Megatron is as surprised as anyone to see his foe airborne, but he only has about five seconds to come to terms with it before Optimus lands and punches him right in his mean face.
Normally, the shows save that flying nonsense for the 'bots that could turn into jets (or random other ones, with neither reason nor explanation), but computer-animated series Transformers: Prime grants its hero mad flying powers after the ancient and powerful Forge of Solus Prime rebuilds and upgrades his body after he almost robo-dies. You wouldn't think that a robot who turns into a semi would need, want, or be able to fly, but the Transformers universe never met an Autobot or Decepticon it didn't want to throw more parts on. We like to think that every Transformer gets one of these, and they have to make it count. This is another of those powers that Prime apparently saves for special occasions because it doesn't happen that often. And then, because mere metal fists are not enough to humiliate his nemesis, Prime picks him up and gives him a close-range burst of optic lasers to the face. But we'll probably never know because he is a giant robot and unable to fit inside of our human buildings.Īnyway, in a later, way less evenly matched rematch against Megatron, Optimus takes advantage of the Decepticon leader's depleted power (from fighting all of the other Autobots) to punch him repeatedly and throw him off a cliff. He didn't quite have Cyclops' range, however, so we don't think he was in danger of blowing any schools in half. We don't know if this was some kind of a play on "headlights," but the original cartoon version of Optimus Prime could shoot solid beams of light out of his eyes like Scott Summers from the X-Men. We're including this one first because it was apparently iconic enough for Hasbro to include in several Optimus toys, but if you didn't see the one episode in which he uses this ability, you might think those figures are just holding the axe. And once you see that, the two enemies could be swapping dirty jokes about penguins for all the sense that scene makes anymore.įor his part, Megatron produces a laser mace, and that's the last thing we remember before our brains melted. None of that matters because at the end of his first line, the Autobot's hand retracts, and a glowing axe made of energy replaces it. " I'm going to end your hunger once and for all!"įirst, notice that Optimus just totally goes along with Megatron's crazy food metaphor and lets him set the direction of the banter, and that's just a rookie mistake. " Because everything I touch is food!" the evil robot replies. " You destroy everything you touch, Megatron!" Optimus exclaims. The second episode of the original Transformers contains one of the series' most baffling moments: Optimus Prime and his foe Megatron are battling on a crumbling dam and exchanging the kind of head-scratching dialogue that '80s, episode-length toy commercials were known for.