Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Apokolips... Now! (1998)

Tim Daly: Superman, Clark Kent

Quotes 

• Dan Turpin : You know, Superman, I play a pretty good game, but, uh, not in this league. I don't know what we would have done without you.

  Superman : [glancing at Orion]  I'm not the one to thank.

• Superman : How's our mysterious visitor doing, Emil?

  Professor Hamilton : His wounds are healing at a phenomenal rate. He's fully conscious, and in quite a rage to see...

  Orion : [throwing a guard out of his room]  SUPERMAN! Get me Superman!

  Dan Turpin : [drawing his gun]  Freeze, buckethead! One more move and you're back in intensive care.

  Superman : Hold it, Inspector. Everybody calm down.

  Orion : I didn't fight my way through a battalion of parademons to be told to calm down!

  Dan Turpin : [to Hamilton]  And they say I got a temper.

• Dan Turpin : [seeing the explosion at a nuclear power plant]  Holy Hannah!

  Superman : Orion was right. It isn't over.

• Superman : It was a good thing you showed up, Orion.

  Orion : It was too easy.

  Superman : Oh, yeah. A real walk in the park.

  Orion : Don't mock me. Darkseid will consider this a minor setback, if that. I know how he thinks.

  Superman : Oh?

  Orion : Yes. I'm his son. I was the infant Darkseid gave up to pay for his... uneasy truce.

  Superman : I'm sorry. I had no idea.

  Orion : It doesn't matter. Right now, I must return to New Genesis and report Darkseid's latest aggressions.

  [giving Superman a small, circular commuicator] 

  Orion : You may use this to contact me when you need further help. And you will need it.

• Orion : My name is Orion. I fled from the fire pits of Apokolips to warn you. He's coming.

  Superman : Who is?

  Orion : Darkseid. Mother Box can explain it better than I.

  [summoning a machine and turning it on] 

  Orion : She is a living computer connected to the Source.

  Mother Box : Let us begin at the beginning. What once was whole was split asunder. And in its place, there arose two worlds. Worlds as different as daylight and darkness, virtue and evil. One is called New Genesis. Unparalleled in its beauty, it is ruled by the wise and powerful Highfather. The other is Apokolips, a ravaged wasteland ruled by the demonic and omnipotent Darkseid. He psychically feeds on the despair and misery of others. Because of their opposite natures, these two worlds have been locked in eternal war. However, an uneasy truce was established when Darkseid and Highfather exchanged their infant sons. Unfortunately, this has not diminished Darkseid's ambitions. For years, he has searched the galaxies for the legendary Anti-Life Equation, a formula that would give him complete control over all living things. In his endless search, he has conquered and subjugated planet after planet.

  Orion : Now he threatens Earth. He's already provided human agents with Apokoliptic weaponry.

  Superman : The hover tank?

  Orion : It's just a prelude.

• Lois Lane : So you're saying not even Superman could stop this thing?

  Dan Turpin : I'm saying we can't always expect one guy to save our sorry butts, even if he is Superman. This time, we'll have to tackle it ourselves.

  Lois Lane : [more to herself]  Good luck.

  Clark Kent : [surreptitiously using his powers to glance at writing on the tank]  It almost looks... alien.

  Lois Lane : [sarcastic]  Sure, Kent. Maybe it was a Martian strapped for cash.