Do you think Rorschach would be pals with Bats if they met?

#1 Posted by Jerry Seinfeld (598 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

If Rorschach and Batman met would they become allies or unsteady allies,or enemies?

#2 Posted by darth_brendroid (1717 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Hmm...

I think Batman wouldn think Rorschach wasn't any better than the Joker, and Rorschach might think Batman needs to rise to his level of dealing with criminals.

#3 Posted by burr787 (2504 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Rorschach is a murderer, he's kind of like the Justice Lords' Batman from the Justice League cartoon and would feel that Batman needs to take control and punish evil.

#4 Posted by Sparda (15795 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Depending on the circumstances in which they met, they could be any of the above, but I'd prefer to think of the two being in an unsteady alliance.

#5 Posted by RaptorFratBoy (550 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Batman doesn't abide killing or killers of any kind, period. As soon as he either witnessed or heard-tell or Rorschach going too far, Bats would put a stop to it.

#6 Posted by Sparda (15795 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@RaptorFratBoy said:

" Batman doesn't abide killing or killers of any kind, period. As soon as he either witnessed or heard-tell or Rorschach going too far, Bats would put a stop to it. "

I don't know. The Secret Six kill people, and when Catman was in town Batman didn't even want to fight him, IIRC.

#7 Posted by kneel before doom (304 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Bats would call him a wanna-be and beat the crap outta him

#8 Posted by RaptorFratBoy (550 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@Sparda: *Shrugs* I can't keep-up with every single comic in the world. All I know is, Batman's basic rule is no killing, period. He doesn't do it, he hates seeing it happen, he hates people that do it. The question was would they be friends, and my answer is no. If they met, and Batman found-out about Rorschach killing people, there would be a fight. End of story.

#9 Posted by NightFang (9268 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@burr787 said:

"Rorschach is a murderer, he's kind of like the Justice Lords' Batman from the Justice League cartoon and would feel that Batman needs to take control and punish evil. "

Thats what I was thinking.

#10 Posted by Th3 FlAsH 123 (616 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

I don't think they could stand each other. lol
Maybe if Rorshach met The Dark Knight Returns Batman?

#11 Posted by jakob187 (996 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

There's no way they'd be friends in any way, shape, or form.

#12 Posted by BIackFlash (1909 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@Sparda said:

" Depending on the circumstances in which they met, they could be any of the above, but I'd prefer to think of the two being in an unsteady alliance. "

it didn't happen that way

#13 Posted by Kynikos (196 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Wasn't Rorschach created by Alan Moore as an analogue to Batman, in the sense that "This is what Batman would turn out to be in real life". If you think about it, would anyone in real life want to fight crime in some wierd-ass animal get-up after witnessing the the murder of their parents, and be a fairly stable person? Rorschach is what Batman represents in an unidealized form, in the sense that finding out that some psycopath chopped up a small girl and fed her to dogs could make any reasonable person need years of therapy, but for a troubled character like Kovacs, it makes him snap and become Rorschach. So the to might relate on some fundamental level, but it's like a sheltered genius hanging out with a brother that had to grow up learning the harsh ways of the world.

#14 Posted by Agent Buttons (13479 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@BIackFlash said:

" @Sparda said:

" Depending on the circumstances in which they met, they could be any of the above, but I'd prefer to think of the two being in an unsteady alliance. "
it didn't happen that way

"

lol

#15 Posted by Calvin (3479 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@Jerry Seinfeld: Bruce has two rules: No guns, no killing.

#16 Posted by HaloKing343 (1251 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

I think they'd like each other.

#17 Posted by HaloKing343 (1251 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@Agent Buttons said:

"@BIackFlash said:

" @Sparda said:

" Depending on the circumstances in which they met, they could be any of the above, but I'd prefer to think of the two being in an unsteady alliance. "
it didn't happen that way

"
lol "

How did you get that picture?

#18 Posted by ryanwh (373 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Well, for what its worth, on JLU, the Question (who was written prettymuch exactly like Rorchach, maybe a tad less edgy and more obviously delusional) was regarded prettymuch exclusively with respect from batman because of his investigational skills. Batman's kind of binary when it comes to people, they're like tools on the belt, "Is he useful? Yes? Keep him around". They wouldn't "get along" since Batman doesn't get along with anyone, but he would recognize Rorchach's skillset.
People forget that Rorchach was originally the Question, and its a shame that a modern "the Question" comic hasn't jumped on that popularity to continue the now dead Rorchach's investigations.

#19 Posted by <the skull> (265 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

actually the reason batman's parents originally dies was cuzz little Bruce Wayne and his parents went to the movies to see a film on one of the watchmen i forget witch one but originally that's why he thought it was his fult they died they changed it to make it an opera or play in the several times they re-did the series.

