Kevin Conroy Loved Ben Affleck But Hated All The Death In 'Batman V Superman'

09/09/2017 04:30 pm EDT

Kevin Conroy has played the voice of Batman for 25 years, and he has some mixed feelings about recent representations of the character.

Conroy had nothing but praise for how Ben Affleck portrayed the character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

"I love what Ben Affleck did with the role," Conroy tells ComicBook.com. "I think he actually got the balance of the Bruce Wayne character and the Batman character kind of better than a lot of the live-action have done. I'm a great admirer of him as an actor."Affleck did with the role," Conroy tells ComicBook.com. "I think he actually got the balance of the Bruce Wayne character and the Batman character kind of better than a lot of the live-action have done. I'm a great admirer of him as an actor."

That said, Affleck's version of Batman crossed a line that Conroy thinks the character should never cross.

"I hated the fact that there was there was so much death in that movie," he says. "I just think that it's important that Batman doesn't kill. That's a line that we never crossed, and I love that about him. It was like he was too noble to kill. Killing was too cheap. It was something the villains did, you know? I love that about the character, so I have a real problem."

Conroy's feelings aren't confined just to Batman v Superman either. He has similar problems with Batman's latest television series, Gotham.

"In the show Gotham, I love the artwork of it, I love the performances in it, but my god, it's so violent," he says. "I have trouble watching it. It's incredibly violent."

In fairness, while Conroy's Batman did not kill, Batman: The Animated Series was considered relatively violent compared to other cartoons of its day, frequently clashing with censors, and was somehow less cartoonish than the live-action Batman television series starring Adam West from the 1960s, despite Conroy's show being an actual cartoon.

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