Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

Avatar (1994)

David Warner: Ra's al Ghul

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• Ra's al Ghul : You could have been my successor, Detective. Instead you will suffer the fate of all mortal flesh.

• Batman : What could be in that tomb that's more valuable than the love of your daughter?

  Ra's al Ghul : Power, Detective. The power once held by almighty Thoth Kephera, queen of continents.

• Ra's al Ghul : Farewell, Talia. It's said that one finds immortality in one's offspring. Alas, I know that to be a lie.

• Talia : The completed scroll?

  Bruce Wayne : Yes, and a translation made by Ra's.

  Ra's al Ghul : Did you really think I would be foolish enough not to have this sanctum under observation?

  Talia : Father. You really are alive.

  Ra's al Ghul : Yes, Talia, I am alive. No thanks, I regret to say, are due you for my current state of health.

  Talia : No, Father. You can't believe that. I only tried to save the man I love.

  Bruce Wayne : You've got a serious priority problem, Ra's.

• Ra's al Ghul : My apologies to you, daughter. Though I had abandoned you in my heart, obviously, you had not done the same.

  Talia : [turning to ride alongside Batman]  What will you do now?

  Batman : Take them back to the authorities. Your father has much to answer for.

  Talia : [cocking a pistol]  I am truly sorry, beloved, but he is my father. Please dismount.

  [he does so; rejoining Ra's, she cuts his restraints] 

  Ra's al Ghul : Another time, Detective.

  Batman : [as they ride off, Ubu tosses him a water canteen]  Yes. Another time.

• Ra's al Ghul : I am called Ra's al Ghul. I have searched for you for over 500 years. Tell me your secrets. Grant me the powers of the gods that legend says you possessed.

  Thoth Khepera : That knowledge can be yours if you join us. Come forward, Ra's al Ghul. Come and know the mysteries of life and death.

• Batman : The queen's sarcophagus.

  Ra's al Ghul : It's not what it seems, Detective.

  Talia : Father!

  Ra's al Ghul : That chest contains more than a mummy's corpse. Remember, Thoth Khepera was immortal. Her subjects deified her, named her after the ancient gods of infinite knowledge and eternal life, and in a few short moments, I will be privy to those same secrets of life and death.

• Bruce Wayne : You surprise me, Ra's. The world's oldest chauvinist chasing after a woman?

  Ra's al Ghul : Thoth Khepera was not simply a woman, Detective, nor merely a ruler. Through her flowed the power of the gods. With no more than a gesture, she controlled the force of life and death, and with it, she kept a nation under her thumb for 1,000 years.

  Bruce Wayne : You sound like a bad Saturday afternoon serial, Ra's. This is sheer nonsense.

  Ra's al Ghul : No, Detective. I know there is a power there to be tapped. My 600 years of life are proof of that power.