By The Numbers | The Crimes of Batman

[@Aedony]

"this also violates the laws of physics" xD

[@nightwingaven69]

in 44 states, including New York and New Jersey (the 2 cities gotham has been said to be in), unless it is specifically said to be against the law, then you may do it. For example, there is no law in Nebraska that says you are not allowed to open carry a firearm, therefore, unless otherwise posted, you may do so legally. Because of this statute, breaking the laws of physics is not illegal.

[@CarpIXOYE]

the most underrated crime

[@krizwatcher]

"Another instance of Super-murder" xD

[@iguiste23]

Batmans probably on a galactic watchlist after this. Even aliens are assisting in his search and arrest.

[@lmaoded1550]

😹

[@usulsk]

I dont think that "escaping prison" is a crime if it is Banes prison, because he was not kept because of law.

[@hermitcard4494]

It was a prison anyway under the law of another country, even if the law in said country was corrupt. International conflict.

[@Jllyrol311]

Obviously, they didn’t show all of the paperwork they did to legally process Bruce Wayne.

[@Deuteromis]

@@Jllyrol311 Your comment lol

[@egofluff8897]

Its still rude to just leave without saying goodbye to the none state entity(terrorist org) holding you without due process and against your will.

[@Shandrii]

@@hermitcard4494 We don't know if escaping a prison is a crime in this country, though.

[@r0h44n]

Nolan's Batman, a prime example of how Batman is above killing, but not above brutally maiming and disabling

[@thebatman1482]

Exactly like the actual Batman.

[@cl114c0777498d]

...and also killing.

[@r0h44n]

@@thebatman1482 Yeah, minus the resilience of will and detective skills 😂

[@thebatman1482]

@@r0h44n Except The Dark Knight is actually the film were Batman is the most detective he's ever been in movies. See the parts where he analyzes the bullet for example, or every single scene where he is trying to anticipate joker's moves. And resilience of will? Are we talking about the same guy that fixed his spine with punches and escaped a prison while his city was going to be destroyed?

[@r0h44n]

@@thebatman1482 Not saying that there was no detective work, but after Begins it really fizzled out. While I don't mind exploring Batman's symbolic importance, I personally felt it overshadowed his detective aspect. He got duped by Selina Kyle, and he spent half the franchise grabbing collars and asking "Where is ___?!". Proportionately, Batfleck did more detective work in BvS, though sadly that movie had nothing on the Nolan trilogy. As far as resilience is concerned, while I shan't deny the example you have, let's also not forget that he called it quits after 1.5 years in, and stayed retired for 8 years. His solution in two out of three movies was to vanish, and not the vanishing act he pulls with Gordon. The fight choreography also didn't help the cause. Personally, I feel that while the story and build up of what went into Batman was excellent, this version kinda failed in showing the imposing character he is despite his human frailty

[@Eenea]

Hearing assault so many times in a row is hilarious.

[@rob3791]

Give the guy a break, it's his therapy lol

[@VerdammtX]

Makes me wonder who commits more assaults, Batman or Netflix's Daredevil.

[@Oakshield2]

It would make for a nice ringtone

[@tyranusfan]

If you give Batman 66 a pass for being deputized, you open him up to massive accusations of excessive force, police brutality, unlawful search and seizure. He's going to need some de-escalation training, for sure.

[@SeasideDetective2]

I'm pretty sure he also kidnapped the Penguin, even if it was with the Penguin's consent. He also indirectly caused one death when a thug stumbled onto the Joker's jack-in-the-box during a fight with him. AND he converted several of the Penguin's pirates to antimatter simply by touching them; I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it goes well beyond murder. Not to mention that all those United World delegates will probably sue him for emotional distress after he put them all back in the wrong bodies.

[@bobbyrooney]

@@SeasideDetective2 how do you kidnap with consent?

