I want a batman movie where the moral is we shouldn’t rely on some billionaire to clean up the streets. But rather we should ensure Bruce Wayne is taxed enough so that there’s enough money for public services to support Gotham and it’s residents that crime doesn’t happen in the first place.
Jesus Christ Batman is just some rich Elon Musk type asshole isn’t he?
In many depictions he does fund social programs and whatnot, but it doesn’t fix Gotham being Silicon Valley for supervillains. Half his rogues gallery have doctorates.
The director of Star Trek II was unfamiliar with the show when he was hired. One of the things he did to make the Enterprise more realistic was to add “No Smoking” and other safety signs to the sets.
Which Roddenberry immediately had removed, as he felt that humanity of the future wouldn’t have addictions and bad habits thereby rendering the signs superfluous
Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.
It’s also part of the ‘wealthy people bad’ circlejerk. I mean, I get it, but fucking hell, people. Does it really have to be every fucking thread in the fediverse?
Bruce Wayne “should I setup mental health and income support for the people like my father, or buy new toys for myself and some cosplay and cause them I life changing injuries”
So I’ve not really read the comic books, but I’ve seen every movie and TV series and the one thing that sticks out in those to me is that almost every villain could have been stopped by Bruce Wayne (not Batman) if he stopped dressing up like a bat to beat up low-level thugs and took some time seriously examining his own companies. Either safety issues created mutants, or the oppressive culture drove former employees insane/radicalized them. The only person within the DC universe that sees this is Alfred, and Bruce never fucking listens to him.
Gotham is quite literally cursed to be a shithole. I think theres even a joke at one point that according to all statistics it should be doing better than Metropolis but isnt.
I mean, yeah. It’s certainly more fun to see him dress as a bat and beat people up. Imagine reading a graphic novel of just business meetings and shit. lol
Even a bit less than that, “eagles” aren’t affiliated with the war and it’s own neural third party. Whereas Wayne is in the same conflicts as Buttman. The most logical conclusion is that it’s just a hobby of a billionaire, an activity that does not involve reaching some goals, like less crime or helping people. Perhaps there is some sort of (rubber?) kink in there too.
(The above is mostly a situational joke that evolves from comic books early era - they needed a themed costume & a personal identity. And physically fighting crime was at the time seen like a “good solution”, and being super rich was romantic/good/attractive. Im also aware how much with how little to initially go on the later comics expanded on these issues & made them more realistic/Bruce a good person. Imho the best argumented reason for Batman & Bruce to exists within their universes are supervillains with superpowers, ‘patrolling the streets’ is just weird.)
There’s curses, evil “leaking” from a evil bat god contained under the city, the semi illuminati of the court of owls, the lazarus pit undoubtedly leeching into the water supply and crazying folks up a bit, and the asylum likely being haunted.
Bruce actually does know some magic, but he doesn’t trust it to not backfire somehow. Basically, he knows enough about magic to know he shouldn’t fuck with it.
It’s kinda funny, the hills people choose. I’m over here, stuck defending the original meaning of literally. Best of luck to you, fellow curmudgeon. :-)
This is the overarching premise of many of the modern stories. Systemic issues cannot be solved by a barely sane, generationally wealthy MMA fighter perpetually drowning beneath waves of survivor’s guilt.
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The irony being that Superman was first penned by someone looking for a father figure, and Batman is kind of a reactionary answer to him. Community building was never in the lexicon here. And that is why, I think I realise, I really dislike most classic comics. It feels like a response to a collective trauma.
I forget where I heard it but someone said batman is pretty much what you’d get from a libertarian version of defund the police, I’m not sure I’d rather the normal cops have access to his stuff honestly I think I would be better for him to keep it or only like a swat like team(getting swatted by them could more funny if you got frozen solid by a gizmo or something)
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