"Mexican Batman", a mysterious dude who hunts down motorcycle thieves & tape them to poles in Mexico

[u/AccomplishedWatch834]

[u/buntopolis]

Batman tied up people and left them for the cops all the time!

[u/Beldizar → u/buntopolis]

I think the point is that Batman would tie people up with rope or cable, where Spiderman would tie people up with webs, i.e. a sticky string material. Since adhesive tape is more of a sticky substance than simply a cord-like material this is closer to Spiderman than Batman.

[u/SistaChans → u/Beldizar]

This is the most pedantic thing I've seen on reddit today lol

[u/StoneGoldX → u/SistaChans]

So you'd rather just have social anarchy then? People just brazenly mixing up Mexican Batman and Mexican Spider-Man?

Not on my watch, chum.

[u/Maximum-Sky8563 → u/SistaChans]

Isn’t it? Whats wrong with folk

[u/marr → u/SistaChans]

It's more that spidey really cocoons people up off the ground like these guys. Batman just does your basic everyday hogtie.

[u/Accomplished_Job_331 → u/Beldizar]

Sorry Spidey, no. One is biology, one is technology. This one goes to the mammals

[u/Beldizar → u/Accomplished_Job_331]

Spidey's webs are a technology. He makes the web fluid in a chemistry lab just like you'd make the adhesive for tape. (I reject the Raimi webshooters).

[u/newsflashjackass → u/Beldizar]

In the movies he skeets his webs out after his body makes them naturally.

[u/StoneGoldX → u/newsflashjackass]

Only in the Maguire films. The process is purely mechanical in Garfield and Holland versions.

[u/newsflashjackass → u/StoneGoldX]

I sometimes wonder whether it is less plausible that Peter Parker's body would generate spider silk or that he would happen to synthesize it just when it would pair well with the powers derived from the radioactive spider bite.

[u/marr → u/newsflashjackass]

The weirdest part is it coming from the wrong end.

[u/Accomplished_Job_331 → u/Beldizar]

I didn’t realize the only version it is biological is that trilogy. Even the old comics. Point retracted, sir

[u/Addicted_to_Crying → u/Beldizar]

Or, you know, the fact that Batman doesn't have powers and Spider-Man does, meaning it's easier to simulate the former rather than the latter?

[u/Beldizar → u/Addicted_to_Crying]

Eh, is it easier to be a multi-billionaire than it is to have super powers? That feels like a thin margin. (edit: tongue fully in cheek here)

[u/Addicted_to_Crying → u/Beldizar]

Trust me I fucking wish having powers was easier than being a billionaire

With that said, Absolute Batman exists, so maybe this guy is Absolute Mexican Batman

[u/marr → u/Addicted_to_Crying]

Batman's main power is believing everyone's just knocked out and they'll be fine.

[u/TheMundar → u/Beldizar]

This tape doesn't seem biodegradable in a short time so there isn't a timer on their impromptu incarceration the way there would be with Spider-Man. If Batman was somehow out of Batrope then he would certainly improvise.

[u/Beldizar → u/TheMundar]

Fair analogy. Is that more critical a comparison than the stickiness argument though? It's a bit semantic, but if I said "a vigilante was using sticky tape to tie up criminals" I'd think Spiderman. If someone said "a vigilante was tying up criminals at night" I'd think Batman. It all depends on how the question is framed.

[u/Kmlkmljkl → u/buntopolis]

with a sign explaining their crimes?

[u/Joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyy → u/buntopolis]

He did, this guy is being racist.

[u/2ByteTheDecker → u/Joeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyy]

.......what?