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""You... the Bat-demon again... I wrestle you... in my nightmares." - Batman #849"
""All men by nature seek knowledge." - Batman: Hush"
"(about Arkham) What a dump. - Gotham Girls"
"(To Catwoman about Poison Ivy) "I understand. Yet, as a psychiatrist I feel that Ivy having social interaction with the regular world can only benefit... Ooh, cute puppy!" - Gotham City Sirens #11"
""Not so hot without your juice, are ya, Bane? Ya want t'be top man in Gotham, huh? You ain't even a contender!" - Detective Comics #660"
""What is a friend? A single soul residing in two bodies." - Batman: Hush"
""There's no such thing as safe sex with some alien races. Think acid-for-blood. Think mate-then-kill." - Harley Quinn #15"
""Well, what d'ya know -- looks like we ran outta friends... for a while, at least. And me the social type! Or is that sociopathic?" - Harley Quinn #18"
""If you think Arkham's scary as a doctor, you should try it as a patient." - Detective Comics #831"
""Get up, you deadbeat! That was the only place in town with a scintillatin' selection of polyester fashion! Where you think I'm gonna shop now? - Harley Quinn #9"
""I have knowledge which is alien to you, for I have tasted food fresh from dark fertile soil, and I have filled my lungs with untainted air, and I have quenched my thirst with water clear as the first day of creation, and you have not -- because you can not. Those things do not exist on this world any longer. They have been destroyed by man's lust for dominance -- a lust I know well, for at times it all but consumes me. All is corrupt, all is sick, all is dying. As am I. As are you." - Batman: Birth of the Demon"
""A baby? Certainly. I've had dozens of babies!! [Laughing] I've dropped litters in every corner of the globe!!" - Batman: A Death in the Family"
""I'm crazy about... Well hey, I'm just crazy." - Gotham Girls"
""You slurred me... called me a monster... All my life people have been doing that... people who think they're pretty. But you ain't pretty... and I'm not a monster. The name is Croc... Killer Croc." - Batman #512"
""I have only one rule when dealing with the enemy. Give them nothing. Not solace, not mercy, not kindness, not torment, not provisions, and - most assuredly - not satisfaction." - Secret Six #05"
""You break him by breaking everyone he loves and stacking them, defiled and ruined, in his grand foyer." - Secret Six #35"
"I'm listening, and when I say I'm listening, I'm also thinking about killing you."
"βIβd kill for anything. Iβd kill to silence a grating voice, to darken the light in the eyes that dared look at me.β -Batman: Knightfall"
"It would be a really sleazy stunt to bring him back."
""Once again, my place here is threatened. Someone reaches across the world to take what is mine Gotham is a prize coveted by many. I can never rest. Always there is someone seeking to take what is Bane's. As in prison so it is outside. All I own is challenged. A challenge that must be met with overwhelming force. You understand, mi hermano. You have been with me always. You know what I must do." - Bane: Conquest Vol 1, #1"
"[When asked by Li if Red Hood is crazy for selling back their kryptonite for $50,000,000] "No. The crazy ones would make a suit out of the rock and march into Metropolis and play 'king of the mountain'. This one knows what he's doing.""
""I could kill you... but death would only end your agony -- and silence your shame. (lifts Batman over his head) Instead, I will simply... (snaps Batman's spine on his knee) ...BREAK YOU! (dumps Batman's broken body on the ground) Broken...and done." -Batman: Knightfall"
"At this point [Jason] is beyond the point of no return in terms of ever being considered even remotely a hero. What I wanted to do here is put him in a place that he can't come back from. The things that he does here in Battle for the Cowl are things that can never really be forgiven. The only outcome would have to be imprisonment or something worse. But from this point on for Jason the gray area between good and bad has disappeared. It's crystal clear now that he is on the dark side."
"If only Jason could have reached out to us. Any one of us. He could have saved himself. But you know what? Some people don't want to be saved. Because saving means changing. And changing is always harder than staying the same. It takes courage to face yourself in the mirror and look beyond the reflection. To find the you that you should have been. The you that got derailed by cruel childhood events. Events that took your life's natural trajectory and twisted it. Changing it into something unimaginable β¦ or even incredible"
"His name is Jason Todd. A lot of people say he's crazy. Like, say the entire staff of Arkham Asylum. Maybe they're right. I'm hardly in a position to judge. Anyone. But as he pops out of his disguise--blows my chain off my ball--and gives me my bow and quiver? Let's just say Red Hood is my kind of crazy!"
