Sky High Quotes

Will Stronghold: How was your summer?

Zach: To be honest, it was tough, man. T-U-P-H.

Principal Powers: What a waste. I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, you know.

[walks out of the detention room, leaving Gwen/Royal Pain and the others locked inside]

Gwen: I went through puberty twice - for *this*?

Layla: [after getting punched in the face by Penny] Big mistake!

[Penny backs away slightly and then Layla uses her powers to grow vines in the cafeteria; the vines then grow over Penny and her clones and pull them up in the air]

Penny: But I thought you were a sidekick.

Layla: I am a sidekick.

Penny: Don't leave us here to die! Royal Pain sabotaged the anti-gravity device!

Penny: The whole school's gonna fall out of the sky!

Penny: We only have ten minutes!

[during Power Placement]

Coach Boomer: Did I say you were next?

Zach: Name's Zach, Coach Boomer. Try not to drop your clipboard.

[claps his hands together and opens his arms again slowly. Nothing happens]

Coach Boomer: Any day now, superstar.

Zach: I'm doing it.

Coach Boomer: Doing what?

Zach: I'm glowing!

Coach Boomer: I don't think so.

Zach: Well, it's easier to see in a dark room, maybe we could turn off these lights, you could cup your hands around your eyes and look real close...

Coach Boomer: Sidekick!

Zach: Are you sure you don't want to just...

Coach Boomer: [shouting loud enough to throw Zach off his feet] SIDEKICK!

Josie: [flies to tackle a giant robot on Will's first day at Sky High] You sure he'll be ok? What if he forgets his lunch?

Steve: Josie, Josie, you've got to stop babying the boy!

Josie: You're right, you're right...

Layla: Now I know it's just our first day, but I already can't wait to graduate and start saving mankind... And womankind. And animalkind.

Will Stronghold: And the rainforest.

Layla: Of course!

Principal Powers: In a few moments, you will go through Power Placement and your own heroic journey will begin.

Will Stronghold: Power Placement?

Layla: Sounds fascist.

Ethan: Power Placement. It's how they decide where you go.

Magenta: The hero track or the loser track.

Will Stronghold: There - there's a loser track?

Ethan: I believe the preferred term is "Hero Support."

[during Power Placement]

Coach Boomer: [to Layla] You, Flower child. Let's go.

Layla: I believe in only using my powers when the situation demands it.

Coach Boomer: Well, you're in luck: This is the situation, and I'm demanding it.

Layla: But to participate in this test would be to support a flawed system. I think the whole Hero-Sidekick dichotomy only serves to...

Coach Boomer: Let me get this straight. Are you refusing to show me your powers?

Layla: Well, it's more complicated than that. I mean...

Coach Boomer: [shouting loud enough for wind to blow into the students' faces] SIDEKICK!

[the bell rings]

Coach Boomer: All right, we'll pick it up right after lunch...

[staring at Will]

Coach Boomer: ... starting with you.

Will Stronghold: [bumps into Gwen] Oh! Uh - I'm...

Gwen: Will Stronghold!

Will Stronghold: Aha, Mind Reader!

Gwen: No, name tag.

Steve: William Theodore Stronghold...

[stretches out his arms for a hug]

Steve: Come here!

Will Stronghold: Wait, you're not mad?

Steve: My boy has super-strength! How can I be mad?

[hugs Will, cracking his backbones]

Will Stronghold: [groans in pain] Ow!

Steve: Sorry.

[Will hugs Steve back]

Steve: Ow, you ARE strong! All right, if your mom asks, you tell her I read you the riot act and I took away your xBox.

Will Stronghold: But I don't have an xBox.

Steve: Are you sure?

[spins a chair to reveal a large, nicely wrapped present for Will]

Gwen: Well you've got new friends now. And I think that you need to figure out whether you hang out with us - or with those losers. Come on, let's go.

Will Stronghold: No, forget it! I'm not going anywhere with you. Not now, and not to homecoming. Might as well just find yourself a new date, Gwen.

Gwen: You're dumping me? Whoa whoa, let's just get something straight, ok? *You* do not dump *me*! Not the night before the dance!

Will Stronghold: Sorry Gwen, I, ah, just *did*! You're dumped!

[Will lifts a lunch table with Warren Peace on top over his head]

Layla: He's strong!

