Quotes for
Superman (Character)
from Superman (1978)

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Superman (1978)

Jor-El: [at the Fortress of Solitude] So, my son. Speak.
Young Clark Kent: Who am I?
Jor-El: Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered.

Young Clark Kent: All those things I can do. All those powers. And I couldn't even save him.

[Martha Kent sees her son Clark standing outside in the vast wheat field, and she approaches him]
Young Clark Kent: I have to leave.
Ma Kent: I knew this day would come. We both knew it from the day we found you.
Young Clark Kent: I talked to Ben Hubbard yesterday and he said... he can come around to help.
[Clark's composure is rapidly breaking down]
Young Clark Kent: Mother...
Ma Kent: I know, son. I know. Do you... know where you'll be going?
Young Clark Kent: North.
Ma Kent: [Martha Kent's final words to her son] Remember, son. Always remember.
[the two embrace, mother and son, for a final time, and watch the rise of the sun over the beauty of the Smallvile countryside]

Jonathan Kent: [after Clark has beaten Brad's car to the Kent farmhouse... by RUNNING!] Been showing off a bit, haven't you, son?
Young Clark Kent: ...Oh, I didn't mean to show off, Pop. It's just that... well, guys like that Brad, I just wanna... well, I know I shouldn't, but...
Jonathan Kent: I know. You can do all these amazing things, and sometimes you think that you will BURST WIDE OPEN unless you can tell someone about it, don't you?... There's one thing I know for sure, son. And that is, YOU ARE HERE FOR A REASON. I don't know what it is, exactly, but I do know this much: it's NOT to score touchdowns.

Superman: You don't even care where that other missile is headed, do you?
Lex Luthor: Of course I do. I know exactly where it's headed. Hackensack, New Jersey.
[he pushes Superman into the pool]

[pointing to a map of California and the San Andreas Fault]
Lex Luthor: Everything west of this line is the richest, most expensive real estate in the world: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Everything on THIS side of the line is just hundreds and hundreds of miles of worthless desert land, which just so happens to be owned by...
[Whaps Otis with his pointer]
Otis: Uhhh... Lex Luthor Incorporated.
Lex Luthor: Now, call me foolish, call me irresponsible, it occurs to me that a 500 megaton bomb planted at just the proper point would, uh...
Superman: Would destroy most of California. Millions of innocent people would be killed. And the west coast as we know it would-...
Lex Luthor: Fall into the sea.
Lex Luthor: [Gives a little wave with his hand] Bye-bye, California. Hello, new west coast. My west coast.
[Otis overlays map with new map]
Lex Luthor: Costa Del Lex. Luthorville. Marina del Lex. Otisburg... Otisburg?
Otis: Miss Tessmacher, she's got her own place.
Lex Luthor: Otisburg?
Otis: It's a little bitty place.
Lex Luthor: [Angrily] Otisburg?
Otis: Okay, I'll just wipe it off, that's all. Just a little town.
[Erases Otisburg]

Superman: Easy, miss. I've got you.
Lois Lane: You, you've got me? Who's got you?

[Superman gets a cat out of a tree]
Superman: Here you go, miss.
Little girl: Gee, thanks, mister.
Superman: Well, good-bye, Frisky. So long, now.
[Flys off, turns and waves]
Superman: Bye.
Little girl: Bye.
[Goes inside]
Little girl: Mommy! Mommy! Frisky was stuck in the tree! This man swooped out of the sky and gave him to me!
Mommy: Haven't I told you to stop telling lies?
[Smack, sound of little girl getting slapped]

[Superman and Lois are standing on opposite sides of a large planter]
Lois Lane: What color underwear am I wearing?
Superman: [looking] Hmmm...
Lois Lane: Oh, I'm sorry, I embarrassed you, didn't I?
Superman: Oh, no, no, no, not at all, Miss Lane, it's just that this planter must be made of lead.
Lois Lane: Uh, yes it is. So?
Superman: Well, you see, I, uh, I sort of have a problem seeing through lead.
Lois Lane: Oh, that's interesting.
Lois Lane: [Writing] Problem seeing through lead. Hmmm. Uh, d-do you have a first name?
Superman: What do you mean, like, uh, Ralph or something?
Lois Lane: No, no, I mean like...
[Walks away from the planter]
Superman: Pink.
Lois Lane: Huh?
Superman: Pink.
[Lois walks back to the planter]
Superman: Um, sorry, Miss Lane, I didn't mean to embarrass you.

Superman: Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By planning the death of innocent people?
Lex Luthor: No, by causing the death of innocent people.

[last lines]
Warden: This country is safe again, Superman, thanks to you.
Superman: No, sir. Don't thank me, Warden. We're all part of the same team. Good night.

Superman: I'm here to fight for truth, and justice, and the American way.
Lois Lane: [Laughs] You're gonna end up fighting every elected official in this country!

The Pimp: Say, Jim! Whoo!
Superman: Excuse me.
[Flies off]
The Pimp: That's a bad outfit! Whoo!

[Superman surprises Lois on her balcony]
Lois Lane: Um, um, would you like a glass of wine?
Superman: Uh, no, no thanks. I never drink when I fly.

[the warden of a prison is sitting in his office when he hears the alarms sound & the guard dogs barking. He steps onto his balcony to see Superman flying into the prison yard, holding Luthor & Otis by the scruff of their jackets]
Lex Luthor: You're messing up my suit, you lummox, you!
Lex Luthor: [to Superman] Watch the ground!
[They land with a start. Luthor & Otis are immediately cornered by the guards]
Superman: Good evening, Warden. I think these 2 men should be safe here with you now till they can get a fair trial.
Warden: Who is it, Superman?
Lex Luthor: [Lex rips off his wig to reveal his bald head] Lex Luthor! The greatest criminal mind of our time!
Otis: [repeating what Lex says] ... Of our time!
Lex Luthor: I hereby serve notice...
Otis: He's serving notice to you...
Lex Luthor: That these walls...
Otis: That these walls here...
Lex Luthor: Will you shut up, please!
Superman: [to the guards] All right, take them away, boys!
[the guards take Luthor & Otis to a cell]
Lex Luthor: [shouting at Otis as the guards lead them away] Neanderthal! Nitwit! Nincompoop!

Superman: Why, Why did, why did you kiss me first?
Miss Teschmacher: I, I didn't think you'd let me later.

[a cat burglar is climbing up the side of a building. He looks up and sees Superman standing there]
Superman: Hi there. Something wrong with the elevator?

[Superman lands holding a cat burglar]
Superman: Officer! They say confession's good for the soul.
[takes a handful of stolen jewelry out of the burglar's bag]
Superman: I'd listen to this man.

Lois Lane: [being rescued, stammering] Who... are you?
Superman: A friend.
[flies away]
Superman: [waves] Bye.
[Lois waves, and stares at Superman, then sinks into a faint]

Jor-El: You cannot fight the forces of evil twenty-eight hours a day.
Superman: Twenty-four.
Jor-El: Or twenty-four. In your time.

[Superman is standing on the deck of the boat the armored-car robbers used to make their escape. One of the robbers climbs out of a hatch behind him, wielding a crowbar. 2 other robbers think their colleague has got Superman for sure, but when he hits Superman with the crowbar, it bounces off painfully. Superman turns around & looks at his attacker]
Superman: Bad vibrations?

Superman: I never lie.

Superman: [Superman catches Lois after she falls out of the crashed helicopter on top of the Daily Planet] Easy Miss, I've got you.
Lois Lane: You've got me... who's got you?

Lois Lane: Any more at home like you?
Clark Kent: Uh, not really, no.

Clark Kent: Excuse me, Mr. White. I was wondering if, if, uh, perhaps you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis.
Lois Lane: Your bookie, right?
Clark Kent: My what?
Lois Lane: Don't tell me: he sends a check every week to his sweet, grey-haired old mother.
Clark Kent: Actually, she's silver-haired.

Clark Kent: Really, Lois, supposing that man had shot you? Is it worth risking your life over ten dollars, two credit cards, a hairbrush, and a lipstick?
Lois Lane: How did you know that?
Clark Kent: Know what?
Lois Lane: You just described the exact contents of my purse.
Clark Kent: Hmm. Wild guess.

Perry White: Olsen! Why am I paying you forty dollars a week when I should have you arrested for loitering? Go get Mr... er...
Clark Kent: Kent.
Perry White: ...Kent here a towel!
Jimmy Olsen: Right, Chief.
Perry White: And make mine black and no sugar!
Jimmy Olsen: Right, Chief.
Perry White: And don't call me 'sugar'!

---

Superman Returns (2006)

Jimmy Olsen: Look up in the sky, see?
[Points at a small figure of Superman in the picture]
Lois Lane: It's a bird
Perry White: It's a plane
Jimmy Olsen: No, it's...
[Is interrupted by the entrance of Clark]
Clark Kent: You wanted to see me?

Bo the Bartender: Must be tough coming back.
Clark Kent: Coming back?
Bo the Bartender: To work.

