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the pop culture version of bruce wayne is Brooding Angst Angst NO PARENTS I’m A Rich Kid With Parental Issues Who Must Beat People Up To Feel Better About My Childhood Grief

and then there’s canon bruce wayne, the Caring But Exasperated Dad who supports charities and morally upright politicians and liberalism and social reform and opposes corruption within and without his own company and funds and oversees the improvement of conditions and treatments at arkham asylum and wants to help save everyone – even his rogues gallery – and has grown as a person through the love of his five children, whom he took in out of genuine compassion and recognition of the fact that these kids were damaged and needed a loving home and also had the same burning need to do What’s Right as himself and is, though very flawed, overall so much more complex, loving and selfless than he’s commonly perceived by pop culture