r/whennews • u/Any_Wasabi_5233 waiting for Sinister Minds on vinyl • 5d ago

Celebrity/Politician Death Til All Are One

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-cullen-optimus-prime-transformers-eeyore-1236683075/

He is one with the Allspark now. 🕊️

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u/wuklo Certified moron 5d ago

I am not okay

Source approved and I dont like it

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u/New_Tomorrow5649 5d ago

3 in a row...

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 5d ago

Usually how it goes. they go in 3s.

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u/Sneaky-Boi22 5d ago

Yup. Rule of three. Told y'all he wouldn't be the third. The good die young and the spiteful ones live the longest.

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u/WeirdAssBeings 🍆literally a femboy🏳️‍🌈 5d ago

Once again, wrong 80 yo.

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u/TheNecromancer981 5d ago

(The monkey paw’s finger curls)

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u/LeviJr00 4d ago

And now the King of Norway is dead (RIP), monkey's paw be damned 😭

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u/AspiringFriend17 5d ago

Dolly and Tim were both 80 and Peter was 85. Not exactly young to me.

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u/kyle_kafsky 5d ago

Young in spirit.

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u/legit-posts_1 5d ago

That's a superstition.

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u/WhyIsRComicsJustPorn 5d ago

What does this even mean, you expect celebrities to stop dying after the third one

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u/TsunamifoxyDCfan 5d ago

Well when it's day after day in a row we fucking hope so

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u/ZoidsFanatic 5d ago

I know they say it comes in threes but why the fuck did we lose three actually good people? Well, yes I know they were in their 80s, but come on! This is the last thing we need this year.

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u/Bounty_Mad_Man 5d ago

Watch it hit 4 tomorrow

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u/ZeroArt024 5d ago

It’s technically already four. Dolly Tim The village people’s lead singer and now Peter

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u/Feisty-Albatross3554 5d ago

I'm devastated

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u/RandomRobot 5d ago

Fuck those constructicons

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u/NationalSouth3563 Hello 5d ago edited 5d ago

4 (well 5 if we count Nick Bougas but he is a piece of shit who created the antisemitic  "Happy Merchant" caricature so he deserves his death)

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u/SorbyGay 5d ago

is the 4th the american warriors girl?

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u/NationalSouth3563 Hello 5d ago

I was actually thinking of Hayden Panettiere

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u/SorbyGay 5d ago

Oh right 💀

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u/Worried-Pineapple808 5d ago

Bro my wife's favourite music artist was Dolly, favourite movie Rocky horror picture show and favourite cartoon character Eeyore. She isnt having a good week

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u/traffic_sign 5d ago

Who was the third? I know dolly and this guy but who was the other?

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u/TheEmoRose I get my news from WhenNews 5d ago edited 5d ago

What the fuck man? RIP Peter Cullen

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u/LordofAngmarMB 5d ago

About a month before the ‘86 movie rerelease too.

I don’t think I’m gonna be ok when Prime says his last words…

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u/TheEmoRose I get my news from WhenNews 5d ago

Fuckkkk dude 💔

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u/Kasey_Daddy 5d ago

It will be '86 all over again, but it will be grown men and women crying 😢 because he's really gone. Til all are one kind Sir.

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u/Funspoyler 5d ago

This is gonna hit waaaaay harder now.

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u/Bored_Orangutan Please be patient. I’m incredibly stupid. 5d ago edited 5d ago

This has been one of the shittiest weeks in a long time.

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u/Pokemonfan_807 The anime guy 5d ago

He is and will always be the greatest prime of them all.

Rest in peace

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u/asimplepencil 5d ago

They're in their 80s. That's about the lifespan of an average human. :( At least they lived good, long, lives

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u/Lexiosity 5d ago

Yet the literal dementia patient lives

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u/asimplepencil 5d ago

It will come for him eventually. Just not soon enough.

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u/worldeye5 5d ago

That’s true but it’s weird that they are all dying in the past few days. Two just a few hours apart.

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u/whennews-ModTeam 5d ago

Clankers will be executed

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u/SchlopFlopper 5d ago

I think August is just a rough month for old people

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u/xXCloudSephirothXx 5d ago

STFU bot
Checkmate

Stop trying to cash in on people’s grief

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u/Godtierbunny 5d ago

Its been a fucking week hasent it

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u/SadCatLoverMeow 5d ago

2026 in general

sigh

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u/Godtierbunny 5d ago

Yeah...

