Peter Cullen: Optimus Prime
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[last lines]
Optimus Prime : There are mysteries to the universe we were never meant to solve. But who we are and why we are here, are not among them. Those answers we carry inside. I am Optimus Prime, and this message is to my Creators: leave planet Earth alone, 'cause I'm coming for you!
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Cade Yeager : Teenagers...
Optimus Prime : I went through the same thing with Bumblebee.
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Cade Yeager : When you said you were done fighting for humans, you didn't mean that, did you?
Optimus Prime : How many more of my kind must be sacrificed, to atone for YOUR mistakes?
Cade Yeager : What do you think being human means? That's what we do. We make mistakes. Sometimes, out of those mistakes come the most amazing things... When I fixed you, it was for a reward. That was it. That was why. The money. And it was me making a mistake. Without it, you wouldn't be here. So even if you got no faith in us, I'm asking you to do what I do. I'm asking you to look at all the junk and see the treasure. You gotta have faith, Prime, in who we can be.
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[Cade tends to Optimus Prime]
Optimus Prime : Cade, why are you willing to help me?
Cade Yeager : Cause you trust me to.
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[from trailer]
[Cade jumpstarts a truck with a cable]
Optimus Prime : Calling all Autobots...
Cade Yeager : I think we just found a Transformer!
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Optimus Prime : Honor to the end.
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Optimus Prime : You have no soul!
[runs Galvatron through with his sword]
Galvatron : That is why I have no fear!
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Optimus Prime : Within that man-made protype I fought, I felt the presence of Megatron.
Cade Yeager : The Decepticon who started the Chicago war?
Brains : How do you think KSI built those bots in the first place, hmm? They had a whole mess of dead Decepticon heads, and they were downloading their minds! And Iw as in charge of autopsy duty, no union, no benefits, no nothing! They hooked me up to Megatron, and that mind wasn't as dead as they thought! He fed them the science and the specs, all so he could build them a brand new body! Then he infected it with his evil nasty chromosomes! Total inside custom job! KSI might have named the body a snazzy name like Galvatron, but that's just Megatron reincarnated!
Tessa Yeager : You knew this, and you didn't warn them?
Brains : Little girl, you go into a pretty dark place when you're on death row. He's been playing KSI all this time, all so he could manipulate them into going after the Seed!
Shane Dyson : The Seed?
Tessa Yeager : Those nasty soldiers that were chasing us, I saw them take something that they called the Seed...
Hound : Sixty million years ago, give or take an eon.
Optimus Prime : Thousands of planets were cyberformed with Seeds. They turned your life into our elemental metal. Our creators destroyed your species to make us.
Brains : And that's what Galvatron wants to happen again! He wants to detonate that Seed in the biggest city and kill millions! He's going to show the world "Baby, I'm back!"
Optimus Prime : The blast wave will incinerate that city into molten metal. He'll have enough to build a massive army, and annihalate your species for ever.
Brains : You dumb greedy bastards just brought extinction to yourselves! Not my problem, though! I'm free at last! The whole thing worked out good for me!
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[from trailer]
Optimus Prime : Who sent you here?
Lockdown : You think you were born? You were built! And they want you back.
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Harold Attinger : [holds Cade at gunpoint] You see, it takes patience to make a man. The patience to watch and wait, to protect all of us quietly, for God and country, without any recognition at all!
Optimus Prime : [as he is fighting Lockdown] Cade!
Harold Attinger : There are no good aliens or bad aliens, Yeager! It's just us and them! And you chose them...
[Optimus Prime guns down Attinger]
Cade Yeager : Anytime.
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Optimus Prime : [to the Dinobots] Legendary warriors, the powers that created us now want us all extinguished. We must join forces, or else we'll all be their slaves. So today you stand with us... or you stand against me.
[Grimlock roars at Optimus and attacks him]
Crosshairs : We'll let Prime figure this one out...
Drift : Very wise.
Crosshairs : [climbs up a waterfall] There's no way I'm staying down with them, NO WAY!
Optimus Prime : [punches Grimlock] Only together can we survive! Let me lead you!
[Grimlock transforms into a T-rex and roars fire]
Crosshairs : Oh, no...
Drift : I was expecting a giant car!
Optimus Prime : Come here!
[Grimlock charges at Prime]
Optimus Prime : We're giving you freedom!
[sucker punches Grimlock to the ground, and draws his blade]
Optimus Prime : Defend my family, or die!