"The world's greatest detective, and you still haven't figured it out? Life's just a game, Batman... and this time, you lose. (Batman Vol 1 617, 2016; by Jeph Loeb)"
"Really? You don't think I understand what it's like to be abandoned? Forgotten? To be the Robin nobody trusts? (Batman & Robin Eternal Vol 1 7, 2016; by Genevieve Valentine, James Tynion IV, and Scott Snyder)"
"To me the whole killing of Robin thing was probably the ugliest thing I've seen in comics, and the most cynical."
"None of us Robins were ever as good as Batgirl. We knew it. Drove us all crazy... I think it was because she didn't do what she does for revenge. Not like ol' dead Nightwing or me. She doesn't fight for some ghost. She fights for someone alive. (Batman Eternal Vol 1 18, 2014; by Tim Seeley, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Ray Fawkes, and John Layman)"
"I'm not pleased, you know. Not pleased at all. And despite appearances, this isn't a damned smile on my face."
"My name is Jason Todd. In my short lives, I've been a homeless kid --...and an outlaw. To name a few. Now? God help us one and all... I'm a teacher. (Red Hood: Outlaw Annual Vol 1 3, 2019; by Scott Lobdell)"
"Funny, I actually escaped death...but one life later, the past keeps dragging me back (Red Hood: Outlaw Vol 1 48, 2019; by Scott Lobdell)"
"I may not have been the best sidekick in the world... I was craptastic as a super-villain... but I'll be damned if I wasn't a hell of an Outlaw. (Red Hood: Outlaw Vol 1 50, 2020; by Scott Lobdell)"
"Listen to the city on the other side of the walls. The cars racing to places people don't want to go. The ambulances racing from horror to hope. Listen to the people shouting and laughing and loving and fighting and giving birth and taking lives. Listen for the heartbeat among the chaos of Gotham City... like I did when I was a kid and slept on the sidewalk on more than one night. There is a world out there in this one city. Can you hear it? (Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 2 4, 2017; by Scott Lobdell)"
"We were friends, helping each other pick up the pieces of our lives. We were OUTLAWS! (Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 1 40, 2015; by Scott Lobdell)"
"It might not be a popular thought but not everyone wants to be alive (Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 2 3, 2016; by Scott Lobdell)"
"See, now? If Bats were here, he'd have explained that I wasn't probably supposed to do that. He'd say there are better ways to spend your energy. "You're a Robin. Be a Robin." That's what he'd say, if Bats was here. (Robin War Vol 1 1, 2016; by Tom King)"
"My best friends are a Superman clone and a stray Amazon. I like to think I'm an open-minded guy. (Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 2 15, 2017; by Scott Lobdell)"
"(to Onyx) "What do you think this was all about? We were going to rough these guys up and teach them a lesson? Welcome to planet Earth, baby! These dead sacks of meat on the floor made their living by beating, raping and devouring! Fear isn't the answer!""
"You son of a b****." (about Batman, after returning from the dead and seeing that the Joker is still at large)"
"Yeah, well if you want answers to questions beyond reason...there is a guy in Arkham Asylum who wrote the book on crazy"
"Hey...It's going to be hard to learn a great many things about me, but one I'll give you for free... I am no one's son."
"I swear, it's like trying to run a crime organization with my mother."
"This is Red Hood and Red Robin broadcasting on all Spyral satellite communications. The following message is for Agent 37. We have discovered the truth behind Mother's signal and are inbound to your location. Mother's children aren't evil. They're not monsters. They're victims of programming, abuse, and trauma. And they can change. Which means they're not the enemy. Fact is, they're just like us. We may have began as the soldiers Batman built for his crusade. But we became something else, something he never expected. We started as an army. We chose to be a family. And if there's hope for us... there's hope for anyone. (Batman & Robin Eternal Vol 1 16, 2016; by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, James Tynion IV, and Scott Snyder)"
"(after Batman explains why he never killed the Joker) Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin or Scarecrow or Dent. I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... Because he took me away from you."
"My name is Jason Todd. Or better known to the NSA, CIA, Homeland Security, FBI, KGB, Mossad and Interpol as the Red Hood. (Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 1 32, 2014; by Scott Lobdell)"
"(after Batman tries to redeem him)"It's too late...you had your chance...and I'm just getting started." - Under the Red Hood"
"(confronting Batman at the Ace Chemicals building) "Hard to forget that night, huh? In a way, Batman, this was the site of your first great failure. Maybe your greatest, but certainly not your last, right? Ah, memories."
"You can't stop crime! That's what you never understood! I'm CONTROLLING it! You want to rule them by fear but what do you do to those who aren't afraid?! I'm doing what YOU won't! I'm taking them out!"
"I seem to have made myself an enemy of all the bad guys."