Yeah. I seem to remember my comic book nerd roommate years and years ago once talking about how one writer basically used Batman as an allegory for police militarization, basically framing it as an arms race and Batman as the reason Gotham went from petty and some organised crime to endless supervillains doing crazy terrorism.
Hell yes. It can't be a coincidence that the city sucks. And Batman himself is probably the largest employer, and probably responsible for the problems on both ends - how many criminals are current or former Wayne Industries employees who lost their fucking healthcare?
I just posted this comment the other day about how to make an off-brand movie that destroys the Batman IP
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Yeah. I seem to remember my comic book nerd roommate years and years ago once talking about how one writer basically used Batman as an allegory for police militarization, basically framing it as an arms race and Batman as the reason Gotham went from petty and some organised crime to endless supervillains doing crazy terrorism.
Hell yes. It can't be a coincidence that the city sucks. And Batman himself is probably the largest employer, and probably responsible for the problems on both ends - how many criminals are current or former Wayne Industries employees who lost their fucking healthcare?
I just posted this comment the other day about how to make an off-brand movie that destroys the Batman IP :joker-dancing:
There are like a million Batman comics written by enough people to populate a city. There's gonna be different takes.