Why didn't Bruce Wayne join the Gotham police department when he came back to the city?
It would certainly solve his internal conflict with illegally waging a war on crime, and being an official agent of law enforcement would certainly increase his effectiveness, such as teaching him the difference between justifiable and unjustifiable force, instead of the ethically lazy "never kill criminals, but causing them permanent brain damage via repeatedly induced long-term unconsciousness is OK", which allows him to use physical force in cases where it is unjustifiable, and refuse to use physical force when it is unjustifiable to do so (like when a criminal is immediately threatening the life of an innocent, and he refuses to do anything because he thinks that the criminal is bluffing, when you are a cop, you shoot that motherfucker on the spot).
It would also give him the opportunity to learn about the limitations that exist within criminal investigations, and why they exist in the first place, it would stop him from just breaking into someone else's private property, either on an unreasonable suspicion, or on evidence that has not been properly vetted.
Finally, It would also give him an advantage when fixing the corruption within the GCPD that existed back then.
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This applies to all superheroes, because even though they are often justified by the fact that their rogues gallery often has enough power that the police are not equipped to deal with them, assuming that they wouldn't come up with solutions on their own, like hiring and training super-powered individuals as their officers, oir developing technologies, policies, and procedures that would allow them to do so, and despite the fact that superheroes also "investigate" and "arrest" non-powered criminals as well.
The other argument is that the law enforcement or government is so corrupt, that they'd essentially be working for the enemy (which is the rationale behind much of domestic terrorism), but if they did work within the system, it would give them the authority that comes from it, and they could more easily stop Lex Luthor or the Red Skull (I don't follow the modern era comics) from getting elected in the first place.
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There have been stories with police departments that respond to super-powered criminals by developing technologies that eneable non-powered officers to arrest them, and to find evidence to convict super-criminals that use crimes which cannot be prosecuted through ordinary investigatory methods, such as when an ESP-er uses mind control to get people to give them their wallets or to have sex with them, hiring super-powered police officers, and even developing prisons specifically designed to hold super-powered convicts.
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TL;DR, all superheroes should have become cops, and anyone who has powers and wants to fight crime should join the police force, especially if they have powers beyond being super rich and having an unlimited amount of time on their hands.
Why didn't Bruce Wayne join the Gotham police department when he came back to the city?
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Would the police still let him dress like a bat?
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There was an old pre-crisis story that explained that, that showed him in the police acdemy in a class taught by a judge, who gave an example of the law being wrong, that shocked him into abandoning the idea of becoming a cop.
Apart from that, it's always been suggested that GCPD was too corrupted, that one or two good cops like Gordon couldn't excise the rot, that they needed an outside force that couldn't be held accountable.
We could probably find that story, it was the one with all the flashbacks where we saw Batman's father punch a burglar at a fancy dress party while wearing a bat costume, and years later Bruce finds the costume destroyed in the Batcave, and he and Alfred are going through his past, basically telling his origin, trying to work out what happened. We also see Bruce as a child wearing the Robin costume.
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Nice trips, but bad idea.
The police force was corrupt as hell when he started out, and if he joined them he wouldn't of been able to effectively clear out the corrupt cops.
Vigilanteeing and proving cops were corrupt meant that he could get them removed from the force, but also that his name wouldn't be associated with it, removing the risk of other corrupt cops going around to his mansion and torching it, or killing him in a "routine training drill".
When did Kek come back? I thought kek and pepe went away during the election due to being co-opted by Reddit. Then they came back, but apparently it's "totally fine and they're not redditors, goy :^)"
If you're so trigged by the word i'll stop.
Dressing up as a bat is more about fighting evil while not putting himself and his allies at risk. It's pretty dumb to suggest that superheroes should become glorified cops/soldiers when that would entail putting their livelihood and their loved ones in perpetual danger, which is pretty stupid if you have enemies that will do anything to know a hero's identity. You might as well be asking why superheroes don't pay for all the shit they destroy
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The cops have to shoot people sometimes and Bruce is too triggered to ever do that
The GCPD was so openly corrupt, you'd have to be some kind of insane idealist to think you could reform them from within.
