Category:Anthony Stark (Earth-616)/Quotes
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The Avengers were almost killed by a monster who could possibly destroy the entire planet. The one chance we have of defeating this new enemy -- and your bigotry gets him killed on a suicide mission. 
- Once you've read it over, give me your thoughts and pack your bags because we're going to Washington.
- You know Cap, ... Being Avengers Chairman isn't all its cracked up to be.
- It has to be this way! The ranks of the Avengers will always need replenishing! The old must ever give way to the new!
- I've reason to believe that the man who reconstructed Ultron was...MYSELF!
- The Supreme Intelligence won't threaten anyone ever again...he will never KILL again.
- Mr. Stark is determined that all Access to the Mansion be blocked by today.
- Sorry, Tony...but Captain America's more important than you... Let's just hope I can keep him alive long enough...for Panther to get him out.
- Patriotism doesn't automatically equal conservatism.
- Forgive me, Marilla -- but you, like this morning's surprise -- had to die.
- I vote we disband the Avengers West Coast.
- Our most honored freedom fighter, stuck down in his prime--
- I need a day when there aren't twenty crises to deal with, but I don't see that coming any time soon.
- Steve asked me to save him, and if THIS doesn't do it, I don't know WHAT will. And anyway...he's already got the shield.
- Elektra was the first casualty of the Skrull invasion, gentlemen. I won't let you make her the last.
- It's the End of an Era. The West Coast Avengers are through and this sad Ruin is our only Memorial.
- Going into Action alongside the Avengers again after all this Time feels strange... almost wrong!
- My Friends, I'm... so sorry, but... Hawkeye is a Killer.
- And don't worry, Kang, I'll play my Part in this to the End.
- No! I can't accept this! We've been functioning for less than 6 Hours! We haven't even formally inaugurated the Team yet and they're all Dead or Missing!
- The Scatter are interstellar Scavengers. They move from World to World, devouring as they go. If Century is right, we're in for one nasty Visit.
- You Cynic, Hank Pym. Agent's not as bad as everyone thinks...
- My biggest nightmare has come true: Iron Man 2.0 is here... and I'm not the one that made it.
- Well. No turning back now.
- It's all happening now. Chunks of stuff just...go. I can't remember any of third grade. I can't remember the names of any particular cars. They're all just..."cars." I have thirty-three cars all over the world but I can't remember a single name of a single one. But I know I have thirty-three.
- I found what I almost always find: Genocidal goons with guns. Your tax dollars pay me to beat the hell out of people like this. (I decline the paycheck by the way.) The job is its own reward...
- Fifty-eight people, Stane. Fifty-eight more people dead in my name because of you... because of me.
- Tell you a secret about your dad, Ezekiel. He was crazy, too.
- These kinds of things just kill property values stone dead.
- My point is -- in Norman Osborn -- we don't have a bunch of dropouts and failures calling the shots. We've actually got a real, dyed-in-the-wool, mustache-twirling looney-toon running the show.
- I'm recovered enough to feel hatred towards the one responsible for all this -- and to want revenge on MODOK!
- Part of me wants to pulverize that woman! But another part knows that her ends are noble. Even if her means are misguided.
- And I know registration won't stop every tragedy, but people in our position need accountability. Someone who, if I'd killed those men, would have thrown me in jail where I belonged.
- To Dad, wealth was everthing... while I never paid much attention to it.
- (To Midas) You fat, stinking swine!
- Isn't this enough Mandarin? Can't you see what your mad schemes of conquest cost?
- I'm no spy, sir Lyan -- I'm an ally!
- As an Avenger, its my duty to safeguard Earth.
- Welcome to the NEW Stark International!
- You're lucky you're only facing the second most powerful Avenger, robot!
- Tony, m'man, this just hasn't been your day!
- Nick Fury and SHIELD have been my allies for years! My friends! And I still don't know why they'd want to trash Tony Stark. But they're not up against Stark any more -- they're up against Iron Man! And by God, they're going to -- know it!
- ... Hadn't we better get stared on thie second bottle of bubbly before it loses it;'s fizz?
- I still love my country, Nick and I fight for it... in my own way.
- Get another guinea pig, madman!
- If I knew you went around in outfits like that, Ling, I'd be around all the time.
- OK, Endoterm Enough is Enough! I'm tired of playing your games!
- I'm not up on my voodooo lore, but nothing I heard about it involved radioactivity.
- You can give up... or my repulsor can take your head off!
- All right Martinelli, give me the story fast!
- All right Pithins, wht's going on?
- Better think again, Mauler!
- I'm in trouble.
- Mrs. Arbogast, I'm back among the living.
- Sometimes I wonder which is the real me... this splendid metal skin I've created -- or the frail thing of flesh that wears it.
