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support the channel Batman's a pretty
complicated guy buddy's got one
steadfast rule don't kill people seems
pretty normal right well as it turns out
the Caped Crusader has broken this world
way more times than you think
in fact there's a few times when
Batman's been such a cold-blooded killer
he makes his villains look tame
are you curious because I'd love to
share it's kind of my thing I'm Jocelyn
the intern I do all the research nobody
else wants to straight from the desk
before I spill the comic book secrets I
don't want to overlook the movies I'm
actually kind of surprised the everyday
non comic reader knows about Batman's
code of not killing because every movie
series we've seen doesn't give to bats
about it Tim Burton's Batman has zero
problems whatsoever about killing people
yeah
see you never Joker and don't tell me
that hole I won't kill you but I don't
have to save you bit with Liam Neeson in
Batman Begins is a loophole criminally
negligent manslaughter is a thing guys
also it was Batman's plan to blow up the
monorail in the first place and I don't
need to tell you how violent batfleck
gets when driving is life-sized Hot
Wheel around in Batman vs Superman but
people defend this because it's all off
screen so we don't really know if he's
actually killing people right except do
you remember that one scene where he
bust through a wall and shoots a guy
with a rifle oh yeah a frickin gun the
one thing Batman absolutely never ever
uses so much for respecting source
material anyway he's got two thugs in a
room and his shot causes an explosion
that looks like this
[Music]
yeah those guys are dead but hey I'm
sure the comic-book Batman would have
come up with about 200 different ways to
handle this situation which don't
include loss of life rights well don't
bet your cow on it starting with a comic
as recent as 2007 in Frank Miller's
goddamn Batman series Batman decides to
break up a bunch of armed thugs who are
in the process of stealing bleach he
does this by using the chemical to set
all of them on fire and I mean all of
them before getting kinky with Black
Canary that takes the idea of making
sweet love down by the fire to a whole
new level
anyway The Killing Joke is probably the
most recognized story where Batman gets
murdery and also one of the most debated
Alan Moore's Batman has always been a
bit darker than most but after Joker
leaves Barbara Gordon paralyzed from the
waist down Oh
spoilers by the way that takes the kid
gloves off in the final scene we don't
actually see the killing blow just
Batman and Joker laughing together like
a couple of psychotic buddies but it's
pretty obvious only one of them keeps
their neck unsnapped by the end of it
here's a more straightforward instance
of bat murder
the KGB story short Batman outsmarts
this Soviet assassin but he knows that
if he were to capture the Beast the
villain would just be handed back to the
Soviets
instead bats decided to lock the cagey
beast in an underground room all alone
to starve to death
this was retconned later but Batman
clearly had no intention of that guy
ever getting out alive chilling but we
still aren't at Batman's most violent
time that honor goes to the classic Gold
Age of comic books in the 1940s Batman
was quite different from today's cape
and cowl not only was he a gun-toting
sociopath but he took no issue murdering
aristocrats minorities and even the
mentally disabled in issue 39 of
Detective Comics Batman in
annalee crushes a crowd of Chinese
gangsters under a massive statue on two
separate occasions he pushes a guy on to
a sword but Batman's most brutal murder
of all comes from I kid you not his very
first solo outing that's right Batman
issue number one in this story a mad
scientist has turned a bunch of helpless
mental patients into monsters when one
of these monsters is being driven to
town Batman uses his brand-spankin'-new
machine gun and the truck crashes the
poor monster survives though it climbs
out trying to escape only to be scooped
up and strangled to death by a steel
noose dropped from the batplane the best
part is Batman actually had created an
antidote which could cure the monster
only a couple pages back but you know
rather than help the poor guy he just
figures that he's better off this way
holy homicide Batman
so what do you guys think Batman isn't
exactly the Boy Scout you thought he was
huh do you guys know of any other times
the Caped Crusader's gone too far hey
let us know in the comments below