Batman Beats Up The Poor? - The Worst Batman Arkham Opinions

Apparently, Batman from the Batman Arkham series is just a jerk who likes to beat up poor people for fun. He's a complete monster. This definitely isn't twisting the narrative, at all. #batman #batmanarkham #gaming
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[@DegenerateJay]

I don't think I'll ever get used to how stupid some of these opinions are. If you enjoy the video, you can always let me know what you think. We have a Patreon and channel memberships, our own store, cosmobunny.shop where you can use discount code DJAY123 and we have that same code for our Fortnite creator code. I appreciate you.

[@Thatguy-uc3dy]

>cough< >cough< Simon Stagg >cough< >cough< Ferris Boyle.

[@comicfan1324]

Anyone who actually believes “Batman just beats up poor people” has clearly no idea who Batman is.

[@MacyP]

I mean it’s not just poor people he just beats tf out of anyone

[@ToBy11334]

@@MacyP FOR GOTHAMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@user-vt3vo1yd3v]

he donates billions every year to help Gotham, to help the poor, the help the mentally ill.

[@lightdarksoul2097]

​@@user-vt3vo1yd3vwell doesn't seem like that money is actually doing much hell the criminals all say they got a huge payday from the city after Arkham city and they still came back to rob it more

[@altalia07]

@@user-vt3vo1yd3vexactly bruh did they freaking forget how in literally every version of Bruce Wayne he like that??

[@RacingSnails64]

Batman doesn't "beat up poor people." He defends innocents against violent rapists and murderers. Not to mention most of the thugs in Batman media are shown to *enjoy* being criminals and committing heinous acts.

[@liltone829]

Not the poor murderers! 🥺

[@lewisaino]

Some actualy deitify Joker or Black Mask so the thugs are willing

[@crazydud3380]

Most of the supervillains and mob bosses he goes after are NOT poor, anyway. He was against the inhumane Arkham City too.

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

​@@crazydud3380I don't see how anyone could see batman fighting penguin in penguin's opulent iceberg longue, (A club where rich elites often visit) And think that batman beats up the poor enough to where it is a significant part of who he fights

[@batgoat0757]

Bruce gives jobs at Wayne enterprises to rehabilitated criminals

[@crazydud3380]

He does, and in the real world, most employers pass over ex-cons. If anything, Batman is the opposite of what they claim.

[@isabaig6665]

TDR: after his death batman gives his house as a home to at risk orphans

[@lightdarksoul2097]

That was Alfred

[@isabaig6665]

@@lightdarksoul2097 It was in Bruces will

[@cole6843]

In the batman 89 comic batman caught a thief stealing food for his straving kid. So batman gave him a bag wad of cash!

[@altalia07]

Aww

[@LadyOfTheEdits]

So awesome

[@PizzaTime1983]

What issue is this.

[@danglin-wang7633]

It's true. Batman found me being poor and put me in hospital.

[@grantdaily9662]

"Batman beats up the poor" His rogues literally have Millions, IF NOT BILLIONS, in their bank roll. Hell there was an episode in one of the animated cartoons Joker gets hit by the IRS and he just has money everywhere. Penguin sells on underground g*ns, Ras is CENTURIES OLD and has holding in everything and so on. Like I think you could get away with Clayface and Croc being "poor" and not only that but Wayne is heavily involved with charity and wanting to renovate the city so that crime goes down, it's not his fault that the politics of Gotham care more about Profit over People

[@jj_grabes]

Seriously people I think undersell just how fundamentally screwed up Gotham is and while extreme, there’s a reason Batman takes the approach he does

[@grantdaily9662]

@@jj_grabes RIGHT!? Like you have Joker and his chaos, the Medical and Law enforcement ready to be bought out at a moments notice, the Court of Owls that eliminates any form take down on the political corruption and the Gotham Mayoral offices have been "lesser of two evils" to a point they just sit on the same side of the coin having drinks. But yeah the Bruce who normally does these out of pocket events, the BILLIONS in donations to various Wayne and None Wayne organizations and his attempts to try reformation on the Corruption and Rogues gallery is the real bad guy

[@yarc9]

@@jj_grabesBatman is a symbol of fear & justice why he would care about beating up poor people

[@jj_grabes]

@@yarc9Because he’s a symbol of justice. He helps Gotham when he’s out of or in the Batsuit.

