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Shadows of the Bat | 87www.jrfm.eu 2017, 3/1, 75–104 toys and Penguin’s obscure weaponry. the destruction of anything “that ap- pears benign, cute or cuddly” even led bewildered Batman-chronicler Mark s. Reinhart to the conclusion that Burton hatches a distaste for “just about any- thing that society at large would perceive as ‘good.’”31 In the end, the concepts of good and evil or normal and abnormal are just a matter of perception. Arguably the only purely evil character in the movie is the 31 reinhart 2005, 175–176. Figs. 9–10: An embrace of mask and identity: at night, they fight as Batman and Catwoman (fig. 9); in the day, they meet as lovers Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle (fig. 10). Film stills, Batman Returns (Tim Burton, US 1992), 01:15:49 (fig. 9), 01:31:59 (fig. 10).