Favorite Superhero Lines

[Iuz the Evil]

I'm bored... that causes me to generate threads to alleviate my boredom.

Topic: Favorite Lines Uttered by Superheroes (movies, comics, whatever)

Here's some of mine...

Superman: The Movie, 1978
Young Clark Kent: "All those things I can do. All those powers. And I couldn't even save him."

Superman: "Easy, miss. I've got you."
Lois Lane: "You've got me? Who's got you?"

Jor-El: "You will carry me inside you all the days of your life."

The Elementals (comic, Bill Willingham)
Tommy Czuchra/Monolith: "As of right now we stop acting like we're in some stupid comic book"

X-Men
Wolverine: "Got any beer?"
Bobby: "This is a school."
Wolverine: "So that's a 'no'?"

Magneto: "We're the future, Charles, not them. They no longer matter."

There's more, but I don't want to hog them all.

[Lonewalker]

There was an Avengers issue where Ultron was (once again) reconstructed and wrecking havoc in Europe. The Avengers arrived and were forced to battle their way through hundreds of Ultron clones. The combat was fierce and it looked as though the mighty Avengers would be overwhelmed.

Inside his HQ, Ultron gloats, reveling in the helplessness of his prisoners. Suddenly, in mid-monologue, Ultron is interrupted as the nearby wall bursts open, revealing a handful of battered, bloody, but still defiant Avengers. At the head is Thor, his cloak and vest torn, a wing broken from his helmet. He brandishes Mjolnir and says matter of factly:

"Ultron, we would have words with thee."

Sweet... :)

-Lonewalker

[Powerhouse]

So many quotes... can't think of them at the moment though.

:(

A personal fav was a Milestone/DC crossover where a super-powered gang ran into Superman. In their world, Superman is a fictional character so they thought he was some whacko white boy with super powers:

"Hey boy, your mama know you went out today looking like Clark Kent?"

[Lord Liaden]

In one of the Spider-Man titles from years ago, Sabertooth was trying to persuade the Foreigner to hire him as one of his mercenaries, but the Foreigner said that Sabertooth was too obvious to fit into his organization.

Sabertooth: "So what do I need to fit in?"

Foreigner: "Electrolysis. Orthodonture. A manicure. And pupils."

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During the run of Power Man and Iron Fist, Iron Fist got into a fight with Daredevil. The two of them exchanged punches and kicks, bobbing and weaving in return, and neither one could lay a glove on the other. After a bit they started complimenting each other:

Iron Fist (as Daredevil dives underneath his punch): "Very nice! What do you call that move?"

Daredevil: "Ducking."

Iron Fist: "Hmm. Unconventional, but it works!"

[Mike W]

Well, I can't think of any specific quotes at the moment, but I've always thought The Thing had the best catchphrase: "It's Clobberin' Time!". So classic, and it really fits his personality.

[JmOz]

For Comics:

Attack on Avengers Mansion

Thor---"I SAY THEE NAY"

For Movies: X-men Cyclops---"What did you expect Yellow Spandex"

[Hypnotoad, the]

My fave quote comes from Thor, the God of Thunder, and I'm probably mutilating it...

"Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity! THUS ARE LEGENDS BORNE!"

[J. Chamberlin]

Okay, heres a good one from a recent Batman;

Batman and Zatanna are searching for clues at an inactive Lazarus Pit, with Bats second guessing Zee at every turn, and basically being the p*&$k we all love him to be.
Zees had enough of this crap;

Zatana: I still don't know why you needed me here.
Batman: I needed someone I could trust... but I had to settle for you.

Gotta love the Bat

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[gojira]

Teen Titans

Raven: "Evil beware--we have waffles."

Cyborg: "Don't do anthing, don't touch anything. SciFi rule number one: You start messing with the past, you end up with monkeys ruling the future."

[Mightybec]

Batman: "Easy on the teeth, Robin"

[Mr. R]

Also from the Thing:

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Superman (and I am dating myself here):

"Up! Up! And away!"

Jerome

[Lord Mhoram]

Another great Thor line, from the Busiek Avengers. A bunchs of thugs with really high powered equipment are causing problems at an airport, and all of the heavy hitters are off on other missions, so the agents are doing pretty well, and thier leader, turning his device on a nearby building says
"I'll drop this building to distract them, and we can make our escape"
Then from offscreen "I say thee nay, miscreant"
The agent " 'I say thee nay?' .. oh no!"

[Sociotard]

In The Ultimates, Nick Fury introduces Peter Parker, still a high-schooler to the main team
NICK FURY: Everyone, I'd like you to meet SpiderMan
IRON MAN: Did you go back in time to get him?