Clark Kent: Thanks for giving me my job back.
Perry White: Don't thank me. Thank Norm Parker for dying!
Jimmy Olsen: It was his time.

Clark Kent: Swell!

Jimmy Olsen: [leans over an unsuspecting Clark who is holding a family photo of Lois, Jason, and Richard] Ha, yea! He looks just like his mom. Already takes after her too, especially when it comes to getting into trouble.
Clark Kent: [obviously confused] Mother?
Jimmy Olsen: Oh yea, well I guess you've been gone. Fearless reporter Lois Lane is a mommy.
Clark Kent: [cracks the glass and winces] I'm sorry.
Jimmy Olsen: [takes the picture from Clark] It's okay. She's got more.

Clark Kent: Yeah. Well, you know, things change. I mean, of course things change, but sometimes things that you didn't think would change
[struggles to find the right wording]
Clark Kent: - could - change. Take Lois. A woman like her, I never thought she'd settle down.
Jimmy Olsen: You know, if you ask me - 'cause she'll never tell you this - but, if you ask me, she's still in love with You-Know-Who.
[takes a swig of beer]
Clark Kent: [slowly turns to look disconcertedly at Jimmy, who burps obliviously]

Lois Lane: Richard's an assistant editor here who's basically saved our International section. He's also a pilot and he loves horror movies.
Clark Kent: [sighs theatrically, trying to appear impressed]
Lois Lane: [to Richard] Clark is...
Clark Kent: [smirks at her expectantly]
Lois Lane: Well...
[chuckles]
Lois Lane: he's Clark.

Clark Kent: How did Lex Luthor get out of prison?
Jimmy Olsen: When his appeals came up, they called Superman as a witness, and he never showed. How much do you think that pisses off Superman?
Clark Kent: ...A lot.

Jason White: Who are you?
Clark Kent: I'm Clark... Kent. An old friend of your mom's from before you were born.
Jason White: Really? She never mentioned you.
Clark Kent: [shocked slightly] Really?... Never?

Richard White: It's great to finally meet you, I've heard so much.
Clark Kent: [looks at Lois] Oh, you have?
Richard White: Yeah. Jimmy just won't shut up about you.

Clark Kent: [explaning to his mother about his journey to the remains of Krypton as Superman] That place was a graveyard... but I'm all that's left.

Superman: I'm sorry I left you, Lois.

Superman: [to Jason asleep in his bed] You will be different, sometimes you'll feel like an outcast, but you'll never be alone. You will make my strength your own. You will see my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through mine. The son becomes the father and the father becomes the son.

Superman: Listen; what do you hear?
Lois Lane: Nothing.
Superman: I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior, but every day I hear people crying for one.

Lois Lane: Well you're back and everyone seems happy about it.
Superman: Not everyone.

Superman: [Screams after being savagely beaten] I'm still Superman!

Superman: I know lots of people are asking questions now that I'm back, and I think it's only fair that I answer... those people.
Lois Lane: So... you're here for an interview?

Lois Lane: You know my um... Richard. He's a pilot. He takes me up all the time.
Superman: Not like this.

Kitty Kowalski: My heart, my palpitations, they're gone, what did you do?
Superman: I didn't do anything, Ma'am.
Kitty Kowalski: [breathlessly] Call me Catharine.

[last lines]
Jason White: [Yells and waves from his window] GOOD NIGHT!
Lois Lane: [Lois is standing in the front yard thinking about Superman, she is then startled when she hears Jason, she sees Jason waving out to the sky, she then looks at the sky and sees Superman floating right above her] I... Will we see you... around?
Superman: I'm always around. Good night, Lois.
[Flies off]

Superman: I read the article, Lois.
Lois Lane: Yeah, so did a lot of people. Tomorrow night, they're giving me the Pulitzer...
Superman: Why did you write it?
Lois Lane: How could you leave us like that? I moved on. So did the rest of us. That's why I wrote it. The world doesn't need a savior. And neither do I.

Superman: [after saving Lois Lane and other members of the media from a plane crash] Well, I hope this experience hasn't put any of you off flying. Statistically speaking, it's still the safest way to travel.

Lex Luthor: See anything familiar?
Superman: I see an old man's sick joke.

Lois Lane: Well, you’re back and everyone seems happy about it.
Superman: Not everyone.

---

"Superman: Knight Time (#3.2)" (1998)

[Superman, disguised as Batman, sneaks into Wayne Industries with Robin after a meeting with Gordon]
Robin: [referring to earlier] So how'd you do Batman's voice?
Superman: [as Batman] Precise muscle control.
[as Robin]
Superman: Plus, I have a pretty good ear.
Robin: [shaken and angry] *Don't* do that again.

[trying to evade Superman by riding her rocket into a tunnel, Roxy Rocket finds him waiting for her at the other end]
Roxy Rocket: [admiringly] What-a-body.
Superman: It'll hurt you a lot more than me.
Roxy Rocket: I'll risk it! Will you?

Superman: So you're the famous Roxy Rocket.
Roxanne Sutton: You're as smart as you are handsome.
Superman: I didn't think you were foolish enough to make trouble in my town.
Roxanne Sutton: Well, with Batman missing, the other crooks in Gotham are picking the city clean. I thought I'd try my luck here.
Superman: Back up. What do you mean, "Batman missing?"
Roxanne Sutton: I thought you'd know. Don't all you spandex boys have club meetings or something?
Superman: We're not exactly friends.
Roxanne Sutton: Aw. I'll be your friend.

Superman: So you're handling the whole city YOURSELF? During a crime spree?
Robin: [notices Bat-signal in the sky] Oh, not again! It gets worse every time he doesn't show.
Superman: Then this time, he will.

[Robin creates a false alarm to distract the guards so that he and Superman, disguised as Batman, can sneak into Wayne Industries]
Robin: C'mon!
Superman: All this sneaking around isn't exactly my style.
Robin: What do you mean? It's half the fun!

Dr. Jervis Tetch: [examining mind-controlling nanites under a microscope] I'll tell thee everything I can; there's little to relate. These little fishers, I perceive, may have no earthly mate.
Superman: [disguised as Batman] "No earthly mate?"
Robin: The bugs aren't yours?
Dr. Jervis Tetch: Mine, no! I'd be proud if they were. I've stolen from the best: WayneTech, LexCorp, S.T.A.R. Labs. This circuitry is far more advanced than anything I've ever seen. I daresay it may even be of ALIEN origin.

Robin: [referring to Batman] He's really being controlled by aliens?
[makes face]
Robin: Ugh!
Superman: I'm deeply hurt.
Robin: Sorry.

[Robin and Superman, disguised as Batman, trace a sound Superman heard on the video e-mail to Wayne Aerospace]
Robin: You DO have a good ear. This site was supposed to be mothballed.
[notices gun turret on rocketship]
Robin: That looks friendly.
Superman: Actually, it looks... Kryptonian.

Bruce Wayne: Everybody's gone. We're alone.
[Brainiac emerges from another room]
Brainiac: Well done, Mr. Wayne.
[Superman, disguised as Batman, is watching from hiding]
Superman: Brainiac...

Superman: [referring to Batman] Where's your boss?
Robin: Around...
Superman: Let me rephrase it... where's BRUCE?

[Superman, disguised as Batman, and Robin meet with Comissioner Gordon, who tells them about a heist]
Commissioner James Gordon: We've got a photo.
[he hands it to Superman, who studies it without recognition]
Robin: [whispering] Bane!
Superman: [feigning recognition] Ah, yes. Bane.

[after meeting with Gordon, Superman, disguised as Batman and Robin walk to the edge of the roof]
Robin: That was close.
Superman: You're telling me.
[He fumbles with Batman's utility belt]
Robin: Right side.
[They find their grapple guns and swing away]

[last lines]
Bruce Wayne: I heard the city's been busy.
Superman: Nothing the kid couldn't handle. I've got to say, for a guy who's supposed to be such a loner, you sure know how to pick a partner.

---

Superman II (1980)

General Zod: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
Superman: I'm not a coward, Zod.
Ursa: Let him prove it!
General Zod: Possibly not. It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.
Superman: Somehow, I just can't hear you, Zod.
General Zod: [Using his heat vision, he breaks off the entire side of a nearby building and catches it with both hands] Then die, as you deserve to!
[He throws it at Superman, who uses his own heat vision to blow the huge projectile apart]

Superman: [after admitting to Lois that he's Superman] We'd better talk.
Lois Lane: I'm in love with you.
Superman: We'd really better talk.

Superman: [at the Fortress of Solitude; whispering to Luthor] Try and get them all into this molecule chamber. It takes away their powers, see... and turns them into ordinary human beings. Now if you could...
[Zod approaches]
Superman: Shh, shh!
Lex Luthor: [pauses] General, don't go in there. It's a trap.
Superman: Luthor, you poisonous snake!
Lex Luthor: That's a molecule chamber. It turns people like you into people like me.
General Zod: [nods] You've done well, Lex Luthor.
Lex Luthor: [pointing] The crystal there activates the mechanism.
General Zod: Lex Luthor, ruler of Australia... activate the machine.
[Non grabs Luthor and flies him up to the control panel]

[last lines]
Superman: Good afternoon, Mr. President. Sorry I've been away so long. I won't let you down again.

