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[[Image:Dinobots-rollout.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Roll, float, drift, fall... whatever.]]

"'''Roll out'''" is a common command among Transformers (primarily [[Autobot]]s), essentially meaning to move out, deploy or otherwise embark on a mission. Its literal meaning, to start ''rolling'' in in one's ground-based, wheel-equipped vehicle mode, appears to have become diluted over time, to the point that Transformers who don't even ''have'' vehicular alternate forms (and have to run to where they're going) still give /receive the order.

{{quote|Autobots, transform, and roll out!|Many Optimus Primes, too many times to count}}

==Fiction==
===Generation 1 cartoon===
The phrase in its most iconic form was uttered by [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]; it typically signified the start of a mission, as the group transformed and deployed to counter the Decepticons' latest scheme.

After [[Hot Rod]] opened the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and became Rodimus Prime, his first act as [[Prime (rank)|Autobot leader]] was to order the Autobots to "transform and roll out"...through space! {{storylink|The Transformers: The Movie}}

It was such a famous command that, in the months following Optimus Prime's death, Pipes rallied his troops to defend [[Ark (G1)|Autobot Headquarters]] thus: "As Optimus Prime used to say, transform and roll out!" {{storylink|Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5}}

===Marvel Comics continuity===
[[Image:Terrorcons-rollout1.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Maybe it's because I can't fly and have to roll everywhere I go.]]

The phrase here was less associated with Optimus Prime, though he did use it to start off several missions in the months after he was returned from Shockwave's captivity. In fact, the first known utterance of the phrase was by Wheeljack, as he and Jazz left the ''Ark'' on a mission. {{storylink|DIS-Integrated Circuits!}}

Later it would be used to command all sorts of Transformers to do all sorts of things, such as ''running'' to one's destination, or ''leaping out of a starship into space''.

{{note|Like the belated appearance of [[energon cube]]s, the phrase's frequent use even when it makes no sense would appear to be a point of the comics converging toward the more well-known [[Generation 1 (cartoon)|G1 cartoon]].}}

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===Beast Wars===
While briefly holding the [[spark]] of Optimus Prime, [[Maximal]] leader [[Optimus Primal]] told the Maximals that it was "time to transform and roll out!" {{storylink|Optimal Situation}}

Though it would seem logical, nobody has ''ever'' told [[Retrax]] to "roll out". Not too many other Beast Warriors are much equipped to do so.
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===Transformers (2007 movie)===
Optimus Prime used a version of the catchphrase in the movie, shortened to "Autobots, roll out!" 'Transforming' in this case must have seemed too obvious to mention.

===Transformers Animated===
Repair crew captain Optimus Prime, once settled/stranded on Earth, typically used the command "Transform and roll out!" to have his squad deploy on a mission. {{storylink|Transform and Roll Out!}} It became ''such'' a catchphrase for him that his adoring young fans among the population of [[Detroit]] requested that he say the phrase for them. {{storylink|Sound and Fury}}

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