As Joker is burning the money in this scene, he says, “This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m going to give it to them.” Much of the film is dedicated to exploring what kind of criminal and what kind of hero Gotham City deserves. Bruce Wayne seems to be a white-collar criminal, who engages in the kind of corporate crimes that attract our real-life two-faced prosecutors. He takes corporate resources to pursue his own interests, uses deceptive means to obtain a majority stake in Wayne Enterprises after persuading an initial public offering, and intimidates a potential whistle-blower. Bruce is exposed by a lawyer to be using corporate resources for his own purposes. More specifically, Bruce has transformed the R&D division into
