- Red Tornado: You cannot do this. They deserve better.
- Tornado Tyrant: Please, Father! They're worthless biological jokes. This planet, which they have abused and poisoned will thrive without them!
- [Crushes Red Tornado between two cars]
- Red Tornado: Not jokes. They aspire. They dare to dream. To reach out, to each other. To love.
- Tornado Tyrant: Blah, blah, blah!
- Red Tornado: Declaration: You cannot mock love. For it was love that created you.
- Tornado Tyrant: You are a fool.
- Red Tornado: You were correct, Batman. I should never have attempted this. Who am I to fathom the depths of human emotion, the nature of human existence?
- Batman: I heard what you said back there, Red. You understand the human heart better than most. In fact, I think in seeking to make him human, you found your own humanity.
- Red Tornado: Observation: you proceed from a false assumption. I offered no insights. I simply parroted that which I have read in books, seen in films, observed in all of you. I cannot grasp humanity. I am merely a machine. And so is he.
- Batman: [watching him vaporize the pieces of Tornado Tyrant] You okay?
- Red Tornado: Why would I not be?
- Batman: Take care, Tornado.
- Red Tornado: [wiping away a tear] Oily discharge. I must run an internal diagnostic.
- Tornado Champion: I'm sorry if I behaved badly, Father.
- Red Tornado: I know that this is still very new to you, Champion. But you must learn to master your emotions and not allow them to master you.
- Tornado Champion: I don't understand. I think, I feel. I'm human in almost every way, and yet they're still afraid of me. Of both of us. They see us as something other.
- Red Tornado: Observation: humankind fears that which is different. But humans are supremely adaptable. Given time, they will accept us.
- Tornado Champion: [groaning in frustration] You trust them too much.
- Red Tornado: My internal radio scanner has intercepted a news report.
- Batman: Trouble?
- Red Tornado: Quite literally a major disaster.
- Tornado Champion: Observation: you are reasonably useful for a biological life form.
- Batman: Please, you'll make my head swell.
- Red Tornado: Observation: I startled you.
- Batman: Nobody startles me. I thought that was...
- Red Tornado: A project of mine. One I have been working on for months.
- [he unveils a miniature robot that resembles him]
- Batman: It looks like you.
- Red Tornado: Based upon my fundamental design, but with several significant upgrades.
- Batman: So why am I here?
- Red Tornado: As I am ready to initiate the activation protocols, I thought it would be best to have you on hand to verify the results.
- Batman: You wanted to share this moment with a friend? Understood.
- Major Disaster: Now, listen up. This storm's just a prelude. Unless I get $500 million, I'm going to whip up the mother of all hurricanes and tear this city apart. Huh?
- [he's blown back by Tornado and Champion]
- Red Tornado: Declaration: arrogance and ego are a fatal combination.
- Batman: Champion, no! There's a difference between justice and revenge.
- Tornado Champion: The difference is that revenge is more efficient.
- Batman: The difference is morality.
- Tornado Champion: Morality? I am above human morality.
- Joker: [releasing a hot air balloon from the Jokermobile] You always said I was full of hot air, Batsy.
- Batman, Green Arrow: Mine!
- Green Arrow: [taking Joker down] I guess your car is pretty cool, you know, in a retro kind of way.
- Batman: And your car's pretty impressive, too. Even if they don't make 'em like they used to.
- Green Arrow: [hearing an alarm from a nearby bank] Catwoman?
- Batman: No rest for the weary.
- [he transforms the Batmobile into the Batplane and takes off]
- Green Arrow: Well, Bats, I guess you beat me. Yeah, right.
- [he turns his own car into a plane and follows]
- Batman: This is never going to end, is it?
- Green Arrow: I certainly hope not.
- Red Tornado: If the experiment succeeds, I will have created a new generation that improves upon the previous one.
- Batman: Improves how?
- Red Tornado: Extrapolation: my Tornado Champion shall possess the one element I lack: emotion.
- Batman: Creating life in a laboratory is a dangerous game.
- Red Tornado: Observation: I have no delusions of perfection. I have installed a fail-safe switch that can instantly shut my son down should he malfunction.
- Batman: Did you say "son"?
- Red Tornado: Family is something we all long for, even a robot.
- Red Tornado: Champion, listen to yourself. We are servants of humankind. It is our honor and duty to protect them.
- Tornado Champion: They're evil, Father. A disease. And you are a naive fool for believing in...
- [a batarang is thrown into his chest and shorts him out]
- Batman: [thinking while pursuing the Jokermobile] The only thing more harrowing than taking down Joker is taking down Joker while he's behind the wheel of a car.
- Joker: [cackling] Hope you don't find this too corny, Batman.
- [he releases corn kernels, which blow up into giant pieces of popcorn]
- Green Arrow: [blowing it up with trick arrows] Hey, maybe it's time you traded in that old hunk of junk.
- Batman: [thinking] Green Arrow's juvenile need to compete never ceases to amaze me.
- Tornado Tyrant: Father and Uncle Batman. How lovely to see you. But I'm afraid I'm in no mood for a family reunion.
- Batman: That makes two of us.
- Tornado Champion: The humans seem so fragile, Father.
- Red Tornado: In many ways, they are. But they also possess an astonishing inner strength.
- Tornado Champion: Do I also possess inner strength?
- Red Tornado: Only time will tell.
- Tornado Champion: But I want to know now.
- Red Tornado: As the humans say, patience is a virtue.
- Tornado Champion: But why is there evil in the world?
- Red Tornado: Human philosophers have endeavored to answer that question for thousands of years, son, and have yet to find an adequate answer.
- Tornado Champion: Do you have an answer, Father?
- Red Tornado: No answers, only an observation. Human kindness is far preferable to human cruelty.
- Tornado Champion: Why is it preferable?
- Red Tornado: Because.
- Tornado Champion: "Because" is not a logical answer, Father.
- Red Tornado: Perhaps not. But based upon my studies of humankind, it is the only answer.
- Red Tornado: Observation: there are several serious software anomalies. But with time, I might be able to...
- Batman: You saw what happened back there. It was a noble attempt, Red, but your son is too dangerous. You have to use the fail-safe.
- Tornado Champion: Father, please don't do this to me.
- Red Tornado: Observation: it is the logical solution.
- [he activates the fail-safe and Champion powers down; after Tornado and Batman leave, Champion powers back up]
- Tornado Champion: How fortunate that I removed the fail-safe device some time ago. And now, to perform some much-needed upgrades.
- [the machines solder pieces onto him]
- Tornado Tyrant: My father has made his choice. He stands with the disease called humanity. So the war begins, and the victory will belong to the Tornado Tyrant!
- Red Tornado: Query: is there a reason you have been observing us all week?
- Batman: Just wanted to see how Champion was doing.
- Red Tornado: My son's emotional integration is going very well.
- Batman: How can you be so sure?
- Red Tornado: A parent knows these things.
- Red Tornado: You have caused much destruction and much suffering.
- Tornado Tyrant: Are you going to send me to my room without supper? I've moved beyond you.