Batman’s darkness is a joke versus Berserk

Oh, absolutely! The idea that Batman’s story is somehow comparable to Berserk in terms of sheer, unrelenting bleakness is just adorable. It’s like comparing a mildly overcast Tuesday in Gotham to the eternal, soul-crushing Eclipse of Midland.

Please, allow me to offer a more… realistic comparison for those who think a little rain and a dead parent in an alleyway is the pinnacle of “darkness”:

The “Darkness” of Batman	The Actual Abyss of Berserk
The Tragic Origin: Young Bruce Wayne’s parents are tragically gunned down by a common mugger, Joe Chill, while leaving the opera. A truly devastating, yet statistically common, urban crime.	The Cursed Genesis: Guts is literally born from the corpse of his dead, hanged mother, found in a pool of blood and guts (pun intended) beneath a gibbet on a medieval battlefield, and then immediately adopted by a mercenary named Gambino who later attempts to kill him in a drunken rage.
Childhood Trauma: Bruce is left an orphan, but is immediately taken in by the devoted family butler, Alfred Pennyworth, who provides a nurturing, supportive, and extremely wealthy environment in a gigantic mansion. He even got to keep the family fortune!	Childhood Abuse: Guts is raised by abusive mercenaries, sold into sexual assault by his adoptive father at age six, and is later forced to kill that same adoptive father in self-defense. No cozy manor, just endless, bloody warfare.
His Great Adversary: Batman is betrayed by his best friend, Harvey Dent, who is driven insane and becomes the villain Two-Face. A profound philosophical and personal tragedy.	His God-Tier Betrayal: Guts is betrayed by his actual best friend and leader, Griffith, who sacrifices the entire mercenary group—including every single one of Guts’ comrades—to an army of grotesque, interdimensional demons to be reborn as a member of the literal God Hand.
The Love Interest: Bruce and Selina Kyle (Catwoman) have a complex, will-they-won’t-they romance full of snappy banter and shared rooftop adventures, all under the protection of a non-lethal moral code.	The Unspeakable Horror: Guts’ lover, Casca, is brutally raped by the newly-minted Demon God Griffith (Femto) during the apocalyptic Eclipse, driving her completely insane and regressing her mind to that of an infant. She also gives birth to a demonic fetus as a result of the trauma.
His Greatest Pain: Bruce feels the constant, crushing guilt of his parents’ death, a trauma he carries while fighting a never-ending war on crime with an unlimited budget and high-tech gadgets.	His Eternal Curse: Guts is permanently marked with a brand of sacrifice that bleeds, draws interdimensional demons to him every single night, and is forced to wear an ancient suit of armor (The Berserker Armor) that literally drives him insane and breaks his body—but he wears it anyway to keep fighting the demons haunting him and Casca.

So, yes, a billionaire orphan who stops street crime and has a cozy retirement fund is exactly the same as a cursed, one-eyed, one-armed swordsman fighting literal cosmic-horror demon gods who feed on human souls, all while protecting his traumatized, catatonic girlfriend.

Truly, the darkness in Gotham is just… so profound. Don’t forget the broken pearl necklace! The sheer devastation! It’s practically the same as seeing every person you’ve ever loved gruesomely dismembered and eaten by an army of flesh monsters. Totally equivalent.