Aside wherever wokeness and the apex god tier plot armor modern day Batman has. The character is just inhuman now. He is written as always being "one step ahead", no one can even get a hit on him and he's gone completely sociopath. Older written Bruce Wayne was still a guy at the end of the day, trying to have relationships and a life. Older Wayne also would make mistakes, walk into traps, get captured, and even the Penguin could get a few strikes on him.
No he's just unstoppable and can defeat Superman is a even one on one. His Bat Computer needs to go too because all his detective work is done for him on a machine instead of investigating crime scenes himself.
Thank you for reading my stupid rant, hope you guys have a nice day and hopefully have something fun to do.
Comic book continuities always seem to disappear up their own asses after too much time. They just can't let hit characters die or ride off into the sunset.
Batman Beyond was so good at that. In the later comics Wayne passes away, quietly in bed too I think. Then Terry McGinnis and Tim Drake continue on with Drake taking on Wayne's role as the logistical support.
Batman beyond would’ve been perfect if it wasn’t for the weird ass inclusion of the Barbara Gordon x Bruce Wayne relationship that….is just simply disgusting in every aspect
Barbara x Bruce is Bruce Timm's ship that he tries to stick in to a Batman story when he can get away with it. He did it in the Killing Joke movie as well.
Wasn't Barbera bat girl in that universe?
Conversely, I think Gotham was a step in the right direction too. Expanding into the past and focusing on Gordon's early career, dipping into new unexplored territory while still retaining some of the more classic Batman themes and nostalgia.
Then there's the more recent and awful attempts at making it about something Batman adjacent, but not actually Batman. Where they're quite blatantly positioning characters to take over his role while doing everything they can to belittle and tear down everything about his character, quite clearly reflecting the woke-mindset about everything else in society.
The perpetual continuation of the setting and the characters is the root issue with the whole of Marvel and DC. They don't actually have stories to tell, only franchises to sell.
Of course the story is going to be shit when you don't actually have a story.
this is what happens when the publishers own the ips
The Phantom solved this by each Phantom being a son of the previous one. So there could be episodes set in different time periods etc.