Greatest JLA Lines

collected by Michael Weyer

JLA#10

Rock of Ages Part One: Genesis and Revelations
Revenge Squad Superman: "All the good you have done, we will undo. All the lives you have saved, we will destroy. All that you stand for, we will mock and trample into the dirt. That's unless you want to try and stop us."
Green Lantern: "I mean, Wonder Woman's dead and Flash is injured and....this isn't the JLA..."
Martian Manhunter: "Until the last man falls this is the JLA."
Green Lantern: "Now, here's your problem. I don't know what that thing on your finger is, but I know for sure it's not the most powerful weapon in the universe. 'Cause that's right here on my finger!"
Batman: "A genius made these. And it looks like a madman's pulling the strings."
Green Lantern: "It's back to the Green Team for the big finish! And hurry it up."
Green Arrow: "Sun Tzu said 'Never hurry a victor.' At least I hope he did."
Martian Manhunter: "And Aztek....You're the current champion of the Meso-American god of light, you have limitless 4-dimensional energy at your disposal and your helmet contains the stored tactical knowledge of all your predecessors. You've fought and beaten the Parasite, Amazo and the Joker. We trust you with the equipment."
Green Arrow: "Look at it! Look at the devastation! Why couldn't we stop this stupid, pointless madness?"
Batman: "Remind you of anyone?"
Superman: "He's Ollie's boy, all right."
Luthor: "We don't fight them in the streets like brawlers. We apply the principles of the boardroom and we plan. We observe. We identify their weak points, destabilize their figureheads, headhunt the up-and-coming young...hotshots...For the first time in the history of the Injustice Gang, we have the leadership. We have the will to win. We have the right men and women for the job. We have strategy, we have the element of surprise and we have this. We hold all the winning cards. I want you to regard Superman and his white knights as a rival company."
JLA #11

Rock of Ages Part Two: Hostile Takeover
Luthor: "I would have overlooked this latest media-friendly pantomime by creatures whose very existence make a mockery out of human achievement. I would even have been prepared to indulge the astonishing arrogance of their lunar clubhouse. But for Superman. I take his leadership of this preposterous team of alpha males as a direct challenge, a throwing down of the gauntlet, a clear and deliberate escalation of the hostilities between us. I intend to destroy Superman's private army. And to do so, I have assembled the perfect weapons: My very own Injustice Gang."
Luthor: "Dead children don't seem funny to me, Joker. Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned. Regrettable casualties of our campaign but not funny."
Luthor: "Joker...You're here because I can use your particular talents and because only I can guarantee to deliver Batman. Gift-wrapped. Put the nerve gas flower away."
Luthor: "Prepare for corporate takeover. Three days and they're ours."
Aquaman: "I got the story from some tuna. They perform fascinating psycho-electric field displays...I know how that sounds, but trust me...."
Green Lantern: "How's it going?"
Green Arrow: "I'm wet. I'm okay. Some girl gave me her number."
Flash: "This is going cosmic on me, Aquaman. I don't know about this...."
Aquaman: "Leave it to me, Flash. I've handled cosmic and lived."
Mirror Master: "There's the big yins inside the fake HQ, Mr. Luthor. Mind if I make myself scarce before that creepy big bam with the green hairdo puts in an appearance?"
Luthor: "I don't understand a word of your...let's call it 'brogue' and be charitable...but you're excused, Mr. McCulloch. The Joker's an acquired taste."
Green Lantern: "I just suddenly thought 'if she can die...if Wonder Woman can die...'so can I. It's like somebody killed the Statue of Liberty."
Green Lantern: "How can I look Superman in the eye and tell him I can't help with relief work in Star City because I'm late with the logo design for an Internet cafe? It's easy for Wally....Racing around with smile on his face; guy's living in a mansion...I didn't say any of that..."
Luthor: "I gave them three days. I was probably being generous."
Luthor: "I'm beginning to believe I may have stumbled upon the ultimate weapon. I've always been lucky like that."
Matches Malone: "Hey! I have a match, there's more oil in your hair than they got on the beaches of Kuwait...Think about and talk to me, Plastic Man!!!"
Batman: "Ordinarily, I'd say we were in trouble, but we have an advantage here. Luthor still has no idea he's dealing with someone who's as familiar with corporate takeover techniques as he is. Someone who plays the game much better than he does....Bruce Wayne. Let's take him out."
JLA#12

