Ron Perlman: Optimus Primal
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Optimus Primal : Maximals, MAXIMIZE!
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[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!
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[first lines]
Optimus Primal : There's a legend that precedes the dawn of our civilization: a vile god so large, so powerful, that it consumes entire planets as fuel. Few believed such a thing could be true... until the day we saw Unicron with our own eyes. But he didn't just come for our planet. He wanted our greatest technology, the Transwarp Key. And he sent his most powerful henchman, Scourge.
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Cheetor : More enemies are landing! We won't be safe for long!
Airazor : Do we have the Key?
Apelinq : You must take it, keep it hidden! Secure it so it never falls into the hands of Unicron!
Optimus Primal : But Apelinq, we can fight!
Apelinq : No! Protecting the Transwarp Key is all that matters!
[hands the Key to Primal]
Apelinq : Go! Use it to escape!
Airazor : What will you do?
Apelinq : I'll hold them off, buy you some time.
Optimus Primal : Then I'm staying with you!
Apelinq : This is my fight. Listen: if Unicron were to get the Key, it would open a portal in time and space, with no end to the worlds he could destroy! It is now your time to lead the Maximals, Optimus Primal.
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Battletrap : [Swinging his mace around] Someone give me a real fight!
Optimus Primal : [Grabs Battletrap's mace] If it's a fight you want, you've got one!
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Mirage : Okay, so where is this t-tran, t-trun...
Arcee : Transwarp Key?
Mirage : Thank you.
Arcee : It's in the new museum on Ellis Island.
Bumblebee : Let's blow it up and get the hell out of Dodge.
Arcee : No, we can't just go in blasting and steal it, Bee. The humans will hunt us down. What we need is a quiet way in.
Mirage : [getting down from a scaffold, Noah makes a loud noise of clattering metal] Ooh, how about him?
Optimus Primal : No.
Mirage : What? Come on, man. He could slip in right through one of them little doors, grab the Key, leave a nice IOU, and peace out. He's perfect.
Noah Diaz : What?
Optimus Primal : No, it is a bad idea.
Noah Diaz : I agree with Big Man. So, it's been real, y'all. But...
Mirage : Uh, time-out.
Optimus Primal : Mirage.
Mirage : No, no, I know, I know. Just relax. Let me just talk to my guy real quick.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Scourge : Wait, wait. Didn't I kill you already?
Optimus Primal : No! I'm the Maximal that's going to rip out your spark.
Scourge : We'll see about that.
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Optimus Primal : [struggling with Airazor, who has been infected with dark matter by Scourge] Fight it, Airazor.
Airazor : Remember our oath, Primal. No matter the cost.
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Optimus Primal : He is not the Optimus Prime I imagined.
Airazor : Well, he has lost so much.
Optimus Primal : Many more will perish if the key falls into the wrong hands.
Airazor : If you had another chance to save our home, would you act any differently?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Optimus Primal : Airazor, I'm happy to see you, old friend. But bringing others here was not part of our plan. I fear you bring dark tidings.
Airazor : Scourge has come to Earth.
Optimus Primal : He's found us.
Airazor : And he has half of the key. We must find the second piece before he does.
Elena Wallace : But it wasn't in the cave.
Optimus Primal : It was. But we moved it long ago to keep it safe.
Airazor : Where is it now?
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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.
