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.
Sort of tangentially related but there was that one comic where joker stopped going crazy and realized Batman effectively caused most crime in Gotham through systemic inequality, plus the fact he wasn’t beholden to any oversight. The joker became mayor, expropriated all of Batman’s stuff and reinvested it in the community. The cops got all of Batman’s weapons though so there’s a cringe angle of “refunding the police,” but what are you gonna do they’re all liberals.