Beast Wars: Transformers (TV Series)

Beast Wars: Part 1 (1996)

Scott McNeil: Rattrap, Dinobot, Waspinator

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Quotes 

• Rattrap : So... uh... this your first day on the job or what?

  Optimus Primal : Shut up, Rattrap.

  Rattrap : Oh, yes, sir! I feel heaps better knowing that our lives are in your capable hands!... We're all gonna die.

• [first lines] 

  [Two ships fly through a portal, attacking each other] 

  Cheetor : Hull breach in Sector 7! Guidance systems failing!

  Rattrap : Oh, man, this is ridiculous! We're an exploration ship, not a battle cruiser!

  Optimus Primal : We had no choice! Ours was the only ship that could lock on to Megatron's warp signature!

  Cheetor : Shields are doing a major fade!

  Optimus Primal : Plasma cannons to full power!

• [Rhinox, carrying Optimus Primal and Rattrap, heads towards some boulders] 

  Rattrap : Heads up! Roadblock!

  Optimus Primal : Veer left! There's a clearing about a hundred metres!

  [Rhinox disregards these comments and simply barges through the boulders] 

  Optimus Primal : Ah, yes. Silly me...

• Tarantulas : Tarantulas: terrorize!

  Rhinox : Rhinox: maximize!

  Rhinox : Scorponok: terrorize!

  Rattrap : Rattrap: maximize!

  Terrorsaur : Terrorsaur: terrorize!

  Megatron : Megatron: terrorize!

  Optimus Primal : Optimus Primal: maximize!

• Rattrap : Maannn... All this for a golden disk...

  Optimus Primal : It was Cybertron's carefully-guarded relic, Rattrap. It gave the location of a major Energon source. That's why Megatron stole it!

  Rattrap : Yeah, like I care... You know, we was supposed to be doing deep space exploration - flying galactic patrol was nowhere in my job description, you know what I'm saying? You sure you're cut out for this commander gig?

  Optimus Primal : Remember the Great War, Rattrap? If the Predacons get enough Energon they'll start it again. We can't let that happen. Besides, you wanted exploration, and here we are on an unknown planet - what more do you want?

  Rattrap : Well, call me picky, but a working spacecraft might be nice!

  Optimus Primal : [sighs]  Just no pleasing some people...

• Rattrap : [Optimus Primal growls at him]  Hey! Hey, what's got your servos so bent?

  Optimus Primal : Let's get one thing straight, Rattrap: I am commander of this group, and when I give an order, I expect it to be obeyed!

  Rattrap : Oh, yeah? So I get vaped because you're too chicken to go yourself!

  Optimus Primal : I will not give an order I would not be willing to do myself! But I was capable of giving you better cover fire, you were not.

  Rattrap : Hey, we got out of there alive, didn't we?

  Optimus Primal : But injured. It'll take time for our beast modes to effect internal repairs.

• Dinobot : [examining the Golden Disk]  No, no, NO! It's all wrong! This cannot be Earth! Megatron, you FAILED! Not only did you fail to destroy the Maximals when you had the chance, you failed to bring us to the right PLANET! We stole the Golden Disk for nothing! You IDIOT!

  Megatron : [soft but dangerous tone]  I beg your pardon? What did you call me?

  Dinobot : You heard! You are an idiot and an incompetent leader, and I am taking over! Dinobot: terrorize!

  [Dinobot transforms into robot mode and prepares to duel] 

  Dinobot : I challenge you to battle, Megatron. The winner shall lead the Predacons, and the loser shall be destroyed!

  Megatron : Ahh, you're so impulsive, Dinobot. Brave... but misguided.

• Dinobot : Do you accept my challenge?

  Megatron : [laughing]  There's more to being a leader than simple courage. Well, there's cleverness and cunning as well. Isn't that right, Scorponok?

  [Scorponok swiftly dispatches Dinobot with a missile] 

  Megatron : Loser!

• Dinobot : Their shields are down! Destroy them!

  Megatron : Now where's the fun in that? A little torment I think first, Yesss.

• Waspinator : Waspinator under attack! Waspinator engage enemy! Waspinator: terrorize!

• [During a battle, Cheetor is pinned down by some rocks] 

  Cheetor : Ahh... I'm stuck!

  Optimus Primal : Rattrap, help Cheetor! We'll cover you!

  Rattrap : Yeah, right!

  Optimus Primal : That's an ORDER, Rattrap!

  Rattrap : Yeah? Well, you can just kiss my skin-rear, 'cause there ain't NO way I'm going out there n' getting MY pelt punctured!

  [With a snort of disgust, Primal goes in on his own] 

• [last lines] 

  Dinobot : Attention, Dinobots! My name is Dinobot! I have left the Predacons to join your group... as LEADER!

  Cheetor : WHAT? Did I hear the word "leader"?

  Rhinox : [to Rattrap]  This guy's got bearings of chrome steel...

  Dinobot : I hereby challenge you, Optimus Primal, to a one-on-one battle! The winner shall lead the Maximals, and the loser shall be destroyed!

• [During a battle, Rattrap refuses to attack and is picked up by a fed-up Rhinox] 

  Rattrap : Hey! Lemme go, yah big bulldozer!

  Rhinox : Cover fire... they need it, we give it! NOW!

• [Optimus tries to contact Cheetor after he ran off] 

  Optimus Primal : Cheetor, return to base immediately! We don't have time for this! Cheetor? Please respond!

  Rhinox : No good. The energon fields mess up the commlinks. Anything over a hundred meters, they ain't worth scrap.

  Optimus Primal : Well, that's just prime.

  Rattrap : So, this your first day on the job or what?

  Optimus Primal : Shut up, Rattrap.

  Rattrap : Oh, yes *sir*! I feel just heaps better knowing' our lives are in your capable hands. We're all gonna die.