Batman killed thousands of people by letting his enemies live/escape, amirite?

I get where you're coming from, but Batman does actually put a lot of money into Arkham. He can't make a private prison with 0 guards, and that's risking his identity/has the exact same problem with Arkham where people get taken advantage of/corrupted.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

phantom zone. no guards, all vibes.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I'd put Joker in the "he's just going to murder for murder's sake" category. Penguin is just a shady businessman, he's not trying to poison gothams water supply b/c "its funny". I'd put Scarecrow, Joker, Victor Zsasz, and a few other in the "Go directly to The Phantom Zone, do not pass go, do not collect $200" category.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

So Civil War?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I'd argue that the poorly resourced public services are definitely the fault of billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

gotham is regularly shown to have corrupt bureaucrats that orchestrate criminal enterprises, what are you talking about lil bro

by No_Tomatillo 2 weeks ago

That further makes my case more likely.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

rubber glue back to you take that meanie

by No_Tomatillo 2 weeks ago

The way I see it, we're in agreement. Billionaires are able to exist in Gotham because corrupt, for-purchase policians are ubiquitous.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

i think it makes more sense to let undeserving people have whatever money they hold instead of forcibly redistributing it to claimed thieves.... "corrupt politicians are how billionaires exist" "let's tax billionaires and give it to the politicians cuz they can save us from the billionaires"

by No_Tomatillo 2 weeks ago

I'm saying crime follows poverty. I'm also saying poverty is enacted by rich people rigging a system of hoarding resources. It's very straightforward.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

youre arguing for real world politics in a comic book setting with fictional people that we only view a glimpse of. despite the lack of a well reasoned argument, im curious what evidence you have that bruce "enacted poverty by rigging the system to hoard resources." please refer me to a specific plotline

by No_Tomatillo 2 weeks ago

I must have missed the part where he was the mayor or city counsel and personally managed the allocation of resources in the city

by Sharp_Interest3003 2 weeks ago

It's more the part where he pays lobbyists and funds campaigns for mayors to ensure tax policy enabling him to live far above the means of everyone else at the expense of public services and infrastructure. As they all do. Or did he earn his inheritance?

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

I must have missed that issue where Bruce Wayne declares his lack of support for tax reform and donated on behalf of the billionaire class.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Obviously there aren't many. That's how billionaires work. I think it's pretty self-evident that every billion dollars Bruce Wayne has is $10,000 the rest of the city inhabitants don't have.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

I somehow doubt there's comic stories dedicated to him fervently advocating for policies that prevent him from being taxed appropriately.

by Sharp_Interest3003 2 weeks ago

At a certain point, your leftism just becomes performative, uncritical, and obnoxious. When you're insisting that rich orphan boys are the cause of a fictional city's problems because he's rich and thus has to be, you're well past that point

by Sharp_Interest3003 2 weeks ago

I think it's pretty self evident that every billion dollars Bruce Wayne has is $10,000 the rest of the city inhabitants don't have.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

Like I said, performative, uncritical, and obnoxious.

by Sharp_Interest3003 2 weeks ago

Agree to disagree.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

I say Gotham justice should have done death penalty .

by maceyromaguera 2 weeks ago

Honestly i think in a world full of actual supervillains, a death penalty should be a given

by izaiahfunk 2 weeks ago

Logically citizens of gotham would have demanded death penalty for mass killers already.

by maceyromaguera 2 weeks ago

Batman himself should have designed a prison that is escape proof (something HE couldn't escape from). But sending him back to the revolving door of Arkham is the truly insane plot point You know he doesn't pick where they go right? The government is the one who puts them in the easily escaped place instead of a high security building somewhere else in the state. He's also spent a ton of money on upgrading Arkham. It's usually the guards getting bribed or threatened into helping them escape. Or henchmen breaking them out.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Why not spending his billions to buy the government? It's what other billionaires do. Does he spend much effort on political reform at all? Cause otherwise sending the crooks straight back to the same corrupt judges without trying to deal with the judges really doesn't make any sense.

by Unhappy_Stomach 2 weeks ago

Because he's not the only billionaire in Gotham. People that say stuff like this completely ignore the court of owls.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Batman's no-kill rule doesn't say anything about making his enemies quadriplegics.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Yet he didn't do the same to Joker when he shot barbara...

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

That is the entire DC Universe. It's why when Wonder Woman killed Maxwell Lord, it was a big deal.

by ResponsibleSource236 2 weeks ago

I still want a Punisher Kills Gotham game where Punisher goes around wasting Batman's entire rogue's gallery. The final boss is Batman himself, who is VERY pissed that you've actually fixed Gotham and now no one needs Batman anymore

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Superman telling Batman "you should have just killed the Joker, or like put him somewhere he can't escape from, instead of having this weird psycho-sexual relationship with him" moment

by Aggressive-Funny-686 2 weeks ago

He's just a metaphor for the current justice system I guess lol

by barney12 2 weeks ago

Because if he kills the villains he becomes them

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

so don't kill them. That's a valid moral argument. Put them somewhere they can't break out 15 minutes later.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Idk a story about a billionaire trained in every martial art going around killing people just sounds boring. Like he's already at such a great advantage over the criminals.

by LiteratureMundane278 2 weeks ago

He should cut their Achilles tendons. Everyone he captures cut their Achilles tendons.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

He also accelerated the decay of Gotham by spending all his money on bat gizmos instead of taxes.

by ContextSea4333 2 weeks ago

Why is it batman's responsibility to kill his villains and not the government/cops? He routinely does their job for them for free catching the bad guys yet they never get the blame

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

He's already established that he is his own personal justice wrecking ball. So really it seems like he's just keeping himself in a job by putting them in the one place he's definitely sure they can and have broken out of.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Again why is it batman's responsibility to kill them when he's already funding everything, fighting everyone and delivering them to the government? we've seen what happens when batman starts killing and it literally never goes well, I see no reason to blame him for not wanting to kill then ignore everyone else that doesn't either

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Phantom zone. Easy fix.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago