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    Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the murder of his billionaire parents as a child, swore to avenge their deaths. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology. Costumed as a bat to prey on the fears of criminals, and utilizing a high-tech arsenal, he became the legendary Batman.

    Is Batman even human!?!?!

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    #1  Edited By 202122

    I'm serious i'm not a big reader of the Batman but i've heard some seriously crazy stuff like:

    - He can bench press half a tonne

    - He can catch bullets

    - He has a reaction time of .1 of a second

    - He can run 100 metres faster then the worlds fastest sprinters

    The things above suggest that he is more then at the "physical peak for human beings" it suggests that he's basically a demigod. I'm just looking for some explanations or clearer feats for THE BATMAN

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    #2  Edited By Remi

    Yeah, so?

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    #3  Edited By MasterDetective

    he's not really at the "physical peak for human beings", there are some stronger than him like Bane even without the venom

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    #4  Edited By DeathpooltheT1000

    Blame comic book logic and fanboy force.

    That why i would hate to see comic book Batman in a movie.

    The guys is too damn powerfull and for the same too damn boring.

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    #5  Edited By ms__omega

    Technically yes but some of the things and stuff he can do makes me wonder sometimes.

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    #6  Edited By Redberry

    Comic books are not grounded in reality, so I don't think him being human have to do with anything. A ten years old kid can take out a bunch of adults is just as far-fetched. It's just a suspension of disbelief. People shouldn't apply real-life logic to comics in the first place anyway.

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    #7  Edited By cattlebattle
    @DeathpooltheT1000 said:

    Blame comic book logic and fanboy force.

    That why i would hate to see comic book Batman in a movie.

    The guys is too damn powerfull and for the same too damn boring.

    I agree with this......
     
    @Redberry said:

    Comic books are not grounded in reality, so I don't think him being human have to do with anything. A ten years old kid can take out a bunch of adults is just as far-fetched. It's just a suspension of disbelief. People shouldn't apply real-life logic to comics in the first place anyway.


    and this...
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    #8  Edited By SandMan_
    PIS...Batman is full of it...Don't hate.
     
    But he is ok.
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    #9  Edited By Mega_spidey01

    @Redberry said:

    Comic books are not grounded in reality, so I don't think him being human have to do with anything. A ten years old kid can take out a bunch of adults is just as far-fetched. It's just a suspension of disbelief. People shouldn't apply real-life logic to comics in the first place anyway.

    this.

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    #10  Edited By Tyler Starke

    nope he's a comic book character :P

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    #11  Edited By KainScion

    batman is PURE pis. that is all the power he needs.

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    @cattlebattle: Good to see i am not the only one that would hate to see comic book Batman in a movie.

    The guy is to damn powerfull for movies.

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    #13  Edited By CrimsonCake

    What we find is impossible for humans beings,is what batman finds moderatly difficult.

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    #14  Edited By BiteMe-Fanboy

    No. But the writers seem to think different. That's why I don't care much for Batman. Writers love to fuel the fanboys.

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    #15  Edited By Skyfire

    Comic humans>>>Real humans

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    #16  Edited By CellphoneGirl

    @CrimsonCake said:

    What we find is impossible for humans beings,is what batman finds moderatly difficult.

    LOL

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    #17  Edited By ImTheDamnBatman

    So if Batman does something amazing, it's PIS, but if Cap does, it's not PIS. I believe there are such people as "Anti-BatFans" that will stop at nothing to put Batman down. I don't believe in PIS, because that's how the writers portrayed him, so THAT'S how he is.

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    #18  Edited By BatteredArmor

    @Redberry said:

    Comic books are not grounded in reality, so I don't think him being human have to do with anything. A ten years old kid can take out a bunch of adults is just as far-fetched. It's just a suspension of disbelief. People shouldn't apply real-life logic to comics in the first place anyway.

    This.....or how I like to sum it up: Cause Comics

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    #19  Edited By htb106

    I think this might just attract more "Shut up, he's Batman!" people.

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    #20  Edited By ThanosIsMad

    @DeathpooltheT1000 said:

    Blame comic book logic and fanboy force.

    That why i would hate to see comic book Batman in a movie.

    The guys is too damn powerfull and for the same too damn boring.

    Comic book Batman in a movie would just be a typical kung fu movie star. It'd be awesome.

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    #21  Edited By NEEK_03

    @Redberry said:

    Comic books are not grounded in reality, so I don't think him being human have to do with anything. A ten years old kid can take out a bunch of adults is just as far-fetched. It's just a suspension of disbelief. People shouldn't apply real-life logic to comics in the first place anyway.

    THIS

    @Skyfire said:

    Comic humans>>>Real humans

    and this, he is "comic peak human" its diff.

    @ImTheDamnBatman said:

    So if Batman does something amazing, it's PIS, but if Cap does, it's not PIS. I believe there are such people as "Anti-BatFans" that will stop at nothing to put Batman down. I don't believe in PIS, because that's how the writers portrayed him, so THAT'S how he is.

    most importantly this!

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    #22  Edited By edtie97

    Maybe this is superman your thinking about.

