+155 If you think about it "batman" is really about a rich aristocrat who beats up the members of the lower class who resorted to crime because they didn't have the good fortune to be born wealthy and inherit a vast network of resources and money. amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

There's a SMBC comic that illuminates this topic to a degree.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I don't entirely agree but I thoroughly enjoyed your elaborate explanation.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

http://www.cracked.com/video_18175_why-batman-secretly-terrible-gotham.html

by Anonymous 11 years ago

lol, that's funny as hell.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not really. I think this would be true anywhere but Gotham, but Gotham is basically a massive shithole where the mob and corrupt politicians are generally running rampant, and Batman's attempting to stop the corruption and violence. The criminals he takes on are very rarely ones who were forced into crime, although there are exceptions like the Joker in //The Killing Joke// but even then he was taken advantage of by the mob in that scenario. Social class or finances really have nothing to do with it, what he does is make sure violent criminals and corrupt officials stand trial.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

your totally right, but i was trying to look at it through a real life, more comedic lens

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Even given a realistic lens, taking violent criminals off the streets is hardly a bad thing, regardless of their social class. He shows contempt for the upper class frequently, anyway, although it's true he doesn't do anything to upheave them. I'm not denying Batman is an incredibly entitled character and that his moral compass probably needs some readjusting, but he certainly doesn't discriminate against people for their social class or their money. Using the lens, most superheroes are heavily biased towards lower class violent criminals, since that's who most of them target.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I agree, mostly. Given a realistic lens, it is about a man in a bat suit gallivanting about and punching people in the jaw. Maybe realistic wasn't the best word choice...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

To be fair, //a man in a bat suit gallivanting about and punching people in the jaw// is probably a lot scarier in practice than it sounds here. Or maybe not...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

oh most definitely

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Begone you blasphemer. Batman is God. A guy with no super powers who kicked Supermans ass should never be disrespected!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

by that logic doesn't lex luthor meet those qualifications too?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

...The qualifications of men who should never be disrespected? Probably

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i'd piss on lex luthor's grave if given the chance. so your argument is invalid.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

When did batman beat superman?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

When chronologically? No idea. He fired an arrow from a bow and arrow at him and super man caught it. But the arrow tip was made of kryptonite so when batman blew it up it got kryptonite all over him, then while super man was weak and without powers Batman kicked his ass.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's pretty cool. But I meant was it a comic a movie or a tv show?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I know it was a comic. But I'm pretty sure it was a tv episode too. He was evil superman

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's pretty much the point of Nolan's Batman trilogy.

by Anonymous 11 years ago