- The Quuuuuill ( @Quill7513@slrpnk.net ) English50•2 months ago
Canonically? Yes! A giant bat demon named Barbatos that creates twisted versions of Batman (including batman) to torture Bruce Q Wayne
- millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) English36•2 months ago
Gotham’s so-called ‘villains’ are actually just projections of Bruce’s madness onto the city’s activists, anarchists, and freedom fighters. They spend their days trying to fix the severe systemic issues caused by the excessive wealth and myopia of the self-righteous Wayne family, who have gobbled up nearly every other sizeable company in the city while funneling resources into personal skyscrapers, excavation, and bat-themed military equipment.
The Rogue’s Gallery, meanwhile, goes to extreme lengths to redistribute wealth, disrupt Waynecorp galas, rescue and deprogram Robin and Batgirl, and keep Bruce busy with insane shenanigans so that he can’t focus more of his attention on grinding Gotham’s poor into the dirt. The costumes and gimmicks are just Bruce’s mind refusing to see the truth of his own villainy and distorting the world to compensate.
The only ones who on occasion get through to him are his ex-girlfriend, a former Arkham therapist who spent enough time with the Rogues not to buy Bruce’s propaganda, and a completely innocent local botanist that he’s developed a strange obsession with literally just because she grows plants and he’s not sure how that works (his own plants all die in the batcave due to lack of light).
- LedgeDrop ( @LedgeDrop@lemm.ee ) 11•2 months ago
I’d watch this movie.
- millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) English4•2 months ago
If Warner Bros is looking for a consultant, writer, or hell, director… Reach out! xD
Let me write for Harley Quinn for a season. If you like it, we make a goofy hallucination Batman movie. What could go wrong?
- Lad ( @AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ) 2•2 months ago
Twist ending: a guy wakes up in his bed and realises it was all just a dream and superheroes/villains don’t exist in the real world!
- Queen HawlSera ( @HawlSera@lemm.ee ) English2•2 months ago
There was a story arc where Alfred tried to gaslight Bruce into believing this… To protect him from the fact that Luthor caused the apocalypse…
- ouRKaoS ( @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ) 28•2 months ago
Condiment King put all kinds of stuff in the water
- rickyrigatoni ( @rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ) 15•2 months ago
Is lead a condiment?
- Waterdoc ( @Waterdoc@lemmy.ca ) 15•2 months ago
The Romans used lead as a sweetener…
- Daxtron2 ( @Daxtron2@startrek.website ) 1•2 months ago
Yummy salt of Saturn
- (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ( @peyotecosmico@programming.dev ) English1•2 months ago
Really? I gotta try it!
- ShaunaTheDead ( @ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io ) 23•2 months ago
The problem is wealth inequality which the Waynes directly contribute to.
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) 22•2 months ago
Good old redditor take that never read a comic book
- ShaunaTheDead ( @ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io ) 3•2 months ago
Good old redditor take that doesn’t explain anything in a snide way.
- ShinkanTrain ( @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ) English13•2 months ago
Probably a Lazarus Pit or two
- Margot Robbie ( @MargotRobbie@lemm.ee ) 7•2 months ago
I bet it’s whatever chemical that’s in those vats at Ace Chemicals that the upstanding citizens of Gotham kept falling into and come out as clowns.
Like, why would any company make a chemical which the only purpose seems to be to get psychiatrists to beat people up with baseball bats on roller skates?
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English3•2 months ago
Whatever is in the water probably seeped out of some Wayne Enterprises industrial plant. Batman is the biggest menace to Gotham City; not any of the victims that become villains. All because some rich playboy wants to play ninja instead of running the corporate empire that owns like 90% of the city.