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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 5493764" data-attributes="member: 151">See, from my perspective, most of the latter part of this discussion is just speaking to the fact that Batman is a character who can be used in a wide variety of stories.  He can be in a street-level crime drama in which he takes down a thug with a car battery one day and take out Darkseid the next. He can be disabled by a lucky shot to the head from King Tut or he can go toe-to-toe with a horde of Kobra's thugs and not get a scratch. He can travel through time, hang with the Demon and fight drug kingpins. Each writer treats him differently; Morrison has created what some call the "Bat-God", Batman as the ultimate expert. On the one hand, nothing he does is beyond the capability of a normal human in a comic book world, but at the same time he has accomplished more and is capable of more than a dozen other superheroes. Batman in a discussion like this is something of a macguffin, due to his popularity, long life and (as noted) plot protection. If we remove Batman from the equation and then replace him with say, Green Arrow or similar heroes, I think we'd see a difference in the discussion. Even characters like Captain America and the Punisher are both too powerful and famous to be counted (as most characters don't consider surviving in a chunk of ice for 20+ years or being turned into Frankenstein and getting better as 'normal'). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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