Classic Quotes from JLA #31-40

Triumph: "Everything has to be a fight, doesn't it?"

Batman: "My contribution to today's historic meeting of the JLA and the Justice Society: One of Doctor Mid-Nite's blackout bombs. You're a bright kid, Ray. Stay out of this."

Triumph: "And as for you, Batman...360 degree hyper-senses...You're not so great."

Triumph: "Get these two into the brig or whatever it is they call it. It's a brig on 'Star Trek,' any..."

Green Lantern: "Hi. I'm Kyle Rayner a.k.a. Green Lantern a.k.a. the sap who always gets suckered into all the weird time loops and crazy parallel worlds. I really thought I'd seen everything. Hello the 5th Dimension!"

Green Lantern: "Captain Marvel's, well...He's like a kid's idea of what a grown man should be. He's strong and he's tough and we couldn't have made it here without him...But he's never kissed a girl. Not even his mom."

Captain Marvel:: "I have to get back to Earth to do some serious skywriting..."
Green Lantern: "Man...it's when I hear guys say crazy stuff like that, I remember why I love this job. Then we start decompressing back to flatland and I forget..."

Qwisp: "..So that's the deal. I can do anything here and you can try to stop me. I want action! Excitement! Sacrifice!"

Qwisp: "Free will. There is no end to the games I can play with your lives. I just got here and I've only begun."

Qwisp: "Too bad. I always forget how fragile things are here. Your 'laws of physics" I can wear them like a funny paper hat if I want! It's going to be real easy to be the Justice League's greatest foe."

J.J.: "Three-D means solid. I just proved that, *^$%@!$96^& ...."

Triumph: "...I could have joined any time I wanted...Ha. Do you think if I go back in there and just say I'm real sor----"

Jay Garrick:: "Last couple of years, it's been one after the other; Al and Johnnie and Charlie and all the others...Good men and women I never had that last drink with, that last chance to tell them how proud I was to fight in their company...Ah....Old man crap..."

Huntress: "...Please, don't be dead...Please..."
Wildcat: "...You know, you have the sexiest voice I ever heard...Okay, you and Catwoman. It's even."

Wildcat: "So, I got nine lives. The afterlife has a catflap, guys."

Sentinel: "Since when did you have nine lives?"
Wildcat: "Since 1945. Fighter's gotta keep his advantages quiet."

Wildcat: "Come one, Alan! Do I look seventy? You think this is diet and exercise?"

Wildcat: "Hey, don't look at me. Garrick's the guy with time on his hands."
Jay: "Ah, come one, Alan...We don't know how many lives any of us has left."

Plastic Man: "So, who's the popsicle and what flavor would he be if I licked him?"

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!"
Big 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."

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 Rayner: "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 Rayner: "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 Rayner: "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?"

Big 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."

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."

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."

Metron: "If Wonderworld has fallen, there is no one to stand against the Warbringer."
Wonder Woman: "You're wrong, Metron."

Green Lantern: "So what do we do? This is down to us, right?"

Orion: "It's not wise to wave your remaining hand in his face, king of the fishes. Sturmer bites."
Aquaman: "He bites me, he dies. And one day I intend to knock the perpetual sneer off your face, Orion."

Prometheus: "I built my crooked house here, under the foundations of reality, where I can nibble away at the roots...."
Lex Luthor: "You wrote excruciating poetry as an adolescent, I can tell. You were published by your school magazine...."
Prometheus: "Yeah, I guess we are pretty similar types, Luthor. Smart kids nobody ever really understood."

Prometheus: "Money isn't what motivates me. If I want something, I just take it. I'm in this for the buzz."

Prometheus: "So what's the Joker like?"
Lex Luthor: "Frighteningly sick in the head....but strangely compelling company..."

Prometheus: "Your people must have evolved from some particulary attractive bugs."
Queen Bee: "Conzzeptz of relative 'beauty' are meaninglezz to uz, aszz iszz your flattery."

Prometheus (inside the Queen Bee's ship): "This is like that bit in '2001.'"

Lex Luthor: "We've studied their weaknesses. We've monitored their every move, undermined their intelligence networks and used their toliets. Planning is over."

Plastic Man: "Heaven's given up on us? So...there's no chance of sitting this one out back home with a six-pack and the Sports Channel, is there?"

Batman: "Otherwise, doomsday machines are your forte, Superman. And if we can't stop the end of the world, who can?"

Lex Luthor: "Welcome to our nerve center, General. Power and rent are free, and it's ideally suited for planting bombs."

General: "Give me some darkness! Give me some terror."

Lex Luthor: "The penny drops. Too late. One."

Queen Bee: "Advantage: Uszz."

