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"Isn't it obvious, Dizzy? They're the bad guys." _100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call_ "You'd be surprised how often this happens when someone lets me into a church." -Green Arrow, _52_ The Question: He just wanted to know how it was going with you, that's all. Renee Montoya: And how is it going with me? The Question: You still have no idea who you are, but other than that, fine. _52_ "Since when does Black Adam smile?" -Mary Marvel, _52_ "I know it looks like we don't stand a chance... But deep down, I think the universe likes me. And I don't think my story's over yet." -Animal Man, _52_ "See? This is what happens: ya try and' embrace nonviolence an' suddenly ever fraggin' bastich out there's linin' up ta call ya a coward!" -Lobo, _52_ "Little Barda now. But maybe one day I'll be the Big. We all aspire to be something else, don't we?" _52_ "We have a bond now. Say my name, brother. Say it." -Black Adam, _52_ Black Adam: If you ever are in need of help, August General, the Black Marvel Family will be there. August General: You are disappointing a great many people today. Powerful people. Black Adam: General... what do you think _we_ are? _52_ "He's playing chess with the world. That's supposed to be my job." -Amanda Waller, _52_ "You think small scale, men like you. For me, crime is the moral standard, the universal principle, the natural successor to free market consumer capitalism. I'm looking to establish a new world order of crime, with its own capital city. Every Caesar needs a Rome. I'm taking Gotham." -Bruno Mannheim, _52_ "Happy Halloween, Judeo-Christians!" -Osirus, _52_ "Can you feel the world trembling? We stand on the brink of an unforgettable war... or a remarkable awakening." -Yao Fei, _52_ "Wait until you see what the greatest cybernetics experts, teratobiologists, and germ warfare specialists can dream into life given unlimited resources. Imagine the unification of science and religion, in the form of unstoppable death machines..." -Dr. T.O. Morrow, _52_ "...I'm afraid of who I'll become without you..." _52_ "We must set aside personal concerns and prepare ourselves for a battle like no other in history." _52_ "Now you know what it's like to have the Marvels on your ass. He has the power of seven gods - you think about that." -Dr. Sivana, _52_ Dr. Magnus: Like I said, you were the best teacher I ever knew. I try to overlook the whole psychopathic super-villain thing. Prof. Morrow: Well... we all have our flaws. _52_ "Drop it. I have a particle wave ray gun and bipolar disorder!" _52_ "You know, if we get killed in the street by two delinquent Pokemon trainers, people might completely forget that we were badasses." _Agent X_ "Hey now, there's something you don't get pointed at you every day! I didn't know they made pink Uzis." _Agent X_ Taskmaster: I guess these guys forgot I took on the Avengers. Alex: You ever *win* against the Avengers? _Agent X_ "If I wanted useless chat, I'd get AOL." _Agent X_ "Listen, I knew both your fathers, and may I say, with all due respect to those brave and talented men... You cannot imagine my surprise at finding out that they were heterosexual." -Taskmaster, _Agent X_ [Jessica downs a drink.] Sheriff: Girl can put it away. Jessica: Everyone needs a hobby. _Alias: Come Home_ "In high school... I told people that when I was on vacation with my family, I made out with Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran." -Jessica, _Alias: Come Home_ "What I was - was proud of my daughter. When she was a little girl playing on the floor here, I would stare at her and I'd pray to Jesus that she'd grow up smarter than me and - and better lookin' than me. That - that she'd be better than us. That she'd be able to go farther than us. And - and she was going to. All of a sudden you - you could see it. She was better than us and prettier than all of us. See? I know that in this world no one listens to us ugly people. It's only the good-looking ones. I just wanted people to listen to her. And I was just so happy that she was going to make it." _Alias: Come Home_ "What I mean is that I love him for representing something so morally ambiguous. Every-fucking-thing that 'they' sell us - they try to make it all in - in - in absolutes. Good vs. evil, right vs. wrong and we know it's bullshit, right? I