There was a thread like this some time ago I think but it appears to have been lost.
SO, time for a second attempt! Post some of the most memorable quotes from your favorite comics.
I'll start-
"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole COUNTRY decides that something wrong is something right.
This nation was founded on one principle above all else- The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or consequences.
When the mob & press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell them all- 'NO. YOU MOVE.'" -Cap tells Peter Parker why he fights the SRA.
Full Version: Memorable Comic Quotes
"You may have killed the X-men but the dream will never...!" Jean Grey
"...Die? On the contrary Jean Summers. The dream is dead." Onslaught
"...Die? On the contrary Jean Summers. The dream is dead." Onslaught
For some reason this one always gave me chills:
"We've been sent to the one place WE can't succeed either.
Tell them nothing means anything. He's dead. There's no one left to hurt." -Owlman JLA-Earth2
"We've been sent to the one place WE can't succeed either.
Tell them nothing means anything. He's dead. There's no one left to hurt." -Owlman JLA-Earth2
Norman Osborn: "You know when this all started I considered calling myself Mister Coffee."
QUOTE(Tornadron @ Oct 20 2009, 01:24 PM) 
Norman Osborn: "You know when this all started I considered calling myself Mister Coffee."
Oh man I loved that issue. Just Pete and Norman BS'ing to each other after the usual beat down. Then Pete giving Norman the screw you move at the end.
In retaliation something from the newer Spidey issues.
"OHGOODGODI'MSORRYPLEASE DON'TFREAKI'MGOINI'MGONE! YOULOOKLIKEALOVELYCOUPLEMAZELTOV!MANYHAPPYRETURNS! MYAUNTJUSTGOTMARRIEDANDWOWTHISISAWKWARD. PLEASE DON'T HATE ME..... Um... You might want to call room service before you put her on the bed Chief. Sorry, Again."
Spidey caught in a hotel room by some newlyweds after a fun night with the Black Cat in ASM 607.
"Am I not THANOS?! Did I not butcher the woman who gave me birth, who force-fed me into this hell called LIFE? Is not the wake of my passing crimson with the blood of my enemies and allies alike?! Death is with me every second of the day! My every moment is spent in either dealing out Death or worshipping it! So tell me, WHO under the stars is better suited than I to be Death's consort?"
This really shouldn't be included but it's memorable.
Ironbite-"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"-Superwhine Prime
Ironbite-"I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"-Superwhine Prime
QUOTE(^o^CORVUS^o^ @ Oct 20 2009, 04:58 PM)
"Am I not THANOS?! Did I not butcher the woman who gave me birth, who force-fed me into this hell called LIFE? Is not the wake of my passing crimson with the blood of my enemies and allies alike?! Death is with me every second of the day! My every moment is spent in either dealing out Death or worshipping it! So tell me, WHO under the stars is better suited than I to be Death's consort?"
Because I can't resist...
Thanos: Insolent speck! God is everything and I am God!
Maelstrom (recently cosmically-empowered archnemesis of Quasar, of all people): In that case, Thanos, you've just met an atheist.
"Squirrels and coconuts. You spent your whole pathetic life working to whip together this little reunion like a Martha Stewart on acid, figuring to break my spirit... and for a second, it worked... you did it... you had me ready to leap up and impale myself on the nearest circus midget. But then something happened... a synapse fired open and I had what born-agains and alcoholics like to call a 'moment of clarity'. You ever see that old cartoon with the squirrel who's trying to eat a coconut? Chuck Jones, I think... this retarded squirrel finds this coconut and thinks that he's hit the giant acorn motherload- only, he can't crack the nut. It's too hard. So he gets a jackhammer, he throws it down stairs, runs it over with a truck... nothing. Finally, he pushes this monster up a gazillion stairs all the way to the top of the Empire State Building, and heaves it. Crack. Slowly, the shell peels back... and you know what's inside? Another coconut shell. That squirrel is in cartoon hell. That squirrel is me. Every time I get a shot at saving the world, or doing right or waving the truth and justice flag instead of gutting a guy, I do it... and every time, I get the shaft for my trouble. Everytime, there's another coconut shell I gotta crack. But