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optimus is chivalrous, hard working, eager to learn, and ready to jump in to help others. we see all of these traits right in his first five minutes of introduction. sure, he isn't perfect. he can lash out and have a temper and lose it with his teammates. but he gets back up when he stumbles and tries his best to make amends. these are all characteristics we've come to expect from optimus, albeit as more of a college dropout this time around, but still, he feels like a great cybertronian leader in the making.

and that makes it all the more surprising when we realize that, hey, the autobots kind of suck. like sure, they're not decepticons, they're not hellbent on bulldozing other planets to make room for megatron's rule, but they're xenophobic, perform unethical experiments on their own, and hell, sometimes, they have absolutely no idea what they're doing, like in sentinel's case. they're not the worst thing in the galaxy, but they're not the noble autobots we've grown to love.

it's optimus' influence which helps those around him grow and change into the autobots we've always imagined. not only for his spacebridge team, but we also directly see it in jazz, who inevitably ditches the high guard to join optimus' crew once he realizes that he doesn't stand for the old autobot ideals anymore.

Ratchet: Don’t call me that.

Y/n: Morning babygirl!

Ratchet:…Doc is fine-