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?

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    A long time ago Thoughtslime made a video about Batman and how he (like any fictional character, but especially any superhero) is a reflection of the writer's values. It was a good breakdown of different depictions of Batman, including several that were deeply critical of accumulated wealth and rich people, and some that were considerably more reactionary in their depiction (Frank Miller ...).

    EDIT: I can't find the video, they may have deleted it