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Hollywood Turned Batman Into An Aztec Warrior That Fights...White Colonialism?!

2025-08-01 News & Politics
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Warner Bros Reimagines Batman as Aztec Warrior, Sparking Historical Criticism

Analyze Warner Bros.' new Aztec Batman concept, revealing core inconsistencies with Batman lore and condemning its historical revisionism regarding the Spanish Conquest. Learn why this creative choice fails both narrative logic and historical integrity.

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  • Traditional Batman adheres strictly to a no-kill rule, often requiring creative problem-solving to neutralize threats.
  • The Aztec Batman premise forces a paradox: maintaining the no-kill rule within the context of a civilization known for ritualistic mass sacrifice.
  • The speaker refutes the comparison of Hernán Cortés to a comic book villain, citing his achievements in conquest and establishing early colonial order.

This segment critiques the new Warner Bros. direction for Batman, framing it as a symptom of "wokeness" while dissecting the incompatible moral frameworks required for the reboot and contrasting them with actual history.

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Warner Bros has reimagined Batman as an Aztec warrior fighting Hernán Cortés, and it’s as ridiculous as it sounds. Welcome to woke Gotham. Become a DailyWire+ member and watch the full show: https://bit.ly/4bEQDy6 LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day. https://www.youtube.com/c/MattWalsh?sub_confirmation=1 Stop giving your money to woke corporations that hate you. Get your Jeremy’s Razors today at https://bit.ly/3lSGpWa Watch my hit documentary, “What Is A Woman?” here: https://utm.io/ueSdV Represent the Sweet Baby Gang by shopping my merch: https://tinyurl.com/y5dscrmm #MattWalsh #TheMattWalshShow #News #Politics #DailyWire #WhatIsAWoman

Top Comments (10)

@demise_87 2025-08-01

I am a Mexican male born in Mexico and I whole heartedly agree with Matt, Aztecs were not a civilization I would be using as the good guys.

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@BluuSkyz 2025-08-01

Colonialism is only bad when the Europeans did it but everybody ignores when everyone else did it

1.3k 105 replies
@leonedralev3776 2025-08-01

we already have a Mexican Batman. His name is Zorro.

711 49 replies
@TheWholesomeReader 2025-08-01

Batman: Return the child now, Joker! Joker: No! I will make sure you never have a sacrificial child for you sun god ritual ever again! Batman: Monster!

583 24 replies
@jonathangonzales127 2025-08-01

Can’t wait to see when Batman starts sacrificing humans for good fortune rain

414 13 replies
@ottobaron6392 2025-08-01

The only way that Cortez was able to defeat the Aztec empire, was because he had so many native American allies, who were sick of the Aztecs demanding tribute and human victims,

205 25 replies
@r.mariano8118 2025-08-01

Meanwhile in real life the Spanish were only about 2000 strong and about 300,000 mesoamericans allied with them to defeat the Aztecs because they hated the Aztecs so much.

170 4 replies
@thegrim418 2025-08-01

"If your batman wouldn't sacrifice a child for the gods, that's not batman." -Hollywood

85 14 replies
@Sparkydrill77 2025-08-01

Does he ritualistically kill then eat his enemies like the Aztecs did? Then take all of their skulls and decorate his Aztec bat cave of death.

45 9 replies
@The_LegendaryAxolotl 2025-08-01

Funniest part is that the Aztecs strongly associated bats with death. And yet here’s the guy who is supposed to not kill people…

13 1 replies

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