Quotes / Beast Wars

Rattrap: We're all gonna die.
Insert Maximal Here: Shut up, Rattrap!

— Multiple Episodes

Season One

That'll teach you to mess wit' tha rat!''

—Rattrap, Power Surge

Holy cat's meow... it's the bomb''...

—Cheetor, Equal Measures

n'Ohh! Man!! This is ridiculous! We're an exploration ship, not a battle cruiser!

—Rattrap, Beast Wars (Part 1)

Rattrap: h'Yeah, like I care. Y'know!! We were s'posed to be doin' deep space exploration! Hm! Playin' galactic patrol wasn' nowhere in my job description know what'm sayin'? You sure yer cut out fer dis commander gig?

Optimus: (Sigh) Remember the Great War, Rattrap. If the Predacons get enough Energon, they'll start it again. (Lightly clenches fist) 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 uhh call me picky but a workin' spacecraft might be nice!

Optimus: (Sigh) Just no pleasin' some people!

— Beast Wars (Part 1)

Life-Draining Machine: Unable to respond; incorrect energy signature.

Rattrap: (Distressed, frantically pressing buttons)

Life-Draining Machine: Unable to respond; incorrect energy signature.

Rattrap: (Presses random buttons faster)

Life-Draining Machine: Unable to respond; incorrect— (Rattrap slams the side of the machine, machine enters a loop of repeating "incorrect energy signature")

Rattrap: (Frantic looking around, followed by sudden calmness) ...Guess I'll have to use my own signature. (Shoots machine off cliff, laughs as he watches it plummet)

— The Web

Dinobot: (...)And by, simply coming in contact with the communication console, this initiated the transport?

Terrorsaur: That's all I did! Nothin' to it!

Dinobot: Excellent! Then I shall have no difficulty duplicating the procedure... without you. (Pushes Terrorsaur into jettison airlock)

Terrorsaur: Heyyyyy!! What're ya doiiinnn'! We're partnerrrrss!!

Dinobot: In case you had not realized, Needlenose, I am not a team player. (Throws jettison lever)

— Equal Measures

Terrorsaur: Hey!! Where'd 'e go?! (Looking around) ...Where'd I go?

— Equal Measures

Sometimes, crazy works.

— Optimus Primal, Multiple Episodes

Optimus: You, (inhale) you don't understand... (inhale) it's like Dinobot says, (inhale) we gotta hit the Pred's the only way they understand!! (Draws weapons) HARD!! Fast, and right where it hurts! (Heavy breathing) But if your caution circuits are overriding your courage, (inhale) let's melt you all!! I don't need you... (inhale) I'll handle this myself. (Mouth Guard connects, Optimus stomps towards the elevator platform)

— Gorilla Warfare

Rattrap: Hoo-hoo-hoo hoo, yeah-heah! And about time, too! Oooh, I can just hear the dames cryin' fer me!

Dinobot: Perhaps it is the thought of your return that causes their... unhappiness.

— Victory

Rattrap: Man, y-y'know, it's your fault that I ain't kickin' back on Cybertron right now y' overgrown stinky iguana!

Dinobot: Hmmm— I've done the planet a favor... (Gradually lowers head again)

Rattrap: Hey! Hey! You want me to show you just how velociraptors got extinct!?

— Victory

Megatron: It shouldn't be this easy! No~! ...But, mustn't complain!

— Dark Designs

Rattrap: (Yelling over jet engines) Man! I still don't see why I gotta be the one t' get carried like a sack'a rusty nuts!

Optimus: Because you're the only one I can fly this whole distance. Besides, Tigatron's message said the flying island was booby-trapped! And no one knows traps like Rattrap.

Rattrap: Ehhh, the curse of a great reputation, hehe! Eh, sayyy uh, we get beverage cart service on this flight?

— The Trigger (Part 2)

(Softly) Calm... down...? ...(shrieking) We can't SEE!!!

—Dinobot, Dark Voyage

Rhinox: (at waterfall) We made it!

Dinobot: (Yelling) What did you saaaay?!

Rhinox: I said, we made it to the waterfall!!

Dinobot: What a startling revelation!!

— Dark Voyage

Megatron: A bargaining chip, should remain in play until the game is over... yes...

Blackarachnia: Why do you always talk to yourself?

Megatron: Ah— I simply have a penchant for intelligent conversation.

— The Low Road

Megatron: Brilliant! They're causing a chain reaction which will rip this planet to atoms and destroy all traces of them... simply to deal with us. What sheer ruthlessness! What disregard for sentient life! ...I rather like these aliens.

— Other Voices, Part 2

Computer: Alien construct in range.

Optimus: Let's do it. Commence ignition sequence.

Computer: Commencing. Ignition in 60 nano-clicks.

Optimus: Prepare to blow pod hatch.

