• Vanth@reddthat.com
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      4 months ago

      Aye, the point of Batman is that with enough time to prep (and money, and good-looking rich white guy power), he can defeat even Superman.

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          I made a pithy comment, but really, his character was developed to contrast Superman’s. They have a similar sense of justice (which is why Lex isn’t part of the convo), Superman smears Batman up front, but with enough time and prep, Batman wins without superpowers.

          Or the modern Snyder characterization, neither wins and they bond when they realize their mom’s were both named Martha.

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        This is actually an ongoing plot in the current run. In an altered state of consciousness, Batman created a failsafe, literally called Failsafe, to kill himself if he ever killed someone else.

        When the program sees an article that he killed someone (he didn’t, it was a setup), it releases the robot Failsafe to defeat him. Batman has yet to defeat Failsafe, though he has survived so far against it.

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          4 months ago

          So then he’s clearly going to, by the laws of narrative causality.

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        4 months ago

        They’re was a run where he’s fighting an alternate universe Batman who is actually Thomas Wayne, from a universe where Bruce is the one that gets killed and Martha becomes the joker.

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          4 months ago

          Jeffrey Dean Morgan returning as Thomas Wayne Batman would have been dope asf.