Bruce Wayne / Batman My turn.
Most-quoted character in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021): in 24 of its 69 quotes
Most scenes with: Arthur Curry / Aquaman (6), Barry Allen / The Flash (4), Alfred Pennyworth (4)
This has nothing to do with Lex Luthor. This has everything to do with him! I made a promise to him, on his grave. I spent a lot of time trying to divide us. I need to bring us together and make this right.
More lines from Bruce Wayne / Batman
6 quotes Bruce Wayne / Batman Bruce Wayne / Batman That's just a strategy to lose more slowly, not to win.
Bruce Wayne / Batman There are six, not five. There is no "us" without him.
Bruce Wayne / Batman Alfred, for once I'm operating strictly on faith. Not on reason.
Bruce Wayne / Batman Everyone, this is Alfred; I work for him.
Bruce Wayne / Batman [to Martian Manhunter]
I guess I'll see you around.
Scenes with Bruce Wayne / Batman
17 scenes
Village Leader
[in English]
How dare this dog speak to us like children. "Ooh, magical man from the sea." We are poor, not stupid. Get out!
Bruce Wayne I'm sorry. Can't do that. I'll leave after we've spoken.
Bruce Wayne [in Icelandic]
I don't think so.
So, let me get this straight. You do it dressed like a bat? Like an actual bat?
Bruce Wayne Worked for 20 years in Gotham.
Oh, that shithole.
[while he takes his jacket and sweatshirt off]
"Strong man is strongest alone." You ever heard that?
Bruce Wayne You ever hear of Superman? He died fighting next to me.
Well, it's been some time since Luthor's warning. No attacks. No barbarians at the gate.
Bruce Wayne Maybe these barbarians don't use a gate. Maybe they're already here.
They said the age of heroes would never come again.
Bruce Wayne [Determinedly]
Oh, it will. It has to.
Bruce': I know you have abilities. I just don't know what they are.
My special skills include, uh, viola, uh, web design, fluent in sign language. Gorilla sign language.
Bruce [Sees the Flash suit]
Silica-based sand quartz fabric. Abrasion resistant. Heat resistant.
Uh, yeah, I do– competitive ice dancing.
Bruce It's what they use on the space shuttle to prevent it from burning up on re-entry.
I do– very competitive ice dancing.
Commissioner Gordon
How many of you are there?
Batman Not enough.
Batman I'm real when it's useful.
Burn down a house, the particles still exist; particles of house become particles of smoke.
Anybody with a match can turn a house to smoke.
But a Motherbox...
Bruce Wayne Turns smoke back into a house.
...I know we're all thinking the same thing right now. Who's gonna say it? I'm not gonna say it.
[Cyborg activates a hologram of Henry Cavill's Superman. He flies off, dramatically, into the clouds as Bruce stares on.]
If you can't bring down the charging bull, then don't wave the red cape at it.
Bruce Wayne You do when it's this red cape. This red cape charges back.
[on Steppenwolf]
I mean, this- this guy has probably fought hundreds of thousands of other superbeings on the other planets he's destroyed, right? And we have to assume he's won.
Bruce Wayne I don't care how many demons he's fought in how many hells... he's never fought us. Not us united.
Bruce Wayne [on Superman]
He'll be here, Alfred. I know it.
What makes you so sure?
Bruce Wayne Faith, Alfred. Faith!
Silas Stone
[Cyborg plays Silas's tape on the tape recorder.]
Now, let me speak to you from my heart, not as a scientist, as a father. [chuckles] Your father twice over. I brought you into the world and back into it. You can't imagine how proud I am of who you are. Have always been. [Cyborg looks at the picture of him, his father, and his mother Elinor Stone, and he chuckles softly] So many years with you I wasted. So many wrongs I've left un-righted. Everything breaks, Victor. Everything changes.
[At Iceland, Arthur Curry bids farewell to Nuidis Vulko and Mera.]
I gotta go see my father.
Silas Stone
[Arthur Curry goes to the truck as he hops onto the bed truck and the truck engine starts and then the truck drives.]
The world is hurt. Broken. Unexchangeable.
Scientist
[At S.T.A.R. Labs, Ryan Choi looks at the Scout Ship 0344.]
Ship's all yours now, kid. You're the boss. "Ryan Choi, Director of Nanotechnology." That's your thing.
Ryan Choi
Uh, yep. [sighs] That's my thing.
Silas Stone
But the world's not fixed in the past, only the future. The not yet. The now.
Bruce Wayne [Bruce Wayne opens the door and he enters an abandoned room with Alfred Pennyworth and Diana Prince.]
Wow. Must be 100,150 feet.
Must be.
Bruce Wayne Uh, big round table. Six chairs, right there.
But room for more.
Bruce Wayne But room for more. God help us.
Silas Stone
The now is you.
Henry Allen
[Meanwhile, at Central City Prison, Barry Allen places the job application on the glass.]
What?
It's actually the worst job you can get in a crime lab. But, uh, my foot's in the door.
Henry Allen
This is like a "job" job?
"Job" job.
Henry Allen
[laughs softly]
Your foot's in the door.
Isn't that a thing people say?
