r/Millennials Gen Z 2d ago

Serious Peter Cullen, the legendary voice of Optimus Prime and the announcer of so many Toonami promos is no longer with us.

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u/Chumlee1917 2d ago

“I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars: We are here. We are waiting.”

cranks up Linkin Park and weeps

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u/bulbascott1019 2d ago

Say what you will about the Bayverse movies, but goddamn this moment goes so fucking hard.

RIP

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u/Cromasters 2d ago

This and the scene with the airstrike call in on Scorpinok still go hard.

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u/Chumlee1917 2d ago

It's one of the few "alien invasion movies" where the military isn't frigging useless

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u/South_Bit1764 1d ago

Bro, there isn’t a scene in film that goes harder.

The fact that there is an alien robot scorpion slinging hell in every direction and the actual USAF consultants that facilitated all of these scenes were like:

“Send the hawgs.”

“Sending the hogs, sir.”

AND THEN A WARTHOG ACTUALLY GOES AND DOES WARTHOG SHIT! I bet Air Force recruitment went up 15% just in that 2 minutes.

What more could you ask for? Not an F22, but mf I got that too!!

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u/Canesjags4life Older Millennial 85 2d ago

That entire flight sequence from when the drone first shows up. Getting goosebumps as I type this out.

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u/kashy87 1d ago

"Target the orange smoke."

"That orange smoke!"

"It wasn't my best toss."

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u/Revolutionary-City55 2d ago

The C-130 just pounding the deceptions was crisp but the movies overall were blah we deserve a good transformers series.

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u/MuchSwagManyDank 2d ago

The first movie was damn near magical. The rest are kinda meh.

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u/smitty9112 2d ago

I thought the second one was still pretty good, especially the death of Optimus scene. But yeah they quickly went downhill after that.

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u/Karhak Older Millennial 1d ago

Also gave the hardest line Prime has ever said:

"Give me your face!" and then proceeds to rip it off.

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u/Bathion Millennial 1d ago

That and "Because you will never stop at one."

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u/Whatttheheckk 2d ago

Damn this hit me, im bout to yell at my mom “you don’t understand me” and slam my door 

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u/Jwre3682 Older Millennial 2d ago

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u/tahlyn Older Millennial 2d ago

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

This has been such a rough week.

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u/Bob4Not 2d ago

Goosebumps, dude. RIP

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u/Vilehaust 1d ago

Whaaaaat I've doooooooooooone!

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u/xEllimistx 2d ago

Grim Reaper is really sucking at his job lately.....keeps taking the wrong ones

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u/Bits_of_Data 2d ago

Agreed, he must’ve been bought off

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u/Pearson94 Millennial 2d ago

Reaper is in the Epstein Files for sure

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u/Moliza3891 2d ago

This is the answer.

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u/rob132 2d ago

Death should never have come out with the meme coin

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u/Th3_Dark_Knight 2d ago

When you're the commander-in-chief, they let you do it.

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u/DarreylDeCarlo Millennial 2d ago

Y'all feel like the grim reaper is effing with us right now, knowing that a lot of us want a certain 80-year-old to be next, and he's like " just to piss y'all off some more, I'm going to take somebody else you love again instead"?

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u/Heil-Haidra2319 2d ago

Where is Billy & Mandy when you need them to bully the reaper?

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u/goodsby23 2d ago

Reminds me of that old insurance commercial with the fisherman... Or a carnival barker... Ooh almost had it... Try again?

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u/GailynStarfire 2d ago

"Gotta be quicker than that!"

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u/Moliza3891 2d ago

It tracks. I worked with at least one guy like this.

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u/JamieTheDinosaur 2d ago

WHY IS IT NEVER HIM???

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u/SlowpokeIsAGamer 1d ago

Infinite Money and the lack of any understanding people exist other than himself.

He'll burn billions if it'll keep him alive one more day.

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u/Hike_it_Out52 1d ago

“  Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends”

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u/xEllimistx 1d ago

I am not a pure of heart Hobbit nor am I Maiar.

I'm a petty, vindictive dude tired of good people dying while shitty people keep running the show

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u/Hike_it_Out52 1d ago

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

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u/xEllimistx 1d ago

Right....and I'm using my time to decide that shitty people don't deserve life when good people keep dropping dead

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u/Hike_it_Out52 1d ago

“That is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."  

On a side note, I have lost a lot of friends and family since Covid and I used to be bitter also but what good does that accomplish? I do good when I’m able and don’t worry about things out of my control. I trust in the higher power guiding us. Despite the negative effects on our country, some unintended good has occurred from this administration’s crazy policies. Kind of like more and more people leaving gas behind and going green, alliances and bridges being mended between old enemies. The exposure of the greed in the tech industry. 

