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S1 E7

Superman: The Animated Series · Season 1, Episode 7

John Corben and Doctor in “The Way of All Flesh”

John Corben

I want those adjustments now!

Doctor

What... what adjustments?

John Corben

The ones Luthor told me about when I said I couldn't feel my hands! Those adjustments!

Doctor

Well, the adjustments were yours to make.

John Corben

Mine?! [slams his fist on the desk] You're telling me...?!

Doctor

There'll always be a certain numbness, a... lack of feeling. But you'll get used to it.

John Corben

I DON'T WANT TO GET USED TO IT! [grabs the desk and throws it across the room]

Doctor

Mr. Corben, the operation gave you almost infinite strength. You can never get sick. You're invulnerable to injury. You'll never feel pain again!

John Corben

And what about pleasure, hmm?!

Doctor

That... that was never part of the equation.

John Corben

[grabs him by the collar] Find me a body. Change me back. I have to feel!

Doctor

[nervously] We... we can't. The transplant is permanent.

[Corben screams in insane rage and flings him aside, then approaches a mirror to observe the synthetic flesh covering his metallic body]

John Corben

It's all fake... [starts tearing it away] A FRAUD! There's the reality! The metal behind the man! It's all I am now! It's who I am... [smashes mirror] Metallo.

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