A character in The Lego Movie (2014)

President Business/Lord Business quotes from The Lego Movie (2014)

Will Ferrell

5th most-quoted character in The Lego Movie (2014): in 15 of its 56 quotes
Most scenes with: Bad Cop (6), Emmet (5), Vitruvius (5)

A line from President Business/Lord Business

All I'm asking for is total control.

More lines from President Business/Lord Business

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President Business/Lord Business

Hi, I'm President Business, president of the Octan corporation and the world. Let's take extra care to follow the instructions [whispers] or you'll be murdered, and don't forget Taco Tuesday's coming next week. That's the day every rule following citizen gets a free taco and my love! Have a great day, everybody.

Scenes with President Business/Lord Business

13 scenes
Lord Business
[after knocking down Vitruvius Lord Business goes over to the Kragle]

The Kragle, the most powerful super weapon is mine: [he opens the Kragle] [He opens the case. We see something glowing] OH, THE KRAGLE! [laughs evilly as his horns shoot fire] Now my evil power will be unlimited! CAN YOU FEEL ME?!

Robot
[monotone]

I can feel you. [his robots start carrying the Kragle away]

Lord Business

WHOOOOOO! Nothing's gonna stop me now!

[weakly to down]

Wait, there's a prophecy.

Lord Business
[grumbling]

Oh, now there's a prophecy.

About the Piece of Resistance.

Lord Business
[he turns to Vitruvius]

Oh, yes, the supposed missing Piece of Resistance that can somehow magically disarm the Kragle, gimme a break! [to Lord Business] [Vitruvius rises and turns to face Lord Business, suddenly his eyes shine brightly] [Gasping]

One day a talented lass or fellow, a Special one with face of yellow, will make the Piece of Resistance found from its hiding refuge underground, and with a noble army at the helm, this Master Builder will thwart the Kragle and save the realm, and be the greatest, most interesting, most important person of all times, all this is true, because it rhymes.

Lord Business
[sarcastically]

Oh, wow, that was a great, inspiring legend... that you made up.

Lord Business
[Business kicks Vitruvius off the ledge, screaming with his giant robot leg]

A special one? What a bunch of hippy dippy baloney.

Lord Business

Although, you did let the Piece of Resistance go. The one thing that can ruin my plans, the one thing that I asked you to take care of! [Lord Business chuckles and he comes over to Bad Cop and puts one arm around his shoulder] That's super frustrating, it makes me just wanna pick up whoever's standing closest to me and just: THROW THEM THROUGH THIS WINDOW, AND OUT INTO THE INFINITE ABYSS OF NOTHINGNESS!!!!!! [he picks up Bad Cop takes him to the large glass window and bangs his head against it] I wanna do it so bad! [chuckles and Bad Cop]

[chuckles]

I know you do, sir! But, please! Please, don't! [he throws Bad Cop aside]

Lord Business

And it's not just you, Bad Cop, that keeps messing up my plans. People everywhere are always messing with my stuff. But I have a way to fix that. A way to keep things exactly the way they are supposed to be permanently. [he turns on his TV monitor which shows his robots carrying the box containing the Kragle] Behold the most powerful weapon of all the relics: [his robots open the box containing the Kragle and take it out] THE KRAGLE!!! [we see the Kragle is in fact an old tube of Krazy Glue, Bad Cop gasping and Lord Business] Well, as you can see they're loading the Kragle into a big machine upstairs. I call it: The "Tentacle Arm Kragle Outside Sprayer", or TAKOS! The "S" is silent. So on Taco Tuesday it's going to spray the Kragle over everyone and everything with a bunch of super scary nozzles, like this one. [the tentacle reaches out and comes over to Bad Cop] I'll show you how it works.

Shut up!

NO! WE DON'T SAY SHUT YOUR MOUTH! The Emmet don't get the melting chamber anymore! You're Emmet is grounded melting chamber of wasting taco tuesday! You're Emmet is bad influence and do nothing!

No! That's not true.

Lord Business

You're not influence for Emmet.

Lord Business

Just as I thought. You're Good Cop side's making you soft, Bad Cop. Robots, bring me the fleece crested scepter of Q-teep and Po-Leesh Remover of Nai-eel! [the robots bring him a big Q-tip and nail polish remover and Lord Business deeps one end into the polish before turning to Bad Cop] You've already let the special get away once. [two of the robots hold Bad Cop]

Sir?

