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Quotes by Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

As they have been since our..."project" with Banner began. Compounded by the face that Stark's paranoia has begun to seem...less paranoid.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

All I know is that I'm aware of something now that looking back I wish I'd seen at the time. When we were the Invaders of World War II, I was the team's might and Steve, the strategist and natural leader, was its brain. You were the heart, Jim.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

What I was going to say is these times... The three of us together--four, I suppose, with the Winter Soldier... I hope there are more of them.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Are you insane, Alphan, to come between Prince Namor and his quest?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Well, here I am-- And here is the Eye! The next move is yours, Avenger!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

So one mystery unlocks to show yet another. You've found us a Chinese puzzle!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Metamorphosed beyond all imagining, the Leviathan is indeed my wife, Marrina! And with my life or death, I will defend her!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Woe to love that it should demand such a price. For surely I must now cut out my living heart!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

This holy war has just begun. And we will not misstep as we have in the past. No more armies hitting the beach. No more invasions. Let the air-breathers have their mounds of dirt and blackened skies. We fight for the seas, and those who called them home. The surface world has their Avengers. Now we have the Defenders of the Deep.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Let it be known, I take full responsibility for everything I've unleashed. I do not regret my actions, but I understand the weight of them. But I fear I'm... losing control. The Cabal are rapid dogs, and I can no longer hold their leash. I'm ready to do what we must... I'm ready to finish this.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Everything dies. You. Me. Everyone on this planet. Our sun. Our galaxy, and, eventually, the universe itself. This is simply how things are. It's inevitable... And I accept it. What I will not tolerate-- what I find unacceptable-- is going quietly, like some mewling child, before my time. There is something out there, coming for us, trying to kill us all-- And I would do to it what it would do to us. Brothers. Sisters. All the angels have fallen, and we devils are all that remains... So I ask you... Will you help me kill worlds?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

This must be Cape Anna Lighthouse, Dorma – it gives me an idea – we can start our crusade right here – you see, if we demolish this light, it will endanger many ships, and perhaps destroy them! – It will be our first move!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Don't call me "Water Rat", Matchstick.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

What a consummate liar you are, Roosevelt.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I know you see me on your monitors. You are trespassing on sacred ground.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

If you will not fight with honor -- then expect no quarter from the Avenging Son!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

They recognize me! They flee in panic! Shall such as these rule over Earth instead of Namor??!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

That thing... That was once my wife. And if I was willing to do that to her... Just imagine what I'm going to do to you.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Lucky. We were indeed lucky, this night. And Ramona Fischer -- wherever you are, whoever you are -- I have felt the depth of your young man's regard for you. I do not know whether you will reciprocate, once you know of it. But I hope that you will treasure it. For tonight...it was enough to save a world.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Another exciting non-team-up for the Defenders. Let's all have shawarma sometime.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Do not summon me again, Strange -- For if I come -- It will not be as an ally!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I came to seek out Reed Richards. But if you are indeed Defenders, then perhaps I may acquire aid from you. Atlantis is greatly imperiled!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Whoever is guilty of such callous disdain for the denizens of the deep shall suffer at the hands of the Sub-Mariner! THIS I SWEAR!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Do not think to dictate to me, Sorcerer.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

To Hell with the Defenders!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Here we are Doctor Strange trying to reason with an imbecile!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

This holy war has just begun. And we will not misstep as we have in the past. No more armies hitting the beach. No more invasions. Let the air-breathers have their mounds of dirt and blackened skies. We fight for the seas, and those who called them home. The surface world has their Avengers. Now we have the Defenders of the Deep.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Stand quietly everyone, or I shall kill you all!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I have not being fighting one of the few men Namor calls a peer... in fact, this... Strange... is not even human!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I shall return later – There are riches to be found in this house!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Those robots [Ev Carley and Rod Nelson in diving suits] – they can't be men! Why, they're mechanical – and so ponderous – yet they're shaped like men, and certainly they're not fish – I wonder ... One of them had some kind of fire-weapon – I'd better get out of here!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I vow to be true to the name of Namor, which means "avenging son"! I shall never rest till the insolent human race has paid for its crimes against our people! Now rise, and pledge me your hearts, your hands, your lives!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Well! Here is a prize worth catching!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Here is the answer to your demands. Compromise...? Never.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

