Smallville (TV Series)

Sacrifice (2010)

Callum Blue: Zod

Quotes 

• Zod : Why don't you join me against our common enemy?

  Green Arrow : Well, I'm flattered, but if I let you go after Checkmate, you'll start World War III.

  [aims his bowcast at Zod] 

  Green Arrow : It's not an option.

  Zod : Your conviction is admirable. But you can't possibly think you're faster than me.

  Green Arrow : I've always been taught to favor accuracy over speed.

• Zod : I've trusted you for so very long. Depended on you across time and space. But in your eyes, I just see contempt. I see betrayal. Now, why would you turn your back on me? I shared my bed with you.

  Faora : I didn't turn my back on *you*. You turned your back on us when our only crime was trying to forge a life for ourselves on this planet.

  Zod : If I ever learned that insurrection had spread across my ranks, if I ever discovered that my men had aligned themselves against me, I would raze this planet. I would burn it to the ground till the last ember went cold beneath my boot! Now only I *will* lead us to the next age. All will follow Zod.

  Faora : You already sacrificed one world for your ego.

  Zod : You know nothing of sacrifice.

  Faora : I know more than you ever will.

  Zod : Kneel.

  Faora : Never.

• Clark Kent : Vala, if there's anyone who really knows what you sister wanted, it's you. It was peace, Vala. She wanted peace.

  Vala : No. Zod's right. The humans will never allow Kandor peace.

  Basqat : They will hunt us to the last man. But they will fail, for we shall *never* be defeated. We will follow General Zod to the ends of this Earth.

  Zod : Krypton *will* rise again. And all humankind will kneel before Zod.

  Clark Kent : I'll never let that happen!

  Zod : You won't be able to stop us.

• Zod : Why don't you just murder me now? Isn't that what your race does?

  Oliver Queen : Sometimes. And I would love to, believe me, but although inconvenient and a lot less fun, now. I made a commitment to Clark to help save the world peacefully. Now, that said, you bulldoze me again, I might have a change of heart.

• Zod : What was to be the first son of Kandor is no more. Now we, the last sons and daughters of Krypton, have no choice but to preserve our birthright. The humans killed the mother of my unborn child. The mother of your future.

  Clark Kent : [entering]  That's a lie. The last time that I saw Faora, she was alive. And she was alone... with Zod.

  Zod : Why should they believe you? This traitor saved the life of the woman who held you hostage. The woman who wanted to dissect you. Who wanted to torture you. Murder you.

• Zod : Seems like a lifetime ago when I pulled you out of that rubble, doesn't it?

  Faora : The siege of Argo. There were many losses that day.

  Zod : Not for me. Because I found a young and... beautiful cadet who would become my trusted right hand. Oh, you were so brave in the face of death. I knew then that you would be a true partner.

• Zod : Checkmate's actions demand justice.

  Clark Kent : Murder isn't justice.

• Zod : You are unmistakably the one they call Green Arrow. A rebel with many causes.

  Green Arrow : Glad to know my reputation still precedes me. You must be Zod. Soldier with no army.

  Zod : Hmm. I see my reputation precedes me, too.

  Green Arrow : Guessing by the looks of him, I'm not the only ones waiting for Tess.

  Zod : Oh, yeah, him. I find it disgusting how quickly you humans can... betray your own. Now, that one... he gave up all sorts of useful information before he died about something your government called Checkmate. And about who they're after.

  Green Arrow : Not too long ago, a gift-wrapped me was at the top of that wish list.

  Zod : And now Tess is. Checkmate is using her to get to us. Hunting us to the death.