• happybadger [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    2019 Joker would have been over in 5 minutes with a social safety net. Instead Gotham has a billionaire that dresses up in a costume to hunt the poor and they're supposed to love him for it.

      • MechanizedPossum [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        It's also more or less just a recap of the consequences of reaganomics, but yeah, it's pretty blunt about how avoidable the entire plot could have been.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      The Reeves Batman movie also did the same shit. The entire movie they expose the businessmen and politicians and Bruce Wayne’s family. Then the end everyone is just okay with it because he helped a couple of them during a terrorist attack.

      All the problems exposed during the movie? Never mentioned again.

      • Vncredleader
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        10 months ago

        This is why Telltale did it better. They stuck with Bruce's family being corrupt and while they don't fix the Arkham stuff, you can treat John like a human being which was refreshing

        • booty [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          I really quite like Telltale's batman. It's got plenty of problems like any telltale game and like any batman story, but it works pretty well.

    • Moss [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Same with Breaking Bad, Waltuh becomes an epic sigma male because he can't afford cancer treatment

  • CrushKillDestroySwag
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    10 months ago

    Batman himself is obsession, a hero complex, a martyrdom complex, etc

  • matthewmercury@reddthat.com
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    10 months ago

    Why is this a revelation? Batman’s villains are all semi-permanent residents at a literal mental hospital for the criminally insane. This is explicitly explained in picture books for children.

    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      10 months ago

      She literally kills capitalists for her political goals. Her problem is that she's not intersectional

        • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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          10 months ago

          Intersectional means dealing with multiple angles of oppression simultaneously. Poison Ivy faces discrimination for being a woman and for being queer, as well as being working class. However, her work, which is opposed to environmental exploitation and thus opposes capitalism, does not work on any other fronts against capitalism, making her work less meaningful. If she also fought for queer rights, that would make her work intersectional.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    My review of the latest Batman movie https://hexbear.net/post/1227597

    Lol at the end of the movie Bruce monologues about le hope and healing. Literally we just need good vibes to improve the city. Never mind that the mob still rules politics. Never mind that the abused orphans and other marginalized groups aren't even acknowledged. Why are people so violent and the city so lawless? Who knows? The dropheads just manifest outta nowhere and start looting!!

    Just hope. Just vote for the right politician, okay? Vote for the bat no matter how bad!!

    As dog shit as the DCEU movies are, at the very least they made the enemy some big goofy alien instead of trying to be a commentary on society. A billionaire furry fighting an alien invasion is much less insulting than him fighting some drug dealer

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    10 months ago

    This is why Court of the Owl Batman is the only interesting Batman, because it's the only time he has to face real power and real evil in the form of Gotham's bourgeoisie, and it whoops his ass

    • Candidate [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      That might be true if the Court of Owls weren't a complete rip off of the Black Glove.

  • Hohsia [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Woah this art is trying to convey a message?

    • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      You fuckers are so dim. Critiquing media and art has been around forever, but you're so afraid of contradictions at this point you start crying about cancel culture whenever anyone brings up the most low level analysis. It's so fucking stupid lmao

        • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          This is another dumb guy thing. No response to the content of the message so you point out that grammar is fucky on the internet and disregard the rest of it. It's classic redditor shit, merry christmas, happy holidays, and do better

          • kowcop@aussie.zone
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            10 months ago

            No, I was pointing out that you seem to need a visual queue to understand sarcasm.. might have saved you some time instead of needing to go on a rant

            • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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              10 months ago

              You're going to have to provide a lot more than a visual queue to explain what's meant to be sarcastic about "cancel batman lmao".

              • Dessa [she/her]
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                10 months ago

                This is Hexbear. How often do most of us signal sarcasm here?

                • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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                  10 months ago

                  Oh, almost never, I'm just saying that here the knowledge it's meant to be somehow sarcastic doesn't actually make their intent for the comment clear.
                  Are they trying to mock the idea of cancelling? Of cancelling such a popular character? Of cancelling a fictional character? Of cancelling Batman specifically?
                  Why make it sarcastic? What makes it sarcastic? Is it actually sarcastic, or is this person a CHUD hiding behind the idea of saying things you don't mean as a defence?
                  Why are @kowcop@aussie.zone's replies just saying it's sarcasm instead of trying to articulate anything about their viewpoint?

                  it's all just a bit amogus

            • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              Yeah maybe I guess. I don't usually need it, because there's generally some sort of joke or exaggeration involved with sarcasm.

              It just didn't strike me as a bit, my b

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      It’s made billions of dollars. No one is getting “cancelled” though it should be

    • Hohsia [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I sure hope Batman was never not cancelled to begin with

  • IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Batman's psychosis is continuing to believe in a clearly corrupted system that fails repeatedly. Red Hood was right.