[@SeasideDetective2]

@@bobbyrooney The Penguin allowed himself to be taken to the Batcave to be identified - being in disguise at the time - in order to get an opportunity to rehydrate several vials of dehydrated dust that were actually the powdered forms of his henchmen. Then the rehydrated henchmen would attack Batman and Robin on their own turf. (Yeah, it's a weird movie.)

[@snowroaches]

Don't forget how many people he ran past with that bomb, assuming the fuse was accurate.

[@uberfu]

BUT under law enforcement protection bills they can essentially be exempted and protected from their actions during a police action.

[@JetZV]

I don't think that final point about "More Batmen does not equal less crime" works out. Sure, he only saves Gotham six times, but it's important to note that those schemes are not just one crime apiece. In Dark Knight Rises alone, Bane basically annexes the entirety of Gotham from the US for five months and tries to set off a nuclear weapon in the city... and that's before you count all of the bombings, false imprisonment, murder, and stock exchange fraud.

[@krudmonger]

Yeah, it's a double standard how they lump all the villains' crimes together into one catch-all, but Batman's get itemized. Plus you have to presume that every villain he stops or thwarts ends a lot of potential future crimes, at least by that same villain.

[@taragnor]

Yeah lol. I mean destroying Gotham alone should be millions of counts of murder prevented.

[@norabrandt4078]

Very good. Basne sounds like a lot of our real life politicians. Lol

[@shawnstrife5527]

@@krudmonger it'd end a LOT more future crime if he just murked the more murderess ones

[@AfroSamurai-]

You forgot In BvS he saved women from human trafficking before the cops arrived.

[@Midsomnyx]

6:36 "This also violates the laws of PHYSICS" I was not expecting that and spit my food out laughing.

[@spireland5]

The analysis voice is hilarious when it gets salty. So many facts...then she’s like WTF

[@nonnayerbusiness7704]

That degree of head trauma could kill a young man too.

[@rmhartman]

many of those assault charges could be self defense

[@nutmegandpeach]

i don't think it legally counts as self defense if you either start the fight or don't back down when you can, so both batman and the criminals would be guilty of assault

[@tsutt_ace]

10:19 "driving in an unsafe manner in an unsanctioned area." Literally driving on someone's roof lolol

[@CHASEMARC]

Most of the buildings and the train system in Gotham are owned by Wayne enterprises in the Dark Knight movies so is it trespassing and destruction of public transportation? Or did he destroy his own property?

[@Anthony-ol8tg]

this also goes for having recording devices in your own house in first movie

[@benjaminmadrigal2328]

He's not only destroying the train, but causing damage to the street under it and the buildings around it.

[@CHASEMARC]

@@benjaminmadrigal2328 you mean the parking lot of Wayne HQ building, and the road going into Wayne HQ area?

[@Kali-Ikigai]

That raises questions about Insurance Fraud lol

[@zeniths823]

also you can't just destroy your infra without permissions from authorities imagine a billionaire blowing up his building in newyork without warning and evacuvation. also batman dosen't completely own wayne enterprises so all of them are crimes anyway. it dosen't matter if the road is going into wayne hq area or joker's layer it's still road and public property

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

9:37 Simply buying shares of a company through proxies and shell corporations is not illegal, nor does it constitute money laundering or fraud.

[@josephatherley]

Exactly, I dunno what they were talking about

[@mattf5935]

Was going to make the same comment.

[@VideoHostSite]

Jesus, let's hope you never attempt to be your own lawyer. Securities Fraud is a very real thing, and it's EXACTLY what is being described in that particular movie.

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

@@frankcalabretta8710 Simply buying shares of a company through a proxy does not constitute insider trading. Insider trading requires acting on non-public information with the *possibility* of (i.e., doesn’t require actual; you could theoretically lose money and still be charged with insider trading) profit. Also, Martha Stewart was not convicted of insider trading. She went to prison for lying to investigators and obstruction of justice.

[@rafaelmarkos4489]

You dodged a bullet not counting comic Batman - tabulating all the instances of physical and emotional abuse towards his kids would be an absurdly long video unto itself.

