Quotes

X-Force:

Warpath: "Does anyone have any idea idea how tired I am of all this gratuitous fighting?"
Shatterstar: "No, do you have any idea how much I'm enjoying it?"
~Vol 1 #4

Sauron: "My hypnotic gaze will lock your mind and make your death a matter of convenience to me..."
Shatterstar: "I'd prefer not to look at your red rimmed eyes, nor your ugly face, thank you very much. So let me cleave off your head at the neck."
~Vol 1 #7

Shatterstar: "I trust you take no offense to my intervention in your battle, Siryn? On my world, a warrior who requires assistance is often considered lacking in honor."
~Vol 1 #7

Shatterstar: "I will carve you up like the pig you are!" smashes Blob in the face with his sword. "Have I found a weak spot among all those soft spots, Blob?"
Blob: "Mebbe you did, kid. Not many of you hero types go fer the mouth. Guess the x-groups I'm used t'fightin' operate under a different set o'rules than you do. I'll remember that fer the next time we fight."
Shatterstar: "If you have not noticed, lard, there will be no next time!"
Blob: "Oh, yeah there will. You can count on it!"
Shatterstar: "...He jumped off the cliff! That fat fool!"
~Vol 1 #9

Rictor: "Buenos Dias, Senor Kane. Heard a lot of good things about you, dude. Gonna be a pleasure workin' with you. 'Specially if it means bringin' Cable down!"
~Vol 1 #10

Deadpool: And now I got the little interdimensional punk showin' off for an audience he doesn't even know is watchin'. Ah, I'm such a sucker for a good brawl. "Hey! Pretty-boy cowabunga dude!"
Shatterstar: "Za's Vid!"
~Vol 1 #11

Kane: "Rictor, don't do it, man-- don't go with them! You'll become an outlaw!"
Rictor: "Kane, you been cool with me-- but I've always been one of them. If Cable's out of the picture, then that's the only thing I need to hear. I'm yours, Sam-- if you want me."
Boomer: "Sam-- pleeeeease?"
Cannonball: "No need ta even ask, Ric. Let's roll."
~Vol 1 #14

Shatterstar: "Where do we go, Guthrie? There is no honor in running like dogs!
Rictor: "No honor in winding up behind bars either."
~Vol 1 #14

--they arrive at the destroyed Camp Verde Apache reservation.
Siryn: "Could be worse."
Warpath: "Could be better."
Shatterstar: "Reminds me slightly of my home world."
Siryn: "Was thinking the same thing. Sort of like Belfast on a dreary day."
~Vol 1 #15

Rictor: "Incoming at four o'clock!"
Shatterstar: "Rictor, their approach appears closer to five o'clock to me."
Feral: "So you can finally read a clock face. Whoopdedoo! Cable forgot t'tell you most watches are digital now!"
Shatterstar: "They are? Fekt! I worked very hard to equate your world's silly timing mechanism to a battlefield positioning strategy!" -throws his sword
~Vol 1 #19

Feral: "Hey, DaCosta-- wouldja rather hear Boomer keep complainin' about havin' no TV to watch? Pretty-boy DaCosta can't take sweatin' a little. He's a feeb. Whad'jou think 'bout him, Shattybuns?"
Shatterstar: " I think my name is Shatterstar. And if you continue to distract me while I work out, Feral, I will cut off your tail!"
~Vol 1 #20

Rictor: "Why? What is it Lila? 'Men who wear their mother's clothing-- underwater,' next on Geraldo!"
~Vol 1 #20

Shatterstar: "If the Za be known, commander-- Cable is now beyond life or death. And quite frankly, should you not be worried more about the precarious line you now walk between the two?"
G.W. Bridge: "Worry about this, you lipstick pretty-boy!"
Rictor: "No need to get personal, is there, G.W.?"
G.W. Bridge: "Rictor!?"
Rictor: "Yup, that's me, ese'. The walkin' earth-quake!"
~Vol 1 #20

Professor: "Foreign Objects Warning *Systems damage has exceeded programming salvation parameters. Foreign Objects have T-minus fifteen minutes for evacuation*.
Rictor: "Yo, ship, dude-- foreign objects!?"
~Vol 1 #21

Feral: "They're here already!"
Rictor: "I don't see anythin'..."
Feral: "Stupid lousy meat eyesight! I tell ya, s'like dealin' with a groupa' Helen Kellers!"
Shatterstar: "I see them as well, Feral. Do not blame Rictor and Lila for their fragile shortcomings in body and mind. After all, we do not fault you for yours."
Feral: "GRRR!"
~Vol 1 #22