[Clark Kent has been beaten in a fistfight after losing his superpowers]
Clark Kent: Looks like from now on you'll have to have a bodyguard with you.
Lois Lane: I don't want a bodyguard. I want the man I fell in love with.
Clark Kent: I know, Lois. I wish he was here.

Clark Kent: General, would you care to step outside?
General Zod: Come to me, son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!

Lois Lane: I'm gonna' be fine. Don't worry about me.
Clark Kent: I like worrying about you.

Clark Kent: I've never seen garbage eat garbage before.

Perry White: [upon Clark entering his office] Kent, I need a story to run with the page three sidebard. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group.
Clark Kent: Right!
[is about to leave but stops]
Clark Kent: Uh, sorry. T... terrorists?
Perry White: Get your head out of the closet, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?
Clark Kent: Home.
Perry White: Well, don't you watch television?
Clark Kent: Frankly, Mr. White, I really don't enjoy television. Too much violence. I was just reading Dickens.
Jimmy Olsen: [races in] Mr. Kent! A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower! In Paris!
Perry White: He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olson!
[afterthought]
Perry White: You do, don't you Kent?
Clark Kent: Yes, sir.
[to Jimmy]
Clark Kent: Has anybody been hurt?
Jimmy Olsen: Well, so far the hostages are unharmed.
Clark Kent: The hostages?
Jimmy Olsen: Yeah! Tourists! About twenty of them!
Perry White: Yeah, but that's just petty stuff. These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
Clark Kent: Well, geez Mr. White. That's t... terrible!
Perry White: That's why they call them "terrorists," Kent.

Clark Kent: [Sees that General Zod has taken over the world] Here? When?
Diner Owner: When? Where the hell have you been? On a Desert Island?

Clark Kent: [returning from the bathroom, Clark discovers that his seat next to Lois has been taken] Excuse me sir, you're sitting in my seat.
Rocky: [referring to the bathroom Clark just exited] You're seat's in there, four eyes.
Clark Kent: Somebody ought to teach you some manners, sir.
Rocky: Oh, yeah? Well, let me know when he comes in.

Perry White: If Paris is going to go kablooie I want my best reporter right in the middle of it... No offense, Kent. You're good, but Lois Lane's better.
Clark Kent: It's not that; I mean, isn't that awfully dangerous for her?
Perry White: That goes with the territory, Kent. Relax; if I know Lois Lane, she'll not only come back with a Pulitzer Prize story, but a one-on-one interview with the hydrogen bomb titled "What Makes Me Tick."

---

"Smallville: Pilot (#1.1)" (2001)

Clark Kent: Hey, this is a great place.
Lex Luthor: Yeah, if you're dead and in the market for something to haunt.
Clark Kent: Well, I meant it's roomy.
Lex Luthor: It's the Luthor ancestral home, or so my father claims. He had it shipped over from Scotland stone by stone.
Clark Kent: Yeah, I remember. The trucks rolled through town for weeks but no one ever moved in.
Lex Luthor: My father had no intention of living here. He's never even stepped through the front door.
Clark Kent: Then why'd he ship it over?
Lex Luthor: Because he could.

Clark Kent: I'd give anything to be normal.

Jonathan Kent: Are you okay?
Clark Kent: Can I answer that in about five years?
Jonathan Kent: Yeah.
Clark Kent: Dad I'm glad you and mom are the ones that found me.
Jonathan Kent: We didn't find you, Clark, you found us.

Lana Lang: Can you keep a secret?
Clark Kent: I'm the Fort Knox of secrets.

Lex Luthor: Clark, do you believe a man can fly?
Clark Kent: Sure. In a plane.
Lex Luthor: No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about soaring through the clouds, with nothing but air beneath you.
Clark Kent: People can't fly, Lex.
Lex Luthor: I did. After the accident, when my heart stopped. It was the most exhilarating two minutes of my life. I flew over Smallville, and for the first time, I didn't see a dead end. I saw a new beginning. Thanks to you, I have a second chance. We have a future, Clark, and I don't want anything to stand in the way of our friendship.

Chloe Sullivan: I call it 'The Wall of Weird.' It's every strange, bizarre, and unexplained event that's happened in Smallville since the meteor shower. That's when it all began - when the town went schizo.
Clark Kent: Why didn't you tell me about this?
Chloe Sullivan: Do you tell me everything that happens in your life? We all keep secrets, Clark.

Jonathan Kent: I know this has gotta be really hard for you. But you gotta just hang in there like we promised.
Clark Kent: I'm sick of 'hanging in there'. All I want to do is go through high school without being a total loser.

Jonathan Kent: Your real parents weren't exactly from around... here.
Clark Kent: Where are they from?
[Jonathan looks up at the sky]
Clark Kent: What are you trying to tell me, Dad? That I'm from another planet?
[sarcastically]
Clark Kent: I suppose you stashed my spaceship in the attic?
Jonathan Kent: Actually... it's in the storm cellar.

Jeremy Creek: Who are you? Where am I?
Clark Kent: I'm Clark Kent. And you're in Smallville.

Clark Kent: This is a great place.
Lex Luthor: Yeah... if you're dead and in the market for something to haunt.
Clark Kent: Well, I meant... roomy.
Lex Luthor: It's the Luthor ancestral home. Or so my father claims. He had it shipped over from Scotland stone by stone.
Clark Kent: Yeah, I remember. The trucks rolled through town for weeks, but no one ever moved in.
Lex Luthor: My father had no intention of living here. He's never even stepped through the front door.
Clark Kent: Then why'd he ship it over?
Lex Luthor: Because he could.

Lana: Nietzsche? I didn't know you have a dark side, Clark.
Clark: Doesn't everyone?
Lana: So what are you: Man or Superman?
Clark: I haven't figured it out yet.

---

The Batman/Superman Movie (1998) (TV)

Clark Kent: Any sign of the comedian?
Bruce Wayne: Three nights, and not so much as a green hair.
Clark Kent: Of course, you have been dividing your time between work and Lois.
Bruce Wayne: Is that a problem?
Clark Kent: Let's just say I'm concerned. Your reputation is... dubious. In and out of costume.
Bruce Wayne: Don't worry. I'm taking Lois quite seriously. Besides, it seems to me you had your chance.

Clark Kent: So just keeps your ears open. Let me know if you hear any buzz about The Joker.
Bibbo: Sure thing Mr. Kent. Eh, but, eh, which one? There's lots of jokers around here.

[after realizing Batman has discovered his identity]
Clark Kent: Touché.

Lois Lane: Hey, Clark, keep Bruce company for a minute while I see the Chief, okay?
Clark Kent: Uh, Lois...
Lois Lane: Shh, don't be intimidated. Regale him with stories of
[posh voice]
Lois Lane: the nightlife in Smallville.

Clark Kent: [answers phone] Hello?
Lois Lane: Hi, it's me. I just wanted to let you know I'll be in late tomorrow morning. I'm having breakfast with Bruce.
Clark Kent: Isn't that special.
Lois Lane: Do I detect a note of disapproval?
Clark Kent: You were the one who compared him to garbage.
Lois Lane: Well, I was wrong. He's very thoughtful, romantic, and a lot deeper than the tabloids would have you believe.
[Clark looks closer at his cape and sees a miniature bat-shaped tracking device planted on it]
Lois Lane: You'd be surprised.
Clark Kent: Would I now?

[Superman uses x-ray vision to see that Batman is really Bruce Wayne]
Superman: Bruce Wayne!
Batman: You peeked.

Lois Lane: Um, Superman.
Superman: Yes?
Lois Lane: Um, how can I put this: I was just thinking... it might be nice to see each other when I wasn't falling out a window or something. Not that I'm not grateful for all the times you've helped me, you understand.
Superman: I understand.
Lois Lane: You do?

Batman: It's ironic, you know. She likes Bruce Wayne and she likes Superman. It's the other two guys she's not crazy about.
Superman: Too bad we can't mix-and-match.

Superman: Luthor's been lining all his buildings with lead. Blocks my X-ray vision.
Batman: Well, there's always the direct approach.
[Superman smashes through the wall. Batman approves]
Batman: You're learning.

Superman: Thanks. I couldn't have saved Lois without your help.
Batman: I'm aware of that.

Superman: [after Batman throws Superman across the room with a judo throw, Superman knocks him onto a table] I heard you were crazy, but I didn't think you were stupid.

---

"Smallville: Phantom (#6.22)" (2007)

Clark Kent: You know, I was thinking, if you're half a senator that you are a mom, this country's in real good hands.
Martha Kent: I always thought you'd be the one to leave the farm first.
Clark Kent: Well, Washington, D.C. is no different than Topeka. It's only a few seconds more away from me.

