Are you comfortable and accepting Superman lasering villains when he could singlehandedly end food shortages worldwide and give free unlimited energy to the world by just turning a large turbine for years?
Someone’s been reading SMBC.
Curiously, Superman is given more latitude because he tries to find ways to best utilize his gifts, noting he’d still be doing his best to uphold good even if he was just a mortal journalist. Again, Batman could be directing Supes to deal with elite deviance (which would make a badass premise of a comic).
Bruce Wayne could absolutely be focusing his material assets towards creating a constructive network of programs towards a better society, but he just likes punching things too much.
Even with Batman as a tragic figure (Mom and Dad Wayne haunt his dreams and insist that he’s not a good son unless he’s punching people), the cost to the rest of society is (or would be in a realistic setting) untenable. To be fair, our real-world billionaires have really highlighted that they are the worst humanity has to offer, even more so than all the usual rogues gallery of petty criminals (so yeah, worse than Dahmer and Gacy).
Are you comfortable and accepting Superman lasering villains when he could singlehandedly end food shortages worldwide and give free unlimited energy to the world by just turning a large turbine for years?
Someone’s been reading SMBC.
Curiously, Superman is given more latitude because he tries to find ways to best utilize his gifts, noting he’d still be doing his best to uphold good even if he was just a mortal journalist. Again, Batman could be directing Supes to deal with elite deviance (which would make a badass premise of a comic).
Bruce Wayne could absolutely be focusing his material assets towards creating a constructive network of programs towards a better society, but he just likes punching things too much.
Even with Batman as a tragic figure (Mom and Dad Wayne haunt his dreams and insist that he’s not a good son unless he’s punching people), the cost to the rest of society is (or would be in a realistic setting) untenable. To be fair, our real-world billionaires have really highlighted that they are the worst humanity has to offer, even more so than all the usual rogues gallery of petty criminals (so yeah, worse than Dahmer and Gacy).