The Transformers (TV Series)

The Burden Hardest to Bear (1986)

Jack Angel: Ultra Magnus, Astrotrain

Quotes 

• [Rodimus, after losing the Matrix, has reverted back to Hot Rod] 

  Hot Rod : Oh, my aching head! What hit me?

  [notices the others looking at him] 

  Hot Rod : What hit *you?* What are you all staring at? You look like you've seen a ghost!

  Ultra Magnus : We have... Hot Rod.

  Hot Rod : Hot Ro...

  Ultra Magnus : You no longer possess the Matrix.

  Hot Rod : Yeah, I thought I felt something different!

  Springer : How do you feel, Roddy? Strong enough to go after them?

  Hot Rod : Wait a minute, what's the rush?

  Ultra Magnus : The Matrix is the essence of the Autobots; our link to our history, and our future. Without it...

  Hot Rod : Aren't you getting a little carried away here? I'm still me, you're still you, Matrix, schmatrix!

  Marissa Faireborn : Hot Rod, listen to what you're saying!

  Hot Rod : I know exactly what I'm saying! I'm telling you - *all* of you - that I'm sick of being responsible for the preservation of the universe and its outlying suburbs! Day in and day out, punch this Decepticon, bash that Decepticon, what's the point? This has been going on a few dozen millennia now, and I don't see it changing! Do you? You want the Matrix back? Swell! Go get it! But find some other sucker to carry it!

  [walks off] 

  Hot Rod : Cause I QUIT!

  [transforms and drives away] 

• [last lines, as Rodimus returns to his friends after regaining the Matrix] 

  Rodimus Prime : Looks like you did okay without me.

  Ultra Magnus : Hot Rod! Uh, Rodimus!

  Kup : Well, son of a gun. Found that missing part, huh?

  Rodimus Prime : Not just the Matrix, Kup. A missing part of... myself.

  Kup : That's the point, son. No matter who carries the Matrix, that part's what you'll never lose.