Has batman ever taken a human life?

**NightBird** · 11-25-2006, 12:09 PM

My friend seems 2 recall batman killing sum1 during his retraining after bane broke his back.

Is this true?

**Chris N** · 11-25-2006, 12:20 PM

Not at that instance. He was just trying to trick Shiva into believing he had to end the tests.

However, if you look to the forties, you can see Batman pretty cavalierly spraying bullets at bad guys.

**Sean Whitmore** · 11-25-2006, 06:55 PM

His favorite was tossing people off roofs, though.

SEAN

**DemonJack** · 11-25-2006, 07:08 PM

Does scaring someone to death count?

**yourverysilly** · 11-26-2006, 12:57 AM

Nah, I don't Think he's done that, but even if he did, Bats knows what the line is, he wouldn't cross it ever.

**The Shadow** · 11-26-2006, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by yourverysilly

Bats knows what the line is, he wouldn't cross it ever.

As Sean and coke & comics point out he has.

He killed Dr Death in his first appearance or two.

**ouiyahtsiouiyah** · 11-26-2006, 07:15 AM

in a Detective comic late 80's he accidently kicks 2 thugs into a trash compactor and they get crushed.

He hasn't killed anyone else in continuity that I've seen

**Sean Whitmore** · 11-26-2006, 11:14 AM

My favorite was in Batman...I wanna say #3 or 4...he kicks a guy in the head so hard that his neck snaps.

He used to out-Bauer Jack Bauer. :D

SEAN

**Chad** · 11-26-2006, 11:24 AM

He intentionally killed a handfull of terrorists in Detective 590 (1988) by driving into them with a car going at full speed. One of them was carrying a bomb and when he rammed them, it detonated killing them all. Although he hadn't planned on the bomb going off, he knew what he was doing when he steered the car towards them and hit the accelerator. He killed the mastermind in the same issue albeit accidentally.

In Cosmic Odyssey, he kills one of Darkseid's Parademons in order to save his life and that of a police officer.

**Sean Whitmore** · 11-26-2006, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Chad

In Cosmic Odyssey, he kills one of Darkseid's Parademons in order to save his life and that of a police officer.

With a gun, no less.

Still, I think that's covered under the "monsters don't count" rule. :)

SEAN

**The Shadow** · 11-26-2006, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Sean Whitmore

He used to out-Bauer Jack Bauer. :D

That makes him the baddest ass around then!

**Stranger With Candy** · 11-26-2006, 12:44 PM

i might have killed Two-Face in Batman Forever.

**umbc8** · 11-26-2006, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Stranger With Candy

i might have killed Two-Face in Batman Forever.

I don't think the movies count, since they aren't comic continuity (by the way, he also killed Joker, Penguin, Catwoman (she even points out she lost one of her lives), and Ra's Al Ghul in the movies).

**BeastieRunner** · 11-26-2006, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by umbc8

I don't think the movies count, since they aren't comic continuity (by the way, he also killed Joker, Penguin, Catwoman (she even points out she lost one of her lives), and Ra's Al Ghul in the movies).

He didn't kill Ra's . . . he didn't save him. That's Ra's fault, and we don't even know if he really is dead.