Ventrix, the suit! It's poison!
So what if it is?! I don't care! As long as I have it, I can take my daughter back whenever I want! Her mother won't stop me, AND NEITHER WILL YOU!
Batman: The Animated Series · Season 1
Ventrix, the suit! It's poison!
So what if it is?! I don't care! As long as I have it, I can take my daughter back whenever I want! Her mother won't stop me, AND NEITHER WILL YOU!
[At a video shop, Bruce Wayne asks for Gray Ghost films]
I'd like the Gray Ghost.
Hmm. Name something else.
You said you had everything.
Except the Gray Ghost! Nobody has it! The studio that made the show, Spectra? It burned down 20 years ago. The negatives all went up like kindling, real shame.
So the Gray Ghost doesn't exist?
Not anymore. Sorry, pal.
[Hands Batman a film reel with the key the mystery] Here's your answer, take it and go!
I used to admire what the Gray Ghost stood for...
I'm not the Gray Ghost!
[coldly] I can see that now.
[At the launch of the Gray Ghost videos]
Could you make this out to 'Bruce'?
[signing autograph] Here you are, Bruce.
Thanks. As a kid, I used to watch you with my father. The Gray Ghost was my hero.
[realizing] Really?
And he still is.
I predict... you and I are about to become rich as pigs!
No one could've predicted Batman would spot me. Not even the great Nostromos. Besides, how do you know Wayne survived?
The news said he got off the elevator right before it fell, you pathetic amateur!
Well, you didn't predict he would die, exactly...
[About Matt Hagen's repeated use of "Renuyu" to restore his disfigured face]
You can't go on like this, Matt. You hurt all the time now.
You're just my stand-in, Lupus. Nobody promoted you to nursemaid.
That stuff makes your face like putty, Matt; it can't be good for ya.
It probably ain't good for me. But unless I only want to do horror pictures, it ain't bad for me either.
Listen up, scumwad, 'cause I'm only gonna ask you once. Who was Lucius Fox meeting at the tram?
Wayne! Bruce Wayne!
You lying sleaze! You wanna rethink that answer?
[testing his new shapeshifting powers] The formula must have soaked every cell in my body.
It's.... It's some kind of miracle. [sees Matt change back into Clayface] Wha... What are you doing?
No. No! You broke my concentration! It won't work, don't you see it's too hard! It's like tensing a muscle - I can't keep it up for long! MY CAREER, MY LIFE - IT IS GONE! AND I CAN NEVER GET IT BACK! [He destroys several things in the trailer] I'm not an actor anymore! I'm not even... a man. [Sobs softly]
Not even the Batman could stop me, Teddy. And that means Daggett won't have a prayer.
Matt, please, you don't wanna do anything crazy. Why don't you try to get some shuteye?
DON'T YOU DARE PATRONIZE ME!!! I told you I don't need rest! I don't need food! AND I DON'T NEED YOU!!!! [grabs Teddy and throws him to a bookcase then walks out the door]
[Roland Daggett is at a talk show talking about Renuyu facial cream and the host asks for audience questions]
I'd like to ask Mr. Daggett about the rumors I've heard. I hear he's selling Renuyu through direct marketing because stores won't carry it due to its harmful side effects.
Well that's, uh, absolutely untrue-
[stands up and approaches him] What about the addictive properties of Renuyu, Mr. Daggett? Once you're hooked, you can't stop using it without horrible pain!
No, I mean, that's just not so.
Why don't you show them what an overdose can do, Daggett?! Why don't you tell them [voices goes deeper] about ME?! [transforms into Clayface]
[Batman tricks Clayface into confronting him in a recording room, where he turns multiple screens showing headshots of Clayface's past roles]
What are you doing?! Stop it!
Look at them, Hagan. Look at what you used to be.
No, no! Turn them off!
You can play those roles again, Hagan. Let me help you find a cure.
[begins to shapeshift into his past roles] No! Hagan's gone! Make him stop haunting me! Stop it! Turn them off! I can't control it! I can't be all of them! Not all at once!
[Clayface starts smashing the control panels, yanks off one of the screens and throws it at Batman, who dodges; the screen hits the big screen, causing an explosion; the police arrive to see Clayface in his shapeshifting seizure as he shifts his face into Bruce Wayne]
Mother of mercy. It looks just like Bruce Wayne.
[Clayface punches through two screens, electrocuting him and reverting back into his true form and he topples over; Batman walks up to Clayface]
You know what I'd have given for a death scene like this? Too bad I won't get to read the notices. [faints]
I'm just glad to know it wasn't really Bruce Wayne who attacked me.
Thank you, Mr. Fox. All charges against Wayne have, of course, been dropped. And Roland Daggett remains in custody.
[as Alfred turns off the TV, Batman is experimenting with a piece of Clayface's clay]
My word, sir. I should think after all this, it would time to rest.
Look. A piece of clay left behind when they took Hagan's body away. Watch. [zaps the clay with electricity, causing it to morph into multiple shapes]
Electricity has no effect on it?
Exactly. [scene changes to a morgue where a doctor uncovers Clayface's body; voice-over] I wouldn't be surprised if the body they took to the morgue was only a shell [Clayface's body cracks and crumbles into little pieces] Don't forget, first and foremost, Hagan was an actor. [scene changes to Teddy outside the hospital] He said it himself, Alfred. He called it a scene. Maybe the greatest scene in his career.
[sadly] See you 'round, Matt. [walks away]
A death scene so real... it fooled us all.
[a woman laughs as her voice grows deeper and her eyes turn yellow, revealing her to be a disguised Clayface]
[tosses two pennies on the ground] There's your two cents. Now, what are you going to do to me?
Listen.... I... O'm sorry, really! I.... I had a bad day. Boss turned down my raise, and...
Now look, my rude friend! We can't have people cursing at each other on the freeway. It's simply not polite! [jumps down and grabs him] I'm just going to have to teach you some manners. [reaches into his coat]
Please don't! I have a family, a wife, a little boy! Please! I'll do anything to make it up! Anything!
Anything, says you? Okee-dokee! Wallet.
Uh, okay. I don't have much cash.
Oh, please! Don't insult me! [takes out driver's license] Charles Michael Collins. That's you! Tsk tsk, lousy picture, though. Lousy. Address, height, weight, blah blah blah. [tosses the wallet back and keeps the license] Righty-o, Chuckers! Here's the deal. I'll let you off if you promise to do a little favor for me.
Okay. What?
I DON'T KNOW! I HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF IT YET! You just toddle on back to your mundane, meaningless little life, and when I need you, I'll call. Fair? Good? Great! I'll be in touch. [walks away laughing]
Hello?
Hello, Charlie.
Wrong number, pal. My name is Don.
Oh, no, no, no. This IS the right number, Charles Michael Collins. Oh, I don't know why you changed your name to Don Wallace and moved your family to 12 Marigold Lane, Springdale, Ohio. One might think you were trying to skip out on our little deal. [to Harley Quinn] Leave the sideburns.
Uh... how did you find me?
Oh, I never lost you, Chaz. You've become my... HOBBY!! [laughs] Now, listen up, Charlie Brown. You're booked on the next flight to Gotham. Tell the family you have to visit a sick friend. Oh, and let's keep this to ourselves, 'kay? Bad things happen to people who gossip, capisce, Carlo? [Charlie looks out the window to see Joker's henchmen pull up to his house]
Yeah...
Good! See ya!
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