Rictor: “This is better than legos!" -On highly advanced technology
~Vol 1 #22

Shatterstar: “Do you smell anything?”
Feral: “Just your lipstick an’ blush, pretty boy!”
Rictor: “Shut up.”
~Vol 1 #23

Rictor: “Great. Strategic advice from the guy in the body cast!”
~Vol 1 #23

Rictor: “Choose it or loose it, Bobby. But the old geezer is mine--shakin’ and bakin’ from the inside out!”
~Vol 1 #23

Cannonball: "Get Crule out of the IPAC and put him in the triage tent. We'll deal with him later."
Rictor: Uhm...Sam...we can't do that."
Cannonball: "What?"
Rictor: "He wouldn't shut up..."
Shatterstar: "What if that killer had recuperated and struck out at us?"
Sunspot: "It seemed like the most logical idea at the time, Sam..."
Cannonball: "What did you do with him, guys!?"
Rictor: "Well the fibreglass cast he was wearin' floats...so we kinda dumped him in the Pacific ocean..."
~Vol 1 #24

Rictor: "Achtung, my capitan! Sheesh -- now ain't Sammy just becoming the regular generalissimo?"
Feral: "Yeah! We got rid of one Cable, an' another gets installed.
~Vol 1 #24

Rictor: "Two hours! Hijos de-- They've been talkin' for two hours now! How much longer they gonna be down there?"
Warpath: "You say something, Ric? Sorry, Porno for Pyros, you know how I zone out on them."
Rictor: "I said, Proudstar, I should be part of their meeting!"
Shatterstar: "What an ego you carry, warrior. It is, I guess, healthy in some ways-- but a good soldier knows when to fight and when to allow his leaders opportunity to conduct strategic business."
Rictor: "Well who the heck ever said I was a good soldier?!" -fires a blast
Shatterstar: tackles him from behind "Certainly not I. Now quiet yourself or I will do some temporary damage to your larynx and spare us all your complaining." -they wrestle.
~Vol 1 #25

Rictor: "Bad enough you change what I'm watching without even asking, but could you at least stay on one channel?!"
Shatterstar: "Why would you ever wish to watch just one station, when you can watch them all?"
Rictor: "Uno de estos dias...lo voya matar!" -storms away
Shatterstar: "What is wrong!? What!?" - gapes
~Vol 1 #26

Rictor: "Whoopdedoo! I'm more upset that I've worked my way down to unit three! I keep getting demoted!"
~Vol 1 #27

Shatterstar: “Fekt. Are all children on this world so inefficient in the ways of survival?”
~Vol 1 #29

Rictor: "Exactly. Now tell us: are Sam Guthrie and Boomer still alive? And what other friends of ours have you guys gone after?"
Shinobi Shaw: "First, I'm sorry to say, they still are. Second, we went after all of them. Pick your favorite useless mutant here. Fenris captured Magma. Siena Blaze nabbed Cannonball and Boomer. Then the little witch got Empath, the mysterious Moonstar, and Karma. All I got was a rock. Oh, and Firestar."
~Vol 1 #33

Rictor: “How the heck did you learn Spanish?”
Shatterstar: “By watching television of course. I thought it would allow us to communicate if necessary, in ways others would not understand—be it our enemies in the midst of battle—or our friends when the topics of conversation are of a highly—personal—nature.”
~Vol 1 #34

Rictor: "Mi primo...my cousin, Omar. He was hurt too? Can't say as how I'm surprised he got into the family business."
Shatterstar: "And that being the business of...?"
Rictor: "Selling death. Selling guns."
~Vol 1 #34

Rictor: "She's my step-mother if you want to get technical, 'Star. But hey, how much do any of us really know about each other? I don't know jack about your mother and father -- you only just told me a couple of weeks ago that you had a 'wife' waiting for you back on Mojoworld!"
Shatterstar: "I have no parents save for a fertilization chamber, Rictor. All you had to do was ask."
~Vol 1 #34

Rictor: "I know we're family, Mommasita. But I hate everything that you all stand for. I hate Poppa for doing what he did. And maybe-- maybe I hate you even more for following in his footsteps! But more than any of that, I hate what you did to your own son. Because look at me...I sold my soul to become everything I didn't want to become..
Cable: "Ric--?"
Rictor: "Did you know that when I was a kid...all I did was wanna read books an' escape from this life I led. I used to remake my father into one of the heroes I read about...because I wanted him to be better than he was, 'cuz that would mean maybe I was better, too. But look at me now...in the end, am I really all that different from him?"
Cable: "More than you know, Rictor, more than you know."
~Vol 1 #34

