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"Fabletown is our first responsibility, you and me. It's all on our shoulders. It's a noble experiment, but fragile. Tenuous. Made up of a dozen factions and hundreds of old grudges. it could easily come apart over this incident." -King Cole, _Fables: Legends in Exile_ "Perhaps women wear low necklines to filter out the gentlemen from the dogs. Those few who can still maintain eye contact, even in the presence of breastslike these, might actually have some potential." -Snow White, _Fables: Legends in Exile_ "Once we were a thousand separate kingdoms, spread over a hundred magic worlds. We were cobblers and kings. Wizards or woodcarvers. We had our sinners, our saints, and our blatant social climbers. And from the grandest lord to the lowliest peasant grl, we were, for the most part, strangers one to another. It took an invasion to unite us." -King Cole, _Fables: Legends in Exile_ Bigby Wolf: This is it. In the mystery novels this is called the "parlor scene," where the clever detective reveals all. If this were a work of fiction, the author would pause the story here to ask the readers if they'd put all the clues together yet. King Cole: Oh do get on with it, young man. Wolf: Sorry, sir, but in our secret hearts every real cop longs for a moment like this, and damn few get one. Indulge me, please. _Fables: Legends in Exile_ "Maybe the piggies and horsies declared war on the duckies and moo-cows?" -Rose Red, _Fables: Animal Farm_ Rose Red: What chance do a bunch of farmyard animals, along with a few odd giants, trolls and other beasts, have against the Adversary and his vast armies? Posey Pig: We've been working on exactly that problem, and I believe we've solved it. Come with me. I want to show you something really cool. _Fables: Animal Farm_ "Gather around, children. The glorious day has arrived at last. The call has gone out. Arm yourselves!" -Mother Hubbard, _Fables: Animal Farm_ "...But as long as Ma and Pa Bear have the ear of the farm's more predatory Fable element, and I pull the strings of the Bears, I'm the muscle end of our revolution." -Goldilocks, _Fables: Animal Farm_ "Like amateur soldiers throughout history, they made the mistake of putting weapons acquisition before communications." _Fables: Animal Farm_ "One of the advantages of near immortality is that we can learn to accept and adapt to most anything - eventually." -Bigby, _Fables: Animal Farm_ "The Adversary has us vastly out-numbered in raw troop strength. And he has a hundred witches or sorcerers to every one of ours. We need an advantage in weapons system." -Snow, _Fables: Animal Farm_ "You should learn not to ask questions you can't stand to hear the answers to." -Bigby, _Fables: Storybook Love_ "Look at it this way: with someone like me, noble urges occur so seldom that I can hardly afford to ignore the rare few that do come along." -Prince Charming, _Fables: Storybook Love_ "Welcome to the keep at the end of the world." _Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers_ "Why are the cursed things always built so much better than good magic?" _Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers_ "Wolves know how to get things done." _Fables: Arabian Nights (And Days)_ "...And passed as honored dignitaries through the gates linking one World of Empire to another..." _Fables: Arabian Nights (And Days)_ "A little-known fact about the Fantastic Four: Sue Richards isn't the only team member who disappears. Sometimes, Reed Richards vanishes, too. He retreats - into his mind." _Marvel Knights Four: Wolf at the Door_ The Thing: Yeah, okay, fine, so... What then? You want we should sneak aboard? Reed: Ben, old friend, you have many wonderful qualities, bu the ability to "sneak" is not one of them... _Marvel Knights Four: Wolf at the Door_ "On top of which, I am married to one of the most powerful, most resourceful women on the planet." -Reed, _Marvel Knights Four: Wolf at the Door_ creepy old man: You don't know anything about the visitors. Sue: Yes, I do. I know they don't like the cold. And I know that although they probably don't speak it, they must understand English. And I know that they've never met anyone like me and my family. -Sue, _Marvel Knights Four: Wolf at the Door_ "Also: my best friend is an ex-linebacker made of orange rock, nearly invulnerable, strong enough to arm-wrestle Thor and almost beat him... who is probably, at this very minute, disregarding what I told him - that he should hide in the woods, within sight of the spacecraft - and making his way towards us." -Reed, _Marvel Knights Four: Wolf at the Door_ "A word of advice, class: never trust a man who quotes Shakespeare. Invariably, there are daggers behind the pretty words." -Sue, _Marvel Knights Four: The Stuff of Nightmares_ Sue: ...It's all right, Namor. I've always appreciated your flair for the dramatic. Namor: Ah. Is that what you've appreciated? _Marvel Knights Four: The Stuff of Nightmares_ Namor: By Poseidon I'll make you suffer! Reed: With what, baroque dialogue? Honestly, do you realize how dated you sound? This is tired, Namor, very, very tired. You're boring me. Propositioning my wife - again? Reflects a deplorable lack of imagination - don't you think? _Marvel Knights Four: The Stuff of Nightmares_ "But, Sue, a bigger question I have - besides 'Does anyone else think it's lame that we're plotting our counteroffensive with cellphones?"'