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I made Batman a superhero-vigilantewhen I first created him. Bill turned him into ascientificdetective.~Bob Kane
I amvengeance!I am thenight!I amBatman!~Batman: The Animated Series
It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. ~Batman Begins
Batman's rich history allows him to be interpreted in a multitude of ways. To be sure,thisis a lighter incarnation, but is certainly no less valid and true to the character's roots then the tortured avenger, crying out for mommy and daddy. ~Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Next time they shine yourlightin thesky,don't go to it. The Bat isdead.Bury it. Consider thismercy.~Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Batmanis a superhero appearing inAmericancomic bookspublished byDC Comics,created by artistBob Kaneand writerBill Finger,and debuting in the 27th issue ofDetective Comicson March 30, 1939. Batman is thealiasof Bruce Wayne, awealthyAmericanplayboy,philanthropist,andindustrialistresiding inGotham City;crafting his crime fighting personathrough a life time of intense and diverse training afterswearingvengeanceagainstcriminalsuponwitnessingthemurderof hisparentsThomasandMarthaas achild.

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Bruce’smotivationsdon’t come from agoodplace. He’sangryand, in thatrevengeis really his goal, he’s adishonestcharacter. That’s why he has to wear amask.~Brian Azzarello
I've always preferred Batman toSupermanbecause Batman's stunts are at least theoreticallypossible.When he swings from the Playboy Building to the John Hancock Center, he uses a rope. Meanwhile, Superman is holding up toppling skyscrapers and stopping bullets with his teeth. ~Roger Ebert
By throwing Gotham into chaos and testing the limits to which Batman holds himself, The Joker is not merely plying death and destruction but willfully destroying the philosophical foundations of organized society. ~ Todd Gilchrist
I wanted to see and to show that transition when he goes from Bruce Wayne to Batman, the time when he's about to don the suit and go out and wreak some havoc. That's not a casual thing, obviously, it's not putting on a jacket to go out for the evening. ~Michael Keaton
He’s arichman who beats up poor people. It’s quite a bizarre mission to go out at night dressed as a bat and punch the hell out of junkies. And then he goes home and lives in thismansion.There’s an aspirational quality to him—he’s anoutlawand he can buy anything. ~Grant Morrison
It's awrongmove to take a superhero and give itpsychologicalrealism.There is no psychological realism. He's abodybuilderwhojumpsoffbuildings.I'msorryI feel reallystronglyabout this. ~Christopher Priest
All superheroes are black sheep. But the Dark Knight has always been murkier than most. His superpowers are not an accident of birth, or of stumbling into the wrong lab at the wrong time. They're not powers at all, simply a simulation made possible by good fortune and the leisure that accompanies it. Bruce Wayne can splurge on the kit and cars to set himself up as a crime-fighting Christ substitute, plus power and glitter enough to hide his hobby. He's always been a curious idol: within aspiration because he's flesh and blood; beyond it because he's the lucky recipient of inherited wealth. ~ Catherine Shoard
So we need a Batman and something that has been bouncing around in the back of my head, for decades probably, is a quote fromBob Kane.I remember reading where he said Batman is halfDraculaand halfZorro,and that’s part of the appeal of Batman. That he’s dark and spooky-looking, and he’s got that badass costume and the bat imagery. ~Bruce Timm
Playing Batman is anactor'schallenge.First it's different; then, you have to reach a multi-level audience. Thekidstake it straight, but foradults,we have to project it further... When Batman was acomicit wasn'tcamp,but the show is.
When I got the part, I tried torememberBatman as I knew him when I was akid- withemotionalrecall. ~Adam West
We're trying to create afolk hero... when you play alegend,you have to play it with a straight direct line, directspeechandmovement...Now Bruce, on the other hand, has to come across as thekindest,noblest,mostcharitableguy - again, "straight-line" - notCary Grantcharming- know what I mean? "~Adam West
  • Forthis film,I had something to say about Bruce Wayne as a character, what his motivations are. That there’s somethingdarkandwrongabout what drives him. Batman is a super hero and he does good. But I think the Bruce Wayne part of the character’smotivationis slightly twisted. Bruce’s motivations don’t come from agoodplace. He’sangryand, in thatrevengeis really his goal, he’s adishonestcharacter. That’s why he has to wear amask.He’s doing good, but he’s not doing all the right things for all the right reasons.
