Quote of the Day/Archive

"Yolo!"
―Rumblin’ Guys

"I am subtle."
―Eternal Warrior

"Do not be fooled by what is seen. Eyes and minds are meant to be deceive."
―Tashi Khatun, 1192 AD.

"Hrai! Hail Rai!"
―Takao Konishi, 4002

"There is no right or wrong to power. Power serves whoever wields it; it only makes you more of what you already are!"
―Master Darque

"That is what worries me, dear brother"
―Sandria Darque

"I need to find out a lot more about this Aric Dacia before I begin my takeover of Orb Industries."
―Doug Freedman

"Hammerhead's Ghost!"
―Una

"I will fight for humanity -- until humanity awakens and saves itself, that is a battle worth fighting!"
―Eternal Warrior

"Whatever it takes."
―John Stanchek

"Bang! You're dead."
―Ax to Bloodshot

"You've frustrated my efforts for the last time!"
―Toyo Harada

"Geomancer--What have I become?"
―Takao Konishi

"The power of the lord is in me! I can feel it!"
―Obadiah Archer

"I told you; knife and suicide note, but NO-O-O--!."
―Thelma Archer to Joe Earl Archer after their son survives their burning home.

"I Call on The Power of Ninjak!"
―Denny Meechum

"I'll heal Janna. I always do."
―Eternal Warrior

"Kiddo, this is my crazy brother, Gilly."
―Armstrong to Archer

"Your tub of love has returned!"
―Armstrong to Andromeda

"Aram, you wonderful man...you've taken a retarded person into your tutelage."
―Andromeda referring to Archer

"Behold, Archer! The one whose name is never spoken!"
―Mahmud

"You have to speak up, red man -- I can't hear too well with all these bandages and what-not."
―Mahmud to Solar

"Personally, little brother -- I think you're worm-doody!"
―Armstrong to Eternal Warrior

"We're not a couple."
―Quantum

"I'll see ya pin...Pete. Seeya. Pete."
―Torque to Sting

"Great Rama!"
―Archer

"Andromeda! -- Goddess! -- I mean, misses.."
―Archer

"Love A Duck!"
―Armstrong

"Say, Gandhi! Am I Glad To See You!"
―Armstrong

"Got to kill her..."
―Albert Pierce

"Talk to me about the cool-aide."
―Woody

"I guess that explains the goat."
―Joe Tamara

"--MED-A-SINN--WOOMANNN! MED-A-SINN--!"
―Woody

"Yes, Sandria, the end of the world... and a vision of the role I play... in the start of a new one!"
―Alexandré Darque

"I've been given implants!!"
―Storm Angel

"All men are liars!"
―Mothergod

"Sorry, Armstrong. You and Toto aren't going back to Kansas...ever."
―Mothergod

"This sounds very strange, but I think I have certain unusual abilities."
―Excerpt from Pete Stanchek's letter to the Harbinger Foundation

"There is so much good Harbingers can accomplish. We can make the world a better place"
―Harbinger Foundation Executive

"I am needed here. Only I can help this boy."
―Toyo Harada

"These Harbinger people are bad news!"
―Joe Irons

"I can help you. Trust me."
―Toyo Harada

"Stanchek is far too powerful to be on his own."
―Toyo Harada

"What you did was evil! You have no right to play with anyone's mind..."
―Kris Hathaway

"It saddens me, but Peter Stanchek must be killed."
―Toyo Harada

"This Stanchek must be a monster."
―Ms. Ando

"We must probe Stanchek... and when a weakness is found... kill him."
―Toyo Harada

"Boy, flying is for the birds."
―Pete Stanchek

"It's spooky when you do that Jedi mind trick thing. I don't like you doing that."
―Kris Hathaway

"I know that's not unusual, but on several occasions I've awakened floating an inch or two above my bed, just for a second. Then, I fall..."
―Excerpt from Faith Herbert's letter to the Harbinger Foundation