..." -Johnny, _Marvel Knights Four: The Stuff of Nightmares_ "Me and the men of Engine 93 and Ladder 45 - my fellow firemen, Ben - doing our part to keep New York safe from, um, flesh-eating zombies..." -Johnny, _Marvel Knights Four: The Stuff of Nightmares_ "How smart is the Invisible Woman? You have no idea." _Marvel Knights Four: The Stuff of Nightmares_ "Daredevil knows this isn't a crime he'll be able to solve tonight; there isn't enough to go on yet and there are too many unanswered questions. What eh does know, however, is that he won't be able to sleep the rest of this night, nor the next one; his thoughts haunted by visions of gruesome violence he hasn't even seen." _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ "Today's final score: the Fantastic Falcons 11, the Stark Sharks 10. A moment frozen in time..." _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ Sue: Alicia... Your stepfather's clay isn't magic. Alicia: No, he - he told me the story, Sue. About Wundagore, and the demon Chthon, and - Sue: No, it's radioactive. Believe me, Alicia, Reed's run tests... And not just radioactive... Reed thinks it's dangerous - poisonous... He's been afraid that... that over the years, the clay would make your stepfather sick. or drive him in- _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ [Telling Franklin that he's stranded the Fantastic Four in the ancient past.] Ramades: ...Why do you smile when I tell you such things. When I deliver the news of hopelessness and death? Of your parents' bones crushed in the wheels of time? Franklin: Mister, no offense, but... you must not know my mom and dad too well. _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ "Reed's brain works... what's that word? Associatively. He connected the dots from - lemme get this straight - Egyptology to astrophysics to alien taxonomy to chronal science... the study of time, he said... and figured it out." -The Thing, _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ The Thing: Suzie, these dead guys are everywhere, what - what the heck are you doing? Sue: Right now, Ben? I'm imagining a giant invisible buzz saw, whirling through the air, about to shred Ramades's army to pieces. The Thing: Oh. That's okay, then, I guess. _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ "Raptors from the Cretaceous period. Genetically-enhanced Nazis from World War II. Oh, and more mummies. I can revise this war's outcome endlessly. You'll never beat me." -Ramades, _Marvel Knights Four: Divine Time_ "My name is Reed Richards, and I have a big problem with magic." _Marvel Knights Four: The Resurrection of Nicholas Scratch_ "Is this a team-up? Are we teaming-up? The Invincible Eleven?" -Johnny Storm, _Marvel Knights Four: The Resurrection of Nicholas Scratch_ The Thing: No offense to the, uh, Defenders or the GLA, but don't they usually handle these kinds of things? Johnny Storm: Yeah, aren't we a little... "A-list" for this mission? _Marvel Knights Four: Fallout_ "The tragedy of it is... I was an artist once, remember? Before all the insanity... I created things." -Puppet Master, _Marvel Knights Four: Open House_ "The Baxter Building isn't just offices and apartments and gift shops, Namor. It's also a laboratory, a research facility, a science museum, a library, a zoo... And it's important to remind everyone that this place is, first and foremost, a resource." -Reed Richards, _Marvel Knights Four: Open House_ Reed: And now we're almost... friends, wouldn't you say? Namor: We don't immediately begin pummeling each other upon sight anymore, if that's what you mean. _Marvel Knights Four: Open House_ "Here's a little something not many people know about Reed Richards when he stretches: That noise made when you drag your hand over a balloon...? A lot of that. Only slightly less unnerving." -Mr. Shertzer, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "Yes, you look at these guys from a distance, as most of us do, they're the Kennedy family. You get up close... they're a little more Addams than Cleaver." -Mr. Shertzer, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ Reed: One crisis at a time. Sue: Don't I wish. _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ Sue: Gotta love New York. 'Hey, ain't youse da ultrafamous Reed Richards? Howzit youse got such a hot wife?' Reed: I'm told she likes the way I stretch my... imagination. _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ Sue: Boy, I hear some people get days off here and there. Us, on the other hand... there's always going to be something new to deal with, isn't there? Reed: Oh, please. You know the answer to that as well as I do: I certainly hope so. _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "There was nothing in those eleven words that taught me anything." -the Thing, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "Dr. Doom's shrink ray? Oh, no! Nuh-uh! No, no, no. it's old, it's creepy, an' it makes me itch. No way. En-oh." -The Thing, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ [About to get in a fight with an unknown foe.] The Thing: Any last words? Human Torch: Not really, no. The Thing: I was talkin' to him. _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ The Thing: Yeah? What's it use f'r power? [Reed gives a giant long-winded answer.] Sue: Why on Earth would you want him to answer that? The Thing: Gives him sumthin' t'do while I take care o' the problem. _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "Math teachers. They always said th' stuff they taught'd be important 'later on in life.' I always told 'em to blow it out their ear. Now Sue's tellin' me our butts were saved by algebra. Miz Grimaldi, wherever ya are... I'm sorry." -The Thing, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "Oh, please. I know when my flim's been flammed, okay? You think you're masters of subterfuge? I deal with Skrulls. A little credit here..." -Johnny