Line #8 Recap/BeastWarsS1E26OtherVoicesPart2


1	'''The Vok activate a device to wipe out all life on the planet, but the spiders may have provided the Maximals with the means to stop them'''
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3	!Tropes:
4	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Optimus is slightly amused by Rattrap asking to have his quarters if he doesn't make it back.
5	* AdmiringTheAbomination: Megatron is quite impressed with the Planet-Buster, as well as how the Vok would go to such lengths to destroy sentient beings.
6	-->'''Megatron:''' What sheer ruthlessness. What disregard for sentient life. I rather like these aliens.
7	* AwesomeButImpractical: The Vok's Planet Buster, in spades. It takes forever to charge up and requires a manual activation from the planet which ''itself'' needs to charge up, and when it finally does fire it still gives ample time for the beast warriors to formulate a counter-attack. Oh and it's taken out by a ''single'' explosion.
8	* TheBadGuyWins: Technically the Maximals and Predacons had the same goal in this episode [[note]] destroy the Planet Buster before it destroys Earth [[/note]] but Megatron's [[XanatosSpeedChess last-minute plan]] to kill Optimus goes off without a hitch; the last thing Optimus sees is [[EvilLaugh Megatron laughing]].
9	-->'''Optimus:''' '''''[[SayMyName MEGA]][[SkywardScream TRON!]]'''''
10	* BittersweetEnding: The planet is saved, but Optimus is dead.
11	* {{Cliffhanger}}: Optimus is blown up.
12	* CurbStompBattle: Inferno dishes out one to Tarantulas, catching a dart fired by him in mid flight. Tarantulas does take the chance to shoot him but Inferno laughs it off before setting Tarantulas on fire.
13	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: The Planet-Buster will super heat all the energon and cause an explosion big enough to destroy the entire planet.
14	* EvilVersusOblivion: Megatron's predicament; he [[UriahGambit cunningly repurposes]] Tarantulas's escape attempt in order to avert it. Blackarachnia is also compelled to cooperate with the Maximals under this threat.
15	* FakeShemp: Tarantulas’ one line of dialogue is provided by Creator/ScottMcNeil, rather than his usual VA Alec Willows.
16	* FreezeFrameBonus: Pause the scene after the explosion at just the right spot, and you can see Optimus's severed head.
17	* HeroicSacrifice: Optimus' plan to stop the Planet-Buster runs the risk of being this, though he ''intended'' to at least try and get clear of the blast before Megatron sabotaged him. As he puts it to Blackarachnia, they're all about to die ''anyway'' if they don't do something.
18	-->'''Blackarachnia:''' You'll blow yourself to atoms! ''[snickers]''\
19	'''Optimus:''' If it saves this planet, it'll be worth it. If not, I'm no worse off.
20	* ItHasBeenAnHonor:
21	-->'''Optimus:''' Whatever happens out there, I want you to know that you're the finest crew I've ever served with.
22	* LittleNo: Optimus when he realizes the purpose of the Vok device is to cause the planet's vast amount of energon to explode.
23	* MoodWhiplash:
24	** Tigatron and Airazor wish Optimus luck and hope that he comes back, while Cheetor just stares in anxious silence. Rattrap just asks if he can have his quarters.
25	** Optimus tells the rest of the Maximals [[ItHasBeenAnHonor they are the best crew he has ever served with]], and Blackarachnia mocks Maximals for getting so sentimental. Airazor punches her out for that remark.
26	* MoreHeroThanThou: When Optimus reveals his plan, every Maximal in the room except [[TheDragalong Rattrap]] offers to go in his place. Optimus points out that only a flyer has a chance of escaping the explosion, so it's either him or Airazor - and he's the one giving orders.
27	-->'''Optimus:''' What about you, Rattrap?\
28	'''Rattrap:''' Hey, heh, suicide ain't in my job description.\
29	'''Optimus:''' Hmm. Or ''mine.''
30	* MythologyGag: Ever since ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', Optimus Prime in any given incarnation makes a HeroicSacrifice and risks dying. While there ''was'' a chance of escape here, Megatron strips that away. It doesn't stop him from throwing a TakeThat at his enemy Primal, though.
31	-->'''Megatron:''' [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_many_deaths_of_Optimus_Prime Oh, you Optimuses do love to sacrifice yourselves, don't you?]]
32	* OhCrap: Blackarachnia has one as she Rattrap and Airazor hold her at gunpoint.
33	* OutGambitted: Tarantulas by Megatron. Back in "Before The Storm," Megatron downloaded a virus onto the Transwarp cell that Tarantulas stole, with the latter none the wise. So, even ''if'' the spider had finished jury-rigging the stasis pod into a ship, he would've just been sent on a suicide run into the Planet Buster. Ironically, by torching Tarantulas, Inferno inadvertently saved his life.
34	* PhraseCatcher: "Shut up, Rattrap!"
35	* PragmaticVillainy: Blackarachnia doesn't want to hand the stasis pod she just worked on to the Maximals. Optimus reminds her that she is going to be destroyed along with them, instantly changing her mind.
36	* RaceAgainstTheClock: Once the Planet-Buster is activated, the Maximal computer projects the planet will be destroyed in 28.5 cycles. By the time Optimus is closing in with the stasis pod, they're down to 5.3 cycles.
37	* SpannerInTheWorks: Ironically enough, it's [[UndyingLoyalty Inferno]] who nearly ruins Megatron's plan by torching Tarantulas.
38	* TooCleverByHalf: Megatron sending Inferno to monitor Tarantulas and Blackarachnia nearly backfires when he attacks the two and torches Tarantulas.
39	* UriahGambit: Megatron welds shut the door of Tarantulas's exit strategy, intent on averting annihilation with the treacherous spider's death. To his great delight, circumstances place [[BigGood Optimus]] in the soaring coffin instead.
40	* WhamLine:
41	--> '''Megatron:''' The Beast Wars are over, Optimus. You... lose.
42	--> "Goodbye, Optimus." [[note]]Tarantulas's voice coming out of Blackarachnia's body.[[/note]]
43	* WomenAreWiser: Whereas Tarantulas got roasted for fighting head on, Blackarachnia gets the better of Inferno by relying on more guile tactics.
44	* XanatosSpeedChess: Having downloaded his own programming into the Transwarp cell that Tarantulas stole for the stasis pod ship, Megatron's original plan is to hijack the pod in flight and crash it into the Planet Buster after setting the Transwarp cell to blow, [[WeHaveReserves the explosion taking Tarantulas and/or Blackarachnia with it.]] To his ''delight'', Optimus comes up with the same idea and decides to pilot the pod himself, so all Megatron has to do is hack the pod's systems to seal it shut, and as a result, his rival is destroyed along with the Planet Buster.

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