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Batman, can't win real-world battles.
In magical superhero history, the most abstract stories take place in reality. I don't know if the American comic giants have ever thought that the hottest superhero COS will one day not be birthday children and sexy girls, but a group of troll anchors who challenge the results of anthropological research.
A few years ago, Batman lost his stage name in China, and he changed from Batman to a transliterated Baitman. This sounding like the name of the thermos brand, with just the right earthy flavor, a little more foreign, it will be out of touch with what it describes.
Baitman is a Kuaishou streamer, and he was originally a member of the Tiger Brother/Knife Brother group. At that time, they were clowns and (moneyless) penguins in the field of short videos, and like these two, there was no shortage of fans, relying on all kinds of ruthlessness to attract attention. And Bathman stands out because... Who wears that mask and still doesn't stand out?
On the Internet, the legend of Baitman is circulating, and the most famous is this gif of the dark knight reborn from the ashes.
Upside down
Bateman turned "biting lighter" into forbidden performance art, he had no knowledge of chemistry, but perfectly used the principle of butane expansion and re-combustion to offer a flame - nearly a hundred years earlier, Bathman may not have fought criminals in Gotham, but worked with Oppenheimer to develop Dr. Manhattan in New Mexico.
But Bathman is already a Japanese Internet celebrity, and we certainly won't repeat his story today. If you've only seen Bathman biting a lighter, you've missed a lot, because the Dark Knight has risen from generation to generation, and Bathman's image has been constantly copied and attacked into online culture, just like the manga "The Dark Knight Returns", riding a horse with a group of juniors charging Mr. Wayne.
Bathman in the world, whispered.
Where did the original Bathman go? Why did he wear a Batman hood to live?
The Baateman who bites the lighter is known as the original Bathman. In fact, there have always been rumors in the market: the original Bathman and the later known Bathman are not the same person, the two are brothers, and there are slight differences in mouth.
This conspiracy theory was born because the original Bathman's style was too raw, he was the mainstay of the ruthless era, and even biting the lighter was just a joke. The original Baxterman, who challenged the top of the human body several times, pinched beer cans in his hands, opened durians on his head, punched cement walls, swallowed large intestines raw... The only consolation is that he didn't go the old eight, otherwise the stock prices of Wayne Group and Warner would have fallen by 80%.
But later, he was fisted fiercely, and the balloon was deflated and lost all its sharpness. Cruel Bathman has become a foodie Bathman, who can only show mustard in front of the camera every day, eat bowl noodles and be buttoned on the head, breaking the prevention of crying.
So Bathman began to reap sympathy, and people said: Look, he's like a bankrupt Batman, who can only live on his whole life, and he is kind and sad.
To clarify: Batman has gone bankrupt countless times, but given that the rich young master is his least valuable identity, and the Wayne Group is his least valuable property, each bankruptcy only makes his combat effectiveness surge.
But some of the sadness was true, at that time, someone interviewed Bathman and seemed to finally dig up the story behind the mask.
It turned out that he was live broadcast because he had a disease of the ear and congenital cirrhosis, and he wanted to take money to treat the disease, intending to quit when he earned money for medicine. Initially, his Kuaishou account could still receive advertisements, a 2,000 yuan, but he sold it for 250,000 yuan in 17 years, and the money was used to buy stocks, all lost to Penguin.
Bathman, whose fate is worse than Spider-Man, is so downcast that he opens his mouth to beg when he sees people and friends. He answered various questions honestly, saying that he didn't actually watch Batman at all, and wore a mask entirely because he felt too humiliating to shoot the video at first; He also said that the truth he has realized over the years is that it is difficult to do without money, and second, he can't do this line of work.
The real world Bathman, because of poverty, attacks on dignity and the top of the human body.
Later, he accidentally leaked the address of the bat cave and was recognized by the people around him, which had a huge impact on his life. He lost his mask in the ditch and spent 500 yuan to let Robin go into the water but failed, only to make Bruce Wayne's appearance and comeback.