Lord Business

I'm just gonna make sure it doesn't happen again, [the robots switch Good Cop in, one of the robots turns Bad Cop's face to Good Cop] NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!!! [he brings the Q-Tip onto Good Cop's face, suddenly Lord Business uses the end of the Q-tip with nail polish remover to wipe Good Cop's face off, after three scrubs back and forth, there's nothing left]

Ma Cop
[starts to weep]

Oh, son!

Lord Business

On Taco Tuesday, I'm going to kraglize the entire universe so that EVERYONE WILL STOP MESSING WITH MY STUFF! [turns to he now faceless Good Cop] Are you gonna be with me or are you STUCK HAVIN’ A TEA PARTY WITH YOUR MOM & DAD?!

YOU'RE LORD BUSINESS IS GUILTY OF WASTING TACO TUESDAY!

Robot

What happened, Lord Business?

Lord Business

He wasn't my fault, honest.

Robot

I'm sure to him, Lord Business?

IT'S OVER, YOU'RE MELTING CHAMBER'S BROKEN!!!!!! [echoes]

Pa Cop

Son?

[The now faceless Good Cop stands back up, only to switch to Bad Cop]

Sorry, Dad. I've a job to do. [he uses the TAKOS device to completely glue his parents, the nozzle powers up, he presses a button and the TAKOS fires completely freezing them solid]

(cries)

'THE EMMET DON'T GET THE MELTING CHAMBER AND NEVER SEEN IT AGAINNNNNNN!!!!!!

Evil Villain, do not listen you're never guilty again. The yellin', you're going destroyed the melting chamber!?

All the Master Builders you've captured over the years, you brought them here!

Lord Business

You're a very perceptive person, Superman, they come up with all the instructions for everything in the universe: ROBOTS!, Beep [the robots strap a device to Superman's head]

No, no! [groans] [screaming] NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOH!!!!! [shudders, then his chair shoots up to the top] I can't get much worse than this.

You... don't have to be... the bad guy. You are the most talented... most interesting... and extraordinary person in the universe. And you are capable of amazing things, because you are the Special.

[Lord Business looks shocked and lowers the Kragle]

And so am I, and so is everyone, the prophecy is made up, but it's also true, it's about all of us, right now, it's about you, and you, still, can change everything.

[he holds up the Piece of Resistance. Business, touched by Emmet's speech drops the Kragle and starts walking over to him. Cut to the real world where Finn's father approaches his son, kneels down and hugs Finn, at the same time in Lego world, we see Lord Business is hugging Emmet.]

Oh, we got a hugger. [Emmet hands the Piece of Resistance to Lord Business] Be careful, I have been told... it might explode.

Lord Business
[Lord Business winks at Emmet, makes his way to the Kragle, in the real world Finn's father places the lid on the Krazy Glue, at the same time Lord Business places the Piece of Resistance on to the Kragle and into the TAKO device] [strains, exhales deeply]

Emmet, thank you.

Lord Business
[Emmet inhales]

And I just want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, from this moment forward, I solemnly promise that I will never--

[screaming]
Benny
[suddenly the Kragle explodes causing all the micro-managers to de-activiate. Emmet lands in the middle of the city where his friends are.]

EMMET!

Emmet, arr!

[Chuckling]

Hey, everyone! Is everyone, okay. Where's Lucy? [Unikitty laughs, as the micro-managers fall down] [Wyldstyle comes up from under a micro-manager]

Emmet!

Lucy! [Emmet rushes over to her and Wyldstyle jumps into his arms]

We did it! [Unikitty laughs] [Batman clears throat. Just as Emmet and Wyldstyle are about to hold hands Batman interrupts them] [Emmet gasps] Oh, eeehhh. Emmet, wait, Batman, there's something I need to say to you!

No, Wyldstyle. I mean, Lucy! [he points to Emmet] He's the hero you deserve!

[Wyldstyle smiles and Emmet looks behind him to see who Batman was pointing at]

Thanks, Batman!

[giggles]
[Wyldstyle turns Emmet's face towards her and they finally hold hands, everyone cheers for them, then we see Vitruvius's ghostly form hovering over the city watching them] [whispers]

I liked Emmet before he was cool. [we see Lord Business is pouring an antidote to unstick everybody]

Lord Business

Whoops! I have the antidote for the Kragle! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!

Finn
[at the same time in the real world Finn's father is pouring glue remover all over the Lego pieces as Finn watches]

De-kragler!

The Man Upstairs

Watch this. YEAH! [as Finn's father pours glue remover onto Pa and Ma Cop Finn reunites Bad Cop with his parents]

Finn

Oh, Mommy, Daddy, you're okay!