Will Stronghold: [surprised] I'm strong?

Gwen: He's super strong!

Royal Pain: [after throwing Will out the gym window] And there goes your last chance of stopping me!

Layla: [furiously] We'll see about that!

[runs towards Royal Pain, but Warren stops her]

Will Stronghold: [reappears flying] Surprised? So am I.

Royal Pain: You're flying?

[Will flies towards Royal Pain]

Royal Pain: That's impossible!

[Will lifts Royal Pain up and drops her on the ground. He then punches her helmet, destroying it]

Warren Peace: To let true love remain unspoken is the quickest route to a heavy heart.

Layla: Wow, that is really deep!

Warren Peace: [reading off of a fortune cookie] Yeah. And your lucky numbers are... 4, 16, 5... and 49.

Layla: So, then there was this time in first grade. You know how you grow lima beans in school? Well, Will could not figure out why mine was growing so quickly, it was driving him crazy. So finally I took mercy on him and I told him about my powers! We've been best friends ever since.

Warren Peace: And falling for him, was that before or after the lima beans?

Layla: What? I am *not* in love with Will Strong... is it that obvious?

Warren Peace: Yeah.

[last lines]

Will Stronghold: In the end, my girlfriend became my arch enemy, my arch enemy became my best friend, and my best friend became my girlfriend. But, hey, it's high school.

Ethan: You're on! If Will beats you in Save The Citizen, you lay off the sidekicks for the rest of the year.

Zach: Yeah, and if he loses, you can dunk Ethan's head in the toilet every day until graduation.

Ethan: Yeah! Huh?

Lash: You got yourself a deal!

Will Stronghold: Wait, guys, guys! Come on, guys, are you crazy? No freshman ever won Save the Citizen, and those guys are undefeated!

Layla: And you barely know how to use your powers!

[pause]

Layla: Sorry... not helping.

Zach: Will, you have no choice. You can't let them dunk Ethan's head in the toilet. Not again.

[dead serious]

Zach: The dunking - must end.

Layla: What's embarrasing him in front of the entire class going to prove? That is so unfair.

Will Stronghold: Yeah, well if life were to suddenly get fair, I doubt it would happen in high school.

Warren Peace: So you're asking me to the homecoming dance just to get back at Stronghold? Not because you like me or anything?

[Layla nods, Warren smiles]

Warren Peace: I'm in!

[smile vanishes]

Warren Peace: But I'm not renting a tux.

Zach: [dancing ridiculously] Hey, you wanna dance?

Magenta: No.

Zach: [stops dancing] Me neither.

Steve: What's your name, what's your power?

Ethan: I'm Ethan, and I melt.

Steve: Ok.

Zach: I'm Zach, I glow.

Steve: I see.

Magenta: Magenta, I shape-shift.

Steve: Shape-shift?

Magenta: Into a guinea pig.

Coach Boomer: A guinea pig?

Magenta: Yep

Coach Boomer: Not even a swarm of Guinea Pigs?

Magenta: Uh, no.

Coach Boomer: Sidekick, shoo!

Magenta: Bite me!

Steve: [about the party, which Will inadvertently let happen] Son, I'm only going to ask you this.

Will Stronghold: Dad, I swear, I didn't plan this.

Steve: All right. That's good enough for me. Hmm?

Josie: Steve, I've got half a mind not to let him go to homecoming!

Will Stronghold: That's fine; I'm not going anyway.

Steve: Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa. Your mom said she had "half a mind"! Will, you have to go to the homecoming dance. We all have to because we're introducing the Stronghold Three, the greatest family of superheroes mankind has ever known.

Josie: [notices Will's upset facial expression] Did something happen, Will?

Will Stronghold: I don't wanna talk about it.

Steve: Yeah, well, we're gonna talk about it because... we promised Gwen we'd go to the dance! And when a Stronghold makes a promise son, that promise is kept!

Will Stronghold: I promise you, Dad, I'm not going to homecoming.

Steve: Will, I just want you to know how proud I am that you'll be attending my alma mater and someday following me into the family business.

Will Stronghold: Real Estate?

Steve: Right.

[winks]

Steve: Real estate.

Ron Wilson - Bus Driver: There's only one person authorized to transport superheroes: Ron Wilson - Bus Driver.

