Justice League Unlimited, Season 3

General Wade Eiling:
Superman, you coward! All your men are down, and you won't even show your face!

Shining Knight:
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.

[Eiling punches the Shining Knight in the jaw]

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

[Shining Knight swings his sword at General Eiling, who dodges easily]

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

[Eiling slams Shining Knight into the ground]

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 tries to punch Eiling, but is slammed into the ground again]

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. [Shining Knight rises again, but Eiling punches him again] I'll waste you and a billion like you before you before I allow any power to 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. [falls to his knees]

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

Shining Knight:
Why don't you?

[General Eiling kicks Shining Knight, then lifts a car]

General Wade Eiling:
Superman and your Justice League are a threat to a safe and stable world.

[He turns to crush Shining Knight, only to find several civilians standing protectively around him]

Old Woman:
Drop the act! You think killing Superman would make the world safe? Or killing this boy? Or us? Tell me - how many of us do you have to kill to keep us safe?

General Wade Eiling:
They're the ones I'm after, not you. I'm not the menace, metahumans are. Superpowered beings.

Boy:
You're the only one around here with superpowers.

[After a tense silence, Eiling drops the car]

General Wade Eiling:
All right, I've become what I hate, I'll give you that. But in the long run, you'll see I was right. You'll see you need the likes of me to protect you from them! [bounds away across the city's buildings]