Classic Quotes from JLA Year One #1-12

Aquaman:"You serve fish?"
Bartender: "We serve anybody, pretty boy."

Pie: "Oh my god. Oh my god. Don't, don't, don't tell me you're doing this just to suck up to the boss!"
Hal: "Nope. Okay...maybe. Think I'll get a date out of it?"

Pie: "Awright! I'm another year closer to a stroke, but awright!"

Diane: "God, John, warn me when you're going to speak. I'll alert the media. At least clear your thoart or something."

John Jones: "How can men do this to each other? Exploit addictions, exchange gunfire..."
Diane: "What planet are you from, Jones? Only thing seperates us from the animals is the "I'm with Stupid" T-shirts."

Diane: "Friends? The taciturn John Jones actually has pals? You mean there are more people out there like you?"
John Jones: "Perhaps. That, frankly, is what I am about to discover."

Soldier: "That's...really the way you look..?"
Martian Manhunter: "Sometimes."

Green Lantern: "Manhunter, are you all right? Was it the fire?"
Martian Manhunter: "Yes..flame weakens me."
Green Lantern: "Huh? A strong guy like you can't handle... I mean so noted."

Flash: "I'll protect you, Canary! Any thoughts?"
Black Canary: "One, that I can handle myself...and two, that the JSA would be done with these losers by now!"
Flash: "On their first day?"

Martian Manhunter: "And by the way...I rarely require 'rescuing.'"

Green Lantern: I can't do that! I don't think."

Flash: "This isn't working! *working!* I can pin it, but I can't blow it out! *out!* Pardon my echo! *echo!*"

Soldier: "Since when are we taking orders from them?"
Eiling: "Those five put their lives on the line for us. Show them the proper respect, sergeant!"
Soldier: "I'm a lieutenant, sir."
Eiling: "You were."

Aquaman: "Just the very way gravity behaves up here is hard to get used to."
Martian Manhunter: "I had much the same experience when I arrived."

Locus One: "Quite the collection."
Vandal Savage: "What can I say? I'm a packrat. A man picks up a lot of chachkas in 50,000 years. Can't seem to throw anything away."
Locus One: "Is that really Cleopatra?"
Vandal Savage: "Some of her."

Aquaman: "Ghaaa! For the love of Atlantis, how does anybody know what any of these words mean?"
Martian Manhunter: "Learn German first. It's more logical. That's what I did."

Aquaman: "*I never believed I'd think this...but thank God for dry land.*"

Black Canary: "You say you're powerless against yellow. Does that extend to blondes as well?"
Green Lantern: "As a mater of fact..."

Flash: "Oh, great. Think (the JSA) will be mad we stole their name?"
Green Lantern: "I don't want to know. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll blame the blonde."

Green Lantern: "As to what holds us together...I'd have to say spandex."

Flash: "Solomon Grundy, born on Monday but I promise you beaten on Tuesday!"

Vicki Vale: "Whoa! If Lane is staying, so are we!"

Clayface: "I can transform! I can turn into anything! I can become your worst nightmare!"
Martian Manhunter: "My. How frightening. Try this one. It's from Mars."
Clayface: "EYAAAGH!"

Flash: "We've got one thing going for us that the villians don't."
Aquaman: "Which is?"
Green Lantern: "We're a team."

Aquaman: "These pipes...they carry water?"
Black Canary: "Looks like."
Aquaman: "Good. That I can work with."

Thorn: "NO! Our kind will not be defeated by the likes of you!"
Flash: "Actually...you will...time and again in the years to come. Tell all your friends...that the Justice League is here to stay!"

Flash: "You really ought to rethink your costume some. Heels are an awfully impractical part of a battle suit."
Black Canary (tugging Flash's mask wings): "You don't say."

Flash: "Someone actually wants us dead. That's the first time I've played for those stakes. Is that the world we're in now? Am I wrong to be a little nervous?"
Black Canary: "Why should you be different from the rest of us. Okay. Someone's after us. Locus...or someone else, even. What does that tell us?"
Green Lantern: "That we're doing something right."
Black Canary: "Huh. You really are fearless."

Jack Ryder: "...Bring suit against you!"
Green Arrow: "Just so long as it's not that one. Who's your tailor? The Joker?"