mean, how many people or things in your life can you point at and say *this* one word is a perfect *label* for that *thing*?" -Rebecca, _Alias: Come Home_ Jessica: Can I ask you a question? bouncer: What? Jessica: Have you ever been kicked in the nuts by a super hero? _Alias: Come Home_ "He never speaks his mind! It's like thirty years ago someone told him to shut the fuck up and he did... and that's it." -Rebecca, _Alias: Come Home_ Sheriff: Kinda got a thing for that guy in the devil costume, don't she? Jessica: Who doesn't? Sheriff: Me. _Alias: Come Home_ "What the fuck kind of super hero are you? ... Why is the world like this?" -Rebecca, _Alias: Come Home_ Jessica: That was some bodyguarding you just did there, Mr. Hero For Hire. Luke Cage: What? Jessica: We're letting strange women walk right into Matt's office? Cage: That was not a strange woman - that was Natasha Romanov - a.k.a. the Black Widow. Jessica: I thought she had red hair. Cage: She does. I believe that is supposed to be a disguise. (Cheap-ass sad disguise, but whatever.) Jessica: Still, we should have stopped her. Cage: So go on in there and do whatever it is that you do. [silence.] Cage: That's right. 'Cause she could wup your ass. [silence.] Cage: Chicken. _Alias: Come Home_ "If I was a lawyer, I would probably end up fucking a lot of lawyers. But being in *our* profession - I am going to end up fucking a lot of people - in *our* profession." -Luke Cage, _Alias: Come Home_ Jessica: You're a very patient and curious man. Scott Lang: How so? Jessica: Because of how you were on the phone the other day and you're tolerating this conversation. Lang: Are you kidding - I am *hypnotized* by this conversation. I can honestly say - I have absolutely no idea what you are going to say or do next. _Alias: Come Home_ "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I am never leaving the house again. Maybe, it's good that things ike that happen. Every once in a while I get a little tingle to be a super hero again... And then something like that happens and reminds me why I damn well shouldn't. It's the same thing with dancing. Once a year I end up at a dance club - and all it does is remind me why I never go dancing." _Alias: the Underneath_ "Well, as always, it's been nice visiting with you. And by nice, I mean irritating." _Alias: the Underneath_ "Jonah... is a very complicated man. He has issues with the concept of a masked vigilante. Issues with the media's fascination and glamorization of it. And I don't disagree with him. Sometimes - sometimes he takes his point too far, and he can be quite stubborn about it, in that regard." -Mrs. Jameson, _Alias: the Underneath_ "Listen up, bitchcakes. My name is Jessica Drew. I'm the original Spider-Woman, and what you just got was a face-full of my spider-bite. Where the fuck is Mattie Franklin?" _Alias: the Underneath_ [Jessica gets into the dance club.] "Fuck me. We are doomed as a society. Doomed as doomed can be. These people are exactly the reason I never go anywhere even remotely resembling any place like this." _Alias: the Underneath_ "May I say that this is the single worst apology ever?" _Alias: the Underneath_ "I have very strong feelings about you. For you. And most of all... you're a better person than you think you are. You're smarter than you think you are. You're prettier than you think you are. You're all those things." -Scott, _Alias: the Underneath_ [Jessica is acting as a bodyguard for Matt Murdock.] "The only thing that really irritates me about this gig is that any asshole with two eyes can see that he really is Daredevil - and that I am just here for show. But he hasn't confided in me. He knows I know, but he just won't come out and tell me... But this is the little revenge game I play with him. Everyday I refuse to knock on the door. I just stand down there. I know that his Daredevil powers will 'see' me here. Whatever they are, they must be able to if he can do all those things as Daredevil. And out he will come. We do this everyday. I also light up just to be a bitch." _Alias: the Underneath_ "Dude, no offense, but I don't even go over the Queensborough Bridge because I'm scared the Green Goblin might drop someone on me. So, there's basically no way in hell I am going into the jungle to fight dinosaurs because you lost your cat." _Alias: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones_ Jessica: Shit. Fuck. Thor: Young maiden of Midgard, thy language leaves something to be desired. _Alias: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones_ "But, god damn tell a crazy guy - a guy who hears voices and sees shit that ain't there... Tell him: 'Hey, crazy, it's just the chemicals in your brain. You're okay. There's nothing there.' He still is going to see shit that isn't there, right?" _Alias: The Secret Origins of Jessica Jones_ Dr. Doom: Typical shoddy American workmanship. Such incompetence would not be permitted in the Latveria of - DOCTOR DOOM. Airport security guard: How do you do that? Dr. Doom: Do what? Airport security guard: Speak in all capitals like that? Dr. Doom: Silence, minion. _Amazing Spider-man_ Aunt May: And you might consider tossing that costume - Peter: - uniform - Aunt May: - into the wash sometime. I'm sure those super-villain-whatevers don't notice, but whenever you come back there's a certain mustiness - Peter: It's the mush of righteousness which overpowers the stench of eeeeevil. _Amazing Spider-Man_ #41 Spider-man: Look, there's good guys and bad guys. I'm one of the good guys, okay? I don't go around killing people, or - Lamont: Smashing buildings? Scaring people? Getting into fights with each other, fights so big the city takes weeks to fix it all just so you bunch can do it all over again? You're a costume. You're a power. You live in my city. And you're a pain. All of you. Sure, you can do some good, and right now, I need you. But tell the truth: if every costume disappeared and the city was just the ordinary bad guys and the ordinary cops... don't you think it'd be just a little better for everybody? _Amazing Spider-Man_ Spider-Man: You have a daughter? Loki: Hundreds, across the centuries. I'm a Norse God. It's what we do. _Amazing Spider-Man_ "Twenty years ago I did a comic book about a 21st century America with endless reality shows based on public humiliation; a federal government secretly selling off pieces of the United States; and a citizenry so drugged out on media they colluded in their own betrayal. Don't say I didn't warn you." -Howard Chaykin, on _American Flagg_ "Anarky, not having any super powers, doesn't have what it takes to bring the fans in month after month. He’s the sort of character you can get away with using in an annual once a year plus his own mini-series once a year and maybe as a guest star every couple of years, but he’s not capable, he’s not strong enough to hold his own monthly title. Very few characters are when it comes down to it." -Alan Grant, 2006 "It's a dangerous world. You and I both got reason to know that. But it don't get better by hidin' from it. It gets better when people stand up an' do what needs doing. Stand up to make it a better place." _Astro City_ (the Flip Book) "But regardless of what he was, he was doing God's work - he was saving innocents and serving truth. And in the final judgment, what is more important? The burdens we bear - or the way we bear them?" -Noah, leader of the Crossbreed _Astro City_ "Automobiles have be the best melee weapons to use against giant monsters since the '50s. It's science fact." _Atomic Robo_ "I promise that your problem will be solved." "With violent science." "That is *so* a band name." _Atomic Robo_ "I hate the vampire dimension." _Atomic Robo_ Jarvis: I appreciate your concern, but I would rather you tended to - SHIELD agent: Listen, pappy, there's a lot to do here, just tell me where it hurts so we can - Captain America: You talk to this man as if you were speaking to me. As far as I am concerned, this man is an Avenger. _Avengers: Disassembled_ "SHIELD Command! If you can hear me - send everything you got. This situation is now Level 9. We need a Hulkbuster crew, ASAP." -Captain America, _Avengers: Disassembled_ Falcon: Was that the real Ultron? Hawkeye: I can't tell. The real one did like to talk an awful lot. _Avengers: Disassembled_ "We don't have good and bad days. We have extraordinarily good days and extraordinarily bad days. This was... this was an extraordinarily bad day." -Hawkeye, _Avengers: Disassembled_ "And you know what today taught me? No matter what I do in this life, Giant-Man, Ant-man, Yellowjacket, doesn't matter. Accidentally creating Ultron will be the *only* thing I am ever remembered for." -Hank Pym, _Avengers: Disassembled_ Iron Man: And