just like that retarded squirrel... in another month or so, the cartoon reruns, and I try again. You did mess up my head by showing me what a dirtbag I've been in my lifetime... but that doesn't change the fact that I still try to be better. I'm giving it a shot. At the end of the day, I'm winning- and I wouldn't have things any different. Except for you, Mercedes... and you only... what happened with you... that wasn't right. For that, I will always be sorry. I will always have a big fat hole in my soul. I know that doesn't make it any better... but I hope you understand: the me that is me now had to make big mistakes to make small progress. When you've lived a life like mine... the small victories are the ones that count. Just remember, when you're looking back in anger at this moment... you've got a second shot here, angel... use it. Don't end up like T-Ray and me. As for the rest of you.... ahem... I WOULDN'T APOLOGIZE TO YOU IF YOU THREATENED TO CONSIGN ME TO SPEND ALL ETERNITY SMOTHERED IN CHOCOLATE SAUCE AND TRAPPED IN A ROSEANNE BARR/STAR JONES SANDWICH! I'M GLAD YOU'RE DEAD! IF I COULD, I'D KILL YOU AGAIN! THEN I'D GO BACK IN TIME AND IMPREGNATE YOUR MOTHERS TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE BORN... AND I'D KILL YOU AGAIN! SO IF YOU WANT ME TO TURN INTO SOME SORT OF BLEEDING HEART AND WEEP OUT AN APOLOGY, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO RIP IT OUT OF ME!!"- Deadpool
"The inmates screech and gurgle and retch and curse...the Inmates. When they took over Arkham Asylum, they found themselves a whole bunch of hostages. The Security Guards. The Medical Staff. A Visiting class of Sociology Students. The Day Care Center.
Yeah, they had hostages by the bushel -- and a list of demands as long as your arm. State Negotiators refused them the Nuns and Choir Boys, and Candystripers and Nuclear Weapons. But they allowed the lunatics all manner of Costumes and Stuffed Toys and Household Pets and Multiscreen Entertainment Centers and Exotic Insects --
-- and the Gallons and Gallons of Steak Sauce."
Yeah, they had hostages by the bushel -- and a list of demands as long as your arm. State Negotiators refused them the Nuns and Choir Boys, and Candystripers and Nuclear Weapons. But they allowed the lunatics all manner of Costumes and Stuffed Toys and Household Pets and Multiscreen Entertainment Centers and Exotic Insects --
-- and the Gallons and Gallons of Steak Sauce."
All-Star Superman #13:
Luthor: "I saw how to save the world! I could have made everyone see. I could have saved the world if it wasn't for you!"
*Superman punches Lex*
Superman: "You could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor."
Luthor: "I saw how to save the world! I could have made everyone see. I could have saved the world if it wasn't for you!"
*Superman punches Lex*
Superman: "You could have saved the world years ago if it mattered to you, Luthor."
"The merchandise will be silent!" 
"Never compromise. Not even in face of Armageddon."-Rohrshach
Good Lord, every second line from Flex Mentallo.
"Would it be Black Mentallium, which induced coma? Would it be Shocking Pink Mentallium, under the influence of which I was invariably invited to explore complex issues of gender and sexuality? Silver Mentallium, which robbed me of my sense of humor?"
"Uh, maybe I was wrong about Faculty X being behind it all, Harry. My Hoax-Sense is jangling..."
"My powers of Muscle Mystery are useless in this crazy world where mental gladiators meet in a clash of ideas! If Walter-Ego can't defeat the alien Tree-Warrior, Earth will become just one more trinket in their CABINET OF TINY WORLDS!"
Followed immediately by...
"Think as hard as you like, Earthman, you'll never be my intellectual equal! I, the Counting Tree!"
"Would it be Black Mentallium, which induced coma? Would it be Shocking Pink Mentallium, under the influence of which I was invariably invited to explore complex issues of gender and sexuality? Silver Mentallium, which robbed me of my sense of humor?"
"Uh, maybe I was wrong about Faculty X being behind it all, Harry. My Hoax-Sense is jangling..."
"My powers of Muscle Mystery are useless in this crazy world where mental gladiators meet in a clash of ideas! If Walter-Ego can't defeat the alien Tree-Warrior, Earth will become just one more trinket in their CABINET OF TINY WORLDS!"
Followed immediately by...
"Think as hard as you like, Earthman, you'll never be my intellectual equal! I, the Counting Tree!"
