^ Specific question. Guess they also asked if they would like Bruce Wayne.
I fundementally have NO idea what the answer here is lmao.
^ Specific question. Guess they also asked if they would like Bruce Wayne.
I fundementally have NO idea what the answer here is lmao.
Right wing would love Batman. He’s a fascist vigilante. They love every fascist vigilante - Rittenhouse, thst dude that choked the homeless guy on the subway, that guy that shot those kids on the subway in the 80’s. Thay love them.
The left would hate both
I feel like they would also love batman from a “law and order” angle. He cleans up the streets, and beats up the low-level-drug-dealers while the CRT-trained cuck woke cops just sit there!
Of course, Des, isn’t that Batman’s main purpose? I guess, besides that, he just keeps on putting on kid’s gloves, when it comes to the main supervillains, by placing them into unsecure asylums… it’s like that old poem, yk…
The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from off the goose.
THis depends heavily on adaption/portrayal and is a very surface level understanding of what Batman is that is unfortunately very common in leftist circles.
(Im actually beginning to regret asking this question here because I forgot how annoying leftists are about Batman lol).
Sorry. I was never really a Batman fan. Except for the Animated Series and Batman Beyond - those were both rad as hell.
I don’t know a lot about different takes on the character and I’m sure there’s good ones and certianly non-fash ones in the fiction. And its cool to enjoy fiction and comics and games for itself. But thinking about it outside of fiction, its hard to imagine one man going costumed vigilante in real life not being fascist though - which is a big part of what Watchmen is about.
Sorry to join in on the annoying leftist dogpile lol - its not really an original take on my part now that i think about it
Yeah I get it when it comes to addressing the question of how it would work irl. But like I said elsewhere, the question of “how would the real world react to Batman” has to be taken from the pov of a Batman who is similar in the majority of ways to the ficitonal one, which means bringing over most of the characters that influence him as well. Which kind of fundementally changes the question. A real world Batman wouldn’t have much legitimate good to do lol. Most crime he could fight would not be something that he ought to fight. So unless he went against police derpartments (which to be fair, batman has done in fiction), there wouldnt be much space for a “Good Batman”.
But bring over Gotham as a whole and everything important about it? there’s a lot more nuance there.
and its fine lol. I really should have expected it when I made this thread.
If the supervillians are real as well, most likely there’s going to be a supervillian that Republicans really love (I guess the Penguin?). Their opinion on Batman would hover around being neutral, perhaps slightly in favor until Batman beats the shit out of their favorite supervillian. After that, they’ll accuse Batman of having “gone woke” and turn on him.
The whole question is kinda moot for the reason Chris Sims pointed out years ago; Batman doesn’t exist in our world, he exists in one in which Gotham city is constantly threatened by goofy gimmicks and supernatural threats. The logic of the universe is such that a guy in a Bat costume is necessary to stop the Joker etc