[Lord Mhoram]

Robin, Superboy and Wondergirl have been ordered by Starfire to stay in Titans Tower. Superboy and Wondergirl are getting upset, and Robin agrees. As they go upstairs, Superboy is grousing to Robin about it. Then Robin takes something out of his utility belt and starts cutting out a window.
Superboy "What are you doing?"
Robin "Getting us out"
Superboy "You lied to Starfire?!?!"
Robin, with a small grin, "I lie to Batman"

[Deejmeister]

Nova of the New Warriors fighting AIM agents: "There is NO way I'm going to lose a fight with a bunch of guys from an Intell Inside comercial!"

[GestaltBennie]

From a classic issue of Simonson's Thor, when Loki, Odin, and Thor teamed up to battle Surtur.

Odin: "For Asgard!"
Thor: "For Midgard!"
Loki: "For Myself!"

[greymankle]

In the Marvel "Support our Troops" comic" Avengers and Fantastic Four. Full of cool lines. I'll only list two.

A huge UFO is found. It has been buried for centuries. a strange Orb is inside. Not reacting to scans.

Human Torch: Maybe it's shy. Maybe someone should say HI
Spider-Man: Yeah, It speaks english.
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The Fantastic Four and the avengers are mid battle with some Kree warriors that were released from said Orb. Iron Man is trying to link with the F4 system to get a universal translator.

Iron Man: it's locked
Reed: I'll give you the password, Password HeRBIE55454675672!
Iron Man: Thanks for making it easy

Definately reccomend it. Spidey is all over the F4.

[Dr. MID-Nite]

From Watchmen:

Ozmandias: I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you honestly think I would explain my masterstroke if you had any chance whatsoever of affecting the outcome? I did it 35 minutes ago...."(Cue a shot of New York...and 3 million dead.)

[Red Knight]

They say a picture tells a thousand words so here goes..
My favorite scene/line in a comicbook was in JLA.

Huy Gardner (Green Lantern) was being his usual annoying self.. Batman cooly walks over to him and punches him knocking him cold.
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Another favorite line is from the Image/Crusade crossover with Cyblade (Cyberforce) and Shi. A giant creature is destroying the land. When Cyblade and Shi confront it, it anounces... "I am the great Marvel and I will consume all that is small and make it part of me until only the Marvel remains."

Ok.. a little political but for those of you that remember the entire problem with independants... there you go.

[death tribble]

From Superman 2

General Zod: I have discovered his weakness. He cares.
Ursa: What ? Like pets ?

[Susano]

Old, old DC crossover staring just about everyone. The Suicide Squad is going after Kobra. Cue a shot of a troop of CheckMate (they still exist?) agents getting ready to throw down with Kobra agents.

Nameless CheckMate Agent: "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around"

One of the best comic fights ever, the Fantastic Four versus Terrax. It starts with The Thing getting attacked by Terrax while riding in a cab. Terrax starts ranting and the Thing says: "Now nuthin' baldy! If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a super-goon a makin' speeches!"

Last Superman annual before Crisis. Mongul invades the Fortress of Solitude and takes out Superman. Batman and Wonder Woman arrive for Supes' B-day.

(paraphrased) Mogul: "I understand that on this planet distinctions are made based on age and gender. So, to be polite, which of you should I kill first?"

(actually, that issue is not stop cool lines)

[Egyptoid]

Green Lantern (John Stewart) is working himself
into a lather trying to do everything, save everybody,
be everywhere at once, and he's wearing himself out.
He's tired, and he's on edge, and he's making mistakes.

Superman flies up to him to urge him to take a rest,
they all need breaks once in a while, no-one's a super-hero
for 24 hours a day.

John snaps back at Supes:
WHAT IS THIS? HASSLE GREEN LANTERN DAY AND
YA CAN'T FIND GUY GARDNER?

[Vanguard00]

Two of my all time favorite quotes aren't necessarily lines.

The first is a Marvel Fanfare from way back. It's completely devoid of dialogue and basically showcases a day in the life of The Thing and Human Torch as they mess with each other in the Baxter Building.

Thing goes into the bathroom and the sound effect is simply: wurdle wurdle wurdle

Don't know why, but that cracked me up.

The second quote is from a variety of Justice League issues in the Giffen/DeMatteis days: BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahahah...

Always made me smile.

[Lord Liaden]

My all-time favorite line by a superhero isn't actually from a comic, but a Champions book: Champions Of The North, specifically the "identifying quote" by Myrmidon. This is the sort of thing that I could picture Captain America declaring to some megalomaniacal supervillain:

"In my time, I have seen Evil with power that would make even you crawl back under your rock. And I have seen it fall."

[Snowcat]

justice league unlimited; Batman ejects from crippled Batjet.
This is Batman, I need backup because I can't fly ......At all

[Tengu King]

Heh...one of my faves, from Deadpool#25:

Deadpool: "Rochambeau...it's a little game guys like me play to settle things...I'll Rochambeau you for...for everything."
Captain America: "Well...if it helps you let go...how do you play?"
Deadpool: "It's easy...I'll go first. Rocambeau.((Rochambeau's Cap!)) See? Told you it was easy. I win."