[@krizwatcher]

The question then becomes, which of them was he MOST abusive toward? Personally, I think he was especially douche-like toward Spoiler.

[@Keithustus]

Given this video’s length I was expecting animated Batman too.

[@alexanderhood8993]

Well considering that in DC comics there are countless abusive parents like seriously multiple greatest assassins in the DC comics are either abusive towards their children in order to teach them how to kill to be like them or have been abused themselves in their childhood the only person who isn't abusive nor have been abused is a assassin who is one of enemies of green arrow who simply kill to feel what it's like to take a life. Deathstroke has a Deathwish and one of Batgirl wasn't allowed to see or speak so that the only thing she knows is how to kill.

[@alexanderhood8993]

Basically due to the amount of child abuse and considering that joker was praised for crippling Batgirl from the criminal underworld which in our world would make you at the very bottom of criminal hierarchy and every criminal is going to hunt you down and is going to hire every kind of hitman just to kill you for hurting children but apparently in world of DC comics people who hurt children are at the very top of criminal hierarchy for some odd reasons. You would think that everyone would want a joker head on the platter for intentionally hurting children and taking great pride in it.

[@rafaelmarkos4489]

@@alexanderhood8993 Speaking of Cass - she is actually the only character towards whom Bruce shows any level of parental affection. Maybe because she's one of the few people he can't control with violence, considering that she's stronger than him.

[@aegismalkav8057]

Burton's Batman: *Murder* Schumacher's Batman: *Destruction of public property* Nolan's Batman: *Assault,more assaults and still more assaults* DCEU's Batman: *Murder*

[@saschaeisenhut757]

Well, while the hostages on the ferries saved *one* of the ferries initially, by "puzzling their way out on their own", the Joker would have blown up *both,* if Batman hadn't stopped him. So I'd say: That one counts as saving a bunch of lives for Bruce...

[@annachase6036]

Plus Batman saved Gotham from loosing faith. If the Joker won Gotham would have felt helpless. They'd think people like the joker always win. Batman saved the ferries and took the blaim for Dent's death to save "the sould" of Gotham. I think that should have been added

[@LoganBluth]

@@annachase6036 How do you quantify preventing the crime of "Causing Gotham to lose faith"...? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm legitimately interested to hear how someone would define that. :D

[@craigh5236]

If you start counting every assault that Batman committed we will be here for a very very very long time.

[@makemap]

Assaulting bad guys shouldn't be counted unless it was cause of death like the recent batman movie.

[@SeasideDetective2]

Realistically speaking, I have to imagine that Gotham is a city where the justice system is so swamped that many of the laws concerning minor crimes are simply not enforced. Also, imagine all the judges who dismiss all but the most serious of lawsuits so the courts can focus on the countless criminal cases.

[@lmaoded1550]

Indeed

[@danielciocilteu3545]

I am imagining a second counter for every time Batman punches someone with a cartoon punch sound for every count. :D

[@CasualNotice]

To be fair, the mass crimes would also be considered multiple individual crimes (which is to say, if you kill 500 people, you may be liable for a charge of mass murder--depending on where you live--but you are also liable for 500 charges of capital murder).

[@rikkinecib]

I like how Batfleck killed so many people but still managed to get charged for less crimes than Bale

[@goodial]

less movies with less singular focus on this actions though ;)

[@tallgod6929]

Bale’s Batman also k!lled people. He k!lled Harvey Dent when he tackled him off the building. He also k!lled talia and her driver. Let’s not forget all the people bale’s Bruce Wayne murdered before he was Batman when blew up that building filled with league of assassin members

[@antiwokelord8093]

@@tallgod6929 you’re wasting your time. These nolan fanboys don’t care that their batman is a murderer too

[@dobi287]

@@goodial more movies actually Bvs Ss Josstice Zsjl

[@mustang8206]

