Justice League2001

[the superpowered General Eiling has just defeated all the other League members he was fighting]

General Wade Eiling:
[yelling to the heavens] Superman, you coward! All your men are down, and you won't even show your face!

Shining Knight:
[stepping out of the settling dust] He cannot hear even your bellowing, monster. As we speak, Superman rescues an entire star system a universe away. Do your worst. I'll not let you harm another.

General Wade Eiling:
I do what I do in service to my country.

Shining Knight:
Once at the word of my lord, King Arthur, I was ordered to lay waste to an entire village. I knew my king's heart could not be so unjust. So I spared them all.

General Wade Eiling:
Then you're a lousy soldier.

[the General punches Shining Knight]

Shining Knight:
There it is, the creeping moral decay of the past thousand years.

[Shining Knight swings at the General and misses]

Shining Knight:
Arthur thanked me, oaf. Had I been wrong, I would have handed over my sword and left the court in shame.

[Shining Knight rushes the General, the General throws him down]

General Wade Eiling:
Save yourself a hospital stay and stand down. That magic armor won't help you.

Shining Knight:
Have at thee!

[Shining Knight rushes the General, who smashes him into the ground]

General Wade Eiling:
You're a relic. In this world, power is the only thing that matters. You and those other no-name heroes, you're just people, in the great scheme of things, nothing you do has the least bit of significance.

[General punches Shining Knight across the street]

General Wade Eiling:
I'll waste you and billion like you before I let any power rival America's. It's my duty.

Shining Knight:
You don't know what the word means.

General Wade Eiling:
You can't win.

Shining Knight:
I'll die as befits a knight. Defending the weak.

[Shining Knight tries to stand up but can't]

General Wade Eiling:
Why don't you give up?

Shining Knight:
Why don't you?