Yikes. Read the first few chapters expecting something good only to be met with the same generic villain protagonist concept and with the usual sociopathic tendencies and God complex
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LIKEYes. By chapter 3 it is revealed that the MC maintains an impressive roster of hos. While this habit has tremendous narrative weight, it receives almost no screen time after the scene that established his operating procedures. If you are asking about the romantic subgenre of harem then the answer is no. The female lead is Dupli-Kate. Hela Odinsdottir and Powergirl are potential side chicks.
UrAverageSkeleton:one question before i read….is this a harem?
JManM:Yes. By chapter 3 it is revealed that the MC maintains an impressive roster of hos. While this habit has tremendous narrative weight, it receives almost no screen time after the scene that established his operating procedures. If you are asking about the romantic subgenre of harem then the answer is no. The female lead is Dupli-Kate. Hela Odinsdottir and Powergirl are potential side chicks.
Are you being serious? Is Batman really an anti-hero? Why? His conduct seems entirely impeccable. I can't think of a single time he did anything villainous to achieve a greater good. He specially refuses to break any eggs to make his omelets.
Swisstoast:Dude, you only used antihero and high IQ to describe the MC in the tags. Batman is literally considered an antihero. So stop hiding behind tags to deflect accurate criticism.
TV tropes for some reason considers Batman an antihero. Antihero is too broad a term regardless. Literally, anybody can be an antihero apparently.
JManM:Are you being serious? Is Batman really an anti-hero? Why? His conduct seems entirely impeccable. I can't think of a single time he did anything villainous to achieve a greater good. He specially refuses to break any eggs to make his omelets.
Its ridiculous. People try to claim he is an anti-hero because being a super hero is against the law and he is scary. Its a joke. Being a hero is about morality, not legality. And scaring people isn't immoral. If the cops had to fight these guys it would be constant shoot outs. Batman holds the absolute moral high ground. He's a dude who dedicated his life to being overly theatrical while performing citizen's arrests on violent criminals. Punisher is an anti-hero. Deadpool is an anti-hero. Han Solo was an anti-hero before Disney got a hold of him. Batman is a hero. No anti about it.
Swisstoast:TV tropes for some reason considers Batman an antihero. Antihero is too broad a term regardless. Literally, anybody can be an antihero apparently.
Batman will literally break all of someone's bones becuase they did drugs once. he almost kills cops on the daily because they try to arrest him. their has been multiple versions of him were he literally kills everyone on earth.
JManM:Its ridiculous. People try to claim he is an anti-hero because being a super hero is against the law and he is scary. Its a joke. Being a hero is about morality, not legality. And scaring people isn't immoral. If the cops had to fight these guys it would be constant shoot outs. Batman holds the absolute moral high ground. He's a dude who dedicated his life to being overly theatrical while performing citizen's arrests on violent criminals. Punisher is an anti-hero. Deadpool is an anti-hero. Han Solo was an anti-hero before Disney got a hold of him. Batman is a hero. No anti about it.
Okay, so if your MC is a villain why use the anti hero tag?
JManM:Its ridiculous. People try to claim he is an anti-hero because being a super hero is against the law and he is scary. Its a joke. Being a hero is about morality, not legality. And scaring people isn't immoral. If the cops had to fight these guys it would be constant shoot outs. Batman holds the absolute moral high ground. He's a dude who dedicated his life to being overly theatrical while performing citizen's arrests on violent criminals. Punisher is an anti-hero. Deadpool is an anti-hero. Han Solo was an anti-hero before Disney got a hold of him. Batman is a hero. No anti about it.
Though I think most people get confused because Mark doesn't make excuses ever. I don't think he has ever even apologized in this story. Basically, readers are poorly trained to expect some kind of breakdown or teary eyed explanation of why the MC has to do bad things to produce good results, and Mark just doesn't do that. Everyone who reviews that Mark is a villain are just people who didn't make it out of the early chapters to see the pay offs.
Arron_:Okay, so if your MC is a villain why use the anti hero tag?
Right okay, thanks for clarifying.
JManM:Though I think most people get confused because Mark doesn't make excuses ever. I don't think he has ever even apologized in this story. Basically, readers are poorly trained to expect some kind of breakdown or teary eyed explanation of why the MC has to do bad things to produce good results, and Mark just doesn't do that. Everyone who reviews that Mark is a villain are just people who didn't make it out of the early chapters to see the pay offs.
Batman was literally killing anyone and everybody he met in the earlier comics before they change it because “it was too dark and promoted violence to children reading comics”
JManM:Are you being serious? Is Batman really an anti-hero? Why? His conduct seems entirely impeccable. I can't think of a single time he did anything villainous to achieve a greater good. He specially refuses to break any eggs to make his omelets.