Does Batman Kill....?!


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Does Batman Kill....?


I never got the impression that he doesn't kill but that he prefers not to kill. Does he kill?


Answers: Batman has been around, sometimes in several mediums at once, since 1939; over the years, Batman stories have been written and illustrated by a great number of people and not always consistantly.

In early comics adventures Batman did kill a few times, not often and usually only in extraordinary circumstances. In his first recorded adventure 'Case of the Chemical Syndicate', he throws a man who had attacked him from the top of a three story building; if the man didn't die he was most likely still hurt very badly. A few months later, Batman deliberately breaks the neck of Dr. Death's minion, apparently because he felt there was no way he could defeat the very tall and large man without killing him. In the second half of Batman's first two-part story, Batman shoots a man and a woman to death as they sleep (but they are a male and female vampire and are sleeping in their coffins). In a story written to be featured in 'Detective Comics' but which wound up being printed as part of 'Batman Comics' #1 (1940), Batman machine-guns several "mental defectives" who have been transformed into "distorted giants," by a Professor Hugo Strange. Batman also hangs another one, but it is made clear that Strange's victims cannot be cured and will be dangerous as long as they live. There are other examples, such as Batman letting a mad scientist or an Oriental mastermind die in their own death traps, when he could have saved them.

In Batman's defense, he was hardly the only original comic book character who sometimes killed unconvicted criminals, and many pulp magazine characters, who influenced Batman and other original comics book characters, not only killed unconvicted criminals but some, like the Spider, killed criminals in great numbers. A few examples of Superman casually killing soldiers and criminas can be found in his early adventures, but if you blink you could miss those murders. Batman also stopped killing criminals in late 1940 and was often times shown rescuing killers at great risk to his own life.

What had happened, according to pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer in 'The Great Comic Book Heroes', was that "cooler editorial heads had prevailed," once it became clear that most, but not all, readers of comic books were children. Batman trasformed from a "grim adventurer of the night" into "an everyman who went everywhere and did everything." He also became a partent, sort of. Once Robin was introduced, Batman changed considerably and started to look far from menacing, in fact, he was shown smiling more often than not; he became a highly respectable character long before the Comics Code started spelling out what was and was not permissible in comic books. After the Comics Code started losing its power, Robin appeared less often and seldom smiled, but at least he didn't revert to being judge, jury, and executioner.

I'm not going to deal with Batman's history in movie serials and movies, except to say that movies often change details from source material for no apparent reason; I consider comics to be the canonical source, not films. As for the Batman newspaper strips, they were aimed at the whole family and wound up not being very interesting for anyone.

Someone will probably argue that it was the Earth-2 Batman who killed a few people and several monsters, not the Earth-1 Batman. I'll counter that arguement, even if it doesn't come up, by saying that the concept of different Batman(s) in different "parallel worlds" was a conceit that wasn't invented until 1962 and is a concept that ignores actually publication history and the idea of 'evolution of character'.

Back to the question: no, Batman does not kill, but he did once upon a time. the villains usually land in prisons, not in the morgues. He doesn't like to kill (because that's what the bad men did to his parents)... but sometimes it happens accidentally, and once or twice he has done it, but they were extreme circumstances. No they usually go to prison or the insane asylum. And I'm pretty sure that its usually the insane asylum. The only time Batman has intentionally killed anyone was (according to Batman Beyond) the Joker, in retaliation to what the Joker had done to Robin (the thrid one). And he hated himself for it afterward. no but he won't save them, like in batman begins, Ra's whole compound was on fire but he chose to only save one, like with the joker falling into the vat in the comic he didn't even make an attempt to catch him Batman doesn't kill. Although he almost killed Joker after he killed Robin 2 , and shot Barbra Gordon in the shower and crippled her. Superman stopped him before he could kill him. No, he's totally against that. If he wasn't, The Joker would have been dead in 1939 I think.

I don't agree with it but if all the villains died, I guess they'd keep making new less-cool ones.

It sorta makes sense but it's a paradox. Batman & Superman (it goes for all superheroes as well) live by the superhero code that even though they have the power to take a person's life it doesn't give them the right to do so. well considering that he has the same villians that he fights over and over. id say he doesn't kill.

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