submitting this edit again to convince people to read batman: dark patterns, a series that mirrors gotham's continuous malady with batman's own repeating habits of self-destruction
wondering if bruce (and the rest of the bat family) regularly have to take PrEP against rabies bc of their exposure to bats...but bruce probably makes sure none of the bats in the cave are ill🤔
the discussion around how certain architecture is literally manufactured to kill peoples drive, his grapple with his urge to enact violence being smth intrinsic vs manipulated by outside forces, and if he feels relieved for the excuse the latter provides him, this entire sequence