Henry Allen
Your foot's in the door. Yeah, that's something people say, man. His foot's in the door! [the prisoners cheer] That's my boy right here! Taught him nothing he knows! Yes! [laughs]
Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh. Dad, you're gonna get maced again.
Henry Allen
No stopping you now.
Silas Stone
Now. Now's your time, Victor, to rise.
[At the Kent farmhouse, the movers bring the furniture back to the house.]
Thank you is not enough for what you did.
Bruce Wayne I just undid a mistake, that's all.
[Clark chuckles as he sees Martha Kent and Lois Lane bring appliances to the house and they smile.]
How'd you get the house back from the bank?
Bruce Wayne I bought the bank. Congratulations, by the way.
Silas Stone
Do this. Be this. The man I never was. The hero you are. Take your place among the brave ones. The ones that were, that are, that are yet to be.
Silas Stone
[At the cemetery in Gotham City, Cyborg looks at the tombstone with a picture of Victor Stone and his parents as he smiles and flies off. At night, Commissioner James Gordon turns on the Bat Signal as Batman looks at it while he stands on his Bat-Tank.]
It's time you stand, fight, discover, heal, love, win.
Silas Stone
[At the shrine of the Amazons, Diana Prince looks at the sea as she takes one look at the arrow of Artemis. At Central City, The Flash runs happily on the street.]
The time is now.
[At Metropolis, Clark Kent takes off his glasses and unveils his silver suit from his shirt.]
Batman [Bruce is having another Knightmare premonition]
Clear.
Batman We're almost there.
Well, we need to hurry. We can't be out in the open much longer. He'll come for us.
Mera
Let him come. Let the bastard come. I'll stab this through his heart for what he did to Arthur. I want to make him pay.
Batman I understand how you feel, Mera.
Mera
You have no idea how I feel.
Batman But we have to stick to the plan to have any chance to make this right.
Mera
[Mera scoffs as The Flash's helmet opens.]
Who have you ever loved?
The Joker
[Joker's soft, maniacal laughter interrupts them.]
Au contraire, my little fish stick. He knows exactly what it's like to lose someone he loves. You know like, uh, a father? Like a mother?
Batman Be very careful with the next thing you say.
The Joker
Like an adopted son. Isn't that right, Batman? Maybe, in a way, that smelly old flounder is right. Because how many can die in your arms before you grow numb to death?
Batman That's not very careful.
The Joker
And how many dead eyes can you look into before you die inside yourself?
Batman I've been dead inside a long time. But even I have a limit. [angrily] And if you cross that line, I swear to God, I will...
The Joker
Before what, Bruce? Kill me? You won't kill me. I'm your best friend. Besides, who's gonna give you a reach-around? Anyway, you need me. You need me to help you undo this world you created by letting her die. Poor Lois, how she suffered so! I often wonder how many alternate timelines do you destroy the world because frankly, you don't have the cojones to die yourself. Hmm? So as usual, I'll be the bigger man. [holds out a Joker card] A truce, Bruce. As long as you have this card, a truce. But all you have to do is to tear it in half and I'm happy to discuss with you in any way you like, why you sent a Boy Wonder to do a man's job?
Batman You know, it's funny that you would talk about people who died in my arms. Because when I held Harley Quinn, and she was bleeding and dying, she begged me with her last breath that when I killed you - and make no mistake, I will **** kill you - that I'd do it slow. I'm gonna honor that promise.
The Joker
[after a long, tense pause, Batman takes the card]
Oh, you're good. You almost had me. [pause, laughs]
Batman [deleted dialogue, after Batman takes the Joker card]
And maybe this will come in handy.
The Joker
Honor? Really, Bruce? Honor? We live in a society where honor is a distant memory. By the way, who do you think screamed the loudest? The girl? Or the boy? [pause, laughs]
Deathstroke
Where are we holding up?
Batman [Joker continues laughing]
Somewhere he'll never suspect.
Deathstroke
Still think it was a good idea bringing him along?
Batman [Joker blows raspberry]
What do you think?
[Suddenly, Cyborg senses something danger and hears a distant explosion.]
He's found us.
[Superman lands on the street as Cyborg carries a machine gun, The Flash's helmet closes, Mera draws her trident, and then Joker laughs again as Batman sees him. Superman stands up as his eyes glow heat vision.]
Bruce Wayne [After Bruce Wayne has another Knightmare premonition, he walks out of his house to see Martian Manhunter at the front.]
Can I help you?
Martian Manhunter
I'm sure you know Darkseid is not finished with Earth. The Anti-Life Equation is here somewhere. We have to find it before he does. There's a war coming. And I'm here to help.
Bruce Wayne I'm sorry, who-who are you again?
Martian Manhunter
I've gone by many names and taken many forms. And like you, I've realized I have a stake in this world, and it's time I started fighting for it.
Bruce Wayne Oh. Well, we could definitely use the help. So, glad you're here.
Martian Manhunter
You know, I never thought I'd see the defenders of Earth united and fighting as one. It wouldn't have happened without you, Bruce. Your mother and father would be proud.
Bruce Wayne [reminisces about his parents]
I hope so.
Martian Manhunter
Well, I'll be in touch. Oh, and some have called me the Martian Manhunter.
