Joseph Stallion/Quotes

List of Notable Quotes made by Joseph Stallion.

The Adventures of Gunslinger Joe

"Take a look at Joe Stallion. That's me. Rookie quarterback for the Springfield Firebirds. Once, a man living the American dream. Now I was a slave to the Reich. It was the end of a long and grueling season. Me and my teammates on the Untermenschen team faced the elite "Aryan All-Stars" in the Überbowl. My script was already written: never score, get roughed up, and make the Reich look good. It was either that or slaving away busting into the Hillsboro coal mine until you croaked. So we played the game. But this was no longer a game. This was a puppet show. And I was done being a puppet. So I fired off that ball like an ol' pigskin."

―Gunslinger Joe in the opening of Volume 1.

"Enter Übercommander Roderick Metze. I had heard stories about him. Stories from his dentist years. Stories that would make your heart race like a horse."

―Gunslinger Joe on Metze.

"As I slipped into oblivion, I heard the boiling anger rising from the crowd. But all I could think of was Metze's face. Where had I seen that face before?"

―Gunslinger Joe questioning where he seen Metze before.

"I wouldn't let Erik's death go to waste. My only chance was to escape this place and get on to the Resistance at Oak Street Hotel. I just had to play the game harder from now on. Play rough."

―Gunslinger Joe after escaping from his cell.

"These Nazi bastards...they'll pay for this."

―Joe looking into a prison cell.

"Before the Nazis took over America, papa taught me how to shoot on the farm. He said it might come in handy one day. How right he was."

―Joe on his father in Volume 1.

"Damn. Need to take a knee after that."

―Joe after a gun fight.

"Something about turning the Nazi's monstrosity against them felt poetic. I was getting attached to the pooch. Wished it was real, for a minute. Then I thought about it spitting fire through my neighborhood...maybe it's better we had to say goodbye."

―Joe making it to the Oak Street Hotel.

"Yeah, where do I know your ugly Nazi from?"

―Joe to Metze.

"In a flash, it finally came to me. Those cold eyes. That crooked smile. Metze was the same Nazi who took my father all those years ago!"

―Joe at the end of Volume 1.

"All I wanted to do was play ball. Out there, I was free. Out there, no one could touch me. After the war, my father formed a resistance group with some friends. They fought hard, with every inch of their lives. Eventually, like most of the resistance groups out there, they were captured. The sky was the color of fire the day Übercommander Metze took papa away. Same color as the fire fading out inside me."

―Joe in the opening of Volume 2.

"Now, the Nazis were about to put an end to my story. Well, that's what they thought...One thing was clear. Metze was a dead man walking."

―Joe in Volume 2.

"Ugh...Next time I should take the stairs."

―Joe on jumping out a window.

"I knew one thing. That I would introduce Metze to the bitter taste of revenge. The taste of dirt after getting laid out by a man you shouldn't have pushed into a corner."

―Joe in the sewers.

"Papa?"
"That you, son? I can't go on no more. My spirit is leaving me. Get on out of here."
Forget it. The Stallions are no quitters, old man."
"Hell's bells, son..."

―Gunslinger Joe and his father at the end of Volume 2.

"Papa had ignited a fire inside. I wasn't about to let Metze get to my family. I had passed through the eye of the storm and come out as something else. A beast of vengeance. A machine built to destroy Nazis."

―Joe at the end of Volume 2.

"You stay here papa. Rest up, okay?"
"Go and raise some hell son."

―Joseph and his father in the opening of Volume 3.

"After Springfield, I traveled across the Midwest. I was a man on fire, burning with a singular purpose: to destroy Roderick Metze. I was a hunter. A predator, following a trail of blood. And my prey lead me to the Topeka Space Center in Kansas. The fire was burning ever brighter inside me. But I knew I was in for a heck of a fight."

―Joe in the opening of Volume 3.

"Metze had caught a case of the jitters. Hiding away in the high security Space Center in Topeka. There was no place left on Earth for him to hide."

―Joe in Volume 3.

"Going into space, I realized I was signing my death sentence. This was a one-way ticket. End of the line for Gunslinger Joe. But I had to keep moving. I had to keep fighting. For papa. For America."

―Joe going to Venus.

"Stay out of my way!"

―Joe after destroying the Zitadelle.

"No, but this is. Go long, you Nazi bastard."

―Gunslinger Joe before killing Metze.

"I laid into that son of a bitch just like my papa taught me all those years ago. For him and all brothers and sisters who had suffered by the hands of Nazis. Metze was finally dead. And I was pretty roughed up myself. But just when I thought the game was over...it looked like we were going into overtime."

―Gunslinger Joe at the end of Volume 3.