[ SECRET POST #2661 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2661 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Injustice: Gods Among Us]


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03.
[Game of Thrones]


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04.
[William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus]


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05.
[Welcome to Night Vale]


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06.
[Crown of Stars]


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07.
[Game of Thrones]


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08.
[Blade Runner/Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]


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09.
[LOST]


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10.
[Riff-Raff, Rocky Horror Picture Show]


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11.
[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]


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12.
[Breaking Bad]


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13.
[Problem Sleuth]


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14.
[Doctor Who]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #380.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[mekkio]

But it's Batman who isn't letting the clown loose. It's society, namely the police and mental hospital. It's not like Batman is opening the door and saying, "BE FREE!!!" It's more of Bruce coming across a breaking news report that the Joker is loose again and he has to go out and catch him. AGAIN!

If anyone is to blame it's the court system. They are the ones who say that Joker should be allowed to live. They are the ones who are not making sure that he is being housed in a place that can hold him. It's not Batman's place to do such things. He is not an officer of the law.

Think Jack Ruby killing Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald killed JFK. Ruby killed Oswald. People weren't hailing Ruby as a hero for killing him. Why? Because it wasn't Ruby's place. He was not an officer of the law. Society did not give him permission to kill Oswald. And that's what is happening here too. Society has given Superman and Batman permission to fight the bad guys on their behalf but not kill them.

[kaijinscendre]

But Jack Ruby was killing a man who was already arrested (and who only killed one person). And while no once considers him a hero, no one is saying that he is a super evil person (no more than any other murderer).

The Joker has killed and escaped repeatedly. Obviously the court system in Gotham can't handle supervillains (which is why they need a superhero). So why does Batman keep sending him right back to the place Batman knows he will escape from? Hell, if he doesn't want to kill him, Batman can make his own prison in the middle of Antarctica.

[darkmanifest]

Because once Batman takes over the duties of the justice system entirely - not only apprehending villains, but deciding and doling out their punishments - he basically becomes the system. And there's no good ending to one man being in charge of what's just and what isn't. Especially not a man like Batman, who is perpetually one last straw away from just bombing Arkham and ending the farce. I think Batman gives himself limitations because he lives on the thin line between being a hero and being a dictator. He could easily be running Gotham with the police as his personal lackeys and yeah, private prisons where he puts everyone he deems dangerous; he could become what he fights without even noticing until it's too late.

[feotakahari]

It sounds like the solution would be for Batman to officially ally with Gotham police. He has no superpowers, just training and equipment. His equipment is reproducible, and he's trained apprentices before. Why have one Batman acting outside the law when you can have many Batman working within it?

(Did I just suggest mirror universe Anarky?)

[darkmanifest]

I dunno what his relationship with the police is at the moment in comicverse (what with the reboot and all), but the Commissioner set up a Bat signal for him and everything and meets with him on the regular to share information, so he's been pretty officially allied with the cops for a long while. Although lending out his equipment is a good idea.

[kaijinscendre]

But he would not be taking over the justice system of normal criminals. Just supervillains. Those guys that everyone knows the cops will never be able to keep locked up. Because the supervillains always get out.

[darkmanifest]

But Joker, the most dangerous of them all, is only human. Why does a normal human, who's extremely smart but not exceptionally wealthy or powerful, keep getting out of max security facilities? As mentioned above, why hasn't the system slapped this guy in the lethal injection chair - they must have a mountain of evidence against them. If Batman takes over for this particular human monster, he'd have to take over for them all.