"Holy... Felgercarb..."
―Faith Herbert

"Is the Harbinger Foundation a school for mutants?"
―Faith Herbert

"Harbinger is a big, powerful organization. They killed my best friend in the world. They're trying to kill me."
―Pete Stanchek

"It's like a movie starring Super Faith and Arnold Schwartzenegger versus the X-Mutant-Klingon-Galactic Terrorist-Clone-Empire!"
― Pete Stanchek

"People like us have to stick together, right?"
―Faith Herbert

"You know, it's hard holding your arms out like this when you fly!"
―Faith Herbert

"Frak! That stings!"
―Faith Herbert

"Do you really understand that what you just did is... evil?"
―Kris Hathaway

"We're going to find more people like you and Faith -- I mean Zephyr. We're going to stick together and be a team. Maybe someday, an army."
―Kris Hathaway

"We're going to do whatever it takes to stop Harada... and anyone else who plays God."
―Kris Hathaway

"This is a war."
― Kris Hathaway

"You must be a mind-reader, shugah!"
―Charlene Dupré

"You're headed for disaster --"
―Todd Bevins

"I have always been hot, but Peter turned something on my head, and now I get very hot!"
―Charlene Dupré

"Does whatever that is come in pink? I only wear pink!"
―Charlene Dupré

"Maybe we can get some of that fireproof stuff race car drivers wear."
―Pete Stanchek

"I decided we should call you Sting, 'cause of the way your brain-zap hurts!"
―Faith Herbert

"You just stay here nice and safe with the rest of the harem while I check it out."
―Kris Hathaway

"Is that a crankshaft you got there or are you just glad to see me?"
―Charlene Dupré

"Hey, babe -- light my fire."
―John Torkelson

"I declare, you're a scandal, Torque!"
―Charlene Dupré

"Now... I can burn you..."
―Charlene Dupré

"All I ever wanted was to be strong enough to bust their heads."
―John Torkelson

"Why are you guys so excited about a fat girl being on your helicopter?"
―Faith Herbert

"You know... being a super hero isn't like I thought it would be."
―Faith Herbert

"Be careful with my pigmobile."
―Lawrence Heyward

"Got to stay together, Pete. Don't let us fall... apart..."
―Kris Hathaway

"Her name -- Zephyr! Her powers -- extraordinary! Her goggles -- advantageous!"
―Faith Herbert

"Boy, our team needs a name! "Us guys" just doesn't cut it."
―Faith Herbert

" Shut up, Flamingo. And get me a beer."
― John Torkelson

"You got Superman's body, but inside you're still just a lonely, little boy."
―Kris Hathaway

"Shut up, Pete. And get me a beer."
―Kris Hathaway

"If you're one of us, you're going on this raid and you're wearing this. Scary, huh?"
―Kris Hathaway

"Wow! Great view! It reminds me of "Escape from New York!"
―Faith Herbert

" On the Seventh Day, He rested. I reckon, on the Eight Day, He made folks like us. "
― Charlene Dupré

"It's probably a secret sub-basement fortress--! Probably crawling with armed guards!"
―Faith Herbert

"I'll bet there's a bunch of deadly super-foes just waiting for us!"
―Faith Herbert

"They probably have a danger room where they hone their powers to combat readiness -- !"
―Faith Herbert

"They'll kill us-- ! I don't want to die -- ! Torque --!"
―Charlene Dupré

"There's... a lot of them."
―Pete Stanchek

"Make it easy on yourself. Let the first shot just end it, Pete. As strong as you are, you can't fight us all."
―Toyo Harada

"Nice shot! You're almost as strong as one of ours -- a girl called Thumper."
―Rock

"How could anyone who flies be so stupid as to wear a cape -- ! It must drive you nuts flapping around back there!"
―Swallow

"Want to try me one on one without all your troops protecting you, Mister Harada?"
―Pete Stanchek

"Well, we'd better get out of here. Any decent villain would have this whole installation rigged to self destruct. This whole building may blow up any second!"
―Faith Herbert

"We're in the money...! We're in the money...! We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!"
―Pete Stanchek, Faith Herbert, John Torkelson, and Charlene Dupré

