Does Batman believe in vengeance?

[literally exaggerated]

Standard DC comics answer would seem to say yes, but various writers from time to time, along with other media (like Batman Begins) have said that what Batman does is not vengeance, but a sincere effort to prevent anything like the murder of his parents from ever happening again?

So which is it?

[mattx110]

a couple years ago there were a couple stories where batman made sure he said it wasn't a crazy obssession every couple issues probably around the time JLa made him nuts and paranoid (more than regularly) and in a chuck dixon comic he said his fight was about a better future for gotham, not his parents.

[Guts/Batman]

Sometimes it is vengeance and sometimes it isn't...

Just depends on his...frame of mind.

[Watchman]

Sometimes it is vengeance and sometimes it isn't...

Just depends on his...frame of mind.
And who the writer is.

[Mia]

Ah the line between 'justice' and 'revenge' is often blurred...

[megladon8]

I think it really depends on the situation and, as Guts/batman said, his frame of mind.

I think his fight to rid Gotham City of the evil that killed his parents is a genuine fight for justice. It may have begun as a lust for revenge, but it has become something much more.

However, I think he wants revenge on Joker for what he did to Jason and Barbara.

[Exo]

A little of both. :rolleyes: