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Not to mention that many of the villains are actually people who're experiencing a mental health crisis and need care. Batman has seen the inside of Arkham and yet does nothing to improve the treatment at the facility.
I loved Batman as a kid but have become increasingly disappointed in him as an old.
Many of the villains are literal shark people, plant people, clay people, clown people, crocodile people, or bat people to name a few, there's some leeway in the confinement of them compared to humans.
Are there any non-villains with these supernatural "disabilities", or are the Batman comics ableist, as well?
Edit: No, I don't accept Oracle as a redeeming character for ableism.
Batman has mad PTSD and probably a personality disorder tbh.
Ok, maybe it's not exactly ableist.
But I'm still not ready to pretend that the whole premise Batman wasn't originally based on relied on some quite... let's say authoritarian worldview about a mentally ill, criminal underclass who don't know their proper place in the world.
You are allowed to enjoy old, a bit fucked up things. But let's not pretend they aren't a bit fucked up.