Batman finally explains why he refuses to have superpowers in the new comic

A new comic published by DC Comics explains why Batman will always be “basic”, with no great superpowers or “optimizations”

Batman is one of the greatest superheroes in comic book history and is part of DC Comics’ “Triad”, along with Superman and Wonder Woman. But unlike his Justice League counterparts, he has no superpowers, although his intelligence is used by many writers as something superhuman. Anyway, Bruce Wayne he had the opportunity to acquire special abilities, but he rarely took advantage of them. And the reason was finally explained by a new comic.

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DC has always been known for having characters who are like “gods who want to be human”: Superman has already destroyed dimensions with a single punch, The Flash can go back in time and traverse parallel Earths, Wonder Woman is a demigod, Green Lantern uses the most powerful weapon in the universe and Batman… well, as we know, he’s an extremely athletic human being trained to the limits of physically and mentally surpassing, which provides a great contrast to his colleagues in the Justice League.

What is attention-grabbing about his trajectory is that Batman had the opportunity to use the Green Lantern ring and was already a Yellow Lantern; he could have injected something like Captain America’s Super Soldier Serum but he didn’t take the chance; and he could even alter his body with cybernetic enhancements. Even his trinkets, vehicles and suits don’t get very powerful optimizations for very long: in the end, the Batman always returns to being the “normal” human vigilante, only in uniform with cape.

But why has Batman always “refused” to have superpowers?

The new comic explains why Batman refuses to have superpowers

In DC/RWBY #2, by Marguerite Bennett and Meghan Hetrick, recently released, the Bat-Family joins the group RWBY, which is part of an anime webseries, set in the world of Remnant. In RWBY, anyone with a soul can gain access to unique powers, and upon arrival in the DC Universe, many of the decenaut heroes are given special abilities.

Batman receives the power of precognition, but, throughout the storyline, he says he must ignore this new special ability, because, according to Wayner, “if we become addicted to these powers, the withdrawal will be … acute” – that is, if it depended too much from some superpower, it would be hard to get used to having the same achievement as a good fighter if he loses his superhuman ability one day.

It’s worth mentioning that this isn’t the first time Batman has rejected superpowers. In various stories since the 1940s, Batman has temporarily used some technology or superpower. But in the end he always goes back to the “basics”. This is because the powers and high tech suits/weapons are unreliable compared to his natural state of him, and the time he spends relying on them makes him weaker.

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In that logic, superpowers are a weakness for Batman, a warrior who doesn’t need external optimization or enhancements, as he constantly and constantly does. If he allows himself to become addicted to technology or powers, he is not strengthening his own natural abilities and this would, in the long run, make him weaker. That’s why Batman keeps returning to the classic cape and cowl.

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