Sky High (2005)
Michael Angarano: Will Stronghold
Photos
Quotes
-
[last lines]
Will Stronghold : In the end, my girlfriend became my arch enemy, my arch enemy became my best friend, and my best friend became my girlfriend. But, hey, it's high school.
-
Layla : What's embarrasing him in front of the entire class going to prove? That is so unfair.
Will Stronghold : Yeah, well if life were to suddenly get fair, I doubt it would happen in high school.
-
Gwen : I'm a technopath. I can control technology with my mind.
Will Stronghold : Wow. All I can do is... punch stuff.
Mr. Medulla : [passing them] Yet he'll be the one on cereal boxes. Show me the justice in that.
-
Will Stronghold : [narrating] You look at them and see the defenders of the world. All I see is my dad wearing tights.
-
Steve : William Theodore Stronghold...
[stretches out his arms for a hug]
Steve : Come here!
Will Stronghold : Wait, you're not mad?
Steve : My boy has super-strength! How can I be mad?
[hugs Will, cracking his backbones]
Will Stronghold : [groans in pain] Ow!
Steve : Sorry.
[Will hugs Steve back]
Steve : Ow, you ARE strong! All right, if your mom asks, you tell her I read you the riot act and I took away your xBox.
Will Stronghold : But I don't have an xBox.
Steve : Are you sure?
[spins a chair to reveal a large, nicely wrapped present for Will]
-
Gwen : Well you've got new friends now. And I think that you need to figure out whether you hang out with us - or with those losers. Come on, let's go.
Will Stronghold : No, forget it! I'm not going anywhere with you. Not now, and not to homecoming. Might as well just find yourself a new date, Gwen.
Gwen : You're dumping me? Whoa whoa, let's just get something straight, ok? *You* do not dump *me*! Not the night before the dance!
Will Stronghold : Sorry Gwen, I, ah, just *did*! You're dumped!
-
Will Stronghold : [bumps into Gwen] Oh! Uh - I'm...
Gwen : Will Stronghold!
Will Stronghold : Aha, Mind Reader!
Gwen : No, name tag.
-
Royal Pain : [after throwing Will out the gym window] And there goes your last chance of stopping me!
Layla : [furiously] We'll see about that!
[runs towards Royal Pain, but Warren stops her]
Will Stronghold : [reappears flying] Surprised? So am I.
Royal Pain : You're flying?
[Will flies towards Royal Pain]
Royal Pain : That's impossible!
[Will lifts Royal Pain up and drops her on the ground. He then punches her helmet, destroying it]
-
Ethan : You're on! If Will beats you in Save The Citizen, you lay off the sidekicks for the rest of the year.
Zach : Yeah, and if he loses, you can dunk Ethan's head in the toilet every day until graduation.
Ethan : Yeah! Huh?
Lash : You got yourself a deal!
Will Stronghold : Wait, guys, guys! Come on, guys, are you crazy? No freshman ever won Save the Citizen, and those guys are undefeated!
Layla : And you barely know how to use your powers!
[pause]
Layla : Sorry... not helping.
Zach : Will, you have no choice. You can't let them dunk Ethan's head in the toilet. Not again.
[dead serious]
Zach : The dunking - must end.
-
Gwen : [carrying the Commander in her arms, who has been turned into a baby] I take you back, my dear Commander, to your senior year at Sky High, a time before anyone knew what a Technopath was. So, a brilliant, but misunderstood girl named Sue Tenny was written off as a science geek and stuck in sidekick class. She hatched a plan, so daring, so visionary, to start her own super villain academy and raise a generation of heroes from scratch as villains. But first, she had to destroy the very institution that dared to spurn her genius! And now, so many years later, that plan is complete. My only regret: This may be the finest super-villian speech ever given - and you don't even know what I'm saying!
Will Stronghold : But I do.
[Gwen and Stitches turn around, startled by Will's presence]
Will Stronghold : Look, I'm sorry that my parents destroyed your mom. Now put my dad down.
Gwen : No one could defeat Royal Pain. When the Pacifier exploded, I wasn't destroyed. I was merely turned into a baby. Stitches took me in and raised me as his daughter.
Stitches : Daddy's little girl! HAHAHAHA!
Gwen : I told you never to CALL ME THAT! Lunatic!
[sighs]
Gwen : That's right, Royal Pain wasn't my mother. Royal Pain is ME!
Will Stronghold : [realizing the truth, dumbfounded] Oh my god, I made out with an old lady.
[Gwen activates her helmet and flies into Will, sending both of them flying into the school]
-
Layla : When life gives you lemons...
[tries to grow a lemon, but produces an apple instead]
Will Stronghold : Make apple juice?