Well, I mean a Jim Gordon kind of insane, not a Batman kind of insane.
What?
I see what you did there
I was waiting for someone to post this. I'm surprised this wasn't posted on the Magneto thread.
He should make a private security force to protect all the rich families so noone turns into an orphan, because of fucking burglar
Didn't he kind of do that with Batman Inc? Granted thats more of the world wide thing but still.
I think they did Bruce as a cop twice. One was Thrillkiller (Bruce was a cop investigating the Batgirl stuff) and one short story from the Elseworld's 80 Page Giant (where Metamorpho is this Lovecraftian horror with some of the cast being a stretchy cult)
I remember an elseworld story where Bruce is a cop and Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon are Batman and Robin. Dick dies so Batman takes his place as Batman I think.
>Batman is about a million times cooler and "all superheroes should just be cops" is missing the point so hard I can only assume OP is 15 years old or alan moore
That's Thrillkiller.
ah okay then. Thanks user.
Are they really batman and robin? I feel like "Nightwing and Batgirl" would sound better.
It's Batgirl and Robin actually…Babs is the one leading.
Golden Age Bats did end up retiring as Batman and became an cop, even made commissioner.
Than that went to shit after Selina died and he gotten cancer and yeah.
Is that the same one as the one with Dick Grayson marrying Bruce's daughter?
I remember when GA Batman died, Huntress, back when she was Earth-1 Batman and Catwoman's daughter, came to Earth-2's Batman for comfort.
So did Earth-1 Robin succeed him as Batman?
I used to read Earth 1 "Mr, and Mrs Superman" stories where Clark and Lois were married, but I don't know much about Earth-1 Batman after the Silver age. Basically just a story where Earth 1 Satan possessed his civilian other on Earth 2 into becoming a villain.
Oh wait, Golden Age DC was designated "Earth-2", wasn't it? And Silver -Age was Earth-1.
Yeah, Golden Age is Earth-2, Silver Age is Earth-1.
I liked how in that "Earth 2" graphic novel Alexander Luthor discovered us first so he gets to call US "Earth 2".
It's not like it was pre-crisis, back when all the Earths were lined up so nicely, so you could just count them, Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth 3, Earth X, Earth C, Earth Prime…
Well maybe not. Maybe DC learned to count from Capcom. It would explain all the Issue Zeros.
Eh..I never liked that they ignored Hypertime…or limit the Multiverse to only 52 (Hell, Multiversity stuck to the 52 universes thing, somehow changing Earth-4 from a Charlton Comics analogue to Watchmen analogue, which is ironic considering Watchmen characters are analogues to the Charlton stuff)
What's "ironic" about that? Isn't that completely intentional and the reason they did that particular replacement?
Well, it's a fine line between ironic and retarded.
Is it a Magneto Dindu Nuffin thread?
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Lousy Leftycucks.
user you and I both know its best not to try to draw drama.
Ok so most people here already mention th corruption in GCPD and probably GCJC too. Let me give you real life examples that sometimes the law doesn't work well. Remember the Affluenza kid? The kid who got drunk and drove his car and kill several people? His defense is he's too rich to understand the consequence of his action. And they let him go. Also remember the kid who was let go after he was found guilty for raping an unconscious girl because he's too weak in prison? That's bullshit #2. Now how about some people who were accused of false rape and lost his job and family? Do they even get compensation afterward? Not even a fucking penny.
The point is, there's a limit in society when law is no longer useful. I mean in some places in Mexico the lawmen who tried to make real change got gunned down or kidnapped and tortured to death by the cartel. This also happened in Piliphine(sp). Why do you think Duterte was elected president? Because people are sick of the crime and prefer to vote someone like him who act like a real lifeThe Punisher.
Why doesn't Batman cover his mouth so he don't get shot there
I guess to intimidate people when he speaks.
He wanted the suit to be recognisably a hero, so as not to be terrifying to innocent people.
Azbat didn't give a rat's ass, so he just went full tactical Robocop-Ninja-Dracula.
