"Earth's sun is younger and brighter than ours was. Your cells have drunk in its radiation, strengthening your muscles, your skin, your senses. Earth's gravity is weaker, yet its atmosphere is more nourishing. You've grown stronger here than I ever could've imagined. The only way to know how strong is to keep testing your limits. You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders."

"There are a number of overt references to the past in “Man of Steel,” a title that itself summons up America’s lost industrial history. There’s even a scene in which Jor-El narrates Krypton’s rise and calamitous fall using immersive, metallic-gray images that morph and scroll across the frame like an animated version of a W.P.A. bas-relief mural. For roughly 100 minutes, or the running time of an average movie, Mr. Snyder is in control of his material. His handling of the story’s many flashbacks, which fill in piecemeal Superman’s Kansas childhood as Clark, is fluid and apt. Each return to the past becomes another tile in the mosaic, adding to the emerging portrait of the adult wanderer and seeker he has become. His adoptive parents, Martha (Diane Lane) and Jonathan (Kevin Costner), come into focus, as does the bewildered child (played by Cooper Timberline and Dylan Sprayberry), who doesn’t understand why he’s so different. Mr. Snyder borrows too many canted camera angles and too much sun-kissed fluttering laundry from Terrence Malick, but the Kansas scenes solidify the human foundation of a divided identity."

"You're not just anyone, Clark, and I have to believe that you're–that you're sent here for a reason. All these changes you're going through, one day–one day, you're goin'a think of them as a blessing, and when that day comes, you're goin'a have to make a choice: a choice of whether to stand proud in front of the human race or not."

"If you destroy this ship, YOU DESTROY KRYPTON!"

"Look at this. We could have built a new Krypton in this squalor, but you choose the humans over us. I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born, and every action I take, no matter how violent or how cruel, is for the greater good of my people. And now, I have no people. My soul... that is what you have taken from me!"

"Tell me, you have Jor-El's memories, his conscience, can you experience his pain? I will harvest the Codex from your son's corpse, and I will rebuild Krypton atop his bones."

"I am going to make them suffer, Kal, these humans you've adopted. I will take them all from you, one by one!"

"This council has been disbanded! [Ro-Zar: On whose authority?] Mine."

"You won't kill us yourself! You wouldn't sully your hands, but you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity! Jor-El was right! You're a pack of fools! Every last one of you! [to Lara] And you... you believe your son is safe? I will find him. I will reclaim what you have taken from us! I will find him. I will find him, Lara. I WILL FIND HIM!"

"There is only one way this ends, Kal: either you die or I do."

"My name is General Zod. I come from a world far from yours. I have journeyed across an ocean of stars to reach you. For some time, your world has sheltered one of my citizens. I request that you return this individual to my custody. For reasons unknown, he has chosen to keep his existence a secret from you. He will have made efforts to blend in. He will look like you, but he is not one of you. To those of you who may know of his current location: the fate of your planet rests in your hands. To Kal-El, I say this: surrender within twenty-four hours, or watch this world suffer the consequences..."

"YOU THINK YOU CAN THREATEN MY MOTHER?"

"How do you find someone who has spent a lifetime covering his tracks? For some, he was a guardian angel. To others, a ghost who never quite fit in."

"Let's put our cards on the table, General. You're scared of me because you can't control me. You don't, and you never will. But that doesn't mean I'm your enemy."

"Welcome to the Planet."

"I have so many questions. Where do I come from?"

"What's the "S" stands for? .....well, here it's an S. ...well, how about "Super..."."

"I was bred to be a warrior, Kal-El, trained my entire life to master my senses. Where did you train? ON A FARM?"

"My father believed that if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me…out of fear. I let my father die because I trusted him. Because he was convinced that I had to wait, that the world was not ready. What do you think?"

"People are afraid of what they don't understand."

"Jon Favreau as Happy Hogan"

"Ben Kingsley as Trevor Slattery"

"James Badge Dale as Eric Savin"

"Ty Simpkins as Harley"

"Guy Pearce as Aldrich Killian"

"Rebecca Hall as Dr. Maya Hansen"

"William Sadler as President Ellis"

"Stephanie Szostak as Ellen Brandt"

"No more false faces. You said you wanted the Mandarin, you're looking right at him. It was always me, Tony, right from the start. I AM THE MANDARIN!!!!"

"Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man"

"You know who I am. You don't know where I am. And you'll never see me coming."

"Gwyneth Paltrow as Virginia "Pepper" Potts"

"Don Cheadle as Col. James "Rhodey" Rhodes / Iron Patriot"

"Miguel Ferrer as Vice President Rodriguez"

"A famous man once said, "We create our own demons." Who said that? What does that even mean? Didn't matter. I said it 'cause he said it. So now, he was famous and it was basically said by two well-known guys. I don't... uhh... I'm gonna start again. Let's track this from the beginning"

"And so, as Christmas morning began, my journey was at its end. You start with something pure. Something exciting. Then come the mistakes, the compromises. We create our own demons. As promised, I got Pepper sorted out. Took a little tinkering. But then I thought "why stop there?" Of course there are people who say progress is dangerous, but then I bet none of those idiots ever had to live with a chest full of shrapnel. And now, neither will I. Let me tell you: that was the best sleep I'd had in years. So if I were to wrap this up tight with a bow or whatever, I guess I'd say my armor, it was never a distraction or a hobby, it was a cocoon. And now, I'm a changed man. You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys. One thing you can't take away...I am Iron Man."

"Dorian Harewood - SFC Ed Tippet, Provost Marshal's Office"

"G. D. Spradlin - Sheriff Cyrus Buelton"

"James Cromwell - Deputy Euclid Baker"

"John Hancock - Mess MSG Johnson"

"Mark Herrier - SSG Jerry Elliott, Soldier Magazine Reporter"

"Sandy Ward - MG V.E. Hubik"

"Guy Boyd - SGT Wimofsky"

"Jenilee Harrison - Sarah"

"James Garner's at war -- and driving a Sherman Tank"

"James Garner - CSM Zack Carey"

"Sergeant-Major Zack Carey takes the law into his own hands with help from his own personal tank (Video Australia)"

"Shirley Jones - LaDonna Carey"

"Sergeant major Zack Carey believed in Truth, Justice and America. Until the sheriff of a little town put his only son into jail of a crime he hadn't done. And now sergeant major Zack Carey has changed his mind. (original Finnish poster tagline)"

"C. Thomas Howell - William "Billy" Carey"