They’re not wrong though, Batman is known to be a psycho bougie nepo baby that usually just beats the crap out of the lumpenproletariat, his main enemies are just caricatures of pointless evil like the Joker so basically the reified bougie narrative of stochastic terrorism. While our boy Clarkie Kent is a farmboy from Smallville, repping the peasantry and his main opponent is white colar criminal and megabougie Lex Luthor. Even his every day job is a lowly desk job at the Daily Planet while Bruce Wayne probably hangs out with Lex socially all the time acting like nothing’s wrong. I can see both of them as tech reliant Israel that colonizes people without any military infrastructure, having “contingency plans” for every neighbor, constantly playing dirty and hitting vulnerabilities using subterfuge and tons of spying, getting rpg’d by people with superballs and then whining about it etc. Checks out.
I always cringe when people boil Batman down to ‘‘lunatic dressed as bat beating up random people’’ Him being a billionaire is just a part of his character and the main reason he can freely be a vigilante all night long. He’s always shown implementing programs that actually help employing poor and homeless people which do help in-universe, even if it wouldn’t make much of a difference irl and even his family was philanthropic. While movies don’t show much of it, there’s still the part where he set up an orphanage for children. Lex Luthor is an actual realistic representation of a billionaire, unlike Bruce Wayne who literally risks his life every night to protect innocents and jumps in front of bullets to protect kids while having no superpowers whatsoever.
His main enemies are literally psycho clown, mob boss, ninja, mf on steroids and mutated crocodile while Gotham police department is completely incompetent and he has to keep city in check.
It’s rare to see a socialist who’s also a Batman fan.
Bruce Wayne is probably one of my favorite characters in all of fiction, and he also definitely acts as a role model when I’m working out, studying, or doing anything productive really. (Also it is obvious Batman is a hero: the Gotham City Police Department hates him /hj)
I also saw this comment on Reddit that I really like, and feeled like sharing it here.
This. Same here, he’s always been my favorite superhero ever since I was a kid and I have no idea why do people frequently try to present him as some kind of villainous billionaire while portraying characters who either wanted to commit genocide or did acts of terrorism as the ones in right.
Well yes, but he still fights and does a lot for everyone in the community, which is a good thing. While it’s a bit hard to find an outright socialist superhero(I think Spider Man is the closest one), there’s still some leftist elements in almost every one which often gets overlooked unfortunately. Even Captain America was cool as he literally fights nazis after starting as an average poor soldier, and he was created as anti-nazi character in general, not to mention fighting against government later on. And even Iron Man went from weapon selling lunatic to coming to his senses and becoming anti-war when he saw the shit his weapons cause.
I find it funny because Batman is literally the most revolutionary character an american can dream of, its like individualism taken to its final form. A philantropic billionaire.
They’re not wrong though, Batman is known to be a psycho bougie nepo baby that usually just beats the crap out of the lumpenproletariat, his main enemies are just caricatures of pointless evil like the Joker so basically the reified bougie narrative of stochastic terrorism. While our boy Clarkie Kent is a farmboy from Smallville, repping the peasantry and his main opponent is white colar criminal and megabougie Lex Luthor. Even his every day job is a lowly desk job at the Daily Planet while Bruce Wayne probably hangs out with Lex socially all the time acting like nothing’s wrong. I can see both of them as tech reliant Israel that colonizes people without any military infrastructure, having “contingency plans” for every neighbor, constantly playing dirty and hitting vulnerabilities using subterfuge and tons of spying, getting rpg’d by people with superballs and then whining about it etc. Checks out.
(Joke. Not serious analysis.)
I always cringe when people boil Batman down to ‘‘lunatic dressed as bat beating up random people’’ Him being a billionaire is just a part of his character and the main reason he can freely be a vigilante all night long. He’s always shown implementing programs that actually help employing poor and homeless people which do help in-universe, even if it wouldn’t make much of a difference irl and even his family was philanthropic. While movies don’t show much of it, there’s still the part where he set up an orphanage for children. Lex Luthor is an actual realistic representation of a billionaire, unlike Bruce Wayne who literally risks his life every night to protect innocents and jumps in front of bullets to protect kids while having no superpowers whatsoever.
His main enemies are literally psycho clown, mob boss, ninja, mf on steroids and mutated crocodile while Gotham police department is completely incompetent and he has to keep city in check.
It’s rare to see a socialist who’s also a Batman fan. Bruce Wayne is probably one of my favorite characters in all of fiction, and he also definitely acts as a role model when I’m working out, studying, or doing anything productive really. (Also it is obvious Batman is a hero: the Gotham City Police Department hates him /hj) I also saw this comment on Reddit that I really like, and feeled like sharing it here.
This. Same here, he’s always been my favorite superhero ever since I was a kid and I have no idea why do people frequently try to present him as some kind of villainous billionaire while portraying characters who either wanted to commit genocide or did acts of terrorism as the ones in right.
Well, Batman was vengeful, Bruce Wayne was philanthropic, but neither of which is revolutionary.
Well yes, but he still fights and does a lot for everyone in the community, which is a good thing. While it’s a bit hard to find an outright socialist superhero(I think Spider Man is the closest one), there’s still some leftist elements in almost every one which often gets overlooked unfortunately. Even Captain America was cool as he literally fights nazis after starting as an average poor soldier, and he was created as anti-nazi character in general, not to mention fighting against government later on. And even Iron Man went from weapon selling lunatic to coming to his senses and becoming anti-war when he saw the shit his weapons cause.
I find it funny because Batman is literally the most revolutionary character an american can dream of, its like individualism taken to its final form. A philantropic billionaire.