Jack Ryder: "I'll nail you for this!"
Green Arrow: "Need a hammer? Use your head....creep."

Green Arrow: "Nice to meet you, pretty bird. Catch the size of that shaft, did you?"
Black Canary: "Keep it in your quiver, Trickshot. *Jerk.*"
Green Arrow: "*Score.*"

T. O. Morrow: "Behold, gentlemen, life sired in a laboratory. The future is here. The future is now. The future is "
Locus One: " Going to be history by the time you finish flapping your gums."

Vandal Savage: "The future is...ash. Now how does a band of rogue geneticists plan on toppling the Justice League of America?"
Locus One: "With relative ease."

Black Canary: "We're the Justice League. You're a joke. And believe me...it hurts when we laugh."

Black Canary: "This is the ninth time the men on this team have gone out of their way to 'protect' me. I have only one request. Will you knock it off?!"

Black Canary: "Is there anything you can't handle with that ring?"
Green Lantern: "It's only as good as I am. Make of that what you will..."

Ted Kord: "*Whoa. She's talking to me. Now's your chance, Ted. Say something cool and charming. Impress her with your brain. Here goes...* It's...big. *Aaugh!*"

Ted Kord: "Geez, dad...screw the family business...I wanna be one of those guys!"

Aquaman: "May I help you?"
Snapper Carr: "Jacuzzi?"
Aquaman: "No, Aquaman."
Snapper Carr: "Right. Jacuzzi?"
Aquaman: "Please stop."
Snapper Carr: "No way. By the time I'm done rewiring, you'll have a picturephone in your hot tub!"
Aquaman: "Do I want that?"
Snapper Carr: "Who wouldn't?"

Aquaman: "I never know my own strength out of water."

Green Lantern: "C'mon. He'll laugh once he gets the joke. Hell, he'll probably retaliate with an army of lobsters or something."

Green Lantern: "Boy I used to have the biggest crush on (JSA Black Canary) when I was a kid!"
Black Canary: "Really?"
Green Lantern: "Her and Marilyn Monroe. I guess I just have a real thing for blondes."

Martian Manhunter: "I have been here for many years...but I still struggle to adapt."
Aquaman: "But not hear, I'm happy to say. You alone have no problem with my muttering."
Martian Manhunter: "I'm a good listener."

Flash: "I have no way of knowing how long my powers are going to last...I worry about that...but then I think of the JSAers still alive and kicking after years and years. I wonder if we'll ever be that lucky?"
Green Lantern: "A life of adventure keeps you vital, my friend. You know what? I predict the two of us are gonna live to a ripe old age."

Aquaman: "...They really irritate me. How do you cope with them, J'onn?"
Martian Manhunter: "Like you, I avoided them for the longest period. In time, however, I came to realize that they were more accepting than I'd given them credit for."
Aquaman: "Really?"
Martian Manhunter: "As a general rule. Some regions of the world are more relaxed, some less...but I eventually found, after years of living in hiding, that it's best to be yourself around the people of Earth."

Black Canary: "Everyone's situation is different, J'onn."
Martian Manhunter: "I suppose."
Aquaman: "Absolutely...as I continue to learn day after day!"
Martian Manhunter: "He is an angry man."
Black Canary: "Most men are angry about something. By the way, J'onn, I've been meaning to think you."
Martian Manhunter: "For what?"
Black Canary: "For treating me as an equal in the field."
Martian Manhunter: "Why would I not?"
Black Canary: "Exactly."

Black Canary: "Do Yoda!"
Flash: "Do Batman!"

Aquaman: "It was funny. I don't get it, but it was still funny."

Black Canary: "Geez, J'onn...how many more powers have you got? You're a regular "
Flash: "Spectre!"
Black Canary: "I was going to say "
Flash: "Starman!"
Black Canary: "Oh, stop it!"
Flash: "Hourman!"
Black Canary: "Don't make me hurt you..."

Green Lantern: (On Martian Manhunter's name) "Tough to spell, but a cinch to pronounce."

Aquaman: "I came here to be accepted...not to be reminded that I'm different. I may not know much about your culture...but it's my understanding that if we are to be a team, we should support one another...not undercut each other no matter how playfully. Or do I have that wrong too?"

