Just so everyone knows.
Ming the Merciless was a bad-ass cosmic emperor in the comic strip (later made into movie in the 80s) called Flash Gordon.
Some of his famous quotes:
The Emperor Ming: I'd much rather see you on my side, than scattered into... atoms.
The Emperor Ming: It's what they call tears, it's a sign of their weakness.
The Emperor Ming: Why not? Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror
The Emperor Ming: Later. I like to play with thing a while... before annihilation.
The Emperor Ming: You pitiful fool! My life is not for any Earthling to give or take!
The Emperor Ming: Show us this loyalty, throw yourself onto your sword.