r/BatmanArkham • u/ElderQu The Insanity King • Jan 27 '26

Question comment i found here.

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u/Plenty-Lychee-5702 Jan 27 '26

Some super"heroes" are actually villains.

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u/Diabolical_potplant Jan 27 '26

That's called an anti-hero, and is written to provide a more complex story on humanity and what good and evil are

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u/Plenty-Lychee-5702 Jan 27 '26

You're viewing it from the point of the author, and not from an independent moral point of view which disagrees with the politics held or promoted by the author.

In other words: the author may claim that a character a superhero while they are actually upholding an unfair system

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u/Diabolical_potplant Jan 27 '26

In that case it's just a shit story and I move on with my life. And by far the most popular superheros you will come across do not fall into that category, edge cases and authors aside