Justice League Unlimited (TV Series)

Patriot Act (2006)

Chris Cox: Shining Knight, Sir Justin, Cop

Quotes 

• [the superpowered General Eiling has just defeated all the other League members he was fighting] 

  General Wade Eiling : [yelling to the heavens]  Superman, you coward! All your men are down, and you won't even show your face!

  Shining Knight : [stepping out of the settling dust]  He cannot hear even your bellowing, monster. As we speak, Superman rescues an entire star system a universe away. Do your worst. I'll not let you harm another.

  General Wade Eiling : I do what I do in service to my country.

  Shining Knight : Once at the word of my lord, King Arthur, I was ordered to lay waste to an entire village. I knew my king's heart could not be so unjust. So I spared them all.

  General Wade Eiling : Then you're a lousy soldier.

  [the General punches Shining Knight] 

  Shining Knight : There it is, the creeping moral decay of the past thousand years.

  [Shining Knight swings at the General and misses] 

  Shining Knight : Arthur thanked me, oaf. Had I been wrong, I would have handed over my sword and left the court in shame.

  [Shining Knight rushes the General, the General throws him down] 

  General Wade Eiling : Save yourself a hospital stay and stand down. That magic armor won't help you.

  Shining Knight : Have at thee!

  [Shining Knight rushes the General, who smashes him into the ground] 

  General Wade Eiling : You're a relic. In this world, power is the only thing that matters. You and those other no-name heroes, you're just people, in the great scheme of things, nothing you do has the least bit of significance.

  [General punches Shining Knight across the street] 

  General Wade Eiling : I'll waste you and billion like you before I let any power rival America's. It's my duty.

  Shining Knight : You don't know what the word means.

  General Wade Eiling : You can't win.

  Shining Knight : I'll die as befits a knight. Defending the weak.

  [Shining Knight tries to stand up but can't] 

  General Wade Eiling : Why don't you give up?

  Shining Knight : Why don't you?

• Vigilante : Ha! The exact second the movie's over, we get a mission. Dang if that ain't lucky!

  Shining Knight : I still say this Clint Eastwood dishonored himself when he refused to... What was it? "Play by the rules".

  Vigilante : Pardner, your medieval upbringing has done left you unschooled in the ways of the movin' picture.

  Shining Knight : No, his proper duty is to his police captain. I see why they call him "Dirty"-he besmirches his order.

  Vigilante : Sir Justin, if you want to be watchin' stuff on my big TV with the 5.1 surround sound, you had best watch what you say about Mr. Clint Eastwood.

• [the heroes are part of a parade] 

  Shining Knight : I'd slay the ogre Blunderbore all over again rather than put myself on display in this manner, even though that ogre turned out to be...

  Vigilante , Green Arrow , Stargirl , S.T.R.I.P.E. : Morgan LeFay.

  S.T.R.I.P.E. : We've all heard it.

  Shining Knight : ...'tis a good story.

• [during the parade in Metropolis] 

  Vigilante : And how about the Shining Knight here? Sir Justin, a genuine knight in armor from the days of King Arthur!

  Shining Knight : Friend, I am no mare at auction.

  Vigilante : [slaps Justin's horse]  Hee-yah!

  [Winged Victory spreads his wings and flies into the air. The crowd ooh's and aah's] 

  Vigilante : How 'bout a big hand for Winged Victory, Sir Justin's horse? And get a look at his magic sword, a gift from Merlin the Magician hisself!

  [Justin sighs and draws his sword, holding it aloft. More ooh'ing and aah'ing, and applause] 

• Shining Knight : Hold.

  [to elderly woman] 

  Shining Knight : I have yet to thank you.

  Elderly Woman : No need to thank me, son. You just get better. World still needs protectin', you know.