Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Fire from Olympus (1993)

Steve Susskind: Maxie Zeus

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Quotes 

• Clio : But Maxie, please, you know I love you!

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Clio? I'm sorry. I... I can't... Thou art no longer fit to be among us!

• Stavros : Please! It's not what you think. I wasn't going to say anything, honest.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Silence! First you transgress against me. Then you force me to descend to the mortal plane. And now you say I know not what I think?

  Stavros : No!

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : To the depths of Tartarus with you!

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Begone, thou foul bat-demon!

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : [seeing the Batplane approach]  Who dares? Of course. Like the shadow of ebon-winged night, he rises from the dark realm.

  [the canopy opens and Batman climbs out] 

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Behold, the coming of my brother, Lord Hades!

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : [after Clio is strapped to the EDC]  Be not afraid, my muse. Once thou hast been cleansed by the fire from Olympus, thou shalt be as a goddess at my side throughout eternity!

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Soon all mortals will tremble once more at the fury of Zeus reborn!

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : So, no longer like an eagle against the sky, but as a worm crawling through the dirt does Lord Hades try to regain Olympus. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

• Clio : The grand jury is building another case, and I can't stop them this time. There are allegations of bribery, extortion, and racketeering, all pointing back to you, Max. Sure, I'm your assistant, but there's only so much I can do on my own. Max? Maxie. Come on, Max, look at me when I'm talking to you.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : You bore me with these tales of petty human concerns.

  Clio : You're doing it again, Maxie.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : You are Clio, my muse of history. Amuse me with tales of ancient times, when mortals trembled at the name of Zeus.

  Clio : You want a story? I got one. Seems there was this guy named Max who, because he had been lucky so far in the smuggling racket, believed himself to be untouchable, superior, godlike.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : There's a cynical edge to your voice I don't appreciate. Know you not I am above mortal constraints of right and wrong?

  Clio : No one is above the law, Max.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : I make my own laws.

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Welcome, Lord Hades.

  Clio : Be serious, Max. That's Batman.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : But Batman is a mere mortal, and what mortal could reach the summit of Mount Olympus and survive? Come, dark brother. Avail yourself of the nectar of the gods.

  Batman : No, thanks.

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : [putting Batman through Herculean labors]  So, you have survived my hydra, but many more challenges await.

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Heracles bested twelve labors before I received him. And so it shall be with you, bat demon!

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : An electron discharge cannon?

  Batman : You run one of the world's largest shipping firms. I thought you might know how the hijackers were able to move it.

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Why should Zeus be concerned about the weapons of man? When he can call forth thunderbolts of his own?

  [branding his lightning bolt staff, he melts one of his figurines] 

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : This audience is at an end. Awake, my harpies!

  [his gargoyles turn and brandish automatic weapons from their eyes] 

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : Begone, Lord Hades. Get thee back to thine own realm. Do not come again to Olympus until bidden.

  Batman : I think I get the message.

• Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : [about Arkham]  Now this is truly Olympus. Surely there can be no other place.

  [sees Poison Ivy] 

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : There's beautiful Demeter, goddess of the harvest.

  [sees Two Face] 

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : and double-faced Janus, lord of beginnings and endings.

  [sees The Joker] 

  Maxwell 'Maxie' Zeus : and merry Hermes, the trickster of the gods. Now at last, mighty Zeus is home.