Growing up my favorite hero boy was Batman, but its getting really hard to appreciate a character whos main premise is "I'm a billionaire that beats up poor people in a capitalist hellscape because I don't have a healthy way to deal with my personal trauma".
Is there any saving him or is there a version of batman that can exist inside of a left narrative? Maybe there's an existing comic that has tackled this problem, but I'm not really deep into the...ahem...literature.
Anarchist Batman from Red Son was pretty based iirc
edit: nvm he wasn't. what a waste of a good idea.
nothing about Red Son was good and its conception of socialism is "what if everyone were lobotomized with lasers"
But it was a sick idea. Superman's nursey pod lands hours earlier or later and lands in the USSR, grows up to embody Stakhanovite ideals.