Diedrich Bader: Booster Gold, H.I.V.E. Master

Quotes 

• Batman : [angry]  What was *that*?

  Booster Gold : What? So now it's my fault I got barbecued?

  Batman : It's never your fault. It wasn't with Grodd or Luthor, or when you got Guy Gardner stuck in the space elevator.

  Booster Gold : Okay, in my defense, that was sort of funny.

  Batman : This isn't a game. People could have gotten hurt.

  Booster Gold : Fine. I messed up. No big deal, right?

  Batman : Not once - repeatedly. It's a pattern of behavior. You're lazy, you're unprofessional, unfocused.

  [Booster Gold keys info into his cellphone] 

  Booster Gold : Sorry, what? I was posting this conversation. Hashtag: Battime.

• Batman : What are you doing?

  Booster Gold : I'm sorry, Bats. I have to push you outside the time stream. Just trust me.

  Batman : Booster, do that and I'll be returned to just before we left. I won't remember any of this.

  Booster Gold : That's okay, Bats. I will.

  Batman : I was wrong about you. You're a better person than anybody gives you credit for. Maybe one day, I'll find that out.

• Booster Gold : Bats, come on, I'll do better next time.

  Batman : Booster, you're the worst crimefighter I've ever known.

• [Batman and Booster Gold are battling a chronovore who literally eats time] 

  Booster Gold : It's not enough. We're not going to make it.

  Batman : I don't accept that. Think! You said you'd beaten creatures like this before.

  Booster Gold : Yeah, but never this big.

  Batman : Still, you fought them. What's different about this time? Why now?

  Booster Gold : There's two of us. That's twice the drain on my power cells. I'm only half as effective.

• Batman : Why didn't you tell anyone this is how you spend your time.

  Booster Gold : I guess I never saw the big deal. It's like, have you ever had rats in your attic? So you need a rat guy, right? Though nobody ever sets out to be the rat guy, but somebody's got to do it. I'm time's rat guy.

• [first lines] 

  [Batman and Wonder Woman are battling H.I.V.E. Master and his drones] 

  H.I.V.E Master : Free will is a disease. Eusocial behavior is the only true hierarchy. Submit to cooperation. Submit to the H.I.V.E.!

  Wonder Woman : [to Batman]  Do you remember when we fought villains who weren't weird?

  Batman : No.

• [last lines] 

  [returning to the timeline immediately after the fight with H.I.V.E. Master] 

  Batman : Booster, you're the worst crimefighter I've ever known.

  Booster Gold : [angrily]  You know what?

  [Booster exhales] 

  Booster Gold : Nothing. Nothing. Just, you know, never mind. You're right, Bats. You're always right

  [Batman stalks away from Booster Gold and meets Wonder Woman] 

  Wonder Woman : You sure you weren't too hard on him?

  Batman : No. He needs this.