The Batman (2022) Best Movie Quotes – ‘Let’s play a game.’

Bella Reál: Mr. Wayne. You know, you really could be doing more for this city. Your family has a history of philanthropy. But as far as I can tell, you’re not doing anything.

The Batman: [referring to the timed collar bomb on Colson’s neck] Looks like a combination lock.
District Attorney Gil Colson: Can’t we just cut it off?
The Batman: Not if you want to keep your head.

The Batman: Who are you?
The Riddler: Me? I’m nobody. I’m just an instrument, here to unmask the truth about this cesspool we call a city.
The Batman: Unmask?
The Riddler: Yes. Let’s do it together, okay?

The Riddler: I’ve been trying to reach you. You’re part of this too.
The Batman: How am I a part of this?
The Riddler: You’ll see.

The Riddler: Now, ever since I was a child, I’ve always loved little puzzles. For me, they are a retreat from the horrors of our world.

The Riddler: Riddle number one. “It can be cruel, poetic, or blind. But when it’s denied, it’s violence you may find.”
District Attorney Gil Colson: Wait, wait, wait! Can you repeat that? Cruel? Poetic?
The Batman: Justice. The answer’s justice.

The Riddler: Riddle number two. “If you are justice, please do not lie. What is the price for your blind eye?”
District Attorney Gil Colson: The price?
The Batman: Bribes.

The Riddler: Last riddle. “Since your justice is so select, please tell us which vermin
you’re paid to protect.”
District Attorney Gil Colson: Which vermin?
The Batman: The rat. The informant you all protect from the Salvatore Maroni case.
District Attorney Gil Colson: How do you know about that?

The Batman: He’s going to kill you.
District Attorney Gil Colson: I’m a dead man either way. You’re talking to a dead man, okay? If I go out this way, it’s just me. But if I give over that name, I have family, people I love. He’ll kill them too.
The Batman: Who will?
District Attorney Gil Colson: People are watching.
The Batman: What people?
District Attorney Gil Colson: It’s so much bigger than you could ever imagine. It’s the whole system!
[after which the Riddler sets off the bomb, killing Colson]

Chief Mackenzie Bock: You’re protecting this guy, Jim? He interfered in an active hostage situation. Colson’s blood is on his hands.
The Batman: Maybe it’s on yours.
Chief Mackenzie Bock: What did you say?
The Batman: He would rather die than talk. What was he afraid of? You?
Chief Mackenzie Bock: You son of a b**ch. You have any idea what kind of trouble you’re in? You could be an accessory to murder.

The Batman: Who’s the mustache with the broken nose?
Lt. James Gordon: That’s Kenzie. Narcotics.
The Batman: He’s one of the guys I got into it with at the Iceberg Lounge.
Lt. James Gordon: What are you saying? Kenzie moonlights for the Penguin?
The Batman: Or he moonlights as a cop.

Lt. James Gordon: You could have at least pulled that punch, man.
The Batman: I did.

The Batman: [referring to the other cops] I don’t trust any of them. Do you?
Lt. James Gordon: I only trust you.

Lt. James Gordon: What about the Riddler? He’s going to kill again.
The Batman: It’s all connected. Like it or not, it’s his game now. You want to find Riddler, we got to find that rat.

Selina Kyle: Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark?
The Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just a score?
Selina Kyle: You know, I would love to sit and go over every gory detail with you, bat boy, but those a**holes are coming back.

Oz: Hey, Vengeance! You think you can come after my money, huh?

Oz: [as Batman is chasing him] I got you! I got you! Take that, you frigging psycho! I got you!
[then he sees the Batmobile leap out of the explosion]

Oz: [to Gordon and Batman] What the hell is this? Good cop, bats**t cop?

Oz: [to Gordon and Batman] Boy, you guys are a hell of a duet here. Why don’t you start harmonizing? There’s only one problem with your little scenario, okay? I ain’t no rat! You got any idea what Carmine Falcone would do to me if he heard this kind of talk?

Lt. James Gordon: It says you are El Rata Alada.
Oz: You are El Rata? It says that?
Lt. James Gordon: Why, you got something to tell us?
Oz: Yeah! It’s like the worst Spanish I ever heard.
Lt. James Gordon: What?
Oz: It’s “La”. “La” rata. What, is this Riddler stupid or something? Jesus! Look at you two. World’s greatest detectives! Am I the only here knows the difference between “el” and “la”?

