Iron Man (TV Series)

The Mandarin's Revenge/The Mandarin's Death Ray/No One Escapes the Mandarin (1966)

John Vernon: Tony Stark, Iron Man, Namor, Major Glenn Talbot, Major Corey

Quotes 

• Iron Man : I'm glad I created my armor out of flexible iron. The parts can all fold and slip into my briefcase.

• The Mandarin : YOU! You dare attack me single-handed? This time I shall show no mercy!

  Iron Man : You weren't exactly a friendly pussycat last time either, Mandarin!

• The Mandarin : All I need do is use the exclusive power of but ONE ring to bury you beneath a wall of rock!

  [brings debris down on Iron Man] 

  Iron Man : [breaks free]  I don't wear this armor just for show! These overgrown pebbles don't bother me!

• The Mandarin : Before I destroy you completely, Iron Man, I'll make you this offer: agree to become my ally, serve me, and together we can rule the world!

  Iron Man : I'd rather team up with a rattlesnake!

  The Mandarin : Ah, so! All right then, you die!

  Narrator : What terrible fate awaits the great Golden Avenger?

• The Mandarin : WHAT? You still move? You still live?

  Iron Man : I've been trying to tell you, Big Mouth, I thrive on electricity!

  The Mandarin : But you have no protection against a lethal karate blow!

  [attacks] 

• The Mandarin : Even if you could snap those cables, it would be too late! Your time has come, Iron Man! If you have any prayers, say them now!... Are you mad? You smile in the face of death!

  Iron Man : [thinking]  I have one slim chance. If I can bluff my way through...

  Iron Man : [out loud]  Why shouldn't I smile? With Tony Stark running loose, he's probably found your anti-missile missiles, and is destroying them this very minute!

  The Mandarin : You were a fool to remind me! I will stop him now! As for you, I'll set my cable to hold you steady!

  [leaves] 

  Iron Man : [chuckles]  It worked! Now if you stay away long enough... Ah, my transistors are recharging fast, I'm reaching maximum power!

  [breaks free] 

• The Mandarin : I compliment you, Iron Man, on the battle you are putting up - a pity my black light ring must put an end to it so quickly!

  [uses the ring on Iron Man] 

  Iron Man : I'm surrounded by darkness! I can't see!

  The Mandarin : Now, my magnetic steel bands shall bind your iron armor, and you will be hopelessly trapped!

  Iron Man : [bound]  He's right... they're getting tighter!

  The Mandarin : And so the battle ends, with total victory for the Mandarin!

• [a fleeing Iron Man is caught by the Mandarin's tractor beam] 

  Iron Man : [pulled away]  If this is to be my finish, then I'll show that nothing can shatter the faith of a man who fights for freedom!

• The Mandarin : You wrecked my power ray, Iron Man!

  Iron Man : I've got news for you: that's the idea!

• [Iron Man meets a multitude of Mandarins] 

  Iron Man : Where are you?

  The Mandarin : Guess!

  Iron Man : All right, I will!

  [knocks them all down, and flees] 

  The Mandarin : I'll get him, even it takes the rest of my life!

• [first lines] 

  Iron Man : An emergency call on my built-in radio transceiver...

  Pepper Potts : Calling Iron Man. This is Pepper Potts, calling Iron Man: Mr Stark is urgently needed in his factory. You must locate him at once! That is all.

  Iron Man : It shouldn't be too difficult for me to find Tony Stark, considering I AM him under this iron exterior. I wonder if Pepper suspects that her playboy boss and Iron Man are one and the same...

• Narrator : Once again, the powerful figure of Iron Man streaks over the City like a golden gladiator.

  Iron Man : Not bad, less than an hour and there's the Capitol now...

• Tony Stark : [observing a missile through a telescope]  The missile is slowing down, and changing course, as though being pulled by some gigantic invisible hand... Of course! I should have guessed! It's close to the stronghold of the Mandarin, the most dangerous evil genius in the Orient!

• Tony Stark : If I attack him as Iron Man, his electronic devices will destroy me on sight! I'll have to go as Tony Stark, and allow myself to get captured...

• Iron Man : Stay where you are! You've got some questions to answer!

  The Mandarin : [immobilizes Iron Man]  On the contrary, YOU'll stay where you are! And once my ring touches this control panel, you will stay there FOR EVER!

• The Mandarin : In respect to your valor, I shall let you be slain by a warrior's sword!

  Iron Man : [sarcastic]  That's real kind of you! I'm all choked up!

  The Mandarin : No swordsman is my equal!

• Iron Man : [tries to sabotage the tractor beam]  I'll make sure this gadget never damages another missile!

  The Mandarin : You fool! Once I've started the ray, nothing can stop it - But YOU can be stopped! I've proved that before!

  Iron Man : I've got to protect that missile!

  [flies off] 

• Iron Man : [caught in a tractor beam]  The Mandarin is pulling me back towards his castle... I'm helpless! The ray is so powerful, my transistor jets can't resist it!

  Narrator : Will Iron Man have another chance to escape?

• The Mandarin : The captured missiles... he managed to send them back on their way! But he forgot my interceptor ray. I can still stop them!

  [runs] 

  The Mandarin : I must reach the control panel to bring them back!

  Iron Man : [note in wreckage]  "Better luck next time, Mandy! Iron M."

  The Mandarin : No! I'm too late! I'm too late! He smashed the controls!

• Narrator : As the Mandarin rants and raves within his sinister castle, the object of his wrath hurtles safely away, back towards safety...

  Iron Man : [in a missile]  I'm glad I built these babies nice and roomy!

• Colonel : Let's get right to the point, Stark! We've been using your new observer missiles. But as you can see, the results have been disastrous! Instead of obtaining vital photos for us, they've all crashed or disappeared!

  Tony Stark : I don't understand it, I checked each one of them myself! They're faster than anything the enemy can put in the air to shoot them down!

  Colonel : Perhaps, they're not as fast as you claim...

  Tony Stark : Negative, Colonel! I'll go to the Orient myself, and get to the bottom of this!

• [last lines] 

  Tony Stark : Gentlemen, there will be no further trouble with our missiles in that sector. Much of the credit for our success must go to Iron Man... but he's much too shy to come here himself.

• The Mandarin : Nothing can stop my miniature rockets!

  Iron Man : My magnetic repulsors can!

• Tony Stark : I knew his guards would take my briefcase. So I took a few simple precautions...

  Henchman : There must be a great treasure locked within...

  [shoots open the suitcase, but vapor smokes out...] 

  Henchman : We've been tricked! Sleeping gaassss...

  [all the henchman fall unconscious] 

  Tony Stark : Now that I'm inside the Mandarin's castle, it's time for Tony Stark to vanish and for Iron Man to live again!