Superman II
1980
(Arriving on Earth after overhearing some NASA astronauts) General Zod: So this is planet Houston.
Lex Luthor: (to Zod and Company, at the half-wrecked White House) ... Hi, everybody! The name's Luthor, Lex Luthor. Possibly you've heard the name: the Greatest Criminal Mind Of All Time! Ursa: I told you this was a puny planet. Lex Luthor: Wait a minute, now... I can give you the Brass Ring, unlimited freedom to maim and kill and destroy! PLUS: Lex Luthor's keen mind, Lex Luthor's savvy, Lex Luthor's career guidance... General Zod: We have all that we need without you. Lex Luthor: How about the Son of Jor-El? Or maybe you know him better by the name he normally uses and travels under... Superman. General Zod: Ah, so THIS is Superman. Yes! Revenge! We'll kill the son of our Jailer! Ursa: Revenge! Lex Luthor: REVENGE! Now we're cooking, huh? General Zod: You say he has powers as we do? And he flies? Lex Luthor: He sure does, every chance he gets. General Zod: (Begins to depart with Ursa and Non, leaving Lex behind) We will bring him to his knees! Ursa: Praying! General Zod: Yes, to ME! Lex Luthor: WAIT! (They pause at the door) Lex Luthor: First you must find him. And Lex Baby is the only one who knows where he is.
General Zod: No! Who else is seeing this? Reporter: Well, with the satellite link up just about everybody, I mean the whole planet. General Zod: The whole planet Houston? Reporter: Earth... The whole planet Earth. General Zod: (pleased) You may continue. Reporter: As the extraordinary story continues... Ursa: (petulantly to Zod) Enough of this! If the whole planet is watching, can we not show them something more interesting? Army Major: Throw down your arms and surrender. This is an order! Ursa: General Zod does not take orders. He gives them.
(Witnessing a Superman rescue) Woman: What a nice man! Of *course* he's Jewish.
Ursa: You are master of all you survey. General Zod: (bored) So I was yesterday. And the day before.
President: Oh God General Zod: That's Zod
President: (on T.V) This is your President. On behalf of my country and in the name of the other leaders of the world with whom I have today consulted, I hereby abdicate all authority and control over this planet to General Zod. Only by following all his directives will the lives of millions be spared... (desperately) Superman! Can you hear me? Superman! Where are you... General Zod: Who is this Superman? President: You'll find out and when you do-... General Zod: Come to me, Superman! I defy you! Come and kneel before Zod! Zod!
Ursa: I have powers beyond reason!
General Zod: You are not the President. No one who leads so many could possibly kneel so quickly. President: I'm the man they're protecting. I'm the President. I will kneel before you if it will save lives. General Zod: It will, starting with your own.
General Zod: I win. I always win. Is there no one on this planet to even challenge me?
Lex Luthor: He is but one, while you are three! (Non growls menacingly) Four, if you count him twice.
(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.
Lex Luthor: Superman! Thank God! (sees Zod glaring at him) I mean, get him!
Sheriff: Dwayne, you've gotta learn to kick ass if you wanna be a peacemaker.
Lex Luthor: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with... Superman's address?
(referring to Superman's home) General Zod: Scruffy. So morbid. A sentimental replica of a planet long since vanished. No style at all!
Ursa: Come forward. Your General wishes to speak. General Zod: I am General Zod. Your ruler. Yes, today begins a new order. Your lands, your possessions, your very lives, will gladly be given in tribute to me, General Zod! In return for your obedience you will enjoy my generous protection. In other words you will be allowed to live. (rips a Generals stars from his shoulder) General Zod: So you are a General? And who is your superior? General: I answer only to the President. General Zod: And he will answer to me! Or all of his cities will end up like this one.
Ursa: (watching an Army helicopter) Look. They need machines to fly. General Zod: What bravery. Be nice to them, my dear. Blow them a kiss.
Clark Kent: General, would you care to step outside? General Zod: Come to me, son of Jor-El, kneel before Zod!
Superman: Excuse me, General, would you care to step outside?
Man in crowd 1: They killed Superman! Man in crowd 2: Let's get 'em!
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.
Lex Luthor: Why didn't you go before we left? Eve Teschmacher: That was two days ago.
General Zod: Crude noisemaker.
