Amanda Waller quotes from Justice League Unlimited

Amanda Waller

Doctor Milo, I'm not known for my sense of humor, but I know a sick joke when I see one.

Amanda Waller

[About Luthor] He played me. I knew he was a snake and I still let him bite me.

Amanda Waller

Look at all this. A pill for blood pressure, a pill for my diabetes, a pill to replace my pituitary function. I don't even know what this one's for... oh, yeah, Alzheimer's.

Amanda Waller

It's been many a year since I had a handsome gentleman caller. Why is it that superheroes are always... so good-looking?

Amanda Waller

The Justice League found themselves cleaning up one of my old messes. The second group of villains to call themselves the Royal Flush Gang. Or the third—who can keep it all straight?

In the Caribbean, the San Baquero volcano went active during the night, sending a cloud of ash miles into the air. Geologists predict a devastating eruption sometime within the week. Sources report the Justice League has offered to help the Baqueran authorities with the evacuation.

Amanda Waller

Yeah, have the car ready in 20 minutes and get all the division heads in for the meeting an hour early.

Closer to home, the political world is still reeling from Lex Luthor's surprise announcement of his candidacy for President of the United States. Overnight polling among likely voters shows Luthor to be within striking distance of both major party candidates.

Get dressed. It's time we talked.

Amanda Waller. Born in St. Louis, Rhodes scholar, PhD in Political Science. Served in Intelligence, under three administrations. Disappeared from public life, four years ago.

Amanda Waller

[deadpan] Am I supposed to be impressed? Maybe I should rattle off your resume now? Y'know, I could blow the whistle on you any time I want...

Fine, why don't we step into the light together? I'm sure the American people will be just as interested in your activities as mine - Secret weapons, illegal cloning experiments, bypassing Congress...

Amanda Waller

What do you want!?

I want to know what you think you're doing.

Amanda Waller

Did Superman ever mention that to get Luthor's pardon, he had to tell us about your parallel universe adventure? All about it? We started to wonder what would happen if you took the same action that the Justice Lords did, so I had my people run some computer simulations. If the Justice League ever went rogue, what do you think would be the result?

That's moot.

Amanda Waller

[Dryly] Humor me. In every single scenario, you beat us. Badly. But that was before Cadmus. Now we have the technology to defend ourselves.

[Threatening] Whatever you think you're doing, if you present a threat to the world, the Justice League will take you down...

Amanda Waller

[Angry] If we present a threat!? You got a spaceship floating over our heads with a laser weapon pointing down! In another dimension, seven of you overthrew the government and assassinated the President! We're the good guys, protecting our country from a very real threat: you.

Amanda Waller

Milo! I'll have his hide for this.

Doomsday beat you to it, ma'am.

Deadshot

C'est la vie.

Tend to her. They thought of everything.

Amanda Waller

You really think we can do something with this?

Tala

An invulnerable juggernaut forged by the gods? Oh yes, Ms. Waller, most definitely.

Green Lantern

How did you know Vance was the inside man?

He was the only one on the tower whose mind I couldn't read. Cadmus must have supplied him with a sophisticated method of masking his thoughts.

Green Lantern

So, what do we do with him now?

I'd like to go in there and wipe clean the last two years of his memory.

Green Lantern

Whoa. That's a little harsh, don't you think?

He's a liability.

Green Lantern

I'm sure he's spilled everything he knows to Cadmus.

Don't you understand? We can't trust him.

Green Lantern

J'onn... we can't trust anyone now.

Plastique

Cool it, Martian. Back off, freak show, or the meat puppet eats it.

Colonel Rick Flagg

Come here. Let's go, girl.

Plastique

I've set this for 30 seconds. Plenty of time for you to disarm. Or not, as the case may be.

Not very ladylike behavior, ma'am.

Colonel Rick Flagg

Unh! Plastique!

Plastique

Ah!

C'est la vie.

Tend to her. They thought of everything.

Amanda Waller

You really think we can do something with this?

Tala

An invulnerable juggernaut forged by the gods? Oh, yes, Miss Waller, most definitely.

Amanda Waller

I heard we lost Plastique.

Colonel Rick Flagg

Yes, ma'am. You'll have my full report by 0800.

Amanda Waller

Right. That'll be all. Rick, you're a good soldier. Your father would be proud.

Rick Flagg

Ma'am.

Amanda Waller

I take it you're fit for duty again.

Never been fitter.

Amanda Waller

Good. Come with me.

Hold still, Galatea. You're invulnerable. This can't possibly be hurting you.

