Beast Wars: Transformers (TV Series)

Possession (1997)

Garry Chalk: Optimus Primal

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Quotes 

• Optimus Primal : I have to tell you, Starscream, you're giving space debris a bad name.

  Starscream : Optimus. We've been impetuous. Surely we can work something out... Blackarachnia! Destroy him and we can still triumph together!

  Blackarachnia : Are all your dreams in technicolor?

  [ignites a small cache of energon underneath Starscream] 

  Starscream : Energon? You've betrayed me!

  Blackarachnia : I studied with the master.

  [With a scream, Starscream's spark is disgorged from Waspinator's body] 

  Optimus Primal : Hasta la vista, Starscream!

• Optimus Primal : [under a surprise Predacon attack]  Take unawares. I'm a fool!

  Megatron : At long last, Primal, we agree on something.

• Optimus Primal : [the Maximal base is under attack]  We've got to get out of here! Regroup and recover!

  Rattrap : What, and leave the place to the Preds?

  Optimus Primal : There's no choice, Rattrap! On my signal!

  Rattrap : [to Rhinox]  Yeah, right. Like this rat needs instructions on leaving a sinking ship.

• Optimus Primal : You'll make a full recovery. That's one less concern, at any rate.

  Dinobot : You should have stayed, fought to the bitter end.

  Optimus Primal : And it would have been bitter, Dinobot. But there's no time for this. Apparently, Waspinator is Starscream, or he thinks he is. Either way, it's become a major problem, especially since the files on him were classified by the Maximal elders.

  Dinobot : Fools! Fortunately, I have long studied military history.

  Optimus Primal : Go on.

  Dinobot : Starscream was deceitful and scheming, the most notorious traitor of all.

  Optimus Primal : And now he's back and pledging his loyalty to Megatron.

  [thoughtfully] 

  Optimus Primal : Hmm...

• Rattrap : [giving a "bad news, worse news" report]  The last hit breached the outer wall in vector 7.

  Rhinox : And this was only the bad news?

  Rattrap : Eh, the worse news is it knocked out all the surveillance sensors along the southwest perimeter. Man, we might as well put up a sign saying "Welcome, Predacons, enter here."

  Optimus Primal : Hmm. With any luck, they're having problems of their own.

• Optimus Primal : Cheetor, planning to help with the clean-up?

  Cheetor : [looking through a telescope]  Ah, just checkin' for new constellations. Twinkle, twinkle, little Starscream...

• Dinobot : I do not think we have much to worry about...

  Rhinox : What?

  Dinobot : Remember the Cybertronix Dictionary? All records replaced "traitor" with the name "Starscream" and stuck in an image for good measure. Soon, hopefully very soon, Megatron will have other concerns besides Maximals to deal with...

  Optimus Primal : True. But in the meantime...