  • Batman is his hidden,demonicrage-filled side. ThecreatureBatman creates is an absolutely sincere creature and one that he has tocontrolbut does so in a very haphazard way. He's capable of enactingviolence– and tokill– so he's constantly having to rein himself in.
  • With all of this stunningtechnology,questionsremain. Do Batman's gadgets and vehicles have any connection to the real world? Do grapnel guns, body armor, and rocket-booster cars really exist? You bet-and the real-world connections stretch further than you've everimagined.Fromwingsuitstostealth fighters jetstopoliceduty belts, real-life connections abound. Batman may fight evil in afictionalworld, but much of his gear is rooted inreality.
    • Agnieszka Biskup, Tammy Enz, “Batman Science: The Real-world Science Behind Batman's Gear”, (2014), p. 5.
  • He remembered a story from his time as Batman. One day he was filming and about to take off the Batsuit when Warren Buffett and his grandkids came by. They wanted to see Batman, so Kilmer stuck around in the suit, but they didn’t want to talk to him. They wanted to try on themaskand ride in the Batmobile. He understood then that Batman isn’t meant to be arealguy. Batman is meant to be so anonymous that the person who is looking at him can see himself in him. “That’s why it’s so easy to have five or six Batmans,” he says now. “It’s not about Batman. There is no Batman.” And so what kind of thing is that to play, a person whose job is to be as nonspecific as possible. He looked good in the Batsuit, but wearing it wastorture.When he took it off, he was finally free.
  • Is Batmangay?Well, no: Batman, after 73 years of publication, with appearances on TV, in video games, movies and comics, can never be tied down to any one identity. Batman has been a ridiculous boy-scout, a fearsome vigilante, a protective father, a loner, a clown. Batman is a myth and a mosaic, an icon who catches the light at different angles at different times, and takes multiple forms. But gayness – from high camp to intense homoeroticism – is an important aspect of that icon.
    This reading is nothing new. Media scholar Andy Medhurst outlined it in an important 1991 article,Batman, Deviance and Camp.In the 60s, George Melly remarked of the Adam West TV show: "We all knew Robin and Batman were pouves." And in the 50s, young boys supposedly confessed to psychiatrist Fredric Wertham that they fantasied about sharing a bedroom with Batman.
    Whenever that interpretation raises its head, it meets resistance. In the 50s, the accusations that Bruce and Dick "Robin" Grayson represented "a wish-dream of two homosexuals living together" went to a Senate subcommittee hearing, and the comic-book editors responded by bringing in Batgirl and Batwoman, double-dates for the dynamic duo. In the late 60s, DC Comics commissioned a new team to rebrand Batman with hard-boiled, street-level stories intended to wipe out the memory of Adam West's TV show.
  • I think the reason he’s so iconic, is because of all the superheroes he’s the only one who has no superpowers at all. He’s just an ordinary person, but what he has is a super amount of passion. And a super sense ofright and wrong,morality, and so he’s just an average guy – with a billion dollars – how transforms himself into thischampionof pure good, there’s nothing in it for him, he gets nothing out of this except the knowledge that he’shealingtheworld.And its all because of what happened to him as achild,avenging what happened to, themurderof hisparents,and his being left as anorphan.And he spends his life, instead of allowing life. You know life, I often say life throws nothing but curve balls, no matter what you do to prepare for life, its going to throw a curve ball, you’re going to constantly be switching from this to that and if you let it, it can make youbitter,it can make youangry,it can make youhostile.Bruce Wayne doesn’t allow that to happen. Life throws him this huge curve ball as a child, and he takes it and he turns it into something good, and that’s whyaudienceslove him so much. People relate to him because every-one has haddark nights of the soul,we all do, people with the mostcharmedlives have haddarkperiods. So everyone relates to the darkness that Bruce Wayne goes through, and what they admire about him is his ability to overcome it, and to turn it into something good. And I think that makes him the most incredible character for me, to play, and for audiences to enjoy.
  • O'Neil'sinterpretation of Batman as avengefulobsessive-compulsive,which he modestly describes as a return to the roots, was actually an act of creative imagination that has influenced every subsequent version of the Dark Knight.
    • Les Daniels(1995). "Revamping the Classics The Old Guard Gets a New Look". DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. New York, New York: Bulfinch Press. p. 157.