Ma Cop
[scene changes to Bad Cop reunited with his parents] [Ma Cop chuckles]

Oh, son! [Bad Cop who's now using his drawn on Good Cop face hugs his parents]

Good Cop

Hi, Mom, hi, Dad.

Pa Cop
[chuckles]

We're okay, son. [Pa Cop chuckles, in the real world as Finn and his father are playing with the Lego pieces Mom calls out]

Mom
[he door opens calls out something]

Uh, hey, guys? Time to come up for dinner! It’s Taco Tuesday, your favorite!

The Man Upstairs

Okay, honey, well, be up in a sec.

Finn

Oh, yeah, we'll be up in a sec!

The Man Upstairs

Well, I got to tell you something.

Finn
[hysterically]

What?

The Man Upstairs
[to Finn the antidote for the Kragle, favorite and his father Lego pieces]

Now that I'm letting you come down here and play, guess who else gets to come down here and play?

Finn

Who?

The Man Upstairs

Your sister.

Finn
[surprised]

What?

[last lines; as everyone Emmet and the gang are having a feast on the Double-Decker couch]

We'll things sure have a way of working out smoothly. Am I right, guys? [suddenly an alien spaceship hovers above them] Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat...?

Duplo
[a trio of Duplo alien figures descend into the Lego world] [Baby voice]

Well, we're from the planet Duplon, and we're here to destroy you.

... Oh, man. [End of The Lego Movie]

[the words "8½ years later…" appear on screen.] [the scene cuts to a man named Emmet Brickowski waking up in his apartment and turns off his alarm clock; cut to his bedroom view; he gets out bed, yawns and stretches, and walks through to his living room as the camera pans left]

Good morning, apartment! Good morning, doorway! Good morning, clock. Good morning, wall. Good morning, ceiling. Good morning, floor! Ready to start the day! [cuts to the row of books; he looks for it and grabs a book from a shelf] Ah, here it is! [cuts to a close-up of the instruction book; he reads the front cover manual] The instructions to fit in, have everybody like you, and always be happy! Step 1: breathe. [cuts to Emmet inhales and exhales deeply] Okay, got that one down. [cuts to the page of instruction book] Step 2: greet the day, smile and say... [cut to exterior apartment; all the Lego citizens opening their windows and yelling]

LEGO® Citizens

Good morning, city! [the citizens all say, "Good morning, city!"; camera zooms out to show the city]

Citizen

Good morning, city! Top of the morning to you, city! [cuts to Emmet continuing with the instructions from the manual]

Step 3: exercise. Jumping jacks, hit 'em! [he start jumping on the spot] One! Two! Three! I am so pumped up! [cuts to the page of instruction book] Step 4: shower. [cuts to Emmet getting in the shower and starts washing himself] And always be sure to keep the soap out of your--- ahhh! [he screams as the soap gets into his eyes; cuts to Emmet standing in front of the bathroom mirror shaving] Shave your face, brush your teeth. Comb your hair. [he laughs to himself as he brushes his hair; cuts to the page of the instruction book] Wear clothes. [cuts to Emmet walking out of his apartment naked until he realizes] Oops! Almost forgot that one! [he turns back into his apartment; cut to his bedroom quickly trying on different outfits] No. No. Uh-uh. No. Not that. Wrong. [he finally wears his construction uniform] And that's it, check. [cuts to kitchen, where Emmet is making breakfast] Step 9: eat a complete breakfast with all the special people in your life. [cut to him sitting in his living room eating his breakfast alone; he turns to his pot plant] Hey, Planty! What do you want to do this morning? Watch TV? Me too! [he turns on the television; cuts to the front TV showing President Business giving a presentation]

President Business

Hi, I'm President Business, president of the Octan Corporation and the World. Let's all take extra care to follow the instructions... [whispers into microphone] ...or you'll be put to sleep [shouting] And DON'T forget Taco Tuesday's coming next week! [mariachi band shows up and confetti falls as they start celebrating and dancing] That's the day every rule-following citizen gets a free taco and my love! Have a great day, everybody! [cut to Emmet]

You have a great day, too, President Business. Man, he's such a cool guy. I always wanna hear more of... wait! Did he say “put to sleep”?! [suddenly, Emmet gets distracted by the TV showing a promo of a sitcom]

TV Presenter

Tonight on "Where are my Pants?"

Actor on TV Show

Honey? Where are my pants? [he steps out showing that he's not wearing any pants and we hear canned laughter; cut to Emmet laughs histarically at this and falls of the couch]

What was I just thinking? I don't care. [scene cuts to the page of instruction book] Step 12: Greet your neighbors. [camera pans right to Emmet’s neighbors walk by] Hey Joe.

