more Batman thoughts

[ivyfic]

Throughout that whole movie, I was struck by just how young Batman is to be doing what he's doing. I'm so used to seeing Batman as a 40-year-old that seeing the same drive and determination in him when he's in his late twenties is a little frightening.

Also, seeing a very little Barbara Gordon, knowing that she's going to have a liason with Bruce once she's the Batgirl, is just kind of - sick.

And I have to point out that Bruce has very strong morals in this film and no sense of collateral damage. No, I will not kill a murderer in cold blood. But I will blow up the house he's in, causing him and many other people to die.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

There is a line that any superhero must not cross if he is to remain a hero. This is the convention the major comic publishers have maintained since the 50s, and is now understood to the difference between a hero (no matter what other wrongs he commits) and a soon-to-be-villain-dark-hero.

But more to the point, this convention was established because no writer wants to definitively kill off a villian. If the hero kills a villian in plain sight, then you've got to have a damn good excuse to bring him back, and if you can't bring back villians, you're going to be hurting for ideas in a few months. Not to mention, any other author who wanted to use that villian is going to be hurting _you_...

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

So, what you're saying is that ethics come out of the exigencies of commercial publishing?