Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime

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Quotes 

• Bumblebee : [clip from "A Few Good Men"]  You can't handle the truth!

  Optimus Prime : I do not want you going to that drive-in theater any more.

• Unicron : Don't, Prime. I can give you everything you want.

  Optimus Prime : Then DIE!

• [last lines] 

  Optimus Prime : I am Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots. We have lost the Transwarp Key, and with it, our ability to go home. But we have gained an ally in our battle against the forces of evil. Forces too powerful for any of us to defeat on our own... but together, we might just have a chance.

• [From the trailer] 

  Optimus Primal : Of all the threats from both your past and future, you've never faced anything like this.

  Optimus Prime : Let them come!

• Optimus Primal : Maximals...

  Optimus Prime : Autobots...

  Optimus Primal , Optimus Prime : Roll Out!

• Arcee : Mirage, what have you done?

  Optimus Prime : You brought a human here?

  Mirage : Optimus! Hey! Looking good, man! Wait a second. Are those new rims?

  Optimus Prime : You were told to stay hidden.

  Mirage : Right, right. Crazy coincidence. When you called, all Optimus-like...

  [imitating Prime] 

  Mirage : "Autobots, roll out!" - this guy was already in the car. But he's cool, so it's cool. Cool?

  Optimus Prime : [picking Noah up]  Not cool. Who are you, human?

  Noah Diaz : I'm nobody. I ain't even seen nothing. I'm not even seeing anything right now.

  Optimus Prime : Arcee.

  Arcee : [scanning him]  Private Noah Diaz, U.S. Army. Multiple commendations. A wizard with electronics. Huh. He's a soldier.

  Optimus Prime : He does not look like a soldier.

  Noah Diaz : I mean, you looking pretty rough yourself.

  Mirage : [snickering]  Sorry, sir.

  Optimus Prime : I will deal with your mistake later.

• Optimus Prime : [to Primal]  Stand down!

• Optimus Prime : I've had enough!

  [cuts off both of Scourge's arms and strikes his blade through his head] 

  Optimus Prime : Time to show you the real power of a Prime!

  Optimus Prime : [Optimus pulls Scourge's head off, killing him. Then grabs Bumblebee's insignia from his corpse]  This belongs to a friend of mine!

• Scourge : I love your fire, Prime... but you're going to die on this speck of dust!

  Optimus Prime : I can think of no better place to bury you!

• Mirage : [Drives away]  Prime! What the hell are you doing?

  Optimus Prime : [Aiming at Scourge]  I'm going to take back Scourge's key, and then... take off his head.

• Arcee : Okay, the energy surge we felt was in the 4,000 yottahertz range, which is undetectable to humans. I've reconstructed the source from the energy echoes.

  Optimus Prime : [seeing a hologram of the Transwarp Key]  I cannot believe it. It exists and it is here.

  Bumblebee : [clip from "Spaceballs"]  What the hell am I looking at?

  Optimus Prime : The Transwarp Key. It was thought to be lost thousands of years ago. It was once used to open space-time portals to Energon-rich planets throughout the universe.

  Mirage : You mean Energon-rich planets like...

  Arcee : Cybertron.

  Optimus Prime : After seven long years stranded on Earth, we've finally found a way home.

• Noah Diaz : [stealing a car]  What am I doing?

  Reek : Well, the coast is clear out here, so whenever you wanna slide that thing on out, you good.

  Noah Diaz : I can't. I can't.

  Reek : Like you can't drive stick or something?

  Noah Diaz : No, it's just... I ain't no thief.

  Reek : Are you having an existential crisis now? The deadline for that was when I offered you Twizzlers.

  Optimus Prime : This is an emergency. Can you hear me, Mirage? Roll out!

  Reek : Hey, yo, who the hell was that?

  Noah Diaz : That's the radio, bro. This car is buggin'. I'm out.

• Arcee : [Optimus sits with what's left of Bumblebee]  Do you think an Energon infusion could bring him back?

  Optimus Prime : Perhaps. If we could get him back to Cybertron. I never should have taken us so far from home.

• Scourge : [facing down Noah]  You think you can take me on alone?

  Optimus Prime : [lands beside Noah]  He is not alone!

• Bumblebee : [announcing his arrival]  I have come here to kick ass.

  Noah Diaz : Glad to have you back.

  Optimus Prime : Everyone, guard the bridge! Elena, shut it down!

• Mirage : [asking Noah for help to obtain the Transwarp Key]  Yo, don't leave me with these tight-asses, bro. We make a great team.

  Optimus Prime : This is a waste of time.

  Noah Diaz : Look, I'm not breaking into a museum for some space robots.

  Mirage : But what about for friendship?

  [seeing Noah isn't convinced] 

  Mirage : Uh, uh... or, or, or what about for cash?

  [Noah's interest piques] 

  Mirage : Uh-huh. You help us get this key, so we can get off this rock - no offense. Love the neighborhood and all. - And then I let you sell me.

  [transforming] 

  Mirage : Lambo? Ferrari? Indy? Look, you get paid and then I'll split.

