Are images of Batman appropriate in Colorado shooting tribute graphics?

[Cooley Hurd]

Apparently, the gunman was quite taken with the Batman story - to the point of emulating The Joker by dying his hair bright red before the shooting. Also, what if the victims were viewing a movie like Ernest Goes to Camp? Would there be a graphic of a sad Ernest? Not to mention; would the Ernest story entice someone to shoot up a theater? (Well, maybe after the movie...

I'm not necessarily bothered by the graphics, but I wonder what others think about it...

[lamp_shade]

1. I don't like them and I'm not sure why. They just give me the creeps.

[Confusious]

2. The joker had green hair not red

So he wasn't that much of a fan if he didn't know.

I'm not a batman fan, and I knew.

[NYC_SKP]

3. I saw a stupid "ribbon" graphic that had a batman silhouette in the bottom part

and I thought it tacky and commercial looking, even more so than regular ribbons.

[Curtland1015]

4. Agreed. Even as a big time comic fan, that's just weird.

It looks goofy. Not the right tone for what happened at all.

[whatchamacallit]

5. It's fucking ridiculous!

You know the country has lost touch with reality when we can't even mourn without branding. Only in America, would commercial fantasy nonsense, brought to you by a PR Firm or Ad Agency, be considered an appropriate tribute.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. I'm going to assume this man was mentally ill

I think it's a better use of our time to find more effective ways to recognize and treat mental illness than figuring out what we should censor because it could possibly give an irrational person an irrational idea.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. that wasn't my point at all...

The word "censor" never crossed my mind. Nor was the concept of it anywhere near my post.

[dballance]

7. I'd Sure Want to Distance Batman from the whole thing - totally inappropriate

If I were the owner of the character or the producer(s) of the movie I'd want Batman as far away as possible. Batman and the movie had nothing to do with the shootings except be a convenient vehicle for amassing a full theater. Would we have put Yoda on the tribute if it were a Star Wars movie?

[HopeHoops]

9. I think so. One of him looking down over Gotham would sum it up well.

[whatchamacallit]

10. Gah!

[frogmarch]

11. I don't like them. Batman images are

no more appropriate than images of movie theater buttered popcorn would be.

Yes, what if an Ernest movie had been playing? I doubt anyone would want to use Ernest images to make a point about the shootings.