Classic Quotes from JLA: Heavans Ladder

Atom: "Lepton virus----wasn't that a Great Frog album?"

Atom: "Please.....hold your applause. It's deafening. Literally."

Atom: "Hey! Easy on the chili next time you send me spelunking into your torso!"

Narrator: "Superman can race a speeding photon to its target. He had no time to react. Green Lantern listens for the sound of an alarm clock. Plastic Man lives in his own pliable reality. It doesn't stretch this far. The Atom is a brilliant scientist. He has just watched the laws of astrophysics shatter. Martian Manhunter, last of his race, gasps at the thought of losing a second home. Steel has built some of the most complex machines and devices in human history. Next to what he has just seen, they are sticks and rocks. Wonder Woman has experienced first-hand the feats of the greatest gods of myth. They pale. Aquaman drowns in shock. And the Flash....the Flash moves."

Flash: "Suggesting that one of us stay behind to coordinate non JLAers in a peacekeeping effort. Hmmm.....someone used to barking orders....someone intimidating....Oh, and it's gotta be somebody who's good at bossing around both the leader of the Titans and one of the Young Justice kids, too. Who? Who could we pick....?"
Batman: "You're volunteering me for a mercy mission? I'm told I'm not particularly comforting."
Flash: "Stop the presses. And yet, you're the one everyone'll listen to. If they know what's good for them."

Martian Manhunter: "We are.....so small before this."
Atom: "How do you think I feel?"

Plastic Man: "Man, how do you build a place this big with no bathrooms?"

Wonder Woman: "Are they strangers to combat?"
Martian Manhunter: "No. To death."

Martian Manhunter: "If they want to go to Heaven....They'll have to build it first."
Plastic Man: "I knew it! I knew hanging out with you guys would give me an aneurysm sooner or later! Build. It?"

Plastic Man: "So how are we supposed to help? I can't even put together a bicycle!"

Green Lantern: "So we're-----forgive the pun-----their Hail Mary."

Flash: "And Atlanteans? What's their theology, if you don't mind my asking?"
Aquaman: "That's right. You're a landwalker. You'll never know."

Flash: "You're an ambassador, right? So ambass."
Aquaman: "There's no such word as-----"
Flash: "I know. I also know you're outclassed here."
Aquaman: "Really."

Steel: "----Where heaven is apparently a Pentium 5000 chip. That, I could get into."

Plastic Man: "Y'know, we once had an angel named Zauriel on this team. Didn't he teach you guys anything?"
Martian Manhunter: "Yes, Plastic Man. He taught us to respect each other's beliefs."

Martian Manhunter: "That somewhere there is a mindcache, containing reality's ultimate answer."
Plastic Man: "Wait! I know this one! Forty-two! Forty-two!"

Colun: "Reparations will take 2.8 billion hours!"
Steel: "Uh-huh. And how long would it have taken you to dig 2.8 billion graves? Thanks for the gratitude."

Alfred: "Constructing a repository for souls....the very concept is....unthinkable."
Batman: "Is it? Some cultures believe that man creates God, not vice versa."

Martian Manhunter: "For the long-infertile race of Rannians, Heaven is heralded by the laughter of a child."

Martian Manhunter: "Current odds are two to one that's it's a realm of angels and harps, three to one that it's a way station for reincarnation, and twelve to one it's a lake of fire."
Plastic Man: "Ten gets you fifty it's Britney Spears's navel! Who's with me?"

Green Lantern: "Ideas?"
Wonder Woman: "Take the offensive."
Green Lantern: "You are so predictable."

Wonder Woman: "The only way to deny death, then, is to live each day to its absolute fullest---- by constantly striving to carve an immortal legend which will serve as your eternal legacy. By making the extraordinary.....look easy."

Green Lantern: "Diana....I wouldn't worry about your place in history."

Atom: "So if we come across a zealot, we do what? Beat him with paper cuts?"

Atom: "What's the truth, pal? Tunnel of white light? Pearly gates? You must have seen something..."
Superman: "What makes you think I went to heaven?"
Atom: "Because if you didn't, the rest of us have no hope. Seriously, what do you remember? Anything?"
Superman: "A sensation. That at long last, whatever I had to do next.....it could wait."

Atom: "The one I really want to know about is Batman. What do you think he believes in?"
Superman: "We've never discussed it. But if I had to guess.....I'd think it's comforting for him to trust there's a place he'll be with his parents again someday."

Atom: "What? No hope?"
Superman: "Does that mean you win your bet with Flash?"

Atom: "Listen to me! There's no shame in being linked to us! In fact, it may be your salvation! We thought that the obstacle to your transcendence was that you had no faith----and we were wrong! That's not it at all! It's that you're in denial! You're more like other life forms than you'll admit....but it's that pride----that isolationism that's blinded you to any sense of spirituality! The distance you create between you and us is the same distance that separates you from a greater divinity! When you stand apart....you stand alone! Please! Since the beginning of time, you've known nothing but solitude and I'm sure the concept of unity is frightening but how much longer can you afford to be afraid of it? Don't deny us the honor of saying the oldest souls in the universe. Work with us."
Mechanic: "How can we not?"

Mechanic: "Desperate, they have begun to gather and combine their forces."
Martian Manhunter: "Granted. What they do not seem to know----is that we invented that strategy."

Flash: "Folks, we're going to try something new and exciting----and we will need plenty of Flash photography!"

Flash: "When I'm vibrating, I can't be hurt by anything! I hope."

Wonder Woman: "Are you hurt?"
Flash: "No. Just sunburned. From the inside."

Plastic Man: "Plan?"
Superman: "Just this: Kyle, Ray. Help the Mechanics rebuild. We'll handle God."

Zealot: "I will not be 'handled'-----by paramecia."

Green Lantern: "Do we have one prayer of pulling this out?"
Steel: "Maybe. Maybe not. All we can do now.....is take a leap of faith."

Superman: "Right here----right now we need one another like never before!"

Superman: "Whatever it is that's eternal in the cosmos.....whatever meaning it holds....when all is lost, we will find it not through isolation....but by standing together."

Superman: "Are you smiling?"
Batman: "Me? No."

Superman: "Everybody pick a continent....."
Plastic Man: "Antarctica!"
Superman: "...With people on it. Better yet, pair up. No one has to tackle the world alone. Not today."