(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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