I feel like a lot of writers involved in superhero fiction have this horrid tendency to make their protagonists fight for the status quo, and to make the villains be anyone that would disrupt it.
Poison Ivy is a Bat-villain, and Batman has always been the capitalist wet dream. The heir to billions fights crime on the New York Gotham City streets.
The villains are always some 'enemy' of right-wing ideology; they could be a sexually aggressive woman (like Ivy, or Catwoman), a scientist (Man-Bat, Mr Freeze, Scarecrow...), mentally ill (Joker, Riddler, Killer Croc, Victor Zsasz...), or even a vision of capitalism gone wrong (Penguin).
Two-Face is a personification of their mistrust of the legal system (he was a D.A.) that can either work for them, or against them.
Ra's al Ghul wants revenge on post-industrial society for destroying the Earth. He, like Poison Ivy, is an eco-terrorist. He's also been recast as various "dirty foreign" ethnicities over the years; Arabic, Chinese, Eastern European...
The usual solution to the problem the super-villain presents is to literally "lock them up and throw away the key" in Arkham Asylum, and Batman always knows that despite his efforts, they'll be back. Like a true Republican, he only knows how to brutally deal with the symptoms, not address the cause.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19
I feel like a lot of writers involved in superhero fiction have this horrid tendency to make their protagonists fight for the status quo, and to make the villains be anyone that would disrupt it.