Durakken

That's nonsense and used as a explanation to kids.

Batman has the right to detain and make a citizen's arrest anyone he feels.

The problem with Batman is that the evidence can be considered questionable, but more times than not the evidence is in plain site and well known. The cops do their own investigation and Batman brings them down. After the Police get there they read them their rights and it's fully legal.

Batman in the strictest sense of the word is only partially a Vigilante, in that he trespasses, semi-tortures, and breaks speeding laws, as well as probably several building ordinance about standing and swinging on roofs or some such thing even though he probably owns most if not all of those buildings. When it comes to actually taking down criminals he isn't a vigilante. He's only be a vigilante if he went above what was legally allowed for a citizen to do to someone they are in a fight with which he never does.

Also... most of the criminals the books focus on nowadays are already supposed to be in arkham and they are just getting tried for other stuff... but no matter what they have to serve their first sentence and that is in Arkham ^.^

ummm no...

During the late 80s and early 90s Batman had the same code as now. If you can prevent death, prevent it. I've never seen Batman(Bruce Wayne) walk away from someone he could have saved, villain or hero.

In fact, this is one of the things that makes him worry about Todd, that he might have actually had time to save that criminal and didn't AND the reason that is given for why Azrael needs to be taken down. Because he let Abettoir die.


As far as Joker escaping so much. I think you guys are reading a different book. In 400ish issues between 87 and 96 Joker has appeared 6 times I clearly recall. The death of Jason Todd and the killing joke, Right after as an ambassador, Knight Fall, Knight Saga as a "director", LotDK's retelling of Batman's first encounter with Joker, and Robin encountering Joker for the first time alone. Killer Croc, Penguin, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Riddler, Black Mask, and Catwoman appear a lot more than Joker does in the bat family books, but the general public aren't exposed as much to these other characters and Joker is thought to be more Iconic, so he is used more in non-main-comic media.

The first 2 or 3 if you want to separate the death of Todd and the Killing joke, Joker wasn't captured until the Killing joke, He was thought dead after killing Todd, escaped if I recall correctly during the ambassador incident, and then was finally caught and imprisoned after the killing joke.

The 2 Knight Saga stories are the same time he escaped and was released by Bane.

The LotDK encounter was obviously right after his origin and explains why he didn't escape that time.

And the Robin story i forget what happened...

So over the course of 9 years (roughly 4 years in comic time) he escaped twice of his own accord maybe. That's a shameful record when you consider how often other characters escape...I mean Clue Master has escaped or almost escaped 3 or 4 times in that period of time and guy who loves death escaped 3 or 4 times. Penguin has escaped 4 or 5 times. Croc pretty much escapes every tuesday. Catwoman has never been "captured". Two-Face has literally walked out with everyone watching several times. So yeah >.> Joker isn't that big of a deal...

Amadeus Arkham or his Grandson... They are both nut balls, but not villains.

Bruce does invest in Arkham Security. The place is extremely hard to break into and out of, far harder than any normal Maximum Security prison. The entire place's security was designed by the same person who designed the Mansion and Cave's security if I remember right.

please don't split up sentences that are not split up.

Batman stops the Joker and as such Joker is stopped thus a officer popping him after that point would be illegal.

If Batman did not exist then Joker would not have been stopped and thus an officer popping him would be far more likely.

Of course if we are to believe one of the Joker origin stories... Joker wouldn't exist if Batman didn't exist >.>

*cough*

It's not like there is a huge space rock that is coming right at us and if it's slowed or sped up just a little or has it's trajectory changed just a hair will hit us and kill us within the next 20-30 years >.> Nope not at all. Nothing like that.... Oh wait...

save for the beginning.. awesome... and i want those files >.>

If it makes you feel better I personally know of 2 ways that can deal great damage to the world, 1 which can wipe out the whole of the eastern coast of america and the other would very much destroy life as we know it. And it would probably cost less than $1000 to do either of the things I'm thinking.

At the moment humanity is pretty much at the edge of eternal life, literally, or being wiped completely out, literally, within the next 100 years I hopes it's the former, but if it's the latter I'm curious as to which of the 100 or so ways I know of that i will happen... Maybe neutron bomb that we test and is more powerful than we predict... That would be interesting if you are near enough to see some vaporized but far enough away to not be hit with it. Yeah... that moment would be an interesting moment to live or to see he mind of that person, but then i often wonder, "How would that feel" about odd things.

If only you knew my password... I haven't been playing for like the last week and I'm in :P

On the Nolan Bat-suit it doesn't make sense... they use different methods of protection.

For example if you double-up on chain mail that might serve as more protective if constructed specifically to be dual layer because it makes the spaces smaller and keeps more things from piercing.. It does nothing to stop blunt instruments though...

On the other hand plate armor stop blunt force pretty handily, but you can pierce right through it pretty easily with standard weaponry.


The bat suit in the comics use kevlar and to create more protection you need more layers... the more layers, the harder it is to move. You obviously don't want 100 layers of kevlar all over your body so if you can heavily layer yourself somewhere you want to direct the attack there.

The Nolan-suit on the other hand uses ceramics and you can't have multiple layers, but rather when you get shot the piece gets shattered and spreads the damage out. Also, because these plates are all the same all over you don't need to direct attention anywhere. You just don't want to take direct bullet fire or happen to get hit between the plates.

This means you don't want the symbol on the Nolan suit because where it would be is between plates and frankly he'd be sacrificing the stealth with no benefits.

Yes, that's its function, as I stated above...The suit is nomex over kevlar. The kevlar is extra thick under the symbol to protect him. This allows for easier movement while still protecting. The cape is also a heavier nomex/kevlar bi-weave with weighted tips. His cowl has a re-enforced neck piece and the cowl itself is fitted and has some metal bits in it...though he does obviously have some pure clothe ones and non-fitted ones (for stand ins)

His suit is also supposed to be lead lined and such...

the more armored suit used the nolan verse uses a ceramic based bullet proofing... and different style of cape.

Batman. I haven't really heard of his work outside of Batman.

To be fair...I've only read one of his pieces so far, "Gothic" from LotDK, and I found it blehck with a shifting writing pattern that took away from the overall story...

All the stories he has written on that I've heard of are garbage in concept and shouldn't have gotten past the editors, but whatever...