Batman Forever

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Batman Forever (Warner Bros., 1995) is the third feature film in the Burton/Schumacher series of films based on the DC Comics character Batman.

Directed by Joel Schumacher, and written by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, and Akiva Goldman. Based on DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane.
Courage now, truth always...Taglines

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Batman/Bruce Wayne [edit]

  • Tampering with people's brain waves, brain manipulation. It simply raises too many questions.
  • The Batsignal is not a beeper.
  • I guess we're all two people.
  • A man's gotta go his own way.
  • You trying to get under my cape, doctor?
  • We all wear masks.
  • I don't blend in at a family picnic.

The Riddler/Edward Nygma [edit]

  • You were supposed to understand. I'll make you understand!
  • [mocking Bruce] There's too many questions. There's too many... [laughs] I'll show you it works!
  • [hitting Stickley over the head with a coffee-pot] Caffeine will KILL YA!
  • [to Stickley] This won't hurt a bit. At least, I don't think it will.
  • [During the Box experiment he imitate a game show host] Edward Nygma, come on down! You're the next contestant on "Brain Drain"! [imitating shy game show contestant] "Um, gee, ooh, uh... I'll take what's inside Thick Skull #1!" [imitating game show host] What have we got for him, Johnny? (laughs) Stickley! I'm having a breakthrough! And a breakdown? MAYBE! Nevertheless, I'm smarter. I'm a genius. No, several geniuses! A gaggle! A swarm! A flock of freakin' Freuds! Riddle me this, Fred! What is everything to someone and nothing to everyone else? Your mind, baby! And now mine pumps with the power of yours! [singing] I'm sucking up your I.Q., vacuuming your cortex, feeding off your brain!
  • (after throwing his old supervisor out of a window and into the water below) SURF'S UP, BIG KAHUNAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (winces) Ooooh! Nice form, but a little rough on the landing. He may have to settle for the bronze! (evil laughter)
  • Questions, Mr. Wayne? My work raises too many questions?! Why doesn't anybody... put you in your place?
  • This is your brain on the box. This is my brain on the box! Does anybody else feel like a fried egg?!
  • You should have let me in on this. We could have planned it, organized it, pre-sold the movie rights!
  • [to Two-Face when he discovers Batman's true identity] Riddle me this: What kind of a man has bats on the brain?
  • [Stops Two-Face killing Batman] Don't kill him! If you kill him, he won't learn nothin'!
  • [after placing bombs to destroy the Batcave] Somebody tell the fat lady she's on in five.
  • [after blowing up the Batcave] Joy-gasm!
  • Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big, black bat?
  • Soon my little box will be on countless TVs around the world, feeding me credit-card numbers, bank codes, sssssssexual fantasies and little white lies! Into my head they'll go! Victory is inevitable! For if knowledge is power... then a god... am... (demonic voice) I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I. [pauses] Was that over the top? I can never tell!
  • By the way, I've seen your mind, freak! Yours is the greatest riddle of all: Can Bruce Wayne and Batman ever truly co-exist? We'll find out today! But first, let's meet our contestants! Behind curtain number one: the absolutly fabulous Dr. Chase Meridian. She enjoys hiking, getting her nails done and foolishly hopes to become the love of Bruce's life! And behind curtain number 2: Batman's one-and-only partner. This acrobat-turned-orphan likes Saturday morning cartoons, and dreams of one day being [whispers] bare naked with a girl!

Harvey Dent/Two-Face [edit]

  • One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat, holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? LUCK! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck! [shows the scarred part of his face to the victim]
  • [A coin toss has decided a victim's fate] Ah. Fortune smiles. Another day of wine and roses. Or, in your case, beer and pizza!
  • The Bat's stubborn refusal to expire... IS DRIVING US INSANE!
  • Let's see if you bleed green.
  • [Before parachuting out of a crashing chopper with Batman at the controls] Have the good taste to die! See ya!
  • WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DIE?!

Alfred Pennyworth [edit]

  • Young men with a mind for revenge need little encouragement. They need guidance. You, above all, should know the consequences of the life you choose.
  • [Dick asking for his suit] I could be fired for this, sir. Perhaps they'll have me back at Buckingham Palace.

Dr. Chase Meridian [edit]

  • You like strong women. I've done my homework. Or do I need skin-tight vinyl and a whip?
  • By the way, do you have a first name, or do I just call you Bats?