Layla : I can't make lemons! I don't know what it is.
-
Layla : Now I know it's just our first day, but I already can't wait to graduate and start saving mankind... And womankind. And animalkind.
Will Stronghold : And the rainforest.
Layla : Of course!
-
Steve : [about the party, which Will inadvertently let happen] Son, I'm only going to ask you this.
Will Stronghold : Dad, I swear, I didn't plan this.
Steve : All right. That's good enough for me. Hmm?
Josie : Steve, I've got half a mind not to let him go to homecoming!
Will Stronghold : That's fine; I'm not going anyway.
Steve : Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. Your mom said she had "half a mind"! Will, you have to go to the homecoming dance. We all have to because we're introducing the Stronghold Three, the greatest family of superheroes mankind has ever known.
Josie : [notices Will's upset facial expression] Did something happen, Will?
Will Stronghold : I don't wanna talk about it.
Steve : Yeah, well, we're gonna talk about it because... we promised Gwen we'd go to the dance! And when a Stronghold makes a promise son, that promise is kept!
Will Stronghold : I promise you, Dad, I'm not going to homecoming.
-
Will Stronghold : Alright, look. Whatever happened with our dads, it has nothing to do with us. What do you say?
[extends his hand]
Warren Peace : [ignoring his offer] I say if you ever cross me again, I'll roast you alive.
[Will meekly drops his hand]
-
Principal Powers : In a few moments, you will go through Power Placement and your own heroic journey will begin.
Will Stronghold : Power Placement?
Layla : Sounds fascist.
Ethan : Power Placement. It's how they decide where you go.
Magenta : The hero track or the loser track.
Will Stronghold : There - there's a loser track?
Ethan : I believe the preferred term is "Hero Support."
-
[Will lifts a lunch table with Warren Peace on top over his head]
Layla : He's strong!
Will Stronghold : [surprised] I'm strong?
Gwen : He's super strong!
-
Steve : [re: the Pacifier] This is my most prized possession, Will.
Will Stronghold : Wow. What does it do?
Steve : No idea.
-
Warren Peace : What are you doing here?
Will Stronghold : I'm, uh, looking for Layla. Do you know where she is?
Warren Peace : How should I know?
Will Stronghold : You're taking her to homecoming.
Warren Peace : Oh, yeah. Right.
Will Stronghold : Well, you don't have to worry about me ruining your night.
Warren Peace : And why is that?
Will Stronghold : Because I'm not going.
Warren Peace : Hmm. Well, that sucks. Because we're only going together to make you jealous.
Will Stronghold : Huh?
Warren Peace : Dude, you're so stupid. She's totally into you.
Will Stronghold : Not after tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if Layla or any of the other guys ever want to talk to me again.
Warren Peace : Yeah. You must've been a real jerk. Because no matter what I do, I can't get 'em to stop talking to me.
Will Stronghold : Thanks.
-
Will Stronghold : [while sitting at lunch with his friends, he looks behind him and sees Warren Peace staring at him] Okay, am I crazy, or is that guy really looking at me?
Zach : Dude.
Will Stronghold : What?
Zach : That's Warren Peace
Layla : *That's* Warren Peace?
Zach : Yeah.
Layla : I've heard about him. His mom's a hero and his dad's a supervillain. Baron Battle.
Will Stronghold : So where do I come in?
Ethan : You're dad busted his dad. Quadruple life sentence.
Magenta : No chance of parole 'til after his third life.
Will Stronghold : [sighs] That's great. It's my first day at Sky High, and I already have an archenemy. Hmm. Is he still lookin'?
Layla : No.
Will Stronghold : No?
Layla : No.
Will Stronghold : [Will turns and sees Warren is still staring at him] I thought you said he wasn't looking.
-
Will Stronghold : [Will Stronghold is in Power Placement, but is embarrassed to admit he doesn't have any powers. He whispers to Boomer in his ear] What it actually is...
Coach Boomer : What do you mean you don't know what your power is?
[Coach Boomer chuckles to himself]
Coach Boomer : Oh, I get it. You're messing with the Coach. Just like your old man!
[Coach Boomer presses the car button]
Coach Boomer : Car!
Will Stronghold : [the car falls on Will Stronghold, practically squashing him, and the students mutter] ARE YOU INSANE? I don't *have* super strength!
[the car lifts up from underneath him]
Coach Boomer : [Boomer thinks Will has his mom's flying skills] Oh, I get it! You're a flyer, just like your ma! Why didn't you say so?
[Coach Boomer presses the springboard and it sends Will flying]
Will Stronghold : [Will goes flying through the springboard] WHOOOOAAAA!
