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Batman could solve more crime by domating some of his vast wealth to support the impoverished in Gotham than he ever does by beating up criminals.
Isn’t it canon that he does that a lot already?
It’s just that it’s like filling a sieve with a tap. Unless you block the holes, you’re never going to get anywhere.
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.
Yeah this conversation pops up at least once a week, and Batman is so prolific that I feel people not understanding this is a literacy problem.
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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.
Weird how Batman is a billionaire & yet there’s always enough crime & problems to keep people Thankful for His Heroic Deeds 🤔
Need? Nobody needs a billionaire who dresses in leather and enjoys close combat with mentally ill people.
Could’ve just stopped after billionaire.
In unrelated news Wayne industries blames “harmful and unreasonable” government regulations, threatens to move to Metropolis.
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.
How about better mental health services besides an asylum that radicalizes them further?
It all starts to make sense if you view the story as satire
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The irony being that Superman was first penned by people looking for a hero 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. Something something simple answers to complex problems.
(Edited for confusion on origin.)
Superman was penned in response to 1930’s anti-semitism by two Jewish artists and is literally an adopted refugee baby.
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.
I think in some of the comics Gotham is literally cursed so it’s not his fault.
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.
Should have learned magic with his giga-brain then.
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.
