Henry Cavill: Clark Kent, Superman
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Quotes
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Clark Kent : Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.
Bruce Wayne : Don't believe everything you hear, son.
Clark Kent : I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.
Bruce Wayne : The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff piece editorial about an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.
Clark Kent : Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.
Bruce Wayne : Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.
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Perry White : So. I logged into your Dropbox to find a copy. There's copy all right. But nothing about football. Nothing about, uh, the friends of Metropolis Library, just the goddamn Bat thing I told you not to pursue.
Clark Kent : If the police won't help, the press has to do the right thing.
Perry White : You don't get to decide what the right thing is.
Clark Kent : When the Planet was founded, it stood for something, Perry.
Perry White : And so could you if it was 1938, but it's not 1938. WPA ain't hiring no more. Apples don't cost a nickel. Not in here, not out there. You drop this thing! Nobody cares about Clark Kent talking on the Batman.
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Superman : You think I'll fight him for you?
Lex Luthor : Mm, yes, I do. I think you will fight, fight, fight for that special lady in your life!
Superman : She's safe on the ground. How about you?
Lex Luthor : Close, but I am not talking about Lois. No. Every boy's special lady is his mother... Martha, Martha, Martha... Now, the mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The punishment for witches, what is that? That's right. Death by fire.
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Jonathan Kent : It's somethin', innit? One minute in Kansas livin' on a pancake so we come to the mountains. All downhill from here; down to the floodplain, arm at the bottom of the world. I remember one season the water came bad. I couldn't've been twelve. Dad had out the shovels and we went at it all night. We worked 'til I think I fainted, but we managed to stop the water. We saved the farm. Your grandma baked me a cake, said I was a hero. Later that day we found out we blocked the water alright - we sent it upstream. A whole Lange farm washed away. While I ate my hero cake, their horses were drowning. I used to hear them wailing in my sleep.
Clark Kent : Did the nightmares ever stop?
Jonathan Kent : Yeah. When I met your mother. She gave me faith that there's good in this world. She was my world. I miss you, Son.
Clark Kent : I miss you too, Dad.
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Clark Kent : It's like a one-man reign of terror. This bat vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the adjacent projects and tenements. And, far as I can tell, the cops are actually helping him.
Perry White : "Crime Wave in Gotham." Other breaking news: "Water, Wet." Did you file the football yet?
Clark Kent : Why aren't we covering this? Poor people don't buy papers?
Perry White : People don't buy papers, period, Kent.
Clark Kent : Perry, when you assign a story, you're making a choice about who matters. And who's worth it.
Perry White : Good morning, Smallville. The American conscience died with Robert, Martin, and John.
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Superman : All this time I've been living my life the way my father saw it. Righting wrongs for a ghost, thinking I'm here to do good. Superman was never real. Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas.
Lois Lane : That farmer's dream is all some people have. It's all that gives them hope.
[touches the S shield]
Lois Lane : This means something.
Superman : It did on my world. My world doesn't exist anymore.
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Clark Kent : Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.
Bruce Wayne : Oh, my foundation's already issued a statement in support of, uh, books.
Clark Kent : I'm sorry?
Bruce Wayne : [watching Diana Prince walk away] Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?
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Superman : Luthor. He wanted your life for her's. She's losing time.
Lois Lane : The scout ship seems to be drawing power from the city. It's gotta be Lex.
Batman : They need you at that ship. I'll find her.
Superman : My mother needs me.
Batman : [stops him] Wait. I'll make you a promise: Martha won't die tonight.
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Wonder Woman : This thing, this creature, seems to feed on energy.
Superman : This thing is from another world. My world.
Wonder Woman : I've killed things from other worlds before.
Superman : [to Batman] Is she with you?
Batman : I thought she was with you.
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Batman : [suffocating Superman with his foot on his throat] You were never a god. You were never even a man!
Superman : [hardly breathing] You're letting them kill Martha...
Batman : What does that mean? Why did you say that name?
Superman : Find him... Save Martha...
Batman : Why did you say that name? Martha? Why did you say that name? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?
Lois Lane : [enters running] It's his mother's name! It's his mother's name.
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Superman : [to Lex] I'll take you in without breaking you, which is more than you deserve.
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Superman : No one stays good in this world.
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Lex Luthor : Boy, do we have problems up here!
[sets timer and stands up]
Lex Luthor : The problem of evil in the world. The problem of absolute virtue.
Superman : I'll take you in without breaking you, which is more than you deserve.
Lex Luthor : The problem of you on top of everything else. You above all. Ah. 'Cause that's what God is. Horus. Apollo. Jehovah. Kal-El. Clark Joseph Kent. See, what we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Jo, because God is tribal. God take sides. No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from Daddy's fist and abominations. Mm-mm. I've figured it out way back, if God is all powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He's all good then He cannot be all powerful. And neither can you be. They need to see the fraud you are. With their eyes. The blood on your hands.
Superman : What have you done?
Lex Luthor : And tonight they will. Yes. Because you, my friend, have a date! Across the bay. Ripe fruit, his hate. Two years growing. But it did not take much to push him over actually. Little red notes, big bang, you let your family die! And now, you will fly to him, and you will battle him, to the death. Black and blue. Fight night! The greatest gladiator match in the history of the the world: God versus man...
[thunders in the background]
Lex Luthor : Day versus night. Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!
Superman : You think I'll fight him for you?
Lex Luthor : Mm, yes, I do. I think you'll fight, fight, fight for that special lady in your life.
Superman : She's safe on the ground. How about you?
Lex Luthor : Close, but I'm not talking about Lois. No. Every boy's special lady is his mother.
[walks around Superman and shows him photos of Martha being muzzled]
Lex Luthor : Huh! Martha, Martha, Martha. The mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The punishment for witches, what is that? That's right. Death by fire.
[throws the photos one by one at Superman]
Superman : [angrily readies heat vision] Where is she?
Lex Luthor : I don't know! I wouldn't let them tell me! If you kill me, Martha dies. And if you fly away, Martha also dies. But if you kill the Bat, Martha lives.
[Superman calms down and Lex approaches his hand]
Lex Luthor : There we go. There we go. And now God bends to my will. Now, the cameras are waiting at your ship for the world to see the holes in the holy. Yes, the all mighty comes clean about how dirty he is when it counts. To save Martha, bring me the head of the Bat.
[helicopter arrives; Lex looks at his timer]
Lex Luthor : Mother of God, would you look at the time. When you came here, you had an hour. Now it's less.
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Clark Kent : [Bruce Wayne arrives at Lex's party] Who's that?
Party Photographer : You must be new to "Let Them Eat Cake" beat. That is Bruce Wayne.
