Greatest JLA Lines

collected by Michael Weyer

JLA #32

Inside Job
Superman: "I wish there more I could do to help."
Huntress: "Which is why you're standing at the edge of the ionosphere."
Orion: "When will you learn respect for the scion of Darkseid himself?"
Green Lantern: "When you learn to call me 'Green Lantern' instead of 'whelp.'"
Green Lantern: "Those are cybernetic parts And bird droppings like these Gotham definitely doesn't need!"
Green Lantern: "Do they have sanitation workers on New Genesis? Should I have a resume if this super-hero thing doesn't work out?"
Superman: "You know man's capacity for evil better than I."
Superman: "Behind you."
Huntress: "You're watching."
Superman: "Intermittently. Radioactive or not, I'm not anxious to explore the prolonged effect of x-ray vision on an inhabited area."
Huntress: "Then why are you in the sky?"
Superman: "It's quiet."
Zauriel: "How many whales are in the waters around Gotham?"
Aquaman: "How many would you like?"
Huntress: "If I had even half your powers I wouldn't feel accountable to any laws, let alone stupid, dangerous ones!"
Superman: "And those powers would only multiply your responsibilities. Sometimes, being responsible means not doing everything you're capable of doing."
Wonder Woman: "Follow? Superman, with all due respect these coordinates can't be accurate!"
Superman: "Why not? Because they're two thousand feet underground?"
Flash: "Check it out! Even Superman is----sweating ? Wait! Superman is sweating?"
Kid: "Do you have super-strength?"
Huntress: "No."
Kid: "Are you invulnearable?"
Huntress: "I'm afraid not."
Kid: "Then how are you gonna save him? What are you gonna do?"
Huntress: "I'm going to do everything I'm capable of doing!"
Locus Agent: "No poison pills this time, boys! They're at our mercy! Fire! FIRE!"
Barda: "At their mercy...?"
Superman: "Hardly."
Superman: "War? Then you're up against the wrong army."
Superman: "You think you're everywhere? Well....we are, too."
Punk: "You're sure a confident one, ain'tcha, sweethart?"
Huntress: "I just know what I know. I know that even if you've actually managed to barter for a precious bullet or two----"
Punk: "Ahhugh!"
Huntress: "----You probably wouldn't waste them on me. I know how many bones I can break without killing you. But most of all....I finally know my role."
Superman: "When you asked why we didn't have any JLAers in Gotham? I just assumed you realized....we already do."
JLA #33

Altered Egos
Green Lantern: "The entire League versus a millionaire playboy? Isn't that...overkill?"
Wonder Woman: "My Gods. The others have no idea what they're marching into..."
Kyle: "What's the matter, Orion? They don't have cufflinks on Apokolips?"
Orion: "This is absurd! Why must we hide our true nature beneath this flimsy cloth?"
Kyle: "Beacuse (a) Batman, as he would, suggested subterfuge, and (b) the only way freelance artist Kyle Rayner will ever be able to afford a Rivera hotel is on the JLA's dime."
Steel: "Nice almost dress, Barda."
Kyle: "We split up and search the casino for millionaire playboys, we escort Wayne outside discreetely and we continue to wonder why anyone would send Orion on an espionage mission."
Steel: "Do you mind?"
Plastic Man: "I'm in character."
Steel: "You are a character."
Wonder Woman: (on the new Flash) "Who is he? Are you certain he isn't Wally?"
Superman: "I doubt it. He just outgruffed Aquaman."
Plastic Man: "Hey! Hey! Tip for the non-earthlings, okay? That's gasoline! Muy inflammable, y'know? You'll set yourself on fire!"
Orion: "Good."
Steel: "Well....now we know why Batman sent Orion...."
Plastic Man: "No. No! Stupid Martians! See, we call it 'freeze tag' because "
Martian: "Silence."
Plastic Man: "Hhrrk! Oh, good. Twice...in one day...by the neck...!"
Wonder Woman: "What brought him around?"
Steel: "Probably Kyle's idea of subterfuge."
Wonder Woman: "The League Batman aside isn't by nature paranoid "
Flash: " But you're all wondering about me. And I am going to need your trust if I'm to be your teammate."
Green Lantern: "Were you invited?"
Barda: "I don't like this."
Wonder Woman: "You don't like anything."
Green Lantern: "Whoa. Whoa! Not that I miss him or anything, but....where's Wally?"
Batman: "I'm uncomfortable with the notion of super-powered aliens walking among us. No offense."
Batman: "Secrets are kept for a reason, Clark. You want me to tell Green Lantern and the others all of mine? Fine. After you."
Batman: "This isn't an issue of trust, Clark. That----the JLA has plenty of."
JLA #34

