Optimus Prime

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Optimus Prime Quotes

	Season 3 / Episode 30: - The Return of Optimus Prime (2) Quintesson: PLEASE STOP! Galvatron: Never Quintesson! This world is OURS! OPTIMUS PRIME SHALL DIE AGAIN! [Lights start to come out of Optimus. Galvatron stops] What? What is this? Optimus Prime: [Optimus awakens, opens his chest and removes the matrix and opens it] Now light our darkest hour!
	Season 3 / Episode 30: - The Return of Optimus Prime (2) Hot Rod: The wisdom of the ages... it’s gone. Optimus Prime: Not lost. We're all a little wiser now. Hot Rod: But the Matrix is empty. Optimus Prime: It's up to all of us to fill with the wisdom we accumulate from this day forward. AUTOBOTS... TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!
	Season 3 / Episode 30: - The Return of Optimus Prime (2) Optimus Prime: No more games, Rodimus! Innocent lives are at stake! Rodimus Prime: No one is innocent!
	Season 3 / Episode 30: - The Return of Optimus Prime (2) Autobot Elder: The plague you speak of has visited us once before. A wise man was able to contain the spores, and shoot them into a sun. The only way to fight such madness is with wisdom. But no ONE person now has the wisdom to contain the spores, much less destroy them now that they are spread across the galaxy. Optimus Prime: Perhaps there does exist a source of wisdom powerful enough to destroy the spores, and save the galaxy. The accumulated wisdom that resides within the Matrix!
	Season 3 / Episode 29: - The Return of Optimus Prime (1) Quintesson: I've done it! Optimus Prime lives! Sky Lynx: It's true. Our leader is back. Optimus Prime: Yes, Sky Lynx, and this time no force in the universe can stop me!
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - Dark Awakening Hot Rod: [after he's faked being hit by a shot] Ha ha. Fooled you. Optimus Prime: Not a game Rodimus! Matrix makes me too strong! Hot Rod: Now there's a unique complaint!
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - Dark Awakening Optimus Prime: You... should have finished me. Hot Rod: Believe me, I tried. Optimus Prime: [Optimus starts struggling, remembering who brought him back/why]... Until all are... ONE! Monsters! They made me a weapon against the very ones I loved in life. [opens his chest takes out the Matrix and inserts it into Hot Rod] But you shall save them, Rodimus Prime!
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - Dark Awakening Optimus Prime: Matrix makes me too powerful. Rodimus Prime: Now there's a unique complaint.
	Season 2 / Episode 44: - War Dawn Optimus Prime: [their first encounter] You've caused enough destruction for ONE day, Megatron! Megatron: I haven't even STARTED yet. [fires at Optimus. It just bounces off his chest] YOU! Who are you? Optimus Prime: Your WORST nightmare!
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Ironhide: Are we going anywhere, Cosmos, or is this a tour of the stars? Jazz: Lay off him, Ironhide. He didn't cause our problems. Ironhide: You're right. Maybe we ought to take it out on the one who got us into this mess [clutches his fists] . Optimus Prime: I did what was necessary. Huffer: But we lost, and the Decepticons won, and we bought a one-way ticket to nowhere! Cliffjumper: There's still time to change our mind... [rushing to the cockpit] Optimus Prime: [thinking loudly] Perhaps I did make the wrong decision... Cliffjumper, turn us around. We're going back to Earth! Cliffjumper: [clicking the controls, then recoils in horror] The ship isn't responding! Optimus Prime: What? Cliffjumper: [clicking the controls, then turns to Optimus] Major malfunction. Our course is locked in! Optimus Prime: [realizing what's wrong] They've jammed our guidance system. Hound, check our destination. Hound: At once, Prime [activates his sensors, then exclaims in horror] We're targeted for... the sun! Optimus Prime: [regaining his composure] Cosmos, make up with Teletraan 1. Cosmos: [activates his communication system, then calls in horror when this also fails] Negative, Prime! I can't interface!
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Bumblebee: Hey... my circuits are overheating! Huffer: We'll, uhh... we'll... Hound: We'll vaporize! Optimus Prime: Cosmos... take action! Cosmos: [Also suffering the same damage from the heat] Like what? Optimus Prime: [Straining to speak] If I knew, I'd do it myself! Cosmos: [Transforms to robot mode] I guess anything is better than nothing... [enters the spacecraft and clicking the controls] Ironhide: Well... any luck? Cosmos: [Clicking the controls, then raising his hands in despair] No...
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Shawn Berger: [to Megatron] You promised me three cities! Megatron: [laughs sarcastically] So, still trying to up the ante? How pathetic... Optimus Prime: No... chance... left. Megatron: Five, four, three, two, one - zero! Megatron: It's over! The Autobots are subatomic particles. Now, Berger, I believe we have a press conference to attend.
