Line #4 TearJerker/WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whatever_6.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:The price of ChronicHeroSyndrome.]]
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4	* The way [[Characters/BatmanClayface Clayface]]'s [[https://m0vie.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/whateverhappenedtothecapedcrusader.jpg expression becomes sorrowful]] when recalling how Batman sacrificed his life to save him. Being made of moldable clay, his entire ''face'' slumps, when recalling Batman told him ''everyone'' deserved to be saved.
5	* Bruce's mother telling him that the only reward he gets for being Batman, is to be Batman again, and worse, he only gets to have a few years of happiness.
6	* "Goodnight, Bat-Signal. Goodbye, stars in the big night sky. Goodnight. Goodbye. Goodnight."
7	* [[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Selina]]'s version has her betray Bruce. When Batman comes to her for help, having already lost a lot of blood, Selina ties him up and lets him bleed out completely. As he does, she explains it as a MercyKill since she can't stand watching him destroy himself. One of the few times Catwoman is shown to kill, and it's ''Batman.''
8	* ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s story of Batman's death, as seen in the page image. He knew it was suicide, but if it saved ''one'' person...
9	* Harvey Bullock's story has Batman tossing him a baby just before he's drowned by tsunami-like floodwater.
10	-->'''Bullock:''' I made it out of there, carrying the baby. And people said to me, "How do you keep going?" I said, "Because ''he'' kept going."
11	* "Hello, Bruce." Seeing Martha Wayne cradle her newborn son in her arms, smiling lovingly at him, [[ForegoneConclusion knowing what awaits them both in eight years time...]]
12	* [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]] during the main eulogy actually had a deep and saddening line concerning Batman's death, reminding us that most Batman villains really are still human...
13	-->'''Riddler''': "It doesn't happen like this! Everybody knows, you put him in a death trap, he pulls something outta his utility belt and he's away. Same bat time, same bat channel."
14	** For added poignancy, the Deluxe Edition features the short "When Is A Door", where Riddler's lament about the shift from the Silver Age to the Iron Age (featured on the Tearjerker/{{Batman}} page) just meshes perfectly with the above.
15	** Every single reference to the [[Series/Batman1966 '66 TV series]] has become about a thousand times sadder with the death of Creator/AdamWest at age 88...
16	* ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' version of [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]]'s story of [[https://i.redd.it/d6vsquli820z.jpg killing Batman]] by injecting him with a massive overdose of Joker venom using a gigantic hypodermic needle. Batman gives him a variation of the same retort he did in the classic story.
17	-->'''Joker:''' And I screamed -- "'''''Smile, damn you, why don't you smile?!''''' You've got enough Joker venom in you to finish off a regiment of elephants. Why don't you ''smile?'' [[WhyWontYouDie Why don't you]] ''[[WhyWontYouDie die?]]''"\
18	'''Batman:''' "Because it's not ''funny''."\

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