General Zod: This Superman is nothing of the kind. You see, I've discovered his weakness. He cares. He actually cares for these Earth people. Ursa: Like pets? General Zod: I suppose so.
Otis: How're we gonna get over that wall? Lex Luthor: How'd we get in here? Otis: We flew in, doncha remember? Lex Luthor: That's how we're gonna get out.
Lex Luthor: (to Superman) Guys a clod. Promises were made, gifts exchanged. I gotta hand it to you, you know. you always told the truth, a guy always knew where he stood with you.
Ursa: What a backwards planet this is, where the men where ribbons and jewelry!
General Zod: (to Superman) And now... finally. Take my hand and swear eternal loyalty to Zod.
Sheriff: (sheriff turns on his car's siren) Hey, ya hippies! Get your butts off the road! General Zod: I like the glow that flashes red like our Krypton sun. But not this irritating noise. Make way.
General Zod: The son of Jor-El will be my slave... forever. If not, the millions of Earthlings you protect shall pay for your defiance. Lex Luthor: (Lex arrives) Hi, guys. Sorry I'm late. General Zod: We have no more use for this one. Kill him. Lex Luthor: Me? Lex Luthor? General, you came to me with nothing. I gave you Superman! General Zod: Silence!
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: (Zod uses heat vision to break off a slab of concrete, then prepares to throw it at Superman) Then die as you deserve to!
General Zod: (on the moon) The closer we come to an atmosphere with only one sun... a yellow sun... the more our molecular density gives us unlimited powers. Ursa: They come from there. A place called Who-ston. General Zod: Then we will go there, too... to rule. Finally, to rule.
Reporter: (watching the villains) I haven't seen the likes of this since Superman.
President: (referring to Mount Rushmore) Thousands of hours to build, and they defaced it in seconds. Imagine what they'll do to the world if we resist!
Ursa: What an undemanding male this Superman must be. Lois Lane: Yeah, and you could use a tuck here and there yourself, sister.
Eve Teschmacher: I like trees. Lex Luthor: So does your average cocker spaniel.
General Zod: (as somebody pulls a gun on him) These humans are beginning to bore me.
Eve Teschmacher: (as she and Lex Luthor explore Superman's Fortress of Solitude) ... Frankly, I think this place is a bit boring. I mean, it's all WHITE! Why doesn't this Superman guy put up some nice posters here... Maybe some bullfighting stuff, or a pool table... !
Lois Lane: (on herself being the only person in the world to know Superman's secret identity, to Clark) ... I didn't sleep a wink last night. Do you know what it's like to hear birds singing at dawn, after you've just spend the whole night crying... ? Don't you know this is KILLING me? Have you any idea what it's like... to have you come in here every day, and not be able to talk normally to you, or show how I feel about you, or speak to anybody else about you... Hell, I don't even know what to CALL you!
Lex Luthor: (as he's strolling through the half-demolished Daily Planet, in the wake of General Zod's minions; to himself) ... Even with all this accumulated knowledge, when will these dummies learn to use a DOOR KNOB? (to everyone) Lex Luthor: Howdy, folks! You should see the White House; they'll be cleaning it for months.
General Zod: (just before using heat vision on Metropolis) I'll draw his fire... with some of my own.
Lara: If you intend to live your life with a mortal, you must live *as* a mortal.
Eve Teschmacher: (Offscreen from a baloon) Psst. Lex Luthor: Did you do "psst?" Otis: No, but I wish I had before we left. Eve Teschmacher: Psst. Lex Luthor: Not that "psst", *that* "psst." Eve Teschmacher: Psst. Lex Luthor: Psst. Otis: Psst. Lex Luthor: Don't go "psst" when I go "psst". Otis: Oh. Lex Luthor: Get out there and find it. Otis: Okay. What am I looking for? Lex Luthor: You'll know it when you see it. Otis: Oh. Psst.
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.
General Zod: (after rampaging through the Daily Planet, Zod thinks he has found Superman. He holds Jimmy way up by the collar) ... *This* is the son of Jor-El? Jimmy Olsen: No, but I'll bet *you're* the son of a... ! Lois Lane: (cutting him off) *Jimmy!*
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) 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)
Ursa: (on the moon) You. What kind of a creature are you? Astronaut: Just a man. Ursa: A man?