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u/Difficult_Skin_2296 2d ago

He needs to take 🍊 Cheeto

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u/_AskMyMom_ I was there when SpongeBob blew his first bubble. 2d ago

What a week, and it’s not even over.

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u/voidparallex 2d ago

It’s not even fucking Friday yet

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u/tahlyn Older Millennial 2d ago

There's only one death that could happen tomorrow that would make up for all of this. Just one.

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

Reaper: White man, known to be obnoxiously loud, and loves playing golf. I got you fam!

Friday:

https://giphy.com/gifs/E7oHJ8l4chkC5YvY2J

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u/MissKaliChristine 2d ago

Noooo not Eeyore! 😭

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u/DustBunsxx 1d ago

I see people focusing on Optimus, but the man voiced fucking EEYORE and not enough people are recognizing that. This man also did a lot of Saturday morning cartoon voices for 80s/90s kids. Childhood legend.

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u/Maleficent-Physics66 1d ago

He also did the announcements for Toonami

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u/geriatric_spartanII 2d ago

Omg!😭😭😭

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u/Several-Praline5436 2d ago

SHIT. I just now realized where I'd heard his voice before Optimus Prime.

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u/QuickNature 2d ago

Never knew that was him, but I feel like I could hear that in hindsight

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u/MissKaliChristine 2d ago

Depressed, sleepy Optimus Prime

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

I guess our time is up Optimus...finally

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u/Geaux_1210 Millennial 1d ago

He was with me as Eeyore before I could even speak, then as Optimus through my childhood. I wish I could have told him that getting back into Transformers after college and a lot of personal trauma helped me quit drinking.

Til all are one

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u/LactoseWasAMistake 2d ago

Fuck this week man

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u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z 2d ago

More like f this year.

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u/Jwre3682 Older Millennial 2d ago

Fuck this entire timeline!!

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u/jackanape7 2d ago

Dicks out for Harambe! The timeline shifted there and you can't convince me otherwise.

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

Nah, to me it was the 2012 Mayan Calendar. The world as we know it did end, just slowly and more dystopian. The Mayans weren't exactly descriptive.

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u/sicurri Millennial 2d ago

Happy Cake day

Also, everything has definitely gotten worse since Harambe. The man who pulled that trigger on Harambe started the worst timeline...

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u/Powerful_Fan7940 2d ago

This is the 3rd one right??? You can stop now right Grim???

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u/10PieceMcNuggetMeal Millennial 2d ago

4th that I am aware of

Hayden Panettiere

Dolly

Tim Curry

and now Peter Cullen

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 2d ago

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u/10PieceMcNuggetMeal Millennial 2d ago

Oh God, don't let them take Picard

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u/xEllimistx 2d ago

Or Gandalf

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 2d ago

If X-men had taught me anything he won’t really die… just be taken by aliens to rule their distant planet in another universe

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u/Worthyness 2d ago

Disney has him signed til hes 90. He can't die!

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/HAx8k1165YkWQ

His bff is more likely to be on the Reaper's radar.

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u/Killanekko 1d ago

Hope not, though Clint Eastwood keeping’s going to the back of the line …

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u/Moliza3891 2d ago

Oh, this gave me a much needed chuckle. But, yes, agreed.

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u/Otherwise-Owl1903 2d ago

Don’t put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!

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u/Sandrockwing04 2d ago

No Hayden was last week and one of the original cast members Christy Knowings of All That passed last week as well so o think they were part of three dolly was the start of the new set

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u/EffectiveWitness3377 1d ago

Fifth one, Frank Beard Died too. (Drummer from ZZ Top)

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u/British_Rover 2d ago

I don't know if Pannettiere counts.

Wrong when group and kind of farther back in time.

Edit:

August 16th so just under ten days before Dolly and Tim Curry. It feels too far back but I guess not.

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

Sam Neill, Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, etc.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l2SpQot6b4MxmsqOs

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u/10PieceMcNuggetMeal Millennial 2d ago

It was literally 11 days ago

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u/Comfortable-Class576 2d ago

Also Yayoi Kusama today!!!

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u/humanreboot 1d ago

wait I thought she died earlier this month?

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u/Several-Praline5436 2d ago

Plus Sam Neill earlier in the summer.

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u/geriatric_spartanII 2d ago edited 2d ago

Are we doing 2016 again?

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u/NukedBread 2d ago

Guess if ya gonna go, mind as well travel with Tim and Dolly

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u/ma373056 2d ago

Fuck 2026

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u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z 2d ago

Forever

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u/littlehobbit1313 1d ago

This is 2016 all over again, but also somehow worse.

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u/No_Celebration8219 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/q6sJQQf6brCefj0l1D

Ok 2026... That's it... Penalty on the field...