Less screen time

[@tilahooper9525]

is everyone just going to ignore that robin is underage in almost all of these (animated movies and comics included) and so one of the bat's biggest crimes has to be child endangerment? Plus the fact that he's a man running around at night in an all-black skintight getup calling his extremely young subordinate an animal-based nickname has major creep vibes

[@ricoaioa]

6:36 "This also violates the laws of physics" This one killed me kkkkkkk

[@HighHeelKnight]

The charity casino event was obviously NOT a criminal offense, especially since the Mayor, District Attorney, Police Commissioner, and a photo journalist were all invited. D'uh!

[@tallgod6929]

Bale’s Batman literally straight up murdered Harvey Dent when he tackled him off the roof and Drove his batmoblie into another driver forcing the driver’s front seat to go through hard cement. Bale’s Batman also sh0t talia al ghul off the road causing her and her drivers deaths. How did you conveniently miss those huge moments in the movie?

[@fengb1122]

Tackling to stop a murder isn’t murder. At worst it’s involuntary manslaughter, but more than likely justified self defense.

[@graigfitzgerald6787]

@@fengb1122 that’s murder bro, especially since he’s a vigilante and not law enforcement. You nolan fanboys are delusional cringelords

[@BoUrnNe26]

@@graigfitzgerald6787 Agreed. Especially considering all the different options and gadgets available to him to take Harvey down non-lethally.

[@deathtime5288]

Actually,In The Dark Knight The Theory Is That Batman Is Joker And The Dark Knight Rises Is The Vision Of Gordon Seen Batman Save The City So Batman Never Actually Killed Talia Al Ghul Cause That Never Happened In Real But Batman Did Saved The City But Most Of It Was Unknown Mysterious Ways In The Movie!

[@TheThejayman32]

@@deathtime5288 What the hell?!

[@jonnymoran5842]

a lot of these charges could be dropped with the right lawyer.

[@monkeeeman666]

Wheeere is Harvey Dent?

[@davidshillaker7578]

I hear Matt Murdoc is a really good lawyer.

[@davidshillaker7578]

You guys forgot in Burton's Batman that he groped Vicki Vale, and in Nolan's he spied on the entire city with sonar to find the Joker.

[@hermitcard4494]

Batman doesn't kill, he just does serious injuries on goons that could leave them permanently injured, disabled or in comma. Weirdly, he NEVER does this kinds of injuries on the villians who hired the goons. I mean, injure the boss and there's no one hiring delinquents because he will spend a ton of money on medical treatments.

[@youreajoke6782]

Bale’s Batman killed Harvey Dent Talia Al ghul and Talias driver

[@antiwokelord8093]

@@youreajoke6782 they don’t wanna hear facts bro. these nolan fanboys live in their own world

[@EmperorGuyver]

Since when ? In TDK trilogy alone he killed a few ppl

[@Ambar42]

@@antiwokelord8093 Why do you think he's a Nolan fanboy? This was a general statement about Batman, not the Dark Knight trilogy.

[@jamisonlynch6437]

@@antiwokelord8093 will shut up in the replies and say something different for the love of god!!

[@LoganBluth]

16:04 - *_"Attempted_* murder." (Literally shows the Batmobile CRUSHING A GUY'S HEAD!!! 🤣)

[@Lundarigirl]

You forgot that in Batman Returns, Bats saved all the little kids Penguin kidnapped.

[@yournamehere1935]

The Burton and DCEU Batman versions killed close to 50 guys if counted individually instead of saying "more murders". I never realized Keaton's Batman killed so many guys.

[@7jaws7]

For all the havoc he caused in Dark Knight, at least Batman stopped the Joker from blowing up two ferries, so that's one act of mass murder prevented that this video didn't acknowledge. Still, this was entertaining to watch!

[@polreamonn]

The people on the ferries stopped the ferries from blowing up. Batman had nothing to do with it.

