Originally Posted by
godisawesome
Yeah, Michael Keaton’s Batman is legendary, but he’s a 70-year old man in this Batgirl movie but apparently still an active fighter by this story’s setting - now that’s an escapist fantasy that gets a bit pathetic when Keaton’s actual age is taken into account. But we can’t possibly point out that “old man strength” isn’t actually a thing the way escapist fiction talks about, can we? And even if he is shown to be weakened by age, and even weaker than Batgirl… a lot of these same “Mary Sue” types would fall all over themselves to say that makes him sympathetic and engaging.
And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s bullshit if Babs doesn’t get the same treatment, which we agree on.