Analyzing Batman Villains
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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00:00 Analyzing Batman Villains
02:35 Who is the Joker?
06:55 Who is Harley Quinn?
11:29 Who is Scarecrow?
15:05 Who is Two-Face?
21:52 Who is the Riddler?
26:45 When did Humberto get into comics?
35:10 What supervillain would Dr. Kirk & Humberto create? The Sequel!
41:11 OPP
42:22 Who is Hush?
46:54 Should we be concerned about comic book authors?
53:19 Can readers relate to comic book villains?
57:17 What does Hush look like and does DC have a bone to pick with mental illness?
1:08:35 Who is Manbat?
1:11:50 What is the moral?
1:16:24 Who is the Penguin?
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December 23, 2022
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| 0:00.0 | So, Burdo, our last episode, one of our last episodes, we had you take the reins and you presented |
| 0:07.0 | three villains, and we analyzed them in terms of diagnosing. Are they psychopathic? What alignment |
| 0:14.9 | are they? And the episode I thought was really great, and a lot of people loved it. So, |
| 0:20.0 | we're going to repeat it, go into more depth, and you are going to present a number of Batman |
| 0:26.0 | villains, and we are going to analyze them and figure out what's wrong with the different Batman |
| 0:35.3 | villains. What do you say, Bruno? Let's do it. This is the Psychologies How to Podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:39.6 | Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor. My name is Umberto Kassinha, and I undecorate |
| 0:44.8 | Christmas trees. So, who do you want to start with? All right, so here's the deal. Batman's |
| 0:50.4 | very interesting, because Batman has this thing where he won't kill. You know, he won't kill. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah. Now, a lot of heroes sort of don't kill already, you know, when we watch especially cartoons, |
| 1:02.4 | usually it's got the GI Joe treatment, you know, you never really see, you know, but Batman's |
| 1:08.3 | very explicit, like he goes out of his way to be like, I never kill, you know, he just punches |
| 1:13.0 | really hard and takes you to jail. And so, this presents a quandary for him often, which is that |
| 1:19.4 | the people he captures often are repeat offenders. They just go to jail for a bit and then they |
| 1:25.5 | get out. And then the other thing is that in the Batman lore in the universe here, there is this |
| 1:32.1 | Arkham Asylum that plays a big role because so many of the characters that he contends with are |
| 1:38.0 | basically crazy. And so instead of just like, well, they went to prison, they go to Arkham Asylum. |
| 1:44.2 | They go to an Asylum for the criminally insane and crazy in the cartoonish in the over the top. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. Yeah. Where they have to have secured special facilities. Yeah. Like think Hannibal |
| 1:55.9 | Lecter on steroids, literally. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and so they'll have special rooms built. So |
| 2:02.8 | like the one bad guy who can only be kept at sub zero temperatures, you know, Mr. Freeze can live, |
| 2:09.8 | right? And then they'll have another room where Poison Ivy, who needs to be in a biome that's |
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