Category:Bruce Wayne (New Earth)/Quotes

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Apokaliptian demigods. We're a little out of our depth here.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Call it self-preservation, Superman. I don't much fancy the idea of a super-vampire flying around.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

What, are you dense? Are you retarded or something? Who the hell you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman!

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Dick Grayson. Age twelve. Aerialist. The best I've ever seen.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

They're shooting scared. Shooting stupid. Killing their own. Life is good.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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...

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Your life could end here, now, and nobody would ever know. Would anyone even miss you? Tell me, what's your life worth, punk... ?

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Crime has learned my name, and it has recoiled.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Slime like you made me. You earned me.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

We're seeking justice, Alfred. How can that ever be a mistake?

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

The rain falls on murderers and madmen, the same as it does on innocent children... and it can't stop a bullet.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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...

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Riddles are your compulsion. Your addiction. And a riddle that everyone knows the answer to is worthless.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Whatever you are up to - stop.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Man-Bats. Ninja Man-Bats. Alarming Twist.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

You don't seek justice. You seek vengeance. They're not the same. You have no regard for life. So I'm stopping you.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Prepare to bleed.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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...

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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?

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

My present reality is not a pretty sight. It is a thing of agony and delirium.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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...

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Hard to imagine a sparkling young woman such as yourself slaving away in that dry old tomb.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

I wasn't aware an option existed.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Goodbye, old friend.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

I'm opening the Sci-Fi closet, Alfred. Don't tell my friends in the GCPD about this.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

That went well.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

The JLA are dead... but the JLA can never die. It's too important, both practically and symbolically.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

The Justice League is a strike force. The Justice Society is a family.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

I know why you're in Gotham City. I think this project is foolish, unwise, misguided, possibly even malicious. Go home, Mister Jones.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

Which one of us is the detective again?

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

There's no reward in being right all the time.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

There's a master cat burglar on the loose and you're chatting with your friends?

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)

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.

--Bruce Wayne (New Earth)