That's what makes Joker the best villain he has. Joker calls his bluff all the time, and Batman never acts on it, so Joker messes with him by doing stuff like what he did to Gordon's wife, and Jason, and Barbara, and so forth. Joker's the man.
Batman doesn't kill maybe, but he can still give you a hard time...he's pretty unpredictable, so that's maybe why they tell him things...they think he's crazy...can you blame them...He walks around in a bat suit to find crime...that's not really 100% sane....but then again...who is!
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off topic..yeah it is...It's from the new sony picture where they say spider-man's costume is black...it is manipulated so it looks a little more like the symbionte costume
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It is basically one of the things that makes the legend of the Batman so fearful in the criminal minds of Gotham city. He doesn't kill...but fear can be more terrifying than death. Fear is one of Batman's strongest ally.
Any henchmen or thug in Gotham never again wants to face Batman. They know he won't kill them....but they most certainly know he will send to the Hospital for weeks or months after a confrontation.
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We know that Batman won't kill; the rogue's gallery, by this point, know that Batman won't kill. The every-day thug doesn't know much about him--urban legend, remember?--and when a psycopath in a bat suit is holding you over the edge of a ten-story building's roof, the fact that you can't remember hearing about said psychpath ever killing someone might not be all that comforting.
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Haha, yeah. Greg's amost got it. Batman isn't a psychopath by any stretch, but the nameless thugs aren't as intune to Batman's psyche as the rogues gallery may be. When it seems like he's going to hurt and/or kill them, they react accordingly.
I don't think Batman's a psychopath; I was just describing it how the guy being dangled over the edge of the roof would see it.
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Batman 89 Joker doesn't hardly count. For one thing, he was made from a very different approach. Secondly, he didn't even really know Batman. Comic book Joker has years of experience with Batman, which is what enables him to call the bluffs.
Oh yeah, and has anyone read Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns??? He kills Joker in that... VERY GOOD READ. I got it a while back and loved it. Dark Knight Returns is another good one, and I gotta say... killing or not, Batman in those books... I can see why people would fear that guy.
Look... I would have enjoyed DKR or at least, thought it was OK, if it didn't use batman... it would far better suit someone bad ass and lethal, maybe Rorschach (if he hadn't died) or Punisher...
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Umm why do Bad guys fear batman and tell him stuff
So why don't they call his bluff 
Feb 27th, 2006 04:16 PM
