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Batman: White Knight
Tactical Nuke:
this is not a joke
I repeat
this is not a joke
https://www.wired.com/story/batman-joker-villain/
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/new-batman-comic-casts-caped-crusader-as-a-villain-to-social-justice-seeking-joker/
--- Quote ---Batman has been a hero for decades, constantly saving Gotham City from mad men and murderers. But take away the cape and noble purpose and he's actually a terror—someone capable of causing as much damage as he prevents. And seen through the lens of the 21st century, a time when it's understood that vigilante justice is dangerous, Bruce Wayne's actions don't look much more safe or sane than the Joker's. And in his next incarnation, they're not.
For Batman: White Knight, writer-illustrator Sean Murphy (The Wake, Punk Rock Jesus) created a version of Gotham with real, modern-day problems, and then let Batman solve them by making him the villain. How? In the comic mini-series' alternate-reality, it's the Joker—cured of his insanity—who sees that Bruce Wayne is just another part of the city's vicious cycle of crime and sets out to stop him.
"My main goal was to undo the comic tropes while changing Gotham from a comic book city into a real city—a city dealing with everything from Black Lives Matter to the growing wage gap,"
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loving /discuss
Insert Name Here²:
loving why
Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph:
okay but portraying batman as a delusional vigilante rather than hero of gotham is a pretty interesting idea
Mr Unicode:
--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on July 18, 2017, 12:51:04 AM ---loving why
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TeeOS:
except for that last line making everything political i think its a good idea
its nice to see the villain vs hero trope spinned on its head every once in a while
especially where the former villain is the reasonable one