Batman's morals are stupid. Seriously, what's the Joker's bodycount nowadays? I think I read somewhere it was close to a thousand, or even exceeding that. Batman not killing is selfish BS, it's not based on morality. He's just scared he's going to go some dark place he doesn't want to.
Really, Gotham's clown wouldn't get 30 seconds into a conversation with The Punisher, let alone be let hanging around for a decade or two in continuity slaying dozens of people in one citing for fun. Freakin' Frank would pull his head off. Locking someone like Joker up is ridiculous, he's smarter than the people incarcerating him and is always going to find a way to break out sooner or later. Bruce is a misguided dummy.
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Chad, what's your logic there, man? Why is it difficult to believe that Toomin's the only living organism to have ascended into the space-time net? The book wasn't telling Crayak's story, that's why we never delve into his origin. But there's absolutely nothing to say Crayak couldn't have had a similar background, a mortal who finds himself in unusual circumstances (not necessarily a giant fungal organism capturing him, it could be anything) and transcends that boundary into Godliness.
I mean, of course on a practical level he was put in the books to flesh out the Ellimist. But there's no reason to say it's stupid for him to exist. I mean, Ellimist exists, right? There aren't many occurrences in history or science that are absolutely unique and never to be repeated.