Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime
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[last lines]
Optimus Prime : In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith, days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet and its people.
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Que : Ah, good, you're here. My name's Que. I do hope you have answers for him. I've never seen him so upset!
Lennox : Optimus, you remember Charlotte Mearing, our director of National Intelligence?
[Optimus stays in truck mode]
Dino : He's in a bad mood. He's not talking to anybody today.
Charlotte Mearing : What is this, the silent treatment?
Ironhide : We've seen that and this is not that.
Que : Definitely not!
Ironhide : This is worse. Prime, make something of yourself!
[bangs fist on top of Optimus's cab, Optimus transforms]
Ironhide : He's pissed.
Optimus Prime : [pounds the ground] You lied to us! Everything humans know of our planet we were told had all been shared!
[points to component]
Optimus Prime : So why was this found in human possession?
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Optimus Prime : What your leaders say is true: this was all my fault. I told them whom to trust. I was so wrong.
Sam Witwicky : That doesn't make it your fault, it just makes you human for a change.
Optimus Prime : Remember this: you may lose your faith in us, but never in yourselves.
Sam Witwicky : I need to know how you're going to fight back. I know there's a strategy, I know you're coming back with reinforcements, something. I know there's a plan. You can tell me, no other human will ever know.
Optimus Prime : There is no plan.
Sam Witwicky : If we just do what they want, how are we ever going to live with ourselves?
Optimus Prime : You are my friend Sam, you always will be. But your leaders have spoken. From here the fight will be your own.
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Megatron : Now, we need a truce. All I want is to be back in charge. Besides, who would you be without me, Prime?
Optimus Prime : Time to find out!
[attacks Megatron and beheads him]
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Lennox : What the hell was that thing?
Optimus Prime : That is Shockwave.
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Sentinel Prime : [mercilessly beating Optimus Prime] We were gods once, all of us! But here...
Optimus Prime : Please...!
Sentinel Prime : ...there can only be ONE!
[raises his lance...]
Megatron : [attacks Sentinel from behind] This is MY planet!
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Sentinel Prime : Optimus... all I ever wanted... was the survival of our race... You must see why I had to betray you...
Optimus Prime : [picks up Megatron's gun] You didn't betray me, Sentinel. You betrayed yourself.
[takes aim at Sentinel]
Sentinel Prime : No. NO, OPTIMUS...!
[Optimus fires]
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Sentinel Prime : So majestic and peaceful, this planet. Unlike the final days on Cybertron.
Optimus Prime : I've wondered what might have been, if you had fought the final battle instead of me.
Sentinel Prime : Never mourn the past, young warrior. Thanks to you, our race survives.
Optimus Prime : [offers the Matrix to Sentinel] You were our leader, Sentinel. it is your right to lead us again.
Sentinel Prime : In a world I do not know, I am no longer your teacher, Optimus, you are mine.
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Optimus Prime : [shoots down the ship attacking Sam and Epps] We will kill them all! Your leaders will now understand: Decepticons will never leave your planet alone. And we needed them to believe we had gone. For today, in the name of freedom, we take the battle to them!
[other Autobots appear]
Sam Witwicky : I saw your ship blow up!
Roadbuster : The ship? We were never in the ship! We designed the damn thing, didn't we?
Leadfoot : We were hidden in the first booster rocket to seperate - splashed down back in the Atlantic, just as planned.
[spits]
Leadfoot : We ain't going nowhere!
Brains : Yeah, no one's exiling us!
Wheelie : The Autobots are staying right here. We're gonna help you win this war!
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[first lines]
Optimus Prime : We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings. But then came the war between the Autobots, who fought for freedom and the Decepticons, who dreamt of tyranny. Overmatched and outnumbered, our defeat was all but certain. But in the wars final days, one Autobot ship escaped the battle. It was carrying a secret cargo, which would have changed our planet's fate. A desperate mission, our final hope...
