#i'm imagining batman beating up the joker in a dead end alley when a group of civilians stop him. he turns. they have weapons. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

niamhuncensored · 2 years

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on the one hand, i understand why batman doesn't kill. i understand that a tenant batman's belief is that anyone can change for the better at any time, and that killing them cuts off that potential.

on the other hand, we genre-savvy readers know that that just won't happen and/or won't last for most of the rogues gallery. To us, outside the narrative, it becomes less like "anyone can change, we just have to give them the ability to change," and more like "I demand an omelette. No, I will not break eggs, what do you take me for?"

The Joker needs to fucking die.

#i have a vision for this personally #i'm imagining batman beating up the joker in a dead end alley when a group of civilians stop him. he turns. they have weapons.#he doesn't take a stance but he does stand his ground while they ask him to leave joker to them. so they tell him about how he hurt them #how he raped and impregnated them and then kidnapped and killed their baby #how he brainwashed their daughter #how their son had PTSD from the time he was strung up on a knife wheel #how they heard his laugh all the time #how they got fired because he was holding up traffic and how he stepped in their three-day potato salad #And Joker - conscious but unable to stand - giggles about all of this. and jokes.#'if their daughter is still brainwashed then maybe he should pick her up next time he's out of arkham.'#and batman sees that while he was waiting around for joker to improve #he was failing the people he was trying to protect. he's not their savior. he doomed each and every one of them #by giving him a 16th. 17th. 18th. 19th. 20th chance #he grapples away. and the mob sweeps in #they kick the living shit out of him. there's no other way to say it.#he laughs at first but then they crush his jaw. thats when he realizes how serious this is #they beat him until hes a barely breathing mess. until his lungs are punctured and his limbs are broken or dislocated #then they leave him for dead. no one person has struck a coup de grace. no one has killed him. he does not see the sunrise.

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