Fucking looooooove Batman and so badly want there to be a movie where the villain captures Batman and opens his eyes to how wealth dynamic of Gotham is the real driving force behind all the crime.
Bruce learns that the Batman persona was just a veil for him to be recognized as an anonymous hero versus a Nepo baby who is so disconnected from reality that he thinks that building structures and donating them to the poor, destroying infrastructure, beating up the disenfranchised, and terrorizing the commoners of Gotham at their lowest points is benefiting anyone other than Gotham's upper echelons.
So then Batman instead loots all the billionaires, destroys businesses with poor workers' rights, murders a few corrupt figureheads, and then reveals himself to be Bruce Wayne whose cowl was only masking his privilege. Finally, he sells his properties, donates his businesses to the people actually running them, and puts all of his money into trusts that pays every citizen of Gotham a living wage.
The final scene of the movie shows a happy Bruce Wayne, no longer conflicted by his family legacy, clocking in for his shift as a security guard. He hears a commotion and finds a supervisor assaulting their employee and talking about "crunch time until the product meets the investors' standards." Bruce interrupts and starts monologuing while fiddling with a batarang: "You know, I used to use these as a non-lethal deterrent when I was more like you. Back when I punched down on the citizens of Gotham. But now I only punch up. And my weapons got a lot sharper!" Then he murders the fuck out of the boss. Cut to black.
In the newer comics gotham is literally cursed. Arkham basement has a portal to hell, a warlock sleeping under there for thoussnds of years cursing the land. Comics have the funniest ways of explaining why people with technology and power that makes them functionally gods would choose to keep the status quo that produces insane criminals. Just say you wanna sell books bruh its alright
The anarchist leader was just a kid who hadn't grown out of it and gotten a job yet!! Some people just don't know how the world really works, like those homeless people he saved from being brutalized by cops who sympathize with Anarky more than him (naive!!). Wait hold on I have to put down these "riots" (we see nobody being harmed except corrupt cops, who Batman was already forced to knock out numerous times at this point, but it's different when he does it, and even after he clearly witnesses the police not only working for crime bosses but abusing innocent poor people he'll still call them to sort out every issue after he's done with it) and then do a grand bomb disarming finale (it's always bombs, but don't worry as I can put off disarming the bombs for however long I want and nothing will happen) before I can beat up the evil doctor who put innocent cops and security guards in danger to save his wife from the rich dude Batman was too stupid to realize was clearly evil!! This is very different from the first Anarky side mission where I had to disarm bombs because the stupid anarchists weren't standing right next to them defending them from me as they exploded!!
Fucking looooooove Batman and so badly want there to be a movie where the villain captures Batman and opens his eyes to how wealth dynamic of Gotham is the real driving force behind all the crime.
Bruce learns that the Batman persona was just a veil for him to be recognized as an anonymous hero versus a Nepo baby who is so disconnected from reality that he thinks that building structures and donating them to the poor, destroying infrastructure, beating up the disenfranchised, and terrorizing the commoners of Gotham at their lowest points is benefiting anyone other than Gotham's upper echelons.
So then Batman instead loots all the billionaires, destroys businesses with poor workers' rights, murders a few corrupt figureheads, and then reveals himself to be Bruce Wayne whose cowl was only masking his privilege. Finally, he sells his properties, donates his businesses to the people actually running them, and puts all of his money into trusts that pays every citizen of Gotham a living wage.
The final scene of the movie shows a happy Bruce Wayne, no longer conflicted by his family legacy, clocking in for his shift as a security guard. He hears a commotion and finds a supervisor assaulting their employee and talking about "crunch time until the product meets the investors' standards." Bruce interrupts and starts monologuing while fiddling with a batarang: "You know, I used to use these as a non-lethal deterrent when I was more like you. Back when I punched down on the citizens of Gotham. But now I only punch up. And my weapons got a lot sharper!" Then he murders the fuck out of the boss. Cut to black.
In the newer comics gotham is literally cursed. Arkham basement has a portal to hell, a warlock sleeping under there for thoussnds of years cursing the land. Comics have the funniest ways of explaining why people with technology and power that makes them functionally gods would choose to keep the status quo that produces insane criminals. Just say you wanna sell books bruh its alright
"you're about to find out why you don't have basic healthcare"
the final scene would be the US army dropping a nuke on Gotham
Knight of the Living Dead
The exact opposite of this is Arkham Origins
you didnt enjoy beating up anarchists spouting leftist rhetoric while playing as a rich kid with issues??? smdh
also they want to blow up half of Gotham for.... reasons, too.
fuck that game had some sussy writing
The anarchist leader was just a kid who hadn't grown out of it and gotten a job yet!! Some people just don't know how the world really works, like those homeless people he saved from being brutalized by cops who sympathize with Anarky more than him (naive!!). Wait hold on I have to put down these "riots" (we see nobody being harmed except corrupt cops, who Batman was already forced to knock out numerous times at this point, but it's different when he does it, and even after he clearly witnesses the police not only working for crime bosses but abusing innocent poor people he'll still call them to sort out every issue after he's done with it) and then do a grand bomb disarming finale (it's always bombs, but don't worry as I can put off disarming the bombs for however long I want and nothing will happen) before I can beat up the evil doctor who put innocent cops and security guards in danger to save his wife from the rich dude Batman was too stupid to realize was clearly evil!! This is very different from the first Anarky side mission where I had to disarm bombs because the stupid anarchists weren't standing right next to them defending them from me as they exploded!!
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