Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Knight Time (1998)

Tim Daly: Superman, Clark Kent

Quotes 

• [Superman, disguised as Batman, sneaks into Wayne Industries with Robin after a meeting with Commissioner Gordon] 

  Robin : So how'd you do Batman's voice?

  Superman : [as Batman]  Precise muscle control.

  Superman : [as Robin]  Plus, I have a pretty good ear.

  Robin : [annoyed]  Don't do that again.

• Superman : So you're the famous Roxy Rocket.

  Roxanne Sutton : You're as smart as you are handsome.

  Superman : I didn't think you were foolish enough to make trouble in my town.

  Roxanne Sutton : Well, with Batman missing, the other crooks in Gotham are picking the city clean. I thought I'd try my luck here.

  Superman : Back up. What do you mean, "Batman missing?"

  Roxanne Sutton : I thought you'd know. Don't all you spandex boys have club meetings or something?

  Superman : We're not exactly friends.

  Roxanne Sutton : Aw. I'll be your friend.

  Superman : Sorry, little girl. You're going home.

• Superman : So you're handling the whole city *yourself*? During a crime spree?

  Robin : [notices Bat-signal in the sky]  Oh, not again! It gets worse every time he doesn't show.

  Superman : Then this time, he will.

• The Mad Hatter : [examining mind-controlling nanites under a microscope]  I'll tell thee everything I can; there's little to relate. These little fishers, I perceive, may have no earthly mate.

  Superman : [disguised as Batman]  "No earthly mate?"

  Robin : The bugs aren't yours?

  The Mad Hatter : Mine, no! I'd be proud if they were. I've stolen from the best: WayneTech, LexCorp, S.T.A.R. Labs. This circuitry is far more advanced than anything I've ever seen. I daresay it may even be of ALIEN origin.

• [last lines] 

  Bruce Wayne : I hear the city's been busy.

  Superman : Nothing the kid couldn't handle. I've got to say, for a guy who's supposed to be such a loner, you sure know how to pick a partner.

• Superman : [referring to Batman]  Where's your boss?

  Robin : Around...

  Superman : Okay, let's try this another way... where's *Bruce*?

• [Superman, disguised as Batman, and Robin meet with Commissioner Gordon, who tells them about a heist] 

  Commissioner James Gordon : We've got a photo.

  [he hands it to Superman, who studies it without recognition] 

  Robin : [whispering]  Bane!

  Superman : [feigning recognition]  Ah, yes. Bane.

• Robin : [referring to Batman]  He's really being controlled by aliens?

  [makes face] 

  Robin : Ugh!

  Superman : I'm deeply hurt.

  Robin : Sorry.

• [trying to evade Superman by riding her rocket into a tunnel, Roxy Rocket finds him waiting for her at the other end] 

  Roxy Rocket : [admiringly]  What-a-body.

  Superman : It'll hurt you a lot more than me.

  Roxy Rocket : I'll risk it! Will you?

• [Robin creates a false alarm to distract the guards so that he and Superman, disguised as Batman, can sneak into Wayne Industries] 

  Robin : C'mon!

  Superman : All this sneaking around isn't exactly my style.

  Robin : What do you mean? It's half the fun!

• [Robin and Superman, disguised as Batman, trace a sound Superman heard on the video e-mail to Wayne Aerospace] 

  Robin : You DO have a good ear. This site was supposed to be mothballed.

  [notices gun turret on rocketship] 

  Robin : That looks friendly.

  Superman : Actually, it looks... Kryptonian.

• Bruce Wayne : Everybody's gone. We're alone.

  [Brainiac emerges from another room] 

  Brainiac : Well done, Mr. Wayne.

  [Superman, disguised as Batman, is watching from hiding] 

  Superman : Brainiac...

• [after meeting with Commissioner Gordon, Superman, disguised as Batman, and Robin walk to the edge of the roof] 

  Robin : That was close.

  [pulls out his grapple gun] 

  Superman : You're telling me. The sooner we find your boss, the better.

  [Superman gropes through Batman's utility belt, searching for his grapple gun] 

  Robin : Right side.

  [They fire their grapple lines and swing away] 

• Superman : [Bruce is missing]  So he tells you he's at work, and he tells work he's on vacation. Can you track where the call came from?

  Robin : Already did. New Zealand.

  Superman : So either Bruce is hopping around the globe...

  Robin : Or someone's faking the traces to hide where he is.

  Superman : Maybe something here will tell us where he really went.

  [picking up a sheet of paper] 

  Superman : That's strange. Something's moving on these papers. Nanites.

  Robin : I don't see anything.

  Superman : They're microscopic robots.

  [picking up the receiver of Bruce's phone] 

  Superman : They're all over the phone. And there's a needle in the earpiece. Someone's injected nanites into Bruce's body. He's under some kind of mind control.

• The Penguin : Even if I did know where to find the Mad Hatter, I'm no stool pigeon. Why should I tell you?

  Superman : [as Batman]  A man's life is in danger. Isn't that enough?

  The Penguin : [indifferently]  You're breaking my heart.

  Robin : [quietly]  Kick over the desk.

  [Superman glances at him] 

  Robin : Just do it!

  Superman : [doing so]  I won't ask twice.

  The Penguin : All right, no need to get your feathers ruffled. It happens our capped compadre is attending a meeting of notable ne'er-do-wells. They're hatching a plot to capitalize on your purported disappearance.

  Superman : [picking him up]  *Where*?

  Robin : Now he's getting it.

• Brainiac : [upon seeing that Batman was really Superman in disguise]  Kal-El. This development was highly improbable.

  Superman : Today's been full of surprises.

  [punches Brainiac] 

• Robin : He called me. Said he'd be away on business and I shouldn't worry. But he was weird. He wasn't himself. And he wouldn't just bail like this without telling Batgirl or Nightwing to fill in.

  Superman : What do they think's going on?

  Robin : Batgirl traced the phone call to Romania. They went over there to find some old guy who might've kidnapped him. Ghoul something.

• Superman : How are you feeling?

  Bruce Wayne : Better. The nanites are dissolving away on their own.

  Tim Drake : I guess with that Brainiac guy toasted, they just knew to self-destruct.

  Superman : I'd check your computer systems anyway. Brainiac has a way of leaving a little of himself behind.

• Brainiac : I suspected that we might meet, Batman.

  Superman : [as Batman]  You got into Wayne's computers during his partnership with LexCorp.

  Brainiac : Yes.

  Superman : You saw that his company could build you a rocket, so you took control of Bruce Wayne and had him authorize the project.

  Brainiac : You're every bit the detective that your followers on the Internet believe.

  Superman : I also know how you work: collect a planet's knowledge, then destroy it. I can't allow you to leave.

  Brainiac : What you allow does not concern me. While your deductive skills are impressive, you are still only human.