Oz: A rat with wings? You know what that sounds like to me? A frigging bat! Huh? You ever think of that?

Lt. James Gordon: [reading Riddlers riddle] “I grew up from a seed, tough as a weed. But in a mansion, in a slum, I’ll never know where I come from. Do you know what I am?” Any idea?
The Batman: Yeah. It’s an orphan. A mansion in a slum. He’s talking about the old orphanage.
Lt. James Gordon: The one that burned down?
The Batman: It was part of the Wayne estate.

Lt. James Gordon: “Sins of the father.”
The Batman: Shall be visited upon the son.
Lt. James Gordon: Jesus. His next victim is Bruce Wayne.

Bruce Wayne: [over phone] Dory! I need to speak to Alfred!
Dory: Oh, Mr. Wayne.
Bruce Wayne: Listen to me! Something terrible is going to happen!
Dory: I’m afraid it already has, sir.
[we then see the package meant for Bruce explode as Alfred opens it]

Selina Kyle: I’m going to find him, and I’m going to make him pay. You going to help me?
The Batman: Help you?
Selina Kyle: Yeah. I thought you were “Vengeance”.
The Batman: Your friend got involved with the wrong people. She didn’t know any better. Maybe you should have explained it to her.
Selina Kyle: What the hell is that supposed to mean?
The Batman: It means your choices have consequences.
Selina Kyle: Jesus Christ. Choices?

Selina Kyle: You know, whoever the hell you are, you obviously grew up rich.
The Batman: Was it worth it?
Selina Kyle: What?
The Batman: Compromising yourself for money? What did you have to do to set up that score? How close did you have to get to Penguin? To Falcone?
Selina Kyle: You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Falcone owes me that money.

The Batman: I want to know why a guy like Falcone would owe you anything.
Selina Kyle: Because he’s my father!

The Batman: I’m sorry. For what I said.
Selina Kyle: Oh, it’s alright. You assume the worst in people. Which, well, maybe we’re not so different after all. Who are you under there? What are you hiding? Are you just hideously scarred?
The Batman: Yeah.

Selina Kyle: If we don’t stand up for Annika, no one will. All anyone cares about in this place are these white, privileged a**holes. The mayor, the commissioner, the DA. Now Thomas and Bruce Wayne. I mean, as far as I’m concerned, that psycho’s right to go after these creeps. I think you’d be on his side.
The Batman: What do you mean, “Thomas and Bruce Wayne”?
Selina Kyle: What, do you live in a cave? The Riddler’s latest. It’s all about the Waynes.

The Batman: Just don’t make any moves without me, understand? It’s a little more dangerous than you know…
Selina Kyle: [kisses him] I told you, baby. I can take care of myself.

The Riddler: [after he reveals Thomas hired Falcone to kill a journalist] The Waynes and the Arkhams, Gotham’s legacy of lies and murder! I hope you’re listening, Bruce Wayne. This is your legacy too. And Gotham needs you to answer for the sins of your father.

Carmine Falcone: [to Bruce, referring to Thomas] This reporter had some dirt. Some very personal stuff about your mother, her family history. Everybody’s got their dirty laundry, that’s just how it is. But he didn’t want none of it coming out, not right before the election. And your father tried to pay the guy off, but he wasn’t going for it. So, he came to me. Well, I never seen him like that. He said, “Carmine, I want you to put the fear of God in this guy.” And when fear isn’t enough… Your father wanted me to handle it, so I did. I handled it.

Carmine Falcone: [to Bruce] I know. You thought your father was a Boy Scout. But you’d be surprised what even a good man like him is capable of in the right situation.

Bruce Wayne: Are you saying Salvatore Maroni got my father killed?
Carmine Falcone: Do I know it for a fact? I’m just saying, it sure looked that way to me. This is what you wanted, huh? This little conversation here? It’s been a long time coming, huh? I mean, you ain’t a kid no more.

Bruce Wayne: [as he visits Alfred at the hospital] You lied to me, my whole life. I spoke to Carmine Falcone. He told me what he did for my father. About Salvatore Maroni.
Alfred: He told you Salvatore Maroni…
Bruce Wayne: Had my father killed. Why didn’t you tell me all this? All these years I’ve spent fighting for him, believing that he was a good man.
Alfred: He was a good man.