#20 Posted by Jerry Seinfeld (598 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Rorschach hasn't killed all that much people and Batman might not know about it. Rorschach even used to not kill just cripple and beat very much the same technique Bats uses. They are both detectives and could relate at some level. Nite-Owl works with Rorschach and he isn't really for killing and he is somewhat like Batman. Batman has killed before in alternate realitys. He kills Joker in The Dark Knight Returns and in The Nail. In the Hush storyline he almost killed the Joker so he might understand the concept of killing not on random people but you know. Rorschach is conservitave and I kinda picture Batman as a consevitive.

#21 Posted by loganreme (1398 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

The only thing that they have in common is that they protect innocent people, their methods are totally different, so I would say no :)

#22 Posted by Zacharael (133 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Batman would beat him down and send him to Arkham.

#23 Posted by loganreme (1398 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@Calvin said:

" @Jerry Seinfeld: Bruce has two rules: No guns, no killing. "

Well said :)

#24 Posted by SuperGamera (565 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@Jerry Seinfeld said:

" Rorschach hasn't killed all that much people and Batman might not know about it. Rorschach even used to not kill just cripple and beat very much the same technique Bats uses. They are both detectives and could relate at some level. Nite-Owl works with Rorschach and he isn't really for killing and he is somewhat like Batman. Batman has killed before in alternate realitys. He kills Joker in The Dark Knight Returns and in The Nail. In the Hush storyline he almost killed the Joker so he might understand the concept of killing not on random people but you know. Rorschach is conservitave and I kinda picture Batman as a consevitive. "

Bats didn't kill the Joker in TDKR he just broke his neck the Joker killed himself

#25 Posted by EdwardWindsor (13209 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

i cant see them playing ncie with each other bats would think Rorschach's methods conflict nd oppose his own , and Rorshach would think bats was to soft on crime cos in in his eyes the law isnt enough. This is either gonna end in a fight " of which bast is the only possible winner in my eyes" or them agreeing to avoid each other since there both fightining crime in there own ways, " althought the later is unlikly since bast would probs consider Rorshach a criminal"

#26 Posted by jloneblackheart (5266 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

Well since it's a crossover it happens exactly like Batman/Spawn - Batman sees Rorschach kill, they fight, they team up to save the city but hate each other. Well it could happen almost exactly, except I don't think Bats would have a hard of a time with Rorschach as he did with Spawn and would, like someone else said, take Rorscach to Arkham

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#27 Posted by Jerry Seinfeld (598 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

The way I meant there techniques were similar is they both use stealth,breaking of limbs,and are more dark than most heoes though Rorschach kills too. I don't think Rorschach is all that crazy just misunderstood yes he's goes overboard sometimes but doesn't deserve Arkham. Batman doesn't really follow the law either but I think personally vigilantism should be legal. I agree with Bats and Rorschach the law isn't enough.

#28 Posted by TheSavageAssasin (2761 posts) - 3 years, 9 months ago - Show Bio

@burr787 said:

" Rorschach is a murderer, he's kind of like the Justice Lords' Batman from the Justice League cartoon and would feel that Batman needs to take control and punish evil. "

YEP!

#29 Posted by Jerry Seinfeld (598 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Rorschach thinks more like Batman than Batman's friend Superman I say. Superman is very differant from Batman yet he still hangs around him. Bruce doesn't really like the ways Clark does things but he still is pals somewhat with him.

#30 Posted by Donovan Montgomery (5289 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

oubt very much Batman would even entertain the idea of having Rorschach around. Maybe before the events in the Watchmen, but doubtfull now.

#31 Posted by Bruce Vain (1868 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Yes I think they would be. In a sense Nite Owl is like Batman.

#32 Posted by Korg (11931 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Of course! Batman is always befriending murderous psychopaths. They would have tea once a week with the rest of his best buds over at Arkham.

#33 Posted by Aronmorales (9329 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

I think Rorschach and Bats would be friends prior to Rorschach's mental slip.

#34 Posted by Korg (11931 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

@Aronmorales said:

" I think Rorschach and Bats would be friends prior to Rorschach's mental slip. "

I take it you mean his "Mad Max" mental slip, and not his "put a kid's eye out with a lit cigarette, then try to bite his buddy's face off" mental slip.

#35 Posted by Aronmorales (9329 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

@Korg said:

" @Aronmorales said:
" I think Rorschach and Bats would be friends prior to Rorschach's mental slip. "
I take it you mean his "Mad Max" mental slip, and not his "put a kid's eye out with a lit cigarette, then try to bite his buddy's face off" mental slip. "

Yes.

#36 Posted by Aesir (2 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Batman would see Rorschach as a crminal that needs to be brought in. Rorschack would see the Batman as weal for not going all the way. They would possibly respect each other but they would never trust each other.

#37 Posted by vuviper (5530 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Batman loves having crimefighters killing people in his city, it's the reason why he's such good friends with Deadshot, and he we never more proud of jason todd.

#38 Posted by Jerry Seinfeld (598 posts) - 3 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Batman doesn't trust anyone and neither does Rorschach. I would put a lit cigarette in someones eye but I wouldn't try biting their face.

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