Justice League Unlimited (TV Series)

The Return (2004)

Clancy Brown: Lex Luthor, Guardian of Oa

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Quotes 

• Lex Luthor : Wherever you're taking me won't be safe enough, but I have just the place.

  [Steel and Supergirl fly him to an ordinary-looking shop in a city main street] 

  Supergirl : A barbershop?

  Steel : Got to hand it to you, Luthor - nobody would think to look for you here.

• Lex Luthor : The truth is, for all my struggles to make my mark in life, for all I've accomplished, in just a few short generations my name will be forgotten. Even the greatest of us can't compete with time... and death.

  Amazo : Then why do you go on? Why does anyone? Why don't I just destroy you and everything else right now? All it would take is a single thought and...

  Lex Luthor : No! If you do that you won't see the end of it!

  Amazo : The end of what?

  Lex Luthor : The evolutionary process. You of all beings should know something about that.

  Amazo : Yes. Yes, I'm evolving. That's why Professor Ivo made me. These past months I have amassed so much knowledge, and yet... I remain confused... empty. What am I evolving into? What is my purpose? I must know! Tell me!

  Lex Luthor : There's no way to tell. And that's why I stay in the game. My purpose, if you will, is to see where it's all going. And you! You'll live forever. You'll be able to see it all.

  Amazo : Is that my purpose? Simply to be... a witness?

  Lex Luthor : We create our own purpose in life. Now go create yours.

• The Atom : See? I told you we'd do it!

  Lex Luthor : What do you mean, "we"?

• The Atom : The android, why does he hate you so much?

  Lex Luthor : I once took advantage of his naïvety. He's not naïve anymore, and I've stopped taking advantage of the innocent.

  The Atom : Let's hope you'll be more convincing if you have to tell him that.

• Lex Luthor : What do you want from me?

  Amazo : You have everything humans desire. Wealth. Power. Yet you crave more. And you'll do anything to get it. Why? What is your ultimate purpose?

  Lex Luthor : What you're really asking is... what is yours?

• Lex Luthor : [to Amazo]  You know, when I heard you were coming I was actually afraid of you. Petrified. But now, when I see your fear, your uncertainty, I just pity you.

  [Amazo glares] 

  The Atom : Should have quit while you were ahead.

• Lex Luthor : The most powerful creature in the universe wants my head, and the League sends its least powerful member to protect me.

• J'onn J'onzz : [talking to Atom]  You'll need that cannon very soon.

  Lex Luthor : Then stop interrupting us!