-And thusly, Deadpool kicks Cap in th nuts and saves the universe from Shuma-Gorath making everybody blissed out and docile. :)

[Jeff T.]

"Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!"


That, and pretty much anything from Thor.

[Stephen Mann]

This is from an old Spidey comic where he had absorbed some cosmic force that give him massive powers. He spends time flying around the city, shooting energy blasts, one-punching the Hulk into orbit, etc.

In the Real World, this is just after the first Batman movie ("What are you?" - "I'm Batman.").

Spidey has captured some two-bit crook, using his new powers to utterly intimidate him. The bad guy stutters something like, "Who are you?"

Spidey replies, "I'm Bat...I mean, I'm Spiderman!"

[Sketchpad]

From Green Lantern: Rebirth # 6:
Batman (Bataroping Hal's Wrist): "I want an explanation Jordan."
Hal (Using the ring to destroy the cable): "Figure it out."

Batman (Grabbing Hal's shoulder): "We're not done ..."
Hal (After flatting the Bat with a right-hook): "Right now ... we are. Let's go Lanterns."

Guy Gardner (After beating the bad guy): "Yeah Baby. That's the way the Lanterns do it!"
John Stewart: "Hey Gardner. What was all that talk about how you don't miss the ring?"
Guy: "Tfff! I lied."

Hal: "You're up and running pretty quick."
Ollie: "Yeah. Thanks to the three hundred plus stiches. Though my shot is still off by a millimeter or two."
Hal: "And that's new?"
Ollie: "I forgot you had a sense of humor."

From most early Hercules appearances: "Ho! I bestow upon thee ... The Gift!"\

From Batman Beyond RotJ:
The Joker: "Ah, the new boy. Ears are too long and I miss the cape. But not too shabby. Not too shabby at all."

[JohnTaber]

Bullseye to Elektra: " You're good lady but me...I'm magic!"

[Elbandit]

From the animated Justice League Episode "Kid Stuff"

Kid Wonder Woman: That's enough!
Girl: You can't tell us what to do. You're not our mom.
Kid Wonder Woman: No, but I promise you - we will find all your moms. And I'm going to tell!

So many good lines from that awesome show :)

[Spectrum]

From the current Spectacular Spider-Man, issue 21. Spidey is playing poker with the FF, Archangel, Black Cat and Dr. Strange when Kingpin shows up and enters the game. After Spidey and the Torch provide comentary during one of the rounds of poker:

Kingpin: It never ceases to amaze me that two children such as yourselves manage to survive in a man's world. It's a wonder you can put your spandex suits on correctly every morning.
Spider-Man: I like being a kid--it's what keeps me young and interesting, you'd be amazed at the stuff I see.
Reed Richards: Hehh--Okay, what's the craziest thing you've seen overall?
Kingpin: A class clown dressed in a spider suit.
Spider-Man: The Mafia.
Kingpin: Touche.

[Samaritan]

Batman, in the call to vote Blue Superman back into the JLA...

"Of course he's in. He's Superman. Batman out."



Wolverine, in X-Men (movie):

"What do you teach, Dr. Logan?"
".... art."

[Hermit]

Petty as it seems, I always enjoyed the part in Secret Wars where we see WHY Spider-Man is bad news when he teaches the X-Men a little humilty :)

Nightcrawler: "I'll get him! I'm as fast and agile as he is!"
Spider-Man whips around and webs NC PDQ
Spider-Man: "Not on the best day of your life, Nightcrawler!"

[Spectrum]

This is one reason why Spider-Man rocks.
















Why yes, Spider-Man is my all time favorite superhero, why do you ask?

[Vondy]

Spider-Man: "With great power comes great responsiblity."

Aquaman: "You serve fish?"
Bartender: "We serve anybody, pretty boy."

Jack Ryder: "...Bring suit against you!"
Green Arrow: "Just so long as it's not that one. Who's your tailor? The Joker?"


Superman: "I knew he was coming, though. Super-hearing."
Batman: "So did I. I spotted his footsteps in the grass. Deductive reasoning."

Superman: ".003 seconds? What kept you, Flash?"
Flash: "A kid falling in front of a subway car."

Green Lantern: "I don't do bubbles. That was the old guy."

[Iuz the Evil]

Here's some more I love...

Superman: The Animated Series

Lois Lane: "I'm confused, Kent. See, I've lived in Metropolis most of my life and I can't figure out how some yokel from Smallville is suddenly getting every hot story in town."
Clark Kent: "Well, Lois, the truth is I'm actually Superman in disguise, and I only pretend to be a journalist in order to hear about disasters as they happen and then squeeze you out of the byline."
Lois Lane: "You're a sick man, Kent."

AND

Superman: "Where's your boss?"
Robin: "Around..."
Superman: "Let me rephrase it... where's Bruce?"

The Incredibles

Mr. Incredible: "No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes!"

