Quote: Pariah said: Batman not knowing who his parents' killer is instead of Bruce Wayne knowing and deciding to gun the guy down. The faceless killer is like definitive and notably crucial to every comic version of Batman there is.
Oh. Well, I do like the idea of the faceless killer. I think that sense of knowing that he can truly never avenge his parents' death is a key part of what drives him pyschologically. Making the Joker the killer in Burton's Batman was one of the few problems I had with that movie.
I didn't dislike what they did in Batman Begins, though. His knowing the killer put him into the position of nearly becoming a killer himself. An interesting an effective storytelling tactic, in my opinion.
To be honest, I was put off a bit more by the whole prison thing, which I thought was a little too elaborate and silly.