Plumber Joe

Hey, pal!

[dodges a pipe]

Whoa ho ho! Hey, Surfer Dave.

Surfer Dave

Hey, brah.

Good morning, Sherrie, [Sherrie’s cats walk by] Oh, hey Jasmine, hey Dexter, hey Luke, hey LeRoy, hey Fluffy, hey Fluffy Jr., hey Fluffy Sr., hey Jeff.

Jeff

Meow.

Lord Business

Although, you did let the Piece of Resistance go. The one thing that can ruin my plans, the one thing that I asked you to take care of! [Lord Business comes over to Bad Cop and puts one arm around his shoulder] That's super frustrating; it makes me just wanna pick up whoever's standing closest to me and just... THROW THEM THROUGH THIS WINDOW, AND OUT INTO THE ̣̪INFINITE ABYSS OF NOTHINGNESS! [camera pans down to show the abyss going to a different world, then returns to the two. He picks up Bad Cop, takes him to the large glass window, and bangs his head against it] I wanna do it so bad!

I know you do, sir. But please! Please, don't.

Lord Business
[as he throws Bad Cop aside]

And it's not just you, Bad Cop, that keeps messing up my plans. People everywhere are always messing with my stuff. But I have a way to fix that. A way to keep things exactly the way they are supposed to be permanently. [he turns on his TV monitor, which shows his robots carrying the box containing the Kragle] Behold the most powerful weapon of all the relics: THE KRAZY, RASCALLY, ASSISTANT, GLUE, LOCKER, ERASER!!! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS... [his robots, wearing hazmat suits, open the box containing the Kragle and take it out] THE KRAGLE! IT WILL DESTROY THEM ALL, FOREVER! [We see the Kragle is, in fact, an old tube of Krazy Glue. Bad Cop gasps] As you can see, they're loading the Kragle in a big machine upstairs while sucking up apples and trees. I can also call it: The "Tentacle Arm Kragle Outside Sprayer", or TAKOS! The "S" is silent. So, on Taco Tuesday, it's going to spray the Kragle over everyone and everything with a bunch of super scary nozzles, like this one. [The tentacle reaches out and comes over to Bad Cop] I'll show you how it works.

Sir, I don’t know if it is necessary.

Lord Business

Don’t worry, I won’t test it on you; I’ll do it on your parents!

Pa Cop

Hiya, son!

Ma Cop

How’s it going in the big city?

Mommy, Daddy, what are you doing there?

Lord Business

OK, Pa, I want you to act normal, like you are having a good day. [Pa Cop raises his hand] Yeah, keep your hand up like that.

Lord Business

Ma, scoot 2 steps to the right.

Lord Business
[Pa Cop moves]

Pa, why d-whenever I talk to Ma, you start to move? Get back to where you were!

Lord Business
[Pa Cop returns to his original position]

Now, Ma, hand on his shoulder.

Lord Business
[Pa Cop moves again]

Pa, you moved, and you just wrecked it! YOU WRECKED IT! Bad Cop, you see what I am talking about? All I’m asking for is total perfection. Send in a Micro-Manager!

Micro-Manager
[a Micro-Manager comes in the room]

Commencing micromanagement.

Lord Business
[The Micro-Manager reshapes Bad Cop’s parents]

And now, I just spray them with the TAKOS!

Ma Cop
[The tentacle sprays the parents with Krazy Glue]

Oh, Pa! Hold me!

Pa Cop

No, darling. I can’t move my legs!

Lord Business

Bad Cop, you feel bad about your parents, and you want to help them, do you?

All the Master Builders you've captured over the years, you brought them here!

Lord Business

You're a very perceptive person, Superman. They come up with all the instructions for everything in the universe. Robots!

Robot

Beep. [the robots strap a device to Superman's head]

No, no! [groans] NO! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH! [shudders, then his chair shoots up to the top] Can't get much worse than this.

Uh, hello, neighbor.

Oh, no.

[the screen zooms out and to the left, revealing Green Lantern]

It's Green Lantern. Oh my gosh, we’re roommates. How crazy is that?

Does anyone have some kryptonite that they can give me?

Batman is the worst person I've ever met.

[suddenly, Batman appears behind them with the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive]

Need a hyperdrive?

No way!

Babe!

I knew it! I knew that!

[Chuckling]

You really had me there!

Those guys were so lame; all they did was play space checkers, plus it turns out that hairy one's a dude, and the metal one too- all dudes.

