• DragonTypeWyvern
    293·
    19 days ago

    It should be noted that Batman’s no killing rule is a later addition to the character, so early comics are cheating a bit.

    I think it says a lot about the original character concept and his position as a millionaire/billionaire regardless.

    • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world
      8·
      19 days ago

      Huh, that is very interesting

      Also fwiw, by the end of year of writing, the batman writers settled on his “no killing” rule.

    • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
      103·
      18 days ago

      I see you’re just going to deliberately leave out the context.

      That wasn’t a homeless person, it was a patient at the asylum. Hugo Strange had injected him and 4 others with grown hormone that turned them into mindless, rage filled monsters, and there was no cure. It’s needlessly violent and careless but that is in no way “Batman lynching a homeless man”

      I don’t know what it is with people on Lemmy trying to dishonesty reframe the legacy of that character just because he’s wealthy. It’s so petty and pointless.

      • DragonTypeWyvern
        85·
        18 days ago

        1: Guess where 40’s asylums got a lot of their patients. Guess what happened to most of them if they did get released.

        2: There was a cure, Batman himself made it in the comic.

        3: Do you think being a victim of a medical experiment makes it better?

        Nice “real context,” simp.