"Now they've got me saying "Zepplin"! Frak!"
―Faith Herbert

"Now, that's what I call Farhvergnugen."
―Lawrence Heyward

"Is one of you Zephyr? Let me guess... the fat girl, right? I'll bet she's the one who phoned. Fat girls always have the sexiest phone voices..."
―Ax

"It's a screw or be screwed world, Chickee."
―Ax

"If he is a Harbinger, and you turn on his power, who knows what he'll do with it?!"
―Kris Hathaway

"Gee, comics super-heroes always know stuff like that..."
―Faith Herbert

"When I get my hands around Ano-Rexo, I'll feed him his damn bombs."
―John Torkelson

"Beautiful Kris."
―John Torkelson

"You're dangerous. Like a child with a loaded gun. I hope you grow up soon... for the world's sake."
―Kris Hathaway

"See? It's one of those super-hero figurines you're so crazy about! Pretty nifty, huh, sweetie?"
―Martha Herbert

"It's hard to get excited about pretend super-heroes once you've battled aliens on the moon."
― Faith Herbert

"You're better than Captain America's shield!"
―Faith Herbert

"Up, Up, and Awaaay!"
―Faith Herbert

"I don't feel so good, and I'm shaking all over. Can we just go, okay? Please?"
―Faith Herbert

"Man, at times like this, we need a battle cry... like "Avengers Assemble," or..."
―Faith Herbert

"Nothing beats a bud!"
―John Torkelson

"I have a bad feeling about this!"
―Faith Herbert

"Holy reinforcements, Ratman!"
―Faith Herbert

"Aw, Kris ––! I could take them all now ––!"
―Pete Stanchek

"Come on, Torque! Throw it again! Arf, arf!"
―Faith Herbert

"Does it seem to you that the whole world has changed? Like it was normal all our lives, but since my power popped we're in the Twilight Zone..."
―Pete Stanchek

"You move away from him, or I'll burn your biscuits black!"
―Charlene Dupré

" I'll seeya, pin...Pete. Seeya. Pete."
―John Torkelson

"It is my gift to see most clearly what you're trying to hide, children. Remember that."
―Toyo Harada

"Torque's blood is on my hands forever."
―Pete Stanchek

"Super heroes usually scream and smash things and swear vengeance when somebody dies, but I just feel kind of numb..."
―Faith Herbert

"Can't bring you a beer no more, can I?"
―Charlene Dupré

"I need to feel the pain and see the blood. It makes what I'm contemplating real to me."
― Noriko Harada

"There must be a control. When you stop believing in me... end it."
― Toyo Harada

"This time I have a thing to break the hard-skins with!"
―Aric Dacia

"This time, it is Aric the soft-skin who keeps his juice!"
―Aric Dacia

"This must be a Good Skin!"
―Aric Dacia

"Ho!"
―Aric Dacia

"We are the predators!"
―Aristedes

"¡Eres mas como un angel, caido del cielo!"
―M’rrha

"They threaten me instead of killing me! They fear me!"
―Aric Dacia

"Good, primitive! You're in my web now!"
―Lydia

"I came looking for local color, but you surpass my wildest dreams!"
―Ken Clarkson

"He talks that third tongue -- the one that sounds like ravens."
―Aric Dacia

"If I'd wanted some brute to growl at me in the morning I'd buy a St. Bernard!"
―Ken Clarkson

"He is one of those men who loves men! I do not understand them but they can be good wizards!"
―Aric Dacia

"Mee-go! Mee-go, Ken!"
―Aric Dacia

"I told you! I told you the barbarian had tasted power!"
―Aristedes

"But this is a bear that can still bite!"
―Aric Dacia

"I float like a dead dog on a lake! Lugh! Make me move! Make me--"
―Aric Dacia

"...but we are the predators, and you and all your kind are nothing but prey!"
―Spider Alien

"Die by my hand, Hard Skin! Die with your hands... die with your house... and die with your hard, hard skin!"
―Aric Dacia

