Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013 Video)

Peter Weller: Batman, Bruce Wayne

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Quotes 

• Batman : I didn't have to go easy on you. A different binding agent, a stronger mix... I want you to remember that. I wanted to remind you to stay out of my way. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember the one man who beat you!

• Batman : Tonight I am going to maintain order in Gotham City. You are going to help me. But not with these. These are loud and clumsy. These are the weapons of cowards.

  [snaps rifle in half] 

  Batman : Our weapons are precise and quiet. In time I will teach them to you. But for tonight, you will rely on your brains and your fists. Tonight, we are the law. Tonight, I am the law.

• Batman : No more! All the people I've murdered...

  [uppercuts Joker] 

  Batman : ... by letting you live.

  Joker : [Spits blood]  I never kept count.

  Batman : I did!

  Joker : I know. And I love you for it.

  [Slashes Batman's chest] 

  Joker : It's finally here, isn't it? The moment we've both dreamed about!

  [as Joker's about to stab Batman through the eye, his vision blurs] 

  Joker : Oh, don't tell me you're gonna fall asleep before we finish? You have gotten old, haven't you?

  [Batman punches Joker off him and throws him against a wall, choking him] 

  Joker : Not quite how I imagined it, but we can still end on a high note!

  [Joker stabs Batman in the torso three times while laughing maniacally. Batman twists his neck enough to paralize him but not kill as two witnesses run away] 

  Joker : You're in trouble now... Go ahead. Say this has never happened to you before.

  Batman : Shut up...

  Joker : Make me! Come on! Finish me!... Ah, doesn't matter. I win. I made you lose control. Heh-heh-ha, and they'll kill you for it. Eh-heh-heh! See you... in hell! Ah-ha-ha-ha!

  [Joker twists his own neck to kill himself] 

• Batman : You say you answer to some sort of authority. They only want me dead because I'm an embarrassment. Because I do what they can't. What kind of authority is that?

  Superman : It doesn't matter. It's their world, and they won't stand for you anymore. If it isn't me, it'll just be someone else.

  Batman : Really? Who do they send after you?

• Batman : He'll still be weak, between the nuke and so little sunlight. Just how weak we'll see when he finds my first surprise.

  Robin : Yeah, but how long you expect to last against him?

  Batman : Long enough.

  Robin : Boss. I'm trying to get the plan here. I mean, you gonna die tonight or what?

  Batman : Figure I will.

• Bruce Wayne : What is it you want, Oliver?

  Oliver Queen : A piece of him. The schoolboy. I always knew it would come down to the two of you someday. The world's not big enough for the both of you. Doesn't have to be a big piece. Just count me in, for old times' sake.

• Superman : What are you doing? Do you want me to kill you?

  Batman : Oh, you're not going to kill me. Now.

  [Oliver Queen fires a kryptonite arrow at Superman, he grabs it as it explodes in his face] 

  Batman : It wasn't easy to make, Clark. It took years and cost a fortune. Luckily, I had both.

• Joker : [after Batman throws a Batarang in the Joker's eye, partially blinding him]  Are you out of your mind?

  Batman : I'm through playing, Joker!

  Joker : Be still, my heart.

• Alfred Pennyworth : You're not even close to fully recovered.

  Bruce Wayne : Neither is he.

  Alfred Pennyworth : He doesn't need a walking hospital bed to keep his insides together.

  Bruce Wayne : I know you're not looking forward to your part in this.

  Alfred Pennyworth : I can't say it will be pleasant. But it does fall within my duties.

• Carrie Kelley : How do you fight someone like that?

  Bruce Wayne : Simpler than I've made it. There's nothing wrong with Joker that I can't fix. With my hands.

• Batman : Ever ride a horse before?

  Robin : Don't think I've ever seen a horse before.

  Batman : You're about to learn fast.

• Bruce Wayne : You cost me hours of work last night.

  Superman : Then I'll get right to it. You have to go back into retirement. You're upsetting too many people.

  Bruce Wayne : Mm-hmm.

  Superman : Why do you have to be like this? You played right into your hands last time when the parents groups came after us, the subcommittees, you're the one they pointed to. You act like a criminal.

  Bruce Wayne : [Chuckles]  We are criminals, Clark. We always have been. You're still one, too. Only difference is, you have a boss.

  Superman : And you answer to no one. You know we almost had this talk ten years ago, when you wouldn't go along with the deal we made. Everyone else agreed. Diana went back to her people, Hal left the planet...

  Bruce Wayne : And Oliver, did he agree?

  Superman : That's not how I wanted that to go.

  Bruce Wayne : He was all torn up about it, too.

  Superman : He made it necessary, like -...

  Bruce Wayne : Like I'm about to?

  Superman : Do you even remember why you retired?

  Bruce Wayne : I remember.

  Superman : Look, either shut it down, or one of these days someone with authority is going to tell me to come stop you. And when that happens...

  Bruce Wayne : When that happens, may the best man win.

  Superman : I have to go. We'll finish this later.

  Bruce Wayne : No hurry.