Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Tools of the Trade (1997)

Michael York: Kanto

Quotes 

• Bruno Mannheim : [about the new weapons]  What's your boss want in return?

  Kanto : Nothing... for now.

  Bruno Mannheim : It's my experience that "nothing" can get very expensive.

• Bruno Mannheim : Useless! Worthless! A joke!

  Blaine : Ah! Careful, boss.

  Bruno Mannheim : I keep telling you guys, Intergang needs real armaments, weapons of mass destruction, and all I get are toys!

  [hearing a noise nearby] 

  Bruno Mannheim : What was that?

  [seeing a figure nearby] 

  Bruno Mannheim : Who are you?

  Kanto : My name is Kanto, Mr. Mannheim. I've been authorized to offer you some assistance.

  Bruno Mannheim : By whom? Start talking.

  Kanto : Please. Put away your so-called weapons. I can assure you they're quite unnecessary.

  [destroying them with his staff, then offering it to Mannheim] 

  Kanto : I come bearing gifts.

• Kanto : Amazingly, you employed our weaponry quite well. My superior was pleased.

  Bruno Mannheim : Pleased enough to tell us who he is?

  Kanto : Pleased enough to give you this.

  [handing him a weapon] 

  Kanto : It emits a concentrated energy beam capable of destroying even the most invulnerable of targets.

  Bruno Mannheim : Is that a fact?

• Bruno Mannheim : Where in god's name are we?

  Kanto : That depends. Which god are you talking about?

  Bruno Mannheim : Listen, buddy, I'm through with these games. I want some answers! You gonna tell me who you work for?

• Blaine : That's tempered steel. It's melting like cheap margarine.

  Bruno Mannheim : Okay, I'm impressed. But I still don't get it. Someone sent you here just to give us these things?

  Kanto : [putting on a pair of gauntlets]  Including this. It's called the armature. When activated, it forms two hands of raw energy, hands which perfectly simulate the motions of the gloves.

  [demonstrating them] 

  Kanto : The energy hands, of course, possess a greatly amplified strength.

  Bruno Mannheim : Okay, I want 'em.

• Bruno Mannheim : You've gotta help me. Give me something, some weapon.

  Kanto : You had your chance.