Benny

But won't they notice their hyperdrive is missing?

Han Solo
[cut to the Millennium Falcon]

Come on, Chewie, hit the hyperdrive!

[Suddenly, the spaceship loses power, and is eaten by an asteroid worm; cut back to the ship]

Nah, they'll be fine.

[following Emmet's plan, the group work together to build a spaceship]

Step 1: Alright, we need a blue two-piece unit over at the... [Emmet notices Unikitty putting flowers into the spaceship] Unikitty, you're supposed to follow the instructions, remember?

Sorry.

[picking up a piece of Lego as they follow the instructions]

Ugh, this gives me the jeebies.

What do I even...? I-I can't...! [kicks Lego pieces in frustration]

Nice. Step 2: We pilot the ship to the service entrance so we can get past the dangerous, but also kind of cool, laser gate.

Robot
[in their spaceship they get to the Octan service gate, Batman and Benny are in the driver's seat]

Space ID.

I have a drive-on.

Robot

Who are you here to see?

I am here to see... your butt.

Robot

Is that last name "butt", first name "your", or is it- [Batman throws a Batarang at the Robot, decapitating him] OH, MY GOSH!

[Batman laughs then throws another Batarang at the gate button, but fails to hit it]

Pow! [throws another which still doesn't hit it] Wham! [throws another and misses again] Kezap! [he then repeatedly throws several Batarangs until it finally hits the button, making it go green.] First try! [after they enter into Octan Tower]

Step 3: We break into Lord Business's office, and we'll plunder his collection of relics for disguises.[they break into Lord Business's office and use his relics to disguise themselves] Step 4: Benny and Metalbeard will sneak their way into the Master Control Room. [as Metalbeard and Benny break into the control room]

Motion Sensors Triggered in Sector-12.

Robot

10-4!

Benny

Uh-oh! [two security guard robots go to investigate, Metalbeard and Benny quickly hide as not to be detected, Metalbeard transforms into a photocopying machine.]

Robot

Are you thinking what I'm thinking? [the other robot jumps onto the photocopying machine] Do it! [the robot starts photocopying his buttocks, both laughing. Metalbeard suddenly transforms back and destroys the two robots]

Benny

Metalbeard, that was awesome!

First law of the sea: never place your rear end on a pirate's face.

Once inside, they'll use their technical know-how to disable the kragle shield. [Metalbeard and Benny get inside the control room to disable the computer]

I'm the computer.

Benny

Cool, talking computer! [Benny starts tapping into the computer] Please disable the shield systems.

Of course. There are no movies in your area with that title. [Benny grumbles as he falls onto the computer]

Step 5: Vitruvius will provide lookout to make sure we're not being followed. [Vitruvius looks through the binoculars, but as he's blind, he's unaware that he's standing in front of a wall]

Okay.

Step 6: Batman and Unikitty go into the Board Room to make one last change to Lord Business's plan. [inside the Board Room Lord Business is holding a meeting]

Lord Business

I move that we freeze the universe. Can I get a second on that? [suddenly, Bruce Wayne enters the room]

Bruce Wayne

I second. Bruce Wayne, CEO of Wayne Enterprises. [cut to the group as they are going through their plan]

Bruce Wayne?!? [chuckles] Who's that? Sounds like a cool guy. [the others, all clearly aware of who Bruce Wayne is, stare at him in silence; Wyldstyle sighs. Bruce Wayne and a disguised Unikitty enter Lord Business's Board Room]

Bruce Wayne

We'd like to invest in your company; your weapon to control the universe sounds super sweet, I must say.

Lord Business

It is indeed super sweet.

Bruce Wayne

Cool! What kind of sound system does it have?

Lord Business

Uh, sound system? Well, I mean, we have an iPod shuffle.

Bruce Wayne

Wait a second. You're telling me that you have a machine to control the universe and you can't listen to tunes and surround sound?

Embarrassing.

Lord Business

Well, I mean, we need to get that done. I want eight-foot speakers.

Bruce Wayne

Great call.

Lord Business

Yeah, I want speakers that you can hug with your arms and your legs, and just feel the beat.

Robot
[cut to Lord Business's robots instructing the captive Master Builders in the Think Tank]

Listen up! We need new instructions for a speaker system for the TAKOS!

We'll never help-! [Suddenly, the device attached to their heads electrocutes them, and they all start coming up with the instructions] Whatever you say, boss!

Then once the instructions are printed, Wyldstyle and I will enter the Kragle room, place the thing on the other thing, and save the universe. [cut to the group having their planning meeting] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, I didn't draw that. [points to a drawing of himself, as he saves the universe] Is that me exploding?

