- Martha Kent: [seeing Kalibak run after Superman] Clark! Look out!
- Lois Lane: [confused] Clark? Where-?
- Martha Kent: [at a fancy restaurant] My goodness, this place looks expensive. Clark shouldn't have...
- Jonathan Kent: Oh, hush, Martha. Let the boy indulge us if he wants.
- Lois Lane: City desk, this is Lois Lane. Hit the record button and take all this down. I'm at Crestview Park, on the west side, and this... this thing from outer space has just landed. I don't know what it is, but it sure doesn't look user-friendly.
- Kalibak: I know I disobeyed you, but I thought if I could destroy Superman...
- Darkseid: And did you?
- Kalibak: I... underestimated his strength. But he won't catch me off-guard again.
- Darkseid: That much, at least, is true.
- Kalibak: [pleading] Please! Father!
- Darkseid: [blasting Kalibak with Omega beams] You'll beg louder than that when I'm done with you.
- Desaad: My scream machine is a success, great Darkseid.
- Darkseid: Is it?
- Desaad: A success in gauging Superman's strength. Using this data, I can now construct the ultimate device to destroy him, and...
- Darkseid: That *was* your ultimate device, Desaad. You have failed me.
- Desaad: Oh, please, sire. All my years of service to you.
- Bruno 'Ugly' Mannheim: Send me back to Earth, Darkseid. Let me put Intergang back together. I've learned a lot here on Apokolips.
- Darkseid: No one gets the chance to fail me twice, Mr. Mannheim.
- Kalibak: Give me the opportunity to prove myself, sire. Let me destroy Superman for you.
- Darkseid: No, Kalibak.
- Kalibak: But...
- Darkseid: The destruction of Superman is too important to my plans. I cannot entrust them to you.
- Kalibak: As you wish, great Darkseid.
- Bruno 'Ugly' Mannheim: [aside to Desaad] How can he even take that gorilla seriously?
- Darkseid: No one questions my judgment, Mr. Mannheim. Least of all, you.
- Lois Lane: [watching Superman fly away] No matter how many times I see that, I'll never get used to it.
- Jonathan Kent: Me, neither.
- Darkseid: I seem to recall telling Kalibak he was not to go to Earth.
- Desaad: I was just about to tell you, sire. He has disobeyed you. I know not where he comes by such foolish ideas.
- Darkseid: [preparing to fire his omega beams] Oh?
- Desaad: He wishes to prove himself worthy to be your, uh...
- Darkseid: A technicality of his birth. As far as destiny and I are concerned, I have no son.
- Martha Kent: Your father's thinking of buying a computer for the farm, Clark.
- Jonathan Kent: I am not. I don't need some fancy gizmo to tell me when the chickens have to be fed. It's your mother who wants one, Clark. She's aching to surf the net. Whatever that means.
- Clark Kent: When I finish a story, I press a button, and it goes straight to the editor's desk.
- Jonathan Kent: Heck, that could save you five or six whole steps.
- Lois Lane: Ah, but the editor can send it directly to Typography seven flights down, and they can send it to the press room, and...
- Jonathan Kent: Okay, okay. I surrender.
- Clark Kent: This is Lois Lane, folks.
- Lois Lane: Nice to meet you, Mr. and Mrs. Kent.
- Jonathan Kent: Please, Jonathan and Martha.
- Martha Kent: We've heard so much about you from Clark.
- Lois Lane: Really?
- Jonathan Kent: We feel like you're practically family. Will you join us for lunch?
- Lois Lane: Well, seeing as how I'm practically family, why not?
- Desaad: Great Darkseid, I do not understand. Why did you let Superman live?
- Darkseid: Superman cannot be destroyed with one stroke. But it can and will be done.
- Desaad: You sacrificed your s... uh, Kalibak?
- Darkseid: One casualty.
- Desaad: How many will there be before you destroy Superman and conquer the Earth?
- Darkseid: As many as it takes.
- Martha Kent: Your editor wasn't angry with Clark, was he? He certainly sounded upset.
- Lois Lane: Nah, the chief always sounds like that. It's part of his charm.
- Jimmy Olsen: You got plans this weekend, Clark?
- Clark Kent: I'm playing tour guide for my folks. They're coming to town for Father's Day.
- Jimmy Olsen: What's their ETA?
- Clark Kent: Hmm?
- Lois Lane: [Clark hears her with his superhuman hearing] Call the SCU. Get them down here fast.
- Jimmy Olsen: Your mom and dad, what time are they...
- [seeing Clark is gone]
- Jimmy Olsen: Clark?
- Superman: [Jonathan is trapped under rubble] Don't move. I'm coming.
- Kalibak: [punching him] The only place you're going is to the grave.
- Superman: Stop! There's an innocent man!
- Kalibak: How naive you are. On Apokolips, we are taught even as children...
- [throwing another punch]
- Kalibak: ....that no one is innocent.
- Desaad: You do not have to accept your rejection. I can send you to Earth to destroy Superman.
- Kalibak: And cover your failure, worm?
- Desaad: Well, uh, technically. But if you were to succeed, Darkseid would honor you. You would be his favorite.
- Kalibak: Yes...
- Desaad: It is only right that you claim all the glory for this great deed. Do not even mention that I suggested it.
- Kalibak: [a portal opens] Are you certain?
- Desaad: Trust me, Kalibak. Darkseid will finally accept you as his son.