Aztar (New Earth)/Quotes

Blood soaks these desert lands. The stench of sin rises from them. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, the city of Shiruta will fall. The Spectre demands sacrifice.

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There are heroes who fight crime with magic rings, or with the powers they have brought with them from distant planets. But all these pale into insignificance beside the astral awesomeness of The Spectre.

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But I know of the crimson creature of anger, Atrocitus! I have faced him! If you seek him out, he will destroy you!

--Aztar (New Earth)

You are responsible for countless murders. You have spread terror and fueled killers and sadists throughout the universe. Save the Anti-Monitor, you have more blood on your hands than any being I have ever faced. You will die today, Parallax--even if Hal Jordan must die with you!

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So I have no further use for you. Goodbye, Gat!

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We are not part of an army. We fight only in the cause of justice... and that will give us our name... Justice Society of America!

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The living still kill, and they must face the consequences. Me

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Whatever its face, and whatever its genesis... linger not in the presence of evil.

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I love you.

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Blood will be spilled, yes-- but it will be yours... and it will feed nothing but the dirt!

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Stand back, Corrigan... for they are mine now, and their blood may become... unruly.

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Wrong, Corrigan! Our relationship has undergone a severe change... but I did succeed! My sacrifice was not a failure, for we both survive, even if only one at a time now-- sharing one entity... and the same body!

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A killer many times over-- must be stopped!

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Understand that I have been changed-- reduced! I am vulnerable now, until I redeem myself-- and I will permit nothing to thwart that mission of redemption!

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Soon you will receive the final justice to which I've delivered you... It's leniency or severity is not mine to define or assert. Avenging the spirits of those you murdered-- eliminating you from Earth-- was my only concern. But know this: your deed were hideous... and in "going easy" on you I have defied my charge to mete punishment equal to the crimes.

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Hell is part of order, and it is my place to serve that order... not to defy or alter it.

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I am damned, Corrigan... whether I obey my charge or follow your conscience... Either way, I'm damned... because you were right.

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Solving the mystery of your death, Corrigan, is not necessary to continue living.

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Whether you know it or not, Corrigan, you are a hero.

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Power, Madame Xanadu... is seductive... It nearly kept me... lulling me... luring me onto new explorations of it... And so, power is also... destructive. It lied to me, showing me glimpses... feeding me tastes of my former omnipotence... all the while... actually killing me. Out there... like that, like a mist... linked to a thousand minds and a million thoughts... aware of it all... I seemed to take strength from the very pavement... from every brick in every wall, every rat in every gutter... every mortal caught in the miasma of my consciousness... and they were mine. I had power over all of it, everything I touched... I almost... stayed out there... until it would've been too late... thinking it would have been merely forever. The ecstasy in my new power... it was only the bliss of surrender... and release.

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A void exists and needs to be filled. No one can ever be replaced. Not your wife, not Terry Sloane, but their passing leaves a void that needs to be filled. Mr. Terrific served a purpose and that purpose isn't filled by Superman or Batman or even the Spectre. He worked at the street level. There is a need for that kinda hero today. You game?

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Michael! Hear us! We cannot continue as we are! We call upon Heaven to judge, to divide, to reconcile! We can no longer continue the mission!

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I am The Spectre, The Wrath of God, a part of all of the one above all, and I am not accustomed to explaining myself.

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You never heard the true voice of God. I know the true voice of God. I heard it when it gave me my mission and made me what I am. The voice of God is cold and hard and distant.

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Father, forgive me, for I have sinned...

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And my God have mercy on this Earth, because I won't!

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I am the wrath of God!

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Good to know that the two of you will be around to stop me if that ever happens.

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I know why you've come and what you seek, but your request must be denied. There is no evading destiny, Flash. Your wife dies today!

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It is I, putrid fiend...! Here to wreak the vengeful wrath of... The Spectre...

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I need help, Crispus Allen. Your help. I need you to join with me on this holy mission. For I require redemption.

