5 Replies to “Batman’s ‘No-Kill’ Rule Is Officially Broken”
This is just the reality and limitations of comics. Oh, Batman is inconsistent about something because surprise, he’s written by different authors over the years. In the movie Under the Red Hood, he expressed that giving into the desire to kill would be too easy, that if he’s willing to do it to one person who deserves it, he’ll find more people who deserve it, and he can’t let himself become that. In an issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws, Joker confronts that notion saying Batman could easily control himself. In Batman Begins, he lets Ra’s Al Ghul die because he doesn’t have to save him, and then in Batman V Superman, he’s directly gunning down villains like the Punisher. Is that a problem with Batman? Or is it just inconsistent writing? And with things like not visibly saving everyone or running over folks in the Arkham games, there’s just not a way around it. They can’t write in a million side things Batman does, and you have a vehicle with pedestrians in a game, if they can’t be hit, they become an obstacle interrupting game flow. These aren’t even inconsistent writing problems, they’re just limitations of the medium.
Even if Batman were real, he would understand and study self-defense methods to avoid outright killing. He can and should defend himself and kill when there is no other option. Let’s remember, the villains have no qualms about trying to kill him.
This is just the reality and limitations of comics. Oh, Batman is inconsistent about something because surprise, he’s written by different authors over the years. In the movie Under the Red Hood, he expressed that giving into the desire to kill would be too easy, that if he’s willing to do it to one person who deserves it, he’ll find more people who deserve it, and he can’t let himself become that. In an issue of Red Hood and the Outlaws, Joker confronts that notion saying Batman could easily control himself. In Batman Begins, he lets Ra’s Al Ghul die because he doesn’t have to save him, and then in Batman V Superman, he’s directly gunning down villains like the Punisher. Is that a problem with Batman? Or is it just inconsistent writing? And with things like not visibly saving everyone or running over folks in the Arkham games, there’s just not a way around it. They can’t write in a million side things Batman does, and you have a vehicle with pedestrians in a game, if they can’t be hit, they become an obstacle interrupting game flow. These aren’t even inconsistent writing problems, they’re just limitations of the medium.
Even if Batman were real, he would understand and study self-defense methods to avoid outright killing. He can and should defend himself and kill when there is no other option. Let’s remember, the villains have no qualms about trying to kill him.
Because the comics drifted into fan fiction 2015 on
Tbh the whole no kill rule was daft in first place.
In Tim Burton’s Batman they had broken it countless times