Storm, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ [Sue uses her invisibility powers to hide Johnny from the Thing.] Johnny: Sue! My inivisibilityrific sister! You saved me! Sue: No. I saved the millions of dollars we'd owe the city if Ben shoved the Statue of Liberty up your butt. _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "Once upon a time, there was a very arrogant man who did something very stupid." -Reed, _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ The Thing: Hold it. You got nitro for sweat? I heard of killer B.O. before, but - Powderkeg: I exude nitroglycerine! There's a difference! _Fantastic Four: Imaginauts_ "Victor von Doom is the ruler of Latveria, a small but powerful Balkan nation. For years, Doom has brought his scientific and technological genius to bear against the Fantastic Four in a continual bid for world domination... but a man's priorities can change." _Fantastic Four: Unthinkable_ "In my duties as ruler of Latveria, I travel the Eastern nations with some regularity. I visit America only when I must and leave as quickly as I can. I prefer civilization." -Dr. Doom, _Fantastic Four: Unthinkable_ "The world I see is a harmonius symphony of interconnectivity. A global latticework of energy breathtaking in its splendor. It's beautiful." -Dr. Doom, _Fantastic Four: Unthinkable_ "This is the first time I've ever uttered this sentence, so pay attention: I have a plan." -Johnny, _Fantastic Four: Unthinkable_ Reed: I asked you not to go near the time machine anymore. Johnny: Yes. And I am renowned for my listening skills. _Fantastic Four: Unthinkable_ Reed: Very prescient of Victor. Apparently, he pre-programmed them to store his equipment inside a teleportation matrix in the event of his prolonged absence. the Thing: Geez, could ya put some more exposition inta that sentence? _Fantastic Four: Authoritative Action_ "The Latverians don't know what a rat Doom was. No crime, no disease, they didn't want for nothin'... Kills me t'say it, but he really took care of 'em." -The Thing, _Fantastic Four: Authoritative Action_ Thing: How'd he get ahold of Doom's DNA? Johnny: We went back into the past in the time machine and Reed lasered a hair sample off teenage Doom. Thing: Oh. Well. Naturally. _Fantastic Four: Authoritative Action_ Reed: Ben, no. What kind of friend would ask you to give up heaven? Ben: What kinda friend wouldn't do it? _Fantastic Four: Hereafter_ "Reed, no one ever gives you the Dr. Frankenstein speech, so I will. Maybe there truly are some mysteries man wasn't meant to solve." -Sue, _Fantastic Four: Hereafter_ [At the Baxter Building.] Cole: You got a place I could, y'know, freshen up? Like in the Bathroom Zone, maybe? Or do you guys just take a pill or something? Johnny: Don't give Reed ideas. _Fantastic Four: Dysfunctional_ [Trapster feels a tap on his shoulder.] Trapster: Uh-oh. The Thing: 'Scuze me - you know what time it is? 'Cause me, I'm thinkin' it's - _Fantastic Four: Dysfunctional_ Johnny: So you... you're really the Wizard's daughter? Cole: Mm-hmm. Johnny: Y'know, I... I don't think I was really ready to meet your folks yet. _Fantastic Four: Dysfunctional_ The Thing: You. With th' hair. You ain't never seen a five hunnert pound bungee jumper come flyin' outta th' sky before? onlooker: I'm from out of town. The Thing: Ah. _Fantastic Four: Rising Storm_ "Quasar? You replaced me already? And also, with Quasar?" -Johnny, _Fantastic Four: Rising Storm_ Galactus: YOU EXASPERATE ME, EARTHSON. Quasar: It's a living. _Fantastic Four: Rising Storm_ Reed: That's the alarm for trouble in the Microverse. The Thing: We got an alarm for that? Sue: We have an alarm for everything. _Fantastic Four: Rising Storm_ "Y'know, if I were Banner, who is a really smart guy, and I wanted to make sure I'd have the freedom to take off someday, you know what I'd do?... I'd tell them to send somebody after me I knew I could beat!" -Johnny, _Fantastic Four: the Life Fantastic_ "[The Hulk and I] were both hit by something that turned us into monsters, kid... into something... some *thing*... that the world *needs*... but nobody *wants.* Monsters understand monsters, Johnny." -The Thing, _Fantastic Four: the Life Fantastic_ "It's what-on-Earth-am-I-doing-here time!" -The Thing, _Fantastic Four: the Life Fantastic_ "See, Sis has always been able to see right through people, y'know? Like, to who they really are." -Johnny, _Fantastic Four: the Life Fantastic_ Reed: I've never understood why you don't use your immense gifts for the benefit of mankind. Dr. Doom: My suspicion is that we disagree on what constitutes mankind's benefit. _Fantastic Four: the Life Fantastic_ Reed: Are you suggesting we finish the chess game we were playing back in college? On the day you - Dr. Doom: I am. Reed: Took you a while to come up with a solution. Dr. Doom: I've been preoccupied. _Fantastic Four: the Life Fantastic_ Reed: Ben broke off a piece of Annihilus' wing off with that last punch. Johnny: Ha! That is _so_ Ben. _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Family of Heroes_ "Don't be too hard on him. Most scientists labor in obscurity while I make the news every week. I'd hate me too." -Reed: _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Fantastic Voyages_ "That's twice our vehicle has been spit up today!" -Ben, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Fantastic Voyages_ Johnny: Since when is Sue in charge? Ben: Since, oh, we got back from outer space. _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Fantastic Voyages_ "Won't Dr. Doom be jealous that it was a giant dog with an upset tummy who finally finished us." -Johnny, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Fantastic