I was a huge fan of Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, but the Dark Knight Rises leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I haven’t watched any of the movies in like a decade-ish though, I don’t think.
In my mind, Batman is an archetypical anti-hero. He is a capitalist and definitely not a communist revolutionary, but I always view Batman as an Engels type character.
As a capitalist and in multiple incarnations, he’s usually portrayed as caring about his employees and paying them very well, he donates billions to charitable causes (This isn’t to say that donating money fixes societal problems, or that a society shouldn’t have to rely on donations from a billionaire with a conscience to barely put a band-aid on society’s problems, but I digress) that provide housing and decrease the costs of food and rent of Gotham by proxy, and he is just as likely to go after corrupt and criminal CEO’s and politicians and judges as he is to go after violent criminals, and he also provides funding to mental healthcare services and institutions and will often be against the death-penalty and he generally wants to help people more than beat the shit out of them.
Just like Spider-Man, I don’t think Batman should necessarily be pro-cop, since they are part of the capitalist system, and they treat him as a common criminal rather than a savior or at least a helper.
I was a huge fan of Batman Begins and the Dark Knight, but the Dark Knight Rises leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I haven’t watched any of the movies in like a decade-ish though, I don’t think.
In my mind, Batman is an archetypical anti-hero. He is a capitalist and definitely not a communist revolutionary, but I always view Batman as an Engels type character.
As a capitalist and in multiple incarnations, he’s usually portrayed as caring about his employees and paying them very well, he donates billions to charitable causes (This isn’t to say that donating money fixes societal problems, or that a society shouldn’t have to rely on donations from a billionaire with a conscience to barely put a band-aid on society’s problems, but I digress) that provide housing and decrease the costs of food and rent of Gotham by proxy, and he is just as likely to go after corrupt and criminal CEO’s and politicians and judges as he is to go after violent criminals, and he also provides funding to mental healthcare services and institutions and will often be against the death-penalty and he generally wants to help people more than beat the shit out of them.
Just like Spider-Man, I don’t think Batman should necessarily be pro-cop, since they are part of the capitalist system, and they treat him as a common criminal rather than a savior or at least a helper.