Justice League Unlimited, Season 3

[At the Legion of Doom's base, Lex Luthor is attempting to reactivate the sole piece of Brainiac. Tala enters approaches him as the computer room is overloading]

Tala:
Lex! Stop it! You'll blow us all to pieces!

Lex Luthor:
Not now, Woman! Something's happening... It's... [but the stone's energy overloads and destroys the machine, failing to recreated Brainiac] it's... just one more steaming flop! [screams in anger and wrecks the control panels with his hands]

Tala:
Baby...

Lex Luthor:
Nothing works! [continues wrecking the tools]

Tala:
Lex, forget bringing back Brainiac.

Lex Luthor:
I don't need input from some crystal-gazing parasite! One who's confused a winch's grip on power with the real thing!

Tala:
[takes the stone] This is the real trouble-maker for us. It's pure wild goose chase. Look, I will prove it. I will show you what is in there.

Lex Luthor:
Don't be stupid. [takes the stone] This is science. What good is your sorcery? Unless you plan to turn stone into gold? Or maybe a frog?

Tala:
Such ignorance. Transmutation is what you want to do!

Lex Luthor:
Transmutation is...[pauses] what are you waiting for? Do it! [hands the stone to her]

Tala:
Okay!

Lex Luthor:
Okay!

Tala:
[performing her Transmutation Sorcery] By the slaughter of the innocent, by pestilence and plague, reveal the hidden unto me. [she uses her powers to view the stone's origins. She finds nothing] There, you see? Just a rock. A worthless piece of... [she sees something from it] oh.

Lex Luthor:
What?

Tala:
It's not important.

Lex Luthor:
Show me!

[she uses her magic to give Luthor a vision of the past, when the Brainiac Asteroid was destroyed]

Brainiac Computer Voice:
Critical system failure in three seconds. Two seconds. One second. [the asteroid explodes. Tala, almost unable to keep up with the image, screams as the vision nearly fades]

Lex Luthor:
No! Keep the image! [Tala struggles until Luthor sees enough] There is still Brainiac in the universe.

Tala:
There is no way to tell where it happened.

Lex Luthor:
Wrong. I saw enough of those stars to determine the explosion's coordinates. It should be a simple matter.

Tala:
You saw the wild goose again. Concentrate on us, baby. Space is too far. Together, we can rule this world. [Luthor pushes her aside] Oh!

Lex Luthor:
If you like this world so much, keep your fool mouth shut. Then maybe I'll let you keep it. Me? I'm going to be a god again. [sometime later, the Society members make changes in their headquarters] Speed it up! Sinestro, don't forget the floor. I want radiation shielding from every direction. Rampage... [interrupted when Bizarro has trouble with his work] [annoyed] Help Bizarro. [to Weather Wizard] Don't distort the metal, moron!

Weather Wizard:
I don't even know why we're doing this.

[Luthor pins him next to the hot molten metal in the wall]

Lex Luthor:
Killer Frost, if Weather Wizard here doesn't shape up, I'm holding you accountable.

Killer Frost:
Whatever.

Lex Luthor:
Structural integrity is crucial.

Killer Frost:
Okay, got it. Jeez.