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WhileBatmanhas demonstrated an overwhelming restraint in not killing theJoker , his latest justification shows the buffoon might be wearing the Dark Knight down . Batman : Fortress # 1shows Bruce Wayne closer than ever to getting free of his opposition , ready to give into his dismal pulse if not for one affair .
If there ’s one thing that ’s perplexed many a lector in the decades that the Dark Knight has battle the Clown Prince of Crime , it ’s wonder why Batman refuse to kill the Joker . Batman has a routine of rogues who are no unknown to murder , but none with the massive body numeration that the reprehensible clown has under his belt . Bruce has even look judgement from his own allies who have been personally victimized by the Joker and ca n’t realize why Batman refuses to kill the enemy that ’s inflicted so much pain .
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As it turns out , Batman is to the full disposed to help the Jokermeet his maker . Batman : Fortress # 1by Gary Whitta and Darick Robertson picture a Gotham in turmoil . Darkness has spread worldwide and howler are breaking out . The Joker utilise the mayhem to his vantage and kidnaps an integral school bus full of child . Batman blind the merry andrew with a light , have the Joker to gate-crash the bus on a bridge deck over Gotham ’s harbor . While the kids are good , Joker wind up dangle off the side , spookily express joy at his predicament . The Dark Knight notes that the Joker ca n’t drown , recall the night he fell into a tub of dot . Bruce contemplates that if he had just let the Joker drown , that Gotham would have been safer and now he ’s being given a prospect to correct his retiring misunderstanding . But with kid around , Batman relents and pull through the Joker with a grappling hook shot .
This would n’t be the first timeBatman has play with the notionof allowing the Joker to die . During the " Under the Red Hood " storyline , Bruce include to Jason that he ’s fantasized about killing the Joker , but he refuses to do so out of fear that he would n’t be able-bodied to get back from it . Batman stop the Joker from dying so children wo n’t be traumatized by the raft could be seen as a more noble justification , but it appears that the Dark Knight is quickly running out of patience with his archenemy .
Though the site give here does n’t have Batman actively try out to kill Joker , he seriously leans towards letting nature take its course and allow the clown to die by his own undoing . While Batman does decide to pull through the Joker in the end , it ’s not out of a moral justification , but one rooted in public perception . As time go on , the devastation the Joker leaves in his wakehas only gotten bad and it come along that the clown ’s crimes have press the Dark Knight to a tipping percentage point . If the only thing lay aside theJokerfrom being kill is a public audience , he may want to avoid being alone withBatmanin the future .
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Batman : Fortress # 1is available now from DC Comics .
