Someone in a meme chat just asked somewhat as a joke whether Republicans would like Batman if he was real, and I am now absolutely fascinated by this question.
On one hand it seems like Effective Altruism on steroids - by day he runs a ruthless corporation so he can buy expensive toys to help with fight crime.
On the other hand, an awful lot of his rogues gallery end up in Arkham Asylum, so he is often fighting the mentally ill and a small percentage of his gadget budget invested in treatment might nip a lot of these issues in the bud.
He put most of it into funding Arkham, which is a problem only really Telltale Batman and arguably Arkham Manor realized. in Telltale Bruce is trying to shut down Arkham Asylum, viewing it as barbaric and inhumane. I won’t spoil it but there is a lot of depth to that element in those games
Right wing would love Batman. He’s a fascist vigilante. They love every fascist vigilante - Rittenhouse, thst dude that choked the homeless guy on the subway, that guy that shot those kids on the subway in the 80’s. Thay love them.
THis depends heavily on adaption/portrayal and is a very surface level understanding of what Batman is that is unfortunately very common in leftist circles.
(Im actually beginning to regret asking this question here because I forgot how annoying leftists are about Batman lol).
I feel like they would also love batman from a “law and order” angle. He cleans up the streets, and beats up the low-level-drug-dealers while the CRT-trained cuck woke cops just sit there!
Of course, Des, isn’t that Batman’s main purpose? I guess, besides that, he just keeps on putting on kid’s gloves, when it comes to the main supervillains, by placing them into unsecure asylums… it’s like that old poem, yk…
The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common**But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose.
Keep in mind that if he were real they would not know that Bruce and Bats are the same person. So they wouldnt know he’s a billionaire.
Also keep in mind that depending on the version/portrayal, Bruce Wayne does a fair amount of anti-poverty stuff in Gotham. But “Would they like Bruce Wayne” is a side question here.
Also keep in mind, that the best way to answer this question is to assume all of Gotham comes with him, otherwise its a completly different question for two reasons
Theres no supervillians irl
Real world police departments would not be cooperative with him like Jim Gordon is.
So to have a Batman that is fundementally the same as the comics, we have have most of the rest of Gotham so those two things are the same.
This means that he’s not just beating up poor people. He’s fighting mass murderous supervillians. He’s breaking up organized crime. He’s exposing police corruption (he does this last thing a lot lol). And most of the poor people he “beats up” are like, muggers who are victimizing other poor people. He also does dumb shit like stop bank robberies, but lets keep the full scope in mind here. Hell if we bring the entire DCU with him, then he’s also a member of the Justice League and regularly saving the world from destruction lol.
I largely agree, I think, that real world Republicans would like real world Batman, but I want to make sure you understand all the nuance of the question and arent opperating on a surface level understanding of the character and his world.
Yes. Meanwhile libs would love Wayne as a good woke billionaire and publicly handwring about Batman’s breaches of civility while quietly enjoying the way he Cleans Up The City. r/gotham would be full of phone vids of him “nonlethally” pulverizing guys’ spines while all the comments cheer.
Mans literally walking into a mine with an actual top hat and cane, doing some casual sexual harassment as one does. Supes not having any of it apparently porky-scared
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