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I'm not a psychologist but I've seen enough movies and read enough books to know that sadists get pleasure in causing
pain to other people. That's what sadism means. So, while I think the whole idea is disgusting and twisted, I can at least understand what it is. It's why serial killers
torture people, because they like it.
So I can understand why, on the old Batman TV show, every single villian he encountered would go to all the trouble of
devising all these elaborate death traps for him and Robin. I was watching an episode once where they were actually going
to be dropped into a giant blender.
A giant blender! My God, can you imagine how painful that would be? You would think that the henchmen, at least,
would be a little queasy at the thought of dropping a live human being into a blender while they were still conscious.
"Um...Riddler, could we at least....shoot him first? Isn't this a bit much?"
It doesn't make much sense that even a villian like the Riddler or the Penguin would have enough money to even engineer
or construct a giant blender, especially without it getting traced back to the abandoned warehouse where they're hiding out,
but I suppose if they really were that sadistic you could imagine them getting all freaky and excited at the thought of Batman
and Robin suffering so indescribably for no reason.
So it would make sense, if they went to all that trouble and expense to construct these giant Rube Goldberg devices to
torment and kill Batman and Robin, if they stuck around to watch. I mean, watching them sweat and then suffer would be the
whole point of doing it, right? And yet, they never do. They set up these huge traps and they put Batman and Robin in them,
tied up and helpless. Then they tell Batman and Robin what they're planning to do. Then they leave. Then Batman and Robin
get away, and they catch the bad guys.
I get it why the villians don't shoot them, because no one on this show ever carries a gun. They have police whistles
that blow out magic dust that makes you act like a chicken for 20 minutes so they can loot your jewlery store, and umbrellas
that fire smoke pellets that make you sneeze uncontrollably while they get away, but no one has ever even heard of a gun.
Except joke guns with flags that say "BOOM!"
I should also note here with some irony, just like I did when I wrote about Aquaman some years ago, that criminals don't seem to have this same aversion to bullets when they encounter Superman, as firing on
him is always their first instinct.
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