Black Bolt/Quote

A collection of quotes from the King of the Inhumans, Black Bolt.

Spoken by Black Bolt
"Why?"

- Black Bolt to Agon and Rynda

Spoken about Black Bolt
"We do nothing. Brother, that's your strategy for everything."

- Maximus to Black Bolt

"We are not going to Earth anytime soon. It would only lead to war." "I'm sorry, Medusa. Are you speaking for yourself or for our King?" "I'm speaking for myself." "Excellent. Now, please, can you tell us what the King thinks?"

- Medusa and Maximus

"Hello. I'm Medusa. I know everyone's afraid of you, but I'm not."

- Medusa to Black Bolt

"This is difficult, I know. But I'm here for you." "Thank you. But there's not much in this life that I can't handle." "You mean that Bolt can't handle. The rest of us have no choice. We're just bounced around according to his will." "Careful." "I'm just telling the truth. I would never treat you the way he does if you were my Queen."

- Maximus and Medusa

"Black Bolt is afraid that if we return to Earth, we will get into a war with the humans, but fear is not the emotion that should be dictating our actions. We need to be bold." "Your brother thinks different. And he is King, Maximus."

- Maximus and Kitang

"Hello, brother. You should've known this day was coming. But you didn't, did you? You've so completely taken me for granted that you can hardly imagine that I have thoughts of my own that I can carry through. It's your arrogance that has destroyed you."

- Maximus to Black Bolt

"Are you going to speak? Are you going to use your voice? Kill your only brother? Just like you murdered our parents?"

- Maximus to Black Bolt

Spoken about Black Bolt
"Freak."

- Beach

"The days of Black Bolt's rigid meritocracy are over."

- Maximus

"Hey! Are you not speaking? Or you one of those smart-asses that's waiting for your lawyers to come and get you?"

- Kalama to Black Bolt

Spoken about Black Bolt
"Put him in gen pop, but stick it to him. If he gets rattled hard enough by our other guests, maybe he'll be more inclined to talk."

- Pena

"I get it. You can't talk. Were you experimented on? Did you get bit by a radioactive bug? Or maybe you woke up one morning covered in a funky, rock-like crust? Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. Look, I'm not your enemy. I just wanted to warn you. People like you are disappearing from all over. You got family? A wife? Me, too. If I were you, I'd get out any way I could, and find them before something bad happens to them, too."

- Sammy to Black Bolt

"According to our testing, Black Bolt's voice may very well be the most powerful and dangerous gift in all of Inhuman history. And I have every reason to believe that as your mature, your power will only grow stronger." "But what does it mean?" "It means that your eldest son has the power to destroy all of Attilan, on purpose or accidentally. You will never again hear the voice of your oldest son. Perhaps we should consider placing the boy somewhere safe." "You mean lock him away?" "For the safety of Attilan, my Queen, and himself." "No. Absolutely not. He will learn to control his gift." "But Your Highness..." "He is my son. Someday, he will be King."

- Kitang, Rynda and Agon

Dialogue
"Being King isn't what you think it is. Requires sacrifice, responsibility." "I'm sorry, Dad, but from what I've seen, your job is pretty boring." "It's not boring. He's the King." "Of Attilan. All 1,400 people." "Black Bolt, the day you take the crown, you will inherit all of the power and all the weight of being the leader of a great people." "Honestly, I don't want that. I'd rather just be me." "I wish I could be King." "Sorry it doesn't work that way, Maximus." "Like, if I'm killed in battle?" "We're not at war at the moment." "But if he does die, I'm King, right?" "No one is going to die. I promise. Both my sons are destined for great things."

- Agon, Black Bolt and Maximus

Spoken about Black Bolt
"If I could replicate his genetic code, cancer could be cured, cystic fibrosis. Imagine a world where children don't die where you you could become anything you want." "You don't need him alive to obtain his DNA."

- Evan Declan and Maximus

"Do you have a job on the Moon?" "I'm their Queen." "No wonder you're so bossy." "Queen... Queen Medusa and King..." "Black Bolt." "Ugh. Suddenly, "Louise" doesn't sound so bad."