  Noah Diaz : So all I gotta do is walk in and out?

  Mirage : All you gotta do. We'll take care of the rest. Cross my spark and hope to die. Wow! That was corny when I said it out loud.

  Noah Diaz : What about the big man? Optimal, or whatever.

  Mirage : You let me worry about him. Cool?

• Optimus Prime : [seeing the Transwarp portal]  This cannot be. Calling all Autobots! Calling all Autobots!

  Bumblebee : [clip from "Die Hard"]  Yippie-kay-yay, mother...

  Arcee : Prime, this is Arcee. I have a visual. What am I looking at?

  Optimus Prime : A way home.

• Mirage : Wu-Tang is in the building, baby!

  Optimus Prime : Way to be incognito.

  Mirage : Aw, come on, Prime. Smile a little bit. It won't hurt. Let me see that underbite.

• Optimus Primal : We have a small window before the portal opens large enough for Unicron to enter. The bridge is girded by a series of tunnels. They are too small for Maximals, but...

  Cheetor : But not for humans.

  Optimus Primal : If Noah and Elena reach the central antenna, they can use the code to shut it down, remove the Transwarp Key, and close the portal before Unicron enters our atmosphere.

  Arcee : But Scourge will be watching our every move. He'll do anything to stop us from getting the key.

  Optimus Prime : Then we bring the fight to him. Autobots and Maximals will charge the bridge together and lure Scourge onto the battlefield.

  Noah Diaz : While me and Elena sneak in through the back way.

  Wheeljack : It sounds like we're all going to die.

  Optimus Prime : If we are to die, then we will die fighting all as one.

• Optimus Primal : [at a Peruvian village]  This is Amaru. He and his family are the last descendants of a tribe that has watched over us for hundreds of years. When we arrived, they shared our world with us. And together we protected its people and our secret.

  Optimus Prime : You allied with humans.

  Optimus Primal : We did.

  Optimus Prime : If you give us this key, tomorrow I will light the beacon and bring Scourge to us.

  Optimus Primal : The Maximals have already sacrificed one home to protect the universe. I won't risk losing another. As a leader, I know you understand.

• Optimus Primal : Airazor.

  Airazor : Primal. I thought you were lost. All of you.

  Optimus Primal : The others, are they...

  Airazor : I am all that is left. Prime, these are my fellow Maximals. Rhinox. Cheetor.

  Cheetor : Sorry about scaring you, brother.

  Mirage : Scared?

  [scoffing] 

  Mirage : Please. I'm not scared. That's just engine oil.

  Airazor : And our leader, Optimus Primal.

  Optimus Prime : Optimus Primal?

  Optimus Primal : Named after you, the legendary warrior of Cybertron.

• Optimus Prime : Autobots, Maximals, retreat to safety. I will destroy the key myself.

  Arcee : Prime! No!

  Noah Diaz : There's gotta be another way.

  Optimus Prime : Bee, protect them.

  Optimus Primal : Your sacrifice becomes our oath.

  Optimus Prime : Thank you, my friends.

• Optimus Primal : Your friend will find peace here.

  Optimus Prime : This is raw Energon.

  Optimus Primal : The valley is rich with it.

  Optimus Prime : Could this revive Bee?

  Optimus Primal : I'm sorry, but in this state, it is inert. It would take a great power to ignite it. Greater than anything we have here.

  [Amaru says something in Peruvian] 

  Optimus Primal : I see that you are surprised we entrust the key to them.

  Optimus Prime : Yes, I am.

  Optimus Primal : I've been amongst them a long time now. There is more to them than meets the eye. They are worth saving.

• Noah Diaz : You want to find this other key and deliver it to the guy that just kicked your asses.

  Optimus Prime : The Transwarp Key is our only way home.

  Noah Diaz : If this dude gets ahold of that thing, it's game over for Earth! Our families, everybody. I'm going.

  Optimus Prime : Out of the question.

  Noah Diaz : No offense, but I'm not trusting my home to a guy who couldn't even protect his. This is my planet. I'm going.

  Airazor : What about you?

  Elena Wallace : Me?

  Airazor : What is your name?

  Elena Wallace : Elena.

  Airazor : Elena, will you lead us to this temple?

  Noah Diaz : [she looks to him]  Chance to stop the end of the world.

  Arcee : Actually, you'll be saving two worlds.

• Optimus Prime : I do not like this plan.

  Arcee : Yeah, Mirage isn't really known for being quiet.

  Optimus Prime : At least Mirage is one of us. We should not be relying on a human.

  Bumblebee : [clip of Spock from "Star Trek IV"]  They are my friends.

  Optimus Prime : I know one was good to you, Bee, but this is not our world. The humans will always protect what is theirs. We can only trust our own kind.

• Optimus Prime : [after Bumblebee is destroyed]  This is my fault. It should have been me.

  Airazor : I'm sorry for your loss.

  Mirage : No offense, lady, but who are you again?

  Airazor : My name is Airazor. I am a Maximal. A warrior from both your past and future.

