Need You Now

Salma 2022-12-28 14:37:30

I thought it was just another superhero story but it simply turned out as this love triangle, oh noooo more accurately, a quadrilateral. (Bruce/Dick/Jason/Joker). Can this get any better?!!!
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The following script is reproduced through my dictating, so it may include errors, misspelling, etc. Here is what I consider to be the best part of the entire thing:

Bruce: I know that I failed you, but I tried to save you, Jason. I' m trying to save you now.

Jason: Is that what you think this is about, that you let me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse, your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality? Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me, but why, why on God's earth is he still alive?

Jason: Ignoring what he has done in past, blindly, stupidly disregarding the entire grave yards he's filled, the thousands who have suffered, the friends he's crippled. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT I'D BE THE LAST PERSON YOU'D LET HIM HURT . If it had been you he bit to a bloody pulp, if he had taken you from this world, I would've done worship nothing but search the planet for this pathetic pile of evil deathping garbage and send him off to hell.

【TAT oh sweet jesus jason you are such a pumpkin when you got a bit teary.】

Bruce: You don't understand. I don't think you've understood.

Jason: What? What your moral cod just won't allow for that ? It's too hard to cross that line?

Bruce: No, God almighty NO. It'd be too damn easy. All I ever wanted to do is to kill him. A day doesn't go by when I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he dealt out to others, and then end him. But if I do that, if I allow my self to go down to that place, I'll never come back.

Jason: Why? I'm not talking about killing Penguin, or Scarecrow, or Dent. I'm talking about him. Just him. I'M DOING THIS BECAUSE, BECAUSE HE TOOK ME AWAY FROM YOU.

【ewwwwww Bruce did you hear that. Pure confession. TAT】

Bruce: I can't. I'm sorry.

Jason: Well, you won't have a choice.

Bruce: I won't.

Jason: THIS IS WHAT IT'S ALL BEEN ABOUT. THIS-YOU, ME AND HIM. NOW WAS THE TIME YOU DECIDE. If you won't kill this psychotic piece of fail, I will. If you wanna stop me, you're gonna have to kill me.

Bruce: You know I won't.

Jason: I'm gonna blow his brains out. If you wanna stop it, you're gonna have to shoot me, right in my face.

Jason: IT'S HIM OR ME, YOU HAVE TO DECIDE. DECIDE NOW. DO IT. HIM OR ME?! DECIDE.

【Come to your senses, Bruce. Jason is asking you whether you love him more. TAT】
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Another equally interesting dialogue would be the one happened between Alfred and Bruce when he returned home:

Alfred: Sir, in light of all the recent events, would you like me to remove that? (he is referring to Jason/Robin's costume.)

Bruce: NO, THIS HASN'T CHANGED ANYTHING. IT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING AT ALL .

[Did you just say your love towards Jason hasn't changed?!! TAT]
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Anyway this movie is already the best thing happened to me in a while, but I still feel that the ending is not entire complete. In my little dysfunctional wicked brain this is what Jason was trying to tell Bruce the whole time:

I figure that things have changed after my death. I don't mind you and Dick are now back together fighting crimes at night in Gotham since I am never the jealous type. I have already forgiven you for failing to be my hero and rescue me from that blast which torn us apart. Maybe you won't believe it but I actually understand why you refused to end that freaking bastard Joker's life. I do not give a shit whether you shot him down or not, but at that moment if you even tried to pull the trigger, I would know that you chose me over him and that you are saying you love me back, but Bruce.

You just failed the test miserably. I should've known better that you never have a slight clue about BROMANCE.

Love, Jason

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Batman: Under the Red Hood quotes

  • Joker: [Putting on a coat] Okay kiddo, I've got to go. But it's been fun though, right?

    [turns towards Jason who's lying motionless in a puddle of his blood]

    Joker: Well maybe a smidge more fun for me than you, I'm guessing, since you're being awful quiet. Anyway be a good boy, finish your homework, and be in bed by nine. And hey, please tell the big man I said... hello!

    [laughs manically and locks the shed]

  • Batman: No! You're anything but good.