▲ 1425 ▼ No doubt (lemmy.world) submitted 11 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 136 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago He already does all that on top of being batman. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago He does do those though? permalink fedilink source parent [–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago There are better places for superheroes. As I note above, there's a lot of elite deviance / white collar crime that Batman's amazing detective powers could easily be turned on. Heck, the US has been occupied and is controlled by a dangerous religious cult with a rogues gallery of masterminds vying for power, and they're behaving conspicuously like comic-book villains. On the street level, a mega-corporation fighting a labor organization for control over the workforce would be a great venue for vigilantes with extraordinary powers. Eventually they'd higher a PMC task force (possibly with a cadre of G. I. Joe like specialists) as the Guy of Gisbourne to our protagonists' Merry Men. There are a lot of directions that can be taken that pit vigilante justice-seekers against sociopolitical bullies with wealth and power. DC needs to just do a bit of brainstorming, but no they'd rather Batman fight the Joker for One More Time. 🥱 permalink fedilink source parent [–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago Supernatural evil is not realistic. And when we encounter unearthly natural evils (which we do!), they tend to have solutions that are not a flying vigilante putting out street-crime level fires. Deep geological repositories for storing vitrified nuclear waste, for instance. We have those. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago He already does all that on top of being batman. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago He does do those though? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago There are better places for superheroes. As I note above, there's a lot of elite deviance / white collar crime that Batman's amazing detective powers could easily be turned on. Heck, the US has been occupied and is controlled by a dangerous religious cult with a rogues gallery of masterminds vying for power, and they're behaving conspicuously like comic-book villains. On the street level, a mega-corporation fighting a labor organization for control over the workforce would be a great venue for vigilantes with extraordinary powers. Eventually they'd higher a PMC task force (possibly with a cadre of G. I. Joe like specialists) as the Guy of Gisbourne to our protagonists' Merry Men. There are a lot of directions that can be taken that pit vigilante justice-seekers against sociopolitical bullies with wealth and power. DC needs to just do a bit of brainstorming, but no they'd rather Batman fight the Joker for One More Time. 🥱 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago Supernatural evil is not realistic. And when we encounter unearthly natural evils (which we do!), they tend to have solutions that are not a flying vigilante putting out street-crime level fires. Deep geological repositories for storing vitrified nuclear waste, for instance. We have those. permalink fedilink source parent