[punches Stitches out of the bus]

Ron Wilson - Bus Driver: And I'm Ron Wilson - Bus Driver.

Coach Boomer: Did I mention she's not just her twin, but her *evil* twin?

Mr. Medulla: This Friday, you say?

Coach Boomer: Medulla, you dog!

Warren Peace: Did you want me to heat that up for you?

Layla: We're not supposed to use our powers outside of school!

Warren Peace: I was just gonna stick it in the microwave.

[Medulla is at the Paper Lantern with Coach Boomer and two other women]

Twin: You said that?

Mr. Medulla: Yeah!

Twin: You're so funny!

Mr. Medulla: I love life! Thanks for inviting me, Boom.

Coach Boomer: [sarcastically] Ha-ha-ha.

Layla: When life gives you lemons...

[tries to grow a lemon, but produces an apple instead]

Will Stronghold: Make apple juice?

Layla: I can't make lemons! I don't know what it is.

[watches Save the Citizen with Medulla]

Mr. Boy: Do you remember when we used to play this with *real* citizens?

[Mr Medulla nods and chuckles]

Gwen: I'm a technopath. I can control technology with my mind.

Will Stronghold: Wow. All I can do is... punch stuff.

Mr. Medulla: [passing them] Yet he'll be the one on cereal boxes. Show me the justice in that.

Josie: We can't change who he is... not without dropping him in a vat of toxic waste.

[pause]

Josie: Steve!

Steve: Where would we even find a vat of...

Josie: *Steve*!

Gwen: [carrying the Commander in her arms, who has been turned into a baby] I take you back, my dear Commander, to your senior year at Sky High, a time before anyone knew what a Technopath was. So, a brilliant, but misunderstood girl named Sue Tenny was written off as a science geek and stuck in sidekick class. She hatched a plan, so daring, so visionary, to start her own super villain academy and raise a generation of heroes from scratch as villains. But first, she had to destroy the very institution that dared to spurn her genius! And now, so many years later, that plan is complete. My only regret: This may be the finest super-villian speech ever given - and you don't even know what I'm saying!

Will Stronghold: But I do.

[Gwen and Stitches turn around, startled by Will's presence]

Will Stronghold: Look, I'm sorry that my parents destroyed your mom. Now put my dad down.

Gwen: No one could defeat Royal Pain. When the Pacifier exploded, I wasn't destroyed. I was merely turned into a baby. Stitches took me in and raised me as his daughter.

Stitches: Daddy's little girl! HAHAHAHA!

Gwen: I told you never to CALL ME THAT! Lunatic!

[sighs]

Gwen: That's right, Royal Pain wasn't my mother. Royal Pain is ME!

Will Stronghold: [realizing the truth, dumbfounded] Oh my god, I made out with an old lady.

[Gwen activates her helmet and flies into Will, sending both of them flying into the school]

Will Stronghold: [pretending to have super strength by bench pressing an extremely heavy weight] 200... Hi, Dad, just trying to get some sets in before school.

Steve: Yeah, low weight, high reps, that's the key. You don't wanna bulk up...

Will Stronghold: Yeah, I'm going more for definition.

Layla: Hey there, cutie! I was just thinking about you. I cannot wait until homecoming. I'm so excited. I finally...

[Layla pauses as she watches Will and Gwen walk away; Warren burns her hand]

Layla: ...OW!

Warren Peace: Never call me "Cutie."

Warren Peace: What are you doing here?

Will Stronghold: I'm, uh, looking for Layla. Do you know where she is?

Warren Peace: How should I know?

Will Stronghold: You're taking her to homecoming.

Warren Peace: Oh, yeah. Right.

Will Stronghold: Well, you don't have to worry about me ruining your night.

Warren Peace: And why is that?

Will Stronghold: Because I'm not going.

Warren Peace: Hmm. Well, that sucks. Because we're only going together to make you jealous.

Will Stronghold: Huh?

Warren Peace: Dude, you're so stupid. She's totally into you.

Will Stronghold: [sighs, upset] Not after tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if Layla or any of the other guys never want to talk to me again.

Layla: Hi, Warren.

Warren Peace: Did I do or say anything last night to make you think this is okay?

Layla: Funny. No, but, seriously, you're never gonna believe what happened. I was about to ask Will to homecoming when, wouldn't you know it, I said I was going with you instead.

