I wrote this just now not realizing I wrote pretty much the same thing 8 months ago. I’m still posting it. It’s worded differently so it counts as something new and not a re-post.
The League of Shadows’ plan in Batman Begins makes no sense.
They destroy Gotham’s economy to turn the city into a cesspool of crime.
The Wayne’s save the city because they’re rich enough to buy the entire economy or something.
The League uses bribery and subterfuge to make the government of Gotham totally corrupt, refuse to police the city so crime skyrockets again, and then they want to spread fear gas throughout the city and watch everyone murder each other because Gotham is corrupt and full of crime as if that wasn’t their fault from the beginning.
And then what?
“The return to harmony will be unstoppable as the world watches the people of Gotham kill each other, somehow, and I guess we’ll swoop in the last minute and kill the newly minted crazy people when they’ve finished their rampage in Gotham and try to escape and spread to other cities, maybe.”
Their entire philosophy is:
- Infiltrate the government of some random city to make it corrupt
- Let crime spiral out of control
- Destroy the city because it’s now full of crime and corruption and is beyond saving
- Find another city and repeat
Why? Why ruin a city just so you can destroy it?
The League says they want to fight corruption, but they are the cause of the corruption. They say they want to fight crime, but they are the cause of the crime. It’s like they destroy cities so they have an excuse to use their ninja gimmicks.