Batman Does NOT Kill

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Argument between batman and wonder woman about Robin being a crime fighter at the age of 9 Batman: Robin needed to help bring the men who murdered his family to justice. Wonder woman: so that he could turn out like you? Batman : so that he wouldn't.

Thats what joker is obsessed abt batman. Joker want to see him break his rule.

“Batman does not make the easy choice.” I dunno why but that line hit my heart real hard

I remember the beginning of Batman Beyond was compelling because of this. He was so old his heart gave out and he needed to use a gun to get out alive. As a young kid at the time, it freaked me out. It is only at that moment that he decided to hang up the cowl.

“Can you imagine your Batman comforting a scared child? If yes, congratulations, that’s a genuine Batman! If no, you haven’t written Batman, you’ve just written Punisher in a funny hat.” - Red, Overly Sarcastic Productions

The funniest thing is that in the DCEU he lets the Joker and Harley Quinn, actual supervillains, live, but he murders hired thugs who are much easier to rehabilitate.

“It’s easy to kill, Batman does not make the easy choice” that’s the best line in the video bar none

"All the people I've murdered by letting you live." "I never kept count." "I did." "And I love you for it." Goosebumps.

"You want to know something funny? Even after everything you've done, I still would have saved you" "That's... Pretty funny"

I remember reading that Batman learned all the best ways to kill someone so that he could avoid them. That is the true essence of Batman

Putting good men in extremely difficult circumstances, and watching them somehow preserve their soul - despite their flaws - makes for great storytelling. EDIT: A lot of moral arguments in the commments, but I'm referring to storytelling in general. Bottom line: Killing would be a violation of Batman's conscious. Thats his conviction - without it - he is far less unique and interesting.

8:30 Holy shit, when you recontextualized the Batman v Superman Martha, it hit so deep. Holy shit. Just by making the characters true to themselves, you didn’t even have to change the scene.

"I love Batman. I love Batman too much. I love Batman so much that it's definitely an unhealthy obsession." Are you dressed in a purple suit and have a fashionable green hair by any coincidence?

“Scum, maybe, but even scum have families”- Batman: Year One by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli, 1987

That’s why heroes like Batman and Spider Man are such good heroes

Well said. Like, the whole reason Batman is interesting is that he constantly lives in darkness, he even dresses himself in it, his iconography is defined by it, but despite this he is one of the most unrelenting champions of the light. This contradiction is what lets him jump from being a good character to being a great one.

Batman not killing also adds a lot to his skill, because that means he is never really fighting all out.

"it's easy to kill, Batman does not make the easy choice" flashbacks to playing Dishonored.

The scene in Iron Man you showed works for Tony's character because he specifically targeted the terrorists in the least destructive way he could. He was blowing shit up, sending people flying, but the moment doing that would put an innocent in harms way, he switches to the homing weapon and they just silently drop at the same time, leaving the civilians unharmed, because he WAS that civilian, he doesn't want to hurt people that suffered and are suffering like he suffered, he wants to hurt the people causing it. With the Batman v Superman scene, not only does it fly in the face of the No Kill Rule, it also endangers anybody who might be around. He uses a fucking minigun to set a van on fire and then runs it over, blowing it up in the process. Where did the bullets go? Where did the shrapnel go? Probably a bystander who couldn't get away while this was happening. That batman isn't a hero, that batman is the worst kind of vigilante: A man who not only flies in the face of the law, but endangers the innocents he supposedly protects through his attempts to keep them safe. Setting off a pipe bomb in the mailbox of the local pedophile is going to hurt the neighbors as well.