of course Superman would die to a revolver.
Just to refresh your memory, I'll share what happened when humans use normal Rifles and guns and 50 Cal bullets without amped up sabot rounds against Transformers. https://youtu.be/ATRmESixBBc. Watch the video and see how your absurd view of "M4's hurting transformers is completely misguided" To see how truly durable Blackout is: Blackout shoots at his own feet with his energy cannon at 5:52 and not being inconvenienced at all. This weapon has the power to send 54 ton M60 Patton tanks flying through the air like toys and reducing 187 ton C5 cargo planes to molten scrap in a single blast.......... I'd highly reconsider this point if I was you.
See I'll be fair and say that Bay picked "Sabot Rounds" since it sounded supposedly very cool but got its definition completely wrong as Bay wanted to say that High heat has a weird reaction with Transformium that causes it to melt. To remind you Scorponok is a weaker droid compared to Megatron and Prime. High heat rounds mess up Transformer circuits at high heat 6000 degrees Celsius.
You refer to Blackout in TF1 who was shot by Lennox. Missing context badly, let me fill it in for you. He was getting pinned down by high heat F22 missiles striking his chest, head and core. Lennox shot Blackout right in his Groin which was added impact to the high heat missiles. For proof, see how Blackout's armour was melting around him when Lennox crawls under, that is the reaction of "Sabot rounds against Transformium". My point is, high heat at sudden force
Now onto TF3, in the Dark of the Moon, we get even more specialization towards hurting Transformers, from training sessions on how to shoot for their vulnerable spots to mention of weapons they call "Bot-busters" and "D-Bot". And yet despite all of this, the most the military can manage is killing off nameless Decepticon drones. https://youtu.be/Ib0K0tv-U6E - Link to refresh your memory. They drop 2,000lb JDaM's explosives armed with high heat bursts on Decepticon drones in RoTF and only the weaker ones died. All stronger transformers still walk out unscathed.
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