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[first lines]
Seg-El : Kal-El. My future grandson. This is the story of the House of El. Our ending has yet to be written. But this is how it began. Ours is a story of sacrifice and triumph. How the House of El led a revolution against tyranny. The story of your family isn't how we died. But how we lived.
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Seg-El : Could you remind me why I am the one who has to go and provoke a very large, very corrupt government officials?
Kem : My guess that's just the way that this one goes, isn't it?
Seg-El : Mmm-hmm.
Kem : Plus you got superior stamina and, uh, a very punchable face.
Seg-El : Mmm, well, yours is looking more punchable by the minute, mate.
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Nyssa-Vex : Cor-Vex. He seems handsome enough. There's that at least.
Seg-El : Doesn't it bother you? Knowing how his life's gonna play out?
Nyssa-Vex : I'm the fifth of five daughters, Seg. It's a miracle the Council are allowing me to bind with anyone. I'll take what I can get. Even a Rankless boy with a chip on his shoulder.
Seg-El : Your father chooses me, and you accept without a word.
Nyssa-Vex : Please tell me you aren't that naive. You are the grandson of a traitor. If my father binds you to us, he is taming you. Proving that even a dreaded El can be co-opted and brought into the fold.
Seg-El : I'm just a game piece.
Nyssa-Vex : Everyone in Kandor is a game piece to my father. Including me. Besides, you're not completely repellent. There's a lot I can teach you about life up here. My father only thinks he was the one who chose you.
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Seg-El : This fortress. It's why they killed grandfather, isn't it?
Charys-El : Val was determined to prove we weren't alone in the universe. After the council shut down his work, he would come here to work in secret.
Seg-El : He found something he wasn't supposed to.
Charys-El : Some kind of alien presence he believed was consuming other worlds and would someday come for Krypton. He tried to warn the Council, and they silenced him for it. Your father and I believed him. There was nothing we could do. With Val dead, we didn't even know how to get in this place. Your grandfather was no traitor. He was a hero. He was trying to protect Krypton. He believed in it so much, he was willing to do for it. We have to finish his work. Together.
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Adam Strange : You only think you're the end of the line.
[brings out Superman's cape out of his duffel bag]
Adam Strange : This belongs to your grandson. Kal-El. Emphasis on the El.
[the cape starts fading]
Seg-El : Why's it doing that?
Adam Strange : It's like an hourglass. Once this cape is gone, our time's up. And Superman will have been wiped from existence. This isn't just about your grandson, Seg. This things that coming. It's not just gonna stop at Krypton. It is coming for everything.
Seg-El : What are you talking about?
Adam Strange : It moves... from planet to planet conquering civilizations. Destroying billions of lives. It's known as the Collector of Worlds. But its true name... is Brainiac.
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Ter-El : Please tell me you and Kem didn't pull that scam again last night.
Seg-El : All right, fine. I won't.
Ter-El : If you keep carrying on like this...
Seg-El : Dad, we can talk about this in the morning.
Charys-El : It is morning, Seg. You can't keep doing this. If you're caught after curfew...
Seg-El : They'll put me in the lunar work camps. I know, I know. Look, we need that money.
Ter-El : Well, I can take extra shifts.
Seg-El : At the Guild?
Ter-El : Yeah.
Seg-El : Great. The same people who executed Grandpa. Forced us to live down here. Sounds like a plan.
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Adam Strange : I come from a planet called Earth. A time centuries from now. And I've come here to warn you. Someone from the future is coming to destroy Krypton.
Seg-El : Okay, right. Why? Why would they do that?
Adam Strange : Because where I'm from, your grandson becomes the greatest hero in the universe. Like, ever. Unless somebody changes things to make sure that he's never born...
[Adam collapses to the ground]
Seg-El : You all right?
Adam Strange : I'm running out of time. Take this.
[gives Seg the Sunstone]
Adam Strange : You have to find the fortress. You have to save Superman.
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Seg-El : If that's the best you got - maybe I won't be as late as I thought.
Technician #1 : Always got something clever to say, haven't you? Well, if you're so clever, tell me this. How come you're on the stupid end of this blaster?
Kem : [aims his blaster at the back of the technician's head] Easy, mate. My stupid end's bigger.
