Category:Bruce Wayne (New Earth)/Quotes
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Apokaliptian demigods. We're a little out of our depth here.
Call it self-preservation, Superman. I don't much fancy the idea of a super-vampire flying around.
What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman!
Dick Grayson. Age twelve. Aerialist. The best I've ever seen.
They're shooting scared. Shooting stupid. Killing their own. Life is good.
Thing is, Hal (Hal Jordan, that's his real name -- the moron can't keep any secrets from ME), old Hal, he can't even make himself a green dandelion with that ring of his if what he's up against is yellow. Dumbest weakness I ever heard of...
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Your life could end here, now, and nobody would ever know. Would anyone even miss you? Tell me, what's your life worth, punk... ?
Crime has learned my name, and it has recoiled.
Slime like you made me. You earned me.
Without warning it comes... crashing through the window of your study... and mine... I have seen it before... somewhere... it frightened me... as a boy... frightened me... yes, Father. I shall become a bat.
Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on -- none of you are safe.
You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I know pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.
I survive, but the Beast escapes... leaving a startling realization in the wake of his departure. I've finally run into someone who's better at this game than I am.
The police, unfortunately, have been trained to give a suspect a chance to surrender before they open fire. That moment's hesitation is all the Russian Killing Machine needs.
We're seeking justice, Alfred. How can that ever be a mistake?
That I've defeated and captured him time and again is a piercing thorn in his side. That I frighten him must be sheer hell.
The rain falls on murderers and madmen, the same as it does on innocent children... and it can't stop a bullet.
If Clark wanted to, he could use his superspeed and squish me into the cement. But I know how he thinks. Even more than the Kryptonite, he's got one big weakness. Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not.
I made a promise on the grave of my parents that I would rid this city of the evil that took their lives. Tonight... I nearly became a part of that evil...
The LexCorp Gulf Stream 5 has the same specifications as WayneTech's Air Glide 3. Lucius tells me that we'll be in court for years over patent infringement. Having knowledge of the inner workings of the aircraft gives me the edge. It's one of the few times I'm grateful for the way LexCorp does business.
Riddles are your compulsion. Your addiction. And a riddle that everyone knows the answer to is worthless.
Whatever you are up to - stop.
Man-Bats. Ninja Man-Bats. Alarming Twist.
You don't seek justice. You seek vengeance. They're not the same. You have no regard for life. So I'm stopping you.
Prepare to bleed.
Police scanner reports a warehouse full of bodies. Seemingly poisoned. All bearing some semblance of a rictus-like grin, even in death. Gordon's bound to be there.
He calls himself "Scarecrow." Psychologist turned psychopath. He preys on the innocent and instill them with fear. When I chose to wear my... costume, it was to prey upon the criminals, and instill them with fear. The irony is not lost on me...
Tell everyone. All the punks, junkies, gunsels, enforcers... all the wise guys, leg-breakers, muscle boys... tell them they're finished. Tell them the streets belong to the Batman.
Alan Scott said Grundy isn't really alive -- therefore he can't really die! I could let him go... but he walks like a man -- talks like a man -- and who am I to judge where life begins or ends?
My present reality is not a pretty sight. It is a thing of agony and delirium.
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Without warning it comes... crashing through the window of your study... and mine... I have seen it before... somewhere ...it frightened me... as a boy... frightened me... yes, Father. I shall become a bat.
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I've been avoiding you. It's... your background. The assassin training and all that. It's just... my childhood's so normal. I mean, Batman and Nightwing had some rough stuff to deal with growing up, but... but you -- you were raised to be that guy down there, and you turned yourself into one of us. That's... pretty intimidating...
I'm done talking. Get out of my cave.
There's law -- and there's justice. What have you gained by all this? Nothing. You've put yourself in your own prison. And I'll always be around to make sure you stay there. That's the promise I made -- and that's the promise I'll keep. For the rest of our lives.
Hard to imagine a sparkling young woman such as yourself slaving away in that dry old tomb.
I wasn't aware an option existed.
Goodbye, old friend.
Everyone looks up to you. They listen to you. If you tell them to fight, they'll fight. But they need to be inspired. And let's face it, "Superman"... the last time you really inspired anyone -- was when you were dead.
I'm opening the Sci-Fi closet, Alfred. Don't tell my friends in the GCPD about this.
That went well.
The JLA are dead... but the JLA can never die. It's too important, both practically and symbolically.
The Justice League is a strike force. The Justice Society is a family.
If the best Cassandra could do to drive a wedge between us is criticize your costume color... that's just proof of how disturbed she is.
I know why you're in Gotham City. I think this project is foolish, unwise, misguided, possibly even malicious. Go home, Mister Jones.
Which one of us is the detective again?
No, Clark, you're missing the point of the question. Why do I keep that giant penny? Or old costumes, models of the Batmobile? Orphans are collectors, Clark. Losing so much... makes it that much harder to give things up.
Croc was crazed, insane, lashing out... I'm not sure he knew where he was. Or who he was fighting. He's all rage - desperate, desperate rage. Not that it was helping me any.
There's no reward in being right all the time.
There's a master cat burglar on the loose and you're chatting with your friends?
I am a practical man. I do not believe in gods, or devils, or souls. But if perchance there is a Devil... tonight he had his fingers burned.
Tell everyone. All the punks, junkies, gunsels, enforcers... all the wise guys, leg-breakers, muscle boys... tell them they're finished. Tell them the streets belong to the Batman.
- --Batman
Slime like you made me. You earned me.
- --Batman
You have a choice. You can crawl -- on your bellies -- and plead for her forgiveness. That's the first choice. The second is -- I hurt you. Choose one. Choose the second.
- --Batman
Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on -- none of you are safe.
- --Batman
You can never escape me. Bullets don't harm me. Nothing harms me. But I know pain. I know pain. Sometimes I share it. With someone like you.
- --Batman
I am the night!
- --Batman
What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman!
- --Batman
- --From All-Star Batman and Robin #2'
Your life could end here, now, and nobody would ever know. Would anyone even miss you? Tell me, what's your life worth, punk... ?
- --Batman
Saying yes to anyone in authority, anyone with a badge, just like your parents taught you. My parents taught me something else, lying cold on the pavement. They taught me that the world only makes sense when you force it to.
- --Batman
- --From The Dark Knight Returns (1986)'
I made a promise on the grave of my parents that I would rid this city of the evil that took their lives. Tonight... I nearly became a part of that evil...
- --Batman
If detective work were easy -- everyone would be doing it.
- --Batman
You ask for pity? You demand mercy? I have only Justice.
- --Batman
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