Voyages_ "I will have my revenge once you get that dog off me." -Street, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Fantastic Voyages_ "Pay attention to what I said. I can make other _things_ invisible." -Sue, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: World's Greatest_ "How come everybody we know runs a country and we're still rentin' a building in Midtown?" -The Thing, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: World's Greatest_ "Oh, well. What can I say? I love hats." -The Thing, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: World's Greatest_ "You know, in all the combat scenarios we're worked through, the 'run-over-villains-with-a-car' stratagem never came up." -Reed, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: World's Greatest_ Sue: Johnny, Victor Von Doom is a diabolical global menace. He doesn't steal people's cars. No way. Ben: Yeah, that's larceny, I think. Johnny: I'm telling you, Doctor Doom jacked my ride! _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: World's Greatest_ "You lost the moment you underestimated me." -Reed, _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Cosmic Threats_ Captain Marvel: You don't understand. Thanos possesses godlike powers. Reed: I know the type. _Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Cosmic Threats_ "What's wrong with me, anyway? Why can't I ever do anything right?" -Human Torch, Fantastic Four #214 "Sometimes I can't tell if I'm seeing the past, present or future. The closer I am to the event, the more vivid it seems. Do you know how it feels to see visions of people dying around the world twenty-four hours a day? Do you know what that can do to your mind?" _Fierce_ "Like I said before, Rogue Rule is do our best to avoid killin' a cape. That'll get the likes of Superman and Wonder Woman on us - but you've annoyed me long enough, Flash, and I was gettin' used to a city without ya. So to hell with the rules." -Captain Cold, _The Flash_ Jay: The music industry turns on its head every eleven years, the political pendulum swings every fifteen. How long would you say heroic ages last, Wally? Wally: Twenty years, according to Jones and Jacobs. The Golden Age lasted until 1955, the Silver Age lasted until 1975, but the Dark Age only just ended in '95. That's why it's still too early to say what this new age is even going to be called yet. a waiter: Uh, excuse me, guys. I hate to break up lunch, but Captain Cold's causing a riot downtown and you're the only super-people in the restaurant. Wally: So much for recuperation. _The Flash_ #134 [announcement: "1246 now in progress."] Flash: What's a 1246? Eight: A mobile giant bio-hazard attacking the city. Flash: Can I help? Eight: A routine matter. Happens a couple times a month. Continue your story. _The Flash: Time Flies_ "Velocity is a function of distance over time. V=d/t. Distance divided by duration. But what happens when the distance *becomes* duration? The man I'm chasing has been blasting forward through time since before I was born. If he hits the finish line, I will never be born. Neither will he. Neither will history." _Flash: Time Flies_ "Piper, Dillon was the least of Flash's Rogues Gallery... and in a group with the Rainbow Raider, that's saying a lot." -the Trickster, _The Flash_ Clark: Maybe you should get a headquarters. Like "the Flash Cave." Wally: Ollie spent a fortune on the Arrow Cave and he only used it twice. The acoustics drove him crazy. Clark: What doesn't drive Ollie crazy? _The Flash_ "I love how you rogues thrive on how smart you think you are. You're so deep into the genius of your own gadgets, so obsessed with your super sciences, that you can't even pull off a simple jewel heist. You have to show the world your talents. How much better and smarter and tougher you are than the rest of us." -Wally West, _The Flash_ "The guy in blue keeps blaring his name to anyone that will listen - Captain Cold. I doubt the rank's legit." -alternate Barry Allen, _The Flash_ "Y'know they aren't real, don't ye? Nothing in this place is, Flash. Just smoke and mirrors. Hard light constructioins. An exact copy a' the real world with a few alterations. A virtual prison... or paradise depending on yer point of view. And that's what all matter, and all light really is. Reality is just an objective point of view." -Mirror Master, _The Flash_ Bendis: Brian DePalma read my script? Studio exec: Yes, and he said some very nice things about it... it was just too dark. Bendis: Too dark? Studio exec: Yes. Bendis: For Brian DePalma? _Fortune and Glory_ "So I'm sitting in this room filled with these guys that all looked like they might be a Coen brother. You know they are writers because they are the only people in L.A. that don't have a tan, a shave, or a reason to live." _Fortune and Glory_ "So how does a guy with his ass planted in Cleveland with a relatively low selling black-and-white indy comic catch the attention of Hollywood? How the fuck should I know?? Movies were always on my mind, but so was being the drummer for a reunited ELO." _Fortune and Glory_ "...As I said, I'm an alternative comic book artist. Alternative to what? I don't know... Alternative to popular? I don't come up with these nonsense labels. See, in the world of comics, if you don't do superheroes you're alternative...The closest analogy I can think of is the difference between mainstream and independent film." _Fortune and Glory_ "Everything you've ever heard about L.A. is true. Everything you've ever seen about L.A. is true. Everything you've ever read about L.A. is true. Every cliche, every anecdote, every outrageous stereotype... true. True. True. True. Except