Autobots know how to use plot devices.
Also, they know how to resolve seemingly no-win situations.
okay, so the Autobots have told Hot Rod to go get a plot device that basically contains knowledge of everything's that ever existed or happened. reason being that they want to use it to figure out why the first Ark's crew is trying to do something to the known universe involving one strange and freaky extradimensional region.
tagging along for the ride is Dealer, the only other survivor of a previous mission Hot Rod led to find said plot device. occupying their thoughts as they go to pick up the plot device Hot Rod hid are the events of said mission. Hot Rod in particular is convinced that something's wrong with all that went down- with the precautions they took, how did the Decepticons find them, take them all down, and leave only Dealer alive? (Hot Rod was in the process of actually finding the plot device when it all went down.)
so they come to the plot device, where Dealer has an aside about how having an Omniscientron or whatever that thing is would do wonders for his own career, and then Hot Rod decides to test it out by asking the device a question...
well, I suppose that's a better way to resolve a situation than spending your cycles turning the info in your mind and wondering whether or not that 'bot you indirectly left to rot in a Decepticon prison really is your friend.
and as for the second part, we have Optimus Prime to demonstrate that.
See, it turns out the first Ark's crew's working for some kind of otherdimensional thing that's the " polar opposite " of the Matrix, attempting to merge its alien universe and their own to create a fusionverse where they'd rule.
so Prime's confronting their leader, predecessor turned crazybot Nova Prime.
oh no, Prime, whatever will you do with the otherdimensional darkness trying to tempt you into taking up where Nova left off?
(and surprisingly, this Galvatron ain't Megatron; he existed before Megatron. weird, huh?)
and so, given a choice between suicide and empowering another crazybot, Optimus Prime.. empowers the crazybot and destroys him. cool.
oh, and a 4th scan from something I picked up off of /y that's just pretty damn funny.
No, it's not that thing where Squall from FFVIII has to go back in time and fuck Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin to get samurai sperm to.. cure Laguna of something, or whatever the hell that was about. It'san RE4 thing, and I don't include it for the bit luis/leon gay sex, but for the final panel's expression which is just a pretty damn good expression of shock.
seriously, that's good shock right there, that is. and if the sex isn't your cup of tea, just close your eyes and thank god it's not anything by Iceman. (not to knock the sentient entity, but that one Captain Falcon/Snake thing he did was just not that great.)