I'm just a tool in the Batbelt!

The Bat-hype machine has contacted me with some promotional videos and a Flash game promoting the new Batmovie. I hereby command my legions to go and visit at once! Both of you!

The game isn't bad. Though...why is it Movie Batman is always firing bullets at people? From the Batwing in the 1989 movie to the huge Gatling guns on the Batbike in this new film, it appears they're trying to establish a totally illogical ideology where Batman is very opposed to handguns but vehicle-mounted weapons that fire bullets or even rockets don't bother him in the least. I've never understood this. I may be a pro-self-defense guy, but I could totally understand how Batman would feel the things he feels and thus believe the way he does about guns due to his childhood trauma. Yet, I would think this would form some kind of ideology about individuals possessing powerful weapons that allow them to mete out death dispassionately.

Indeed, Batman has said as much at times in the comic books, but then he hangs around with people who wield the power to kill you from across a star system and doesn't seem to be bothered by that. I've pointed out before the illogic of finding Green Arrow's actions in any way acceptable. (Batman's fine with a guy who uses his superior skills to penetrate the flesh of outclassed victims so long as the guy is talented and accurate enough to never hit a vital organ? Granted, around the same time Oliver Queen started doing that in the comics, Frank Miller introduced Batman flinging handfuls of Bat-shaped throwing stars which somehow never cause permanent injury.)

Of course, taking that to the next step, one would have to wonder about Batman's own deadliness. If you had to choose between facing me with a bazooka and Batman with a butterknife, you'd choose me, right?

Maybe Batman has some egotistical philosophy where he trusts himself with weapons and abilities that he would deny others. If so, maybe Movie Batman's having guns is just an elevation of that same worldview.

I...I probably put way too much thought into a derivative video game where they want Batman to shoot stuff.