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u/Marl_Karx_Official 5d ago

This is the worst marathon. My tum tum hurts

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u/BhanosBar 5d ago

“Do not lament my absence, for this is not the end. It is simply, another Transformation.”

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u/Ethan-Moreno-029 5d ago

Till all are one

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u/Scared_Can_5571 5d ago

I don't like this timeline

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u/N4jemnik 5d ago

Who does

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u/shadow_fen Faster then CNN. Not joking btw (mods agree) 5d ago

WRONG 80 YEAR OLD

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u/asgards_thor 5d ago

And usually they they say 3 times the charm ;-;

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u/craftingmasky 5d ago

4th times a charm, I guess?

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u/Digit00l 5d ago

He was 85

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u/ConnorOfAstora 5d ago

Can Death please just fuck off for like five fucking minutes

https://giphy.com/gifs/MONxGTefyQQiKbXWKr

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u/N4jemnik 5d ago

Death always take ppl who least deserve it

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u/LordQuaz12 5d ago

Cullen was everything for me. He was Optimums, Eeyore and so many other childhood characters. He was the greatest.

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u/TimewornTinman 🏳️‍⚧️ girl Transformers geek (mods approve) 5d ago

FUCK

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u/SSilent-Cartographer 5d ago

That's what, 4 icons now? God damnit....

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u/Godtierbunny 5d ago

i heard of dolly and tim and this one whos the 4th?

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u/WarioWill 5d ago

Sam Neill or Catherine O'Hara?

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u/Godtierbunny 5d ago

ah those were earlier in the year

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u/The_Dank_Tortuga 5d ago

Or Sam O'Nella!

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u/Silsaes-Brother 5d ago

“Well people like dawgs, and people like fewwets…”

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u/Digit00l 5d ago

Probably Yayoi Kusama, who was announced today but died 13 days ago

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u/temucodeaddict 5d ago

No fucking way 💔💔💔 not one of my favorite artists. I know she lived long but it still hurts

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u/FlyingDreamWhale67 5d ago

Hayden Panettiere?

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u/Pokemonfan_807 The anime guy 5d ago

Big question

Why are so many good people dying this week while many bad people are alive and running?

Just why?

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u/collindabeast 5d ago

The good die young.

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u/Range-Aggravating 5d ago

80 to 85 isnt young though.

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u/Bobry24 5d ago

Still too young for them.

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u/Friendly_Suffering 5d ago

More good people than bad maybe?

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u/Ok_Direction3138 5d ago

And it continues :(

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u/leeleeleelelele 5d ago

anyone but trump huh

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u/Other-Dimension-1997 5d ago

He stole Kissinger's immortality elixir

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u/Inevitable_Day_8366 5d ago

FUUUUUUUUUCK!!!

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u/WorryingMars384 5d ago

Is every cool person dying this week?

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u/-TheGayestAgenda 5d ago

Not old enough to have watched Transformers, but I remember his voice fondly during various Toonami promos in the 90s.

Big O: 'Good guys still wear black'

We lost a true legend and his voice added to those after-school blocks that just felt...ethereal...

See ya later, Space Cowboy...

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u/Giecio 5d ago

THIS ISN'T WHAT I MEANT BY "THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM"

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u/Vina-Estrogen 5d ago

Had a thirty minute nap only to wake up to this. Worst news in a while.

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u/Complete_Blood1786 5d ago

Thank you, Optimus Prime. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

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u/FiveFreddys12 5d ago

Fuck...

You made my childhood man, rest in peace.

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u/enfugo_tf2sp 5d ago

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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u/N8man42 5d ago

I hate this timeline man

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u/WestRail642fan 5d ago

Time to kill God like Kratos intended

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u/ramraider1987 5d ago

I swear to fuckin god if Frank weller goes next im gonna top myself

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u/LiannaBunny777 5d ago

DON'T JINX ANYTHINT!

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u/Any_Wasabi_5233 waiting for Sinister Minds on vinyl 5d ago

SHUT UP

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u/Confident_Start6544 5d ago

SHUT UP!! DON’T JINX IT DAMN IT!!!!

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u/Forsaken_Quiet5944 5d ago

WHY IS EVERYONE DYING

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u/IntroductionLeft4369 5d ago

Because life is 100% fatal. Nobody makes it out alive.

