10 Stupid Arguments About Batman That Don't Make Sense

3. His Parents' Deaths Are All That Fuel Him

The idea that Batman is a perpetually angsty figure who doesn't have the time for frivolity is often tied into the argument that his whole crime-fighting career is based on unresolved grief over his murdered parents.

To act like the murder of his parents when he was a kid is the only thing that inspires Bruce Wayne to do what he does night in, night out, however, is absurd.

Suggesting somebody only does the right thing - even to an extreme degree - because they're mentally scarred, or working through some issues, or something, is silly. Bruce Wayne was probably always going have that sense of justice, which was instilled in him from an early age anyway. His parents' death was just the catalyst.