"Growl... growl on, my St. Bernard... I like it..."
―Ken Clarkson

"With this new skin, Aric rules!"
―Aric Dacia

"This skin is my weapon -- no! I, Aric, am the weapon, while this Good Skin is mine--! For, like a true warrior and his blade, we are one!"
―Aric Dacia

"Aric is a generous foe!"
―Aric Dacia

"Thank you, Lugh, for this wonderful skin!"
―Aric Dacia

"Sooner or later, he'll begin to realize the true extent of the power in his grasp! Then, opportunity dies... and so do we!"
―Lydia

"Treachery is my art."
―Lydia

"House...Broken!"
―Aric Dacia

"What is this voice that speaks no words? Can it be Lugh, himself?"
―Aric Dacia

"Now..."Kill them all", K'nn said"
―Aric Dacia

"He spoke my name! Lugh is the grandest God of all!"
―Aric Dacia

"Her voice is like music... like the sad, beautiful whisper of the night wind. A sirens' voice."
―Aric Dacia

"That seduced me...?"
―Aric Dacia

"Dog! Cat! Where in Lugh's name are wolf and bear -- animals I know?"
―Aric Dacia

"No! Window good! Cold good!"
―Aric Dacia

"What men won’t do for power."
―Toyo Harada

"Satisfaction! I need no more acclaim!"
―Toyo Harada

"Ten of them, closing in on all sides like starving wolves at the end of winter -- murder in every eye! Thank you Lugh!"
―Aric Dacia

"This may be where wizards dwell -- but they'll all bow to me!"
―Aric Dacia

"I must learn how to say bad things about these people's mothers!"
―Aric Dacia

"He broke... the Good Skin...! He broke the Good Skin!!!"
―Aric Dacia

"I don't know if people can really keep a secret identity like Superman... but we've got to try."
―Ken Clarkson

"With Good Skin -- Aric is King! Aric rules!"
―Aric Dacia

"Aric now rules Orb in-us-tree, sky castle -- mine!"
―Aric Dacia

"The wizard boy must have cast a spell on the Good Skin!"
―Aric Dacia

"Bandits try mug I... me. Fight good! Aric slay, um... four, five...six!"
―Aric Dacia

"Good Skin, sent to me by Lugh, the greatest of Gods, help me!"
―Aric Dacia

"I hope that wasn't a real head before..."
―Lobby Security Guard

"New York. I wonder if Old York is this ugly."
―Aric Dacia

"If I cannot have my world... I will take this one!"
―Aric Dacia

"I will die before I give up the Good Skin!"
―Aric Dacia

"With the Manowar, I am the most powerful warrior on Earth! Without it, Aric is still more than a match for a jackal like you!"
―Aric Dacia

"He's a Visigoth! His word is his bond, everybody knows that!"
―Ken Clarkson

"Hmh! You smell of urine, Jackal! And you wear the yellow stain of fear."
―Aric Dacia to Ax

"Power only makes you more of what you already are."
―Aric Dacia

"This is honest steel, boy."
―Rolf Dacia

"I'll be a great warrior and make you proud."
―Aric Dacia

"Roman pigs. I'll kill you all..."
―Aric Dacia

"I wash my hands of anything Roman! If Lugh brought you to me, then it's Lugh I'll gladly serve."
―Aric Dacia

"Let's see if you have an appetite for Goth steel, monster!"
―Aric Dacia

"This city was made for me. It lives at night."
―Jack Boniface

"All of a sudden I have this urge to hunt her down... cast her out of the night."
―Jack Boniface

"The demons can't follow you home if they don't know who you are."
―Jack Boniface

"The hidden places... they never want you to see... the hidden places where the reality is... inside... crimson beauty and the flavor."
―Samedi

"I don't want you in my world. I don't want you in my night."
―Jack Boniface

"Others to hunt down. Others to cast out of the night. My night."
―Jack Boniface

"Get outta my yard, now! I got the hex sign on you Mister Shadowman!"
―Old Woman

"Why did you turn off the lights?"
―Doctor Lyons

"It's getting dark out. I feel like...going out again."
―Jack Boniface

"Rid the night of those who... who defile it! Scum. Demons of the night..."
―Jack Boniface

