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Batman isn't a superhero... he's a crime fighter.
Last Edit: February 06, 2008, 09:00:23 pm by Chainer
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Batman isn't a superhero because he doesn't have any super powers. He's just a hero/crime fighter.

Kind of like Dick Grayson. (age 12)
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Technically anti-hero but yeah same thing, he's no Super hero, just a hero.

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Nitpicking over whether or not someone's a superhero is silly. Either way, he runs around in his underwear fighting supervillains. And "regular" (I guess) villains such as Anarky (age 12).
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Technically anti-hero but yeah same thing, he's no Super hero, just a hero.

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Batman isn't an anti-hero in any sense of the word.
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isn't an anti-hero a hero who uses any means (within reason) to catch the bad guy? well batman is wiling to kill just to stop a bad guy so in my opnion that makes him an anti-hero.
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isn't an anti-hero a hero who uses any means (within reason) to catch the bad guy? well batman is wiling to kill just to stop a bad guy so in my opnion that makes him an anti-hero.

Batman doesn't kill.  Also, an anti-hero is "a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities."  I wouldn't call Batman an anti-hero.
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isn't an anti-hero a hero who uses any means (within reason) to catch the bad guy? well batman is wiling to kill just to stop a bad guy so in my opnion that makes him an anti-hero.

Batman AFAIK has only killed in alternate realities where he is evil.
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I don't follow DC enough to know what constitutes an "alternate reality" but almost every Batman side-story/spinoff whatever has him acting like a total asshat (allstar batman included).  I don't know what it is with writers and Batman but it's nearly impossible to resist the urge to make the guy a huge faggot morally and socially.  Hell, even Tim Burton had his batmobile and stuff decked out with guns and bombs.

But the important this is HIS PARENTS ARE DEADDDDDDDDDD!!
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I wouldn't call Batman an anti-hero.

All-Star Batman pours bleach over a group of thugs and lights them on fire. I... I feel that's a pretty anti-heroic quality.
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isn't an anti-hero a hero who uses any means (within reason) to catch the bad guy? well batman is wiling to kill just to stop a bad guy so in my opnion that makes him an anti-hero.
Batman has never intentionally killed, ever. His unwillingness to kill is what defines who he is in the first place!
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Batman has never intentionally killed, ever. His unwillingness to kill is what defines who he is in the first place!

Unless if it was an alternate reality where he's evil, this is true.
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Since like half of the discussion in the Frank Miller topic was about this, I split the topic into one about the classification of Batman, which seems to be a popular topic, and the other one to continue talking about Frank Miller.
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Batman has never intentionally killed, ever. His unwillingness to kill is what defines who he is in the first place!
Actually even though it's not exactly cannon... anymore... He used to in the original. He would throw people of buildings or intentionally let them die/refuse to help them.
But yah talking about the Canon, Batman hasn't intentionally killed anybody.
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Yeah, Batman's no-killing thing is the whole crux of the Joker dilemma, with people claiming that given how many people the Joker has killed and that no prison (or asylum, least of all Arkham) seems capable of holding him, Batman is indirectly responsible for hundreds, thousands of deaths because he won't just end it. And Kaworu, didn't the Crisis on Infinite Earths retcon those early deaths at his hands? It retconned just about a lot of other unwanted things....like Superman's more insane powers.

But then Batman's already out of his head. If he let himself start killing baddies, there's like zero doubt he'd turn into a huge, dark antihero in no time. He'd make Rorschach look stable! That's also the reason that he keeps a Robin around--he's got to have some sort of attachment to the realms of sanity and normalcy, and Robin's it. It's also why fans still tolerate a teen sidekick in Batman when every other hero has lost theirs to age or death or phlebotinum or whatever.

If anything, the most interesting thing about Batman is how hard he fights to not be an antihero.
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Batman's early killingspree days were retconned way before crisis on infinate earths. Fuck I think they were gone away with even before Crisis on multiple earths!
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I'd just like to add that Robin is the best comic hero ever.
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Dude... Azrael!
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Stop livin' in the 90s, sheesh.
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your avatar looks very 90s actually