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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Always mildly annoyed by this type of meme.

First and foremost: Gotham is fucked. Like... really fucked. Evil secret societies run the place, the water supply is very likely poisoned in various ways, both conventionally and naturally, there's ancient evils buried under the city that have been corrupting it for centuries, a portal to hell in the asylum. We can say "Oh surely a food bank would help" and Wayne absolutely does do that via foundations in both of his parents names.... but all the shit to erase systemic poverty in the world can exist and The Joker, Zsasz, Mr. Pyg, The Court of Owls, Solomon Grundy, and the like are still going to be doing their shit (Not to mention big alien threats like Darkseid.). Likely most of his villains would still be on their grind except maybe Mr. Freeze who actually could have his problems solved by money.

Secondly: You gotta suspend disbelief. Make Superman a transitional power source and no one is gonna read it anymore, even if it would be 'realistic'. Any number of heroes could readily solve a number of the worlds issues. Why doesn't Iron Man put Arc reactors everywhere to power the world on clean energy? How come Storm doesn't get rid of every hurricane before it starts? Why doesn't Ice Man freeze up the poles and cool the planet down? The Flash could instantly deliver supplies to places in need. It's realistic, but it's boring, and boring doesn't sell comics. Okay, maybe Ruins but that couldn't be like... a whole series.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If they start making kids shows have revolutionary heroes, it would be too "woke" and get banned.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Changing the skin colour is enough "woke" to get banned. If kids shows have revolutionary heroes they'd drop bombs from helicopters on their studio like they did to people in Philadelphia all the way back in the distant memories of 1985.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

As a Philadelphian... I just wanted to say...

hears Helicopter sounds

Noooo they traced my IP and found my Lemmy account 😱 I'm gonna di

[–] [email protected] 2 points 59 minutes ago

Duck... and coverrrr! 🎶

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

So I'm playing Arkham Asylum and, like, the very beginning of the game you open some doors and shut down electrically powered things by just blowing up the connected panel with a batarang, but then later on you need another tool that blows them up via some kind of frequency overload. If I am still just blowing up the box, why can't I hit it with something or even use my actual explosives? Taking the "bat logic" to game mechanics too. lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

A sticky Batarang with juicy C4 filling would make sense and keep the theme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I am pretty sure that's even another tool later on. I've seen plenty of walls you can blow up, but positioned in a way you'd have to throw/shoot something that I do not yet have.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Oh man. Can't wait to find out what it is now. 🤣

(Don't tell me; I'll get there.)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

In the recent movies, he, or the Wayne foundation, does give a lot of money to charities in the city, and built the monorail system as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought his parents built/funded the monorail?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

he, or the Wayne foundation,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fair, but riding on the accomplishments of your parents is pretty nepobaby...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

It was also canon that Wayne foundation funded the orphanage in Gotham.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

A fucking monorail is some Musk type bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

The comic writers aren't researching the technical details. The important part is is that they built public transit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I hear those things are awfully loud.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I mean, it's essentially just the metro... but above ground. Except that above ground location is out of the way of existing ground-layer infrastructure like sidewalks and roads.

In essence, it's just the benefits of a metro line with the added benefit of taking up less space from existing areas that can be used for transport. If you already have roads, sidewalks, and metro lines in an area, a monorail can just be another way to get around on top of all that without sacrificing space.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's a cool mode of transit, and can be genuinely useful in some cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

He doesn't in The Batman (2022). But that's because it's a Bruce Wayne origin story. Batman hasn't created his secret identity yet.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A rich guy dressing up in body armor and going around beating up poor people to fight systemic corruption is the most believable part of the whole Batman franchise. In his original incarnation he had a gun too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

IN ONE OF THE animated series/movies uses it to kill zoom.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

In Batman begins, the issue is corruption.

Everyone knows Falcone is guilty but no one has the legal ability to arrest him.

So Bruce Wayne becomes a vigilante in a more Luigi kind of way in which he is willing to risk things cause he has the tools to do it right.

The whole point of Batman is doing all he can with his resources, even if that means breaking the law.

But yeah, we know today that the most effective thing he can do is not even charity, but pay for lobbying

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's a feature in all superhero media. They don't touch the status quo, or the systems we live in. It's always the fault of a few rotten apples and they're taken care of. Normal people don't need to apply, it's up to a few people with special power to fix it. And in reality, people with money see themselves as more special and empowered than normal people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

Those who pursue power or money and nothing else are statistically more likely to achieve the most money or power. It's a filter or selection process. So a 100 billionaires are much much less likely to care, or to know, how a society should function except for what they learned and practiced: capitalism as the wealthy exploiting the masses and buying political power to gain more money.

They are narrow minded nerds in their own specific fields. Techbro's reprogramming reality. In that way the villains stupidly applying their narrow minded views or delusions to social problems is a quite fitting metaphor.

So even if Bruce Wayne would pay lobbyists and donate to political campaigns and do it wisely, he would be the rare exception and outspend 100:1.

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