Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Series)

Mystery in Space! (2009)

John DiMaggio: Aquaman, Gorilla Grodd

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• Alanna : Batman has arrived, and he's brought a friend.

  Batman : Sardath, high-science archon of Rann, this is Aquaman.

  Sardath : Welcome, Aquaman. If the most brilliant strategist on Earth sees fit to bring you to Rann in our hour of need, you'll doubtless prove an invaluable ally.

  Aquaman : Oh, how I wish that were true.

  Batman : [seeing Sardath's look]  He's not feeling well.

• Adam Strange : The Gordanians must be searching for the Eye of Zared. A legendary doomsday weapon created millennia ago during the civil war that almost destroyed Rann. It'd be located in the ruins of Zared, which was swallowed up eons ago by the sea of Abyx.

  Sardath : Oh, dear. If the Gordanians get their hands on it, countless worlds would be destroyed.

  Batman : Then the three of us should head out immediately.

  Alanna : Aren't you forgetting someone? Judging from your last escapade, you boys can't get along without me.

  Adam Strange : No, my interplanetary sweetheart. It's too dangerous.

  Alanna : Any peril you face for Rann, my love, we face together.

  Aquaman : [rolling his eyes]  Great grouper.

• Batman : It's time to fight fire with fire.

  [he takes Adam's jet pack and uses the thrusters to cut a hole in the floor] 

  Adam Strange : Fantastic. But hurry. I like my tan just the way it is. Ha ha!

  Aquaman : Laughter in the face of danger? Does he not understand what's at stake?

• Batman : [Alanna has been captured]  It's too late. The Gordanians have her.

  Aquaman : I'm sorry, Adam.

  Batman : The best way for you to help her now is to join in the fight to bring down that thing.

  Adam Strange : Great stars! They have the Eye of Zared. According to legend, the Eye is invulnerable to attack.

  Batman : It may be more than legend. It runs on solar energy. And as long as the Eye stays on the day side of the planet, it will run perpetually.

  Adam Strange : Then that's it. It's over. Rann. Alanna. I've failed everyone. Everything.

  Aquaman : What has gotten into you, man? Alanna is alive! Rann is alive! You're alive. And where there is life, there's always hope.

  Adam Strange : But we're outgunned.

  Aquaman : So what? We don't even use guns.

  Adam Strange : The Eye is invulnerable.

  Aquaman : All the better to prove we are true heroes.

  Adam Strange : Alanna is their captive.

  Aquaman : For now. This isn't the end. It's an opportunity. Most men wait their entire lives in vain for a moment like this. A chance to matter. A call to adventure. Adam, answer that call.

  Batman : You sound like a man with a plan.

• Batman : [thinking]  The effects of a zeta-beam only last temporarily. We'll have to work fast when we get to Rann.

  Aquaman : Great Neptune's beard!

  Batman : The zeta-beam's dropped us in the middle of a firefight.

  Aquaman : In the middle of the sky?

  Batman : Adam Strange. As punctual as ever.

  Adam Strange : How nice of you to drop in.

• Sardath : A Gordanian battle tripod. Our defenses are no match against such a force.

  Aquaman : Then all is lost. Woe is us. Perhaps it's not too late to surrender.

  Batman : I think I've got a better idea.

• Gorilla Grodd : Where am I?

  Equinox : Exactly where you deserve to be, Grodd.

  Gorilla Grodd : I'll crush your miserable human skull.

  Equinox : I'm afraid your latest plan for global conquest would disturb the equilibrium. And for that, you must be eliminated from the equation.

  The Question : The question is, what am I doing here? I was trying to put a stop to Grodd's scheme. Why destroy me?

  Equinox : Ah, Question. To keep everything equal, of course. If I eliminate a black pawn, a white pawn must go, too. It's an essential part of my quest to bring the world into complete balance.

  Batman : Funny. You sound like the least balanced person I've met in a long time.

• Batman : Aquaman, is something bothering you?

  Aquaman : I don't know. I guess I just don't see the point to this hero stuff anymore. Nobody can really help anyone else. Not really.

  Batman : [thinking]  That tears it.

  [out loud] 

  Batman : You're coming with me.

• Aquaman : What we need is an eclipse.

  Sardath : But that's not possible. Rann has no moon.

  Aquaman : Maybe. But our Earth does have a moon. And we're going to need to use that zeta-beam contraption to capture it. How's your aim, Batman?

  Batman : Impeccable.

  Aquaman : We'll see about that.

  [laughing, then to Adam] 

  Aquaman : And you. Are you willing to face impossible odds to save the woman you love?

  Adam Strange : Of course.

  Aquaman : Good answer.

• Adam Strange : There. It's the ancient city.

  Batman : Looks like there are some new arrivals to the neighborhood.

  Adam Strange : Great stars! The Eye of Zared.

  Alanna : They found it. And they're almost finished excavating it.

  Adam Strange : It's time for Operation Sea Sanction.

  Batman : We're outnumbered, Adam. There may be a better way. Aquaman, can your telepathy summon the ocean creatures to help us against the Gordanians?

  Aquaman : Suppose we could try.

  Alanna : [he swims a few feet away and sends a telepathy beam]  The horned whales of Abyx.

  Adam Strange : Excellent. Have them flank the Gordanian excavation crew and draw their fire while we head straight in through the middle...

  Aquaman : [shooing the whales away]  Go! Get out of here! Now!

  Adam Strange : What is wrong with you? You've been nothing but an albatross around the neck of this mission. I heard stories of your great heroism, but clearly they were works of great fiction.

  Aquaman : You want some of me, helmet boy?

  Batman : [pushing them apart]  Adam, Aquaman and I need a moment alone.

• Aquaman : Strange, you need to buy us some time. Get into the Eye of Zared and distract those scaly fiends. Oh, and rescue your lady while you're at it.

• Batman : Okay, what's going on with you?

  Aquaman : I don't know what you're talking about.

  Batman : We've been friends a long time, Aquaman. I've never known you to be depressed or half-hearted or unheroic.

  Aquaman : Well, it's just... I was on patrol last month when I received word that some beluga whales were being illegally hunted in the Bering Sea. By the time I reached the whales, it was too late. I was too late. It wasn't a daring exploit or a heroic adventure. It was a tragedy. And it was my fault.

  Batman : You know it wasn't. But we may have another tragedy on our hands if we don't get back to the old Aquaman, the one who makes people believe victory is possible even in the face of overwhelming odds.

  Aquaman : I'm sorry, Batman, but that Aquaman was a fool.

• Aquaman : Oh, hello, old chum. Seems you've caught me singing the sad song of the sea. As interpreted by the beluga whale. Now, tell me, what brings you to this lovely... though ultimately temporary, stretch of sand?

  Batman : Well, at any moment, I'll be catching a zeta-beam for a solo mission to the planet Rann.

  [thinking] 

  Batman : It's important to stress "solo mission." Aquaman's enthusiasm for adventure usually means he'll invite himself along.

  Aquaman : Well, better you than me. Good luck, boss.

  Batman : You don't want to... tag along?

  Aquaman : No, not really.

  Batman : You sure? Adam Strange summoned me to his adopted home world because it's being invaded by the Gordanians, and I could really use your help.

• Aquaman : The Gordanians?

  Batman : They surrendered. Without their doomsday weapon, they've agreed to talks. And our moon's back where it belongs

  Aquaman : [seeing Adam and Alanna]  Too bad. Looks like those two could use a little moonlight. A fitting end to the strange encounter of the reptile men.