What? I know. I'm going as fast as I can.
Luthor! Don't make any sudden moves. It's over. Hold fire! Hold Fire!
Here we are, Mr. Luthor. Your benefactor is looking forward to meeting you.
Does the mystery man have a name?
Gorilla GroddNo need to be insulting, Lex - I'm far superior to any man.
Grodd! I appreciate the help, but gratitude only goes so far. I'm not interested in working with you or anyone else.
Gorilla Grodd
I think you'll change your mind once you've seen what I have to offer.
Gorilla Grodd
The Spear of Longinus. Hitler believed that whoever holds it is invincible.
What are you going to do with it? Sell it to the highest bidder? Keep it yourself and try to conquer the world?
Gorilla Grodd
I was thinking it would look good on the wall in my office.
You mean you recruited me, sent me to an island full of death traps, and up against the Justice League. You made me risk my life, and all for nothing?!?
Gorilla Grodd
Essentially... yes.
[laughs] Monkey, I like your style.
Well, I’m sort of missing Flash’s obligatory joke about how Grodd made a monkey out of us.
Just couldn’t let it go unsaid.
DDeadman
That's it, guys. Yuk it up. You saved the world, but I failed. Everyone in Nanda Parbat is gone-- forever.
SSolovar
We're in your debt again, Justice League.
If only Luthor and Grodd hadn't gotten away.
SSolovar
If it's any consolation, we've picked up nearly a dozen of his super-powered cronies-- with more to come, I'm sure.
[Devil Ray groans]
[Devil Ray screaming]
[Batman grunting]
Bruce, Deadman took over your body. It wasn't your fault.
DDeadman
Let me explain. He would have shot her. I didn't have a choice.
RKRama Kushna
Boston Brand, your actions have led to the death of another.
DDeadman
I'm sorry. I-- I didn't mean to--
RKRama Kushna
Intentions are immaterial. You were gifted with power to be used to balance the scales of karma. Because of your actions, the scale now is unbalanced.
DDeadman
Unbalanced? Thanks to Devil Ray and his team, the master and all the other monks are dead.
RKRama Kushna
Incorrect. When the heart was shattered, the essences of the monks were set free. Even now their souls return to their rightful places.
MThe Master
No one dies in Nanda Parbat. But the scales are unbalanced. Your work in this world is not yet done.
[After Gorilla Grodd's plan has failed]
Since there's only one monkey left around here, I'm assuming that the Justice League found a way to stop the carrier wave.
Gorilla Grodd
There's more than one way to peel a banana. Next time--
I wasn't going to do this for another couple of weeks, but seriously... [rises from table and draws a gun] Turning all of humanity into apes? [aims weapon at Grodd] That was your master plan?! [Shoots Grodd, then turns to the other villains] Listen up! From now on, I'm in charge of this operation. Anybody got a problem with that?
[No one challenges him; Tala sidles up to him]
No problem at all... baby.
Brainiac. You’re in there-- I can almost feel you. [to rock] Abasing myself before Grodd, then running this unwieldy super-gang—it’s all been worth it if I can just free the only piece of you that remains.
[gently] Lex... Don’t talk to the rock.
Stay out of this, witch. It makes no sense. The smallest scrap of Brainiac should be sufficient to reconstitute him.
Don’t worry, darling. I’m sure it...
Unless Grodd is somehow preventing it.
Grodd
What do you want, Luthor?
How do I unlock the Brainiac code?
Grodd
You’re a genius; figure it out.
Tell me, you leering, manipulative knuckle-dragger, or I'll...
Grodd
Lex, Lex... you can’t expect me to give up my only bargaining chip. What’s in it for me?
[enraged] When this is over, I’m going to sell your body for dogmeat!
Grodd
It must pain you to see me like this, after what we’ve been to one another.
My taste in boyfriends has evolved. Wait, Lex! You’re the leader now. You don’t need to lock horns with him.
Don’t bore me with politics. The only thing that matters now is a speck of information locked somewhere deep inside Grodd’s thick skull.
Yes, okay. So we break his head open and take it. Hey, watch it!
I don’t have time to chat, Dr. Polaris.
Well, make time. We don’t think you’ve got what it takes to run the show. You’ve been acting unbalanced, holed up in that lab, talking to yourself...
SSinestro
After Grodd tried to turn the world into apes, you can imagine how seriously we’d take something like that. What are you going to do, make everybody bald?
Maybe you’re not up to the job. Maybe it’s time for younger, smarter, more aggressive leadership.
Yeah. Why should any of us follow you?
Because I’ll show you how to make more money in one day than you’ve made in your entire lives.
Grodd
Give up, Lex! You're only delaying the inevitable.
Grodd
[shoots a blast of his gun at Luthor, who deflects with his gloves] If it's all the same to you, I'd rather snap your neck with my bare hands. [Luthor tries to attack him, but Grodd counters and singlehandedly beats him up again and again] You know, this mutiny was easy. The Secret Society hates you.
Like they love you! [runs towards Grodd, who knocks him away with a kick] Idiotic simian. Half-baked objectivist.
Grodd
[grabs Luthor] You're ill-equipped to lead, Lex.
[choking] A lower primate masquerading as an intellectual.
Grodd
I'm the more accomplished, both physically and mentally. [uses telepathy on Luthor, who overrides it with his power-belt and puts Grodd under his control]
Took you long enough. I was beginning to think I'd figured you wrong. Now bow down to me. [Grodd struggles not to, but does so] Who is master here?
Grodd
[weakly] You... are...
Get up. [Grodd obeys] Take six steps forward. [Grodd does so and opens the door in front of him] Get in. [Grodd does so again and Luthor closes the door and deactivates his power-belt]
Grodd
[trying to break through the door in anger] I should have let you rot in jail!
Goodbye, Grodd. It could have gone the other way.
Grodd
It really could have, couldn't it?
No... But why speak ill of the dead? [punches a button and opens airlock]
Grodd
You twisted little pink rat-hole of a hominid, I'm not done with you! I'll get out of this, and when I do...!
[Grodd is sucked out of his headquarters to his death]
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