Quote: Beardguy57 said: I see Batman as a victim, too. He's a prisoner of his need for vengence, and his inner hurt from the death of his parents. And it WAS strange to see justice when his parent's killer was gunned down, in a Lee Harvey Oswald fashion.
Changing the premise of his parent's murder is like changing how Superman was sent to Earth, or making him from a planet OTHER than Krypton..it was not nessecary....
They didn't change the premise of his murder. They were killed by a mugger. All they did was state that the mugger was the result of an economic depression caused by Ras al Ghul. Not the same thing as the Joker killing them.
And the Superman analogy doesn't hold. As long as Krypton explodes and he's sent to Earth, its valid. Whether it was detroyed by a volcano, earthquake, or meteor doesn't really matter. Nolan didn't have the Waynes die from a heart attack or a car crash, they were killed in a mugging.
You make very good points there. The Superman analogy is indeed not a good one. I MIGHT have said, " It would be as if Hal Jordan had just FOUND the Power ring and battery, instead of being summoned by a dying alien, who had used his own ring to find a being worthy of yielding such power. "
I did grow up reading about the Batman who never caught or knew his parent's murderer. It was just odd to see it occur in the movie, and things since Crisis, and Year Zero, are about as alien to me as a creature from a planet on the far side of our galaxy would be.