Omar: "You gotta smuggle me in a gun or two, Hooly-- I'll shoot my way out..."
Rictor: "No, cousin. You're going to go to prison where you belong."
Omar: Oh, you traitor! You too good for your own family now, Hooly? That it?"
Rictor: "No, Omar, that's not it. I'm not too good for all of you...but I'm trying to be."
~Vol 1 #34

Shatterstar: "Then let's turn up the volume."
Domino: "Okay, 'Star-- just remember, no slitting any throats, no breaking any faces. That may be how you used to do things, but we're quick and efficient-- understood?"
Shatterstar: "We are on the same wavelength. Can we proceed?"
~Vol 1 #35

Shatterstar: "As Rictor would say, twenty-four-seven."
Domino: "In English, please?"
Shatterstar: "I am ready twenty four hours a day, seven days a week."
Domino: -sigh- "You've both been watching way too much 'Yo, MTV Raps!' Remind me to expose you to Vivaldi some day. You know, real music."
Shatterstar: "I sense disapproval, Domino, but I find the music very soothing."
~Vol 1 #35

Shatterstar: "And after running Rictor through your torture chamber, 'doctor' you insist on inflicting the same pain on Shadowcat?"
Moira Mactaggert: "Ye really dinnae trust scientists, do ye, Shatterstar?"
~Vol 1 #38

Prosh: "Nathan, don't speak about subjects you know nothing about. Five hours after I taught Shatterstar to play chess I never won another game against the lad. So don't belittle his intelligence."
Warpath: "Nah, we'll just belittle his lack of personality. I'm kidding, 'Star -- PUT THAT SWORD DOWN!"
~Vol 1 #39

Rictor: "Yo, Shatty-- why'd you skip out on dinner? It was my turn to cook tonight, too. Total disaster area! The temp gauge on the oven was shot and I didn't know it. Shoulda seen Guthrie's face when he bit into the chicken..."
Shatterstar: "I'm sure it was quite comical."
Rictor: "What're you up to in here? You set up the VCR playback for a 'Love Connection' marathon again?"
~Vol 1 #39

Siryn: "--But how did ye manage t'convince Arcade to sell us the property?"
Shatterstar: "We do not need to barter with a coward! We have taken this facility from him and shall spit in his face should he try to take it back!"
Domino: "Uhm...pretty much what he said, Siryn."
~Vol 1 #40

Siryn: "We're still underground, but at least now we're air conditioned and out of that bloody Arizona heat!"
Shatterstar: "Was our previous home considered hot by Earth standards? Humph!"
Rictor: "Dom, keep talking, quick! Before Shatty starts tellin' us another story about how rough it was on his homeworld!"
~Vol 1 #40

Shatterstar: "They're picking up speed, Ric! They're getting away!"
Rictor: "Did you get a look at these jokers? If those guys are cops, I'm Cable's mother!"
~Vol 1 #40

Rictor: “'Star, is this great or what?”
Shatterstar: “Or what.”
Rictor: “What?”
Shatterstar: “Exactly.”
Rictor: “Wha’d you say?”
Shatterstar: “Never mind.”
~Vol 1 #43

Shatterstar: "What do you think Rictor meant by 'maybe we should move on'?"
Boomer: "Oh, you know Ric. He's always blowin' hot and cold. He isn't going anywhere."
~Vol 1 #44

Boomer: "You sure you know how to run this thing?"
Shatterstar: "Of course. The technology -- while impressive for its era -- is child's play compared to my home world. It'll be a piece of pie. I'm opening the blast field."
Boomer: "Cake."
Shatterstar: "Huh?"
Boomer: "It's 'a piece of cake.'"
Shatterstar: "Oh."
~Vol 1 #44

Rictor: "You talk a new game, Cable, but it's the same old song. And I'm not listening."
Shatterstar: "Rictor-- Julio! There has to be a way to work this out!"
Rictor: "'Star...I gotta think it through. Maybe if I take some time off-- get away-- I haven't been home in a long time. My family needs me."
Shatterstar: "But I need you. Julio you're my best, my only friend."
Rictor: "And I'll always be there for you, amigo. You or anybody else on this team needs me all you gotta do is ask."
~Vol 1 #44

