Christopher Reeve credited as playing...
Superman • Clark Kent
- [Superman and Lois are standing on opposite sides of a large planter]
- Lois Lane: What color underwear am I wearing?
- Superman: [looking] Hmmm...
- Lois Lane: Oh, I'm sorry, I embarrassed you, didn't I?
- Superman: Oh, no, no, no, not at all, Miss Lane, it's just that this planter must be made of lead.
- Lois Lane: Uh, yes it is. So?
- Superman: Well, you see, I, uh, I sort of have a problem seeing through lead.
- Lois Lane: Oh, that's interesting.
- Lois Lane: [Writing] Problem seeing through lead. Hmmm. Uh, d-do you have a first name?
- Superman: What do you mean, like, uh, Ralph or something?
- Lois Lane: No, no, I mean like...
- [walks away from the planter]
- Superman: Pink.
- Lois Lane: Huh?
- Superman: Pink.
- [Lois walks back to the planter]
- Superman: Um, sorry, Miss Lane, I didn't mean to embarrass you.
- Clark Kent: Excuse me, Mr. White. I was wondering if, if, uh, perhaps you could arrange for half my salary to be sent to this address on a weekly basis.
- Lois Lane: Your bookie, right?
- Clark Kent: My what?
- Lois Lane: Don't tell me: he sends a check every week to his sweet, grey-haired old mother.
- Clark Kent: Actually, she's silver-haired.
- Clark Kent: Really, Lois, supposing that man had shot you? Is it worth risking your life over ten dollars, two credit cards, a hairbrush, and a lipstick?
- Lois Lane: How did you know that?
- Clark Kent: Know what?
- Lois Lane: You just described the exact contents of my purse.
- [Clark peeks in her purse]
- Clark Kent: Hmm. Uh, wild guess.
- Superman: Is that how a warped brain like yours gets its kicks? By planning the death of innocent people?
- Lex Luthor: No, by causing the death of innocent people.
- [a thug strikes Superman from behind with a crowbar, it vibrates his hands]
- Superman: Bad vibrations?
- Jor-El: [in the Fortress of Solitude] You... enjoyed it.
- Superman: I don't know what to say, Father. I'm afraid I just got carried away.
- Jor-El: I anticipated this, my son. I...
- Superman: [surprised] You couldn't have! You couldn't have imagined...
- Jor-El: ...How good it felt.
- [Clark nods]
- Jor-El: You are revealed to the world. Very well, so be it. But you must still keep your secret identity.
- Superman: But why?
- Jor-El: The reasons are two. First, you cannot serve humanity twenty-eight hours a day.
- Superman: Twenty-four.
- Jor-El: Or twenty-four, as it is in Earth time. Your help would be called for endlessly, even for those problems which human beings could solve themselves. It is their habit to abuse their resources in such a way.
- Superman: And, secondly?
- Jor-El: Secondly, your enemies will discover their only way to hurt you: by hurting the people you care for.
- Superman: Thank you, Father.
- Jor-El: Lastly... Do not punish yourself for your feelings of vanity. Simply learn to control them. It is an affliction common to all, even on Krypton. Our destruction could have been avoided had it not been for the vanity of some who considered us indestructible. Were it not for vanity, why... at this very moment...
- [sadly]
- Jor-El: I could embrace you in my arms. My son.
- [Kal-El reaches yearningly toward his father's image; Jor-El fades, leaving Kal-El alone]
- [after Luthor has explained his master plan to Superman]
- Lex Luthor, Superman: Well. What do you think, "Supe", baby? Interesting?
- Superman: Well, your theory's quite impressive, Luthor.
- Lex Luthor: [to Otis] Otis, would you go to the viewing room, please?
- [Otis departs]
- Superman: But as for the rest, it's nothing but a sick fantasy.
- Lex Luthor: [chuckles] Fantasy? No, no. It's *history*. It's *happening*, Superman.
- [screams]
- Lex Luthor: Miss Teschmacher!
- [She enters]
- Miss Teschmacher: Yes, Lex?