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I'll stop when all magic is destroyed. Only then will evil wither on the vine.

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How many more innocents need to perish before you yield to your fate?

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I'm the undying spirit of vengeance. I'll exsist as long as there's a need for dark judgment and divine retribution.

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Be not ashamed of the tears that flow unbidden, Dinah Drake... Just remember always that your mother was willing to perish... That you might live among your own kind, not simply as her surrogate... But in time, as yourself.

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You are a mote, a flyspeck, a pimple on the backside of existence. You are nothing more than a waste of time.

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Nooooooo! So much... too much! I saw... felt... everything... all the love, all the hate, all the pettiness... All in the same moment! Is this how God perceives humanity? How does he stand it?

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Do you like fire, little man? You should love Hell.

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I am the Spectre. I am the wrath of the murdered dead. I am the hand of justice wreaking vengeance from beyond the grave.

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I fear there may be something to what you say. Perhaps the world is too old and steeped in evil to be redeemed. Perhaps it is time for judgment day.

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It has been shown to me that grief has clouded my judgment. I cannot judge humanity as a whole... only as I find them, one by one.

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There is more to my powers than this, Superman. On this day, especially, I may yet find a purpose here....All Hallows Eve is a time of great movement in the spirit world. And because of that, these souls may yet be saved...

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You are still living, and I am not. Stay with the living, Clarice.

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I took responsibility for my own acts; humanity should do the same.

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It is time we were all free of the stench of Hell.

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Atonement must be made for your sins, yes... but there is forgiveness, if you accept it. All you need to do, like any soul in Hell, is step away from your cross.

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Vengeance calling. Collect. You will take the call!

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I don't know what level or version of Hell has conjured you up, but you will be struck down like wheat before the scythe!

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Vengeance belongs to the Spectre!

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Your soul is stained with murder. They scream from the pits of Hell -- and demand vengeance!

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I have faced Hell... yet I could not meet what I saw in that man's eyes. Nothing. Literally. A void.

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No... No! By all that's holly... this is wrong...! ...wrong... By God, you will have no victory here today!

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I will hear their cries. What is it you want? What calls you from your rest?

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Renee Montoya... your judgment is at hand.

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So be it. Death is coming. Upon your head, let it lie.

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Thoughts... scattered... energy bleeding... from wounds... I am dead. Can I die again?!

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It is over. The American Scream is silenced. The others are all mad.

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Bring out your shrouds, widows of Atlantis. Yours is a nation of the dead.

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I feel...forces gathering...stirrings of evil...perhaps the first mission of my new station.

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I see that, in striving to return to one Earth -- I have but opened the door for both to seek to occupy the selfsame space! Yet -- such a thing is impossible!

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Like cowards, you hid murder behinds masks! And so it is time to face the wrath behind my mask!

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...but now that murder has been committed...new work is just beginning...dark and sacred work...the vengeance of the Spectre.

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I know of many things, Kryptonian... pain... passion... pride... I know the unspoken secrets of your own immortal soul! You are one of the most powerful beings in all of creation -- and yet, in so many ways, you are little more than a child! There is so much you have to learn... perhaps it is time your education began in earnest! Come with me Superman -- on a journey of revelation!

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I have this to report! I have prevented many crimes and punished the perpetrators of others.

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Then you'll have to move mighty fast..Because this isn't dandruff on your shoulders!

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Stare deep into my eyes, evil one -- and we will walk into the valley of death together!

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No, Gwendolyn! Jim Corrigan is the man I used to be, when I was...alive! Now I am... the Spectre!!

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It is my face, evil swami! The wrathful face of... The Spectre!

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No, vile Professor! As of this night your filthy work has... ended...!

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Your mannikins have wrought evil deeds, Ezekial... now it is time for you to... join them...!

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Enjoy what mirth you can, villain--! After all... you have so little... time--!

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In the spectral netherworld where I must dwell... all things are... possible...!

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You will all awaken now from the trance that enslaves you... and once awakened, you will forget... everything...!

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