Mamo Quotes in Lupin the IIIrd: Jigen Daisuke no Bohyo (2014)

Mamo: [observes Lupin] So, you have had a taste of the forbidden fruit...

Mamo: [shows off the people he's cloned] This is the work of 10,000 years. A masterwork, if I say so myself. The leading lights of science, philosophy, art. All under one roof, and all are perfectly real!

Arsene Lupin III: Hm! So, sort of a Noah's Ark?

Mamo: Let's just say that if you've never given any thought about the world, starting now would either be a particularly good idea, or a pathetically pointless one, if you catch my drift, Mr. Lupin.

Arsene Lupin III: Uh?

Mamo: Because the time is nigh, Mr. Lupin, but sadly the guest list is... quite short. Only the elite of history's most brilliant and beautiful people!

Arsene Lupin III: Oh, uh... I'm sorry to hear that.

[laughs hysterically]

Mamo: I imagine you are.

Arsene Lupin III: No, I mean, it's just after all that work... an ugly, demented gnome like you isn't even eligible!

Mamo: I see you personify the type of genius that's incapable of rational thought.

Mamo: You know, you're a very rational fellow, Lupin... which of course makes you absurd.

Mamo: Look at this man, Fujiko! This is the man you want to spend the rest of eternity with? This ignorant fool who laughs like a hyena at his own impending doom? I refuse to grant the gift of immortality to one so unworthy!

Fujiko Mine: Well, if that's the way you want to be, you can just count me out, too!

Mamo: Fujiko!

Fujiko Mine: What's the point of being forever young and lovely? It's no fun if I have to sit by and watch him getting old and shriveled up!

Mamo: The process has its limitations.

Fujiko Mine: Limits?

Mamo: The transfer of the chromosomal data is never accomplished with complete fidelity. There are... anomalies, infinitesimally small in each case, but the cumulative effect of such - chaotic - pollution... can be observed after only a dozen or so generations, and what you see before you is a 130th generation facsimile. I am but a faint, distorted echo of myself.

Arsene Lupin III: But you were always distorted by your obsession.

Mamo: But is it not... everyone's obsession?

Mamo: Obviously, eternal life would be wasted on a vulgarian like that man there.

Arsene Lupin III: [mishears] That's not true... I eat meat!