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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
There should have been two additional Batman movies (after the Christian Bale reboot).

Batman, as originally presented in the comics, presents a problem for politically-correct Hollywood.

1) He's a white man.

2) He is a brilliant inventor (in the movies, all his marvelous gadgets get created by others; in the comics, he engineers everything himself)

3) He's a brilliant detective.

4) He's supremely fit.

5) While not being authorized as a government employee, he goes around beating up criminals.

Hollywood has difficulty with a superior man these days. Especially if he's white and hetero.

9 posted on 03/16/2018 4:54:08 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

In the current story arc of Batman comics, he has proposed to Catwoman. She accepted. They’ve been going on double dates with Superman and Lois Lane (who, in the comics, are married and have an eight year old son).


11 posted on 03/16/2018 5:02:14 PM PDT by Simon Green
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To: PapaBear3625

Most leftist activists, including the entire Fake News Media, spit out the term Straight White Men like a curse.


14 posted on 03/16/2018 5:15:45 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: PapaBear3625

6) he inherited his wealth


18 posted on 03/16/2018 5:38:04 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn thvictims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yes, in the “literature” Bruce Wayne is clearly a genius (part Ivy League, part autodidact).

The movies mostly make him out to be not a privileged upper crust scion (in the positive sense). Actually, he was highly intelligent and highly educated, not a “regular guy” like Michael Keaton played him.

He is actually at times portrayed as the most resourceful and indomitable Justice Leaguer. (Wonder Woman herself pays him such tribute in a 60s issue where he saves the day while almost dying.)

His superpower was not just being rich, but being brilliant, and being iron-willed.

Overall, the Nolan/Bale portrayal is the best. He secretly fixes the Bat autopilot, among other things. Also, the womanizing is an act, not his true nature.


24 posted on 03/17/2018 1:15:22 AM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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