Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Series)
Journey to the Center of the Bat! (2009)
James Sie: Ryan Choi, The Atom
Quotes
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.