Lucius Best: [Bob and Lucius are sitting in a parked car, reminiscing] "So now I'm in deep trouble. I mean, one more jolt of this death ray and I'm an epitaph. Somehow I manage to find cover and what does Baron von Ruthless do?"
Bob Parr: [laughing] "He starts monologuing."
Lucius Best: "He starts monologuing! He starts like, this prepared speech about how *feeble* I am compared to him, how *inevitable* my defeat is, how *the world* *will soon* *be his*, yadda yadda yadda."
Bob Parr: "Yammering."
Lucius Best: "Yammering! I mean, the guy has me on a platter and he won't shut up!"

[Blackjack]

Batman: _Justice League:_ "Secret Society"

The Bat bursts in on Clayface, mid-robbery, and starts berating him for his predictablility. The rest of the Society suddenly come out of hiding...

Paraphrasing: "I see you've brought some friends. Wish I'd thought of that..."
Then, the warehouse door falls open, revealing the rest of the League.

Bats: "Oh, that's right, I did..."

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From _Justice League:_ "The Enemy Below"

Superman grabs DeadEye and orders him to say who hired him. DeadEye basically tells him to forget it. Batman then grabs DeadEye and walks several feet from the rest of the League, whispering into DeadEye's ear. DeadEye then collapses blathering "I'll talk... I'll talk..."

Wonder Woman: "What did he SAY to him?"
Superman: "You don't want to know."

[jediklingon]

So many, most of which have already been posted.

Superman, "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"

"They'll kill us if they can, Bruce. Every year, they grow smaller, every year they hate us more. We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth."

[Supreme Serpent]

The many and varied Spider-Man wisecracks. The most memorable single one is IIRC from a fight with Hobgoblin. Hobby: "Soon, you will know defeat at the hands of the Hobgoblin!" (Spidey swings up, punches Hobby) "Defeat at the hands? Howabout da fist in da face?" :)

"It's Clobberin' Time!" always brings a smile too.

Both Thor and Doc Doom have used this one: Thor/Dr.Doom do something very impressive, someone else remarks "You did it!". Thor/Dr.Doom reply, "Of course. Was that not my intention?" :)

[garou]

DK2, Batman to Superman

"That's the problem with all those high and mighty powers. They made you cocky. Overconfident. You never learned to think strategically. I did. Pardon me while I drop ninety tons of planet earth on you."

[RobertEdwards]

Superman is chewing out the Ultramarines after rescuing them from Grodd's mind control:

"Your 'no nosense' solutions are insufficent in our complex world of time travel and jet powered apes."

[Blue]

I'm sure someone has mentioned Uncle Ben's great power/responsibility speach. (And if you haven't, for shame!)

Hard to match Superman's "General... Care to step outside?" for a nice dramatic moment.

[shaunclinton]

I love super-hero lines!!!! Here are a few of my faves... starting with the obvious ones...

Batman: Year One and DKR (paraphrasing)

"She knows Karate... but only Karate."
"There are 7 working defences from this position. 3 of them kill. 3 of them disarm with minimal contact. One of them... hurts!"
"It was hard word carrying 200lbs of psychopath to the top of Gotham's highest building. The scream alone was worth it."

Alfred: "Sir, why did you disable the weapons system?"
Batman: "Can't have a back door, might be tempted to use it."

In fact virtually every line in that book is amazing!!!! So I'll stop quoting it! Go read it instead!!!

DC Mega-Crossovers:

Wonder-Woman (of the 850th century): "That's Superman, OUR Superman, he's trying to punch his way through time to rescure the Justice League in the 850th century."
Superman (of the 850th century): "I'll cement your plasma bottle with my force vision. But my concentration must remain on it, so it's up to your Superman to race the kryptonite bullet and stop the assassination of his future self."
Parallax (when the Spectre shows up in Zero Hour): "So you want big? I can do big!"

Green Lantern: "You can't ask me to trigger a supernova and then contain it by sheer force of will!"
Batman: "The ring does do whatever you think? Trust me Green Lantern, and think big."

JLA:

Protex: "Batman! Batman! He's just a man!!!"
Superman (under his breath): "The most... uh... dangerous man on earth."

Martians: "What's that smell?"
Martians: (Surrounding Batman who has a match) "Are you going to stop us with that?"
Batman: (Dropping match into surrounding gasoline) "Hhh."

Aztek: "My suit's powered by a four dimensional battery. The only thing stopping that energy being unleashed here with a force greater than any weapon known to man is a little fader switch on my belt. Can you guess what I've just done?"

Prometheus: (Okay, not a hero!) "This disc contains the skills and abilities of 30 of the worlds greatest martial artists."
Batman: (Smiling) "Hhh."
Prometheus: "I don't know why your smiling. One of them is you."

Connor: (to Kyle) "I'm just a kid with a bow... what am I meant to do against someone like... I dunno, Darkseid."
Connor: (in the future facing off against Darkseid, having just fired the Atom on the back of a flare arrow through Darkseid's forcefield and into his brain) "He's in your brain you big ugly moron!!!"

