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Warning , this article contains spoilers forThe Batman ’s Grave # 9 .
Batmanhas seemingly met his match inThe Batman ’s Grave # 9by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch . This story electric arc introduces a character that Bruce Wayne could have become had his circumstances been different . After the loss of his parent at the hands of a criminal Batman vow to engage a war against crime in the city his parents were such an important part of . Robert Anthony has a like story to Bruce ’s . His parent were also brutally mangle in front of him . But Robert ’s parents were not killed by average felon . The police killed his begetter . author Warren Ellis introduces a paradox in this story - arc : what if the justness organization is unjust ? And who is The Batman to impose justice ?
Robert Anthony became Scorn to toppleGotham ’s failing justice organization once and for all . He view The Dark Knight as part of the trouble , another pawn in a system designed to be one - side . Gotham is constantly infest by crook and inexperienced person suffer their life because of a system that does not truly protect them . Scorn ’s solvent is to sting it all to the ground and pop out refreshful , beginning with The Batman and TheGCPD . If the judge organisation is unjust , then Batman is complicit in its treachery as an independent enforcer .
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InThe Batman ’s Grave # 9Alfredpoints out that Bruce and Robert are two halves of the same coin . They are both pursuing their own gumption of judge and look at drastic measure to interchange the metropolis . They both have their own visions of a righteous Gotham that they bring down onto others . Many citizens check with Robert ’s thought and have link up Scorn ’s war against Gotham ’s justice organisation . Alfred also make the reflection that fighting crime as The Batman is not sustainable for Bruce or for Gotham . Bruce is lose the war for Gotham , need more damage than usual harmonize toCommissioner Gordon . He shin to battle against one as discipline and missionary station - drive as himself .
Batman has always fought for justice and has been accepted as a moral say-so for decennary in strip because of his acts of heroism and nonindulgent adherence to laws . Since the decease of his parent during his childhood , he has been on a lifelong commission to uphold DoJ and snuff out evil wherever it may appear . But whose justice is The Batman really upholding ? If citizens of Gotham are rallying behind Scorn and joining his ranks then there is a exonerated variance between the justice that the city enact and the justice some citizens experience is actually meaningful . Bruce has sent raft - murderers likeThe Jokerto Arkham Asylum and other facilities only to have them break out and take more unacquainted lives . Scorn uses lethal force play to act out a different form of accountability on those who work outside of his gumption of justice .
So which vigilante is right ? Bruce is trying to change Gotham by eliminating crime , which Alfred channelise out is impossible . Scorn is trying to change Gotham by dissolving a justness system that many of its citizen see as corrupted . Everything Batman has done since donning the Mickey Charles Mantle of The Dark Knight has been in the name of DoJ . Scorn is also pursue his own idea of justice as a vigilante . Scorn is the Reverse - Batman , a vigilante have a bun in the oven from the unfair violent death of a loved one willing to do anything to alter Gotham ’s condition quo .
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