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DMZ #44

Cult Leader – The question is, do you think it can come back?  Do you think it can ever be the same again?

Tony – … probably not.

Cult Leader – I think you’re right.  I think whatever happens, whenever it happens, this city’ll be another Mogadishu, another Monrovia, another Port-Au-Prince.

Tony – That’s harsh.

Cult Leader – The sun is setting on America.  We’re just another failed state, our major cities turned into ghettos.

Fables #87

Bigby – There was no big threat.  No secret, evil group of all-powerful liberals.

Snow – Literals.

Bigby – Right.  Literals.

Green Lantern Corps. #39

Senator Diro – We now have powers — powers to protect ourselves from aliens — all aliens.  We want you and your ring off our world.

Arisia – Get your hands off me — you racist bastard.

Uncanny X-Men #514

Emma Frost – This is was, you cretins– and you’re either with us of against us.  Make up your minds and get out of the way.

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Captain America: Reborn #2

Norman Osborn – The only key that isn’t a bullet to the head. I mean.  Not that the man who helped kill Captain America should be expecting anything but an execution.

Crossbones – Right.  Was there some trial I slept through?

Norman Osborn – Trial… now who’s the comedian?  You’re an enemy combatant who committed a terrorist act on domestic soil… No one has even suggested there would ever be a trial.

Dark Reign: Zodiac #2

Zodiac – America the beautiful?  The founding fathers? The constitution? It’s all a scam.

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Zodiac – Cause enough chaos in the world and there’s room to do anything.  Now let’s find out just how much room…

War of Kings #6

Crystal – Transforming all species against their will would not have resulted in peace.  Can’t you see that?  We don’t have the right.  It’s a tyranny comparable to Vulcan’s aggression.  Sometimes being a King is about having the strength to make a hard decision.  And sometimes.  It’s about having the strength not to.  You are a King.  My lord… not a God.

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Dark X-Men #2

Michael Pointer – This blood on my hands is mine to clean.  You’d just replace it with the blood of your enemies.

Norman Osborn – Michael… let us be clear about something.  There will always be blood.  This is the world we live in.  The question is, whose blood will it be?

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Norman Osborn – You may ask why I want you.  I really like your war.  I’d like to be able to say to the daylight side of the U.S. Government that my people are making major advances in the “War on Drugs.”  I’d like to show them that when one sets aside law and gives order it’s due — Then “wars” which were previously hypocritical gestures — can be fought for real and won.

Unknown Soldier #10

Moses – But what is it exactly you imagine you do here, for us?

Mrs. Wells – I, uh… I guess I drag the media to a place where it wouldn’t normally go, you know?  I take people who follow the most vapid aspects of my culture back home, and I force them to see me in the context of the world.

Moses – Sounds like performance art to me.

Mrs. Wells –  Well, that implies this is all some fiction.  But it isn’t, is it?  Don’t get me wrong.  I also want to understand.  To talk.  To learn… to educate.

Moses – To be honest, Mrs. Wells, I think you push bad PR for a continent that has a PR problem to begin with —

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Moses – Rich people drinking and throwing money at the problem?  Aid just keeps pouring into the continent and social conditions get worse and worse and nothing ever changes!

Soldier – Sir, I need you to calm down.

Mrs. Wells – Jack, relax, okay?  I’m willing to have a conversation with you, but…

Moses – Investment in our markets! Honest trade with the outside world! Micro-loan agencies! Stable banks! Leaders who give a fuck! That’s what we need!

Soldier – Back it up right now!

Moses – We need the world to stop stealing from us with one hand and giving back crumbs with the other!

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Moses – How can you empower an African child!?  With photographs?  By adopting them?  The answer is you can’t!  They need Africans to look up to!!

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Avengers: The Initiative #26

Constrictor – Look.  I’m far from the only American to lose limbs serving their country.  Like them, I’m proud of what I’ve done.

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The Hood – Taskmaster’s right.  You’re a natural.  Comparing us to the troops.  That bit about you holding your kids… you should get an Oscar.

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Ultragirl – So the end justifies the means?

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The Hood – When you see some guy who ran a company into the ground walk away with forty million, is he wearing a skull mask and underwear outside his pants?  No.  He’s wearing a suit, and nine times out of ten, even though he’s into shady crap up to his eyeballs, he gets away scot-free.  The guys in power rip off the public a hell of a lot worse than we ever did.  But now —  finally — we are the guys in power.

Dark Wolverine #76

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -Niccolo Machiavelli

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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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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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Avengers: The Initiative #19

Tippy-Toe Says – Squirrel Girl would rather go naked than wear fur!

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Skull-Kill Krew – I understand all right.  God doesn’t love you.  He loves America.

Dark Reign: New Nation

Captain America – I believe in an idea… an idea a single individual who has the right heart and the right mind… that is consumed with a single purpose… that one man can win a war.  Give that one man a group of soldiers with the same conviction… and you can change the world.

The Invincible Iron Man #8

Osborn – The Superhuman Registration Database, Stark.  You know the one I mean.  Where is it?  How do I access it?

Stark – It’s — Ah — It’s Not — Osborn.  It’s not your personal file-o-fax.  You can’t just browse it at your leisure.  You need about a half-dozen warrants and probable cause and a federal judge to—

Osborn – Commander.

Stark – … Excuse me?

Osborn – You called me “Osborn.”  I’m trying “Commander Osborn” on for the size at the moment.

Stark – Well.  “Commander.”  You don’t get to go flipping through the database any more than you get to seize someone’s cell phone records or decide to call yourself commander.

X-Factor #38

Madrox – In the end, sometimes the smart thing is to bypass bad habits and learned behavior.  There are entire countries where fighting is the default position.  If you’re willing to put aside that mindset… it’s amazing how much you can accomplish with minimal fuss.

Uncanny X-Men #505

Mayor of San Francisco – This is San Francisco.  The hated and misunderstood have always had a home here.

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