Green Lantern: "You're not wrong, Aquaman. A lighter mood creates a team spirit...but not when it alienates."

Snapper Carr: *'Snapper, the system doesn't need any more shield strength!' Shows how much they know. Bingo! That seperates the neodymium plates which gives me the room to amp the ooops. Okay. No crisis. If I just crosswire the oops. This isn't the transformer, is it? It oops. Man, who's the moron who seperated the neodymium plates? No crisis, no crisis. All I gotta do is rehitch the...framistat to the...hickey-madodger before anyone *"
Black Canary: "...All I'm saying is that if the JSA had fought a giant starfish, they'd have "
Green Lantern: "Enough with the JSA!"
Snapper Carr: "*---Gets back!*"

Green Lantern: "Need a lift?"
Black Canary: "Translation 'Can I meet your mom, the hot blond babe?' Nice try, Lantern...but she'd eat you alive."

Hal: "Don't let anyone tell you test-piloting isn't the toughest job we do here at Ferris Aircraft."
Pie: "Least of all, the mechanic."

Hal: "It gathers sensory data, which helps the ground crew."
Pie: "Yeah. It tells us where he's gonna crash. This time."

Lora: "Not much for the eject button, Mr. Jordan?"
Hal: "What can I tell you? I like to ride hard and ride long."

Lora: "You hardly know me. For all you know, I might have a secret life."
Hal: "We all have secret lives."

Policeman: "You just think cause you're a sooper-hero "
Aquaman: "No, I think because I'm not a surface-dweller."

Aquaman: "I exhbited compassion. It earned me criminal treatment. Nice country you have here."
Perez: "Did you practice the line I gave you for moments like these?"
Aquaman: "'Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape?'"

Black Canary: "Well of course, we're no Justice Society "
Dr. Mid-Nite: "Kiddo, I can remember a day when the Justice Society was no Justice Society."

Alan Scott: "She's the only second generation we've got...which makes her our link to the future."

Diane: "How? How do you do that? You're an absolute mindreader!"
John Jones: "I'm learning more about people every day. Chalk it up to that."

Woman: "You really think I'm prettier that this 'Black Canary,' Harold?"
Harold: "Absoleather lutely! Absolutely!"

Aquaman: "*It's not as if I have a 'super-power'...at least, not by my standards. I was born aquatic. On soil I become clumsy and awkward. Why confine myself to land with the League? To witness there only a fraction of the world's natrual beauty? More and more, I'm forced to wonder...how well do I fit in with this 'JLA?'*"

Green Arrow: "Relax, gill. Can I call you 'gill?'"
Aquaman: "Can I stop you?"

Iris West: "Is there anything I can do to hold onto the Barry Allen I know?"
Barry Allen: "*Not really, no. After all, it's looking more and more...like Barry Allen no longer exists.*"

Aquaman: "*Are all groups this disjoined?*"

Robotman: "I'm sorry I called poor Larry a mummy-puss but, in case you ain't noticed, pal, I ain't winnin' any beauty pagents either!"

Elasti-Girl: "Children. I'm surrounded by children!"

Robotman: "What's up, chief? The President lose his jelly beans again?"

Brain: "Beautiful, isn't it? A ballet of terror. If I still had skin, it would be tingling."

Madame Rouge: "Eet is revolting!"
Morden: "Says the Frenchie with the elastic limbs."

Black Canary: "What burns is that I always thought of all the JSAers as above reporach. I made them my standard...my benchmark. Now I know they're only human. And in this job, the worst thing you can do is let yourself be human."

Robotman: "Figures. Now that the matinee idols are here, we're gettin' ignored...as usual."

Flash: (to Aquaman, on the Doom Patrol) "They're lonley...very much apart from the human race. Can you imagine how that must feel....?"

Black Canary: "An army made of human parts ?"
Negative Man: "And none as nice yours, blondie!"

Robotman: "Holy Hannah, they're ugly and comin' from me, that's sayin' somethin'!"

Green Lantern: "I can't feel anything."
Chief: "Be grateful. At Cliff's request, I once wired his sensory nerves to his metal parts. That taught him a lesson."

