Robot Monster (1953)

George Barrows: Ro-Man the Monster, Great Guidance

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Quotes 

• Ro-Man : I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot!

• Ro-Man : What are you doing alone, girl-child?

  Carla : My daddy won't let you hurt me.

  Ro-Man : We'll see!

• Johnny : I think you are just a big bully, picking on those smaller than you are!

  Ro-Man : Now I will kill you.

• Ro-Man : I will re-calculate. Your deaths will be indescribable.

• Great One : Have you made the correction?

  Ro-Man : I need guidance, Great One. For the first time in my life, I am not sure.

  Great One : You sound like a hu-man, not a Ro-Man. Can you not verify a fact?

  Ro-Man : I meshed my LIP with the view-screen auditor, and picked up a count of five.

  Great One : Error! Error! There are eight!

  Ro-Man : Then the other three still elude me. Is it possible they have a counterpower?

• Ro-Man : I am ordered to kill you. I must do it with my hands.

  Alice : How is it you're so strong, Ro-Man? It seems impossible.

  Ro-Man : We Ro-Mans obtain our strength from the planet Ro-Man, relayed from individual energizers.

• Ro-Man : The child is impertinent.

• Great One : Earth Ro-Man, you violate the laws of plans. To think for yourself is to be like the hu-man.

  Ro-Man : Yes! To be like the hu-man! To laugh! Feel! Want! Why are these things not in the plan?

  Great One : You are an extension of the Ro-Man, and a Ro-Man you will remain. Now, I set you into motion. One: destroy the girl. Two: destroy the family. Fail, and I will destroy you!

• Ro-Man : Great Guidance, I have a favorable report. I have already eliminated one of them.

  Great One : Good.

  Ro-Man : Force was necessary. It was a simple matter of strangulation. That leaves four.

  Great One : [buzzer sounds]  Error! Again! Five!

  Ro-Man : Four - and one more on whom I have made an estimate in relation to our strategic reserve. The plan should include one human being for reference in case of unforeseen contingencies.

• Great One : [his last line, when "Extension XJ-2" can't bring himself to kill Alice]  You wish to be a human? Good. You can DIE like a human!

  [Takes out XJ-2 with another Cosmic Blast, then...] 

  Great One : Human elements still roam Planet Earth! I, the ruler of the Ro-Men, shall send our Cosmic J-Rays... from which will spring prehistoric reptiles to devour whatever remains of life! Next, Psychotronic vibrations will smash the Planet Earth out of the universe!

  [Young Johnny wakes from his nightmare just in time to prevent this from happening]