Sideswipe cut a Sideways model in half, so it's no surprise that Optimus was able to ruin the shit of the same model here. The protoforms in ROTF went down pretty easy, so no surprise there either. The Long Haul model in the SB commercial isn't shown definitively being defeated (inconclusive that that's him being blown up), so the jury's out.
the sabot round explanation was plausible enough for me to believe that tanks and air strikes could hurt/kill a decepticon, but the one thing that always bugged me in the movies, was lennox killing blackout with the sliding crotch shot. i always thought that was lame. the whole spike/bonecrusher thing in idw bugs me as well.
Nah I remember some of the protoforms troops getting one-shotted by the Bradleys only, seemed a bit implausible they could get killed off that easily. Anyway, my point was that it wasn't really that the reason so many 'cons get taken out in the movies was because Prime was badass, but that normal human war machines also killed them off (very fast, too).
That never happened. The crotch shot was Lennox's payback for the military base Blackout destroyed. The F-22's are what killed him. That could be explained that as protoforms they weren't as strong as other robots. (also explaining why they called on so many) This also explains why some Deceptiocns who clearly have no want or reason to disguise themselves have taken Earth modes.
Anyone who claims the Decepticons die to easily to humans has no idea whatsoever just how powerful modern weapons can be. Hellhound rounds (those grenade launchers in the first movie) can pierce through 90mm, that´s a lot, and those are small weapons. I´m not even talking about bigger stuff.
Well yeah, but you can't ignore the fact that the F-22s are in the exact same shot, doing far more damage to Blackout than Lennox is.
I heard he climbed the magic beanstalk and found the jewel that cured cybertron, and made a wish that gave him mech tech weapons and fairy wings!!
At the rate the Bay films are going, there might as well be no Autobots. The military seem more than capable of taking on the Cons on their own. And that's terrible.
Why? Oh right, people need to have the military acts like fucking ******s, instead of using their strengths. They can´ be competent, they are only there to have their asses kicked around and die horribly. *sigh*