General: "Let's take these civilians to hell and back."

Superman: "My God, no! Not now, Luthor!!! We're all in terrible danger!"
Lex Luthor: "Understatment of the year. Goodbye JLA. And two."

Narrator:: "When you die, they say, your whole life flashes in front of you. Forty six seconds ago, the JLA Watchtower was devastated in a series of explosions. Helena Bertinelli aka the Huntress, is already reliving her seventeenth year. And her eighteenth."

Prometheus: "I have no morals. I have no pity, no compassion....Well, I suppose I have. Nobody's all bad, after all. But you know what I mean; I just don't get much use out of 'em."

Prometheus: "What's the first thing your really miss when you realize it's for life? Dancing? Running to the deli? Sex?"
Oracle: "I try not to live in the past. Do you miss your baby carriage?"
Prometheus: "Late nights trying not to think about it. Girl geek on the Internet, flirting with superboys, acting all self-reliant...."
Oracle: "When you're done trying to insult me to death, the information on the Mageddon weapon is "
Prometheus: "I was complimenting you. Stop being so defensive."
Oracle: "Then stop being so aggresive."

Prometheus: "Why do all my dates end like this?"

Steel: "'Full power' is our strategy?"

Prometheus: "Don't need a clock to tell me our timing's perfect! I'm inside the brain of the Justice League and believe me, it's not much to look at."

Plastic Man: "Earth is under attack from killer space-bees? Just when you think there can't possibly be anything funny about interstellar warfare, huh?"

Huntress: "Kyle...you're not an insect, you're a human being! You're Green Lantern, you control the most powerful weapon in the universe, remember? Which means your willpower is stronger than a bunch of bug pheromones. I know it is! And if it isn't, I'm going to shoot you in the head..."

Green Lantern: "Maple syrup; I was trying to drown that weird Old Testament cereal Zauriel brings in, next thing I know the bad guys are dining out on my brains."

Green Lantern: "If I stumble into a nest of superbees you'll hear the buzzing."

Martian Manhunter: "This is J'onn J'onzz activating full telepathic link. Counter-offensive has begun."

Batman: "I can see fifteen ways to kill you from this position. That's how vulnerable you are, Prometheus. But I'm not going to kill you. I'm here to bring you to justice."
Prometheus: "Hih. I beat you senseless last time, just to show you I could. And now, I'm going to hamstring you, lobotomize you with an icepick and leave you drooling for the others to find. Let's go, Batman...."

Newscaster: "Here is the news. May God forgive me."

Green Lantern: "...Ah....Don't I know your face from somewhere?"

Batman: "Your nervous and muscular systems are now being imprinted with the physical characteristics of one man....Professor Stephen Hawking!"

Huntress: "...Did I see you cheating?"
Batman: "Winning. First time I ever hit a man with motor neuron disease."

Orion: "Then as Orion in his wrath let me confront the annihilator! The blood red game of Gods has begun!"

Metron: "There are no barriers to my Mobius Chair. I am present in the Meta-Here. The Hyper- Now. The Omni-Moment."
Oracle: "That's some chair."

Eiling: "Why? Just to see the disapointment on your corn-fed, gee-whiz face, Superman. And because a great dark voice on the edge of nothing spoke to me and said you all had to die."
Superman: "Eiling...."
Eiling: "There is no 'why?'"

Aquaman: "You want to fight? Then fight for ME!"

Plastic Man: "See, back in the lean years, I used to share prozac with a no-hope hero called the Red Bee; Loser loved bees like some men loved their mothers and he loved talking about 'em even more...all the way until last call."

Big Barda: "Plastic Man, this almost looks like a plan..."
Plastic Man: "I only act dumb, sister."

Plastic Man: "You know why me and Steel hang out? We're both lateral thinkers."

Green Lantern: "Luthor! You're the smartest guy on the planet, right? That's what you always tell us....You know, I'm losing respect for a great criminal mastermind here..."

Green Lantern: "Luthor, you're being outsmarted by a giant eyeball!"

Superman: "Wrecked. Everything we built is in ruins. They succeeded in the end; Luthor, Prometheus. They smashed the League to pieces like ignorant children."
Batman: "Don't be so sentimental; You and J'onn can build another headquarters in ten minutes. Forget the Watchtower....They didn't get us."

Zauriel: "Unto you I commend my-----"

Green Lantern: "Zauriel?"

Aztek: "....At its core is an engine....of mindless souls....Robots....scurrying....carrying its thoughts in little boxes from one part of the gigantic brain to the next....I penetrated the Dark God's boiling cosmic shroud....Surprised my suit could adapt for space travel...Through raging thoughtstorms taller than continents....Falling deep into labyrinthine mechanisms. Its brain is like a city, a world in flames....It cannot be argued with. It cannot be threatened. It will simply exterminate us. All of us. I saw one of its thoughts and was blinded in an instant. It's rising up from beneath our solar system. All my life, the Q Foundation trained me for this, to face the Dark God Tezcatilipoca. And I failed."