[Clark lifts Lionel by his throat]
Lionel Luthor: Clark, if Lana's spoken to you, I know what you must be thinking, but you've got to listen to me.
Clark Kent: I've listend to you for too long!
Lionel Luthor: Lex is tracking a wraith from the Phantom Zone. I had to force Lana to marry him. It was the only way she could get close to him to get the information for me I need to you help.
Clark Kent: No. I never asked for you help. And I never will.
Lionel Luthor: You're not a murder. You're Kal-El.
Clark Kent: Don't call me by that name!

Clark Kent: Where's the phantom?
Martian Manhunter: If you were to get infected, it could kill you.
Clark Kent: People are getting killed everyday. If anyone's gonna stop this phantom, it's gonna be me.

Clark Kent: Chloe, I told Lana my secret. She knows everything. She knows that... I'm an alien.
Chloe Sullivan: Wow. So, I guess we have a new charter member of the Clark Kent secret-keeping club... What did she say?
Clark Kent: She kissed me.
Chloe Sullivan: That's fantastic. You've been wanting this forever. You just... you must be on Cloud 99.
Clark Kent: I will be as soon as I deal with this phantom.

[Clark meets his Wraith Clark]
Clark Kent: What just happened?
Wraith Clark: I took a little piece of your DNA. Now I'm going to take your life.

[last lines]
Clark Kent: [after watching a phantom in his likeness become stronger after absorbing Kryptonite] What the hell are you?
Bizaro: I'm you, only a little more bizarre.
[revealing himself to be Bizaro]

Clark Kent: [Clark superspeeds into Reeves Dam and pushes Lex up against the wall] She was your wife, Lex. Why did you do it?
Lex Luthor: Now is not the time to lecture me about my marriage, Clark.
Clark Kent: Why'd you do it? Just tell me!
Lex Luthor: GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!
Clark Kent: You afraid she was gonna bring you down, or was it just too humiliating for you that she was gonna leave you? Why'd you have to kill her? Why?
Lex Luthor: You afraid she was gonna bring you down, or was it just too humiliating for you that she was gonna leave you? Why'd you have to kill her? Why?
Clark Kent: You afraid she was gonna bring you down, or was it just too humiliating for you that she was gonna leave you? Why'd you have to kill her? Why?
Lex Luthor: No.
Clark Kent: No. You don't to need act so surprised. You're the one who killed her. You put a bomb in her car. You're the one who killed her!

Clark Kent: I don't understand. None of this makes any sense.
Lionel Luthor: It was when Lex was possessed with Zod. I became with possessed with all your father's knowledge. I found myself writing, in Kryptonian, the symbol for power.
Martian Manhunter: It was a beacon. The same beacon Jor-El used when he needed me.
Clark Kent: You knew my father?
Martian Manhunter: I worked for Jor-El, bringing criminals to justice. When Krypton was on the verge of annihilation, he asked me to keep an eye out for you.
Clark Kent: Where have you been all these years?
Martian Manhunter: Watching from a distance.
Lionel Luthor: Your father wanted you to pass the test without any help. He wasn't to interfere unless it was absolutely necessary.
Martian Manhunter: When you unleashed those phantoms, your life was at stake. I didn't have a choice.
Lionel Luthor: Like what happened at the docks in Seattle.
Clark Kent: When that phantom infected my mind?
Lionel Luthor: That's right.
Martian Manhunter: Unfortunately, I've lost a step since then.
Clark Kent: What happened?
Martian Manhunter: Nothing.
[Clark opens Martian Manhunter's jacket and sees he was injured]
Clark Kent: That doesn't look like nothing.
Martian Manhunter: I had a run-in with the last phantom. I have to leave Earth's atmosphere to heal, but first I must complete the job I started.

Clark Kent: I'll go after the phantom. I have the crystal that Raya gave me.
Martian Manhunter: I doubt that crystal will work.
Clark Kent: It's not an ordinary phantom, Clark. It's the product of a Kryptonian lab experiment. It's been destroying one human being after the other, desperately searching for the only host that will ensure its survival - a Kryptonian body.

---

"Smallville: Aqua (#5.4)" (2005)

Arthur Curry: Maybe we should start up a Junior Lifeguard Association or something.
Clark: I'm not sure I'm ready for the JLA quite yet.

Clark: [referring to Arthur Curry, AKA Aquaman]
Clark: Come on, am I the only one who thinks there's something fishy about this guy?

Clark: I'll go talk to Lex.
Arthur Curry: There isn't enough time. Come on, Superboy. With you on the turf and me in the surf, we could stop this thing cold.

Professor Milton Fine: Well, you know, Groucho Marx said there was only one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him. If he says yes, then he must be crooked.
Clark: I would think a college professor would be quoting Karl Marx, not Groucho.
Professor Milton Fine: German philosophy is easy. Comedy's hard.

Clark: Just stay out of trouble, alright, A.C.?
Arthur Curry: Try to get in some, Clark. Stay super, bro.

Clark: [to Lois] What are you doing back?
Lana Lang: Yeah, we thought you were in Europe 'til the end of the year.
Clark: Hoping...

Clark: [on Lois] Do you think she could sleep through me smothering her with a pillow?

Lois Lane: I've known a lot of guys who wanna own the world; I haven't met very many who actually wanna save it. When am I ever going to meet someone like that again?
Clark: Lois, I promise someday, you'll meet someone even more special.

---

"Justice League: Hereafter: Part 2 (#2.20)" (2003)

J'onn J'onzz: You were greatly missed, my friend. By all of us.
[everyone looks to a stoic Batman]
Wonder Woman: Don't let him fool you. Your death hit him as hard as it did any of us.
Superman: Really?
Batman: No. I never believed you were dead in the first place.
Superman: I guess that's sort of a compliment.

Vandal Savage: I picked up your comm signal a few weeks ago. Used it to track you down.
Superman: You could have just called.
Vandal Savage: Afraid you might be holding a grudge. If you'd switched off, I might never have found you.
Superman: Grudge? You tried to take over the world - twice!
Vandal Savage: In the long run, not so important. Take it from someone who knows.

Superman: You're insane.
Vandal Savage: True, but that doesn't mean I'm not good company. Say, you want to come over to my house?
[off Superman's look]
Vandal Savage: Like you've got something better to do.

Vandal Savage: Your funeral was lovely. It was on all the networks. I used to have the DVD.
Superman: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Vandal Savage: As a matter of fact, I did. But I've had 30,000 years to reconsider.

Superman: [lifting a rock] I should smash your skull!
Vandal Savage: Go ahead. We both know it wouldn't work.

[Superman prepares to return to his time]
Superman: What happens to you?
Vandal Savage: Redemption, if I'm lucky. Don't worry about me. Return to your friends. Do what you do best, what you were born to do: save the world.

Superman: Self-help books? You don't seem the type.
Vandal Savage: I read whatever I can find. Anyway, I've got issues, what with my destroying the Earth and all.

Superman: Ready to send me back?
Vandal Savage: No. But I will anyway.

---

"Smallville: Vessel (#5.22)" (2006)

Lex Zod: You have your father's eyes. Hello, Kal-El.
Clark Kent: Where's Lex?
Lex Zod: Lex is dead.
Clark Kent: Why are you here?
Lex Zod: For the same reason for anyone who'd been imprisoned like a beast - revenge.

Clark Kent: I won't let you destroy this planet like you did Krypton.
Lex Zod: You don't have a choice. Unless you join me.
Clark Kent: I'll *never* join you.
Lex Zod: Well, I hope that's a decision you'll be able to live with... forever.
[Lex Zod banishes Clark to the Phantom Zone]

Jor-El: I know you are still angered by the loss of Jonathan Kent.
Clark Kent: He *was* my father.
Jor-El: *I* am your father. Pain is a part of life, Kal-El, but you cannot let it blind you.

Jor-El: Zod was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone for crimes that lead to the destruction of our planet.
Clark Kent: Zod killed you.
Jor-El: And your mother and our entire race, just as he will do on Earth.
Clark Kent: I won't let that happen.

Chloe Sullivan: Why doesn't this Zod guy come fully composed?
Clark Kent: All Jor-El told me was that Zod's spirit would possess a human.
Chloe Sullivan: And this is the same Zod whose hobbies include mass destruction and world domination?

Lionel Luthor: Clark... the real test of a hero is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act. To save the Earth, the cost of one life is the price that must be paid.
Clark Kent: Even if that life is your son? Lex is the vessel of Zod.

Lex Luthor: Ever since that day on the bridge, you've always seen yourself as my savior - - the one thing that would pull me off the dark path I'd started. See, that's why you cling to the idea that there's still some good in me. You don't want to face the fact that you might have failed.
Clark Kent: Or maybe I just can't believe that someone would have so little willpower.
Lex Luthor: It's a little hard to compete with the iron willpower it takes to kill one of your best friends.

Lex Luthor: I used to think you had this... strong inner core. You were so virtuous. And yet you lie all the time - To me, to Lana, to all the people who cared about you. What kind of sick person would do that?
Clark Kent: If you thought this friendship was so doomed from the beginning, then why did you fight so hard to keep it?
Lex Luthor: Because I wanted everything you had - The family, the inconspicuous life, the loyal girlfriend. Well at least I walked away with the part you love the most.
Clark Kent: You're not yourself.
Lex Luthor: Or maybe I finally am.

