lorewise why is everyone in Gotham City such unhinged lunatics?
Ancient curse.
>>150127886the one on the left is worse for complying with lex luthor potentially making a black hole on earth
>>150127906Would have been better to have no answer
>>150127965I'm sure you'd be fine with it had it been a white hole, you bigot.
>>150127886Metropolis is like an idealised Hollywood version of New York in the 1950s. Gotham is like a sensationalised tabloid version of New York of the late 1970s. The difference in the real world was economic collapse, for them to both exist in the same world I guess Gotham just never recovered, like Detroit.
>>150127886Probably the fact that supervillains have been gassing the citizenry with fear toxin and laughing gas for a few decades.
>>150127886The city is just fucking cursed.
>>150127886Multiple curses, several hell portals and their respective cults, residual pure evil energy from the future, several portals to places as bad or worse than hell and their respective cults, multiple evil gods and demons have lived there, the entire city is a clusterfuck of toxins and other chemical and biological horrors, constant hauntings, etc etc etc
>>150127886Gotham's water is contaminated
>>150127906Pretty much.
>>150127886who cares
>>150127886Metropolis sends all their homeless to Gotham with a one way bus ticket.Just like how all the red states send them to California.
>>150128017So if it's like Detroit then does that mean that all whites left and now blacks turned it into a jungle?
>>150127886>city was built over a cursed swamp>there's a cult to an ancient bat god manipulating the city's history from the shadows (the city's founder may have been part of the bat god's cult actually)>there's also multiple assassin societies manipulating the city's history from the shadows>multiple crime families fighting for control of the underworld>multiple chemical companies illegally dumping chemical waste (and also having no OSHA)>just regular police corruption>mental health service is also corrupt and incompetent>in fact I am pretty sure no public service works in GothamHonestly Goham has many reasons to be a shithole, both natural and supernatural, but the real reason is that it's because it was based on New Jersery and that's why Gothamite are assholes.
>>150128417What the fuck is wrong with metropolis's right hand
>>150128442They're not homeless if they can live in the endless inexplicably large abandoned tunnels and warehouse district, its a whole pocket dimension of squalid creepy hideouts>>150128474Gotham still has something resembling an economy instead of vacant lots with grass and ruble in them
>>150128017Sensationalized? I think you underestimate how shitty NYC was in the 70’s.
>>150127886The city doesn't get any sun
>>150127965Wasn't she literally instrumental to taking him down?
>>150128293Gotham Public Utilities never had the money to replace all those lead pipes.
Has Bruce Wayne ever donated money to Arkham Asylum?
>>150131826With how Gotham is essentially implied to be build on top of older versions of itself, I would be surprised if parts of the water system still use old pipes that no one actually knows how to get to.
>>150131861He's basically the only reason it's still running.
>>150128417Metropolis is kind of plain compared to Paris and Gotham, I feel like she should be more futuristic looking
>>150128442Does that mean Gotham pays for 90% of Metropolis's funding and social services while Metropolis contributes nothing but lazy welfare cows?
>>150131903Yes
>>150128987>>150127886>>150127906>>150131865In "Arkham Asylum: Living hell" it is revealed that Gotham, specifically Arkham itself, is built directly over a portal to hell. It's supposedly sealed, but not very well.
>>150127906>>150128055>>150128264>>150128288>>150128293>>150128987>>150131976See. This shit is stupid.It makes Batman fucking stupid.It justifies every single Villain who has tried destroying Gotham.Batman is wasting his time and will never accomplish anything.On the flip side the Joker might be the only sane man in Gotham because he is playing into the logic of Gotham.
>>150132025I'm reading this post with the Oney Linkara voice btw
>>150132025wow that's a lot of faggy wordstoo bad I'm not faggy reading 'em
>>150127985This. Bad stuff should happen just because bad people exist. That's it
>>150128417>Nowhere ColoradoMesa Verde isn't nowhere
I'm more wondering why Gotham has so many abandoned carnivals/ice cream factories/gardens/etc.
>>150132073>>150132131NTA but is he not wrong.
>>150127987Unironically a bigot managed to do the same thing Lex tried without destroying the Earth.
>>150131903Wayne Industries has the same accountants as Lex Corp, they aren't paying shit in taxes. And the tax base in Metropolis is far healthier than Gotham.
>>150127886Because a superhero needs villains to fight.
