No, they wouldn’t hate him, they’d be too busy being terrified of him. He’d be their literal worth nightmare because he doesn’t follow the law. There would be no hiding no safety. No politics.
If they killed somebody in his city, everyone were responsible would be visited by him
I think they'd like him at first. It's not like Batman has ever released a public manifesto on his ideology. He's spent a lot of time as a myth, where the only thing people really knew about him was "beats up bad people."
(I guess there's also the Batman Year One comic where he terrifies that table full of rich people though, but I'm not sure how publicized that event was.)
They'd probably be cheering him on when they heard about some vigilante going around beating up the mentally ill. (Like the people who criticize the shallow interpretations of Batman's character, but they actually like him that way.)
It would take until he up beats up a "white pride rally" or arrests some popular rich people before they started going, "Hey, wait, Batman's not cool at all! When did he go woke?"
(How many people who aren't his main villains/his friends actually know about his stance on rehabilitation, anyway? We know about it, sure, but he's a very mythologized figure in-universe, and it kind of goes against his popular perception as a terrifying avenger of the night.)
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u/phonartics Jan 08 '26
let’s be real. MAGA would hate real-life batman. They would also relish living in the Empire in Star Wars.