- I'm tired of being a hero. I want to relax and have some fun.
- It's a bit early -- but Cheers!
- Thanks for showing me how hard it is ... for forcing me to realize alcohol is my problem.
- (to Madame Masque) I'd bet there's quite a woman behind that mask!
- I've been killing myself for years. That's not news. But I'm going to stop.
- Uh, Rhodey, the armor already has magnetic capacity.
- I -- am not -- Iron Man!
- I'm going to Bethany!
- ... Is it a job for Iron Man?
- So, it has come to this.
- Mister, you may not talk, but you will give me information. You'll write it, or type it, or beat it out in Morse code... or send it in smoke signals -- but give it you will!
- There's only one way I can make up for the damage I've caused, and thats to liberate Boca Caliente.
- You are stupid. Cruel. And a loser.
- The odds make me feel like I'm playing against the house on the Riviera..!
- Maybe I can help!
- I'm going to get back what's mine. And Heaven help anyone who gets in my way!
- I can't explain, Steve. But I'm asking you as a friend, not to stand in my way.
- My mission has made me a criminal.
- ... The right woman can mean all the difference to a man, Cheryl!
- Ah, Rhodey. Sure, I'm swell.
- I do have a responsibility to keep my inventions from evil hands – but I have a greater responsibility to oppose that evil any way I can. So…I guess Iron Man will be around for a while.
- I'm the devil. Stealing my Soul.
- I'll check Iron Man's schedule... and see what I can do.
- It's like Bullfinch's Mythology come to life!
- I'm here on business, Kathy.
- Can I buy you a vineyard?
- Guess I haven't been very lucky at love.
- Don't make me out to be a saint.
- That's ENOUGH Chemistro.
- My armors manueverable, --fast--and lots of fun at parties.
- Is this some kind of a joke?
- It's a cake walk ol' buddy! What could possible go wrong?
- Hardly fitting for the head of Stark Enterprises to be found parading around his office in his unmentionables... billionaire playboy image or not.
- I've no idea what's been happening to me. It may be the work of some enemy... it may be the price I have to pay for the years I abused my body... wrecked myself with alcoholism...
- I'm trapped inside this armor. Cocooned in a prison of my own creation!
- Even though I know it's every bit as mad as you say, I've got to take tis fight right into their arena. And show them when they mess with Tony Stark....they mess with Iron Man!
- How are you agasinst someone who fights back?
- Once again my Iron Man armor becomes a walking Iron Lung. A walking prison!!
- Whatever your strengths, you're still just a man. But Iron Man is more than that! Much more!
- I have only a short time left to live...
- I've got to do something about those missiles...
- Get going Clint -- before I forget you're on our side.
- Ignorant Superstitious Savages! You repulse me.
- I don't like this one bit.
- Ready or not here I come.
- Jim, Someone has to carry on for me. The World needs Iron Man.
- Tony Stark may have done his bit out there, but only Iron Man can do what has to be done...
- So much to do, so little RAM.
- I won't have Stark Enterprises selling nuclear weapons capability to terrorists.
- Don't bother to clean out your desks -- You've got 15 minutes to get out of my building.
- ... The new thermo-coupling device element in my armor responded perfectly.
- Can't let it get me!
- You've picked a very bad day to screw with Stark Enterprises!
- I'm thinkng of Obadiah Stane -- May he rot in Hades --
- I've an enemy lurking somewhere out there in the depths of cyberspace.
- I take back 50% of all the bad things I ever said about you.
- I don't think we can stop pollution by turning our back on technology.
- Hi, my name is Tony ... and I'm an alcoholic.
- The times they are a'changin', Jarvis.
- I could never... confess. There was no one to turn to all these Years, knowing how it would go... where the long, slow Fall into the Dark would take me... what it would cost me. But I had no choice. He broke me. He broke me from the very beginning.
- ... Remember Tony Stark not for what he did ... but for what he tried.
- Holy Hannah!
- Want it or not, he's going to get that help from an Avenger named Iron Man!
- ... Don't tell me how long he's going to live -- because frankly it doesn't concern me.
- Come on fellas -- I've no time for kidding around
- Here comes Laughing Boy -- and he looks-- kind of mean!
- (To Marianne Rodgers) Will you marry me?
- Your group here keeps screaming for peace -- yet you're the first to resort to violence!
- You've been looking at it all wrong, Stark! You're not a cilivilian, you're a soldier -- albeit a reluctant one.
- Even this far in the future the bad guys are corny as ever.
- Call me, Tony ... Miss?
- -- I never lose! Never!
- I don't know what just happened, but this Avenger isn't going to hold an inquiry.
- ... When I'm mad, it's all over but a body count!
- Save the Polemic Sitwell!
- Hi beautiful. Mind joining a depressed boss for a night cap?