  • Bat-Mite:"Batman's richhistoryallows him to be interpreted in a multitude of ways. To be sure, this is a lighter incarnation, but is certainly no less valid and true to the character's roots then the tortured avenger, crying out for mommy and daddy. "And besides, those Easter bunnies looked really scary, right?
  • I've always preferred Batman toSupermanbecause Batman's stunts are at least theoreticallypossible.When he swings from the Playboy Building to the John Hancock Center, he uses a rope. Meanwhile, Superman is holding up toppling skyscrapers and stopping bullets with his teeth.
  • Bob Kane...had an idea for a character called 'Batman', and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of... reddish tights, I believe, with boots... no gloves, no gauntlets... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign... BATMAN.
  • Bruce Wayne's first name came fromRobert Bruce,theScottishpatriot.Wayne, being aplayboy,was a man ofgentry.I searched for a name that would suggestcolonialism.I tried Adams, Hancock... then I thought of Mad Anthony Wayne.
    • Bill Finger as quoted by Kane, Bob; Tom Andrae (1989). Batman & Me. Forestville, California: Eclipse Books. p. 44.ISBN 1-56060-017-9.
  • Robinwas an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination ofDouglas Fairbanksand Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman didn't have anyone to talk to, and it got a little tiresome always having him thinking. I found that as I went along Batman needed a Watson to talk to. That's how Robin came to be. Bob called me over and said he was going to put a boy in the strip to identify with Batman. I thought it was a great idea.
    • Bill Finger; Steranko, Jim (1970). The Steranko History of Comics. Reading, Pennsylvania: Supergraphics. p. 44.ISBN 0-517-50188-0.
  • More important than this, however, is the idea that Batman is not just a guy in a suit, but asymboland there are people in the film most notablyThe Jokerwho want to destroy that symbol. While Batman's identity remains secret and his motives unknown to Gothamites, he representshopein acitythat has little to spare and embodies a pursuit of justice and further, a code of behavior that quite literally threatens these criminals' way of life. By throwing Gotham into chaos and testing the limits to which Batman holds himself, The Joker is not merely plying death and destruction but willfully destroying the philosophical foundations of organized society. The closest such examination another comic book-oriented film has ever attempted was the emotional throughline of the Spider-Man films. Peter Parker's struggle was almost exclusively personal, whereas Wayne not only has to find a way to maintain his moral compass, but consider what the repercussions of his heroism are to both the public and the criminals themselves.
  • I think Batman is a pretty universal character. I remember him as a child. But I think Christian [Bale] did the best I’ve seen so far, because of that tortured background of loss. The original Batman, they’re not much remembered as a Batman character – they were not used for training [chuckles]. You had to really – there was a darkness and adamagednessabout his character that I think they got right with Christian Bale. Especially in the last two. But that doesn’t have anything to do withBen Affleck.I think he’s willing to takerisks.He seems to be.
  • I wanted to see and to show that transition when he goes from Bruce Wayne to Batman, the time when he's about to don the suit and go out and wreak some havoc. That's not a casual thing, obviously, it's not putting on a jacket to go out for the evening. So what is that transition like? So there was a thing we did early on that showed him going into a sort of trance and it justified this shift in him.
    • Michael Keatonin [herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/05/12/michael-keatons-dark-memories-of-batman-and-shining-love-for-beetlejuice/ "Michael Keaton's Dark Memories of Batman and Shining Love for Beetlejuice" ], by Geoff Boucher,LA Times,(2011/05/12).
  • This chapter offers agayreading of Batman. It presents three reasons why Batman is especially interesting to gayaudiences.Firstly, he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of presumed homosexuality, byFredric Werthamin his bookSeduction of the Innocent.Secondly, theTV seriesfrom the 1960s was and remains a touchstone ofcamp.Thirdly, as a recurringherofigure for the last fifty years, Batman meritsanalysisas a notablysuccessfulconstruction ofmasculinity.
    • Andy Medhurst,The Superhero Reader,Charles Hatfield (ed.), “Batman, Deviance and Camp”, (June 2013)
  • Q:One of the things that led you to createDark Knight Returnswas a series of muggings. What happened?