Boredom is my kryptonite. Okay, actually kryptonite is my kryptonite, but you know what I mean. Although the way I'm feeling lately, I don't think even that stuff can hurt me anymore.

Think again. I've artificially aged your body to its physical prime, but your underlying DNA matrix is still a clone of Supergirl's.

I'm better than she ever was.

Be carreful with that. It gives you remote control over the Ultimen. The new generation of Ultimen are blank slates. They don't think, except to follow your commands. They have no initiative and they feel no pain. When this light is on, the Ultimen are in puppet mode. They are little more than an extension of your will.

Wicked.

Amanda Waller

It's time we got this show on the road. Report to the staging area.

What?

Nothing. [Galatea goes back to Hamilton and hugs him] Goodbye, Daddy.

Supergirl

Put him down!

Sure. I was pretty much done with him anyway.

Supergirl

What do you think you're doing?

Oh, I'm about to set the reactor to overload and blow the Watchtower to bits, but what I'm hoping is that you'll be dumb enough to try and stop me. Uh-oh. What's wrong, hero? Not strong enough? Maybe that's because I'm the real hero here. Your Justice League is a bunch of dangerous loose cannons, and I'm going to shut your down.

Supergirl

Who do you think you're kidding? You don't care about what the League does. Admit it, you just wanna beat me.

I've already beaten you, but I'm going to make it last.

Supergirl

You know what? Now matter how bad you beat me, I'm real, not a clone.

Shut up!

Supergirl

Deep down you know the truth. You're not a person. You're just a weapon, grown out of one of Hamilton's petri dishes.

Shut up! Pitiful. What?

Amanda Waller

The mission is scrubbed. Do you hear me? Stand down and await further instructions.

I'm not reading you. Can you repeat?

Amanda Waller

Call of the Ultimen. Do you hear me? Call--

Wrong number.

Kara. Power reboot in eighteen seconds.

Supergirl

Right.

When I get rid of you, I'll be the only--

Someone took over our fusion cannon by remote control. There are maybe three people on Earth smart enough to pull that off. Two of them were already on the Watchtower. And that leaves...

Amanda Waller

Luthor. That's where you're trying to lead me, right?

You're too smart to trust him.

Amanda Waller

Who says I do? He provides off-the-books funding for Cadmus. As far as I'm concerned, that's all he's good for.

Then you must know he's got his own agenda.

Amanda Waller

He wants to be President. That's agenda enough for anybody.

Almost anybody.

Amanda Waller

Hey, Lex! That android is Cadmus property. You're going to have to find somewhere else to keep your brain! [destroys the Amazo body] A nano-disassembler beam. Your design, I believe.

Lex Luthor

Arrogant cow! It'll take weeks to build myself another android body!

Amanda Waller

You ain't got weeks, baldy. You're under arrest for trying to use the Justice League's space-gun to murder everyone at Cadmus.

Lex Luthor

Did you really think you could take me down all by yourself?

Amanda Waller

Actually, yeah. But on the off chance I might've been wrong...

Tada!

Superman

It's over, Lex.

Lex Luthor

Not until I-

I hoped to remain hidden, until I could install myself into the android. But you forced my hand.

Superman

Brainiac!

Ta-da.

Superman

It's over, Lex.

Lex Luthor

Not until I--

Lex Luthor

I'd hoped to remain hidden--

Until I could install myself into the android.

But you forced my hand.

Superman

Brainiac.

Dude. That is messed up!

Lex Luthor

I don't understand what's happening!

You are under my control. I have lain dormant within you for years, Lex Luthor, subtly influencing your actions until we arrived at this point. Do you not recall my kidnapping you in this very building?

Lex Luthor

Yes... You forced me to build you a new body.

Kal-El destroyed that body, foiling my plans. In any event, I always have a backup plan. Consider: how could you have survived that point-blank blast from me, unless--

Lex Luthor

Unless... it wasn't intended to kill me?

The beam carried a nanotech payload that inserted a microscopic, holistic copy of my program inside your body. Since then, I have steadily grown in strength, protecting this body until I could arrange my transfer into a more suitable one.

Lex Luthor

You cured my cancer; gave me super-strength!

Your animal-protein shell was insufficient for my needs. Improvements were required.

Hate to interrupt this special live performance of The Thing With Two Heads, but it's time to go to jail now.

Amanda Waller

What he said. [shoots Brainiac/Luthor several times] We'll take it back to Cadmus and see if the tech boys can't pull Luthor out of what's left of that hunk of-- [Brainiac/Luthor suddenly stands, instantly repairing] I'll be dipped!

Be gone.