much, much more bizarre." _Fortune and Glory_ Bendis: God, I can't believe you live in this city. Marc: I can't believe you don't. _Fortune and Glory_ "Okay, guys, put on your masks, this is the science building." _Freshmen_ "These are the things I formed the Global Frequency to deal with. The litter of the way we live. The unexploded bombs." -Miranda Zero, _Global Frequency_ Lana: What defines the human race? Miranda: Right now? Its ability to piss me off. _Global Frequency_ "The whole planet is an unexploded bomb. That's why we're here." _Global Frequency_ Akins: Besides, do you really think I could stop Batman just by not asking him to help? Driver: I don't know... probably not. But maybe you could make him understand what it means to us to have to turn on that damn signal. _Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty_ Akins: So you're okay with this then? Driver: No... but I'm a cop in Gotham. I can't afford to live in denial. _Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty_ "You're too young to feel old and lonely, Renee." -Gordon, _Gotham Central: Half a Life_ "This isn't Metropolis, captain, and not just because our guy works at night. This isn't the City of Tomorrow, it's not San Francisco, it's not New York. It's Gotham, and if you want to see what that means, just check out your squad room." -Montoya, _Gotham Central: Half a Life_ "I'm not here by accident, Detective Allen. The Commissioner picked me for the M.C.U., same as everyone else gets here." -Josie, _Gotham Central: Half a Life_ [The media is camped outside police headquarters.] Allen: And then the circus came to town. Montoya: Where've you been? This town has always been a circus - it's just the attractions that change. _Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets_ Akins: You never doubted Superman was on your side, did you, Maggie? In Metropolis, I mean?... We shouldn't even have to wonder. That's the problem. We've got cops dying while we wait around for him to save the day - that's just not right. Sawyer: No sir, it's not - but it's Gotham. _Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets_ "[Bullock is] a guy with a bullet in his future, Marcus. Only question is whether he'll pull the trigger on himself or make someone else do it." -Josie, _Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets_ [approaching Arkham Asylum.] Driver: You've never been here before? Josie: Not even in my nightmares. Driver: Take my advice, then - don't look into the cells. Just follow my lead. _Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets_ "Don't humor me, Driver. I got eyes. You all think I'm off my nut now. But I'll tell you something - I may've bent the rules some when I ran this squad, but I was a good cop. An' we didn't have detectives dying left and right on my watch, either. So remember that next time you're laughin' about how Bullock's just a washed-up drunk, ya smug little #&&-wipe." -Harvey Bullock, _Gotham Central: Unresolved Targets_ "Show of hands. Who here's taken out Doctor Doom? Huh? Anybody else? I thought so." -Squirrel Girl, _Great Lakes Avengers_ Joe Quesada: I liked your [run on Green Arrow.] Kevin Smith: Me too. First time I cared about the character. Quesada: I think you did a better job on that than on [Daredevil.] Only because you got the craft down. Smith: C'mon - a guy with bows and arrows? How could you not care about him? Quesada: I like that he dresses in green. And adds that to his moniker. Smith: I went from red to green. If I could write for Professor Zoom, I will have conquered the stop light. Quesada: Man, that's even too deep for me. Smith: I've gotta chat with Geoff Johns to make references like that. -Newsarama interview Black Manta: You have meddled in affairs that don't concern you, surface-dweller! Prepare to taste the Manta's sting! Green Arrow: I hate seafood. _Green Arrow: Quiver_ [to Aqua-man] "Would you quit babbling, you five-fathom fascist! Which reminds me - when the hell are you going to allow for some democratic elections down there?!" _Green Arrow: Quiver_ Green Lantern: I'm... uh... I'm Kyle. The Green Lantern. Green Arrow: Great! First there's the black guy, then the redneck, and now a toddler! For the love of Pete, those little blue men give those rings out like prizes in a Cracker Jack box! _Green Arrow: Quiver_ "Those were cartoons I grew up with, and look how I turned out. It's about time they made something that tells little girls they don't have to be cute, or nicey-nice domestic. They can make just as much difference as any stupid boy." -Mia, _Green Arrow: Quiver_ Green Arrow: You've got some weird friends, you know that? Batman: Says my friend who died. _Green Arrow: Quiver_ [reaches for an arrow, pulls out the boxing glove arrow.] "Oh dear lord... we meet again." _Green Arrow: Quiver_ "Look, back in the day, I... we... well, we were all a little stupid. Throwing a costume on a child and taking them along for a rich man's thrill ride? I'm shocked none of us were ever arrested. But those were simpler times, when the worst you had to worry about was getting stuck in some pseudo death-trap." _Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence_ Mia: Why bother showering if you're just gonna get all sweated-up again busting criminals all night? Ollie: Just because I bring 'em to justice doesn't mean I gotta smell like 'em. _Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence_ Ollie: Can't a couple of guys who died and lived to tell about it bond like the zombies they are without people bustin' our - Wait a sec... did you even die? I'm not clear on the whole deal. Hawkman: Neither am I. _Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence_ "The Green Goblin is a great character because he's pure comic book, an insane man that decides to wear an insane goblin costume, ride around on a jet-powered metal bat, and throw pumpkin bombs at people. It just doesn't get much better than that." -Retrocrush.com Kyle: Do people compare you to Hal Jordan? Alexandra: Oh, you'd better believe it! Those internet mavens are a nightmare! Kyle: They bag on my costume a lot. Alexandra: The visor's a bit much. Kyle: What's wrong with my visor? _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ Oracle: You're changing costumes? Now? Power Girl: What? Do you wear the same thing every day? _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "It may sound crazy, but there was a time when I believed that my powers came from a yellow sun too... And I've since learned otherwise. You'd be surprised how freeing it is to know that your strength comes from something inside yourself." -Power Girl, _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ Adam Strange: Atom, Firestorm's blast must have bathed us all in the same zeta radiation that got me out here. Firestorm: What does that mean? Are we sterile or something? _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "Doctor Psycho? Man, it's only the 21st century, and all of the good villian names are already gone! No wonder we're stuck with guys like the Liver..." -Forest, _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ The Atom: But we're here to investigate, not draw attention to ourselves. Forest: Yeah, those pants are really under the radar... _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "The Scarecrow. Real name's Professor Jonathon Crane. I attended one of his lectures when I was in grad school. Another lunatic with tenure." -the Atom, _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "I'm disappointed, Professor Ivo. An abandoned warehouse?" -the Atom, _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "Now, tell me what you know about the creature named Oblivion, or prepare to face the wrath of Jane Austen." -Hunter, _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ Green Lantern: Oh, shoot. I forgot about the wraiths... In my comic, they were ghosts of alien conquerors slaughtered by Oblivion over the eons... Forest: Man, you were one messed-up little kid... _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "Was Oppenheimer more powerful than the atomic bomb he created?" -Oblivion, _Green Lantern: Circle of Fire_ "In blackest day, in brightest night, beware your fears made into light. Let those who try to stop what's right burn like my power - Sinestro's might!" _The Sinestro Corps War_ "Unlike most people, who would run at the first sign of something supernatural, Hellboy had made a career of hunting down and investigating such things, and often enough beating them senseless. That was his job." _Hellboy: The Lost Army_ "Jeez, you must have been some sort of monkey-kid." _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ "Look Roger, a dead alien. Poor bugger. He seemed like a good guy." _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ "Send me into the dark and I will live again... and return." _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ "You were right, Roger. That's a big-ass worm" _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ "All right then. Come and taste the Lobster's Claw!" -Lobster Johnson, _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ "Well, that didn't work. I'm starting to get pretty concerned." _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ Lobster Johnson: I heard the machine gun and watched you fall. What are you that you can live through that? Roger: I was grown in a jar in an alchemist's laboratory... and brought to life by a bolt of lightning. Lobster Johnson: Good enough. _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ "Hellboy, to be other than human does not necessarily mean to be less..." _Hellboy: Conqueror Worm_ Starman: Elder god? As in Lovecraft elder god? Hellboy: Yeah, it's not as weird as it sounds. Lovecraft knew some stuff. _Batman/Hellboy/Starman_ "Say, it ever occur to you guys how that _thing_ happens every year? Some kinda crazy big emergency that the superguys gotta stop from destroyin' the world, an' then everything just goes back to normal?" _The Hitman_ "He's a way better hero than you, even though his secret identity is just a dog." _Hourman_ "Hourman, people like you and me... we're not supposed to worry about how others see us! When we look back on our day, all we want to know is: did we give people what they needed? ... Our feelings don't enter into it at all." -Jay Garrick, _Hourman_ Larry: Haven't you ever loved anyone enough to die for them? Gigi: No. Larry: Have you ever wished you could? _I Die at Midnight_ "Half of winning any fight is luck... The other half is not hesitating when you get lucky." _Incognito_ "Before M-Day, mutants were the great equalizer, spread out across the globe. Then one day, poof, like magic, nearly every homo superior on earth lost their mutant abilities. Now all that's left are the 'happy accidents': people who got their super-powers the old-fashioned way... cosmic rays, magic canes, radioactive spider bites. The way God intended." -Henry Peter Gyrich, _The Initiative_ "Oh, don't act so surprised... It's the first rule of problem-solving. When the problem gets too big... You have to bring in a professional." -Deathstroke, _Identity Crisis_ "DC told me 'It's time for you to sell out big time' and I said 'OK, how about some teen superheroes? That sounds hot'" -Joe Casey, on his new series _The Intimates_ "The people of Earth