“It doesn’t mean I don’t care anymore. I don’t want to let you down, honest, but… but it just doesn’t hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can’t you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it’s different now! Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn’t see this coming. I didn’t count on being happy. Please! Tell me that it’s okay.”
— Bruce Wayne at his parents’ grave in Mask of the Phantasm
“Think about it - a world where there’s no crime, no victims, no pain.”
“And no choice. Who elected you, anyway?”
“Who elected you? The problem with democracy is, it doesn’t keep you very safe.”
“It has other virtues. But you seem to have forgotten them.”
“I didn’t forget! I just chose peace and security instead.”
“You grabbed power!”
“And with that power, we’ve made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents because of some punk with a gun!”
*Batman drops his batarang; it clatters to the ground*
“You win.”
— Batman loosing a debate with Alternate Universe Totalitarian Batman in the Justice League episode “A Better World”
And then, later on, as they’re watching some guy get hauled off by the police to get “reeducated” after getting upset at a waiter, Batman says to Justice Lord Batman, very sarcastically:
Batman gives you so many options.
“It doesn’t mean I don’t care anymore. I don’t want to let you down, honest, but… but it just doesn’t hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can’t you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it’s different now! Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn’t see this coming. I didn’t count on being happy. Please! Tell me that it’s okay.”
— Bruce Wayne at his parents’ grave in Mask of the Phantasm
“Think about it - a world where there’s no crime, no victims, no pain.”
“And no choice. Who elected you, anyway?”
“Who elected you? The problem with democracy is, it doesn’t keep you very safe.”
“It has other virtues. But you seem to have forgotten them.”
“I didn’t forget! I just chose peace and security instead.”
“You grabbed power!”
“And with that power, we’ve made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents because of some punk with a gun!”
*Batman drops his batarang; it clatters to the ground*
“You win.”
— Batman loosing a debate with Alternate Universe Totalitarian Batman in the Justice League episode “A Better World”
And then, later on, as they’re watching some guy get hauled off by the police to get “reeducated” after getting upset at a waiter, Batman says to Justice Lord Batman, very sarcastically:
“Mom and Dad would be so proud.”
Batman and Ace, the whole scene, JL Unlimited.