However, in Gotham, no one does not collapse, not even Baitman.
After the mask falls, the magic is lost, and everyone discovers that Bathman is not only physically weak, but also has a worrying character. He will connect with the female anchor, insult the other party, and then report it backhand after the other party breaks the defense and scolds. Later, he revealed that his money was gone not because of stock speculation, but because of online gambling.
To add insult to injury, Baitman's old friends have exposed that Bateman is not only gambling, but also same-sex clubs. Because Bathman has the good of Longyang and has a disordered private life, he was almost hammered for secretly touching the "Shenyang Bain" tiger brother.
Shenyang Bain
Bateman did not deny this, initially everyone was very tolerant of his orientation, who knew that he began to pull up wild male anchors, known as "Damian (son of Batman) manufacturing plan". Because of his excessive use of words and excessive behavior, he was complained that he was more disgusting than the laughing bat, further ruining the popularity of passers-by.
How big the scale is, you can see for yourself
At this moment, even the people who snorted Batman/Superman CP were silent.
From the ruthless Batlman, to the foodie Bateman, to the guy Baitman - by now, everyone has iterated for Bateman three times, and it is time for him to rest.
Baterman opened an era of abstract grassroots superheroes, whether in Europe or the United States, superhero masks no longer belong to mutants, but to perverts. The skinny Captain America, the Spider-Man who takes off his pants in public, the Gotham nightmare that scolds people live, and the B-station cancel... A new era has arrived.
Reward the captain and remember this man
Today, Bathman has been forgotten, but the clown is in full swing. .com he left Gotham Gotham, every day on Douyin Chami, the video praised 1W+, leaving a satirical ending for the story of the original Bathman.
By the way, Gotham Nightmare was a fake when he played the piano
Fantasy Batman, full of spirit.
The genuine Batman is the card of DC and Warner, and the sales of comics have been in the TOP 10 all year round. Because of Frank Miller and Alan Moore, it touched the ceiling of commercial comics; Because of Tim Burton and Nolan, it shows the deepest side of the aesthetics and connotations of commercial films.
Batman in Gotham City is high, but in recent years, the wings of the banknote have allowed him to fly too high, so that many people only see distant bats and mistakenly think that they see through everything under the mask.
Today, Batman's most out-of-the-loop meme is: "My superpower? Rich. "The public has begun to be misled into forgetting that Batman is a hero who symbolizes breaking classes.
Every week of rotation of the earth, at least 10 people discover "shocking secrets that no one has ever discovered" - it turns out that Batman is the culprit, he represents the capital of hypocrisy, and would rather wear Halloween costumes to beat up a group of weirdos who keep escaping from prison than spend money to really improve Gotham's class problems - in their eyes, Batman and Bathman are the representatives of the poles, although Baitman is not an idealized label of "poverty".
But in the eyes of Batman fans, this is a daily painful period that has lasted for half a century. They can't figure out where the rumor that Batman is the king of Gotham, came from?
Because according to various mainstream settings, Batman's Wayne family is just one of the many bigwigs in Gotham City. In the past decade, there are members whose wealth is comparable to Bruce's Owl Court, secretly controlling Gotham; Earlier, Gotham's wealth was diverted by various corrupt officials and gangsters.
Fallen Gotham is not the only opponent, and more powerful obstacles come from outside. For example, in the reference comic "No Man's Land" of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises", Gotham was not isolated after Bane blew up the bridge, but because of the chaos caused by the earthquake, he was asked to isolate by the US government, the rich were evacuated, and the poor died.
Batman, as Bruce Wayne, confronted the US government alone, but could not turn the tide, Gotham was expelled from the United States and allowed to perish, so Batman dressed and went to war.
The Wayne Group is the only rich man willing to fight them, and it is thanks to the efforts of the Wayne father and son that Gotham's economy has not collapsed, and it has built orphanages, health care and affordable transportation systems. Asking Batman to donate all his wealth to the poor people of Gotham is tantamount to asking the only knight willing to fight for us to sell his armor and put it at the feet of the enemy so that we can go and pick it up and sell it for bread.
