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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 27, 2013 at 9:54 pm
(September 27, 2013 at 7:52 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: I thought batman doesn't kill anyone?
Over the past several years DC Comics tried to make Batman a less dangerous and psychotic figure by insisting that he doesn't kill. I think they've wavered on that a bit in the last couple of years but for the most part he's become more and more detective and less and less vigilante.
It has the beneficial effect (for DC's writers, at least) of explaining why he won't just snap the Joker's fucking neck the next time he escapes from the loony bin and massacres several hundred people. Maybe the most aggravating of these was Frank Miller's otherwise excellent Dark Knight Returns, where Batman has no problem savagely beating any number of punks and petty criminals, but refuses to off the Joker even when he's suffered a broken neck on his own. To the extent that the Joker himself does the deed, while mocking Batman for being such a huge pussy.
Lesson? The people who write that shit oughta be fired.
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Re: The difference between god and batman
September 27, 2013 at 10:35 pm
Batman is not dealing with his PTSD very well. He has a lot of issues.
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 5:47 am
Lot of back-issues as well.
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 7:19 am
@ the OP: The Batman comix are much better drawn than the depictions of God I've seen.
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 8:17 am
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2013 at 8:17 am by Airyaman.)
Batman and god are similar in another way: god's character is constantly tweaked, through conscious change or by different authors.
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 9:18 am
(September 28, 2013 at 5:47 am)Stimbo Wrote: Lot of back-issues as well.
Everyone else, please kudo that post. Because I can only kudo it once.
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 11:37 am
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They both include an unseen entity [a mind] of superhuman ability [batman's deductive abilities / omniscience] performing feats that appear to defy natural law [the utility belt / miracles] in order to combat evil and see to the prosperity and happiness of the common man. And telling and hearing stories of them appears to fulfill some powerful human need.
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 11:44 am
(September 28, 2013 at 8:17 am)Airyaman Wrote: Batman and god are similar in another way: god's character is constantly tweaked, through conscious change or by different authors.
That's a very good point, among the other very good points here. Each successive author has seen something in both characters with which they don't feel comfortable, goes against their personal sensibilities of how the characters should be, and so each iteration necessitates a rewrite to ameliorate those qualities. It's just unfortunate for those who want to sell these things as real characters and events that the origin stories are still in the public domain.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 1:44 pm
(September 28, 2013 at 9:18 am)Tonus Wrote: (September 28, 2013 at 5:47 am)Stimbo Wrote: Lot of back-issues as well.
Everyone else, please kudo that post. Because I can only kudo it once.
Cheers  !
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RE: The difference between god and batman
September 28, 2013 at 2:04 pm
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