Bass
Nexus of the World
Baxter said:Please. He's as insane as The Punisher. If we want any kind of realism injected into comicdom then we need to acept that the darker styled characters are going to be portrayed as... well, buck freaking loco whenever the oppertunity presents itself.
First, it's not realistic just because it's "dark". Suffering isn't drama. And, for Christ's sake, he dresses up as a bat, has a batmobile, and batarangs. How realistic do we really want him to be? I like the fantasy. Secondly, Batman was not always a dark character. He was quite a charming and pure character for a long time. The best example of a dark Batman that is also pure, is the Batman from the cartoons. It had a perfect balance, and he'd never do something so paranoid as spy on people and remove their liberties. He's not Rorschach, and he's not Punisher. He's Batman.
Baxter said:And truth be told, I think that this interpretation works for Batman. He's seperated from the rest of the chaff by his codes of ethics. If those were removed we'd get a character not unlike Dr. Doom without the overwhelming ego to hold him down.
Well, dark Batman works when it's written well. The problem is, a lot of people think Batman=Dark without questioning it, write him as a psychotic, and in my opinion, that's worse than anything Adam West ever did.