Batman is a hero who crosses classes. So he went bankrupt again and again in his works; So in the Dark Knight trilogy, Nolan modified Frank Miller's practice scene, so that Batman not only practiced martial arts before his debut, but also personally experienced several years of poor life, starved with them, was forced by life to steal together, and then was arrested, and was unjustly beaten by law enforcers in prison.
So Batman can have countless plug-ins and settings, but he can't have superpowers, he must be a mortal among the gods, a hero belonging to the human class.
So the best Batman works always emphasize again and again: "Batman is not someone, he is an idea and symbol." So the poor-born third-generation Robin can wear a Batsuit, the middle-class Sheriff Gordon can also become Batman, and Bruce's rich father can also become Batman.
Gordon's version of Batman makes people giggle
In the fantasy world, Batman is perfect, he has a lot of money, but he is willing to fight for Gotham's most Bathman-like person - in the early comics, the attitude of Gotham citizens towards Batman is extremely foul, because readers can't stand this group of miscreants, and the later shaping changes.
Bathman on earth, make a comeback.
The nest of foodie Bathman, after all, has no life, the freshness is over, the hood is off, no one treats him as Batman, no one believes that his misery is because of his life. Every time this title appears, there are always bat fans who come out and angrily denounce it for tarnishing the original characters.
There are more and more people who support the concept of Batman, abstract anchors are difficult to put on the stage, and people who try to imitate the original Bathman have been attacked by the audience and censorship, and have never been reproduced until now.
Today, the fifth generation of Bathman debuts.
However, five generations ago, it was the fourth generation of Bathman "Elegant Batman". Dressed in a suit and bat mask, he barbecued elegantly in the courtyard, occasionally pretending to bite a lighter, but shook his head and smiled before he opened his mouth, telling the audience that the era of cruelty was over, like a prophet guiding the coming of the future.
Prepare the ingredients
Enjoy your meal
And the fifth generation of Bathman "Kung Fu Batman Cow Brother", sitting on station B with millions of videos, he is twice the size of the original Bathman, he is also ruthless, but the direction is different, he bends a wrench in front of the screen, splits a baseball bat, and cuts through an iron plate with a poker.
Although everyone understands that these are just quacks, most of the performances go beyond the limits of the human body. The rebar is strong enough to resist earthquakes, even the real Batman can't twist, and the cow bone has cracked before it is split.
But the performance of the fifth generation Bathman is still impressive, just by holding a bucket of water (20kg) in each hand, the purity is high enough, and he can lift three barrels with one hand. In addition, there are performances that are difficult to tell whether they are fake, such as tearing off a corner of a thick book with your bare hands or pinching an apple with one hand.
The fifth generation of Bathman's respect for Batman's IP is also far greater than the original generation. He always puts some superhero masks on the wall and gives some inexplicable funny titles, such as "Batman tears steel bars and prepares for Superman", or calls the video of splitting (green) bricks "Batman tears kryptonite in order to save Superman".
The name Baitman has finally become an uplifting word in the real world, no longer associated with clowns.
No one watched the superhero movie, but the reputation of the abstract superhero second creation began to reverse. Not only Bateman, the previously mentioned reward captain, but now also put down the clown mask, began to work hard, adjust the diet, dress carefully, go to watch his recent video, you will also unexpectedly find -
- Oh, he's starting to indulge in women's COS, okay skip this.
The era of a superhero clown begins to end, thankfully, goodbye, lighter Bathman.
Fantasy Batman, embarrassed.
Why has Batman become more and more likely to be regarded as a Joker in recent years? People laughed at his principle of not killing, and many years ago, the creators would use a divine work like "Heaven Come" to refute it, but now, the spit is like a flood.
"Kingdom of Heaven": The old generation of superheroes is forced to retire, and the new generation of superheroes no longer agrees with its ideas, and begins to fight violence with violence, killing decisive stories, a profound fable about the collision of different concepts of justice.