  Mirage : Oh, right. That... that tracks. Yeah.

  Airazor : We fled our home planet on the eve of its destruction. We sought refuge and hid here on Earth.

  Elena Wallace : Right. So you're a Maximal. Y'all are Autobots. What was those things that attacked us earlier?

  Airazor : Terrorcons. Servants of a dark, hungry god who feeds on entire worlds to sustain himself.

  Optimus Prime : Unicron.

  Mirage : So you're saying this thing Unicron eats planets to survive?

  Airazor : Yes. And he imbues his servants, like Scourge, with dark energy, which makes him all but invincible. He is entirely beholden to Unicron. Through his power, he possesses Scourge's soul.

• Wheeljack : The coordinates you gave me correspond to an old church. Take a look.

  Elena Wallace : That's Santo Domingo. The Spanish built it on top of an old Inca temple.

  Wheeljack : Correcto. I picked up some residual energy readings around the courtyard, so I'm guessing the key's somewhere close by. But we may have some trouble getting there. Inti Raymi. It's a festival that shuts down the whole city.

  Mirage : Guess it's a night mission, then.

  Optimus Prime : No. Scourge could already be here. We must retrieve the other half before he does.

  Noah Diaz : Me and Elena will do it.

  Elena Wallace : Hmm?

  Noah Diaz : Y-Y'all would never make it two blocks.

  Arcee : There's human security all around the church. You'll never get through.

  Noah Diaz : Then we'll have to take a play out of your book. We'll hide in plain sight. We'll blend in with the parade.

  Optimus Prime : It is not a bad idea. We will keep an eye out for the Terrorcons. On first sign of trouble, we are going in.

• Noah Diaz : There's gotta be a way to stop this dude.

  Optimus Primal : It's too late. The Transwarp has already been activated. It has more energy than a supernova. Any interruption will ignite it like a bomb. The only way to stop this process is an access code installed long ago as a safeguard.

  Mirage : Okay, what's the code, then?

  Optimus Primal : The code was split along with the key. Sadly, the second half of that code died with Airazor.

  Elena Wallace : No, wait, wait. I-I got it. The one hiding her half of the key, it had markings in it just like the ones I found in the cave where you hid yours. Together, they must complete the access code.

  Optimus Primal : Hmm.

  Noah Diaz : So we got a chance now, right?

  Optimus Primal : A slim chance.

  Optimus Prime : That is all we need, if you will show us the way, Primal.

• Optimus Prime : [Scourge obtains both halves of the Transwarp Key]  I am sorry, Noah.

  Noah Diaz : You were looking out for your own. I can't even be angry at you for that.

  Optimus Prime : On my home world, we believe that the battle with darkness will continue 'til all are one. I lost sight of that. You fought for yours as I fought for mine when we should have been fighting the darkness together.

  Noah Diaz : Well, I ain't done fighting yet.

• Optimus Prime : [Noah prepares to destroy the Transwarp Key]  I know you want to protect your people, but if you destroy that key, our home will be lost forever. We do not have to choose.

• Optimus Prime : Unicron.

  Unicron : You fought bravely. But this world is already mine.

• Elena Wallace : So, who are you?

  Optimus Primal : We Maximals are an advanced race dedicated to the expansion of life throughout the universe. We use the Transwarp Key to visit young worlds.

  Elena Wallace : The Nazca Lines, the Temple at Tikal... that was you guys, right?

  Optimus Primal : Not us. We cannot claim credit for human ingenuity.

  Optimus Prime : But you had the Key. Why stay on this world?

  Optimus Primal : When Unicron destroyed our world, we took an oath dedicated to the preservation of life, no matter the cost. And Earth has been a safe refuge.

• Arcee : Unicron, is he dead?

  Optimus Primal : Trapped, but not dead. Evil can never be vanquished completely. He could return.

  Optimus Prime : Let him come. United, we will destroy him once and for all.

• Optimus Prime : I will end you, Scourge! That... is a promise.

• Optimus Prime : I should have gotten the Key myself. I should've known better than to rely on humans.

  Noah Diaz : Yo, hold up. What, you blaming me? After you conveniently left out the part about a planet-eating monster?

  Optimus Prime : Because of you, Unicron will now use the key to consume every planet in the universe! Including my home world.

  Airazor : He doesn't have the Key. At least not all of it. We broke the Key into two pieces for safekeeping, then splintered and went into hiding. I do not know where the other half is. For all I know, I am the last of our kind.

  Elena Wallace : [remembering the symbols she saw on the hawk statue]  It's in Peru.

  Noah Diaz : How do you know that?

  Elena Wallace : It's the symbols on the stone. They were only ever recorded in one other place in the world. The Inca Temple of the Sun in Cusco. It's one of the oldest buildings in the western hemisphere. I'm-I'm...

  [showing Airazor her journal] 

  Elena Wallace : I'm guessing that that can't be a coincidence.

  Arcee : If you can track those symbols to Peru, so can the Terrorcons. We need to get there before they do.

  Optimus Prime : And then kill Scourge and take his piece to complete the Key.