Beast Wars: Transformers (TV Series)

Beast Wars: Part 1 (1996)

Garry Chalk: Optimus Primal

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Quotes 

• Rattrap : So... uh... this your first day on the job or what?

  Optimus Primal : Shut up, Rattrap.

  Rattrap : Oh, yes, sir! I feel heaps better knowing that our lives are in your capable hands!... We're all gonna die.

• [first lines] 

  [Two ships fly through a portal, attacking each other] 

  Cheetor : Hull breach in Sector 7! Guidance systems failing!

  Rattrap : Oh, man, this is ridiculous! We're an exploration ship, not a battle cruiser!

  Optimus Primal : We had no choice! Ours was the only ship that could lock on to Megatron's warp signature!

  Cheetor : Shields are doing a major fade!

  Optimus Primal : Plasma cannons to full power!

• [Rhinox, carrying Optimus Primal and Rattrap, heads towards some boulders] 

  Rattrap : Heads up! Roadblock!

  Optimus Primal : Veer left! There's a clearing about a hundred metres!

  [Rhinox disregards these comments and simply barges through the boulders] 

  Optimus Primal : Ah, yes. Silly me...

• Tarantulas : Tarantulas: terrorize!

  Rhinox : Rhinox: maximize!

  Rhinox : Scorponok: terrorize!

  Rattrap : Rattrap: maximize!

  Terrorsaur : Terrorsaur: terrorize!

  Megatron : Megatron: terrorize!

  Optimus Primal : Optimus Primal: maximize!

• Rattrap : Maannn... All this for a golden disk...

  Optimus Primal : It was Cybertron's carefully-guarded relic, Rattrap. It gave the location of a major Energon source. That's why Megatron stole it!

  Rattrap : Yeah, like I care... You know, we was supposed to be doing deep space exploration - flying galactic patrol was nowhere in my job description, you know what I'm saying? You sure you're cut out for this commander gig?

  Optimus Primal : Remember the Great War, Rattrap? If the Predacons get enough Energon they'll start it again. We can't let that happen. Besides, you wanted exploration, and here we are on an unknown planet - what more do you want?

  Rattrap : Well, call me picky, but a working spacecraft might be nice!

  Optimus Primal : [sighs]  Just no pleasing some people...

• Rattrap : [Optimus Primal growls at him]  Hey! Hey, what's got your servos so bent?

  Optimus Primal : Let's get one thing straight, Rattrap: I am commander of this group, and when I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed!

  Rattrap : Oh, yeah? So I get vaped because you're too chicken to go yourself!

  Optimus Primal : I will not give an order I would not be willing to do myself! But I was capable of giving you better cover fire, you were not.

  Rattrap : Hey, we got out of there alive, didn't we?

  Optimus Primal : But injured. It'll take time for our beast modes to effect internal repairs.

• Optimus Primal : We don't have to do this, Megatron! There has been peace between the Maximals and Predacons for centuries! Why start this up again?

  Megatron : Peace perhaps on your side, Maximal scum, yeesss - but not on ours! Permit me to inform you that an enemy that appears peaceful... may in fact be biding its time!

  Cheetor : [repairing his gun]  Finally...

  Megatron : We Predacons have never gone back on our goal of galactic conquest! Nooo - we have merely waited for the right moment to STRIKE!

  Cheetor : You mean like THIS?

  [fires at Megatron] 

  Optimus Primal : CHEETOR!

  Megatron : Ahh, a treacherous, underhanded sneak attack. Oh-ho-ho, I like you, pussycat, yeesss... but it shall avail you not! Nooo! For now the gauntlet has been cast! Predacons: TERRORIZE!

  Optimus Primal : [to the Maximals]  Do it! MAXIMIZE!

• Cheetor : Hey, look at me, I'm a cheetah! No... I'm CHEETOR!

  Optimus Primal : Interesting...

  Cheetor : Interesting? It is SPOT-on SMOOTH!

• Optimus Primal : Damage report.

  Cheetor : Believe me, you don't want to know...

  Optimus Primal : That's what I thought.

• Optimus Primal : This is one unusual planet, whatever it is...

• Cheetor : Hey, look!

  [points to two cheetahs streaking across the Savannah] 

  Optimus Primal : They're fast, all right. You chose a good form.

  Cheetor : You think THAT's speed, you ain't seen the Golden Rocket! Check this!

  [takes off] 

• Rhinox : [the Maximals try to communicate with Cheetor in vain]  No good. The Energon fields mess up the comlinks - anything over a hundred metres. They ain't worth scrap!

  Optimus Primal : Well, that's just prime!

• [During a battle, Cheetor is pinned down by some rocks] 

  Cheetor : Ahh... I'm stuck!

  Optimus Primal : Rattrap, help Cheetor! We'll cover you!

  Rattrap : Yeah, right!

  Optimus Primal : That's an ORDER, Rattrap!

  Rattrap : Yeah? Well, you can just kiss my skin-rear, 'cause there ain't NO way I'm going out there n' getting MY pelt punctured!

  [With a snort of disgust, Primal goes in on his own] 

• [the Maximals meet Dinobot for the first time - on a narrow bridge blocking their path] 

  Rhinox : Do we blast him?

  Optimus Primal : Keep that option open, but hang on...

• [Optimus tries to contact Cheetor after he ran off] 

  Optimus Primal : Cheetor, return to base immediately! We don't have time for this! Cheetor? Please respond!

  Rhinox : No good. The energon fields mess up the commlinks. Anything over a hundred meters, they ain't worth scrap.

  Optimus Primal : Well, that's just prime.

  Rattrap : So, this your first day on the job or what?

  Optimus Primal : Shut up, Rattrap.

  Rattrap : Oh, yes *sir*! I feel just heaps better knowing' our lives are in your capable hands. We're all gonna die.