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Shooting Superman/Quotes

"I should warn you, it's been done."
Superman to a mook about to shoot him, Superman: The Animated Series, "My Girl"
"Y'know, I remember watching the old Superman TV series with George Reeves, and the bad guys would always shoot at Superman, when he showed up. I used to ask myself, why? They know it's not going to hurt him, at most, it'll piss him off, so why shoot at him? You know what it comes down to? The bad guys are always stupid. Dirt-stick-stone stupid."
Pyre, Rising Stars

(bad guys fire at the scary metal colossus for about fifteen seconds)
(Beat)

Tony Stark: "My turn."
"Silly bitch, your weapons cannot harm me!"
"Were they not briefed?"
Unskippable on the poor,stupid saps who tried to attack Wolverine with guns.

"...you don't die, do you?"

"Nope!"
Rorschach and Deadpool coming to this realization after the former repeatedly shot the latter, I'm A Marvel...And I'm A DC
"So Slater tries to shoot the guy but apparently bullets are just like Milk Duds being thrown at him"
Would lasers or tactical nuclear weapons have any effect? Cthulhu's so damn big he'd make a grizzly bear look like a kitten embryo.
Chris in Nightmare's Disciple by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
"Superman!" the criminals would say. This was the signal for Superman to put his hands on his hips so the criminals could shoot their revolvers at his chest, an effort that always caused Superman to adopt a bemused expression because, as a native of Krypton with special powers, he knew that the criminals were shooting blanks.

Cop 1: This is hopeless! We might as well be throwing candy corn at them!

Cop 2: So what do you want to do? Give them the city?
That's for wasting ammo!
Max Damage, punching a guy who just tried to shoot him.
Oh, you're kidding me. You do not open up your huge war machine to shoot at the bulletproof robot.
Atomic Robo, Robo and Goliath
  1. Their target nearly squashes them with their own car.
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