Because the tall Batman is no taller than a cash cow. In fact, the story of Batman ended shortly after his debut, all villains have an ending, and Wayne has successfully retired. But the temptation of money forced him to go out again, continued and restarted by authors of different levels, as long as there is still money to be made, the battle he set off in the name of justice is not allowed to return to calm.
So in recent years, Batman has cried embarrassedly, and also found that his biological father is actually alive, but in the next second he saw him headshot again, like a harlequin wrapped in traffic and trying his best to perform. The screenwriters who wrote these stories were sprayed with bodyguards to prevent retaliation, but even so, the creation continued because there was still oil and water to be squeezed out.
Young Master Wayne is not always a deeply dark hero either, and for a while, he was a famous comedian. Because the social environment at that time determined that comedy comics could sell more money, Batman danced the mantle of the Joker in order to achieve higher sales and ratings.
Batman, fighting for the passbook of the upper class.
If the original Bathman insulted the name of Batman, where is the root of this name?
In Gotham.
Since its birth in 1938, all Batman works have to write Bob Kane's name in the author's column. For a long time, Bob was the sole creator, he received all the dividends, and he was the super rich man made by Batman.
But these 10 years of Batman's works have another creator's name: Bill Finger. Because after more than 80 years of struggle, DC finally admits that more than half of Batman's ownership was stolen by Bob Kane from Bill Finger.
Bob Kane's Batman is a character that imitates Superman, the bat mask, black clothes, cable guns, and even the style of detective novels, characters without superpowers, all from Bill Finger, many of the villains we are familiar with, are also his creations.
Bob Edition
Bill version
Bill Finger worked for Bob Kane as a ghost writer for many years, taking a meager salary to create Batman comics under Bob's name, and finally died alone in an unknown life in a small Manhattan apartment half a century ago, only to be discovered a few days later. At the same time, Batman, who is high above, leaps into the night, punishes evil and promotes good, drops a large amount of money, and falls towards Gotham.
If you're a Batman fan, you've probably heard this infamous story. Unfortunately, when Bathman bites the lighter, Batman fans are discovering more of Bob Kane's story, and they find that in recent years, through the research of handwriting analysis experts, a variety of letters, and the records of comic book bigwigs of the same period, they have found that more than Bill Finger has been buried.
Bob Kane hired a number of ghost writers who received the most mundane pay, and their names never appeared in the author column. Joker, Two-Face, Quick-Freeze, Penguin... They are all descendants of unknown creators.
And Bob Kane's own creation, the legendary novella that created Batman's IP, proved to be completely plagiarism. He uses Bill Finger's character, and then the plot is copied from a noir novel in a local stall magazine "The Shadow" a year ago, various crises, turning points, scene design, and even the murderer who left the clown playing card at the crime scene, all the same as Batman's opening story.
clown
Not only the story, but many scenes in this short story are also drawn - some American comic bigwigs are not surprised by this, and Julius Schwartz, one of DC's most well-known editors, quipped that Bob Kane never painted.
Even this one...
This is the story of Batman in reality and fantasy. Batman can't win real-world battles, and most of the time, he can only become a money-making tool for Gotham rich people, or Gotham poor people sell ugly holsters.
Whether we like to accept it or not, the lighter-biting Bathman is destined to be born, destined to clash with this high-ranking hero, and then merge into this pool of sulfuric acid called reality that none of them can get rid of.
But don't forget the meaning that the nameless, subsequent creators gave him. They wrote the motto on paper: Batman is an idea, a symbol, he can be anyone, but always a hero who transcends class and will give his life for everything Gotham; Children believe in him, some young people believe in him, and sometimes, adults believe in him.
The appearance of the idea is a mask, what is seen through the mask, what is hidden under the mask, what is done with the mask, cannot be controlled, and countless variables will be generated, conflicting with each other, for people to choose.
So when the bat lights come on in Gotham, look up through the clouds, what do you choose to see?
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