Transformers (comic)
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Transformers is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics (G1), Dreamwave Productions (G2), and IDW Publishing (G3), as a regular series and in the form of various limited series. They detail the adventures of the robotic characters from the animated series of the same name.
[edit] Generation One (1984-1991)
[edit] Issue 1
Gears: The only thing Gears wants to learn about this planet is how to get off it. I hate this place already.
[edit] Issue 2
Bumblebee (to Sparkplug): I am code-named Bumblebee, I'm from the planet Cybertron, I'm in desperate need of fuel, and your son drove me here! Do all small, pink things ask so many questions?
[edit] Issue 5
Shockwave: The conquest of this planet and the enslavement of its people shall be a simple task... indeed.
[edit] Issue 16
Ernie: Cheese, Waldo -- I never seen a VW that could do 200 before.
[edit] Issue 19
Megatron: Decepticons do not cower behind gun batteries! Our destiny is to go where we please on this wretched world -- to conquer!
[edit] Issue 20
Skids: I have no desire to be a hero -- or to die.
[edit] Issue 29
G.B. Blackrock: So you guys are desserters.
Blaster: We prefer to think of ourselves as 'independent-minded'.
Blaster: Sometimes war forces you to do things you'll hate yourself for as long as you live!
[edit] Issue 37
Ratbat: I'll get you, fleshling! I'll drink your fuel with a steel straw!!
[edit] Issue 38
Spike: Good guys don't just let bad guys get away with stuff like that! It's against the rules!
[edit] Issue 43
Big Top: Berko! So this is what I get for puttin' you on the payroll!... Well, I got a bonus for your good work -- first I'm gonna rip your limbs out, one by one -- and then I'm gonna fire you!
[edit] Issue 46
Burnout: Two more. Little guys. Easily bruised.
[edit] Issue 53
Landmine: Reason's gonna be the death of me yet!
[edit] Issue 55
Roadhandler: Don't go looking for heroes to believe in... believe in yourselves.
Lord Zarak: Is something wrong, Roadhandler? You look as if you lost something. Perhaps if you allowed Stormcloud to rip you to pieces, whatever that something is will turn up... safe and sound!
[edit] Issue 60
Optimus Prime: One life for many... how I tire of that equation!
Grimlock (on Primus): Huh. Some creator. Seems to have dozed off!
[edit] Issue 61
Bludgeon: Prattling fool! Your warrior heart is tainted by an idiot's tongue! Perhaps I shall remove both for you!
[edit] Issue 63
Dogfight: Oh, a threat! I love threats!
[edit] Issue 67
Cyclonus: We destroyed, we annihilated... we had a good time!
Jazz: Better to fight and die than to live with the knowledge that I ran!
[edit] Issue 68
Rapture: Sexist redneck pig! You need shifting out of the dark age... like with dynamite!
[edit] Issue 69
Shockwave: Suggestion: we dispense with the tiresome shocked exclamations and get down to business!
Grimlock: C'mon, Kup -- we old hands at this game, we know score. Obey orders to a point. But sometimes to win, you have to bend rules -- take chances!
[edit] Issue 71
Optimus Prime: We're Autobots! We never give ground and we never, never surrender!
Galvatron: Blood red twilight decends on your planet, and I am its harbinger!
[edit] Issue 73
Galvatron: For all their supposed omnipotence... even gods can be conned!
Circuit Breaker: Beg, robot -- beg for your life! It won't do any good, but I'd like to hear it anyway!
[edit] Issue 77
Bludgeon: Their plan, fellow Decepticons, is weak! Ill-befitting a warrior race such as ours! Colonizing a barren world, starting from nothing, scratching a living from dust and dirt! This is not *our* way! We take, and any thing or one in our way is crushed! They would have us bury our heritage, bend our knees to their feeble-minded ways! Well, I say no! I say from this day on we begin afresh, with new wars to fight, new worlds to conquer! I mean, why fight it -- it's in our oil!
[edit] Issue 78
Starscream: Oh, come on! This isn't the way it's supposed to happen! Sure, you're supposed to die, but you have to run around a bit first, fight back! What fun is this?
Ratchet: Fun? FUN?! How DARE you! How dare you trivialize life and death! Is that all it's ever been to you, this war -- fun? How many, eh? How many had to die for you to get your jollies? HOW MANY?
[edit] Issue 79
Fortress Maximus: ...We are servants of a force from beyond time. A force dedicated to the preservation of life, of liberty.
[edit] Transformers: Headmasters (1987)
[edit] Issue 1
Galan: A moment of distrust can tear down what ten thousand years of peace has built... there will be no war today.
Fortress Maximus: Whether I am a hero or a coward is not the issue! I am weary! My joints creak from the corrosion of war without end! I... cannot break this ring of hate that surrounds us all. But I can remove myself from it. No matter what you decide... I am leaving.
[edit] Generation 2 (1993)
[edit] Issue 2
Bludgeon: Plan?... I just want you to destroy anything and everything you encounter!
Quake: Aw, gee, boss... you sure know how to keep the troops smilin'.
[edit] Issue 8
Starscream: He's telling me that once his new army is fully mobilized, my services will no longer be required. And given my past record of treachery, I doubt that means a pension and a sign that says 'Dunmurderin!'
[edit] Issue 11
Starscream: I don't want to be good!
[edit] Issue 12
The Leige Maximo: You cannot destroy evil. It exists always as a counterforce, a balance in nature that is always maintained... no matter how noble the founding intention.