[@cole6843]

There's even many stories where Batman is very compassionate to guys like croc.

[@jj_grabes]

Anytime I always hear this take, I think of that one conversation from Asylum where this thug says he ran someone over with the car after the Joker told him to kill his sister despite not having one. Or in Origins where someone says driving while drunk is bad…then admits he’s a murderer. Gotham is a cesspool of scumbags, Batman for as much as he gets memed on is pretty warranted to take the approach he does to crime fighting.

[@duderyandude9515]

But even in Batman media, Batman as an experiment demonstrably doesn't work. Many Batman stories have been written about how Batman actually makes things worse.

[@panoskatrin4910]

@@duderyandude9515 they dont get that and they dont want to get it

[@formalexchange8258]

​@@panoskatrin4910 But if he stopped, what would happen to Gotham? Look at The Dark Knight Returns or Batman Beyond. Gotham is corrupt and full of crime regardless, it's not his fault

[@wantonmee23]

​@@duderyandude9515 operative word 'written'. If you look at batman 66, for example, gotham is written as a pretty solid city that is civic minded and only needs Batman to deal with criminals the cops are not equipped to handle. Whether Batman is effective is a matter of writing, and the agenda nowadays is to make Batman ineffective.

[@Yourfat247]

@@duderyandude9515yet batman literally works. Most media shows how removing batman actually makes things worse

[@davidogundipe808]

I hate it when twitter or normies say nonsense, not everything is political, alot of it is sociological issues that are reflected in comics, and other art/literary media. Great video man!

[@CeticWales]

"Batman beats poor people" argument has many massive flaws, one of which is that "poor people" are mostly the victims of crime, including in the fictional Gotham.

[@heresnegan8088]

"Batman beats up the poor!" What....What the FUCK!!

[@JoshMaverick-lv1ms]

Rage bait video

[@gracz0unl]

I think many problems with contemporary world stems from the fact that we give idiots too much attention and treat them seriously. If somebody comes up to me and says in seriousness "Batman beats up poor people", I'll just respond "Sure, buddy", turn back, ignore.

[@JokerFan-hj4iv]

Even joker in the comics isn’t poor and fighting “society” like the movies portray him as. Part of the reason thugs still work for him despite the risk of death is he actually pays them a shit ton because he only sees money as a tool to fund his crazy gas all of Gotham schemes. He always has crazy recourses like poisons,bombs, helicopters with his face on them even nukes sometimes.

[@harley_yelrah9429]

Even if there’s a one percent chance a homeless man can be criminal we have to take it as an absolute

[@DegenerateJay]

Batman right before he beats up a homeless guy for no reason - “ This might be the one thing I do in my life that ever really matters.”

[@isabaig6665]

JJJ from Spiderman ps4: "Spiderman beats up thementally ill" Thats what I thought of when i saw the title

[@grantdaily9662]

But at least JJJ makes some good points through the madness or when not ranting about spider man.

[@truthache8560]

No matter how bad the person is, Batman always refers to them by their name.

[@duckseverywhere7087]

A wholesome thing I love Batman is how he has one pouch on his belt dedicated to candy so he can calm down scared kids. Batman is a symbol of fear to criminals, but one of hope to the innocent he has sworn to protect. I feel like a lot of people dont understand that, and its why the ending of The Batman movie was so perfect to me. He stayed behing and helped the injured. He finally realizes that just beating people to oblivion wont do Gotham any favors. Thats Batman, and I really cant see him beating up poor people for the hell of it.

