Supernatural evil is not realistic. And when we encounter unearthly natural evils (which we do!), they tend to have solutions that are not a flying vigilante putting out street-crime level fires.
Deep geological repositories for storing vitrified nuclear waste, for instance. We have those.
There are better places for superheroes. As I note above, there’s a lot of elite deviance / white collar crime that Batman’s amazing detective powers could easily be turned on. Heck, the US has been occupied and is controlled by a dangerous religious cult with a rogues gallery of masterminds vying for power, and they’re behaving conspicuously like comic-book villains.
On the street level, a mega-corporation fighting a labor organization for control over the workforce would be a great venue for vigilantes with extraordinary powers. Eventually they’d higher a PMC task force (possibly with a cadre of G. I. Joe like specialists) as the Guy of Gisbourne to our protagonists’ Merry Men.
There are a lot of directions that can be taken that pit vigilante justice-seekers against sociopolitical bullies with wealth and power. DC needs to just do a bit of brainstorming, but no they’d rather Batman fight the Joker for One More Time. 🥱
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He already does all that on top of being batman.
He does do those though?
Supernatural evil is not realistic. And when we encounter unearthly natural evils (which we do!), they tend to have solutions that are not a flying vigilante putting out street-crime level fires.
Deep geological repositories for storing vitrified nuclear waste, for instance. We have those.
There are better places for superheroes. As I note above, there’s a lot of elite deviance / white collar crime that Batman’s amazing detective powers could easily be turned on. Heck, the US has been occupied and is controlled by a dangerous religious cult with a rogues gallery of masterminds vying for power, and they’re behaving conspicuously like comic-book villains.
On the street level, a mega-corporation fighting a labor organization for control over the workforce would be a great venue for vigilantes with extraordinary powers. Eventually they’d higher a PMC task force (possibly with a cadre of G. I. Joe like specialists) as the Guy of Gisbourne to our protagonists’ Merry Men.
There are a lot of directions that can be taken that pit vigilante justice-seekers against sociopolitical bullies with wealth and power. DC needs to just do a bit of brainstorming, but no they’d rather Batman fight the Joker for One More Time. 🥱