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.

Maybe Ninja Batman?

  • BringMeExtra [xe/xem,fae/faer]
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    3 years ago

    Anarchist Batman from Red Son was pretty based iirc

    edit: nvm he wasn't. what a waste of a good idea.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      nothing about Red Son was good and its conception of socialism is "what if everyone were lobotomized with lasers"

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      3 years ago

      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.