Chief: "How many sense do you have, J'onn?"
Martian Manhunter: "With my eyes missing? Eight."

Negative Man: "What about Aquaman?"
Elasti-Girl: "He escaped the genegraft ray. Now he's neither one of them nor one of us. Funny."
Robotman: "Yeah. I'm laughin'."

Robotman: "...So you got a weird accent. I don't think ya mumble. 'Course, I got the best ears money c'n buy...Y'know, blondie, you oughta think about hangin' your hat with us. You seem like the fifth wheel where you are. Ya might feel a tad more comfortable playin' in our combo. Just roll that around in your noggin', and holy hannah, that's some joint! We gotta find some way of poppin' that green crib like a zit!"
Aquaman: "If I were to join your team, would you provide a translator? I can't understand a word you say."

Madame Rouge: "Eet is not polite to strike a lady."
Aquaman: "Ah, another charming surface custom. By the way...you have a really weird accent!"

Robotman: "You're a maritime guy. You know anything about knots?"
Aquaman: "Not really, no."
Robotman: "Then how do you tie your shoes? Oh, never mind."

Robotman: "Man, we gotta get you some culture."

Martian Manhunter: "Which is what puzzles me most about earthlings how they can perceive such differences between themselves. Even with my eyes, I could see that people were distinct...but not truly different. Not enough to drive such wedges between them. Some days, I fear I will never understand the artificial division you create among yourselves. Other days...I fear I shall."

Mallah: "Monstrousness is in the eye of the beholder, Elasti-Girl...as you well know."

Black Canary: "'Freaks.' Says the talking chimp in the bandolier."

Flash: "We are human, damn it."
Aquaman: "What?"
Flash: "We're not freaks. Unlike the Brain, we have souls. That makes us human...and it makes us fighters."

Aquaman: "For a Brain, you're not very intelligent. You're ignoring your other grafts in favor of Green Lantern's. Makes you pretty liumited. That's what happens when you rely on the power of one person...instead of acting like a team!"

Elasti-Girl: "A cutlass?"
Aquaman: "Go with what you know."

Negative Man: "You're giving us freaks a bad name."

Elasti-Girl: "You can't take all the credit for this one, Cliff."
Robotman: "Watch me."

Robotman: "Ah...you're too small. We were gonna hafta throw you back, anyway. Keep those four in line, Charlie Tuna."
Aquaman: "Sure thing, daddy-o."
Robotman: "What the ? All right...who's been coaching him?"

Elasti-Girl: "...As a matter of fact, I did meet Sigourney Weaver, J'onn. I'm sure she'd approve of you..."

Green Lantern: "I never thought of the ring as a killing tool before today. Kind of changes my persepective of what we're capable of."
Negative Man: "Yeah. I can see that. Look, Hal...Take it from someone slightly more experienced. Never failing to use our abilites wisely...that's the real power. Don't forget that."

Robotman: "You know what the difference is between us and them is?"
Elasti-Girl: "Yes. We had to have our lives taken away from us before we became heroes. To them...it just came naturally."

Chartsworth: "Bruce Wayne, meet Maxwell Lord...a bit of new money visiting Gotham."
Bruce Wayne: "Ah. New money. That would explain his vigor, eh, Chatsworth?"
Chastworth: "Heh! Indeed! Fancies himself somewhat of a mover and shaker, he does!"
Maxwell Lord: "Much like Mr. Wayne himself, I believe."

Chatsworth: "Can you imagine the fall in property vaules were a martian to live here?"
Lord: "Oh, stuff a sock in it, Chatsworth."
Chatsworth: "Why, I never !"
Lord: "Then try it sometime. With chocolate sauce. Belive me, I want the JLA as close to me as possible. I rather like the idea of a Justice League. Just imagine. In the right hands, with the right guidence...they could be an army to change the world..."

Dinah: "I always worshipped mom's friends. They were like uncles to me...white knight. It hurts to learn they're "
Mike: "Human?"
Dinah: "Don't defend them. Don't you hate it when people aren't what they seem to be?"

Superman: "That's what he gets for barreling blindly in. Why did he do that?"
Black Canary: "He's fearless. That's a plus. Most of the time."

