Thread:Sonic2479/@comment-24573226-20170707190838/@comment-26397825-20170709054124

Uh, no. Just because you kill someone doesn't mean you yourself are a villain. It makes him an anti-hero which is different to a villain.

The world (and even comic books) are not black and white. You don't automatically become a murderous psychopath for killing a few criminals when the situation demands it. If that were the case, then a hell of a lot of police officers are murderous psychopaths for being forced to use lethal force to stop a criminal, no matter what that criminal may have been doing.

Batman is an anti-hero. He's not a villain, he is most deifnitely on the side of good, but he's not a pure hero either. He flouts the law when he needs to, he wouldn't lose sleep over killing someone if it was absolutely necessary, he's brooding and paranoid, ad he's willing to use violence and torture to reach his end goal.