Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)/Quotes

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Quotes by Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

You recall my lesson on the three worlds? This is no world. This is a universe before life. If you were religious, then you would consider your god to be the creator of the universe. What if your messiah was here to mend your god's mistakes? The savior of the universe would therefore come to uncreate it. Reduce it to a single shadow.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Friends. I must again leave you for a while, to engage the human world and secure our own future. While I am gone: consider the stone cairns on the ground floor of our Tower. Consider the stones as a visible manifestation of Blind Time. The stones cannot perceive us in any way. In a hundred generations of human life, they only grow more perfect. The stones matter more to the universe than you do. Even to a stone, you are nothing.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

In time, all we rely on will shatter and fall. Inside the marble is the statue. Inside the statue is the rubble. Inside the rubble, the dust. Inchoate in all things are their broken states. The world is broken, Gorgon. I only force it to admit that.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Imagine a world in which I told you that you were a Zen Archer of ghost bullets -- and so, in that moment, you were, because you utterly believed it to be true. Would you not be persuaded that I am a god?

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

There is always death. That death matters is an illusion we create for ourselves. It does not matter.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

The tone you heard was admiration, My Queen. So by all means -- let's go hire us a gun.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

... I guess it's made me realize that my only real ability I possess is a destructive one.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Let me do something for a change! By Agon let me...

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

It is my discipline to be able to sense the weakest spot in any object -- And my power to shatter it.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Greetings. We are from Attilan. We are the Inhumans. We believe you have some property of ours.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

If you want to save inhumanity, your majesty-- You must forget everything you think you know. You will ignore your instincts and forget the past. Otherwise, all is lost. It's too late for me, too late to unlearn a lifetime of thinking. A lifetime of error, my queen. I have failed you for the last time--

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

I once made a study of your art of cinema. Apparently one starts with the attention-grabbing scene before progressing the plot.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Where is the flaw?

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

I am Magister Karnak of the Tower of Wisdom. I teach. I take time and care to teach the people of this world one ultimate, vital truth. I teach them that they are nothing. And you change people with... a gesture? A thought? You grant fantastic powers to things that are nothing with a word. And why do you do it? Because. They. Want. It. You disgust me. You betray the very nature of the universe. You just can't give them something because they want it--

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

I am your magister, boy. And you have much to learn.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

There is always death. That death matters is an illusion we create for ourselves. It does not matter.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

I am your magister, boy. And you have much to learn.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

You noticed. You looked. You thought. You focused on the details. The flaws. Despite your fear. Despite the cages the human world has carefully built around your thinking. You saw the details, and you remembered the details. Inside your vision, and outside. You used those details to try to save lives.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

We do have a teleporting dog. Yes. But travel by Inhuman methods would require Inhuman involvement. And this journey... I take alone. Today I am neither an Inhuman, nor a S.H.I.E.L.D. consultant. I am Karnak. That is all.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

You noticed. You looked. You thought. You focused on the details. The flaws. Despite your fear. Despite the cages the human world has carefully built around your thinking. You saw the details, and you remembered the details. Inside your vision, and outside. You used those details to try to save lives.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Mine is to understand weakness. And this I know... So long as the Inhuman family bond remains...we have no weakness.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

It's not an outhouse.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

A company isn't people, Ahura. It's money and things. I saved those. Everything that matters about Ennilux is now mine.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

How terrible. Arriving home only to find your kingdom in pieces and your people dead... I can't imagine how that must feel.

--Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Conversations with Karnak Mander-Azur (Earth-616)

Thing	Any chance you Inhumans have a recipe fer pumpkin pancakes?
Karnak	What are these wonders called "pancakes"?
Invisible Girl	Just ignore him, Karnak!

— Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine #7