Is Batman a superhero?

[NZA]

My point is that the plotline "Good Guy With Superpowers Defeats Smart Regular Evil Guy" seems to be a lot more common than the plotline "Smart Regular Good Guy Defeats Evil Guy With Superpowers".


Like the movie "The Incredibles", the entire plot is basically, "People with superpowers should be able to do what they want and if you don't have natural superpowers then you need to stay in your lane".

i think that's just a function of the genre. the audience for comic book heroes is more interested in super powers than smarts. most of the super heroes will have powers instead of big brains. these things started out for kids looking for power fantasy and comics are a visual medium so amazing feats are what comics excel at. if you want smarts to win most of the time, you read detective novels.
i think incredibles is some kind of libertarian, ayn rand theme divorced from historical comic book themes.

 

[Cuban Pete]

I refuse to believe the bolded is a negative

It's not but you know bruh getting dragged through Gotham Twitter like DaBaby at any given moment

 

[Master Teacher]

He does have super powers, he a master detective, an engineer, a chemist, an elite athlete in peak physical condition, a master of every martial art, with unlimited resources and fantastical technology, nobody in real life could be all this or have enough time in a life to master all the skills batman has, that's why he is a superhero, there's nothing realistic about him.

 

[Nymbus]

batman is a hero with no discernible super powers/super abilities

super strength/durability endurance

borderline precognition
accelerated healing

 

[parallax]

He’s a vigilante and an enabler (and primary beneficiary) of the prison industrial complex
who is covering up for his families involvement in the destruction of Gotham.

y’all ain’t ready tho. Stay woke.

Gotham was fukked before the waynes made their way there

 

[Wild self]

Funny that you mention it though, Batman is sort of an unusual exception to a trend I've noticed in superhero comics.

90% of the time in comicbook-based stories, if you have a superpowered being facing a non-powered being, the one with superpowers is good and the one with no powers who is just a "smart person" is evil.


Superman is superpowered, Lex Luther just has devious plans

Spiderman is superpowered, but Doctor Octopus, Kingpin, Mysterio, etc. are all just guys with devious plans

Captain America is superpowered, but (until the end) Red Skull just has devious plans

Mr. Incredible is naturally superpowered, Buddy Pine just has devious plans

When the story starts, T'Challa has the superpowers while Killmonger just has devious plans

Batman may as well have superpowers and his intellect is technically there but it's not really played up at all, while Ozymandias, Joker, Riddler, Scarecrow, Two Face, Ra's Al Ghul, Red Hood, they are all just guys with plans.


Smart people/inventors/scientists are the bad guys so often. I feel like there's some underlying social message, I don't know exactly what it is. "Megamind" even sort of mocks this I think, where the good guy is a superman-like powerful being while the bad guy just just has a big brain.

To be fair, Batman going Ra's al Ghul is punching above his own weight, if you think about it. Going up against an organization that been created from the Middle Ages, going against tens of thousands of Martial Artists that can even beat up Superman WITHOUT Kryptonite, a whole secret society in the shadows of the planet, and Ra's is a whole criminal mastermind.

Its like Heroes with a vast rogues gallery, always have the 3 sets of villains: the common occurance villain (Lex Luthor, Joker, Metallo, Two-Face), the once-in-a-blue moon villain (Ra's al Ghul, General Zod), and the wildcard villain that changes the entire mythology of the hero (Bane, Doomsday)

 

[Roid Jones]

Well he has mental and physical capabilities that are beyond normal human levels

 

[SadimirPutin]

Someone said he leaves his chin exposed so cops know that he's white, that shyt had me dying.

there is a section of twitter who likes to make these trite tryhard comments about batman and get like 5k retweets lol

They dont read comics in any kind of depth

 

[Majestyx]

fukking batman threads

 

[Brian O'Conner]

No he's not. Superheroes have super powers. Batman is a man.

 

[dakidbanks]

Technically he’s a peak human hero…I saw the George Zimmerman comment and it made me wonder, has Batman ever had a black villain?

Bruh had plenty of villains that were either black or depending on the continuity is black… similar to how some times Nick Fury is white and some times he’s black

Catwoman is some times either white or light skin and Bats is either at odds with her or he’s fukkin her
Killer Croc is portrayed like a black man most the time
Bronze Tiger always starts off as a villain
Some times Deadshot is black
Some times Two Face is light skin
Him and Amanda Waller are at odds a lot

i know he’s a Superman villain but by the time of JL, you could argue Lex was a Bat villain too and in the DCAU I think Lex Luthor is black

 

[Wargames]

Batman is just a Republican who hates guns

 

[85 East]

Batman is that guy though. All the money he has, he could just lamp and get some Grade A p*ssy all day and night, but he trains to be stronger, harder, smarter, and endure more mental pain and anguish. He ain't some naive pushover like Superman. He'll use guns and explosives, but his deadliest weapons are his brain and time. He figures out the angles and plays the long game when needed.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

No matter what @Ironman is better

Iron Man and Batman are both fascists. Iron Man is just more extreme than Batman

Also Batman's intellect is what makes him a "super hero"

 

[Fresh]

DOES IRON MAN HAVE
ANY SUPER POWERS OR A SUIT HE BUILT?



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excellent point

also Batman has gotten the drop on the rest of the Justice League on multiple occasions