Supervillains Quotes

“One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

“I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

“My mom's a mad scientist. It's a lot like being a regular scientist, except without worrying about legal or moral limitations, and it's a commom profession among the scientifically inclined supervillain.”
― Chelsea Campbell, The Rise of Renegade X

“And boy, the transformation. I had to feel bad for him, inheriting a power like this. He had all of the ugly. All of it. He hadn't left any ugly for anybody else.”
― Richard Roberts, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

“He was a bureaucrat, not a hitman, and most of the time that's what supervillainy looks like in real life.”
― Ben Dyer

“Joe Spork opens the door. The man departs. Joe turns to Polly to say something about how they’re obviously not going to Portsmouth, and finds an oyster knife balanced on his cheek, just under his eye.

“Can we be very clear,” Polly Cradle murmurs, “that I am not your booby sidekick or your Bond girl? That I am an independent supervillain in my own right?”

Joe swallows. “Yes, we can,” he says carefully.

“There will therefore be no more ‘Say hello, Polly’?”

“There will not.”
― Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker

“I don't have enough scruples to start violating the few I do.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Games of Supervillainy

“Sure, we had no audience but each other, but what kind of supervillains would we be if we didn't keep up the drama?”
― Richard Roberts, Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain

“How does a boy without a father grow up to be a man? How does he learn to make the hard decisions he's going to have to make in life? The ones only a man can teach?”
― Sylar, Heroes

“People like us were born to change the world. It’s filled with shit. It’s filled with people who did the things they did to you. It’s filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don’t you feel it too?”
― Laure Eve, Fearsome Dreamer

“Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

“But if you look at history the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies”
― Lex Luthor, Smallville

“Do you know why the number two hundred is so vitally descriptive to both you and me? It’s your weight and my I.Q.”
― Lex Luthor, Gene Hackman

“What killed me is you didn’t even want it. You fought it, you hid from it. I would have taken it and relished it and embraced it.”
― Lex Luthor, Smallville

“To be a supervillain is to be free to do anything you want when you want it because you say so.”
― C.T. Phipps, The Games of Supervillainy

“Sometimes, the only difference between a superhero and a supervillain is a malpractice suit.”
― Corey Redekop, Superhero Universe

“Any relationship founded on lies is destined to fail. It’s a good thing we don’t have that problem.”
― Lex Luthor, Smallville

“I’m the only sane inmate of Asylum Earth. I’m not eager to hand tomorrow over to an interplanetary extremist with laser eyes. There’s only room on this world for one leader, Superman. When I’m finished with you, every last gibbon out there will know you for the menace you are… and they’ll realize that Lex Luthor is their savior.”
― Lex Luthor, Birthright

“All my father ever told me was “don’t get caught” and “don’t cause a scandal.” That’s not love, it’s public relations. You have no idea how lucky you are. When my father dies, kings will come to his funeral but when yours does, his friends will come.”
― Lex Luthor, Smallville

“That left only four potential people, and one of them is a girl, and I don’t think she did any siring.”
― Chelsea M. Campbell, The Rise of Renegade X

“At the other end of the train car, the middle-aged man opens his coat to reveal a red supervillain outfit underneath. His chest has the letters TB on it, plus a picture of jacks. Not the kind you use on a car, but the kind kids play with. And the TB doesn’t stand for tuberculosis, either. This is Jack the Toy Boy. Erg. His name makes him sound more like a porn star than a supervillain.”
― Chelsea M. Campbell, The Rise of Renegade X

“One benefit of being the black sheep in the family—or in this case, being the only half villain and going to an all-hero school—is that everyone expects me to screw up. So when I don’t, it’s like I performed a miracle.”
― Chelsea M. Campbell, The Betrayal of Renegade X

“R U the 1?”
― F Barish-Stern, Code 47 to Brev Force Cracko

“Clark, love isn’t about playing it safe, it’s about risks. Unless you’re willing to put yourself out there, you’ll never know.”
― Lex Luthor, Smallville

“I can’t think of a morning I haven’t woken up with the thought of STRANGLING you! That sanctimonious image of yours fooled everyone – except me! Because I! KNOW! EVIL!”
― Lex Luthor, Public Enemies

“I get that now which is why I’ve finally embraced my own. You and I, we will both be great men because of each other. We have a destiny together Clark, only on different sides.”
― Lex Luthor, Smallville

“TECHNOS!! YOU TRESSPASS IN MY DOMAIN!” I thundered. “EXPLAIN YOURSELF OR BE DESTROYED!”
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“Fid!” Technos howled from within his armored tank. The vehicle’s external speakers failed to match my own broadcast presence. “An old has-been like you can't hold a region this large!”
I was shocked into momentary inaction. This was, I thought, the oddest suicide attempt that I'd ever witnessed.”
― David H. Reiss, Fid's Crusade

“Those red eyes, I'm sure they look right through me like I am nothing more than a nuisance. But when I see you, I see something no man can ever be. I see the end. The end of our potential. The end of our achievements. The end of our dreams. You are my nightmare.”
― Brian Azzarello, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel