Bruce Wayne quotes from Batman Beyond

Terry McGinnis

You have to do something! You're Batman!

Bruce Wayne

I was Batman.

Bruce Wayne

I should warn you, I can be a difficult taskmaster. I accept nothing short of excellence in all who work for me.

Terry McGinnis

I think I can handle it.

Bruce Wayne

Very good then, Mr. McGinnis. Welcome to my world.

What took you so long?

Bruce

A sudden case of shyness.

Barbara Gordon

I hear you wrangled yourself a new errand boy.

Bruce

I never wrangled anyone. You all came to me.

Barbara

Maybe for once you should try to talk someone out of it.

Bruce

Would it have worked for you?

Terry McGinnis

It belongs to Nelson Nash. He goes to Hill High.

Bruce Wayne

Do you know anyone who has a grudge against him?

Terry McGinnis

The line starts with me and goes around the block...twice.

Terry McGinnis

Come on, can't you cut him a little slack? Like my mom said, he's just a guy trying to put his house in order.

Bruce Wayne

It's a cold draft that blows through that house.

Just because he ran off doesn't mean he'll come back.

Bruce Wayne

He'll be back. Count on it. He lives for revenge.

Not the Victor Fries I met.

Bruce Wayne

What you met was a ghost.

Blight

And behold, I shall be a blight upon the land, and everything I touch shall wither and die!

Blight

Batman.

And who are you, sunshine?

Blight

"Blight" will do.

Bruce Wayne

[via commlink] Terry! There's something hot in that room!

No kidding! This guy, he's like a walking meltdown!

Bruce Wayne

Keep your distance. The suit will give you some protection, but it's not designed for such high levels of radiation.

Terry McGinnis

With all his injuries and that cracked helmet? No way he got out.

Bruce Wayne

It could have been worse. He could have blown up the whole compound, like he intended. Killed hundreds.

Terry McGinnis

I guess you were right about Freeze all along.

Bruce Wayne

We both were.

Bruce Wayne

That theatre. It was where my parents and I went the night they were...

Terry McGinnis

[about Crime Alley] I'd think you'd want it to be torn down, so after all these years you could finally forget.

Bruce Wayne

Do you want to forget what happened to your father?

Terry McGinnis

Tell me something - why were you so sure those voices weren't coming from you?

Bruce Wayne

Well, first, I know I'm not psychotic.

Terry McGinnis

I hope your other reason is more convincing.

Bruce Wayne

The voice kept calling me "Bruce." In my mind, that's not what I call myself.

Terry McGinnis

What do you call yourself? [Bruce just looks at him for a moment] Oh, yeah. I suppose you would. [Batman voice] But that's my name now.

Bruce Wayne

Tell that to my subconscious.

Terry McGinnis

Look, if you had any proof they were gonna try something tonight, it would be different, but I'm not gonna change my plans because of a hunch.

Bruce Wayne

Batman would.

Terry McGinnis

Hey, I put my life on the line all the time. One night's not gonna make a difference.

Bruce Wayne

One night always makes the difference.

Terry McGinnis

I know what it is. You can't stand to see anyone going out and having a life. You want me to end up like you, alone.

Terry McGinnis

Mr. Wayne, those things I said, I'm sorry. This kind of thing ever happen to you?

Bruce Wayne

[smiles] Let me tell you about a woman named Selina Kyle...

Bruce Wayne

These late nights too much for you?

Terry McGinnis

The nights aren't tough. It's the mornings.

Mary McGinnis

Why would he allow that to go on?

Bruce Wayne

He wanted to win at any cost. So he looked the other way.