• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Am I the only one who finds it reassuring that the well-armed ninja billionaire who lives out a childhood revenge fantasy every night has a set of rules he follows?

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      1 year ago

      I tried to go back and watch the Dark Knight Batman movies because I remembered enjoying them when they first came out.

      There’s an early scene where there is a Batman impersonator and he goes “what’s the difference between me and you” and Batman goes “I’m not wearing hockey pads”

      It’s supposed to be a real zinger. As I watched it though the realization hit me that what he’s really saying is “because I have money so the rules don’t apply to me” and then I realized that that’s kinda the entire point of Batman. He’s a billionaire that’s decided he’s wealthy enough that silly things like laws don’t apply to him.

      Really made me not enjoy the movie and I ended up turning it off.

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        1 year ago

        I think the point is that he wasn’t an amateur and the guy was. He was trying to do a job and they got in his way.

        Replace batman with a firefighter and give the guy a water pistol and it’s the same story.

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          1 year ago

          I mean it’s not like you can major in Batman studies or go down to the Batman Trade School and become a professional Batman.

          Batman is just as much an amateur as that guy is, he just has more expensive gear.

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            1 year ago

            I mean professional in a skill sense. Batman is very damn good at what he does, and no one comes close.

            Batman Trade School

            Also known as the Robin Internship Program.

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              1 year ago

              Now I’m just imagining the ads from the League of Assassins on AM radio and whatnot, and it’s great.

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        1 year ago

        I think that’s why I like Spiderman so much. He’s a vigilante who genuinely struggles to make ends meet at times and has gone through so much that he arguably deserves to completely stop protecting people and yet, he continues anyway.

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        1 year ago

        I like the idea of a Batman story where it’s slowly revealed that he’s the villain. There’d be his most sympathetic villains revealed to be people that are fighting the morally correct fight, while Batman is just fighting to maintain the status quo.
        The sequel would have the Joker trying to undermine the public trust in the systems that maintain the status quo