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Green Lantern Corps. #38

Kyle Rayner – I don’t care about what they feel right now — no one else is being executed today until we convene a trial and follow the letter of the law!

Guy Gardner – Due process bud!

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Kyle Rayner – This isn’t about saving your worthless lives — it’s about preserving an ideal, damn it!

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Kyle Rayner – If you’re so intent on doing this — if this is something you’re proud of — why are you committing these executions hidden away in here — where’s the transparency, why isn’t it being added to the Book of Oa as the Fifth Law then?  Why don’t you do it in public — for all of Oa and the Corps. to see?

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Kyle Rayner – And when Green Lanterns are taken prisoner — what do you expect to happen then?  It’ll be an eye for an eye until both sides are blind.

Guardian – This is war.  It is a conflagration that unfortunately burns through innocent and guilty alike.  The Green Lantern Corps. must be all will and no heart if we are to emerge victorious and keep the universe safe.

Kyle Rayner – So that’s it then, hmm?  This is the path we’re going to let ourselves go down?

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Guy Gardner – C’mon Kyle, I need a change of scenery now that the Blue Cavalry is back to make the universe safe for Democracy.

Wolverine: Weapon X #3

Mr. Bender – Five years from now, Blackguard will be this country’s de facto military.

Ms. Garner – But… the election.  All that talk of change… The new administration would never allow that to happen…

Mr. Bender – Grow up, Ms. Gardner.  Whoever happens to be sitting in the White House at any given moment is irrelevant.  The only Presidents who really matter anymore are the ones we put on our money.

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Captain America: Reborn #1

Vision – But that is how Captain America died… and America lost it’s symbol of hope…

Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia

It’s appropriate this comic was released around the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.  The X-Men have always been an allegory of race relations and now tells the oppression of those with “different” sexual orientations.

Simon Trask – And all we need to do to make sure it never happens again is to gently and humanely legislate when and how mutants are allowed to breed.

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Franklin Richards – Why do people hate mutants mom?  Does that mean they hate me?

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Newsreporter – They’re not out as super heroes or super villains or super-anything.  They’re out in the streets tonight because a million people showed up in their hometown demanding laws be passed that forbids them to have babies.

Secret Six #11

Mr. Smyth – What do all the Great Wonders of the ancient world have in common?  The Pyramids, the Great Wall… the Godly architecture that still makes the human heart sing even after untold centuries!

Savage – They were all built by slaves, Mr. Smyth.  That is the curse they all share.

Mr. Smyth – Yes.  The mind knows that.  But the heart… the heart knows better.  Tourists flock to see these grand gestures every day, people in faroff lands hear them call.  And the cost is what, the lives and toil of a few scattered souls?  For works that last an eternity and inspire awe and greatness in all who see them?  Most of the world lives and dies for nothing and no one.  Those “slaves,” they died for all.

Thor #602

Lord Balder – I have never understood how war can be civil.  If Asgardians turned brother against brother, the results would be most uncivil… and would destroy the legacy that is my obligation to protect.

Unknown Soldier #9

Cell leader – But you fight children… people call me a bad man and even I do not kill children.  You must reimagine how you will fight your war, our war.  Will you continue to kill countless children?  Or take out a single celebrity?  One bullet can move a moutain.  It is only a question of where that bullet is aimed.

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X-Men: Legacy #225

Xavier – Exodus–

Exodus – I renounce that name.  Moses led his people to a land flowing with milk and honey.  I presided over a retreat.

Xavier – That’s not what this is.  It was way past time.  That’s all.  To declare an armistice on wars we already lost.  Not to forget the past but to make our peace with it — and live at last in the present.

Exodus – The present?  It’s a wilderness where wounded animals spit at heaven.  And devour each other, even as they die.

Xavier – Then change it.

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Guardians of the Galaxy #14

Star Lord – We don’t do this!  We don’t threaten lives!  You just crossed a line Phyla-vell!  You just took away any moral authority we had when we walked in here!

Unknown Soldier #8

GUSCO Staffer – Here you are a human being, Paul.  Not a soldier, not a symbol… only a young man… and you will never, ever be asked to die for an idea again.

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Dr. Lwanga – All those I have admired, including my Lord and Savior, have held true to this idea… that a human life is at its greatest when it is given as an engine for change.

