Kal-El (Earth-One)/Quotes
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Calm down, Lois! You wouldn't look good with a... er... swelled head like the Ultra-Superman! 
Hi! I was just flying by so I thought I'd pop in and say hello!
Calm down, Lois! You wouldn't look good with a... er... swelled head like the Ultra-Superman!
Yes, I was foolish enough to release that villain from the Zone.
Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Whoa, big fella! If it's an opponent you want, meet the number one challenger!
Unbelievable! You'd think they show more respect for me! After all, I'm supposed to be a hero who died in the line of duty!
Gosh, Lois. I feel like a complete fool in this zoot suit.
...so the vile Lex Luthor thwarted Superman today with his trickery and escaped capture. No citizen is safe until that warped criminal genius is apprehended. In fact, that skin-headed wretch should be put away for a hundred years... and even then he'd be getting off easy. Luthor's a blight on the human race... a stomach-churning disgrace to all of us.
If I can't trust a fellow journalist, who can I trust?
In less time than it takes to say "Frankenstein," Lois turned into a monster right before my eyes!
A man's worst enemy can sometimes be...himself!
I am up against one of the deadliest dilemmas of my life!
I'm really afraid I wouldn't survive against a war-world like this one.
In a scrap between good and bad, good always comes out on top!
Even though Karate Kid bit off more than he could chew, anyone who can give ME that kind of tussle belongs in the Legion!
I promised immunity for everyone in this courtroom--but for Luthor, that ends the moment he leaves here--and I'll be waiting!
Take a good look at what goes on down there! The streets I grew up in have become infected with a viscious human cancer!
We live on remembering and honoring the past, but always looking to the future. Good-bye, Kara... Linda Lee... Supergirl. I will miss you forever.
Sounds like you certainly do a lot of casual annihilating!
You called me an old-timer! Well, to me... you're just a young punk!
That's the only trouble with having super-vision, Kara... sometimes you get so involved with microscopic details that you miss the big picture!
Jimmy Olson, boy reporter... reading a comic book on company time!?
Slow down, friend... one step at a time. And the first step is who are you, and why is Mongul trying to make you into a paperweight?
After all the super-villains... the Kryptonite... the magic... who'd have thought it would end like this -- that Superman would go out like a shooting star -- to become one more infinitesimal speck of stellar energy in a cosmic graveyard??
Some days I really do feel like I was born on another planet!
I only had the one chance Creeper! To save the world I'll dare anything - and under the circumstances - I did what I had to do!
You didn't really think you'd get away with trying to ransack the earth again - did you outlaw?
Hold it right there, Wizard! this farce has gone far enough!
Don't you know by now that you can't fight hate with hatred?
How can I learn who they were... how they lived... and what they accomplished in life... good or evil?
Great Guns! I seem to see a youngster flying, dressed in a super-costume! It... uh... must be an illusion!
Up--Up... And Away!
I swear by the Holy Sun of Krypton I will not try to escape from this cell until I'm cleared of this charge!
What a girl! She's strong and smart... and brave! She... she was willing to die in order to save my life! Gosh! I've never known a girl like her!
So, you see, I'm too adept at sports! My super-powers make me unfit to compete with boys who are normal in their skills! If I played against them, it would be unsportsman-like because we wouldn't be fairly matched!
Great Guns! Lois has supernatural powers -- and they may prove mightier than mine!
Sorry, pal -- you had your free shot!
Uh-uh -- No more Superboy! From now on it’s Superman!
Under hypnosis, Ryan, you can be made to do almost anything.
I'm resigning as Vice-President! How could I ever become President if Superman is invulnerable?
T-Taxes! But I've never been asked to pay taxes before!
I believe you're looking for me, buddy! Superman's the name!
Not a thing stirring! It's like a world-wide graveyard! Even my mother Lara is dead! I-I'm the last man alive on Krypton!
Either you haven't seen a paper or you can't read!
He's deliberately trying to crush my hand with that grip of his! I'd better fake pain, or Lois will be suspicious.
What I've always feared most is finally happening! An arch-foe who knows it's next to impossible to kill me... striking at the dirtiest way possible -- through my friends!
For the rest of my life, I'm going to have to live with the knowledge that millions of peaceful Lexorians would still be alive today... if I hadn't journeyed to Lexor determined to bring Luthor to justice!
Sorry, Robin! By beating Batman, Nightman has won the right to be my new partner!
See: Superman (Earth-One)
Quotes
Up, up and away!
- --Superman
- This looks like a job for Superman.
- --Superman
- Jimmy, this gift you got me for Father's Day makes me sorry I ever adopted you as my son. I'll have to destroy it to teach you a lesson!
- --Superman
- I'm resigning as Vice-President! How could I ever become President if Superman is invulnerable?
