• Rooster326@programming.dev
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    20 hours ago

    But who really gets to see the planes, and the tanks? And confirms that he has diamond body armor instead of super powers.

    Unless you are a super villain - which in Gotham virtually guarantees severe mental illness - at best you will see one of them moments before Batman irrevocably destroys your body. He might not kill you but you will be brain dead.

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      21 hours ago

      I mean sure you may not catch the low flying jetplane over your city and you may not get to see the heavy tank that levels the city center in action, but maybe journalists would report on them?

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        We know Gotham is corrupt to its core which would naturally include the media. I would think the exotic billionaire could control the media. I mean they do it now in real life. The richest individuals have no media presence.

        Say something negative about a billionaire, and they could, if they wanted to, eliminate your entire company (See Gawker).

        Bruce Wayne is rich enough to make “Batman is Bruce Wayne” look like “rich people go to a remote island to molest children”. Completely true but intentionally made to look as a conspiracy theory for decades by very rich individuals.