Black Adam (2022)
Pierce Brosnan: Dr. Fate, Kent Nelson
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Quotes
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Karim : Who are you?
Kent Nelson : Call me Dr. Fate.
Karim : How bad is it, Doc? Am I dying?
Kent Nelson : I'm not that kind of doctor. But don't worry, I can see the future. This isn't how you're going to die.
Karim : How do I die, then?
Kent Nelson : Just stay away from electricity.
Karim : Wait, what? I'm an electrician. How the hell am I supposed to do that?
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[Black Adam drops two soldiers, Hawkman catches them]
Hawkman : We don't kill people!
Teth-Adam : They're still living.
Hawkman : Because I saved them!
Teth-Adam : I knew you would save them, that's why I could drop them. We got the information we needed, and they're not dead. I did it your way.
Kent Nelson : He has a point.
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Dr. Fate : Teth-Adam, I know you can hear me. The battle your son was meant to fight is upon us. Now you are the only one who can defeat the demon Champion. You have the power to be the destroyer of this world, but you can also be its saviour. You believe you are not a worthy champion, because the wizards did not choose you, but Fate does not make mistakes. We were wrong about you. The world doesn't always need a white knight. Don't you dare give up on us now. The world needs you.
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Kent Nelson : Black Adam, what have your powers ever given to you? Nothing but heartache.
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Maxine Hunkel : So what's the op?
Carter Hall : We're headed to Kahndaq to apprehend and contain a Class-A metahuman.
Al Rothstein : I didn't bring a passport.
Kent Nelson : We don't need passports. We're the Justice Society.
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Kent Nelson : I remember seeing my first airplane. It was an RAF deployment, headed to the Western Front. Everyone on my street came out to see them off. But I didn't cheer. Even though I was only a boy, I knew where they headed, and what awaited them. Thanks to this, I've lived longer than I could've ever hoped for.
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Kent Nelson : We can't win, Carter.
Carter Hall : Yeah, but the world burns unless we do something, right?
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Kent Nelson : I am still a sentimental fool. And I don't want my friend to die.
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Kent Nelson : There's no point in dwelling in the past. It's already moved on from you.
Adrianna Tomaz : Why did you say that?
Kent Nelson : You were blaming yourself for trusting Ishmael. Your thoughts are better spent on the things you can change, not those you can't.
Adrianna Tomaz : You see the future? Tell me how I get my son back.
Kent Nelson : By trusting us. Karim will live. We will save Amon. It's what we do.
[Adam crashes through the balcony window]
Kent Nelson : I suppose they didn't have doors in your day.
Black Adam : Well, of course we did. That's how we entered rooms.
Kent Nelson : What I did there is called sarcasm.
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Kent Nelson : Waller's file needs a bit to be desired. Most of this was considered a myth until yesterday afternoon.
Carter Hall : He's a bad man, Kent. What else you need to know?
Kent Nelson : When you've seen as many different futures as I have, you cease to believe in absolutes.
[Carter chuckles wryly]
Kent Nelson : What are you laughing at?
Carter Hall : I'm not laughing. That was a smirk.
Kent Nelson : I know. That's how you laugh.
Carter Hall : I've missed having you around to spout out old cryptic shit like that.
Kent Nelson : Almost as much as I've missed having you around to ignore all my advice. Carter... this is not a very good plan.
Carter Hall : Yeah, well... a bad plan is better than no plan at all.
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Kent Nelson : A wise man once told me a bad plan is better than no plan at all.
Carter Hall : That was before we had a very bad plan.
Kent Nelson : Let it go. I'd rather be fighting with him than against him.
Carter Hall : He's a murderer, Kent. If he turns on us, that kid is as good as dead.
Kent Nelson : You don't get to decide who lives or dies. That's... up to fate.
Carter Hall : What's the helmet telling you? Somebody's gonna die. Who is it? Atom Smasher? It's Atom Smasher.
Kent Nelson : Surprisingly, no.
Carter Hall : Is it me?
Kent Nelson : When it's time for you and I to say goodbye, you'll know. All I can tell you is... there's still time to change the future. Let's use it.
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Adrianna Tomaz : Intergang are after my son.
