With all the elseworlds DC has done, it's amazed me how no one's done a Poor Batman, Low-Budget Batman or Working-Class Batman. Like would Bruce have become Batman if he hadn't been rich? I guess that might make him more similar to Daredevil since Matt Murdock is an Irish-Catholic working-class kid who became a lawyer and blind superhero and is a genuine underdog superhero.
But I'd argue that the thing about Bruce that's most appealing, for better and worse, that strong sense of vengeance, commitment, and determination crosses class lines and going forward with all the baggage being a rich guy has today, it might make more sense to make Batman work as a poor guy. I'd like a run on Batman similar to Cullen Bunn's MAGNETO which takes the great supervillain with all his resources and top-of-the-line tech and sends him on a low-budget with reduced powers and still shows the same intelligence, charisma, and determination at play.
Great points. Tom Holland's Peter is let down by the writing because they're not allowing him to have complicated feelings towards Tony Stark on a personal level.Relating back to Spider-Man and the understandable criticisms of his MCU portrayal, not just in terms of him coming off as a shallow parody of how middle-aged and older men think modern teenagers behave and think, but also the class issues in having Iron Man as his mentor and surrogate father figure in a way that's meant to be more positive than how things turned out between them in the comics, I would say the major disappointment of Homecoming was that while the Vulture made a rather good case against Peter idolizing Tony Stark, which was somewhat reinforced by Tony's own (arguably) imperious and neglectful style of mentorship, the plot didn't allow for Peter to fully reckon with Tony's character flaws (and arguable moral failures). I mean, hell, Captain America: Civil War had their beginning interactions end with Tony emotionally blackmailing Peter (by threatening to tell his Aunt May he was Spider-Man) into accompanying him to fight Captain America in Germany and not even giving him the full story, just his interpretation of what Cap was doing and why, as shown by Spidey's exchange with Cap when they actually fought, specifically, "You're wrong, but you think you're right. That makes you dangerous." (Projection much, Tony? After all, Avengers: Age of Ultron's plot was propelled in large part by him recklessly pushing ahead because he thought he was right, damn what anyone else had to say in terms of cautioning him against the course of action he'd decided to pursue.) Somehow, that never got addressed or rectified in any meaningful way before Tony's (heroic) death in Avengers: Endgame and even Far From Home's attempt via Happy Hogan to puncture the hero-worship bubble by explaining to Peter that Tony was as flawed and messed up as anyone else . . . still rang rather hollow given how he was practically canonized (made into a sainted figure) following his death, which I'd hope would be tackled more in a Disney+ MCU follow-up series like Armor Wars.