Laws Broken: Dark Knight (Can Batman Use Self Defense? How Many People Did the Joker Kill?)
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Published 2019-03-28
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This week we’re covering the greatest movie Batman movie ever made -- perhaps the greatest superhero movie of all time: The Dark Knight.
Today we’re answering two different questions. Since we know the Joker is doing all kinds of illegal things I tallied up all the different crimes to determine HOW MANY life sentences. Because there is a lot of murder. For Batman, we answer the question, can he use the self-defense justification to fight crime? Or is Batman just as guilty as the criminals he fights?
Who is legally responsible for all the death and destruction?
Find out today!
Stay until the end when tally up the sentences for both the Joker and Batman.
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All Comments (21)
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Guy murders someone Lawyer: "That's murder" Me: "Oh, I see"
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Objection: Batman is a billionaire. Hes not going to jail.
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Objection: batman is in his home and defending himself and his guest from intruders who have deadly weapons....hes just doing it while he wears his spelunking gear.
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I find it somewhat ironic that the joker can terrorize an entire city for a few weeks, kill dozens of people, ATTEMPT to kill hundreds of people and still get a lighter sentence than Batman simply for one trick of a phone.
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Legal eagle: "you can't just hack everybody's phone. That's 30 million felonys." The NSA: "hold my beer"
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Legal system: Joker, you're going to jail. Batman: That's right, Joker! You will pay for your crimes. Justice prevails. Legal system: You're going to jail too, Batman. Batman magically vanishes from the scene
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Legal Eagle: 60 million years in prison for illegal wiretapping and other computer crimes. NSA: Profusely sweating bullets
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Objection: during the scene that the joker drops Rachel Batman is technically in his home so he wouldn’t be loitering and also you could say he’s defending his home from intruders.
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"Cute magic trick, still first degree murder." What a sentence
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Joker: Literally holding a hostage at gunpoint with intentions of throwing her out the window of a building LegalEagle: yeah ok so here the Batman is loitering
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Moral of the story, if Batman would've just killed the joker the first time he saw him, he would've gotten 20-35 years in prison vs the 65 million he would've gotten by the end
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Regarding the loitering charges: would the Joker’s face paint qualify as sufficiently disguising him to also get charged?
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Children: Batman's awesome! Edgelords: The Joker's right! LegalEagle: They're both incredibly criminally liable.
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Objection: This is Gotham. Gotham has about 5 laws
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13:50 Objection: Batman owns the property they are fighting at, remember Bruce Wayne was hosting the party. So he could still call for self defense since they invaded his private property.
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I have trouble believing a jury would convict Batman.
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"Batman. I hereby find you guilty on 58 counts of battery." "For the 10th time today...WHATS "TERY"?
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Joker: Kills someone Lawyer: that’s murder
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“Of course, you can trust me. I’m an attorney.” I’m trying to figure out if I’m right that this was a joke or if he meant it.
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I'm distressed by how quickly we went from talking about how serious murder is to "thats garden variety murder."
