I think he is seen later in the movie?!

Lol, he has ethics until he can’t beat the bad guy.

I guess Frank Miller and Tim Burton teamed up to write this movie. He’s The GOD Damn Batman!

Wow this is new :)

I like how that first clown launched himself in the air at the slightest touch. As for the big clown, he was probably two days away from retirement.

This is why the original four Batman movies were awful. It’s not Batman, just a crazy guy in a rubber costume.

lololol Batman's logic, kill the redshirts, no one likes them, but kill the different color shirts is against my code of ethics. Never kill unless it's a redshirt.

I think that the more pressing question is where exactly the penguin hires these clown suit wearing henchmen. Can't exactly be a field with a whole lot of excited applicants.

Someone should edit the trollface over batmans face when he's smiling.

Wilhelm Scream

That is the truth! The bomb was the killer, not Batman!
Batman was just… helping the bomb to get attached to the guy… sort of…

alot of people don't realize that when Batman started out he was a cold vicious killer of killers. Then the animated series came along and now batman has super morals as one of his powers and won't take a life.

He also didn't kill anybody in the Adam West series, which was well before Batman: The Animated Series.

On the other hand, this makes him much more badass. Anybody can shoot a bad guy in the face. Taking somebody out, and disarming them, without killing (or even severely injuring them in many cases), is quite a bit more difficult and impressive.

Well, those weren't only clowns.

Some days you CAN get rid of a bomb.

Well, he is the Goddam Batman. :)

Well thst just dosen't seem very Batmanish.

Hey to be fair to Batman, we didn't see him put that bomb there, Maybe the villain had the bomb in his pants from earlier, since he was baking a cake and couldn't find anything else with a timer, but had forgotten to turn the timer off as he was coincidentally distracted by Batman.

That's some OJ style reasonable doubt right there.

If that's the case, where did Batman's bomb go that he carried around only three seconds earlier?

Alan Moore tells you where it went “It's Magick!”

Which was, although nobody will agree with me on this point because I'm the only person who likes Final Crisi – ever! -, an incredibly intense scene, masterfully written as well.

Me myself is more a fan of the “Pulp-Gothic-Batman” overall, I don't have a problem with Batman killing persons, or – at least – I don't care if he kills someone in order of 'collateral damage. I'm even a sucker of him wearing a gun, at least if it's explanation is valid enough. In my opinion, there are so many other things that make Batman the character that he is besides the 'non-killing-scheme'. True, trying to stop people getting killed should be his number one rule at all cost, but it's not what makes the character for me.

Not a bomb at all, Batman was simply concerned that his sleep schedule has been off lately, and purchased an alarm clock and the grocery store while he was there getting a pack of hotdogs for his impending barbecue. He opted not to get them in a plastic bag since Batman calls them bad for the environment. However, they were both stolen by raccoons and seagulls respectively shortly before Batman noticed a bomb in the man's pants. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit!

Is that the guy from Over The Top?

I've been watching Mythbusters lately..

It just makes so many horrible mental images of large pigs being blown up.

How come he can do this? because he is the GODDAMN batman! lol

Yeah, its kinda funny how he just does it without the guy noticing right away. As for the costume? I think the goons got them on sale after the joker died.

Anyone else see Al Bundy in Batman's smile?

Well, he COULDA survived … now he just has no more junk.

Judging by that cartoony explosion it's possible he was just burned really bad XD

That guy had a case of blueballs, one blew left and one blew right.

Thats an unauthorized use of deadly force. He should have sent robin in first! -10 points

I HAVE BEEN RANTING ABOUT THIS SINCE IT CAME OUT. Thanks Spoony :)

Batman blew up a factory full of goons in the first movie. He easily killed more people than the Joker in that film.

Ohhhhhh, Nasty.

Man I hated that scene when I first saw it, also the scene where he sets a henchman on fire using the batmobile's exhaust. I've been reading batman since the mid 70s, and none of this crap is in character for him, even DKR batman had a better code of ethics then burton's batman did.

I would have happily watched both those scenes if the protagonist was say, Deadpool, or some other character who doesn't have a well established code against killing.

And actually way back when, Batman had no problems with guns. His original design had him a holster on his utility belt.

http://sacomics.blogspot.com/2005/08/batman-and…

I don't know if people have a selective memory, but Batman has used guns -plenty- of times.

For me, personally, Batman is all about solving crimes and beating up the bad guys along the way. I can't look at the Burton-Batman films the same way anymore.

It would seem out of place but then Batman also killed people in the first Burton film too. I know he throws that one black dude down the belltower staircase. And while he doesn't directly kill Joker he didn't really make an effort to save him either lol. Unlike the pansy Batman in the new films :P

Well, this is what you get with Tim Burton

Burton's Batman was pretty badass, much more “real” then the moral code the comic book and Nolan Batman lives by. Burton's movies are back during a time before WB and DC were anal about what their characters did. They basically gave Burton free reign on both movies and once they became popular they decided to pussify the character and make them “family friendly”. And bring in the worst rendition of Robin ever. If I had to choice to erase the existence of one Robin and make it like he was never created and was told to pick between Damien Wayne and the movie version I'd pick the movie version, though I'd have to give it some thought first.

“He just couldn't stand the excitement of Batman”. I have to say though, of all the times to kill someone. He chose at the most random and unnecessary time.

I don't think he is against guns in the new series…he's just against killing people.

I remember this scene. If you ever read about Batman never killing people…remember this scene

This movie was the worst Batman movie ever… then Batman & Robin came out and made me wish for another Batman Returns!

In the movie of Tim Burton Batman kill a lot…. but that wasnt the first time neighter there… in the firsts comics writen on Batman, he killed quite a lot and even used firearms… But later they changed that and maked him never kill anyone. Tim Burton simply wanted to bring back the time where Batman never backed on killing some criminals

OMG! @ all the people complaining about this..sheesh… Get over yourselves.

This is more along the lines of something the Punisher would do!

Hey you over there with the personal opinion about something! Stop having that personal opinion this instant!

God I love this movie. This scene in particular. BR makes the first film look bland and forgettable by comparison. Pfeiffer's performance alone make Nicholson's seem uninspired. Walken and Devito's scene made this movie for me though. I'd take Burton's dark sense of humor over Schumacher's catch phrases, bat nipples, phallic-shaped batmobile and reinvention of Bane any day.

You'll note he specifically did not shoot the Joker with the guns on the cycle.

Batmans rocking the pedosmile.

The ‘Batman Never Kills’ rule has been skirted many times in both comics and films.

-In the original Bob Kane/Bill Finger series he had no qualms about killing and carried a gun.

-In ‘Batman: Jekyll and Hyde’ he kills a man in self-defence by electrocuting him.

-In Tower of Babel he devises lethal countermeasures for his JLA teammates should they ever turn rogue.

-In the comic storyline where Ra’s Al Ghul dies, Batman does everything he can to ensure his death short of killing him with his own hands.

-In Final Crisis he shoots Darkseid with a Radion bullet with every intention of killing him(though Superman and Flash have to pitch in to finish the job).

And even in Nolan’s movies, there’s the time where:

-He blew up a temple, killing several ninjas along with the criminal he refused to execute.

-He left Ra’s Al Gul to die in a train crash that he engineered.

-He throws Harvey Dent over the side of a building and kills him.