1) Yeah The Insecticon Bombshell could attack either TF or Human and again control over their minds.
Soundwave could read the impulses of TF minds.
And Mindwipe, the decepticon Headmaster used to hypnotise his victims.
Unicron could guide TFs in the Marvel comic continuity too.
2) There are plenty of things like "shorting out" and other things mentioned in both comic and cartoon....whether or not electricity is exactly the type of energy that is employed or not is to too clear.
Its also possible that they use electricity at some point in their chain, yet the electricity is the converted result of the absorbance of energon.
3) Springer is one tough son of a toasterbitch.
He lead the wreckers on Cybertron, was a bit of an all round arsekicker.
Probably almost as tough as Magnus.
The Quintessans also brain washed a dead Optimus Prime, which brought him back as an evil zombie-like Optimus.
Also, the bots are vulnerable to special types of infections. As was shown when that hate plague started turnin' everyone red. Regardless of who it was, it struck bots and humans alike.
Its a rank appointed on certain TFs by the matrix itself, despite what Michael Bay says.
(Ultra Magnus was passed the Matrix in the 1986 movie
and was made Leader but wasn't called 'Magnus Prime' or anything.
And when he tried to open the Matrix, it wouldn't budge.
It chose Hot Rod later on and he became 'Rodimus Prime')
The Prime houses, guards the matrix and (in some cases, like Hotrod's) are modified by it, physically and mentally, bringing them up to the sort of size strength and wisdom that a Matrix guardian/leader would need to be.
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