Aztek: (Talking about disarming nuclear weapons on the Watchtower) "I had it down to 36 seconds by the last one."

J'onn: (Talking to girl with mind control powers, who stretched GL's will to breaking point) "You powers are of no use against a telepath with my mental shielding..." (and as she turns to Batman) "...and you'll find they are wasted on him."

Superman:

(Almost beaten by Silver Banshee, Master Jailer, Bizarro and some other guy) "Remember you friend Nuclon (or whatever! The living nuclear bomb guy)? Well I just used the last of my heat vision to nudge him out of orbit and on a direct collision course." (Cue prompt exit by aforementioned villains!)

Spiderman:

Hobgoblin: (About to strike the killing blow on a dazed and spider-senseless Spidey, he misses) "But... you could never have avoided that blow without your... your..."
Spidey: "C'mon blinky... say the magic word!!! Spider-sense!"

Mary Jane: (The middle of the night, Moon Knight has just called) "Not more Spidey action..."
Peter: "You weren't complaining about the Spidey-action you were getting a minute ago!"

Ultimate Secret:

Reed and Sue Richards are talking about why there aren't many intelligent communication capable species left in the galaxy, he's come to the conclusion the something wipes them out just at the critical point...
Reed: "Well, I suppose it could be the Chitauri. But come on, the Ultimates could beat the Lords of the Universe but they couldn't stop the Hulk from destroying Manhattan?"

[MisterBaldy]

Quite obviously...

Thing: It's Clobberin' Time!!!

Then there's...

Johnny Storm: Reed will explain it to everyone, and then he'll explain it again in one-syllable words so that the Thing can understand it.

Spiderman: With great power comes great responsibility!

[Powerhouse]

"Last Superman annual before Crisis. Mongul invades the Fortress of Solitude and takes out Superman. Batman and Wonder Woman arrive for Supes' B-day.

(paraphrased) Mogul: "I understand that on this planet distinctions are made based on age and gender. So, to be polite, which of you should I kill first?"

(actually, that issue is not stop cool lines)"

Too true:

Superman pushed to his breaking point and about to unleash his heat vision in a blind fury: "BURN."

Mongul about to deliver the killing blow: "Happy Birthday Kryptonian. I give you oblivion."

[David Blue]

Three superhero moments/speeches/lines that have stayed with me:

Issue 1 of the Squadron Supreme 12-issue limited series. Hyperion basically declares himself and the Squadron to be the government of the United States of America if not the world, and in his first speech he sets up the test by which his government can be measured, and potentially ejected from office. With fiery sincerity he announces it:

Hyperion: "In exchange for your utmost cooperation and support, we the Squadron Supreme hereby vow to you to solve all the problems known to men of all nations -- not just those brought on in recent days, but those known to man since time immemorial [...] We vow to eliminate hunger, poverty, war, crime, disease, pollution and oppression within - one year from tonight!"

Well-meaning hubris was never more clearly expressed. Hyperion thinks it would be wrong to hold back. With amazing power and simple goodwill, it'll all soon be fixed. Oh boy.

-

Nexus Legends issue 18: Kreed at the Gate! Nexus has decided to be left alone for while, and he leaves his friend the monstrous Kreed to guard the only gate to his private realm. Kreed takes his duty as seriously as possible. Until great Nexus decrees it, none may pass! Nexus' other friends decide, for good reasons, that they need to speak to Nexus. So, because of the loyalty and love that they share, Nexus' friends are on course for a terrible conflict.

It starts out lightly enough. In the wee small hours, Judah the Hammer (a superhero of sorts) wanders to the (only) gate, where Kreed stands watch. Judah sings to himself and pretends not to notice where he is going.

Judah: "... round round get around, I get around ... whoo-ommm ... Oh hi! How's it going?"
Kreed: "It goes away. None may enter."
Judah: "Didn't you do some pro wrestling, unlimited heavyweight? The Sirius circuit?"
Kreed: "No."
Judah: "Kreed, you know me -- I'm no loser or blob of dumb matter -- I'm a good friend of Nexus."
Kreed: "You used to be. I respect the Hammer. But none may enter."
Judah: "What if it were a matter of life and death?"
Kreed: "It is."

Progressively more savage violence soon breaks out. Neither side will be deterred from doing what they think is best for their friend, though they may have to hack each other to pieces.

Kreed's repeated line as Judah escalates the conflict: "Good for you. [for courage and doing what you think is the right thing] Bad for you. [because now this has to get even worse.]"

The best line was early on, before we get to fusion power, limb-loppings and gut-stabbings. Kreed is holding Judah's two arms with all four of his, and side-kicking Judah in the face, really hard:

"Long have I admired your skill, your courage and your eloquent language."

"Do not try it again. I don't wish to be remembered as the slayer of Judah Maccabee."

