- Batman: If I've learned anything over the years it's that the impossible is just the unthinkable lying in wait.
- [Jason hits Joker with a crowbar]
- Jason Todd: Sorry. Was that rude? I never did learn those manners.
- [removes his Red Hood, the Joker sees him and remembers]
- The Joker: One... bad... day.
- [breaks into laughter]
- The Joker: Oh, kid! You have done your papa proud!
- Jason Todd: Batman? I doubt he'd agree.
- The Joker: Not that papa, this one!
- [points at himself]
- The Joker: Look at you, gave up the gimmicks he gave you, and now you're the spitting image of me!
- Jason Todd: I took your gimmicks to draw you out and take you down for what you did to me and to him!
- The Joker: Losing Batsy got me, too, right in the ticker. Thought about hanging at all up, until you rode into town. The timing, the irony... I knew there was a joke under that hood, but I never saw this punchline coming! Who knew you were a natural-born killer, just like me?
- Jason Todd: I'm not like you! I, DON'T, KILL!
- The Joker: DON'T, BE, MODEST! I admire your work. Your entrance on the scene was one for the books. You co-opted the head of every crime syndicate in Gotham, by beheading their lieutenants! Delightful! A+ material. And the way you punched holes in Gotham's illegal trade lines, by blasting holes through the traders! Hilarious! Two thumbs up. Oh, and the piece de resistance: Black Mask. Boy, did you find a way to cut him out! So good! You get all the points.
- Jason Todd: No. I-I didn't. I couldn't. I-I promised Batman.
- The Joker: B-B-Batman?... Wait a second. You actually don't remember. You've been repressing all of it!
- [laughs]
- The Joker: That's the best joke I ever heard! This isn't Batman, this isn't your inner demons, this is YOU! The deep-down-inside you! That day in Bosnia was your birthday. I got you your crowbar, a little song, a little dance, a little dynamite in your pants, and you were reborn! Hallelujah! Without your papa Joker there to slap you on the ass, without the Dark Knight going nighty-night forever, you wouldn't be the fine, upstanding, eyes-open, gun-toting psychopathic survivor you are today! So, admit it, son... Who's your daddy?