Zack Snyder has had no qualms about suggesting that Batman should stop with the subtleties and start killing. The film director believes that the character must evolve along these lines to be able to reach new creative layers with him. However, it seems that DC is not willing to break that symbolic border and neither does Grant Morrison.
The iconic Scottish screenwriter has shared his own opinion about this debate and believes that this rule should be maintained under any circumstances. “If Batman killed his enemies, he would be the Joker, and Commissioner Gordon would have to lock him up!” Morrison points out in his newsletter. The truth is that the Dark Knight’s self-imposed promise is even more important than one might think.
“That Batman puts himself in danger every night but flatly refuses to kill is an essential element of the character’s magnificent, horrendous, childhood psychosis,” says the creative. The fact that Batman never ends the life of his enemies is a pure representation of him not having overcome his own trauma and is “fundamental to his greatness as a hero fictional adventure It is not obvious?”.
However, Morrison did not avoid taking the superhero into the dark terrain of murder, since in the plot Batman’s Ghosts 2007. Not directly to Bruce Wayne, but to the three characters who replaced him protecting Gotham, although with a higher degree of violence. Of course, there are all kinds of products in which we can see Batman killing criminals or, at the very least, not taking responsibility for what may happen to them if he does not act to protect them.
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