In "Batman", who says "Where does he get those wonderful toys"?

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In Batman, the Joker says, “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”

The line appears in Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman, in which Jack Nicholson plays the Joker and Michael Keaton plays Batman. The Joker says it after Batman uses his grappling equipment to rescue Vicki Vale from the Gotham City museum.

The remark captures the Joker’s mixture of amusement, envy, and disbelief at Batman’s advanced gadgets. Batman’s equipment includes the Batmobile, the Batarang, body armor, and devices that help him move rapidly around Gotham. In the film, these tools are presented as part of Bruce Wayne’s private crime-fighting arsenal rather than as supernatural powers.

Readers sometimes attribute the line to Batman because it is so closely associated with the hero’s gadgets, but the speaker is specifically the Joker. It is also a line from the 1989 movie, not a universal quotation from every Batman comic or screen adaptation.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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