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Batman has always been my hero. Superman was great, but he was a God as much as a Hero, which made him hard to relate to he was more fun to observe in Action (pardon the pun). But Batman’s ‘power’ was that he never touched a gun. Psychology was his other ‘power’ he took the fact that bullies are cowards and turned it into a defensive advantage he fought the criminals he happened upon, but he frightened all of them.
Since he was the first superhero to be camped up and ridiculed by the entertainment industry, I was inured to others’ ridicule of my hero at an early age. Batman, the icon, was the product of the comic book domain, a never never land of the isolated bookworms and thrill seekers of my 1960s childhood. He had a utility belt (another Batman ‘power’) and an orphaned acrobat sidekick, he lived in Wayne Manor; he had a Bat cave and a Bat mobile, and a butler, Alfred.
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No mention was ever made of the difference Batman made to citywide crime statistics, if any he was simply a lone ranger (but without the six shooters). His quest for justice was a personal battle he fought both with criminals and with himself a crusader for good. Compared to the actual ‘Crusaders’ of medieval Europe, he was a saint no conquest, rape, or pillage none of that stuff.
Now the future is today both my early love of science fiction and of comic book heroes have been proved irresistibly popular our TV series’s (even a whole TV channel) dwell on every aspect of science fiction imagined so far. They were led there by the blockbuster movies than began with Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and continue up to today’s premiere of “The Rise Of Batman”. This was, by my count but don’t quote me, the eighth major motion picture featuring Batman, and still it has been mobbed with eager theater goers, the first day of a week end rush that was on deck to break ‘week end gross’ records.
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I’ll accept, for the sake of argument, that some people might just ‘snap’, and turn into frenzied killers, without any link to their past or their upbringing. But there are, if I haven’t been misinformed, always some signs of warning that a perceptive and sensitive person could have gleaned while living in the same house with a young and developing psychotic. Some of the backstories in real life disasters, especially schools shootings, are as chilling as the crimes.
All that aside, there seems to be a very familiar pattern to the vast majority of these disasters.
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