I just got done watching two batman films (city of scars, and under the red hood), and a playthrough of arkham asylum, and it amazes me how much of a coward batman really is. He literally could have saved thousands of lives if he would just use lethal force and discard his self-righteous moral code. He just comes across as a self-indulgent character with the maturity of a 13-year old. So your parents got shot, so what? you're a billionaire playboy. Go buy your own personal island and cry yourself to sleep. Why would any villain be a afraid of a guy that wears his underwear outside his costume and doesn't have the balls to kill anyone? The only reason i think he took up being a superhero was to feed his own ego. Batman is a capitalist icon, **** that guy
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You have a good point, but if Batman utilized lethal force, then he would be on the same level as those he's trying to condemn and bring to justice (this is the biggest reason why). He also doesn't really think he has the authority to kill, he is simply the middle man between the police and the criminals. All he does is bring information and suspects to the cops.He also understands that he isn't just hurting the perp., he's also hurting those affiliated with him by killing him, such as his family. He doesn't want to be the kind of hero that brings people to an arguable sense of justice, but also creates pain and misery in others. So he empathsizes with his victims.
Batman, as shown in the Dark Knight, is more than just a man in a black suit fighting crime. He has become a symbol of hope, justice, courage, goodness, and even fear. Wayne built Batman with those characteristics in mind because, once he became immortal in that legendary sense, then he knew the citizens of Gotham would take over and deal with it on their own. He even states in the Dark Knight that he wonders when the time is that the world will not need Batman. He doesn't want to do it forever (he wants to live and love, like any man), which is why he "uses" Dent as the "White Knight." Dent is the product of work ofBatman. You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villian (I think that was Dent, tho ,buit the moral is the same).
Gotham is also supposed to be the worst, most crime-ridden city in the world. Worse than Detroit. So when his family was taken away from him at such a young age, it obviously left a mark. So, in order to cope, and to bring about change in the city that his family practically built, he becomes Batman. Besides, his methods work, extremely well actually, so why criticize a man for playing well at his own game? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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