I dunno if anyone ever noticed this or commented on it but
The way Optimus' eyes are rendered and textured in TFP, always reminded me of tear tracks? The etchings underneath.
Like this gentle man, who so badly wanted peace above all else, had cried so many tears till he had none, that they were now marked forever on his face.
According to my calculations, Optimus should be 9 meters tall and Starscream should be 13 meters tall. If you take the dimensions of their Masterpiece figurines (both alt and root mode) into account and then use the dimensions of the real vehicles they mimic to scale them up, this is what you get.
Here’s how an interaction between Optimus and Starscream should actually look. There is no way in Hell that an F-15 is shorter than a fucking semi-truck. The F-15 has a wingspan of 42 feet 9.75 inches and a length of 63 feet 9 inches. Meanwhile, the Freightliner FL86 cab over semi truck (the model Optimus scans in G1) is roughly ~23 feet long and ~9.8 feet tall.
Without mass-shifting, Starscream would completely dwarf Optimus Prime. It’s not even close.