While previous cinematic portrayals of Batman focused on the freak-show aspect of the character and his world, Nolan has recast Gotham City’s most famous avenger as a defender of order, civility, manners, and common decency, Peter Sudernman says — a small-c British conservative in a mask and cape.
Since youth I’ve had what I think is a accurate psychological profile of Batman and assumed that where it diverges from contemporary accounts is due wholly to marketing and the congenital habit of lying and inability to tell the truth to the masses of the MRM.
On the surface Batman, or Bruce Wayne, is a patrician, but underneath this he is obviously a complete utter psycho. This is obvious and anyone who says different is over-susceptible to propaganda, which is the purpose of comic books and cartoon characters. Batman wants to inflict pain and rip still beating hearts from the chests of people, and doing this to criminals is just a way of justifying his serial killer tendencies. This is what the patrician class does and is why we once respected them.
Any other explanation is obviously the result of rose-tinted glasses, or marketing shtick.
The notion that Batman is as crazy as the Joker is a well-worn trope by now. Nonetheless, he despises killing.
Really? I haven’t kept up with the various tropes… but that does signify some advancement in perspective. Nonetheless I suggest he is ‘edited’ to ‘seem’ to despise killing, or he loves to do what he despises…I mean…how else do you explain the atavistic bat costume and the bat cave?