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) [Millions miles from Earth, in deep space, the Autobots are safe: Trailbreaker activated his force-field, surrounding the other Autobots with it. Cosmos pulls the force-field, with all the Autobots inside it, toward the sun] Bumblebee: Huh, if it hadn't been for your force field, Trailbreaker, we'd be molecules now. Optimus Prime: You did well, Trailbreaker. Cosmos, put it in gear and let's get back to Earth. Cosmos, we're heading back toward the Sun! What's the problem? Cosmos: Sorry, Prime. My navigational systems are still controlled by Teletraan 1.
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Cosmos: Hey! I got control back! Optimus Prime: Teletraan must have canceled the override. Cosmos: I don't know who did what, but I don't care... we're heading back to Earth! [changing direction] I hope I have the fuel reserves.
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Megatron: You see? Even Earth's mightiest warriors cannot stop us. Soon, other cities will fall, then others, one after the next... until Earth is ours! [pointing his arm-cannon at the prisoners] Shawn Berger: No, I won't let you! Megatron: Grovel for my amusement! [points again his his arm-cannon at the prisoners, who are paralyzed with fear. Suddenly, loud noise is heard from the outside, as if many vehicles are heading to the power plant] Spike Witwickey: You hear that? It sounds like... Chip Chase, Sparkplug Witwicky: [excitedly] Autobots! Optimus Prime: [his voice is heard from outside the building] Megatron! Megatron: No! Megatron: Impossible! I saw you disintegrated! Optimus Prime: Illusion, Megatron. Just as you made the people of Earth see us as villains - so we, too, staged an illusion.
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Megatron: Decepticons, assemble for battle! Optimus Prime: [transforms] Autobots - transform! Ironhide: And let's show 'em a little reality... Megatron: No missing! Megatron: Keep firing! Don't leave an Autobot standing! Ironhide: Come on, guys! Let's wrap this package of Decepticon garbage! Chip Chase: Who's winning, Spike? Spike Witwickey: [smiles] guess... Starscream: [struggling to his feet] It's no use... we're outnumbered [again he is shot and collapses] Megatron: [looks back and sees that nearly all the Decepticons are down, severely damaged, unable to fight] We've lost the advantage!
	Season 2 / Episode 16: - Megatron's Master Plan (2) Ironhide: [frees Chip of the electronic handcuffs] Uhh, there you go, Chip. Free. Chip Chase: Huh, thanks, Ironhide! Is there anything you can't do? Mayor: If you can ever forgive us, Optimus Prime, please stay here on Earth. Shawn Berger: [genuinely remorseful] I doubt anyone will ever forgive me, but I'll... I'll make amends. I'll... I'll disband my private army. Sparkplug Witwicky: [sarcastically] Oh, that's real big of you, Berger. They all quit when they found out what a dog lunch you are! Shawn Berger: Well, um, I... I... I said I'm sorry. Optimus Prime: You are going to face justice, and may it be kinder to you than it was to us. Autobots, transform and roll for home!
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Microbots Megatron: After millions of years, it's mine! Hook, your cyber-forceps. [Hook gives Megatron his cyber-forceps. Megatron uses them to remove the Heart] The Heart of Cybertron! This tiny energy maximizer powered our ship all the way from Cybertron to this miserable planet. [puts the Heart in Hook's palm] Hook: And what will you do with it now? Megatron: Implant it inside me. [lies on the ground, opening his chest-lid. Hook implants the Heart inside Megatron's chest] Hook: [closes Megatron's chest-lid] It is done, Megatron. Megatron: I know [rising on his feet] For already the power courses through my circuits! Optimus Prime: You'll need every bit of it, Megatron! Autobots, attack! Ratchet: Prime! Megatron: Come on, Autobots! Follow your leader's orders and attack! [shooting at them more energy beams]
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Microbots Brawn: [pointing angrily at Perceptor] Funny. You don't have a scratch on you... Optimus Prime: Brawn, lay off Perceptor! If I hear one more word against him, you'll answer to me.
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Microbots Brawn: Do you have any better ideas, or is your intelligence as fleeting as your courage? Perceptor: As a matter of fact, I do: get inside Megatron and disconnect the heart of Cybertron. Brawn: Are you defective? How're we gonna do that? Perceptor: Simple: we use my trans-mat reduction beam to shrink down to microscopic size. Then, we crawl into Megatron and rip the blasted heart out! Optimus Prime: What do you think of his intelligence now, Brawn? Brawn: [reluctantly] Uh, I reserve judgment. Optimus Prime: You and Bumblebee go with him. Powerglide, can you fly? Perceptor: Like a bird! Perceptor: Now we'll show Megatron that bad things come in small packages! [activates the beam. The beam reduces the three of them to microscopic size]
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Microbots Ratchet: The force field is down! Perceptor: Ohh! Got to... disconnect it! [grabs the last wire, preparing to rip it] Megatron: [Unaware of what happens inside him, he is sure of his victory] It's all over, Prime! Optimus Prime: Not until every Autobot program is erased, Megatron! Megatron: You're finished! Ehh! [raises his hands... but no fire bolts are shot from his fingers] What? Ratchet: Perceptor did it!
