It’s not that I don’t want a Batman set in the Aztec Empire. It’s just that this is… stupid.
The story is set in the time of the Aztec Empire, and it centers on Yohualli Coatl, a young Aztec boy who experiences tragedy when his father and village leader, Toltecatzin, is murdered by Spanish Conquistadors. “Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger. Using the temple of Tzinacan, the bat god, as a lair, Yohualli trains with his mentor and assistant, Acatzin, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spaniard invasion, protect Moctezuma’s temple, and avenge his father’s death.”
And not just for the obvious reason that the conquistadors conquered the Aztecs in the first place because every single one of the Aztecs’ neighbors hated those cannibalistic, human-sacrificing motherf*ckers, and wanted them to all die, screaming. It’s because there’s no way you can do ‘Aztecs as good guys’ AND have ‘time to cut out some people’s hearts!’ I mean, sh*t. That would be total Joker-bait. “I was told to have a heart, Bats, and I said to myself: why stop at only one?”
But they don’t have the nerve.
Moe Lane
PS: Just for the record: “[appropriate and relevant] indigenous representation” should involve literal towers of human skulls.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Clown World.
“indigenous representation”
is merely code for White Man Bad, plez tell us how wonderful we were and politley ignore all our evil actions.
To be every-so-slightly fair to the Aztecs, they were just the best at doing what they did. I am fairly certain most of their neighbors would have done the same thing if given a chance. The conquistadors saw themselves as bringing civilization to an anarchic world for good reason.
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This is not to say the conquistadors didn’t leave literal pools of blood in their wake. Just that “better than the Aztecs” is a very low bar.