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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    61·
    4 months ago

    Yes, I knew this reply was inevitable, but I was mostly making a joke.

    Mostly, bcs sure various authors added (contemporary) bits and pieces about how Billionaireman helps too, but that also doesn’t fit in with what Gotham is. Can’t have both. Or just have him be middle class with still money for toys.

    What Im saying for example is he could easily buy whole neighbourhoods & rent them for free, this is something with permanent effect that would start a movement. Adding schools, stores, one of his banks, etc would make the henchman market pretty tight. Actually there are a lot of comedic opportunities in that narrative.

    Anyway, for my headcanon I kinda decided that all regular violent crime in Gotham is just the immediate doing of some masked and themed villain. So there arent any (constant) street muggings etc. So Batcostumeman doesn’t ‘patrol the streets’ bcs there isn’t such crime to patrol for.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      6·
      4 months ago

      There is an in canon reason Gotham is terrible: its cursed. It doesn’t matter what anyone does, Gotham will always be Gotham.

      Its lame as shit, but the writers clearly don’t want to try to resolve their setting, so they hand waved it all away.

      Batman literally cannot, in any sense, “fix” Gotham, with any effort or amount of money.

        • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Can’t. Curse stole all your money. And killed you dad, dog, and three Marthas.

          Oh and you’re a rabid shrew-person now. 'Cuzza curse.

          • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
            2·
            4 months ago

            So Batman could help people by building a new city a few hamburger stadiums away & arrange for free transport there?

            Then only owls & masked weirdos would remain.
            Or some of them might get minimum wage jobs in the new BatWay city.