Dialogues [edit]

(first lines)
Alfred: May I persuade you to take a sandwich with you, sir?
Batman: I'll get drive-through.
Two-Face: You're counting on the winged avenger to deliver you from evil, aren't you, my friend?
Bank Guard: Are you gonna kill me?
Two-Face: Maybe, maybe not. You could say we're of two minds on the subject. Are you a gambling man? What say we flip for it?
Batman: I read your work. Insightful. Naive, but insightful.
Dr. Chase Meridian: I'm flattered. Not every girl makes a superhero's night table.
Commissioner Gordon: [about Two-Face] Can we reason with him? He's holding innocent people hostage up there.
Dr. Chase Meridian: It won't do any good. He'll slaughter them without thinking twice.
Batman: Agreed. A trauma powerful enough to create an alternate personality leaves the victim...
Meridian: [interrupting] ...in a world where normal rules of right and wrong no longer apply.
Batman: Exactly.
Dr. Meridian: Like you. [off his look] Well, let's just say that I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent.
Batman: Bats aren't rodents, Dr. Meridian.
(Riddler speaks with Two-Face in his lair for the first time)
Riddler: I simply love what you've done to this place; heavy metal meets house-and-garden. Beautiful! It's so dark, and Gothic, and disgustingly decadent... yet so bright, and chipper, and... conservative. It's so you! And yet, so YOU! Yes, very few people are both a summer and a winter, but... you pulled it off nicely.
(Two-Face smiles, then fires a gun into the air close to Riddler's ear, making him recoil)
Two-Face: Just get to the point, big boy.
Riddler: Has anyone ever told you that you have a SERIOUS IMPULSE CONTROL PROBLEM?!
Riddler: Here's the bargain: you will help me steal production capital, so I can put a Box on every TV in town, then I will be Gotham's cleverest carbon-based life-form! And in return... [looks over at Two-Face's scarred left side] ...is everyone paying attention? I will help you solve the greatest riddle of all. The mother of all riddles! [back at Two-Face's right side] Who is... Batman?
Two-Face: You have broken into our hideout. You have violated the sanctity of our lair. For this we should crush your bones into powder. However, you do pose a very interesting proposition. [holds up his coin] Therefore, heads, we accept, and tails, we blow your damn head off!
Dr. Chase Meridian: Well, I wish I could say that my interest in you was... purely professional.
Batman: You trying to get under my cape, doctor?
Dr. Chase Meridian: A girl can't live by psychoses alone.
Batman: It's the car, right? Chicks love the car.
Dr. Chase Meridian: [laughs] What is it about the wrong kind of man? In grade school it was boys with earrings; high school, motorcycles; college, leather jackets. Now... [feels his suit] ah. Black rubber.
Batman: Try a fireman. Less to take off.
Riddler: Hey, Two-Face! Show me how to punch a guy!
Two-Face: It's darn simple, my boy; ball up a fist, reach way back and assert yourself! [punches out cop]
Riddler: Ooo! Looks like fun... lemme try, lemme try!
Two-Face: Ball up a fist...
Riddler: [clenches fist] Ball up a fist!
Two-Face: Reach way back...
Riddler: [winds up] Reach way back!
Two-Face: And assert yourself!
Riddler: Assert—[punches another cop, but is ineffective] OW!
Alfred: [in Bruce's monitor watch] I'm sorry to bother you, sir. But I have some rather distressing news about Master Dick.
Bruce: What? Is he alright?
Alfred: I'm afraid Master Dick has, uhm, gone traveling.
Wayne: He ran away?
Alfred: Actually, he took... the car.
Wayne: He boosted the Jag?
Alfred: Not the Jaguar. The other car.
Wayne: The Bentley?
Alfred: No, sir... the other car.
Dick Grayson: [while hitting Batman] Bastard! It should've been you! It's your fault! If you had told Two-Face who you were at the circus, they'd still be alive!
Batman: If Bruce Wayne could've given his life for your family, he would have.
Dick Grayson: All I can think about every second of the day is getting Two-Face. He took my whole life. And when I was out there tonight, I imagined it was him that I was fighting, even when I was fighting you. And all the pain went away. Do you understand?
Bruce Wayne: Yes, I do.
Grayson: Good, 'cause you gotta help me find him. And when we do, I'm the one who kills him.
Wayne: So, you're willing to take a life.
Grayson: Long as it's Two-Face.