Snapper Carr: "Canary, what kind of lunkhead philstine is so severely underappreciating the genius I've invested into this hole in the....(sees Superman)...Whoops. Wow. You're no lunkhead. Don't hurt me."

Green Lantern: "Why don't you fire your metor detection arrow?"
Green Arrow: "Sorry, fresh out. Maybe my jerk magnet will find something."

Snapper Carr: "Mighty human of you. Oooh. Bad joke. That wasn't a slam "
Martian Manhunter: "Think nothing of it, Snapper. It is a compliment...in a way. Over these past few weeks, I have learned a great deal about being....human."

Linda: "But..but, Robert...things were going so good!"
Robert: "Linda, we see each other maybe once a week. You snore, and I hate foreign movies. Let's not get too dramatic about this."

Barry Allen: (After seeing "Bullitt") "It was...a little slow."

Iris West: "Tell me, Barry...Is that part of your life more important than this part?"
Barry Allen: "I don't want to have to choose."
Iris West: "You're going to have to."

Black Canary: "You muttered that you had a girlfriend. You declared zero about being engaged!"
Flash: "Don't be mad. I "
Black Canary: "Don't tell me how to feel. I get enough of that, thank you."

Flash: "I'm feeling something."
Black Canary: "Shame?"
Flash: "Something on a vibrational level."

Vandal Savage: "When a man has lived 50,000 years, he gets used to taking his time making decisions...unless, of course...someone forces his hand. The end of all we know may well be upon us, but if I go down...I drag my enemies along with me..."

Aquaman: "Why are you always giving orders?"
Green Lantern: "Because I'm the team leader."
Aquaman: "Ahhahahahahaha"
Green Lantern: "What? What's so funny?"
Aquaman: "You're not the leader. Flash is the leader!"
Green Lantern: "...What?"
Aquaman: "J'onn, Canary and I talked about this weeks ago! It's obvious to us!"
Green Lantern: "Then...why..?"
Aquaman: "Why does Flash let you boss us around? We just figured he was letting you be you."

Aquaman: "Okay. You're fearless, right? Let's put that to the test."

Aquaman: "We already know that, even for a land-dweller, you're a lying schemer!"

Aquaman: "You suppose we could pretend to trust one another at least long enough to live through this?"

Flash: "Locus thinks it's on the run. I'll show them 'on the run.'"

Aquaman: "I'm completly out of patience. Tell us everything. NOW!"

Black Canary: "Good lord he's started an earthquake!"
Locus One: "Please. To call this a quake is to call the Atlantic a pond."

Green Lantern: "I'm through giving orders."
Flash: "Since when?"
Green Lantern: "Since the others decided that you're the leader."
Flash: "I'm ?"
Green Lantern: "Yeah. And thank God, by the way. If I've been a jerk, it's only because I thought I was blowing the job."

Flash: "Fly as high as you can and use that magic ring of yours to keep the continents in place!"
Green Lantern: "What? What in God's name makes you think I'm that good?"
Flash: "I've seen you."
Green Lantern: "Oh, yeah."

Black Canary: "If we get out of this alive, will you have my baby?"
Aquaman: "Or mine?"
Flash: "Don't give me too much credit."

Martian Manhunter: "For years, I have been stranded on a world not my own...one that has a history of being...unreceptive to those who are different. One in which my sense are dulled by the simple light of a match...my life endangered by the flare of a campfire."

Martian Manhunter: "And during our first encounter, I watched you exterminated an alien force you knew little about...and take pride in that.."
Black Canary: "I don't know that 'pride' is the right "
Martian Manhunter: "We keep one of their corpses in the trophy room."

Martian Manhunter: "My instincts told me that you were good and noble. But you are, after all...still human."

Black Canary: "Listen to us. We thought we new each other. We kidded ourselves that masks didn't matter. We don't really know each other at all."

