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Need? Nobody needs a billionaire who dresses in leather and enjoys close combat with mentally ill people.
Could’ve just stopped after billionaire.
Billionaire vigilante who thinks and is above the law due to his wealth and power mostly accumulated through generational white wealth.*
Have you just googled billionaire?
I dunno, Exile On Main Street was pretty good.
This is the overarching premise of many of the modern stories. Systemic issues cannot be solved by a barely sane, generationally wealthy MMA fighter perpetually drowning beneath waves of survivor’s guilt.
Never heard a more succinct premise of Batman lol
In unrelated news Wayne industries blames “harmful and unreasonable” government regulations, threatens to move to Metropolis.
[slightly off topic]
The director of Star Trek II was unfamiliar with the show when he was hired. One of the things he did to make the Enterprise more realistic was to add “No Smoking” and other safety signs to the sets.
Which Roddenberry immediately had removed, as he felt that humanity of the future wouldn’t have addictions and bad habits thereby rendering the signs superfluous
I respect Roddenberry, but humanity will always have its vices. Even at our best we will always have our worst be present.
I’m sure a good social security net along with free housing would be a good prevention as well
It’s not like he didn’t have the money to create the organization. Gotham City is just firefighter arson to Bruce Wayne.
More OSHA means less money for Mr Batman’s alert ego.
And that is a line batman will not cross.
It’s not what Gotham needs but it’s what it deserves!
Idk what a COSHH form is but my brain filled it in with hyperhyperbolic cosine
https://www.britsafe.org/training-and-learning/informational-resources/what-is-coshh
Don’t get dead, get read on those lab hazards, m8.
Batman could solve more crime by domating some of his vast wealth to support the impoverished in Gotham than he ever does by beating up criminals.
Isn’t it canon that he does that a lot already?
It’s just that it’s like filling a sieve with a tap. Unless you block the holes, you’re never going to get anywhere.
Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.
Yeah this conversation pops up at least once a week, and Batman is so prolific that I feel people not understanding this is a literacy problem.
It’s also part of the ‘wealthy people bad’ circlejerk. I mean, I get it, but fucking hell, people. Does it really have to be every fucking thread in the fediverse?
This was a common discussion on Reddit as well
It feels significantly more omnipresent over here, though.
My favorite depiction of Batman is the Harley Quinn TV show, where he (third season spoilers):
spoiler
Gets detained by Joker, who has turned into Gotham’s left-wing populist mayor, for evading taxes.
Love this season 1 scene: https://youtu.be/jI23PjBjQKM?si=skQMmXGhaTP0FISl