Shatterstar: "Trust me. I'm fit as a cello."
~Vol 1 #45

Warpath: -stands over a sleeping Shatterstar. "Hey, 'Star. You gonna live or what?"
Shatterstar: -jumps up and flips over his head. "Of course I am going to live! If that mad Dr. McCoy would only release me, I would be gladly fighting at your side."
Warpath: "Has Siryn returned yet?"
Shatterstar: "I do not know. The only other person I have seen is Dr. McCoy."
Sunspot: "What're you saying? Boomer hasn't visited you?"
Shatterstar: "I assumed she was with you. While I have been  poked, prodded, and pricked, and had my temperature taken in the oddest places."
~Vol 1 #47

Shatterstar: I know this place. Rictor took me here. I wonder why I have not heard from my friend?
Woman: "You look lost. Want to get found?"
Shatterstar: "I am not lost."
Woman: "No...I meant...do you want to go dancing?"
Shatterstar: "I...thank you, but no." I miss Julio...
~Vol 1 #49

Shatterstar: (possessed by Sage) "You presume much, Domino, selecting to battle with one who is a warrior born."
Domino: "You know, 'Star, I've heard your rap before. It never impressed me much. I will borrow one of your swords though."
Shatterstar: "No one takes my swords from me!!"
Domino: "Yeah, well, I just did."
~Vol 1 #50

Shatterstar: -Yawn- "We have been over this and over this."
Beast: "Humor me then."
Shatterstar: "I do not understand. There is nothing humorous about this situation."
Beast: "Ah, yes. Your 'difficulty' with idioms. I...keep forgetting."
~Vol 1 #51

Domino: "Punch it, Shatterstar, I want to be in New York yesterday!"
Shatterstar: "Yesterday? I was not aware this vehicle was equipped for time travel."
Domino: "Just go-- now!"
~Vol 1 #53

Shatterstar: "I will not cooperate with you. I wish only to have my swords returned to me and this farce to end."
Cop: "Take a seat, Benjamin. S'okay if we call you Benjamin, ain't it? See, ah, the rest o' yer crew refused to give their names."
Shatterstar: "I see no reason for you to call me a name which is not my own."
Cop: "Really? Howcum then this police report sez otherwise? Now take a seat. Benjamin."
~Vol 1 #54

Meltdown: "Yow! Remind me not to talk to you until you've had your morning coffee!"
Shatterstar: "I do not understand. I do not drink coffee."
Meltdown: "It was a joke, 'Star. Forget it!
~Vol 1 #55

Meltdown: "We've got access to the entire intelligence community-- including what they have on us. Can you run the system?"
Shatterstar: "I do not see why not. Compared to my...home world, it will be like child's theatre."
~Vol 1 #55

Shatterstar: "Tag. You are the one."
Siryn: "'It'. I'm 'it'."
Shatterstar: "Whatever."
~Vol 1 #56

Shatterstar: "I have merely taken time out to smell the vegetation."
~Vol 1 #58

Shatterstar: “I do not recall ever being in Boston. Do they have something there called ‘Red Sox’?”
Rictor: “Si. They have fans who believe in them, even when they are losing. Like you and me, amigo.”
Shatterstar: “Julio?”
~Vol 1 #59

Shatterstar: “Julio, is it really you?”
Rictor: “Si, who else would come all the way from Mexico to see your sorry self?”
~Vol 1 #59

Rictor: “I told you when I left—if you need me, I’d be back. And ‘Star needs me.”
~Vol 1 #59

Domino: "Julio. I might've forgotten what it was like having someone as pleasant as you on the team. But I'm assuming you haven't rocked that brain of yours to the point where you've missed that Dr. Strange --as strange as he may seem-- is someone with tremendous power, and deserves our respect."
Rictor: "In my book, that's only if he can help us find Shatterstar."
~Vol 1 #60

Rictor: "MADRE DE DIOS! I did not come back to this team to see mi amigo die! I will find a way to get to Mojo and free 'Star--Even if I have to split this planet in half to do it!"
~Vol 1 #61

Shatterstar: “I am glad to finally have gotten to the floor of all this.”
Rictor: “Bottom, amigo. To the 'bottom' of this.”
Shatterstar: “Whatever, Rictor.”
~Vol 1 #61

Shatterstar: "I have a vague recollection of being examined by some arcane device..."
Rictor: "Me too. What did they do to us while we were under?"
Moonstar: "...I wish I could tell you boys."
~Vol 1 #70

Rictor: "That's your problem, Cable. You think just because your whole life is some holy war, and you can't relate to people, that the rest of us are just going to be your faithful crusaders. I just came back to make sure Shatterstar was okay. It's time I return to Mexico and end my family's black market business."
Shatterstar: "Julio is my friend, and I would rather offer him my sword arm than have it atrophy from disuse."
Rictor: "That makes two more 'no's, Cable." -on staying in X-Force
~Vol 1 #70