A penny for your thoughts, Sue?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Hammers? When I fought Attuma...when he razed New Atlantis...he wielded a hammer. I have never seen anything so... It was an ungodly weapon.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

The sea should boil with the righteous fury of Namor the Sub-Mariner. I should be angry. But I'm not. I was warned that someone would be coming for the hammers. I expected my one-time ally, Valkyrie. I hoped to talk some sense into her. Instead, I find you -- the one who unleashed hell on all the world...the one who brought destruction to my kingdom. So I'm not angry. I'm glad. I'm glad it's you.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

(To Doctor Doom) Together we could rule the world which has rejected us both!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Lowly beast! Your allies made this happen! It was your help that let them get so close to ending the world! Launched from my domain! I've upheld my word to Rogers, the threat is over. Now you will face the judgment of the deep!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Return that Body to the home of Doctor Strange, and the Mind to the original owner... or I will be forced to resort to... fisticuffs.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

We cannot help them. They have to die.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You Nazis have been on the winning side too long!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

The Scarab seems almost -- Invincible!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

By Proteus, that devil has given new meaning to our battle-cry.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

It is time we paid back the Liberty Legion for the time they helped save us.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

So, Meranno, we meet again, do we?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You are a kind man, Steve Rogers, and I say this as a friend... war has no place for kindness... especially among humans.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I will make a world where this cannot happen again. I will make a better world.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I know how this sounds. Like I'm a puppet. But... I'm a puppet to my own mind, to an unconscious savior. I may not have solely come up with this plan to save the world, but I know, deep in my heart... it's a good plan. It will save the world... I need you to understand this.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Are you listening to yourselves? Tony Stark is the most irritating lung-man I have ever met. But he is, in his own way, as regal as either of the true princes of blood with you here today. And you would insult him by offering him charity? If Stark cannot defeat his inner demons, what good is he against alien invasions and super-powered megalomaniacs? What good will he be to we who have sworn to defend this Earth? If Tony Stark succeeds in pulling himself out of the gutter, he will be stronger than ever before. And if he fails...He was not worthy to sit among us in the first place. Either way, this road of trials that faces him now...He must walk down alone.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

...your fellow surface-men send a champion against me -- and a familiar one as well. They are fools...!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You may have joined your fellow surface-men in attacking Hiram Dobbs, Iron Man, but you've e'er been a noble foe in the past. And you deserve a noble death!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

For given cause, the Sub-Mariner strikes!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You are in my domain Avenger--! Even the strongest steel cannot long withstand my power-- and my skill!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Did you suppose that Namor the First, Prince of Atlantis was some mere human... to be long held at bay by naught save an illusion!?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Ha! Haha hahaha haha! And perhaps the Phoenix has forgotten all about you. Out of sight, out of mind, yes? Perhaps all the monsters have given up and gone away -- so that the two of us can live happily ever after. Perhaps all is truly well. But I think we both know better. I think we both can agree -- that once a monster has your scent -- the beast will never stop coming. Until at least one of you is dead in the water.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

A penny for your thoughts, Sue?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You are too lovely to die, even though you are an American!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

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--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You stay right there gorgeous ... or I'll break every bone in your body!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

At last, killer -- Namor shall drink his full measure of -- Vengeance!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Y-you're saying--my condition was psychosomatic all along?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

So, Captain--it is all right to infiltrate my country and battle the forces of fascism......but it is wrong to fight the same evil in your own land? Then I will do it without you!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Stand aside lackey, that I may confront your leader! The Sub-Mariner Commands! Imperius Rex!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

MAR-iner. Sub-MARINER! The British pronounce it properly -- Why can't you Americans?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I don't know, though – on second thought, I want that girl!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

The surface has developed creatures and men with great power! They will attempt to destroy not only Atlantis, but Vodan as well! I will not allow it! We can't allow it!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Vampire squid. Should have seen that coming.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Ready your warriors, Jian. Outfit them with as much weaponry as they can carry. In four hours' time...we hunt the Aqueos.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Logomancer -- our people are in danger of extinction, and this New Atlantis we're building...it means a great deal to me. It may be my last chance at redemption. This is my city. And I won't let it be destroyed by creatures that died long before we were born. ... You didn't hear that. The 'redemption' part.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Unlike my predecessors, Loa, I can no longer neglect matters beyond the walls of Atlantis. The era of emperors is gone. It's time to make something new. I have a kingdom to build, battles to fight. And a life I intend to live to the fullest. But like you, I will first pause to consider what has happened today. All that I have learned...and all that's been lost.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I learned something, down in Hell. My destiny is not written in stone, and as long as I remember that I have allies...I will prevail against Krang. I will always prevail.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

