Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Quotes

Bruce Wayne: We're criminals, Alfred. We've always been criminals. Nothing's changed.

Alfred: Oh, yes it has, sir. Everything's changed. Men fall from the sky, the gods hurl thunderbolts, innocents die. That's how it starts, sir. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.

[from trailer]

Batman: Twenty years in Gotham. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race. I have to destroy him.

Wonder Woman: This thing, this creature, seems to feed on energy.

Superman: This thing is from another world. My world.

Wonder Woman: I've killed things from other worlds before.

Superman: [to Batman] Is she with you?

Batman: I thought she was with you.

Clark Kent: Civil liberties are being trampled on in your city; good people living in fear.

Bruce Wayne: Don't believe everything you hear, son.

Clark Kent: I've seen it, Mr. Wayne. He thinks he's above the law.

Bruce Wayne: The Daily Planet criticizing those who think they're above the law is a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Considering every time your hero saves a cat out of a tree, you write a puff piece editorial about an alien who, if he wanted to, could burn the whole place down. There wouldn't be a damn thing we can do to stop it.

Clark Kent: Most of the world doesn't share your opinion, Mr. Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: Maybe it's that Gotham City and me... we just have a bad history with freaks dressed like clowns.

Lois Lane: You're psychotic.

Lex Luthor: That is a three syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.

[from trailer]

Batman: It's time you learned what it means to be a man.

Superman: Stay down! If I wanted it, you'd be dead already!

Lex Luthor: Boys! Mm, Bruce Wayne meets Clark Kent. Ah, I love it! I love bringing people together! How are we?

[shakes Bruce's hand]

Bruce Wayne: Lex.

Lex Luthor: Hello. Good.

[turns to Clark]

Lex Luthor: Hi, hello.

[shakes Clark's hand]

Lex Luthor: Lex. It is a pleasure... Ow! Wow, that is a good grip! You should not pick a fight with this person.

Superman: Next time they shine your light in the sky, don't go to it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy.

[Superman begins to walk away]

Batman: Tell me. Do you bleed?

[Superman flies away as Batman watches on]

Batman: You will.

Bruce Wayne: Still working? You're getting slow in your old age, Alfred.

Alfred: It comes to us all, Master Wayne. Even you've got too old to die young, though not for lack of trying.

Bruce Wayne: You don't know me, but I've known a few women like you.

Diana Prince: Oh, I don't think you've ever known a woman like me.

[Doomsday jumps in front of the Batwing]

Batman: Oh, shit.

[Superman enters from the sky]

Batman: Well, here I am!

Alfred: You're gonna go to war?

Bruce Wayne: That son of a bitch brought the war to us two years ago. Jesus, Alfred, count the dead... thousands of people. What's next? Millions? He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's even a one percent chance that he is our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.

Alfred: But he is not our enemy!

Bruce Wayne: Not today. Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred; we've seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?

Lex Luthor: Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? Can I call you June?

Senator Finch: You can call me whatever you like. Take a bucket of piss and call it Granny's Peach Tea; take a weapon of assassination and call it deterrence. You won't fool a fly or me. I'm not gonna drink it.

Swanwick: Here's the truth: a reporter got greedy for a scoop and went where she shouldn't have, Superman acted like some rogue combatant to rescue her, and people died. Don't invent a conspiracy theory to put back his halo, or yours.

Lois Lane: I don't have a halo over my head, General. I walked into the desert, people died. It keeps me awake at night. It should.

Diana Prince: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind; from a century of horrors... Men made a world where standing together is impossible.

Bruce Wayne: Men are still good. We fight, we kill, we betray one another, but we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.

Batman: It's okay, I'm a friend of your son's.

Martha Kent: [grins] I figured. The cape.

Superman: All this time I've been living my life the way my father saw it. Righting wrongs for a ghost, thinking I'm here to do good. Superman was never real. Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas.

Lois Lane: That farmer's dream is all some people have. It's all that gives them hope.

[touches the S shield]

Lois Lane: This means something.

Superman: It did on my world. My world doesn't exist anymore.

Diana Prince: The others like me... Why did you say they'll have to fight?

Bruce Wayne: Just a feeling.

Batman: Whatever you do, wherever you go, I will be watching you.

Lex Luthor: But the bell's already been rung.

Clark Kent: It's like a one man reign of terror. This bat vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the adjacent projects and tenements, and as far as I can tell the cops are actually helping him.

Perry White: 'Crime Wave in Gotham'! Other breaking news: 'Water, wet'!

Bruce Wayne: Excuse me, miss. The other night you took something that doesn't belong to you. Stealing's not polite.

Diana Prince: Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?

Alfred: You know you can't win this. It's suicide.

Bruce Wayne: I'm older now than my father ever was. This may be the only thing I do that matters.

