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captpackrat posted...

That's how the original Batman was. I've read Batman: The Dailies, which was a collection of the daily newspaper strips from the 1940s. Nearly all the enemies are regular crooks, like gangsters and mob bosses. The only "super" villain he goes up against is the Joker and even that is only a single story near the end of the run.

I like the Joker because it feels like he was inspired by Batman to put on a persona to give his life meaning, which means Batman was the start of the craziness in the first place, so it's telling a story about what would happen if a vigilante like Batman existed.

And that narrative goes out the window when magic plant sex lady comes in, someone who probably would have existed without Batman, so the narrative becomes "this is what would happen if we lived in a comic book".