The Collector: Defeated once again. My beautiful ISOSphere has become weaker that I imagined... drained by the Grandmaster into his own twisted version. Moon Knight: You deserve it, Collector. Look at you... one would think your defeat has taught you humility. But no, you always cared more about things than people. The Collector: You- The Collector: You... are right. The Collector: I have lost sight of why I created this Contest in the first place. Now my past is coming back to haunt me.
- Transmission #1 - Upon starting the Quest
The Collector: The Contest of Champions is older than you imagine. I cannot tell you how old. Time in this place means very little. The Collector: There were many failures and false starts in my early tenure. The Grandmaster was always much more suited than me to run a cosmic game. But our... ongoing feud prevented us from working together. The Collector: That forced me to find allies among such unpleasant figures as the Maestro. A grave mistake, in hindsight.
- Transmission #2
The Collector: The current incarnation of the Contest was initially comprised of twelve Champions, hand-picked by me. Among them, Robert Reynolds, also known as the Sentry. The Collector: Early dry-runs revealed a flaw in that choice: the Sentry was over-powered. God-like creatures like him were a bug that could bring the whole structure down, if provoked. The Collector: But the Maestro was in a hurry to get results, and pressured me to start real combat. It was a massacre. In the very first battle, the Sentry ravaged the other contestants. The Collector: Only three survived. Their memories of the ordeal were wiped, and they fight in the Contest to this day. The Collector: The Maestro ordered me to dispose of the Sentry, but I saw his value in helping me with some of my own... personal goals. I secretly kept him as my agent.
- Transmission #3
Thor: The hour of your reckoning is at hand, Collector. We remember. Moon Knight: Thor? Is he... is he real? It's becoming difficult to tell... someone is playing tricks with my mind... The Collector: He's not one of your imaginary friends, Mr. Spector. Thor is really here. He was one of the original twelve... and it seems that his memory is back. Moon Knight: WATCH OUT FOR THAT HAMMER!
- Transmission #4 - Before fighting Thor