Wayne: Then it will happen this way: you make the kill, but your pain doesn't die with Harvey, it grows. So you run out into the night to find another face, and another, and another, until one terrible morning you wake up and realize that revenge has become your whole life. And you won't know why.
Grayson: You can't understand. Your family wasn't killed by a maniac.
Wayne: Yes, they were. We're the same.
[As Two-Face and his thugs crash Edward Nygma's party]
Edward: You're ruining my big party! Are you INSANE?!
Two-Face: We're sick of waiting for you to deliver the Batman, dear boy.
Edward: Patience, oh bifurcated one--
Two-Face: PATIENCE, HELL! WE WANT HIM DEAD! And nothing brings out the Batman like a little murder and mayhem, baby.
Edward: Well, at least you could have let me in on the caper! We could have organized this, planned it, presold the movie rights!
[Batman crashes through the ceiling]
Edward: Your entrance was good; his was better. The difference? Showmanship.
Dick Grayson: I need a name! "Batboy"? "Nightwing"? I dunno, what's a good sidekick name?
Bruce Wayne: How about "Dick Grayson, college student"?
Dick Grayson: Screw you!
Riddler: (switching on a garish green overcoat with flashing light-up question marks) Like the jacket? It keeps me safe when I'm jogging at night!
Dr. Chase Meridian: Batman will come for me.
The Riddler: [fake British accent] Batman? Batman, you say? Coming for you? [laughs, then makes harrumph noises] I'm... counting on it!
[Bruce and Alfred are trying to figure out the connection between numbers in five riddles.]
Bruce Wayne: Each riddle contains a number, and they go in this order: 13, 1, 8 and 5. Perhaps... letters of the alphabet?
Alfred Pennyworth: Of course! 13 is M.
Wayne: 1 would be A, 8 would be H, and 5 would be E.
Alfred: M-A-H-E...
Wayne: Perhaps 1 and 8 are 18.
Alfred: 18 is... R. M-R-E.
Wayne: How about "Mr. E"?
Alfred: "Mystery".
Wayne: And another name for mystery?
Alfred: Enigma.
Wayne: Mr. E. Nygma... Edward Nygma. Stickley's suicide was obviously a computer-generated forgery.
Alfred: You really are quite bright, despite what people say.
Batman: Who's your tailor?
Alfred: I took the liberty, sir.
Batman: R? What does that stand for?
Robin: Robin. Riddler and Two-Face could make a pretty lethal combination. Figured you could use a hand.
Batman: Two against two are better odds.
Robin: I can't promise I won't kill Harvey.
Batman: A man has to go his own way. A friend taught me that.
Robin: Not just a friend. [offers hand]
Batman: A partner. [they shake hands]
Alfred: Master Bruce? How are you, young man?
Wayne: You haven't called me that in a long time.
Alfred: Old habits die hard.
[Two-Face and The Riddler are trying to sink the Batboat.]
Two-Face: B12!
The Riddler: Hit! And my favorite vitamin, I might add.
Robin: Holey rusted metal, Batman!
Batman: Huh?
Robin: The ground, it's all metal. It's full of holes. You know, holey.
Batman: Oh.
Batman: I see without seeing. To me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?
The Riddler: [scoffs] Please! You're as blind as a bat!
Batman: Exactly!
[Batman throws a batarang into the Riddler's throne, destroying his machine]
[Robin has Two-Face at his mercy, hanging over a cliffside]
Two-Face: Finally, true justice is served! Let us die! You're a man after our own heart, son. We'll see you in hell!
[after a moment of indecision, Robin pulls Two-Face to safety]
Robin: I'd rather see you in jail!
Two-Face: Good boy, good boy...the Bat has taught you well. Noble. [pulls a gun] Stupid, but noble!
[Defeated, The Riddler lies among the ruins of his machine, driven insane by the surge of brain power]
The Riddler: [delirious] Why can't I kill you? Too many questions, too many questions...
Batman: Poor Edward. I had to save them both. You see, I am both Bruce Wayne and Batman. Not because I have to be, now...because I choose to be.
[Dr. Meridian is visiting Nygma, who claims to know who Batman is, in Arkham Asylum]
Dr. Chase Meridian: Edward, it's Dr. Meridian. Chase. Do you remember me?
Edward Nygma: How could I forget?
Dr. Chase Meridian: Dr. Burton tells me you know who Batman is.
Edward Nygma: I can't tell you unless you say "please".
Dr. Chase Meridian: Edward, please. Who is Batman?
Edward Nygma: I'm Batman! [laughs manically as he flaps his arms like wings]
[outside]
Dr. Meridian: Your secret's safe. He is definitely a wacko.
Bruce Wayne: "Wacko". That a... technical term?
[they kiss]
Dr. Chase Meridian: Don't work too late.

Taglines [edit]

  • Courage now, truth always...

Cast [edit]

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