History Awesome / BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns

--> He can feel his pulse, just below his ears. He knows he's gone crazy. But the mugger is running, afraid. Afraid of Peppi.\\
--> [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Nobody is hurt badly enough for this to make the news.]]

--> A devout Catholic, Peppi Spandeck can't say he approves of this Batman.\\
--> And when he hears a woman scream down the street he knows he should be afraid.\\
--> Instead he's looking at the alarm system that cost him two months profits and the iron bars over his windows that make his beautiful shop look like a prison...\\

And when he hears a woman scream down the street he knows he should be afraid.\\
Instead he's looking at the alarm system that cost him two months profits and the iron bars over his windows that make his beautiful shop look like a prison...\\
He can feel his pulse, just below his ears. He knows he's gone crazy. But the mugger is running, afraid. Afraid of Peppi.\\
[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Nobody is hurt badly enough for this to make the news.]]

--> A devout Catholic, Peppi Spandeck can't say he approves of this Batman. And when he hears a woman scream down the street he knows he should be afraid. Instead he's looking at the alarm system that cost him two months profits and the iron bars over his windows that make his beautiful shop look like a prison...\\

--> A devout Catholic, Peppi Spandeck can't say he approves of this Batman. And when he hears a woman scream down the street he knows he should be afraid... Instead he's looking at the alarm system that cost him two months profits and the iron bars over his windows that make his beautiful shop look like a prison...\\

* "This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching, muscle--broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would...but I'm a man of thirty--of twenty again. [[RedemptionInTheRain The rain on my chest is a baptism]]--[[HesBack I'm born again."]] A CrowningMomentOfAwesome for both Franchise/{{Batman}} and Creator/FrankMiller.

* The WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries adaptation in ''Legends of the Dark Knight.'' One of if not the best portrayals of Creator/FrankMiller's works ever.
** [[http://media.dcentertainment.com/sites/default/files/DarkKnightLightining.jpg The iconic lightning strike image is recreated perfectly in the animated film.]]
** The animated version's lack of internal monologue makes all the [[MookHorrorShow Mook Horror Show]] even scarier, especially the famous through-the-wall-grab scene and the first batch of goons at the construction site.

* Toward the middle of the book we see the negative effects Batman has over the populace, inspiring copycats or lunatics with guns to take the law into their own hands. At the end of these long, drawn-out scenes, we get a brief glimpse of a normal citizen reading about all of these incidents in the news and thinking about how disgusted he is at Batman's return. In four panels we see that in spite of all the violence, Batman does spark something in decent Gothamites who just want a better life for themselves. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.

[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Nobody is hurt badly enough for this to make the news.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Batman v Superman: Dawn of Asskicking]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Asskicking]]

[[caption-width-right:350:...I want you to remember the one man who BEAT you.]]

** Batman: "You're ''never'' finished with ''me''!"

** Batman: "You're never finished with me."

** [[spoiler: Going by the film's adaptation and a close re-reading of the comic, Batman utilized some good-ol' Brazilian jiujitsu to break the mutant leader's arm via an arm bar...which left the schmuck's leg vulnerable to a knee bar...that Batman understandably just kept wrenching.]]

* "This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching, muscle--broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would...but I'm a man of thirty--of twenty again. [[RedemptionInTheRain The rain on my chest is a baptism]]--[[HesBack I'm born again."]] A CrowningMomentOfAwesome for both Franchise/{{Batman}} and FrankMiller.

* The WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries adaptation in ''Legends of the Dark Knight.'' One of if not the best portrayals of FrankMiller's works ever.

** More specifically about [[spoiler:the showdown. Batman, an aging mortal man with no supernatural powers, takes on Superman, an overpowered alien from another galaxy. How does he manage it? Superman's weakened from the nuclear missile that nearly killed him. Batman himself is in a robot suit that's draining Gotham's entire power supply so he can be full levels of badass. Batman starts off by hitting Superman with missiles and a sonic gun to further weaken him. He hits Supes with an electrical attack that would be the equivalent of a human falling onto a transformer. He also has GreenArrow shoot Supes with a trick arrow filled with powdered Kryptonite. How does the battle go? Batman inevitably loses...but only because of a heart attack -- THAT HE FAKED. Not only does everything go according to plan, had he (for some reason) been so inclined he could have killed Superman then and there.]]

** And now the first half of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMli3MopNs the full film]] of the story has been released, and it is every bit as epic as the source material. It easily beats out the animated short.

* The Joker [[spoiler: breaking his ''own'' neck to frame Batman. '''AFTER BECOMING QUADRIPLEGIC!!!''']]

* [[spoiler:The Joker breaking his ''own'' neck to frame Batman. '''AFTER BECOMING QUADRIPLEGIC!!!''']]

* "This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching, muscle--broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would...but I'm a man of thirty--of twenty again. [[RedemptionInTheRain The rain on my chest is a baptism]]--[[HesBack I'm born again."]] A CrowningMomentOfAwesome for both {{Batman}} and FrankMiller.