- [it's Superman's birthday; Batman shows Wonder Woman his gift - it's just an envelope]
- Wonder Woman: Bruce, you didn't get him a gift certificate, did you?
- Batman: No!
- [pause]
- Batman: Cash.
- [last lines]
- [Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman look at Mongul, imprisoned by the Black Mercy]
- Wonder Woman: I wonder what he's seeing?
- Batman: [with feeling] Whatever it is, it's too good for him.
- Van-El: Can we go up to the room, Grandpa?
- Kal-El: Somebody wants to see the Macroscope.
- Jor-El: Go on up with your father, Van.
- Jonathan Kent: [Jor-El's voice changes to Jonathan Kent's] I'll be along in a few minutes.
- [Superman eyes grow big and he notices something wrong]
- Jor-El: Something's bothering you.
- Kal-El: [pointing to areas of seismic activity on a map] Here, and here, and here.
- Jor-El: A series of mild tremors. Not unusual. I don't see...
- Kal-El: Something's wrong, Dad. Something's going to happen, I can feel it and...
- Jor-El: Oh, so you're a scientist now.
- Kal-El: Dad...
- Jor-El: Do I have to remind you on a certain prediction of my own? Made, I'm embarrassed to say, when you were only a few days old? I announced to the world that Krypton was going to explode. And it took me years to salvage my reputation.
- Kal-El: But maybe you were right. Maybe...
- [Notices Van-El listening in on the conversation]
- Kal-El: ...Maybe I've just been working too hard.
- Jor-El: The past is dead. Focus on the future.
- Mongul: You know for a moment there, I almost believed you were going to kill me. How stupid of you to hesitate like that. Not a mistake I'll make, I can assure you.
- [Batman notices an open canister at Superman's feet]
- Batman: So, it was a gift.
- [Examines half of the canister]
- Batman: Teleported here from some alien culture, some grateful world... or someone wanting you to think they were grateful.
- Mongul: How remarkable.
- [Batman looks around until he sees Mongul holding an unconscious Wonder Woman]
- Mongul: You animals really are almost intelligent, aren't you? That's exactly what happened.
- Batman: [rises to his feet] Mongul.
- Mongul: [starts to approach Batman] You recognize me. I'm flattered. I suppose Superman told you all about our previous encounter.
- Batman: You mean how he humiliated you?
- Mongul: A... jaundiced account.
- Mongul: [holding Wonder Woman up] What inferior specimens he surrounds himself with. I took her down before she even knew I was there, and I'll take this planet just as easily.
- [Wonder Woman's eyes quickly open and she kicks Mongul, causing him to fall]
- Wonder Woman: Maybe not as easily as you think.
- [Mongul rubs his jaw and glares at her]
- Wonder Woman: We inferior specimens call it playing possum.
- [Mongul rises to his feet and he and Wonder Woman get into fighting stances before Batman steps between them]
- Batman: No.
- Wonder Woman: No?
- Mongul: Clearly, the males on this world are the smart ones.
- [to Wonder Woman; slowly]
- Mongul: He wants to know about the plant. The Black Mercy is a telepathic species. It reads the heart's desire and feeds the individual a totally convincing simulation of it.
- Batman: So, he's dreaming.
- Mongul: Oh, far deeper than any dream. I wonder where he thinks he is. Sitting on a throne, ruling the universe, all you human garbage fawning at his feet. More honest, don't you think, than this pretense of being a selfless hero?
- [Wonder Woman lunges at him and delivers a one-two combo which makes him stagger but hurts her hands]
- Mongul: You don't understand. He was the only obstacle in my way. The rest of you are already dead.
- Young Bruce Wayne: Beware my terrible sword! Ha-ha! Let all evildoers beware my...
- [Joe Chill comes out of the shadows, brandishing a gun]
- Joe Chill: We'll start with the pretty pearls around the lady's neck. Now.