Thaddeus Ross (Earth-616)/Quotes

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Anything is better than taking a life! -- Even the life of a merciless monster!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 115

Super-Humanoid??! Not on any base that I command, mister!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 116

I'm going to end the menace of the Hulk once and for all!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 130

No one wants to hurt you! Can't you see that?

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 133

You're a brave man, Banner... Far braver than I've ever given you credit for!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 136

Son, I didn't get these Stars by being somewhere else when the spit hit the fan!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 150

Believe me... this time, the Hulk is finished!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 152

You've got the wrong freak-- is that what you want to tell me? You feather-brained foul-up! That's the Abomination!!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 159

... No Commie in tin suits will ever take Thunderbolt Ross alive! Never! I'll see you in hell first!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 163

The world's had enough bombs -- enough of the unpredictable after-effects of atomic radiation --- something which nobody knows any better than I do!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 173

Incredible! Is there nothing that brute cannot survive?

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 193

He's faking! Somehow he's going to become the Hulk again! He's not cured -- he'll never be cured! He's the Hulk, I tell you, THE HULK!

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 325

Dear lord--was I somehow, on some subconscious level...repaying the favor?

—Rampaging Hulk Vol 2 3

It's obvious now that monster has some kind of interest in Betty... and we're going to find out why...

—Hulk: Gray Vol 1 4

I'm going to end the menace of the Hulk once and for all!

—Mighty World of Marvel Vol 3 21

Forget it. Those costumed clowns have had their chance.

—World War Hulk Vol 1 2

Do you think it was an accident that the Watcher showed up today? Two of the strongest beings in the universe--at odds against each other--cracking the earth down to the core. Don't pass out on me yet. I'm not interested interested in that milksop Banner. I want the Hulk!

—Hulk Vol 2 4

My allies will destroy you all. Baron Mordo. Terrax. Tiger Shark. Together we make -- The OFFENDERS!

—Hulk Vol 2 10

Heh. I started this game hoping for your death. I realize now that I've left you even worse off than dead. With a broken heart. Just as you left me, Banner...

—Hulk Vol 2 12

These endless battles between us. They can't continue. I'm going to drain the life out of you, Banner. More exactly, I'm going to drain the Hulk out of you.

—Incredible Hulk Vol 1 600

They'll never know what hit them...

—Hulk Vol 2 17

What they don't understand -- even with all their brain power... I don't want to stop them. I'm going to make sure that they succeed...

—Hulk Vol 2 19

The line in the sand between man and beast gets very blurry during war. You don't get to hold your moral ground when 'thou shalt not kill' is no longer an option. That doesn't make me uncomfortable. Never has.

—Hulk Vol 2 20

It's over. I never should've put my faith in Banner. I might die, but worse than that, this country -- which I gave an oath to serve -- will fall in a military coup that I designed. The Intelligencia has won.

—Hulk Vol 2 21

I'll help you figure out that campaign. How to defeat real people. But if you don't go ahead and factor Hulk into it...you might as well throw up the white flag now.

—Fall of the Hulks: Red Hulk Vol 1 4

I was General Thunderbolt Ross. I became the very thing I hated most in life. I am the Red Hulk. And for all I've done...I deserve to die...

—Hulk Vol 2 22

I always suspected that Talbot was an L.M.D. Like with the Ross L.M.D., the Leader wasn't going to let anyone assume command other than himself. This Talbot probably didn't even know he was just a thing. The Glenn Talbot I knew and respected was and will remain dead. In the end, everything is as it should be. I won.

—Hulk Vol 2 23

It was your idea to fake my death... You planned this all along... I can't ever be Ross again...only...Red...

—Hulk Vol 2 24

Nhn-nice. But I've taken hits from the green Hulk, king. On my planet...we hit hard!

