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    Default Would batman use bloodbending?

    I am indeed on a bender kick. If batman could use bloodbending, would he do it, or would it be too close to taboo for him (he doesn't use guns for example)?
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    I'm sure he'd be against it initially, just on principle. I'm equally sure he'd be pushed to the point of using the technique, the same way he's been pushed to pull a gun on someone a few times. Of course, shooting someone in the head is, for the most part, going to kill them. Bloodbending isn't necessarily fatal, and is a really effective way to restrain someone, so it might take less for him to use it than it would be for him to grab a gun.
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    OH yeah, in a heartbeat. He doesn't care about the way he stops crime. Just that he stops it. He routinely uses tactics and abilities that cause major bodily harm. Although to be fair, I don't think he would use it for the same reason he doesn't use magic. I don't know exactly where I heard this, but I remember somehow that Batman doesn't use magic because it is unreliable or something. I think he would be the Sokka variety by choice.
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    I'd say that the existence of bending changes the context a great deal, but... well, this is superhero comics we're talking about. Batman wouldn't even blink at bending. That being said, you need to be born with bending, and Bruce Wayne who grew up being able to do that would be an entirely different person.

    Also, unless we're talking about overpowered plot devices from sequels, bloodbending is very limited in when it can be used.
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    If it's a different person then Batman would be, why are you asking if he would use it. Of course he wouldn't blink at bending. An analog exist in the DC universe. Magic. It exists, and he doesn't blink at it, and doesn't really use it. I think if he could use it, he wouldn't because as you say. Bloodbending is to inconsistent. He might firebend, or earthbend or one of the ones that aren't inconstant. What matters to Batman or two things. Will it kill someone, and does it work.

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    Of course he would. Batman is a very ends justify the means type of guy. One of my favorite Batman moments is from one of the DC animated movies. The League is fighting on Apocalypse and he sneaks off and does his own thing. The League gets thrashed and Darkseid is effortlessly kicking the crap out of Bats when he causually informs him while being savaged he's armed his stockpile of doomsday weapons. Batman beat a godlike being because he was willing to blow up a planet with himself and his best buds on it.

    Some versions of him anyway depends on the comic/show/movie and more importantly the writers.

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    I never got the whole blood bending is eeeeeeeevilllll thing the show had going on. How is "I stopped them by taking control of their bodies and forcing them to surrender" more evil than "I stopped them by crushing them with giant rocks?"

    Blood bending is a tool that relies on the morality of the user just like any other type of bending. I think Batman wouldn't hesitate to use it.

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    Batman doesn't just not use guns because they're icky. He doesn't use guns because his philosophy is that he does not have the right to decide who lives and who dies. That is what he believes separates him from the criminals that he fights. Bloodbending can be used to take people in without bodily harm, making it perfect for Batman.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flickerdart View Post
    Batman doesn't just not use guns because they're icky. He doesn't use guns because his philosophy is that he does not have the right to decide who lives and who dies. That is what he believes separates him from the criminals that he fights. Bloodbending can be used to take people in without bodily harm, making it perfect for Batman.
    I'm not sure whether it doesn't cause bodily harm. At the least it does look pretty painful.
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    I'm not sure whether it doesn't cause bodily harm. At the least it does look pretty painful.
    We have plenty of in-universe examples where people got bloodbent, and were fine enough to fight at peak strength right afterwards. It might cause pain, but certainly not harm.
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    No, he wouldn't, because logically a Batman in a Bending capable setting would not be capable of Bending.

    Several of his villains would be Bloodbenders, though.
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    No, he wouldn't, because logically a Batman in a Bending capable setting would not be capable of Bending.

    Several of his villains would be Bloodbenders, though.
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    Default Re: Would batman use bloodbending?

    If he could be sure he wouldn't kill people with it, then sure, in a heartbeat. Batman doesn't kill, but everything else? Fair game, right up to putting someone in a wheelchair (admittedly, he needs to be very pissed off to go that far.)

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