QUOTE(^o^CORVUS^o^ @ Oct 20 2009, 03:58 PM)
"Am I not THANOS?! Did I not butcher the woman who gave me birth, who force-fed me into this hell called LIFE? Is not the wake of my passing crimson with the blood of my enemies and allies alike?! Death is with me every second of the day! My every moment is spent in either dealing out Death or worshipping it! So tell me, WHO under the stars is better suited than I to be Death's consort?"
Thanos gets so many good lines that seeing someone shut him up has always stuck with me.
GALACTUS: "Silence, insects. Mighty Galactus knows what must be done."
THANOS: "Does Mighty Galactus also know that our chances of outrunning the blast are minimal?"
GALACTUS: "Does Annoying Thanos have a better course of action?"
THANOS: "I do not."
GALACTUS: "Then let silence reign."
"I caught a glimpse of heaven once. The angels showed me. The idea was I'd kill for them; clean up their mistakes on Earth. Tried it, didn't like it. Told 'em where to stick it.
So they brought me up to see what I'd be missing. A wife, a son, a daughter- all finally at peace. I hadn't seen them since they bled out in my arms. Then I was cast down.
Back into a world of killers, rapists, psychos, perverts. A new evil every minute, spewed out as fast as men can think them up. A world where pitching a criminal dwarf off a skyscraper to tell his fellow scum you're back is a sane and rational act.
They thought it would be Hell for me. They were wrong." -Welcome Back, Frank.
So they brought me up to see what I'd be missing. A wife, a son, a daughter- all finally at peace. I hadn't seen them since they bled out in my arms. Then I was cast down.
Back into a world of killers, rapists, psychos, perverts. A new evil every minute, spewed out as fast as men can think them up. A world where pitching a criminal dwarf off a skyscraper to tell his fellow scum you're back is a sane and rational act.
They thought it would be Hell for me. They were wrong." -Welcome Back, Frank.
"Everyone's looking for someone to blame. Society. Culture. Hollywood. Predators. Looking everywhere but the right place. Children are very simple, Mr. Jerusalem. Very easy devices to break, or assemble wrong. You want to know who did this to these kids? Only their parents. That's the thing no one wants to hear. Every time you stop thinking about how you're treating your kid, you make one of these. It really is as simple as that. It's got nothing to do with the failure of the society or any of that. It's got everything to do with the responsibility of making a human.
Why are your kids selling themselves on the streets? Because you completely hugged up the job of raising them. That's what no one wants to hear. That we can't blame anything outside our houses." - Director of a Children's Home, Transmetropolitan
That's what gets me about Transmet. Underneath the disgusting, terrible future that it presents, it's a disgusting, terrible and utterly damning reflection of society in general.
Why are your kids selling themselves on the streets? Because you completely hugged up the job of raising them. That's what no one wants to hear. That we can't blame anything outside our houses." - Director of a Children's Home, Transmetropolitan
That's what gets me about Transmet. Underneath the disgusting, terrible future that it presents, it's a disgusting, terrible and utterly damning reflection of society in general.
Tate: "Atticus, I'd be much obliged if you'd take the shot."
Atticus: "Tate, you know I don't shoot transvestites anymore."
Atticus: "Tate, you know I don't shoot transvestites anymore."
See here. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/ComicBooks
But here's a Deadpool one anyways. "Shh... My common sense is tingling."
But here's a Deadpool one anyways. "Shh... My common sense is tingling."
"ULTRON. We would have words with thee." -- Thor
"For Asgard!" -- Odin
"For Midgard!" -- Thor
"For myself!" -- Loki
"For Asgard!" -- Odin
"For Midgard!" -- Thor
"For myself!" -- Loki
QUOTE(Norman Osborn)
Always the same. I have to do everything myself. Typical. Can't rely on anyone these days. All too busy reading about dying pop stars and Iron Man's pants...I always knew it'd come down to this. I always have to be the man. Good old Norman Osborn. He'll bail us out. He'll save the day. He'll be the hero. Norman will make the hard choices. Norman has no feelings. Norman will make the girl pregnant and then snap her neck in public. Norman won't mind. Norman will do what it takes. Norman will take care of everything, don't you life a damn finger to help or, God forbid, do your damn job...
There's a space monster and a mad swordsman loose in the base; shall we trust the huge security complement and the team of superhumans to deal with it? Oh, no. Let's make a complete dog's breakfast of the whole operation. So Norman has to clean things up. I'm a fricking martyr to my own innate heroism, is what I am. Norman Osborn, America's last hero. That's what I am.
