3. Batman is a murderer
Every director who makes a Batman movie decides to have Batman kill people. Why is this? The most vital character trait of Batman is that he is about justice, not vengeance. He hates guns and he doesn’t kill.Burton went down a slippery path with Batman on film. Nolan took a step back, but still had Batman kill people – either by not saving them or through collateral damage. Zack Snyder’s Batman leaves a path of destruction so uncompromising that he seems less like Batman and more like The Punisher. In Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns Batman famously says that “guns are the weapon of the enemy,” and he snaps a gun in half with his hands. In Batman v Superman, Batman happily points a criminal’s gun at a hostage taker and blows him to smithereens.
Cars land on top of one another and the criminal drivers are crushed. Batman even flat out uses guns himself and shoots a Superman terrorist in the face – yes, it’s a dream sequence, but the act is still so unforgivable. For all the visual influence Snyder took from The Dark Knight Returns he refused to look at the true message of the book. Even in his bleakest, most weary and beaten down Batman will go out of his way to not kill. He will break every limb in a mutant’s body and even paralyze the Joker, but he will not take a life.
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