Superheroes kill, even the ones who don't want to and work very very hard not to kill, they kill people, intentionally or not, evil or not, even in the best runs superheroes do kill, and it's not exclusive to super villains.
So to put it out of the way now: Batman is stupid for keeping the line "I will go down to his level if I kill, he will win, and I will never go back from there", Batman is an idiot, and he should have let Jason Todd kill the Joker, I mean Batman did let a helicopter Joker was bleeding to death in after he killed Jason and was about to blow up the UN assembly, and he didn't lose a wink of sleep after that.
In Batman v Punisher 2 Bruce Batman (Az-Bat was the Batman in the first story) should have let Punisher shoot Joker, a maniac who just kills and kills and destroys without remorse, heck, he wanted Leslie to do the responsible thing in No Man's Land and not give Zsasz any blood.
Anyway, moving on to other superheroes and how they react to killing, I'll start with my favorite:
Spider-Man killed a few folks every now and then, the thought does not haunt him and make him overly obsessed with it like it did someone like Superman (for good reasons, someone as infamously neurotic as him doesn't need to whine and sulk more often), Spider-Man let buildings and vehicles blow up with some villains in them (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #05 for example, against Red Skull and one of his minions), it did not make him lose any sleep or go to creepy dreams over it.
Glad this guy teams-up with Punisher more than he attempts to stops him (he tried on rare rare occasions), Spider-Man killed his girlfriend while he was trying to save her.
The thought of people dying because of him still haunts him at times, and he works on avoiding making such errors as he did before (like with Gwen).
The Fantastic Four killed Dr. Doom at least twice during the Lee/Kirby run, I don't know if anyone of them went psychotic after that.
Post Crisis on Infinite Earths (a.k.a; New Earth) Superman went to a pocket dimension, he killed General Zod and his gang there to save countless worlds after Zod gang killed everyone in the pocket dimension. It made him go into a psychotic episode and add a third identity to his persona during blackouts, and that drove him to self exile into space.
Barry Allen killed Eobard Thawne by snapping his neck in a sprint to rescue the live of his (Barry's) bride to be; Fiona Webb, killing Thawne drove Barry to save more people in more areas in an attempt to overcome and repent for his guilt over killing for the first time in his life, and it could have led to Barry returning to his normal life if not for the D.A. deciding to try his hand at fame (that fat bastard) for putting a superhero on trial.
Eobard's time travel mechanics made his story ridiculously complicated, and led to Flashpoint 2.0, the outcome of Barry running to stop a super villain from killing his mom. For the sake of an event and editorial mandates, Geoff Johns had to write a stupid event to make a mess of things, to lead to Barry burning himself twice in attempts to restore his powers to make things right by allowing the super villain to keep his act intact.
Hal Jordan killed a bunch of his fellow Green Lantern corps members on his way to kill the Guardians of the Universe, because the Guardians were awful bastards who did not like Hal using the ring to relive his past by making images using his ring, they decided to strip Hal of the right after using the ring for personal pleasure. That led to him turning to the Specter.
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How do other superheroes react to killing villains?
Is it weird that the one who is supposed to represent the everyday man is phased possibly less than other heroes after killing?
So to put it out of the way now: Batman is stupid for keeping the line "I will go down to his level if I kill, he will win, and I will never go back from there", Batman is an idiot, and he should have let Jason Todd kill the Joker, I mean Batman did let a helicopter Joker was bleeding to death in after he killed Jason and was about to blow up the UN assembly, and he didn't lose a wink of sleep after that.
In Batman v Punisher 2 Bruce Batman (Az-Bat was the Batman in the first story) should have let Punisher shoot Joker, a maniac who just kills and kills and destroys without remorse, heck, he wanted Leslie to do the responsible thing in No Man's Land and not give Zsasz any blood.
Anyway, moving on to other superheroes and how they react to killing, I'll start with my favorite:
Spider-Man killed a few folks every now and then, the thought does not haunt him and make him overly obsessed with it like it did someone like Superman (for good reasons, someone as infamously neurotic as him doesn't need to whine and sulk more often), Spider-Man let buildings and vehicles blow up with some villains in them (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #05 for example, against Red Skull and one of his minions), it did not make him lose any sleep or go to creepy dreams over it.
Glad this guy teams-up with Punisher more than he attempts to stops him (he tried on rare rare occasions), Spider-Man killed his girlfriend while he was trying to save her.
The thought of people dying because of him still haunts him at times, and he works on avoiding making such errors as he did before (like with Gwen).
The Fantastic Four killed Dr. Doom at least twice during the Lee/Kirby run, I don't know if anyone of them went psychotic after that.
Post Crisis on Infinite Earths (a.k.a; New Earth) Superman went to a pocket dimension, he killed General Zod and his gang there to save countless worlds after Zod gang killed everyone in the pocket dimension. It made him go into a psychotic episode and add a third identity to his persona during blackouts, and that drove him to self exile into space.
Barry Allen killed Eobard Thawne by snapping his neck in a sprint to rescue the live of his (Barry's) bride to be; Fiona Webb, killing Thawne drove Barry to save more people in more areas in an attempt to overcome and repent for his guilt over killing for the first time in his life, and it could have led to Barry returning to his normal life if not for the D.A. deciding to try his hand at fame (that fat bastard) for putting a superhero on trial.
Eobard's time travel mechanics made his story ridiculously complicated, and led to Flashpoint 2.0, the outcome of Barry running to stop a super villain from killing his mom. For the sake of an event and editorial mandates, Geoff Johns had to write a stupid event to make a mess of things, to lead to Barry burning himself twice in attempts to restore his powers to make things right by allowing the super villain to keep his act intact.
Hal Jordan killed a bunch of his fellow Green Lantern corps members on his way to kill the Guardians of the Universe, because the Guardians were awful bastards who did not like Hal using the ring to relive his past by making images using his ring, they decided to strip Hal of the right after using the ring for personal pleasure. That led to him turning to the Specter.
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How do other superheroes react to killing villains?
Is it weird that the one who is supposed to represent the everyday man is phased possibly less than other heroes after killing?
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