- M.O.D.O.K.: [during phone call] That language! That's not the sweet Melissa I know.
- Melissa Tarleton: Oh, it's one hundred per cent pure Melissa: Mental Entity Living to Induce Seriously Sinister Anarchy.
- M.O.D.O.K.: That's not what your name stands for. You were named after Melissa Etheridge and you know it!
- M.O.D.O.K.: I'm gonna blast a hole to the Earth's core and raise up a volcano. Oh, we'll see how hard everyone's laughing with their mouths full of lava!
- Melissa Tarleton: Dad, that's just what they want you to do.
- M.O.D.O.K.: Oh, of course, these sickos. They want to be melted into goo, they get off on it!
- M.O.D.O.K.: Hey, Ciegrimites! You love the night life? You've got to boogie... on the disco of death!