[@dntm123]

This is just one of those takes that probably started out as a joke because on a surface level that's what Batman fighting crime looks like and it makes for a good laugh, and then over the years you get those people who are like "yeah, that's a good point actually" and everyone else is like "wait, what? No dude, it's a freaking joke. What are you talking about?" But they don't listen and go off and form an entire thesis that gets parroted and spread around until it becomes an actual take.

[@kendariusdupreeart3891]

In the tie in comic to the 2004 the Batman cartoon, Batman at some point chooses not to fight black mask’s goons, and instead Bruce Wayne offers them all a guaranteed job in his company. They take the offer and Batman only punches black mask. 3:18

[@shhh5743]

Yea this take will always be insane😭😭this take is literally “I don’t under Batman’s character”. Completely 180 of who he is so it just makes no sense.

[@batboythecool]

Exactly. This take just shows how people don't know Batman.

[@King_Aegon]

If by poor people they meant rapists, murderers and other individuals who harbour sinister intent towards innocent people then yes, batman absolutely beats up the poor.

[@Ghidozilla]

People get so caught up with moral relativism, that they forget, or don't understand, why these characters are so endearing. They take the reductionist approach and entirely miss the point of heroism. Society needs paragons of human virtue, like Batman, as a compass to point them in the right direction. The character is meant as a symbol of hope and perseverance. Anybody who argues otherwise, doesn't know Batman.

[@cole6843]

If Batman gave all his money away Gotham would be in flames within a day.

[@JokerFan-hj4iv]

Also a lot of the stories were clearly anti capitalist especially in the animated series . Several of the super-criminals like Mr. Freeze,claycface, and Two-face were literally created by corrupt businessmen who were the real big bads of the episode. Also let’s not forget the court of owls,Black glove and league of shadows organizations in the comics. In Gotham Bruce Wayne is the exception he’s the idealized moral billionaire in a city full of evil billionaires.

[@lordcheesus1013]

The only kind of people who have these kind of "opinions" are people who don't read Batman Comics or watch anything Batman related on TV/Movie medias and thus don't understand the character. And, frankly, this opinion isn't even opinion. "Batman is a fascist" is more like a rage induced hot take and click-bait because they don't understand the character and jealous and angry that there isn't more Batman stuff focusing on the politics they like. That's all this is. More and more you get media writers who are more interested in politics than the topic they're supposed to be writing about, and it's both disturbing and frankly wrong. these kind of people need to learn to stay out of pop-culture stuff and actually apply for jobs involving politics where they belong so they can push hot-button topics like this in forums more fitting for what they want.

[@panoskatrin4910]

Thats not true i have read plenty of batman comics and sometimes batman is written like a facist it depends on the writer mostly.Frank miller is the most obvious and famous example of this

[@rphntw1n]

People that say this were all spoiled rich kids. They don’t like other people having money.

[@ryanwilliams6602]

He beats up criminals, who happen to be poor because Penguin and Two Face pay them poorly. So if they actually worked in society and stopped working for dickheads they'd be okay. But no, they choose to willingly stay poor and work for shitty people, inviting punches to the face. This isn't a math problem, it's not hard to understand. And Spiderman beats up the same level bad guys as Batman, except Spiderman isn't a billionaire. What exactly is the point they are trying to make. I guess it's okay to beat up poor people if you aren't a billionaire? And before you mention Lizard or Harry Osbourne, Spiderman beats up a lot of street thugs in the first 5 Spiderman movies.

[@seanwalsh9425]

When a character within the DC universe says it, like Jaime's dad (or whoever) in the Blue Beetle movie, it makes sense to an extent, because they probably don't know Bats and Bruce are the same person. But at the same time, they can't surely be stupid enough to think he'll dropkick a homeless guy asking for change? Batman takes teenage pot dealers and funds them to go to college and get proper degrees in biology and agriculture ffs 😂

[@camdentarico5805]

Who cares what people are saying about a fictional super hero? Most of it is said for clicks

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

If all you got is a hammer then everything starts looking like a nail

[@Shadowdragon_TV]

Batman doesn't care if you're poor, rich, fat, skinny, old, gender, species, any of it. To him, the hammer of justice doesn't discriminate. That is what makes him so great.