- Lex Luthor: [without turning to look at her] Where's the rocket now?
- Miss Teschmacher: It's going like a bat over the Grand Canyon! So's the other one.
- Superman: [concerned] The other one? There's two of them?
- [Luthor snaps his fingers at Eve, and she departs as well as he sits on a lead-lined trunk]
- Lex Luthor: Yes, Superman. Double jeopardy. Even you with your great speed couldn't stop both of them. While I, on the other hand, could stop them with my detonator.
- [Superman crosses to Luthor, grabs him by the shirt and coat, lifts him up high]
- Superman: Alright, Luthor, where is it? Where's that detonator?
- [Superman drops Luthor and begins scanning the room with his X-Ray vision. He checks out the safe and the desk but finds nothing. He then turns and sees the lead-lined trunk Luthor is sitting on]
- Superman: You diseased maniac! Did you really think you could hide it from me by encasing it in lead?
- [He tosses Luthor off the trunk and onto the couch behind him]
- Superman: I'll mold this box into your prison bars!
- Lex Luthor: [faux warning] Don't touch that!
- [Superman dismisses the warning, opens the trunk and finds a glowing, green rock with a chain attached around it. He then looks pale and weak]
- Lex Luthor: [smiling victoriously; chuckling] I told ya. It's kryptonite, Superman. A little piece of the rock you were born on. I've spared no expense to make you feel right at home.
- [Luthor gets up, pulls the rock out of the box by the chain, Superman desperately tries to raise his arm to shield himself from the rays]
- Lex Luthor: You were great in your day, Superman. But it just stands to reason. When it came time to cash in your chips, this old... diseased maniac... would be your banker. Mind over muscle.
- [Superman is trying to slide himself along the wall when Luthor finally places the chain around Superman's neck]
- Superman: [weakly] You... don't even care... where the other missile's headed, do you?
- Lex Luthor: Certainly, I do! I know exactly where it's headed. Hackensack, New Jersey.
- [Luthor pushes Superman over the crumbled railing bordering the office portion of his complex. He falls into the pool below]
- Lex Luthor: [gleeful] I have to leave you now. No hard feelings. We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.
- Clark Kent: [in Superman's voice] Lois, there's something I have to tell you. I'm really...
- [In Clark's voice]
- Clark Kent: I-I mean I was, at first, really nervous about tonight, uh... but then I decided, darn it! I'm gonna show you the time of your life.
- Lois Lane: [still infatuated with Superman] That's Clark, nice.
- Perry White: Now look. The Post: "It Flies." The News: "Look, Ma, No Wires." The Times: "Blue Bomb Buzzes Metropolis." The Planet. "Caped Wonder Stuns City." We're sitting on top of the story of the century here! I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs, franks and beans, death and taxes, politics and corruption.
- Clark Kent: I don't think he would lend himself to any cheap promotion schemes though Mr. White.
- Perry White: Exactly how you would you know that, Kent?
- Clark Kent: Uhm... Just a first impression?
- Perry White: Well, anyway, who's talking cheap? I'll make him a partner, if that's what it takes!
- Lex Luthor: [DELETED SCENE: at his underground manor, Luthor is playing the piano and singing] "You must've been a beautiful baby, you must've been a wonderful child; when you were only startin' to go to kindergarten, you must've drove the little boys wild; And when it came to winning blue ribbons, you must've shown the other kids how; I can see the judge's eyes, when he handed you the prize, you must've made the cutest bow; Yeah, you must've been a beautiful baby... 'Cause, baby, look at you now."
- [He looks over at Eve T., who is about to be fed to Lex's "babies"]
- Miss Teschmacher: [in tears] You can't do this to me...! Why, Lex? WHY?
- Lex Luthor: Because I love you, Miss Teschmacher.
- [He signals for Otis to drop Eve, which the henchman does. Then a familiar blue-and-red streak follows her down... and reappears, depositing Eve safely on the floor]
- Superman: By the way, Miss Teschmacher, your mother sends her love.
- [He gazes over at Luthor, who sighs in defeat]