User blog comment:Nspartan011/Would optimus have died still in the 84 transformers movie if Hot Rod had not gotten in the way/@comment-98.199.227.37-20130301050924

No. Because I personally blame the animators and storywriters for making the new characters look very bad really didn't know what are they're doing. I mean the animators could have Hot Rod kick the blaster away from Megatron rather than just have him grab Megatron so he can countergrab Hot Rod and blast Optimus Prime down. Yeah so it's really the animators and storywriters fault for not thinking things through