---

"Smallville: Metamorphosis (#1.2)" (2001)

Lex Luthor: Can't knock your taste in women. You want to tell me what happened last night?
Clark Kent: It was just a stupid prank.
Lex Luthor: You were tied to a stake in the middle of a field. Even the Romans saved that for special occasions. You could have died out there.
Clark Kent: I appreciate your help. I just want to forget it ever happened.

Lex Luthor: If you hadn't pulled him out of that truck, your problems would be solved.
[Clark looks at him]
Lex Luthor: I'm kidding of course. Don't worry, Clark. I've got your Trojan horse.
[he takes the box with Lana's necklace in it off the fireplace; he opens it and Clark backs away]
Lex Luthor: Clark, you okay?
Clark Kent: Yeah, I'm fine.
[Lex closes the box and Clark's pain stops]
Clark Kent: That's a cool box. What's it made of?
Lex Luthor: Lead. My mother bought it in a Kasban in Morocco. A little guy told her it was made from the armor of St. George, the patron saint of boy scouts. She gave it to me before she died. I think she was trying to send me a message.
[offers it to Clark]

Lana Lang: Did you know you can see my house from here?
Clark Kent: [innocently] No. Really?
[he moves the telescope, to take the focus off her house]
Clark Kent: You know, we've lived a mile apart our whole lives and you've never come over.
Lana Lang: And you're wondering what I'm doing here now.
Clark Kent: Not that I don't enjoy the company, but yes, I was.

Clark Kent: Oh, Lex is definitely one of a kind.

Clark Kent: Chloe, I could never outgrow you. Other than vertically.

[after saving a boy from an explosion]
Clark Kent: You need to talk to Mom. I think I really freaked her out this time.
Jonathan Kent: You also made her really proud, Clark.
Clark Kent: Dad, something else happened to me this morning. When I woke up, I was... kind of floating.
Jonathan Kent: Floating?
Clark Kent: As soon as I woke up, I crashed. I mean, Dad, what's happening to me?
Jonathan Kent: I honestly don't know. As soon as you start breaking the law of gravity, we're definitely in uncharted territory.

Pete Ross: He had a killer tree fort his dad built in the woods.
Clark Kent: It was okay.
Pete Ross: Clark never liked it. He used to get sick just walking over there.
Chloe Sullivan: How come?
Pete Ross: He was afraid of heights.
Clark Kent: I didn't believe it was structurally sound.

---

"Smallville: X-Ray (#1.4)" (2001)

Clark: [to his mother, after seeing Lana kissing Whitney with his X-ray vision] What would you do if you could see anything?
Martha: Learn to close my eyes.

Lex Luthor: I promise I'm not a criminal mastermind.
Clark Kent: I know. A criminal mastermind would have worn a mask.

[exercising Clark's new x-ray vision]
Jonathan Kent: Yeah, you could start with something small.
[reaches into pocket]
Jonathan Kent: Try to tell me what I have in my hand right now.
Clark Kent: Your pocket knife.
Jonathan Kent: You could see through my hand...
Clark Kent: No, you always carry your knife in that pocket.

Clark Kent: You go through life with a gift you have to keep a secret. When you see everyone around you being normal, you get jealous. You just want to be somebody else.

Pete Ross: So you're telling me that Tina Greer can bend her bones like a contortionist and become anybody she wants?
Clark Kent: I saw it with my own eyes.
Pete Ross: [laughs] I'm sorry. This is usually Chloe's territory. I cover girls, football, and general guy stuff; she does the "Tales of the Unexplained".

Pete Ross: She wants to kill Lana?
Clark Kent: Worse, she wants to become Lana.

---

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

[Superman and Nuclear Man confront each other in downtown Metropolis]
Nuclear Man: Where is the woman?
Superman: Give it up, you'll never find her.
Nuclear Man: If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!
[Nuclear Man begins to cause mass destruction]
Superman: Stop! Don't do it, the people!

Superman: You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.
Lex Luthor: Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.

Superman: And there will be peace. There will be peace when the people of the world, want it so badly, that their governments will have no choice but to give it to them. I just wish you could all see the Earth the way that I see it. Because when you really look at it, it's just one world.

[last lines]
Lex Luthor: [Superman has dropped Luthor off at prison and they are discussing nuclear weapons] Is the world gonna be vaporized?
Superman: No. It's the same as it's always been, Luthor. On the brink. With good fighting evil. See you in twenty.
[Superman flies off]

Superman: uhh... no pain, no gain?

Superman: Madam Chairman, I don't represent any one particular country, but I'd like to address the delegates.
U.N. Chairwoman: Well... in that case, you will need a sponsor.
[all delegates raise their hands]
U.N. Chairwoman: I believe that will do. Please.

---

"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Dead Lois Walking (#4.7)" (1996)

State Trooper: [Lois is hiding in a cupboard from the cops, getting soaked by a dripping roof] Was that a creak?
Clark Kent: Was what a creak?
State Trooper: Thought I heard a creak.
Clark Kent: I didn't hear a creak.
State Trooper: Could swear I heard a creak.
Clark Kent: Wasn't a creak.
State Trooper: No-o creak.
Clark Kent: [Lois creaks again and the cop just looks at Clark] No-o creak at all.

Clark Kent: [going over a list of people who would set up Lois] Five people threatened to sue you.
Lois Lane: That's not so awful.
Clark Kent: Two hundred threatened to kill you.
Lois Lane: Oh...

Clark Kent: Remember that TV show, The Fugitive? Richard Kimble was the fugitive. He was wrongly convicted, and he escaped to prove his innocence, and eventually he did.
Lois Lane: How long did it take?
Clark Kent: I think the show ran for 4 years.
Lois Lane: I didn't even pack a toothbrush.

Lois Lane: So, now they're gonna be watching the skies too.
Clark Kent: I knew they would be. That's why we're not flying.
Lois Lane: But couldn't you fly fast enough to be almost invisible?
Clark Kent: Yeah, but you'd be vaporized.
Lois Lane: Vaporized. That would be bad.

Superman: Dr. Klein, I need to see you.
Dr. Klein: You just saw me.
Superman: No, I didn't.
Dr. Klein: Yes, you did.
Superman: Where did I see you?
Dr. Klein: You know.
Superman: No, I don't.
Dr. Klein: You don't know?
Superman: I have no idea.
Dr. Klein: You and I didn't just go on a secret mission?
Superman: No.
Dr. Klein: We didn't remove the hybrid kryptonite?
Superman: No.
Dr. Klein: We didn't take it to safe keeping?
Superman: No.
Dr. Klein: Superman, forgive me, but you're losing it, my boy.

Dr. Klein: If you didn't tell me to, who did?
Superman: A hallucination.
Dr. Klein: But that's completely unauthorized.
Superman: Yes, it is. And I have a feeling that right now that hybrid kryptonite is in the hands of Jefferson Cole.
Dr. Klein: I hope not. He's insane. I'd like a cocktail now.

---

"Smallville: Commencement (#4.22)" (2005)

Lois Lane: Clark, I know how devastated you must be but if you could just keep the tears to a minimum, I'd appreciate it.
Clark Kent: I'll try.

Lois Lane: Look, I - I just want you to know, Clark, that when I'm sitting in the audience today at your graduation and you stand on at that stage in front of all those people, I'm going to be looking up at you and thinking one thing.
Clark Kent: What's that?
Lois Lane: Please, God, don't let him trip.

[a meteor shower is heading towards Smallville]
Chloe Sullivan: Hey, Clark, can you believe it? Twice in sixteen years. I mean, this is crazy. Smallville has some extraterrestrial bulls-eye on it.
Clark Kent: It's pretty weird, huh?

Clark Kent: Journalism. You ever thought about that? You wrote some half decent articles in your short lived career at the Torch.
Lois Lane: Nah, kill me first. Even if I could spell, the last thing I'd wanna do is spend my time in a newsroom. With my luck I'd probably end up across the desk from the most bumbling reporter on the masthead.

Lois Lane: It's written in the stars and you know it. It's only a matter of time before you join the bowling league, take over the family farm, and then, well, you and Lana can bring little Clark Jr. into the world.
Clark Kent: I think you're hallucinating.
Lois Lane: No. Hallucinating would be imagining Clark Kent going off to the big city to make his mark in the world. I'm just being realistic.

Lois Lane: Nightmare? So that's what all this commotion is about?
Jonathan Kent: Lois.
Lois Lane: [to Clark] You know, if it makes you feel any better, I have them all the time. I had this one last week. Really scary. This guy wearing a red cape...
Clark Kent: [sarcastic] Oh, that sounds horrible, Lois.

---

"Smallville: Hothead (#1.3)" (2001)

Clark Kent: I joined a football team, not a cult.

Chloe Sullivan: I've already started getting hate mail.
Clark Kent: You seem very happy about that, why?
Chloe Sullivan: Because it means I'm hitting a nerve. Besides, between the abysmal sentence structure and generous use of obscenities, I got a pretty good idea of who's been sending it.
Pete Ross: If you think my teammates have been reading the Torch, you're giving them way too much credit.

