Justice League (TV Series)

Hereafter: Part II (2003)

George Newbern: Superman, Clark Kent

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Quotes 

• J'onn J'onzz : You were greatly missed, my friend. By all of us.

  [everyone looks to a stoic Batman] 

  Wonder Woman : Don't let him fool you. Your death hit him as hard as it did any of us.

  Superman : Really?

  Batman : No. I never believed you were dead in the first place.

  Superman : I guess that's sort of a compliment.

• [Superman prepares to return to his time] 

  Superman : What happens to you?

  Vandal Savage : Redemption, if I'm lucky. Don't worry about me. Return to your friends. Do what you do best, what you were born to do: save the world.

• Vandal Savage : I picked up your comm signal a few weeks ago. Used it to track you down.

  Superman : You could have just called.

  Vandal Savage : Afraid you might be holding a grudge. If you'd switched off, I might never have found you.

  Superman : Grudge? You tried to take over the world - twice!

  Vandal Savage : In the long run, not so important. Take it from someone who knows.

• Superman : You're insane.

  Vandal Savage : True, but that doesn't mean I'm not good company. Say, you want to come over to my house?

  [off Superman's look] 

  Vandal Savage : Like you've got something better to do.

• Vandal Savage : Your funeral was lovely. It was on all the networks. I used to have the DVD.

  Superman : I'm glad you enjoyed it.

  Vandal Savage : As a matter of fact, I did. But I've had 30,000 years to reconsider.

• Superman : [lifting a rock]  I should smash your skull!

  Vandal Savage : Go ahead. We both know it wouldn't work.

• Superman : Self-help books? You don't seem the type.

  Vandal Savage : I read whatever I can find. Anyway, I've got issues, what with my destroying the Earth and all.

• Superman : Ready to send me back?

  Vandal Savage : No. But I will anyway.

• Lobo : [hugging Superman and Wonder Woman]  Ain't this great? The whole team, together again! All eight of us!

  Superman : Count again. You're fired.

  Lobo : What?

  Superman : You're not Justice League material, Lobo. Go chase a bail jumper. I don't care what you do, just clear out!

  Lobo : This is the thanks I get? What a stinkin' rip!

  [hops on his motorcycle and flies off] 

  Lobo : Next time you lollipops need help, don't bother asking the Main Man!

  J'onn J'onzz : We didn't ask you this time!

• Superman : Superman to Justice League. Looks like we've somehow been transported to a planet with a red sun. My powers aren't working. I'm picking up your homing beacon, but I'm not getting audio. I'll leave this channel open and attempt to move closer to your position.

• Vandal Savage : About 30 years ago, some of the roach creatures broke in and stole my zero-point generator. It's the only power source in the world capable of running my time machine.

  Superman : Can't you just build another one?

  Vandal Savage : I'm working on it. I'll be finished in another 50 years. Care to wait?

• Wonder Woman : Superman!

  The Flash : You're alive!

  Hawkgirl : Are you okay?

  Green Lantern : I don't believe it.

  Superman : I'm fine. Very glad to be home. Flash?

  The Flash : [wiping tears away, sniffling]  Something in my eyes.

  Green Lantern : Yeah, tears. It's okay, man. We all feel the same way.

  Hawkgirl : Superman, how can you be...

  Superman : Alive? Toyman sent me to the future. Then Vandal Savage and I fought some giant cockroaches and... it's complicated.

  Wonder Woman : I love the beard. Keeping it?

  Superman : Not a chance.

• Superman : What do the roaches want with a power cell?

  Vandal Savage : For all intents and purposes, it's a miniature sun. They use it to provide warmth to their central mound. We go on foot from here.

  Superman : [sarcastic]  This is gonna be fun.

  Vandal Savage : Trust me, it isn't.

• Superman : Savage, wake up!

  Vandal Savage : [waking from his sleep]  What? What is it?

  Superman : You've got a time machine!

  Vandal Savage : I spent several decades working on it. Then I lost interest.

  Superman : Why didn't you finish it?

  Vandal Savage : No attention span, I suppose. No point, either.

  Superman : There is a point. Don't you see? You could go back and stop yourself from destroying the world.

  Vandal Savage : No, I couldn't. This design doesn't allow me to travel back to any time where I already exist.

  Superman : Yeah, but I'm already dead.

  [Savage smiles] 

  Superman : On your feet, Mr. Wizard. We've got work to do.

• Vandal Savage : [in the remains of the JLA Watchtower]  They don't build them like this anymore.

  Superman : What?

  Vandal Savage : It didn't lose orbit until only 75 years ago. Remarkable feat of engineering.

  Superman : What happened here?

  Vandal Savage : I think you've already guessed.

  Superman : This is Earth.

  Vandal Savage : Yes. Thousands of years in your future. That simpleton Toyman never truly understood what he had created.

  Superman : The disintegrator beam he hit me with...

  Vandal Savage : An energized tachyon stream. That's what sent you into the future. Hello.

  Superman : How'd you get here?

  Vandal Savage : The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal. I'm the sole remaining survivor of the human race.

  Superman : All the people?

  Vandal Savage : Gone. The Earth belongs to the cockroaches now. Oh, and me.

• Vandal Savage : You have to stop me by any means necessary.

  Superman : I promise.

  Vandal Savage : Four days from your arrival, my younger self will steal a piece of dwarf star matter from a scientist named Ray Palmer. If you prevent that theft, I'll never be able to build my weapon.

• Superman : [trying to turn on Savage's time machine]  It's not working!

  Vandal Savage : It's working perfectly. We just don't have sufficient power to keep it open.

  Superman : You told me this place was powered by its own hydroelectric dam.

  Vandal Savage : Ten dams wouldn't be enough to open a time warp for more than a few seconds.

  Superman : [seeing him thinking]  I take it you've got something in mind.

• Vandal Savage : [serving lunch to Superman]  Like it? I grew all the food myself. House, garden view.

  Superman : [a window turns transparent, revealing the view outside]  Some garden.

  Vandal Savage : I spent quite a lot of time rediscovering the principles of agriculture. Something to do.

  Superman : Like the rocket ship, I suppose.

  Vandal Savage : Starship. I'd intended to leave the Earth and search the universe for other life, but I never did.

  Superman : Too difficult?

  Vandal Savage : Not at all. I decided I deserved to be punished.

• Superman : [finding the crashed Watchtower]  Hello! Is anybody in here? Hello!

  [on the main computer, he sees files that the other JLA members' whereabouts are unknown] 

  Watchtower Computer : Warning. Watchtower now running on reserve power. System sleep in 30 seconds.

  Superman : Override.

  [pounding the keyboard in frustration] 

  Superman : What happened to everybody?

  Vandal Savage : They died, Superman. Thousands of years ago.

• Superman : I don't know what kind of con you're trying to run on me, but you're wasting your time.

  Vandal Savage : I should never have done it.

  Superman : Done what?

  Vandal Savage : This. I destroyed the world. It was only a few months after you disappeared. I had just perfected an invention that gave me total control over gravity. I proclaimed myself master of the world.

  Superman : The Justice League would never have allowed that.

  Vandal Savage : True. They put up quite a fight. Green Lantern was the most difficult. I killed him right here. No... it was over there. In any case, I destroyed the entire Justice League that day. But that wasn't all. My newfound powers disrupted the gravitational balance of the entire solar system. This is the result.