Alfred: Twenty years of fighting criminals amounts to nothing?

Bruce Wayne: Criminals are like weeds, Alfred; pull one up, another grows in its place. This is about the future of the world. This is my legacy.

Superman: Luthor. He wanted your life for her's. She's losing time.

Lois Lane: The scout ship seems to be drawing power from the city. It's gotta be Lex.

Batman: They need you at that ship. I'll find her.

Superman: My mother needs me.

Batman: [stops him] Wait. I'll make you a promise: Martha won't die tonight.

Anatoli Knyazev: Drop it. I said drop it! I'll kill her! Believe me, I'll do it!

Batman: I believe you.

Batman: [suffocating Superman with his foot on his throat] You were never a god. You were never even a man!

Superman: [hardly breathing] You're letting them kill Martha...

Batman: What does that mean? Why did you say that name?

Superman: Find him... Save Martha...

Batman: Why did you say that name? Martha? Why did you say that name? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?

Lois Lane: [enters running] It's his mother's name! It's his mother's name.

Bruce Wayne: I can't stay down here, Alfred.

Alfred: Go upstairs and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.

[to self]

Alfred: In your dreams, Alfred...

Superman: You think I'll fight him for you?

Lex Luthor: Mm, yes, I do. I think you will fight, fight, fight for that special lady in your life!

Superman: She's safe on the ground. How about you?

Lex Luthor: Close, but I am not talking about Lois. No. Every boy's special lady is his mother... Martha, Martha, Martha... Now, the mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The punishment for witches, what is that? That's right. Death by fire.

[Superman is flying Doomsday into space]

Chairman of Joint Chiefs: They're high enough that we can nuke 'em with no casualties, sir!

Swanwick: One casualty, Mr. President. Superman.

POTUS: [sighs] God have mercy on us all.

Swanwick: [on Doomsday] The shockwaves are getting stronger. Every time we hit it we make it more powerful. We can't attack.

POTUS: What are you saying, Calvin?

Swanwick: I'm saying it's unkillable.

Superman: You don't understand, there's no time!

Batman: I UNDERSTAND!

Clark Kent: Mr. Wayne! Clark Kent, Daily Planet.

Bruce Wayne: Oh, my foundation's already issued a statement in support of, uh, books.

Clark Kent: I'm sorry?

Bruce Wayne: [watching Diana Prince walk away] Wow. Pretty girl, bad habit. Don't quote me, alright?

Wallace Keefe: Mr. Wayne! Mr. Wayne! I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs.

Bruce Wayne: We need help over here!

Wallace Keefe: [grabs Bruce] Help me. I can't feel my legs.

Bruce Wayne: You're gonna be okay, you hear me? Wallace? What do they call you, Wally? Huh?

Wallace Keefe: You're the boss, boss.

Jonathan Kent: It's somethin', innit? One minute in Kansas livin' on a pancake so we come to the mountains. All downhill from here; down to the floodplain, arm at the bottom of the world. I remember one season the water came bad. I couldn't've been twelve. Dad had out the shovels and we went at it all night. We worked 'til I think I fainted, but we managed to stop the water. We saved the farm. Your grandma baked me a cake, said I was a hero. Later that day we found out we blocked the water alright - we sent it upstream. A whole Lange farm washed away. While I ate my hero cake, their horses were drowning. I used to hear them wailing in my sleep.

Clark Kent: Did the nightmares ever stop?

Jonathan Kent: Yeah. When I met your mother. She gave me faith that there's good in this world. She was my world. I miss you, Son.

Clark Kent: I miss you too, Dad.

Bruce Wayne: All the circuses back east, burying an empty box.

Diana Prince: They don't know how to honor him, except as a soldier.

Bruce Wayne: I've failed him... in life. I won't fail him in death. Help me find the others like you.

Diana Prince: Perhaps they don't want to be found.

Bruce Wayne: They will. And they'll fight. We have to stand together.

Diana Prince: A hundred years ago I walked away from mankind, from a century of horrors. Man made a world where standing together is impossible.

Bruce Wayne: Men are still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.

[scene of funeral ceremony and graffiti: IF YOU SEEK HIS MONUMENT LOOK AROUND YOU]

Diana Prince: The others like me. Why did you say they'll have to fight?

Bruce Wayne: Just a feeling.

[first lines]

Batman: There was a time above... a time before... there were perfect things... diamond absolutes. But things fall... things on earth. And what falls... is fallen. In the dream, it took me to the light. A beautiful lie.

Bruce Wayne: [comforting a crying girl] Don't worry, it'll be okay. I'll find your mommy for you. Where's your mommy.

[the girl points at a destroyed skyscraper, Bruce hugs her]

Lex Luthor: Boy, do we have problems up here!

