Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Series)

Journey to the Center of the Bat! (2009)

John DiMaggio: Aquaman

Quotes 

• The Atom : Dr. Choi. Hello?

  Aquaman : Doctor! Aquaman here. What's new, old friend?

  The Atom : I was just in the middle of conducting a delicate tachyon detection experiment, "old friend".

  Aquaman : Tachyons eh? Splendid! Atta boy!

  Batman : Get to the point

• Aquaman : Outrageous! What miracle is this?

  The Atom : As The Atom, I can shrink to the size of a sub-atomic particle and ride electrons along the phone wires.

  Aquaman : Do it again!

• Aquaman : What kind of medicine shall we prescribe, doc?

  The Atom : You don't know what kind of doctor I am, do you?

  Aquaman : A hero doctor! Through and through!

• The Atom : The human lung, mother nature is truly our greatest architect. Look, dendritic cells, alveoli...

  Aquaman : Yes, yes, all very interesting. But how small are we?

  The Atom : About 15 microns. Small enough to slip between Batman's cells without damage. And uh, that's Batman's cilia you're hanging from.

  Aquaman : Cilia an sillier! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Alley-oop!

• The Atom : As we travel through the villi the CP4 barium sonowave will indicate any monoclinic phylosilicates in our vicinity.

  Aquaman : English, man, English!

  The Atom : This little doo-hickey beeps when the cooties are near.

  Aquaman : Ah, I... cooties, yes.

• Aquaman : En garde, you microscopic misanthrope!

• The Atom : It's replicating.

  Aquaman : Yes, and it's making more of itself too.

• The Atom : There's no way they could have spread this quickly unless... Unless Batman disregarded my orders for bed rest and went after Chemo.

  Aquaman : Of course he went after Chemo, he's Batman!

• Aquaman : Good boy. You were magnificent. Yes, big hug!

  The Atom : He's not hugging you. "He" is merely interpreting you as a foreign body to be surrounded and destroyed.

  Aquaman : Sure feels like a hug to me. And since we found you in Batman's blood stream, I think we'll name you Platelet.

  The Atom : Except that's a lymphocyte.

  Aquaman : Platelet it is!

• Aquaman : Come on doc, write us a heroic prescription.

  The Atom : I don't know... every course of action I can think of leads to unacceptable consequences.

  Aquaman : Then this is not the time to think, but the time to act!

  The Atom : What are you doing?

  Aquaman : Drawing their forces so you can destroy the seed cell.

  The Atom : But you'll never survive!

  Aquaman : Perhaps, but at least I'll have one heck of a story!

• The Atom : [after Platelet the lymphocyte is destroyed]  Platelet! Now you've done it.

  [with a scream, he starts punching a phylloscilicate] 

  The Atom : Outrageous. Evildoers, beware my wrath!

  Aquaman : Uh, what about the plan?

  The Atom : Blah, blah, blah! Let's punch 'em!

• The Atom : This goes beyond medicine. Batman's cells are mutating. Before long, they'll overwhelm his central nervous system, causing a loss of motor control, then paralysis, and finally...

  Batman : Then we don't have much time. Chemo's headed out to sea, straight for the Bialyan nuclear test site.

  Aquaman : Forget Chemo, old chum. The Navy can handle him.

  The Atom : He's right. The only way to halt this process is for me to go into your body and destroy the organisms myself.

  Aquaman : Sounds like an adventure. Think you might need a strong swimmer along? One with the heart of a beluga whale?

  The Atom : Oh, I don't think...

  Batman : Take him. You'll need the muscle.

  The Atom : [sighing]  Oh... then promise me you won't do anything foolish. Activity makes the virus spread faster, okay? Say "ah", and remember, stay put.

  [he shrinks himself and Aquaman] 

  Batman : [opening his mouth]  Ah.

  [thinking] 

  Batman : I thought they'd never leave.

• Aquaman : You know, this can't help but remind me of the time I ventured into the belly of a giant squid to retrieve the enchanted pearl needed to save the Falkland Islands.

  The Atom : Let's stay focused on the mission at hand, shall we? Finding those silicon compounds?

  Aquaman : Yes, professor.

• Aquaman : I've not seen heroics like yours since the time I saved an elderly merman from a pack of great whites. Good show. But, you know, coming to my aid like that was not the rational course of action, doc.

  The Atom : Let's call it a momentary lapse in judgment.

  Aquaman : Our victory, though, has come at a great cost. Ah, Platelet.

  The Atom : I'm so sorry, Aquaman. He was a valiant steed. But lymphocytes never last long.

  Aquaman : Come, then, let us honor Platelet and live as heroes. Take us home, old chum.

  The Atom : [cut to a few minutes later]  There's only one way out. Left at the jugular, then on toward a tear duct.

  Aquaman : Tear duct? But surely... Batman never cries.

• Aquaman : What in Davy Jones' locker is happening?

  The Atom : They're mutating. Growing bigger, stronger. It's as if Batman's been exposed to Chemo's toxins all over again.

  Aquaman : Tell me you have a plan.

• The Atom : Now's the time for thinking, not fighting.

  Aquaman : Ha! The problem with you, Atom, is that you think when you should feel.

  The Atom : Time to try things my way. A simple electromagnetic shock will destroy them and cure Batman in the process. Observe.

  [firing a weapon at the phyllosilicates] 

  The Atom : See? Thinking's not so tough. Maybe you should try it sometime.

• Aquaman : I'm calling about Batman. He's... how shall I put this? Shipping a bit of bilge.

  Ryan Choi : Describe the bilge.

  Aquaman : We were fighting that toxic torment Chemo, and the Caped Crusader... well, he took one in the face.

  Ryan Choi : I'll be right there.

• Aquaman : Worry not, Poindexter. I shall lead us to safer ground.

  The Atom : Wait. At our size, blood vessels are raging rivers of death.

  Aquaman : [sending out a telepathic beam]  Not if I summon us a sturdy steed.

  The Atom : And what exactly are you going to summon? This is not the ocean. There are no fish in Batman's...

  [a lymphocyte squeaks] 

  The Atom : I stand corrected.