[Grimlock submits to Optimus]
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Optimus Prime : A great threat is coming...
Cade Yeager : What if you had some human help?
Tessa Yeager : You're his partner now?
Cade Yeager : Sweetie, we're targets now too! We have to find out why we'll never get our lives back again!
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[Optimus climbs on Grimlock]
Optimus Prime : Autobots, we're gonna prove who we are and why we're here!
Crosshairs : Ugh, you just want to die for the guy. That's leadership. Or brainwashing, or something.
Drift : No... that's Optimus Prime.
[the other Dinobots transform as Crosshairs rides Scorn and Drift rides Slug]
Optimus Prime : Autobots, we charge together! Now, roll out!
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[from trailer]
Optimus Prime : This is not war... it's human extinction!
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[from trailer]
Optimus Prime : After all we have done, humans are hunting us. But I fear we are all targets now.
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Lockdown : Welcome back to the Knights Terminus, Prime.
Optimus Prime : You have disgraced it...
Lockdown : Join your fellow rebels, fugitive scum! It's for the rarest of specimens, the worst of the worst. It's taken centuries, but I've collected all the Knights, but you. The Creators want to sweep their chessboard clean.
Optimus Prime : I am slave to no one.
Lockdown : All this species mixing with species, it upsets the cosmic balance. The Creators, they don't like it. They built you to do what you were told.
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[from trailer]
Optimus Prime : Autobots, roll out!
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Optimus Prime , Cade Yeager : There remains a price on my head. I endanger you all if I stay. I shall take the Seed where it can never be found.
Cade Yeager : Will we ever see you again?
Optimus Prime : Cade Yeager, I do not know. But whenever you look to the stars, think of one of them as my soul. Defend this family, Autobots. As they have you. Defend all they can be.
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Joshua Joyce : What we do here is science. Because if we don't do it, somebody else will. Because you cannot stop technology.
Optimus Prime : We are NOT your technology!
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[repeated line]
Optimus Prime : Calling all Autobots!
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[from trailer]
Optimus Prime : The hunt ends here!
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Optimus Prime : [sees Leadfoot and Ratchet get killed by humans] I have sworn to never kill humans...
Hound : Big mistake.
Optimus Prime : ...but when I find out who's behind this, he's going to die.
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Cade Yeager : [examines Prime] The missile just missed your power source.
Optimus Prime : We call it a spark. It contains our life essence, and all our memories.
Cade Yeager : Yeah, we call it a soul.
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Lockdown : I feel sorry for you, Prime. Your legion, these humans. The trouble with loyalty to a cause... is that the cause will always betray you!
Optimus Prime : [paralyzed] Who sent you here?
Lockdown : Where do you think you came from? You think you were born? No. You were built! And your Creators want you back!
[Smirks]
Lockdown : We all work for someone.
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Optimus Prime : Brave warriors, you are free!
[the Dinobots roar and leave]
Crosshairs : I'll ride with you anytime, Spike!
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Optimus Prime : The world will know what you did here!
Joshua Joyce : The world? The world will approve! We can make you now. Don't you get it? We don't need you anymore.
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Optimus Prime : [draws a Cybertronian sword] Recognize one of your knights!
[releases the Dinobots from their cell]
Optimus Prime : [in Cybertronian] The legend exists.
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Hound : Optimus, what are our orders on these humans? Can I squish the bald guy?
Optimus Prime : They're in trouble...
Crosshairs : Nah! This isn't our fight! I'm done being an underdog, underdogs suck! I say they get what they deserve!
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Cade Yeager : Hey, you!
[engages Lockdown]
Optimus Prime : Cade, get back! This is my fight!
Lockdown : It's MY fight now, and you're all gonna die!
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[after the Dinobots come into Hong Kong]
Joshua Joyce : Good job!
Optimus Prime : YOU!
Joshua Joyce : Who?
Cade Yeager : [grabs Joyce] YOU!
Optimus Prime : Step forward! Your science will be held accountable for humanity's extinction!
Joshua Joyce : Okay, I get it with the whole socio-biological ethics thing...
Cade Yeager : There are some things that shouldn't be invented.
[Grimlock roars at Joyce]
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[from trailer]
Optimus Prime : Charge!
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Optimus Prime : They slaughtered Ratchet... I'M GONNA TEAR THEM APART!
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Optimus Prime : Bee, jump!
[Bumblebee grabs hold of Strafe]
