• fsxylo
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    1 year ago

    He… does.

    This is the “why didn’t the eagles fly to Mordor” of the batman universe.

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      1 year ago

      Yes and there have been other comics in alternate universes that prove that if he did more he could get rid of crime in gotham

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        1 year ago

        And there are stories where Gotham is literally cursed to be evil. You start pulling edge cases and you throw out everything that matters. There’s probably a story where Gotham and Metropolis switched vibes and Superman is an autocrat Spaze Nazi exterminating shoplifters and petty thugs

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        1 year ago

        The alternate universe stuff muddies the water so much that it really doesn’t have much weight.