The Transformers: The Movie/references

"Stop beating this dead horse, Prime."
"NEVER!"

This page quotes stories that quote The Transformers: The Movie.

Quotes

ONE SHALL STAND, ONE SHALL FALL

• "Only one shall stand, Galvatron! It ends here!"

"NEVER!!"

"At last, the Universe will be freed from your evil!" —Optimus Prime and Galvatron, "Unfinished"

• "At the end of this day... one shall stand; one shall fall." —Optimus Prime, the live-action Transformers movie
• "Enough! This is between you and me, Megatron — one shall stand, one shall fall! Let's finish this." —Optimus Prime, "Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 4"
• "Today, one shall stand, and one shall fall." —Optimus Prime, the Revenge of the Fallen video game
• "One shall stand..."

"...One shall fall." —Optimus Prime and Megatron, the intro for War for Cybertron

• "One shall fall..." —The title of the final boss fight against Trypticon in that same game
• "One shall stand, one shall fall." —Optimus Prime, "Darkness Rising, Part 5"
• "Never, Megatron. One shall stand, one shall fall." —Optimus Prime again, only as a figment of Megatron's imagination, "Sick Mind"
• "Megatron, today you answer for your crimes against Cybertron... and against humanity. One shall stand..."

"...And one shall fall. You, Optimus Prime!" —Optimus Prime and Megatron, in, ahem, "One Shall Fall"

• "Today—one shall stand, and two shall fall!"

(WRUNK)

"No cliches, Galvatron." —Galvatron and Optimus Prime, "All Hail Optimus Part 6: No Fair Fights"

• "One Shall Fall..." —The title of a week-long Transformers Legends event

WHY THROW AWAY YOUR LIFE SO RECKLESSLY?

• "Why throw away your life so recklessly, Prime? It's a pity it has to end like this."

"That's a question you should ask yourself, Galvatron! I will finish you!" —Galvatron and Optimus Prime, "Unfinished"

WAIT, I STILL FUNCTION!

• "I still function. You haven't... won. Not while my spark... still burns..." —Galvatron, "Unfinished"'s last words, "Unfinished"

SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR

• "Soundwave superior, Autobots inferior." —Soundwave, "Human Error, Part II"
• "Soundwave superior. Autobots inferior." —Another Soundwave, "Minus One"

Honorable mentions

It never ends!

Of course the Transformers: The Movie Marvel comic, the Transformers the Movie Ladybird book and the Transformers: The Animated Movie IDW comic cribbed dialogue and plot from the '86 movie, seeing as they're all adaptations of it, but several original stories stand out for leaning on it a little more heavily than most:

• The Transformers: Autocracy, Monstrosity and Primacy - three reference-ridden miniseries co-written by Flint Dille (one of the writers on the original cartoon, and story consultant for the '86 movie) set in IDW Publishing's Generation 1 continuity
• Another Light - the Shattered Glass version of The Transformers: The Movie, published in seven parts through the official Transformers Collectors' Club
• Echoes and Fragments - the GoBots version of the movie, released by the Club via Ask Vector Prime
• Transformers: Deviations - a one-shot from IDW Publishing that provides an alternate version of the movie where Optimus Prime does not die
• The Prime Wars Trilogy - three cartoon series produced by Machinima, the dialogue for which seems to consist mostly of half-remembered movie quotes

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