Uh, I didn't mention that earlier: when you reunite the Piece with the Kragle, it might explode?

No! But it might not, right?

Sure, sure, sure. Just go with that.

Robot
[back at Octan Tower, Emmet and Wyldstyle disguised as a robots, deliver the speakers to the control room]

Attention everybody! Incoming Speaker Delivery! [Emmet looks in fear at the TAKO device and suddenly misses his footing and drops the speaker and THUD!... Emmet grunts and falls. The other robots look at them with suspicion] Who are you, two?

[trying to sound like a robot]

We are transfers from downstairs.

Robot

What excuse me?

[Emmet then speaks in a pretend robot voice]

Your robot voice sounds an awful lot like a human voice?

Give me a break, I've never been a robot before.

What do you mean?! YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A ROBOT! [both Emmet and Wyldstyle gasp, and as the other robots get ready to attack them.] No, no, no! Do not listen to her!

Robot

What are your robot serial numbers?[Wyldstyle gasps and as the robots stare at them suddenly Emmet starts humming the tune to "Everything is Awesome!" then he dances and turns]

[Whispering]

Everything is awesome!

Robot
[the robots back down]

No way, this is my jam.

Robot #2

This is also my jam. [the robots starts singing and dancing]

Robots

Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you're part of a team

[Emmet starts joining in with them, he turns to Wyldstyle indicating for her to also sing along]

I don't want to sing the song. I'm not--? [the robots suddenly get ready to attack them when Wyldstyle joins in and sings] Everything is awesome! Everything is cool when you're part of a team! Everything is awesome when you're living out a dream!

[the robots start heading in one direction, Wyldstyle and Emmet quickly sneak away] [in normal voice]

Quick, let's go. [after they get passed the robots and start climbing up a vent]

Robots
[Singing]

Everything Is Awesome

[in normal voice] [chuckles]

I thought you didn't like that song.

I don't.

[Vitruvius is decapitated by Lord Business.]

Vitruvius! NO! Vitruvius.

My sweet Emmet, come closer. You must know something about the prophecy.

I know, I'm doing my best, but I d-

The prophecy... I made it up.

What?

I made it up. It's not true.

But that means I'm just... I'm not the Special?

[last words before his death]

You must listen. What I'm about to tell you will change the course of history... [dies]

No. No. [the group looks visibly sad as they are led away by the robots]

Lord Business

Hey, not so special anymore, huh? [the robots strapped each of the group into one of the Think Tank seats] Well, guess what? No one ever told me I was special. I never got a trophy just for showing up. I'm not some special little snowflake, no! [A micro-manager picks up Emmet and straps him onto the battery] But as un-special as I am, you are a thousand billion times more un-special than me. Robots, bring me the Sword of Exact-Zero!

Robots

Yes, Lord Business. [the robots hand Lord Business an Xacto razor and he walks over to Emmet]

Lord Business

Must be weird. One minute, you're the most special person in the universe. And the next minute… you're nobody! [uses the razor to cut the Piece of Resistance from Emmet's back] Oh, I have a nice spot for this in my relic room. [he then deliberately throws the Piece of Resistance out of the window, breaking it.] Uh-oh, my mistake! There it goes!

No!

Lord Business

Bye-bye, forever! [the Piece of Resistance falls into the abyss] Well, I guess there's only one thing left to do! [he turns to his robots] ROBOTS! RELEASE THE KRAGLE! START THE COUNTDOWN! [his presses the button] and Computer?

Yes, sir?

Hey, everybody. You don't know me, but I'm on TV, so you can trust me. I know things seem kind of bad right now, but there is a way out of this. This is Emmet. [footage of Emmet is shown] And he was just like all of you. A face in the crowd, following the same instructions as you. He was so good at fitting in; no one ever saw him. And I owe you an apology, because I used to look down on people like that. [Wyldstyle's broadcast is watched by all Lego citizens across the realms in the universe, including Middle Zealand, where a knight is reading from a scroll]

Knight

I used to think they were followers with no ideas or brains.

Because it turns out Emmet had great ideas. And if they seemed weird and kind of pointless, they actually came closer than anyone else to saving the universe. And now we have to finish what he started by making whatever weird thing pops into our heads. All of you have the ability inside of you to be a ground breaker. And I mean literally, break the ground! Peel off the pieces, and tear apart your walls! Build things only you could build, defend yourselves! We need to fight back against President Business's plans to freeze us! [the Lego citizens start putting Lego pieces together and building things] Today will not be known as Taco Tuesday; it will be known as Freedom Friday! [the citizens start cheering] But still on a Tuesday! [suddenly, they are interrupted as the robots burst from the barricaded studio entry.]

