It gets brought up every time a villain goes on a rampage that puts real life terrorists and war criminals to shame. There's a reason people ask this question of the comics Batman and not, say, the one from the Brave and the Bold cartoon. Hell, it wasn't too long ago this question came up in regards to the comics when Kate killed Clayface to save Cass.
I know the preferable option is just to tone down the villains a great deal, but that doesn't seem to be what most writers want to write or what the audience even expects now. Should it just not be brought up period?
Regardless, we've already brought up the real reason nobody kills the villains. We saw the man behind the curtain a long ass time ago. If the writing is otherwise strong enough that people can roll with it, what does it matter? If it gets too stupid, it's not like fans don't drop it until a new writer comes on board.
Ideally, yes.
I'd say drawing attention to it in the first place is a sign of the writing not being strong enough.Regardless, we've already brought up the real reason nobody kills the villains. We saw the man behind the curtain a long ass time ago. If the writing is otherwise strong enough that people can roll with it, what does it matter? If it gets too stupid, it's not like fans don't drop it until a new writer comes on board.
I don't remember if I've answered this or not but Batman doesn't kill because he associates killing with the death of his parents
Ehh... I'm okay with Batman killing someone like Hitler or 9/11 terrorists. So if he kills Joker or Darkseid, I'm good. Are we argue against this? The better question is should Batman get therapy.
In my personal opinion Batman values not killing over the quality of life. Batman would be against abortion or euthanasia because he sees it something like "sin" or morally bad. I'm against this view but I respect it. Death is ugly but for some people so is their life.
Just read the first part of the Killing Academy story by Gerry Conway. Batman beats up two thugs and throws one of them in the harbor. The crook can't swim, Batman growls he might throw him something if he talks. The floundering thug spills his guts about the Academy. Batman turns away, his victim pleads: weren't you going to throw me something? And Batman does - he throws the other, unconscious thug in the water. We do not see what happens next but the implication is very strongly that Bruce Wayne heroically lets two men drown. So: in the '70s, Batman DID kill, and sometimes even intentionally. High time we went back to those days to get rid of Joker forever.
Its comics. There must always be stories for popular heroes vs popular villains. In real life convicted mass murderers get detained for life. There is nothing wrong with Bats no kill code, only the asylum that fails to detain the insane criminals.