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Anon is a comic book critic

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The riddler is just a narcissist

The penguin is just short fat and ugly

Harley Quinn is just a ditz

The joker is just a sociopath

Catwoman (more of an anti hero than a villain) is just a dommy mommy

Mr freeze is just a smart dude with a dead wife

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- I mean, yeah. Like ninety percent of Batman’s rogues gallery are just mob bosses with a gimmick. He’s a street level superhero, that’s about how much you can reasonably take on when your superpowers are martial arts and money.
  
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  I dunno, Iron Man is pretty much just the money part without the martial arts, and he fought Thanos.
  
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- And Batman is just a rich orphan
  
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- Riddler is a smart narcissist and in latest versions, apparently a twitch streamer. I find that part hilarious
  
  Penguin is rich as hell and pretty much the only one who could rival Batman in terms of monetary power
  
  Catwoman got athletics. Counts for something I guess.
  
  And Mr Freeze is intensely augmented by his technology to a point of pseudo immortality and having a good mastery over his unique weapons. Honestly Mr Freeze is highly irregular
  
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  I think that's the interesting thing about batman. He's just a dude.
  
  Granted, he has a lot of money, but at the end of the day, he's just a dude, that enjoys solving mysteries. He's a hobbyist detective.
  
  So yeah, all his villains are going to have similar abilities (Later they had the clay guy and croc and people with actual super powers). But the idea was for a guy that just liked solving crime.
  
  And you have to make that memorable and go in on what's vogue at the time - so they made him have this whole bat identity. And ok, that adds an interesting back story, and similarly the villains need to be memorable too, but not super-powered.
  
  So the villains, are some of the most interesting because they can't just do something because their super-powers granted them the ability, they have to actually think and plan and have interesting motives.
  
  And two-face is either an agent of chaos or presldestination. And to my knowledge they never explore that, it's open to your interpretation.
  
  Edit: batman also came out at a time when mental illness was really starting to affect society. Back in the day if you were mentally ill, they just called it evil, and put you to death. But then people started examining stuff like that and say "Hey, we might be able to help these people." So then you have the state-run looney bins which is rich soil for batman-type villains.
  
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- Killer Croc is just a crocodile.
  
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  Bane is just a disabled veteran
  
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To be fair, Anton Chigurh also flipped a coin to decide people's fate, and that dude was fucking terrifying. And he didn't even use a gun. Most of the time, anyway.

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- The concept was the same, dude's essentially just one guy that anyone could kill, but he was always in the shadows just out of reach of Gotham PD. Wait...
  
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- Irrelevant to what? The picture?
  
  Time wasting? No such thing when it comes to channers
  
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He's just having fun and being chaotic. No need to be specifically evil with goals.

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- Flipping a coin and abiding by its decision seems more rule oriented than chaotic to me
  
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  Interesting edge case. He’s following this rule strictly but it’s based on chaos.
  
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The Riddler is a criminal whose MO is to leave clues behind. That makes him worse than an ordinary criminal.

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How am I supposed to consider his position when that is anon's profile picture? Is he expecting to be taken seriously?

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- >profile picture
  
  Not sure how to be adequately enough condescending
  
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  Wtf is with all these weeby 4channers and their anime pfps?
  
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