John Carter Quotes

John Carter: [as they are pursued by the Thark tribe, Carter touches Dejah's hand and has flashback to coming home after the war to find his home burned with his wife and his daughter inside]
Sola: Dotar Sojat!
Dejah Thoris: What are you doing?
John Carter: [he jumps off the lizard-horse creature]Sola, get her out of here.
Dejah Thoris: No! Carter!
John Carter: I was too late once. I won't be again.
Dejah Thoris: No! No! No! No! [Carter tries to force Woola to flee with the women, but Woola remains, as the Thark tribe reach him, Carter leaps in the air and onto the warriors, with each slash of his sword he flashbacks to burying his wife and daughter and placing his wife's wedding ring on his hand, then the Tharks begin to overwhelm him and Carter disappears under a pile of Thark warriors]

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Tardos Mors: [In Zodanga the wedding procession is taking place, Dejah walks towards her father]I know that this is not the fate you'd have chosen for yourself, or for Helium. But choice is a luxury, even for a Jeddak of Barsoom. Even if in your heart...
Dejah Thoris: The heart is a luxury. [Tardos starts walking Dejah down the isle towards Sab Than]
Tardos Mors: Steady.
Matai Shang: [Matai Shang is next to Sab Than as they watch Dejah and her father walk towards them]Remember, she is not the prize. The prize is Barsoom.

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John Carter: John Carter of Earth. [he tosses the medallion over the balcony]
John Carter: Yep. John Carter of Mars sounds much better. [Carter turns to go back to Dejah, but a guard stops to him to thank him]
Humble Guard: Sire, I must express the deepest of gratitude for saving Helium. Please, the honor is mine. [suddenly the guard morphs into Matai Shang]
Matai Shang: Fair enough, Earthman. Now it's your move. [Matai Shang touches Carter, repeats the command phrase and sends Carter back to earth]

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Matai Shang: Ah. American.
John Carter: Who are you, sir?
Matai Shang: Sir. Definitely from the South. The Carolinas? Virginia? It's Virginia, isn't it? Lovely place.
John Carter: Do you know it?
Matai Shang: Not as well as I should. But I will.

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Dejah Thoris: Homesick for the Thark nursery?
John Carter: I'm sorry. I couldn't sleep. I had that feeling you get suddenly that... you left a light burning or a door open.
John Carter: Go back to bed. I won't be long. [she kisses his hand and returns to their room and Carter takes Woola for a walk]

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Dalton: [Dalton and Burroughs stand outside Carter's tomb]You won't find a keyhole, thing only opens from the inside. He insisted, no embalming, no open coffin, no funeral. Well, you don't acquire the kind of wealth your uncle commanded by being like the rest of us, huh? Come, let's go inside. [Dalton turns and leave, but Burroughs hesitates, walks towards the tomb and places his hand on the door]

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Dejah Thoris: You mad fool! You're not from Earth! There are no Gates of Iss! I only told you what you wanted to hear so you'd get us out! Stop! I can't! I cannot marry him!
John Carter: Can't marry who?
Dejah Thoris: The Zodanga Jeddak you fought. Sab Than. He offered a truce to my father in exchange for my hand.
John Carter: Your father?
Dejah Thoris: Tardos Mors.
Sola: The Jeddak of Helium. She is a princess.
John Carter: A princess of Mars. How about that? A princess who didn't wanna get married, so she ran away.
Dejah Thoris: No.
John Carter: Is that all there is to this story?
Dejah Thoris: No! I didn't run away! I escaped!
John Carter: From what? His breath? So marry the guy and save your people.
Dejah Thoris: A life of oppression, that's not living! [as she runs to follow them Dejah falls, Carter suddenly turns back and offers to help her up]
Dejah Thoris: If you had the means to save others, would you not take any action possible to make it so?
John Carter: No good will come out of me fightin' your war.
Dejah Thoris: I would lay down my life for Helium. Yes, I ran away. I was... afraid, weak. Maybe I should have married, but I so feared that it would somehow be the end of Barsoom. I tell you truly, John Carter of Earth, there are no Gates of Iss. They are not real.
John Carter: I'm sorry, princess. But this...
John Carter: [he shows her the medallion that brought him to Barsoom]
John Carter: This is real. And so is my cave of gold. [he offers his hand to Dejah to help her up which she reluctantly takes]

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John Carter: I claim the right of challenge!
Tal Hajus: You have no right to challenge! You are not Thark!
Tars Tarkas: He is Thark! He is Dotar Sojat!
Sola: Dotar Sojat! Dotar Sojat! Dotar Sojat! [the crowd of Tharks start to chanting Dotar Sojat, Tal Hajus leaps towards Carter and as Carter leaps up he kills Tal Hajus in mid-air with his sword]

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John Carter: The Jeddak of Zodanga means to quash Helium this very night, and if Helium falls, so does Barsoom. We must throw out the thought of old hatreds. Tharks did not cause this, but by Issus, Tharks will end it! We ride for Zodanga!

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Matai Shang: Increased strength and agility. Simple matter of gravitation and anatomy, one we ought to have foreseen.
John Carter: We?
Matai Shang: No apparent increase in intelligence. Still this will not do at all. [he holds up the medallion that brought Carter to Mars]
Matai Shang: Your kind of Earthmen projecting themselves over here, leaping about, causing all manner of disruption.
John Carter: You're a Thern.
Matai Shang: Therns are a myth.

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Tars Tarkas: [subtitled]Watch. Everyone, step back. Show them, Virginia. Jump. Jump!
John Carter: [spits]
Tars Tarkas: By Issus, you will jump tomorrow, Virginia.

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John Carter: [sees Woola]Easy. Nice monster dog.

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Kantos Kan: Ah, Zodanga, where the men are as limited as the menu and woman are as hard as the beds.

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Kantos Kan: My name is Kantos Kan. I serve Princess Dejah.
John Carter: Dejah?
Kantos Kan: Uh-huh. From what she tells me, you can get us over... there. [he points to Sab Than's palace]
John Carter: She said I could make that?
Kantos Kan: We could always surrender. Is that what you do on Jarsoom? [John grabs a hold of Kantos and leaps into the air far enough to grab the palace's stone ledge and tumble into Dejah's bridal suite]

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Tars Tarkas: My right arms offend me, I will cut them off!

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