Post by gljbradley on Feb 27, 2017 1:14:47 GMT
Feb 26, 2017 11:00:53 GMT ap said:
Bruce knew Superman had a mother. He said something about his parents before attempting to stab him with the spear. Beyond that,... Superman is alive. It stands to reason he had both a mother and father, or if Batman assumed Krpytonians were asexual, a single parent of some sort.Knowing that Superman has a mother should not give Batman any sort of new perspective into his humanity. I'm sure he knows Joker has a mother somewhere. So do all the criminals he killed.
1. The parents that Batman spoke of ("I bet your parents taught you that you were here for a reason") would be space alien parents.
Batman / Bruce doesn't care about space alien parents. Bruce wants Superman dead at that point because he believes that Superman is a dangerous SPACE ALIEN. Simple as that.
SPACE ALIEN PARENTS don't fix that.
- The key line by Batman is this; "You were never a god. You were never even a MAN!"
The main thing for Bruce at this point is that Superman is an alien, not human, not worth living, a potential monster that needs to be destroyed.
- Understanding that is essential to seeing what the scene is about.
2. The human Joker having a mother completely misses the point. For Batman the Joker needs to be defeated because of what the Joker DOES not because of what he IS when he was born.
For Bruce at that point, Superman needed to be killed because of what he IS since he was born. A dangerous space alien.
3. What the Martha line did was freeze Batman/Bruce into stopping his killing of Superman.
Then Lois brought in the information that Superman has a HUMAN mother.
Get it. Human.
Before that point Bruce/Batman thought that Superman was some dangerous alien monster that would wipe out humans on earth.
Again, Lois humanizes Superman by telling Bruce that Superman has a human mother.
Being more like a human is the key. Then Bruce's entire plan falls apart. His bigotry was exposed and he realized he was wrong.
Imo at least, BB ;-)