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Bruce Wayne's Dad was an Arms Dealer

I'm watching Batman Begins, and right away we know that Brucey Boy comes from money. We know his parents own people, we know his house has its own postal code, and we find out his dad privately funded a municipal rail system because poor people are people, too. This is the kind of money that smells like old leather money.

But where did that money come from? Pappy Wayne tells us he spends his days at a hospital, and that the skyscraper downtown with his monogram on it is just where other people make him money. He simply comes from money.

Bullshit.

Big Daddy Wayne seems like a decent human being. He acknowledges that the lower class exists. He stands places in public near vagrants. Deliberately! He seems to have ethics in raiding his child. We never see him feeding an offending peasant into a wood chipper. The guy has decency, and you know why? Because rich fuckers have no souls.

Look at the Trumps. Look at the Cardassians. Look at fucking Paris Hilton. People rich enough to dominate a skyline are assholes. These people do not comprehend the idea of "a job". They do charity work because they'll never need to have make a car payment. Bruce Wayne is First Generation "I Grew Up With A Trust Fund". Daddy earned his money the hard way.

Now what is the Hard Way? Clearly it's profitable. Having your name 50 feet tall letters downtown permanently requires a significant financial support structure. Daddy Wayne looks like he's in his 30s or 40s, though, so it had to come Fast as well. There are few industries where money is volitile enough to get that rich that fast. If Pops were in finance he wouldn't be a remotely human being, because even if they're not rich yet, they don't know it. What other industry could be so prodigiously profitable? Well let's look modern Wayne Enterprises for clues.

We know Wayne Enterprises is at least tangentially working with the US Military. This company got government contracts to construct a military weapon system. They US government does not sign weapons contracts with finance companies. It doesn't have software development companies built them rocket powered tanks. There was a reason Lucius Fox was sitting on all that next level kit that out performs military grade gear. It's because this is the company making the shit that all the soldiers are running around in.

Companies don't typically change industries, though. Not without a big reason. We've already established that Big Daddy Wayne grew up at least middle class, though. That means he is likely the man who built the company and probably wouldn't have steered the company away from what made it wildly successful in the first place. So they must have been building fucking Knightrider tanks back in the eighties when Pops was building Bruce's inheritance.

Bruce Wayne's father made the family fortune manufacturing and selling arms and weapons systems. That's where the money comes from. That's why Wayne Enterprises built the dangling subway right up to their front door. As a premiere supplier of the military industrial complex, they probably are one of the largest employers in the city.

Note that Bruce's dad never says he works for the hospital, just that he "spends his time" at the hospital. He could be running a public charity out of a rented office at the hospital, Alfred Nobel style.

My point is that Iron Man is totally a better character than Batman. Tony Stark owned that his daddy sold weapons. He was up front and transparent about it, and when the time came, he owned that shit and changed what his company sold. Bruce Wayne hides that, though. Owning a man servant? Buying estates over disturbingly cave riddled land that no genuinely rich person would ride living on? No. Bruce Wayne ignores his family legacy to play rich boy whack a mole. Tony Stark did what he had to to make things right.

Plus, if you use all the money in the world to do anything besides inventing rocket boots, you're doing it wrong.

Sincerely, Doctor Science Pothead

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Atlantis is Powered by Human Sacrifice

So I'm rewatching the old Disney movie Atlantis with the submarine and the blue chick and the big lobster monster. I'm watching them talk about the crystal being alive and having a mind but also being a thing and being the life force of the city. Then, I'm hearing the old King talk about how he tried to turn the crystal into a weapon and it backfired and wiped out his people. The whole movie, we see old rotted Atlantis, decrepit and decaying. They've lost their own written language, they've lost streetlights at night, and they've lost the sense that they are a civilization. Now they are more tribal than urban. The place is falling apart right up until the climactic moment of the movie where suddenly the city springs back to life and defends the good guys from the exploding volcano. The lights of the city return, celebration and glory tacos all around.

Why, though? Where was this power hiding? Why did it suddenly become resurgent? What was so different about that exact moment that the great ancient power of the city would suddenly explode awake again?

Necromancy.

We know for a fact that it was the same king who we meet in the movie that caused the original cataclysm by attempting to modify the crystal. That means that it is possible to change it, you have to be really careful about changing it right. Second, we know that the "Kings of the Past" exist somehow within the system that is the crystal. The giant masks, the sense of identity when the crystal first possesses Kida, the bracelet returned to Kida when she becomes human again - there is definitely Somebody home in there. Also, the king warns against Kida "being lost to it", when she merged with it. The crystal is the life force of the people, and that means these people have the ability to manipulate life force.

According to the film, it has been between 8600 and 8800 years since the cataclysm, yet the royal family still lives and machines still work. No power supply is unlimited, not even this one. We know this because the lights went out and then came back. There is a discharge/recharge cycle. The power comes from somewhere, and I posit that we know.

As the submarine first entered the lair of the Leviathan machine, we see a vast subaquatic boneyard of destroyed ships. Countless vessels from countless ages, presumably populated by countless skeletons. Lots of people died right on the doorstep to the entrance to the city. In fact, the machine we see in that scene is easily the largest in the movie. That is because that machine is front and center to the source of all their power - countless murdered sailors and explorers. In the introduction of the movie, we learn that Milo's expedition consisted of roughly 200 people. By the end of the film, less than ten have survived. Plus, at least a dozen or two Atlanteans met their ends during the final skirmish. By order of the king, no outsider may see the city and live. It is a dying city, visited by the dead and powered by the dead.

The King's attempt to weaponize the crystal failed because it tried to make the inherently nurturing protective nature of the crystal something offensive. His second attempt was much more successful. The initial mass cataclysm would've given the city thousands or even millions of lives to keep the lights on. Throughout history, armies and navies mobilized to capture that power, and died as fast as they came. Their lives were not wasted, though. They were absorbed, soaked into the living spirit of the crystal. That crystal now preserves the city, preserves the royal family, preserves the people. Death only feeds the crystal, it is not caused by it, therefore the system works. And in the final moments of the film, we see the possessed Kida serving as a new CPU to the whole system, fueling the power of the slaughtered expedition right back into the power grid of the city. The system exists by absorbing life and souls, and so it is that her mother was lost to it. That the great kings of the past are a part of it. The King turned a battery into a giant life sponge. The death of Milo's expedition restored the city for now, but the time will come when more life is needed.

My point is that it doesn't make sense how all the conspiracy nuts always think that Atlantean technology is always ahead of where we are right now. I mean, even assuming the place existed with technology millenia of it's counterparts, that doesn't mean we haven't surpassed it yet. I mean, the antikythera mechanism was the pinnacle of computing in it's day, but you can get a greeting card to do the calculations it did back then. Maybe we should stop wasting all our time worrying about whether or not the Atlanteans had a counterpart to the cotton gin and spend more time launching expensive exotic cars into solar orbit to David Bowie songs.

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