Krypton (TV Series)

Light-Years from Home (2019)

Shaun Sipos: Adam Strange

Quotes 

• Adam Strange : So, besides being the one who got away, why does Zod have such a chub for this moon?

  Val-El : Wegthor's a mining colony, home to a compound known as Stellarium. Zod is processing it into a warp field to fuel the interstellar fleet he has under construction.

  Adam Strange : No, he-he can... he can't be building his fleet yet. While I was gone, I saw other planets Zod had conquered. He's not ruling over their people, he's eradicating them. He's turning every planet he conquers into Krypton, terraforming to make them compatible with the physiology of Kryptonians. If Zod has his fleet, it may already be too late.

• Adam Strange : [seeing Brainiac's dead body]  This is a masterpiece. I mean, you should probably sign that. It's gonna be worth something someday.

• Seg-El : No, Adam?

  Adam Strange : Yeah, surprise.

  Seg-El : No, Adam, you died. I watched you die. There was an explosion, how...

  Adam Strange : Saved by the Zeta-Beam.

  Seg-El : You know, I really, really thought I would never say these words...

  [hugs Adam] 

  Seg-El : But, damn, am I really glad to see you, Earth-Man.

• Adam Strange : What the shit was that?

  Seg-El : I don't know. Brainiac said that this planet's meant to be uninhabited.

  Adam Strange : Was that before or after you turned his head into a canoe?

• Adam Strange : God, I really hate this planet.

  Jax-Ur : Careful. The walls have ears, and the darkness has eyes.

• Mama Zed : I spotted you during Zod's annoucement. I'm sorry for the rough handling, but better that than the Sagitari get a hold of you, eh?

  Adam Strange : Oh, please, I can handle a couple of Sagitari.

• Adam Strange : What's going on?

  Val-El : Well, if Brainiac escaped...

  Nyssa-Vex : Then maybe Seg did, too.

  Adam Strange : Hold on a second. Are you saying that... Seg is alive?

• Seg-El : New jacket.

  Adam Strange : Yeah.

  Seg-El : Yeah, red. I think red's your color, man.

  Adam Strange : I like the beard.

• Seg-El : Adam, why'd you come back for me?

  [seeing his look] 

  Seg-El : What happened? Adam, we fixed it, right? We fixed it. We won.

  Adam Strange : My entire planet's gone. Everyone I know, my family, my friends. And I believe that you're the only one that can make that right. I mean, it's kind of ironic, you know? I... first came to you to save your grandson, the Last Son of Krypton. God, I really fudged the bowl on that, didn't I? And now here I am, the last son of Earth.

  Seg-El : Adam, I am so sorry, I truly am. But I'm glad you came.

  Adam Strange : I am, too. Would've been here sooner, but I had to stop by Kandor first. It's, uh... it's a shitshow, Seg. I mean, Zod's taken control of the planet, he's trying to conquer the galaxy. Val's leading a rebellion against him.

  Seg-El : You were right. You were right about Dru-Zod. I should have listened to you.

  Adam Strange : Of course you should've. Everybody should've, but they... it's not all bad news, huh? Your other son seems kind of cool. You know, for a tiny, kind of boring infant.

• Lobo : You two little candy asses ain't felt nothing yet. Hi.

  Adam Strange : Hey, buddy. Just you back here, or is the rest of the Kiss Army over there behind the...

  Lobo : [shooting him with his plasma gun]  Well, he's a talker, ain't he?

  [Seg moves to throw a punch] 

  Lobo : [popping him in the face, knocking him backwards]  Stay. Good boy.

• Adam Strange : I can feel like you, like... I can really feel you. It feels just like real old man skin.

  Val-El : Because I am real, not the hologram you knew from the Fortress. I'm back from the Phantom Zone.

  Adam Strange : Oh. That explains the really leathery skin and the old man smell.

  Val-El : Where have you been the last six months?

  Adam Strange : I went back... to the future. Only the world I went back to wasn't the world I left. On account of the same jackass running your planet, conquered mine. Oh, it gets better. Sometime after that, Brainiac decided to bottle my hometown.

  Val-El : Brainiac?

  Adam Strange : Yeah, him.

• Adam Strange : So you're telling me that there is an elevator that goes all the way from Krypton to Wegthor?

