Batman's No-Kill Rule: An Evil Alternate Universe Version

Someone's pitched an interesting thought experiment: what if an evil Batman variant still refused to kill? It's a genuinely clever inversion because Batman's no-kill code is typically framed as a moral strength, so watching a villain enforce the same rule for their own twisted reasons would flip that entire dynamic. The concept plays with the idea that ethics exist independent of character alignment—you could be ruthless, dominating, and cruel while still maintaining certain arbitrary restrictions. It's the kind of "what if" that probably spawned some heated Reddit debate about Batman's philosophy and whether his code defines him or constrains him.