Ding Feng
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- Posted: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:20:44 +0000
Batsu Gama
Baaah every answer was as typical as I knew it would be.
Everyone forgot Batmans greatest enemy.
Himself!
Or to be more specific the constant conflict Batman has between his morals and his ultimate goal.
Batman knows that for the vast majority of the people he deals with,
There is not, and will never be any rehabilitation.
He knows that they will never get better, and that he will spend his life trying to put them away.
And with that said, he knows that the only way to truely solve the problem is to completely get rid of the solution. Kill them all and the problem goes away. But he also knows in his head that if he did that he wouldn't be any better than the rest of them. And even worse, what happens when he dies and there is no one there to do his work?
I could go on, but my point is made.
Batmans number one enemy, himself.
Everyone forgot Batmans greatest enemy.
Himself!
Or to be more specific the constant conflict Batman has between his morals and his ultimate goal.
Batman knows that for the vast majority of the people he deals with,
There is not, and will never be any rehabilitation.
He knows that they will never get better, and that he will spend his life trying to put them away.
And with that said, he knows that the only way to truely solve the problem is to completely get rid of the solution. Kill them all and the problem goes away. But he also knows in his head that if he did that he wouldn't be any better than the rest of them. And even worse, what happens when he dies and there is no one there to do his work?
I could go on, but my point is made.
Batmans number one enemy, himself.
What about Frank Miller's The Dark Night Returns, where an aging batman fakes his own death and trains what will inevitably become an underground army? There is the inner conflict, which although is not resolved as it cannot be in any of us, is brought under greater control.