Flash: "My name is Barry Allen. I'm a forensic scientist with the Central City Police Department."
Black Canary: "Dinah Lance. I'm a florist in Star City."
Green Lantern: "A florist...?"
Black Canary: "Don't ruin the moment. You?"
Green Lantern: "Hal Jordan. Test pilot for Ferris Aircraft in Coast City."
Aquaman: "I...I have no other identity...but my father called me Arthur. And you?"
Martian Manhunter: "I spend my time as a detective...with the Middleton Police. I call myself simply 'John Jones.'"
Flash: "Well, J'onn...John..from one lawman to another...it's a pleasure to meet you."

Flash: "Who besides our mechanic makes noises like that?"

Snapper Carr: "GL! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!"
Aquaman: "Stay relaxed. He is."

Flash: "Need this?"
Green Lantern: "Took you long enough."
Flash: "I had to go by touch! What do you want?"

Flash: "What...would the JSA have done..?"
Black Canary: "Against this? I have no idea."

Flash: "Nice disguise work. I have got to get me a ring like that."
Green Lantern: "One of a kind, friend...one of a kind!"

Reporter: "Johhny Quick in Tampa no, wait, Miami no, Ft. Lauderdale "

Lois Lane: "These people are putting their lives on the line for you and me! Get it right!"

Jimmy Olsen: "The defense department is calling this World War Three?"
Perry White: "They're underselling it."

Green Lantern (to Alan Scott): "Less sore about me taking your name now?"
Scott: "Getting there."

Kalar: "What do you mean they're imprisoning us? Please understand. We've already won. The rest is details."

Kalar: "They are an interesting sort. Rarely do insects develop their own religions...thier own comerce. Rarely do they find pride and accomplishment in the simplest of crude stone structures. And yet...insects they are. Squash them."

Vandal Savage: "Your mistake was insulting Stonehenge. No one ever appreciated my design."

Flash: "Superman, you slowpoke...thought you were faster than a speeding bullet...come on.."

Dr. Mist: "Magick has its limits especially when all Earth's sorcerers are simultaneously drawing from the same mystic realms!"

Flash: "I say fly, Superman says 'how high?'"

Barry Allen: "You wanted me to choose which part of my life was most important. It's whatever part includes you."

Black Canary: "No, I'm not gonna be like mom at all. I'm gonna be single for the rest of my life."

Speedy: "Remember me? Of course not. There's a girl around."

Green Arrow: "So, you free after the invasion?"

Green Lantern: "Aquaman, this is your arena! I need some backup!"
Aquaman: "You?"
Green Lantern: "I'm learning, I'm growing, okay? Are you in or not?"
Aquaman: "Are you joking? I'm not *unnf!* not about to miss the sight of you being humble!"

Metamorpho: "Me 'n' the Doom Patrol we're the freaks who never fail!"

Dr. Mid-Nite: "Canary, are you worried about your daughter?"
Black Canary (JSA version): "Not really. She's better than I ever was. And if you ever tell her I said that, I'll kill you."
Dr. Mid-Nite: "She already knows she is. Be proud."

Kalar: "We'd won...we'd won..."
Aquaman: "You've lost. And we've had enough of you."
Martian Manhunter: "In a way, I envy you. You're going home, you and your people."

Vandal Savage: "No! You should have killed them! I gave you the chance for vengence!"
Green Lantern: "And that was your mistake."
Black Canary: "We're not about vengeance..."
Flash: "...We're about justice!"

Clark Kent: "In the days and months to come, they will doubtless rise to every challenge...vanquish every foe...and inspire this and coming generations to serve their fellow man with actos of heroism and bravery that will become the stuff of legends. Just imagine."

Aquaman: "...Never imagined common surface-dwellers could pull together long enough to sing a song, much less help win a war. Perhaps they're not a bad sort after all, eh, J'onn?"

Black Canary: "...Course you and I could never have gotten together. We were trains heading in opposite directions."
Flash: "Translation?"
Black Canary: "The whole dual indentity thing. Neither of us could decide which half of us was real. You found out that you were really the man inside the suit...while I finally figured out this was the real me."
Flash: "Wig and all?"
Black Canary: "Wig and all. You've no idea how long I was held under my mom's shadow...unable to blossom. You know why I took to flowers? They begin as nothing and become beautiful...and that's what I'd always hoped for myself."
Flash: "Wish granted. You're right. You're not the little mouse you were disguised as."
Black Canary: "Nope. I'm the mouse that roared....and I like it."