Personally I don't see TDKR as a story that's trying to be political, more as a regular Batman story dialed up to the point of ridiculousness.
Well, there is a LOT of Cold War stuff in TDKR that is amped up. I even noted in a previous post:
Via one of Selina's girls, the Joker gets one Congressman to shout for a nuclear strike on Corto Maltese before jumping/falling to his death. It's not like the Joker to get all "political," even if you ignore the whole "mind control lipstick" element.
TDKR came out in 1986 and the Cold War more or less ended in 1991, making it more absurd in hindsight.
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Well, there is a LOT of Cold War stuff in TDKR that is amped up. I even noted in a previous post:
Via one of Selina's girls, the Joker gets one Congressman to shout for a nuclear strike on Corto Maltese before jumping/falling to his death. It's not like the Joker to get all "political," even if you ignore the whole "mind control lipstick" element.
TDKR came out in 1986 and the Cold War more or less ended in 1991, making it more absurd in hindsight.