I've always wonder how much of the identity of superheroes has been seen as a mask for alternate sexuality. There have been arguments for it with some comics - most notably X-Men - and of course Berlanti has taken MAYBE a bit too far (though I'll be honest I loved much of his work in the Arrow-verse)

I also remember how pissed everyone was when Batman Returns came out, though ironically it was the sexuality between Catwoman and Batman that seemed too perverse for so many family audiences.

I confess I never saw Pfeiffer's workj as a drag diva but as someone from whom death had liberate her inner femme fatale - but then again, I AM a cisgender male.

I actually think there's something of merit even in the worst of the Batman films that may actually have a certain bravery that I don't see in any other comic book franchise. Was Batman and Robin one of the worst movies ever made? Absolutely. But there's a part of me that admires just how daring Schumacher was. Batman and Robin is MANY things, (most of them horribly) but I'll tkae ridiculous over the top as opposed to the formulaic nature of so many of the movies in the MCU and even the Snyder verse. Folie a Deux is now doubt as bad as everyone says but you have to admire Todd Philips for making it at all. And I'd still rather seeing it than any of the Ant-Man films in the MCU. I don't care how horrible it is; it can't be as dull as Quantumania was.