—Hulk Vol 2 34

No, I figured this out before I ever changed. But now I really get it. Hulk is every part of yourself you don't let out. The ugly truth any decent human tries to hide. I'm a soldier. Was. My whole career was about acknowledging that side and letting it do what only it could. To survive To kill.

—Hulk Vol 2 47

Wwe am smmash for vengeance.

—Venom Vol 2 13.4

Fight smart! Fight the fights you can win! Don't pick a fight beyond your power grade! Don't think of it as a fighting of friend or an X-Man... think of it as saving the world! Put you opponent down because they will do likewise! If we are not successful the world won't exist tomorrow! Be successful!

—New Avengers Vol 2 24

So if you're ready to fight, you'd better be ready to kill. Because if you're not going to kill, then you're going to lose. Scott Summers just lost this war.

—Avengers Vol 4 28

You know better than anyone that the infection cannot be cured. "It has to be cut out."

—Thunderbolts Vol 2 1

If anything, she has control over me.

—Thunderbolts Vol 2 13

All right, Castle. It's your show. What are we going to do?

—Thunderbolts Vol 2 14

There is a way. I can get you as much as you could possibly need or want. More. You just need to do it on my terms.

—Thunderbolts Vol 2 18

Doctor Strange, Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, has gone rogue.

—Thunderbolts Annual Vol 2 1

I was General Thunderbolt Ross. I became the very thing I hated most in life. I am the Red Hulk. And for all I've done... I deserve to die...

—Thaddeus Ross (Earth-616)

Zero/One	That woman resembles your daughter.
Red Hulk	Karen, my commander's daughter, years later. And then...my wife. Karen came with me to every post until Betty was born. Then I pulled every string I could to get assigned to the nearest base so we could come back here to live.
Zero/One	Twelve years later she develops cancer and dies. This is the next key focal point, I found nothing consequential between it and the last.
Red Hulk	All the time you skipped past...that was the best part.

—Hulk Vol 2 41

Spider-Man	Someone yell for some Kool-Aid?
Red Hulk	What the hell are you talking about?
Spider-Man	I'm just amusing myself. Don't worry about it.

—Avenging Spider-Man Vol 1 1

Machine Man	He's used the Rigellian resources to manipulate hydrogen -- create a new water supply and terraform the desert. It harnesses geothermal power to run the city and protect it with the impassable dome. I only cannot see why the Rigellian program wasn't successful at imprinting its protocol in his brain.
Red Hulk	Really? That's the easiest thing to figure. The alien program never had a chance. It was made to work with a bunch of clean slates, not a warrior who's gone through hell for years to stay alive. The kinds of things a man has to do to become...to keep his people alive in the desert, even without always being hunted? You're not going to change that man's mind. Ever.

—Hulk Vol 2 45

Sultan Magus	Coff -- you made a dire mistake...Dagan Shah will --
Red Hulk	-- will kiss my red butt.
General Reggie Fortean	Let him go, Red! ... The Arab League came to an agreement earlier. They recognize new borders as defined by the man you're holding. He's agreed to stop trading arms, and a majority of the member nations accepted. Sharzhad is now a legitimate country, and you're on their ground.
Sultan Magus	Then I declare you...in violation of our border. You have two minutes to leave.

—Hulk Vol 2 46

Doctor Strange	Sit down, and clear your mind. Breathe the mists that I breathe.
Red Hulk	I knew this would turn into some hippie smoke-up.

—Hulk Vol 2 50

Red Hulk	What was the white stuff?
Red Leader	Magnesium. I was certain that was a Symbiote weakness. My other brain, my Internet brain told me, and--
Red Hulk	Internet? A website? Which one?
Red Leader	...
Red Leader	Wikipedia. I am no longer convinced it is entirely reliable.

—Thunderbolts Vol 2 23

Red Hulk	I half expected to be dealing with Banner in Hulk's body, but not even Banner would have a haircut that dumb.
Doc Green	Lose the fashion advice, Ross. Stick to deserting your country.

—Hulk Vol 3 10

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