Alfred: Your father was a good man. He made a mistake.
Bruce Wayne: A mistake. He had a man killed. Why? To protect his family image? His political aspirations?
Alfred: It wasn’t to protect the family image, and he didn’t have anyone killed. He was protecting your mother. He didn’t care about his image, or the campaign, any of that. He cared about her, and you. And in a moment of weakness, he turned to Falcone. But he never thought Falcone would kill that man.

Alfred: When Falcone told him what he’d done, your father was distraught. He told Falcone he was going to the police, that he would confess everything. And that night, your father and your mother were killed.
Bruce Wayne: It was Falcone?
Alfred: Oh, I wish I knew for sure.

Alfred: It was my job to protect them. Do you understand? I know you always blamed yourself. You were only a boy, Bruce. I could see the fear in your eyes, but I didn’t know how to help. I could teach you how to fight, but I wasn’t equipped to take care of you. You needed a father. And all you had was me. I’m sorry.
Bruce Wayne: Don’t be sorry, Alfred.

Bruce Wayne: [to Alfred] God. I never thought I’d feel fear like that again. I thought I’d mastered all that. I mean, I’m not afraid to die. I realize now there’s something I haven’t got past. This fear of ever going through any of that again. Of losing somebody I care about.

The Batman: Rata Alada. A falcon has wings too.
Lt. James Gordon: Falcone is the rat?

Kenzie: You think this goddamn election matters? Falcone’s the mayor. He’s been the mayor for the last twenty years.
Selina Kyle: Come on, Vengeance. Let’s go kill that son of a b**ch.

The Batman: [referring to Falcone] We’ll get him. But not that way.
Selina Kyle: There is no other way! He owns the city!
The Batman: Cross that line, you’ll become just like him. Listen to me. Don’t throw your life away.
Selina Kyle: Don’t worry, honey. I got nine of them.

The Batman: [as Selina goes after Falcone] I have to stop her.
Lt. James Gordon: Don’t you mean “we”?
The Batman: I got to do this my way.
Lt. James Gordon: And then what?
The Batman: We do what Riddler said. Bring the rat into the light.

Selina Kyle: Hey, Dad.
Carmine Falcone: What?
Selina Kyle: I’m Maria Kyle’s kid. You remember her?
Carmine Falcone: Yeah. Just put down the gun, honey.
Selina Kyle: This is for my mother.
[shoots the gun]

Selina Kyle: [as Batman stops her from killing Falcone] He has to pay!
The Batman: You don’t have to pay with him. You paid enough.

Carmine Falcone: [to Batman] Look at you, man. What do you think this is? You think you’re going to scare me with that mask and that cape? I’m going to start crying, and all of a sudden, some big secret’s coming out? Let me tell you something. Whatever I know, whatever I’ve done, it’s all going with me to my grave.

Carmine Falcone: [as he’s being arrested] So you’re a big man now, Oz, huh?
Oz: Maybe I am.
Carmine Falcone: Really, Oz? Because to me, you were always just a gimp in an empty suit.
Oz: I’ll spray paint your a**!
[then the Riddler shoots and kills Falcone]

Officer: Police! Hands up!
Lt. James Gordon: He said put your goddamn hands up, you son of a b**ch.
The Riddler: I just ordered a slice of pumpkin pie.

Lt. James Gordon: [reading from Riddler’s notebook] “My life has been a cruel riddle I could not solve, suffocating my mind, no escape. But then, today, I saw it. A single word on this ledger, sitting on the desk beside me. Renewal. The empty promise they sold to me as a child in that orphanage. One look inside, and finally I understood. My whole life has been preparing me for this. The moment when I would learn the truth. When I could finally strike back and expose their lies. If you want people to understand, really understand, you can’t just give them the answers. You have to confront them, torture them with the horrifying questions, just like they tortured me. I know now what I must become.”

The Batman: [referring to the Riddler] I think I’m his last target.
Lt. James Gordon: You?
The Batman: Maybe this is all coming to an end.
Lt. James Gordon: What is?
The Batman: The Batman.

