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I dont think communists hating both would be the correct position inherently actually. Maybe Bruce, depending on portrayal. But Bruce in some portrayals does WAY more like actually good things with his money than any real world billionaire has ever done. So I think some nuance needs to be applied there.
Much, much more nuance needs to be applied to Batman though. And I'm exhausted of the surface level understandings of the character many leftists apply here. I'm not going to write it all again, but I talk about some of the things that are inarguably good things that Batman does in this post, in addition to the Court of Owls situatation Smeagol pointed out. . Its also worth noting that there is a huge variety of portrayal to Batman and some Batman portrayals are borderline fascist, while others do more to alleviate the aspects leftists dont like.
It's really a shame that so many portrayals of Batman seem to really really love the Dark Knight Returns, which is absolutely fascist. I actually quite like a lot of Batman stories, but I do wish the writers would just stay the fuck away from any Frank Miller influence. Honestly never trust a Miller/ar who makes comics
Yeah the influence of Dark Knight Returns on Batman stories really sucks.