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Every Batman hot take on this cursed app is "How come Bruce Wayne never [a thing he definitely does a lot of times just not in the Nolanverse]?" Or a criticism of Batman you think is Very Smart and Original
but is in fact the point of a decades long subplot.
but is in fact the point of a decades long subplot.
Crime in Gotham is so corrupted because the Only Nice Millionaires died & all the other millionaires sucked & made poor people & children pawns in weapons/drugs/etc & Bruce realizes it when he's like 20-25 & his trauma is used against him to limit his power at Wayne Enterprises.
In like... Every version of the story. Gordon is desperate enough to work with a vigilante dressed as a literal bat because Gotham PD is like 99% dirty & judges are in pockets etc. The point is that it's bad & unsustainable & is just treading water.
Batman's relationship to Catwoman, Ivy, Harley, when not sexualized, demonstrate that actually he very much understands levels to crime in oppression. & the children he keeps accidentally adopting all challenge his view & ask him to do more & change more.
Jason Todd is my favorite because he challenges Bruce on every fundamental level & is technically less heroic or whatever but has clearer morality & more concrete willingness to change Gotham, his reputation be damned, & he doesn't have some mythic legacy haunting him.
Jason Todd's death is in the background of BvS, of Suicide Squad, of BoP, & THAT'S why it's dark & chaotic. Because Joker beat a child to death, and Harley & Bruce & all of Gotham just... Know that.
Like the reality of Gotham's corruption is that the events of Birds of Prey are not even on Bruce's agenda. IMAGINE.