[@nikopogo1]

Batman's more likely to gift money to the poor out of the goodness of his heart than beat them up XD

[@Unspeakable_Gaming]

Batman is attacked in this way, in his on universe, let alone the real world. So I’m not surprised.

[@panoskatrin4910]

Lets be HONEST about this as Batman fans. Whether you like it or not in Frank Miller's "The Dark Returns" ,batman is a fascist. I am a huge batman fan but this interpretation of the character has its roots in the ideals of the fascist Ubermensch and of degeneracy. Its ridiculous to claim that frank miller's work isnt a political one otherwise i am sorry but you dont how to read .Dozens of refrencies within the comic both in the images themselves and how the story is written.Part 1 back in the day was critized for it and miller added a nazi lady to fight batman in the intro part 2 so he can say "no no batman fights a facist he isnt one see?'Even tho the message of the story and character promoted these ideals and way of viewing society! That being said i still enjoy dark knight returns its an amazing work and actually fun to read! But if we are talking about Kevin conroy's batman especially in the animated series i am sorry but most of the time the evil guy is a rich greedy capitalist Even in the arkham games Hugo strange's concept of arkham city could be seen as actually fighting against the fascist concept of how society should function. I think what many people dont understand is that it usually depends on the writing and who is writing the character

[@EmperorVegeta0204]

Fax

[@ankuriboh]

You asked for examples of Batman’s philanthropy and charity. In Batman the Animated Series he mentions a few times that he wants to preserve rainforests. Notably the episode where he meets Ra’s Al Ghul, at one point he interrupts Ra’s to say exactly that. In The Batman (the cartoon) Bruce is usually doing charity for the Children’s Hospital. It’s mentioned in the Firefly episode and Gearhead episode. It’s explained in The Dark Knight Rises that the profits of Wayne Enterprises fund an orphanage. In the New 52 Harper Row discovers Batman set up a hidden power grid or was siphoning power from Gotham to give power to the Narrows. Also it’s pretty much a given that any time you see Bruce Wayne at some social event, it’s about raising money for some cause. Sometimes it’s for a political candidate Bruce likes and will help clean up Gotham, but it could be anything. Also Bruce isn’t really enjoying his fortune. He plays the part of a billionaire playboy so no one will think he’s Batman. He’s not going out to fight crime with the mentality of nobility fighting dirty peasants. And not all of his enemies are poor. Penguin is often rich. The mob bosses he fights are rich.

[@grantdaily9662]

@@ankuriboh Joker sits with vaults of billions in most continuities, the several Scientists/Doctors in the Gallery are normally Millionaires or not hurting for cash for their various plans, ect

[@andyowski1515]

I like how there's always people too dumb to watch the actual video so they think you're the one saying Batman does this lmao

[@michaelcousins435]

"game journalists are just basement trolls that hate on things that they won't play"

[@jesusagelvis4917]

We have enough with Kotaku being the shitiest journalist site in the internet. We don't need PCGamer trying to jump up into the hate clicking

[@HeitorJlbc2601]

Batman sendo entendido como uma analogia de uma supremacia branca privilegiada, é uma das interpretações mais equivocadas que alguém pode ter sobre o herói. Se eu for honesto, comparar o Batman com um anarquista faz mais sentido, mesmo também sendo uma ideia que transpira incoerência.

[@smartalec2001]

Re: politics in things. The word we're looking for is 'polemic'. Things are polemic these days.

[@lewisaino]

The Kingdom Come Style Books

[@Deknis]

These are the type of people to look for something to offend them.

[@thespade3577]

I don't want politics to distract from the story and fun discussions with the fandom. Batman doesn't beat people up for no reason. If you are getting beat up your most likely destroying the city other than that he ties you up. If you are willing to throw hands with a Batman then you're most likely a hardened criminal, serial killer, or just plain stupid. Batman also has access to criminal files so he knows exactly what you did before he beats you.