Frank Miller:There's something demeaning about the first time you're knocked to the ground and punched in the stomach and have agunwaved in yourfaceand realize that you're completely at somebody'smercy.And they can take yourlife.And at that point, you'll do anything. There's something sohumiliatingabout that. And to me that made me realize that Batman was the most potent symbol DC had in its hands. Sure,Supermancanfly,but Batman turns me back into that guy who is scared and at the same time the guy who can come and save him. It's a perfect myth.
  • He’s arichman who beats up poor people. It’s quite a bizarre mission to go out at night dressed as a bat and punch the hell out of junkies. And then he goes home and lives in thismansion.There’s an aspirational quality to him—he’s anoutlawand he can buy anything. He has a new Batmobile everymovie.He’s veryplutonianin the sense that he’s wealthy and also in the sense that he’s sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that’s why people like it. All thesewomenfancy him and they all wearfetish clothesand jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn’t care—he’s more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid.
  • Creatively, it was ninety-eight percent Bill and one percent Bob, and the rest is in the ether. We don’t know. It was so much more Bill from the get-go, creatively. Bob Kane had financial advice that served him well. But as far as the major elements of Batman, the example I like to give – it’s probably even in the film, because I say it so much – if you just stop a random grandmother on the street and say, ‘Name something you know about Batman,’ first of all, she’ll know something. Everybody knows something. And whatever that person says will be a Bill Finger contribution. He was that pervasive in the creation of Batman.
  • AsKanetells it, the pre-teen Bruce is out at night (circa 1924) with his parents when an armed mugger kills both of them. The orphaned lad, his hands clasped in prayer, his bedroom illuminated by a single candle, swears 'to avenge their deaths by spending the rest of my life warring on all criminals'. He 'becomes a master scientist' and 'trains his body to physical perfection' and, because 'criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot', chooses to become 'a creature of the night, black, terrible... a bat... the Batman'. From these two garishly printed pages,NolanandGoyerhave fashioned a whole movie.
  • All superheroes are black sheep. But the Dark Knight has always been murkier than most. His superpowers are not an accident of birth, or of stumbling into the wrong lab at the wrong time. They're not powers at all, simply a simulation made possible by good fortune and the leisure that accompanies it. Bruce Wayne can splurge on the kit and cars to set himself up as a crime-fighting Christ substitute, plus power and glitter enough to hide his hobby. He's always been a curious idol: within aspiration because he's flesh and blood; beyond it because he's the lucky recipient of inherited wealth.
    So it should be no surprise thatThe Dark Knight Risesso firmly upholds thefinancialstatus quo.Christopher Nolan's film indulges in much guttural talk of the gap between the 99% and the 1%, but it is the former who are demonised, whose revolting actions require curbing and mutinous squeals muting. Your average Joe, it turns out, requires a benevolent, bad-ass billionaire to set him straight, to knock him sideways, if necessary.
  • So we need a Batman and something that has been bouncing around in the back of my head, for decades probably, is a quote from Bob Kane. I remember reading where he said Batman is halfDraculaand halfZorro,and that’s part of the appeal of Batman. That he’s dark and spooky-looking, and he’s got that badass costume and the bat imagery. So I always wanted to go all the way with it and actually make him avampire.One episode ofBatman: The Animated Series,back in the day twenty years ago, we actually wanted to turn Batman temporarily into a vampire but Fox Kids wasn't having any of that.
  • Humanpsychologyhas two basic reactions toimagesofdarknessandhorror:the first is to behorrified,as if we saw amonster;the second is to becuriouswhat it would be like to horrify, as if we were the monster. For those of us who are not particular fans of stories told from the point of view ofvampires,that curiosity can be made palatable if the horrific monster preys only on theguilty.Bats are creepy—but there are creeps in the world who deserve to bescared.For them, there is the Batman.
    • John C. Wright,"Heroes of Darkness and Light" in:Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City(2008) (excerpt).

“A Dark and Stormy Knight: Why Batman?” (Aug 12, 2012)

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Travis Langley,“A Dark and Stormy Knight: Why Batman?”,Psychology Today,(Aug 12, 2012)

Losing one'sparentor parents when old enough to know about it ranks as the single moststressfulcommon life eventchildrencan experience (e.g., Monaghan, Robinson, & Dodge, 1979).
In Batman, they see thewoundedboywho makes himselfbigandstrongenough to turnfearagainst the fearsome. With bothbrainandbrawn,he’s the part of us that wants toscarelife’sbulliesaway.
