"Rocketed from a distant planet, to a bold new destiny on Earth, found by a Kansas family and raised as Clark Kent, he learned he possessed the strength of steel, the speed of light and the desire to help all mankind." "He is Superboy!" "[music playing]" "[Lana grunts]" "Luthor, let her go!" "I'm the one you want." "The game's over, Luthor." "The games have just begun." "It's a trap!" "What else is new?" "Gotcha, sucker." "No!" "Lana, run!" "Out of my way." "Luthor!" "Luthor." "Lana." "Lana." "Wake up!" "Luthor, snap out of it." "Get the Kryptonite away from me." "Throw it so I can move this thing." "Go." "Luthor, crawl out." "Help me." "Bombs away." "[laughing] You're dead meat, Superboy." "A dead duck." "Dead as a dodo." "Look around, Luthor." "If I'm dead, you're dead, too." " Shut up." " We're trapped." "I said shut up." "[gasping] Move it or I'll die." "Well, that's the idea." "You need my help." "Of course, you're right." "How silly of me." "What can I do for you, boss?" "Get the Kryptonite as far away from me as you can." "Right." "The best I can do." "The place is kind of tiny." "And now, your highness." "[panting]" "Let's just hope Lana made it out." "Because she'll bring help." "Oh, goody." "I've got a plan." "Do you now?" "Me too." "I plan to have some fun." "For God's sake, Luthor." "[laughs]" "You're out of your mind, Luthor." "Perhaps we'll play some Kryptonite dodgeball." "You think this is all a game?" "You can die in here, too." "Do you have me enough to die?" "Let me see." "How do I hate thee?" "Let me count the ways." "I hate that dull look of integrity in your eyes." "I hate your moronic pretty boy charm." "I hate..." "I hate that damn curl in the middle of your forehead." "I hate your feebleminded glaze of honesty, goodwill." "Bottom line, I hate you 'cause you're hate me." "You're scum, Luthor." "But I don't hate you or anybody else." "You hate me when I do this." "Oh!" "Now do you hate me, huh?" "[blows raspberries]" "How about if I do this?" "This is the way it's supposed to be." "Man to man." "Fight to the death." "You know, I've waited my whole life for this." "Go on." "Kill me." "Kill me!" "If you don't kill me, I'll kill you, you stupid spineless weakling simp." "Murder me!" "[screams]" "Superboy!" "[echoes]" "[laughing]" "Now that was worth the price of admission." "I haven't had so much fun since I drowned my little sister's kittens." "You think you won that round?" "Well, I'm still alive." "Why, you think you won?" "Of course I did." "How do you figure?" "You're still alive." "You should have killed me when you had the chance." "You don't think I would love to kill you, Luthor, to crush you like a bug?" "But I've got values and rules." "And the second I compromise them is the second I become a monster like you." "The crushing responsibility of superpower." "You make me wanna puke." "There's no air in here." "You're running out of oxygen." "The lanterns are burning it up." "You're finally getting scared, huh?" "Maybe I'll just jam this down your throat, huh?" "You think you can threaten your way out of here." "We're trapped." "What happens if they don't get us out in time?" "You can either work with me or die." "Work with you?" "I could take all the Kryptonite and shove it to the farthest corner of this stinkin' hole." "It wouldn't be far enough away to restore your powers." "The place is too small!" "I saw some batteries on the way in." "If we can get to them, break them open, we can use the lead to shield the Kryptonite." "Then I can get us out." "How far in are these lead batteries?" "I'm not sure." "My vision's cloudy, obstructed." "OK, I'll make you a deal." " I help you dig, you let me go if we get out." " No way." "Yeah, well, there's no way I'm going to the chair." "That's the chance you'll have to take." "This game was your call." "[rocks falling]" "Maybe I'll just burn that bridge when I come to it." "What a waste." "Keep digging." "I mean you." "You could have had it all." "Money, power, women, anything." "If you just had the guts to reach out and take what you want." "That's not what I want." "Well, what do you want?" "To make the world a better place." "[laughs] [coughs]" "Oh, God, you're so like a greeting card." "So that's why you're wasting your ability?" "To save the world?" "The world isn't worth it." "It is worth it." "People are worth it." "People are slime." "Everyone blubbers about kindness and good will and then quietly looks out for number one." "Dig." "Compassion's a little too expensive for the average Joe." "Survival of the fittest is the name of the game." "It's the law of the jungle and everyone knows it." "That's what every psychotic since Hitler used to justify himself." "Shut up and dig." "Our lucky day." "Jackpot." "There's no lead in here." "It's just some kind of carbon alloy." "Lana's our only hope." "[grunting]" "[coughs]" "This is a hell of a way to cash in your chips." "You know, you never really answered my question." "Huh?" "What did you want?" "I mean, for yourself." "More than anything else?" "Yeah." "For you to stop bothering me." "[laughs]" "Looks like you're finally gonna get your wish." "Come on, for old time's sake." "What did you really want?" "An ordinary life." "What, you mean a house in the 'burbs?" "A wife, kids and station wagon?" "The freedom to compromise." "I've heard of aspiring to mediocrity, but this is ridiculous." "How about you?" "What did you want more than anything else?" "To be king for a day." "And that would make you happy?" "Happiness is for pigs." "The secret of joy is absolute power." "[shouts]" "It's gonna come down." "I wonder if... the spots." "They don't change." "What are you talking about?" "I noticed it when I first came into the mine." "Noticed what?" "My vision penetrates normally, except for certain spots where it's cloudy or completely obstructed." "Your visions are weakened." "That's what I thought at first, but the spots, they don't change." "They don't shift back and forth when I move my eyes." "They're really there." "This must be... a lead mine." "OK, give it all you got." "Come on, you can do better than that." "Beef it up." "Pour on the coals." "There we go." "There we go." "That's it." "OK, just hang in there." "Hang in there." "Hey, come on." "You can't give up." "Think of... think of... think of the people you gotta save." "Women, children, innocent victims." "What, you're gonna let 'em fend for themselves?" "Come on!" "You gonna let 'em all down?" "You gonna let the bad guys win?" "What am I saying?" "You have a duty, a responsibility." "Now fight!" "Fight!" "Fight!" "Oh, my God." "It worked." "We did it." "[grunts]" "We're catching the next train out of here." "And, man, you're the locomotive." "Hey, how we doing, champ?" "Superboy." "Hey, come on, come on." "You can't check out on me now." "No fair." "Come on, Superboy." "Are we feeling better?" " Thanks." " Huh?" " I didn't think you could..." " Yeah, me, neither." "Come on, come on." "It's getting stuffy in here." "[inhaling] [shouts]" "What took you so long?" "Checkmate." "[laughs] This is just too easy." "I'll tell you what." "I'll cut you the same deal." "You promise to let me go, I'll put this stuff away." "I can't do that." "Oh, Supey, buddy, after all we've been through?" "Not a chance." "But I'm gonna kill you." "I know." "And you accept that?" "You can just say you were gonna let me go and then grab me when you were safe." "I can't do that, either." "Well... you just don't leave me much choice, do you?" "I guess not." "Can't do it, can you?" "[shouts]" "There." "That oughta hold you a while." "Turning over a new leaf?" "Don't you ever tell anyone I let you go." "You'll never win, Luthor." "It matters now whether you win or lose." "I'm gonna hate myself in the morning." "[music playing]"