>>149525282
I watched beast wars and it turned me into a transformers autist. It’s too good

>>149499199
They’re not really comparable. He isn’t a “superman” in his setting (although he gets pretty damn close). He’s more like an action hero but also a robot. He can’t solo the decepticons alone nor are his strengths simply his battle capabilities

To approach the question, it’s simply that Transformers is not a superhero franchise. Prime would he considered boring if he was a super hero. Transformers is more about the conflict between the two factions and the characters (plural) within them. Superhero stuff is a lot more focused on the individual. Of course there’s comparisons like Justice League vs Legion of Doom, or Transformers Animated feeling like a Batman cartoon. My main point is that superman and prime just aren’t similar characters and they serve stories differently
>>149499267
I think the greatest example of Prime’s ethics that feels truly consistent was in when in Beastwars the predacons propose for a truce and everyone knows they won’t honour it and are only using it to secure an advantage and prime acknowledges that but says “if we don’t give peace a chance, what are we?” And he doesn’t just sit around waiting for them to attack he actually uses the truce and orders reconnaissance and espionage missions but nothing that would compromise the peace even if caught