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One ofBatman’sdefining personal rule is that he wo n’t vote down his opposition . His moral compass prevents him from committing murder . It ’s partly why his baddie keep popping up time and time again after being defeated . However , after Azrael nearly kill Batgirl , Batman ’s ready for a new mindset entirely .
Batman : Curse of the White Knighthas shake off up what it think to be Batman , as Sean Murphy and Matt Hollingsworth ’s Black Label series has defied convention at practically every stop . In the series , Harley has toss off the Joker , Batman ’s lineage to the Wayne ’s is revealed as false(instead Azrael is a unfeigned Wayne),his origin became even more tragical , and now , Batman ’s pick out a different approach as a hero - he ’s uncoerced to obliterate Azrael .
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InBatman : Curse of the White Knight # 4,Barbara Gordon tries to exact revenge on Azrael for killing her father , Jim Gordon . Her plan backfires , as Azrael grabs her and bang her back against his knee , seriously hurt Barbara . Batman stand by refusing to fuel his gun as Bullock command him to . In number # 7 , Batman chit-chat Barbara as she recovers . Unlike previous versions of Batgirl , she does n’t become paralytic . Instead , she produce a dim recovery . As she tell Bruce that she should n’t have gone after Azrael without letting him know , he makes a shocking revelation : " I should have used that gun to defeat Azrael . "
Batman has a full - bungle experiential crisis . He tells Barbara he ’s not Batman any longer since he ’s part of the problem - which lend itself to Murphy ’s firstWhite Knightseries electric arc , as a corned Joker painted Batman as the true scoundrel . Bruce sound out he ca n’t prepare the on-going corruption in Gotham without coming clean about who is truly is . Despite Barbara narrate him that he ’s scaring her , Bruce asks if Jim Gordon would have forgiven him for what he ’s about to do . Bruce decides to unmask and reveal his true identity element to the Earth ( and grow himself into Gotham PD after dealing with Azrael . ) After doing so in front of tv camera , Nightwingtells him " it ’s not worth it , Bruce . You wo n’t be able-bodied to live with yourself . Batman does n’t kill , " to which Bruce respond " Batman ’s idle … and so is Azrael , " as he spins away in the Batmobile to hunt down Jean - Paul Valley .
Batman breaking his own personal code so as to kill Azrael just shows how personal and surly the war between the two characters has gotten . Azrael ’s induce important damage to his life and Batman wants to put an death to it . It ’s lurid Batman wants to straight - up kill someone , but in this typesetter’s case , he ’s broken and ready for a alteration . Watch out Azrael .
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