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{{quote|'''Checkmate Operative''': We have no evidence of Batman ever having killed.
'''Batman''': I fail to see why you think I'd leave any. }}
** [[Superman]] has - very rarely - strayed from a [[Thou Shall Not Kill]] policy, but for the same reason, he tries hard not to. With near-godlike power, it would be far too easy for him to defy laws and impose his own, as ''many'' [[Elseworld]] scenarios [[Beware the Superman|tend to show]], and he knows that if he crosses the line too often, it would be ''very'' difficult to avoid doing so again.
* In ''[[Identity Crisis]]'', a JLA comic, Jean Loring, the Atom's ex-wife, attempts to put the Enlongated Man's wife, Sue Dibny, into fake danger so that all heroes, including her ex-husband, would [[Love Makes You Evil|come closer to their loved ones]]. After she accidentally kills her, she goes [[Freak-Out|completely nuts]] and has no problem with putting others in mortal danger. Through this, she indirectly causes two more deaths, and even more indirectly causes the death of Firestorm. ([[Alternate Character Interpretation|Alternately]], {{spoiler|Jean is lying about it being an accident; she clearly meant from the beginning to kill Sue (no one "just happens" to be carrying a flamethrower) and one or two other people to cover her tracks.}} Mind, Jean's still clearly nuts, and her first kill visibly shook her more than the ones she arranged later.)
* In ''[[Y: The Last Man]]'', 355 gets more and more trigger-happy as the series progresses. And she ''hates'' herself for it.
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* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': Rorschach is depicted as a Batman-like character who frightens villains rather than killing them, until he crosses the line by slaughtering a child-killer, after which Rorschach routinely kills bad guys justifying as referring to them as "dogs that need to be put down". The film version of the comic also implies this with regards to Silk Spectre II and Nite Owl who are shown slaughtering a group of attackers without blinking an eye.
* Shows up in [[Signature Style|a lot]] of [[Warren Ellis]]'s work.
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