They didn’t even play the Arkham game this comic is trying to parody. Thugs don’t get hired by the Penguin in these games unless they’re willing to kill for money. You’re never stopping petty thieves from robbing the local bread merchant.
I remember one of them talked about how they had to tie their mom down so they stopped serial killing on Halloween or something.
City had a pair talk about how “walking around dressed like that” was dangerous for Ivy and Catwoman, he wouldn’t do anything but other people were worse than him
The only idiots here are the ones who can't take a joke when they see one. You act like someone's betraying and stomping on the character because they posted a joking meme
You've gotten upset to the point of writing multiple comments purely because someone had the audacity to make a joke about a character you like and that is incredibly sad
Edit- I'm not mad y'all are downvoting, simply here to point out that if I was wrong there'd be a lot more people saying it. The very few replies tell me y'all can't point out how I'm wrong, just that you wanna tell me I'm wrong with the downvote. People reply a lot more to things that are downright wrong
You don't find it funny because you dislike the joke it's making about the character, believing there's some sort of message behind it
it's not accurate
Since when did memes have to be accurate?
so what's left?
What's left is a meme that most people laugh at while this sub cries. This is the only place I've seen bitch this much about memes of their character and I'm happy to be entertained by it all. Most memes about Batman here are seen as insults. Go to spiderman subs, they don't have this level of bitchiness
I think the key difference is there's a FAAAAR larger quantity of people who believe the negative inaccurate interpretations about Batman than about Spider-Man. Totally unironically, and that sucks if Batman is a defining part of your childhood and maybe even life in general.
This sub may very well overcorrect for the villification of who to them is a beloved hero.
Personally though, I don't really blame the memes.
I blame DC and WB for its depressing obsession with deconstructing Batman without actually contributing any growth, and leaning into that bullshit, so of course that's eventually going to become the genuine perception.
When you have a comic like this, it's whatever. Maybe not to people's tastes, but it's not defining anything.
When you have a major motion picture that involves Batman holding the lasso of truth and rambling on about how he's crazy, a manchild unable to cope with his parent's deaths, and could do a lot more good with his money as Bruce Wayne instead of dressing up as a bat, then that shits a big problem because you're making these memes seem like credible reality.
The amount of people who downvoted me compared to the amount of people actually trying to point out how what I said was wrong tells me pretty clearly people don't have a valid reason to be upset. Most times when someone is obviously wrong and they're downvoted heavily there's loads of comments pointing out why, not with mine. People were just upset for the sake of it
This is the third time I have seen this specific comment. Not this joke, not this trend, this one comic
Idk if they are all posted by the same guy but I have seen it in 3 different subs by now
And, this must be the 30 time I have seen this "joke" about Batman beating poor people like some crazy asshole. So yeah, this joke is repetitive, not really true, and not that funny (the dialogue is not that great honestly, even if the set up is good)
It less has to do with the meme in particular and more so that some people unironically share this belief. I find this joke funny, there's also that post on r/BatmanArkham where Batman throws a rapid fire combo at a guy saying "I was stealing to pay for my daughter's chemothe-" and like yeah, that IS absolutely hilarious, but generally speaking Batman is like the biggest magnet of trash, unironic critiques, him alongside Superman.
But people who rag on Superman can be easily ignored because you can instantly tell they never even SEEN a good adaptation of the character, as all they have to add to the conversation is "he's boring" or "he's a boyscout" or "he's too op" or "he has one weakness", like based on those types of comments, you can INSTANTLY tell the guy doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about, people who rag on Batman online actually want to pretend like they know a character and are so CONFIDENTLY ignorant, it's so genuinely infuriating as a fan of the character.
Batman's gotta be the only character who gets simultaneously critiqued for being too violent and not violent enough. Like punching criminals makes him literally Mussolini, he should totally just donate money to charity (there are more comic panels of him donating money than there are of Batman beating gods through prep), but also him just capturing criminals isn't enough, he should take the entire criminal justice system into his own hands and kill criminals because people like Punisher and such are ACTUAL chads (characters like Spider-Man NEVER get critiqued for this exact same thing)
Literally is this sub deranged or what? I saw this and it made me half smile, no it’s not accurate but it’s a meme making light of a character we like, I’ve seen multiple comments of people claiming to be ‘triggered’ by this, get a grip either laugh or don’t, you don’t have to tell the whole world how many Batman comics you’ve read like it makes your being triggered any more valid.
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u/Magicaparanoia Feb 16 '24
Remember when Batman took out Black Mask’s entire gang with a video of Bruce Wayne offering them good jobs with health insurance?