>>150127985Yep. But comics has a long history of explaining shit that should not be explained until we get the speed force, punch dimension, and green door, etc. etc.
>>150127965She's retarded anon, basically a child, or a pet. What the fuck is she gonna do? Riddler was smart and a human.
>>150127886>copy Zodiac for your version of Riddler>all we know about Zodiac is that he's a shameless, unabashed narcissist who got off on flaunting his perceived superiority and attention he received>which fits Riddler>except this version of Riddler doesn't feel like that at all, doesn't taunt anybody or come off as a haughty attention whore, just a random socially challenged incelWhat's even the fucking point then?
>>150132025It sounds cool if you're doing a supernatural focused story you're only gonna read every halloween, should be ignored otherwise especially when making an adaptation aimed at normiesbasically like an elseworld story
>>150136255To make fun of incels
>>150128417Gotham is literally a demon, any gothamite knowing this information would be packing their stuff immediatly.
>>150128055Smylex in the drinking water makes the frogs gay
>>150128417This was the single one time when a Wildstorm character was actually cleverly incorporated into the nu52.
>>150131861He once even moved the whole fucking thing into his own manor.
>>150128288>residual pure evil energy from the futureOk, no, you have to explain this one.
>>150127965She was too afraid to break up with him after what happened to his ex
>>150127906I always find it funny that this is canon but somehow Bludhaven is also even worse.
>>150128417Did you read the City Boy mini from a few years ago?
>>150127886You got a person taking a selfie as fucking chaos goes on in background.I'd say both are unhinged if people got so used to supes as to take selfies and eat hotdogs during 9/11 tier events.
>>150138277Considering the Darkseid cult, that bat should be in Gotham.
>>150138277>Bludhaven is the BatAlright, what the fuck.
>>150127906It's probably the lazarus pit in the catacombs leaking into the water supply.>>150132025>>150132073If Batman ever wanted to make Gotham a better place. He'd have stopped being Batman and started flexing his power as Bruce Wayne exclusively, a long time ago.
>>150139627See that's harder when every mentally ill schmuck has access to drug cartel levels of weaponry at the least. A big issue with applying real world logic to how "Bruce could fix the problems" is this. Yeah you could take down someone like Cobblepot or Sionis by creating rehab clinics and job programs but then insane plant bitch, murder clown, clue autismo, and freeze ray guy come along with either their ridiculous powers or inexplicably obtained expensive military grade equipment and fucks up the created jobs and rehab clinics.You could get universal healthcare passed, but then one-eyed ninja mercenary blows it up during a dick measuring contest with really good shoot guy.And that's just within Gotham. Imagine fixing public transit only for space Hitler's bug army to destroy the fucking buses and trains
>>150131976I'm kinda surprised there was never a Buffy The Vampire Slayer crossover, or a slayer becoming a new DC character with a suspiciously-similar backstory to the "In every generation, a layer is born, a woman granted supernatural strength, speed, and agility to fight back against the forces of darkness" origin story. ...and maybe Damien getting a crush after losing a fight to her.
>>150128442Those fuckers are sending them here to Florida as well. More every month. The news has the fuckin audacity to say Florida has a homeless problem. We have a blue-state homeless INFLUX problem. At least 50% of these fuckers are blue-state cast-offs.
>>150137305South Jersey is cursed with Philadelphia Eagles fans.
>>150138277I know how this is gonna sound, but I didnt like that city boy wore shoes.
>>150135326>>150131903>>150139920>>150128442But what is gotham's tax policy?
>>150127906https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batman:_Dark_Knight,_Dark_Cityand alsohttps://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Gotham_CathedralBut someone probably understands the lore better than me.
>>150137305You're right, that is funny.
>>150132025A curse doesn't "justify" shit. It EXPLAIN some things, but a crime is still a crime.These fuckers can help themselves, they just choose to be assholes. Nothing they do is involuntary.
>>150127965>>150135685did you miss the part where every single photo of her "just an airhead taking selfies, uwu!" was actually collecting evidence?
>>150127886Idk
>>150127886it's all those open vats of chemicalspeople either fall in and transform into a supervillain or they get loopy from all the fumes
>>150127886I bet Gotham has a fucking INSANE music scene
>>150140444That's incidental, she's just a retard.
>>150143993Has a Batman comic ever gone into that?
>>150144976probably not
