User blog comment:Matt Hadick/Ultimate Robot Battle Round 5/@comment-4738647-20130701203103

The RX-78-2, the first Gundam seen in the Universal Century, the most realistic of all the Gundam timlines. Didn't even make it to Zeta in fact it wouldn've been scrapped/decommisioned had it survive the One Year War? Why? Because it would be obsolete by that time, the work it comes from is a military sci-fi anime, you wont see a Mark II tank from WWI roaming Iraq let alone WWII would you? Gundam kick started a the Real Robot side of the mecha genre, the RX-78-2 isn't a super hero like Mazinger Z, it is a human built war machine, none the less it was a state of the art for its time but c'mon it was the first real robot anime. The technology of Mobile Suit Gundam; humans haven't left the solar system, they've built realistic colonies with spacecraft not capable of faster-than-travel and artificial gravity (without centrifuge as seen in Zeta Gundam with the AEUG's craft with has rotating secionts).

Optimus Prime on the other hand is sentient, a living thing and his body laid on Earth with the other Season 1 Transformers for 4 million years taking a volcanic eruption to keep him up, and yes he did die, but he was ressurected. The technology in the Transformers universe includes: Faster than light travel, the ability to move planets, a space-bridge, and as mentioned before robots that last for 4 million years (the Decepticons themsevles survive lava in the last episode of season 1) and Energon, the ability to convert almost any form of energy efficiently into a substance that is used as ammunition, food even currency.