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u/Forsaken_Quiet5944 5d ago

I'm asking why so many celebrities is dying and not why death is a thing

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u/Frumple-McAss 5d ago

What the actual fuck is happening this week

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u/BitcoinStonks123 Trans Teddy 5d ago

why is everyone except trump dying

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u/Happy-Boysenberry175 5d ago

Presidential healthcare must be working overtime

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u/ADGx27 5d ago

Idk if you’re joking or not but it probably is. Mf probably has access to drugs the public will see in 3-5 YEARS just to keep himself alive

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u/Caleibur It's never been more joever 5d ago

FAUCK!!!

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u/Bobby_The_Kidd 5d ago

Wiki hasn’t updated! Maybe there’s a chance 😭

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u/SpectralIpaxor 5d ago

Someone just kill me...

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u/Spuigles 5d ago

Autobots

Roll out

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u/Animanga-Fan-7435 5d ago

Till all are one.

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u/Misubi_Bluth 5d ago

That's three people in a row. Someone tell Death to take a vacation

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u/Dominunce 5d ago

NO NO NO NO NO NO.

PLEASE SAY ITS A JOKE

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u/Impossible_Leader_80 5d ago

HOW IS THIS HAPPENING

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u/EgyptThing 5d ago

Til all are one 💔💔💔😭😭😭

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u/LastXmasIGaveYouHSV 5d ago

Fuck. Worst week ever.

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u/Dummy_Ren 5d ago

STOP! STOP KILLING THEM! FUCK!

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u/Front-Post-357 5d ago

I genuinely have no images to show how sad i feel right now

God fucking dammit

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u/Organic-Car-8296 5d ago

Can't we get a break? Godamnit...

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u/Past_Description1813 5d ago

The f*ck is going on? why are so many famous people dying this week? I'm kinda scared of what's coming...

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u/Maleck_Helvot 5d ago

DEATH, WE GOTTA TALK

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u/EfficientRecover5757 5d ago

OH COME ON! Not another one… 🫩😭

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u/landmine-izu 5d ago

these past few days have been fucking horrible wtf

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u/naranciamywaifu 5d ago

I can't fucking take this shit anymore

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u/newscootbooti 5d ago

Holy fuck it DOES happen in threes…

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u/Pulkov 5d ago

Horrible day for a rain.

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u/KylewasnotAsain 5d ago

There goes Dolly, Anatoly Cherdenko from Red alert 3, and one and only Optimus Prime.

Gentlemen, Synchronize your death watches

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u/Imaginary-Job-7069 5d ago

At least he's going in the one place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism.

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u/Hornybin 5d ago

BY THE GODS THEMSELVES, WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING ANYMORE!!? HOW WE LOSE 3 ICONS IN TWO DAYS!?

https://giphy.com/gifs/NFt91r1ZUjOv5TwT1S

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u/TheDabuAndRayan 5d ago

:(((( NOOOOOOOO

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u/Zealousideal_Lock_93 5d ago

And I was having a good day 😢

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u/TrainmasterGT 5d ago

Man, so many celebrities are dying! It’s so sad!

Can we have the first host of The Apprentice next?

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u/Maximus0066 5d ago

Not Optimus…

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u/allature 5d ago

C'mon man...

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u/Theyul1us 5d ago

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings

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u/eesdesessesrdt 5d ago

All the wrong people dying this month

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u/OV_FreezeLizard 5d ago

Never Forget

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u/UmbreonplaysYT 5d ago

Already got my tickets for the movie. It ain't gonna be a pretty one no more. It's '86 all over again, when Prime says his last words.

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u/Imaginary-Job-7069 5d ago

When the movie first dropped, the little kids cried watching that scene.

Now, it's the adults' turn to cry.

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u/ClacksInTheSky 5d ago

2026 has taken Chuck Norris, Dolly Parton and Optimus Prime 😞

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u/HeyItsStarGaze 5d ago

And Tim Curry...

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u/HotPot87 5d ago

Bit of a dramatic way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Optimus' death

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u/ScreamingmadJoe 5d ago

Jesus what is this week?

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u/MOOSE________ 5d ago

Why do we keep losing legends 🙁

Rest In Peace.