In the name of Father Neptune, now does Namor the First, Prince of Atlantis, Emperor of the Deep, Lord of the Seven Seas and Supreme Commander of the undersea legions, duly proclaim for all to witness... the victory is truly mine! Let no man deny that Namor is, and ever shall be, Prince of the Blood!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

No one may come near the person of the Sub-Mariner! The fates have decreed it so! Namor must be forever alone!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Great Neptune's Trident! Despite his great size, the man is agile as a dolphin pup!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Get up. Leave. Save yourself. Should my wrath need vent again... I cannot prmise your meager life will be spared.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Have I ever thanked you, Vashti. Have I ever told you how much I value your friendship?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

You are not a god! You are not an immortal! You are the royal subject of a king, and your king demands that you stop this madness now!! ALL OF IT! You will stop this, you will leave this universe and you will not come back!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Why would you sleep with a woman who looks like Doctor Doom?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Of course, Captain... We're brothers.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

What we used to call life has very little worth these days. Welcome to the very edge.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I am tired of waiting for the inevitable. If I must become this thing, then let it be at a time of my own choosing.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Haven't you been paying attention, Reed? We are all monsters now. We've just been waiting for the right circumstances to reveal ourselves.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Everything dies. You. Me. Everyone on this planet. Our sun. Our galaxy, and, eventually, the universe itself. This is simply how things are. It's inevitable... And I accept it. What I will not tolerate-- what I find unacceptable-- is going quietly, like some mewling child, before my time. There is something out there, coming for us, trying to kill us all-- And I would do to it what it would do to us. Brothers. Sisters. All the angels have fallen, and we devils are all that remains... So I ask you... Will you help me kill worlds?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Your pink walls cannot stop me!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Bah, fools! Don't you know that your measly little pellets only tickle me?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Did you just kick my severed head?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Have to what? Do what? Because if my friend is truly dead, you'll follow him. At my hand! I Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Arisen!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I realise now that the Torch has more power than I gave him credit for!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I was mistaken when I said it made no difference on which side I fought. You have convinced me otherwise -- with your mad ranting of a 'master race' and 'subhumans.' Earlier tonight, I weakened -- and let this U-boat live to fight again. I will not make that mistake a second time!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

We must fight... we're one against hundreds... but we must win... let's start!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

No matter that Namor bears no love for the air-breathers! They are still living creatures... deserving of more than a fiery end!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Namor knows but one cry to be uttered above the din of battle -- the resounding cry of -- victory!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Brief though life be... and though a needless death is a crime against the very universe... man is ever noblest when he lives by ideals! Without them, though he possess even the intellect of the Thinker himself... he is but a beast... reaching vainly for the stars...!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I must go myself to the swirling Sargasso! For I have vowed to find Tiger Shark, if he still lives! An, though no one has ever survived alone in that sea -- Tiger Shark is like no other!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

...As long as memory endures... and man rules above or below the tossing seas... he will owe a debt to... Dr. Strange!!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

And, for such a one--to live--Is to conquer!!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Look -- up in the sky! It's a bird -- it's a plane -- it's Mr. Spock!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

None must suspect that the Sub-Mariner walks among men... as a man!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Your people are a race of litterbugs, Diane...Scattering their venom recklessly on the face of a planet we all must share!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

... Will mankind ever understand that Namor goes where he pleases?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I hope the lights of fair Atlantis are bright this day... very, very bright...!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

...In short, Dorma, will you be no longer my Lady... and become instead, my Bride?

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Thus, for these reasons... and others, best left unnamed... I do hereby RENOUNCE and ABDICATE the golden throne of Atlantis-- FOREVER!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Do they think they deal with one as brainless as the lumbering Hulk? They know they cannot drive me from this isle without totally destroying it-----and all they have built upon it.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I'll not pray for failure, Mutant. Namor prays for nothing.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Is the curse of royalty never to leave me? I hear only echoes in reply-- echoes that will forever haunt me--

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Another race...living among our own...? I...do not know... if my people could accept that. I do not know.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Your Force-field device... We need it to save my undersea kingdom --Atlantis.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Another whom I did love? Aye, there was... once! But that was many years ago...

