- Platinum: You've got a nice shine going there, Tin. Doc add a little brass to your undercoat?
- Tin: No, I'm still all tin. I may not be the strongest metal, but I finally feel like part of the team.
- Doc Magnus: It's not the body, it's the head on the body wherein true heroism lies. You're all precious metals to me. You've been rather quiet through all the repairs, Batman. Sure you aren't suffering any aftereffects from the gas cloud?
- Batman: [with a high-pitched voice as a result of inhaling helium] A slight one, but I'm sure it'll wear off soon.
- Iron: We have to save Doc before the heat triggers the gas.
- Lead: Or we all go dead.
- Batman: The dioxide battery in my scanner could be our ticket out of here.
- Mercury: What's a little battery gonna do?
- Batman: By itself, nothing, but it holds a powerful electrical charge, and when electricity flows through iron, it creates...
- Platinum: Electromagnetism. Which will wreak havoc with this cage.
- Iron: Well, then charge me up, and let's get magnetic.
- Batman: Brace yourselves, everyone. This could get a bit rocky.
- Batman: The gas creatures have bodies.
- Helium: Please, call us the Gas Gang. And you can thank Doc for our new look.
- Doc Magnus: The accident that turned them into gaseous specters, it was my fault. I pushed them too hard. My dreams were too ambitious.
- Batman: Wrong. These so-called scientists never wanted to make the world a better place.
- Oxygen: Of course we did. A better place for us.
- Doc Magnus: I don't understand.
- Batman: After studying your files, I discovered your colleagues used your lab for their own purposes. They worked to develop a unique, hybridized gas designed for the specific purpose of triggering volcanoes.
- Doc Magnus: But why?
- Helium: Imagine what despots and dictators would pay for this gas, and its awesome ability to destroy any enemy, any country, from within.
- Batman: Only the experiment backfired.
- Helium: But it didn't fail. And in our new forms, we easily unlocked the secret formula.
- Batman: Madmen like you come in many forms, but liquid, gas, or solid, they always wind up in the same state: inert.
- Oxygen: That seems doubtful, as you've got a front-row seat to our new weapon. Just need one last teensy assist from the good doc to deliver the gas.
- Doc Magnus: Never. I'll have no part in this evil scheme.
- Helium: Sure, you will. You just need a little push.
- Aquaman: These are no ordinary starfish.
- Faceless Hunter: They are not starfish at all. They have traveled a billion light-years as the vanguard of an unstoppable conqueror. I am its herald: the Faceless Hunter.
- Mercury: [defeating Chemo] Three, two, one, and he's down for the count.
- Gold, Platinum, Iron, Tin: [triumphantly] Metal Men!
- Batman: Nice work, but we still need to take care of the toxic spill.
- Gold: Tin's got that covered.
- Tin: [with a dejected sigh, he turns into a cup] Yup, good old Tin. Clean-up guy. That's about all I'm good for.
- Batman: Advanced robotics combined with cutting-edge nano-kinetic metallurgy. You Metal Men can only be the creation of one person. Dr. Milton Magnus.
- Doc Magnus: [pulling up in his car] Good to see you, Batman. Perhaps you'd like me to show you how I created the next revolution in crime-fighting.
- Doc Magnus: [narrating in a film strip] Hello, I'm Dr. Milton Magnus. Please, call me Doc.
- Gold, Platinum, Lead, Tin, Mercury, Iron: [watching] Hi, Doc!
- Doc Magnus: Some ten years ago, I opened this very facility dedicated to cutting-edge research in a variety of emerging fields. I recruited a team of young scientists, the best and brightest, all of whom shared my dream of wanting to make the world a better place. But then, tragedy struck.
- Lead: This part make Lead sad.
- Iron: Not gonna cry and rust again.
- Doc Magnus: There was a horrible lab accident. My trusted colleagues, our dreams, all perished. I considered shutting down the lab for good, but that would only compound the tragedy. The dream we shared would live on. Must live on. And so I embarked upon a fresh chapter of experimentation, this time in nano-robotology, and eventually were born the first prototypes of the Metal Men.
- Gold, Platinum, Lead, Tin, Mercury, Iron: [cheering] The Metal Men! Yay!
- Doc Magnus: Gold, Iron, Lead, Tin, Mercury, and Platinum. The legacy, dreams, and visions of Magnus Laboratories would live on in these new heroes.
- Gold: [cheering as the film ends] Play it again, Doc.
- Platinum: Just the last part.
- Lead: Where we show up.
- Doc Magnus: Carbon dioxide. Can't breathe.
- Carbon Dioxide: That's kind of the idea.
- Helium: Some helium ought to give you a lift. But maybe the good doc could use some fresh air. Oxygen.
- Oxygen: Well, gee, I don't know. Maybe someone ought to open a window.
- Hydrogen: Or better yet, a wall. Compliments of Hydrogen.
- Batman: Any idea who could've sent these gaseous abductors?
- Gold: Don't have a clue. Everyone liked Doc.
- Platinum: Maybe I can help. Doc encodes me every night with his backup files.
- [she turns into a compact disc]
- Platinum: Just slip me into your data port.
- Batman: [doing so] Computer, search files of Doc Magnus. Anything related to gas.
- Helium: Morning, Doc.
- Doc Magnus: Who are you?
- Helium: What, you don't recognize us, Doc?
- Doc Magnus: [gasping as they take a non-corporeal human form] The lab accident. You survived.
- Helium: If you call this surviving. In case you didn't notice, we aren't quite ourselves these days.
- Hydrogen: So pardon us if we're a little...
- [belching]
- Hydrogen: ...gassy.
- Doc Magnus: What do you want from me?
- Helium: Just a little help from our old friend. This gas form we're in is unsustainable.
- Hydrogen: We're fading, dissipating.
- Oxygen: And soon, poof, we'll be gone with the wind.
- Doc Magnus: But, surely, there's a way to reverse the process.
- Hydrogen: What we need are bodies, you know. You made the Metal Men. Use those metallurgy skills of yours.
- Helium: You owe us. We were trying to turn your dream into a reality, and now we're living a nightmare.
- [an alarm sounds]
- Helium: Seems we've got an intruder violating our airspace.
- Oxygen: Let's go play scarecrow. Don't let us down, Doc. Bodies. We need bodies.