Mr. Miracle: "It's not a god; it's a weapon capable of destroying gods."
Firestorm: "Uh, how does it feel about people?"

Booster Gold: "...Lost the gut, Ted."
Blue Beetle: "I'm wearing a girdle."
Booster Gold: "Thought as much. Nice bra too. End of the world again?"
Blue Beetle: "Yeah. Bwah-ha-ha....."

Elongated Man: "If these guys organized, we'd be dead."

Green Lantern: "I need volunteers for upper atmosphere work. Anybody got any questions, try looking up. I'm JLA, Guy. We are the professionals."

Martian Manhunter: "We have the Boom Tube apparatus Orion brought. Earth is only a loud noise away..."

Superman: "This is why we formed the League. We vowed to protect the Earth and its people, even if it costs us our lives. Now we're facing the greatest threat of all. We can't falter."
Martian Manhunter: "But we know nothing about Mageddon. This is technology from a lost universe. We know nothing of the risks you could face in there, Superman..."
Superman: "Perhaps. But one thing we know for sure: It's here to destroy all life in its path and there's no one around but us to stop it."

Huntress: "So, who's scared now? You like hurting women? You like to hurt people and mess them up inside, is that what you like? Close your eyes, Prometheus. This won't hurt a...."

Huntress: "He deserves it, Batman, you know he does...."
Batman: "Follow me to the ship and bring Prometheus. We're going home. And Huntress...I don't need killers in the League: Consider your JLA membership revoked."
Huntress: "....What...You can't...."
Batman: "You heard me."

Orion: "At last. To test my fire against the terrible hammer of the Old Gods."
Superman: "We go in there and we do the job, Orion. Whether this thing's aim is the extinction of all life on Earth or not...it's still just a weapon. It can be shut down."

Batman: "This place gives me the creeps."

Queen Bee: "There are almost six billion independent mindsszz on thiszzz planet. By tomorrow there will be none. Long live the Queen!"
Steel: "About how long did you have in mind, your majesty?"

Steel: "Man/Machine fusion: Smarter than the average bee."

Big Barda: "I don't need instructions, Wonder Woman."

Steel: "Plastic Man had a plan..."
Big Barda: "What plan?"
Steel: "Ask him....He's the red, yellow and pink lava-lamp catasrophe right here."

Big Barda: "You'd be funny if you weren't so...unfunny, Steel."

Big Barda: "Think fast."
Steel: "You wound me, Barda."
Big Barda: "No. When I wound you, you stay wounded."

Oracle: "This is World War Three!"
Mr. Miracle: "Not if we can help it."

Green Lantern: "I like you better than J'onn in my head..."

Green Lantern: "Man, this is like the best arcade game."

Green Lantern: "Are we fighting that?"

Oracle: "Last chance to save the world, guys."

Green Lantern: "Uh. The last thing I say is 'uh?' That is so lame. I'm supposed to say: 'I died saving the universe like all the good superheroes....' I'm supposed to be exploding, eyeballs first, special effects style. I'm supposed to be dead in space without my power ring. So where am I and who am I talking to?...."

Metron: "Regard this organism; this prodigy among the stars....This Earth. Its expressive diversity of creation. Its self-evolving perfection. And soil fertile enough to grow gods if spared the wrath of the last survivor of a war that ended in fire 15 billion years from here. Preserve this world!"

Green Lantern: "I'm just this guy, you know?"
Metron: "Is that Mageddon's will? Or is it yours? As New Genesis is to the Fourth World, Earth shall be to the Fifth that is to come."

Oracle: "Sorry if I yelled at your mind."
Firestorm: "Ah, no problem. I'm kinda used to voices in my head."

Big Barda: "We sting too."

Steel: "I made a bet with myself: I bet I could fix it before sunset. If the nerve interface works, I owe myself fifty dollars."

Animal Man: "I was in JL Europe for a while. You'd have to ask them how that happened."

Wonder Woman: "We're trying to fight to end war? It's a paradox."

Wonder Woman: "Superman just threw himself into a Boom Tube with Orion, didn't he? Why does he do these things?"
Batman: "I know. Sometimes he forgets we're all as responsible as he is."

Batman: "J'onn...I know you're a little bit fascinated by what you encountered out there. Be careful: 'The abyss gazes also...,' as they say."

Flash: "Now tht ws a run."

Flash: "Is that you, Gardner? Is this me?"