Coach Walt Arnold: Yeah, I remember. Jonathan Kent was one of the best athletes I ever coached. A lot of God-given talent. It's in your genes, Kent.
Clark Kent: Actually, I'm adopted.

Clark Kent: I'm sick of being punished because I have these gifts. Most parents would be happy if their son could be star of the football team.

Clark Kent: The Torch torched. How's that for dramatic irony.

Clark Kent: Oh yeah. Joined the football team and poured some coffee. We're a couple of real rebels.
Lana Lang: Long live the revolution.

---

"Smallville: Arrival (#5.1)" (2005)

Chloe: Hey. I think it's time you switch into Super Clark mode now.
Clark Kent: Super Clark.
Chloe: I know you run faster than a speeding bullet, Clark. Take me along for the ride.

Martha Kent: [Looking at the Kent farmhouse with a gaping hole in it from where the meteor struck the house] Our home...
Jonathan Kent: It's just wood and plaster Martha. A house can always be rebuilt.
Martha Kent: I guess you're right.
Jonathan Kent: [Clark walks toward his mom and dad] But it does help to have a one man construction team as a son.
Martha Kent: Hi.
Clark Kent: Hi.
Jonathan Kent: [after observing a short pause, glad to be together again] Don't worry Clark things will be back to normal soon enough.
Clark Kent: Actually, things will be a lot more normal around here than you think.
[pauses to prepare himself]
Clark Kent: My abilities are gone.
Martha Kent: [In shock] How?
Clark Kent: Jor-El took them. But, I'm not sure it's such a bad thing. All I've ever wanted is to be normal, and now, finally, I am.
Martha Kent: It is different. You can get hurt now, your vulnerable.
Clark Kent: Isn't that what it means to be human.
Jonathan Kent: No, I can't believe Jor-El would have given up on you that easily.
Clark Kent: I took care of the danger he warned me about, and if losing my abilities is the consequence then I think he's done with me.
[Walks to Jonathan and Martha and stands beside them]
Clark Kent: Look, none of that matters now. I'm ready to take a step to the future. We'll start by rebuilding this house, one board at a time.

Clark Kent: [Super-speeds into Lex's study and Nam-Ek and Aethyr turn to face him] I heard you were looking for me. I'm Kal-El.
Nam-Ek: At last.
Clark Kent: Who are you?
Aethyr: The last survivors of Krypton.
Clark Kent: What do you want?
Nam-Ek: We want you to join with us Kal-El and help us make this savage land our utopia.
Clark Kent: I saw what you did at the hospital. It's not utopia. It's MURDER.
Nam-Ek: The few must be sacrificed for the sake of the many.
Clark Kent: Then sacrifice me, because I'm not going to let you kill anyone else.
Aethyr: If that is your decision. So be it, Kal-El.
[Aethyr releases the key to the Phantom Zone on Clark]

Clark Kent: [Screaming running around the ruins of the farmhouse] Mom! Dad!
Lex Luthor: [Lex enters] Clark. Thank God you're okay.
Clark Kent: Where's my mom and dad?
Lex Luthor: At the hospital. Your mom has a concussion and a broken leg but she's gonna be fine.
Clark Kent: What about Lana?
Lex Luthor: Lana's safe. It's Chloe I'm worried about. She was with me in the cave when the meteors hit and I was knocked unconscious and when I came to she was gone.
Clark Kent: She must have escaped while you were unconscious.
Lex Luthor: Or someone helped her out.
Clark Kent: Lex how could I've...
Lex Luthor: When I was down in the cave there was a light brighter than anything I've ever seen... and I could of sworn I saw you standing right in its epicenter.
Clark Kent: I was nowhere near those caves.
Lex Luthor: If you weren't down in the caves, where have you been?
Clark Kent: My parents insisted I get a head start. I got a ride on one of the military vans.
Lex Luthor: Why do I get this nagging feeling your being less than honest with me?
Clark Kent: I have no idea.
Lex Luthor: Well I get the feeling that lying has become an unshakable habit of yours Clark.
Clark Kent: I don't have to listen to this.
[Turns his back on Lex]
Lex Luthor: If your my friend...
[Lex grabs Clark's arms]
Lex Luthor: ... just tell me the truth. Were you in the cave when the meteors hit?
Clark Kent: [coldly] No.

Clark Kent: [Inside the Fortress of Solitude] I thought Krypton was destroyed.
Jor-El: It was, but here in your Fortress of Solitude the geography of our planet has been replicated for your training.
Clark Kent: I know there's a lot I can learn from you, but I have to get home that's where I'm needed.
Jor-El: The meteor shower was only the precursor. A dark force from Krypton has been awakened Kal-El, and its sights are set on earth.
Clark Kent: What do you want me to do?
[a massive column of energy surrounds Clark with images of Krypton's history]
Jor-El: To train and study with diligence, because it is the only way to save this planet.

Clark Kent: How'd you get that frog in your throat?
Lois Lane: That's what happens when you get a neck massage form Barbie the Barbarian. Doctor says I shouldn't talk too much.
Clark Kent: Oh, gee. That's too bad.
Lois Lane: Don't get your hopes up, Smallville. It's not permanent.

---

Superman III (1983)

Evil Superman: Well I hope you don't expect me to save you, 'cause I don't do that anymore.
Lorelei: Don't worry about me. I'm long past savin'.

Evil Superman: You always wanted to fly Kent. Now's your chance!

Evil Superman: [after blowing acid on to his better half] What's 'a matter, Kent? Too hot for ya'? Come on chicken! You've been on my nerves for a long time!

Perry White: I don't have to tell you, it isn't easy for me to lose one of my best reporters.
Clark Kent: Oh, that's okay.
Perry White: But you deserve the vacation, Lois.
Lois Lane: Thank you.

Jimmy Olsen: Clark, I want you to keep these people distracted so they don't know what I'm doing.
Clark Kent: What are you doing?
Jimmy Olsen: What am I doing? Remember what the chief said? A photographer always goes after a story.
Clark Kent: That could be dangerous, Jimmy.
Jimmy Olsen: Danger? Goes with the territory, Mister Kent.

Clark Kent: I can give more than I take.

---

"Smallville: Slumber (#3.4)" (2003)

[to Lex]
Lionel Luthor: When you're rich, you're not crazy. You're eccentric.
Sara Conroy: Help me! Here's here!
Clark Kent: Who?
Sara Conroy: [looks around] No! Don't let him take me!
[dragged into the earth]

Sara Conroy: I just wanted to be free!
Clark Kent: You can be, in the real world. Face him!
Sara Conroy: I can't.
[crying]
Clark Kent: Sara, you're keeping us in this dream. I can't help you asleep, I have no power.

Clark Kent: [pointing to a pendant] That's Saint Christopher isn't it?
Nicholas Conroy: Yes.
Clark Kent: Patron Saint of Travellers.

Clark Kent: How do you get in my dreams?
Sara Conroy: I don't know.
[smiles]
Sara Conroy: I've never been able to do it before.

Sara Conroy: [crying] Clark.
Clark Kent: [driving] Sarah!
Sara Conroy: He's so angry.
Clark Kent: Wait, if you're here that means I'm
[in real life the truck crashes]

---

"Smallville: Unaired Pilot (#1.0)" (2003)

Lex: Clark, do you believe a man can fly?
Clark: Sure, in a plane.

Jonathan Kent: I know this has gotta be really hard for you. But you gotta just hang in there like we promised.
Clark Kent: I'm sick of 'hanging in there'. All I want to do is go through high school without being a total loser.

Clark: What are you trying to tell me, Dad? That I'm from another planet? I suppose you stashed my spaceship in the attic.
Jonathan: Actually, it's in the storm cellar.

Lana: Nietzsche? I didn't know you have a dark side, Clark.
Clark: Doesn't everyone?
Lana: So what are you: Man or Superman?
Clark: I haven't figured it out yet.

Clark Kent: People can't fly Lex.

---

"Superman: The Last Son of Krypton: Part 3 (#1.3)" (1996)

[looking at footage of Superman]
Lois Lane: Nice "S"...
Clark Kent: Excuse me?
Lois Lane: Here, that "S." He's strong, he flies, he's the Nietschian fantasy all wrapped up in a red cape... the Super-Man.
Clark Kent: "Super-man"?
Perry White: Hey, I like it! "Superman!" It's catchy, it sticks with you, the kind of name that looks great splashed across three columns! Make it four.

Clark Kent: Now that I've moved to Metropolis, it's gonna be impossible to keep a low profile.
Jonathan Kent: Yeah, I can see how touching an airplane down in the middle of a city might turn a few heads.

Clark Kent: All of a sudden people are calling me "Superman." Some of them are even afraid of me, just like Jor-El and Lara warned. Does this mean I'm going to have to give up my life?
Jonathan Kent: No, son. It doesn't matter where you came from, or what you can do. You'll always be Clark Kent. Superman just helps out now and again.

