Batman Questions

I got two questions about Batman.

1.Has he ever used brutal tortue like waterboarding and worse on his enemies?

2.How many times has he defeated the same supervillians like The Joker, The Riddler, Two Face, etc. That he sends to arkham but then he fights them all over again?

edited 27th Feb '11 5:28:58 PM by warrior93

1. No, he's roughed 'em up plenty, but never anything that extreme.

2. ohlookitsthisthreadagain.jpg

A lot.

edited 27th Feb '11 5:38:40 PM by rbx5

1. Absotively, posilutely NEVER!

2. All the time. That's why they're called his rogues gallery.

1). I could see him THREATENING to do this to somebody, and the threat is enough to get 'em to talk/wet themselves, whichever comes first.

2). I fell asleep trying to add the numbers.

1. The Dark Knight is all about fear tactics and preying on the superstitions of a cowardly lot, but no he's never gone that far to my recollection. Then again when your being suspended by the the god-damn Batman over the tallest building in Gotham...well I doubt your not gonna talk.

2.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

1. Batman utilizes psychological warfare and fear tactics, using actual torture is beneath him.

2. Too many times to count. I would've laughed hysterically but Atom James stole that one from me.

2 : Not that often, actually. I remember someone doing the research for the 1986-1999 period (from Crisis On Infinite Earths to No Mans Land) and finding the number of actual Batman/Joker conflicts surprisingly low (like, 5/6 times in more than a decade).

It's only when you factor in stuff like the Sliding Timeline that it starts to become ridiculous.

edited 28th Feb '11 2:55:08 AM by Jhiday

1. Uh... depending on the writer. Normally, no, but - for example - in the city of crime arc he was shown interrogating suspects while shoving their heads underwater or leaving one suspect for at least one day in an old morgue - in one of the corpse cupboards. ...the whole arc was a bit nay.

The Goddamn Batman might torture people. The actual Batman does not.

Thanks for the answers.

1. In Justice, Batman threatens to cut off a villians fingers one by one. Just a threat right? Well he was wearing Wonder Woman's lasso of Truth at the time.

2. Really, the fact that Batman's rougues always come back is not his fault. He just gives them to the justice system which then fails.

Or if you want to be more meta: The writers know nothing about the justice system and so always create hackneyed ways in which keep criminals out of jail because, let's be honest. A Batman book where putting criminals in jail actually worked would not be very interesting to read.

The Goddamn Batman can bluff the Lasso of Truth....

edited 1st Mar '11 4:04:21 PM by 3of4

¿Does the Batcave have an origin story? I can't believe all those secret passageways, platforms, hydraulics, circuits, tunnels, driveways, etc. were installed by Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth on their own.

It's had several, not all of them contradictory. I believe that at least one continuity had Wayne Manor as a stop on the Underground Railroad, so the secret passages were already there when Bruce needed them. (And the escaping slaves might have volunteered some labor in making the cave livable.)

1. I know Damian is obviously an bio child of Bruce and Tim was formally adopted, but was Dick ever formally adopted (or is he still considered a ward or something)? And...did people even KNOW that Jason was living with Bruce? Was he ever publicly listed as having died/run away or anything?

2. What's the age difference between the Robins?

Yes, but the freaking runway he has there and the car-lifting platform and so on would have needed contractors of some sort. Slaves in the 1960ies don't build the sort of tunnel we usually see the Batmobile entering and exiting. Not to mention the fancy, interred undergorund entry.

But the Underground Rail is a pretty damn great idea to add to the prestige of the Waynes.

Pre-Flashpoint, Bruce only adopted Dick as his legal son well into the Nightwing years, post-No Man's Land, in Devin Grayson's Gotham Knights run. He apologized over not doing it much sooner.

Batman apologized. Just the description of the event feels like a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming.

Age differences between the Robins vary depending on which continuity is being adhered to at any given time. Originally, I believe Dick was 6 years older than Jason, and Tim was approximately Jason's age, or only a year or so younger. Now, though, I can't say.

There's a story from the fifties that actually goes into why Bruce couldn't (at least at the time) adopt Dick. Jason was at one time actually adopted by the villainess Nocturna, but I imagine that got undone when she was arrested, and I know Bruce ultimately DID adopt him.

(Policeman knocks on door.) "Mr. Wayne, we'd like to ask you a few questions about all these adopted sons of yours who keep dying under mysterious circumstances."

(Large wad of money sails out of third story window.) "Never mind."

It IS Gotham

edited 21st Mar '14 7:39:41 AM by Anteres

in Wayne's defense, only two of them died.

That's two more dead adopted sons than most people have.

Well, of the male Robins, he's had four, so that's a 50% death rate (not sure how Jason's coming back to life figures into that...)

I know practically nothing about Tim's post-New 52 status, but I know before the reboot he lived with his father, at least until Identity Crisis. Did he have any official relationship with Bruce other then as Robin after his father's death?

Initially he refused to be adopted and moved to Bludhaven to look after his stepmother, but he was officially adopted by him post-52 (as in the book, not the new 52 line).