- Louise Fisher and Medusa

"Your DNA, it's not human. Usually, when someone develops abilities, there's a there's a hiccup in their genetic code. A circle, suddenly, in a row of squares. But your DNA, it's... It's row after row of circles more... more perfect than anything I've ever seen." "I think he likes you." "Your fMRI scan shows you have a an unusually large neural pathway connecting your cerebral cortex to your temporal lobe, supercharging your vocal cords. I'm both in awe of you and slightly terrified. Extremely terrified of you. I don't know how you do it. A whisper in your sleep would kill your wife. You have the power to kill everyone you love."

- Evan Declan and Sammy to Black Bolt

"They say you're the most powerful Inhuman in all of Attilan. Want to find out?"

- Mordis to Black Bolt

Spoken about Black Bolt
"Black Bolt says that when he gets home, he wants to have a few words with you." "Tell my brother I look forward to the family reunion."

- Medusa and Maximus

"You married the son of the people who banished your parents?" "It's not like it sounds. We were alone. His parents died shortly after mine did. We understood loss. It connected us."

- Louise Fisher and Medusa

"They don't understand because you've been guarded for so long. Maybe it's time everyone knows you like I do."

- Medusa to Black Bolt

"Tell me where Black Bolt is, or I'll snap your neck." "What's a Black Bolt?" "The one who doesn't speak."

- Auran and Evan Declan

"You're a welcome sight too, my King."

- Karnak to Black Bolt

Spoken about Black Bolt
"He said we need to take down Maximus, but what he means by "take down", I'm not exactly sure. I know I said we needed to throw Maximus off the highest wall in Attilan, but I think I think we need to take him alive." "Then let me smash his head in in front of the whole city." "Gorgon, I love you, but you are not helping. Haven't we learned anything from my parents?"

- Medusa and Gorgon

"I'm curious if Black Bolt still has that frankly disgusting fondness for his human friends Declan and Sammy."

- Auran to Medusa

"Why did I bring my parents up? I brought them up because when you became King, you said you never wanted to be like your own parents, like any other King before you. I'm reminding you that you promised me that you would be more understanding. Yes, he hurt me, and there's a part of me that wants him to pay for that, but we have to be bigger than that. So, to answer your question, no. No, we don't just let him walk away. We give him a fair trial. We let the people decide. Look. I am not trying to protect Maximus. I am trying to protect you. From yourself."

- Medusa to Black Bolt

"The people love me. They'll do anything for me." "Yes, my King." "And if Black Bolt obliterates them all, well, then, that'll make the rest of our citizens hate him all the more."

- Maximus and Tibor

"Black Bolt was just as dangerous, but he was given far more opportunities than I was."

- Mordis to Karnak

Spoken about Black Bolt
"I suggest you stop, unless you want to deal with my husband."

- Medusa to the Attilan Royal Guard

"I want to do more than survive. Is this the life that you wanted? I understand that you have to deal with reality, and I know that Maximus sent assassins. But where does this end? And what if the parley doesn't work? I understand more than most what Maximus is capable of. And I know he has to pay for his actions, but please... please!"

- Medusa to Black Bolt

"You allowed us all to mourn Triton's death. You deny us our dignity when you lie. But it is your duty as my husband to be honest to me in all things, to make me your partner. When you make a decision like this, when you sideline me, it is insulting. This time away, on Earth, it allowed me to step back and take a look at things, to see how people perceived me. Us. And I love you, and that has never changed. But I am not going to just be your interpreter. I need to have a say in in the things that affect our people, our lives. I am the Queen, and we move together or not at all."

- Medusa to Black Bolt

"I don't really have anything to contribute to a war." "If Black Bolt brought you, then you have some value."

- Evan Declan and Karnak

"Alone at last. Brother against brother. It's not like you to hide in the dark. But I guess times change, and us along with it."

- Maximus to Black Bolt

Spoken by Black Bolt
"Goodbye, brother."

- Black Bolt to Maximus

Spoken about Black Bolt
"Upon the death of your parents, your gift now makes perfect sense. You're the only one who can protect us from this, our greatest enemy."

- Kitang to Black Bolt

"How insulting that you, a murderer, would make a better king than I."

- Maximus to Black Bolt

"Really? You didn't want to be King, you just had to be King. That's rich, Black Bolt."

- Maximus to Black Bolt

"We can no longer stay on the Moon. It is time for us to return to our homeland. To Earth. And Black Bolt and I will lead the way."

- Medusa

"He says that he needs to resolve this, that Maximus is too dangerous to leave unchecked."

- Medusa

"You should be happy. You saved the Inhumans."

- Medusa to Black Bolt