The Sound of Violence has to be one of the corniest but best Batman parodies yet. You know when a superhero gets too big they’re going to attract attention from those that live to spoof people just for fun, and this is usually the kind of result you get. Batman is one of the easiest guys to spoof since he’s got such a strong following that most of the fans will actually get a kick out of something like this and praise it for at least some accuracy. For instance, there’s no telling what Batman’s going to be pulling out of his utility belt at any given moment, but you can almost bet that it’s going to be something awesome.
Why? Because he’s Batman.
Throughout his long history of violence, and it’s been a very long one indeed, Batman has only met up with a few villains that have ever given him a real run for his money. A couple of them have been kind of surprising but a couple really haven’t. Bane for example, is not a surprise at all, because this is a guy that got trained by the same guys that trained Batman supposedly, and they kicked him out for being too extreme. A group of assassins actually kicked someone out of their ranks for being too EXTREME. Bane wasn’t a big surprise when he finally one-upped Batman in such a way that it was a wonder if Batman would ever come back to his old self, what with a broken back and all.
Then of course there’s the Joker, who’s been an irritant of such high quality and poses such incredible danger for a regular person that you’d have thought that Batman would have just found a way to lock him up and throw away the key for good. But obviously real insanity has to be dealt with using more than just violence, because the Joker has been around long enough to become a legend and the only nemesis that seems capable of combating the Batman on multiple levels without ever having learned how to fight.
Seriously, the Joker couldn’t fist fight his way out of a paper bag compared to Batman.
There have been a lot of others that have given Batman trouble, some heroes along the way too. But when it comes to violence, Batman is no stranger to the more brutal methods that can be used to apprehend or take down assailants and those super-villains that continually want to try him. In fact he’s gotten more than just a little violent on occasion, but he always seems to come back to that moral code of not killing anyone just before he actually does the deed.
Maybe that’s why it’s so easy to spoof him at times, because he never really goes too far to be absolutely dark. He’s still a good guy but with a dark side, not a truly psychotic person like the Joker, who kills indiscriminately at times and just for the fun of it.
Hello violence my old friend….
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