Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20160822213306/@comment-25692211-20171109064745

Because Batman's movies/games/shows are so popular, WB tend to repeat certain story decisions to play it safe. When they're not forcing Joker to the centre stage of a Batman story, they'll be forcing Batman to the centre stage of a Justice League story. And it's never for an actual story reason, it's just because Batman/Joker is popular, and ironically doing often makes them less popular.

For example, I didn't really like the second Injustice game's story. The first one was great because it was clearly focused on Regime-Superman's struggle to do the right thing, and the climax is ultimately a literal battle between the good and bad sides of Superman (since they bring the original Superman into this dimension to fight Regime-Superman). I feel the reason they treated Regime-Superman so sympathetically here is because Man Of Steel was released the same year and clearly meant to be the big success of 2013.

But since MOS was neither critically or commercially as successful as they thought it would be, WB just had this huge shift where they just decided to make everything about Batman. He was brought front-and-centre into the Man Of Steel sequel (which even tried to set up Injustice so that Batman could be the hero again) and is basically made the leader of all recent Justice League stories. Hell, they even made him a member of the Justice League Dark in the animated adaptation, who Batman is usually never associated with unless they team up with the actual JL.

Which is why I disliked Injustice 2. Unlike Arkham Origins and the first Injustice, Joker is not really present outside of one hallucination in Harley Quinn's chapter (though I usually skip this since they made Harley's actress here blatantly copy the shitty Suicide Squad one) and is available as an optional DLC skin, but Superman's been changed from a Kryptonian Doctor Doom to Kryptonian Hitler solely to make Batman the hero and leader 'again'.

TBH, I'd really love to see a story where Batman is broken beyond repair and is turned into a tyrannical dictator. It's so much more interesting because of how stoic he usually is, and he tends to know 90% of the other DC character's weaknesses. It probably would take a team-up of the JL and most of their allies to stop him.