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u/Demqnboii_Editing 5d ago

NO NO NO FOR FUCK'S SAKE NO

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u/TapOk8892 5d ago

I will always remember his voice.

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u/Details_Pending 5d ago

God fucking damn it, I hate 2026

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u/Imaginary-Antelope80 5d ago

Once is tragic, twice is a coincidence, but 3 is a pattern. God fucking dammit

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u/Arokhan_Sirefni 5d ago

first Dolly Parton, then Tim Curry, and now Peter Cullen!?!

R.I.P to all these legends, this week really sucks

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u/Firecracker048 5d ago

WHAT THE FUCK ANOTHER ONE?!?

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u/Oh_hi_doggi3 5d ago

IS EVERYONE JUST DYING???

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u/cjl_LoreKeeper 5d ago

At times like this. I wish I was drunk enough to forget the last three days

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u/Level_Counter_1672 5d ago

You will be missed

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u/Timewaster50455 5d ago

They really do go in threes

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u/CatLover0wO 5d ago

RIP Peter Cullen. Till all are one.

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u/Secret_Account07 5d ago

What’s going on this week

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u/Glittering-Walrus228 5d ago edited 5d ago

The wrong robots keep dying

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u/CosmicWolf14 5d ago

Currently binge watching G1 while I work. Day ruined.

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u/Grouchy_Raccoon_6681 5d ago

Fuck this stupid fucking week

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u/fixurstuffr 5d ago

I've heard they happen in threes but on 3 consecutive days is wild.

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u/CatOfBacon 5d ago

Are they ever going to get the right person?

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u/Goph3r2009 5d ago

They’re dropping like flies 🥀

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u/Key_Professional_130 5d ago

I just saw a minute ago and audibly gasped. I think this is one of the few celebrity deaths that actually has me sad.

Makes me think of that end speech in Tfp

"While this may very well mark the end of the Age of Primes, leadership can be earned, with or without the matrix. And in my view, you have each acted as a Prime. Above all, do not lament my absence, for in my spark, I know this is not the end, but merely a new beginning. Simply put, another transformation."

Rest in peace, Peter.

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u/masam_01 5d ago

Right before the 40th anniversary too...watching that when that happens is going to HURT

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u/Ditto13248 5d ago

And the worst part? This is the current advertising for the 40th anniversary of the 1986 movie, famous for killing optimus prime. Weirdly funny in a "if I don't laugh I'll cry" way

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u/epbrassil 4d ago

First of all, goodnight sweet prince. You were the greatest. Second, everyone is dying. Guess this is inevitable. Sadly it was his time and not so many others more deserving.

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u/Xaverosso 5d ago

Another one....

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u/Lexiosity 5d ago

the rule of three celebrities is real...

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u/Quincy_Hater 5d ago edited 5d ago

All of the good guys are dying dude, we had sam neil die, chuck norris Catherine O’hara, and a few more, now peter cullen, Optimus prime. This year freaking sucks man

Till all are one

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u/Dr_Blitzkrieg09 5d ago

Till All Are One

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u/GreySpectre_002 5d ago

This is truly the saddest week of year. He'll be missed.

Til all are one.

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u/Viscount_Barse 5d ago

Megatron must be stopped, No matter the cost.

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u/LoFiHigh5 5d ago

TIL ALL ARE ONE

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u/KingKongMF69 5d ago

A lot of very special and niche celebrities dying three days in a row. RIP

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u/Silent-Witness1888 5d ago

3rd death i find out a out with a meme....I hate mems.

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u/UmbreonplaysYT 5d ago

Till All Are One.

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u/SouthApprehensive193 5d ago

He’s making a special run to heaven city

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u/Chark10 5d ago

If only he'd lived 4 more years (I wouldnt wish for any less) he'd have died at a prime number (89).

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u/junrod0079 5d ago

Peter cullen truly was the immortal grand prix

https://reddit.com/link/p68si15/video/emyyoipf4ylh1/player

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u/Bay64 5d ago

Man…

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u/Barefoot-Priestess 5d ago

What the actual fuck is this week...

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u/MrMcSpiff 5d ago

You guys ever need to say something about something, but you don't have anything witty or profound or even angry, you just have to make noise because the event is too important for silence?

Yeah, that.

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u/Blu_Gy 5d ago

till all are one

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u/Senasayori 5d ago

This has been a very rough week.