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Actually, this is all just a bad dream. You’re at home, in bed, heavily sedated, resting comfortably, dying from the carcinogens you personally spewed in a lifetime of profiteering. Tragic irony or poetic justice, you tell me.
— The Penguin · Batman Returns
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker mocks the listener with a false comfort, claiming the ordeal is only a nightmare while describing them as sedated and dying in bed. The cause is named as toxins the listener personally produced through a lifetime of profiteering. The closing challenge, tragic irony or poetic justice, invites agreement that it is deserved.
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