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    #23  Edited By nickzambuto

    No, Batman is not human. He's actually a high level reality warping alien who, in his mission to observe the planet known as Earth and evaluate it's potential, disguises himself as a crime fighting playboy. Read Batman #486, it's all in there.

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    #24  Edited By nickzambuto

    @ImTheDamnBatman said:

    So if Batman does something amazing, it's PIS, but if Cap does, it's not PIS. I believe there are such people as "Anti-BatFans" that will stop at nothing to put Batman down. I don't believe in PIS, because that's how the writers portrayed him, so THAT'S how he is.

    For one thing, Cap isn't peak human like most people think. He's metahuman, so he's allowed to do things Batman can't.

    Secondly, I agree with you. People saying Batman benching 1,000 pounds isn't a viable feat because he's human is BS. If it's consistant, that's what he can do. Has Batman routinely shown the ability to be that strong? Or was that a one time thing? I leave that for you to decide.

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    #25  Edited By the_stegman  Moderator

    Batman isn't human, Batman is Batman.

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    #26  Edited By BatWatch

    I looked up the world record for weight lifting the other day after reading some similar information on Captain America. I can't recall the exact record, but it was pretty close to a thousand pounds. However, that guy had a moderate amount of fat; It takes an energy reserve (fat) to be able to do feats like that. Anyway, between the small amount of fat and the ridiculously broad shoulders, someone really in that league of weight-lifting would look quite funny in a bat or star-spangled suit. (grins)

    The superhuman ability the Bat Clan manifests the most which always annoys me is the ability to jump from heights of twenty feet or more without taking any damage. Yeah right.

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    #27  Edited By BatWatch

    @nickzambuto said:

    No, Batman is not human. He's actually a high level reality warping alien who, in his mission to observe the planet known as Earth and evaluate it's potential, disguises himself as a crime fighting playboy. Read Batman #486, it's all in there.

    I actually looked that up just to see if they did some sort of offbeat issue. That actually would have been pretty cool. (grins)

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    #28  Edited By nickzambuto

    In all honesty though, plenty of people have lifted 1,000 pounds IRL. Benching is more than lifting, but this is Batman. I firmly believe that if a man were to spend his entire life, obsessively traveling the world, learning all kinds of ancient monk excersize techniques, and using his vast fortune to buy muscle massagers and other useful strength building gadgets, he could do something like that.

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    #29  Edited By BringnIt

    At his body weight, without a bench shirt, there's no way in hell a real human benches 1,000lbs. Just so we are perfectly clear.

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    #30  Edited By nickzambuto

    @BringnIt said:

    At his body weight, without a bench shirt, there's no way in hell a real human benches 1,000lbs. Just so we are perfectly clear.

    Lucky for Batman he's actually a reality warping alien then.

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    #31  Edited By BringnIt

    Explains a lot.

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    @ThanosIsMad said:

    @DeathpooltheT1000 said:

    Blame comic book logic and fanboy force.

    That why i would hate to see comic book Batman in a movie.

    The guys is too damn powerfull and for the same too damn boring.

    Comic book Batman in a movie would just be a typical kung fu movie star. It'd be awesome.

    Batman in Batman Forever and Batman and Robin was a kung fu star and still was incredibly weaker that comic book Batman.

    Comic book Batman is more powerfull that Movie Ironman.

    Comic Batman is even more powerfull that Chen Zhen and Boyka, the most powerfull movie martial artist, i mean those guys could kick the sorry butt of Iron Fist.

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    #33  Edited By cosmo111687

    @202122 said:

    I'm serious i'm not a big reader of the Batman but i've heard some seriously crazy stuff like:

    - He can bench press half a tonne

    - He can catch bullets

    - He has a reaction time of .1 of a second

    - He can run 100 metres faster then the worlds fastest sprinters

    The things above suggest that he is more then at the "physical peak for human beings" it suggests that he's basically a demigod. I'm just looking for some explanations or clearer feats for THE BATMAN

    Where are your sources for these feats? (I think he bench-pressed 800lbs or so in R. I. P., but I can't remember the rest.)

    Also, for every time Batman has done some awesome-mega-amazing thing, there has also been a time when Batman has been knocked-out by some over-weight, 40 year old henchman hiding behind a corner. A lot of Batman's strength, skill, and intelligence varies from writer to writer.

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    #34  Edited By Alexander505

    @MasterDetective said:

    he's not really at the "physical peak for human beings", there are some stronger than him like Bane even without the venom

    No. Bane without venom is no stronger than Batman.

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    #35  Edited By Kingsford

    Batman is portrayed as a human in its perfect form, thats the point. Of course he has bad days, all humans do but the message is to bring this perfect form to everyone's surface.