Rock of Ages Part Three: Wonderworld
Mote: "This is Wonderworld, Green Lantern. Things are bigger here."
Joker: "You weren't supposed to kill Superman until I killed Batman! Double or quits! The old world's vilest team! Lexy! How could you!"
Hourman: "This is the first time you have met me but not the first time I have met you. The next time you meet me will be the first time I meet you. It's difficult to render this into third- dimensional language...."
Superman: "Bruce...the Mirror Master is a mercenary...and you paid him?"
Batman: "Lives are at stake. I did what was necessary. We needed spies in Luthor's camp and we knew he'd be scanning for J'onn. And the money's gone into a restoration fund for the orphanage where McCulloch grew up. Never underestimate the sentimentality of a Scotsman, Clark. The rock's in the air. We have a little over three minutes. The Injustice Gang is history."
Aquaman: "Dear god. That was Europe....Darkseid's here."
JLA #13

Rock of Ages Part Four: Wasteland
Aquaman: "Diana, we need to talk."
Wonder Woman: "Actually, we need to fight, Arthur."
The Atom: "The Gods came, Aquaman. They obliterated us."
The Atom: "I was a scientist and science lost out to....religion."
The Atom: "They killed Superman....They erased his wife's mind. Turned her into a Swarmtrooper assault drone. He burned out her nervous system, it was mercy. But he'd vowed never to take a life, so after she was buried, he...tore open his containment suit."
Darkseid: "Is this power? Is this what power means when one is lord only over maggots like these?"
Darkseid: "New Genesis is a stinking cosmic sewer! I have fouled Paradise beyond repair and broken in the mire the shining cities of the Gods! I have won! Is this vanity? Then I will remake the entire universe in the image of my soul, Deasaad. And when at last I turn to look upon the eternal desolation I have wrought...I will see Darkseid, as in a mirror....and know what fear is. HAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Wonder Woman: "I see. Suddenly, it's a suicide mission."
Aquaman: "We're the Justice League, Diana; we don't do suicide missions."
Green Arrow: "Clear! ? Really, really clear...transparent in fact..."
Batman: "Eight years...four of them in Desaad's Psycho-fuge, experiencing all the physical and emotional pain of his victims...it ended two months ago. Battle of wits. I won."
Batman: "So what else can go right?"
Batman: "That's J'onn's harness. Hard to kill a shapeshifter when you get tire of torturing him. Desaad put him in a particle accelerator. Smashed every atom in his body, one by one. The energy lit Vegas for a year. No language on this planet has a word for the...immensity of the evil we're up against. No matter what it takes, no matter how impossible it seems....Darkseid must be stopped."
Green Arrow (on Batman): "Jeez, Ray. He's shaking....What happened here?"
Announcer: "On your knees for the master! The hour has come! He has come! Who is beyond good and evil? Who is the prophecy of Anti-Life? Who is the rock and the chain and the lightning? All powerful! All unforgiving! All conquering! Who is your New God now and forever?"
Darkseid: "Darkseid is."
JLA #14

Rock of Ages Part Five: Twilight of the Gods
Black Racer: "(Darkseid) believes he has won the game but in truth, there can be only one ultimate victor. And where my shadow falls, all things end."
Batman: "The Boom Tube's a direct route to Metron, gentlemen. That's the good news. The bad news is, he's on Darkseid's warship."
Darkseid: "I take away their confusion and give them obedience. I take away their fear of themselves and give them fear of Darkseid. I have liberated them from the chaos of indecision! I have given them one straight path! One clear purpose! One goal: To die for Darkseid!"
Black Racer: "Earth's last defenders shudder as I pass them like a cold wind. They shudder but do not falter. They know me but do not fear my coming."
Batman: "Boo."
Metron: "Nnaa!"
Batman: "Can we talk?"
Wonder Woman: "Darkseid! By all my gods and in my mother's name, I'll make you pay for the pain you've caused!"
Darkseid: "Pain is what makes us strong. And all the gods are dead, Wonder Woman. There is no god but Darkseid. So kneel now or later. In the end, you will kneel."
Atom: "Connor! Look where you're going!"
Green Arrow: "Hey! Amazo synthetically duplicates the powers of the whole JLA! I have a bow and some arrows! Shout at him, huh?"
Metron: "There. I am made flesh and blood. Is this...weight...this ceaseless particle movement...is this all? What is feeling, that I should consider it worthy of record?"
Batman: "Well....(Punches Metron) It's something like that."
Black Racer: "These mindless ones feel nothing as I pass. They died long ago."
Darkseid: "Do I know you?"
Batman: "We've...shared some laughs. Everything you know, everything you own; I'm taking it all. Look up."
Azteka: "Argent, shh! Batman's going to love this. Hey! My armor's powered by a four- dimensional battery, yeah? The only thing that stops the energy from erupting into 3-D space with a destructive power greater than any weapon on Earth....is a little fader switch on my belt. And guess what I just did."
Batman: "You want to know why you're surrounded by all these 'maggots', Darkseid? Because you did what you said you'd do; you recreated the whole world in your image. And what you see in them is your own ugly faaaaaaa....."
Black Racer: "He is gone, out of time, out of space. Beyond what even Gods know."
Atom: "Flare arrow, Connor!"
Green Arrow: "Great idea, Ray. Maybe we can give him a fatal suntan...."
Atom: "I'm Ray Palmer. I'm the Atom. I'm a scientist. And I just realized you can see. Which means something can get through your shield. Light."
Atom: "Nice brain. Four lobes. Which one's first?"
Green Arrow: "Hey, the only way we're gonna serve you is medium rare. He's in your head, you big, ugly moron."
Darkseid: "Whaa...no. Not this. NOOOOOOOOO"
Atom: "Hold that bad thought."
Black Racer: "This one catches sight of me and, like a good scientist, asks a question. My answer is 'yes.'"
Green Arrow: "Ray? You and me, man. We just killed Darkseid."
Orion: "In the end, Darkseid has won, cold one. I have become the destroyer he always said I was. I am truly his son."
JLA #15

