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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.

    Has Killer croc gotten a great strength upgrade?Spoilers

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    Bane would destroy Croc, Seeley just threw Croc fans a bone. Bane has destroyed him multiple times in the past and will do so in the future in any fight not written by Tim Seeley. I love Seeley but you could tell he had a bone to pick with Bane. He had Croc whining about Bane as early as Eternal #18. Either way that whole series came around the time when Bane was in a jobbing phase of his career, those poor feats in Eternal dont add up to his showings in Talon, Arkham War etc.

    Hence I called it PIS and a few years later its more than evident regardless of what a certain strawman poster might think. Croc has indeed been upgraded in SS but his "upgrade" is merely the result of him in a super team and not because the writer was actually seriously interested in making him more powerful. When he goes back to Arkham his power will deflate to its previous levels. Sustainable power upgrades go hand in hand with story and character arcs that resonate with fans and other creators. Its why Jason Todd's chop has been forgotten.

    Bane on the other hand is now moving towards Ra's al Ghul status in his upcoming series, King's run cemented him as THE Anti-Batman and the one villain who represents Batman's own destruction. He just became the Batman character of the month for April over in Reddit in only the third feature under the deadliest threat to Batman category.

    He was voted 4 by fans on Comicsalliance Batman's greatest villains list losing out only to Joker, Ra's and Dent.

    Croc on the other hand is doing absolutely nothing in Suicide Squad, movie or comic. Once Dixon is done I can see Bane popping by in Tec and All Star Batman as the main villain.

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    @ultrastarkiller: well batman is peak physical potential(which is different than peak physical condition) and he is a physically perfect human. All his physical abilities are far beyond the finest olympic athletes and peak human characters like green arrow and nightwing and are essentially at low superhuman levels. He can match most low and mid level superhumans in physical ability. And Deathstroke did talk about how due to batman's insane strength, speed, and technique this makes him an incredibly dangerous foe for anybody. Makes sense the guy benches well over 1000lbs as a warmup and can lift several tons in his own right. He can use his fingers to destroy bricks, kick trees in half with ease, snap steel, karate chop cars and motorcycles, punch through a missile proof glass, can slap pale several meters and through marble and stone walls several feet thick(in one case he back punched a ton through 12ft of marble), he can snap the Damascus sword which is made of a metal much stronger than steel easily, kick down a reinforced steel door with one kick, he can peel off steel as well and soooo much more. Like the dude has to limit his attacks so he doesn't end up killing someone. Not to mention he can run move and most importantly strike faster than enhanced humans can see. The strength, speed, and the fact he has mastered all forms of combat means he can put anyone not named superman, darkseid, specter, and characters like that you will get rocked heavily by the bat. So yeah obviously batman ain't lifting 20+tons but don't make it seem like getting knocked out by batman makes you a weakling, if your not a god tier character batman can easily punch you out. Even Demi gods aren't safe(Just ask Earth 2 Kalibak or Earth 2 Steppenwolf).

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