needed someone to keep them safe... and I was here to protect them." -Omni-man, _Invincible: Family Matters_ "Teen superheroes start drinking coffee at an early age." -Samantha, _Invincible: Family Matters_ "You'd be surprised how rarely people ever look up." -Atom Eve, _Invincible: Family Matters_ "He was talking about revolutions. Or _the_ revolution. I suppose there only is ever one." -King Mob, _The Invisibles_ "How lucky poets are, who can nail themselves to their pain for all the world to see. There's much to be said for hanging on a cross, Clare; you need not look down at the people weeping below. You can gaze instead at the sky." -M. Shelley, _The Invisibles_ "This is a tournament, child. And men like ourselves are nothing without rules." -the Prince of Orphans, _The Immortal Iron Fist: The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven_ "I once got a fortune cookie at ths China Star Cafe in Muncie, Indiana that said, 'Surround yourself with people who are what you are not.' That cookie was more helpful than all five months of Philosophy 101 I sat through." _It's a Bird_ "One thing writers have in common is the need to procrastinate. People don't really understand this, but it's not avoiding work, it _is_ work." _It's a Bird_ "Democracy is not for the people." _Judge Dredd_ "Legacies are difficult that way. You have to carve your own niche in them." -Sand, _JSA: Fair Play_ Sentinel: Trying to hide from us? Batman: If I was trying, you wouldn't have found me. _JSA: Fair Play_ "Oh, come now, Scarab. You heroes are a dime a dozen. A good villain, on the other hand, is terribly hard to find." -Johnny Sorrow, _JSA: Injustice Be Done_ "It has been said that at fifty, we all have the face we deserve - but I ask you, dear Sandy. Did I deserve this?" -Johnny Sorrow, _JSA: Injustice Be Done_ Jay Garrick: You ready, Black Adam? Black Adam: Of course. Jay: Then let's see what kind of speed this "Heru" of yours is *really* made of. _JSA: Injustice Be Done_ "The JSA inspires people. They were the first. They show all those other jokers trying to be heroes how it's done." -Star-Spangled Kid, _JSA: The Return of Hawkman_ "I don't know exactly how that helmet is affecting you but I want to talk to Hector, not Dr. Fate. Now." -Sand, _JSA: The Return of Hawkman_ "I've got a rep for being stubborn. Headstrong and brash. I'm called a lot of things behind my back by other heroes. Main one rhymes with witch. And I'll be honest, it's not an act. Not completely. I do have confidence. I am smarter than a lot of the other costumed cops out there... and maybe I could learn a thing or two about mutual respect. But you have to understand something, girls. If I was Power-Man, if I was stubborn, headstrong and brash, if I didn't take to authority well. No one would think anything of it. Do I worry about what others think? Sometimes. But am I going to hold back and follow their lead? Play sidekick and girlfriend, be a cheerleader for the football team? Hell, no. So my advice is simple. Always show 'em what you got." -Power-Girl, _JSA_ "...And I'm helping to work on a whopper that could be a technological answer to the Spear of Destiny. If Oppenheimer can pull it off..." _Starman, _JSA: Strange Adventures_ "The one thing you can do in _Justice Society of America_ is have them go to a pancake breakfast, it doesn’t feel out of place." -Geoff Johns, ComicBookResources.com "On the job, they can be as small and petty as the worst people... but it's like all of them have their own little secret identities. Like they're all heroes in their own way." -"Planet Krypton," _The Kingdom_ "...The lesson I learned from the Avatar was that... our pasts are always present. I learned that conflicts, no matter how small, can result in enormous tragedy when left unresolved. And, most of all, I learned that when all else fails... friendships are the glue that holds our tenuous, individual realities in place." -The Question, _L.A.W._ "Rest easy comrades. Your secrets are safe tonight. The world will have to learn from its own mistakes... instead of ours." -The Question, _L.A.W._ "We shall almost certainly die in this endeavour. My colleagues, saving possibly Quartermain, do not seem to care. They are, I fear, all mad. Miss Murray is, in my medical opinion, in a constant state of hysteria caused perhaps by tilting of the womb. Griffin, obviously, is a murderous lunatic. Nemo's a fanatic. And then there's me." "And then there's Edward." -from the private diary of Dr. Henry Jekyll, August, 1898. _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ "It's _meaning,_ isn't it, that lends such blessed joy to life?" -Moriarty, to Holmes, _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ "Once upon a time, history was made on the battlefield. Heroes chose to fight for justice... for honor... for glory and for faith... for survivial... and, in time... all the fighting was done. With the help of interstellar alliances, the Earth entered a millenium of utopian peace. Now, at the dawn of the 31st century, all we, our parents and their parents have ever known is security, stability and order. We're so sick of it, we could scream. And we are legion." _Legion of Super-Heroes_ [Wall collapses.] Element Lad: I wish you'd allowed me to simply transmute the wall, you barbarian. Karate Kid: It is transmuted. I changed it from solid to... more rubbily solid. _Legion of Super-Heroes_ Brainiac 5: The trouble with precogs is that they're intellectually lazy. Dream Girl: I beg your pardon? Brainiac 5: Once you become too comfortable with the mechanics of fate, your curiousity weakens. You'll keep asking why and when, But the how of events is so often handed to