Rhade quotes from Andromeda

Rhade

To a Nietzschean, a game is never just a game.

Rhade

Our people were meant to be living gods, warrior-poets who roamed the stars bringing civilization, not cowards and bullies who prey on the weak and kill each other for sport. I never imagined they'd prove themselves so inferior. I didn't betray our people – they betrayed themselves.

Rhade

Wherever there is danger, opportunity lurks as well.

Rhade

[Right after Louisa died in his arms] On this soul cast a cold eye on night and day. All thou living passed by. Louisa.

Rhade

A day, a lifetime. What does it matter in a world we are all lost in.

Rhade

This is my home. My fate. It ends here.

About this "Best Man" job…

Dylan

Uh… yes?

Rhade

Does it always involve drunken bachelor parties and half-naked dancing girls?

Dylan

Pretty much, yeah.

Rhade

In that case, I accept.

Rhade

History will judge me a traitor for what I am about to do, but if he fails, if Dylan fails, imagine how they'll judge him.

Trance

With silence.

Rhade

You're an embarrassment to all Nietzschean prides.

Tyr

I am the reincarnation of Drago Museveni.

Rhade

The progenitor would not shoot a blind prophet. You are what's wrong with the Nietzschean race... selfish, self-absorbed, unaware of your own limitations... your career will end here. I will end it.

Rhade

A change of habitats isn't conducive to growth.

Trance

[holding a plant] Look, it's almost ready to bloom. Change is the only constant; fear, its companion. Overcoming fear is to key to unlocking its gifts.

Rhade

You were a purse snatcher.

Beka

Well, actually, the term we preferred was "active second-hand salvage removers."

Rhade

So, what's our first move?

Trance

We travel into the future.

Dylan

Exactly. Because it belongs to us.

Dylan

Set a course for the Trillan system.

Boss, we already have.

Beka

Dylan, I thought they knocked you out of commission.

Dylan

Well, not today, just set a course.

Rhade

Captain, should you be on command?

Dylan

Rhade--

Dylan.

Dylan

Unhh.

You're too weak to be here.

Dylan

Rommie, you are no longer my friend.

Dylan

Alright, p-prepare for... the library, my-my father's... no, the Magog Worldship is coming.

Captain, I'm afraid I'm going to have to relieve you of command.

Dylan

Well that's no relief at all. See, my power is now absolute... no one can move me.

[looks at Beka and Rhade, between whom Dylan just fell] What are you two? Idiots?

Beka

Why didn't you catch him?

Rhade

I thought you had him.

Rhade

So, it has come to this. [Hits Dylan]

Dylan

Rhade, you seem a bit confused lately. [Rhade hits him again] Check that: Angry and confused.

Rhade

I want payment for the pain you caused. I want to kill your eternal hope. The hope that has led me to this damnation. [Hits him again]

Dylan

Careful, Rhade. It just might be that I am out of hope as well.

Rhade

Tell me why. [Hits him again] Why. [Hits him again] Why was hope so important?

Dylan

Hope is everything, Rhade. Without it there's no reason to live.

Rhade

Then today is your lucky day. [Gets him in a headlock] I hate the hope that you brought me.

Dylan

You give me too much credit.

Rhade

It's always been about you. [Throws him into a table]

Dylan

Okay, let's play. [Hits Rhade] You can't hate hope. [Hits him again] You can hate me. [Hits him again] But you hate yourself [hits him again] more. You know why? Because you failed. [Hits him again] We all did. Failed. [Hits him again] Four years. Four [hit] years [hit] of my [hit] life. [Rhade falls to the floor]