ET- Sinistro's Past

  “Look yet more closely, visitor. You’ll find all you know and love in my eyes, for you will always find yourself.” And he laughed cynically, a dark laugh, dark as his body, whose inner sheen was silvery, the vessels of his life-flow bearing streams of the precious ore. E.T.’s frontal lobes filled with archaic patterns, of a cold metallic reign, where once this creature had been a prince. That reign was over now, and its prince in exile beneath the world.

  “I am Sinistro,” said the mirror-eyed old sovereign. “What business have you here?”

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 9