Difficulty breathing
Or Gordon
OP here:
I'm wondering if I can create a comic series set either in an alternate future where the technology has advanced to the point where superpowers can successfully be attained (even if only the in iron-man/deus ex/ghost in the shell sense, although I'd like the bioshock-sense of powers that from genetic reengineering and genetically engineered humans to share the setting, as well as nanotech, which can kinda blend the two, as wello as giving us some fullmetal alchemist type abilities, only rule in this setting is no magic) or in an alternate history where superpowers have always existed, are the expressions of genetic mutations, even among animals, albeit only among a very small minority of living things (and by extension, among a very small minority among humans as per: % w/ no mutant genetics >% w/ mutant genotypes >% w/ mutant phenotypes), and operate according to real-world genetics (like in boku no hero acedemia, where children with certain powers are either the identical to, or a variant upon, the powers of either one or both of their parents or ancestors, in the case of non-powered parents, as opposed to something out of the incredibles, where the powers have no relation to those of the parents, and people without powers can still carry the genes for those abilities as gentotypes), and the people who were born powerless, and acquire their abilities from technology, have only came about recently.
in this setting, all megacorporations have a partnership with law enforcement, in programs where they sign on the talent they find among law enforcement students upon their graduation to a contract, and, instead of starting a career as a normal police officer, to become a special type of police officer, as one of their sponsored superheroes, these heroes are still police officers, but also superheroes (who are sponsored by mcdonald's), they are legally allowed to use their abilities in service of their jobs, though they still have to abide by due process (eg; can't read someone's mind w/o a warrant and only those specific thoughts/memories for which the arrant is given are permissible, any use of offensive abilities on duty are treated the same as discharging a weapon, etc.), but their sponsor gives them their outfits and pseudonyms, which are determined via auditions, and usually relate to their powers or the manner in which they fight crime, (heroes are essentially like actors who play a role in a film or show: the megacorp sponsor retains the rights to the identity, and superheroes who leave their sponsors will have to get a new super identity should they continue to do the hero thing), as well as access to advanced technology (kinda like tiger and bunny).
You've got Tiger and Bunny, it's literally a buddy cop show with superheroes, although instead of police officers they're employees of corporations who use them for advertisement.
A friend of mine wrote a comic that's kinda like that.
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I`ll show you why writing that would most likely fail, in the wrong hands OP it is awful, time for a storytime of Thrillkiller!
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First thing i hate this comic for? Shitting on Selina
Second reason? It is the fourth in least than 1 week i have had to see Bruce/Barbara and i'm no shipper, I just feel bad for Dick here
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That's one really awful line
Sounds like the same reason why very few legitimate people run for political positions.
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Second most absurd death for dick i have seen yet
The end, they wasted a good idea and artist on this. Oh and the worst part? \there's a sequel that worse than this
Thanks for the dump, appreciate it.
Wasted potential. No wonder this story's lost to time.
Thats the end? I remember reading this online and thought there was more where they go to fight Mr. Freeze and Harley Quinn?
Thrillkiller '62 storytime then, It hurts,
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Is it me or when the artist draw eyes he tends to make them slanted and look like the characters are asian?
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Now that you mention it does look like
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The end of Thrillkiller '62
Honestly, that Harley outfit looks pretty hot.
The outfits are the only things that were good
Funny thing is that Batman is the other side of this; he's the child of old money billionaires, he uses money to bend the law to get his way all the time. Joining the police force would be a huge detriment to his ability to influence the city, and likely do little but put a target on his head. Kind of the whole concept is that he uses his money and connections to acquire the means to operate outside the law and bribe his way out of trouble when he screws up. (see DCAU where he bribes Ultra-Humanite into betraying Lex and turning himself in)
He's basically affluenza used as a force for good. More or less.
Batman bribing villains? It's been done before. I remember this one JLA comic where Bats bribed Mirror Master to spill the beans on Luthor's new Injustice Gang (which is overshadowed by the whopper of a story with a New Gods tech and something called Wonderworld)