hot damn
so....just watching the 1986 transformers movie again and was realizing just this...the battle of autobot city, which is the end of "act 1" for the movie ( AKA your toy just got retired so we are gonna freaking off you in the most violent way possible). The autobots are the ones who suffer practically all the casualties during the fight up until the end when Prime finally shows up to clean up the mess. he single handidly takes out or wounds the decepticons.....so first things first, way to go prime. second though is that I think it becomes clear that with out Optimus the autobots would have bitten the proverbial dust a hundred times over, he is, by himself, keeping that shit from hitting the fan lol. it also doesnt say much for the rest of them, that 'cons are pretty much owning the whole battle, they might as well have been closing there eyes and firing wildly because they probably still would have been winning.