Can a Batman with a capitalist critique exist? (hexbear.net)

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Growing up my favorite hero boy was Batman, but its getting really hard to appreciate a character whos main premise is "I'm a billionaire that beats up poor people in a capitalist hellscape because I don't have a healthy way to deal with my personal trauma".

Is there any saving him or is there a version of batman that can exist inside of a left narrative? Maybe there's an existing comic that has tackled this problem, but I'm not really deep into the...ahem...literature.

Maybe Ninja Batman?

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[-] BringMeExtra@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Anarchist Batman from Red Son was pretty based iirc

edit: nvm he wasn't. what a waste of a good idea.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

nothing about Red Son was good and its conception of socialism is "what if everyone were lobotomized with lasers"

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