Klytus Quotes in Flash Gordon (1980)

Klytus: Bring me... the bore worms!

Princess Aura: No! Not the bore worms!

Klytus: [watching Zarkov's memories of Hitler at a Nazi Party rally] Now, he showed promise!

[first lines]

The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?

Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, Your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet... Earth.

The Emperor Ming: How peaceful it looks.

[He activates a console, and watches as earthquakes, floods, etc. start to occur. They both get a good laugh out of it]

Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty! Will you destroy this, er, Earth?

The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with thing a while... before annihilation.

[laughs evilly]

Flash Gordon: This Ming is a psycho!

Ming's Floating Servant: This Ming is a psycho.

Klytus: Who said that?

Ming's Floating Servant: The fair-haired prisoner.

Klytus: Who are you?

Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.

Dale Arden: Dale Arden, Your Highness. Live and let live, that's my motto.

[Flash is in chains and with a helmet over his head]

Flash Gordon: I demand to see the governor! I can hardly breathe in this thing!

Klytus: Yes, you don't look well. I'm told you refused your final meal. The chef will be upset.

Flash Gordon: Tell 'em to go to hell!

Klytus: Maybe just as well. Gas works more quickly on an empty stomach. Any final requests?

Flash Gordon: Yes, let me see Dale. Right away.

Klytus: Oh, dear. How pathetic. Yes, I anticipated that.

Klytus: Should we stop the torture?

The Emperor Ming: No.

Princess Aura: Father! Damn you, Father!

[Flash is using football moves to fight Ming's soldiers]

The Emperor Ming: Klytus! What is he doing?

Klytus: I don't know, sir! It looks like some kind of barbaric sport!

Klytus: The tributes of the Hawkmen will be first.

Dale Arden: Are we dreaming?

Flash Gordon: I'd like to think so.

Prince Vultan: The fabled ice jewel of Frigia; we seized it in battle from the royal crypt.

Prince Barin: Stop! The ice jewel is our tribute, not Vultan's.

Prince Barin: Vultan stole it while we were burying our dead on Frigia

Prince Vultan: Liar!

Prince Barin: You are a thief!

Prince Vultan: What?

Prince Vultan: [Prince Barin draws his sword, preparing to attack Vultan]

[Vultan raises his clubbed sword]

Prince Vultan: Aargh!

Klytus: Put down your weapons! No one, but no one, dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.

Prince Barin: Hail, Ming!

[Barin lowers his sword]

Prince Vultan: Aargh!

Klytus: Vultan! You obey, or you sacrifice your daughter.

[Vultan's daughter emerges, looks at her father]

Prince Vultan: [lowers his club sword relentingly] Hail, Ming.

Klytus: Now the tributes from Ardentia.

Prince Thun: Your Majesty, we, the people of Ardentia, we have suffered since you blasted our kingdom. I can offer you nothing this year, except my loyalty.

Klytus: Prince Thun, we prize nothing more highly. And tell us, how great is this loyalty to your emperor?

Prince Thun: Without measure.

The Emperor Ming: We are delighted to hear it; fall on your sword.

The Emperor Ming: Show us this loyalty, throw yourself onto your sword.

Prince Thun: [Prince Thun unsheathes his sword] May this deed of Prince Thun be an example to all the kingdoms of Mongo; death to Ming!

[Prince Thun is stopped by a freeze beam from Ming's servant]

Prince Thun: [Ming disembowels and slays Prince Thun with his own sword]

Dale Arden: Ugh!

Klytus: No one, but no one dies in the palace without a command from the Emperor.

Prince Barin: Klytus?

Klytus: Hmm?