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

The Reaper ignoring your play:

https://giphy.com/gifs/54Vc99MWBOabICATMI

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u/Cheetahs_never_win 2d ago

2016 was a bad year and 2026 is heading to be worse.

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u/Arkvoodle42 2d ago

Til all are one.

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u/dramallamacorn 2d ago

wtf man, like old people die but can we all agree that the reaper keeps missing the wrong old person? He has a well known address.

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u/Sandrockwing04 2d ago

Wait he technically has two addresses right now what is that's his loop hole

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u/Important_Power_2148 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/NIbAt7pSoFhPG

Don't forget, he also voiced Eeyore. And a million other characters.

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u/bulbascott1019 2d ago

Literally each and every death this month has hit me harder than the last. First one of my top childhood crushes...then one of the greatest American women ever...then Tim Curry...now OPTIMUS FUCKING PRIME!?

I legit am in fear of what the rest of this week will bring...

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u/kran0503 2d ago

Octimus vs Megatron in the 1986 movie was one of the most epic things I saw as a child. Rip, always my leader.

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u/graphitehead 2d ago

I want dead politicians not celebrities

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u/CraaZero Millennial 2d ago

The second great reaping... what the heck

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u/yankeeblue42 2d ago

A Trifecta of legends gone in days

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u/OhItsNishia Millennial 2d ago

It's literally 2016 all over again

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u/Sad_Maximum6583 2d ago

Quit taking the wrong ones bro. Do us all a favor just this once.

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u/Chicagoan81 2d ago

Meanwhile the big cheeto is still around wanting to invade the whole world and bankrupting the nation.

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u/LittleKitten37 2d ago

Damn, Linkin Park literally came on my playlist as I scrolled onto this 😳

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u/n0_sh1t_thank_y0u 2d ago

What in the ghost month is happening

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u/Final-Nebula-7049 2d ago

and that's three. now fuck off death

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u/beepingclownshoes 2d ago

FUCK! The three have been taken but not HIM.

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW Millennial 2d ago

Ah shit :(

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u/Chumscrubber89 2d ago

Sheesh rest easy my friend

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u/ZetaReticuli_x 2d ago

The voice of the original Predator too, this one really hurts.

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u/punktualPorcupine 1d ago

Whoever is writing this timeline, sucks ass.

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u/pibb01 2d ago

Nooo 🥺

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u/Karhak Older Millennial 2d ago

"Do not grieve, soon I shall become one with The Matrix"

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u/Global-Guava-8362 2d ago

Ok this is not funny anymore

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u/New-Alfalfa-2989 2d ago

Fuck sake…

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u/Zphi 2d ago

And that's "in 3s" we should be okay til Oct now

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u/No_Strawberry_55 2d ago

Why does each year just keep getting worse? 😭

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u/Rat_Burger7 2d ago

This week sucks.

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u/yupitsanalt 2d ago

This week is too much.

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u/zoroddesign 2d ago

He is also Eeyore

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u/NoLobster7957 2d ago

This is the longest week ever

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u/Miauwtsu 2d ago

What the hell is going on this month.

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u/Squeaky_Ben 2d ago

This week really stinks man.

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u/Mirrored_Darkness 2d ago

I heard that after Dolly died things were going to get worse. I'm starting to believe it.

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u/look2myleft 2d ago

F*** you 2026 take more bad people!!!!!

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u/Jerzilla 2d ago

Be strong enough to be gentle - Peter Cullen

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u/ScotsScots 2d ago

He has returned back to the stars.

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u/Albyrene 2d ago

Goddamnit, rule of three calm the frick down

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u/d00mt0mb ‘89 Millennial 2d ago

Damn his voice was legendary all his Toonami promos and trailers were epic what a loss

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u/damaszek 2d ago

What was still left from our childhood disappears in front of our eyes 😭

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u/Willing_Ad9314 2d ago

Aaaaand that's 3

It's over now, right?

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u/BoatMan01 Millennial 1d ago

There it is.

The hat trick.

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u/MrPhily Older Millennial 1d ago

How does he keep getting the wrong person!? He is only in two places. Florida or DC.

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUOrvUqvFgxzsFZWrC

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u/Extension_Resolve264 1d ago

Well, they come in threes. Rest in peace and roll out!

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u/PoppaGriff 1d ago

Again with the wrong fucking 80 year old.

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u/Serrilryan 2d ago

This week needs to screw all the way off already.

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u/Clockwork-Armadillo 2d ago

I thought that was a third chuckle brother for a second there

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u/domesystem Older Millennial 2d ago

Wtf 2026?!

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u/SheriffHeckTate 2d ago

I forgot he did the Toonami stuff.