[@D.nada_47]

Except Bats had nothing to do with the ferries and this vid mentions that.

[@joshuahogan3475]

@@D.nada_47 see my above reply.

[@jasonpratt5126]

Batman V Superman: "Saves Superman's Mom and... that's about it." Mm, nope. Batman saves a group of women from s3x slavery; and helps stop a baby Darkseid from wrecking Earth. In Wayne-mode, he also saves the lives of several civilians during the prologue's Super-battle. Methods aside, Batman also removes a substantial number of the KGBeast's mercenary crew from continuing their own crimes, up to and including small-scale genocide. Superman stops Batman from successfully stopping a weapons-smuggling operation (the kryptonite being only one part of that op.)

[@henrycoffey1207]

Its Geneva Suggestions, not Convention. I do war "crimes" all the time, and the cops never catch me. If it was illegal, they would try harder to find me.

[@KingCameron.]

In Christopher Nolan’s Batman also committed manslaughter

[@maguffle]

I LOVE Batman!!! One of the reasons why is because he's totally nuts! I mean, he dresses up like a bat and BEATS UP people for BEING VIOLENT! The irony is totally lost on him and that's hilarious! Batman is totally badass, but he's also a fascinating and mildly hilarious psychological study.

[@Mexican00b]

you forgot his superpower, which makes all of this legal! superpower: lots of money, LOTS!

[@Akaaj3]

0:00 - Intro/Adam West TV 1:11 - Tim Burton 4:10 - Joel Schumacher 7:43 - Nolanverse 13:13 - DCEU (Whedon/Snyder, no Snyder Cut) 17:45 - Outro/Analysis

[@krizwatcher]

You forgot to include manslaughter in the Nolanverse films, one for deliberately leaving Ra's al Ghul to die, and another for tackling Two-Face off the rooftop.

[@Jon-yo3kg]

I mean, if we're nitpicking about criminal actions, deputizing a vigilante as the police do on various occasions would be considered criminal as well.

[@gerardjayetileke4373]

"Base jumping without a permit" got me 😂😂

[@andreworders7305]

I wish you would have also covered the first 60s Batman movie, Mask of the Phantasm, the Killing Joke, and the LEGO Batman movie so you'd have all the theatrical films like you claimed.

[@Eojgnawkmi]

Judge: "How do you plead?" *"𝙞 '𝙢 𝙗 𝙖 𝙩 𝙢 𝙖 𝙣 "*

[@DW316]

Forgot turning everyone's cell phone into a surveillance device

[@makemap]

You should do a number a crimes all the villains did in batman movies and compare it to batman himself.

[@Electrify85]

The world needs more 1960s Batman.

[@johnpeace971]

You missed the 30 million counts of internet hacking/illegal surveillance when he taps everyone's cell phones to make radar

[@traviswall1982]

"Everything Hitler did was legal." -Dr. Martin Luther King. Regardless, still a fun video.

[@akuunreach]

Missed that the batmobile is unregistered and thus uninsured which are also a crime

[@JohnnyDollar720]

Honestly the older I get, the more violent I prefer Batman.

[@timephire]

I love Movie Batman, I never want Comic Book Batman to kill because that's Movie Batman's job!

[@RickMyBalls]

Ah too bad, he kills in the very first comic.

[@kieranfo3739]

With parking wherever he wants you could also add Preventing Emergency Vehicle Access.

[@Nishom0926]

Not Only Human Law Violence But Violence of Law of Physics.

[@immrallen2690]

"Still more assaults" got me in absolute tears, I can't stop laughing 😂

[@Anthony-ol8tg]

Accessory to desecrating a corpse. Two things First: its Accessory to desecrating a "human" corpse; superman is not human. Second, is bring someone back from the dead a desecration?

[@theholyhermit]

For claiming to analyze crimes, you don't know what assault actually means. Look up battery.

[@rolandodennis8385]

Putting it like this makes Batman waaaayyy MORE BADASS

[@CaveFreediving]

The entire premise of Batman is that the police aren't effective enough to stop crime, so Batman does it without following any of their rules.

