[Transformers] Why and how did Optimus become too strong after the first movie? He was basically losing hard against Megatron in the first flick. However from the second till the latest Megatron couldn’t do much to him. Why or how did the suddenly get stronger?
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Megatron got weaker, mostly. Megatron was left to rot undersea during the time between the first and second movies. He was rebuilt using spare parts from a Constructicon and not long later went to fight Optimus with a body he wasn’t fully accustomed to. Near the end of the second film, he lost half his head, and by the end of the third, he lost the rest.
He does improve in the fourth and fifth films, but only because he had already hit rock bottom.
In the first movie he’s in his prime, but after that he keeps getting more and damaged so he’s less strong. the second one Megatron was resurrected and rebuilt out of the remains of Scrapmetal, one of the Constructicons. I think it’s highly likely that he’s weaker because of this. By the third movie he has half his head blown off and it’s an open wound, so he’s even weaker.
I don’t remember Galvatron how powerful Galvatron was super well, but he seemed stronger now that he was rebuilt. He did tank that sword to the chest. Never saw 5 so I can’t comment on that one.
Edit: my point with regards to the open head wound is to show that he isn’t recovering to full strength after each of these battles.
Also in the second one Optimus receives two power ups, the parts from Skyfire and the Leadership Matrix, so Optimus kept getting better while Megatron was falling off the ladder
The movie writers confirm optimus has extra power storage in his vehicle mode fuel tanks. His power was never measured so we don’t know when he relies on it, but he ALWAYS had the power to rip megatron’s head off with one arm as seen in the ending of dotm
The first movie also had Optimus in a crowded city with a lot of human civilians. The fight in the forest in the second movie showed what Optimus could do without constraints.
Maybe it’s a combination of Megatron becoming weaker as others have said with poorer quality bodies and Optimus’s restraints being decreased and becoming more vicious as the movies went on.