The final confrontation in uth is such. OUGH
Trying to force a change in a world that fundamentally would not allow it. A crossroads where both directions will uproot the whole story. Stirring the water where its stagnanted from the always is
Prove you still believe in what you made. What made you. A bat was born in an alley where its family where abruptly killed. Does the bat still believe in saving? Did it keep its promise to stop that from ever happening again?
The bat had its family taken away again. Cut short because of a killer again. A criminal on the loose still. With justice that hasnt been served. That never will be.
Will the bat choose to commit to the ideals it made? Will the bat stop the killer when there's only way possible now? Will the bat betray to commit and watch a death and let it happen? The Joker dying would change everything. The Joker will never be here again. Its Batman and Robin fighting the Joker and now the most known most profitable most untouchable villain of this neverending story will be gone. This will change everything.
Will the bat have to stop if it kills the Joker as well? Is that not still a betrayal to its ideals? If it does not want to kill, by either its own hands or by its eyes. Will the bat have to stop after allowing it? This will change everything.
Will the bat betray itself? Spit on everything it promised? Will the bat kill its own son, own family? Cut a beloved life short in that alley with a gun it aimed and shot itself? This will change everything. Batman could never be again. The promise of the bat does no matter. A betrayal to his very fundamentals. The bat will end because it commited the very act that started it. This will change everything.
Every path is change. Every option is change. Every end will alter the entire world as they and we know it.
Change cannot be allowed. The roots are dug in and meant to stay.
The bat does not allow the Joker to die. The story stays the same. The bat does not shoot his son. The bat has picked a different path. The son still died. But the world is not longer loose. The crossroads are gone and returned is straight and normal path. The son tried to alter the story. The story cannot alter. It will never be allowed to. Nothing can change. The Joker cannot die. The son died by the bat's hands- he cannot. But the story cannot change. The son will return to life as if nothing happened in the end, because his death by a father's blade will change everything, and this story cannot change. The story will not change