Quotes

X-Factor:

Rictor: "No! Get back! Don't come any closer! I'm telling you, I won't let you use me, I won't--"
Cyclops: "That's...Rictor? He's just a kid!"
Iceman: "Sometimes rotten things come in small packages! He's shaking the blasted building apart, Scott!"
~Vol 1 #17

Jean Grey: "The Right...they weren't mutants?"
Rictor: "Like you? No...never met a mutant before...didn't know...what I was...only that it was terrible! They tortured me...till I began to shake...and everything...around me...like before...in Mexico...and I couldn't stop it then either...leave me!"
Cyclops: "No way, kid! We're busting out!"
~Vol 1 #17

Skids: "Look, I know you feel like you can't go outside, don't worry! Artie and me can manage just fine!"
Rictor: "Wait! I can't let you go alone-- a girl and a little kid! Even in Mexico, the muggers of Central Park are legend! I'm goin' with you-- to protect you. Just don't expect me to doom this city by using my power!"
~Vol 1 #20

Rusty: "You smothered it? Quick thinkin', buddy! You saved the park! And my bacon-- twice!"
Rictor: "Yeah, great! This time I save a bunch of trees...last time I destroyed a city!"
Skids: "Rictor, that was awesome! Anybody ever tell you you got a great power?"
Rusty: "A...city?"
Rictor: "Back in Mexico...before X-Factor found me! I...I didn't even know I done it, that it was me...my fault...till The Right came after me! They told me an' they tortured me ta make me do it again to San Francisco! I was a coward! I gave in to their torture...their drugs and needles and I...I shook...and I couldn't stop!"
Rusty: "Man, Ida been shakin' too! Anybody would!"
~Vol 1 #20

Rictor: "Leech, you power stealing jerk! Get offa me! They're the Right! They had me before! We're better off dead than in their hands!"
~Vol 1 #22

Rictor: "I won't! Kill me if you wanna, but I won't do it! Not again! Not ever!
Right Operative 1: "Kill you, mutie? Don't get your hopes up!"
Right Operative 2: "We won't have to kill you ta make you cooperate. All we have to do is turn up the voltage."
~Vol 1 #22

Iceman: "...now whenever he uses his strength, he loses more brain power." -about Beast.
Boom Boom: "You mean he'll get dumber an' dumber 'till-- oh gross! I thought he was different. He didn't even yell at me-- not even once!"
Rictor: "Look Boom-Boom, fighting Apocalypse's Horsemen and saving the world made him like this. That's the fight you wanted to be in, remember? Well, what happened to him coulda happened to you...'cept in your case, nobody'd notice!"
~Vol 1 #27

Rusty: "You mean-- take our presents to the kids in the hospital? That's a great idea!"
Boom Boom: "I think it stinks!"
Rictor: "Kids in that hospital lost homes, even parents..."
Boom Boom: "No."
Rictor: "...And we're safe and have each other and all this too!"
Boom Boom: "No. I'm not giving my stuff to some kids I never met!"
Rictor: "The people who gave us this stuff never even met us! Aw. C'mon Boom Boom, it's Christmas!"
Boom Boom: "Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I'll give 'em the rest...but I keep the sweater!"
~Vol 1 #27

Hodge: "Silly little mutate, that won't work! Nothing you can do will silence me!"
Wolfsbane: "I would nae be certain of that, monster! Ric, ye said ye'd shake down the citadel!"
Rictor: "I read you, Rahne! If that horror won't die, we'll bury him alive!"
~Vol 1 #62

Shatterstar: "I was right. You are without honor."
Quicksilver: "You obnoxious punk! The worst thing you could do is merit my full attention!"
~Vol 1 #84

Quicksilver: "My muscles are starting to ache from moving this slowly. Time to end this. First, I'll give you a richly deserved haircut. Then--" Sam plows into him and takes him out of action.
Shatterstar: "Cannonball! Blast you! He was my opponent!"
~Vol 1 #84

Shatterstar: "Wait, Professor! X-Factor honored your 'no technology' order in coming here, but what of Forge with his cybernetic hand and leg?  Why is he the exception?"
Professor Xavier: "You sound suspicious, Shatterstar."
~Vol 1 #106

Shatterstar: "So this then is how you handle the greatest threat to your existence? By turning your tails and running?"
~Vol 1 #106

Rictor: "'Norm' for 'normal'. I hate that. Like I wasn't normal? Normal for me was...crap, no one can begin to understand my 'normal'."
Madrox: "Try me."
Rictor: "Look, it's...people think my whole thing is, I could make the ground shake. But that barely begins to...I could...I was attuned to the planet, man. We were two, but one...like she was my mother and I was the baby in her belly. I felt the rain seep through her dirt...the shifts in tectonic plates...the life force in her, from every ant to every growing seed. I just...and now...it's like someone threw a bag over my head. Stuffed my ears and nose with cotton. I mean...I used to feel sorry for...not just the saps, for other mutants too. I was the one eyed man in the kingdom of the freakin' blind. And now I'm no different than the ones I pitied."
~Vol 3 #1

