#Partial evidence of why tfa Optimus could defeat bayverse Optimus in an urban or city environment

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It has occurred to me that bayverse transformers exploding more and having more small parts kind of makes sense. In most other continuities, Cybertronians are made of metal that’s more solid with less parts but more flexible. It has more give to absorb shock rather than the explosive energon inside, like the difference between modern car models and older car models. So in Bayverse, upsetting the highly flammable components of your body is much easier. Bayverse transformers are made up of very solid metals that don’t bend and stretch nearly as well as other transformers do. To maintain their flexibility we visibly see that they have a lot of small parts of strong metal that overlap each other. I theorize that this makes them heavier and much slower compared to transformers from other continuities, such as Transformers Prime and g1 where someone as large as Optimus Prime can easily sprint as if they were the size of Arcee.

TLDR: Bayverse Cybertronians are slower and explode more than Cybertronians from other universes because their bodies are built like a 1940’s family car.