- Batman: I've carefully studied every Justice Leaguer, past and present and created contingency plans to neutralize you should that become necessary.
- The Flash: You've gotta be kidding me.
- Batman: Neutralize, not kill. Whoever implemented my plans altered them.
- Wonder Woman: It's still a completely unacceptable breach of our trust.
- Batman: The members of the Justice League are among the most powerful and potentially dangerous people on the planet.
- The Flash: You think one of us would go over to the other side?
- Batman: Or succumb to mind control. Yes, it's possible. That's why I developed plans for containing any of all members of the JLA should the need ever arise.
- Superman: None of us would ever do that to you.
- Batman: Then you're damn fools.
- Superman: In light of the recent breach of trust revealed to us during the Vandal Savage matter, we have to decide whether Batman should remain in the League. All those in favor of...
- Wonder Woman: Wait. Before we vote, I believe the accused should be allowed a few words in his defense.
- Green Lantern: Seconded.
- Superman: Okay. Batman?
- Batman: My actions don't require any defense. In the same situation, I'd do it again.
- The Flash: Aw, come on!
- Batman: As individuals, and even more so as a group, the Justice League is far too dangerous to lack a failsafe against any possible misuse of our power.
- Wonder Woman: We use our power to protect the world. We always have.
- Batman: And what if we ever used it for some other purpose?
- [rises from his seat]
- Batman: If you people can't see the potential danger of an out-of-control Justice League, I don't need to wait for a vote. I don't belong here.
- [walks out of the room]
- Batman: Alfred, get the Batwing ready. The Justice League is under attack.
- Alfred Pennyworth: By whom?
- Batman: By me.
- Green Lantern: That's three you owe me.
- Batman: We keeping score?
- Green Lantern: Not literally.
- Batman: Because if we are, it's 8 to 7, my favor.
- The Flash: Batman, you okay?
- Batman: I'll live.
- Superman: So will Ace, apparently.
- Martian Manhunter: He's still a little embarrassed from last time.
- Superman: He sucker-punched me.
- Green Lantern: All right, now come the warning shots. Give up? Please say no.
- Ten: You'll never catch me, Lantern.
- Green Lantern: Lots of women say that.
- Alfred Pennyworth: Late night playing cards, Master Bruce?
- Batman: Something like that. How did you know?
- Alfred Pennyworth: [picks out a card from the driver seat] I believe tradition for hiding these up one's sleeve.
- Batman: Was that sarcasm, Alfred?
- Alfred Pennyworth: Mild teasing, at best. I'm being uncharacteristically gentle with you mainly because you're bleeding all over my nice clean floor.
- Batman: Not going to let me go to work.
- Alfred Pennyworth: That is correct, Master Bruce. Not until you've had proper medical attention...
- Batman: Fine.
- Alfred Pennyworth: ...food, and a minimum of eight hours' bed rest.
- Batman: Let's get this over with.
- Alfred Pennyworth: I made chicken soup. You can eat while you brood and I'll put in your stitches myself. It will be delightful, I'm sure.
- Batman: All right.
- Alfred Pennyworth: By the way, the part about the stitches? That would be sarcasm.
- Vandal Savage: Eighty-thousand years ago, I was living in what is now the island of Sumatra. One night, the sky lit up with streaks of fire. Meteors. But my primitive mind thought the stars were falling from the sky. One meteor fell to Earth in my valley. My compatriots ran, but it was very cold and the glowing stone was warm. I slept there bathed in the meteor's strange radiations. And when I awoke the next morning, I was forever changed. The radiation mutated me, evolving me. I was instantly aware of my increased intelligence. It was only with the passage of time that I discovered the rest of my gift. So far as I know, I cannot die.
- Cheetah: Is that a fact?
- Vandal Savage: Go ahead.
- Mirror Master: [Cheetah slashes Vandal's throat] Why'd you do that?
- Cheetah: Don't you realize what he's planned? In his new world our money doesn't matter.
