A character in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

General W.R. Monger quotes from Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

Kiefer Sutherland

Scenes with General W.R. Monger

6 scenes
Susan
[meeting General Monger]

Uh, thank goodness! A real person! [notices his jetpack] You are a real person, right? You're not one of those half-person, half-machine, whatever you call those things?

General W.R. Monger

A cyborg?

Susan
[panicked]

Uh, no! You're a cyborg!

General W.R. Monger

Ma'am, I can assure you I am not a cyborg. The name is General Warren R. Monger. I'm in charge of this facility.

Dr. Cockroach
[Dr. Cockroach is building an atomic bomb from Legos]

Uh, Susan. You wouldn't happen to have some uranium on you? I just need a smidge.

General W.R. Monger
[on walkie-talkie]

Rescind Dr. Cockroach's toybox privileges. Immediately. [Susan's cell door opens] We’ve had the prison psychologist redecorate your cell. [a poster reads “Hang in there!] Try to keep you all calm-like.

Susan
[tearfully]

But I don’t want a poster. I want a real kitten. Hanging from a real tree. [turns to General W. R. Monger] I wanna go home...

General W.R. Monger

Uh, come on, Little Debbie, please don’t cry. It makes my knees hurt. Don’t think of this as a prison! Think of it as a hotel you never leave because it’s locked from the outside! [Susan goes in her cell] Uh! And, uh, one other thing, the government has changed your name to GINORMICA.

General W.R. Monger
[General Monger explains his private operation to the government, showing images and video clips along the way]

Over the last 50 years, I have captured monsters on the rampage and locked them up in a secret prison facility. So secret, that the mere mention of its name is a federal offense!

Advisor

Is he referring to Area Fifty- [is shot in the neck with a tranquilizer dart and falls over]

General W.R. Monger

Mr. President, say hello to Insectosaurus! [shows a tape of Insectosaurus going on a rampage in Tokyo. An aide drops a tray of china and screams.] Miss Ronson, please. Nuclear radiation turned him from a small grub into a 350-foot tall monster that attacked Tokyo. Here we have the Missing Link... [Miss Ronson drops another tray of china and screams again.] ...a 20,000-year-old frozen fish-man who was thawed out by scientists. [shows a clip of the Missing Link's escape] He escaped and went on a rampage at his old watering hole... [shows a tape of the Missing Link on the beach in Florida] This handsome fellow is Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D, the most brilliant man in the world. He invented a scientific machine that would give humans the cockroach's ability to survive. [shows a black-and-white clip of Dr. Cockroach undergoing the experiment, giving himself his cockroach head] Unfortunately, there was a side-effect... [Miss Ronson drops yet another tray of china and screams yet again; Monger groans] Now, we call this thing B.O.B.... [A fourth crash and a fourth scream.] WILL SOMEONE GET HER OUTTA HERE?! [Two men throw Miss Ronson out of the room off-screen.] Thank you! A genetically-altered tomato was combined with a chemically altered ranch-flavored dessert topping at a snack food plant. The resulting goop gained consciousness and became an indestructible gelatinous mass. And our latest addition, Ginormica.

President Hathaway
[He shows a picture of Susan at her failed wedding. Another high-pitched scream is heard, and it turns out to be the President's.] [clears his throat]

General, continue.

General W.R. Monger

Her entire body radiates with pure energy, giving her enormous strength and size.

President Hathaway
[last lines; cut-scene just after the first cluster of credits]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce the newest Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff, General W.R. Monger!

General W.R. Monger

Thank you very much, Mr. President. What a way to spend my 90th birthday.

President Hathaway
[singing]

Alright, let's get it started in here! Nerd.

Nerd Advisor

Gentlemen, I have come up with a budget estimate for rebuilding San Francisco.

President Hathaway

Zoinkers, this is going to be a boring one. Good time for a cup o' Joe. Warden, how do you take it?

General W.R. Monger

Hit me with a double venti, organic chocolate brownie caramel frappichino, extra hot with one inch of foam... [zooms in to his lips] ... non-fat.

President Hathaway

Got it, black it is. [this time, he hits the nuke button; everyone panics]

General W.R. Monger

My God, man! What have you done?!

President Hathaway
[nonetheless still his cheerful self]

Time to wave the white flag and head for the bunker, boys! Let's check the situation in 500 years. [pops his head into the audience] Who wants to freeze my head? [puts his eyeglasses up]

Missing Link
[to Susan]

You really don’t get it, do you? No monster has ever gotten out of here!

B.O.B

That’s not true, the Invisible Man did.

Missing Link

No, he didn’t, we just told you that so you won’t get upset.

Dr. Cockroach

He died of a heart attack 25 years ago.

B.O.B

NOOO!

Missing Link

Yeah…in that very chair.

Missing Link
[the camera pans to a chair in the very corner]

He’s still there.

Missing Link
[B.O.B begins to weep quietly]

You see what I’m saying? Nobody’s leaving, nobody’s ever getting out!

General W.R. Monger

Good news, monsters, you’re getting out.

Missing Link

Until today.

General W.R. Monger
[from DVD menu, after pressing "Opening"]

Whoo-ee!

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