Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Trial (1994)

Diane Pershing: Poison Ivy, Dr. Pamela Isley, Reporter

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Quotes 

• Janet Van Dorn : Not only does Batman create these so-called super-criminals, he takes it upon himself to be their judge and jury with no regard for the legal system.

  Reporter : It sounds like you want to put Batman on trial.

  Janet Van Dorn : Believe me, I'd like nothing better.

  Commissioner James Gordon : [turning a TV off]  Strong words.

  Janet Van Dorn : It's got to stop, Jim. As Gotham's new district attorney, I can't allow your pet nut to run loose in my city. I mean it.

• Janet Van Dorn : And so it's Batman's fault you lead a life of crime.

  Poison Ivy : He should have let me bump off Harvey Dent. We'd all have been better off, wouldn't we, Harve?

  Two-Face : [grumbling under his breath]  Why, you rotten little... I'll...

  Janet Van Dorn : But, Ms. Isley, isn't the real motivation for your crimes your obsession with plants? That you prefer them to people?

  Poison Ivy : I love plants, honey, but a rose is a rose.

  Janet Van Dorn : Then it doesn't bother you when someone - let's say the judge here...

  [yanking the flower from Joker's lapel] 

  Janet Van Dorn : ...ruthlessly plucks a defenseless flower from the warm, green earth.

  Poison Ivy : No.

  Janet Van Dorn : Even knowing he's given it his death sentence?

  [plucking petals as she talks] 

  Janet Van Dorn : That its petals must die?

  Poison Ivy : Stop it!

  Janet Van Dorn : One by one, withering falling, one by one, until it's all gone... honey.

  Jervis Tetch : [as Ivy leaps in attack, he and Scarecrow pull her off]  Ms. Ivy, please!

  Scarface : You're beautiful when you're angry.