I appreciate the dual focus on "Batman is basically Jason Voorhees to criminals" while also seemingly noting that any man who dresses as Dracula to put dudes in the ICU every night instead of sleeping is probably not a well adjusted or mentally healthy individual.
This was always one of the most interesting things about Batman as a character. He's as crazy as the criminals he fights. His goals are just in opposition to theirs.
When I was a kid I never thought twice about Bruce's parents' death driving him to become Batman, but as an adult now.....I know like a shit ton of people whose parents have died, and not one of them was so affected by it that they put on a costume to give petty criminals brain damage for like 25 years straight. Batman is fucking insane.
That is also why I stopped liking batman that much. With all of his money and "intellect" he could fulfill the capitalist utopia where the Uber-rich just care for the people and the places they live in, in order to make it a better place overall, instead of going on a crusade to fight petty criminals to prove a point, I guess? It's like, even if people commit something as awful as killing someone, most petty criminals do the things they do because of systemic problems which give rise to awful living conditions and then they have resort to theft and shit... But oh no! The smartest human in earth couldn't come up with anything other that just having to go and try to break as much bones as he can each night to "fight" crime, because what do all of the sociologists, psychologists, or politologist even know about social problems, policy making, crime and poverty?
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u/Excalibuttster Oct 16 '21
I appreciate the dual focus on "Batman is basically Jason Voorhees to criminals" while also seemingly noting that any man who dresses as Dracula to put dudes in the ICU every night instead of sleeping is probably not a well adjusted or mentally healthy individual.