Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013 Video)

Mark Valley: Superman, Clark Kent

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Quotes 

• Batman : You say you answer to some sort of authority. They only want me dead because I'm an embarrassment. Because I do what they can't. What kind of authority is that?

  Superman : It doesn't matter. It's their world, and they won't stand for you anymore. If it isn't me, it'll just be someone else.

  Batman : Really? Who do they send after you?

• Superman : What are you doing? Do you want me to kill you?

  Batman : Oh, you're not going to kill me. Now.

  [Oliver Queen fires a kryptonite arrow at Superman, he grabs it as it explodes in his face] 

  Batman : It wasn't easy to make, Clark. It took years and cost a fortune. Luckily, I had both.

• [the White House, Washington, D.C. - the President of the United States meets with somebody who can handle Batman...] 

  President : Son, you know I like to keep you out of domestic affairs, what with all the ruckus you stir up.

  Superman : Yes, sir.

  President : But, well... it's a ruckus I'd like you to straighten out, involving a friend of yours in Gotham City. It's all well and good to have a wild bronco on the ranch now and then. Does the hands good to break him in. But if the bronco up and kicks over the fence, and gets all the other horses crazy, well, that's bad for business.

  Superman : I understand, sir.

  President : Now, I'm not asking you to put him down... not yet, anyway. But settle him. Ride him around the yard a few times, if you have to. You know what I'm asking.

  Superman : Sir, I can talk to him, but...

  President : I'd just hate for things to get out of hand. You know how to get in touch with him, don't you, son?

  Superman : He's not hard to find, sir.

  President : Good boy.

• Superman : [to Robin]  Isn't this a school night, young lady?

• Bruce Wayne : You cost me hours of work last night.

  Superman : Then I'll get right to it. You have to go back into retirement. You're upsetting too many people.

  Bruce Wayne : Mm-hmm.

  Superman : Why do you have to be like this? You played right into your hands last time when the parents groups came after us, the subcommittees, you're the one they pointed to. You act like a criminal.

  Bruce Wayne : [Chuckles]  We are criminals, Clark. We always have been. You're still one, too. Only difference is, you have a boss.

  Superman : And you answer to no one. You know we almost had this talk ten years ago, when you wouldn't go along with the deal we made. Everyone else agreed. Diana went back to her people, Hal left the planet...

  Bruce Wayne : And Oliver, did he agree?

  Superman : That's not how I wanted that to go.

  Bruce Wayne : He was all torn up about it, too.

  Superman : He made it necessary, like -...

  Bruce Wayne : Like I'm about to?

  Superman : Do you even remember why you retired?

  Bruce Wayne : I remember.

  Superman : Look, either shut it down, or one of these days someone with authority is going to tell me to come stop you. And when that happens...

  Bruce Wayne : When that happens, may the best man win.

  Superman : I have to go. We'll finish this later.

  Bruce Wayne : No hurry.