Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)/Quotes

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Quotes by Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Sometimes you're kind of hard to figure out, pal.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Matt, there's somebody you've just gotta meet. This is miss Karen Page, she's gonna be our new secretary!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

I'm going to ask Karen to marry me.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Okay, then let's say I'm the new Evel Knievel.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

I look almost fat on television.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

I'd know that grinning hyena anywhere -- even in a new costume! That man's -- the Jester!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Imagine... A savage wild-man appears in Britain, seemingly from nowhere!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

That was another brillant defensh Matthew! Thish bottle of champagne ish dedicated to you!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

I'm a failure... a stupid rolypoly Teddy Bear ... I've let you carry me ever since college...

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Everything's okay now Matt. Old Fog came through again .. hired us some protection!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

The name's Nelson, "Guts" Nelson.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Becky Blake didn't lie. I did.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

If, If, If... the story of my life.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

We're out of business, Matt! Ka-Put. Fini. The End.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

I've warned you not to go prancing around town alone the way you do, Matt! I know how you like to be independent -- and I respect you for it -- but you can overdo that lone wolf bit!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

You were in on this from the start, weren't you? Just like Judge Walden before you... another of Norman Osborn's cronies, just sweeping it all under the carpet!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

No. I'm not going to walk again. I'm not. You may have turned your back on me, Matt... But I haven't turned my back on you. Hell, you've saved me more times than I can remember... It's about time I returned the favor!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

You are not... the only hero... in this city. But you are its only mayor.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Face it Foggy, You're all washed up.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

You don't have to, Matt...you're fired.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

The truth is that you don't keep secrets to shield anyone but you. You think it's okay because you've convinced yourself that keeping secrets is a brave and noble act. Stop thinking that. It's not true. That's not your ammunition, Matty. When you were a kid, you got blinded just trying to help an old man across the street. That wasn't fair. Ever since then, you've devoted your life to balancing those scales. To making the world a fairer place for everyone else despite the fact that it is a vast, random entity of incomrephensible power. You get up every morning and you fight an unjust universe because you think you can make a dent. That is exactly the level of arrogance Kirsten and I will always trust to protect us.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

And that is what's like to live in the orbit of Matt Murdock. He will confound you. He will frustrate you. He will make your choices FOR you, he will manipulte you without CONSULTING you, and you will want to PUNCH him in his self-assured face at least ONCE AN HOUR. He will make you wonder EVERYTHING SINGLE DAY why you ever put up with him, because the Devil is FULL OF TRICKS. But he will care about you in a way that no one else could. When it comes down to it, I guess I don't really need the world to know I exist. I'm just glad HE knows.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

This is the last time I help you. Never again. Matt.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Right, he's charging people admission to gawk at the thing. Charming. And, incidentally, about the most New York thing I've ever heard.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

It's always a trap, Matt.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

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--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

I've warned you not to go prancing around town alone the way you do, Matt! I know how you like to be independent -- and I respect you for it -- but you can overdo that lone wolf bit!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Remember who you are!

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Well, excuse me, dudley Daredevil... We can't all be superpowered judges of character.

--Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Conversations with Franklin Nelson (Earth-616)

Deborah Harris Franklin

Hush, Franklin. My husband has no comment at this time

Foggy Nelson

That's right. No comment.

— Daredevil #207

Debbie Nelson

Foggy, you're the drabbest, dullest, most boring person I know!

Foggy Nelson

I resent that!

Debbie Nelson

I don't care!

— Daredevil #209

Foggy Nelson

You know what you are guilty of? Of not loving Heather as much as she loved you! You really couldn't help that, Matt. You really couldn't!

Matt Murdock

Maybe not. But still, she's dead... And in some way, I'm responsible. It's my fault.

— Daredevil #220

Karen Page

You and Matt are so much alike -- and yet -- so totally different, too!

Foggy Nelson

Yeah-- Matt shuts up once in a while!

"Mike" Murdock

Mister, in my kind of work you talk every chance you get! 'Cause you never know when your mouth may suddenly be shut -- like forever!

— Daredevil #33

Matt Murdock

I promised my Dad I'd grow up to be a Lawyer, not a Lackey! What is this, a hobby to you now?

Foggy Nelson

Whoa! Whoa! Whose money did we start this firm with? Mine!

— Daredevil Vol 3 #17

Daredevil

Foggy, I'm not crazy--

Foggy Nelson

Yes you are! I don't care what you think you hallucinated tonight, Matt, but it wasn't your ex-wife because I am looking right at her!

— Daredevil Vol 3 #18

Matt Murdock

Go back to the previous question. What do you mean, if there's time?

Foggy Nelson

Matty, I wasn't fair to you, either. I think the reason I was so angry that you might not be dealing with your problems honestly and with courage is because I... I need that from you right now. I need you to be the one who can teach me how to do all that.

Matt Murdock

Foggy, what are you talking about, please?

Foggy Nelson

I've... been sick, Matty. While you've been running around, I've been running to the doctors. And they're pretty sure--

Matt Murdock

Of what?

Foggy Nelson

--they're running tests right now--

Matt Murdock

For what, Foggy?

Foggy Nelson

... cancer.