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That would be too cruel for Batman, but yeah, I get the point. I just hate how prog writers do the no kill rule and then just lets villains go without any attempt at trying to redeem them. You can really feel how they never even attempt to think through "no kill" or on a related note, "rehabilitation not deterrent" for prisons and real-life crime. There's only ever a moral benefit, which isn't a benefit especially in this genre because they almost never reform and they have more potential to damage their world than Bin Laden did to New York.

I know the reason why they do it, it is just more profitable to leave the villain alive. However in japan super heroes stories, they have heroes who kill and are still highly praised and revered. Whenever you put teo characters fighting against each other, the risk of one living and not should be real, but in the end it is just like a exhibition match that they aren't as serious as they would be in a real contest. And stories are better when they treat it like that.

I do feel more emotion with a child holding a sword than any capeshit battle because the story convinces me that everything there is "real" and the decisions they take are something they put their lives on the stake for it.



Now would why I care if Norman shot dead after decades of not taking things seriously for these characters?