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* [[Strawman Political]]: Features vapidly meaningless strawmen for all parts of the political spectrum. Because, of course, [[Golden Mean Fallacy|that's how you make a valid point, right?]]
* [[Super Registration Act]]: Superman gets strong-armed into working for the government.
* [[Take That]]:
** A barely disguised version of [[Ronald Reagan]] is the president of a dystopic United States where vigilantism was repressed with extreme violence and crime has skyrocketed in its absence. Reagan is also well known for implementing heavy laws on gun control on California as governor, an pretty obvious parallel to vigilantes who try to resolve what the police can't or will not. One may say it's not even dystopic: Miller was just displaying what he thought of eighties' America where homicide rates were breaking records and Reagan had imposed laws that made people unprotected against violence.
** The Mutants can be seen as a [[Take That]] to "angsty", rebellious teen superheroes made popular by [[Marvel Comics]]. They're named the Mutants ([[Stan Lee]]'s working title for ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''), they wear red shades that look a lot like [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Cyclops']] visor, and they despise adult authority figures. They form a perfect contrast to Batman, who's the epitome of the "traditional" DC superhero—an adult superhero who's driven and fearless, and has zero tolerance for crime.
* [[Tank Goodness]]: This version of the Batmobile, which would go on to be an inspiration for the Tumbler in [[The Dark Knight Trilogy]]. It's got treads. It's got armor strong enough that "the only thing I know of that can cut through its hide isn't from this planet." <ref>He's referring to Superman, who proves the point in short order in the fourth issue</ref>. It's got machine guns. {{spoiler|"Rubber bullets. Honest."}} It's got at least two decent-sized artillery pieces. It takes up three lanes on the highway. It even has a gyro-stabilized medical bed and can be piloted home by Alfred. It's a god-damned Bat-Tank.
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Batman will beat nine kinds of hell out of you, <s>drop you off a building</s> ''threaten'' to drop you off the ''tallest'' building in Gotham, and break every bone in your body... but he won't ''kill'' you.
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