She-Hulk? Falcon: Well, you guys keep putting Hulks on the team and you're all shocked when it backfires. _Avengers: Disassembled_ Hercules: Let us see the face of our opponent and hear his words of war. Spider-Man: You should write greeting cards. _Avengers: Disassembled_ "Ugh, can you imagine? Me with a kid? Like a kid could grow up normal in *this* environment. Avengers should not have kids. Super heroes should not have kids. That should be a rule." -the Wasp, _Avengers: Disassembled_ Warbird: No. She - she's a good person. She's - she's our friend! Falcon: She doesn't have that in her blood. Nick Fury: Actually she does. She *is* Magneto's daughter. And before she was an Avenger, she was a mutant terrorist. She was a premiere member of the Brotherhood. Spider-man: And she married a robot. [pause] Spider-man: No offense. I mean, he was. Is. The Vision *is* a robot. (If I was dating a robot, you'd all talk about me behind *my* back.) _Avengers: Disassembled_ "My theory... listen to me. This chaos magic - the source of her new 'reality-altering powers...' I am the master of the mystic arts - and I am telling you... there's no such *thing* as chaos magic." -Dr. Strange, _Avengers: Disassembled_ "If I told you a story like this, you'd say to yourself, this sounds like a person who has lost control of themselves on a deep psychological level. You'd say this sounds like a disturbed person. Now does anything I have described *not* sound like Wanda Maximoff?" -Dr. Strange, _Avengers: Disassembled_ "Give me my daughter." -Magneto, _Avengers: Disassembled_ "Your only mistake was melting Iron Man's pants." _Marvel Adventures Avengers: Some Assembling Required_ Spider-Man: Well, I've never heard of you - and what do you have to hide with that mask, hmm? Hawkeye: Most of you are wearing masks! Spider-Man: Yeah, I just wanted to throw that in someone else's face for once. _Marvel Adventures Avengers: Some Assembling Required_ Wolverine: You know, we put a hurtin' on the old Masters of Evil. Melter: But we're newer! And more evil! _Marvel Adventures Avengers: Some Assembling Required_ Captain America: We need to find out how tyrannosaurs are making 30-million year leaps through time. Spider-Man: Maybe they're just really cool? _Marvel Adventures Avengers: The Dream Team_ Captain America: This is all some big distraction. You had nothing to gain by releasing dinosaurs into our time. Spider-Man: Cool though it was. _Marvel Adventures Avengers: The Dream Team_ Giant-Girl: So Storm thinks this is all mystical fallout from some bigger event. Iron Man: Nah. It's just a Thursday, and Thursdays are always weird for us. _Marvel Adventures Avengers: The Dream Team_ "Heads up - this may be another really improbably attack!" -Spider-man, _Marvel Adventures Avengers: The Dream Team_ Captain America: Sorry son, but when you take on one Avenger - you take on all of them! Spider-Man: Except Giant-Girl and the Hulk. They had other plans... _Marvel Adventures Avengers: Mighty Marvels_ "There's nothing I can do to make everybody happy, so that freed me tremendously." -Brian Michael Bendis, on internet rumors Lois Lane: What about you? Must be liberating, not keeping a secret identity, I mean. Black Canary: Consequence of not having a real life to protect. _Birds of Prey_ [Facing off against Lady Shiva.] Catwoman: What's the strategy here? Black Canary: We're facing the most dangerous woman on the planet. She's killed more men than we've had runs in our fishnets. Catwoman: So how do we beat her? Black Canary: We wait for our first break... and we run like hell. _Birds of Prey_ "The British have learned that the Germans are working on a weapon that will allow them to break through the trenches. Something called 'Project Prometheus.'" _The Black Forest_ "If Hell was a machine, the Black Forest would be its battery." _The Black Forest_ "I'm the only one here who's ever faced the Big D. The only one who's ever looked in those animal eyes and felt the sheer radioactive evil in 'em. Make no mistake: this is the guy who makes the Devil look third-string. He's both a god and an infection... a supernatural scourge and a viral epidemic... bigger than religion... bigger than science... Why do you think the entre civilized world shudders at his name?" -Blade, _Tomb of Dracula_ Oracle: I'm going to dispatch a Birds of Prey operative to your area. Jaime: "Birds of Prey"? Oracle: Yes. Jaime: So they're like super-powered birds? Oracle: No! Jaime: They have bird powers? Oracle: No. Jaime: Do they at least have bird code names? Oracle: ...One does. Jaime: Annnnnd we're back to you sucking. _Blue Beetle: Shellshocked_ "Do you want to die here?" -Tamlin, _The Books of Magic_ "...Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. We felt the object was properly contained, and from a scientific standpoint... the whole *growing thing* seemed like a good idea at the time..." -Tom, _B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs_ [exploring a creepy secret underground lab.] "Wow. Too bad there are no good places down here for bad guys to hide." -Liz, _B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs_ Abe: It's Roger. I'm worried about him. Liz: Why? [pause] Liz: Because he was grown in a jar and left in a Romanian basement for five hundred years...? Because the closest thing he had to a family turned out to be a giant made out of human fat, and Roger had to melt him...? -Liz, _B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs_ "The fire is not my enemy. It is a part of me. It is mine." -Liz, _B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs_ Johann: I have only just begun the training. I fear my inexperience puts you in danger. Roger: Training? What training? _B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth_ "It's not always like this. Sometimes we play cards." -Roger, B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth_ Abe: I guess that explains everything. Roger: You understood that? Abe: No, I was being sarcastic. Roger: Oh. -Roger, _B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth_ "Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse - no matter the people - no matter the language." _B.P.R.D.: 1947_ "There's something sick and broken in society. An establishment that keeps millions in economic slavery, seperated by hate. This must change. By fire. By force. Whatever it takes. The revolution is coming." -Hoffman, _The Brotherhood_ "Did you ever stop to think how arbitrary society is? I mean, look at money - Everyone wants it. To them it represents power. But it's just paper! We give it value because we're told it has value. It ain't power... not real power. Society's looking to keep us down, to make us over into them. To use us." -Fagin, _The Brotherhood_ Spider-man: Why you aren't rotting in a jail somewhere is beyond me... Deadpool: Maybe it's 'cause I never went up against such a tough guy like you... _Cable and Deadpool_ "If you don't find politcs entertaining then you're not paying attention." -Waller, _Checkmate: A King's Game_ "Don't dwell in the past. The League was never for you. You should be proud of who you are, Beatriz. Not who you once tried to be." _Checkmate: Pawn Breaks_ "Like I said, I don't play defense." -Amanda Waller, _Checkmate: Fall of the Wall_ "I like Barry Allen just fine, but bringing him back after over two decades just as you're offing J'onn J'onzz just highlights the idiocy that is 'death' in superhero comics. Also, as a nerd, I have to say I'm not crazy about characters like Wally West and Kyle Rayner getting sidelined because somebody wanted more stories with the original guys. The appeal of a legacy character is that the mantle is passed on and this sort of nostalgia leaves that storytelling element dead." -Kevin Church, 2008 "I already hate the plan and we haven't even been ambushed in an alleyway yet." -War Witch, _City of Heroes_ "Everything that's ever mattered to me... everything that's ever been important... the lives of everyone on Earth and throughout our universe... in the present, and in the future... that's what I'm fighting for now!" -Barry Allen, _Crisis on Infinite Earths_ "Obedience is submission veiled with gravity. I never let nothing define or limit me." -Fun Boy, _The Crow_ "The world seems flooded with sunlight. Daily business becomes a joyous, childlike game. He has disgraced, destroyed and murdered the only good man he has ever known. This is his triumph of the spirit." _Daredevil: Born Again_ "Let's talk about hypnosis, Mary." -The Kingpin, _Daredevil: Hardcore_ Matt: Maybe we should do that. Advertise. Foggy: Up our profile. Matt: Get a little press. Foggy: It's good for business. Matt: Maybe we could leak it to the press that you're really Wonder Woman. _Daredevil: