The Living Tribunal
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Not in Superior Spiderman Land.
Welp, to be fair, Jester hit him in the balls with a slingshot.
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Batman the Crippler
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Welp, to be fair, Jester hit him in the balls with a slingshot.
Manmademan
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why not? punisher does, wolverine does, etc.
edit: hell, even captain america has a bodycount.
DonasaurusRex
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sheit back in the day batman was the crippler and carried his pistol just in case. Then the comics code happened BAH.
I wasn't passing a general judgement based on my moral codes, just the line of thinking bruce wayne might have.
Manmademan
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the point of the comment is that this USED to be a fairly common trope in superhero comics, because of the comics code. Some characters refused to kill at all, others (like cap, and batman above) started out wasting fools without a second thought, but had a change of heart after the comics code kicked in.
There were even bizarre cases like wolverine who would constantly go on about stabbing dudes (or "popping the third claw") but never actually do so.
The comics code is a relic that LONG outlived it's usefulness and is long gone, so all of the above cases really don't happen anymore. deaths happen when the plot calls for it, and no one really dwells on it much. Batman is pretty much the exception.
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
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And chances are Fank Miller Batman will be the Batman in Supes/Bat movie.
The Living Tribunal
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Is there such a thing as an All-Star Batman defense force on gaf?
Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet
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But yeah, not exactly a new thing from batman.
EDIT: For those of you know don't know the context, he cripples him with that kick purposefully. Batman says in the next panel after the rookie cop crawls up batman's ass about it that "he's young yet, he may still walk again". Yeah.
or maybe it has and I'm just blind T_T
But yeah, not exactly a new thing from batman.
EDIT: For those of you know don't know the context, he cripples him with that kick purposefully. Batman says in the next panel after the rookie cop crawls up batman's ass about it that "he's young yet, he may still walk again". Yeah.
No chance in hell he'll be anything like All Star Batman. Dark Knight Returns? sure why not. Isn't that far removed from the normal characterization.
Spike Spiegel
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Wolverine cut off Sabretooth's head in 2003. Took his magical, healing factor negating, meteorite metal katana in hand and lopped it right off. Put the mad dog down.
It's nearly 2014, and you know who's still killing innocent people and making Wolverine's life hell? Sabretooth.
Why? Because especially in comic books, you can't keep a good villain down. Lethal or non-lethal means, it doesn't matter. The implementation of and the fallout from might make for an interesting story or two for the hero, but capital or extreme forms of punishment are never going to stick with villains like Joker/Sabretooth/Green Goblin/Darkseid/Paste-Pot Pete because one, two, five, ten years down the road another writer is going to want to use that character in his story.
It's nearly 2014, and you know who's still killing innocent people and making Wolverine's life hell? Sabretooth.
Why? Because especially in comic books, you can't keep a good villain down. Lethal or non-lethal means, it doesn't matter. The implementation of and the fallout from might make for an interesting story or two for the hero, but capital or extreme forms of punishment are never going to stick with villains like Joker/Sabretooth/Green Goblin/Darkseid/Paste-Pot Pete because one, two, five, ten years down the road another writer is going to want to use that character in his story.
TheKaeptain
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RoninChaos
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how did tooth come back from that?Wolverine cut off Sabretooth's head in 2003. Took his magical, healing factor negating, meteorite metal katana in hand and lopped it right off. Put the mad dog down.
It's nearly 2014, and you know who's still killing innocent people and making Wolverine's life hell? Sabretooth.
Why? Because especially in comic books, you can't keep a good villain down. Lethal or non-lethal means, it doesn't matter. The implementation of and the fallout from might make for an interesting story or two for the hero, but capital or extreme forms of punishment are never going to stick with villains like Joker/Sabretooth/Green Goblin/Darkseid/Paste-Pot Pete because one, two, five, ten years down the road another writer is going to want to use that character in his story.
TheKaeptain
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ThirtyPlus
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It always amuses me when people make threads applying real world logic to comic books.
DiscoJer
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While not a comic character (at least not at first), Doc Savage would send captured villains to a medical clinic to be brainswashed as opposed to killing them.
OTOH, a lot of times his cohorts would "accidentally" kill the main villain, and say "Ooops" and they'd they'd all laugh about it.
OTOH, a lot of times his cohorts would "accidentally" kill the main villain, and say "Ooops" and they'd they'd all laugh about it.
Clones, lots of clones. Unless it was retconned current Sabretooth is a clone of original Sabretooth who's soul was beheaded in hell with Satans sword. Fucking Romulus bullshit never ends.
Superman is already Frank Miller Batman in those movies, so Batman will have to be lighter to contrast with him.
Schweinehund
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Batman doesn't go out of his way to save criminals but he doesn't kill them on purpose.
Batman has crippled countless bad guys (usually mooks) and put super criminals in the hospital for months or years at a time, but this being comics any significant character usually gets better
I guess DC criminals have access to some truly talented physicians.
unless you are Bullseye.
shadyspace
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uh what happened on this page
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why does sabre have breasts
and hips like kim kardashian? you'll have to ask the artist
Schweinehund
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Batman was ontop of a train, dude thought he had him cornered and then he died when he hit an alcove that was behind him.
The other people are dead because of clayface.
ChubbyHuggs
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I keep saying this in every Batman thread. If he can kick a tree in half in Year One, that means that every time he kicks a criminal in the head it's a severe case of brain damage.
Callo Merlose
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It was a hollow tree and he has a lot of self-control when fighting and most-likely holds back when he has to. Marvel No-Prize!
No, he doesn't. He breaks his leg and says, "Something tells me to stop with the leg. I don't listen to it." Let me find it.
Edit: Look at the way he's holding his leg. Most likely broke and dislocated it.
ChubbyHuggs
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Any force strong enough to knock someone out can result in brain damage, so there are a lot of mentally handicap minions walking around.
Screaming Meat
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I was waiting for that myself. Frank Miller's Batman is mental. Can't find the image but this exchange is from All Star Batman and Robin:
sixteen-bit
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The Crippler would be a badass super hero name
Urgh. All Star Batman and Robin had horrible characterization for pretty much everyone who appeared in it, especially Wonder Woman. It also had a hilarious moment where Miller obviously didn't do his research and had Batman throwing THERMITE at bad guys.
BattleMonkey
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Villains like the heroes magically heal to perfect fighting conditions.
It's not real life where a simple injury playing sports will hinder you for life. In comics, you just get better
It's not real life where a simple injury playing sports will hinder you for life. In comics, you just get better
shadyspace
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Pretty sure it's from Year One, if I recall right Batman swoops down and smashes into the guys spine and gives no craps.
Rather liked that, in a city like Gotham Batman isn't going to be going easy on people. This isn't Batman 66.
That's DKR
Callo Merlose
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Pretty sure it's from Year One, if I recall right Batman swoops down and smashes into the guys spine and gives no craps.
Rather liked that, in a city like Gotham Batman isn't going to be going easy on people. This isn't Batman 66.
Pretty damned positive this is from The Dark Knight Returns.
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