[@ishmaelsudre1765]

16:43 Batman: I won't kill you, but your hospital bills will 🏥 📰

[@sayheyguy]

Well Bruce Wayne is a billionaire so that pretty much makes him above the law.

[@rmannayr2129]

BATMAN IS ONE OF THE BEST SUPERHEROES!

[@BeDoCo1980]

I would argue some of the "assault" charges were self-defense.

[@RyanRocker]

Using the Whedon JL skews the latter part of the video greatly

[@ap3xunlimited549]

I never understood Batman’s “no killing code”. Like bro people stay dying all around you 😭 Plus getting beat to a pulp and have limbs broken can’t be good for their long term health.

[@bdshort]

I want to see this done for Man of Steel - pretty sure tens of thousands probably died when he and Zod were smashing each other through Metropolis!

[@valeforyoru]

You forgot Tax Evasion and other money related crimes, he's a damn billionaire with dirty money.

[@Galaxies3000]

Honestly, I believe that the crimes Nolan's Batman commited during Bane's reign over Gotham shouldn't count because technically the law was corrupted.

[@hermitcard4494]

Lol, can't we pretend Schumacher's Bat-things never happened??

[@kuroborang6409]

And they complain that Snyder's Batman kills 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@t.gzhanje471]

Definitely should have done 4hr cut of justice league

[@keatherton403]

I stopped watching after the first batman comparison. "Is batman preventing more crimes than he commits?" Yes. If you're gonna count each assault in an encounter you have to count all the lives he saved even if they were in a cluster of people at the same event. How many people did he save from that poison gas?

[@rmannayr2129]

THIS ALSO VIOLATES THE LAWS OF PHYSICS!

[@conatser]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. George Clooney waaas a doctor.

[@hudsonodonnell6622]

Batman: I commit warcrimes. Star Wars the Clone Wars: Hold my beer.

[@ltlbuddha]

I guess I can forgive the pre-West Batmen's appearance on the big screen as they were serials and not features. But you ignore Lego Batman, despite teasing him in the montage? Is Outrage!

[@dembones5005]

I think the counts are probably low - but I'm also thinking that they'd have a hard time finding a jury to convict when the defense is able to use 'saved the lives of everyone in the city' and mean it. Assembling a jury at all would be a nightmare - couldn't use anyone from Gotham that knew Batman saved their lives, etc.

[@andreworders7305]

4:49 that costume makes him look more like the Mad Hatter then Two-Face

[@TheRealReVeLaTioN]

At 8:41 He wouldn’t have been a witness against the mob if Batman didn’t go after him and bring him to the police. He had no intention to turn state’s witness until he was caught and jailed.

[@iguiste23]

Assualt, assault, murder, aggravated assault, destroying government property, torture, assault, assault. This is by far the funniest thing I've seen all year was literally in tears from laughing hard. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ChrisMerkelStudios]

Seven major crimes Batman prevents in The Dark Knight not mentioned here: ~ Gang war (between Scarecrow and the Chechen's guys and the Batman impersonators, beginning of film) ~ Murder (of Rachel Dawes, by the Joker, during the party at Wayne's penthouse, later rendered pointless when she's blown up by a bomb) ~ Murder (of Coleman Reese, by the guy who tries to crash into the police escort after the Joker threatens to blow up a hospital) ~ Murder (of Harvey Dent, by the Joker, while he's being transported, later rendered pointless when Batman kills him to save James Gordon, Jr.) ~ Accidental homicide (of multiple hostages, by the SWAT team that didn't know the Joker had dressed them up as clowns and duct-taped guns to their hands) ~ Hundreds of counts of murder (of the people on the ferries, by the Joker, remember: Joker still had his own detonator for both boats) ~ Murder (of James Gordon, Jr., by Two-Face)

[@paullenoue8173]

You skipped a lot of crime stopping while only considering the big "save the city/planet" crimes. If you count nonviolent bat crimes then shouldn't you consider the lesser crimes he stopped?