[the Ark flies from Cybertron into space... and is gunned down]
Optimus Prime : A hope that vanished.
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Optimus Prime : Why, Sentinel? Why?
Sentinel Prime : For Cyberton! For our home! What war destroyed, we can rebuild - but only if we join with the Decepticons!
Optimus Prime : No, it's not the only way! This is our home, we must defend the humans!
Sentinel Prime : So lost you are, Optimus. On Cybertron we were gods, and here they call us machines! Let the humans serve us, or perish!
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[Buzz Aldrin and Optimus Prime meet]
Buzz Aldrin : From a fellow space traveller, it's an honour meeting you.
Optimus Prime : The honour is mine.
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Optimus Prime : Get down here, Sentinel!
Sentinel Prime : [draws his lance] Optimus, you forget your place!
[jumps down to meet Optimus]
Sentinel Prime : I bring you Cybertron, your home, and still you choose humanity!
Optimus Prime : You were the one who taught me freedom is everyone's right!
Sentinel Prime : I will retrigger that pillar!
Optimus Prime : Then you'll have to go through me!
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Sentinel Prime : Commencing transport.
[activates the pillars]
Optimus Prime : [arriving] Stop! No, no! NO, SENTINEL!
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Optimus Prime : You have made a grave mistake...
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Optimus Prime : They're surrounding the city to make a fortress so that no one can see what their up to inside. Our only chance is the element of surprise.
Sam Witwicky : [looks at the Decepticon airship] I think I know where to look. So you can fly this thing, right?
[Bumblebee wiggles his fingers]
Sam Witwicky : What is that... What is that? What is that? So-so? So you so-so can fly this. That feels terrible.
Bumblebee : Uh-huh!
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Optimus Prime : The ship's name was the Ark. I watched it escape Cybertron myself. It was carrying an Autobot technology that would have won us the war. And its captain...
Charlotte Mearing : Who was its captain?
Optimus Prime : The great Sentinel Prime, the technology's inventor. He was commander of the Autobots before me. It's imperative that I find it before the Decepticons learn of its location. Our Autobot spacecraft has the ability to get there. And... you must pray it's in time.
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[the Autobots and NEST gather around to reawaken Sentinel Prime]
Lennox : [to Mearing] That's the Matrix of Leadership, the only thing in the Universe that can repower a Transformer's spark.
Optimus Prime : Let us begin... Sentinel Prime, we bid you return.
[drives the Matrix into Sentinel's chest, reviving him... Sentinel grabs Optimus in a deadlock]
Lennox : Hold your fire!
Optimus Prime : Stop! Sentinel, it is I, Optimus Prime!
Ironhide : You are home, Sentinel.
Ratchet : There is nothing to fear.
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Sentinel Prime : You're lucky I didn't kill you. In time, you'll see.
Optimus Prime : ...it's not over.
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Optimus Prime : [tears out Shockwave's eye] You die!
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Optimus Prime : I'm coming for you!
[flies through the Driller]
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Sentinel Prime : The war... the war?
Optimus Prime : The war was lost. Cybertron is but a barren wasteland. We have taken refuge here on planet Earth. Its human race is our ally.
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Optimus Prime : [narrating] In the years since our arrival, our new home, Earth, has seen much change. Energon detectors guard its cities now. Long-range defense systems watch the skies. So now we assist our allies in solving human conflicts. To prevent mankind from bringing harm to itself. We work in secret teams on various missions around the globe. And all the while, we search for signs of our true enemies' return.
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Optimus Prime : The enemy's return is certain.
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Lennox : [looking in the Driller's claw] Why was he after this?
Optimus Prime : It's impossible... This is an engine part, from a long lost Autobot ship.
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Optimus Prime : Shockwave can't hunt us all at once... Wreckers, we need a diversion!
Roadbuster : Let's get some!
Leadfoot : You got that right!
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Optimus Prime : [chasing Sentinel] Autobots, retreat!