Hardcore_ "Matthew, there's something I've been meaning to tell you for quite some time... Burn." -Typhoid Mary, _Daredevil: Hardcore_ "The reason you and your brethren in the Federal Bureau of Investigation are always and forever unsuccessful in your pursuits... is that you do not understand, or refuse to admit to yourselves, how badly a city like this needs men like me. Not wants. Needs. This city was literally built by my people... Brick by blood soaked brick." -The Kingpin, _Daredevil: Hardcore_ "I told you when we met... how dangerous this is. I have to live with this. I have to deal with lunatics hellbent on being idiots." _Daredevil: Hardcore_ "We all know the system is broken, but I never realized exactly how badly until now." _Daredevil: The Devil in Cell-Block D_ "In law school, there's a second, less academic curriculum - beyond the standard textbook stuff. You're taught to develop what they refer to in the profession as a 'judgmental vacuum.' It's the emotional void a lawyer has to find for himself in order to defend a client you feel may not be completely innocent... or just flat out guilty. You're taught how to get beyond the self-loathing that can unravel a average person's sense of moral identity - all so even the most apparently guilty of parteies can have the benefit of a fair trial. You're even taught to cherish Zantac, the ulcer medicine -- because if you're lucky enough to make it through the day with yourintegrity intact, chances are whatever corrosion you save your soul will manifest itself in the lining of your stomach." -Matt Murdock, _Daredevil: Visionaries_ Karen: If there weren't people like you - the good ones who run around in pajamas... Matt: They're called "tights," dear. _Daredevil: Visionaries_ "We embody your hopes and ideals, and when necessary, provide you with the guardians that aid in keeping you from harm... whether itbe prompting radioactive insects to strike... a gamma bomb to explode in the company of those who can rise to the challenge of protecting humantiy... or simply hurling an isotope in the proper direction..." -Nicholas Macabes, _Daredevil: Visionaries_ (The baby unwraps one of Black Widow's armbands.) Matt Murdock: Aren't those things lethal? Black Widow: But apparently not childproof. Remind me never to ask Tony Stark for engineering tips again. _Daredevil: Visionaries_ Daredevil: I promise I won't be long. Would you mind checking it's diaper though? I couldn't muster up the guts to change it yet. Thanks, Tasha. Black Widow: But... Good god - I was an Avenger! _Daredevil: Visionaries_ "Ah, but that's where we come in, isn't it? None of us don these costumes merely to make a fashion statement, do we. Well, except maybe Dazzler back in the old days." -Black Widow, _Daredevil: Visionaries_ "All anyone can do at this point is bring the guilty parties to justice... Sometimes I wonder if I am just a bandage on a cancer." -Matt Murdock, _Daredevil: Visionaries_ "There's nothing worse than losing someone you love to the job." -Spider-man, _Daredevil: Visionaries_ "We tell people by putting on these clothes and beating up chain snatchers and muggers that 'it'll all be okay. We're here to stop the madness.' But we're lying, because we know we can't stop it all; there's too much. And in the case of someone like Karen, we've damned them simply by third party association. Costumed lunatic 'A' hates me, so in an effort to destroy me, he'll kill hero friend 'B.'" _Daredevil: Visionaries_ "The old Daredevil - this Murdock guy - he had magic powers, extra senses. All I've got is an enormous bank account. We make do with what we have." _Daredevil 2099_ "Shhh. My common sense is tingling." _Deadpool_ "You don't win fights by being a strong man or a clever boxer. You win fights by being more prepared to permanently fuck up the other guy." _Desolation Jones_ "I can't promise it will be good and I can't promise it will be funny, but I just can promise a shower scene in every issue," -Paul Dini, on the new "Harley & Ivy" miniseries "Mr Kaufman has an erratic metabolism. His body builds up colossal amounts of energy, which he is periodically compelled to release in bursts of extreme violence. You have about thirty seconds." -Mr. Punch, _District X: Mr. M_ Lara: If you ever come up on the lottery, drop by and as for Lara the Illusionist... Bishop: Izzy? You okay? Ortega: Huh? Bishop: What