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Translator.
Today let's
talk about everyone's favorite bat ... Batman! (I only put three exclamation
points because Ghost Writer forbade me to put more, because the Batman, for his
awesomeness deserves a hundred!)
Official
Background: Batman is the secret identity of Bruce Wayne, an billionaire,
industrialist, and philanthropist. The fact of having witnessed the murder of
his parents as a child, led the young Bruce Wayne to travel the world, trying
to comprehend the criminal mind. Trained all kinds of martial arts and fighting
techniques (the trauma of seeing his parents killed by gunshots made him averse
to firearms), seeking physical and intellectual perfection. Created a uniform
based on the figure that frightened him as a child: the bat. He wanted
criminals to share the same fear. And so began the fight against crime.
Unlike most
superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers; he makes use of intellect,
detective skills, science and technology
and a well prepared physical prowess, in his continuous war on crime.
Divine
Kinship: If Batman existed in the universe of Riordan, he would be a son of
NEMESIS, obviously!!
Why? In the
world of Riordan, Nemesis is the greek/roman goddess of balance, justice,
retribution and revenge. All these features can be found in Batman at some
point in his life.
We can
illustrate times when Batman acts with balance, justice, retribution and / or
revenge. Let us begin by balance; okay, maybe this feature was not the best to
start, after all, he isn’t a very balanced man, let's face it, the guy dress
like a bat and goes out beating street bandits and fugitives of the asylum. But
we can say that he seeks the balance of power in Gotham, after all, he knows
that he will never end all the crime in Gotham, but he fights to suppress it to
the fullest and amortize the influences of bad guys in all the spheres (Public,
Politics, Social, etc) of Gotham.
Batman has
a lot of Justice in him, after all, he never kills his enemies, as it is
against his principles. In the Batman universe, he is one of the few heroes who
don’t faces supervillains, but the insane villains. He does not consider fair
to be Police, Judge and Prosecutor (at the same time), much less think himself
to be worthy of it. He captures his enemies, and deliver them to the justice of
Gotham.
About
Retribution (that would be revenge without hate). We can say that, after his
desire for revenge on the death of his parents calmed, his goals took a more
retributive aspect, where he seeks that the criminals pay for their actions,
repaying their offenses to the collectivity.
And
finally, at last, but not least, the Revenge, one of the characteristics by
which Nemesis is most known of. It is very exemplified in Batman, because, his
main objective, at the beginning of his journey, was largely influenced by his
quest for revenge for the death of his parents, disaster for which he blamed
not the killer himself (even more so because there are many speculations who
really killed his parents, several names were mentioned, in several different
dimensions of comics or movies, etc., but it was never really stated who killed
his parents), but the extreme criminality of
the Gotham streets, an aspect of his life that changed over time.
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