Cable: "He came to Earth seeking my help. And I...I failed to give him what he needed."
Shatterstar: "No...no you did not. Cable you gave me exactly what I longed for. A family. A purpose. I'm the one who failed you."
Cable: "Shatterstar, I-- listen, recriminations are useless. What matters is we have a purpose, right here, right now. You interested?"
Shatterstar: "Does it involve mindless violence?"
Cable: "Of course."
Shatterstar: "Sounds good to me."
~Vol 2 #1

Cable: "--nearly destroyed all life on Earth!"
Shatterstar: "Are you saying we made the wrong choice, Cable?"
Cable: "Don't push my buttons, Shatterstar."
Shatterstar: "We just so rarely hear you admit your mistakes."
Cable: "I plead mea culpa for recruiting you..."
~Vol 2 #2

Scheduler: "What would you know of our fight? You were nothing more than a figure head -- a celebrity to spoon feed the masses! When we sent you to the other world, we thought you were going to die! We made you a legend solely for the sake of giving the people something to believe in! But your time on Earth has softened you to the hardships of this world, 'my Lord'..."
Shatterstar: "Liar! On Earth I learned how to care! How to love! How to be human! It was only when I returned to this place that I forgot those things! But never again! Never again will I forget the lessons I learned!"
~Annual 1992

Shatterstar: "Za's Vid, but he is fast!"
Rictor: "A compliment coming from you, 'Star? Someone write down the date!"
~Annual 1993

Warpath: "But look at him! No wonder he hates the fact that he's a mutant!"
Rictor: "Hey, we all got problems, right?"
--on Martin Henry Strong transforming back to his original state (a scaly looking fish baby)
~Annual 1993

Shatterstar: “Asgard suits my warrior nature better than twentieth century earth.”
Rictor: “Oh, don’t give me that, Star. Think your warrior nature would survive somewhere you can’t get pizza delivered?”
~Annual 1997

Senor Blanco: "Normal humans -- even those with fighting prowess -- have proven no match for her. But the two of you..."
Shatterstar: "Need some rest if we are to display our peak efficiency in these combat sessions."
Senor Blanco: "Private quarters or can you share one accomodation?"
Rictor: "Sharing's fine."
~ Annual 1999

Rictor: "Nice digs. Bugged like a swamp, I'll bet. Switch to Cadre Alliance?"
Shatterstar: "Codlista."
~Annual 1999

Rictor: Narrative: He thinks: Benjamin Russell, my butt. But then again, walking warrior or not, his friend's personality has changed. 'Star is more relaxed, enjoying life more when he isn't fighting, even cracking a joke or two.
~Annual 1999

Shatterstar: “You are good. Making me look like a chatterbox. Screams?”
Rictor: “They prob’ly can’t believe you just said chatterbox.”
~Annual 1999

Shatterstar: "Some manner of synaptic pulse channelled through the darts?"
Rictor: "I would have said that too...but I was too busy screamin' like a girl..."
~Annual 1999

Shatterstar: "Hmm..."
Rictor: "Sure coulda used that ten thou, too..."
Shatterstar: "Priorities, Julio..."
Guard: "Is someone humming?"
Shatterstar blows up the warehouse and the boys take off.
~Annual 1999

Rictor: "Half-sister?"
Asahi: "We were all born of one mother but eight different fathers."
Rictor: "Sort of like the opposite of an NBA player..."
Asahi: "Excuse me?"
Rictor: "Never mind. Tasteless joke."
~Annual 1999

Moonstar: "Besides, that's the old X-Force way of doing things."
Cannonball: "We prefer bein' a bit more cautious these days."
Rictor: "'We' do?"
~Annual 1999

Cannonball: "Ric! C'mon, don' make me cannonball through those towers!"
Rictor: "Sam, you won't break my contact with the ground 'cause we'd fall, an' you know you can't catch all four of us, so...what say the last one to Germany's a rotten egg!"
~Annual 1999

Rictor: “Well if someone had told me the V-subjects got more powerful the higher we went up the number chart…”
Shatterstar: “Then you would not have wished for a V-8, Julio?”
Rictor: “Remind me not to like your sense of humor later.”
~Annual 1999

Asahi: "Rictor...Shatterstar...please..."
Rictor: "You understood what they were saying, right?"
Shatterstar. "Yes."
Rictor: "So, we only got one chance to make one choice?"
Shatterstar: "Yes."
Rictor: "What should we do?"
Shatterstar: "What we always do. Whatever has to be done."
~Annual 1999