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Post #325767

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ChainsawAsh
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The Dark Knight Movie Discussion (July 18th, 2008)
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Date created
2-Aug-2008, 2:23 PM

Saying "anything not worked on by Bob Kane is EU" and that Kane approved the '89 film doesn't mean anything.  Comic books, just like TV shows, are never written by just one person.  Are you saying that every X-Files episoe not written by Chris Carter doesn't matter?  That every Lost episode not written by J.J. Abrams, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof doesn't matter?

Batman is what every author who has penned an in-canon Batman comic has made him.  Even Kane retconned several things he originally intended himself (Batman originally *was* willing to kill people, he even carried a gun on occasion).

You're absolutely right that there is no "definitive" Batman.  Everyone's Batman is shaped by what stories they choose to build his character from, and my "definitive" Batman is different from yours because I build my basis for comparison around different comics than you do.  So in my mind, no matter what, Batman killing anyone, including the Joker, is out of character (unless it's ABSOLUTELY necessary where he has no other choice, or it was an unintended side-effect of something else i.e. Two-Face at the end.  I even had a problem with "I won't kill you, but I don't have to save you" in Batman Begins.) - even if Kane originally intended him to be willing to do so.

So, since there is no "definitive" batman, there really isn't any point in having this argument, since neither one of us is right or wrong - it's just different tastes.

Oh, and one other thing, out of curiosity - "Empire" wasn't written OR directed by Lucas, so, by your definition, would you consider "Empire" to be EU?