Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)/Quotes

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...When we needed you most, your league was infiltrated and manipulated into unleashing these malevolent doppelgangers from beyond. You failed to stop yourselves on every metaphorical and literal level... which is why we're going to have to do it.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Before your body was transformed into living nuclear energy, your name was Nathaniel Tryon. You were a security guard at the Metropolis power plant until a meltdown changed you into this. You hunted down those you blamed for the accident and tried to kill them, but Superman stopped you. You became a metahuman gun-for-hire.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Entropy isn't evil, boy! It's the natural decay of things. It's pathology, chaos... and we need it to reignite that tree!

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

So instead of walking into the unknown ... I didn't do anything. [...] I never again let the fear of failure stop me.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

But if you aren't Superman, who or what are you? A cyborg? Clone? Magical construct? Superman died. Even he can't come back from that. I'M SUPERMAN NOW.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

I - uhn - I softened him up for you.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Your... "predecessor"... was an inspiration to us all, Superman. This cape and this shield mean something to people, but it is only a starting point. Metropolis will be inspired again. By a human being who can show them how to rise above.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

The question on everyone's lips... How is it possible that a hero declared dead... a man who'd proclaimed to be both Superman and Clark Kent... can still be alive as two distantly different people?

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

There's a strong streak of good in you, Superman ... you'll come for me ...

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Maybe it's time you practice what you preach and stop condemning an innocent man.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

How ironic that my life depends ... on a powerless Superman.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Superman is ours. The only way you get him-- is over OUR DEAD BODIES.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

It's so easy to resent him. Human beings are complex and confusing, they are a churning mass of desires and fears at any given moment. A white noise of bemusement. We are not binary. Good and evil would be blissful definitions. Unattainable certainty. Forever out of reach. He, however, is good. It is so easy, to resent him...

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

As for the so-called Superman - one never attacks a stronger opponent head on... you use his own strength against him.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

I created the virus. You can't just cure it, you idiot!

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Give me my legally mandated ten-minute phone call and I can destroy a dam in Hyderabad, score the contracts to rebuild it, seduce your significant other and, as an afterthought, invent a phone you could use to call Mars.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

The Justice League is dead. Superman is gone. This is a job for Lex Luthor.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

We stopped trying to solve our own problems and instead looked up into the sky... staring at those bright colors. That's why the world is doomed.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

The fact is, Batman, there wasn't a single occurrence of metahuman violence or extraterrestrial or interdimensional incursion until you all showed up. When we needed you most, your league was infiltrated and manipulated into unleashing these malevolent doppelgangers from beyond. You failed to stop yourselves on every metaphorical and literal level... which is why we're going to have to do it.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

I may not be as strong or as powerful as you, Alexander... but I'm smarter.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

We aren't going to solve this with our wits and will. Our best chance for survival is to follow the plan Brainiac set. The cost is too great otherwise. Or did you all forget? If Colu dies, Earth is next.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Whatever destroyed the Crime Syndicate's world and forced them to flee here... it's still out there. And together we're the only ones who can stop it.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

The Justice League needs to be prepared for whatever's coming from the Syndicate's world. If the Syndicate took the League down, they aren't. We need to make them ready.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Go ahead. Make yourself at home. Open any door. As I said, I have nothing to hide.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

I have the knowledge to save the infected and the Justice League. But in order to do so, I need Patient Zero.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

There are things you don't know. Things the League doesn't know. This is far worse than anyone could believe. People are afraid. And they should be.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

It's time for this universe to meet its maker. It's time for them to tremble at doom's might. Together, we will show them the meaning of faith. Now... hold the orb in your mind... and turn it.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

J'onn J'onzz of Mars... I can give you exactly what you're looking for. I can give you me.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Bring it on.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Just a little longer... and the whole universe will be ours to behead.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

I thought I was working with the Justice League. If I had known it was the Teen Titans I would have come alone.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Yes, well..."This man" can see the two of you have clearly bonded with...Bizarro. You'll be glad to know I got his heart beating again. At this point there is only a .37 percent chance I can save him. For anyone else that would be impossible. For me, it's a Tuesday.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Please, you're wondering how I know about your dark stain on America, your presidentially authorized moral compromise. I know many things people like you would rather I didn't.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

We should never have turned to the stars for guidance. If there is an answer, it's here on Earth with us. For years, I thought Superman was trying to be the answer to that infernal equation, and I hated him for that. But I see now what his actions say -- there is no answer. Figure it out for yourself how to be better, as he is trying to do...

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

Visitors? Finally.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

This is a tale of imperfection. It begins with an ending and ends with a beginning. A villain is the hero, and a hero is the villain. Its main character remains behind the scenes. It ends in birth, and it begins in blood.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

'Ah, the "infamous" Lobo...bested by mere children.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

My appearance is inconsequential at the moment. What is not, however, is what is at stake here... which is everything. And when I say everything, Czarnian, that's exactly what I mean. If you do not take this mission, it all ends. Everything.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

We may have been opponents, alien. Even adversaries. But at the end of the day, even we know that Superman... is on the side of life.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)

See it for what it has become. See what my actions have made it.

--Alexander Luthor (Prime Earth)