>>95222876Supervillians showed up as a response to superheroes, yes, but only because criminals refuse to stop committing crimes. The way Gotham was before supervillians was still a crime-ridden shithole.
Usually Batman showing up improved the quality of life for normal civilians in most storylines, even if the supervillians cause larger and larger amounts of destruction and death in their wake. And also, a lot of supervillians came to exist without any prompting from Batman (e.g. people like Joker and Freeze falling into chemical or cryo vats respectively). The supervillians' creation was inevitable. Batman stopping them was the only thing stopping them from destroying Gotham.
