Why the frick do people even live in Gotham City? There's like six supervillains per square mile, nothing is worth the risk
Why the frick do people even live in Gotham City?
Why the frick do people even live in Gotham City? There's like six supervillains per square mile, nothing is worth the risk
Why do people live in Rio de Janeiro?
Ass
>Why do people live in Rio de Janeiro?
Poverty and Carnival
Not everyone can afford it. We live in an insanely expensive time.
The question is why do people live in Hub City
>most of the cape shit only happens to people doing bad things already, the trash taking itself out so to speak
>most of it happens in the docks or slums so who gives a frick
>as colorful as the crime is its really not much worse then NY or NJ in the 70s
>probably dirt cheap for an east coast city
>Gotham must be pretty vibrant for all the balls and galas to be going on all the time
I can see people wanting to live in Batman & Robin Gotham.
>party central, a million nightclubs to choose from
>booming economy with rich jerks throwing money everywhere
>street thugs wear neon face paint (easy to see them coming)
>cutting edge science
>villainous plans involve ridiculous lasers that pose little day-to-day threat
But The Batman (2022) Gotham has no excuse for being populated
>everything looks like a dirty Silent Hill nightmare
>get beat up by gangs of Nostalgia Critics stalking the subway
>streamers
Just awful
If nothing else it seems like it could be pretty fun tbh. Everyday would be an adventure
>>get beat up by gangs of Nostalgia Critics stalking the subway
kek
I genuinely miss the aesthetic of over-the-top Gotham. It should always be the evening of October 28, 1929, in the city: a few days before Halloween, recent stock tremors have sprung loose some industry and some crime is happening, people are violently rebelling against the excesses of the Roaring Twenties, and the viewer has an ominous feeling that the good times may not last forever. But, a pulp version of all that, so sci-fi, lurid crimes,etc.
because it's haunted or something.
why is it even an issue when there's a Superman right across the river in Metropolis?
would you rather love in a haunted crime city or a shiny metropolis you can't enjoy because its constantly leveled by superman fighting aliens?
metropolis.
Gotham and Metropolis are actually the same city.
>It's Metropolis in the daytime.
>It's Gotham after dark.
They're retconning that away after flashpoint. And I highly doubt they're going to do a Superman or a Flash movie set in the Pattinson-verse
Why did people live in 70s New York City?
I always forget Metropolis is so close to Gotham. I know Metropolis being in the Midwest is a common misconception, but I actually kind of like that better.
It’s cheap.
For the same reason people still live in Detroit, it's not as bad as it seems and you're only seeing the worst parts
I'm fairly sure the housing rates are
>You want to live here? It cost that and whatever you have in your pocket, give tribute of food every month and you may continue this life as short as it will be
It's only really bad on the poor side, whose inhabitants don't have the means to move.
The rich neighborhoods are quite pleasant and even have some world renown, Vegas style. They only have to worry about the occasional fundraiser heist.
If I lived in Gotham, I'd probably be so paranoid, that I'd probably end up being sent to Arkham.
And then you put on a colorful skintight costume and commit crime.
yeah sure, what even be my villain name?
The Overthinker? Dr. Paranoia?
Dr Paranoia sounds good, like the man is so paranoid about every possible situation that could go wrong not even Batman manages to outwit him as he’s already planned out of fear any attack Batman can launch at him.
What type of crimes would Dr. Paranoia even commit? what is it that motivates him and why?
A villain like that would probably have a pretty tragic backstory, and it would be interesting if scarecrow was involved.
I don't know how scarecrows fear gas works but lets say f Dr. Paranoia was a victim of his in the past.
>Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
>Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean I'm not going to get them.
There's always a them. Might be he's convinced that children are being smuggled in at the docks and sold at a local italian restaurant. Might be he's decided that the police are the mayors personal assassin squad. Might be he's decided that Bruce Wayne is secretly involved in an illuminati like conspiracy of powerful individuals who shape the fate of mankind.
The problem is, Dr. Paranoid is usually somewhere between 5%-40% correct. Gotham being what it is, a paranoid nutjob obsessing over powerful figures in the city is going to be going after people with shady or outright criminal dealings pretty often. So in the examples above, he might actually have found a far more mundane human trafficking operation, or corruption on the force, or Batman.
This is what makes him a problem that's difficult to deal with. Aside from the collateral damage and amount he gets wrong, he's right just often enough, that he develops a following. And the man is Unabomber levels of careful, making him slippery as hell.
I bet being a Gotham supervillain would be a dream career for some kids
>Job shadowing villains is actually a thing
I feel like this could be funny
gotham city is the silicon valley of supervillainy
all the curses and such on the city wouldn't help matters either
Same reason people still live in neighborhoods that is predominantly black.
A million neckbeards moved there to have a chance to frick Cassandra cain
Why the frick do people even live in Ciudad Juarez?
It's where the money is.
Can always make a living, and if you don't wanna do that there are 2-4 different underground societies to join.
I imagine that living in a super hero city is any contractors wet dream. Imagine the sheer amount of work you can get there
there would be more rags to riches billionaires kek
You'd go bankrupt since all the laborers get poached as goons by villains/gangs who pay twice as much + benefits.
there's six supervillains per square mile in Metropolis too, but at least in Gotham it's mostly dudes with guns and not world-shattering cosmic entities unlike Metropolis
eh.. i can be worse
Imagine living in coast city
Extremely cheap, free health care and other socialists stuff that Bruce Wayne fund.
Why do people live in Seattle?
Its cheap
Bare in mind people chose to live in Mogadishu when alshabaab ran the city after over a decade of a civil war with most of the conflict in the city. Then there's countless cities in the middle east in general where people chose to stay even through their homes were being blown to bits every day under ISIS, Al Qaeda and whoever the frick ruled it for the week. People stayed in cities that were being flattened during the 2nd World War without a problem. The real reason is that most people are brain dead normies who won't fight or run, they'd just freeze and hope the problem goes away. People stay in crime infested shithole cities in the Americas without a question. Sheeeeeeeet, my own parents chose to stay in the hood when I was growing up. What? Some crime bosses are killing eachother and some kids get hit in the crossfire? Boohoo that shit happens every week in Chicago. People still live in Detroit btw. Detroit. Even though most people left there's still people in Camden, NJ. People who will never leave. As long as Gotham has jobs and the reality of crime or superhero crap only harming a fraction of a percentage of people stays that way, then it will keep a large population.
>Even though most people left there's still people in Camden,
Apparently Camden got better, actually. Not great, but better.
The problem is thinking any other major city in the DC universe is different.
There's at least half a dozen cities said to be worse then Gotham.
Because I can buy an abandoned warehouse for $20, full finish it with all the dusty yet usable furniture inside. Just keep the outside looking dilapidated and dangerous, while living well off inside.
>Be me
>Be in Gotham City
>Just bought a warehouse to live in
>It's in a really bad part of town
>But it's cheap and I'm broke
>I move in and start fixing it up
>A few months later
>I'm sitting in my living room
>Hearing a commotion outside
>I look out the window and see a bunch of criminals running into my warehouse
>They're being chased by the police
>I quickly close the blinds and hide
>The criminals come into my warehouse and start looking for a place to hide
>They find me and hold me at gunpoint
>I'm about to be killed when the Batman and Robin burst in and arrest the criminals
>I'm safe, but now I have to find a new place to live since Wayne Enterprises buys my warehouse.
Apparently you can live for decades in Gotham without ever seeing a supervillain. Maybe the Joker when he hijacks TV, but hey, we have streaming now.
>My mommy says if I'm bad the Joker will come and get me.
kek