  Val-El : A Hypersonic Orbital Tether, yes. We've used it before to get our people up there, quite successful. Well, you will be joining us, won't you? After what you saw in the future, you should understand better than anyone. We have to stop Zod on Wegthor before it's too late. Well, you must understand...

  Adam Strange : God damn it, Val, of course I understand. I just happen to think that Seg is our best chance of defeating Zod.

  Val-El : I miss my grandson more than you will ever know, but there is simply no way of reaching him without my Phantom Projector.

  Adam Strange : What if I told you that I didn't need your Phantom Projector to find Seg?

  Val-El : I would ask you to explain yourself.

  Adam Strange : My Zeta-Beam Device.

  Val-El : You do understand the Phantom Zone is outside space and time as we know it.

  Adam Strange : Exactly. Wait, you're saying that's bad?

  Val-El : I'm saying if you try and teleport into the Phantom Zone, your body would probably deconstructed at a molecular level and your atoms scattered throughout the galaxy. I'm sorry. It just won't work.

  Adam Strange : Well, not with an attitude like that, it won't. The meaning of this symbol that you wear change while I was away. You can't just give up on them.

  Val-El : I'm an El. We never give up.

  Adam Strange : And I'm a Strange, and we don't give up either. Not anymore, and you know why? Because of your grandson. Seg showed how powerful hope can be. Besides, you don't even know if he's still in the Phantom Zone, do you?

  Val-El : No. No, I don't. But the risk is...

  Adam Strange : Mine to worry about.

• General Zod : My fellow Kryptonians, six months ago, we came together to face the dawn of a new era. I stood before you, a man from the future, with a vision for the future to rebuild a Krypton unrecognizable in its perfection. I knew only unity and equality would heal our divisions and secure our future. And now I offer my gratitude.

  Adam Strange : [landing in an alley]  Ooh. Oh, god damn it, right in the johnson.

  General Zod : Because while I may have led our efforts, it is by your own strength that today, Krypton is indeed unrecognizable. And perfection lies within our grasp. We are now ready to claim our rightful place amongst the stars and fulfill our duty of promoting Kryptonian exceptionalism as rulers of the galaxy. To those anarchic separatists on Wegthor, know that through the toil, courage, and sacrifices of true Kryptonians, we will crush your treacherous rebellion. And there has been no more noble a sacrifice than that of my father, Seg-El, who gave his life so that we may all see a better tomorrow.

• Adam Strange : I don't understand. You built the projector thingy for the Phantom Zone, but you can't get Seg out?

  Val-El : Zod destroyed my Projector. I tried to rebuild it, but then Zod seized the Fortress.

  Adam Strange : Wow, things really went sideways while I was gone, huh? That's all right. I'm back now. And I have a plan.

  [seeing their looks] 

  Adam Strange : All right, I don't have a plan, but I could totally come up with one.

  Nyssa-Vex : That won't be necessary. We already have a plan. Wegthor.

  Adam Strange : [sotto to Jax-Ur]  Is that the safe word?

  Jax-Ur : It's a moon. One of three orbiting Krypton, but the only one with a completely self-sufficient, fully sustainable colony; Krypton's only city-state not under Zod's rule, and the home of our resistance.

  Adam Strange : Surprised you guys have been able to pull a resistance together. From what I've seen, everybody seems to be digging the new Kandor.

  Nyssa-Vex : Because Zod freed the Rankless to distract the people from what was really going on.

• Adam Strange : That's weird. Huh.

  Seg-El : What... what's weird?

  Adam Strange : Uh, the magnetic field on this planet seems to be messing with the settings. We should probably get to higher ground.

  Seg-El : What, "we should probably get to higher..."? That's what we're gonna do?

  Adam Strange : Hey, give me a break. It works fine for one person. It'll work for two.

  Seg-El : No, see, this is what screwed everything up in the first place. You show up half-cocked, you don't have a plan...

  Adam Strange : Hey, first of all, I am fully cocked. And secondly... I don't have a second thing yet, just... just give me a minute.

  Seg-El : Well, I could...

  Adam Strange : [they hear something howl]  Uh... do you think that we should, you know, stick around for...

  [seeing Seg has fled] 

  Adam Strange : God damn it.