I know Batman doesn't like killing but he does have a dark side. I know about him using guns in non-canon comics but has he ever killed someone in the real continuity?

Yes. He once hung a mentally ill guy with a rope on his Batwing.. Flew around and even said 'He is better off dead."

Hulk heard during Batman's original debut, that puny Batman no have that "no killing" rule. It like how Superman not originally fly.

@BiteMe-Fanboy said:

Yes. He once hung a mentally ill guy with a rope on his Batwing.. Flew around and even said 'He is better off dead."

Wow.

That sounds sad and interesting. Do you have any scans of it? > . <

- Daaerk

@Daaerk

Gallery

Here's a whole bunch of em:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20111_the-6-most-brutal-murders-committed-by-batman.html

@Daaerk said:

@BiteMe-Fanboy said:

Yes. He once hung a mentally ill guy with a rope on his Batwing.. Flew around and even said 'He is better off dead."

Wow.

That sounds sad and interesting. Do you have any scans of it? > . <

- Daaerk

It was a really early issue, before the Comics Code of Conduct and the "no kill rule."

@Daaerk said:

@BiteMe-Fanboy said:

Yes. He once hung a mentally ill guy with a rope on his Batwing.. Flew around and even said 'He is better off dead."

Wow.

That sounds sad and interesting. Do you have
any scans of it? > . <

- Daaerk

Golden Age. He also broke a neck and didn't prevent a man from falling to his death, and in canon was willing to allow KGBeast to die

http://www.cracked.com/article_20111_the-6-most-brutal-murders-committed-by-batman.html

He did shoot Darkseid in Final Crisis with the intention of killing him.

Maybe Batman should play for the Ravens

*CROSS MEDIA HUMOR YEAHHHHHH*

@KnightRise: @Imagine_Man15: @BiteMe-Fanboy:

I see, no wonder it didn’t sound like our modern Batman. XD Though, thanks for the link. =3

- Daaerk

@Imagine_Man15 said:

He did shoot Darkseid in Final Crisis with the intention of killing him.

To save Earth.

I actually wish Batman would treat more villains like that instance with the KG Beast. It just makes too much sense!

@DarkKnightDetective said:

@Imagine_Man15 said:

He did shoot Darkseid in Final Crisis with the intention of killing him.

To save Earth.

True, I never said it was wrong of him. The motivation is irrelevant to this thread, the question was simply if Batman has ever intentionally killed anyone, and he did in fact intend to kill Darkseid.

@Reignmaker said:

I actually wish Batman would treat more villains like that instance with the KG Beast. It just makes too much sense!

Me too.

Ummm thanks...

Darkseid.

Depends what you mean by "Canon Comics"

Batman has killed tons of people before the New 52, during his first year he was killing people fairly regularly.

He was still killing people off and on during the 80s, such as in 1988s "The Cult"

@biteme_fanboy: yeah I heard about that the crack some how compiled a buch of bat kills

Do you have more on him killing in the 80s? Like scan or specific issues? Also, he didn't kill that often, even during the Golden Age.

Lord Death Man cant fully die as soon as he does he comes back to life, so Batman shot him into space in an oxygenless Ship so He'll be stuck in a permanent Loop of Life DEath

Does the circus giant in Batman Returns count?

A bunch of people actuall, eve Ras i dont mean Begins movie.

Early Batman punched people off roofs, and cliffs, or onto swords, into vats of acid with suspicious frequency.

He also tended to put people into situations where they had no hope of surviving (yep, Comic Batman did that too), such as when he hit an airplane pilot with knock-out gas, or when he beat up a guy whilst he was driving and then bailed as he went over a cliff.

and that's not counting the times when he just plain killed people, like the guy who's neck he broke, the experimented upon man that he hung, the guys in a van he machine gunned down from the Batplane, people he crushed with a huge statue, people he literally threw to their deaths (multiple occasions) etc.

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80s Batman -

• Killed Qayin at the end of Son of the Demon by kicking him into electric cables
• Locked the KGBeast underground to starve (later retconned)
• Blew people up in The Cult
• Sent a car careening into some suicide bombers in DC 590
• Blew up a bunch of crooks in Legends of the Dark Knight 31.

He also did some fairly questionable stuff, like tricking Solomon Grundy into walking into a furnace.

He did so very recently, though not canon to the comics.

In Arkham Origins, Joker put himself in an electric chair wired to Banes heartbeat. As his heartbeat rose the voltage rose as well. Batman was in a kill or be killed situation. He shocked Bane to death with Deathstroke's shock gloves. However, once Joker fled the scene, Batman restarted Banes heart with the same gloves. You find out it was part of the plan all along.

He killed off KGBeast

Back Swamp Thing's second volume from the 80's he told told Swamp Thing he will kill him if he ever came back to Gotham.

Yeah, and then the writers changed it. What's wrong with Bats killing as last resort? Batman had such a dramatic character development only for the other writers and dc to ignore it. Lame.

Batman used to dual wield 45's

well i think its because some of his fanboys wouldn't stop bitching about it.

Yes, back in the starting days of Batman barely any villains made it out alive. I dont know as far as DC canon goes, he did kill Darkseid thou & that was intentionally no?

Depending on the writer, I can accept Batman taking someone out if he is in the earlier years of his career; the seasoned Batman killing someone intentionally is just too far.

Yes.

I don't think he killed anyone intentionally in the New 52.

I remember he killed Scarface, Ventriloquist's doll. It was in the issues about Matches Malone (the real Matches) and how Batman promised to kill his murderer.

I always thought the no-kill rule had more to do with inflicting suffering on criminals.

That is they would be living with debilitating psychological trauma, irreparable physical injuries or pure shame, loss of finance, etc..

In many ways Batman's punishment was far crueler than death; locking a minor criminal up in Blackgate or even Arkham, knowing that they would be subject to torture and humiliation.

Darkseid?

Pre-Flashpoint yes, New 52 no.

He did in Blind Justice.

Batman did not kill Darkseid. Morrison confirmed that in an interview.

Besides, Pre-Flashpoint Batman has killed 6-7 people.

@frozen: yeah i know, I just thought that that's kind of like killing him because Batman meant to kill him.

Yes. Batman has killed lots and lots of people throughout his entire comic career.

Jmarshmallow

Batman shot him, intended to kill him.

Post-crisis, nope.

New 52, nope.

IN every live action movie he has murdered at least one person.

@biteme_fanboy: he was not mentally ill. The guy was actually a monster man, meaning he was nothing but a shell that Hugo strange was using. I don't like batman killing but this is not only in character for golden age bats but also modern bats would likely do this if he felt he had to. They had already established that it can't be reversed.

Sometimes, he has

Why don't you ask Harvey Dent.

Oh wait...

yes, different versions of him have.

He killed Ras Al Ghul in Batman Annual 8 and blew up Nazis on several times in the old the Brave and the Bold series.

That was Electrocutioner's gloves, not Deathstroke...

He tried to kill Darksied, but other than that, every other kill has been retconned

In the new animated movie Batman vs Robin. During the fight in the museum, batman attached a small bomb on one of his attackers and blew him up. I guess that counts as killing someone.