[@nowlwane9623]

This would be a great in universe story arc

[@johnredden743]

Most of Batman rogues are rich if not outright wealthy. Some even more so than him depending on continuity and who it is.

[@lewisaino]

I mean some can own countries or work for Lex Luthor

[@tiagosales4913]

The opinion is not woke. It's stupid

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

This is probably the one that annoyed me the most, It's just... completely wrong, Clayface was a successful actor, Two face was the district attorney, Mr freeze was a successful scientist. Ras al ghul is rich, he literally owns a castle in most depictions. Joker has never struggled with money, Scarecrow was a successful psychiatrist, Mr zasz was rich before he went crazy. Man bat is similar to mr freeze, Penguin is old money, Off the top of my head the only actually poor character is catwoman, she grew up on the streets. Most of these characters were either born into wealth or had a high paying job, Even solomon bloody grundy was decently wealthy before dying (Not actually a batman villain) Also did the writers of the trailer ever think that rat king was using specific words to manipulate people? It tells a lot about the writer that they would hear that and not think about anything more than "Oh they said some words i liked, they must be trustworthy"

[@lewisaino]

Batman Night Cries already disproves that he doesn't care.

[@JohnWilliams-wl9px]

My favorite homeless person the mob boss Penguin

[@lewisaino]

Literaly forgot about Court of Owls

[@LukeCandelaria]

Or maybe people just don’t enjoy conflict

[@amin2636]

3:18 too many to count but I think the very idea of the character is him being good, giving the wrost of humanity something to fear while inspiring normal ppl to become better

[@murphykitty44]

Perhaps, but how do you know the Wayne Foundation isn’t like Jirard the Completionist’s charity?

[@oceanicvoyager]

Bruce sat with a dying girl while in his batman suit, but still, he sat there until she died. he stayed with her. it's in an animated show.

[@donavan34]

Bruce wayne got charities has houses n keeps hope some of his rogues get rehabilitated

[@Theachivmentsearcher]

Oh yeah batman beat up that poor insane person who killed someone for no reason not that his parents died or anything like that noooo

[@C.R.Cole331]

It always comes from people who think they're really clever and have also never read a Batman comic

[@KitFisto-l5j]

Yep that is really weird I love Batman and his villains

[@Phantomcrustacean]

11:11 I want to comment on this as someone who is familiar with this topic. 1: that material isn’t targeted to anyone it could cause issues for (i.e. children) 2: it’s not pushed by neither it’s audience or the people making it 3: it’s not real it’s a weird ass niche just like baby play (a specific kind of role-playing in the adult scene) it’s weird as fuck, I can’t say I’m comfortable with it, but I’m not gonna wag my finger and say it’s wrong, because it’s not hurting anyone. Love the video though, it makes for an easily accessible source I can point to for dumbasses that don’t understand Batman

[@Joe_Kerr_9797]

I never took the "Batman beats up poor people" argument seriously, I thought it was just a joke, to those that are saying Batman is beating up poor people, they clearly don't understand Batman, In Batman Year One, he mostly goes after rich powerful people.

[@loudtaste1046]

Or he beats up people WHO BREAKS THE LAW

[@emmanuelabalihi5747]

Innapropiate imagery of children would not be okay even in a free speech enthusiast society because that stuff is illegal.

[@robarmstrong5404]

How are you not talking about Arkham Shadow? That gameplay trailer looks awesome.

[@Atticus_Frankle]

I think it would be hilarious to have an adaptation of Batman to just beat up the less fortunate lmao

[@seanwalsh9425]

Pretty sure you're describing Owlman from the Crime Syndicate on Earth 3.

[@RetroGhost_89]

I don't like fellas Slandering the GOAT!

[@carlstites9222]

This is most likely coming from the group that we all cant talk about. I dont think i gotta say who they are

[@thedarktyrant]

Batman beats up some people who happen to be poor, though obviously not all of them are. These people act like he beats them up BECAUSE they are poor which is a completely separate thing.