"I seen the Loa inside you, and I seen you change."
―Anjenetta Grampion

"Come on, Jack, try the real world for a change."
―Scott

"Them Loa inside you done took over your soul, Mister Boniface. At night they be comin' out and fightin', and it's really your soul that be steppin' out at night and doin' that fightin'"
―Anjenetta Grampion

"Ha! Got a better blade for you now, Shadowman!"
―Samedi

"Get out of my night!"
―Jack Boniface

"... I guess you could say that Shadowman sort of... inspired me just then."
―Jack Boniface

"As soon as the sun goes down, I start to feel... funny."
―Jack Boniface

"He "fries" them little children up like they was Sunday barbeque."
―Anjenetta Grampion

"...come nightfall, I'm not scared of anyone."
―Jack Boniface

"The night is full of demons. Some stalk new victims. Some torture the ones they already have. I don't like demons"
―Jack Boniface

"Mister Boniface, he a good man, but he can't see but what he sees."
―Anjenetta Grampion

"Doors open to those who are not afraid to enter."
―Jack Boniface

"When shadows fall, my soul comes out... hungry for the hunt! It has no fear... so new worlds are open to me."
―Jack Boniface

"What is this place? It looks like Jurassic Park meets Star Wars!"
―Jack Boniface

"I have an honest face under this one."
―Jack Boniface

"Never... give in... to... the... light..."
―Jack Boniface

"We're in a pocket reality outside of the normal flow of time. You came in through a gateway anomaly..."
―Elya Ann Smith

"Jack, time is not absolute... except here. In this land, the present is really the present. Outside, all times coexist. "
―Elya Ann Smith

"You became a very successful musician -- you did a lot of wonderful heroic things... and you died a horrible, grisly death in 1999. It's all in the archives."
―Elya Ann Smith

"Jack... You're not thinking of going back out there... are you?"
―Elya Ann Smith

"Mothergod wants to bring time together, so it's all real, like it is here."
―Elya Ann Smith

"Improvise. It’s all jazz. And I can play."
―Jack Boniface

"Serve the demon... pay the price!"
―Jack Boniface

"Hm. Machine. With voodoo drums in the background... that's sad, somehow."
―Jack Boniface

"Don't call me Jack! You don't know me well enough to call me Jack."
―Jack Boniface

"Death... I can smell it. Literally."
―Jack Boniface

"And, when you kill him this time, kill him dead!"
―Ma

"You foul the night... my night!"
―Jack Boniface

"Don't worry lady, I'm not a terrorist -- I'm the king of shadows!"
―Jack Boniface

"The Blood is the life."
―Death Runners

"Yeah, they say it's hard to live without blood."
―Devon

"Maybe being Shadowman is like riding a night time high."
―Jack Boniface

"Stop right there, gentlemen -- welcome to the world of darkness."
―Jack Boniface

"And Shadowman has to learn to be a lot more careful if Jack Boniface is going to survive."
―Jack Boniface

"This is a spaceship man. -- A gateway to the universe."
―Marty

"On September 9, 1999, I'll be pushing daisies."
―Jack Boniface

"The price for failing Emil Sosa is your immortal soul."
―Emil Sosa

"I'm going to die."
―Jack Boniface

"I don't want to die."
―Jack Boniface

"De fates is fickle. De future is nevah certain, 'til it becomes de present..."
―Jeremiah Dimanche

"The world has sullied itself through complacency, and I am to cleanse it... with evil."
―Master Darque

"Tell me, sister... will you try to stop me?"
―Master Darque

"I want to drink your soul... Mr. Boniface. I want to taste your unique energy."
―Master Darque

"Remember the day of your death, Mr. Boniface."
―Sandria Darque

"I feel it! Gonna do it! Gonna run now! Gonna die now!"
―Jack Boniface

"Mr. Boniface is running... he has willed himself to me... I have fulfilled his desires... and now, we are lovers in death."
―Master Darque