Classic stuff. Conflict between potty-mouthed thugs could never have achieved the same tragic effect.

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Issue 10 of the Richard Corben series Children of Fire. Mal, the former intellectual wimp, sits on a beach in the wilderness. His friend, the mighty Kil (the superhero), is with him, but she is on a stretcher, recovering from a head wound, and as far as he knows still out cold. The speech I remember is two vital words.

Mal: "I promised you'd get well. I promised to help you find our people's last child. Fine promises made by a fool. But who will help me ... find Pucca [his kidnapped lady love, pregnant by him] ... kill the @$$hole that murdered her mother ... and keep my promises."

Kil (rolling partly onto her side): "I promise."

The story ends there. If you don't believe that Kil, having given her word, is going to keep on keeping on till the job is done, where were you in all the previous issues?

[Spectrum]

Favorite line from the Spider-Man movie:

Bonesaw: What're doin' up there?
Peter: Staying away from you....That's a cute outfit, did your husband give it to you?


And one of the best Batman moments was the note he left on several members of The Hyperclan after he took them out:

"I know your secret"

[David Blue]

To elaborate on my three choices: I think a great speech involves a great conflict and serious consequences.

To drop the hammer on an outclassed opponent with a sharp, witty line is meritorious, certainly as opposed to doing the same thing in a crass or dumb fashion. But no such speeches make my list of gold - silver - bronze.

Empty talk doesn't cut it either, even on a grand occasion. For example Mace Windu announces in Star Wars: Episode Two: "This party is over!" It sounds "tough," and I have heard people call it a great line, but partly through Mr. Purple Lightsaber's own poor planning, the party was just getting started. So it wasn't a great speech in my book.

Hyperion's speech laid down a huge, morally grand, catastrophic challenge, and the rest of the series filled in the consequences of that challenge. It doesn't get better.

Kreed and Judah were ultimately as serious as it gets.

Kil was like a physically beautiful humanoid protector (as in Pak Protector, but less bright and more physical). She was going to protect that egg, and then the hatched egg: the last child. That inhuman, fanatical sense of duty defined her. For her to take on any other obligations was no light thing.

[Tim]

An old issue of Amazing Spiderman: Firelord comes to Manhattan because he's bored. Remembering a thing called "pizza" than Ben Grimm had introduced him to. He Melts the ovens with a blast of his rod and ends up having to fight Spidey.

When Spidey First shows up to a burning Pizzaria, " Hey, that was my favorite Pizza place!"

From The beginning of 'The Ultimate Six' spidey has just captures Sandman. "I think I got sand in my shorts"

[Bloodstone]

Superman & Batman #4

Batman, refering to Toyman making a rocket that will enable him and Supes to save the world: "Everything hinges on the boy completing his work before Luthor finds out."

Katana: "But the kid made it clear he want's to talk to Superman."

Batman: "He is also 13 years old. Find a waty to distract him."

Powergirl: What's every one looking at me for? How am I supposed to distract... oh."

For those that don't get it, this picture of Power Girl (http://powergirl.metrocity.com/pgadorjany.jpg) might help.

[Worldmaker]

(paraphrased) Mogul: "I understand that on this planet distinctions are made based on age and gender. So, to be polite, which of you should I kill first?"

(actually, that issue is not stop cool lines)


Yeah.... and personally I think

BURN!

... tops your example. (Sorry...)

[Susano]

Yeah.... and personally I think

BURN!

... tops your example. (Sorry...)

And then there's Robin: "Almost intelligent, eh?"

[McCoy]

Marvel Two In One #51, "Full House, Dragons High"

The story that introduced the floating superohero poker game.

One good line after another. Two stand out.

Beast, holding five cards between his toes, "Humm, why do they call it a poker hand?"

Nick Fury, "Stuff a sock in it, McCoy!"

When the villian is defeated, and is complaining it's all the Avengers fault, Ben picks him up by the scruff of the neck "Wadda you mean, 'All the Avengers' fault'?"



Any time Beast said to Wanda "Frankly Scarlett . . .."



One issue of Avengers, Ms Marvel throws the villian toward Beast. "Heads up Hank!"

"Forwarned is forearmed, Ms. M! But four arms do not make for fantastic feats!" Hits villian with flying drop kick. "So feets, don't fail me now!"

[TheTemplar]

Spider-Man is the king of the one-liner.

From the Spider-Man XBox/ PS2 game based loosely on the first movie w/ a bunch of extra stuff:

Spider-Man (when meeting Shocker for the first time): "Who are you? Padded Man? The Human Quilt? No, no... I got it! The Cushion!"

And from the video game sequel...

Spider-Man (upon again encountering Shocker): "Hey, Shocker, you're looking good! Did you get reupholstered?"

[Adventus]

They say a picture tells a thousand words so here goes..
My favorite scene/line in a comicbook was in JLA.

Guy Gardner (Green Lantern) was being his usual annoying self.. Batman cooly walks over to him and punches him knocking him cold.

