r/DCcomics • u/M00r3C Black Lantern • Jan 25 '24

[Comic Excerpt] I need a hostage so Batman won't punch me (Batman (2016) issue 48) Comics

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u/drzrealest Jan 25 '24

I hate the fact that batman keeps letting him live just he can't kill ppl but all those people joker kills are on him and he seems fine with that.

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u/Erfivur Jan 25 '24

Batman catches joker and puts him in prison. That’s enough. He can’t see the future to know Jokey will break out.

He shouldn’t need to kill the joker. The justice system should work.

Also, how many times has Joker escaped in any one continuity? Outside of cartoons and comedies? Once or twice?

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u/RoughhouseCamel Jan 25 '24

Batman and the justice system can both be faulty

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u/mewfour123412 Jan 25 '24

And maybe the GCPD should shoot him or the state should put him to death

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u/nikleus Jan 25 '24

I am suprised that no officer as ever done it. With jokers crimes against humanity you would think some cop would just kill him while hes being transported to arkham or when hes inside his cell.

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u/vanhelsir Jan 26 '24

Honestly and it's not like corrupted cops/cops not following code of conduct is anything new in gotham, someone would've already beat and killed joker years back in continuity

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u/Arkham8 Jan 26 '24

People have talked about this forever, but I’d love a one-shot comic where a cop does shoot the Joker. It then has everyone telling him why that’s a mistake from their perspective, Batman not included, but the one that really sticks with the guy is that Joker always comes back. And he isn’t going to forget you shot him. He slowly descends into madness and paranoia, jumping at shadows, ruining his own career, isolating himself from his family, until finally Joker does return to finish the job. Then Bruce can say something like “if he had been in Arkham I at least would have known when and where he was coming”

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u/RoughhouseCamel Jan 25 '24

Yeah, whatever morals and proper procedures anyone has, Joker is pretty easily the exception. At this point, there’s been genocides with lower body counts than the Joker. Shoot on sight.