@oni_bane: I have no regrets in saying Batman is my favorite superhero, so screw your whole "No Batman fans allowed" rule. That being said however, this is not to say Batman is without flaws which I notice. For example, when people overrate him and claim him to beat EVERYONE with prep time, they just don't understand that there are characters who just can't be beat. Another example, there are times where he acts more out of character (or at least acts like a character which I'm not too happy about), such as projecting his moral code on other heroes, or when he acts a bit more antagonistic to them than he does to villains, or when he brutally tortures criminals to get information from them, or when he keeps serious and important secrets from his family and friends. To go along with that, there's also the inconsistency of said character, because then (and these are moments which I do like) he will try to reason with and help criminals (who might actually need help) and negotiate with them in exchange for information, and times where, while sticking with his moral code, will make some loopholes (such as if a criminal kills themselves, he won't try to save them, or he won't oppose a hero if they decide to kill a villain), or when he actually acts like a chill and genuine homey with his fellow heroes (and with people in general); now while these are more moments which I do appreciate from the hero, I don't like that it's basically just showing how inconsistent his character is (I guess that's what happens when you have a popular character that lasted for decades who's almost constantly passed around from writer to writer). Basically, I hate, hate, HATE character inconsistency. Then you also get to the fact that the writers will not only write him out of character, but they want to make him as OP and badass as possible, ignoring all notion of realism or human limits. So he survives a fall from orbit with very limited resources (so no parachute, his cape doesn't work properly, and he isn't wearing a breathing mask, but he at least has his armor on), not a big deal, but when he walks away from it seemingly UNSCATCHED, that's when I have a problem; then you get the time he kicked a motorcycle in half, or when he disappeared WHILE SOMEONE WAS LOOKING AT HIM, or when he resisted 9 MILLION MINDS TRYING TO TAKE HIM OVER, it's just too ridiculous. Now of course, plenty of writers do this with all sorts of characters, they are all just as guilty, but with Batman, he just seems to have it shown off the most (him and Captain America, though I cut Cap SOME slack since the Super Soldier Serum does actually bring him to near superhuman levels, Batman just trains super hard). And then you look at Batman's TRAINING REGIMEN, and you think, "What the fuck?!" Because not only does it seem like he overdoes it, but it's also like, "How does he have the time do this, let alone manage to do all of this stuff?!" So yeah, just not always a big fan of how unrealistic Batman gets sometimes. Plus, honestly, the fan community for Batman can get very toxic, so this kinda goes along with what they say about Batman being praised by everyone who says he wins EVERY fight via prep time; plus, when he does do something heroic, or him along with the good guys do come out victorious, people refuse to look at context. For example, in the encounter with World Forger, people tend to say Batman tricked World Forger and saved Superman, but here's how the situation went; World Forger put Superman on a super dark planet to die via lack of solar power, and told Batman to move the suns so Superman could truly die, which Batman did (although he didn't necessarily want to, he also did say that it was possibly the one solution to help the good guys achieve victory, with Batman only hoping and giving Superman the chance to prove him wrong). People claim World Forger was tricked by Batman, but when you look at the actual context, that wasn't the case, Superman lived because he DID prove to Batman he could do it, and he saved himself; this is actually one of the moments where I did have a slight dislike toward Bruce. So this whole toxic fanbase is kind of like how I feel about My Hero Academia; do I like the franchise? Yes. Do I like the fanbase? No. I think there are other reasons, but those are ones which happen at the top of my head.
The moral code thing, I actually don't have a problem with it, because Bruce even tries to make it clear, if he does cross that line, he will only view himself as having to stoop down to that same level as criminals, and he wants to be better than them. That is a very understandable and relatable thing to think about. And there are even times where he even makes it a point that he does his job out of justice, not vengeance, stuff like, "It is not up to me to determine what their sentence is. They deserve a fair trail in court, and it is up to the justice system to determine their punishment."
His backstory, while it gets pretty inconsistent sometimes, it does remain relatively the same at the basics: Bruce Wayne was just a normal rich kid in Gotham who was orphaned when a criminal shot his parents dead in front of him, so he swore to become a protector of the innocent and fight crime, traveling across the world to train and equip himself to prepare for his path ahead, and would return to his home as the caped crusader, Batman. Makes a lot of sense to me.
The martial arts part, I don't pay too much attention to that, but yeah, it is a bit crazy and gets ridiculous (go back to what I said about how ridiculous it is that he has practically superhuman feats), at least 20 (heck, 27 even, just leave out the rest of the 100) would be more reasonable, and even though he is crazy smart, I wouldn't buy into that excuse as much, considering it would still take quite a while to fully master A martial art, let alone 127, plus you couple in all the reading he's done, training aside from martial arts (he'd also be doing a lot of gymnastics, overall strength work, weapons training, and using his chi/chakra), and building equipment, learning different languages, all that. Again, I know he's super smart, so he can also learn things really fast and retain and memorize that information almost perfectly, but even then, would still take quite a bit of time. So this is something I gotta agree on.
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