Batman saw a bat fly through his window and then made himself everyone else’s problem. Classic rich guy behavior.
Superman was an “immigrant” from a wealthy family back home and made himself everyone else’s problem by way of his massive built-in upward mobility
Spider-Man probably did a drug and died falling out a window and every single person he knew was like “we shall also be Spider-Man.”
Edit: I don’t cite so don’t ask.
Batman was born rich. It's the billionaire class that want you to think they are creating wealth and not stealing it.
The irony is Wayne had stupid amounts of money and chose to use personal violence to stop some of the criminals in Gotham rather than funding programs that would have lifted people out of poverty and prevented far more crime, or running for office himself and setting up oversight to stop corruption and programs to offer a hand up to people.
batman has no powers whatsoever. he just a very rich person, much like stark, who bought/develop tech. not really thrust as more of an accident, much like brunce banner.
closest thing would be apocalypse the super-mutant, he was forced upon to gain celestial enhanced powers. i think juggernaut is another one, as is lady deathstrike? another one is phoenix.
He has also trained himself to pretty much the peak of human limits, so there's that. Which is usually listed in other superheroes' lists of powers.
In different incarnations he's also heavily involved in the design of the various tech, it's more than just "being rich". That's really understating both characters.
But I would call super suits and super tech as "powers" in the way they're frequently talked about. Uber-genius intellects maybe.
In the original comics Batman used to be mostly a detective. Looking for clues, evidence, then tying up criminals for the cops to find (afaik). I'd love a show like "True Detective" but with Batman. Anyway so his powers would be peak of human limits and super intelligent and gadgets.
Batman and Stark both have significant physics bending powers. It's more obvious with Stark, but both of them have made plenty of things that have bend the laws of physics pretty drastically.
That's the comic's suspension of disbelief working. In canon they have no powers other than engineering and funding.
And Iron Man built his in a cave! With a box of scraps!
Well I'm sorry, you're not iron man
I wouldn't say a fighter pilot has superpowers. The iron man suit has power not the user.
Is wielding mjolnir a superpower? How about magic users? Green lantern's ring?
I'm pretty sure Superman wasn't born with them. He got his powers from his flyby of earth's yellow sun in the escape pod from Krypton.
I think it was from Kill Bill, but thrtrs a cool speech about how Superman has to put on the costume to become Clark Kent. While other hero's have to put on the costume to become the hero.
Batman has been shown to consider Bruce as the alter ego. I believe he even once was under wonder woman's lasso of truth and revealed his true identity as batman.
Also, Batman was born with his power. (His power is money).
You can't use money to fight crime, lol. Otherwise USA's police departments would be doing it.
Study after study shows money spent on food, housing and education does more to prevent crime than policing and incarceration.
what about punching and batarangs and batcomputers
Money spent on punching, batarangs, and bat computers do not reduce crimes as much as money spent on food, housing and education.
Also not superpowers.
i would like to see a link to the study on batarangs please
Will this link suffice? Lance used bananarangs developed by Orangutans, almost the same thing.
yes i guess that is definitive
Well look at the state of Gotham and tell me it's different.
All research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased, and law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.
Investing in children reduces crime. So yes, you can fight crime with money.
You can. They just don't.
I thought he had powers because he was born on Krypton under a red sun, and all Kryptonians gain superhuman powers when exposed to a yellow sun.
But if he had stayed on Krypton, he wouldn't have any powers, so it took an event to activate it, which isn't any different than the other scenarios. Batman was born rich, so he already had the potential to be batman, but it took the murder of his parents to set him on his path. Really Spiderman is the odd one out.
Spidey’s parents and his uncle who helped raise him are all dead/murdered. All three are orphans, so that all cancels out. :-).
Peter Parker only became spider-man once his uncle was killed, that set him on the path to use his “great power” with “great responsibility.”
I strongly suspect Peter would have eventually become a superhero even without the death of his uncle.
Batman, what's your super power? I'm rich
In the original story Batman has "bat senses" that allow him to hear the conversations of criminals, a bit like The Shadow. It used to be believed by some that bats could sense in the "ether", sn invisible river in which electromagnetic energy flowed, this was before echo location was proven.
And a psychopath with a fixation on criminal justice
batman didn’t create shit, labor did.
the classic "ive only vaguely heard of batman" take
neat.
Not really
And wolverine is all three
I get the inborn super-healing, and I get the addition of the adamantine (sp?) skeleton, but what powers did he create on his own?
Martial arts ability?
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