Robot

End of the line! [just as the robots are about to attack, they are quickly disposed of by Bad Cop]

Wylstyle

Bad Cop?

I hope there's still a Good Cop in me somewhere. [draws a new face for Good Cop with a marker]

Scribble Cop (Good Cop)

I'll hold these guys off. You go stop 'em. Yay!

Great idea! But how will we get there? [suddenly, Benny starts having an idea]

Voice Man

T-minus 10, 9, 8...

Benny

I could, eeehhh...

Voice Man

...7, 6, 5, 4...

Benny

I could build a...

Voice Man

...3, 2...

Benny

I could build a...

Voice Man

...1!

Benny

I could build a spaceship! [he looks around to see if anyone disagrees] You-you're not-you're not going to say "No"?

Scribble Cop

Build away, whatever your name is!

Benny
[laughs and jumps around in excitement as he quickly assembles a spaceship]

SPACESHIP! [Benny and the team fly the spaceship through the different realms] SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! SPACESHIP! [the team are spotted by the robots]

Robot

All units, attack that spaceship! [the robots chase after the spaceship in their aircraft and start shooting at it]

Benny

SPACESHIP! [quickly steers the spaceship away from sight]

Robot

Where did he go?! [suddenly, the spaceship flies up through the robots' aircraft, destroying them]

Benny

SPACESHIP!

[as they fly over Bricksburg]

Wyldstyle, look! It's the citizens! [the citizens have built aircraft which they are using to attack Lord Business's robots]

And don't forget us; we're Master Builders.

Lord Business

What is going on?! You stop building that stuff! Just stop it!

If only Emmet was here to see this. He'd say something adorable, like... [it cuts to Emmet, who is falling through the deep vortex of the abyss.]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am I just gonna keep... falling... FOREVERRRRRRRRR??!!!?????!!!!!!!!!!! [finally, Emmet lands somewhere and it cuts to blackness; the thud noises are heard as he lands hardly.]

[Emmet becomes conscious, but he finds he can't move, but is able to think]

Is this another vision? Where am I? [he sees the sign for the Octan Tower.] Is that the office tower? [we see Emmet has fallen on the ground in a live-action basement where all the different Lego realms, including Bricksburg, have been assembled on a large table] Bricksburg! [Boom! He suddenly feels the ground shaking as if someone has taken a giant footstep] What was that?! [cuts to a human’s legs running around the basement heading towards Emmet] No, no, no, no! [a human accidentally steps on Emmet as it carries on running.] Ahhh! [A human is playing with the Lego set and actually carrying the spaceship Benny had built as if it's flying.]

Finn

Spaceship! Spaceship!

What in the world is that? [he continues to watch a human (which reveals to be a boy named Finn) playing with the Lego spaceship] It's... adorable. [suddenly, Finn notices Emmet lying on the floor] Uh-oh! [Finn comes over to pick Emmet up] No! No! No, no, no, no! Hey, don't eat me! Don't eat me! Do not eat me! Please! [Finn gently picks Emmet up and looks at him]

Finn

Hi, Emmet.

Uh... hi? [Finn stares at him] Is this The Man...? [Suddenly, the basement door opens, and the shadow of a man appears at the top of the stairs, and he starts walking down the stairs] The Man Upstairs. [when the man reaches the last step, the shadow reveals it's Finn's father wearing a business suit and looking annoyed, which is look-alike of Lord Business.]

The Man Upstairs

What happened?! [as he sees all the different Lego pieces all over the place] No, no, no. This is a disaster. Why...why is...? What? What?! What?! The-the...why is the dragon on top of the luxury condo development?!

Finn

I was just playing and...

The Man Upstairs

Look, I know it's hard to understand. But this is Dad's stuff, okay? All of this that you see before you is all your father's. And everything is thought out; there's... [he looks around and sees the top of Octan Tower missing] What did you [do] down here?? Did you take the top off of the tower?!?

Finn

It was an accident.

The Man Upstairs

You end up accidentally, expertly, dangerously, and carefully took the entire top off of that tower?

Finn

Yes.

The Man Upstairs

You know the rules; this isn't a toy!

Finn

Um...it kind of is.

The Man Upstairs

No, actually it's a highly sophisticated interlocking brick system.

Finn

But we bought it at the toy store.

