It’s convenient for Batman that most of the main villains in Gotham City are just some weird type of guy and not anyone who is functionally a god like you get in the next city over
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I imagine that's probably why he doesn't want to get involved with the Justice League more than part time. He doesn't want to attract the gods to Gotham.
Batman: "Looks like I get to flex my detective skills on these clues Joker left about exactly what he's doing & where he'll be."
Superman: "Cool, I'm stuck trying to figure out why another alien wants me to watch as he kills every human, for something my father did before I was born."
Batman just wants to fight his fellow freaks at night but then the justice league calls and he’s gotta be teleported at 8 am to a space station for an all hands meeting bc brainiac is up to something big
Batman's villains are a bunch of crazy guys with no real powers… and Clayface. An indestructible shapeless abomination that can look like anything or anyone.
what i like about batman is he single handedly turned gotham from a city plagued by petty thieves to a city under a literally existential threat from the joker or poison ivy or clay face every other week
I’ve always loved the dark fan theory that Bruce Wayne lost his mind after Joe Chill was whacked, and is now just wasting away in Arkham dressed as a bat, and all of the villains he fights are just the orderlies and doctors on staff.
There is a story somewhat along this line, written by a comics creator who is now cancelled, that all the villains were hired by Alfred to cheer up his nutcase boss who was dressing up as a bat at night but getting depressed about beating up purse thieves (the Joker was Alfred himself)
Batman comic in a nutshell is a bunch of mentally insane people fighting eachother and destroying the city while the rest of the authorities are too inept to fix the problem.
idk how many lore canon events there are in Batman but maybe the most memorable event for me is him getting his back broken by a guy who's like a little more roided out than usual
and that was after the dude orchestrated all Batman's OTHER villains attacking him so he could fight a batman who'd already been beaten within an inch of his life, a little child could've broken his back at that point
Some recent comic run (Scott Snyder’s, I think) posited that the Joker had lived for eons on Earth as some sort of eternal demon. Have they retconned that yet?
Also, at some point three distinct Jokers popped up. DC would like you to forget about that one though.
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Superman: "Cool, I'm stuck trying to figure out why another alien wants me to watch as he kills every human, for something my father did before I was born."
Gotham: guy who tells riddles
Batman villains: The Lid, a pervert who is obsessed with hats.
Also, at some point three distinct Jokers popped up. DC would like you to forget about that one though.