[@msalinastb5093]

All very interesting on listing Batman’s crimes but your basing it all on our universes rules but you always have to remember that the comic universe that batman lives in is way different than our real world and their rules and regulations or going to be way different than our rules and regulations. I mean for one example there’s a city named “Gotham City” in that universe which Batman resides in of course but that’s one of many differences that we know of imagine all the ones that we don’t know of… anyways. Peace ✌🏼

[@patrick_j_lee]

Imagine seeing a video like this but for a TV series featuring criminal protagonists, like Arrow or Blacklist? Now that would be a long list of crimes!

[@tshokoboi]

Your next software patch should accommodate the analysis of the crimes committed by criminals in the process of committing the major crimes

[@markpeters6430]

This was a fantastic video. I enjoyed it very much. Here's to hoping for more similar videos from this series and not like all the other video series they've tried to do before.

[@redleg1376]

I'm going out on a limb and saying Bruce Wayne has all the required permits and licenses to fly planes or drive remote controlled cars through roads. He has enough money to have all of those.

[@wesleyoldham-cartoonsandtv1962]

We found a way to resurrect Superman! "Desecrating a corpse."

[@SenorTortas]

LOL the Money laundering one got me hahahaha

[@hatimqjquaidjohar813]

Can we really count "assaults", i mean it is a job requirement

[@lemejohnny]

"Murder, Assault, Manslaughter, Murder, Attempted murder..." it's like subliminal message brainwashing my mind lmfao

[@SwordDoveGamingProductions]

Well for the Riddler, Batman stopped him from continuing to use a device of entertainment that takes all people personal information that Riddler was going to use for profit. Glad that device is only fictional.

[@CaveFreediving]

The few Big crimes he stopped would have been worse than the many "little" crimes he committed. Plus, people believe it's just to injure or kill bad guys because you're essentially stopping more crimes.

[@jeddy5719]

If I wanted a Batman that commits murder, I'd just read Marvel's the punisher. The closest media representation of DC Batman is the animated series. Which is STILL the best animated series I've ever seen in this life.

[@umutcepken7306]

Not a great TV series but I think the best example for a crime fighting billioner was shown on "APB" After losing his friend to a robber, billioner helps the police with high tech solutions, gives them advanced vehicle and weapons so the police can clean the city instead of putting on a mask and beating one criminal at a time which is very inefficient. Think of all the villians in Gotham, if they faced well trained and armed police force do any of them stand a chance?

[@uberfu]

ALSO - how does Fandom know that the gambling in Tim Burton's version is illegal? Nowhere in the films are Gotham's gambling laws (much less the State laws where Gotham is located).

[@Thomas_Donofrio]

So what I’m getting from this is that being deputized means you can break laws

[@dembones5005]

No (and conditionally yes) - it means actions taken to apprehend a perpetrator of a crime are scrutinized by superiors and internal affairs, compared against doctrines of reasonable force and acceptable property damage, taken before a grand jury if there is doubt, a prosecute verdict at which may result in a criminal case being pursued.

[@lazerbungalow]

Picking some nits...the language of the video seems to imply that Batman '66 was the first live action Batman. However, there were two separate movie serials in the 40s.

[@ravenshrike]

3 major crimes. Wait a minute, the Joker poison gas incident would have killed at minimum 50 people. So that's 51 separate crimes, 52 including at least one terrorism charge. Tim Burton's Batman comes out on top.

[@mkocel]

exactly why no batman movie has captured the essence of the definitive Batman. The Timmverse is the best version to date.

[@kyawswarlynn6583]

People: OMG Zack Snyder's Batman kills people Meanwhile Batman throughout the cinematic history:

[@tungam4348]

If he saves all of Gotham, then he has prevented millions of murders, not just 1 crime...