Must be a real kick in the nuts for Bruce...

F**k Hush Returns. DC will just ignore it sooner or later. They've already returned the badassness of Prometheus in Birds of Prey.

 

I think that whats interesting about Jason Todd is that he was looking for vengence, even though Batman isn't about revenge. Batman is about justice. I know that Batman began his war on crime partially out of revenge and greif, but I think it is more about justice. I think that Bruce also realized this, and this is a theme that has been highlighted in Begins and in Forever. Fighting for revenge consumes a person. Batman fights crime because he wants to prevent what happened to him from happening to anyone else. While Batman does fight crime to protect the innocent, I don't think he really fights to avenge them. I think in that respect it makes sense that he would not kill the Joker, because there is no real justice in his murder. One could argue that killing the Joker would prevent the deaths of many innocent people, but this would devalue human life. The reason the Joker should be stopped is because, well, duh, he kills people. Human life is precious, yet killing the Joker shows a disregard for human life, and thus negates the value of human life. Killing the Joker, in Batman's eye's is immoral and illogical.
Batman is a very dark character, and he does walk the line between light and dark, but what seperates him from Jason Todd is that Jason has crossed over to, for a lack of a better word, the Dark Side. When Todd became selfish, and looked for revenge, he devalued human life and became evil. While it may be justified after what he has been through, Jason cannot be considered a good person. I agree that is ironic that Tommy and Jason are both similar in that they harbor anger towards Batman because of his lack of vengence, but I think its that lack of vengence that ensures that Batman is just. And yeah, its late at night and I'm rambling.

 

^Nicley stated.

 

I'll tell you this.....anyone that complained about Batman not "saving" Ra's at the end of Batman Begins......read the end of GOTHAM KNIGHTS, and your head will explode.

 

the end of gotham knights was a hush arc...hell, all of gotham knights from what they labled Hush Returns till the end was just that, Hush returns...so it's very closely related

 

He was saying that people complaining about Batman choosing to let Ra's al Ghul die in Batman Begins should read this arc of Gotham Knights where he let Hush and the Joker duke it out to the death. However, I counter his arguement with that Hush Returns sucked ass.