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My problem with Batman is that he’s based on an outdated understanding of crime and criminality. Superman and Wonder Woman get to fight larger-than-life threats like alien conquerors and embodiments of evil itself, but most of Batman’s villains are still gangsters and serial killers.

Plus, street crime is chump change compared to wage theft, but outside of the Court of Owls - who are murderers anyway so back in the violent crime arena - how often does he shove a CEO’s face through a monitor?

The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.