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I look at Burton's Batman as the Original before the Comics Code made him hate guns...The Original Batman wouldnt hesitate to drop a criminal in a vat of acid or shoot a bad guy
That's Burton's Batman. He went straight to the original.
Well Batman used to carry a gun once. Its all history now. So yeah, at that time it looked good and nobody would have any objections.
In fact there were objections. That's why they changed that.
But now, after all these years of refinement, his code has been forged. So we can forgive all his previous incarnations for killing (which have been retconned i think), but not the future ones.
I don't know it "refinement" but it was a "change." Morality of the time made that kind of change for many characters so it's not like it was a great reason to begin with.
I dont know whether batman's one rule existed at Burton's time, but what the hell, burton wanted to portray him that way, good for him. All i am going to say is that in actual life any person would resort to killing in batman's position. Either to save himself or someone else, but he wouldnt kill in cold blood like Burton's Batman.
The only time Batman killed in cold blood was with the bomb and the Strng Man of Penguin's gang. And by the nature of the explosion it looked like a fake bomb anyways.
In B89, killing Joker's henchmen at Axis Chemicals was to protect innocent people's lives from both the gangsters and the poisoned products.
In any case, the state's collaboration with him would be even harder if he killed people. Probably impossible.
In any case, Batman intefering with any Police official process would be impossible. No way they'd allow a masked man to interfere, to check the place of a crime before the police. In no way there'd be a bat-signal, admitting they're accepting (or even more, wanting) an illegal agent whose identity is unknown.
So we either make Batman-Police link extremely undercover or we suspend our belief.
Burton's Gotham was unable to defend itself. Police and authorrities were powerless due to corruption. They were more than glad to receive Batman's help. It's a dirty war but somebody had to fight it.
Now, if the one rule didnt exist when burton made his movie, fine, but if it did, then i am sorry, but i cant make any excuses for him.
Nor he needs for you to.
Cause we all know that killing the joker or Ras would save millions of lives but doing it would make batman the same as them. That's why batman doesnt do it.
Batman had no remorse in letting Ra's die (when he could have saved him the same he saved Joker) or when he pushed Two-Face to his own death.
Now, in the latter case at least (I'd say in Ra's case too), Batman did it in order to protect an innocent life. Same as Burton's Batman.
So batman killing in cold blood (burning a poor thug with the car's thruster was cold man!)
Did the flame-thrower die? I didn't know that.
All I saw was his clothes burning and him walking away very alive. And considering there was snow all around only thing he should have done was to listen to his instinct, rolling over the floor and save his life. If he wasn't smatrt enough to do that, he shouldn't have to put things on fire risking the life of innocents.
All Batman did was to incapacitate the man of keep doing harm to innocent people and give him the fright of his life.
can never be justified El Payaso.
Oh he can.
We can only forgive Burton because the one rule hadnt been established yet. Or had it? I dont know.
You don't know???
I gotta say:
You failed. Give back your batman membership card!
