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** He also has a ''very'' dim view of bad things happening to children, as the Sewer King [[Papa Wolf|found out the hard way]].
{{quote|'''Batman:''' I don't pass sentence. That's for the courts to decide. But this time, '''this time''', I am ''sorely'' tempted to do the job myself.}}
**:* If you kill a couple in front of their young child, Batman will 1.) Have a flashback and 2.) Hunt you down no matter where you go. And then 3.) '''''Make. You. Suffer.''''' Like you have never suffered before or, you will hope, since.
***:* Then there's the [[Nightmare Fuel|chilling scene]] in ''[[Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker]]'' in which Batman is subjected to watching the Joker torture and brainwash Tim Drake. Batman reacts with a fury that leaves no illusions to his intent.
{{quote|'''Batman:''' (To Joker) I'll break you in two.}}
***:* One story deconstructed the "kill a couple in front of their young child" button. Batman was pursuing a criminal named Angel Lupo for murdering his pregnant sister. While on the run, Lupo shot and killed a couple in front of their son leaving the boy in a state of shock. Batman has the usual flashback and is hellbent on bringing Lupo to justice. Then it's revealed that {{spoiler|Angel had nothing to do with the first murder. His ''girlfriend'' (without his knowledge) had his sister killed in order to free him of the responsibility of caring for his sister. Not that it matters, since the baby's father (the ''Ventriloquist'') guns down Lupo in a fit of misdirected vengeance.}} Then it turns out that {{spoiler|Lupo didn't kill the boy's parents either -- the ''boy'' shot and killed his own parents and Lupo just happened to be nearby when it happened. Batman's Berserk Button made him pursue a man who, while still a career criminal, didn't commit any of the murders in the story and led him astray from the real killers.}}
{{quote|'''Batman:''' Everything I've done in the past three nights, I've been doing for the wrong little boy.}}
***:* Another story had the same button be ruthlessly exploited by [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|Penguin]], who's been occasionally shown to be [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] when it comes to the Batfamily, and quite able to pull off [[Batman Gambit|Batman Gambits]] against the [[Trope Namer]].
*:* [[The Joker]] himself will become crazier than usual if you make a joke he finds bad or unfunny. Especially if you have the nerve to try and [[Don't Explain the Joke|explain it]] to him afterwards.
*:* Don't hurt his kids. Particularly Dick Grayson. He will find you, and you will hurt.
* Don't call ''[[Barb Wire]]'' "babe."
* Hunter Rose and Argent were essentially ''each other's'' Berserk Buttons in ''[[Grendel]]''. Virtually everything and anything either one said or did to the other would set him off.
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