Batman: Arkham Origins - Joker/Batman Flashbacks.
11One of the best moments from Arkham Origins. The Joker scene is a little hard to hear, so here's a transcript:
Psychologist (Blackgate Prison): Bad day, huh? Cops in this city...always beating on the weak and defenceless.
Joker: Tell me, my dear, have you ever had a really...bad...day?
Psychologist: And what do you mean by that?
Joker: You of all people should know. (laughs) There's nothing so cruel as memory. The pointy, bitey little thunderbolts. Unwanted party crashers, screamers through your synapses. Inescapable, unrelenting...not at all friendly. You can't even escape into madness! And then you meet someone who changes your life. And you feel that you don't even know who you are any more! Isn't it funny how one little encounter can cleave off little pieces of your past, deform your memories and persona until you rethink your whole identity — and as you realise how foolish it all is — your laughter reverberates off the walls of your own emptiness.
Psychologist: Ohhhkaayyy... I'm going to need more specifics. How about we try some word association?
Joker: That sounds... delightful.
Psychologist: O.K, one more. And I need you to be serious for this one. Fate.
Joker: You want to know something funny? I used to think of fate as something evil — predetermined — not by some higher power but by the rules of human nature. But tonight, that's all changed.
Psychologist: What changed?
Joker: Have you ever had the feeling that your entire life has been building towards this one moment?
Psychologist: Is that how you feel?
Joker: (laughs) Well, now, yes. Now I realise that all the battles, the bad days, the brutalities - it was all the hand of Fate at work.
Psychologist: So...now you see fate differently?
Joker: (laughs) Absolutely. Now I understand. There are no chance encounters. It was all meant to be. Everything leading up to who I've met tonight!
Psychologist: So you've met someone special?
Joker: Yes. And you might say it's changed everything.
Psychologist: Everything?
Joker: Absolutely. I mean, do you realise what a vile world we live in? How lonely it is to wade through all the wretch and filth on your own?
Psychologist: It is kind of lonely, isn't it?
Joker: Of course! Of course! You understand! Even in a crowd of other screwballs, you're so alone that you can kick, claw, yell, scream at the top of your lungs — and no one cares. It's like you don't even exist! I feel... Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped on this path leading nowhere, into just emptiness. But now...
Psychologist: Now you feel like you've got somebody by your side - to share the journey with you. And how does that make you feel?
Joker: I feel adrift — floating — like someone's pulled the stopper on my reality and I'm sucked down the drain into something new. It's all very exciting really. (laughs) You wouldn't know what that feels like, I'm sure.
Psychologist: I...might, actually. Can you tell me more about how this person makes you feel?
Joker: It's like meeting someone I can actually relate to — which believe me, dear, I've never felt before. You understand. You're someone who's not afraid to let go — and fall. Free falling. And I didn't pack a chute. (laughs) Do you know what I mean?
Psychologist: Yes. Yes, I do.
Joker: I figured you would.
Psychologist: So, may I ask...who is this person?
Joker: Someone very, very special, but whose real name I don't even know yet!
Psychologist: ...My name's Harleen. Harleen Quinzel.
Joker: What a pretty name. Do your friends call you Harley?
Harleen Quinzel: Oh, I don't have a lot of friends.
Joker: Well, Harley, you got one now...
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