• Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    This thread is full of people who have never read Batman comics.

    Gothman is literally cursed from head to toe to be the way it is.

    Batman is effectively sisyphus in that regard.

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      1 month ago

      Not only that, most fully realized versions of the character channel both the vigilante AND playboy personas to fight crime, using Wayne Enterprises to create welfare programs and jobs so Gothamites need not resort to crime to put food on the table.

      There’s a scene where Batman pacifies a room of Black Mask goons without lifting a FINGER - he hacks the projector screen simply shows them a Wayne Foundation advertisement for better, safer jobs. One by one, every man simply drops their weapons and walks out the door as their crime boss irately yells at them to come back.

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        1 month ago

        Lmao, im gonna leave it.

        Gothman is a meme in my friend group. He is effectively sad batman, a regular goth guy, and a visigoth all at the same time or which he ever needs to be at the time.

        He may not be the meme we deserve, but he is the one that we need to burn Rome.

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      30 days ago

      Gothman is literally cursed from head to toe to be the way it is.

      It’s more like, this post is full of people describing why the only way the storyline can stay realistic is by introducing supernatural evil.

      If it were not a cursed city and if Batman was really a hero who wanted to help people, he would do the social programs and investment in community, but that would be a pretty lousy monthly comic book for kids to read and buy batman merchandise.