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.
I think any good version of Batman would have him fundamentally restructuring how Gotham approaches crime and going to a literal war with the police at some point. let me shit out an idea so everyone can tell me it's bad:
I'm too lazy to continue this but that's probably enough for the first arc of a series. you could take it a lot of places, making the point that charity doesn't fix the actual issue, having him go to war with the cops/government because his actions are putting private prisons out of business, and nearing the end of the story you could do a civil war :so-true: type thing where Bruce takes up the cowl and uses his Justice League connections to begin a revolution and destroy capitalism once and for all, expending all of his Wayne Foundation resources to fight a global war against capitalists and those who are beholden to them
Don't forget that the Falcones are CIA "informants"
that's a good addition!
Thank you comrade, it couldn't have been made without a good foundation
that's sweet of you to say. have a good night
Holy shit this is perfect
thank you!