- --This 'prison' machinery is only metal -- whereas I am -- Iron Man!
- I won't ever handle munitions work again!
- Are you a man, Spectrum? A man who lets an alien rule him?
- Eddie's become the Freak!
- This is a strange land, an environment dangerous for those unprepared for it.
- We must attack together, Sunfire!
- I'll be happy to keep ducking anything you throw!
- You black pajamas spell it out, Commie!
- There'll be no more monsters made here!
- I went through all this just to get an apology?
- You mean, the longer I'm in your dimension, the crazier I get?
- I've got three candidates for the zoo...
- (To the Controller) Just as I thought -- as ugly as ever!
- I'm alone -- the millionaire "man who has everything" is missing one all-important item -- a friend.
- This armor is strong -- the strongest alloy on Earth!
- Fall, you walking nightmare!
- Ironic then, that... my greatest failure... is my only chance. Project: Prometheus Rising. A self-contained armory and mobile life support unit. A walking, flying, invincible body armor... it destroyed my best friend's life... will it save my own?
- Thor gave me that enchanted jewel fragment in hopes that it would be a source of energy to serve mankind, but now it's become a weapon...and I may have to use it against my friend.
- Not very patriotic of you, Sonny. You ought to let them have one of my designs that doesn't shake apart in a sonic blast!
- I went from being a man trapped in an iron suit to being a man freed by it.
- Every super hero is a potential gun... and the last time I checked, guns required registration.
- We just invented the best cell phone on Earth. We don't need military money anymore.
- For my next trick: locking the damn door so no one accidentally gets to see Iron Man butt naked.
- Don't take this wrong, Dugan, but if this is the first trial of your new airborne unit -- I think you forgot some crucial equipment.
- Rahimov was right. But I was right, too. "How many have died?" he asked. "Too many", I said. But I didn't tell him the rest. What happens when you... make those decisions. All those people I've touched... I remember them. I remember them all.
- Say hello to the Iron Man, you terrorist scum.
- Mr. Mallen. Lay on the ground, hands behind your head, ankles crossed. Or I'm going to have to kill you.
- Think about it, Nick. What if war was obsolete? What if terrorism and crime, famine and disease were obsolete? Where would we be?
- What do I say? I say you take your best shot... then you watch me heal... then I take my best shot. Bub.
- My God, what have I done?
- The Mandarin, I presume? Your hospitality leaves a lot to be desired.
- I'm starting to think Stark might want to call off the whole "Employee of the Month" thing.
- I spent fifty years building Stark Universal into the global juggernaut it is today. Fifty years battling bombs, bullies and buyouts. Only to have a more subtle enemy slip through my defenses when I wasn't looking. Time.
- Victor von Doom...you're under arrest for crimes against humanity. ... You recognize my authority now?
- Guess we SHOULDN'T have broken up the Avengers.
- My work here is done! SHIELD as found ... a leader!
- Have you never seen an Iron Man before?
- You made the same mistake all tyrants and bullies make! You thought you'd just have to flex your muscles and show your strength, and your enemies would fall by the wayside!
- Namor! Others have always said you were a raging madman -- a murderous menace! But i never believed it -- not until now!
- Gentlemen, I am prepared to tell whatever you wish know about Iron Man!
- Boy, will this give'em something to talk about when they get together at their next «peace through strength» rally!
- Who in the name of a twisted transistor are you, anyway?
- I don't want to fight you, Thor! But if that's what it'll take to make you back off -- then that's what I'll do!
- I got a rundown on the Warheads weapons systems for you, Fury...but there's something you should know - But no matter how dangerous these Warheads and Mys-Tech are, believe me, they're nowhere near as dangerous as some of the things they go up against!
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Avengers
- The M.S.F. accountants are all that stand between us and the I.R.S., Cap. Believe me, rather than deal with the guys they deal with I'd fight Ultron barehanded. In my underwear.
- --Avengers vol. 3 #56
Iron Man
- Nice thing about built-in radar: You can see where you're going -- when you can't see where you're going!
Civil War
- And while I'm bonding with [King] Arthur, Doctor Doom is out there somewhere bonding with Morgan le Fey of the evil $%#@ing #$## le Feys and they start a zombie war. Of course!! Right? It's Doom!! Why take this miracle of an opportunity to go sight-seeing or on some sort of sociological expedition in a time long lost... when you can start a zombie war!!
- --From Civil War: The Confession #1
- The U.S. Government paid Stark Industries close to a billion dollars to make that bunker impregnable. This is your chance to make me look like an idiot. Commence firing!
- Once you've read it over, give me your thoughts and pack your bags because we're going to Washington.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Oh, yeah. Me and Mandarin go way back. I've been locked up in his palace so many times I've thought about having my mail forwarded there
- --When asked about whether he knows Mandarin
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