- Vandal Savage: You are correct. Money won't matter. It's trivial in the long run.
- [smacks Cheetah]
- Vandal Savage: Let me tell you about the long run. I've lived thousands of lives. I've been a laborer, a scientist, a priest, an artist, a healer, thief.
- Ma'alefa'ak: But most often a conqueror.
- Cheetah: I'm still not seeing how this makes up for my money.
- Vandal Savage: Seventy-five-thousand years ago, a disaster nearly rendered humanity extinct. I enslaved the survivors and ruled with an iron hand. In a few generations, my people were well under way to repopulating the Earth and becoming the planet's dominant species. I was happy then.
- Cheetah: You're taking the world over out of nostalgia?
- Vandal Savage: I'm taking over because humanity is prideful and belligerent and once again needs my guiding hand. But before I take over, I intend to soften them up.
- Ma'alefa'ak: By destroying half the world.
- Vandal Savage: Those who survive will happily follow a leader who offers food, comfort and order.
- Bane: That could work.
- Ma'alefa'ak: It will work.
- Vandal Savage: To you, my warlords, I offer dominion over as much of what remains of the planet as each of you can hold, second only to me. Interested?
- Cheetah: You haven't left us much choice.
- Bane: Heh, how do you propose to kill that many people? Even without the Justice League, they will fight.
- Vandal Savage: They'll lose.
- Cheetah: No technology, no superheroes, no functioning governments.
- Vandal Savage: Except the one we control.
- Martian Manhunter: That's quite an ambitious plan. No wonder you wanted us out of the way.
- Vandal Savage: I thought you took care of him.
- Ma'alefa'ak: He should've been burning for weeks.
- Martian Manhunter: Don't feel bad. Actually, none of you managed to finish the job. Did you get all that?
- [Justice League teleports in the Hall of Doom]
- Superman: We did. Take them down.
- Green Lantern: Wake up, King. Got some questions for you.
- King: I want a lawyer.
- Green Lantern: You're getting ahead of yourself. First you want a doctor. Then you want a lawyer.
- Star Sapphire: [as Carol] She sort of looks like me, doesn't she?
- Green Lantern: Carol?
- Star Sapphire: Yes. Her name was Carol too. She's beautiful, of course, and she has dark hair like mine. And the stench of your failure hanging over her.
- Green Lantern: I didn't mean...
- Star Sapphire: You didn't mean to get all those people killed? You didn't mean to betray me, drive me into becoming this?
- [changes into Star Sapphire]
- Star Sapphire: What didn't you mean, Hal?
- Green Lantern: I don't know. I'm...
- Star Sapphire: Afraid? Afraid that you don't deserve to have so much power? That nobody does?
- Green Lantern: Yes. I don't deserve this.
- Star Sapphire: Then I hope you have the decency to do what's right and suffer for your many sins.
- Henry Ackerdson: [shoots Superman] Kryptonite bullet.
- [turns into Metallo, opens up his metal chest]
- Metallo: Kryptonite heart.
- Bane: Hello, Bruce. Sorry I couldn't be there for this, but I have a rather large check to pick up. Payment for dealing with you. Oh, you were concerned about where I put your parents. Don't be. They're very close. Rest in peace.
- Wonder Woman: Cyborg ?
- Cyborg: That's me, all right.
- Wonder Woman: Y'wanna tell me what the hell's goin' on here?
- Bane: Wait. A further toast. I've been trying to kill Batman for 10 years. Well, this time, I did better than kill him, I humiliated him.
- Metallo: Here, here.
- Mirror Master: Each of us finally got the better of our opposite numbers and it's all thanks to the genius of one man. Vandal Savage.
- Metallo: Yes, he's the man.
- Bane: Ha, ha, to the man.
- Metallo: His check's clear.
- Bane: I love my money.
- Vandal Savage: Our business is completed. You are, of course, free to go.
- Ma'alefa'ak: You hinted at a larger scheme and said there would be a place for us in it should we so choose.
