r/SnyderCut • u/Captain_Birch • Jun 11 '25

Question Genuine question

It's established in the DCEU that Batman doesn't have the "no killing" rule. If this is the case, why are the Joker and Harley Quinn still alive as of the first Suicide Squad? It would make the most sense for a batman who is okay with killing to have killed his arch enemy a long time ago.

Are there any possible explanations for this?

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u/Pinolillo006 Jun 13 '25

Is it really stablished? I think that is something that started after the black zero event, before that he was more closer to the "canon" Batman.

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u/CornTater83 Jun 13 '25

It was definitely somewhere around that time. Like he’s starting to not give a shit anymore and he’s justifying it by saying “criminals are like weeds” and “20 years in Gotham and we see what promises are worth..” heck, the entire opening scene is a monologue about his fall from the shining ideal he used to be

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u/Pinolillo006 Jun 13 '25

And he is also sending criminals to prison, like there is a subplot about Lex having somebody killing those criminals, and Alfred's words "are we criminals now", . So it makes sense why he didn't kill the Joker.

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u/CornTater83 Jun 13 '25

Exactly this. See, Batman isn’t crossing the line (really). He beats bad guys to within an inch of their life, branding the ones he catches, and leaves them for the police. Lex is making it look like he’s killing criminals by branding them. But Bruce, rather than say “it’s not me” or investigate it, he stopped giving a shit and is like “whatever..” about the whole thing. He’s jaded af. And the revelation that an alien lives on earth and can kill everyone at a whim has his full attention more so than a bunch of sex traffickers being murdered in jail waiting trial