Saturday, May 10, 2008

Sanctuary! Why Did I Teach Him That Word?

Question for the day: If a criminal he pursued claimed sanctuary within a church (assuming claims of sanctuary are allowed in the DCU), and the priest granted it (assuming they have the power to do that), would Batman respect that?

Would he go in and haul the criminal out, regardless?

Or would he try to be sneaky and scare the criminal into fleeing consecrated grounds, thus becoming fair game once more?

And if Bats chose Plan C, would that be considered dirty pool? Would the priest scold him for it afterwards?

Discuss amongst yourselves.

1 comment:

Jason said...

Well, depends upon what Batman we're talking about.

Denny O'Neil Batman would have the Priest guilt the criminal out.

Grant Morrison would use the sneaky approach and probably end up with the criminal committing suicide.

Frank Miller (a.k.a. Goddamn) Batman would burn down the church and figure it's the criminal's fault if he couldn't get out in time.