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    #36  Edited By WaveMotionCannon
    @ImTheDamnBatman
    So if Batman does something amazing, it's PIS, but if Cap does, it's not PIS. I believe there are such people as "Anti-BatFans" that will stop at nothing to put Batman down. I don't believe in PIS, because that's how the writers portrayed him, so THAT'S how he is.
    It's because Cap is SUPERHUMAN thanks too the Super Soldier Serum. The shit Bats pulls out of his @ss is purely metahuman ( DC term). There's no way he should be able to bench 1000 lbs and look normal or go days with no food drinking poisoned water then beat a guy who whipped his ass at full power.
    He's an intelligent, ruthless, psycho who should just come out and say he came up with a way to augment his abilities to a superhuman degree to " win the war on crime".
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    #37  Edited By ImTheDamnBatman

    @WaveMotionCannon I should flag you for cursing, first of all. But I won't. Batman is peak human ability. Cap may have the SSS, but that only brings him up to about a 1 tonner - 2 tonner. Batman bench presses half a ton without a spotter, so it's safe to say that if he realllllly needed to he could lift 1 ton. Batman's true "power" however is his WILL. Batman beat that Talon in the Labrynith because he told himself, "I am not dying, and i will beat the hell out of him". You might not believe Batman can do the things he does without enhancement, but the truth is that he can. Get over it, Batman is peak level on everything. Also, he could hang with Cap and then beat him. But that should be for another thread.

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    #38  Edited By sunhawk

    consider that badass normals in comic books can have a 100 tonner smack them hard enough to send them flying 20 feet into a brick wall and just be bruised. Its just some WIS.

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    #39  Edited By bigcimmerian

    @The Stegman said:

    Batman isn't human, Batman is Batman.

    He's actually half human half giant bat

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    #40  Edited By nickzambuto

    @ImTheDamnBatman said:

    @WaveMotionCannon I should flag you for cursing, first of all. But I won't. Batman is peak human ability. Cap may have the SSS, but that only brings him up to about a 1 tonner - 2 tonner. Batman bench presses half a ton without a spotter, so it's safe to say that if he realllllly needed to he could lift 1 ton. Batman's true "power" however is his WILL. Batman beat that Talon in the Labrynith because he told himself, "I am not dying, and i will beat the hell out of him". You might not believe Batman can do the things he does without enhancement, but the truth is that he can. Get over it, Batman is peak level on everything. Also, he could hang with Cap and then beat him. But that should be for another thread.

    I actually agree with that last part. IMO with gear Bats would take Cap down.

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    read the killing joke or under the hood. those stories prove that batman is human.

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    Blame comic book logic and fanboy force.

    That why i would hate to see comic book Batman in a movie.

    The guys is too damn powerfull and for the same too damn boring.

    Someone's a Batman hater.

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    Batman is human, but he shouldn't be :)

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    No. He's a large bat.

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    Getting real tired of all these anti-Batman threads lately. To the people that make these threads and to the people that respond to threads with equal negative opinions: you have every right to do it, but it shows a deep inferiority complex (oh, my favorite hero isn't as popular as Batman, so I'll come and bash the hell out of him and his fanbase).

    As for the thread, OP and every one who asks the same stupid question needs to -at last- understand something very simple about superheroes: THERE ISN'T JUST ONE VERSION OF ANY CHARACTER IN COMIC BOOKS! IT DEPENDS ON THE FUCKING WRITER! Seriously, is it so hard to grasp that? From 1939 onwards, there have been hundred (other times slightly, other times heavily) different incarnations of the caped crusader. So, to every dumb motherfucker that doesn't get that simple fact, I ask: which version of Batman are you talking about? Morrison's? Miller's? Snyder's? Legends Of The Dark Knight? 70's? 60's? 90's? From the main book and if yes from which era and/or writer?

    Comic book series (especially superhero ones) are not bound by a super tight continuity and strict laws, period. This is the general description of Batman regarding his powers and social status: rich orphan playboy that knows martial arts, forensic science, has sleuthing skills and gadgets. It is up to the individual writer to decide in which skills he is better than others (and thus, suited for the story he wants to tell) etc.

    So, before starting a new stupid thread like this, please consider the above

    Respectfully,

    EVERY BATMAN FAN ON EARTH

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    @doctorjimmy: Seconded.

    I mean why is it unrealistic if batman can do those things. Maybe batfans should go on every comic forums and ask why other heroes/villains can do x thing and why are they not pis. Why don't you ask same things about other characters like captain america,lady shiva , deathstroke , azrael , batgirl(cass) etc etc .Why everyone has to be literal about batman's 127 martial arts skill and not care when shiva has learnt every style on earth .

    The reason a normal human cant do those thing is because he hasn't trained or work enough at least not on batman's level.

    Batman has earned all those feats unlike other characters.

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    #50  Edited By hurricanefunnel

    Batman is not human don't understand where people got this misconception from

    Batman was supernaturally bit by bats that should be 4 tiers above peak human status although this isn't highballing the supernatural part is tiers above but batman's abilities from the specific bat he was bitten by wasn't all that impressive on it's own heck not even on batman's own heck not even on batgod's own. He always NEEDED teamates and/or allies to advance him. His plans were far impressive [skills] but his intellect as never been anywhere near his skill level

    Batman has never been human, but he has been humanoid [humanoid = shape of human but not human]

    edit: don't get me wrong though batman has soloed some opponents in fights authentically but that's a different connecting topic from his autonomy.

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