Michael Chiklis credited as playing...
Ben Grimm
- Johnny Storm: Wake up, Ben. Hey, rise and shine, big boy. How you feeling?
- Ben Grimm: Where am I?
- Johnny Storm: Back on Earth. We're in quarantine. Victor's medical facility.
- Ben Grimm: Reed? Sue?
- Johnny Storm: Oh, they're fine. Everybody else is fine.
- Ben Grimm: What's wrong with me?
- Johnny Storm: I swear to you, Ben, they've done everything humanly possible. The best plastic surgeons in the world are here, Ben. You had the best.
- [Johnny picks up a hand mirror on the bed table before Ben can reach it, reluctant to give it to him]
- Ben Grimm: Give me that mirror.
- Johnny Storm: I don't think if that's a good idea. They said the shock alone...
- Ben Grimm: I said, give me that goddamn mirror!
- Johnny Storm: Okay, Ben. Just be strong.
- [Ben grabs it from him. Then slowly raises it to look and see that he's totally normal]
- Johnny Storm: Unfortunately, the doctors just couldn't do anything to fix your face.
- X Games Reporter: [referring to Ben] What is that? What do you call that thing?
- Johnny Storm: That's it - the Thing. Yeah, you think this is bad, you should have seen him before!
- Ben Grimm: Okay. Now I'm gonna go kill him!
- Ben Grimm: You know, living through something like this you really appreciate having the right woman in your life.
- Reed Richards: Yeah, you and Debbie are perfect.
- Ben Grimm: I'm not talking about Debbie.
- [indicates to Sue]
- Reed Richards: What? Come on! She's got a good thing with Victor. He's smart, he's powerful, he's successful...
- Ben Grimm: [coy] Well, maybe *you* should date him, then!
- Reed Richards: [smiles] Ben, she ended up with the right guy. Everything's worked out for the best.
- [Reed walks away]
- Ben Grimm: [shakes his head] Do I have to do everything myself?
- Ben Grimm: [Sitting on the Brooklyn Bridge] Oh yeah Ben, few days in space, it'll be great, what's the worst that could happen?
- Ben Grimm: Ladies, I'm gonna need to borrow your car.
- Old Lady with Car #2: The transmission sticks.
- Ben Grimm: Not gonna be a problem!
- [hurls the car in the direction of Doom]
- Ben Grimm: Hey, no more wise cracks about the way I look.
- Johnny Storm: Hey, call me Mr. Sensitivity.
- Johnny Storm: [walking through the crowd] Okay, wide load coming through! Everybody move! He's huge!
- Ben Grimm: Hey! Come here, Mr. Sensitive.
- Johnny Storm: Flame on!
- Ben Grimm: Show-off!
- [Johnny flies into the sky to make a fiery 4]
- Reed Richards: How many times have I ever asked you to do something that you said you absolutely could not do?
- Ben Grimm: Five times.
- [walks off]
- Reed Richards: I had it at four.
- Ben Grimm: [from offscreen] Well, this makes five!
- Victor Von Doom: I've always wanted power. Now I have an unlimited supply.
- Ben Grimm: And no Thing to stand in your way.
- Ben Grimm: [complaining about Johnny] No! I cannot take orders from the underwear model.
- Reed Richards: Come on now, Ben.
- Ben Grimm: That wingnut washed out of NASA for sneaking two Victoria's Secret wannabes into a flight simulator.
- Reed Richards: Youthful high spirits.
- Ben Grimm: They crashed it into a wall. A flight simulator.
- [as the four enter the elevator, it creaks and from Ben's massive body weight]
- Johnny Storm: Either we're moving really fast or not at all.
- [the elevator's "exceed maximum weight" sign lights up]
- Ben Grimm: I'll take the stairs.
- [Johnny hurls a fireball that smacks Ben in the back of his head]
- Ben Grimm: Did you just...?
- [gets another fireball in the face]
- Susan Storm: Johnny, stop it!
- Ben Grimm: That's it, Tinker Bell! You wanna fly? Then fly!
- Ben Grimm: [shaking head sadly, trying to make Alicia understand] You don't know what it's like out there. Walking around like some kind of circus freak. People staring, whispering...
- Alicia Masters: [sarcastically] I wouldn't know anything about that.
- Ben Grimm: [instantly contrite] I mean...
- [first lines]
- Ben Grimm: Typical of Victor Von Doom to build a thirty-foot statue of himself.
- Reed Richards: Well, it's obviously aimed at first-time visitors to create feelings of smallness, inadequacy.
- Ben Grimm: Good thing it ain't working. Reed, what are we doing here? This guy's fast-food, strip-mall science.
- Reed Richards: This wasn't our first stop, in case you forgot. Besides, Victor's not that bad. He's just a little - larger than life.
- Ben Grimm: [after finding out that he's working for Johnny] I cannot take orders from the underwear model.
- Ben Grimm: [referring to Reed, Susan and Johnny in their new outfits] You guys look like an '80s rock band!
- Victor Von Doom: It's time to end this.
- Ben Grimm: No, Vic. It's clobbering time!
- [he sends Dr. Doom flying. A metal painting falls on the latter]
- Ben Grimm: Damn, I've been waiting to do that!
- Johnny Storm: Come on, Ben. Smile. They wanna like you, bud. Say hi.
- [to a group of little kids]
- Ben Grimm: Uh, don't do drugs!
- Reed Richards: Ben, I've been crunching the numbers on the machine. I think if we can rework the power settings...
- Ben Grimm: [casually] Forget it, egghead. I'm good as is.
- Alicia Masters: [approaches and hands Ben a large metal mug of beer] Better than good, baby.
- [they clink glasses causing hers to shatter]
- Alicia Masters: You just... need to work on your touch.
- Ben Grimm: [hugging her and smiling widely] I like the sound of that.
- [Ben zips Johnny's suit all the way up]
- Johnny Storm: Thank you. That's so sweet.
- Ben Grimm: I can handle this ship. I can even handle Mr. Blonde Ambition. But I don't know if I should be flying or doing Swan Lake in these suits. I mean, who the hell came up with these?
- Susan Storm: Victor did. The synthetics act as a second skin, adapting to your body's individual needs.