[@lewisaino]

He beats up criminals that they use their socioeconomic status is different

[@pomesrick]

Why the silence on the Arkham shadow gameplay reveal??

[@JoshMaverick-lv1ms]

Nice rage bait title 😂 10/10

[@yarc9]

Batman whole thing using fear as a weapon to scare out criminals he not about beating up poor people

[@nicis2002]

Some of Batmans villains are rich asf lol it’s funny the take

[@TheListofMrRaguso]

Of all the kinds of people in comics that SHOULD exist, I can't believe the one that does is J Jonah Jameson....

[@DegenerateJay]

Alright, this made me legitimately laugh. Really does feel like he was the one pitching that article 😂

[@themultiversalmagpie7827]

How many episodes of btas should we site of Batman helping criminals?

[@annonjames2433]

When you think about it Batman/bruce Wayne is a billionaire of not a trillionaire. So when he’s beating ass is he not beating up people poorer than him 😂😭 just saying

[@AnthonySmith-bj9mo]

hi Jay

[@dwightnorton3398]

I agree

[@seynpurrp]

OH, YOU WERE SERIOUS!? i thought this was just some comments u were reading about batman.... i didnt know it was another urinalist

[@loccapo]

Flint michigan type activities

[@nazeirsvibingandstuff769]

Hearing that take of Batman beats up the poor people make me confused and think someone is trying to be funny or just being stupid or smoking some substance that you so damn higher than airplane or a rocketship because that's opinion is stupid

[@visionary1138]

PC gamer became politically correct gamer

[@Jerald_witcher]

I bought my first lap top❤

[@justinsider7890]

PC Gamer really going downhill I guess

[@Dylanisa_BasketCase]

Wow 😅 this is just like saying Batman kills

[@yoavbenclaudia3073]

Regarding your comment about censorship, even if the subject of the art is an adult with a disorder/disease that makes them appear younger-unless the subject is a real person, although even that is questionable-there should still be censorship on the fictional. Especially now that AI is a thing, imagine someone making AI art of “grown women” with the body of a child. Why is it excusable if the “artist” declares the art to be an adult in a child’s body? That is the kind of excuse a p3d0 uses to blend in, like the whole MAP thing in the LGBT realm. Sometimes context doesn’t make it better, it just becomes an excuse by the “artists”.

[@ivansleepy4722]

Batman keeps lollipops on his utility belt so that he can give them to kids he saves

[@panoskatrin4910]

Lets be HONEST about this as Batman fans. Whether you like it or not in Frank Miller's "The Dark Returns" ,batman is a fascist. I am a huge batman fan but this interpretation of the character has its roots in the ideals of the fascist Ubermensch and of degeneracy. Its ridiculous to claim that frank miller's work isnt a political one otherwise i am sorry but you dont how to read .Dozens of refrencies within the comic both in the images themselves and how the story is written.Part 1 back in the day was critized for it and miller added a nazi lady to fight batman in the intro part 2 so he can say "no no batman fights a facist he isnt one see?'Even tho the message of the story and character promoted these ideals and way of viewing society! That being said i still enjoy dark knight returns its an amazing work and actually fun to read! But if we are talking about Kevin conroy's batman especially in the animated series i am sorry but most of the time the evil guy is a rich greedy capitalist Even in the arkham games Hugo strange's concept of arkham city could be seen as actually fighting against the fascist concept of how society should function. I think what many people dont understand is that it usually depends on the writing and who is writing the character

[@altalia07]

How can people say he doesn't care about his villains who aren't actually evil when Batman is always criticized for always giving the rogues chances and not killing anybody?

[@locutusofborg7841]

Well compared to Batman/Bruce Wayne everyone is poor people. I don't see Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos donning a costume and defending us at night😂

[@cole6843]

How do you know they're not? That's the point of a secret identity.

[@locutusofborg7841]

@cole6843 Elon Musk couldn't keep a secret he's too full of himself to be secretive or humble. Bezo, now he could possibly be, but he's probably more of a Lex type he's already got the outfit.