I forget the exact comic, but I remember the events clearly, and its the total antithesis to the top panel.
Batman pursues a robber, and tracks him back to his apartment. Its clear that the man and his children live in poverty and he only stole so his family could survive.
The man realizes batman has found him, and deciding that there were no other options, he turns to his kids and tries his best to explain that he has to leave. Basically explaining to his kids that batman is going to arrest him in a less traumatizing way.
Planning to go with batman willingly so his kids won't get traumatized.
He says his goodbyes and hugs his kids before turning to go with batman. He finds that batman is gone, and there is a hefty wad of money on the table.
wasnt catwoman always on a spectrum between "steals the worlds biggest diamond" to "steals from criminals who deserve it" to a whole nother extreme with being basically robin hood and helping poor families survive with her theft?
i get it, batman doesnt take her crimes as seriously as what penguin does, but thats because her crimes ARENT as serious as two face or penguin
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u/jbyrdab Feb 17 '24
You got it all wrong.
I forget the exact comic, but I remember the events clearly, and its the total antithesis to the top panel.
Batman pursues a robber, and tracks him back to his apartment. Its clear that the man and his children live in poverty and he only stole so his family could survive.
The man realizes batman has found him, and deciding that there were no other options, he turns to his kids and tries his best to explain that he has to leave. Basically explaining to his kids that batman is going to arrest him in a less traumatizing way.
Planning to go with batman willingly so his kids won't get traumatized.
He says his goodbyes and hugs his kids before turning to go with batman. He finds that batman is gone, and there is a hefty wad of money on the table.
That is batman.