Guy Gardner (Green Lantern) was being his usual annoying self, saying Batman wasn't that scary. Then he backs into Batman, who has walked up behind him. Batman looked Guy straight in the eyes and said:

"SIT DOWN"

Guy ended up bruising his rear end when it hit the seat. At this point one of the Leaguers that was there said. "That is why he is the Batman"

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This reminds of the time Dick Grayson was posing as Batman. He is down in the Batcave with the new Robin. When the original Batman walks in and tells Robin they have work to do and walks past them. Robin turns to Dick and says "How does he do that?"

Dick responds "I don't know. I have known him for 20 years and I still don't know how he does that. It still gives me the willies."

I am partiallly paraphrasing here, of course.

[McCoy]

Moon Roach, on a rooftop, has just hit Cerebus with roach-arang. Holding the roach-arang, Cerebus addresses Moon Roach. "Interesting little device, yes sir! Cerebus only hopes -- for your sake -- that it taste good too! Come down right now and you won't have to eat it all in one bite!"

[Egyptoid]

they were looking for cool superhero quotes.
Cerebus is another animal entirely. Ugh. :ugly:


Dark Night 2, let's try Kara, the daughter of Superman,
responding to Brainiac's prediction of servitude:
"Wrong, Monster, I'll be the death of you" :mars:

[Sketchpad]

During the Mutant Massacre ... after Nightcrawler was taken down, Colossus snapped Riptide's back and turned to Harpoon to say: "Make Peace with Your Gods, Little Man ... Because You Are Next!"

[Undertow]

There was an issue of Wolverine where he met Captain America in 1940's Madripor Where Logan "Accidentaly" spilled a drink on Barron Von Zucker in effect making it much easier to track him.
Zucker: "Watch what your doing Idiot."
Logan: "Excuse me."
Zucker: "Look at me, I'm Soaked."
Logan "Excuse me Alot."

[Worldmaker]

There was a JLA special... I can't remember the title of it right now, but it involved a young man who was transported up to the JLA's moon base with the entire population of his town, and somehow escaped being transported back down, and spent the week writing down his impressions of the JLA.

Anyway, during the end, when the villain casually remarks (after being beaten... he was admiring the fact that they beat him but that it took all of them to do it) "Its too bad your Sea-King isn't here", the kid says "You're lucky our Sea- King isn't here!"

You don't see too many "Yay! Aquaman!" lines in DC comics.

[Greywind]

Avengers first Perez era.

The team is on the porch watching as a man is hauled away in a straight jacket, during a snow fall.

Wasp: Can we go inside now? It's cold.

Beast: Gee Jan, I'd loan you my fur coat but I can't seem to find the zipper.

[garou]

From Herobear and the Kid:

So, for the next few minutes, they proceeded to school me in Respect 101. And to make sure that I understood the lesson, they offered me some demonstrations. They used props and visual aids. And they really encouraged class participation.

(Meanwhile, during each panel, the three Bullio brothers are beating up on Tyler (aka the Kid), noogies, snowballs, etc.)


So it's a soliloquy, not a quote. Close enough, right?

[gojira]

There was an issue of Wolverine where he met Captain America in 1940's Madripor Where Logan "Accidentaly" spilled a drink on Barron Von Zucker in effect making it much easier to track him.
Zucker: "Watch what your doing Idiot."
Logan: "Excuse me."
Zucker: "Look at me, I'm Soaked."
Logan "Excuse me Alot."
The Uncanny X-Men, #268, late Sept 1990, written by Chris Claremont and penciled by Jim Lee, and one of my all time favorite comics.

And, *ahem*, Wolvie's last line is " 'scuse me all to heck!"

[Enforcer84]

There was a JLA special... I can't remember the title of it right now, but it involved a young man who was transported up to the JLA's moon base with the entire population of his town, and somehow escaped being transported back down, and spent the week writing down his impressions of the JLA.

Anyway, during the end, when the villain casually remarks (after being beaten... he was admiring the fact that they beat him but that it took all of them to do it) "Its too bad your Sea-King isn't here", the kid says "You're lucky our Sea- King isn't here!"

You don't see too many "Yay! Aquaman!" lines in DC comics.
not really a quote, but there was a JLA, or JLE, but anyway Deathstroke the Terminator was fighting the League and doing a pretty good job, the whole time he's doing this he's internal monologuing and then he runs into Aquaman and bounces off. THen give Arthur Props for being tough as steel and the "Big Boy" of the group.

[Spectrum]

Even though I'm not a big fan of Wolverine, he did have a good line in the first arc of Astonishing X-Men. The alien Ord is escaping in his ship, Wolvie catches up thanks to Colossus and the fast ball special. He crashes in through the window of the cockpit and shoves nearly his entire forearm into Ord's mouth.

Wolverine: You bite, I heal. I pop, you won't.

[Myrmidon]

One of the coolest lines I've heard in a long time came from a brand new JL Unlimited Episode.

