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

* The Mutants have a military arsenal big enough to wage open warfare on Gotham--not just assault rifles, but grenades, mortars, and rocket launchers. How does Batman counter this? By driving into their big war meeting in the dump with [[TankGoodness an upgraded Batmobile.]]
** Props to the Mutant Leader as the dust settles--having witnessed Batman's huge riot-killer making short work of his heavily-armed henchmen, he actually has the guts to call Batman out for a fistfight. ''While the Batmobile's cannon is pointed straight at him.''
--> '''Mutant Leader:''' Come on, man--you ''boring'' me!
** One gets the impression that he didn't care whether or not Batman decided to open fire or not (he doesn't, of course)--either he'd get a proper fight, or he'd end up DefiantToTheEnd. Either seemed perfectly okay with him.
* The moment when Bruce asks for Carrie's name after she helps him escape the Mutants:
--> '''Carrie:''' Carrie. Carrie Kelly. ''(beat)'' Robin.
* The Joker breaking his ''own'' neck to frame Batman. ''After'' becoming quadriplegic.
* Batman has a ridiculous amount of these, especially in his first night out. Notably, a pimp is in a taxi with a hooker and pays the driver a wad of cash to ignore him beating and mutilating the woman. Batman lands on the roof and the pimp sticks his arm and gun out the half-open window. Batman stomps down on his arm and kicks the pimp's ass. Then he leaps away...before coming back and destroying the money the cabbie got.
-->'''Reporter:''' Police phone lines are jammed with citizens describing what appears to be a siege on Gotham's underworld... [[HesBack by the Batman]].
* "Holy... I never thought he was ''real''..."
* "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 SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for both Franchise/{{Batman}} and Creator/FrankMiller.
* After having been heavily wounded during his first fight with the Mutant Leader, Batman, now patched up and with his arm in a sling, goes into the depths of the Batcave, to (as Aflred puts it) "find his strength". There, we are treated to perhaps the best Batman monologue ever written:
** Batman: "You're ''never'' finished with me!"
* But most famous of all is his beating of the mutant leader. Having gotten his ass kicked by him earlier for trying to fight him head on, he tricks the leader into fighting in a mud pit. Batman fights dirty, striking nerve clusters, throwing mud in his eyes and doing ''something'' to his leg, saying "This isn't a mudhole. It's an operating table - and I'm the surgeon." while thinking "Something tells me to stop with the leg...I don't listen to it."
** Going by the film's adaptation and a close re-reading of the comic, Batman utilized some good-ol' Judo 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.
* We also have Crowning Moments like Superman and Batman's not-so-final showdown, not to mention [[http://mendthiscrack.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/horse.jpg?w=400&h=232 Batman riding a horse]].
** More specifically about 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 an exosuit enhancing his strength that he could lift the Batmobile ''with a single arm''.
** How did the fight begin? Batman brought the FlyingBrick crashing to the ground with several missiles homing into Superman through his ''X-Ray vision'', setting up for the battle on the ground. Despite that, the Batmobile, piloted by Kelley to soften Superman up barely hindered him, as he easily tossed the Tank around like a ragdoll, leaving the new Robin at his mercy, until Batman intervened.
--->'''Superman''': We don't have to do this.
--->'''Batman''': Sure we do.
** The opening banter was then followed by Batman firing a sonic gun that made Superman '''''bleed'''''. Superman destroyed the gun? Batman supercharged his gauntlets with Gotham's '''entire power supply''', before unleashing it all on Superman. During all that, Batman took the time to criticize the very government [[SummonBiggerFish who sent Superman to do their dirty work.]]
--->'''Batman''': You say you answer to some sort of authority. They only want me dead because I'm an embarrassment. Because I do what they can't. What kind of authority is ''that''?
--->'''Superman''': It doesn't matter. It's their world, and they won't stand for you anymore. If it isn't me, it'll just be someone else.
--->'''Batman''': [[SummonBiggerFish Really?]] [[BringIt Who do they send after you?]]
** The end of the fight, with [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver's]] timely shot of a [[KryptoniteFactor Kryptonite arrow]], finally weakening him, allowing Batman to beat the alien within an inch of his life while delivering one of the most [[BadassBoast badass boasts]] in his entire career.
--->"I want you to remember that. I wanted to remind you to stay out of my way. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember the one man who ''beat'' you."
** Also, about the showdown. Superman is weakened by the nuke... And yet, until the powdered Kryptonite, ''nothing could stop him''. Batman hit him with missiles, a sonic gun, an electrical attack charged by Gotham's entire power supply... And it ''barely slowed him down'', with Superman [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou begging Batman to not force him to kill him while casually showing he could do just that any moment]].
--->"That was three ribs, Bruce. [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou Don't make me do this.]]"
*** However, after “The Master Race” came out, this one unfortunately may or may not be moot, depending on how you see it, since it’s was revealed that Superman was holding back during the entire fight and could’ve easily beaten Batman. Even Batman himself admitted this when he realized the truth.
** Batman's sheer durability during the fight. His opponent is literally the Man of Steel, but an aging Batman took several hits from said man. Superman, at one point in the fight, brought Batman up in the air and slammed him back to the ground, ''through a construction site'', and he still gets back up from that. Shortly after ''that'', Superman ripped off his helmet and his torso armor, breaking three ribs, and still, he stood up and fight. Even withstanding a point-blank bomb explosion to his face and Superman slamming him through a car close to the end of the fight. If that didn't confirm that Batman was MadeOfIron, I don't know what is.
*** One of the Awesome moments was the moment where they both fight while crashing through several house complexes, and both of them engaged in a temporary PunchParry.
* During Joker's final rampage at the carnival, a young boy walks up to him and says, "You're the Joker, right? Batman's gonna ''kick your ass.''"
** And even after being shot by the Joker while saving the young boy, he takes the time to correct him.
--->'''Batman''': ...Watch your LANGUAGE, son...
--->'''Boy''': Yes, sir.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' adaptation in ''Legends of the Dark Knight''. One of, if not ''the'' best, portrayals of Creator/FrankMiller's works ever.
* [[http://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/14.jpg.png The iconic lightning strike image is recreated perfectly in the animated film.]]
** The animated version's lack of internal monologue makes all the MookHorrorShow even scarier, especially the famous through-the-wall-grab scene and the first batch of goons at the construction site.
** The lack of internal monologue means we miss out on gems like this:
-->"There are seven working defenses from this position. Three of them disarm with minimal contact. Three kill. The other..." ''Cripples Mutant'' "...hurts."
-->It was tough work carrying two hundred and twenty pounds of sociopath to the top of Gotham Towers, the highest point in the city. The scream alone was worth it.
* Bruce Wayne gets one at the beginning. Two mutants with knives try and pick a fight with him, and just by standing his ground they are scared off from wanting any trouble from this old man.
** It's not so much that they're scared, it's that they sense that part of that old man ''wants to get into a fight'' a lot more than they do.
* Batman turns the entire mutant gang to work for him.
* They say that Superman is more powerful than a locomotive. We see him do just that to save a guy who had fallen on the tracks.
* 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 [[note]] Maybe. The panel that speaks on him not approving Batman has him reading the paper with a huge smile on his face which implies he isn’t as disapproving of Batman as he’d like to outwardly state[[/note]]. 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. The citizen finds himself outside, a rolling pin in his hand, smiling as a mugger flees and a woman keeps her purse. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
--> 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...\\
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.]]

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