Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170831113100

Because you can do things other than kill someone, we are humans, we are the dominant life-form because we have evolved mentally as well as our lauded opposable thumb. We need not meet with issues purely by killing them. How many villains find ways around killing thing? How many dark lords sell them selves to the citizens to get what they want, thus avoiding having to kill? Why should Doctor Doom have a smaller body-count than Batman? Killing provides catharsis.

But using Batman as an example let's scratch the surface a little. Batman swore to not kill anyone because he was traumatized and he did not want to do that to anyone else. As the character grew this has been addressed, that he is no longer haunted by what happens to his parents but that he will never forget, yet his no-kill rule has remained in place. As late as the New 52 he has decided that society seeing him as a monster does not need to affect him since he has a secret identity and all he is concerned with his preventing tragedy from parading the streets. But, if he ever forgets the importance even one life can have, if he makes any exceptions that is the first step to validating his actions until he becomes like the radical he is portrayed as. It is not pride, or pacifism or trauma that made Batman swear not to kill anyone, it is a self-imposed line in the sand to make sure he never becomes drunk on his own quest for justice. But that isn't marketable to tweens is it? So in all the videogames and the newer movies we forget the real concerns a man who sees evils fester and has been victim to it would have in an attempt to be self aware and just make him the ***king Punisher.

And that little tirade aside, I will refer you to How it Should Have Ended. "Didn't kill him"