[sets timer and stands up]

Lex Luthor: The problem of evil in the world. The problem of absolute virtue.

Superman: I'll take you in without breaking you, which is more than you deserve.

Lex Luthor: The problem of you on top of everything else. You above all. Ah. 'Cause that's what God is. Horus. Apollo. Jehovah. Kal-El. Clark Joseph Kent. See, what we call God depends upon our tribe, Clark Jo, because God is tribal. God take sides. No man in the sky intervened when I was a boy to deliver me from Daddy's fist and abominations. Mm-mm. I've figured it out way back, if God is all powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He's all good then He cannot be all powerful. And neither can you be. They need to see the fraud you are. With their eyes. The blood on your hands.

Superman: What have you done?

Lex Luthor: And tonight they will. Yes. Because you, my friend, have a date! Across the bay. Ripe fruit, his hate. Two years growing. But it did not take much to push him over actually. Little red notes, big bang, you let your family die! And now, you will fly to him, and you will battle him, to the death. Black and blue. Fight night! The greatest gladiator match in the history of the the world: God versus man...

[thunders in the background]

Lex Luthor: Day versus night. Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!

Superman: You think I'll fight him for you?

Lex Luthor: Mm, yes, I do. I think you'll fight, fight, fight for that special lady in your life.

Superman: She's safe on the ground. How about you?

Lex Luthor: Close, but I'm not talking about Lois. No. Every boy's special lady is his mother.

[walks around Superman and shows him photos of Martha being muzzled]

Lex Luthor: Huh! Martha, Martha, Martha. The mother of a flying demon must be a witch. The punishment for witches, what is that? That's right. Death by fire.

[throws the photos one by one at Superman]

Superman: [angrily readies heat vision] Where is she?

Lex Luthor: I don't know! I wouldn't let them tell me! If you kill me, Martha dies. And if you fly away, Martha also dies. But if you kill the Bat, Martha lives.

[Superman calms down and Lex approaches his hand]

Lex Luthor: There we go. There we go. And now God bends to my will. Now, the cameras are waiting at your ship for the world to see the holes in the holy. Yes, the all mighty comes clean about how dirty he is when it counts. To save Martha, bring me the head of the Bat.

[helicopter arrives; Lex looks at his timer]

Lex Luthor: Mother of God, would you look at the time. When you came here, you had an hour. Now it's less.

Batman: Whatever you do, wherever you go, I'll be watching you!

[holds his bat-brand up to Luthor's face]

Lex Luthor: Oh, look at us. This is how it all caves in, civilization on the Wayne Manor's out the window. But who would believe me, I... I'm insane. I'm not even fit to stand trial.

Batman: That's right. We have hospitals who treat the mentally ill with compassion.

[Lex chuckles nervously]

Batman: But, that's not where you're going. I've arranged for you to get a transfer to Arkham Asylum in Gotham. I still have some friends there. They're expecting you.

Lex Luthor: But, the bell's already been rung... and they've heard it. Out in the dark, among the stars... Ding-dong, the god is dead.

[Batman punches his wall with a bat-brand mark]

Bruce Wayne: Who are you?

Diana Prince: Someone interested in the same man you are.

Clark Kent: [Bruce Wayne arrives at Lex's party] Who's that?

Party Photographer: You must be new to "Let Them Eat Cake" beat. That is Bruce Wayne.

Alfred: Master Wayne.

Batman: Alfred.

Alfred: I'm sorry for listening in but I've tracked the Russian's phone to a warehouse near the port. You're locked onto it.

Batman: I don't deserve you, Alfred.

Alfred: No, sir, you don't.

Bruce Wayne: I can't stay down here, Alfred.

Alfred: Go upstair and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.

[Talking to himself]

Alfred: In your dreams, Alfred...

Bruce Wayne: The house treats luck like an insult.

Anatoli Knyazev: Good luck for one is always his brother's misfortune.

Bruce Wayne: [in Russian] But all accounts are balances in the end.

Bruce Wayne: [back in English] Three nights with a Bolshoi ballerina, that line was all she taught me.

Anatoli Knyazev: Not all, I'm sure. Good evening.

Wallace Keefe: Who the hell are you?

Lex Luthor: Just a man.

Wallace Keefe: Yeah? Well, what the fuck do you want?

Lex Luthor: To help you stand for something.

Lois Lane: Are you a terrorist, general?

General Amajagh: They did not tell me the interview was with a lady.

Lois Lane: I'm not a lady, I'm a journalist.

Wonder Woman: I can't stay down here, Alfred.

Bruce Wayne: Go upstair and socialize. Some young lady from Metropolis will make you honest.

[Talking to himself]

Bruce Wayne: In your dreams, Alfred...