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.
A lot of cape shit is hard to swallow because of the overarching lib premise of "steal some money, you've accepted having your arms broken". Something I didn't notice before but is very commonly used as a blanket justification for violence.
That said, it's not all that is happening. Mostly because it's fiction as others have said. So you can be mindful of the shitty stuff while still enjoying the gadgets and fighting since none of it is real.
Also you can cheer for poison ivy
ivy + harley murdering billionaires together
Always cheer for me :)