The Transformers (TV Series)

Dark Awakening (1986)

Dick Gautier: Rodimus Prime, Hot Rod

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Quotes 

• 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] 

  Optimus Prime : But *you* shall save them, Rodimus Prime!

• Rodimus Prime : I don't know if I'll ever be the leader you were, but for sure... I'm gonna try. So long, Prime.

• Hot Rod : [after he's faked being hit by a shot]  Ha ha. Fooled you.

  Optimus Prime : Not a game Rodimus!

• Optimus Prime : Matrix makes me too powerful.

  Rodimus Prime : Now there's a unique complaint.

• Rodimus Prime : Hey, he's here, he's back, and who cares how!

  Optimus Prime : Must... complete... plan...

  [Optimus abruptly walks offscreen] 

  Rodimus Prime : Yeah! What's the plan?

• Spike Witwicky : Great. What'll Daniel and I do when the air runs out?

  Rodimus Prime : Basically you'll have two choices: suffocate, or smother.