The Ant and the Avalanche
Red Dart: "So whoever said we had to be fair? We're bad guys, right? Supercriminals. That's why they put us here."
Red Dart: "I love a riot but I'm not dumb like those guys."
Aquaman: "Is there a problem you'd like to discuss with the Justice League, gentlemen?"
Rainbow Raider: "Uh-oh."
Aquaman: "Most of your powers are dependent on light. My eyes are adapted to see at six thousand fathoms. Think about it."
Red Dart: "First time I ever saw an angel. He looked kinda driven, you know what I mean? And he was heading down, down where they keep Hammond in the basement. Man, even the cockroaches were running away from what was down there."
Astronaut: "(Superman) only has to be as strong as it takes."
Aquaman: "Something's generating this bloodlust. I can feel a presence...."
Green Lantern: "Aquaman...Bloodlust with fries right ahead...."
Green Lantern: "Hey, I was chasing Zauriel down to the basement when I heard you squealing like piggie from 'Deliverance.' These cons are baying at the moon! I've been to jail and even under severe conditions this is not normal."
Steel: "Mr. Miracle....The ultimate escape artist....Rright....I guess it's back to the drawing board again..."
Red Dart: "The contact had what you'd call a macabre sense of humor, but I figure he picked the place nobody wanted to hang out."
Red Dart: (on seeing Promtheus) "You ever hear about the 'near death experience?'"
Prometheus: "Quite a distraction, Tony. It's like Dante's 'Inferno' out there."
Red Dart: "I can't take the credit for this and neither can Dante."
Red Dart: (on Batman) "Urban legend? Half the guys in that yard had their bones broken one time or another by the 'urban legend.'"
Deadshot: (to crook aiming gun at "Batman") "Don't even think it; he'll hunt you down and make you eat the bullet."
Plastic Man: "Criminals are a superstitous, cowardly lot, they say. I know I was."
Red Dart: (on Superman) "Thrill of a lifetime, man. Looking him in the eye. Knowing I'd be partially responsible for killing him all over again."
Green Lantern: "What the hell is that thing...?!"
Zauriel: "...An emissary..."
Aquaman: "I don't think I've ever seen men descend so far into barbarism..."
Red Dart: "So now I look up at 'em on the moon. And I think 'you're not so great.' I said to the contact, 'why me for the job?' 'My research picked you out,' he said. That's the difference between big time and small time, you know what I'm saying? Research. And then he said 'sometimes even an ant can start an avalanche, Tony,' like he knew what I was thinking. So I look up at the moon and I know the one thing they'll never understand is just how much we hate them. And how happy we'll be to see them fall."
Prometheus: "The S.T.A.R. orbital laboratory was an inspired touch. I'm impressed. That took power I wasn't sure you had...."
Lex Luthor: "Power is my currency. I don't make the same mistakes twice, you understand. They humiliated me one. Once only. This time, there will be no margin for error."
Prometheus: "Scout's honor."
JLA #35

The Guilty
Zauriel: "Flesh and decay? Maybe. But I find it preferable to gossamer and eternity."
Martian Manhunter: "We were under the impression that we didn't have to worry about you anymore."
Batman: "Speak for yourself."
Plastic Man: "Oh, please----any idiot can stretch himself into a funny shape!"
Hal Jordan: "Which begs the question: How can a man who's dead even lose consciousness in the first place?"
Hal Jordan: (on Zauriel) "Fallen or not...he's still got the authority of Heaven itself in his voice."
Hal: "Swimming in humanity's psychic sludge. Denied my very identity. Doesn't get much better than this, does it?"
Superman: "I've never known you to indulge in self-pity."
Hal: "When you've died and come back to life, maybe then you can start dispensing advice. Maybe then-----ah...okay, so you've got me on that one."
Batman: "Redemption's a pretty selfish pursuit when it comes down to it."
Plastic Man: "Let me get this straight: Before you were dead now you're the all-powerful Spectre----and you've kvetching about it?"
Hal: (To Batman) "'Psycho?' That's your forte, isn't it?"
Batman: "I don't carry guilt around like a cross. Life is hard. Terrible things happen. We do our best and we keep doing it----and we don't cross the line."
Hal: "You know what it feels like, don't you, Kyle? You live in constant fear of the power corrupting you. Of becoming----what I became."
Green Lantern: "It'll never happen. I won't let it happen."
Hal: "And I can't help but wonder, as I struggle to understand this dark force I've become: Why does a loving God....even need a Spirit of Wrath?"
Plastic Man: "I like my mask of frivolity! I'll take it over dancing with the devil any day!"
Hal: "Where are we?"
Green Lantern: "Back in Hell?"
Zauriel: "After a fashion."
Martian Manhunter: "There is more than one Hell. In fact----there are as many Hells as there are souls in creation."
Hal: "Years ago, Abin Sur told me I was fearless----but this place scares me."
Plastic Man: "I think I'm gonna puke...not that anyone asked!"
Green Lantern: "Oh is that where they get that plastic vomit they sell in the backs of comic books?"
Plastic Man: "Mental plane? Does that mean we get frequent flyer miles for this?"
Batman: "What're you saying? That's we're all pure and perfect at our core? That a forgiving God is waiting to welcome us back into his arms no matter what our sins may be?"
Martian Manhunter: "No. For all my insights, I am neither wise enough...nor audacious enough...to presume to make that judgement. But what I am saying is that a balanced vision is what's going to make all the difference in the world for your mission as the Spectre."
Hal Jordan: "I'm deat yet I live. I have no identity, yet I know who I am. And once again I've been given power enough to change the world. This time, Lord....let me be worthy."
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