You don’t need to see Tom, Martha, or even Uncle Ben die every movie. But you DO need to establish beyond a doubt that Bruce would NEVER allow someone to die (if he could help it) before the audience can believe the dilemma of not killing even the Joker, let alone Clark. #KillerBatman
It’s like the movie Green Lantern.
They had him fight the embodiment of fear without establishing that he is without fear.
This spoils the main twist of the comic storyline - that those “without fear” still fear. It’s not a reversal because they make you believe he was fearless. #KillerBatman
You have to put in the groundwork, establish the rule where, “you are left with someone who doesn’t want to see anyone die.” Otherwise, that guy that kills people?
He’s not Batman. He’s another guy in the suit. One who will kill.
They’ve done that, too. He was renamed Azreal. #KillerBatman
It’s as lazy to decide to “see what happens” as it is to not “put him in a situation where he has to kill someone.”
Gratuitous Hench-deaths don’t help the story. They don’t give him motive to examine his actions.
Those deaths undermined the already questionable “Martha” moment. #KillerBatman
Great Caesar’s Ghost, #ZackSnyder. We have a Batman who kills - he’s called The Midnighter.
It’s way more interesting - and way more difficult - to tell a story where Batman is sorely tempted to kill and still will not, even though his morals make it harder to save innocents. #KillerBatman