Warren Peace: I don't remember that being the plan.

Magenta: [sitting down beside Layla] Hey, Layla, you did the history homework?

Warren Peace: What are you doing?

Magenta: It's called sitting.

Warren Peace: No one sits here but me.

Magenta: Mm-hmm.

Magenta: [starts talking to Layla again] What'd you get for number four? I wasn't sure if Tigerman was, A: bitten by a radioactive tiger, or B: bitten by a regular tiger, then exposed to radiation.

Ethan: [sitting down beside Warren] Hey. Are we eating at Warren's table now? I feel extremely dangerous.

Warren Peace: Whoa. Whoa.

Zach: [sitting down on the other side Warren and pointing at Warren] This guy bothering you, Magenta?

Warren Peace: Try the other way around.

Will Stronghold: Alright, look. Whatever happened with our dads, it has nothing to do with us. What do you say?

[extends his hand]

Warren Peace: [ignoring his offer] I say if you ever cross me again, I'll roast you alive.

[Will meekly drops his hand]

Layla: [at the homecoming dance talking to Mr. Boy] The guys at this school are all jerks!

Warren Peace: [shows up wearing his father Baron Battle's tuxedo] Thanks a lot.

Layla: I thought you weren't renting a tux?

Warren Peace: It's my dad's. He doesn't have much use for it in solitary.

Layla: [tries to get off the subject that Warren's father is in prison by holding up a cheese cube] Cheese cube?

Layla: [Zach, Ethan, Magenta, Warren, and Layla are crawling through a ventilator, escaping Royal Pain's trap] Where are we?

Ethan: Hey, Warren, how 'bout a torch?

Warren Peace: Only if you want to get barbecued.

[Zach glows, which illuminates the path they are crawling]

Zach: Ladies, if I may...

[takes the lead]

Magenta: [singing] Then all the reindeer loved him.

Ethan: Way to glow, Zach.

Steve: [re: the Pacifier] This is my most prized possession, Will.

Will Stronghold: Wow. What does it do?

Steve: No idea.

Will Stronghold: [while looking through his Dad's old yearbook, he sees a student named Sue Tenny who resembles his ex-girlfriend, Gwen Grayson] That's weird.

Will Stronghold: [flips the page] Gwen?

Will Stronghold: [sees the Sue Tenny student in a science club photo holding up a weapon the Commander once had to deal with, the Pacifier] Oh, no.

Will Stronghold: [looks at the stand where the Pacifier was once kept. He sees that it's gone] Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Will Stronghold: [realizes what has happened and what he has done] I gotta get to Sky High.

[takes out his wallet and pulls out Ron Wilson's card]

Will Stronghold: [while sitting at lunch with his friends, he looks behind him and sees Warren Peace staring at him] Okay, am I crazy, or is that guy really looking at me?

Zach: Dude.

Will Stronghold: What?

Zach: That's Warren Peace

Layla: *That's* Warren Peace?

Zach: Yeah.

Layla: I've heard about him. His mom's a hero and his dad's a supervillain. Baron Battle.

Will Stronghold: So where do I come in?

Ethan: You're dad busted his dad. Quadruple life sentence.

Magenta: No chance of parole 'til after his third life.

Will Stronghold: [sighs] That's great. It's my first day at Sky High, and I already have an archenemy. Hmm. Is he still lookin'?

Layla: No.

Will Stronghold: No?

Layla: No.

Will Stronghold: [Will turns and sees Warren is still staring at him] I thought you said he wasn't looking.

Will Stronghold: [Will Stronghold is in Power Placement, but is embarrassed to admit he doesn't have any powers. He whispers to Boomer in his ear] What it actually is...

Coach Boomer: What do you mean you don't know what your power is?

[Coach Boomer chuckles to himself]

Coach Boomer: Oh, I get it. You're messing with the Coach. Just like your old man!

[Coach Boomer presses the car button]

Coach Boomer: Car!

Will Stronghold: [the car falls on Will Stronghold, practically squashing him, and the students mutter] ARE YOU INSANE? I don't *have* super strength!

[the car lifts up from underneath him]

Coach Boomer: [Boomer thinks Will has his mom's flying skills] Oh, I get it! You're a flyer, just like your ma! Why didn't you say so?