Rock of Ages Part Six: Stone of Destiny
Metron: "Time is like a watch and damage can be repaired. And time is like an hourglass; its parts are as grains of sand and fall where they will. There are always the same number of grains, but each new arrangement is different."
Aztek: "Just remember, it was your money that paid for my technology. I couldn't do this without you, Mr. Luthor."
Superman: "How many people do have up there working for us?"
Batman: "Three. I used my initiative."
Superman: "And we're traveling in that? Are you sure it's safe, Batman?"
Batman: "I built it myself. Of course it's safe."
Luthor: "I can't understand these people. They seem to equate pig-handedness with heroism."
Luthor: "Just how long have you been masquerading as the Joker?"
Plastic Man: "Just a little longer than you've been wearing those shorts, Lex! I've been meaning to bring it up: I've spent quite some time on the wrong side of the law myself and I know the importance of fresh underwear."
Joker: "The trident's a quality item! Is that the thing Neron gave you in exchange for your soul? What does it do?"
Ocean Master: "It increases my power...ah...immeasurably. And if I let go of the weapon, I experience excruciating nerve pain."
Joker: "Sounds like the deal of the century, Flipper! And everybody says I'm the crazy...."
Mirror Master: "It's not about money this time. I sold my soul once and once was enough."
Luthor: "It's only money, Superman. It makes the world go round. It oils the wheels, it puts satellites in orbit and helps build wonderful things. Like hard-light hologram storage tanks."
Ocean Master: "Come on! If we're smart we can get out of here before the JLA tears the place apart!"
Joker: "If we're smart? Hey, I'm a certified nut and you're wearing a fish mask!"
Plastic Man: "I know you're a goddess! I know you possess the power to turn men into beasts! I know you're immortal and I'll be piloting a wheelchair when you're still dancing weekends at 'Cheeks'! I've had weirder girlfriends."
Plastic Man: "Why the nuns named me after a remorseless killer of the deep, I'll never know."
Dr. Light: "I just transmitted Superman FM out of the solar system at light speed. I didn't even realize I could do that. Luthor, you're a genius."
Luthor: "I know."
Plastic Man: "You know, you're the first woman who's ever taken control of my entire physical structure. I must have your phone number!"
Plastic Man: "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a tourniquet....but hey! I'll try anything once!"
Luthor: "Congratulations, Superman. Once again, you've ensured that everything gets done your way. What a clever conqueror you are."
Superman: "Not all of us want to rule the world, Luthor."
Luthor: "Only because some us already do."
Joker: "All that muscle in one room and you still fell for the old gypsy switch. I don't whether to laugh or cry!"
Luthor: "I'm here to make your lives hell. I only keep you alive to make your lives hell. And Batman...you made a big mistake."
Dr. Light: "What's he doing?"
Circe: "He's doing what all rats do. Weasel."
Plastic Man (to Superman): "You know, you look taller on the box for your action figure."
Metron: "You are only the forerunners. Prepare for the fortification of Earth."
Superman: "Goodbye, Lex. There's a good man in there somewhere."
Luthor: "You think so, do you?"
Metron: "For in the game of Gods, Creation itself is the playing field."
Superman: "As of now, we're officially disbanding the Justice League of America."
JLA Secret Files #2