Kent Nelson : They don't want him, they want the Crown of Sabbac.
Adrianna Tomaz : [to Adam] I know you're not a hero. But you're not a monster, either. I don't care what anyone says. You saved me in that cave. You didn't know me and your first instinct was to save me. I'm begging you. Please, save my son.
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Al Rothstein : Hey, why is this Adam dude so pissed off?
Carter Hall : He's not some dude. He's a weapon of mass destruction. You don't have to raise your hand.
Maxine Hunkel : Question. If he's so powerful, how are we supposed to stop him?
Kent Nelson : If we can get him to say the word "Shazam", Teth-Adam will lose his power. And we're hoping since he's had a few thousand years to sleep it off, we can peacefully negotiate the terms of his existence.
Maxine Hunkel : From the footage you showed us, he doesn't really seem like a "peacefully negotiate" kind of guy.
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Kent Nelson : Excuse me, you if I look in your bag?
Adrianna Tomaz : Yes, I do mind.
Carter Hall : Where are you going with this, Kent?
Kent Nelson : She's got the Crown of Sabbac.
Carter Hall : One catastrophe at a time. We can't give him a chance to regroup.
Maxine Hunkel : He's been spotted entering the palace. It's safe to say he's not going there to surrender.
Adrianna Tomaz : Why do you want Teth-Adam to surrender? He's the Champion of Khandaq. Who are you? The Justice Society? We have been living under military occupation for 27 years, and never seen you before. You didn't come when Intergang invaded our country, when they stole our resources and killed my husband. But now, we finally have our own hero and you decide to fly down here and save us? Thank you, but... we're covered. Go and protect international stability someplace else. Oh, and second, I don't have the crown.
Carter Hall : Let me spell it out for you. Teth-Adam can't be Khandaq's champion, because he is not a hero.
Adrianna Tomaz : [pointing around the square] Tell that... to all the people he just liberated.
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Kent Nelson : You said you wouldn't hurt the prisoners.
Black Adam : That was sarcasm.
Kent Nelson : No, technically, it was just a lie.
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Ishmael : Pure Eternium shield. Unbreakable, even with your powers.
Adrianna Tomaz : Amon!
Black Adam : You hurt him, I will kill all of you.
Ishmael : Nobody has to die. We just want the crown.
Hawkman : We don't have it.
Kent Nelson : Believe me, nothing good will come from that crown.
Ishmael : [aiming his gun at Amon] No crown, no negotiation.
Adrianna Tomaz : I have it! It's right here. Release my son, you can have it.
Hawkman : What do you think you're doing?
Adrianna Tomaz : Intergang killed my husband. I'm not letting them take my son, too.
[Adam knocks Carter back, then destroys a protective barrier Kent tries to create]
Black Adam : Not your son. Not your country. Not your decision to make.
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Black Adam : It should be buried under the ocean for eternity.
Carter Hall : That's not far from what we had in mind for you when this is over.
Black Adam : Or I could bury you with it.
Adrianna Tomaz : We can't get rid of it now. It's the one thing that Intergang wants. Believe me, I know more than anyone what this crown is capable of. But we have to keep it until my son is safe.
Carter Hall : Adrianna... trust me, we will get your son back.
Black Adam : They don't care about him. They just want to defeat me.
Carter Hall : Hand it over. We can't risk letting the crown fall into the wrong hands. We'll find another way.
Adrianna Tomaz : No. You like to split the world into good and bad, but that's easy to do when you're the one drawing the line. All I care about is Amon. And until he is safe, we're all on the same side. And you... you will work together.
Carter Hall : Set a course for the Al Hadidiyah Mountains. We'll go in at dawn. I hope you can be a team player.
Black Adam : I love teams.
Kent Nelson : That was sarcasm again, yes?
Black Adam : Very much so.
Kent Nelson : Good. Just checking.
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Kent Nelson : Come with us. There's a glorious world out there waiting for you.
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Carter Hall : Where are you going? We need to go after him.
Kent Nelson : We're not strong enough.
Carter Hall : Oh, well, maybe next time, use your powers of prediction to figure that out *before* we get our asses kicked.
Kent Nelson : I'm working on it.
