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"Good Cop, Bat Cop" — a poll tournament to find the Batman character who is closest to being "basically a cop"
Batman is a costumed crime-fighter created in 1939. Since then, there has been ever-evolving discussion about what "crime", "fighting", and "crime-fighting" entail—and what all that means for Batman's relationship to his local police.
Batman makes friends, makes enemies, and becomes a middle-aged father of 3, 4, 5+ kids—and the discussion carries over to this large and debatably colorful cast.
Now we pit these fictional characters against each other in a poll tournament, to determine which among them is "a cop" in spirit.
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Follow Tumblr community guidelines, and uphold good sportsmanship.
Submit Batman characters as contestants. Regular GCPD personnel (such as Commissioner Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Ellen Yin, et cetera) are ineligible. Ace the Bat-Hound, Batcow, Jarro, Bat-Mite, and other "joke characters" are eligible.
Submit propaganda arguing why certain characters are "a cop" in spirit.
Submit counterpropaganda arguing why certain characters are "not a cop" in spirit.
Strengthen your claims by including sources.
All officially published materials count. Core universe. Current timeline and old timelines. Retconned stuff. Elseworlds, alternate universes. Adaptations. Advertising materials.
Doylist and Watsonian readings are accepted.
Submissions through the Google form are anonymous. Responses are planned to be posted publicly.
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Please send in content warnings that should be tagged.
Have fun~!
The double-elimination tournament brackets are planned to be posted at the beginning of April, soon followed by the polls.
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credit to firefly-graphics for the Batman divider