So be warned spoilers are below










To set it up: Captain Marvel's just joined the JL and gets corraled by the press. He starts talking up the League and how it does good, that even supervillians like Lex Luthor can be reformed and its swell that Luthor's running for President.

Supes of course is a little steamed and drags Marvel before the big 7 and dresses him down. A little later Supes is watching Luthor make an announcment that's he's built a city of second chances for those who need it, for the poor etc. Later Supes gets called in to the site of a robbery where a good chunk of weaponized kryptonite has been stolen.

Cut to Luthor's city a few supicious sounding comments later and Supes is convinced of the worst. Captain Marvel steps in as the voice of reason. Luthor pipes up that its an experimental fusion reactor, which Superman disbelieves. Supes throws Marvel off and the gloves drop on a massive brick brawl in an empty city. Marvel in the end loses.

Afterwards its confirmed that Lex was telling the truth, that it really was a fusion generator. Que the press and Luthor is coming off as a good guy.

Captain Marvel's calls a meeting with the original seven of the Justice League, and talks about how he looked up to them and idolized Superman then he drops this.

"I believe in fairplay. I believe in taking people at their word and giving them the benefit of the doubt. Back home I've come up against my share of fairly nasty bad guys but I never had to act like them to win a fight. I always found another way. I like being a hero, a symbol. Thats why I'm quiting the Justice League. You're no longer heroes."

Marvel then just walks off in silience head held high.

[Greywind]

Resurrection Man #10 guest starring Hitman.

Hitman has been hired to kill Mitchell Shelley whose power allows him to come back from the dead, with a new set of powers.

Shelley has Hitman up against a wall when Natt comes up behind him.

Natt with gun to Shelley's head: Let my boy go, or win a cabriolet skull.

Natt: Won't tell you twice.

Ms. Rebecki (Shelley's Lawyer) with gun to Natt's head: Won't have to.

Natt: Damn.

Hitman: Well, this is a very Tarantino moment... What do we do now? Kill each other?

Later...

Hitman (having joined up with Shelley): So what's the status of your new powers, Shelley?

Shelley: uh... Apparently I can make butterflies. (Demonstrates powers)

Natt: That's the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

Hitman: Right. (Shoots Shelley in the head)

Hitman: Hello again. What's your power now?

Shelley: oghhh... I think... I can change color. ...chameleon powers...

Hitman: Crap! (Shoots Shelley)

Hitman: Look, I'm just gonna keep on killing you until you come back with a decent gift... Up against the Lab, you're gonna need it.

Shelley: X-Ray Vision?

Hitman: Keep trying. (Shoots Shelley)

Main story with Hitman ends there, Shelley's story goes on into the next issue. The Epilogue involves Hitman and Natt going to see the man that hired Hitman to kill Shelley in the first place.

Hitman handing photo of Shelley over: So, as you can see, he's dead. Now pay up.

Man: We have reason to believe that Shelley is still alive.

Hitman: You're right. That's Mitch Shelley for ya. Unkillable.

Man: So get on with the job. Don't expect me to pay you when it's not done.

Hitman: You said three hundred grand for photographic proof of the kill. Well, here he is shot. Stabbed. Run down. Blown up. And drowned. And hanged. And gassed. At three hundred grand a pop, this is gonna cost.

Man: You have to be joking!

Hitman as he, Natt and the bartender pull guns on the Man: Only if you wanna die laughing.

[Hawksmoor]

Props for that last one, very funny.

Some of my favorites are from years gone by.

A scene from the return of Bullseye shows Daredevil and the revamped (adamantium skeleton) Bullseye fighting on the rooftops of New York.

Daredevil monologues to Bullseye after gaining the upper hand by fighting dirty. Yep! Daredevil fights him dirty.

When Bullseye questions his tactics (through a busted up mouth) Daredevil informs him.

"Evil is easy, being good...that is hard."

I also like a slightly more recent quote from the JLA. Superman and Wonderwoman are sent by the Batman to collect the Flash so that they can keep superspeed tabs on the White Martians. Wally West has recently been replaced by a darker edgier Flash from an Alternate timeline.

Superman asks the Flash a question to which he recieves a gruff answer about the use of the Philosopher's Stone.

Superman turns to Wonder Woman and says. "Whoever he is he just out gruffed Aquaman."

Hawksmoor

[Lonewalker]

You don't see too many "Yay! Aquaman!" lines in DC comics.

Thought of one for the Fish King...

The Justice League is fighting an army of rogue angels (literally!) and Flash, having been trapped in the JLA transporter, finally arrives on the scene. Aquaman helps him out from some rubble.

Flash: "So what's the situation. Key words only please."

Aquaman: "Key words only? How about 'End,' 'World,' 'The,' and 'Of.'"

Heh-heh...

-Lonewalker

[shaunclinton]

You forgot Aquaman's next line...

"Oh, and Fish and Man."