Quotes
The Emperor Ming: I'd much rather see you on my side, than scattered into... atoms.
Share thisKala: Open fire! All weapons, now! Charge the lightning field! I take personal responsibility in the Emperor's name!
Share thisFlash Gordon: This Ming is a psycho!
Ming's Floating Servant: This Ming is a psycho.
Klytus: Who said that?
Ming's Floating Servant: The fair-haired prisoner.
Klytus: Who are you?
Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.
Dale Arden: Dale Arden, Your Highness. Live and let live, that's my motto.
Share thisDale Arden: Flash, Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the Earth!
Share thisFlash Gordon: Prince Barin! I'm not your enemy, Ming is! And you know it yourself. Ming is the enemy of every creature of Mongo! Let's all team up and fight him.
Share thisPrincess Aura: Look! Water is leaking from her eyes.
The Emperor Ming: It's what they call tears, it's a sign of their weakness.
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: We are only interested in friendship. Why do you attack us?
The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.
Share thisPrince Vultan: Onward my brave Hawkmen! Let this be known forever as Flash Gordon's Day!
Share thisZogi, the High Priest: Do you, Ming the Merciless, Ruler of the Universe, take this Earthling Dale Arden, to be your Empress of the Hour?
The Emperor Ming: Of the hour, yes.
Zogi, the High Priest: Do you promise to use her as you will?
The Emperor Ming: Certainly!
Zogi, the High Priest: Not to blast her into space?
[Ming glares at Zogi]
Zogi, the High Priest: Uh, until such time as you grow weary of her.
The Emperor Ming: I do.
Dale Arden: I do NOT!
Share thisDale Arden: I'm a New York City girl. It's a little too quiet around here for me.
Share thisPrincess Aura: But my father has never kept a vow in his life!
Dale Arden: I can't help that, Aura. Keeping our word is one of the things that make us... better than you.
Share thisPrince Barin: Freeze! Yer bloody bastards!
Share thisPrince Vultan: GORDON'S ALIVE!
Share thisPrince Vultan: My thanks to you, Flash.
Flash Gordon: What for?
Prince Vultan: For giving an old bird a second chance!
Share thisPrince Barin: [to Zarkov] Tell me more about this man Houdini.
Share thisPrince Barin: [to Flash] Welcome back from the grave.
[to Princess Aura]
Prince Barin: I knew you were up to something, though I'll confess I hadn't thought of necrophilia?
Share thisMunson: Dr. Zarkov! There's no sun! It's 8:24 in the morning, and there's no sun!
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: What do you find? The moon out of orbit?
Munson: By more than 12 degrees. This must be some sort of mistake.
Dr. Hans Zarkov: No, it's no mistake... IT'S AN ATTACK! I've been right all these years!
Share thisDale Arden: Just hold me two seconds, then drop me so I can kiss the ground.
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: [pulling a gun on Munson] Get your toothbrush and whatever!
Share this[Munson refuses to go aboard Zarkov's rocket ship]
Dr. Hans Zarkov: I swear, Munson, I'll shoot!
Munson: Get shot or go up in that thing? What's the difference?
Dr. Hans Zarkov: This way, you'll be giving your life to save the Earth! Haven't you any spirit at all?
Munson: NO!
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: [to dead Munson] Sorry, Munson. Missed your opportunity.
Share this[Flash is in chains and with a helmet over his head]
Flash Gordon: I demand to see the governor! I can hardly breathe in this thing!
Klytus: Yes, you don't look well. I'm told you refused your final meal. The chef will be upset.
Flash Gordon: Tell 'em to go to hell!
Klytus: Maybe just as well. Gas works more quickly on an empty stomach. Any final requests?
Flash Gordon: Yes, let me see Dale. Right away.
Klytus: Oh, dear. How pathetic. Yes, I anticipated that.
Share thisFlash Gordon: This isn't happening, Dale. We're not here. It's just a bad dream.
Dale Arden: Oh, I agree completely. We'll wake up in any minute in Dock Harbor and have a laugh about this.
Flash Gordon: Only this time I won't just ask the maitre d' your name. I'll walk over and talk to you.
Dale Arden: You promise?
Flash Gordon: I promise. Cross my heart and hope to... I really will talk to you, Dale.
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: Look at them! The poor wretches are just waiting for someone to lead them in revolt...!
Flash Gordon: [annoyed] Oh, are you looking at ME, Zarkov?
Share thisFlash Gordon: Where am I?
Princess Aura: Back from the dead. I've saved you.
Flash Gordon: My God! How?
Princess Aura: By magic, of course. With a kiss, because I like you.
Share thisThe Emperor Ming: Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness... If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless - I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory...
[leans forward, smiling]
The Emperor Ming: ... and for our mutual pleasure...
[leans back again]
The Emperor Ming: ... I destroy it utterly.
Doctor Hans Zarkov: You're saying... it's my fault the Earth is being destroyed?
