Quotes for
Batmanuel (Character)
from "The Tick" (2001)

"The Tick: Arthur Needs Space (#1.5)" (2001)

Batmanuel: General, if it pleases the court...
General Thomas: - Who in the hell are you?
Batmanuel: I am
[unfurls wings]
Batmanuel: Batmanuel!
General Thomas: Make it fast
Batmanuel: Batmanuel never makes it fast. That is unless the husband is in, y'know... anyway... General, is it not "America, The Beautiful"?
General Thomas: No

Captain Liberty: ["the birds and the bees" from The Tick's perspective] Tick, sometimes when a man person, and his lady friend - blah blah blah Tick, blah blah blah wine and cheese, blah blah blah love, blah blah blah babies.
Batmanuel: [jumping in] blah blah blah condom, blah blah blah call girl, blah blah blah paternity suit, blah blah blah excellent lawyer.
The Tick: [stunned] Aah...
Captain Liberty: Is that clear to you now?
The Tick: Is what clear to who, when?

Batmanuel: Now you see the power of the suit. Women cannot resist us. Men cannot resist us. Dogs...
Arthur: Yeah, I get it.

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"The Tick: Couples (#1.6)" (2001)

Batmanuel: "Alone" is a pathetic predicament. "Lone" is an aesthetic choice.

Captain Liberty: [walking her dog - the dog is out of frame] You have to admit, he's much better behaved now.
Batmanuel: Yes well, neutering a dog will have that affect. Though I must question your methods.
The Tick: [walks up to greet, sees the dog] Yeesh, is that a platypus?

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"The Tick: The License (#1.4)" (2001)

The Tick: Does it really matter what you call me, Arthur? Or what I call you? Isn't the most important call the one we make to that party-line of the collective unconscious, that string of mysterious arbitrary digits that we add up on our mental abacus and call 'us'? We call us and who answers? We do.
Batmanuel: What the hell did he just say?

Batmanuel: So, how is life post-Tick? Please be prepared. If it's not scintillating my interest will wane rapidly.

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"The Tick: The Big Leagues (#1.9)" (2001)

Arthur: [just back from League initiation] Can you believe that six months ago I was a bean counter at an accounting firm?
Batmanuel: Yes, yes I can.

Batmanuel: [getting off the phone with lawyer] They proposed a settlement.
Captain Liberty: No. Batmanuel, look at these people. This case isn't even about me any more. If I were to take a settlement now, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
Batmanuel: *I* will live with you. In a big house, with big gates to keep people like this out.

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"The Tick: Pilot (#1.1)" (2001)

Batmanuel: [last lines - answering cell phone] Diego! Ha ha ha, how is your sister...

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"The Tick: Arthur, Interrupted (#1.3)" (2002)

Batmanuel: Poetic justice
Arthur: Is there any other kind?
The Tick: Puppet-show justice.

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