What do Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark have in common? They're both Republican.

I'd vote for both of them! :P

I think that Bruce Wayne would be a Republican but Tony definitely isn't. Tony has too much faith in the government and that is more of a Democratic trait. He supported the Registration Act.

Stark and Richards supported it to preempt the governments inevitable crackdown on super human activity.(Illuminati) They thought by controlling the issue they could minimize it's affect, thus keeping the Government meddling in their lives and affairs at a minimum.
But because of that reality show stunt gone awry involving the New Warriors everything blew up.
It became a matter of obeying the law after that. Something a good Republican is proud to do.(at least that's the stereo-type)

Wow @TheGODDAMNSUPERGUY I think you're taking this a bit too seriously. It's simply the writer's views and how he's interpreted the characters. Are you saying there are no Republicans who enjoy comic books with comments like "There's no such thing as a Republican superhero, maybe Deadpool and Booster Gold. Superheroes help people for the greater good and ask for nothing in return. To a Republican, that sounds like socialism"?
Also, Batman works with Gordon because he can see Gordon is a good guy. If he worked with the Government as a whole, then he'd just be another cop. His relationship with the rest of the GCPD is strained at best. That's why he fights crime, because he thinks the police force as a whole apart from Gordon are incompetent. If they were doing their jobs properly, there'd be no need for a Batman. Plus, Gordon is bending the rules by working with Batman. He's breaking the law by working with a vigilante. See? Even a government official is breaking the law to get the job done. Maybe you're not so sure what you're talking about.

Which brings me onto my next point.

There's no need to be so harsh with comments like "Wayne Tech DOESN'T make weapons! Read up on Batman, clown. You should probably shut up about things you're not sure of." Make's you sound like a complete douche by being so antagonistic because the guy made a mistake. Like you have an encyclopedic knowledge of all things comic book, and I'm sure you've never breathed a word about something you're unsure of. Everything you say is undeniable fact isn't it? You know, except the comment about Bruce Wayne's undeniable support for the Government because he works with one cop who is bending the rules to clean up the city, while they both think the rest of the cops are useless idiots.

Don't act like you know everything, because you don't. There's certainly no need to act as aggressively as you do. Chill out man. It's just a guy on a website writing about his view of some comic book characters. It's not like he's campaigning to get a drug addled murderer elected president or something undeniably stupid like that. He's just expressing his insight or opinion (to which we're all entitled). Calm down.

Anyway, @headlopper cool article. Very different, informative and intelligently constructed. I learned more about American politics reading this than through anything else (although I am British so I don't really need to know much about American politics).

@headlooper- Very interesting article. Never really gave much thought to the whole superhero/politics angle. With that being said, would you say that both Wayne and Stark are solely fiscally conservative (Republican ideology) while being socially liberal (Democratic ideology) or just straight up Republican, both fiscally and socially?

I agree, but Stark probably rides the fence on ever since he became Iron Man.

@Hudson11 I don't know that Bruce has ever stated that he was against the death penalty, he just believes he should not be the one to deal it out and that they should stand trial.

I would say its hard to gauge what party they would belong to because it depends on the writer. You could make the statement that because Batman is anti gun he is a democrat but he has not always been that way. When Bob Kane created him he was not. When Stan Lee created Ironman he wanted to create the "quintessential capitalist" superhero, a character that would go against the spirit of the 60's and most of Marvel's readership. Even though Stan Lee is a democrat (after his dealing with the Clintons I don't know if he still is) he created Ironman as a dare to himself. In the long run I don't know if Marvel really kept this going. For the most part Marvel and DC have done a pretty good job of not making any of these characters appear to be affiliated with any political party which is a good thing.

Please, please stop it everyone ... its bad enough with all the DC vs. Marvel whining we do not need another issue to divide people on this site. We get this political garbage on every other site on the internet this is one of the last sites I can go to to escape this stuff.

We're all comic fans leave it at that.

@TGDSG I'm not trying to take sides here, all I'm saying is that some of the things you said to headlopper were really rude and uncalled for, like calling him a clown who needed to research comics more; headlopper is simply sharing his views. As I said in my comment, I'm from the UK, so I know very little of American politics. I'm just trying to keep things civil here, there's passion for your argument, and then there's arrogance, so try not to overstep the line. There's no need to completely slam his views so harshly.

@headlopper it was written intelligently, but I can't technically agree or disagree with the topic or your view since I hardly know anything about US politics.

@ACira: Do your knowledge a favor and don't base anything you know about american politics on this article or comments section? I wasn't sure if headlopper was serious about this article when I wrote my first comment, and TGDSG has been fed bias information all his and is incredibly confused and misguided. I'm a really strong conservative (or as they are calling it a Republican, those words get misused in place of each other alot) and I like to give back to others. I do beleive people should work for their own healthcare, though. I don't think it's the government's job to provide it for everyone. If people get things for free then unemployment will go up because no one wants to work (among other reasons).

@Hudson11
Batman or any hero for that matter that dosent kill is not cuz they're democrat but cuz of marketing, imagine if Batman killed the Joker or Penguin then no more stories that would be the end, they keep these characters around so they could write more comics.

Actually in the real world I would hope even the democrats would give someone like the Joker the death penealty instead of letting him go thru the revolving door of Arkham and constantly killing hundreds or thousands of people, and after he killed his first batch of a couple hundred people they would have enough.


I always pictured superheroes as more conservatives becuz theyre pretty much just super cops or super soldiers, and republicans are more pro cops and pro stronger justice as opposed to the democrats who are usaully more sympathetic to the perpertrators of crimes more then the victims.

I mean if democrats scream at the "crazy, trigger happy, brutal, police", and are sympathetic to the "poor, down on his luck, bad childhood, perpertrator", could u imagine how they would feel about someone like Batman who roams the streets and beats the crap out of criminals.

The REAL question i want to ask is.... who would you rather be

Iron man

or

Batman

Just because they're capitalists , that doesn't make them republican. First of all both of their companies were started by their ancestors not them. second of all Batman is strongly for gun control, and no death penalty. That's a VERY liberal stance...