- Vandal Savage: I did. And the offer remains open to you all. But I fear you lack the vision to go along with me. The next stage of my plans might be considered genocidal.
- Metallo: What are you gonna do, destroy the world?
- Vandal Savage: Nothing so crude. Half. Two-thirds at the most.
- [Metallo laughs]
- Vandal Savage: It's not a joke. It's the next step in a plan to transform the planet in a manner that will render your $100-million payday both trivial and meaningless.
- Bane: What possible profit could be in destroying the world?
- Vandal Savage: The first thing you have to understand is that I am old. Older than the human race.
- Ma'alefa'ak: I know that you believe this to be true.
- Vandal Savage: It is true.
- Batman: Is everything okay, John?
- Martian Manhunter: Aaaaaagh! Aaaaaaagh!
- Alfred Pennyworth: ...So what'd he say?
- Batman: He's busy.
- Wonder Woman: You must be the real one whatever that weapon is cheetah it won't work
- Cyborg: It's a scanner, somethings happening to you, did you just call me cheetah, she thinks i'm cheetah. Wonder Woman just listen for a moment, whatever it looks like
- Cheetah: I'm not cheetah think about it all those dozens of cheetahs you saw, how is this possible
- Wonder Woman: I don't know
- Cheetah: I think I do
- Cyborg: My sensors have detected a cluster of nano machines attached to your brain stem, they're broadcasting directly into your visual and auditory centers making you see whatever cheetah wants you to
- Wonder Woman: What do you want cheetah
- Cheetah: To hurt you diana what else, that bracelet trick always impresses me well at least I got to you once
- Wonder Woman: You drugged me
- Cheetah: Catch me if you can
- Wonder Woman: It's not possible
- Cheetah: Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, look it's Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, it's Wonder Woman, no way, what's she doing here, Wonder Woman, is that really her, dude she's so hot, is that Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman, why is she looking at us like that
- Green Lantern: I still can't believe what you tried to do to me
- Star Sapphire: You hurt me Jordan you broke my heart and I'll never stop trying to hurt you back
- Cyborg: My sensors have detected a cluster of nano machines attached to your brain stem directly into your visual and auditory centers making you see whatever cheetah wants you to
- Wonder Woman: It could be
- Cyborg: It is she knows you'll never quit a fight I think you're supposed to keep going until your heart gives out or you have an aneurysm or a cop gets lucky and shoots you
- Cheetah: I've identified the frequency so i'm just going to broadcast it
- Wonder Woman: No, i'm sorry you forced me to do this cheetah, let's get you some medical attention
- Cyborg: After you
- Wonder Woman: Cyborg
- Cyborg: That's me alright
- Wonder Woman: You wanna tell me what the hell is going on here
- Cyborg: Why are you guys attacking Wonder Woman
- Officer in Charge: Get out of my face tin man, i've had enough trouble with superheroes today, to last me a lifetime
- Cyborg: Not as much as your gonna have if you don't give me a straight answer
- Officer in Charge: She was fighting the cheetah, and then suddenly attacking everyone. We got the civilians out and the park sealed off, but we can't get anywhere near here
- Agent Porter: Look at her she's having a seizure or something
- Cyborg: You could be right, her pulse, blood pressure and respiration are off the charts. If she keeps going at that paste she's gonna drop dead
- Officer in Charge: That's not the worst outcome I can imagine right now
- Cyborg: I'm gonna talk her down, pull your men back
- Officer in Charge: All officers, stand down and retreat to barrier
- Star Sapphire: It's not broken, you've arrived Star Sapphire
- Bane: If this an elaborate ambush, you won't fair any better than the alligator
- Metallo: I suspect we'd do a bit bit better, it's bane isn't it i'm Matallo big fan of your work, The scary guy is Ma'alefa'ak, and the lady in the clouds is Cheetah
- Metallo: What's that supposed to be
- Ma'alefa'ak: An invitation
- Vandal Savage: Welcome to the hall of doom, i'm Vandal Savage, i'm pleased to see you all here,