Wolfsbane: "Suicide!? Do ye know what'll happen if ye kill yuirself? Do ye? It's a mortal sin! It's a death blow to yuir soul! Ye'll go straight to hell! Hell, Rictor! Eternal punishment burning in th' lake of fire forever and ever! Or ye'll be hung upside down and flailed by demons with thorny whips, ripping the skin from yuir body and then it grows back and they rip it off again, and maggots will eat yuir entrails and--"
Rictor: "Y'know...in Japan, suicide is historically regarded as an honorable means of--"
Wolfsbane: "Does this look like Japan!? Does it!? Ye see Shinto Shrines anywhere? A Toshiro Mifune film festival down the street?! Do ye?!"
Rictor: "Uh...no?"
Wolfsbane: "Correct! And ye know why? 'Cause we're not in bleeding Japan, that's why!"
~Vol 3 #1

Monet: "Does anybody here knock?!"
Rictor: "I did knock, you psycho!"
Monet: "You didn't ask to come in!"
Rictor: "I asked if you had a few minutes! You said 'yes!' I walked in! Next thing I know you pick me up and throw me in the hall!"
Monet: "I didn't hear you! I had headsets on!"
Rictor: "How was I supposed to know that? Use my x-ray vision through the door? For that matter, if I had x-ray vision, I'd have seen you naked ages ago, so this wouldn't mat-- um...okay, that wasn't the smartest thing to say."
~Vol 3 #3

Madrox: Think I better step in...make it clear who's boss around here. "Uh, Rictor, I don't--"
Rictor: "Shut up, Madrox.
Madrox: Yeah, okay. That went well.
~Vol 3 #6

Monet: "Why should we? Rictor's powerless anyway, and I've nothing to hide."
Rictor: "That's true. I saw it all, and she had nothing there worth hiding."
~Vol 3 #8

Doc Sampson: "I suppose it is pretty obvious. Especially to a savvy guy like you."
Rictor: "Freakin' right. I mean, you're so smart, Mr. Psychiatrist-- you tell me how I'm doing."
Doc Sampson: "Well, I suppose-- as with anything-- that you have good days and bad days. The bad days are the days you wonder 'why me?' and the good days are the days you're too busy to wonder that. Well?"
Rictor: "Yeah, pretty much."
Doc Sampson: "And how's today going for you, Julio?"
Rictor: "Bad day."
~Vol 3 #13

Rictor: "This about you and a dupe doin' the horizontal mambo with both Monet and Terry?"
Madrox: "Oh. And uh...how did you...?"
Rictor: "I'm Rictor. I know stuff."
~Vol 3 #14

Rictor: "No big deal. It's not like I'm sleeping with him...anymore." -about Quicksilver
~Vol 3 #14

Rictor: "But hey, at least you know Pietro and I aren't an item, so that's good, right?"
Madrox: "I suppose...I mean, God knows you wouldn't want to make Shatterstar jealous."
Rictor: -spit out his beer all over Jamie's face
Madrox: "First fives rows, huh?"
~Vol 3 #14

Wolfsbane: "Ninety-nine percent of the time, things are exactly what they appear to be."
Rictor: "Yeah? Well eighty-five percent of all statistics are made up, so there."
~Vol 3 #17

FBI Agent: "Now...tell us about your contacts with the X-Cell."
Rictor: "I've only ever seen the one guy."
Agent: "Can you describe him?"
Rictor: "Kind of a squarish head...long nose...wide, crazy eyes...yellowish skin..."
Agent: "Could be jaundice. Probably a drug addict."
Rictor: "Probably."
Agent: "What's his name?"
Rictor: "Robert, I think. Something like that."
Agent: "Where can we find him?"
Rictor: "All I know is that he said he lives under the sea."
Agent: "Under the--?"
Rictor: "Yeah. In a pineapple."
Agent: "Interesting."
~Vol 3 #18

Rictor: "Hungry? Great! Here's a knuckle sandwich!"
~Vol 3 #18

Quicksilver: "However, before you go, I think you should know: I've had an epiphany."
Rictor: "Congrats. I hope it was a boy."
~Vol 3 #19

Rictor: "I had it back! Don't you get that, Rahne? My powers, in my grasp! I had hope! For the first time in...and it got thrashed! There's no hope for me! For any of us! It's done! The whole mutant race. We're finished! And I'm...I used to be part of the Earth, and now I'm alone."
~Vol 3 #21

