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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
The Batman comparison is a good one but you have it backwards. Not killing is been a core part of the Batman character with a ton of canonical stories backing that up over the years.
When it comes to Luke, not only is the part of his character less defined than killing is for Batman, but we also have only 3 movies as canon. What integral and key tenet of the "Luke" character did they betray in TLJ? Not giving up? Not having regret? Not becoming a hermit? Being a hero for all his life no matter what horrible things happen along the way?
We simply don't have enough information to say with any certainty that TLJ betrayed a key part of Luke's character. It all comes down to whether you like the direction and whether you think the justification in the movies was sufficient for why he gave up. And that's fine if you don't like that direction but let's not pretend that, based on the information the movie provided, it was a betrayal of Luke's character.
BvS wasn't supposed to be some elseworlds Batman character where he's lost his sense of self and Snyder was showing us a world where Batman kills using guns. It was betraying a key tenet of the character for many years in order to make a movie with 'splosions and marketable toys. They did absolutely nothing to establish why all of a sudden we had murderer Batman instead of the Batman we all knew.
To me the change they made to the Batman character for those awful, awful movies is more akin to if they had Luke turn on Han and Leia and join Kylo in ruling the galaxy. That would be a betrayal of the character we all knew. Simply removing himself from the fight because of the damage he did in helping create the galaxy's new dark side villain seems like a sensible character arc.
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Batman has deviated from his code at many points through the years. BvS was supposed to be one of those points, following some tragedy with Robin. The creators obviously messed that up big time and delivered some cryptic and unfinished story line on that issue. BvS was supposed to feature a dark and bitter Batman who finds his roots, but it just wasn't done well.