you that you become careless about investigating it. _Legion of Super-Heroes_ "Oh forget it. I can't stay mad at you little people. You crack me up." -Colossal Boy (a.k.a. Micro Lad), _Legion of Super-Heroes_ "I'm not the history expert. I'm not in the Legion to celebrate the past. I'm here because we're leading a generational revolution that could alter the galaxy." -Element Lad, _Legion of Super-Heroes_ Cosmic Boy: What's critical now is seeing what he does. Invisible Kid: Me? Cosmic Boy: Yeah. You've compromised everything, which means that, as of thirty seconds ago, I am loyal to you purely out of principle until you stop putting us in jeopardy. Invisible Kid: You want me to go home, or do you want me to fight? Cosmic Boy: Either one works for me. Just do something smart. _Legion of Super-Heroes_ "Congratulations. No one from my world has complimented an Earthling since you discovered fire, but... well done." -Brainiac 5, _Legion of Super-Heroes_ "Is it the Legion which inspires such dedication, Kid? I wonder? I have never seen it prouder in any of its triumphs than it seems to be today in its darkest moments." -Dream Girl, _Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga_ "You have done that which is beyond imagining. You have shattered the dream of a god... You have won, children of the light. The darkness is fading, even as we watch. But remember... the darkness cannot surrender. It is always with you, always on the fringe of dawn... and the instand you gaze at it in fear... your time will come." -Darkseid, _Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga_ "All four of you are super-powered criminals, and frankly, the government doesn't know what to do with people like you. In the first place, capturing and confining you can be very expensive - and in the second, super-powered criminals don't show any tendency to reform once their terms are up. So at least in this instance, the penal system is an expensive failure." _The Liberty Project_ Burnout: Are you making fun of me? Cimarron: Wouldn't dream of it. I been your age, remember? It was hell. _The Liberty Project_ "While we looked for the others, I tried to figure out the handle. There had to be a handle. There was always a handle. Once you figure out the handle, you twist it, and everything goes your way. But there's always a handle." -Slick, _The Liberty Project_ "Cimarron didn't believe in handles. She operated on the idea that if you hit something hard enough, it'll fall over. Her trouble was that she hadn't met many people she couldn't knock down. The fact that the Seraphim were out of her league never even occurred to her." -Slick, _The Liberty Project_ "I knew we were in trouble. I ain't as dumb as I act. The Seraphim were the meanest bunch of kickers we'd ever run up against. And unless Slick could come up with some brilliant idea, we were going to get our tails stomped. I knew all that. But I was still having a great time. I live pretty much in the here and now - and right there and right then, there weren't any tough questions. That's how I like things." -Cimarron, _The Liberty Project_ "The swarms have taken everything. The rest of the regiment, the armour, the troop ships. I think we're the only ones left alive." _Lone Wolves_ "Do you ever go into a fight thinking 'there's no point giving my best, I'll get another chance later?' We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot." _Lone Wolves_ "Maybe you're right. Maybe I'll never get home. Whatever happens I can make myself comfortable. By turning Earth into Hala... I'll show you people what paradise looks like if I have to level every city on Earth and rebuild it stone by stone..." _Marvel Boy_ "I can help you change the world. I have to change the world. I can't live in this one anymore." -Oubliette, _Marvel Boy_ "There is no system here. There's nothing but fear and greed and stupidity. As far as I can see this planet is run by primative primeurban protection rackets with something called 'law' as the only thing dividing one gang's method from another. Your leaders are murderers who say violence is wrong, then drop bombs whenever they have to make a point. Millions of your people can't even get shelter or enough to eat." _Marvel Boy_ "This is some twisty Hollywood kinda war we're in now, huh? You're too young to remember how black and white used to look." -Director Dugan, SHIELD, _Marvel Boy_ "Daddy. I've given this some thought. I really want to be normal." -Oubliette, _Marvel Boy_ "You. I've had your daughter. Now I want my spaceship back." _Marvel Boy_ "It's hard to figure out exactly what their culture stands for. A lot of the philosophy won't translate into anything we can make sense of. All I know is this thing's probably a carrier of highly contagious alien idea-complexes. We can't risk contaminating society. Are you getting all these weird contradictions? This is a highly advanced race but... the nearest we can come to translating their creed is... zen fascism." _Marvel Boy_ "A person who cares if there is or isn't a law telling them that it's okay to put on a mask and fight, they should be doing something else. Anyone who has a choice doesn't belong in this in the first place." _Moon Knight: Midnight Sun_ "Powers. They're... overrated. They make you cocky. Sloppy. And people get hurt." _Moon Knight: Midnight Sun_ investigator: You led a terrorist group called the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! Mystique: The name was supposed to be ironic, moron. We weren't fighting people's perception of mutants, we were fighting our oppression and... and systematic extermination. _Mystique_
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