The Man Upstairs

We did, but they way I'm using it makes it an adult thing.

Finn

The box for this one said "Ages 8 to 14"!

The Man Upstairs

That's a suggestion. They have to put that on there.

Finn

Because maybe we won't be able to resist playing with all this.

The Man Upstairs

Look, I move your stuff over near to the decorations. All those bricks, you can build anything you want. [Emmet sees the larger Lego pieces piled together in a box; he notices Finn looking sad] Finn, we're gonna play a little game. It's called "let's put everything back the way you found it."

Finn

But, Dad, you don't understand…

The Man Upstairs

So I can make things the way they're supposed to be. [he turns, goes over to the nearby table and picks up a tube of Krazy Glue] Permanently. [the camera zooms over the drawer to reveal more krazy glue]

[gasps and realizes the more krazy glue]

More Kragles?! [back in the Lego world, Lord Business tries to stop the citizens from fighting back]

Lord Business

This rebellion ends right now! [he releases a bunch of micro-managers onto the city and they start attacking, then we see Finn's father is actually the micro-manger as using the Krazy Glue to stick a flying Lego truck the onto the Lego board]

Bricksburg Citizen

Oh, no! [then we see a Lego fireman who's build a machine out of his fire truck to fight off the micro-managers]

Fireman

Ha-ha! Fire in the hole! [Finn's father goes to pick up the fireman's truck] Wait! What's happening? No, wait! No, we're going down! [Finn's father destroys the assembled fire truck Lego piece] No! [we see one of Emmet's neighbors, Sharon, who's build a sled with her cats tied to the front as they rush away from the micro-managers]

Cat

Meow. Meow.

Sharon

Hold on, dear, we're coming for you. [the micro-manager gets her which is Finn's father gluing Sharon to the Lego board.] Ah!

Stop!

Sharon

Oh no! [Emmet watches in horror as Finn's father continues to glue the Lego pieces]

Arr, there be too many micro-managers!

The Man Upstairs
[Finn's father is holding Benny's spaceship in his hand]

What am I holding here?

Finn

It's a battleship.

The Man Upstairs

No, it's a hodge-podge; that's what it is. What's Batman doing on it? [he throws Batman off the spaceship, then picks up Metal Beard] What is this? A robot pirate? [he throws Metal Beard down and he lands next to Batman]

Dang it. [Emmet watches all this in horror as Finn holds him]

Stop! Stop it! No! Stop it! Stop! [Finn's father notices Emmet in Finn's hand]

The Man Upstairs

You got glue all over that construction worker. Here, give that to me. [he takes Emmet from Finn]

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! [he looks down and sees all his friends scattered all over the Lego board] All of those are my friends! No! Stop it!

We were a hearty crew, but it be… it be over.

No! [Finn's father turns Emmet around in his hand, and Emmet notices the Piece of Resistance on the floor] The Piece of Resistance! I can still save them.

The Man Upstairs

Let's get this gunk off this construction worker. [he places Emmet on his work table]

Finn

He's not just a construction worker, Dad. He's the hero.

The Man Upstairs

No, he's not. He is an ordinary, regular, generic construction worker, and I need to put him back the way he was. Now, where is my Xacto knife? [as Emmet lies on the table]

I gotta get the Piece of Resistance. If I could get the attention of the smaller creature. I gotta move. [Finn's father continues to look for his knife]

The Man Upstairs

Where is that? [Using all his strength, Emmet manages to slightly move on the table, catching Finn's father's eye, but he quickly dismisses it and looks away] Alright. [Emmet starts to twitch more on the table, and every time he moves, Finn's father turns to look at him, not sure of what he's seen. And as he turns back to look for his knife, Emmet tries to move again]

M-m-move! [he finally manages to move enough to drop himself off the table] Ow! [this catches Finn's attention]

Finn

Uh, Dad?

The Man Upstairs

Yeah?

Finn

I think I saw the Xacto over there in Middle Zealand.

The Man Upstairs

Oh, great. Thank you.

Finn

You're welcome. [as he goes to get the knife, Finn quickly goes over and picks Emmet from the floor and hands him the Piece of Resistance] It's up to you now, Emmet. [he then turns and looks at a cat poster with the phrase "Believe" written on it, which Emmet also notices; he then remembers what Vitruvius had told him. And then, suddenly, the cat's mouth on the poster starts moving as Vitruvius speaks]

Believe. I know that sounds like a cat poster, but it's true. [Finn uses a magic Lego portal that he's built to send Emmet down, where he can start moving again, and crashes back in Bricksburg.]

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