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bruciemilf · 10 months

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I think an underappreciated motive for Bruce / Batman to not murder the Joker after he killed Jason is that it would, in a sense, mean Joker won. Like, yeah the Joker would be dead but he would also be laughing himself silly that he was the one who made the Bat break his code.

Bruce sparing the Joker was not because he didn't love Jason enough to kill him, but because he refused to let the Joker take anything else from him; he took his son, but he would not take his honor, his morality, his code. He would not give Joker the satisfaction.

Yeah! I think, ultimately, DC said it best, -- one death, two deaths, three deaths, -- whatever you pick, everybody loses. It was a no win situation from the start and specifically designed to have no satisfactory ending

#my thing is -- like. jason is such a self fledgelating character at heart (to me he does not have a victim complex like many ppl say #but i can completely get why that's a character trait ppl assign to him)#that even if bruce did kill joker (which he did in the comics multiple times. but everyone leaves that part out)#i think jason would ultimately feel horrible enough to isolate himself either way #and bruce already lost a son and there's truly nothing that can heal that. yes jason is here. but when bruce buried him #he wasn't.#but that's because of the same factors that affect canon too. it was never about the clown #it was about bruce and jason #bruce wayne #dc comics #meta

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