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

No one should ever question where my allegiance lies.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

The entire Atlantean civilization will be a massive sleeper cell, waiting to awaken once more.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Perhaps I chose an ally too hastily!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Atlantis has risen again! We are a whole people once more!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Namor calls you coward, Doom.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

(To the Shroud) Oh, I see, you're insane...

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Something looming up ahead of me...like a mountain of seaweed or...no! By Neptune, it is a man-shape!! It is a gigantic Seaweed Man!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

No longer can I stand! The mighty Sub-Mariner is helpless..! This cannot be the way it shall end! Not for this was I born a prince! And yet...The darkness is stealing over my brain...The shadows begin to engulf me...!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

In the name of Father Neptune, now does Namor the First, Prince of Atlantis, Emperor of the Deep, Lord of the Seven Seas and Supreme Commander of the undersea legions, duly proclaim for all to witness... the victory is truly mine! Let no man deny that Namor is, and ever shall be, Prince of the Blood!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

...Perhaps I am not the Namor you knew. Perhaps I am the menace now, the threat to all you hold dear. But if so, I do not care. And I will tell you this: Get out of my way -- or I'll leave you broken and bleeding in my wake.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

I refuse to recognize Tony Stark's authority. I am in YOUR custody until a more proper authority presents itself. Let's say Susan Richards and the Fantastic Four, but I'm flexible.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

These waters are my province! NO ONE -- least of all you -- commands the Avenging Son!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Ah. I increasingly understand the reason for the "X-Men." It's not Xavier or the X-Gene. The "X" is a target pasted on our backs.

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Not since I lost my heart to Sue Storm have I seen such a beauty as the Scarlet Witch!

--Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Conversations with Namor McKenzie (Earth-616)

Namor

This diorama cost my foundation nearly ten thousand dollars, Richards.

Reed

Consider it the start of my tab, Namor.

— 4 #8

Captain America

I hate Nazis.

Namor

Yes, I hate practically everyone... But I especially despise these animals.

— All-New Invaders #14

Namor

Imperious Rex!

Human Torch

Err... Yeah!

— All-New Invaders #9

Namor

The Defenders! How...?

Dr. Strange

While we were in New Atlantis, I took the liberty of conjuring a more...aggressive version of Belial's Beckoning. I put the call out to Defenders, Secret Defenders, even those who were only Defenders for a Day... Pretty much everyone. And I didn't take 'no' for an answer.

— Fear Itself: The Deep #4

Iron Fist

It was I who brought you to your present state. And it is I who shall soon usher you across the final threshold... into Death's dark domain.

Sub-Mariner

Spare me your posturing, Rand.

— Namor the Sub-Mariner #16

Black Panther

How do you do it, Namor? How do you bury the part of you that was good and noble so deep that all that remains is this? Some shell of the man you used to be.

Namor

Look at them, T'Challa-- flying off to save the unsaveable. The good and noble, warring against the inevitable. Is that us? Is that what you think we are? You might have been right at one time. Maybe I was that man once. Maybe you were as well. But then we both lost our people, and our kingdoms crumbled. Even now, while we do what we must to keep the things we love alive, we become everything they hate. Do you know what you bury deep, my friend? Things that have died. Who is this Namor, the good and noble? No man I know.

— New Avengers Vol 3 #17

Namor

"It matters." The way you people talk about your lives-- Like they mean something... "It matters."

I am the greatest man I know... But compared to this, I'm nothing. Just as you... are nothing. Am I the only man here with the courage of his convictions... Or am I the only one with conviction at all?

Mister Fantastic

Namor... Don't... It's not worth it.

Namor

These lines you won't cross... These things you won't do... They shame you. How dare any of you put yourself--your damned morals--above the lives of every living thing? The truth is, you people aren't worth that... And neither am I. Our lives are a pittance. A petty, small nothing...

Black Panther

Namor! NOOOO!

Namor

Of course this is worth it. Now watch... As I do what you could not.

— New Avengers Vol 3 #21