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Posted:  31 Jul 2008 22:04
The crime in Gotham got so bad that it seemed a Batman would be necessary to defeat it. With the rise of the Batman though came the side effect of well intentioned sloppy mimics and copycats and newer improved criminals.

Is Batman really a force for good at the price people pay to have him there or is the price too great to keep him around?

On a side note, what would happen if some big criminal real city got it's own super-vigilante? Could the fictional chain of events become a real chain of events?
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But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles

And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles
Posted:  01 Aug 2008 15:19
Probably not, the odds are against someone with Bruce Wayne's resources, motivation, and natural born skills and determination taking up a crime fighting cause that way.

But if there was a Batman, the cops would always be after him, and I bet they'd figure out where he was hiding eventually. They'd probably prosecute someone like that worse than a murderer.
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Posted:  01 Aug 2008 18:47
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the odds are against...

The odds may be against but that doesn't completely eliminate the possibility. We don't necessarily need a real live Batman here with all the fictional details intact, just the basics. Intelligent, determined, skilled, a few gadgets of modest means, etc etc. Someone who sees all the problems around them and assumes the responsibility of correcting them.
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But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles

And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles