The ‘Batman is a fascist’ debate takes an incendiary turn as Zack Snyder gets implicated

If we’ve learned anything from the internet in the last half a decade, it’s that making anything even remotely resembling disparaging remarks about Zack Snyder is a guaranteed method for igniting an online firestorm.

As fate would have it, Blue Beetle has become the latest hot topic of debate among SnyderVerse supporters and detractors alike, and it’s all to do with what’s already proven itself to be the most polarizing line of dialogue in the DCU blockbuster. It seems innocent enough on the surface, but George Lopez calling Batman a fascist has taken on a life of its own.

In fact, the more furious and vocal minority were immediately convinced that a simple quip is all the evidence needed to prove that Blue Beetle is destined to crash and burn at the box office, with the Dark Knight’s defenders wishing the illest of wills upon a fun-looking comic book caper that dare blaspheme the good name of the Caped Crusader.

However, in a turn of events that proved to be as predictable as it was incendiary, Redditors have pointed out that the brutal and unforgiving version of Bruce Wayne’s costumed alter ego that was introduced by Snyder in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ticks many of the required boxes to justify the use of the term.

People like Affleck’s Batman, but the debate over his methods continues to rage on, and it will do so for some time if we take the comments and replies at face value, which run the entire spectrum of opinion.