Perhaps they realized that, late into production, the audience would sympathize. So they added him blowing up the city to make him irredeemable.
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The Bane treatment.
Really good article. Reminds me of this banger:
Morgana’s ethical awakening, her rejection of the system from which she has previously benefitted, and her identification with the oppressed, is specifically shown to stem from empathy and moral outrage at injustice… and yet, somehow, without any rhyme or reason, when she finally departs Camelot and openly goes over to the other side, she becomes a sadistic psychopath with no regard for the suffering of the innocent, acting from motives of thwarted ambition, petty jealousy and irrational vindictiveness. Her political awakening comes from compassion and simultaneously nullifies that compassion. It couldn’t be clearer: political outrage, no matter how well intentioned, instantly becomes dangerous the moment it steps beyond the boundaries of the state, of the mainstream, of the legal, of reformism, of consensus political normality.
They need to play Batman like a straight cop next time. Literally just a brutal private security elite, killing anyone and destroying proof of Bill Clinton's crimes aboard the Lolita Express.
I wanna go the opposite direction. All the villains are billionaires now as well, replace Alfred with a Marx to new!Batman's Engels, have Bruce quote lines from Marxist texts while he beats up the Joker for crimes against the Proletariat.
This would be hilarious. The Joker is also a billionaire and uses the money invest in laughing gas and joker fish
And then they have him blow up half the city for no reason to make him evil.
Same story with Killmonger in the first Black Panther film.
Or the Marco Inaros Faction in The Expanse, or Magneto in the old X-Men movies, and so on and so on. It's basically mandatory to have antogonists with a relatable agenda commit acts of cartoonish evil out of nowhere to make it clear that the only answer to injustice is incrementalist fuckery in aliance with macchiavellian ruling class ghouls.
Marco Inaros
Yessss... The belt had too many legitimate grievances and reasons to go to war, so Marco has to go full pride obsessed joker mode. At least Drummer, Ashford & co get a couple good belter pirate moments before they join a corporate alliance with empire.
Which includes paling around with literal war criminal Avaserala who tells them how important tolerance is while she plans a counter revolution with Earthers and Martian and Belter collaborators who all hang out in the same luxurious lounge built by wealth pressed out of Belter workers who do not even own the air they breathe. She literally oversaw the torture of Belter PoWs personally in S1.
The girl antagonist in Falcon and the Winter Soldier probably did this the most egregiously.
"Karli Morgenthau" who is a weird Karl Marx but anarchist or something