One day I'm going to run this country. And do you think anyone will appreciate me then? Of course they won't. Of course they won't. It'll be, "Mister President Osborn sir, I don't have the strength to take out my garbage. Could you do it for me?" That's what it'll be like. "President Osborn, I'd love to be able to do anything competently, but my family tree looks like two sticks jutting out of a dead raccoon." Hitler never had this kind of trouble. People just did as her told them. Must've been nice...
I'm so glad I never washed this particular costume. Smells like death, blonds, and victory. Maybe this could be my presidential uniform. Do presidents have uniforms? I suppose not. Still, since I'd be the president, I could do what I like, really. I'd rewrite all this superhuman registration legislative junk, I'll tell you that for nothing.
"Are you a self-proclaimed super hero?"
"Why, shucks, sir, I sure am a regular guy in bad underpants who fights crime without understanding one damn thing about the way the world works, yes."
"Excellent. I send you now to a concentration camp where you will be sterilized, lobotomized, tenderized, and pasteurized. So says President Goblin!"
Actually, that's a bit more Doctor Doom, isn't it? Still, the idea's sound. Note to self: Give naked dictation more often. The ideas seem to flow more freely...
Now let's take care of business. And then, I think, I shall viciously beat some complete strangers at random. They're bound to have done something to deserve it at some point, after all.
Swordsman, Swordsman...what shall we do with you? Aside from kill you, of course. Of course I have to kill you. It's what the little people expect me to do. This is how I display my heroism.
...Back to work, boys. Best job in the world, eh?
There's a space monster and a mad swordsman loose in the base; shall we trust the huge security complement and the team of superhumans to deal with it? Oh, no. Let's make a complete dog's breakfast of the whole operation. So Norman has to clean things up. I'm a fricking martyr to my own innate heroism, is what I am. Norman Osborn, America's last hero. That's what I am.
One day I'm going to run this country. And do you think anyone will appreciate me then? Of course they won't. Of course they won't. It'll be, "Mister President Osborn sir, I don't have the strength to take out my garbage. Could you do it for me?" That's what it'll be like. "President Osborn, I'd love to be able to do anything competently, but my family tree looks like two sticks jutting out of a dead raccoon." Hitler never had this kind of trouble. People just did as her told them. Must've been nice...
I'm so glad I never washed this particular costume. Smells like death, blonds, and victory. Maybe this could be my presidential uniform. Do presidents have uniforms? I suppose not. Still, since I'd be the president, I could do what I like, really. I'd rewrite all this superhuman registration legislative junk, I'll tell you that for nothing.
"Are you a self-proclaimed super hero?"
"Why, shucks, sir, I sure am a regular guy in bad underpants who fights crime without understanding one damn thing about the way the world works, yes."
"Excellent. I send you now to a concentration camp where you will be sterilized, lobotomized, tenderized, and pasteurized. So says President Goblin!"
Actually, that's a bit more Doctor Doom, isn't it? Still, the idea's sound. Note to self: Give naked dictation more often. The ideas seem to flow more freely...
Now let's take care of business. And then, I think, I shall viciously beat some complete strangers at random. They're bound to have done something to deserve it at some point, after all.
Swordsman, Swordsman...what shall we do with you? Aside from kill you, of course. Of course I have to kill you. It's what the little people expect me to do. This is how I display my heroism.
...Back to work, boys. Best job in the world, eh?
"Hulk slash." - Hulk to Red King as he scars the king's face with a giant sword, Planet Hulk
"Never stop making them pay." - Hulk, Planet Hulk
"I didn't come here for a whisper. I wanna hear you scream." - Hulk to Black Bolt,World War Hulk #1
"Puny humans, I come to smash." - Hulk announcing his return to Earth, World War Hulk #1
"Never stop making them pay." - Hulk, Planet Hulk
"I didn't come here for a whisper. I wanna hear you scream." - Hulk to Black Bolt,World War Hulk #1
"Puny humans, I come to smash." - Hulk announcing his return to Earth, World War Hulk #1
QUOTE(HeyMickey @ Oct 28 2009, 01:12 PM)
"Never stop making them pay." - Hulk, Planet Hulk
Right, Hulk, because certainly you've never done anything to make folks suspect launching you into space might be a good idea.
