# Batman: Gotham Knight

Batman: Gotham Knight is a collection of six animated short films set in between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, depicting Batman's transition from novice vigilante to experienced crime-fighter.

## Bruce Wayne/Batman

* It works too well. I'm willing to put my life on the line to do what I have to. But it has to be mine. No one else's.
* You're MCU, aren't you? Gordon's squad? Lieutenant Gordon is a good judge of character.
* It was just like that night in the alley, Alfred... the closeness of the walls, the gunfire. It seems I've been trying to stop those two bullets all my life.
* Now why would someone want to shoot me, Mr. Fox?
* Shoot your mouth off now, Deadshot.
* I admire a man who vows to rebuild the neighborhood and starts by building a golf course.
* You get the docks. You stay in the slums. That's the arrangement 'til I can get something on you. And then you can fight over who gets the top bunk in Blackgate. Got it?!
* It's like I've been trying to stop those two bullets my entire life. It's a fool's dream, Alfred. Sometimes I feel like I should just be done with it.
* It's something I manage.

## Dialogue

    Ronald Marshall: Got any interest in some poker tonight?
    Bruce: I have some business to attend to.
    Ronald: Is that right? Blonde or brunette?
    Bruce: Half Russian, half Italian.
    Ronald: Wow. Now that's a handful.
    Homeless Man: Hey Bat, when you flyin', what the city look like from up on high?
    Batman: It looks dirty.
    Alfred Pennyworth: It's a bagful of tragedy, sir. I can't see how you could even bear to handle one.
    Bruce Wayne: You have to know your enemy, Alfred. I'd never use one, but even I can appreciate the attraction of a gun. The heft. The sleekness. The cool steel. The precision. And the power. The power to change lives, history. The power of God.
    Deadshot: He's either the bravest man I've ever faced, or a complete fool.
    Batman: Alfred, how's the satellite picture?
    Alfred Pennyworth: Splendid. I can almost see your pointy ears, sir.
    Sal Maroni: I'll do it! I'LL DO IT!
    Batman: No. You won't.
    Lt. James Gordon: Are you in pain?
    Batman: I work through pain.
    Alfred: Sir! Give me your hand!
    Batman: I... I can't.
    Batman: The Scarecrow's here with an army of escaped Arkham inmates and homeless. They've all be poisoned with toxin.
    Lieutenant James Gordon: Where are you, Batman?
    Batman: Beneath the East Reservoir, I guess. In the old Weir Chambers.
    Lieutenant Gordon: I'm sending reinforcements now. Just hold tight until we get there.
    Batman: No time for that.
    B-Devil: Yo, wait a minute. Batman never cut nobody's head off. Everybody knows he don't ever kill nobody.
    Meesh: I'm making it more colorful, yo
    Bruce Wayne: [W]hy don't you leave?
    Cassandra: Because, this is where I belong. In your life, isn't there such a place?
    Deadshot: Another happy customer.
    Lt. Gordon: Got a lead on your 'Killer Croc.' His name's Waylon Jones. He was an inmate at Arkham Asylum - and a former test subject in Dr. Crane's fear-aversion therapy program.
    Batman: Which means he's twice as twisted now that Crane's had a go at him.

## About Batman: Gotham Knight

* If I have a story, if I have something to say, that’s my motivation. For this film, I had something to say about Bruce Wayne as a character, what his motivations are. That there’s something dark and wrong about what drives him. Batman is a super hero and he does good. But I think the Bruce Wayne part of the character’s motivation is slightly twisted. Bruce’s motivations don’t come from a good place. He’s angry and, in that revenge is really his goal, he’s a dishonest character. That’s why he has to wear a mask. He’s doing good, but he’s not doing all the right things for all the right reasons. That plays into this story. It should be a story about non-violence, but that’s the lesson that Bruce doesn’t learn. On the surface, Bruce is on a spiritual journey, but his spirit was corrupted when his parents were killed. And it’s not something that I think he’s even interested in fixing.
** Brian Azzarello, "Interview Brian Azzarello on Batman Gotham Knight", Major Spoilers, (05/09/2008).
* The image of Batman coming through flaming wreckage was pretty much exactly as I wanted it. I really was trying to get the psychological impact of seeing this man, who maybe isn’t a man if you don’t know, coming through the flames â€“ literally a walking, talking, burning bush, standing and staring the villain down. If somebody was staring me down from the middle of flames, they could have anything they want. I think the animators executed that really well.
** Greg Rucka, “Interview with “Batman Gotham Knight” Writer Greg Rucka”, by Sam Sloan, Sliceofscifi, (May 23, 2008).

## Cast

* Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne/Batman
* David McCallum as Alfred Pennyworth
* Jim Meskimen as Lt. James Gordon, Floyd Lawton/Deadshot
* Kevin Michael Richardson as Lucius Fox, Avery, Wounded Man, Bulky Man
* George Newbern as Man in Black, Guido, Man, Youth 3
* Gary Dourdan as Detective Crispus Allen
* Ana Ortiz as Detective Anna Ramirez
* Corey Burton as Yuri Dimitrov, Ronald Marshall, The Scarecrow
* Will Friedle as Anton, Cultist, Youth 1
* Jason Marsden as Cop, Doctor, Youth 2, Thomas Wayne
* Scott Menville as B-Devil, Cop
* Rob Paulsen as Sal Maroni, Mole Man, Youth 4
* Parminder Nagra as Cassandra
* Corey Padnos as Porkchop
* Crystal Scales as Meesh
* Alanna Ubach as Dander
* Hynden Walch as Young Bruce Wayne, Young Cassandra, Woman, Female Campaign Worker
* Andrea Romano as Martha Wayne, Dispatcher
* Pat Musick as News Anchor
* Brian George as Arman, Scruffy Man, O'Fallon

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Batman: Gotham Knight on Wikipedia
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