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Captain Britain and MI13 #10

Dr. Doom – A non-aggression treaty.  What do I stand to gain?

Dracula – Your majesty, now that you have regained your kingdom… you would wish to see my people policed, ruled, would you not?  Kept away from your borders?  There is also the matter of Islam.  It will close the gap with the west, on terms of science and super-powered individuals.  Latveria stands on that border, as did my own land.  The realm I would create would do without it.  Serve as a bulwark against it.

Dr. Doom – Spare me your racism, “Count.”  I find it ridiculous in human leaders, because it is an assumption.  But in an artifact, a mystical viral package such as yourself… it’s almost funny.

New Warriors #20

Donyell – An ego too fragile to seek another way to serve others.  A true leader would have found another way.

Dwayne – “Serve”?  People are sheep.  Donyell.  They want to be lef, they want to be told what to do.  With free will comes the burden of responsibility.  And that is a consequence most people cannot handle!

Donyell – You… never gave them a ch-choice… you took away their heroes… their freedom… Created an environment where fear rules as much as any dictator.

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the Amazing Spider-Man #583

Spider-Man – Well, that was unpleasant.  I hope this doesn’t ruin the inauguration for you.

Barack Obama – Honestly, I’m more upset about the Chameleon’s shockingly deficient understanding of the electoral process.

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Barack Obama – …. I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States….

Marvels: Eye of the Camera #3

Sheldon – … The X-Men are super heroes.  Super heroes.  Would they take part in a cover-up?

Urich – Nixon did.

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Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel #3

Gov’t Agent – I’ll be honest with you, Ms. Frazier, this is not an easy assignment.  It may challenge you in ways a proper southern woman like yourself has never had to consider.  How do you feel about coloreds?

Frazier – Never really though about it.

Gov’t Agent – They’re different than us, Agen Frazier.  Their values, their culture… Had I my druthers I’d rather not expose you to… Let’s just say American comes before personal comfort.

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Blue Marvel – I don’t believe it — even here — forty thousand kilometers from Earth —  and the first thing I see is a giant alien white man with an attitude.

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the Watcher – I know of a people called the Kree.  They built these ruins on which we stand millenia ago.  Same problems.  Blue skins against pink skins.  Brother versus brother.  All fools… all doomed.  Do not let that happen to this precious world.

Dark Avengers #1

Osborn – My name is Norman Osborn and I approve of these Avengers!!

Guardians of the Galaxy #9

Star Lord – Blastaar sent me in to talk terms.  You in charge?

Jack Flag – No one’s in charge.

Star Lord – But a few of the strongest personalities have floated to the top?

Jack Flag – It’s like living democracy.  It’s a beautiful thing.

Ruin

Washington, D.C. as it was, swallowed back up by its state now that the White House is gone.  I hate this city.  It’s here that the American dream decided it liked the taste of vomit it was choking on.  Just rolled over on its back and screamed for more drugs.  It didn’t die.

Thunderbolts # 128

President Obama – You see, the things is, Norman, I have misgivings.  Grave misgivings.  You’ve been granted unprecedented powers… More power perhaps, than should rightfully reside in the hands of one man in a Democratic society.

Osborn – With respect, that’s a little rich coming from the so-called leader of the free world.

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Ant-man – Just like the man — always tryin’ ta step on the little guy!  I voted for Colbert anyway…

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Punisher #1

The Punisher – Victorious warriors win first and then go to war… Defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.  Sun-Tzu, “The Art of War,” written four hundred years before Christ gave the hippies a dress code.  He understood a soldier needs a clear path to victory before he lifts a weapon.

Secret Invasion: War of Kings

Grand Commander H’Jke Jeeku – The great Skrull enterprise — a jihadist invasion of Earth through infiltration — has ended in disaster, and the damnable human species will be crying out for vengeance.

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Crystal – Are you suggesting that the Inhumans cast aside generations of reserved isolation and… what?  Adopt an active stance?  A preemptive one?

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Crystal – We have crossed a line that we cannot uncross.  Murder is much like virginity.  Once the act is done, it is always done.

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Incognito #1

Zack – Y’know… You say terror, I say crime.

Kelvin – You call blowing up buildings and killing innocent civilians crime, not terror?

Zack – When it’s for money, yeah.  Terror implies an ideology.

Kelvin – Right.

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