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If you want to pick one up and it's a great way to support the channel, that man's a pretty complicated guy, but he's got one steadfast rule.

Joe kill people.

Seems pretty normal, right?

Well, as it turns out, the Caped Crusader has broken this rule way more times than you think.

In fact, there's a few times when Batman's been such a cold blooded killer makes his villains look tame.

Are you curious because I'd love to share?

It's kind of my thing.

I'm Jocelyn, the intern.

I do all the research nobody else wants to straight from the desk before I spill the comic book secrets.

I don't want to overlook the movies.

I'm actually kind of surprised the every day non comic reader knows about Batman's code of not killing, because every movie Siri's we've seen doesn't give two bats about it.

Tim Burton's Batman has zero problems whatsoever about killing people.

Yeah, see, and never joker.

And don't tell me that whole I won't kill you, But I don't have to save you bit with Liam Neeson in Batman Begins as all loophole, criminally negligent manslaughter is a thing, guys.

Also, it was Batman's plan to blow up the monorail in the first place.

And I don't need to tell you how violent bat Fleck gets when driving his life sized hot wheel around in Batman versus Superman.

But people defend this because it's all off screen, so we don't really know if he's actually killing people rights.

Except do you remember that one scene where he bust through a wall and shoots a guy with a rifle?

Yeah, African gun.

The one thing Batman absolutely never ever uses so much for respecting source material.

Anyway.

He's got two thugs in a room, and his shot causes an explosion that looks like this.

Yeah, those guys were dead.

But, hey, I'm sure the comic book Batman would have come up with about 200 different ways to handle this situation, which don't include loss of life rights.

Well, no better cowl on it, starting with the comic.

As recent as 2007 in Frank Miller's Goddamn Batman, Siri's Batman decides to break up a bunch of armed thugs who are in the process of stealing bleach.

Ah, he does this by using the chemical to set all of them on fire, and I mean all of them before getting kinky with Black Canary.

That takes the idea of making sweet love down by the fire to a whole new level.

Anyway, the killing joke is probably the most recognized story where Batman gets murdering and also one of the most debated.

Alan Moore's Batman has always been a bit darker than most, but after Joker leaves Barbara Gordon paralyzed from the waist down spoilers that's takes the kid gloves off in the final scene.

We don't actually see the killing blow, just Batman and Joker laughing together like a couple of psychotic buddies, but it's pretty obvious only one of them keeps their neck unsnapped by the end of it.

Here's a more straightforward instance of that murder.

The kg beast Long story short Batman outsmarts this Soviet assassin, but he knows that if he were to capture the beast, the villain would just be handed back to the Soviets.

Instead, Bats decided to lock the kg beast in an underground room, all alone to starve to death.

This was reckoned later, but Batman clearly had no intention of that guy ever getting out alive.

Chilling.

But we still aren't at Batman's most violent time.

That honor goes to the classic gold age of comic books in the 19 forties Batman Waas quite different from today's Cape and cowl.

Not only was he a gun toting sociopath, but he took no issue murdering aristocrats, minorities and even the mentally disabled.

In Issue 39 of Detective Comics, that man intentionally crushes a crowd of Chinese Gangsters under a massive statue.

On two separate occasions, he pushes a guy onto a sword.

But Batman's most brutal murder of all comes from I Kid You, not his very first solo outing.

That's right, Batman issue number one.

In this story, a mad scientist has turned a bunch of helpless mental patients into monsters.

When one of these monsters is being driven to town, Batman uses his brand spanking new machine gun and the truck crashes.

The poor monster survives, though it climbs out, trying to escape on Lee to be scooped up and strangled to death by a steel news dropped from the bat plain.

The best part is Batman, actually had created an antidote which could cure the monster.

Only a couple pages back.

But, you know, rather than help the poor guy, he just figures I was better off this way.

Holy Homicide.

Batman!

So, what do you guys think?

Batman isn't exactly the Boy Scout you thought he was, huh?

Do you guys know of any other times?

The Caped Crusader's gone too far?

Hey, let us know in the comments below.