[Will hits the wall and grunts with the sidekicks coming to his aide]
Coach Boomer : [coming over to Will] Kid, come on! Quit messing around! I haven't got all day! What's your power?
Will Stronghold : [weakly] I don't have one!
Coach Boomer : [finally sees that Will has no powers] Stronghold.
[his supersonic yelling echoes throughout the boys' bathroom where Speed and Dash are bullying a student, Penny and Gwen are putting on makeup, Principal Powers catches a vase and out to the school yard]
Coach Boomer : SIIIIIDDDDDEEEEE... KICK!
[echoes]
Coach Boomer : [the school bus windows shatter]
-
Will Stronghold : [meeting up with Layla, Magenta, Zach, Ethan, and Warren at Sky High's homecoming, who have just escaped Royal Pain's trap] Guys, you're never gonna believe this. Gwen...
Layla : Is Royal Pain's daughter.
Will Stronghold : Yeah, and she...
Warren Peace : Stole the Pacifier.
Will Stronghold : Right.
Zach : Yeah, and she turned everybody into babies, including your parents.
Will Stronghold : Okay, that I didn't know.
Layla : I think this is even more than the great Will Stronghold can handle.
Will Stronghold : She's right. It's gonna take all of us.
Magenta : All of who? You and Warren? The rest of us are only sidekicks.
Will Stronghold : Just because you have powers, that doesn't make you a hero. Sometimes it just makes you a jerk. Makes me a jerk. I guess what I'm trying to say is...
Layla : We get it. You've been a jerk.
Will Stronghold : Layla, in case my homecoming date ends up killing me tonight, I just want you to know...
[they kiss]
Penny : [suddenly appearing with Speed and Lash] Isn't that sweet? I hate sweet!
[Speed laughs]
Will Stronghold : You guys are a part of this, too? Why am I not surprised?
Warren Peace : Go take care of Gwen. We'll handle these clowns.
[Speed laughs]
Layla : Go.
[Will runs through a nearby wall]
-
Will Stronghold : [while looking through his Dad's old yearbook, he sees a student named Sue Tenny who resembles his ex-girlfriend, Gwen Grayson] That's weird.
[flips the page]
Will Stronghold : Gwen?
[sees the Sue Tenny student in a science club photo holding up a weapon the Commander once had to deal with, the Pacifier]
Will Stronghold : Oh, no.
[looks at the stand where the Pacifier was once kept. He sees that it's gone]
Will Stronghold : Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[realizes what has happened and what he has done]
Will Stronghold : I gotta get to Sky High.
[takes out his wallet and pulls out Ron Wilson's card]
-
Will Stronghold : How was your summer?
Zach : To be honest, it was tough, man. T-U-P-H.
-
Steve : Will, I just want you to know how proud I am that you'll be attending my alma mater and someday following me into the family business.
Will Stronghold : Real Estate?
Steve : Right.
[winks]
Steve : Real estate.
-
Will Stronghold : [pretending to have super strength by bench pressing an extremely heavy weight] 200... Hi, Dad, just trying to get some sets in before school.
Steve : Yeah, low weight, high reps, that's the key. You don't wanna bulk up...
Will Stronghold : Yeah, I'm going more for definition.
-
Layla : [after defeating Royal Pain and Stitches, and getting all the Pacified babies out of the bus] Now what?
Will Stronghold : [to Layla] Beats me.
Mr. Medulla : [Warren and Zack gets a Pacified Mr Medulla, as a baby, out of the bus] Perhaps I could be of assistance. It should take me a couple of hours to reconfigure the Pacifier.
[to Warren]
Mr. Medulla : Mr Peace, would you please carry me to the Mad Science lab?
Warren Peace : [awkwardly] Sure.
Mr. Medulla : And Mr Peace?
Warren Peace : [even more awkwardly] Yeah?
Mr. Medulla : [closeup of Mr Medulla as a baby] Regrettably, I have made boom-boom.
[Baby Mr. Medulla smiles as Will, Layla and the other Sidekicks back away slowly]
-
[first lines]
Will Stronghold : In a world full of superheroes, there are two that stand above the rest: the Commander and Jetstream. His super-strength makes him pretty much indestructible. She has the power of supersonic flight along with a total mastery of unarmed combat. By day, they live as Steve and Josie Stronghold, the top real estate agents in the metropolis of Maxville. But whenever duty calls, they are the Commander and Jetstream. Me, I have my own names for them: Mom and Dad. That's me in the middle. You look at them and see the defenders of the world. All I see is my dad wearing tights. Don't get me wrong. It can be cool to have superhero parents like when Mom picks up awesome takeout on her way home from work. On the other hand, living up to the family name means that I'm supposed to save the world someday.
