io9 7 TImes Batman Has Bent His ‘No Guns’ Rule
Likely in response to the uproar over the new photos of the Batmobile from Batman v Superman, where we can clearly see a large gun mounted on the vehicle, io9’s James Whitbrook has written this very interesting article about seven times when Batman has bent his ‘no guns’ rule. Below is just one of the seven times Batman’s gun rule has been ‘bent’, take a look:
5. Batman: Year Two (1987)
At times Batman is so defined by his refusal to use guns, writers can’t help but play with the idea of the character falling so low he picks up a gun with the intent to kill – and s ometimes, those ideas give us completely bizarre and dumb scenarios like Batman: Year Two.
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Written by Mike Barr, Year Two sees Batman face off against another Gotham Vigilante, The Reaper – who unlike himself, isn’t hesitant to murder criminals and use firearms. After facing off against The Reaper and barely making it out alive, Batman comes to believe that the only way to beat the vigilante is to break his code and get a gun of his own, so he collects a Handgun from Wayne Manor. Not just any handgun though, the actual pistol used to kill his parents.
Wait, what?
It gets more absurd! After having made an enemy of Commissioner Gordon, Batman teams up with Gotham’s criminal elite to take down The Reaper once and for all – and being a bunch of criminal assholes, they decide that Batman has to work together with Joe Chill, the thug who murdered his parents (!?!?). Batman plans to engage in a bit of dramatic irony and murder Chill with the handgun after dispatching the Reaper. It doesn’t work out that way however – The Reaper kills Chill before Batman can, and the two engage in a brawl that ends with The Reaper falling to his death (did I mention The Reaper also happened to be the father of the woman Batman gets engaged to in this story, too? AS IF THERE WASN’T ENOUGH GOING ON), and Bruce decides to build the gun into the cornerstone of the Wayne Foundation, so it can never be used again. Comic Books!
It’s a really great article and I recommend you give it a read. You can find the full article on io9.com, here.
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