>>149383870It's not about the tone moron, it's about the setting.
You can have a gritty character and a hopeful character meet, that's fine, but these characters are from two completely different settings.
The Batman is grounded, there are no superpowered people, no monsters, no aliens, no magic, no nothing, just people.
The DCU is the complete opposite of that, from Dr. Phosphorus, to Superman, to Circe, to Metamorpho, none of those characters could exist in The Batman universe.