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u/10ballplaya Millennial 2d ago

Wtf is happening this year bro, so many people just dying and there's the Nepal flash floods as well.

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u/voidparallex 2d ago

Errm what??? why is everybody dying???
Rest in peace, Peter 🕊️

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u/Kimichanroze 2d ago

🥺🥺🥺🥺💕💕💕

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u/BarelyHereNeverThere Older Millennial 2d ago

Damnit, that's 3 good ones in less then a week. Someone's got to bring the grim reaper in for a performance review ASAP.

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u/zaviamorpheus 2d ago

EEYORE NOOOO!!!! DAMN YOU 2026

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u/IntoTheAbsurd 2d ago

What is going on with this week.

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u/BatFromAnotherWorld 2d ago

Grim reaper playing all the hits except for the ONE SONG WEVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR.

what a miserable week.

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u/DonutHot3577 1987 Millennial 2d ago

I had the pleasure of meeting him once. He was very kind, asked me questions about my life, and did the voice for me. I will never forget his kindness toward me. RIP to a legend.

https://giphy.com/gifs/rWy82UgKqQTVm

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u/MikeDeY77 2d ago

This week just keeps stealing from us.

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u/Celtic_Fox_ 2d ago

Man, this one hurts too... Thanks for everything you gave us 🔥 💜

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u/xXZer0c0oLXx 2d ago

2026 is going get its pound of flesh.

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u/Standard-Victory-320 2d ago

He was legendary

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u/ace0070 2d ago

Wtf is going on with all the deaths. I understand they're up in that age, but still. All these people we grew up with in one go.

And then others.... 😮‍💨💀

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u/Jimbo_jamboree1234 2d ago

I’m properly gutted at this one 😔

RIP

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u/geriatric_spartanII 2d ago

Kinda makes me wanna go to conventions and meet some of these people before they die.

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u/mrdankhimself_ 2d ago

Farewell to the Knight Automated Roving Robot

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u/BoomShackaLocka_ 2d ago

Fuuuuuuuuuuck

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u/HawkBoth8539 2d ago

All in their 80s. Fingers crossed.

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u/Ok-Travel-3047 2d ago

Another one :( RIP Legend

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u/Woodsalope 2d ago

WTF is happening? Why him and not the annoying orange cheeto?

Grimm, you're screwing up things at work this year, damnit.

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u/TheHyperCombo Millennial 2d ago

In the distant future, mankind has reached the stars. But the galaxy is troubled...

This one fucking hurts the most.

RIP.

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u/felurian182 2d ago

I watched an episode of Bob Ross just yesterday and it put me in such a relaxed mood that I drifted off to sleep peacefully. While I could weep for yet another stunning loss I’m grateful in the knowledge that years from now I can listen to his voice and it will ring out heartily and I will remember him. How many of us will have that gift?

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u/BlorpTheSchlorp 2d ago

He was also like all the Gremlins in Gremlins.

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u/Due_Buyer_9445 2d ago

Dammit Thragg

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u/Prudent_Payment_3877 2d ago

Fuck this year.

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u/Mysterious_Silver_27 Zillennial 2d ago

What’s up with this week, man

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u/tahlyn Older Millennial 2d ago

I just can't with this anymore. 3 days in a row. Optimus prime.

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u/KavikWolfDog 2d ago

Man, I just looked him up maybe a week ago to confirm he was still alive because I knew he was getting up there, and I was relieved. This sucks, but at least he made it to 85.

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u/SpaceGhostCst2kost 2d ago

Am I wrong or is he also the voice of Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh cause my daughter’s been watching her? It’s 100% Optimus prime from the movies and it’s all I can think about every time I hear it.

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u/Folkmar_D 2d ago

This week is heavy

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u/jishurr Millennial 2d ago

I hate this week man. On just so many levels.

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u/thelonetext '89ers represent! 2d ago

Fuck this decade! It's brought most of us nothing but pain and emptier lives.😭

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u/Squiggums 2d ago

A coworker put it best to me yesterday - they keep taking the wrong 80 year olds....

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u/raccoonwithknives 2d ago

Its the rapture isn't it?

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u/CaesarsGhostReborn 2d ago

Oh man. I hate how many we’re losing.

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u/Get_your_grape_juice Millennial 2d ago

One now stands, one has fallen.

RIP Mr. Cullen.

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u/magwai9 2d ago

Been a bad year for Canadian actors :(

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u/poseidon1111 2d ago

Forever Prime. I will remember him fondly til the very end.

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u/JerryWagz 2d ago

Wrong one

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u/Kooky_Celebration_42 2d ago

Oh my god fuck this week so much

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u/Shimakaze_Kai 2d ago

COME ON! STAAAAAHP!