[after dismantling the Lexo-skel and pulling Corben out of it]
Superman: Shall we go a few rounds without the suit?
John Corben: Uh-uh.
Superman: Too bad.

[Superman appears hovering outside Luthor's window. Luthor rolls it down]
Lex Luthor: Sorry, but we already have a window washer.
[silence]
Lex Luthor: Oh, the silent treatment, eh? Well, I don't know what you think you heard out there, but I know what you can prove, and it's nothing. You see, uh...”Superman," I own Metropolis. My technology built it, my will keeps it going, and nearly two-thirds of its people work for me, whether they know it or not. Even you have to admit it's a model of efficiency.
[Silence]
Lex Luthor: And yet, I've often thought it's a waste of my talents staying in just one city. Why not focus my efforts on a more global scale? A being with your abilities could be very useful to me in that regard. Why don't you float on in and we'll discuss it, face-to-face?
[silence. Luthor finally loses his composure]
Lex Luthor: SAY SOMETHING!
[He grabs a model of the Lexo-skel and throws it. Superman catches it and crushes it to powder between his hands]
Superman: I'll be watching you, Luthor.

---

"Smallville: Reckoning (#5.12)" (2006)

Clark: I've lived this day before. I kind of went back in time.
Chloe: Right. What you do, spin the Earth backwards on its axis?

Lana Lang: [Clark is sitting in his loft on a cold winter's morning rehearsing in his head what he's about to say as Lana walks up quietly] I brought gloves and a scarf like you asked.
Clark: [Clark gets up, his heart is racing] I'm glad you came.
Lana Lang: Well to be honest, I don't think a mystery date is exactly what our relationship needs right now.
Clark: That's why I called.
Lana Lang: [Feeling his chest] Oh my God! Your heart is racing.
Clark: That's because I'm terrified.
Lana Lang: What's going on?
Clark: Lana, the way you've been looking at me... I already know that I'm losing you...
Lana Lang: Clark...
Clark: ...and it's not your fault. There's something I should have shown you a long time ago.
[Lana looks up at him with loving curiousity as they enter the Kiwatche cave together and walk into the crystal chamber]
Lana Lang: I've never seen this part before. How did you find it?
Clark: It was left here for me.
Lana Lang: For you?
Clark: I've gone through this in my head like a thousand times.
[Pulls the key out of his jacket pocket]
Clark: Lana, what I'm about to show you may change the way you feel about me.
Lana Lang: Clark, whatever it is it's okay.
Clark: [Clark places the key into the pedestal and they are both surrounded by beams of light] It's okay.
[Lana looks around in amazement as Clark reaches out to Lana]
Clark: Do you trust me?
[Lana grabs Clark's hand and they are instantly transported to the Fortress of Solitude]
Lana Lang: [In complete and utter amazement of the beautiful palace of ice before her eyes] Oh my God!
[She turns back to Clark staring at him with wonder]
Clark: ...When you asked me if I believed in life on other planets, you had no idea how ironic that question was... I'm from a planet called Krypton.
Lana Lang: [Lana walks up to him placing her hand on his face ever so gently] ... but you're just like everyone else.
[Clark looks at her and picks her up, gently and leaps into the air with amazing grace and flies hundreds of feet into the air and lands softly on an upper level of the fortress revealing a sprawling vista of ice crystals covering a nearly endless cavern of ice around them]
Lana Lang: This isn't the first time you've done that is it? How long have you kept this a secret... and no one knew.
Clark: There were so many days I wanted to tell you.
Lana Lang: What makes today any different?
Clark: ...I want you to know who I really am.
[Clark pulls out a lump of coal and crushes it in his hand revealing a diamond. He pulls out a gold ring and with a burst of heat vision, seals the diamond to the gold ring. He leans down on one knee with Lana in front of him eagerly awaiting what he is about to say]
Clark: Will you marry me?

Clark: [Inside the Fortress of Solitude with tears in his eyes standing there as a broken man because of the loss of his true love, Lana] HOW COULD YOU TAKE HER AWAY FROM ME!
Jor-El: Human life is fragile, my son. You knew a life would be exchanged for yours.
Clark: Don't make her pay for my mistake. If I hadn't told her the truth about me she'd still be alive! You have to let me fix it.
Jor-El: Your powers on earth may seem extraordinary Kal-El, but we are not Gods.
Clark: This was not HER DESTINY, AND YOU KNOW THAT! There has to be a way... there has to be a way to fix it.
Jor-El: There is one trial you have yet to experience, but you must heed my warning. The tide of fate is impossible to stop. Even if you succeed in altering one course of events, the universe will find a balance.
[a glowing crystal rises from the control panel]
Jor-El: There is only ONE crystal. Once you make this choice, there is no second chance. Decide carefully.
Clark: I have to save her.

Jonathan Kent: [Getting out of the truck having just pulled up telling a joke to Martha] ... come on you liked it.
[Sees Clark walking out of the barn]
Jonathan Kent: Hey I thought you were going to meet us at the polls.
Clark: I have something to tell you guys.
[Jonathan and Martha both wait in eager anticipation]
Clark: I told Lana everything...
Martha Kent: [In shock] What?
Clark: ...right before I proposed to her in the Fortress.
Jonathan Kent: Clark have you really thought this thing through?
Clark: If I was ever going to risk sharing myself with someone, I want it to be with her.
Martha Kent: I'm proud of you Clark. I know this has been weighing on you for a long time.
Jonathan Kent: I guess it's just hard looking at your son and realizing you're talking to a man. A man who doesn't need his father's advice anymore.
Clark: ...I'm always going to need you Dad.
[Jonathan and Clark hug]

Clark: [Lana walks up to the farm house as Clark walks out as the snow slowly falls around them] I thought I wouldn't see you until tonight.
Lana Lang: Well I wanted to catch you before we got there.
Clark: ...Do I look any different to you now?
Lana Lang: ...Clark, you look like the same handsome guy I've always known.
Clark: Handsome as in I want to spend the rest of my life with you or... handsome as in I'm going to let you down easy?
Lana Lang: Handsome as in... Yes Clark. I'll marry you.
[They both embrace with the excitement of spending the rest of their lives together]

---

Superman II (2006) (V)

Clark Kent: [after having been shot by Lois] You realize that if you had been wrong, Clark Kent would be dead.
Lois Lane: Right. With a blank?

Lois Lane: You ARE Superman, aren't you?
Clark Kent: Lois, now we've been through these haullcinations of yours before. Can't you see what you almost did? Throwing yourself off a building 30 stories high? Can't you see what a tragic mistake you almost made?
Lois Lane: I made a mistake. I made a mistake because
[Lois pulls out a gun]
Lois Lane: I risked my life instead of yours.
Clark Kent: Lois... don't be insane!
Lois Lane: And don't fall down 'cause you're just going to have to get up again!
Clark Kent: Lois, don't be crazy now... LOIS!
[Lois fires at Clark, who just stands there with a stern look on his face]
Lois Lane: [Lois looks at amazement] It IS you...
[Clark takes off his glasses to reveal that he is indeed Superman]
Lois Lane: I guess I've known this for the longest time.
Clark Kent: You realize, of course, if you had been wrong, Clark Kent would've been killed.
Lois Lane: [Lois holds up the gun] With a blank?
[Clark closes his eyes in embarassment]
Lois Lane: Gotcha!
Clark Kent: [Clark sits down ready to talk]

General Zod: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
Clark Kent: I'm not a coward, Zod.
General Zod: It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.

Jor-El: [Kal-El is asking for counsil again from his father regarding his feelings for Lois] The people of your planet are well pleased with you Kal-El... you have served them faithfully... and they are greatful for it. And yet you have returned to reason with me once again. My son i have tried to anticipate your every question, this is one... i had hoped you would not ask...
Kal-El/Superman: My attachment... umm... the feelings which i have developed for a certain human being have deeply effected me father...
Jor-El: You cannot serve humanity by investing your time and emotion in one human being at the expense of the rest... the concepts are mutually exclusive.
Kal-El/Superman: [takes a deep breath] And... if i no longer want to serve humanity...
Jor-El: Is this how you repay their gratitude... by abandoning the week... the defensless... the needyfull... for the sake of your selfish pursuits...
Kal-El/Superman: [angry] Selfish? After all i've done for them? Will there ever come a time when i've served enough? At least they get a chance for happiness... i only ask as much... no more...
Jor-El: Yours is a half happiness... the fullfillment of your mission... the insperation... you must have... you must have felt that happiness within you... my son... surely you cannot deny that feeling...
Kal-El/Superman: No... i cannot... anymore than i deny the other which is stronger in me father... so much stronger...
Kal-El/Superman: Is there no way then father? Must i be denied the one thing in life that i truely desire?
Jor-El: If you will not be Kal-El... if you will live as one of them... love their kind as one of them... then it follows... that you must become one of them...
Jor-El: [Jor-El disappears and a crystal chamber emerges, he reappears closer to Kal-El] This crystal chamber has in it the harnessed rays of the red sun of Krypton... once exposed to them all you great powers on Earth will disappear... forever... once this is done their is no going back... you will feel like an ordinary man... and you can be harmed like an ordinary man...
Jor-El: [Kal-El steps towards the chamber] Think Kal-El... i beg you...
Kal-El/Superman: [points as if to warn] Father... I love her...
Jor-El: [last words] Think Kal-El...
[Kal-El ignores his fathers last plea and enters the chamber, the fortress glows red inside as Jor-El gives a condemning stare at Lois who is watching overhead]

