The Best Mantis Quotes

Peter: Wait, who are you?
Peter: We're the Avengers, man.
Mantis: You're the ones Thor told us about.
Tony: You know Thor?
Peter: Yeah, tall guy, not that good-looking, needed saving.

[from Trailer]
Mantis: When I touch someone I can feel their feelings.
[touches Quill's hand]
Mantis: You feel... love!
Peter: Yeah, I guess - Yeah, I feel a general unselfish love for everyone.
Mantis: No. *Sexual* love...
Peter: No. No, I don't.
Mantis: [points at Gamora] ... for her!
Peter: No!
[Drax begins laughing hysterically]
Drax: She just told everyone you deepest, darkest secret!
[Drax continues laughing]
Peter: Dude! Come on! I think you're reacting a little bit!
Drax: You must be so embarrassed!
[continues cracking up]
Drax: Do me! Do me! Do me!

Drax: How did you get to this weird dumb planet?
Mantis: Ego found me in my larva state. Orphaned on my home world. He raised me by hand, and kept me as his own.
Drax: So you're a pet.
Mantis: I suppose.
Drax: People usually want cute pets. Why would Ego want such a hideous one?
Mantis: I am hideous?
Drax: You are horrifying to look at. Yes.
[Mantis lowers her eyes, offended by Drax' words]
Drax: Bu-but that's a good thing.
Mantis: Oh?
Drax: When you're ugly, and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are... beautiful people never know who to trust.
Mantis: [cheerfully] Well, then I'm certainly grateful to be ugly!

- Whew. [CHUCKLES]
- Just checking.
Jane: [CHUCKLES] See you later.
Mantis: Five minutes to departure!
- What?
- We were just talking.

[last lines]
Mantis: It's beautiful.
Drax: It is. And so are you.
[pause]
Drax: On the inside.

[Groot is playing a video game called Defender. Peter Quill turns to Groot]
Peter: Groot, put that thing away. Now, I don't wanna tell you again... Groot?
Groot: [in a mocking tone] I am Groot!
Peter: Whoa!
Rocket: Language!
Mantis: Hey!
Drax: Wow.
Peter: You got some acorns on you, kid.
Rocket: Ever since you got a little sap, you're a total D-hole.
[turns to Groot, angrily]
Rocket: Now, keep it up and I'm gonna smash that thing to pieces!

Peter: [notices Drax has been watching him and Gamora] Dude. How long have you been standing there?
Drax: An hour.
Peter: An hour?
Gamora: Are you serious?
Drax: I've mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still... that I become invisible to the eye... Watch.
[slowing starts moving his hand]
Peter: You're eating a Zargnut.
Drax: My movement... is so slow... that it's imperceptible.
Peter: Mmm, no.
Drax: I'm sure I'm invisible.
Mantis: Hi, Drax.
Drax: [after a pause] Dammit.

Thor: There are six stones out there. Thanos already has the Power Stone because he stole it last week when he decimated Xandar. He stole the Space Stone from me when he destroyed my ship and slaughtered half my people. The Time and Mind Stones are safe on Earth, they're with the Avengers.
Peter: The Avengers?
Thor: The Earth's mightiest heroes.
Mantis: Like Kevin Bacon?
Thor: He may be on the team. I don't know, I haven't been there in a while.

Mantis: If I touch someone, I can feel their feelings.
Peter: You read minds?
Mantis: No. Telepaths know thoughts. Empaths feel feelings. Emotions.
Mantis: [to Peter] May I?
Peter: All right.
Mantis: [Mantis touches Peter's hand] You feel... love.
Peter: Yeah. I guess, yeah, I feel a general, unselfish love for just about everybody...
Mantis: No! Romantic, sexual love.
Peter: No. No, I don't.
Mantis: [points to Gamora] For her!
Peter: No, no. No, I don't.
Mantis: [points to Gamora] For her.
Peter: No! That is not...
[Drax starts laughing hysterically]
Peter: Okay... That's...
Drax: [still laughing] She just told everyone your deepest, darkest secret!
Peter: Dude, come on, I think you're overreacting a little bit.
Drax: [still laughing] You must be so embarrassed!
Drax: [to Mantis] Do me! Do me! Do me!
[Mantis touches Drax and she starts laughing hysterically]
Mantis: I've never felt such humor!
Peter: So unbelievably uncool.
Drax: Oh, Quill...
[Mantis walks over to Gamora to touch her]
Gamora: Touch me, and the *only* thing you're gonna feel is a broken jaw.

[the Guardians bring Thor aboard]
Peter: How the hell is this dude still alive?
Drax: He is not a dude. You're a dude. This... this is a man. A handsome, muscular man.
Peter: I'm muscular.
Rocket: Who are you kidding, Quill? You're one sandwich away from fat.
Peter: Yeah, right.
Drax: It's true. You have put on weight.
Peter: What?
[Drax gestures at his chin and gut]
Peter: Gamora, do you think I'm...
Mantis: [sensing Thor] He is anxious, angry, he feels tremendous loss and guilt.
Drax: It's like a pirate had a baby with an angel.
Peter: Wow. This is a real wake-up call for me. Okay, I'm gonna get a Bowflex. I'm gonna commit. I'm gonna get some dumbbells.
Rocket: You know you can't eat dumbbells, right?
Gamora: [touching Thor's arms] It's like his muscles are made of Chitauri metal fibers.
Peter: Stop massaging his muscles.

Mantis: [about Rocket] The crabby puppy is so cute. He makes me wanna die!

- Someone needs to tell us what happened.
Valkyrie: We shall find them.
- I just don't understand.
Mantis: You know what?
- This is all our fault.
- MAN 2: Stop it!
- Asgard!