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Originally Posted by EnShinNoi
Why can't those with psychosis be heroes? Bruce Wayne has even called himself psychotic. The idea of Batman being his real identity and Bruce Wayne the mask has been played around for long as I've been alive and following Batman stories. Alfred is often the one bringing it up.
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Where Superman and Lex are polar opposites in archetype of brain vs braun, batman and joker are aligned. Both arisen from deep set trauma. One becoming a sheltered shut-in while the other a hyper-sensitive psychotic. Both characters are the same with the exception of rules. The rule of whether or not to take life is the thin line that divides them. The killing Joke, Arkham...they all blatantly explain this.
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Originally Posted by Gothamite
Not interested in this line of discussion bc pyschotics are by definition not heroic.  |
You've advised you are not interested yet injected your opinion as to why you feel you are correct.
Batman is not psychotic as he feels guilt. Psychopathology demands the inflicted not feel empathy or understand the divide of morality. Morality to Batman, although fragmented from societal norms, is still engrained in his archetype. He has a line. He is however driven to project his pain outward through violence and does so on the criminal underworld. This is referenced often as how Bruce "needs" batman. The undertone of the character is that he is driven more by this than justice. when Joker makes the joke with batman at the end of Killing Joke, he is referring to them; two madmen escaping entrapment together. Bound to each other in likeness compared to Lex, a humanitarian, versus an unpredictable alien force.
