Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Perchance to Dream (1992)

Roddy McDowall: The Mad Hatter, Jervis Tetch

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Quotes 

• Bruce Wayne : [looking over a high ledge]  You're wrong. There is a way for me to wake up.

  The Mad Hatter : N-now just a moment! You don't want to do anything foolish! This isn't an ordinary dream! What if you're wrong?

  Bruce Wayne : Then I'll see you in your nightmares!

• Dr. Jervis Tetch : It's impossible! No one's will is strong enough to escape my dream machine!

  Batman : Why? Why did you do it?

  Dr. Jervis Tetch : You, of all people, have the gall to ask me that? You ruined my life! I was willing to give you whatever life you wanted, just to keep you out of mine!

• [after the Batman impostor is revealed] 

  Bruce Wayne : The Mad Hatter?

  The Mad Hatter : Congratulations are in order, I suppose. And you're right! This is a dream, a very special dream.

  Bruce Wayne : Then you know everything about me?

  The Mad Hatter : I do! But I'm only a part of your dream. The mind control apparatus I've hooked you to reveals nothing to the outside world - its purpose is to create an ideal fantasy world for you!

  Bruce Wayne : Then you're not the real Mad Hatter.

  The Mad Hatter : No. Just a figment of your imagination. But that doesn't mean I'm not real - in this dream world!

  Bruce Wayne : Make it stop!

  The Mad Hatter : I'm crushed! You don't like the fantasy world I've created for you?

  Bruce Wayne : It's not real!

  The Mad Hatter : Ah! Are you the dreamer or are you part of someone else's dream? That's exactly the question Tweedledee put to Alice in 'Through the Looking... '

  Bruce Wayne : This isn't some silly storybook!

  The Mad Hatter : Oh, but it is! It's a beautiful story! You have love, wealth, a family, all you ever wanted! Your own private Wonderland!

  Bruce Wayne : NO! I won't live a lie! No matter how attractive you make it!

  The Mad Hatter : It's a moot point, my friend. There's no way out!