On a related note, I have successfully gotten my nephew into Gundam... but his 14 year old Transformers-obsessed brain simply refuses to accept that Optimus would get urfed by even a GM beam spray pistol, let alone a newtype snipe.
Look what killed Prime in the animated movie. I count six hits in the 'liver', starting with a spike, including a beam saber and pistol shots. And he didn't immediately die, he 'bled out'.
Against a RX-78? IMO he wins. Prob even with a newtype pilot since he has instant response time.
Versus something equipped with a Trans Am, Psycoframe, fin funnels/bits or "we spending our animation budget on dis shit" beam cannons? Sorry my dude, you ain't it.
Look what killed Prime in the animated movie.
Yeah, it's the little purple gun:
It's always imprecise at best when doing cross-universe comparisons, but there's just a massive amount of difference in firepower, armor, and scale. There's no contest IMO.
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