The Batman no-killing rule was forced on the writers of the comic in a period of puritanism, the fact that it stayed and is actively defended is fucking bizarre.

@Diamandahagan Yes, because obviously, only the original version of the character written in the 1930s should count, and not the 90 years of added content that's shaped the character since then. Yes, Golden Age Batman used to kill. And then he stopped, and never went back.

@rollandtherrien Except the times he did. Mostly on screen but also in video games when i play them.

@Diamandahagan Batman stopped killing in 1940. Bill Finger agreed with the decision. You’re talking about an aspect of the character that is 82 years ago. You are weird.

@Diamandahagan Also, you’re disingenuous. You say “all the others in the 30s who wrote Batman killing people” as if Batman didn’t debut in 1939, and didn’t stop killing in less than a year after he was created.

@Diamandahagan @mprodriguez2007 But they’re all comic book people. Tertiary characters in a dime novel.

@Diamandahagan Those two odd years when he was a rip-off of Shadow before becoming his own character? Come on. Early Installment Weirdness is a thing, this is legimately one of the defining chracteristics, if you think it's stupid, you think Batman is stupid. Which is valid, but it's what it is

@Diamandahagan So your just going to ignore 90 years of character development/refinement for the two when he was a ripoff of the shadow, and also ignore the more definitive version of the character?

@Diamandahagan I don't think killing make a batman interpretation invalid. But when I think of my platonic ideal of Batman, the character doesn't kill, or at least kills as little as possible.

@Diamandahagan Yeah cause thats the batman we see in tv, comics and movies now almost a hundred years later, the one with red tights. Also batman beating uo mugfers happens but its like shaving for characters its mostly off page cause its boring.

@Diamandahagan Are u one of those ppl that practice moral relativity?

@Diamandahagan Batman's rule is a good thing for his character; it gives him more depth. It's a good trait for his character regardless of whether it was originally written that way.

@Diamandahagan It was Bill Finger who thought that Batman shouldn’t kill.

@Diamandahagan Bill Finger instituted the no killing and was on record for believing it should have always been there. He wrote less than a dozen stories where Batman even accidentally killed and called those a mistake.

@Diamandahagan In the 30's* He's massively changed since then

@Diamandahagan Have you ever heard of character development?

@Diamandahagan Damn didn’t know characters couldn’t change in nearly 100 years

@Diamandahagan No one else but Finger wrote Batman between 1939-40. Finger himself advocated the no killing rule. And holding the first couple of formative years of a strip whose creators at that point, couldn’t even conceive it reaching nearly 90 yrs of constant production as some immutable…