Batman: Knightfall

Batman: Knightfall

I honestly think, with all my heart that this comic book series changed the superhero world. As I said before, superheroes are seen as these beings, who can recover from anything, never lose, and can do no wrong. Batman: Knightfall broke all the barriers, and put Batman in the mindset of an average human being.

In this series, Batman has been fighting crime for a very long time. He is suffering from psychological as well as physical damage in his quest to suppress crime. Batman starts to wonder why he keeps doing this. He starts to think why he should do this when he is extremely underappreciated. On one page of one of the first issues that man reveals many scars on his body. In the past, superheroes have perfectly chiseled bodies with no hair or marks.

The many authors of this series, introduced a new super villain in a class of his own. His name was Bane. Pain was the strongest of the Batman villains, and possibly the smartest as well. He wore a Mexican wrestler mask and he would inject himself with a steroid like compound called venom. Even though Bane is unrealistic in the human eye, here's my favorite Batman villain. Bane was able to find out that man's true identity, break him psychologically and physically.

In the past, if a villain was created to be superstrong, then that villain has to be dumb in order to compensate. Sometimes I goes for heroes as well. An example of that would be the Incredible Hulk. The Hulk is not that bright, he can't talk but he has superstrengh. In the movie Batman and Robin, the Bane portrayed in the film had similar attributes to the Hulk. Even as a 10-year-old kid that irritated me, because the Bane in the comic books was nothing like the Bane in the movie.

Batman is slipping. He doesn't fight crime as well as he used to. Batman's getting old and it's showing . Robin keeps saving is but more and more. One-way Bane was able to psychologically destroy Batman was to distribute drugs to the pedestrians and kids of Gotham city. Bain even convinced that Batman's top villains, including the Joker and scarecrow, to join his side. Batman gets weaker every time he goes out into the night.

Bane appeared at the residence of Batman, and being revealing that he knew he was Bruce Wayne. He was not able to defeat Bane. As a result, Batman was paralyzed by possibly the greatest super-villian. It goes to show you that even the greatest and most popular superheroes can be beaten, and are only human after all. In this series Batman passes the torch, because he feels is no longer worthy to fight crime. As a result, Bane takes over Gotham city.

This side of Batman is no emotional showing that I feel, put readers can connect to. Since then, I feel comic book writers have tried to put more human emotion into superheroes. In addition, I feel that writers have put more human error into superheroes actions.
Batman has always been a lone Wolf, as shown in the comic books and the movies. In Batman: Knightfall, he starts to feel the psychological effects of being alone.

I think this is an essential comic books series for the comic book fan and story lover alike. I tried not to give away too much of the story itself, but check it out if you get the chance.