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Here I am again…

So if you’ve ever seen the theories people make about all the rouges reflecting exaggerated traits of Batman, and I don’t often see Hatter or if I see Hatter I don’t always agree with it, so here’s my perspective on what he’s supposed to represent

In my opinion, Jervis represents escapism. Bruce Wayne does use escapism via The Batman, out of a desire to protect people, but also to control a situation that he was previously helpless to. He becomes a hero in a way to escape reality of a dire criminal landscape in his home city.

Likewise, Jervis uses escapism into Alice in Wonderland to escape his lonely, drab life of unexciting and unfulfilling work, as well as severe social isolation that ended up driving him mad. He escapes into the Hatter because not only does the hatter have a permanent companion in the March Hare, his life is exciting and unpredictable and he is important in the story. The Hatter even looks like him. It’s everything Jervis wants to be, and everything he doesn’t have in the everyday life. So naturally he clings to the persona and ‘becomes’ him in a resolve to fix all the issues he sees within his own experience.

Both characters use a persona to escape, but the reason Jervis is a warning to Bruce is because he cannot draw a line between reality and his fantasy of being the Hatter. The obsession with control over his life extends to his adaptation of mind control and eventually forcing people to adhere to his perspective of the world by violating their sense of choice. In turn he’s become a selfish, crazed, amoral lunatic who doesn’t care about the wills of other people, only really that they can be bent to his own because of how lost in his own reality he is.

If Bruce lost himself in the role of The Batman eventually it would become selfish, and he would lose his actual empathic reason to save others. Jervis is a direct example of that, and has fallen into the temptation of creating his ‘perfect world’ by ruining lives and destroying the current one

I’m not quite sure how to articulate this correctly but to me at least the persona of The Hatter to Jervis is an example of his ‘true self’ or at least how he sees it. He considers it mad because it’s the abandonment of social norms and embracing every impulse he has. Yes also he sees himself as the hatter on the basis of looks but to me at least it makes sense the way I’m describing since he also often says he relates to children more than adults typically when he’s already the hatter, which to me means he admires and wants to embrace himself the sort of unaware way children go about the world and their own identities. To me the hatter persona is much more about what the character and the madness of wonderland means to Jervis rather than exclusively a character role. Though I also think it can work alongside him believing that he’s actually THE mad hatter

Wonderland can be seen as a critique on the silly social rules we have in society (ie dinner forks, greeting rituals, how we treat people in hierarchy) and sort of makes them look silly because all it really does is introduces new rules that make you go ‘how strange’ while truly the ones we have are just as odd. Jervis sees that as freedom. The mad hatter, as he’s even mad by wonderland’s standards, is representing a freedom from silly rules that make no sense and embracing the world by his own rules.

Jervis previously lived a structured life, he was a scientist, an intellectual, a genius. But he was unhappy and trapped. Causing a sort of blow up that aided his psychotic break into becoming the hatter

Ok thank you everypony

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