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“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
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“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
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“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: Year One
― Batman: Year One
“DWIGHT:
Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
“I'm the goddamn Batman.”
― All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
― All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ... ”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
“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: Year One
― Batman: Year One
“A gun is a liar's weapon”
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“You're beginning to get the idea, Clark. We could have changed the world…now…look at us…I've become a political liability…and…you…you're a joke. I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want…you to remember…the one man who beat you.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“Worth dying for. Worth killing for. Worth going to hell for. Amen.”
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
“Of course we're Criminals”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
“We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“You sold us out, Clark. You gave them the power that should have been ours. Just like your parents taught you. My parents taught me a different lesson... lying on this street... shaking in deep shock... dying for no reason at all. They showed me that the world only makes sense when you force it to.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
“Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.”
― Batman: Year One
― Batman: Year One
“I’ll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I’ll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I’ve done to him.”
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
“The American conscience died with the Kennedys.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“Hello, I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind.
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman. ”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman. ”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
“We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
“He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge ... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim ... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.”
― Batman: Year One
― Batman: Year One
“When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.”
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
“Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.”
― Batman: Year One
― Batman: Year One
“I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.”
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“You've got rights. Lots of rights. Sometimes I count them just to make myself feel crazy.”
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
― Batman: The Dark Knight Returns