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Microbots Bumblebee: [pants] Is it my imagination, or is this tunnel getting tighter? Perceptor: It's us! We're returning to our normal size. We've got to get out of here! Optimus Prime: Now we'll see who's finished! Bumblebee: Uh... excuse us! Megatron: [standing on his feet, furious at his failure] You... filthy retro-rats! Uhhh! [flies away] Wheeljack: He's getting away! Stop him! Perceptor: No! Wait! We've got the Heart of Cybertron! Brawn: But it's destabilizing! It could explode at any second!
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Microbots Optimus Prime: Track it, Perceptor! Perceptor: I'm on it! Perceptor: One thousand miles... fifteen-hundred miles... two thousand miles! Optimus Prime: Sharp shooting, Perceptor. Ratchet: [puts his hand on Bumblebee's shoulder] Do you realize that we just saved Megatron's life? Brawn: Somebody saved all our lives! Optimus Prime: Who, Brawn? Brawn: [puts his hand on Perceptor's shoulder] Ask my buddy here about it, and ask him polite, because anyone who doesn't think he's a hero - is gonna have to answer to me!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Hound: Warning, Optimus Prime! The energy disturbance is directly ahead! Ironhide: Let me get a better look and - huh? [watching in amazement the mammoth and its barbarian rider] What are they? Hound: New Earth-like forms? Optimus Prime: Or old ones that entered this era through that time warp. [points at the time-warp] Hound: There's something on the other side of the warp... and it's coming through! Ironhide: We gotta do something, Optimus! Optimus Prime: Agreed, but gently. Remember, those creatures are flesh and blood, not unfeeling machines like the Decepticons. Forward! Sideswipe: [smiles, rubbing his palms] Then we'll just have to pull our punches!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Optimus Prime: [sees that the other Autobots grab hold of the three mammoths] Huffer, Ironhide, Sideswipe! We must put the animals where they'll be safe and out of the way... and I know just the place! Ironhide: All right, beasties! In ya go!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Ironhide: Come on, you walkin' sandrugs! Time to go back to your time! Sideswipe: [shoots near the barbarians, forcing them to run back into the time-warp] Keep movin'! Optimus Prime: That should do the trick. Huffer: [sighs in relief] I thought they'd never leave!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Optimus Prime: Well, Chip? Have you formulated an explanation? Chip Chase: The time disturbances can be traced to Dinobot Island. Wheeljack: Something is making this volcano active again! Optimus Prime: The energy disruptions on Dinobot Island have activated this volcano as well. We must repair the damage to the timeflow at once! Warpath, Beachcomber, Perceptor, Ironhide, Smokescreen, Trailbreaker! Strap on your jetpacks and follow me - to Dinobot Island!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Optimus Prime: If that stolen energy is taken from this area, this entire galaxy could crumble! Ironhide: Yeah, try tellin' that to them... Megatron: You were a fool to come here, Optimus Prime! And fools pay a heavy price! Ironhide: Prime! Optimus Prime: I'm okay. Repair systems already compensating for damage. Ironhide: Great! Then let's make the Decepticons Decepti-crumbs! Megatron: Resist! Terminate them! Reduce them to lithium litter! Starscream: Attack... from the sky! Warpath: ZOWIE! WHAM! BANG! I'll blow 'em out of the blue, Perceptor! They don't call me Warpath because I'm gentle, ha-ha-ha! Starscream: [shoots null ray at Warpath and Perceptor, and they both collapse] Boisterous clown! You won't hit anything with your circuits nullified! Perceptor: [groans in pain] Ohh! Null ray... disrupting... electron flow!
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Megatron: [after finding his arm-cannon, he crawls under the dinosaurs and runs away from the battlefield] If only one Decepticon survives this assault, it shall be I... Megatron: No! It isn't possible! I saw you perish beneath the tar pits! Grimlock: You wrong, and you ugly, too! Megatron: [painfully] Retreat, Decepticons! This battle has been lost! Optimus Prime: Now perhaps we can restore the time flow to normal by releasing the energy stolen from this island...
	Season 2 / Episode 4: - Dinobot Island (2) Optimus Prime: The Dinobots have not only proved they can control their powers, they have also demonstrated that they have great value to our cause. Optimus Prime: They will remain at Autobot Headquarters from now on.

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