Is Batman the white fascist dream? The precursor to the “Death Wish” vigilante, who strikes from the shadows at the underclass of society, in his case from his ivory tower of privilege.
Taking down not the exploiter but the exploited scum, the vilified, the tabloid bogeymen, those for whom crime is an institution as much as the charity ball is to Bruce Wayne.
Sure, they are bad, but the body count is the muscle, the foot soldier and only rarely does the kingpin not evade destruction to recruit more underlings from the poor and dispossessed to be broken and discarded, as they always have been, to bolster our prejudice and indulge our vengeance against those who prey on a society that rejects them.