The Riddler: [over speaker, as Batman visits him in Arkham State Hospital] I told you I’d see you in hell.
The Batman: What do you want from me?
The Riddler: Want? If only you knew how long I’ve been waiting for this day. For this moment. I’ve been invisible my whole life. I guess I won’t be anymore, will I? They’ll remember me now. They’ll remember both of us. Bruce Wayne.

The Riddler: [to Batman] You know, I was there that day. The day the great Thomas Wayne announced he was running for mayor, made all those promises. Well, a week later he was dead, and everybody just forgot about us. All they could talk about was poor Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne, the orphan. Orphan. Living in some tower over the park isn’t being an orphan. Looking down on everyone, with all that money. Don’t you tell me.

The Riddler: [to Batman] Let’s talk about the billionaire with the lying, dead daddy because at least the money makes it go down easy. Doesn’t it? Bruce Wayne. He’s the only one we didn’t get. But we got the rest of them, didn’t we? All those slick, sleazy, phony p**cks.

The Riddler: [to Batman] God. Look at you. Your mask is amazing. I wish you could’ve seen me in mine. Ain’t it funny? All everyone wants to do is unmask you, but they’re missing the point. You and I both know I’m looking at the real you right now. My mask allowed me to be myself completely. No shame, no limits.

The Riddler: We’ve been doing this together. You’re a part of this.
The Batman: We didn’t do anything together.
The Riddler: We did. What did we just do? I asked you to bring him into the light, and you did. We’re such a good team.
The Batman: We’re not a team.

The Riddler: [to Batman] You showed me what was possible. You showed me all it takes is fear and a little focused violence. You inspired me.

The Batman: You think you’ll be remembered? You’re a pathetic psychopath, begging for attention. You’re going to die alone in Arkham.
The Riddler: No. No, no!
The Batman: A nobody!

The Riddler: This is not how this was supposed to go! I had it all planned out! We were going to be safe here. We could watch the whole thing together.
The Batman: Watch what?
The Riddler: Everything! It was all there. You mean, you didn’t figure it out? Oh, you’re really not as smart as I thought you were. I guess I gave you too much credit.

The Riddler: What’s black and blue and dead all over? You. If you think you can stop what’s coming.
The Batman: What have you done?

The Riddler:

It’s time for the lies to finally end. False promises of renewal? Change? We’ll give them real, real change now. We’ve spent our lives in this wretched place, suffering! Wondering, “Why us?” Now they will spend their last moments wondering, why them?

Bruce Wayne: Wednesday, November 6th. The city is underwater. The National Guard is coming. Martial law is in effect, but the criminal element never sleeps. Looting and lawlessness will be rampant in the parts of the city no one can get to. I can already see things will get worse before they get better. And some will seize the chance to grab everything they can.

Bruce Wayne: I’m starting to see now. I have had an effect here, but not the one I intended. Vengeance won’t change the past, mine or anyone else’s. I have to become more. People need hope. To know someone’s out there for them. The city’s angry, scarred, like me. Our scars can destroy us. Even after the physical wounds have healed. But if we survive them, they can transform us. They can give us the power to endure, and the strength to fight.

Unseen Arkham Prisoner: [to Riddler] Isn’t that just terrible? Him raining on your parade like that? What is it they say? “One day you’re on top, the next, you’re a clown.” Well, let me tell you, there are worse things to be.

Unseen Arkham Prisoner: Don’t be sad. You did so well. And, you know, Gotham loves a comeback story.
The Riddler: Who are you?
Unseen Arkham Prisoner: Well, that’s the question, isn’t it? Riddle me this. “The less of them you have, the more one is worth.”
The Riddler: A friend.

Selina Kyle: You know this place is never going to change. With Carmine gone, it’s only going to get worse for you. There’s going to be a power grab. It’ll be bloody.
The Batman: I know. But the city can change.
Selina Kyle: It won’t.
The Batman: I have to try.
Selina Kyle: It’s going to kill you eventually. You know that.

Selina Kyle: Why don’t you come with me? Get into some trouble. Knock off some CEO hedge fund types. It’ll be fun. The Bat and the Cat. It’s got a nice ring.
Selina Kyle: [as they see the bat signal] Who am I kidding? You’re already spoken for.
You should go.
The Batman: Selina. Take care of yourself.
[The two ride their motorcycles away with Batman giving her one last look before riding off]