[Coach Boomer presses the springboard and it sends Will flying]

Will Stronghold: [Will goes flying through the springboard] WHOOOOAAAA!

[Will hits the wall and grunts with the sidekicks coming to his aide]

Coach Boomer: [coming over to Will] Kid, come on! Quit messing around! I haven't got all day! What's your power?

Will Stronghold: [weakly] I don't have one!

Coach Boomer: [finally sees that Will has no powers] Stronghold.

[his supersonic yelling echoes throughout the boys' bathroom where Speed and Dash are bullying a student, Penny and Gwen are putting on makeup, Principal Powers catches a vase and out to the school yard]

Coach Boomer: SIIIIIDDDDDEEEEE... KICK!

[echoes]

Coach Boomer: [the school bus windows shatter]

Lash: [during Save the Citizen, Lash wraps his elasticized arms around Warren Peace] Ha! What now, Peace?

[Warren ends up in a rage and erupts into flames, burning his arms]

Lash: AAAAA-OWWWWW!

[yelling at Coach Boomer]

Lash: Hey! Coach, that's a foul!

[Coach Boomer chuckles]

Lash: Call something on that!

Layla: [after defeating Royal Pain and Stitches, and getting all the Pacified babies out of the bus] Now what?

Will Stronghold: [to Layla] Beats me.

Mr. Medulla: [Warren and Zack gets a Pacified Mr Medulla, as a baby, out of the bus] Perhaps I could be of assistance. It should take me a couple of hours to reconfigure the Pacifier.

[to Warren]

Mr. Medulla: Mr Peace, would you please carry me to the Mad Science lab?

Warren Peace: [awkwardly] Sure.

Mr. Medulla: And Mr Peace?

Warren Peace: [even more awkwardly] Yeah?

Mr. Medulla: [closeup of Mr Medulla as a baby] Regrettably, I have made boom-boom.

[Baby Mr. Medulla smiles as Will, Layla and the other Sidekicks back away slowly]

Will Stronghold: [meeting up with Layla, Magenta, Zach, Ethan, and Warren at Sky High's homecoming, who have just escaped Royal Pain's trap] Guys, you're never gonna believe this. Gwen...

Layla: Is Royal Pain's daughter.

Will Stronghold: Yeah, and she...

Warren Peace: Stole the Pacifier.

Will Stronghold: Right.

Zach: Yeah, and she turned everybody into babies, including your parents.

Will Stronghold: Okay, that I didn't know.

Layla: I think this is even more than the great Will Stronghold can handle.

Will Stronghold: She's right. It's gonna take all of us.

Magenta: All of who? You and Warren? The rest of us are only sidekicks.

Will Stronghold: Just because you have powers, that doesn't make you a hero. Sometimes it just makes you a jerk. Makes me a jerk. I guess what I'm trying to say is...

Layla: We get it. You've been a jerk.

Will Stronghold: Layla, in case my homecoming date ends up killing me tonight, I just want you to know...

[they kiss]

Penny: [suddenly appearing with Speed and Lash] Isn't that sweet? I hate sweet!

[Speed laughs]

Will Stronghold: You guys are a part of this, too? Why am I not surprised?

Warren Peace: Go take care of Gwen. We'll handle these clowns.

[Speed laughs]

Layla: Go.

[Will runs through a nearby wall]

[first lines]

Will Stronghold: In a world full of superheroes, there are two that stand above the rest: the Commander and Jetstream. His super-strength makes him pretty much indestructible. She has the power of supersonic flight along with a total mastery of unarmed combat. By day, they live as Steve and Josie Stronghold, the top real estate agents in the metropolis of Maxville. But whenever duty calls, they are the Commander and Jetstream. Me, I have my own names for them: Mom and Dad. That's me in the middle. You look at them and see the defenders of the world. All I see is my dad wearing tights. Don't get me wrong. It can be cool to have superhero parents like when Mom picks up awesome takeout on her way home from work. On the other hand, living up to the family name means that I'm supposed to save the world someday.

Layla: [laying out a blueprint of Sky High] Here's the anti-gravity room.

Magenta: But didn't Royal Pain seal off every route?

Ethan: Hey, what about this conduit?

Zach: Yeah, right. You'd have to be, like, a rat to fit in there.

[everyone smiles and looks and Magenta]

Magenta: Oh, great.