- Star Sapphire: For 10 million$, i'm inclined to accept any invitation
- Metallo: Makes me wonder, what if we just kept the money and not show up
- Vandal Savage: You'd live the rest of your very short lives in fear, in the moment I would inevitably find you,
- Cheetah: Tough talk, none of us are that easy to kill,
- Vandal Savage: Everybody dies, child
- Ma'alefa'ak: That's not, what i've heard about you
- Vandal Savage: You 5 and mirror master, are here because you each have, a personal vendetta against a member of the justice league, you wish to see them dead, while I have no personal entity towards them, I have a vision for this world and they would stand in myway, their deaths would serve my goals, in short we need each other,
- Cheetah: I don't speak for the others, but i'm perfectly capable of killing Wonder Woman by myself
- Vandal Savage: History says otherwise, you've all tried and failed, to kill members of the league on multiple occasions
- Mirror Master: Savage has full-proof plans, on how we can destroy them
- Vandal Savage: And I will pay you 100 million$, plus expenses, for each justice leaguer you take off the table
- Star Sapphire: Wait a minute, you just committed over a half a billion$ just to get the j.l.a out of the way of another plan
- Vandal Savage: As Ma'alefa'ak implied earlier i'm very old, 50k years of time to amass, a fortune that dwarfs any other in human history
- Star Sapphire: Even so, to spend that much money just to clean the decks, the payoff must be huge
- Vandal Savage: Inconceivably so, and any of you, who would like to continue working with me are welcome to share the riches, after you've destroyed the justice league
- Metallo: I don't see any of us, looking for the exit
- Vandal Savage: Then it's settled, welcome to the legion of doom
- Metallo: So that things, really going to kill half of the population of earth
- Vandal Savage: Not exactly, the solar flare will do most of the damage
- Mirror Master: Solar flare..
- Vandal Savage: Think of this as a pilot light, when our ideal launch window, opens in just over an hour, this magnificent creation will fly into the sun, trailing magnetic, resonance
- Mirror Master: And when it hits
- Vandal Savage: It will trigger a solar flare that will propagate at light speed among the magnetic trail we've left, and 8 1/5 minutes it will utterly destroy the sunward facing side of the earth, nearly half of the world's population will instantly, and thanks to the accompanying electromagnetic pulse, any technology more advanced than say, the steam engine, will simply stop working
- The Flash: You never asked me how my wrist was healing
- Mirror Master: Fine, hows your ugh ugh
- The Flash: Surprisingly fast
- Superman: No, the solar flare is coming
- Green Lantern: How do we stop it
- Superman: I don't know but we've got less than 8 minutes to figure something out
- Green Lantern: Maybe longer
- Martian Manhunter: That's quite an ambitious plan, no wonder you wanted us out of the way
- Vandal Savage: I thought you took care of him
- Ma'alefa'ak: He should have been burning for weeks
- Martian Manhunter: Don't feel bad, actually, none of you managed to finish the job, did you get all that
- Superman: We did, take them down
- Vandal Savage: Don't let them get to the missile
- Batman: Hal, Hal listen to me however it looks this wasn't your fault
- Green Lantern: Whose fault wasn't then, I was the one with the most powerful weapon in the universe, I was the one whose arrogance led to this girl's death
- Batman: I know more, than a little about arrogance, I also know about dead bodies and that isn't one, she's a sophisticated android, they all were, the entire sicario was created to convince you that you made a bad call but you didn't
- Green Lantern: I was afraid that
- Batman: No, you weren't afraid not really, you were dosed with a synthesized version of scarecrow's fear gas, because will is the source of your strength
- Green Lantern: And fear is the enemy of will
- Batman: I've got the antidote to the fear gas
- Green Lantern: Don't need it, robots, advanced drugs, physiological profiling, no way Star Sapphire came up with this on her own
- Batman: I did this to you, to all of you