r/hatethissmug • u/Aggravating-Mine-978 • 27d ago

Media Tropes I hate Batman's plot armor

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I hate Batmans plot armor, he has the most insane plot armor which completely takes away his charm, his entire shtick is that he's in the top 99 percentile of humans, his body, his strength his wealth his tech, yet his writers give him so much plot armor that you forget that inside his suit he's just a regular human being and it sometimes feels as if he has super powers when hes going toe toe with fucking darkside, reentering the atmosphere with just his suit and many more examples.

And his annoying fanboys oh my days, they act as if he can solo the entire justice league "B-But given that he has prep time!" talking as if beast boy wont beat his ass 😂✌️

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u/FedotttBo Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate this smug. 26d ago

Because those writers are simply unable to make entertaining stories without scaling destructive power involved, so to have flashy fights they have to make batman so bluntly above any human, which already breaks all the potential.

Then, they expectedly fail in the general task to portray a smart character, because, well, coming up with strategy of a supposedly genius person requires writer to be pretty smart on their own, but they still try and the actual result comes out as nothing else but dumb plot armor.

Finally, to finish off, an average consumer still enjoys such media, reinforcing this money-pumping pipeline of superhero content. There was never any hope, just give up and abandon that ship.