Bent brass-colored fan blade beside a drooping blank cream paper flag

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The Penguin

The heat is getting to me, I’ll kill you momentarily.

— Batman Returns ‧ 1992

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Blame gets pinned on the weather instead of on the speaker's own temper. Threatening murder sounds almost casual here, tucked between a complaint and a shrug. The humor comes from that mismatch, a violent promise delivered with the same energy as griping about the thermostat.

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