• vzq@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Are you joking? Of course he would. He only took up being as fascist plutocrat vigilante because someone killed his daddy: a CEO.

    Batman is just another way the wealthy subvert the institutions trying to check their economic power. In this case by visiting violence directly.

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        6 days ago

        Neither vigilantes nor billionaires are known for a coherent moral philosophy.

        • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzOP
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          In The Batman (2022), Thomas Wayne was assassinated by the mob because he refused to be complicit in corruption. This is a reference to the fact that the only good billionaire is a dead billionaire.

          Bruce Wayne is of course exempt from this rule, because he’s a superhero in a comic book movie who knows kung fu.