The Emperor Ming: [grinning] Precisely... Doctor!
Share thisKala: We're going to empty your memory as we might empty your pockets... Doctor.
Dr. Hans Zarkov: Don't empty my mind! Please, I beg you! My mind is all I have! I've spent my whole life trying to fill it!
Share thisThe Emperor Ming: Did you enjoy yourselves in Sibaria? I understand you flew the doctor there last week. Klytus kindly fed me the information.
Princess Aura: Klytus? He wants me himself. His agents are always making up lies about me.
Share thisPrince Vultan: [incredulous] What is this?
Dr. Hans Zarkov: [proud] Humanity.
Prince Vultan: Madness!
Dale Arden: [dreamily] Oh, Flash!
Share thisThe Emperor Ming: Klytus! Are your men on the right pills? Maybe you should execute their trainer!
Share thisHedonia: It has no name. Many brave men died to bring it here from the Galaxy of Pleasure... It will make your nights with Ming more... agreeable.
Dale Arden: Will it make me forget?
Hedonia: No, but it will make you not mind remembering.
Share thisKlytus: Should we stop the torture?
The Emperor Ming: No.
Princess Aura: Father! Damn you, Father!
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: Check the angular vector of the moon!
Share thisMing's Floating Servant: Long live Flash! You've saved your Earth. Have a nice day.
Flash Gordon: [leaps into the air] Yeah!
Share this[first lines]
The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth.
The Emperor Ming: How peaceful it looks.
[He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it]
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this Earth?
The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with thing a while before annihilation.
[laughs evilly]
Share thisPrincess Aura: [attempts to use her ring to open the door, it doesn't respond] They've changed the code!
Prince Barin: I've changed too, Aura.
Princess Aura: And I've changed, too.
Dr. Hans Zarkov: Oh, it's okay. I think I can work it out.
[starts to use Princess Aura's ring at different angles on the door]
Prince Barin: I love you. Will you marry me?
Princess Aura: I don't know, we'll try...
[breaks away as Barin moves in to kiss her]
Princess Aura: Not now, Barin...!
Prince Barin: You haven't changed...
Princess Aura: If I'm not at the wedding, I'll be shot
Dr. Hans Zarkov: [Finally manages to picks the electronic door lock with Aura's ring] A-ha! I thought it was one of the prime numbers of the Zenith series. *I* haven't changed.
Share thisFlash Gordon: The game's lost, Ming! Stop your attack on Earth and I'll spare your life!
The Emperor Ming: You pitiful fool! My life is not for any Earthling to give or take!
[Ming attempts to hold back Flash with the power of his ring. Flash approaches unaffected and menaces Ming with his sword. Ming cowers]
Flash Gordon: Your power is fading, Ming!
Share thisFlash Gordon: Biro's hit! I'm going in after him!
[flies off]
Prince Vultan: Grrrr! Impetuous boy!
Prince Vultan: Ah, well; who wants to live forever?
Prince Vultan: [laughs heartily, to the Hawkmen] DIVE!
Share this[Flash is using football moves to fight Ming's soldiers]
The Emperor Ming: Klytus! What is he doing?
Klytus: I don't know, sir! It looks like some kind of barbaric sport!
Share thisKlytus: [watching Zarkov's memories of Hitler at a Nazi Party rally] Now, he showed promise!
Share thisKlytus: No one, but no one dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.
Share thisDale Arden: [trying to turn over hourglass] It won't turn over! It won't turn over!
Share this[Hawkman Biro has been injured during the attack on war rocket Ajax]
Flash Gordon: Biro! You alright?
Biro: They just winged me!
Share thisPrince Vultan: [Flash is going to suicide ram Ming's palace, Vultan turns to Flash] That must be one hell of a planet you men come from!
Flash Gordon: Not too bad.
Share thisColonel of Battle Control Room: General Kala, Flash Gordon approaching.
Kala: What do you mean 'Flash Gordon approaching'?
Colonel of Battle Control Room: On a Hawkman rocket cycle. Shall I inform His Majesty?
Kala: Imbecile! The Emperor would shoot you for interrupting his wedding with this news! Fire when Gordon's in range!
[Flash is on a Hawkman rocket cycle and escapes]
Kala: He's escaping, idiot! Dispatch war rocket 'Ajax' to bring back his body!
Share thisFlash Gordon: I'm flying blind on a rocket-cycle!
Share thisPrince Vultan: Flash... when the ship hits the forcefield you'll be killed; this is suicide!
Flash Gordon: No Vultan... it's a rational transaction! One life for billions...
Share thisPrincess Aura: Fly back to your kingdom. You may see me sooner than you think.
[kisses Barin]
Prince Barin: Lying bitch.
Share thisMing's Floating Servant: Halt, Lizard Man! Escape is impossible! Surrender!
Share thisDr. Hans Zarkov: The red pedal!
Share thisPrince Barin: Tell me more about this man Houdini.
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