Michael Chiklis credited as playing...
The Thing • Ben Grimm
- Johnny Storm: [about Alicia and Ben having sex] I'd hate to wake up one morning and find out she was killed in a rockslide!
- Ben Grimm: I'll show you a rockslide!
- [chases Johnny]
- Reed Richards: Your encounter with the Surfer has affected your molecules. They're... in a constant state of flux.
- Johnny Storm: Is that bad?
- Reed Richards: Well, it caused you to temporarily switch powers with Sue. Ideally, I'd like to run some more tests.
- Ben Grimm: [walks toward Johnny] Would you like a volunteer?
- Reed Richards, Susan Storm: No, no, no!
- Johnny Storm: No, no! Hey! This is serious.
- Ben Grimm: I just wanted to give him a hug.
- Susan Storm: We don't know the extent of his condition yet.
- Reed Richards: It could be progressive. It could be degenerative.
- Ben Grimm: It could be fun!
- [Ben touches Johnny and their powers switch]
- Reed Richards: No, Ben!
- Susan Storm: Ben!
- Ben Grimm: Whoa! Hey! Hey, it's me. I'm back!
- Johnny Storm: [looks at his reflection from the bottom of a silver pitcher and sees he's become The Thing] Oh, my God! Come on! We just said this is serious!
- Ben Grimm: Oh, yeah, serious.
- Johnny Storm: [looks back at his reflection] Oh, you got to be kidding me!
- Johnny Storm: I could catch him, but he's too strong for me.
- Ben Grimm: I could whale on him, but he'd see me from a mile away.
- Reed Richards: It would take all four of us.
- Johnny Storm: Or maybe one of us.
- Reed Richards: We don't know what that would do to you!
- Johnny Storm: Let's not make this about me.
- [last lines]
- Ben Grimm: Heads up, Johnny!
- [Johnny sees Frankie trying to catch the bouquet and destroys it with a blast of fire]
- Johnny Storm: Sorry. Reflex.
- Ben Grimm: [gets smashed into the wall by a large concrete slab] OK. That one hurt.
- Susan Storm: Where's Reed?
- Reed Richards: [muffled voice] Back here!
- Ben Grimm: [Ben steps out from the wall to reveal a flattened Reed] My bad.
- Victor von Doom: [after showing the video of his encounter with the alien] Well?
- Ben Grimm: I like the part where he knocks you on your ass.
- [Susan Storm brings General Hager to the bar and catches Reed Richards dancing with two ladies]
- Ben Grimm: [to Johnny] I think it might be clobberin' time...
- Johnny Storm: We wouldn't even be in this position if I wasn't such a complete screw up.
- Ben Grimm: Hey, you're not a complete screw-up. A 'partial' screw-up, maybe.
- Johnny Storm: Thanks.
- Ben Grimm: Look, there's nothing you and me can do now. It's all up to the eggheads.
- Johnny Storm: You think Reed's right? That this might really be the end of the world?
- Ben Grimm: He's never wrong about stuff like this.
- Johnny Storm: [after a long silence] You know, I'm not a very deep kinda guy...
- Ben Grimm: [mocking Johnny's attempt at a sincere tone] No?
- Johnny Storm: I'm just saying,
- [lowers voice]
- Johnny Storm: if we can't stop this, if it's really the end of the world... how are you going to spend your last few minutes?
- Ben Grimm: [stares into his empty pitcher and thinks about the question] Part of me would like to go out fighting.
- [pauses for a second]
- Ben Grimm: But to tell you the truth, I think I'd like to spend my last few minutes holding onto Alicia.
- Johnny Storm: [absentmindedly] That sounds good to me.
- [notices Ben's jealous stare, realizes what he said, and tries to backtrack; he begins to stammer]
- Johnny Storm: Not holding onto Alicia, because she's your girlfriend, not mine. I have no interest in her whatsoever.
- [sees Ben's look getting worse]
- Johnny Storm: Not that she's not attractive, because she is. 'So' attractive. I mean, who wouldn't want to...
- [the glass pitcher shatters in Ben's hand]
- Johnny Storm: What I meant, is that it's just nice to have somebody.
- Ben Grimm: Well, you got me pal.
- [trying to escape from the Army compound with the Silver Surfer, the Fantastic Four are confronted by Captain Raye]
- Captain Frankie Raye: [pointing her gun at Reed] What's going on here? Where is General Hager?
- Reed Richards: He's dead.
- Ben Grimm: And if we don't get outta here soon... we're all gonna be.
- Johnny Storm: [steps forward, a look of pleading on his face] Frankie...
- [Captain Raye turns slightly and points her gun at Johnny]
- Johnny Storm: The world is literally at stake. You have to trust us... please.
- [Captain Raye stares at Johnny a few seconds, then takes her finger off the trigger of her gun]
- Johnny Storm: [describing the Silver Surfer] It looked like a man, but completely covered in silver, and he was flying on this, like... like, a surfboard- type thing. I know that sounds crazy.
- Ben Grimm: [sarcastically] Oh, no, not at all.
- [jokingly]
- Ben Grimm: So, did you follow the magic man to Lollipop Land or the Rainbow Junction?
- [chuckles]
- Johnny Storm: Look, I know what I saw!
- Reed Richards: [to Sue] Unbelievable. Bizarre anomalies are occurring all over the world, defying every law of physics, and all the media care about is what china pattern we picked.
- Ben Grimm: What did you pick? The blue ones with them little flowers? l like them.
- Ben Grimm: So l guess this is it. We all go our separate ways.
- Reed Richards: No.
- Ben Grimm: No?
- Susan Storm: No.
- Johnny Storm: No?
- Reed Richards: If it wasn't for the team the whole world would be gone right now.
- Susan Storm: We can't run away from our responsibilities and the people we need to protect. This is who we are.