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    Character » Batman appears in 23535 issues.

    Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the murder of his billionaire parents as a child, swore to avenge their deaths. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology. Costumed as a bat to prey on the fears of criminals, and utilizing a high-tech arsenal, he became the legendary Batman.

    Is an older Batman more brutal?

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    #1 frozen  Moderator

    Title says it all.

    In The Dark Knight Returns, we see a 55 year old grizzled Batman cripple a man while boasting a rhetoric, giving a 'Clint Eastwood' vibe.

    He fires rounds of rubber bullets into crowds of thugs. God knows what he does to the Mutant Leader...

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    I think if he wears some kind of tech to greatly make up for his age, he wouldn't have been so brutal. Even in Batman Beyond Bruce was shown to threaten a criminal with a gun simply because his back ached or something like that.

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    I think that he compensates not being at his peak with being more brutal.

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    Yea, I could see it.

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    @frozen: @transformers1024: @black_arrow: @mandarinestro: It's more to do with by the time Batman gets to that age all his friends and family who had kept him grounded over the years have either died or quite and left him to wallow in his own bitterness.

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    #6  Edited By ULTRAstarkiller
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    Depends on the writer tbh, Azz's Batman was almost as brutal as Miller's even though he was young, while KC Batman wasn't nearly as brutal as TDKR Batman even though he was very old. Also Miller's ASBAR Batman was more brutal than his TDKR Batman.

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    Pretty much what everyone else above said. Kinda iff topic but I've always liked the idea of the bat family leaving him in his old age. That just makes sense to me, batman shouldn't have a happy life, and it gets worse as he ages. In the end it should be just him and alfred.

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    #9 frozen  Moderator

    Bump.

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    Not necessarily, Tomasi and Waid's version weren't brutal. I'd like to see Morrison's old man Batman version though.

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