22 Memorable Quotes From DC Animated Movie Injustice

Batman guesses it even before Superman breaks the news to him that he’s going to be a father. Superman, whose hands didn’t even tremble while facing some of the strongest villains in the universe, had finally changed after Lois became pregnant. The prospect of being a father had changed Clark forever.

The Joker’s masterpiece joke was going to be Superman himself. He was going to ruin Superman and change him forever. That was “the killing joke” that he’d planned to pull off.

When being asked for a reason as to why he did all that he did, the Joker reminds Batman that all his life, not one thing he’s ever done has had a reason behind it. He did things just for the sake of it. He was the true master of chaos, a real madman.

After descending from space and realising the full extent of what he’s done, Superman takes time to process everything that happened. He had his wife, his unborn child and his entire city taken from him. And he blames himself for it. It is this guilt that throws him down a path of madness and chaos.

When Superman is about to go in search of the Joker with vengeance in his eyes, Green Lantern tries to stop him and talk some sense into him. He tries to remind him of the goodness within him and warns him not to lose sight of it.

The Joker’s masterpiece joke was going to be Superman himself. His plan was to ruin him and corrupt him forever. And that’s what Batman wrongly assumes will not happen. Grief changes people profoundly. And he was yet to see how it would change Superman forever.

After everything from him was taken away by the Joker, Superman was ruined. He was broken beyond words and was in pain. But Batman still had faith in him. He still believed that Superman will be able to rise from his pain and continue to be the hero he always was.

Joker’s masterpiece joke was going to destroy the world. He knew that what he did would change Superman forever. The scar will never fade and all the world will have to pay for it too.

Wonder Woman had no faith in human laws. And is she wrong? Even the safest democracies in the world are secretly oligarchies controlled by those evil men at the top. None of the laws apply to them. They have the power to twist them to suit their needs. The laws of human civilization are indeed weak and fragile.

After Lois’ death and the incineration of Metropolis, Superman vows to change the world forever. He decides ideals and principles are indeed fragile. The values that he was holding onto for so long could not safeguard the lives of the people in his city. He was adamant to not let that happen again.

Superman takes it upon himself to change the world. He had the power to bring peace by force and he was not going to hold back anymore. No act of violence was going to be tolerated. No person was going to be allowed to threaten peace anymore.

Superman declares to the world that peace will be enforced by him. He orders a ceasefire all around the world. No more innocent lives were going to be taken anymore. Peace was going to be forced upon the world by him. Wars, violence and atrocities would be vanquished forever.

Superman was done with playing by human rules. He held back for so long and all that led to was the death of his wife, his unborn child and eleven million people from his city. He was going to stop all wars and enforce peace with fear and force. Every person who dares to even think of hurting another had to be scared of the consequences. Only then, he believed, could peace be a reality.

Superman’s code was to never take a life on his own. He used to believe that no person had the right to take another’s life. But he broke that code when he murdered the Joker. And Batman knew very well that it was always the first murder that sets you down a rabbit-hole of evil. It always starts with one and never stops there.

Superman had a scar on him inflicted upon him by the Joker. He had everything taken from him. His wife, his child and his entire city. He was grieving and in immense pain. Grief had the power to change people in unthinkable ways. It leads one to break the code, the values and ideals they’ve held on for so long. It gives you dangerous freedom to let out the demons that stay dormant within you.

Nightwing’s death had affected Batman deeply. He was grieving and in pain. He was angry and broken into pieces. It’s then that Catwoman comes to be by his side. He asks him to take down his mask and not keep away the burden of being The Batman.

Grief can break us apart. Nightwing’s death had taken its toll on Batman. And sometimes what needs to be done is to let ourselves be broken, to feel the pain and embrace it. Catwoman asks him to let himself fall apart because no matter how deep in darkness he falls into, she’ll always be there to pull him out.

After being stabbed accidentally by Green Arrows, as Jonathan Kent lay dying, all he asks from Superman, his son, is to find the strength to forgive them. Even as he breathed his last, the pain in his eyes as he saw his son’s descent into certain madness was apparent. He didn’t want his death to push him down further.

Just as Batman had predicted, it always starts with one. Superman, who always stood by the code to never harm another human, had broken it when he killed The Joker. And he wasn’t going to stop there. This moment, when he showed no remorse over killing children just because he was angry and in fact justified it as being a necessary lesson, was the most defining moment for his character arc. He had finished his plunge into madness and the demon within him had been let loose. There remained not a shadow of the Superman that was the saviour of Earth.

After Deathwing helps him defeat Ra’s Al Ghul, Robin finally comes to peace with the fact that maybe, Dick Grayson might actually be better than him. He was never ready to accept defeat. It always hurt his ego to see Dick being the better man. But no more was going to live in denial.

Lois Lane from the multiverse is brought to talk some sense into Superman. She is disgusted by what Clark has turned into. He may not have realised it but he had unknowingly turned into a monster who killed children, men and women for the idea of peace that he believed in.

Right after defeating Superman, Batman remarks that maybe all of them have earned a second chance. And indeed, they did. They were almost at the verge of death, destruction and an imminent dystopia. If it was not for Lois, all of them would have been turned to dust. Finally, they could let out a sigh of relief.