  • Looking at Superman psychologically means looking at modern mythology. He's the modern demigod myth. While there's something mythic about Batman too, to be sure, he's more akin to the mortal legends likeRobin Hoodandpulpheroes likeZorroandthe Shadow,extraordinary men but men nonetheless.
  • Where Superman drew his might from the Earth's sun, Batman found his in a city's darkness. Jerry and Joe played with the bright and impossible. Bob Kane and Bill Finger, in creating Batman, expanded the meme by adding the coin's other side, the dark and improbably possible.
  • TheShadow archetyperepresents your own dark side, not necessarily yourevilside but the part of you that is hidden, out of the light, the sum of those characteristics you conceal from both the world and yourself. Bruce Wayne confronts his own darkest nature early in life, chooses to work with it, and uses it to instill fear in others. His bright and dark sides work together to fight evil. From aJungian perspective,therefore, Batman appeals to our own need to face and manage our own Shadow selves. We want Batman in our shadows.
  • Because Batman is fullyhumanand because a horribletraumaleads him to wear amaskand wage hiswaroncrime,we can contemplate real psychological issues that drive people to do extreme things. Psychologists can examine how well he does or does not fit the symptoms of a variety of disorders. Nobody thinks it's weird forSupermanto apply his natural gifts to help the members of this human race in a manner that keeps him above it all. When a guy runs around dressed like a bat, we have to wonder: Why the mask, the bat, and the underage partner? Why does he really wear a costume to fight crime? Why are his most intimate relationships with "bad girls" he ought to lock up? And why won't he kill that homicidal clown?
  • "Bill and I discussed it," Kane recalled (Daniels, 1999, p. 31), "and we figured there's nothing more traumatic than having yourparentsmurderedbefore youreyes."Losing one'sparentor parents when old enough to know about it ranks as the single moststressfulcommon life eventchildrencan experience (e.g., Monaghan, Robinson, & Dodge, 1979). Uncommontraumasliketortureorterroristattacks are not universal experiences, not things most of us can anticipate, but sooner or later we all learn that our parents can and willdie.
  • Why don’tchildrenfearthisherowho dresses like amonster?Because he’s their monster. He’s ours. Even when children learn thatmagicwill not save them nor will a hero in blue fly out of the sky, so they develop morerealistichopes,they can still hope that when they can't find the strength to stand up to life's bullies, someone who is strong and capable might do therightthing andhelp.In Batman, they see thewoundedboywho makes himselfbigandstrongenough to turnfearagainst the fearsome. With bothbrainandbrawn,he’s the part of us that wants toscarelife’sbulliesaway.

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Like afoolI allowed you to run wild on yourprivatecrusade.Apsychoticmisfitplaying maskedhero.
I haven't been akidsince I was eight years old.
And with thatpower,we've made aworldwhere no eight-year-oldboywill ever lose hisparents...because of somepunkwith agun!
You are like themaskedvigilantesin theWesterns,no?
People say Batman'sobsessive,that he'd do anything to achieve his goals - but he'd never resort tomurder.So if I was tohonorall he stood for, neither could I.
Batman:And nochoice!Whoelectedyou, anyway?
Lord Batman:Who elected you? Theproblemwithdemocracyis, it doesn't keep you verysafe.
Batman:It has othervirtues.But you seem to haveforgottenthat.
Lord Batman:I didn't forget! I just chosepeaceandsecurityinstead.
Batman:You grabbedpower!
Lord Batman:And with that power, we've made a world where no eight-year-oldboywill ever lose hisparents...because of some punk with agun!
Batman:...youwin.
  • Bruce Wayne:Commissioner. What can I do for you?
Jim Gordon:Drop theact.Ten minutes onBarbara'scomputertold me everything. Like a fool I allowed you to run wild on your privatecrusade.Apsychoticmisfitplaying masked hero. Now I've paid for it with Barbara'slife.
Bruce Wayne:Jim,believeme, I know how youfeel.
Jim Gordon:You can't.
Bruce Wayne:You know how I lost myparents.The only way I could hold onto my ownsanitywas to take matters into my own hands.
The Flash:Actually, you kind of do. Especially when you're allscowlylike that.
  • Wonder Woman:Circumstances asides, it was kind of... enjoyable being akidagain.
Batman:I haven't been a kid since I was eight years old.
