- Sewer King: [after Batman saves him from a subway train] Why? Why? Why?
- Batman: I don't pass sentence. That's for the courts. But this time - THIS TIME - I am sorely tempted to do the job myself.
- [Batman has just saved some kids from playing chicken on the railroad tracks]
- Batman: You play chicken long enough, you fry.
- Batman: Grab my hand!
- Sewer King: Never!
- [Lets go and falls]
- Batman: A gruesome fate for a gruesome man.
- Sewer King: [alive and well] I rather enjoyed it.
- Sewer King: And after all I've done for you ungrateful little monsters, I took you in when nobody else would have you! It is I who care for you, I who provide for you, and only I who knows what's good for you! Would you rather I send you back into the light? Back to those who hurt you and sent you away? There will be nothing to eat until Frog is found! Now, out with you! OUT WITH YOU!
- Sewer King: Lesson number one is: NO TALKING! Children are to be seen and not heard. We are the Underdwellers. We are the silent ones. We follow the invisible creed. But, but, but, but, but, but... someone was talking.
- [Points at Jack]
- Sewer King: You! You, you, you, you, you were heard! And we all know the punishment for talking. Don't we, boys and girls?
- Sewer King: Bravo. Bravo! You've caused me great distress, you evil Bat. Yes yes yes, you have. You've hurt my pretty pets! And you frightened my beloved children.
- Batman: Beloved children?
- Sewer King: Yes! I feed them, I clothe them, I discipline them and I teach them a trade! And now, I'll teach you something!
- Batman: I don't know what kind of barbarian did this to you, but it's over. And from now on, you'll be treated like human beings.
- Sewer King: I think we'll have something to say about that! Yes, we will.