s Law:
"No prince of Mongo
shall be offered for ransom -
- without trial by combat."
Is there such an article?
What a damned nuisance.
- And... who do you choose to fight?
- Him.
This is a lunatic asylum.
- Where are we being taken now?
- Ssh, I'm calculating.
Time remaining before the moon crashes
on Earth. I'd say, roughly...
Fourteen hours, nine minutes
and twenty seconds.
And we haven't even found...
Flash!
Last time I saw you
I prayed it was a dream.
This time I pray it's not.
Are you okay? Me too.
- I've got some crazy stories to tell.
- Save them for our kids.
- Enough!
- Leave us alone! I just got engaged.
Let the combat begin! To the death.
Give me the remote control.
Come on!
He's tilting it.
Watch out!
- Present from Vultan.
- Brute! Give me that.
- Bastard!
- Flash!
Come on, finish him.
Flash! I love you.
But we only have 14 hours
to save the Earth.
How's that feel, Arborian?
If you kill me, promise to team up
with Vultan and fight Ming.
Goodbye, Barin.
- Take my hand.
- You've won, let him go.
That's it, Prince.
- What is this?
- Humanity.
Where you go, I follow.
Listen to me!
There is something finer
in this galaxy than Ming's law.
Rubbish!
Hawkmen, to your posts!
Agent Zarkov,
you will be liquidated for treachery.
Vultan!
Surrender the fugitives at once. -
- Or the Imperial Fleet will blast
your kingdom to atoms.
- Step forward, Barin.
- "Prince" Barin.
Princess Aura has implicated you
on a charge of high treason.
- A prison ship will take you away.
- You tortured Aura.
Interesting girl. I think
she found it rather enjoyable.
Klytus.
The first step forward.
Into the air, Hawkpeople.
Fly for your lives!
You damned hothead, you brought down
destruction on my kingdom.
He showed us the way.
Fight with us.
- Against the Imperial Fleet?
- They won't expect resistance.
- We'll take them by surprise.
- We can do it.
You're all mad! My duty is
to protect my people. Evacuate!
- Then take us with you.
- Impossible, we can't carry more.
- You're leaving us to die?
- You know Ming's law.
Outside his own kingdom,
the hunter becomes the hunted.
- Traitor!
- Save your breath. Fly!
Help me pull these down.
We'll make parachutes
and jump to Arboria.
We'll kill ourselves.
A body reaches maximum velocity
within a few hundred feet.
- We'll need some rope.
- My God, what is that?
It's Ming.
We must stop him.
- Blast them?
- Not yet. Send down a shuttle.
- Bring back Barin, Zarkov and Dale.
- And Gordon?
Leave him there.
Prepare my Imperial Lander.
Why aren't I going with them?
- I've got other plans for you.
- I can imagine.
- You want to destroy me.
- It's the only way to save Earth.
- What if I granted you a kingdom?
- If you what?
Ming the Merciless,
ruler of the universe. -
- Offers Flash Gordon a kingdom
of Mongo, to rule over as his own.
You're crazy. Why would you do that?
Because I've never met your like.
You're a hero, don't you see that?
Who better to rule a kingdom?
Your moon is very close now.
- Earth's end might come within hours.
- You'd call off the attack?
- I could.
- Everyone would be saved?
Yes, and no.
After the earthquakes and tidal waves,
they won't be the same human beings.
They'll be more tractable. Easier
for you to rule, in the name of Ming.
- You mean slaves?
- Let's say 'satisfied with less'.
- What about Dale?
- We have decided to marry her.
She's exceptional.
We'll breed with her -
- And send our progeny back
to populate your Earth.
Do you really prefer death
to a kingdom? I'm disappointed.
I'd rather see you on my side
than scattered into...
Atoms.
But as you wish.
We'll return to the Imperial Rocket.
Leave the Earthling here to his doom.
- Beam another blast.
- You murderer.
Flash. I loved you.
- They were brave creatures.
- Shut up!
With respect, the man who rid us
of Klytus should not be deserted.
So... maybe I'd do it different
if I had it over