  • Bruce:Look, sometimes I don't know what to think about this. It's just something I have to do.
Vicki:Why?
Bruce:Because nobody else can. Look, I tried to avoid all this, but I can't. This is how it is. It's not a perfect world.
Vicki:It doesn't have to be a perfect world. I just gotta know, are we going to try to love each other?
Bruce:I'd like to. Buthe's out there right now. And I've got to go to work.
  • Carmine Falcone:You're taller than you look in the tabloids, Mr. Wayne. No gun? I'm insulted. You could've just sent a thank-you note.
Bruce Wayne:I didn't come here to thank you. I came here to show you that not everyone in Gotham's afraid of you.
Carmine Falcone:Only those who know me, kid. Take a look around you. You'll see two city councilmen, a union official, a couple of off-duty cops, and a judge. Now I wouldn't have a second's hesitation in blowing your head off right here in front of them. That's power you can't buy! That's the power offear.
Bruce Wayne:I'm not afraid of you.
Carmine Falcone:Because you think you got nothing to lose. But you haven't thought it through yet. You haven't thought about your lady friend, down at the DA's office. You haven't thought about your old butler. Bang! People from your world haveso muchto lose. Now, you think because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life, but you don't. You've never tasted desperate. You're, uh, you're Bruce Wayne, the prince of Gotham. You'd have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who didn't know your name! So don't, don't come down here with your anger, trying to prove something to yourself. This is a world that you'll never understand. And you always fear what you don't understand.
Commissioner Gordon:Great Scott! Batman take off his mask?
Chief O'Hara:The woman must bemad!
Batman:Please... Chief O'Hara... all of you. This young lady is astrangerto ourshores.Herrequestis notunnatural,however,impossibleto grant.
Miss Kitka:Impossible?
Batman:Indeed. IfRobinand I were to remove our masks, thesecretof our trueidentitieswould be revealed.
Commissioner Gordon:Completely destroying their value as ace crimefighters.
Chief O'Hara:Sure, ma'am. Not even Commisioner Gordon and meself know who they really are.
Robin:In fact, our own relatives we live with don't know.
Miss Kitka:But your so curious costumes...
Robin:Don't be put off by them, ma'am. Underneath this garb, we're perfectlyordinaryAmericans.
Miss Kitka:You are like the maskedvigilantesin theWesterns,no?
Commissioner Gordon:Certainly not! Batman and Robin are fullydeputized agents of the law.
Robin:Support yourpolice!That's ourmessage!
Batman:Well said, Robin... and no better way to end thispress conference...thank you,andgoodday.
  • Amanda Waller:Stop me if you've heard it before - you're eight years old. Yourparentshave just taken you to a rousingadventurefilm- a grand time is had by all. But unknown to you, a mysterious figure hides in theshadows.My plan was simple - the killer would leap out at you and kill yourfamily.Thetraumawould put you on the path to becoming Batman. Oneproblem- myassassinwouldn't pull the trigger. I argued with her, but deep down, I knew she was right. People say Batman'sobsessive,that he'd do anything to achieve his goals - but he'd never resort tomurder.So if I was tohonorall he stood for, neither could I.
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I know I'm not Batman. You could try not being ajerk.
  • Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture:We wererobbed.No two ways about it.
Dean Venture:I don’t know, pop, they won fair and square. The Impossiblefamilymade a really convincingFantastic Four.
Dr. Venture:Don’t makeexcusesfor yourbrother,Dean. He blew it for all of us. Henry Alan Venture! Are you hearing this? What do you have to say for yourself?
Hank Venture:(in a low voice) I am the Bat.
Dr. Venture:Yes, yes, you’re “The Bat”! And the Bat is the reason we didn’t win best costume, mister, again! Last year it was Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion and “The Bat”!. Oh and how about the time we were the hard rocking quartet of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and the Bat?!
Hank:Thenightis mine.
Dr. Venture:Sell it somewhere else, Hank. It’s not me you should beapologizingto. Poor Brock spent a monthsewinghis groupthemeappropriatecostume.
Hank:That’s probably why he won best costume?
Dr. Venture:What is that,SassI hear? (sarcastically) “Oh, look everybody! Hank’s back”!
  • Hank Venture:Wait!Dude!What about Batman? You call yourself a Batmanfan?He would neverkillanybody.Seriously,ask yourself- what would Batman do?

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