Wrap up: Batman's Villains

     Hello everyone! I hope you enjoyed looking through our blog and hopefully learned many new ideas and perspectives about both villains and superheroes. Although both sides appear entirely different, upon further examination they contain many similarities that, ironically, make them perfect for each other. In my series of blogs, I delved further into the Batman series and discovered that Batman has a little piece of each of his enemies: the scare tactics of Scarecrow, the strength and intellect of Bane, the wealth of the Penguin, etc..
     Despite these overwhelming similarities, it is obvious why Batman is considered the "hero" and his enemies the "villains". Their actions reveal their true intent, destruction and chaos, while Batman's actions reveals his intent to maintain peace in the city. The main difference between Batman and his enemies lies within his one rule: never kill. All of Batman's enemies simply desire money, power or revenge, while The Joker does so simply to be evil and create chaos in the city. The Joker's cleverness has gotten him to realize that chaos will always be contained as long as the hero of the city remains the hero. His plan is to corrupt the hero to remove all hope and possibility of stopping the chaos that will inevitably ensue. All he has to do is get Batman to break his one rule, and it can occur at any instant. As The Joker stated, "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That is how far the world is from where I am. One. Bad. Day." So how different is Batman from his enemies?