Originally Posted by
TheJudge95
Yeah I think the writing struggled to make him villainous, like when they make him almost kill Alfred for no reason. I said this on Reddit, but I think if Gordon had to be set on a collision course with Batman, it should have been after a long relationship together, which would infuse the conflict with more dramatic heft. Plus, if Batman only started killing after, say, Jason Todd's death, it would give Batman a better reason for breaking his no-killing rule than him simply killing Joe Chill. Then the Grim Knight could have been a more insightful exploration of why Batman does not kill, instead of making the Grim Knight do things out-of-character (burning Harvey Dent's face, putting a bomb in Alfred's neck) to make him a bad guy. Everything else about the Grim Knight's history - his weaponization of Gotham City, vigilantism, surveillance methods, lethal training - is straight out of Batman's playbook, but the conflict between him and Gordon felt contrived.