Computer: Unable to comply. Pod hatch is magn-sealed.

Optimus: That's impossible!

Megatron: Oh, I assure you, it is not.

Optimus: Megatron?

Megatron: Ironic isn't it? Both of us hitting upon the same plan to destroy the alien machine. Unfortunately in my version, the pilot goes down - or should I say up with the ship. [...] Oh, you Optimuses do love to sacrifice yourselves don't you? Unfortunately, this time your foolishness with destroy you and your Maximals. The Beast Wars are over Optimus! You. Lose.

— Other Voices, Part 2

Season Two

Inferno: Haha ha ha- fool! Pain is my friend! Allow me to introduce you to it!

— "Coming of the Fuzors, Part 1"

Dinobot: To be... or not to be, that is the question. These disks I hold, are they a record of what will be or only of what may? For if the future is indeed immutably foretold, then my demise is but moments from that confirmation, for I... I could not live if not the master of my fate... But - if the future can be changed, if these disks record merely one path of all the myriad ways the cosmos might conform... then their power is infinite - and yet, still limited. For they could be used but once, and in that change be rendered fiction forevermore... I could ''destroy'' them! But, no - t'would be a cowards answer. I will know the truth instead. Then it will be either them, or me, that face oblivion.

— "Coming of the Fuzors, Part 1"

Rampage: Your persistence is futile! I rise again!
Silverbolt: In that case, let us give you farther to fall!

— "Bad Spark"

The question that once haunted my being has been answered: the future is not fixed and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic. For I now find I have no choice at all. I am a warrior... Let the battle be joined.

—Dinobot, "Code of Hero"

Megatron: Oh, please. Face it Dinobot. You're old technology - obsolete. What can you possibly do?
Dinobot: Improvise.

— "Code of Hero"

Optimus: Well fought my friend. You saved the valley. You saved the lives of those who live here - and of those that are still to come.
Dinobot: Then... there is nothing to regret.
Rattrap: Like I said, you're just a blasted slag-spouting saurian, but... it's nice to know where you stand.
Dinobot: Upwind of you, for preference, vermin... Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truly - the ill deeds, along with the good and let me be judged accordingly... The rest.. is silence...
Optimus: ...He lived a warrior and died a hero. Let his spark join the matrix, with the greatest of Cybertron.

— "Code of Hero"

This is Megatron, leader of the Decepticons! And if you are hearing this, it means I've failed... this time. (Evil Laugh) But I know that transwarp technology is being developed! And so, I leave this message to any Decepticon descendants that may find- may find- may find- may find- may find-...

—The original Megatron:, "The Agenda, Part II"

Ravage: Decepticons forever!

— "The Agenda, Part III"

Megatron: Ah... Now I enter these hallowed halls... a conqueror. Yessss... Autobots and Decepticons still frozen in emergency stasis, awaiting the moment four million years hence, when they awaken to start the Great War! (growl) The Great War, where the Autobots defeat the Decepticons and thus their descendants, the Maximals, rule we Predacons. Archaic Energon guzzlers! How dare they?! Unwilling though I was to follow my namesake's instructions... it has all come down to this! The ultimate risk! For the ultimate prize! A day of reckoning, with those who made us slaves! [...] So, we are now face to face, Optimus Prime! In one future, you awaken and become the great leader of the Autobots! But time... shall take a different track now. Computer! All available power to primary weapon!
Computer: Weapon power to maximum.
Megatron: Now, Optimus Prime... In memory of the Decepticons, for the glory of the Predacons, for the Cybertron that is rightfully ours... and mine to rule! I unleash the storm of vengeance! Farewell.

— "The Agenda, Part III

Season Three

Megatron: (in the Ark) You wouldn't dare fire in here! It might upset history.
Optimus: We'd have four million years to clean you off the walls, Megatron. I might risk it.

— "Optimal Situation"

I'm not sure what I know anymore, old friend. None of us are quite who we were when we began this war. And neither is our universe.

—Optimus Primal: "Deep Metal"

*ahem* Two-Head throw Megatron in lava pit. Megatron angry, think Two-Head a traitor. Want to slag Two-Head. Waspinator down with that! Defence, take a rest.

—Waspinator, "Other Victories"

Megatron: I suppose, given my imminent godhood, these primitives should really be beneath my attention. (Sigh) Still, "no score is to small to settle," I always say...
Dinobot II: You... would turn the full fury of this mighty warship on a lone anthropoid?! Tell me, Megatron... Where's the honor in that?

— "Nemesis"

Megatron: Oh, well, come on, let's have it! The usual "destiny and honor" speech.
Optimus: Speech this. (punches Megatron)

— "Nemesis"

Megatron: What possible reason do you have to disobey me?! I am your master! I am your - CREATOR!
Dinobot II: (hesitates, then sees Optimus)...And I...have my honor.

— "Nemesis"