Quicksilver in counseling with Doc Samson:
PIETRO: So you're the fellow that Val Cooper has hired for this odious task.
SAMSON: Why "odious" Quicksilver?
PIETRO: It's idiotic government regulations. "After a mission deemed traumatic enough, all team members are to attend counselling sessions." Rubbish. I assure you, there's nothing we cannot handle. We do not need a "doctor" attempting to dissect us.
SAMSON: I take it you don't think much of me.
PIETRO: I don't think much of anyone.
SAMSON: Well, Val did warn me you're always nasty. She called it PMS...
PIETRO: I beg your pardon?
SAMSON: "Pietro Maximoff Syndrome". An uncontrollable urge to be high-handed and arrogant.
PIETRO: And I'm upholding that assessment?
SAMSON: Somewhat, yes. You seem proud of it.
PIETRO: I revel in it. I'll have you know, doctor, not everyone can raise arrogance to the level of an art form. [solves a Rubik's Cube in seconds as he's speaking]
SAMSON: I have a jigsaw puzzle over there that's been stumping me, if you'd care to...
PIETRO: Certainly.
SAMSON: So... you don't think much of anyone. Does that include yourself?
PIETRO: Myself most of all.
SAMSON: So you're saying you feel inferior?
PIETRO: Not at all. I simply hold myself to an impossibly high standard. No one else even comes close.
SAMSON: You don't wear an X-Factor uniform.
PIETRO: They haven't offered.
SAMSON: You haven't asked.
PIETRO: I prefer my individuality.
SAMSON: Why do you feel so set apart from everyone else? Is there anyone you feel close to within X-Factor, Pietro? Feel friendship or even affection for?........... Well?
PIETRO: None of your business. Tell me doctor... Have you ever stood in line at a banking machine behind a person who didn't know how to use it? Or wanted to buy stamps at the post office, and the fellow in front of you wants to know every single way he can ship his package to Istanbul? Or gotten some counter idiot at Burger King who cant comprehend "Whopper, No Pickles?"
SAMSON: Well... yes... I suppose...
PIETRO: And how do you feel on those occasions?
SAMSON: Impatient. Irritated. A little angry.
sometimes.
PIETRO: Precisely. Because your life is being slowed to a crawl by the inabilities or the inconvenient behavior of others. It's not a rational or considerate attitude to have, but there it is. Now, Imagine, Doctor, that everyone you work with, everywhere you go your entire world is filled with people who cant work cash machines. I'd venture to say, Doctor, that you too would suffer from PMS. Get the picture? Not so puzzling now, is it.
(X-Factor 87)
Some Thanos quotes:
"Am I not Thanos?! Did I not butcher the woman who gave me birth, who force-fed me into this hell called life?! Is not the wake of my passing crimson with the blood of my enemies and allies alike?! Death is with me every second of the day! My every moment is spent in either dealing out death or worshipping it! So tell me, who under the stars is better suited than I to be Death's consort?"
"Who would have thought that becoming God would be such a hollow victory"
And a few more Dr. Manhattan quotes:
"This world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite."
"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?"
Laurie Juspeczyk: Is that what you are? The most powerful thing in the universe and you're just a puppet following a script?
Doctor Manhattan: We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.