did she do to you? Ortega: She, uh... she showed me why she's worth fifty grand. _District X: Mr. M_ "For thirty years I have watched the world pass by, but I am tired of doing nothing." _District X: Mr. M_ "What in the name of all that's holy is Winnie the Pooh?" -Bishop, _District X: Underground_ "I began to feel like someone else. A different person. I _became_ a new person on that day. We all did - we were the abandoned, the neglected, the left-for-dead residents of the greatest city on the planet. And I was here because I _wanted_ to be here." -Zee, _DMZ: Body of a Journalist_ "Slapping a prologue onto the beginning of a story is a rather sophomoric attempt at giving said story an importance it just lacks." _Doctor 13: Architects & Mortality_ "_None of_ this is happening. My daughter's _not missing._ I'm _not sailing_ above the French Alps - with _a vampire_ - in _a pirate ship_..." _Doctor 13: Architects & Mortality_ "The future doesn't exist. There is no future, or present. There's only the past. That's all the universe is." _Doctor 13: Architects & Mortality_ "...But I have faith. I know about priorities. Some people have to understand that not every soldier is expendable when convenient." _Doctor Spectrum_ General Casey: But I'm prepared to accept that possibility. We need someone who can be the weapon we need him to be when things go poorly with Hyperion. Bill: You can't be sure that'll - Casey: Yes, I can. Pessimism always wins in the end. _Doctor Spectrum_ Joe: What *is* the mission? The crystal: That's what I'm trying to determine. The mission changed. We must determine the mission parameters. Learn the history of the Machine. What it can be used for. Whether it can be programmed to accept new mission parameters. In order to achieve this - we must open the box and look inside. _Doctor Spectrum_ "All these years I thought it was power that brought responsibility. It's not. I was wrong. It's responsibility that brings power. It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength and courage." -Spider-man, _Earth X_ "Do you have any idea how difficult it was to be married to a perfect man?" -Medusa, _Earth X_ "Weapons of war, prisoners of war, spoils of war... it's all the same thing." -Elephantmen: Wounded Animals_ "People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor, but the truth is... those things would have happened with or without me. Everyone was scared back then, and when folks are scared, they want to be surrounded by heroes. But real heroes are a fiction we create. They don't exist outside of comic books." -Mitchell, _Ex Machina_ "I can get the 7,500 signatures we'd need an hour after I unmask on TV. Same goes for a war chest." -Mitchell, _Ex Machina_ "No, I was a failure. If I were a real hero... I would have been here in time to stop the first plane." _Ex Machina_ Mitchell: My dream was to make a difference in people's lives. Kremlin: And you did. Now you are just another cog. Mitchell: I've done more good in one hour at City Hall than the Great Machine did in a month. _Ex Machina_ "Our generation's been ruined by Cliff's Notes and... and director's commentaries. People should learn to come to their own goddamn conclusions about art." _Ex Machina_ "Meggan and Brian Braddock are the two most powerful members of Excalibur. Being hit by one of them resembles have a large chest freezer dropped on your brain. Being hit by both is like being punched in the face by God." _Excalibur_ Kitty: I'm going to get changed and put some coffee on... Meggan: I better stay. Brian's about to use his big Captain Britain voice... _Excalibur_ "I recorded these messages in the knowledge that they would only be heard if I died or went mad. In either situation, Moira, Muir becomes the sole repository of all the mutant-related data I have gathered. Furthermore, if my X-men and I are gone, then you, Moira - my best friend - you are the last outpost of the dream." _Excalibur_ "Every night, when Charles went to his study to work... he was thinking of ways to kill the X-men." -Jean Grey, _Excalibur_, 1996 "If I'd had a normal life, I'd quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now. But as I've led an utterly ridiculous life, I'd have to say that we're apparently surrounded by alternate timeline versions of ourselves." -Nightcrawler, _Excalibur_
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