I wake up from a dream And I call to it. It comes as it always did. My weapon. My power ring. My thoughts and emotions shift. My body aches. My soul does not. I'm finally thinking clearly. I'm finally thinking like me. There's no more cries for vengeance. No more fear. But plenty of damn will. The will to stand up. The will to fight. The will to live.
"Sinestro. Get the hell away from them."
-Green Lantern: Rebirth.
"Sinestro. Get the hell away from them."
-Green Lantern: Rebirth.
Had to do it.
The Preacher himself
Jesse: "I'm sayin' you're the kind of guy who'd crawl through a perfectly good whorehouse to get to a fat boy's ass."
Jesse: "I'm sayin' you're the kind of guy who'd crawl through a perfectly good whorehouse to get to a fat boy's ass."
I'm resisting the urge to post pretty much every line from Dark Knight Returns
**This week's Deadpool Team Up 899**
--Deadpool shoves a knife into his head to lobotomize himself.
Hercules
"Tell me, the knife in your head, does it hurt?"
Deadpool
"I think that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity actually make a lot of valid points."
Hercules
"By Zeus man! Snap out of it!"
-Hercules then yanks the knife out of Deadpool's head.
--Deadpool shoves a knife into his head to lobotomize himself.
Hercules
"Tell me, the knife in your head, does it hurt?"
Deadpool
"I think that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity actually make a lot of valid points."
Hercules
"By Zeus man! Snap out of it!"
-Hercules then yanks the knife out of Deadpool's head.
"He kissed her?!"
"Dude, he totally Banderas'd...Banderized..."
"No. Do not attempt to conjugate 'Antonio Banderas' as a verb."
"You're not the boss of my words."
-Brenda and Paco, Blue Beetle #17
"Dude, he totally Banderas'd...Banderized..."
"No. Do not attempt to conjugate 'Antonio Banderas' as a verb."
"You're not the boss of my words."
-Brenda and Paco, Blue Beetle #17
"Punk is nothing but death, and crime...and the rage of a beast."
Blackest Night #5, when the other Corps' leaders are reciting their oaths
Larfleeze: "Eh?
"
Actually, pretty much any scene that he's in...
Larfleeze: "Eh?
"Actually, pretty much any scene that he's in...
"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
"Come down here & fight like a man!"
"I don't suppose I could convince you to come up here and fight like a spider?"
-Spidey VS Tombstone.
"I don't suppose I could convince you to come up here and fight like a spider?"
-Spidey VS Tombstone.
"A deadly bee weapon.
Bees. My god."
--Batman
Bees. My god."
--Batman
Wolverine: "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do... is so terribly pretty!"
- Astonishing X-Men #15
- Astonishing X-Men #15
From Mighty Avengers:
US Agent has been reduced to a primitive and Quicksilver tries to use him to clear a path through The Unspoken's henchmen.
Quicksilver Speaking to Radioactive Man:
Enough! I know this man. He may be a primitive fool now, but trust me...There is an even more primitive one inside.
Quicksilver speaking to US Agent
Walker! If I can't get to that big man fast-THE COMMIES WIN!
US Agent:
*Graaah* [as he ploys through the swarms of henchmen]
Quicksilver:
God bless that ugly American
US Agent has been reduced to a primitive and Quicksilver tries to use him to clear a path through The Unspoken's henchmen.
Quicksilver Speaking to Radioactive Man:
Enough! I know this man. He may be a primitive fool now, but trust me...There is an even more primitive one inside.
Quicksilver speaking to US Agent
Walker! If I can't get to that big man fast-THE COMMIES WIN!
US Agent:
*Graaah* [as he ploys through the swarms of henchmen]
Quicksilver:
God bless that ugly American
Couple of good ones from Action Comics 775:
"I heard a child tell his friends that he wanted to be in the Elite -- because it would be fun to kill the bad guys. Fun to kill. People have to know that there's another way, Lois. They have to hear a voice of compassion and faith instead of spite and anger. They have to see that someone believes in humanity strongly enough --"
"To die for them?"
And...
"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear... until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice becomes the reality we all share -- I'll never stop fighting.
Ever."
"I heard a child tell his friends that he wanted to be in the Elite -- because it would be fun to kill the bad guys. Fun to kill. People have to know that there's another way, Lois. They have to hear a voice of compassion and faith instead of spite and anger. They have to see that someone believes in humanity strongly enough --"
"To die for them?"
And...
"Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear... until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice becomes the reality we all share -- I'll never stop fighting.
Ever."
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