Huber: "How the devil are you doing this?"
Rictor: "What, you can't just read my mind and figure it out for yourself?"
Huber: "Read your mind? I'd need special glasses to deal with the tiny print."
~Vol 3 #24

Rictor: "Joaquin. Joaquin Murrieta. Friends call me Jake."
~Vol 3 #25

Rictor: "I can get there fine by myself."
Strong Guy: "Ric...this is me, okay? Ya don't have to do the macho thing."
Rictor: "I'm not being macho. I'm just sick o' people thinking I'm weak."
~Vol 3 #28

Strong Guy: "Man, I wish I knew how to quit you."
Rictor: "You're a riot, Guido."
~Vol 3 #28

Rictor: "To hell with your reasons, Sinclair. And to hell with you."
~Vol 3 #29

Rictor: "I'm not a mutant! Not anymore! I'm just acting like some...some weird mutant wannabe!"
~Vol 3 #29

Rictor: "I'm gone."
Madrox: "Vaya con Dios."
Rictor: "Don't speak Spanish. You sound like an idiot."
~Vol 3 #29

Guido: "I knew you'd come crawlin' back."
Rictor: "Close the door! Before we lose all the air or something!"
Guido: "What are you talkin' about?"
Rictor: "We're in space!"
Guido: "We're in what now?"
Rictor: "Space, man! The freakin' final frontier! Just look out the--" throws open the door.
Guido: "Uh...Ric? Don't take this wrong but...you been smokin' something?"
Rictor: is confused and walks outside. "This...this was all outer space. And the steps were gone."
Guido: "Look, Rictor, if ya changed your mind, ya don't have to come up with some whole--"
Rictor: "I'm not making this up, Guido!"
~Vol 3 #29

Arcade: "Hello, Mr. Rictor."
Rictor: "Go to hell!" -- is strapped down, crucifixion style
Arcade: "Oh, what's the matter? Feeling a little cross?"
Rictor: "Come out from wherever you're hiding and you'll feel my right cross!"
~Vol 3 #29

Rictor: "Cripes! No one's driving the cars!!!"
~Vol 3 #30

Rictor: "Get up so I can pound the--"
Purifier Taylor: "Save your threats, freak. You can't hurt me. Not anymore. No one can. Not after the Purifiers expelled me."
Rictor: "Because of me, right? I get to take credit for that."
Taylor: "You want to take credit for killing my soul? Go right ahead."
Rictor: "Yeah, right. As if a murderous slime like you has a soul."
~Vol 3 #30

Rictor: "Then we do this the old fashioned way! How do we shut the system down, man?!"
Arcade: "Okay...I'll say this slowly to benefit the learning-impaired...Fail. Safe. Which word did you not understand?"
Rictor: "Understand this, zangano? Huh? Do you understand th--" punches him in the face. "--a robot!"
~Vol 3 #31

Rictor: "Madrox said the best way to be useful was to come back here, try and find a way to bring that barrier down. Otherwise we're all trapped like freaking rats. So c'mon Rictor...make the Earth move."
~Vol 3 #31

Rictor: "Dammit! Stupid piece of useless...no. It's not useless. I am. Useless, powerless, useless--!" throws his chair at the computer screen and saves Mutant Town.

Rictor: "She's an android. Another one of Arcade's androids."
Madrox: "She's not an android, Ric."
Rictor: "Look at her, man. Check the hair: not a single strand out of place. And the eyes. Soulless. Dead inside."
Madrox: "She works for the government."
Rictor: "...okay. That explains the eyes."
Madrox: "Where's everyone else?"
Rictor: "Rec room." pauses. "The hair still creeps me out, though!!"
~Vol 3 #32

Guido: "What!?"
Siryn: "You know I'm pregnant?"
Rictor: "With a baby?"
Monet: "No, genius, with a sperm whale."
~Vol 3 #32

Val Cooper: "I'd be happy to have my men remove the cuffs if he agreed to cooperate."
Rictor: "Depends. Does promising to beat the crap out of them count as cooperating?"
Val Cooper: "Not so much." ~Vol 3 #37

Val Cooper:(about Siryn)"That woman has some serious issues.."
Rictor: "Issues? She has the trade paperbacks."
~Vol 3 #37

Rictor:"Guido, he's got no reason to be like this. Shatterstar's one of the good guys. We've worked together, we've...This just isn't him."
~Vol 3 #45

Rictor: "Shatterstar, are you okay?"
Shatterstar: "Rictor?"
Rictor: "Yeah, it's me, dude. It's okay. Whatever happened, it's gonna be fine. No worries."
~Vol 3 #45