Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

Gene Hackman: Lex Luthor, Nuclear Man

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• Lex Luthor : Lenny, let's try and keep your IQ a family secret.

• [last lines] 

  Lex Luthor : [Superman has dropped Luthor off at prison and they are discussing nuclear weapons]  Is the world gonna be vaporized?

  Superman : No. It's the same as it's always been, Luthor. On the brink. With good fighting evil. See you in twenty.

  [Superman flies off] 

• Superman : You'd risk world wide nuclear war for your own personal financial gain.

  Lex Luthor : Nobody wants war. I just want to keep the threat alive.

• Lex Luthor : He gets his energy from the sun. Without it, he's like you at night - useless.

• Lex Luthor : Destroy Superman!

  Nuclear Man : First, I have fun.

• Lenny : You gonna skip the country, Uncle Lex?

  Lex Luthor : Lenny, you pathetic product of the public school system, your Uncle Lex has had nothing on his mind the past few years except for one thing:

  Lenny , Lex Luthor : Destroy Superman!

• Lex Luthor : [introduces Nuclear Man to Superman]  Look closely at the cell structure. You see anything familiar?

  Superman : You've broken all the laws of man, Luthor. Now it looks as though you've broken all the laws of nature, too. I can only assume you must have hidden a device of some kind on one of the missiles I hurled into the sun.

  Lex Luthor : You know, Mr. Muscle, I'm really gonna miss these little chats we had together. You're the only one that could keep up with me.

• Lex Luthor : Lenny, I've always considered you the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree.

• Lex Luthor : This is my nephew Lenny. He worships me.

• Lex Luthor : You know what I can do with a single strand of Superman's hair?

  Lenny : You can make a toupee that flies.

• Lex Luthor : Just remember, I made you.

  Lenny : Yeah, you're just an experiment, freako!

  [Nuclear Man raises his hand and lifts Lenny up into the air] 

  Nuclear Man : [Makes Lenny spin around]  I am an experiment? I am a freako?

  [Sets Lenny down] 

  Lex Luthor : I made you and I can destroy you.

  Nuclear Man : Destroy. Destroy Superman now!

• Nuclear Man : Destroy Superman.

  Lex Luthor : Later.

  Lex Luthor : [to Superman]  He's a little bit anxious. Can you blame him?

• Lex Luthor : [to Superman]  Goodnight, sweet prince. Parting is... inevitable.

• Lenny : You know what this means, Uncle Lex?

  Lex Luthor : What?

  Lenny : We're gonna be parents!

• Lex Luthor : [to Lenny]  Now Leonard, your Uncle Lex, with this protoplasm that I've grown from Superman's hair cells... will duplicate creation itself!

• Lex Luthor : A hearty bienvenue to Jean-Pierre Dubois, nuclear warhead dealer to the world. His motto is: "If you didn't buy it from Jean-Pierre, you didn't buy it on ze black market."