"Get outta my way! I gotta die now!"
―Jack Boniface

"Something's happening... I sense a rent in the fabric of your grand design..."
―Sandria Darque

"I die a violent death, Darque... but, not today!"
―Jack Boniface

"I'll be power... and I'll enjoy it."
―Master Darque

"We didn't make you Shadowman to have you leavin' town when things get a little poorly for you."
―Anjenetta Grampion

"Do you have your mask? I like you better with your mask."
―Sandria Darque

"You kiss me with your lies, my sweet. Embrace me with deceit. It's time to put an end to the madness you stir in me... for I can no longer bear to hear the sound of your words."
―Evans Devereaux

"Oh, I got one coming through... yes indeed."
―R.L. McNeeley

"This time, you're dog food!"
―Jack Boniface

"This is Times Square, man. I can do anything I like."
―Jack Boniface

"This guy really wants to get Darque's goat."
―Jack Boniface

"Another day. How many more, Grandmother? How much longer can I last?"
―Rentaro Nakadai

" Now, relax, focus and think of eternal things. Your nation. Your people. Me."
―Grandmother

"Use the energy, Rai!"
―Grandmother

"Give it form! Shape it!"
―Grandmother

"Wait a minute! The staff?"
―Grandmother

"I think the staff is as close as I’ll ever get to a fishing pole!"
―Rentaro Nakadai

"I’m eager for him to have the kind of childhood I never had."
―Tohru Nakadai

"Because of Grandmother…! I hate her!"
―Kazuyo Nakadai

"No, don’t say that, Kazuyo. She means well. She loves our people. She shelters them and cares for them…"
―Tohru Nakadai

"They should learn to take care of themselves. Like us."
―Kazuyo Nakadai

"As much as I wish I could go on defending poor, dear Grandmother, I’m finished. It’s all up to you, now."
―Rentaro Nakadai

"I don’t want to be the next Rai… and I’m not giving my son to Grandmother to train as my replacement."
―Tohru Nakadai

"How dare you abandon your duty ––! How dare you dishonor a thousand–year tradition?"
―Rentaro Nakadai

"The Anti–Grannies are insane. But there are few of them. They’re no real threat."
―Tohru Nakadai

"Accept your responsibility entirely –– or let them get it over with."
―Grandmother

"Now –– you will keep your vows to me, or you are no longer of my people."
―Grandmother

"I’m prepared to receive the energy, father."
―Tohru Nakadai

"Grandmother will help us move the energy, it burns a little…"
―Rentaro Nakadai

"When I awakened and found you gone, I suspected that Grandmother had finally won."
―Kazuyo Nakadai

"I wanted things to be different. But… you knew I was heir to Rai. You knew what that meant. You accepted it…"
―Tohru Nakadai

"I don’t want my baby raised in isolation, doing nothing but training, hearing nothing but Grannie’s lies––!"
―Kazuyo Nakadai

"When did the Anti–Grannies win you over?"
―Tohru Nakadai

"Before we met. Grannie made a mistake when she selected me. Think what that means, Tohru. She’s fallible."
―Kazuyo Nakadai

"Perphaps. But Grandmother does a lot for our people and asks little in return –– one child every few generations… a single guardian to protect the host body that fifty billion people live inside."
―Tohru Nakadai

"Live? No, they merely exist –– kept like pets. Lulled into complacency… weak, dependent. Better that Takashi die here than serve that monster. I loved you, Tohru."
―Kazuyo Nakadai

"I… love her, Grandmother. Still."
―Tohru Nakadai

"Relax, young Rai. Focus. Think of eternal things."
―Grandmother

"Time is all relative... You may as well just show up and have fun."
―Timewalker

"Most people think of time as a stream, but it’s really more like a hurricane – countless endings and beginnings chasing each other’s tails."
―Erica Pierce

"While you are in it, it seems orderly and absolute – but it isn’t. The Lost Land is at the center – like the eye of the storm."
―Erica Pierce

"From the Lost Land you can see that it’s all chaos out there."
―Erica Pierce