"Heroes"
Orion: "Back, foul demons! I wield the mighty power of the Astro-Force!! Back or die at my hands!!!"
Lightray: "I believe they chose 'back.'"
Clark: "We may be mankind's only hope."
Aquaman: "You really believe that, don't you?"
Clark: "And you don't ?"
Aquaman: "I believe we play a certain role in the scheme of things, but it's arrogant to presume what that role is."
Clark: "Heroes are born of circumstance. We don't wake up one morning and pin on a cape. There's a sense of higher purpose."
Aquaman: "Superman, my people suffered a cataclysm a millenium ago and nobody came to save us. We survived."
Clark: "And the people of Krypton did not. It's all a roll of the dice, Arthur. We do what we do. As for my being arrogant----I've been called worse."
Batman: "The clock is running, Oracle."
Oracle: "I know. I also know you own the clock."
Oracle: "*He's not listening. He's there. In that place. Staring down the creatures in his head. A one-track mind with no call waiting.*
Huntress: "Are you quite done?"
Batman: "I'm never done."
Pa Kent: "You fellas watch out for this planet now, y'hear?"
Aquaman: "He's here. He's been waiting in the kitchen for 15 minutes. I think sometimes he forgets I can see in the deepest ocean depths."
Batman: "Yes, that's it. I forgot. That sounds likely, doesn't it?"
Oracle: "*'We?' This has nothing to do with me. This is him...needing to always be one step ahead of the gods. Probably the only way he can deal with them----"
Guy Gardner: " And anybody who has a problem with that can take three steps west into the lunar Sea of Tranquility."
Boris: "We're teenagers, Natasha, the cunning of adults, the impulse control of toddlers. Fate will take us by the hand."
Boris (on Guy Gardner): "He's old way over 28."
Zauriel: "It's true. I swear it..."
Nun: "Blasphemer angels don't swear."
Zauriel: " ?! Who told you that?"
Nun: "It is written."
Zauriel: "Written where ?!"
Zauriel: "I told her God had no gender. Calling God 'Him' is a misnomer it limits the presence to the confines of the human understanding."
Aquaman: "And then she decked you."
Zauriel: "Well, if it's experience you're looking for, I'm afraid I've only been doing this since the dawn of time."
Aquaman: "Not a problem. Never let it be said that the League doesn't respect the new guys."
Oracle (on the Huntress): "*She holds the singular significance of being the one hero in Gotham HE never mentions. The black sheep of the family. Makes me wonder what he's up to which is something I try not to do. Bottom line: Huntress is operating in Batman's town. And Batman plays for keeps. Making moves only he understands....*"
Brois: "Teleporter probably needs a code."
Natasha: "Let me guess 'Rosebud?'"
Boris: "Hey, we're fifty percent with that one."
Huntress: "Gotham City."
Boris: "Eggplant."
Huntress: "Eggplant ?"
Boris: "Itzhak Perlman."
Huntress: "What ?!?
Boris: "I'm sorry, I thought we were free associating."
Natasha: "You've got that look you're one of them. You wanna be here so bad your eyes bleed you belong here like you're in the family. Well, newsflash, cape-chick----families fight. It's a package deal. Don't let your ego cheat you of something you know you want."
Natasha: "Now, Unc hold it. These guys came to the house and delievered a transporter to the moon. I'm sixteen. Frankly I think this is on your head."
Oracle: "*A world-saver. That's quite a promotion for me. Wonder if HE knows that....*"
New Year's Evil: Prometheus

Prometheus: "I guess you could say I was a child of the love generation."
Promethus: "'They wanted to bring us to justice, son,' my dad used to say. I thought justice was a place."
Retro: 'Today's hero, yesterday's attitude! Here comes justice!'"
Prometheus: "I decided to annihilate the forces of justice." Retro: "May as well aim high, huh?"
Prometheus: "Contrary to popular belief, there is honor among thieves; the underworld takes care of its own. Especially if you have enough dirt on the local mob boss to bury him for a hundred years."
Prometheus: "I thought I'd call it the cosmic key."
Retro: "Uh, okay, but I think there might already be a...."
Prometheus: "Nothing builds straight here, but that's fine. A crooked house for a crooked man."
Prometheus: "Thanks, Retro. You got to help somebody after all."
[Return to Quotes]