Kal-El/Superman: [Kal-El has returned to the Fortress of Solitude after giving up his powers and learning General Zod has escaped the Phantom Zone, desperate and broken] Father... if you can hear me... i failed... i've failed you, i've failed myself... and all humanity. I've traded my birthrite... for a life of submission in a world ruled by your enemies... theres nobody left to help them now... the people of the world... since i... FATHER...
Jor-El: [as Kal-El starts to walk away from the crystal console, the remaining crystal starts to glow, he puts it into the crystal console, Jor-El appears] Listen carefully my son... for we shall never speak again... if you hear me now... then you have used the only means left to you... the crystal source in which our communications begun... the circle is now complete... you have made a dreadfull mistake Kal-El... you did this of your own free will... in spite of all i could say to dissuade you...
Kal-El/Superman: I... uh...
Jor-El: Now you return to me for one last chance to redeem yourself... this too i have finally anticipated my son... look at me Kal-El... once before when you were small i died while giving you a chance for life and even now though it will exhust the final energy left within me
Kal-El/Superman: [broken on the verge of tears, turns his head] Father... no...
Jor-El: Look at me Kal-El... the Kryptonian prophecy will at last be fullfilled... the son becomes the father... the father becomes the son... farewell forever... Kal-El... remember me my son...
Jor-El: [Jor-El disappears and reappears next to Kal-El in full form, he places his hand on his shoulder] My son...
[Kal-Els powers start to regenerate from his fathers touch]

---

"Smallville: Crimson (#6.13)" (2007)

Lois Lane: Please tell me we weren't just set up.
Clark Kent: Looks like it.
Lois Lane: Us. That's like hot fudge and halibut.
Clark Kent: I take it I'm the halibut.
Lois Lane: Naturally.

Lois Lane: Lana is your past. I'm your future.
Clark Kent: This is the present.

Lois Lane: Well, I guess it's best that neither of us remembers. I mean, I can't even really picture the two of us... You don't think that we...
Clark Kent: [grinning] Think that we what?
Lois Lane: You know... that we...
[long awkward pause]
Clark Kent: No, Lois. I think I'd remember.
Lois Lane: [relieved] Yeah. 'Course you would. Highlight of your life.
Clark Kent: Though I did find something. I think you made it for me.
Lois Lane: White Snake. Wow. I must have really liked you.

Clark Kent: So, you're saying that I wanna kiss Lois, and keep Chloe in my back pocket, while the whole time I'm still in love with Lana?

Lex Luthor: Clark I think maybe it's time for you to leave!
Clark Kent: I am not done yet! Besides, I haven't give you my gift.
[reaches inside his coat and pulls out a rattle, he tosses it to Lex]
Clark Kent: To baby Luthor. The real reason Lana's marrying you!

---

"Smallville: Blank (#4.19)" (2005)

Clark: So it must've been kind of strange to have a zombie best friend walking around.
Chloe: Yeah, I mean, you know, I never really realized how complicated that zombie's life was.
Clark: [apprehensive] Complicated? Did I do something unusual?
Chloe: You had a clean slate to start all over with, and you made all the same choices... except for one.
[Clark laughs nervously]
Clark: Chloe, I need you to be completely honest with me.
Chloe: [challenging] Honest, huh?
Clark: What'd I do?
Chloe: You trusted me.

Chloe: Um. You spend most of your time over there.
Clark: In a barn?
Chloe: Well normal was never really your style Clark... That was my attempt at humor. Sometimes I crash and burn sorry.

Clark: Well I... I could... I... I guess... I can see through things.
Chloe: [Covers herself] Hold on a minute, are you... telling me that you can see through solid objects?
Clark: I guess that's one you didn't know about huh?
Chloe: No! And that might be one of those abilities you gonna want to keep a lid on.

Chloe: I'm gonna go to the Torch and see what I can find out about amnesia.
Lois Lane: Yeah, just leave Mr. Memory Reboot to me. I'm getting to be a pro at this.
[to Clark]
Lois Lane: But you know what? You're gonna have to put up with PB and J because that's the extent of my culinary skills.
Chloe: [to Clark] Okay?
Clark: Please tell me I'm not related to her.
Chloe: No, I am. You live with her.

Lois Lane: Clark, you know that.
Chloe: Well, not so much. He has amnesia, and he's having a hard time...
Lois Lane: Again?.
Clark: What do you mean again?
Lois Lane: Well, at least this time you got clothes on.

---

"Justice League: Destroyer (#5.13)" (2006)

Batman: We'll need all the bodies we can throw at this.
Superman: Oh, come on! It's Lex Flippin' Luthor!

Superman: [to Darkseid] I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard. Always taking constant care not to break something. To break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control, even for a moment, or someone could die. But you can take it, can't ya, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose, and show you just how powerful I really am.

[last lines of the series]
Superman: A head start? You're getting soft in your old age.
Batman: Don't you have a tall building to go leap?
Wonder Woman: And the adventure continues.

Lex Luthor: After this, it's back to business as usual.
Superman: Wouldn't have it any other way.

[fighting Parademons beneath Darkseid's command ship]
Lex Luthor: Was there a plan here?
Batman: Take out the small fry until we attract the big fish's attention.
Lex Luthor: Ha! With everything that's going on, I'll bet he never notices us!
[a portal appears, and Darkseid floats down]
Superman: I'll take a piece of that.

---

"Smallville: Red (#2.4)" (2002)

Clark Kent: Did you know that Chloe had a birthmark on her cheek?
Pete Ross: No, she doesn't.
Clark Kent: Not that cheek.
Pete Ross: Are you doing what I think you're doing? Clark, that's Chloe you're scoping, man!
Clark Kent: Not just Chloe.

Clark Kent: Clark Kent and Lex Luthor. I like the sound of that

Chloe Sullivan: Nothing says school spirit like a ring that looks like it was jacked from P. Diddy.
Clark Kent: I think it looks great.
Chloe Sullivan: [inspecting the ring] I think we'll be lucky if the glue holds through graduation. I wonder if the ruby's even real.

Pete Ross: You sure you gonna do this?
Clark Kent: I'm here, aren't I?
[Pete looks back at him, skeptical]
Clark Kent: What?
Pete Ross: I believe your dad's exact words were: "Three hundred and fifty dollars is a lot to spend on something you really don't need."
Clark Kent: I earned that money. Besides, my dad said it was my decision to make.
Pete Ross: Which means that you're really not supposed to buy it.

Clark Kent: [when trying to explain why he was so forward] I wish I could tell you.
Lana Lang: Story of your life.

---

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) (V)

Superman: I see I have your attention. We face a threat big enough to wipe us off the Earth and still we bicker about a mask or a uniform. My best friend is lying upstairs right now. She would have given her life for this country, and I could hardly look her in the eye. America was founded on the notion that a person should be free to follow his or her destiny, but we can't do that if we live in fear of our own government. We need to reclaim this country for free men and women everywhere.
The Flash: What about your government friends?
King Faraday: That's a fair question. Superman's right, persecution and paranoia has to stop. From here on, we work together, as free Americans.

Superman: I see I have your attention. We face a threat big enough to wipe us off the Earth. And still we bicker about a mask or a uniform. My best friend is lying upstairs right now. She would have given her life for this country and I could hardly look her in the eye. America was founded on the notion that a person should be free to follow his or her own destiny. But we can't do that if we're living in fear of our own government. We need to reclaim this country for free men and women everywhere.
The Flash: What about your government friends?
King Faraday: That's a fair question. Superman's right! The persecution and paranoia have to stop. From here on, we work together a free Americans.
[Superman and Faraday shake hands]
Superman: I'm gonna fly now and recon this thing. When I get back, we'll work out a strategy. ARE YOU WITH ME?
[the crowd cheers]

Superman: Hm, new look. New sidekick. Do you mind if I ask-?
Batman: As a matter of fact, I do. Let's just say I set out to scare criminals, not children.
Superman: Fair enough.

Superman: This is what the government's afraid of, Diana, us acting like vigilantes.
Wonder Woman: I have to do what I think is right.
Superman: That's what the others said at first, remember? And now Batman's a fugitive, the Justice Society's retired, and Hourman's dead! NO matter how much good we do, people are always going to be scared of us. Isn't that why you and I signed those loyalty oaths?
Wonder Woman: Take a look around, Kal. Oaths don't mean much around here. All I see is suffering and madness.

Robin: Wow! You really do know him.
Superman: You must be Robin. I hear you're quite a detective.
Robin: Well, I try not to brag, but...
Batman: Have you finished your homework yet?
Robin: Uhhh... righ