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[–] halvar@lemy.lol 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think Wayne is like THE incredibly wealthy guy in Gotham and Batman has stuff like custom made planes and tanks in his arsenal. So yes probably not a straight conclusion that the vigilante with seemingly infinite resources must be the same as the other guy with tons of money from your city, but at the very least the conclusion can be drawn that they are most likely connected. Obviously this wouldn't work in Los Angeles where half of the world's billionaires hang out.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Obviously this wouldn't work in Los Angeles where half of the world's billionaires hang out.

Gotham looks like a New York type "centre of the world" city, with extremely wealthy people living there

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Depending on the era, Bruce himself was supposed to be seen as kind of worthless as a person. I think it made a lot more sense then, you'd never look at like Barron Trump and be like yeah, that guy's really a relatively respected masked superhero.

The key of the disguise is exceptional lack of competency.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 9 points 1 day ago

Also, i don't expect a rich guy to fight for the people alone

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But who really gets to see the planes, and the tanks? And confirms that he has diamond body armor instead of super powers.

Unless you are a super villain - which in Gotham virtually guarantees severe mental illness - at best you will see one of them moments before Batman irrevocably destroys your body. He might not kill you but you will be brain dead.

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean sure you may not catch the low flying jetplane over your city and you may not get to see the heavy tank that levels the city center in action, but maybe journalists would report on them?

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We know Gotham is corrupt to its core which would naturally include the media. I would think the exotic billionaire could control the media. I mean they do it now in real life. The richest individuals have no media presence.

Say something negative about a billionaire, and they could, if they wanted to, eliminate your entire company (See Gawker).

Bruce Wayne is rich enough to make "Batman is Bruce Wayne" look like "rich people go to a remote island to molest children". Completely true but intentionally made to look as a conspiracy theory for decades by very rich individuals.